Stand alone web directories are taking the Net by storm. Web directories, some are good, some are just plain bad, offering directory listing services.

In general, there are 2 types of directories - free directory and paid directory.

In paid directories themselves, there are two types of directory - paid general directory and bidding directory.

What exactly is a bidding web directory?

Bidding web directory is a paid directory listing service with a unique service - it incorporates a bidding system that allow website owners to bid for the top position, usually within the Top 10 list.

Why it is important to be listed in the Top 10

Website owners are bidding for the Top 10 for two reasons - for advertising purpose and for search engine optimisation (SEO) purpose. What’s more for the number one position, the website gets a sitewide link that is exposed on each page of the directory - even better exposures to the website.

Running a bidding directory is not easy

Unlike general directory, bidding directory poses its own challenges.

Bidding web directory is receiving bad karma since there are so many scammers and PR fakers out there.

Moreover, many, if not most, of bidding directories on the Net are ‘owned’ by casions and gambling sites. I say ‘owned’ due to the given fact that the Top 10 link bidders list are usually filled with casinos or gambling sites.

Although there might be nothing wrong with casino and gambling sites, those sites are certainly not family friendly.

Why Tookle dot com is the right bidding directory for you

Tookle Bidding Web Directory is one of the few family friendly bidding web directories on the Net. Tookle Bidding Directory shall not accept illegal and p0rn sites, as well as casinos and gambling sites, for one purpose - so that advertisers enjoy a positive reputation, positive image, clean and family friendly bidding directory. You can visit the Tookle Bidding Web Directory Latest Links to see that my bidding web directory is clean and family friendly.

By being clean and family friendly, Tookle Bidding Directory can attract more advertisers that simply don’t want their sites to be listed together with gambling sites.

Submit your websites to my family friendly bidding web directory today!

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Busby Web Solutions opened a Busby SEO Challenge contest last June 1, 2008 and will be finished by august 31, 2008. This year, this search engine optimization contest is looking for the best SEO practitioners for including the key phrase of Busby SEO Challenge onto their web page. Anybody can join this contest, and the participants or contestants are allowed only using the ethical SEO techniques that engaged in this contest. In general, there are 3 main techniques for SEO. Those are white hat, black hat, and gray hat.

Generally, there are two main techniques of good design SEO and not approved SEO, that commonly known as spamdexing, or spamming and indexing. White hat is considered as the good design search engine optimization. The technique itself is run on the same track with the search engines’ guidelines. There is no deception writing on it. Moreover, white hat SEO techniques are also ensuring the content to what the person are looking for. Some IT practitioners may sees similarity within white hat and web development promotes. It is because in both techniques is summarizing up the content for accessibility users. This is ethical techniques that good to be used in participating on the Busby SEO Challenge 2008 contest.

Black hat SEO is considered as the disapproval techniques, because in these techniques, it is involve the deception. Redirects, using keyword stuffing, duplicate sites are other techniques that considered as the black hat SEO techniques. In gray SEO techniques, the content is includes “mild artificial linking schemes”. The gray hat SEO techniques still can be improved by adding more contents that is related to the key phrase. Through this three brief description of SEO techniques, it is obviously that Busby SEO Challenge prefers the contestants that use the white hat SEO techniques than the others.

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SEO ( search engine optimization ) Contests are becoming increasingly popular. The idea is to promote a particular search phrase, Busby SEO Challenge, via a website, to the nighest rank possible ( 1,2,3 ) in a specified period, on either one or several search engines there are prizes for the highest achievers

The Busby SEO Challenge is currently underway and runs from June 1st to August 31st 2008 The prizes are
$5000 ( 1st ) $2000 ( 2nd ) $500( 3rd ) The search phrase to be promoted in Google.com is “Busby SEO Challenge“

The entry by Nemisisx is using a brand new domain, so it will be very challenging and time consuming to gain momentum. However with expert skill and much good will a positive outcome is expected

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You can now enter a domain into Google Trends and switch to the Websites tab to get traffic information. Use a comma between domains to see comparative stats, as in mashable.com, techcrunch.com. Note Google’s guess of the daily unique visitors only works for some websites, and you also won’t get absolute numbers. Google on their help page explains:

Trends for Websites combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel data, and other third-party market research. The data is aggregated over millions of users, powered by computer algorithms, and doesn’t contain personally identifiable information. Additionally, Google Trends for Websites only shows results for sites that receive a significant amount of traffic, and enforces minimum thresholds for inclusion in the tool.

