Keywords are the words average people will search for to find your website. Both on-site optimization as well as off-site optimization SEO efforts start with selecting and targeting the right keywords. It is my experience, however, that many website owners are very unrealistic about the keywords they would like to target.
For example, a [...]

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Recently one of my colleagues showed me that if one searches for the phrase ‘miserable failure’ in Google, the page that shows at the top in the search results is the biography page of George W. Bush at the White House website. If you check the content of the page, there is no phrase [...]

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You must have recently noticed change in values of Google PageRank and also the number of backlinks in Google. Though PageRank is continuously updated, the updated PageRank is made visible on the Google toolbar once every 3-4 months. Though ‘Google Success’ website was not updated for last 6 weeks, this site achieved a PageRank of [...]

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It is no secret that a website must get lots of quality incoming links for ranking high in search engines. These days however, search engines are getting smarter; they have realized how easy it is to arrange link exchanges, so reciprocal links just don’t count any more. Now the emphasis is on getting ’one way links’ (a link [...]

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Blogs can bring in a lot of traffic to your website via the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN if they are updated regularly and of course are properly optimized for these search engines. WordPress based blogs are search engine friendly, however their SEO power doesn’t all come by default.  After making a few blogs [...]

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Building backlinks from other sites is important for improving a site’s Pagerank. However. many a times webmasters do not pay much attention to the internal linking. So the question is, are the internal links counted as backlinks by Google? And do the internal links contribute to the pagerank?
The answer is Yes. You may ask what is the proof? On Google toolbar you can see [...]

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When I started blooging I did not know what a trackback was and how to use it effectively till I come across an article by Intenet Entrepreneur Yaro Starak on blogging for beginners 
So what is a trackback? A trackback is a form of blog communication that links two or more relevant blog entries together. One blogger writes [...]

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Quality inbound links are extremely important for ranking high in search engines like Google and Yahoo. Link popularity acts as a catalyst to the on-page optimization efforts.  Building good quality backlinks is a time consuming exercise. That is why SEO companies charge a heavy fee to carry out link building tasks for you.
Many website owners [...]

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I started this blog in February of 2006 and for the first few months my traffic was really low. It was because I was not blogging seriously.  I knew that the site was in the Google sandbox and so I was waiting for it to get out of the sandbox. I started little serious blogging only from mid-July after [...]

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Recent Search Engine share as published by comScore puts Google at 43.7% followed by Yahoo at 28.8% and MSN at 12.8%. And in some countries like Japan, Google is still at # 10 position, the top position being enjoyed by Yahoo.  Though most SEOs or website owners concentrate primarily on optimizing their sites for Google, we can not [...]

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