Thursday, October 29, 2009

Trying to discover the Holy Grail of SEO?

As a SEO consultant, the one question I have encountered over and over again is: What is the secret of ranking #1 on Google? Most of them get disappointed when they hear my answer. It's as if they wanted to hear some highly classified secret only available to a select few. Perhaps they anticipated they would discover the holy grail of SEO success. But alas, neither am I the Indiana Jones nor is there any secret to top rankings on Google or Bing.

The problem lies in the fact that newbie SEO consultants and SEO clients believe that they can trick or game the search engine in to placing their site on top. So there must be some secret to confusing the search engines algorithm in to placing their site on the first page. I know that this belief is shared by thousands of people as can be judged from the plethora of e-books that sell these secrets to anyone who can pay few dollars. These books claim that anybody who reads and follow what they teach will earn easy money and get loads of traffic. Only if that would have been so easy.

Actually these people are correct. There is a secret for ranking at the top. You can actually spam a search engine. The only problem is that these people entered the scene bit late. These secret techniques used to work five years back and not anymore! There was a time when keyword stuffing in the title tag, keywords tags and content worked. Even black hat techniques like cloaking, hidden text, doorway pages worked. But times have changed and so have the search engines. The search engines have now become more sophisticated, more intelligent and much better in providing its users with the best results. There is a good probability that if you try these shady tactics today, you will be penalized and will be condemned to internet anonymity for a long time.

Any internet marketer or website owner who wants to rank well should think sanely about his business. If the business is not a fly by night operation then I don't see any reason to adopt tactics which will at best give very short term advantages and in most cases will be counter productive. These so called secrets can also ruin reputation of your business. A website owner should aim at providing the users with relevant and useful information in a most easy way. That means good content, with natural density of keywords in a text format, which is highly relevant to the business the website is promoting. Also, try to get good quantity and quality of back links to your site. Any good site with informative content can get other sites to link back. Many times bloggers will post your link on their blogs because your site maybe beneficial to his/her blog readers as well. Other ways are making few articles and submitting regularly to top article directories. Articles not only provide good back links but also enhance your site's credibility.

In case, you don't have time to cover all these SEO activities you can hire a SEO company which can deliver services like website analysis, keywords selection, website optimization, content writing, directory submission, article writing and submission.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Search Engine Optimization Guide for Beginners – Anchor Text

Anchor text is the content that is placed within the anchor tag and users will see as a clickable text and on clicking it the user is taken to a new page. It is also known as link label or link title and can be one of the most important factors in determining the traffic and ranking of a site in Google.

Anchor text tells site visitors & search engines what the page, you're linking to, is about. As you maybe aware links on a web page can be of two types. Internal links point to other pages on the same website and external links point to content on other websites. In either of these cases, the more accurate the anchor text is, the easier it is for users and search engine bots to judge page's topic and navigate to that page.

There are few guidelines on how to optimize the Anchor text. Anchor text for a link should be descriptive. It should give visitor an idea what the page linked is about. A SEO consultant should be careful and avoid generic anchor text like “Click Here”, “page”, “this article” etc. These are absolute waste and leave visitors clueless. The anchor text should be accurate and not misinform users. They should not be off topic and should be related to the page been pointed. Many times, a web page's URL is used as anchor text. This is not recommended apart from in few instances.

The anchor text should be crisp and concise. Care should be taken not to make it very long. Long sentences and paragraphs should not be anchor text. Anchor text should be descriptive but short. Keywords or key phrases should be used to send the message home. This is very vital when SEO and backlink campaign is involved.

A SEO consultant should also ensure that anchor text should be clearly visible to a user. They should not look like regular text. This is also against user interface principles. By default, anchor text gets underlined when mouse pointer is placed over it. CSS and text styling which modifies this behavior and make anchor text appear like a regular text should be avoided. A user should be able to distinguish between anchor text and other text so as to not miss the links or click unintentionally. Same factors should be kept in mind while creating anchor text for internal links. This helps a user in navigating within a website easily. This also increases the chances of all your pages been spidered by Google bots. The anchor text should be made keeping a user in mind and not just for search engines. Unnecessary internal links should be avoided as they may confuse a user.

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