As usual with such stats, best take them with a grain of salt – because while Google may be able to get rather accurate data on any site using their Google Analytics or AdSense programs (at least theoretically, and partly you need to opt-in to some of the aggregated sharing options, too), they have less accurate data on websites which don’t use such Google tools.

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In order for any website to rank competitively in major search engines, you must get quality backlinks for your site. The question at hand, is what ‘defines’ quality. Some people claim PageRank is the deciding factor, while others will tell you a different story. At LinkBuildersPro, they claim that relevant links are what make or break you, not necessarily the PR. Since 2006, search engines have become extremely advanced with being able to easily detect sidebar and footer links - which more often than not are ‘paid’ text links.

Receiving inbound links which are surrounded by highly relevant content will be dramatically more effective than a simple text link in an obscure section on a website. For years, LinkBuildersPro has used white-hat methods like directory listings, article listings, and social network listings to help clients increase their natural search engine rankings. Since link building is without question, extremely important to rank well in search engines, it’s always encouraged to investigate the type of sites your links will appear on before they’re up. While a quality link can help you, backlinks from ‘link farms’ and irrelevant content can seriously harm your natural search engine rankings.

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The internet basically provides everybody anything they would want. It provides us countless of valuable information. Whether it is about one’s health, education or even one’s life, the internet has it. However, when you are researching in the internet, you have to click into a few more sites or links before you could find that certain article that contains the information you are searching for. That pretty much takes much of your time.

The BIG directory is a site where articles or blogs are already collated so that you could save time from searching and it would definitely be easier to work. The blog links in this site are certainly very informative and it contains topics from the latest buzz in the entertainment world to the newest in politics, these blogs has it. You could also find education links here, especially when you were searching a specific detail about your course or about the programs some school has. Not to mention, if you were someone who cares about much of your health, this site has dozens of health resources links where you would be informed about the most up-to-date health products and services that are available today.

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If you are a webmaster, this free deep directory is for you.

You can either take a look at the websites listed in the directory or you can also add your website to the directory.

This one is brand new, with some excellent SEO features to do the very best in getting your websites some quality backlinks. Being a new directory, I’m asking for some help in getting the ball rolling. If you are or know any webmaster , please stop by and submit them. Everything is appreciated!

You can check most top clicked and the latest links that were added.

If anything, just stop by to take a look at it

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Web directories basically serve as a catalog of links sorted by relevant topics. Nowadays, search engines like Google and Yahoo serve as the main medium that people use to to find sites they are looking for. However, in the earlier days, when search engines were not as popular, directories served as the main method of finding relevant sites.

So why should we submit website to the directories, especially when not many people use them any more?

There are a few answers to this question:

1. To get your site indexed

Search engines like Yahoo and Google send out spiders (crawlers) to search the web for new sites that come up everyday. If you want search engines to know of the existence of your new site, there couldn’t be an easier and better way than having it find your site through links in various directories.

2. Getting One way links for Search Engine Rankings

Most directories provide one way links, which are beneficial from the SEO point of view. Search engines give importance to the number of backlinks to your site when ranking it for a given position during search. One way links are also considered to be more valuable than reciprocal links (links exchanged with other sites). Thus, links obtained by manual directory submission can help give a boost to your rankings in th search engine.

It’s not a secret that Directory Submission, Article Submission, Social bookmarking or Blog posting are some of the most important ways to build incoming links to a website from a related page. This can not only get your website a higher Google Page rank but also improve the SERP’s.

3. Targeting specific keywords / phrases

Most directories allow you to provide a link with keywords describing your site. It’s not easy getting links to your site with the keywords you want and directories serve as the easiest medium for getting such links. Getting links with targeted keywords / phrases can have search engines favoring your site over others when ranking for the given terms.

4. Most directories are free to submit to

Given the benefits and most directories being free to submit to, it makes business sense to having your site listed in as many SEO friendly directories as possible. After all, you don’t lose anything for doing so.

Submitting to directories can be a time-consuming process though and finding the right directories to submit can take quite a bit of effort. To save yourself the trouble, you may use directory submission service like 123directorysybmission.com to get your site submitted to all the top quality SEO friendly directories.

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The combination of quality Web design and top level search engine optimization is seldom found on the internet. It is essential that visitors to websites and potential customers are pleased and enticed at what appears before them on their computer screen. Customers have come to expect crisp, imaginative graphic designs.

