Some time back, in fact quite some time back I wrote about SEO tools, and I intended writing about more such website promotion tools, but I kind of got distracted and wrote about a whole lot of other stuff … continue reading
Search…searching…Search Engines
Earlier there were search engines and search directories. Searchers would go to Google, Yahoo! MSN, Altavista, Askjeeves, Dmoz etc to search for anything they wanted.
Those were the days when we talked and discussed about the search engines…which one is … continue reading
SEO best practices 2012…continued
In continuation with my earlier post, from among the various SEO strategies that one needs to follow, the following still holds a lot of importance –
1. Links – Getting links from authoritative sites and linking back to sites that … continue reading
SEO Best Practices 2012
What are the likely changes in the SEO practices in 2012?
There are some best practices that will not change at all. Especially, I do not see the SEO basics changing at all.
What will really change and is changing … continue reading
Website SEO optimization by testing
I have found that the best practice for optimizing your website for visitors and search engines is to do some live testing.
You could ask your friends or even your customers to go through your website and let you know … continue reading
What are your visitors searching for?
From a visitor’s perspective, it is best to learn to search with keywords that will bring up the most relevant site in a jiffy. From the webmaster’s perspective, it is ideal if their site comes up on the top of … continue reading
Websites, Website design, and SEO, then and now
To best explain the evolution of websites, web site design, and SEO, I will divide this article into three phases-
Phase I- The Bygone era of website design and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
In the 90s when the … continue reading
Do links help or hamper?
Let’s find out the benefits of linking from the searcher’s and Webmaster’s perspective.
You are searching for some information, say you wish to gift someone a bottle of wine and you wish to get information on brands, and popular wines. … continue reading
SEO for E-commerce web sites; Tips and best practices
Ecommerce and SEO; SEO best practices for E-commerce enabled web sites
With the shopping season on, online shopping sites are perhaps the busiest in terms of traffic. I wonder how many such sites have successful conversions.
Even though many web … continue reading
SEO and Lead generation
Most internet marketers today focus on PPC to get them their leads online. While it is true that PPC is the fastest and the most effective way of generating leads; can we ignore leads that we get from SEO efforts?… continue reading