Seo - Why Entertaining People Is Good Seo

Posted by admin | 29/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

Anything that attracts visitors to your website is considered to be good SEO. The fact is that people love interactive sites. This appeals to both their instincts to graze and play. Horoscopes, games, live audio, music, chat rooms, diaries, blogs, videos and any kind of interactive gimmick gives the people want they want. They also like things such as budget calculators, web tools, schedulers, alarm clocks and any kind of interactive wizard.

Sometimes you have to design this material yourself, but most of the time you can find this kind of Internet plug in gadget by searching for them on the web. Many web hosts also offer free gadgetry that is designed to amuse your visitors.

Also, depending on the nature of your business you might be lucky enough to find an affiliate who will supply you with templates or html that can put the appropriate flash animation or interactive game or quiz on your site. An example of his kind of tool in action is at www.facade.com. That is an interactive Tarot reading site that can be downloaded onto a psychic site.

If your site is designed to be like a seminar or a journal then you can also use such devices as the video clip of the day, the song of the day or the audio feed of the day.

The only drawback to search engine optimizing your site in this way is that sometimes if you use too many flash animations or visuals many pages on your website can be read as blank pages by the search engines. This can result in penalization as it the spiders automatically see it as being an incomplete or unfinished site that is not yet ready to be indexed or catalogued for the purposes of ranking in the search engine pages.

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What SEO Service Providers May Not Tell You

Posted by admin | 28/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

For every SEO service provider that offers you “the best” SEO campaign, there’s ten more that will tell you the first provider doesn’t know what they’re talking about. One reason for this, of course, is the competition factor. The second is because SEO technology changes so quickly, there’s always a chance that your SEO service provider may have fallen behind. Lastly, there isn’t just one formula, book or school that says, “This is how SEO is done”; there are hundreds.
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How to Find an Honest SEO International Internet Marketing Company

Posted by admin | 27/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

One of the greatest challenges facing any international business today is being found on the Internet. The Internet has changed the fundamental means for how we conduct international business. It provides instant, real time answers to many of our daily commercial and personal questions. But now that you have a Website, can your site be found when one performs a search on Google, Yahoo, Live.com or AOL for your company’s product or service?

Chances are that when another domestic or international business seeks to find your products or services, they will not find you. Most Webmasters deal only with design and layout. They are graphic artists who have learned a little bit of HTML. They copy and paste written copy into a table and upload. They are not expected to be professionals in the art of international Internet marketing nor should they be.

The Internet is a big place. An expanding and creative digital universe which demands a variety of professionals in hardware, software, graphics, copy writing, international marketing, domain retailers, operations, finance, journalism, advertising and public relations. But where can we find that magician called an SEO or search engine optimization international marketing professional?

We find an avalanche of companies advertising themselves using Google adwords as SEO international Internet marketing and Web promotion professionals. But sad to say, over 80 percent of these companies know very little about SEO Internet marketing and much about how to take your hard earned money.

In May of 2006 the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006. The 2006 first quarter revenues represent a 38 percent increase over Q1 2005 at $2.8 billion and a 6 percent increase over Q4 2005 total at $3.6 billion.

Last year, AdWords alone generated $3.4 billion for Google.

With the Internet being the place to secure market share, many charlatans and wannabe international Internet marketing professionals are surfacing - thieves who know little more than how to cash your check and disappear quickly.

So how does one go about shopping for an honest and successful company which specializes in international marketing and public relations on the Internet?

You must ask several questions. Problem is, most companies seeking international SEO Internet marketing support do not know the questions to ask. Leyden Communications (Israel) provides below a list of questions for every company from Tel Aviv, London, Washington and New York, to Paris, Japan, India and China to ask the SEO or international Internet marketing company before they sign a contract.

First, if your target audience is New York, London, Manchester or Los Angeles, or any native English speaking market, be certain to hire a native from that country. One whose English is at mother tongue level and understands the marketing culture of your target market. If you do hire an Israeli, make certain that they have lived and worked in your target market locale for at least ten years.

Second, you want to know what experience and for how many years they have worked with international marketing, conventional distribution channels, sales, marcom, viral marketing, production of brochures, advertising and public relations?

