GenuineSEO Blog » SEO http://genuineseo.net Genuine Tips on Search Engine Optimization and more... Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:16:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Process 1: Find the best keywords related to your niche http://genuineseo.net/process-1-find-the-best-keywords-related-to-your-niche http://genuineseo.net/process-1-find-the-best-keywords-related-to-your-niche#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:17:16 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/?p=96 In simple terms keywords are nothing but the words that web surfers enter in search engines to look for information on the World Wide Web. It is essential that you get these keywords to optimize your site as it is pointless to optimize your articles and site for keyword that nobody uses or which has very less target audience.

It is also important that you use the right keywords for your online marketing campaign to make it a success. Always make sure that you only use keywords that are relevant to your website. If you target the wrong keyword you will not be driving the right traffic and will end up wasting a lot of time and money. This is why it is important to invest some time to find the best keywords.

Tools to research on keywords

The ones mentioned below are some of the tools that I use regularly to optimize GenuineSEO. Try them out and if you have any that I’ve not mentioned, feel free to share your thoughts as well.

To be able to use the right keywords and research on the right keywords, first need to understand your target audience. Look at your competitors see what they are talking about, understand why you have visited the site, what did you first search for when you arrived at their site. All these questions will help you understand your keyword requirements better and drive the right type of audience to your site.

Today’s SEO experts do it the simple way by using some of the best SEO tools like SEO Studio to study competitors keywords. Sometimes even the most complicated things can be really simple and easy to do like SEO. The first step that you will need to follow to ensure good and selective audience is to research and use the right keywords

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]]> http://genuineseo.net/process-1-find-the-best-keywords-related-to-your-niche/feed 0 Overcoming Common SEO Problems (Do’s and Don’t) http://genuineseo.net/overcoming-common-seo-problems-dos-and-dont http://genuineseo.net/overcoming-common-seo-problems-dos-and-dont#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:20:49 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/?p=330 Most bloggers face difficulties with SEO and some don’t due to their area of specialization. For the ones who have trouble with SEO here are some quick do’s and don’t that you will find helpful with your SEO work.

DO’s….

  • Use 301 redirects for moved pages
  • Optimize titles and meta-data for non-html files (.pdf, .doc, .xls and more)
  • Have valid HTML
  • Use custom 404 errors for missing pages 

DON’t…

  • Allow broken links
  • Make content only accessible through forms or other elements that require human action
  • Use images, Flash, or JavaScript to display important text

This has been a very short post. Now that we have overcome the issue with our PC you will continue to see regular articles on GenuineSEO.net

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]]> http://genuineseo.net/overcoming-common-seo-problems-dos-and-dont/feed 0 Top 15 must follow Search Engine Optimization Blogs http://genuineseo.net/top-15-must-follow-search-engine-optimization-blogs http://genuineseo.net/top-15-must-follow-search-engine-optimization-blogs#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:33:40 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/top-15-must-follow-search-engine-optimization-blogs Every one wants to learn and optimize their blogs and website and rank better on search engines. What better than following some of the top 15 blog that we consider the best in providing information on Search Engine Optimization. Be it an e-commerce website or an information blog or a high revenue generating blog, SEO is an important aspect. We have put together 15 SEO blogs that you can learn from to optimize and stay up to date with the SEO trends in the market.

  1. Search Engine Land
  2. Search Engine Watch
  3. SEO Chat
  4. Search Engine Guide
  5. SEO Blackhat
  6. Graywolf’s SEO
  7. Search Engine Roundtable
  8. Search Engine Journal
  9. SEO by the SEA
  10. Dave Naylor
  11. SEO Refugee
  12. Small Business SEM
  13. SEOBook
  14. SEOMoz
  15. Matt Cutts