Those customers must also be brought to the website by the process of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This process includes on-page optimization. The copy and content used throughout the website must emphasize the targeted keywords, keyword phrases and ideas relevent to the products or services offered. All the while, the content must equally appeal to and be easily understood by the website’s visitor. SEO is a delicate balance of evoking the correct response from search engines, while pleasing the mind and heart of the consumer. It takes an SEO company that understands this blending of visual and technical elements to bring your website to the forefront.

The people at Graphic SEO are very skilled at combining these two factors. They work with and understand the latest developments in visual website creation. They have up to the minute abilities in Flash production, Video Streaming and Active Design. Their SEO talents include, but are not limited to link building programs, content optimization and the building of page authority.

Graphic SEO, the combination of design and search engine optimization.

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As the number of internet users has been increasing day by day so as the people are designing special steps or strategies to target these internet users to reach most of them through their marketing strategies. These Directory services are used to record the directories where one can submit their website and then it becomes easier for the users to search the entire web for particular stuffs. These methods of building a web directory and making it easier for the user to search for any useful stuff have been readily utilized. Many of these directories are paid for feature listing and many of them a free for their submission.

Having in view of such points this web directory provides you with lots of WebPages with a short description of hem all at one place. Many of the visitors can search these web directories for specific stuffs which they are looking at and can benefit a lot from these web directories. Most of these web directories are well organized in terms of categories and sub categories so that one can easily navigate through these categories. Having in this in views both of your California Directory and Bidding Directory provide the users with and easily available navigation tools and search options so as to search their WebPages which are looking at.

Another very much special feature of such web directory is that these templates which are used by these directories are simple and an eye catching one making it easy for users to navigate through these directory. Everything has been easily arranged and grouped so as to provide the visitors with neat and clean surfing. Any webmaster can easily submit their WebPages without any cost and with an easy to fill forms. The forms for submitting your WebPages are easy to navigate and are only a few clicks away. These web directories of ours are greatly optimized for search engines that it can easily be searched from any of the search engines. Only thing you have to do is to fill up these forms and it’s all done. With few confirmation emails your site gets listed in our WebPages which makes easy for you to get good number of traffics and also good search engine optimization as well.

So having all such great features in our web directory one can greatly be benefited from these directory submissions. With in a few minutes your Webpage get listed and you are all done. Just sit and watch the number of traffic which increases as soon as you have completed your web directory submission.

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I stumbled across a unique opportunity on Sunday from a guy looking to spread the word on his new website. He was asking for takers that wanted 1000 unique visitors to be delivered to their website or blog. Well with my website being so new, of course I was up for that sort of deal!

The website is called Winive and evidently is some sort of online promotion gaming site where visitors participate to try and receive prizes. The benefit to people like me is, we are able to sponsor a game, which has referring banners and links to our site. You set up a promotion game and just sit back and watch the traffic steadily flow onto your site. Did that make sense at all? Go to his site to take a look and it will seem to make a little more sense.

Make sure to check the site out and see if the traffic is something you can monetize!

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The year 1995 saw the birth of wmoadv, a Kansas City Web Design company that specializes in designing search engine optimized websites today. With the expertise in the field of SEO and high quality designs, this web design company has become synonymous with successful SEO campaigns.

Never in the history of internet was SEO such an important aspect of online presence. The advent of second generation Web 2.0 design and the search engines’ strategies, especially that of Google’s, has challenged many designing firms in producing unique solutions in creating Web 2.0-ready websites. Wmoadv, has been a forerunner in fulfilling the demands of its prestigious clients and the demands of the search engines as well.

The web 2.0 designs demand the highest level of proficiency in websites designing in the field of social networking web sites, blogs, forums, and other audio-visual implementations, and this Kansas City based web design firm has produced all the solutions in their unique professional way. Their complete authority over the SEO and web site designing has won accolades in the new field of Web 2.0 designing.

The success combination of their SEO methods and winning Web 2.0 designs has helped many small to large business houses grow their businesses on the internet.

Benefits of Using Web 2.0 Designs and Features of Web 2.0:

The Web 2.0 revolution brings more simplicity, adds more focus, sharpness, and convenience to the web site. Web 2.0 uses fewer columns in website for better convenience and clarity of your message to the world. Simple navigation is the hallmark of Web 2.0 designing and, therefore, Web 2.0 is a growing technology widely acclaimed and accepted by everyone for its user-friendly and better interactive web sites.