Third, what professional experience do they have in copy writing, journalism and research?

Fourth, what practical experience do they have in programming?

And last but not least, how long have they been working on the Internet?

An international Internet marketing professional must wear many hats to succeed. The Internet SEO must be an experienced international marketing or PR person - one who understands how to penetrate and motivate a market outside of Israel without the Internet. They need to understand the basics of international marketing, branding, distribution and sales channels in order for them to integrate the digital world with the classic print, broadcast media and sales markets. The SEO must be an accomplished, creative and professional writer who can write for both the reader and the search engine.

This article is an example of how one writes for both the reader and the Google and Yahoo search engines. The English suffers a bit as the writer finds a fine balance between getting your attention and the eyes of the search engines. But what is more important? The search engine!

For if your customers in the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Japan and South Korea do not find your Website, then having a Website with the best of conventional copy writing will find itself lost in cyberspace.

Can you find a Webmaster, Internet graphic design, Internet programmer, professional Internet marketing, international marketing guru and professional journalist and or copywriter all in one person?
Many in Israel will tell you yes. I say, you will be lucky to find a team with each one of these professionals in no more than perhaps three international Internet SEO marketing companies in Israel.

What then would be the real acid test for securing a professional SEO - search engine optimization Web promotion marketing company in Israel, New York, London, Paris or Beijing?

Simply perform a search on Google for “Israel Internet Marketing” or “Israel International Marketing.”
If the SEO company you are talking to in Israel is not listed in the top ten, you must ask yourself one question: “How can they rank you, without the continued use of an expensive Google adwords campaign, in a top ten position?”

Google Adwords are a very powerful advertising tool used by SEO international Internet marketing companies in Israel, but they are not a substitute for having your commercial Website stand on its own digital legs. Adwords are not a substitute for getting out optimized news stories on Google News and PR news releases in to the many corners of the Net. Adwords do not substitute for creating blogs, professional rooms and forums in Google and Yahoo and the creation of videos for YouTube.

Can a native born SEO in Israel find, let alone professionally write the English, French, Spanish or China copy and news you need for your Website and for international blogs and news releases?
Are they fluent in a variety of Israel export and import markets relating to hi tech, food, defense technology, agriculture, biotech, security, real estate, chemicals, metals, gaming, politics, crisis communications, education, plastics, music, shopping, telecommunications, sales, stocks, manpower, diamonds, Judaica, office products, food, beverages, tourism, games, textiles, dating, health, sports, news, videos, clothes, hotels, airlines and rental cars?

Allow the native Israel SEO to market your products and services to domestic markets and sales cultures that they know best - Tel Aviv, Ra’anana, Ashdod, Herzlia, Afula, Haifa, Jerusalem, Kiryat Shomona and Eilat.

Never look at office size as a measure of success. What you are paying for is knowledge and talent. Many SEO professionals and their complimentary staff of copy writers and programmers may work from a home office in Israel. Again, judge their international Internet marketing success by the ranking of their clients and their own personal search engine optimization ranking on Google and Yahoo.

Never pay a maintenance fee. International Internet marketing SEO professionals are not servicing a car or cleaning a house. What you do want to invest in is more Web pages created by their Webmaster and more news stories and or news releases created by their PR firm to be placed on Google News.

Never pay all that they ask for up front. Unless you know the company a good policy is paying half before the work begins and the balance once the work is completed. It takes about three weeks to begin seeing the results of SEO or search engine optimization. Although with some Israel SEO, you can see rankings improve within a matter of days by using Alexa.com. In using Alexa.com, it is a tool that you can use, one that cannot be played with by the SEO or SEM company.

Lastly, if the SEO international Internet marketing company promises you a first place ranking, you will then know that they are bogus. No SEO or SEM can promise you something for which only Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL control. They can promise you a higher ranking and depending on the link density of your industry maybe even a top ten position.

Remember that the top ten search engine position that we are talking about would not be a paid Google adwords sponsored link. It is your Web site, your Web pages standing on their own two feet that counts. Also having an optimized news story about your company’s products and services in a top ten position would equal your Website being in a high SEO ranking. In fact, as long as the SEO news / public relations story is in a high position, it reinforces your credibility as it serves as third party endorsement. It is far more potent than your Website ranking, as long as the story has a link to your Website.

