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If you’re interested in getting to the top of Google then that’s probably why you’re about to sit down and read this article, because as you know, search engine optimisation is what your website needs. To learn SEO you should learn a little about html first, and find a way to do some sort of keyword analysis because if you cannot change your text on your website and you choose worthless key words, then your site will not be associated in the right category therefore you will not make any sales.

Many people read articles like this one looking for the hidden secret of how to get on Page 1 of Google. If ranking highly in Google is top of your agenda, you need to be aware that your keyword score is important as is the number of links you have to your site. In getting a high word score you need to have some text on your home page and in this text you need to mention your keywords frequently. Search engine optimisation basics revolve around the idea of keywords, and this in turn should drive traffic to the site and generate links. To understand the basics of all this, you really need to be speaking with SEO Yorkshire specialists.

There are a few important rules to remember before submitting your site to the search engines, so be sure to get all the little bits sorted in advance, like meta data, a sitemap and keyword rich text. After you have got the basics sorted then you can start looking at sorting your link popularity out. Everyone knows that incoming links are essential in SEO and the goal is to get great backlinks from high page rank sites that will add value to your own.

There are some things that could have a negative effect on your ranking with the search engines these things are called black hat SEO tactics. Black hat SEO can be detrimental for your site and jeopardise your ranking in the SERPs. Some time ago black hat SEO was widely practiced, and although it can be bad for your site these days, some people still attempt it and start hiding links and text and opt to participate in link farms. Don’t fall into the black hat trap and risk your page rank value.

There is a lot more to Internet Marketing then just search engine optimisation, however SEO is where it all starts. The underlying benefit of SEO is that it helps drive traffic to the site. Before optimising your site you should have knowledge of how search algorithms work, and research on what people looking for your site search for to get to it. It is this that remains one of the key factors in optimising your site and having a good page rank.

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers - as we do - and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process that makes the websites altered to rank higher in different search engines. It is an internet marketing strategy that analyzes how search engines conduct searches, what people search for and what keywords they often use. It is an extremely useful tool for marketers and advertisers. The higher the website ranks and appears in search engine results, the higher traffic and visitors you can achieve. Moreover, you are able to increase chance of converting those visitors into customers.

There are different methods in search engine optimisation. However, they have one common goal, increase the web page or website’s ranking and visibility in various search engines.
Cross linking or commonly known as spreading “link love” is one method whereby Page Rank (an algorithm in Google that employs to determine the popularity ranking of a certain website and more links from quality websites would increase the page’s or website’s ranking) is determined.

This SEO method had raised the link farming is also known as spamdexing, comment spamming, and other shady SEO practices which can result penalties or being banned by the different search engines.

One example of the search engine optimization technique is writing one content that targets the specific keywords. Keyword is commonly used to find out the certain keywords that internet users use when searching for related subjects. Those keywords are then used in web content to increase the chances of the page being crawled and getting “hits”. This SEO method has also given birth to keyword stuffing, which many search engines considers as an unethical SEO practice. It will somehow make your website flagged on aiding with spamdexing. To avoid being flagged for keyword stuffing, it is important to use the relevant keywords that arise from your keyword research in a natural flow.

Optimising Meta elements like tags is another technique used in search engine optimization. Meta elements can help search engines to classify the given web page by providing information about the specific topic. Meta elements have four attributes.

Keywords attribute – These tags can use the keywords in the page as Meta tags. Due to unscrupulous use of the keyword attribute in manipulating search engine results, most search engines have stopped using keywords attribute as the main determinant of page ranking.

Description attribute – Tags will provide a concise explanation of the specific content of the page. It is also used by most search engines in able to gain and increase their page ranking.

Language attribute – Tags can identify the language or dialect of the page.

Robots attribute – These attributes can determine the search engine spiders either to index a web page or follow the different links from the page.

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers - as we do - and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.