Search engine optimization is all about overcoming competition and staying ahead in the search engine result pages. It helps the website to enhance its visibility on the web. Search engine optimization is a process to enhance this visibility and create a focused traffic to your website that results into revenues. It is, thus, an imperative need of any upcoming, and for that matter any established company to systematically create such quality websites to create a strong brand. Web 2.0 and contemporary SEO techniques were introduced at about the same time, and entering this revolution at its very beginning, wmoadv, the Kansas City web design firm was able to become the masters in the field of SEO and high quality designs of the Web 2.0 concepts.

Any business or personal website must comprise the various factors of Web 2.0, like quality designs, masterly layouts, blogging, RSS, video on the site, and have SEO methods implemented to really succeed in today’s high-tech and highly competitive online marketing scenario. Wmoadv, possesses the mastery of all these techniques and utilizes them according to the client’s needs to perfection. This Kansas City web design firm is capable of creating highly efficient websites with complete spectrum of SEO and Web 2.0 concepts utilized into them.

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Social bookmarking is a free and easy way to drive massive traffic to your websites, articles or blogs. In fact social bookmarking is all the rage. It works, do not let yourself be left behind.

Definition And Concept

Social bookmarking is a technique by which internet users store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the internet with the help of metadata. In a social bookmarking system, internet users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These social bookmarks are generally public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains.

Unlike storing bookmarks in a folder on your computer, tagged pages are stored on the Web and can be accessed from any computer. It is often called as “The real-time Web, organized by you.” Web sites dedicated to social bookmarking, such as Flickr and del.icio.us, provide users with a place to store, categorize, annotate and share favorite Web pages and files.

Social Bookmarking And Web Traffic

Social Bookmarking and Increasing Web Traffic was recently the number one topic in the Net. All communications and information networks are benefiting from the concept of social bookmarking. There are many such services available nowadays that are free and popular. It is a very simple process that any online marketer can put into action and start seeing almost immediate results from their small efforts! The time it takes for this process is probably about 10 minutes or less for each.

If your website has more people bookmarking it, your rankings will go up and it will drive more traffic to you, thus it makes sense to work with others doing the same thing to advance both you and them.

Useful Guides

Below are some useful guides to launch an effective social bookmarking campaign:

1. Make a list of the best social bookmarking sites around.

Select a social bookmarking network. Select it carefully after proper research. A popular social bookmarking network will be better. You will have more visitors to your pages in such networks.

2. Start Tagging

Start tagging what catches your eye the most. The most important feature of social bookmarking sites is that the “tag” websites that you visit to make a network with sites of similar interests by using keywords which are provided to make the linkages to such sites easier. This will make you popular and known in the network.

3. Submit your content to your list of social bookmarking sites.

You will receive tons of targeted traffic, increase your sales and grow your mailing list at a faster rate - all for free!

4. Make it popular

Make your social bookmarking site popular among the readers. Bookmark important and interesting information and allow readers to use them. The more useful you are the more popular you will be

5. Advance Option

If you have the tools, try submitting using multiple account user. Ensure that you use different IP address and stagger the submissions. This is to ensure that your tagging will not be detected as spam. Please note that this is only for experience users.

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Finding a top notch graphic design firm with experience on the web is a very difficult task. And then, even if you do manage to find one and get a website built, promotion of your site will require finding experts in the area of search engine optimization. The skills required for a web design studio have changed drasticly in the last five years. Good online designers must be able to create programs based on several different types of computer code as well as have an inherent ability to see that which is pleasing to the eye.

Search engine optimization requires a thorough knowledge of copy writing with emphasis on targeted keywords and keyword phrases while still presenting thoughts in an orderly manner that dynamicly sells products and services. What you need is an SEO company that also offers an enticing artistic vision. But where will you find this combination of art and science?

Graphic SEO is an SEO company that is staffed with people whose abilities allow for the blending of both of these areas of internet development. Whether you have an existing website that you would like to see polished in appearance and improved in performance or whether you need to have your offline ideas transformed into a vibrant active online concern, Graphic SEO will be your first and best option.

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Many webmasters think of SEO as if it is something you have to do long term. First of all you do not have to optimize your website for a dozen keywords to get enough visitors. Some want to get top rankings quickly for all the keywords they can.