Your first stop in hiring an international Internet marketing company in Israel is a Google search.
Your second stop is to meet the SEO and SEM - search engine marketing team. If you don’t see a native English speaking, experienced international marketing professional who understands terminology such as POP, embassy commercial attache department, Israel Export Institute, packaging, four color bleed and what an optimized SEO news headline on the Internet looks like - keep walking.

Joel Leyden was one of Israel’s first Internet pioneers, having co-created Israel’s first commercial Website - NetKing - in 1995, the first Internet based news organization in Israel - Israel News Agency, the first Website for an Israel Prime Minister, first site for the Israel Defense Forces and hundreds of commercial, non-profit and governmental organizations. Leyden has worked for over 25 years in journalism, international marketing, public relations and advertising from New York and Israel. Leyden was Israel’s first SEO and today provides lectures on international Internet marketing.

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

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Thing 13: SEO - My top ten tips

Posted by admin | 26/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

You’ve got your website. Now all you need is for people to find it. You can email links to people till the cows come home, but the way most people are going to find you is through a search engine.

Spend any time trying to do business on the internet, and you’ll come across the acronym SEO. It stands for Search Engine Optimisation, and it pretty much does what it says on the tin. It’s a strategy for optimising your website so that search engines will favour it over other, similar sites.

In other words, if you run a record label that sells ambient electronic music online, you want to be at or near the top of the search engine results when anyone types the words ‘ambient’ or ‘electronic music’ into Google or any of the more than 200 other search engines around these days. Even if you’re the only game in town — say, an avant-garde remixer of 1930s bluegrass recordings — you still want to be found by your niche audience.

Fortunately, there are some very proactive things you can do so that when somebody types the name of your band into a search engine, your band is what they find. I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 things that will affect your SEO — in no particular order.

1. Meta tags
In the code of each page of your website, between the <head> and the </head> tags, is a place to put metadata information. Metadata is information about the information that can be found on your website.

There are three main categories of web page metadata: Title, description, and keywords.

The title metadata on your page is crucial. That’s what shows up in the blue bar at the top of your browser and it’s what your browser’s bookmarking and navigation remembers. To a search engine, that is what your page is essentially all about. There’s a real art to writing a good search-engine-friendly title.

Here’s how to write headlines that get results.

So… knowing this, it should come as no surprise to you that having the same title on each page of your website is a complete waste of time. If the titlebar of your browser doesn’t change as you click from page to page in your website, it needs fixing. You need title metadata on each page.

This is particularly important if you have a record label, and each page is about a different artist. If the name of the record label is all that shows up in the title bar on every page, you can be assured that people are searching for your artists by name in Google and not finding them on your site.

Seems important.

Search engines will use the description metadata as the text it uses to describe your page in its results. This also counts toward the overall relevance of your site for the topic in question.

The keyword metadata is where you should put a list all those things (including misspellings) that you think people will be searching for when they want to find your page. For this page, I’d use terms like ‘SEO‘, ‘top 10 SEO‘, ‘music website‘, ‘web help‘ — stuff like that. I’d tend to use other terms for other pages that are about other topics.

Overdoing the metatags can be counterproductive though. Google knows when you’re just trying it on. Go for half a dozen to a dozen really relevant keywords. Think about the kinds of searches that your website would be a good answer to.

2. Header tags / bulletpoints
Search engines are pretty clever. They’re not just looking at the keywords and metatags to figure out what the important terms in your site are. They’re also interested in anything that is a header of some description — either with an <h1>, <h2>, <h3> descriptor tag — or even just something that’s in bold or italics.

Headings, subheadings and emphasised words are a good indicator that this is what’s important on the page, and so that’s what the Search engine algorithms remember. You should bear that in mind when composing a page on your website. Ask: “what are the most important phrases, and would they be the kind of thing I’d like people to have been searching for when they found me?”

Again, word has it that overdoing the emphasised words can be counterproductive. A good rule of thumb is five per page.

3. Link text
What you link to is very important, as it connects you to a network of other similar sites. While you may not wish to help your competitor by linking from your site to theirs, bear in mind that it helps you as much as it does them.

