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SEO is a long term strategy, and it takes time to build up your website traffic, however, if your strategy is correct, you can see effect almost immediately, saving you a lot of time and effort! This article will show you the best SEO strategy that many SEO expert ignore or don’t know! To find out more, please read on…

The long tail keyword SEO tactics!

Many SEO experts optimize the website start from targeting seed keyword, but this kind of keywords are highly competitive and does not convert well. After they put a lot of efforts and time trying to compete and rank well for those keywords, they might not even have sustainable result due to the highly competitive nature of those keywords!

Next, you must find all long tail keywords for your website. You can use modifiers and combine with seed keywords to generate massive list of long tail keywords. These keywords tend to rank well with less competition and better converting your visitors to customers. See the reasons below:

Reason #1 - Search Engine prefer long tail keywords over general keywords when ranking the result for the searchers. However, your long tail article page should have basic authority before the search engine starts to show them. Just get some back links from the web 2.0 authority site and your page will appear in the first page!

Reason #2 - Faster ranking with long tail keyword. Web 2.0 provides the greatest back links of all, with few authority sites pointing to your page, you can easily out rank most of your competitor for those long tail keywords!

Reason #3 - You can see result faster! If you targeted the correct sets of long tail keywords, you can easily tap into the search engine traffic within the least time.

You need to find “realistic” keywords to rank, the best way is through forum and community sites where actual people ask the actual question. Take note of all long tail keywords and the problems and solutions to build your landing pages. Many SEO expert ignored them, this is the low hanging fruit…

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It’s extremely important to be able to evaluate the power of a directory for link building. Especially when you consider that the power of a directory listing is much more complicated than just looking at the PR of the directory homepage.

Hence, the goal of this post is to train the average Toronto SEO enthusiast how to quickly and effectively evaluate the power of general directories through link analysis and evaluation. The post is going to focus on the power of general directories because they are much more prevalent than niche directories; which obviously are powerful if your in the same niche. At the end of the day, there are hundreds of directories (both paid and free) that you can submit too, so you need to know how to quickly evaluate the power of these directories in order to make the most out of your time and money. Efficiency is key!

Without much further ado, here’s a list of the 7 most important criteria to look for when evaluating the power of general directories:

1.) Check the PR of the directory: Although PR isn’t everything; this is hands-down the fastest and easiest way to judge the power of any directory. As a general rule of thumb, any directory at PR 5 or above has good authority, while anything below a PR 3 has low authority.

2.) Check whether domain ranks in Google: This important test identifies if the directory has been penalized by Google. Simply go to Google and type in the directory domain name (without spaces); they should appear #1 unless the domain is targeting highly competitive keywords (should still be on first page). If they don’t appear at all and Google suggests a different search term, then they have been penalized by Google.

3.) Indexability and last time cached: This quick check-up is to determine how often the Google bots are indexing the sub-page’s content. Just go to Google, and enter a cache query. For a directory sub-page, a good cache date would be within 1-2 weeks, but no longer than 1 month. A higher frequency of cache dates indicate that the site is more powerful and authoritative.

4.) Number (and quality) of inbound links: Is a fairly simple measure of the overall power and authority associated with the directory. The higher the better. Being listed in DMOZ wouldn’t hurt either :)
5.) Number of outbound links and PR of sub-pages: When choosing a category to submit too, relevancy is the most important factor to consider. But oftentimes, a submission could go in several categories. In these cases, in order to choose the best sub-page or category to submit too, you need to look at the sub-page’s PR and also the number of outbound links. One of the most telling signs of an authority directory is if they have PR sub-pages, because Google loves to take the second level PR away from directories.

So, if you find a directory sub-page of PR 3 or higher: the directory is carrying a good amount of power, authority and Google credibility. The second point to consider is the number of outbound links on the sub-page. In many cases there will be so many listings that you won’t even get on the first sub-page of your selected category. You need to keep this in mind when deciding which category to submit too. You want to submit to the sub-page that has a low number of outbound links to ensure that your link gets the most link juice available.

