Showing posts with label search engine optimization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engine optimization. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

SEO Services – Components of Web Site Behavior

Search Engine Operator offers SEO services for businesses of all size. Our search marketing services increase key visibility for your web site on the major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL.com, and other main search engines used by a majority of the searching public. Search engine demographics are very diverse and the audience of potential website visitors varies greatly dependent on many behavioral variables. Visitors to websites also arrive at greatly differentiating rates including based on seasonal behavior, mass media news, and other socially influential factors that can create variances in your website traffic. Visitors could either be new visitors, returning visitors, members to your website, past shoppers, repeat customers, and many other types of visitors’ websites maybe seeking to entice a visit to their website.

The ability to access a website from so many entry points including the computer at your house, a computer in your office, wireless access on your laptop, internet access off of your wireless mobile phone and an ever increasing amount of web accessibility points. Think of the continuous availability of your website across the internet. The main point of entry for a large percentage of a websites visitor’s will originate from a search engine portal. SEO services can take a company from the second or third page of the search engines to the front page for visibility. Front page search engine listings bring a company into prime visibility. Prime visibility would be the area of your website a visitor sees above the fold on the screen of your potential website visitor.

There are two main ways to obtain listings above the fold on the major search engines. You can either aim to list using sponsored search marketing or search engine optimization. Both areas of SEO services have huge advantages. Sponsored search marketing has many methods of delivering visitors to your website and also marketing brand impressions for branding your business. Potential visitors to websites read text they are clicking on before clicking which turns them into a website visitor and viewer of your advertising brand impression.

Website visitors are great to have visit your web page, the question is once they arrive on your website what is the visitor doing. Is the visitor arriving to your site and just leaving – if so the factor being affected is the website bounce rate. A bounce rate is defined as when a website visitor originates there visit on a particular page of your website and exits from that same web page without visiting any other areas of your website.

You can also see the quantity of website pages someone is viewing across your website. The total number of page visits is an important calculation as to how much visitors find your web page to be relevant to a particular topic and how captive of an audience they become. The total number of page views divided by website visitors will tell you the average number of pages a website viewer is actually visiting. Another area to find important information about your website visitors is the website visitor sources. These sources can include search engines, links from blogs into your websites, links from directories, and links from other potentially relevant sources. Understanding who is pointing to your website is important because it can help you learn about website visitors, consumer feedback, consumer mentions and how visitors find your site.

Complete SEO services will help you understand many aspects of your website you may not have understood in the past. Once you begin to understand the many areas that can affect your website performance you can increase your website business using SEO relevant data and market information.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Search Engine Marketing

A Search Engine Marketing program in today's market should create an Online Marketing campaign with key strategies to bring highly qualified visitors to your website from the major search engines. Search Engine Marketing targets visitors that are expressing interest in your products or services by asking the search engines for information related to your field.

A common practice in Search Engine Marketing today is Search Engine Optimization - SEO – the strategy of creating a website as a relevant source in regards to a websites information. This allows your website to appear on the search engine in the area many associate as being the search engine‘s choice website as a source of information.

Traditional SEO complimented by a Sponsored Search campaign commonly referred to as PPC - Pay-Per-Click or CPC – Cost-Per-Click marketing allows companies to target keywords beyond what their website may currently focus on. Sponsored Search also allows a website owner to have a flexible strategy when it comes to choosing the keywords they would like to attract visitors for or the geographic area they would like to target.

Search Engine Optimization and Sponsored Search combined create a complete SEM - Search Engine Marketing strategy. Search Engine Marketing gives many visitors the impression that your website is a qualified information source because it is at the top of the search engines.

The quality of website visitor traffic can vary based on your website positioning. When being placed at the top of the search engine you are most likely to attract an active and ready to act shopper. Whereas being placed on the second or third page of the search engine you are more likely to attract a researching visitor.

A complete Search Engine Marketing solution should encompass both Search Engine Optimization and Sponsored Search on the major search engines.

Once a visitor arrives at your website you want them to perceive you as a relevant source of information. You are already in the consumers’ mind relevant to a specific topic because the user found you on the major search engines. The next step in the communication channel is developing a relationship.

When a visitor arrives on your website it is important they find relevant content. Visitors to your website can represent many objectives in the online world, including turning a visitor into a lead or sale. When creating your online marketing strategy for your business it is important to focus on the results you would like to see your website deliver – leads or sales –it is also important to create a concise message that you would like your visitor’s to receive.

Qualified website visitors can arrive from both types of search engine marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Sponsored Search Marketing. We find the best way to test Search Engine Marketing and its effectiveness, is by starting with a Sponsored Search Marketing campaign and using the data collected in your campaign to create the strategy for your Search Engine Optimization campaign. A Search Engine Optimization campaign is not as dynamic for targeting as a Sponsored Search Marketing campaign, though a Search Engine Optimization campaign will mark your site as a relevant source for information.--

Zach Hoffman
www.SEO.cc - Online Marketing Agency
Zach@SEO.cc
Dial Up: 866-999-4SEO (4736)

Monday, May 19, 2008

SEO – Search Engine Optimization – What is it?

The Online Marketing medium continues to evolve, but one buzzword has established itself as a stronghold in Search Marketing and this is SEO, Search Engine Optimization. So what is SEO?

SEO – search engine optimization, the technique of placing a website as a relevant source for search engines to reference for information

As the search engines continue to evolve the complexity of turning your website into a search engine resource for information continues to get increasingly complex.