More importantly, carefully consider the words you use to link to the other sites. Using the phrase click here or this link is next to useless, because it contains no information other than the URL itself. However if you link the words Birmingham punk label to an actual punk record label in Birmingham, then you’re giving good information, for which you will be Googlingly rewarded.

4. Site map
This requires a bit of extra expertise in the web design department. You have a website, and it has sections, pages and subpages. One of the most helpful things you can do for your website visitors is to provide a sitemap like this one at Flickr. It helps them find their way around, and locate the content they want easily.

Better still, it helps the search engine ’spiders’ (software that crawls through websites, indexing the pages for the search engine) to do the same thing. A sitemap is an addition to your website that will improve your findability, and increase the profile of each individual page on your site.

Wikipedia has a good, brief article about sitemaps — and, more importantly, some good links to places that will generate a sitemap for you with little or no effort at all. There’s also a good sitemap plugin for Wordpress — the blogging software I use on this site.

5. Relevant inbound links
This one, of course, is a little more tricky than most — but it’s the pot of gold at the end of the SEO rainbow. This is when websites other than yours link to your pages with helpful linking keywords. To the search engines, this is evidence of relevance, authority and reliability. The more inbound links you have, the more reliable your site will appear to Google & co. — and up the rankings you will go.

This is where your distributed identity will come in handy. All those membership pages you have that link back to your real website count towards this. As do all those relevant, intelligent and insightful comments you’re leaving in other blogs that link back to your site. All good stuff.

Even more importantly, people need to be clicking on those inbound links. If my site sends a person to your site, your search engine rankings improve. You become exponentially more trustworthy the more sites link to you. After all, if 1000 people are linking to your website, you must really know all about that topic that’s described in your keywords — and so, you’d better go right up the top of those results.

6. Content
Here’s the one thing you probably have more control over than anything else: the words on your site. If your website only has 20 or so words on each page, and the rest is made up of images, mp3s and videos, then there’s not too much a search engine can do with that. Likewise, if you have screeds of dates, venues and times, but no actual descriptive information or narrative, there’s no real meat for a search engine (or a human brain, for that matter) to grasp hold of.

Having said that, images can be of use to you if you remember about the ALT tags. That’s the alternative text information that shows up if the image doesn’t load, if your visitor is using a screen reader (for the visually impaired, usually) or even if the visitor just hovers the mouse over the image. Make your ALT tags descriptive and keyword-laden.

7. Choose the right keywords
It’s all very well writing great headlines and putting good metadata in. It’s great that you’re linking relevant-sounding phrases to the pages that will be helpful. But, as you know, people are a problem. They’re unpredictable. They’re likely to choose poorly when searching for sites like yours. I think that a good search term that should help you find this site is ‘online music business‘. In fact, far more people will search for ‘internet record label promotion‘. Having the right keywords is a bit of a guessing game, and something of a juggling act.

There are some websites online that will help you find the keywords that people are using to search for sites like yours. Most of them will charge you money. You can search for them online if you want to use them — but my rule of thumb would be to anticipate unfocused thinking, and you’re probably about 80% there. And you can keep your money.

8. Updating content
It turns out that having good, relevant content is not enough. Nor is having large quantities of content. As far as Google is concerned, a far more worthy indicator of relevance is how regularly updated that content is (this is why blogs are so great for SEO).

You could create the perfect website and not want to touch it for years because you think it does and says everything you want it to. Give it a few months, and Google will think it’s a ghost town and not send people there any more.

Write and post often. If your website doesn’t change every week, you’re not doing something right. Daily is even better.

9. Beware Flash & Java
If pages with animated Flash intros have to have ‘Skip’ buttons on them, why would you bother with the Flash animation in the first place? In fact, if you ask me, Flash is of limited use other than for distracting web games and video embedding. Search engines can’t read your flash animation, so they’re just ignoring it. If that’s where all the good content lies, then it might look great — but you have successfully hidden it from the outside world.

Javascript is not much better.

You want to use text, and you want to use images. Sparingly.

10. stick with your domain name
While it’s true that newly updated content will result in smiles and benevolence from the search engine people, your site itself should be well established. The older your site, the more trusted it seems to the search engine people. This is why changing your domain name is never a decision to be taken lightly. You’ll have to build up that track record from scratch again. Sometimes that’s worth doing — but hardly ever.

