SEO Optim Blog

It is official now, Google Buzz has been launched by Google.  The usage is similar to that of Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc.  Buzz is available in existing Gmail inbox, thus there is no need for us to create new user ID’s or start the group from scratch, we can immediately send the tweets or buzz to our friends.  Buzz is a social app and helps for social networking.  It is designed and programmed in such a way that we can follow people to whom we frequently mail and chat.  It has got fantastic features such as easy-to-use sharing feature through which we can integrate photos, audio/video, links with option to share with people we want or public with rich user experience.  From SEO perspective, just like Twitter, if we start using Buzz, it’ll have it’s own share of positive effect to search engine optimization.

Buzz comes as the latest addition to the string of other innovative app releases such as real-time search and social search.  You can find the blog about Buzz in Google’s own blog in this link – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Happy Buzzing!!!

Search engines constantly change their algorithm in order to stop unscrupulous activities and mal practices by elements which try to exploit the search engines.  This action from the search engines is a good step because it helps to maintain the quality of the search results.  However, some of the good SEO companies which strive to bring their customer’s websites to the first page of the leading search engines using white hat techniques should know and understand the changing dynamics of the algorithm, and the latest happenings and latest trends or else the results would not be achieved at a short span of time.  In fact, SEO OPTIM, a highly successful SEO company continuously updates the changes employed by the search engines. This enables SEO OPTIM to know the changing preference criteria and algorithm adopted by leading search engines, and thus we are able to consistently deliver better results.  Also, SEO OPTIM follows 100% white hat techniques and strongly support white hat techniques.

Some of the old and reliable methods of SEO are, knowing top directories to submit the websites, knowing search-engine friendly website design, submitting articles/blogs to increase the popularity of the website, etc.

Every single process of SEO is important, however, you need to know which one has got the higher importance during the changing phase.

Many of our customers express that we delivered as promised and thank us for it.  When we tell them that it is our job and we deliver what we promise, they sometimes will start saying about their past experience with other SEO providers, and it would be shocking to hear them say that they spent so much money and waited for more than 7 to 8 months, and would be absolutely dejected on not seeing the results.  The reason for these unfortunate events is that they were duped by the false promises given by amateur companies.  Thus, before hiring a SEO company, make sure that they can deliver results for you.  Verify and ask about the past projects, and call the companies for which they had done SEO, by this way you can doubly make sure that you can find the right SEO company which can deliver results as promised.

The world has become one small village. Online buying and selling has become easy, all you have to do is choose the product of your choice online and buy it. Even though online buying and selling has become easy, the visibility and online presence of the business has to be meticulously planned and executed. For flourishing and successful online business, the website should be listed in the top 20 results of the search engines. Majority of surfers do not go beyond the first and second page. Now, the search engines rank and list a website based on the search results. The search is done, and the listing is decided by giving points to certain aspects such as content in the website’s pages, blogs, articles, press releases, search engine submission, etc.

SEO involves the steps and processes required for making a website to have good points so that the search engines list the website in the top 20 results or first page. Once this top slot is achieved, there will be tremendous improvement in online sales and subsequent revenue. If a company does not know how to optimize its website to be search engine friendly, they can hire a SEO company which has a good track record in placing websites in the first page like www.seooptim.net.  SEO OPTIM is one of the leading SEO companies which has consistently delivered high success rate for placing websites in the first page of leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. All you have to do is hire SEO company such as SEO OPTIM and avail their services, and within a span of months, your website will be listed in the top rank position, and you will enjoy higher number of sales.

The straight answer for this question is – White hat techniques.  The processes which are acceptable to the search engines and which are considered to be legitimate.  However, the effects of white hat techniques take time to achieve the results, but it is longstanding and are search engine friendly.  Whereas, black hat techniques involves unethical methods to push a website to the first page listing.  The time period involved in black hat techniques is short.  However, if the search engines come to know that black hat technique had been used by a website, then that website would be banned either temporarily or permanently.

It is like two paths in our life to choose from, one is good and one is bad. The “good” path is strenuous, hard, and takes considerable time for us to reach the top. The fruits of good path are time tested and the effects last long with peace of mind.  We always get appreciation and rewards for good work!!! In contrast, the path of bad is following shortcuts and unethical methods, the effects of which do not withstand time. There will be always fear in our hearts and minds as to when we would get busted. This concept of good and bad is universal and applies to search engine optimization too.

Ethical and accepted methods of SEO fall under the category of white hat techniques. Unethical and disapproved methods fall under the category of black hat techniques. Even though it takes time to get to the top position through white hat techniques, the effects would last long and there would not be any fear of getting the website banned. However, it takes less time to get to the top position from black hat techniques. However, the effects of black hat techniques does not last long, the search engines may consider it spamdexing and may ban the website temporarily or permanently. A website which uses black hat techniques may lose it’s credibility in the internet, as well as with its customers.

Thus, before you entrust your SEO to any company, make sure they follow white hat techniques.