The following information establishes a sampling of the factors search engines use to measure whether a website is relevant to the search engine:

Meta-tags – the creation of information that is placed at the top of all web page back-end (area
users do not see) documents to establish what a website is about and the keywords it should be established relevant for. Characteristics include title, keywords, description, and other references that do exist you can create in your tags – but are known not to have much weight as compared to the three mentioned above. Each of a website’s pages should have unique meta tags that reinforce the keywords that are naturally present on that particular page.

Examples of Meta-Tags: e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

Meta Title Tag – the information in this tag will appear as the title of the page title in the top right-hand corner of the web browser window. This tag should describe the page at hand and utilize the keywords in which that page is to be focused around. The meta title tag is currently believed to be the most heavily weighted meta-tag by search engine spiders.

EXAMPLE: e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

Meta Description Tag – this tag should be used to provide a brief description of the page at hand in proper sentence format. Try to create one to three sentences which include the different variations of the keywords being targeted on that particular page. In many cases this description is what is displayed below the page title in the search engine results pages.

EXAMPLE: e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

Meta Keywords Tag – in this area list the keywords in which you have decided to focus that page of your website on. Long extensive keyword lists are not going to work favorably towards your website. Try keeping this keyword list down to a maximum of ten keywords per page. Separate the keywords with commas and keep them all lower-cased.

e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

Images – pictures on your website speak an advanced language to web users as they speak to a user’s vision. These pictures currently cannot be read by the search engine blindly, but you the web page owner can make these pictures speak. The strategies to make pictures speak include proper file names to describe your picture and proper alt tags (alternative information to appear in case the picture does not load); an alt tag should be a brief two to five word description of what a particular website photo is.
Example of Image ALT Tags
ALT Tags on a Linked Image: e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

ALT Tags on a Non-Linked Image: e-mail zach@seo.cc for sample - blog does not allow post of code

Site Map – structure of your website and all the web pages that comprise your current website, this information helps the search engines guide their computers through your particular website and tell the search engine what information it may want to index. Write your site map as an outline of your website with each page title hyperlinked to that page.

Social Media – involves using platforms to create dynamic data for the search engines to find information about your website from what they may consider to be relevant resources. The most basic form of this media is creating a blog and this is becoming a large factor in search engine optimization success. A blog is the most basic form of website social media and allows for a website publisher or owner to write dynamic content to either point relevant information to their current website or to a relevant source of website information.
Examples of Social Media
Blogs
MySpace.com
Digg.com
Yelp.com
FaceBook.com
FatWallet.com
LinkedIn.com

Website Address Relevance – when you are on a particular website and you click around onto various sections or pages you want to be sure the information describing your page is relevant to the information the user will find on each page of the website. If you need to re-name a corresponding page, the page being re-named for relevance should have a “301 re-direct” placed on it – this allows for the old page to be forwarded to the new home of the information.

Dependant on the code being used on the websites 301 permanent redirects can be different.

In conclusion, Search Engine Optimization is a continuously evolving method to creating a website to be relevant to a search engine. Methods of Search Engine Optimization mentioned above are only a fraction of current methods being put into play, other methods are currently always arising in the marketplace and we make it our job to stay on top of the rapidly evolving Search Engine Optimization marketplace.

We are holding three weekly educational seminars this week on Online Marketing and have limited space available for Thursday - May 22, 2008 at 4:00 PM EST & Friday - May 23, 2008 at two times 11:00 AM & 4:00 PM EST.

Please RSVP to Zach@seo.cc.

Please forward this on to any colleagues you know that may be interested in our services.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Search Engine Optimization-SEO-Website Cornerstone Development

SEO, also known as Search Engine Optimization, is the process of placing a website as a relevant source for a topic of information at the top of the major Search Engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN. There are many ways to perform SEO. The following are a few of the many techniques we use to create an SEO campaign.

The first step is choosing the keywords you want to target. These should include words that you feel your target audience would type in to the search engines to find your website. If you are looking to target a city tied to your keywords please consider selecting the top 3 cities you would like to target to tie in with your target keywords.

The second step is to choose a domain name relevant to the topic of your website. Using keywords in your domain name relevant to the keywords you are looking to target will help you communicate your relevance to the associated keywords you are looking to target with the major search engines.

The third step is to map out your website. This information should have been provided to you from your website designer. The site map is the layout of your website as a hierarchical structure working from the primary pages of your website, to the secondary pages of your website, and onto the tertiary pages of your website. There may be additional pages under this hierarchy and you should categorize them as such.

The fourth step is to begin writing the meta-tags for each web page you would like to be optimized. You should start with your primary pages and work your focus down. The meta-tags should be written with three distinct areas: title creation, keyword targeting, and description. The title is what will appear in the upper left hand corner of the web browser describing what the specific page is about. The keyword targeting will be the keywords you are instructing the search engine to mark your page as relevant for when it comes to the particular page. Description is the summary of the webpage you would like to display as the description of the website to the major search engines. Creating proper meta-tags is the cornerstone to creating a Search Engine Optimized-SEO website. The meta-tags should also all have a tightly weaved theme relevant to each other.

The fifth step is to categorize your site properly for directory submission. This means knowing how to classify your website based on the industry you know your site is relevant for. The directory will also ask which geographic area you are most relevant for and ask you to most likely categorize your website on a country level. The search engine will then most likely pull your city specific information from your meta-tags and your contact us page.
The process to SEO your website described above is a great starting point for a solid SEO campaign. SEO is a continuous process because the search engines continue to tweak their search engine algorithms (functions) to allow the most relevant websites to reign supreme.

When performing SEO always remember relevancy is king.

By Zach Hoffman

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