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Search Engine Optimization

Using NOODP & NOYDIR To Get Rid Of Directory Snippets

April 4, 2009

When your web pages show up in the search engine result pages, what do people see? A list of snippets for each web pages are displayed in the search results as you can from the screenshot below.

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How To Optimize Meta Description Tag?

March 31, 2009

Optimizing meta description tag is a core element in SEO process. It’s the only chance you can convert potential visitors from search engines to real visitors by using informative, compelling and interesting description tag.

What Is Meta Description Tag?
You can think of your description name as the copy for an ad. Google and other search engines [...]

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11 Free SEO E-Books To Get Higher Rankings In Search Engines

March 30, 2009

Continuous learning is essential in SEO prosess. Search engines keep on changing rules to keep them in the competition and better serve all searchers from the world. As a webmaster, you should keep updating your SEO knowledge to get higher rankings in search engines and maintain them.

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Exact Match Domain Gets High Ranking With Error Page

March 28, 2009

About a month ago, I came across a blog post about the benefits of having exact match domain written by Gyutae Park. I agree that exact match domain can get higher ranking easily and does reduce some our SEO effort. In this post, I’m going to show you the real example of how exact match [...]

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XML Sitemaps Improve Site’s Visibility In Search Engines

March 25, 2009

I have seen many websites and blogs do not have XML Sitemaps properly in place. It is a good technique to improve site’s visibility in search engines.
XML Sitemap (upper-case) and sitemap (lower-case) are 2 different things. Do not confuse by their names which are very similar to each others. In this article, I am focusing [...]

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Definitive WordPress SEO Guide In Progress

March 24, 2009

WordPress is probably the best blogging platform available in the market. I believe many of you are using WordPress. But I discovered that many bloggers do not optimize their WordPress blog to be search engine friendly. This has made them losing a big chunk of targeted traffic coming from search engines. As you know, search [...]

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How Do You Get A Domain Indexed In Google?

March 23, 2009

Getting a domain indexed in Google is a very beginning step in the SEO process. We used to submit our domain to Google manually in the past. But this technique doesn’t work anymore as Google has changed its algorithm to depend more on reliable and authority sites on discovering new domains. This old technique might [...]

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Will Your Keywords Result In Sales?

March 21, 2009

During the process of search engine optimization, people often talk about the importance of keywords selection that offers high traffic and low competition. But there is another important factor that most people overlook.
The second factor that we need to consider is whether the keywords have a high probability of commercial intention. Are people searching to [...]

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How To Find Good Longtail Keywords

March 18, 2009

In my previous post, I have mentioned the importance of targeting longtail keywords. Longtail keywords research is essential because we don’t want to go into red ocean and competing with other established and well-optimized websites with tons of backlinks. It is difficult to overtake them in search engine rankings and usually this process will take [...]

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Benefits Of Not Having Exact Match Domain Name

March 14, 2009

Many SEO experts discussed about the great SEO value of having exact match domain name. Google and other search engines use domain name as a criteria during search engine rankings evaluation. It means if the domain name exactly matches with your tageting keyword, then you are likely to get high ranking in the search engine [...]

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