I’m a full time internet marketer who spends most of work day doing three things: Creating blog posts (which link to a money making product such as Penis Enlargement Pills), writing articles which link to those blog posts (using tools such as Article Marketing Automation), and listening to Beatles albums (yes I a huge Beatles fan and yes I pre-ordered The Beatles remastered CDs as soon as they were available for pre-order.)

Of course, this post isn’t about the first and third activities, just the second. This approach works wonders for SEO, in fact it’s just about the only tool I use for SEO these days because I find it so effective.

First you must to look past EZineArticles, too many people think that is the only place you should submit articles to! I think that’s crazy. While I do use EZineArticles, I do not rely upon it. And it’s not the best as far as getting links goes since their articles are not picked up by other sites very often. Instead I mostly use article distributon sites.

The key with an article distribution service is that they significantly leverage your work. Instead of just getting an article up on one site, you can get your article up on many sites (even hundreds in some cases) and this means you can get links back on many sites with just one article!

If you know anything about SEO then you know the great importance of getting links back on as many sites as you can, so I don’t think I need to explain why you would want these results, I’m only trying to show you the considerable power of article marketing and why you should make it a major part of your SEO approach.

I think you can have great results by submitting two or three articles per day if you use one of the best article distribution sites, and I do recommend that you use multiple services. You should never rely on just one source for your backlinks.

Creating back links to your website is one of the best ways to gain a higher ranking in the search engines. Almost any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert will agree with this point. The SEO experts will also tell you that your placement in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) can make or break your website.

It is commonly thought by many that if your website does not rank on one of the first two pages of the SERPs that your website will rarely be seen by visitors. For most people searching the web, this means that you must be in the top 20 search results. Think about it, when you do a search and you cannot find what you are looking for after a couple of pages, what do you do? I know what I do, I type in a different keyword or a variation of what I was looking for in hopes of getting better results.

Google and Yahoo love to see a website that has back links leading to it. You can chëck this for yourself, take a look at a popular keyword phrase that everyone is trying to get ranked for. Most likely you will see that the top few sites have a large number of back links leading to that site. Conduct your own case study and look at your Number 1 competitor; does that site have more back links than you do? You can determine the number of back links that a site has by entering the following into the search engine of your choosing: link:http://www.yourdomainurl.com

Of course back links are just one part of the equation, but they are a big part of the equation in getting good SERP results. So, if creating back links is such a good idea, why isn’t everyone doing it? Well, not everyone is doing it, because it can be a real pain to create back links.

Let’s look at some of the more common methods of building back links:

Email A Fellow Webmaster

It is recommended that the back links that you get to your site be from a site that is relevant to the topic of your own website. Having a website about cars linked to a site about fishing does not help you in the SERPs, as much as having a site about cars linking to a site about tires.

The problem here is that you can literally spend hours upon hours emailing various webmasters and asking them to give you a back link. In addition, it is common practice that you offër a reciprocal link to their website. This is fine for some people, but others do not want to clutter their pages with links that take visitors away from their website.

Additionally, you will want to look and see if the site that you are trying to get a link from has a good Google page rank (PR). Google says that a back link from a related site with good PR counts as a strong “vote” for your site; the more votes that you get, the higher your SERP and the higher your PR will be at the next update.

Most webmasters are busy and you can expect some wait time before you hear from them if at all. You can email 100 webmasters and get a varied response, that is, if you get a response at all. It has been cited that reciprocal linking campaigns have about a 2-5% acceptance rate. In other words, out of those 100 people you took the time to research and to email, only 2-5 of them will give you the back link that you are looking for. Of course, a few more may be willing to do it for a fee.

Directories

Directories are another “tried and true” method of generating back links to websites. Again this is a process that will take hours of work. The two most popular directories are DMOZ.com and the Yahoo directory.

DMOZ is human edited; this is good, because they work hard at only approving quality sites. The downside is that they often lack the actual human beings to approve or disapprove all of the sites that are submitted. There simply are not enough people volunteering for DMOZ to stay on top of all the submissions.

