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Archive for August, 2009

Getting quality content for your blog

Posted by BlogTime On August - 17 - 2009

web_contentAn Internet marketing guide stresses the importance of using only quality content for blog pages, yet, the question remains: how can one decide what is quality web content and what is not? I would suggest that we start from the very nature of the blog: a highly informational and personal site which tackles subjects on a specific topic. Hence, when designing the blog, don’t make it too complex, stick to simple structures that allow users to easily follow the content of the blog. The frame should also be very simple and the eventual ads and links need to naturally blend in the content of the blog enhancing and improving the visitors experience on the site. Web design provides a great advantage of using similar fonts and formats, so only some elements on the page stand out and you should use these features for optimal affect.

Furthermore, you may have learned by now that you need to create the site content around some high-in-demand keywords that users type in the search box of the engine. The more the keywords, the higher the chances to have your blog appear in the first result pages. However, many bloggers misunderstand keyword density. The blog content should naturally include the keywords in an easy-to-read kind of way; a keyword density that goes higher than 2 or 3% could make the articles less appealing to the reader, this is generally because the flow of the text is lost and makes reading the article less natural and more difficult to follow. It is worth looking for sites that can provide you with a keyword density analyzer to assess whether you have overdone things on that aspect and provide you with the option of rewording the text to a more natural state.

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Reciprocal Links Exchange – what Google Says

Posted by BlogTime On August - 11 - 2009
Google Pagerank

Google Pagerank

According to Google, but my interpretation

According to Google, it is a fact that your ranking (where you are positioned on the search engine results page – SERP) is based partly on the analysis of the sites linked to you. (I would say it is a lot more than partly and probably one, if not the, most important aspect of SEO).

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SEO Search Engine Optimisation according to Google

Posted by BlogTime On August - 4 - 2009

search_buttonIt seems to me that when you start to discuss SEO techniques for whatever your reasons, perhaps to gain a better page ranking (sometimes known as an SEO rank) or for a better position on a search engine results page (also known as SEO placement), that we often forget to do the obvious.

Go and check out what the big search engines are telling us will improve our positions.

Now as you would expect from the big boys, there are no guarantees, all they do is advise us of what their take is on things, remembering also that very often this can change so you have to stay up to date on the latest thinking. It is up to you as a webmaster or blogmaster to see if following that advice works to improve your website ranking.

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Free SEO Advice

Posted by BlogTime On August - 1 - 2009

SEO and HubPages is great little summary of what you need to do in order to get traffic to your site. A picture paints a thousand words as they say, this is a tongue in cheek look at working from home using HubPages but with a serious message and great resources for making sure you have taken care of your SEO (search engine optimisation) requirements for your blog, website, Squidoo lens or HubPage.

Enjoy, you don’t get much for nothing in this world.

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After being in the technology industry for over 30 years, I now live in the South of France running several different businesses. Just sharing what I know and learn as I go along and hoping that it helps one or two people out.

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