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Search Engine Optimization with WordPress
February 12, 2010 By
Google Analytics Basics: Granting User Access
February 12, 2010 By
To grant access to your Google analytics results and editing setup you can follow these steps. grant access to seo@be-found(dot)net [iframehttp://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=55500 100% 1000px] … [Read more...]
Feel the Love with LinkBait
January 12, 2010 By
Among the most important factors affecting your SEO results is the number and quality of links that point to your site. The better your content, the more people will link to you. Google essentially looks at inbound links as "votes" of love for your site- if you have a lot of quality links, your content must be good, thus they should move it up the results. Not long ago reciprocal link exchange on a links pages (you post a link to their site and they post a link to your site) was the easiest way … [Read more...]
Social Media or Search Engine Results – Where Do Visitors Come From?
October 20, 2009 By
Are you Tweeting, Yelping and connecting on LinkedIn? Trying to blog at least once a week? Posting on other blogs to get some recognition? Work, work and more work. How will you get it all done? Do you really need to do everything? Each online marketing activity offers its own benefits and only you know which one is right for your business. Or do you? Let’s take a look at how content is discovered on the Internet. NielsenWire authored a blog post … [Read more...]
WordPress SEO Benefits
September 16, 2009 By
The best article I have found which indicates WordPress is good for SEO link here … [Read more...]
Does your Website have Search Friendly URLs?
June 29, 2009 By
The URL is the file name for the web page and is displayed in the web browser window. This is an example from my website: http://be-found.net/seo-tools/, and http://be-found.net/search-marketing-expert/ . Those URLs would be considered search friendly. These would be considered unfriendly URLs: http://www.stuffkidslike.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=melissa__doug and http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25929346. The data after the domain name is called a query string., the … [Read more...]
SEO Before Building a Website
May 1, 2009 By
Think of your SEO consultant as an architect and your web development company as a general contractor. A general contractor can build you a beautiful home, but they need to have the perfect plans to work from. A good SEO consultant can put together the plans and requirements for your site and hand them over to your web development team before the build. SEO is built into your navigation text, file names, graphic names and content. The navigational structure is also a major component of SEO. … [Read more...]
Getting your website pages quickly indexed with the search engines
May 1, 2009 By
One of the lesser known features the search engines (SE) offer is webmaster tools for Google, MSN and Yahoo. Webmaster tools provide you with statistics, diagnostics and management of the SE indexing of your website, including sitemap submission and reporting. Webmasters can use the Sitemaps Submission feature to almost instantly place newly created pages on their site into the search index. This is a XML file that is uploaded to the SE webmaster tools as the new pages are added on your … [Read more...]
Creating Interesting Titles for your Newsletter and Blog
May 1, 2009 By
Most of us are not journalists and editors; but today’s business requires us to publish. Yet we publish blogs and newsletters, just to name a few. What are good phrases? What will catch the attention of our readers? If you are struggling for a good headline adapt one from publications such as Cosmopolitan magazine. Reader’s Digest or MSN.com who use formulaic headlines that have been proven to work again and again. MSN has a head line “7 ADHD truths you may not know”. … [Read more...]
The Sales Pipeline for Keywords
May 1, 2009 By
You have heard this before: “Use your keywords when you write your web content”. But what are your keywords? Probably not what you think they are. Most business owners know their product terminology better than they should when it comes to search marketing. To have a highly visited website (loads of traffic), you must know the popular search terms used through your sales pipeline. To find your keywords, take out two pieces of paper and label one” research” and the other … [Read more...]
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