6.) Does the directory have sitewide links in Google?: When you search for the directory’s domain name do they have sitewide links under their listing? If yes, this signifies that the directory has high authority in Google’s eyes.

7.) Check appearances at public events and industry conventions: The theory behind this test is simple; if the directory owners can afford to advertise in key industry events (SES and SMX for example) then they obviously have a long-term strategy and are an authority. Obviously this rule isn’t set in stone, but being at these events is a pretty clear indication of a powerful directory.

There’s also one more test, but it takes more time as it’s a bit more advanced because it can be time intensive. The anchor text test is a great way to determine the power of a directory by measuring the link juice that the directory passes on to your anchor text. Here’s how to execute the anchor text text:

- First you need to find a unique anchor text within a sub-category (that isn’t mentioned on the site’s homepage) - Next, check to see how that site ranks for that specific keyword(s) in the SERP’s

This test doesn’t take into consideration the other search engine optimization and link building efforts of the client, but it is an effective way to attempt to measure the link juice being sent from the directory to your site (or client’s site). The hardest part is finding the unique anchor text, because most of these anchors would most likely be targeting their site’s competitive keywords, which would be mentioned on the homepage. But this isn’t always the case, hence why the anchor text test can be very useful when you are trying to gauge the power of a link within a directory.

Another thing to keep in mind with the power of directory submissions is the featured listing or premiere listing option that enables your listing to be placed at the top of your desired sub-category for some extra dough. Is it worth it? Personally, I don’t see much value in these type of listings unless the sub-page has PR and a lot of outbound links. In this case, a regular submission wouldn’t get you on the first page of the category, so it would be worth paying an extra $20 or so because without it, your link won’t be getting the same “juice” as it would be if placed on that desired subpage with PR.

Remember to keep this quick checklist in mind when considering which directories to submit too, and also be sure to check out the last part of this series which will cover potential downfalls and other mistakes to avoid when making directory submissions.

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Getting Inside Affiliate Prophet

Oct 30, 2008 Author: Joseph Masen | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

As we approach the launching date for Affiliate Prophet there is plenty of anticipation. This anticipation arises from the fact that the program is the only one of its kind and it is thought that it will pave the way for extremely high sales conversion.

Affiliate Prophet is designed by the popular internet marketer Peter Yoon. The program will contain many advanced tracking mechanisms to aid your marketing campaign and deliver favorable results in no time.

Affiliate Prophet is designed with users of every class in mind. You don’t need to be an expert in the field to harvest results from affiliate prophet. All the features are built in an easy to use interface for maximum simplicity. Without affiliate prophet you will surely waste a lot of time and money experimenting with tactics you think will offer great conversions.

Affiliate Prophet will provide internet marketers of every skill level with all the tracking tools needed to efficiently optimize their website for the best sales conversion possible. With the power and efficiency of this program you will save a lot of time and money and more important you will be sure to have the best sales conversion possible with your website.

With so much tracking you will know exactly what needs changing and what needs to be left alone. Often time’s persons may change features of their landing page that attracted the attention of their visitors without even knowing and as a result their overall traffic drops. With Affiliate Prophet you are presented with a surefire way to be certain of what features work and what needs improvement.

The Affiliate Prophet program is actually an advanced version of Conversion Prophet; a program also by Peter Yoon. Conversion Prophet has been popular for some time and has received great reviews by the majority of users. It is without doubt that Affiliate Prophet will continue where its predecessor left off and take the functionalities of Conversion Prophet beyond and into new realms with the advanced features that will be offered.

In addition, Affiliate prophet is coded with a very powerful algorithm that provides high quality statistics to ensure you are presented with the best results which you can use to your advantage. With so much information that Affiliate Prophet outputs you will be sure to build the best sales converting landing page possible.

