Thursday, February 01, 2007

SEO: How to get started on the success road

The term SEO, which refers to Search Engine Optimization is a vital aspect of Internet marketing strategy exclusively created to perk-up website ranking in search engine listings. In other words, it’s a marketing strategy that aptly involves utilizing the global power inherent in Internet by webmasters. The final objective is to, ultimately, access and profits from unlimited organic search results or search engines on a continual basis.

But before a website owner can achieve upward listing on search engine and profit thereafter, he must apply wide spread relevant keywords, in order to WOO search engine robots to accept and optimizes the web-pages. Once this is done and top listing is achieved, then quality visitors (warm traffic) will eventually be attracted to click his website, which will increase their inclination to take positive action such as opt-in to newsletter, order products/services, make solid enquiries and so on.

From the above summary, we can readily decipher, therefore that, SEO is a great way for webmasters, not only to market their businesses, but to intensely empower them to leverage their SEO campaigns for continuous sales and profits. This fact, has however, induce search engine optimization to continue to attract wide interests and creating phenomenal issues at every twist.

Two major problems most people encounter in SEO campaigns -

Although, there are several hiccups, but in this article we shall deliberate on two that easily come to mind and which must be avoided at all cost. One, you must not run foul of any search engine’s rules, regulations and policies. Going off regulation easily increases the risk of being punished – either being banned partially or permanently. For example, you could wake-up tomorrow to the blasting news that google.com has decided to place ban on websites they fouled their regulations.

The second mistake to avoid is commonly caused by website owners themselves in the course of creating SEO campaigns. It is not uncommon for webmasters, especially the new entrants, to plan and design their websites contrary to what search engine expects from them. In this article you’ll discover best approach to adopt, and automatically avoid this problem. You will be taken through some basics, but very vital ideas that will put you on advantageous starting lane.

Is your website designed for search engine or yourself? If your website must attract search engine listing and bring quality visitors to your website, then the pages must be professionally designed. However, ‘professionalism’ does not imply fazing web-pages with overbearing colors, images/photos, flashes and all sorts of bells and whistles. No! Although, they may allow you parade fine-looking website, but it will load slowly, waste visitors’ precious time, discourage them discourage from exploring any further, and leave them with no other choice than to click “CLOSE.” Off to another website!

Prepare to work hard

Don’t get hoodwinked into the so-called “quick and easy” SEO success. So you must prepare to work hard and play with patience when submitting your websites to search engine. You must also, continually keep monitoring and tweaking when it’s appropriate to do so. Let’s now consider some valued reasons these advices will aid you from the beginning to success level.

Good content is king

For the search engine, especially the three majors – google, yahoo and MSN – writing good, quality content is not negotiable. Remember, people visit search engine for information. So that’s what you must provide for them in order to find you from the mass market. Your content must be based on proper research, knowledge and facts, which will uniquely provide the educative need of your targeted visitors. Again, good content will systemically assist you to bring in “repeat visitors” and also, with time, encourage others to link to your site.


Always update your content. Once your website gets indexed by the search engine, don’t rest on your oars; keep adding more and more contents on a regular basis. And if you cannot write? You can outsource to freelancers. But bear in mind that the benefits of fresh content is endless. One, search engine robots will constantly ‘kiss’ your web-pages and more often than not, get those new pages indexed without any inhibition.

There are other vital stuffs such as good spelling of every text on your website. Also ensure page title is clear, simple and descriptive so as to relevantly, influence search engine to properly place your website and assist visitors determine what your website contain upfront. Another vital idea is to fight for external links; but you can only achieve if contents are of high quality and fresh.

Submission must not be underestimated

The last sane advice is to submit carefully, and avoid those promising you “submission to 1,000,000s of search engine in 5 minutes” at all cost. Instead, download and carefully read submission guideline of each search engine and follow it when to submit your web-pages manually.

About the Author:
Dwayne Taylor
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