That is not an easy task to do if there are a lot of competition for those keywords.

You just have to optimize your website for one keyword only. It can be and is enough if you choose a keyword which gets a lot of traffic. In almost any niche, there are tons of keywords that receive exceptional traffic.

Ok, you may have just started with SEO, and you cannot go for that big keyword right from the start. Then choose only two which have not much competition but a lot of traffic still. This means you have to make good keyword research.

What is a keyword that receives an expetional number of traffic? A keyword with 10,000 or more visitors a day. What is a keyword that receives a lot of traffic?

A keyword with 300 or more visitors a day.

Aim for those keywords. Planning is required and very important. You can calculate how much money you can expect to make if you get the number one position for a keyword which gets 300 visitors a day.

Most websites conversion ratio is one sale every three hundred visitors. That is without hiring a copy writer. A decent website in other words makes will earn a sale a day if it gets 300 visitors a day.

This will help you find those keywords to make the amount of money you wish. Like I said this requires some thinking or planning, not just using a free keyword tool and picking up a bunch of looking good keywords.

Remember that you will be stuck with this keyword for a month or two maybe, optimizing your website for it. So it will not be easy then to switch to another keyword, you will have been getting all those backlinks with that keyword in the anchor text, now you have to start from scratch if you pick up a new keyword. I am not saying those backlinks will be useless.

They will still give your rankings a benefit.

You do keyword research only once, so it is good idea to do it properly. Then start optimizing your website knowing that you are going to get this or that amount of traffic once you improve search engine rankings or get top rankings. Knowing also you will make this or that amount of money with that traffic. You have a plan you can follow.

What keyword tools do you use?

This depends on your needs, your budget and how good you are in SEO. If it is difficult to find good keywords in your niche using a free keyword tool, you may want to test drive a paid tool.

However, with a free keyword tool it should be enough. Some mention finding those keywords that have no competition, which we can call them strange keywords. This is a good thing to do. Probably you need a paid tool to find these keywords. I do recommend doing this, because you can find some hidden gems.

So doing keyword research properly is very important. It is like you are researching the fastest way to get high rankings.

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Eye Logic Media Inc. is ranked one of the best search engine optimization firms in the world by ranking.com, a trusted and well-respected resource for evaluating Internet marketing vendors. “Our current top SEO winners are the strongest and recognize firms we have identified to date.” says David, in his announcement of industry leaders for Dec. 2007.

“With the internet becoming such a mainstay in the lives of so many Americans, it’s more important than ever to capitalize on web marketing,” says David. “A powerful SEO Firms, increases brand recognition, and improves the overall perception of the company. Businesses that are unable to target this market will be missing out on an important opportunity to deliver their message to a wider audience.

”As an industry leading SEO firm, Eye Logic Media, Inc. is constantly ranked one of the top companies in the industry- Dec 2007, Ranking.com ranked Eye Logic Media as number one top SEO companies.Eye Logic Media is a full service, professional Search Engine Management Solutions that specializes in helping companies of all sizes to get their web sites highly ranked in the search engines. They have been involved in the field for ten years and have been applying their expertise and knowledge to boost traffic to numerous sites.

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Inbound links quantity and quality have been a major factor in sites ranking with major search engines especially Google throughout the last 5 years, is that going to be the same in 2008? The answer is yes but SEO Toronto services providers those focus all their SEO efforts on link building need to change their old mindset that links with the worse scenario will not harm a site, that has been changed recently, a reckless link building campaign might end up your website penalized by Google.

Numerous creative link building techniques have been adopted by SEO consultant Toronto some of them are legitimate and many of them fall under the shady practice of SEO the smart people behind these ideas need to think more when and how to play in the shady area, yes links are still the main factor that decide your ranking but what has changed is which links can help and which cannot, further more you need to know also which of them are harmful to your website and which are not, here is some tips to help you to build health links: - Do not go after quantity, quality matters more. You can use some factors like PR, crawling frequency and inbound links to find good resource of links. - Keep checking Google Webmasters guidelines for new rules (i.e. links exchange had been declared to be against Google TOS) - Inbound links might harm your websites, stop listening to those who saying that inbound links will not harm your website as they are beyond your control, actually they can.

SEO folks need to live with the reality that search engines evolve every day, if you need to stay in the game you need to evolve with the same rate or even faster.

Final advice, don’t put all the eggs in one basket (Google organic traffic basket), try to vary your traffic resources, try also to have more than one website for your business (each of them should have unique content).