Some of the white hat techniques are as follows,
1. On-Page content.
2. Keyword Research.
3. Link Building.
4. Submit website URL to directories.
5. Commenting in Blogs (should be genuine)
6. Press Release writings.
7. Site map generation.

Some of the black hat techniques are as follows,
1. Manipulating keywords – stuffing keywords.
2. Link farming.
3. Articles without original content.
4. Spamming – giving false comments on other’s blogs.
5. Redirecting to unwanted URL.

Follow the right path, reach the top, and enjoy the fruits of good work.

One of the wrong perceptions of many website owners is that just having a neat website with good looks is enough to attract customers or visitors to come tumbling into their websites.  To move to the first page of Google or Yahoo and to get more traffic, SEO is mandatory.  The abbreviation of SEO explains it literally, to optimize a website to be more search engine friendly.  The purpose to do is to make the search engines display your website in the first page for your business related keywords.  Why should you want to make your website appear in the first page and what is the advantage out of it?  To become more popular and  to attract more visitors to your website, wherein you can demonstrate your services or products and convert them to be your potential customers.

The robots or spiders from the search engines constantly scan the internet and get information pertaining to keyword content, originality, and quality of the website, and based on these factors, give a particular weightage to that website and rank it.  If the rank or the weightage given is good, your website will be placed in the first page, and if the rank is not up to the mark, then you will have to search your website through the infinite search results.

Also, the richness of the content plays a major role in determining for better indexing from the part of search engines.  The content should be original, apt, and be interspersed with keywords.  The better the content in your web pages, the better crawling you will have from the spiders of the search engines. Okay, let’s imagine the search engines have discovered you, do you think that people will come in hordes to your website? No way!!! Surveys have proven that 91% of surfers do not go beyond the first page of any leading search engine. So, again, your targeted audience ain’t coming knocking at your door.

You may be thinking, “how the hell I am I going to attract my targeted audience?” The answer is simple, “get your website listed in the first page search results.”

Now, you may have the second question, “how the hell I am I going to get my website in the first page search results?” The answer is “follow the techniques of search engine optimization.”

Now, what is SEO all about? The answer is, “making your website search engine friendly.” The answer is too simple, however, it is quite complex. Always remember this, SEO is not easy, it is a daunting task, and it takes months to get the first page listing.

Following are some of the tasks which you must do in order to get good weightage for your website, and to get the first page slot,

1.On-page optimization.
2.Search-engine friendly website layout.
3.Braille Technique – The search engines are designed to crawl through the pages in a systematic manner, beauty doesn’t matter, however, the content matters. It is like a blind person going through a Braille sheet, not knowing the color or look, but knowing the meaning that is embedded in the Braille sheet. So, keep your content crisp and with relative keywords.
4.Off-page optimization.
5.Posting information regarding your website in social networks and media.
6.Directory submission.
7.Search engine submission.
8.Posting blogs, press release, and articles in popular sites to generate more traffic.
9. Online classifieds.

If you are not sure of how to go about it, just hire a good SEO company, who will make your work easy and strive to position your website in the first page of leading search engines.

Wordpress is one of the leading blogging platforms, and it is easy to download and install.  Wordpress is popular and is used widely throughout the globe.  We ourselves prefer and use Wordpress.  After the successful launch of Joomla and Zencart plugins and add on, we decided to launch a plugin for Wordpress, and we have released it successfully as decided.  The demo link for the new Wordpress FLV player plugin is http://hdflvplayer.net/wordpress/demo/.

As usual, the quality is excellent with options that cannot be seen in one package from other players.  Both the earlier plugin releases were a huge hit and HD FLV Player is still holding the #1 position in search results of Google, which speaks volumes about the success achieved.

Also, the development team is in the process of developing several plugins and add-ons for different platforms such as Magento and Drupal as well.  There is constant enhancement and addition of features to the existing HD FLV Player owing to rising requests from the existing customer base.

Send email to support@hdflvplayer.net if you need further assistance.

Have you ever wandered in the wilderness in search of a good SEO company?  If so, then you would have definitely come across 100s of SEO companies claiming that they are the deliverers.  However, in real scenario that wouldn’t be the case, many would be amateurs and would cost you worthless spending and more than that would have wasted your precious time.  There are many good SEO companies out there, but consider yourself fortunate if you had found one that has the ability to deliver without knowing what is search engine optimization.  If you just go by words, then finding a good SEO company is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Thus, before choosing and settling up for a SEO company, make sure that you ask the right questions, and make some basic background check.  Ask them the questions such as,
1. How many clients have you handled?
2. List out the keywords that you have brought to the first page of Google and Yahoo.
3. Which type of techniques do you follow?
4. What are the processes that you follow for search engine optimization?

Also, ask them the template or a sample weekly and monthly SEO reports.  The sample reports will give you an insight as to what are the processes that are followed, whether all the promised aspects are being brought into the report or not. If there is a mismatch between the promises and the report then you know what to do, look elsewhere.