Brace yourselves as we approach the release date of Affiliate prophet. Prepare for the ultimate tracking software and the latest technology in internet marketing. It is an absolute promise that Affiliate Prophet will be worth all the anticipation and remarks that it is receiving.

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How To Build Natural Looking Backlinks Easily For SEO

Oct 30, 2008 Author: Chris Channing | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

Backlinks are a popular SEO method that is increasingly being used to promote a website and to attract traffic in the websites direction. Building backlinks can take a long time, but the results are well worth all of the hours of effort poured into developing those links.

Forum posting and submitting articles are two of the easiest ways to build backlinks. Having a simple link in a signature or within an article can direct plenty of attention to your website. If you or someone else uses your link in an irrelevant place, it probably wont do your website too much good. It is almost crucial for your link to be in relevant places, not just shoved somewhere.

It is a good idea to use natural methods for building backlinks. These can take longer, but look better overall. If someone visits your website, and then goes to use your link in a signature, an article, or anywhere else, that is natural. They are giving you traffic and popularity without you asking them to, or paying them.

When building backlinks for SEO, it is distasteful to spam your link across other peoples websites. It is also not advisable to do too much at once. Building backlinks is a precise effort that takes time, and should not be rushed through.

Link exchanges can be a beneficial way to build backlinks as well, but it is not always recommended. Having too many outbound links can be bad for your site, so its not recommended that you get too over the top with them. If you do link exchanges to build backlinks, then you should always choose websites or blogs that have the same subject matter as your website.

Quality content can go a very long way. Writing articles for specific niches and making them interesting is popular and easy enough to do. Remember, building backlinks for SEO doesn’t always have to be hard, it just takes time and careful consideration. Social networking websites are also a good source for building backlinks for SEO. If your sources get a lot of ratings, views, and traffic, then your popularity will grow. People will start to share your link, and spread the word.

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Building backlinks for SEO may be difficult for you at first, but with a lot of time spent, you will see great results.

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Keyword Research with OnlineBannersNow.com

Oct 30, 2008 Author: Mike Shwimmer | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

If you have not already you will soon understand why keywords play such a large role in the ranking of your website. Many do not succeed for lack of attention to keywords.

A rule of thumb to keep in mind is that each page of your web site should include one or two keyword phrases that have close association or are somewhat complementary and relevant to each other. Do not clutter your web pages with a myriad of keywords and keyword phrases as this will surely take away from your OnlineBannersNow.com keyword ranking.

Be smart about your keywords and make sure you are only using words that your potential clients, are likely to type in. After all what good is top ranking on OnlineBannersNow.com keywords nobody types in?

Deciding on just the right OnlineBannersNow.com keywords to help increase your keyword ranking is one of the most important but often overlooked steps in designing a web site.

If you were buying what you are selling now, what would you type in? Try asking friends, good customers, and relatives what OnlineBannersNow.com keywords they would type to look for you.

Be unique, choose OnlineBannersNow.com keywords that nobody is thinking about. If you are a real estate agent in Dallas try keywords like DFW homes for sale or Downtown DWF property, find the niche words and make them your own!

Many tools are available for choosing keywords based on popular search statistics, OnlineBannersNow.com uses the Google Adwords Keyword tool.

Never underestimate the power of OnlineBannersNow.com keyword ranking in influencing the success of your business. A lot of thought, careful research and hard work goes into the establishment of a successful business.

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Ways Of Creating Fresh Content to Your Website

Oct 30, 2008 Author: Calvin Preston | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

It is safe to say that most people realize that search engines, like Google, value content. This can be a little annoying sometimes, when you are trying to incorporate fresh content, on a continuous basis, that is also natural, into your website. Avoiding redundancy is often difficult, but for your site to rank, content needs to be continually streaming into your site. Here are a few tips to help you along in this process.

