Search Engine Optimization & Internet Marketing

Archive for October, 2008

Oct
31

Link Trading- What You Need to Know

BloomSEO
Posted under Link Building


If you plan on trading links, there are some things that you should know. You’ll probably start seeing some link trading offers in your inbox once your Website has been established for a while. There are some advantages to trading links with others.

Basically, you put a link to their site on your Webpage and they put a link to your Website on their page. It takes a little bit of time to do that, but it’s really not difficult. Some people wonder what the point is, but you get free advertising by trading links, and that can be a great thing, provided the site that wants to trade with you is a good one. You can also put a lot more links on your site that way, and search engines like links, as long as they are legitimate. With that being the case, the more the merrier.

Just make sure you pay attention to the sites that you’re linking to. If they don’t represent the kinds of values that you have or they would be detrimental to your site or your customer base, you don’t have to trade links

Oct
30

Make Friends With Google

BloomSEO
Posted under Basic SEO Techniques


If you want to make friends with Google there are a few things that you can easily do. First, you have to create a site that people like and want to go to. If you provide people with what they’re looking for you’ll get good traffic and you’ll also get links to your site from other places. That helps to build your page ranking and makes you more popular on search engines.

Getting other sites to link to yours is pretty important, because Google crawls the Web and the links make it easier to find your site. Natural links are the ones that you want. If you start buying a lot of links or placing links to try to make your site look more popular to the search engines it can really work against you. Your site will not rank as well and you might find that you have to make a lot of changes to make friends with Google again.

By following the rules and making your site easily accessible, you and Google can get along great.

* Check out:  What’s Your Google Rank?

Oct
29

How Does BrowseRank Rank?

BloomSEO
Posted under Software Technology


Microsoft has unveiled BrowseRank, and Google has sat up and taken notice. BrowseRank is the newest browsing algorithm, and it’s designed to eventually do more and be easier to use than the PageRank system that Google has. This is huge, because the way that pages are ranked is very important.

The way that BrowseRank works is not be measuring incoming and outgoing links but by whether people visit a page, for how long, and how many of them do this. That’s vital for people who have a lot of content but don’t have a lot of links. They largely get ignored by Google and seen as unimportant when they may actually be great sites that just don’t need to have a lot of outgoing and incoming links to do what they do.

Microsoft hasn’t been doing that well when it comes to coming up with ranking systems, but this new one seems like it’s going to be something that other sites will actually have to contend with.

Oct
28

Looking for Something a Little Different?

BloomSEO
Posted under SEO


If you want different ways to search, you need to get away from Google. That search engine is what most people think of, and what most of them use, but it’s not the only one out there. There are many others, but they just don’t have the market share that Google has managed to acquire.

However, they search differently than Google does, and some people don’t care for that. Many of them have incomplete directories, and they can also be quite far off the market. However, for some kinds of searches they actually work better because of the different opportunities to find search results. There are also copyright, censorship, and privacy issues that Google is starting to struggle with, and it makes people stop and consider doing things a bit differently.

The newest thing is query reprocessing. This actually requires logical analysis so that the intentions of the searcher are actually determined. It sounds like a good idea but can be difficult to implement. Improvements are being made, though, so it could be the next big thing.

Oct
27

Link Building Done Right

BloomSEO
Posted under Link Building


So, you want to build links? There’s a right way and a wrong way to do that. The best way is through services that help you build links and that don’t charge you a lot of money. There are quite a few of them out there, and they can benefit all kinds of businesses with the opportunities for link building. Since a lot of them are free or very inexpensive, you can get started right away.

They mostly work like this: for every piece of information that you provide (article, etc.), you get a link back to your site. It has to be something that you wrote or that you have permission to use. You can’t just steal something from someone else’s site, lay claim to it, and try to get links that way.

By doing it the legitimate way it brings traffic in, it’s not spammy, and it doesn’t require you to buy links from sites that might be less than reputable. Most of these sites make their money from advertising, so they don’t have to worry about charging you money.