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]]> http://genuineseo.net/top-15-must-follow-search-engine-optimization-blogs/feed 5 5 Basic Tips and Tricks to SEO http://genuineseo.net/5-basic-tips-and-tricks-to-seo http://genuineseo.net/5-basic-tips-and-tricks-to-seo#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:10:35 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/5-basic-tips-and-tricks-to-seo This is one of the shortest posts we have written so far, yet a very useful post. This post contains 5 very basic SEO Tips and Tricks that is a must follow for any web master or SEO consultant. Optimizing your site and ensuring you meet the requirement and standards of a search engine is sure to get you better ranking. The following tips and tricks will help you to get the best results from search engine and Internet directory submission:

  1. Do not submit your website if you haven’t optimized it
  2. Only submit your website to related search engines and directories
  3. Do not submit your site too often
  4. Only submit your index page
  5. Do not submit redirection

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Create unique page titles

A Title speaks for its self, be it a book, a movie or anything. The same way a page title is very important for a website and you need to ensure that you take your time to prepare the best page title that you can. Make sure that it is as unique as possible. For example even though that you will find hundreds of SEO blogs and websites, you will notice that they all have unique titles and specific to the services they offer.  A title tag tells both users and search engines what the topic of a particular page is. The <title> tag should be placed within the <head> tag of the HTML document. Ideally, you should create a unique title for each page on your site.

Make best use of the “description” meta tag

The description meta tag gives Google and other search engines a summary of what the page is about. Whereas a page’s title may be a few words or a phrase, the description meta tag might be a sentence or two or a short paragraph. Like the <title> tag, the description meta tag is placed within the <head> tag of your HTML document.

Provide quality content

Creating compelling content will likely influence your website more than any of the other SEO factors. Users know good content when they see it and will likely want to direct other users to it. This could be through blog posts, social media services, email, forums, or other means. Organic or word-of-mouth buzz is what helps build your site’s reputation with both users and Google, and it rarely comes without quality content. Write, Write, Write… this is the best step to make sure that your content is indexed well by Google. An important point to note, ensure that your content is as unique as possible.

Write good anchor text

Writing good anchor text is another important factor that affects your ranking and positioning in Google. Anchor text are like Keywords with Hyperlinks and search engines love them. Anchor text is the clickable text that users will see as a result of a link, and is placed within the anchor
tag <a href=”…”></a>. Avoid writing generic anchor text like “page”, “article”, or “click here”.

Use heading tags appropriately

Heading tags (not to be confused with the <head> HTML tag or HTTP headers) are used to present structure on the page to users. There are six sizes of heading tags, beginning with <h1>, the most important, and ending with <h6>, the least important. Often try using Hyperlinks to H1 tags to making it an effective anchor text as well. Use headings sparingly across the page.

Optimize your use of images

Images may seem like a straightforward component of your site, but you can optimize your use of them. All images can have a distinct filename and “alt” attribute, both of which you should take advantage of. The “alt” attribute allows you to specify alternative text for the image if it cannot be displayed for some reason. You will notice that most webmaster miss out on this aspect of optimization. You will often come to see the absence of the alt tag. This is an essential part of optimizing images. This system comes handy when you are running a gallery based blog or photography based website.

Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

Many are puzzled and confused as to how this entire system of follow and nofollow works. Well its always a mystery, and the fun part of it is to solve it yourself.So take some time and explore and learn as much as you can in the process. Here are a few tips to help you understand this concept.  Setting the value of the “rel” attribute of a link to “nofollow” will tell Google that certain links on your site shouldn’t be followed or pass your page’s reputation to the pages linked to. Nofollowing a link is adding rel=”nofollow” inside of the link’s anchor tag. Another use of nofollow is when you’re writing content and wish to reference a website, but don’t want to pass your reputation on to it.

Promote your website in the right ways

Some of  the best way to promote your website as Google suggests is to Blog about new content or services – A blog post on your own site letting your visitors know that you added something new is a great way to get the word out about new content or services. Other webmasters who follow your site or RSS feed could pick the story up as well. Don’t forget about offline promotion – Putting effort into the offline promotion of your
company or site can also be rewarding. Know about social media sites – Sites built around user interaction and sharing have made it easier to match interested groups of people up with relevant content.

Most of the content of this post is taken from or referred from Googles Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.

