search engine optimisation

Content: The Future of SEO

“You should get a blog for your site.” “It’s important to have regular content going live.” “Google loves regular, original content at the moment.” Three phrases that have been used more than any other in relation to search engine optimisation in the past few months since Google’s Panda update changed the emphasis.

But what many people inexperienced with the concept struggle to understand is just what meets the necessary criteria. After all, they’ve been putting articles onto their site since it was created and they haven’t noticed much of an improvement.

That could be down to a number of factors, but the most likely is that Google doesn’t see the content as relevant or important enough to warrant a boost in its ranking system. Hiring professional content writers to do your blogs, news and press releases can be beneficial, but it’s most likely that these people have helped you improve by chance – if they’ve made any effect at all. With SEO content, successful writing can never be mastered so you need to keep adapting your writing style every time the big G decides to change its algorithm. More

Content: The Key to Unlocking Online Success

The Importance of Creating High Quality and Original Content

The recent Google updates, as has so often been the case, have left many people in the SEO industry scratching their heads as to just what they’ve adjusted, how their work has been affected, and how to modify their strategies ahead of the following month’s work. Throughout 2011, it has appeared that Google is now putting a lot more emphasis on something that I am a strong believer in. Good quality, regularly updated, informative, and most importantly, interesting content.

For many years, the focus has been around content related issues such as keywords, which, while they are still important, unfortunately initiated a spell in which articles were flooded with specific terms and the quality of the actual article suffered because it was no longer English, more words on a page. If people visit a website, they are doing so for a reason and that is to either learn or read about something. What good is it if the article makes no sense, but mentions a certain phrase five times? It just leaves people confused and wondering what it is they’ve just read. If the user wants a recipe for a cake, they want to find out what it is they need, what goes into the bowl when, how long it needs in the oven, and what utensils they need. That’s it. More

Zazzle Beginner’s Guide to SEO: Part V

An Important Link

Last week, I talked about how important it is that your site is SEO friendly, making it more likely to rank well within the various search engines. In this week’s edition of my Zazzle Media Beginner’s Guide to SEO, I’m going to discuss how important the links of your website are in a successful site.

While the architecture is a very important part – as you’ll recall from last week’s article I mentioned the ‘crawlers’ that try to work their way around your site, with their success reflecting in your ranking – and similarly, my colleague previously talked about how to write the best possible SEO content – SEO Articles, The Easy Way.

But the content and structure of the site are just two of the three vital parts of an SEO friendly website. The main contributor is the links associated with the site, both internally and externally. More

Panda 2.5 – What Do We Know So Far?

You’d think we’d be used to Google randomly throwing out algorithm changes by now, but lo and behold, Panda 2.5 – updated at the end of last week – seems to have caught everybody by surprise, decreasing rankings, reducing traffic and generally being a big black-and-white pain in the derriere.

So, what do we know so far?

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What You Need To Know About Google Penalties

How To Keep Google On Your Side

If your website experiences a sudden fall in ranking for its main keywords it could be down to a number of issues, but an algorithm change by Google, such as the recent Panda update is likely to be the main factor.

Google have released a number of algorithm changes over the years, and each time a new one is released there are winners and losers, with the drop in rankings usually incorrectly blamed on Google penalties.

If you suspect a Google penalty, it first makes sense to check on any of the social networking sites or SEO Forums to see if any Google algorithm changes have been made, which could be the cause of the problem. More

A Zazzle Beginner’s Guide To SEO: Part II

keywordsThe Key Part Of An SEO Strategy

The majority of traffic to websites is sent by search engines such as Google, making SEO an essential tool for any website wanting to be successful. The keywords used to lead the SEO campaigns are often overlooked in terms of just how important they are, with many website owners using too many.

“But surely we want to get as many keywords in as possible?” I hear you cry. Well yes, you do, but Google doesn’t. If you use too many keywords, the daddy of all search engines will penalize you and you’ll actually be doing more harm to your site than good. More

A Zazzle Beginner’s Guide To SEO

SEOWelcome to the first part of my beginner’s guide to SEO. I joined Zazzle Media this summer and a lot of the terms might as well have been another language. However, with a lot of my “free time” spent with my nose in a book or searching through the Internet to get up to speed, I’ve worked out (roughly) what it is that I’m meant to be doing.

This is my guide for people who, like me, have no idea what some of the terms associated with SEO mean and I hope this clears up any confusion for you. Keep checking back to the Zazzle Media blog for the next installment of my beginner’s guide. More

How To Avoid The Wrath Of The Panda

Google Panda and Quality ContentThat pesky Panda update seemed to turn the whole SEO world upside down earlier this year, causing websites to plummet down the rankings faster than the Australian cricket team. If you’ve experienced the Search marketing version of brewer’s droop (delightful analogy, eh?), then you might be doing one of the following things that gets that Panda growling. More

The Cornerstone of Any Website

SEOIf you ever sit down and discuss a business plan with webmasters or business operators, you will usually find out pretty early on that Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is quite a key topic of the conversation.

SEO is the process of maximizing the potential of the content and structure of your website, making it more likely to be found when specific keywords are entered into a search engine. More

The Importance Of On-Page SEO

SEOAs we all know, SEO is one of those concepts that many people do not understand. This means that we in the business have the job of explaining what exactly we do to pretty much everyone who asks: usually other businesses who are missing out on fantastic opportunities for profit increase simply because they do not know of, or use, SEO.

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