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This is a guest post from Diana Maria discussing How to Rank Higher and Increase Traffic to your website. Much of what is proposed has been touched upon in this blog before but it does serve as a good reminder of an overall approach to search engine optimization.

You will find many online marketing sites making endless claims about how to increase your website traffic, visitors and provide a top ranking position in some of the most popular search engines online. But you may need to  implement a diversified strategy in order  to beat your competitors. There are simple techniques that can be used to increase traffic for your web site pages, articles or blogs.

First you must try to maintain a clear hierarchy by adding text links to your site. Text links tend to be more important as search engine crawlers are unable to read text which is only available in the form of images. Any website with a navigation menu of text links can be easily indexed by popular search engines on-line. Although it is possible to use image ‘alt tags’ and file naming to give the search engines a pointer in the right direction.

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SEO as most people know is a constantly changing target and the reason why is because the search engines are constantly trying to stay ahead of the SEO gamers that seek to position their’s or their client’s web pages in prime positions in the search engine results pages. Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. on the other hand seek to present what they consider to be the best and highest quality matches to the enquiry that has been entered into the search box.

You may ask why do the two objectives clash? And the simple answer is that people with the best sites that provide the best information, solutions to problems, services and or products, in other words content, may not necessarily know very much about SEO at all. The consequence of this is that they can be left at the starting blocks when it comes to being found and listed high up on search engine results pages. Don’t get me wrong, great content is always the starting point for getting a decent page rank and, for natural evolution of a site to a position of authority with the search engines, there is always a need for top quality unique information. The problem for the search engines is how do they determine that is the case with the tools they have available.

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How alarming are Phishers posing as Facebook security on chat?

Have you been the latest victim to the virus spread by Phishers posing as Facebook security on your Facebook chat? If yes, then you are not alone since there have been reports of internet Phishers sending messages to the inbox of multiple Facebook users. This is an attempt to seek sensitive account information and credit card data from Facebook users. Scammers on Facebook are posing as security on Facebook chat sessions where they are trying to trick users in order to fetch their credit card details and other sensitive information. The threat from phishers on Facebook has been confirmed by Kaspersky Lab that has warned users against the scammers.

What do the Phishers actually do to the Victim?

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The world of search engine optimization has changed significantly in the last 12 months. Why? Because the social media sites have come to the fore and quality content has grown even more in importance. So now the question is, how do search engines use social media to help rank websites and ensure that the content on a website does truly have high quality content?

The answer to the first part of the question is all about the activity on social media sites, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Quite simply put, people need to be talking about your website or blog, re-tweeting your tweets and sharing the articles you put out with their contacts or connections. The very fact there is interest in your posts will indicate what you are writing or publishing has some sort of value, and is of good quality.

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Guest Post from Nadia Jones discussing the recent and sweeping changes to Facebook.

Over the past few months Facebook has enacted (without warning) a tidal wave of changes to its website interface, often to the chagrin of fans. These recent monumental changes put forth by the king of online social networking explain just how competitive the field has become. Relatively long-lasting social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter adding thousands of users every day, and new-comer Google+ can boast over 50 million users in less than 6 months.

Even with 800 million or so users, Facebook continues to overhaul the way they connect people so as to make themselves more attractive to their users. But Facebook’s recent facelift in the wake of so much competition begs the question: is Facebook scrambling just to keep up, or are they innovating meaningful changes for the future?

Most recent changes

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