1. Blogs- Every site could stand to have a blog added in its format. You don’t need to have one, but if you can, by all means, add one. Be sure to link the blog to your homepage and to highlight the most current articles on your homepage, as well. You may think you don’t have anything to blog about, but here are some ideas to change your mind.

2. Article collections- You can choose to use these articles as resources on your webpage. Be sure categorize them using your keywords and update them continually.

3. User generated content: customer reviews of products (offer a coupon if they fill one out), customer testimonials, customer suggestions, customer top 5 lists.

4. Including a paragraph about a company that is related to yours, while utilizing affiliate links will create more income.

If you try any of these simple strategies, you will increase the value of your site in Google’s eyes, while creating more interesting content for your end user.

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Article Writing: Writing For The Internet

Oct 29, 2008 Author: Theo McLanahan | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

To be a successful writer for the Internet, you must first select the right approach for writing good pieces of writing. In order to be a paid writer, you have to put your articles on sale, so you must understand the business of selling your content. You must believe that your ideas are better than others. In addition to the qualities required to sell articles for the Internet, there are also specific skills that are needed to write effective online articles.

Starting With The Foremost Rule You should write according to taste of reader not your own. This means that you explore and target your message towards correct readers. In an article on financial market you cant target grandmothers looking for designs of knitting. This means that you write message according to comprehension of target readers. No one will understand even correct stuff until and unless it is presented properly.

Keep in mind that people who browse the Internet are impatient. They click off the material once they read something that is not pertinent to their cause, and they only linger on an article that they consider important and pleasing.

Before you even put pen to paper, ask yourself this important question: Who are your readers? You will be able to make a decision about type of article you need to write by answering this question. The article may be of any kind such as technical, marketing or philosophical, all which are dissimilar in nature, which is why you must correctly identify your target audience.

You will be able to make a decision about type of article you need to write by answering this question. The article may be of any kind such as technical, marketing or philosophical. All these types are dissimilar in nature.

The Main Approaches The articles on the Internet can be classified into four wide approaches:

- Writing for Selling- Marketing articles often make effort for selling commodities or services to woo readers to any website. The speed should be obvious instantly and content of marketing remains small in size. Keywords are important for selling as keywords invite your readers, mainly on Internet.

- Technical Writing: This type of writing requires actual facts. The technical aspect is well understood with diagrams. Even if the writing lacks visual aids, descriptions and writing is precise so as to avoid misunderstanding. If you use highly technical words, be aware that a common man would find it difficult to understand. And if the article has more of the style, the people with technical expertise will find it without technical details.

- Trendy writing-The extensive use of blogs in the recent times has made this writing very popular. The main aspects here are to make the content more appealing and entertaining. The things should be straightforward, short and full of quick points. These pieces of writing could lack details and arguments.

- Intellectual writing-This writing requires detailed description of a particular field. In this you can use references from popular books. This writing is aimed at contributing to that field. However, all the intellectual writings are not bound to be of academic nature. The examples are book reviews and editorial columns.

The Internet is the most popular media for sharing information and, if used in an efficient manner, it can work wonders for you as a reader and writer.

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Using Search to Mitigate/Reduce Business Risks

Oct 29, 2008 Author: Amy Nutt | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

Talk to most people and ask why they engage in search engine marketing and they’ll answer “because it gets results”. There’s no question; search is a very important part of the marketing mix.

That said, many people and businesses do not necessarily understand all the inherent benefits of search. Consider for example, the ability of search to mitigate or reduce certain types of business risks. Accordingly, the remainder of this post will assess the numerous ways that search can help mitigate or reduce business risks. In particular:

1. Marketing Channel Diversification: the more marketing channels bringing in positive ROI (return on investment) to a company, the better. If a company relies too heavily or just one or a few channels, that really is not a solid foundation for a successful business model (consider Porter’s Model below). The company’s bargaining power is ultimately reduced.