Bonus tip: Google’s pretty smart about tricks. Putting in lots of keywords, generating hidden text (white on a white background) with screeds of SEO-facing keyword-riddled content or making links on all your social networking sites and clicking on them hundreds of times each will only result in a downgrading — if not an outright ban — of your site on the search engines. After all this effort, that would be a disaster.

It might seem back to front, but if you write with your target audience in mind, rather than try and play the game to get noticed on the search engines, then you’re probably going to be far more successful with SEO for your website.

Do it right, but just make sure you do it. No point spending all that money on a website if you’re just going to hide it like that, is there?

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Improve Your Site SEO Through Search Engine and Directory Submissions

Posted by admin | 25/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

If you have a business and a website, but don’t have a lot of capital to put towards online advertising, then you should be utilizing free listings in the major search engines and link directories as great source of traffic.

The Internet landscape is always in a state of flux and it can be very challenging to keep up-to-date with all that is happening. This is double the case when search engines and link directories are involved. Getting listed in Google, for example, was much easier two or three years ago than it is now. What with constantly changing search engine algorithms and the extra competition from more and more new Websites you can be forgiven for thinking that the work required to get a decent listing would be better spent elsewhere. Of course, there are plenty of other things you can do to attract traffic to your Website, but most of them will be more costly than a free search engine listing so it’s definitely still well worth the time and effort to submit your Website to the major search engines and link directories.

One thing. You must beware the online services that offer to submit your Website to hundreds or even thousands of search engines and directories automatically for a fee. There are plenty of horror stories about false and expensive promises to be found here. It is much better to have your site hand submitted to the directories and search engines that really matter, or, to save massive amounts of time, get a reputable SEO submission company to do it for you.

Before submitting your Website you should make sure that your pages are properly optimized with the right keywords and meta tags and that the right pages are on the site concerning the owner/organization behind the site. Your Website has to convey a professional impression of the person or organization behind it otherwise you run the risk of not being taken seriously - and that can result in you not being listed despite your best efforts.

In the end, no directory or search engine has to accept your submission, but by hand submitting and making sure your website is up to snuff, you are greatly increasing your chances of driving traffic to your sites!

Eban Crawford is a professional podcaster and online affiliate marketer. Eban manages the site 3Currencies, where he teaches the balancing of making money online, time management, and freedom of choice to achieve a vibrant and happy life. His podcast, Reaching for Lucidity, started in 2005, was signed to the Podshow Network in early 2006 and is one of the pioneering music shows in the burgeoning podcast world. Check out all of Eban’s online endeavors at ReachingforLucidity.com

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These 10 SEO Tactics Bring Me Over 2000 Visitors Daily

Posted by admin | 24/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

No matter how hard some people try to mystify SEO, it is not as complicated as many would lead you to believe. Despite all the techno jargon that many in the field will throw at you: SERPs, SEM, PageRank, Keyword Density, Vertical Search, Algorithms… SEO is really simple to do if you understand some basic concepts and follow some easy steps.

Search Engine Optimization is getting your content listed in all the top positions in Google, Yahoo and MSN for your targeted keywords. When someone does a keyword search in a search engine for your particular subject or niche - you want your site or content to be at the top of the list.

Here are 10 SEO tactics that have worked and are working for me at this moment in time.

1. Quality Content is and always will be your number one factor for getting high rankings and keeping them. You must understand search engines are simply businesses who supply a product like any other company. That product is information. They must offer quality results to anyone using their service to solve a problem, answer a question or to buy a product. The more relevant, the more targeted the search solution they return, the higher the overall quality of their product and the more popular their search engine will become. Providing quality content is vital for SEO success.

2. Keywords are your number one tools for achieving high rankings. You must understand keywords and how they work on the web. You must know how many searches are made each day for your chosen keywords. Sites like Wordtracker and Seobook will give you a rudimentary number of searches. Design your pages around your targeted keywords and don’t forget to do some deep-linking to these pages on your site. Find and build backlinks to these interior keyword pages and not just to your home page or domain URL. Picking keywords with medium to low competition has worked out well for me. So too has using the more targeted and higher converting “long-tail” keywords been very beneficial for me.