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Directory submission is one of the most important steps of web site promotion. This method helps to obtain a great number of incoming links leading to the promoted web site from related pages. However directory submission is rather hard and routine work. And this is one of the reasons why many webmasters avoid this method of increasing Google Page rank and improving SERPs. However the method under consideration has proved itself as an effective one. That is why we offer website directory submission at quite democratic prices on the global net. All you need is just to order directory submission and we will take of the other.

Why you should choose our services? This is quite simple. When you use manual directory submission you do not know whether this or that directory will submit your web site. As for us, we are able to ensure a 100% website submission in at least 1000 directories. This means at least 1000 incoming links to your web site and it is quite considerable reason why you should contact us in order to promote your web site. Moreover, we offer you another variant – your web site submission to over 1450 directories that are SEO friendly ones. This is also a considerable advantage of our service.

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Inbound links quantity and quality have been a major factor in sites ranking with major search engines especially Google throghout the last 5 years, is that going to be the same in 2008? The answer is yes but SEO services providers those focus all their SEO efforts on link building need to change their old mindset that links with the worse scenario will not harm a site, that has been changed recently, a reckless link building campaign might end up you website in Google sand box for ever.

Numerous creative link building techniques have been adopted by SEO consultant some of them are legitimate and many of them fall under the shady practice of SEO and those need to think more when and how to play in the shady area, yes links are still the main factor that decide your ranking but what changed is which links can help and which cannot, further more you need to know also which of them are harmful to your website and which are not, here is some tips to help you to build health links: - Do not go after quantity, quality matters more. You can use some factors like PR, crawling frequency and inbound links to find good resource of links. - Keep checking Google Webmasters guidelines for new rules (i.e. links exchange had been declared to be against Google TOS) - Inbound links might harm your websites, stop listening to those whom saying inbound links will not harm your website as they are beyond your control, actually they can.

SEO folks need to live with the reality that search engines evolve every day, if you need to stay in the game you need to evolve with the same rate or even faster.

Final advice, don’t put all the eggs in one basket (Google organic traffic basket), try to vary your traffic resources, try also to have more than one website for your business (each of them should have unique content)

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I’m sure anyone in the SEO community has been asked this countless times and why many people reading this will be thinking about asking it in reference to their own site. It is as after all a very important question and the answer, if you can turn it to your advantage, one that could prove to be very valuable.

It is however, quite an easy question to answer, at least at a general level, the answer demystifying the oft said “black art” of Search Engine Optimisation. (I do however have to state again that this is an “idiots guide” and does therefore not cover some of the more complicated issues of “keyword density”, “deep linking ratio”, “code to text ratio” and others, all of which have a bearing on the effectiveness of any web page).

We can illustrate the answer to this queston by using an analogy.

This analogy is based on an old fashioned market place, the sort when men with barrows come in and then shout out what they have on offer, you know “A pound of plums for 50p” or “Genuine leather jackets for £50″, you get the picture. However, in my description of the system, these “market places” are actually set up by Google, one for each type of goods or services. So you have one for cars and another for plumbers and another for houses for sale, and so on.

Now every one who wants to get into any of these market places can try regardless of what they sell, however, Google will be quite ruthless in stopping anyone it feels is not in the right market from getting in (however, just like any process this is not fool proof). This leaves countless thousands of “web pages” (not sites, but pages) that want to get in to sell their wares. Why, because to get in gives them a chance to be picked by those “Google Agents” who come into the market place looking for the best pages to list.

But getting into the Market place is only the first step, how do they get picked by the Google Agent for one of those coveted top ten positions??

To better understand what is going on, you must first get to know the rules of these marketplaces.

The first and most important rule is that all webpages start at the back of the marketplace, which of course makes it very difficult for the Google Agents to “hear” them crying out their wares. As the sites to which the web pages get older, so the web page move up the marketplace, getting nearer and nearer to the front (and are thus more easily heard).

More Rules

In each marketplace you will find two types of webpage, one that is trying to catch the Google Agents eye for a listing place and the other, well they are saying, “go and have a look at this page, its all about x”. These are the “links” to pages from other sites around the web, and because these Google agents listen to them, they are, as you may know, very important indeed. They can even get an agent to look into the sandbox area, especially if there are enough of them and or they are deemed important in their own right. The rules for these links pages are simple enough, they say “I represent XXX website and we are all about YYY. I’d like you to consider ZZZ website, they are very good at what you are looking for”.