Always make sure that the SEO company that you are going to hire follows only white hat techniques and not black hat techniques.  The reason for this is that the search engines approve only white hat techniques and disapproves black or gray hat techniques.  In fact, the search engines could ban the website if it comes to know that black hat technique is used.

A good SEO firm will be a genius in the below points,
1. Keyword Analysis.
2. Keyword Strengthening.
3. Competition Analysis.
4. Google Analytics Setup.
5. Site Map Generator.
6. On-Page Optimization.
7. Search Engine Submission.
8. Manual Directory Submission.
9. Social Bookmarking Submission.
10. Articles, Blogs, and Press Release Submission.
11. Creation of Blogs, Articles, and Press Release content.
12. Link Popularity Development.
13. Keyword Ranking Report.
14. Link Exchange Setup.
15. 301 Redirects.
16. One-way Link Building.
17. Webmaster Setup.

If you need any guidance, contact us and we will offer you free SEO consultation.

A word that is used to make a particular search in the search engines is known as keyword.  We search for anything, from a toy to a luxury hotel or the need of a home.  Basically, to choose a good keyword, a keyword analysis has to be made.  Basically, it is normal tendency for everyone to assume keywords, however, if you compare that with data, it would be a different picture altogether.  Thus, choose the keywords backed by data, the ones that have high search volume.  For any SEO campaign, keyword analysis is mandatory before selecting or choosing keywords.

The first and foremost step for SEO companies such as ourself is to perform a keyword analysis to determine the strength of a keyword.  All the processes of SEO depends on the selection of keywords.  If suppose, the keywords are not having high search volume, the efforts of SEO will not have the desired impact.  Once we have selected the right keywords, we can follow rest of the processes one by one such as directory submission, search engine submission, canonicalization, etc., and boost up the keywords.  Over a period of six months, we can realize the benefit, when we key in the chosen keywords, our website will be listed in the first page of Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Undoubtedly, Google is the leader among search engines.  Getting a first page position in Google is what millions run after.  How do you get the much sought after first-page position in Google or Yahoo?  The below techniques will help you to get to the first page position.

The best techniques (of course white hat) to be followed to get the first page rank or position in Google are the following,

1. Meta Tag Optimization

2. Robots.txt Optimization

3. W3c Validation.

4. Working on HTML source code.

5. Image and Hyperlink Optimization

6. Header Tag Optimization.

7. Canonicalization.

8. Google, Yahoo, and MSN Sitemap creation/submission.

9. Google, Yahoo, and MSN Webmaster Account submission.

10. 301 Redirect Setup.

11. 401 Redirect Setup

12. Google Analytics Setup.

13. Local Search Engine Submission.

14. Manual Directory Submission.

15. Blog Article Creation.

16. Article Submission.

17. Press Release Submission.

18. Social Bookmarking.

19. Posting New Squidoo and Hubpages.

20. Web Forum Participation.

21. Blog Comments Participation.

22. Powerpoint Presentation Submission.

23. Video Submission on Popular Sites.

24. RSS Feed Submission.

25. Detailed SEO Report.

26. Title Tag Optimization.

Each and every point mentioned above helps you to push your website to the top slot and each one has its own significance and should not be sidelined or neglected.  The first step of search engine optimization starts with analyzation of the website to know if there are any errors in it and also to plan a strategy to better optimize it.

The SEO experts from SEO OPTIM does a first-hand analysis of the website and sends a detailed report on the status of the website to the customer along with keyword analysis report and competition analysis report so that the customer can know where they stand in terms to search engine optimization and competition.  After sending the report, the SEO experts follow the above points religiously and rigorously to help attain the first page position of selected keywords.

The most frequent question that comes to the mind of a budding SEO optimizer is that “what are the basic skills required to become a successful search engine optimizer?”  The below points will help you to strengthen your hold in SEO.  In order to be successful in SEO, apart from understanding the processes, constant update of changes is a must to match the changing algorithms employed by leading search engines such as Google.  You need to be on your toes and need to apply your mind rather than automated processes.

The first lesson in SEO is that you got to be patient when it comes to results.  Also, communicate this point to your customer.  SEO is simply not magic.

The following are some of the important factors from which SEO skills should be strenghthened,

Look and analyze the website before proceeding.

1.      W3c validation – It is done to know whether a website has got any errors in it.  Basically, a website should not have any errors at all, if it has got any errors, then the crawlers of the search engines would have tough time crawling it.

2.      Keyword analysis – choose the right keywords that are widely used to perform a particular search.

3.      Targeting geographical locations.

4.      Scan and acquire list of top directory submission websites and start submitting the website URLs to them, example:  www.dmoz.org.

5.      Submission of the URLs to search engine submission websites such as www.amfibi.com.

6.      Contents – create and circulate articles, blogs, and press release submissions. Content plays a key role in defining the success of SEO, the more content you have, the better.

7.      The pages of the website should be optimized in such a way that it has a good combination of keywords in it so that the crawlers pick them up and index them in their database.

We offer free consultation for budding SEO optimizers, contact us for any queries.