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]]> http://genuineseo.net/googles-seo-search-engine-optimization-requirements/feed 0 15 questions to ask yourself when doing SEO analysis http://genuineseo.net/15-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-doing-seo-analysis http://genuineseo.net/15-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-doing-seo-analysis#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:32 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/?p=174 Analyzing your website / blog on a regular basis is important to ensure high ranking on search engines. By correcting errors or factors that influence your site to rank low, you can improve and ensure that a website ranks better. SEO analysis is one of the important factors that every blogger or website owner should do while optimizing a website. We did a self study and came up with a list of questions that you can ask yourself while analyzing your website for search engines. Be true to yourself and make the required changes and see you site rank improve.

SEO Analysis Questions

  1. Are the web pages linking to your web page relevant to the “Keyword”SEO Analysis Questions
  2. Do you link to web sites that do not deserve a link?
  3. Do you use the same title or Meta tags for many web pages?
  4. Do a majority of your inbound links come from low quality or spam sites?
  5. How long do your visitors spend time on your web page?
  6. How fast does your web page get new links pointing to it?
  7. Do the web sites which link to your page belong to the same content category?
  8. Do the links on your web page point to related pages?
  9. How often and how many web pages do you add to your web site?
  10. How often do search engine visitors search for your company name or web page URL on Google, Yahoo, MSN?
  11. Is your content very similar or a duplicate of existing content?
  12. Do you participate in link schemes?
  13. Do you sell links on your web page?
  14. Does your web page have any spelling or grammar mistakes?
  15. Is the text surrounding the link to your page relevant to the search term (Keyword)?

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]]> http://genuineseo.net/15-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-doing-seo-analysis/feed 1 Improve search ranking – Understand the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) http://genuineseo.net/improve-search-ranking-understand-the-basics-of-search-engine-optimization-seo http://genuineseo.net/improve-search-ranking-understand-the-basics-of-search-engine-optimization-seo#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:24:24 +0000 Eddie Gear http://genuineseo.net/?p=52 Internet users both new and old will often find the term SEO / Search Engine Optimization often being used by bloggers and online entrepreneurs. Understanding SEO Understanding SEOcan be both easy and difficult. Some prefer to outsource and make their work easy and simple, and for the ones who cannot afford to outsource do-it-themselves. Optimization is one of the important aspects that a web designer, blogger, online entrepreneur or a web developer should always consider implementing from the very start. Do not worry is you already have your website or blog set up, you can still optimize your site to rank well with search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo.

What is SEO?

“Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.” – Wikipedia.org

SEO requires patience

Bloggers and website owners often rush into the conclusion that their site would get ranked well as soon as their site has been optimized for search engine. Let me tell you that SEO requires a lot of patience. You will need to wait for your content to be crawled and index well and rooted deep in search engines. Once that is done, you will slowly start to notice that your site will increase in rank / position.

Sometimes a newly launched site can take up to a week to 15 days to get indexed on search engines like Google or MSN.  However, making sure that your site follows the guidelines of search engine indexing can do your site a lot of good in terms of ranking. Take your time and wait for it to happen and DO NOT rush into black hat tricks as you do not want your site penalised.

Genuine SEO helps searchers reach you

A well optimized website / blog is sure to rank well and the effective use of keywords and phrases that you use in Optimizing your site will help searcher find your content online. Effectively and liberally using keywords is a good trick to follow to helps users find your content. Before we get into the concept of using keywords, it best that you do your own research on the keywords often used by users to look for content related to your niche. Lets take a look at a simple example.

Niche: Cars

You can optimize your site with keywords starting from spare parts, paints, accessories, engines, cars, repairs and everything that you can think and relate to cars provided you offer all of them. By liberally using these keywords you are sure to attract searchers to visit your website or blog.

An hour a day SEO

Understanding the basics of what SEO is and what it can do for you and your website or blog is an excellent starting point. All it takes is just an Hour a day of your time to optimize the content on your blog and website. There are various aspects that you will need to look into while optimizing your site – keywords, phrases, content, editing codes, meta tags, links and many more. This brings you to the end of this article, thank you for reading “Improve search ranking – Understand the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)”.

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