3. Onpage Factors and site design will play a major role in the spidering and indexing of your site/content. Make sure all your pages are SEO friendly, made sure all your pages can be reached from your homepage and no pages should be no more than three levels away from it - keeping a sitemap listing all your major pages makes the search engines happy. Make sure you have all your meta tags such as title, description, keywords… are all optimized. (Title = around 65 characters, Description = around 160 characters) Remember, your title and description should not only be keyword targeted but these are the first contact/impression anyone will see of your site - make sure you use them to draw and entice interested visitors to your site and content. Also make sure your title and URL are keyword matched for maximum effect. Having your major keyword in your Domain Name also helps, using a pike | to separate different elements of your title has helped my rankings, so too does having your keyword in the first and last 25 words on your pages.

4. Google will send you the most qualified traffic so concentrate the majority of your SEO efforts on Google. Don’t ignore Yahoo! or MSN but Google is king of search so give it the respect it deserves. With its new browser, Google’s influence will only grow stronger so you must optimize your pages for Google. Use Google’s Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics to fine-tune your pages/content for Google. I also use Google Alerts to keep up on my niche keywords and for comment link-building on the newly created pages Google is indexing.

5. Link Building is still the most effective way to boost your search rankings. Make sure you get backlinks from relevant sites related to your niche market and make sure the ‘anchor text’ is related to your keywords but don’t ignore the text and overall quality of the content linking to you. The anchor text is the underlined/clickable portion of a link. Don’t forget linking is a two-way street, make sure you link out to high quality, high ranked relevant sites in your niche.

6. Article Marketing is a well established method of getting quality backlinks and it still works. Writing short 500 - 700 word informative helpful articles with your backlinks in the resource box is still very effective for getting targeted traffic and backlinks. Longer articles have also worked for me and I use an extensive network of distribution including SubmitYourArticle, Isnare, Thephantomwriters… plus other major online sites. Don’t forget the whole element of blogging and RSS feeds in your article distribution. And always remember you’re also using these articles to pre-sale your content or products. Don’t forget to leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages… to increase your rankings and traffic.

7. Onsite Traffic Hubs have worked extremely well for me. These traffic hubs are whole sections of your site devoted to one sub-division of your major theme. For example, if you have a site on Gifts, then wedding gifts could be a separate section. This would be fully fleshed out with extensive pages covering everything dealing with wedding gifts - a self-contained keyword rich portion of your site on wedding gifts. Works similar as a sub-domain but I prefer using a directory to divide it up, such as yourdomain/wedding_gifts. (Most experts suggest always using a hyphen in your urls but underscores have worked fine for me.) Search engines love these keyword/content rich hubs but keep in mind you’re creating content to first satisfy your visitors.

8. WordPress blog software is extremely effective for SEO purposes. WordPress software is easy to install on your site even if you have no experience with installing server-side scripts. Besides search engines love these highly SEO friendly blogs with their well structured content and keyword tagging. I have at least one of these on all my sites to draw in the search engines and get my content indexed and ranked. I also use Blogger (owned by Google), Bloglines and other free blogs to help distribute my content.

9. Social Bookmark/Media Sites are becoming very important on the web. These include a whole range of social sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter… media news sites like Digg, SlashDot, Technorati… you must get your content into this whole mix if you want to take full SEO advantage of Web 2.0 sites. You should be joining these sites and using them. It’s time consuming but it will keep you in the swing of things. One simple thing you must do is to put social bookmark buttons on all your pages so that your visitors can easily bookmark your content for you. You can use a WordPress plug-in or I like using a simple free site/service from Addthis.com which gives me a simple button to put on all my content.

10. Masterplan! Many webmasters and site owners forget to develop or have an overall masterplan/strategy when it comes to SEO. You must have an understanding of what SEO is and what it can do for you and your site. More importantly, you just don’t want SEO - you want effective SEO. In order to achieve effective SEO you must have three things: Relevance, Authority and Conversions.

First, your content/site must be relevant to the topic or niche area you’re pursuing - your content must fit in and be related to all the other sites in your niche. That’s why closely themed sites do so well in the search engines, they give only relevant content to what’s been searched for or discussed.