Yahoo will allow for directory submissions for frëe if your website is not deemed to be a business website. If your website is deemed to be a business website, plan on shelling out about $300 to be “considered” for a listing in their directory. They do not guarantëe that your website will be listed in their directory. Yahoo only guarantees that they will consider your website for inclusion in their directory.

You will find that many webmasters operate their own directories. You can find a líst of many directories on message boards like the one at DigitalPoint.com. Many of these directories provide free listings, or they wish for a reciprocal link in exchange for placing your link. At many of these directories, you can also pay for a sponsored link.

The problem here? These directories are usually operated by software and are not human edited. This means that your site could end up in the wrong category or that your site is simply listed and forgotten about. These link directories often boast of having decent PR on their homepage, but the actual page that your site will be listed on usually has a 0 PR. These small directories also have numerous requirements, and you need to read the fine print. The 15 minutes you spent constructing your submission could be wasted when you make a mistake that results in your submission being rejected.

Reprint Articles For Back Links

This is an option to create back links that many webmasters overlook. Probably the primary reason that webmasters do not take full advantage of this is because they do not feel comfortable with writing articles. Another reason is that the Webmaster may not have the time to write a quality article.

Consider this, one well-written article can be submitted to literally thousands of publishers of ezines and newsletters, niche webmasters, and frëe reprint article sites and can result in dozens, hundreds or thousands of back links. Now, not every publisher will pick up your article, but for the ones that do use your article, you will get a back link from their website. The back link is achieved in the “about the author” box that is required to stay in place with your article.

The more informative people find your article, the more linking results you can expect to achieve from your reprint article.

If you say that you don’t have the time to spend an hour or so writing an article, you need to ask yourself how much time you have spent submitting to directories trying to build back links.

Don’t feel comfortable writing your own article? Then hire a ghostwriter.

Once the article is written, then you should consider paying a distribution service to distribute your article for you. Again, this is a relatively small price to pay in order to get those all-important back links.

Some recommended article distribution services in alphabetical order include:

ArticleSubmissionSites.com

EzineTrendz.com

PRLeads.com

SubmitYourArticle.com

thePhantomWriters.com

In the end, you can save yourself time, money, and a lot of headaches by using articles to create back links to your site. You may be surprised by how many websites are starving for content and are more than happy to place your free reprint article on their website. Odds are that if they are placing your article on their website, then they are in your same niche market — which only adds to the value that the search engines will place on that back link. Don’t forget that people actually read these articles, and you can gain a boost in traffíc as a bonus to all of your new back links.

In Conclusion…

I know, you don’t want to shell out the money to use reprint articles as a linking method, but how much money have you spent on being listed as a “sponsored” website in directories?

How much time have you wasted in trying to drum up new back links through other methods? After all, your time is your money. You can spend your time or your money to do the tasks that you need to do to be successful. And literally, sometimes it makes a whole lot of sense to outsource specialized tasks to experts in their fields.

No website is an island. You cannot just build your website and expect people to be knocking down your door to buy your products or services. You have to advertise. People have got to have a way to find your website.

If you take the time and expend the effort to build your website in such a way as to attract the search engines and to provide what the search engines consider to be a good website, then you will find that the search engine companies can be your business’ best friend. And whether you like it or not, one of the ways that the search engine companies deem a website to be a good website, is by the number of back links pointing to the website.

You can have the best website on the internet, selling the best products and services at the best prices, but if people cannot find you, then your website is pointless. If you desire to be successful, then you need to do whatever is necessary to build links to your website. Give the search engines what they want (back links to your website), and the search engines will give you what you want (targeted traffíc).

When you launch your own Internet marketing plan, you should first decide whether you should take SEO campaign management into your own hands, or decide to outsource SEO.
Hiring search engine optimization firms to implement the technique for your websites has clear advantages over doing it by yourself or using in-house staff. Below are some great reasons for outsourcing your search engine optimizaton to experts.

