On-Site vs Off-Site Optimization

SEO techniques can be broken down into two general categories – onsite and offsite. Both of these will benefit your rankings, so it’s worth your time to address them both when building and promoting your website.

On-site SEO includes the specific actions you take on your webpages to increase your search engine position.

Off-site SEO techniques are the actions you take outside of your webpages to increase your search engine position. Backlinks are one of the most important strategies in the offsite SEO toolbox. For example, say you’ve put together a site on reducing hypertension and heart attacks. If Google or another major search engine notices that the American Heart Association has linked back to your site, it assumes your site must include good content. The more of these quality links back to your site you get, the more free traffic you’ll receive from the search engines because your site will rank higher.

Both on-site and off-site optimization help the search engines categorize your site and rank it higher. On-site optimization is more under your control than off-site optimization. So you need to make sure each page of your site is well optimized and then start a link building campaign.

A SEO Friendly Directory Is Basic Search Engine Optimization

In terms of website marketing strategies and the use of a SEO friendly directory, these do have their uses. Many are free, but how many of them are useful? If you conduct a search will find a load of directories listed, all of which claim to be able to do the same thing. But as all men are not created equal, neither are online website directories. The most important factor in this case is whether or not the directly is actively and correctly managed.

Managed? But isn’t everything automatic online? Absolutely not, all links are required to undergo and editing process. The directory cannot do the editing it has to be done by the people who manage the directory. Directories which are not actively managed are often referred to as “link farms” because in actuality this is pretty much what they are. No website owner needs to have his links managed by a link farm.

You will find online lists of SEO friendly directories which are free, as well as paid. Many of these are not actively managed all that regularly, but they do meet the basic criteria required for the categorization and organization of websites in the correct way.

It is virtually impossible to submit links to your website at every SEO friendly directory you find. This would be cumbersome and a very time consuming task. The best way to go about this is to make use of a service which makes these submissions on your behalf. There are both free and other services where a cost is involved available. But they do save you time and as we all know, time is money.

These directories can help your website marketing strategies, and make quite a difference. This is because the internet is already a very large place, so this narrows down searches and helps the site receive targeted traffic. For example if you are selling vintage velvet clothing, your website will be listed under an already narrowed down search. Much like the yellow pages we used to get and still do. Current search engines conduct a very broad based search.

It is a moot point that not many people actually make use of these kinds of directories. They are not used to making use of them, but times change quickly online and what was a nothing one day, could be a huge success the next.

What really needs to be borne in mind is the fact that a directory submission is able to help your website marketing strategy quite substantially. It enables search engines to rank it higher and the higher the ranking, the better for getting targeted, or pre-qualified traffic to your site.

Incredible SEO WordPress Plugins

Here is a list of SEO plugins I use to this blog which helping me to have good position in Google SERP, I don’t use tons of SEO plugin to my blog, thus you won’t find a lengthy list that will make you feel bored. Here’s the list:

1. All In One SEO Pack Plugin, it will optimize WordPress title automatically for search engines, builds META tags automatically, avoiding duplicate content that frequently occurs in WordPress blog by default. This plugin very powerful to lifts up our blog position in search engines especially Google.

2. Google XML Sitemaps plugin, this SEO plugin will generate a Google sitemaps compliant with WordPress blog’s XML-Sitemap, thus each time you make any update or edit a post the plugin will immediately update the sitemap automatically and notify quicker to any search engines that support sitemap protocol such are Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com.

3. No Ping Wait WordPress Plugin, as I have previously promoted it in: No Ping Wait WordPress Plugin. The benefit of having this plugin installed to your blog is, to speed up pinging process for newly published articles of your blog. This because because there will be delay about few minutes for a new article you just published. And this plugin fix the problem and the pinging process will be faster.

4. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, this SEO plugin displays related post to the post you read with short quote of each post.

5. Sociable, will automatically add social bookmarks link beneath each of your post or rss feed, in total there are 99 social bookmark, but you are allowed to chose only social bookmarks you want to add.

6. Robots Meta plugin, this plugins avoid the page or part of your side that you want them not to get indexed by Google and other search engines, this is useful to avoid duplicate content that will injure your blog’s position in SERP.

7. FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

I love the above SEO plugins and they have been helping me to optimize my blog at Seo Trends and Seo Promotion, thus having them installed to wordpress blog is highly recommended not just by me but all of them who have deep intention to better their blog position in Google SERP. Rapidshare links

Directory Submission by Maqbool ahmad

Directory Submission

Research shows that inspect engines prepare immeasurably of the traffic on a website Visitors are prospective to visit website listed from pages 1-3. Other than that, they sometimes neglect. Directory submission involves the process of listing your website for the search engines to pick up. This can be a lengthy process since it may require some approval, however it will reflect a good return of investment in done correctly.

Once a websites URL is submitted on a directory, physical could actualize a forthright charge of traffic. Directories hold millions of websites categorized for various fields and if your website is under a good category then there is your chance. Through directory submission, search engines will have some ideas of what your website is all about increasing keyword relevancy.

In promoting a website directory profoundest should stand for the first move. Let the directories perceive that your site exist and search engines will be checking it. Websites that are submitted to a directory will mostly get more traffic. Search engines will look for matching websites from the directory and analyze it. Adding a website to a directory will also increase the number of back links to your website.

There are hundreds of directories hold judgments today. Some quote free lunch service and some are paid. Enlisting your website to directories may take time and not all directories will assure your website to be on top. It’s worth a try though. Try to submit your website to as many directories. This will help promote your website to search engines.