So much for these “link pages”, but what of the normal webpage. What are the rules for them.

First, each webpage must only utter the words on its page, it cannot say anything else.

It first shouts out its Title (the bit in the blue bar at the top of your browser), here it can really boom out the words, which make them easier to hear. Then it continues down the page, saying the words on the pages, pausing when it comes to paragraphs etc. Whenever it comes to a Heading in a page or something in bold or italics it can say the words a bit louder, and when it comes to lists, it can pause between each phrase, all the better to make the words more effective.

It can also make it quite clear to the Agents that there are other pages in its own site that are very relevant (these being the internal links), all with the aim of trying to impress upon the agent that the webpage’s website is very useful indeed and should therefore be listed.

So, what does the above mean to the unprepared website??

Well for many, although they have managed to get into the marketplace, they find to their horror that when it comes to shouting out their Title, they have to say “WM Cooper” and not “Plumbing Suppliers, Showers and Taps by WM Cooper”, which if the agent is looking for plumbers to list is far more interesting.

Then when they come to the words on the page, they have to drivel on about “Welcome to WM Cooper website. We have been in business for 30 years and have 1000’s of happy customers, come to us…”, by which time the Agent has “switched off” and started looking elsewhere.

Now, if the words in the page had had a Heading of “Plumbing Supplies” and then read something like “We can supply you with taps, bathrooms, tiles, wash basins” and so on the agent would have been far more likely to listen.

Other sites have different problems, sure the webpage’s exist, but they are not being pointed at in the right way by other pages in their own site. Such pages are barred by Google from even getting into the marketplace, their argument being “there is no record of your existence on the website you are claiming to have come from, therefore you don’t exist, please go away”. Thus such pages fall at the very first fence…

Then again there are those unfortunate pages, that even though they are quite clearly, to the human reader anyway, all about “hotels in Portsmouth” do not actually say this on the page in any convincing way, thus if another thousand pages (and there could be a lot lot more) are all shouting out, in no uncertain terms, that they are about “Portsmouth hotels” who are they going to pick, do I really have to say more…

Thus it is only those web pages that have done their homework and who come into the marketplace prepared that win those coveted first page positions. Well that is true to a point, but we have forgotten those “linking” pages we spoke of earlier, just what part do they have to play in this saga? quite a lot actually, in fact it is now calculated that our friends the Google agents listen to the shouting of these “links” to such a degree that as much as 50 % of the reason they choose A over B is down to them. So that means it pays to get lots of links pointing to your site into that marketplace.

But be warned, Google, in a perverse sort of way, and knowing that people know it listens to the shouts of these links, will only listen if the website that the link is on is relevant to the site it is talking about (pointing to). In other words a site all about Florida Fish Farms will be of little use “link pressure” wise to a site selling Combine Harvesters, and vice versa. Also, just to spice the pot a bit more (as if it needs it) Google also keep an eye on the number of sites in a marketplace “shouting” about other sites, and if one site seems to get too many new sites “shouting” about over a short period of time are likely to get a wee bit suspicious. Is, heaven forbid, someone trying to make a site appear more popular than it really is….

So the market place is full of dangers, but basically it is “trick” free. If the pages of a website do their homework and make sure that they are really “saying” what they are all about, making it quite clear in the Title of the page as well as the headings on the page, have plenty of links and references to other pages in their site (and even ones outside it) and, just as importantly, get some links pointing to them and the other pages in their webpage, they WILL get listed. Do anything else though and be prepared to go on asking that question “why do some pages get listed by Google while mine do not….?”

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The quest for search engine placement supremacy is a struggle many webmasters face. Competition within every industry abounds on the Internet, and the race to reach your clients has never been as challenging as it is today. Creative, robust and extensive advertising initiatives are required to ensure your online success.
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Picking a quality directory submission service is critical for your success.
Those who refrain from entry into directories will suffer the results of lower search results, which leads to less traffic and ultimately reduced profits. Those who select a company that uses automated software for their directory submission service will suffer; in fact, this could result in banning of your website all together.
However, selecting a quality directory submission service that utilizes manual entry for directory submission is a smart choice and can be the core to your SEO strategy. A quality directory submission service will ensure that your website is properly categorized and accepted into a high ratio of directories, which will increase your search engine rankings and traffic.

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