Sure Optimization
SEO is a process that needs to be done right, and have continual monitoring and tweaking. If you do not have the time to learn, or the time to continually figure your content out and monitor it – then doing SEO work all by yourself isn’t for you. It is advisable that you hire a good search engine optimization firm or consultant in order to correctly plan the optimization for your business.

When you outsource SEO to a quality team they will ensure that your website content, name and keywords are the ones that will get you traffic.

Quality outsourcing firms and consultants use experts qualitifed to use dynamic techniques to keep tabs on the changing logarithms used by search engines. This is to make sure that they continuously incorporate new and current methods for better results.

Fresh Content
If you decide to oursource seo for your website, you should be provided with fresh, original content. Search engines pick up websites with fresh information. Depending on the SEO packages, a service provider can also include the delivery of keyword rich SEO articles for inclusion on the client’s website or to be sent to article distribution sites. With the help of quality, original articles, the search engines will find the keywords they are looking for all throughout your website.

Increased Exposure
The right SEO techniques can create an increase in your websites exposure, and varied articles will promote your brand, company or service. As well as providing targeted traffic to your site, quality SEO campaigns will create an international presence for your site and your offering, positioning you as an expert in the niche.

Unlike attempting your own search engine optimization, hiring providers provide SEO solutions that you cannot provide by yourself because they have sophisticated evaluation tools and techniques. You get continuous coverage with management reports that tell you about the number and source of traffic hits to your website.

As well, a quality search engine optimization firm will also make adjustments to your campaign if you are not satisfied with the type of traffic, or the number of people that is generated to your site.

So basically, if you outsource SEO, you’re hands free off the campaign. But as owner of the website and as a marketer – it is your responsibility to make sure that the firm that you choose is a reliable one, oversee, ask questions and let them know what you want so that you get the best results in terms of traffic and conversions.

A huge slice of my golden time at StepForth as an SEO consultant is wisely spent on doing research about my competitors on behalf of our clients. This service is focused on deconstructing the marketing campaigns of each competitor while identifying the tactics that appear to have fundamentally contributed to their search engine success. As you might imagine I come across many intriguing techniques that work and many that don't. In this article I will account for a couple of techniques that appear to be overlooked by many but have proven time and time again to work; the creation of an on-site glossary and frequently asked questíons (FAQ) section.

Create a Glossary

I imagine we have both shared one frustration with the Internet Marketing at one tíme or another and that is jargon… too much of it. Acronyms, and bafflegab seem to be unintentionally utilized on websites all over the web (I am guilty too, I admit it) and I often wish there was a simple way to find a definition within a website rather than visiting an online dictionary. In most scenarios, there are a few websites where the owners have inteligently linked a relatively ambigous term to an off-site definition which is friendly to user but totally junk for great optimization opportunity. If there will be a chance to link to a definition, it would be more beneficial to link to the content of you website in order to gain credibility to the eyes of Google and other major Seach Engines.

You see, Google's algorithm is essentially a credibility calculator; it considers a whole host of elements on your website and pointing to your website to determine where it should be ranked. There are seemingly insurmaountable elements that the algorithm considers, not to mention the uniqueness and importance of each page's and it's content to the number of linkslinking or pointing to your website coming from different credible websites. Put a relevant content to your glossary page and link a word or a phrase from a page to a particular definition in your glossary in this way your site's credibility can be gained.

For example, if your website (i.e. www.xyzname.com) sold a wide variety of wood working tools and furniture building plans online it would be to your benefit to provide a fairly comprehensive glossary of woodworking terms on your website. Once the glossary is complete you can then occasionallylink to the associated terms from within the written content on your website~When the glossary is complete, occasionally you can then link to the associated terms in the written content on your website}~{Once the glossary is complete you can then occasionallylink to the associated terms from within the written content on your website}~When the glossary is complete, occasionally you can then link to the associated terms in the written content on your website}.

Okay, I may see the core content of the site within the glossary has relevance to each item, however, its not confirmed how these links help?

