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A Billboard on the Information Superhighway

Thursday, December 24, 2009
posted by Frank Stevens

A Billboard on the Information Superhighway

The internet has been called “the Information Superhighway” in popular culture. In reality, however, It’s not only a superhighway, but also a complex maze of congested city streets, winding back roads, and dark alleys. Without a good roadmap or the equivalent of a website GPS device, it can be difficult or impossible to find one’s desired destination without getting lost. Search engines are those roadmaps.

Search engines help internet users find whatever it is they are looking for, whether its information, pictures, videos, or music. The major search engines send out software robots called spiders to follow every open link they come across and report back with information about each website and the content that it contains. Using this vast database, the search engines can sift through millions and millions of websites every time a user enters a search term to deliver a list of those websites that it considers most relevant to the user’s search.

Depending upon the text that the user entered in the search field, the list of returned websites can include private blogs, retail websites, hobby websites, or a number of different types of websites that contain information pertaining the searched text. Search engines try to deliver the most relevant web sites first on the list. For businesses, achieving top results for search terms related to their goods and services is a major determining factor in how many potential customers visit their websites each day.

The practice of customizing a website to help it rank well on search engine results pages, is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is achieved, in part, by providing the spiders sent by the major search engines with enough information concerning your website’s focus to convince it that your website is the one that would most interest anyone searching for terms related to your business. Search engines also take into account the number of incoming links to your website from other sites with similar content. In other words, if a number of popular blogs or consumer websites related to fishing or fishing gear link back to a web page that sells a particular line of fishing lures, then each link is considered to be a kind of recommendation about the quality of the website that sells those lures. The number and quality of these third party recommendations also weigh heavily on the search engine’s estimation of a particular website’s relevance for a given search term.

Incoming links from relevant sources and rich content related to the topic are just two of many factors that help determine a website’s search engine ranking. SEO marketers can help website owners increase their position in search engine results and increase the flow of potential customers that visit. SEO experts, in other words, can help give your business a prominent billboard on the information superhighway so that you get noticed.

Vitally Important Aspect of SEO – Keyword Research

Monday, August 17, 2009
posted by admin

Keyword research is a vitally important aspect of search engine optimization. Experts agree that targeting the wrong keywords is search engine suicide. By targeting the wrong keywords, you not only put valuable advertising dollars at risk, you are also throwing away all the time and energy you put into getting ranked in the first place.

One of the most common misconceptions about conducting keyword research for a search engine optimization campaign is the belief that you already know which terms a customer would use to find your site. You don’t. That said, the tools of the trade aren’t much help.

No matter what the terms are; generic phrases, existing brands, developing brands, geographical targeting, or long tail phrases SEOAssur illustrates a variety of nuances in this area of research along with many other varying factors associated with SEO strategies.

SEO Assur is a resource filled with the most powerful SEO wisdom on the planet! SEO Assur doesn’t make unsubstantiated claims as to what are the best SEO practices, we provide the empirical evidence to support or refute common SEO beliefs.

The SEOAssur website currently provides daily contribution in the following topical areas:

  • Javascript – Use Javascript links to limit the number of links on a page in order to send link juice to pages that need it.
  • Keyword Research – The best keyword research; "throw it at search engines with a few broadly focus link anchors & see what sticks!"
  • Link Anchors – Avoid repeating links from a resident page to a destination URL. Only the 1st link passes juice.
  • Local Search – Use your company (dba) name for local search company name field; citations aren’t credit to a keyword phrase.

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