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5 easy steps to quick SEO ranking

Published on - Jan 18, 2010

Despite how easy it is to get ranked fast some simple things are overlooked. I tested this theory I had about the importance of targeting long tail keywords first for an SEO campaign as apposed to last. To get ranking quickly do the following:

  1. Obviously the first step is to do your keyword research on your niche. I prefer Google Keyword Analyzer

  2. Select a few long tail keywords from your research

  3. Go to google and put those keywords in google wrapped in quotes (this will show results matching exactly that term). Make note of how many times the exact term shows up in title. Note: If there are no top 10 results with this term keep special track on those.

  4. Take all of the terms you had researched that had no or very few title results and either create a web page with the terms in the meta tag titles or do a blog post with the keywords being in the post title. I suggest a blog entry. Do one post per term (you can maybe do two keyword terms in one post if it makes sense).

  5. Ping your blog post or web page. My favorite is Feedping

Now go find something fun to do for a few hours. In most cases, you’ll see your post or webpage being ranked within a few hours tops - sometimes it might take a couple days, but 80% to 90% of the keywords that you picked (if you did your research right) should be showing up with your site on page 1 of Google.

Keep in mind that you might not get a ton of traffic from most of those terms but to make this really effective you need to take this a step further and structure some of those links over to your main sections of your main web site. I was able to put link weight on a heavy page for a specific keyword just by doing this for one term for my own testing purposes. When you do dozens to even hundreds of these, you can get some massive traffic.

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Google Chrome bumps Safari to become third-placed browser

Published on - Jan 5, 2010

Chrome’s steadily improving user base has seen the browsing platform gain a further 0.7 percent of the market in December, pushing its total share for 2009 to 4.63 percent and outperforming the 4.46 percent logged by Safari.

This really caught my eye, I enjoy seeing this: Internet Explorer’s gradual month-on-month decline continued in December, with the platform falling from 63.62 percent to 62.69 percent.

Read more: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201001/5030/Chrome-bumps-Safari-to-become-third-placed-browser#ixzz0bl35Zsbt

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Great quote - No user servicable parts inside

Published on - Dec 29, 2009

That's what it says on countless electronic and mechanical devices. "Don't touch this," it says, "you're way too dumb to open it... you'll get hurt"

The problem, of course, is that pretty soon you start looking at the entire world that way. Whether it's web design or Google analytics or backing up your hard drive or just talking to the guys in the plant about your new ideas, it's really easy to see the world as a black box.

Here's a simple secret of success: ignore the sticker.

Figure out how to use the tools that the most successful people in your field understand innately.

Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/no-user-servica.html

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Layout bugs

Published on - Dec 29, 2009

Please excuse some layout issues for the Internet Explorer users. I haven't had a chance to test this web site with IE6, 7, 8. I now have access to a Windows PC this morning and was able to test it out and as expected there are some IE issues. Please bare with me as I work out the bugs for IE.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Web Standards

Published on - Dec 28, 2009

There have been many different versions of HTML since the World Wide Web was invented in the early days. The “rules” for using each version are encapsulated in the standards published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standards dictate the tags publishers are allowed to use (and in what order), and how web browsers and user agents should interpret those tags. For example, page headers should be indicated as such by placing them in <h*> tags, paragraphs should be wrapped in <p> tags, lists wrapped in <ul> or <ol> tags and so on. The essential point is that because search engine indexing mechanisms easily spider standards-based, structural HTML, you should give them what they want whenever possible. Think of a single web page as word document. Every document has a title, heading, and a body of the document, the same rules apply for a web page, but in a different form.

Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look and layout of your web site. In other words, design the way the structural markup looks in a completely separate document (e.g. the <h*> tags, mentioned above, can be styled to look almost any way you choose). Use CSS because it allows you to write structural HTML markup, without compromising your design vision and, most importantly, it allows you to code your web site for maximum SEO results.

Immediate SEO Benefits of Using Structural Markup and CSS

  • The combination of standards-based HTML and CSS generally result in much smaller HTML files so web pages load more quickly.
  • The structured code will also improve the search engines ability to effectively index web page content. Search Engine mechanisms realize proper document structure.
  • CSS-styled HTML elements used in place of images, particularly for page headers, will enable you to strategically use your keywords where they count the most.

Document Type (DOCTYPE)

The DOCTYPE is essential to the proper rendering and functioning of web documents in compliant browsers like Mozilla, IE5/Mac, and IE6/IE7. A recent DOCTYPE that includes a full URI tells these browsers to render your page in standards-compliant mode, treating your HTML and CSS you expect them to be treated.

META Information

The <title> tag – The most important location for your targeted keywords/key phrases is the <title> tag, preferably at the beginning of the tag. Since the maximum allowed <title> tag display length varies between major ...

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