Second, your content/site must be perceived as an authority site on your subject or niche. Establish this authority position and the search engines will love you and your content. One way is to develop this authority, besides offering superior content, is to form links/partnerships with other perceived authority sites in your field. Always strive to make your site an authority site - tops in your niche - the one site everyone has to check before drawing or forming a conclusion.

Third, conversions should be your main goal of any SEO efforts because you want to convert your targeted traffic into site members, subscribers, buyers or just repeat visitors. If you’re into online marketing, conversions will be the most important element of the whole SEO process because you want buyers, not just visitors coming to your site.

Most of all, you must convince yourself Search Engine Optimization is not difficult, nor is it the equivalent of the online bogeyman as many would like you to believe. Used effectively, SEO can give you the targeted traffic you’re seeking, just follow some of the outlined steps/tactics listed above and you will have SEO working for you and your site in no time at all.

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Proven Best SEO E-commerce Solutions, Which Help to Increase Your Online Sales

Posted by admin | 23/09/08 | Tagged Music SEO

You need enough money to pay your employees. You need sufficient returns for yourself. You want to have better infrastructure and make your business grow. The most basic requirement for an Internet marketing company is the generation of traffic. Sales always logically follow traffic. Nichefor SEO traffic experts allow your e-commerce sites to get maximum quality website traffic and enhance online sales.

E-commerce possibilities for all businesses
E-commerce is used with various intentions. It ranges from gathering enough capital to carrying out sales. Some of the advanced e-commerce business solutions range from “relatively effortless to make it come to being” and “economical” to comprehensive and expensive. Making sense of all the options and working out the right solutions is the key. What you have to do, primarily, is to develop an e-commerce solution that is compatible with your need, technology and budget. Some of the solutions are:

Store Front Option
Suppose you are running a small business, e-commerce may not be an important part of the business. You could consider the possibility of setting up a storefront. It is easy to sign up to a storefront account and get access to solutions. StoreFront is a very good store building solutions provider. You can get things done with very little technical knowledge.

You may begin working on your catalog of products. You may do it by placing products on the store front site on the website of the e-commerce provider. By using the store front’s catalog, shopping cart and payment facilities, you are bound to save a great deal of time. However there is a good chance of getting restricted by their facilities.

You will need a bit of knowledge of design for performing the customization of the catalog and the shopping cart. You will also need to spend a considerable amount of time online.

There are many store front answers like StoreFront.net. There exist other storefront solutions also as YahooStore, Dxshop and Bigstep. Out of these three, Bigstep is a free service.

Verisign Payflow Option
Suppose the situation is as follows. You have a medium-sized business of which e-commerce is an indispensable part. Answers such as Verisign’s Payflow Link could be well-suited for you. Using this option will increase your own product database, product catalog, and shopping cart. As can be guessed, payment processing will be carried out by Verisign.

The Verisign payflow link is slightly more expensive than the store front. This is due to the fact that there is more growth involved and as a result you will have a greater say on your products, presentation and integration. You will need to hire a web developer to assist you if you go ahead with the Verisign payflow link.

Complete Customized Solution
cybercash.com or authorize.net would be what you would go for if e-commerce is vital for your business. If your goal is something like amazon.com, your best choice will be this. You will need a competent technical team to develop and implement this solution.

The following operations would be carried out at your website - product database, catalogue, shopping cart, order processing and payment processing. They would host your website on a secure server. The security risks that go with websites would necessitate your site to be certified by Verisign after it is implemented. Then you will have total control over how you want to establish your e-business.

What you need to pay for are the following. You need to meet the expenses for the secure server, web development, and e-commerce components. You will be fully in charge of the site. That would make the business growth rather effortless. Another advantage would be that there would be a high level of professionalism. However, these things come at a high price.

Web Hosting Company Solutions
Solutions offered by a company would suit you perfectly if you have a hosting company that gives an ecommerce option. You need to find out if there is a web hosting company that carries has an ecommerce hosting plan. That is expected to ensure a secure platform. Customization could be unwieldy to be carried out. However, this is an advised option because the expense is not much and you can start fast.

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