2. Economic Risk Diversification Often, economic conditions in one country or region are not the same as in other countries or regions. For companies marketing their wares/services in but one country/region, all their proverbial eggs are in one basket so to speak. Consider the possible fate of a company marketing its services only in a small mining town dominated by one employer, when the employer pulls the plug on the mine. Instead, the company could have anticipated this probability, and started promoting its services via search in other surrounding towns in advance of the closure.

3. Regulatory and Compliance Risk Diversification Sometimes, political decisions can have catastrophic impacts on companies eg. the U.S.’s embargo against Cuban products. If you were a Cuban cigar distributor at the time of the introduction of the Helms-Burton Act, and the U.S. was your only market you would have been in financial trouble. But now imagine, if you were already marketing Cuban cigars in 50 other countries around the world, which search makes infinitely easier. The impact would have been dramatically reduced.

4. Reputation Management Risks Occasionally, negative press surfaces about companies, and while sometimes merited, other times its completely unjustified. Often, this type of press or negative mentions appear for your business name in the search results. When this occurs, or often even in advance of this possibility occurring, search can be used to reduce the probability that these results will ever be seen.

5. Staffing Issue Risks In industries requiring specialized knowledge, it can be difficult to attract resumes from qualified individuals using standard approaches. All to often, you’re drawing from a very limited pool of individuals, or from expensive headhunters. Obviously both methods dramatically increase the cost of hiring and paying qualified individuals. More and more however, attracting strong candidates occurs online, and search can play a big role. It can also help to keep the employment prospect funnel full at all times.

In order to determine if search can help you mitigate business risks, this Toronto SEO would encourage most business to do an introspective analysis of such risks, identify what your risks are, the probability of each occurring, and then devise (simple) solutions to mitigate those risks both with and without search.

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Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

Oct 28, 2008 Author: Luke Lister | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.

Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like ‘http://www.google.com’ hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

Or if you want professional help try the following sites:

http://www.addpro.com/professional_submission

http://www.submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html

Don’t use the automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most popular Search Engines and directory companies:

Search Engines Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista Google, HotBot Excite/Webcrawler

Directories AOL Search Inktomi Lycos Open Directory

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The Hottest New Search Engine Marketing Solutions

Oct 28, 2008 Author: Gilbert Hernandez | Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

All the rage these days in the internet marketing sector is search engine marketing. This is the act of using the search engines organic traffic to market your products.

To do this effectively you must learn how to use the right search phrases and where to use them. This is a highly involved process including website optimization along with a linkbuilding campaign.

When you first start looking into search engine marketing solutions you will need to do some keyword research. You must find out which keywords are being searched for that are related to your market. Then you go through the process of setting up a webpage that is based on that keyword phrase. There are a few places that you must place the keyword to let the search engines know what your site is about.

It is also important to use the keyword in the content on your webpage. This gives the page some more proof that it is about what you say it is about to the search engines. The next step involves getting links to your webpage.

There are a number of ways to do this. You can set up a blog that uses the keyword to describe your site. When you do this you embed your site’s URL into the keyword phrase which makes it anchor text.

Posting in forums or publishing articles are another great place to use anchor text. Forums usually have a place to put in a little about yourself and so do article directories that you can publish to. The more links to your site, the more the search engines notice you and the higher they place you in the search results.

Getting links back to your site can prove to be extremely time consuming. A solution to this problem is an article submittal service. These services take your article along with the information you attatch in the author bio area and submit it to thousands of directories for you. This is a huge time saver and can prove to be very profitable for you. There are even some services that right the articles for you!

When you first begin using these search engine marketing solutions you will find it useful to target the long tail keyword phrases. They won’t individually give you tons of traffic but they are easy to rank for and when you have a bunch of them the traffic adds up pretty quick.

The great thing about these search engine marketing solutions is that they are free for the most part. When you have services do the work for you, of course, they charge. If you know what you are doing then this can prove a vital tool, but if you are just starting out it is best to learn what you are doing first before you try to get someone else to do it for you.

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