A search engine algorithm tries to ascertain credibility in much the same manner humans do; we just take our innate calculations for granted. So consider how you would feel if you were on the woodworking site reading a tutorial on building a rocking chair and whenever a confusing term appeared you were provided with a link to a glossary on the site kindly defining the term. This small comfort would expand your idea of the profitable website and curve the plausibleness of the site would be less in uncertainty. Search engine algorithms assimilate these helpful links in much the same manner so by helping your visitors you are also helping your website.

Wait! There is another bonus to having a glossary:

As an added benefit glossary pages also have a great chance at obtaining rankings for their associated definitions precisely because they have links from relevant text pointing to them. In other words, glossaries are entirely helpful for your site to be well known by curiois surfers that are just looking for definition as well as for those big website that would like to link in for reference to your site.

In short, glossaries are simply a win-win tactic for nearly any website. Actually, as I create this information I can't seem to think of a particular site that wouldn't benefit from a glossary.

Create a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Page

Now that you have read why an on-site glossary is important perhaps the concept of adding a Frequently Asked Questíons section to your website is a no-brainer or perhaps not. In my professional opinion that you need a FAQ page and I think you should bring yourself into agreement with me and get one on your site as soon as you possibly can.

Like a glossary a Frequently Asked Questíons page is a perfect place to build the credibility of your website and put to rest the fearful/concerning questíons that often arise in relation to your products/ services. you can have some ideas of queries of prospective customer might ask by trying to call a few clients and ask them what they are sought for prior choosing your company. In addition, try placing a submission form on your contact page where prospects can ask you a question directly – just be sure to respond with haste. Then post the Question and answer on your FAQ page.

Yet another bonus from having an FAQ:

It is very common for the average surfer to search the web using questíons. If your FAQ uses the wording that you think your prospects will use when searching, you will have a good chance at acquiring some extra high quality traffic. Look for the most appropriate wording for each FAQ research something about keyword analysis tool.

Tips for Building an Optimized Glossary or FAQ

Now I imagine that every expert in the SEO field has a different preference for designing the ‘ultimate’ glossary or FAQ but there are definitely some important tips to keep in mind for both:

1. Keep the pages relatively short. Here is an example, I never advise having the whole glossary of FAQ on a single page unless all of it are small. Ideally I would limit the number of questíons or definitions to 10 or 15 on each page.

2. When building a FAQ try to devote each FAQ page to a singular topic. For example, on a woodworking site the FAQ for one page might be on the installation of a wood floor and another page would be devoted to questíons on laminate floor installation.

3. When formatting the content for both the glossary and the FAQ try to link to related content within your website. This way if any visitors or search engines enter the site via one of these pages they can find great related reading material in a single click.

4. Do not for get to place a "back" button or something for them to click on that will navigate them back to the glossary or FAQ main menu. This will make it easier for visitors to navigate each resource or find their way back to their original reading material.

5. Include content to both FAQs and glossary pages as much as possible. It is often very simple to add a new definition or question and over time each resource will become more and more valuable to your users and ultimately contribute more to your website’s success.

6. Ensure that the FAQ and Glossary pages are included in your XML sitemap so that search engines can regularly index them for fresh content [see Google XML Sitemaps – The Basics ]. That being said, I suggest to set appropriate re-index rate every month unless the source will have an update than the usual. After all, these pages are supposed to help but not take away from the core content of your website.

Your Competitors Are Doing It or They Will

If your website lacks a glossary or a FAQ I can only hope that this article convinced you to make it a priority. These tools are important factors to the success of competitors that I have noticed in many of my analysis contracts. They are too simple to add for anyone to be without them. You may have employed the most SEO friendly wesite designer to include these resources the ends shall claim the means.

