Archive for November, 2008

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'Keywords' connect Web search with site - The TennesseanTopic: news -

Want to get your Web site to appear high up in the results when someone is looking for the kind of stuff you sell? With both SEO and SEM, the most important step is to clearly identify which keywords searchers are likely to use when looking for the types of products, services, or content you offer. If you want your site to appear high in results without paying for ads, choosing which keywords to use throughout your site is critical. Even if you pay for placement, you still want to optimize your Web site or certain pages of your Web site for keywords.

Happy Thanksgiving, from All of Us at Search Engine Watch - Search Engine Watch(%keyword%)

We will not be publishing on Thursday, November 27, or Friday, November 28, in observation of Thanksgiving Day. I hope those of you that are celebrating the holiday can stay off the Internet and spend some time with those you love. It’s been updated with articles covering the basics of search engine optimization, search advertising, and several other topics. Keep an eye on that section, as it will continue to be updated on a regular basis. We’ve got one-hour presentations with Q&A available on demand on topics from Holiday PPC campaigns to search trends, to Profitable PPC fundamentals. We’ll be back on Monday with plenty of new Experts columns , blog posts , and more.

Is Personalized Search Really Ending Search Engine Optimization? - Promotion World (press release)news -

If you do a search for health insurance quotes, health insurance plans, and affordable health insurance, you are getting the same top two web sites for all three. So the next time you search, you will be exposed to a few sites that you haven’t seen before and may have options that better suit you. While personalized search may reduce traffic, it should increase conversion (in theory) because the visitors that are exposed to your web site have been because of their recent search history thus making them a more relevant visitor. Even with personalized search, your web site needs to have relevant content, clean code, properly formatted meta descriptions, descriptive text, descriptive image tags, and variety of relevant, quality web sites linking to it.

Topic: news - Maximize Your SEO - Entrepreneur

To avoid running into issues with search engines that may overlook numerous domains pointed to the same page, direct them to separate landing pages with links that will draw visitors into the site. Using the doll example again, it’s far better for one of your pages to be titled “Barbie” than “Page 7″ if you’re targeting the doll-buying set. The more relevant links you have between your site and others in your industry, the higher the rank, says Scanlan. Lyansky beefs up his results by building pages that compare the attributes of his bikes to his competitors–and including links to those competitors.

ClearGauge and ZoomRank Deliver Next Gen SEO Analytics - CMSWireTopic: news -

Search Engine Optimization consists of identifying keywords and phrases that companies want to rank high for on search engines, such as the almighty Google. Having a Web site rank in the top 10 results on a search engine can significantly increase the quantity and quality of leads and sales, naturally. SEO consulting and services firms is their customization of Web analytics tools such as Omniture , WebTrends and Google Analytics by focusing on goals and Key Performance Indicators in support of continuous improvement. Once upon a time, the standard way to measure these rankings was to look at the statistics of two static points in time — like the first day of each month, for example. So, along came ZoomRank with their genius, also known as automatic monitoring of search engine rankings, and the Average Rankings Report with the ability to run automatically was born. Their solutions include a blend of Web site analytics, Web site renovation and design, search engine optimization (obviously), and paid search.