Search Engine Optimization - Secrets Revealed. Let’s begin: What is ‘competition’? Competition is described as “one that competes”, “a rival”, “selling or buying goods or sevices in the same market as another”, and even down to the biological level - “an organism that lives in competition with another”. SEO & Web - Competitive Landscape. Ever more, web surfers are using search engines to find companies, services and goods. Big and smaller companies, are using search engine optimization and search engine marketing techniques to beat their competitors. On the Internet, we are dealing with virtual entities - and we all compete in increasingly tougher and user-aware market places. Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing focuses on building traffic and allowing you to leverage your websites, services and products. Through competitive research, optimal keyword strategies, quality content, link-back neighborhoods and educating yourself on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), you should be well positioned to beat the competition — over time. What options exist for creating revenue online? A) Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing are two fantastic ways in which you can get visibility on the Internet. Additionally, you can and should include email marketing strategies, with a complete CRM and backoffice process. You can increase visibility and competitive edge hundred-fold. Great content with an intelligent link strategy is vital. B) Affiliate Marketing Programs. Join and promote these (Mr. Jeff Bezos at Amazon is famous for this). Create one for your company - with potentially exciting and lucrative results. (The merchants, or you - offer affiliates commissions for sales activity generated by the affiliate’s web sites). C) Adsense. A sophisticated affiliate online advertising program from Google. Complimentary Adsense Training Videos are worth a look. However, without search engine marketing and search engine optimization, you are missing out on other huge opportunities for smashing the competition and making large sums online. D) Adwords. A break-through ad (’sponsored advertising’) system from Google that can bring traffic (quality) to your site within 1/2 hour! The complimentary adwords email courses show ways to beat the system, and lessen the frustration on your part. It can get expensive fast. Create edge and stay competitive with SEO and SEM. You must have a service or product niche - to create success on the Internet using these ’silent money making engines’. You need to appreciate that niche marketplaces is how you get there, along with sound search engine optimization and search engine marketing principles, quality content, backlinks and CRM sales backend processes. Optimization Tip #1: On and off page optimization, what is that, and why is it important? First of all you need to create a web site that is a related to a niche marketplace. (You already know who your customer is, right!?) It is very important that you do your keyword research first. In fact, competitive research as an action step is missed by over 98% of the online marketplace. There are many great keyword tools and many are free. Keep in mind that Google ‘owns’ over 50% of the search marketplace. (Yahoo receives about 30% and MSN about 20%). Google is a very important search engine for you to focus on, and I propose you start with it (even though MSN and Yahoo are great resources - especially the newly launched MSN Adcenter). Competitive SEO Research: Try the following on yahoo and google (make sure syntax is correct): site: www.competitor.com. (replace ‘competitor’ with real name). It will show you how many pages that each search engine has indexed from the competitor’s site. Depending on the site, many results could be returned. Look to see if each page has a title and description associated with them. You will then be able to decide whether each page within your competitor site has been individually optimized. When you start researching keywords do not start with the most common keyword. For example, if you are selling Canon products, do no start researching or optimizing for the word ‘Canon’. You need to break it down - for example - to ‘Canon power shot’. Even better -’Canon power shot SD400 memory sticks’. This way, you have created a niche keyword structure (many permutations from these keywords) within a larger category, and you will able to better optimize keywords for this area. With this in mind, go to Google and start typing in specific keywords and phrases to see where the competition is. As you are doing this, you should understand the page rank algorithm. It is Google’s way of giving specific value to how popular are popular your web site is. It’s essentially based on the number of votes of other web sites that have cast votes up for your web site. Votes are generated when another web site places a link on their web site that is pointing to your web site. The more votes you get, the better your chances are for good ranking. Try our free SEO tools and give yourself a start. To view the page rank, install the Google toolbar (toolbar.google.com). As you look at the competition, recognize that we talk about on-page and off- page optimization. On-page optimization are things like proper use of H1 header tags, using main keywords in the title tags, keywords and phrases are bolded underlined or italicized, using image tags and placing correct keywords within that tag. Many place keywords at the very beginning of the text, and once at the very end of the copy, with other sprinkled throughout the company. It’s an “hour glass” type of an idea. Keywords at the top, less in the middle and again repeated at the end. 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