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With over 45 days left for welcoming the new year, I've already started planning my White Hat SEO Strategy for 2015 to stay ahead of my competition. Running a blog which doesn't have traffic and a loyal base of readers defeats it's very purpose of existence. In the coming year, I plan to push my blog further up the search results page for certain niche keywords and focus on higher conversions rather than large amounts of traffic which don't convert. Of course large amounts of  free traffic via White Hat SEO  is always good for your blog; there's no denying that. So, here are the main areas I'm going to focus on for the year 2015 1. Target Long Tail Keywords Long tail keywords often have less competition in the SEO race. Many bloggers and webmasters are becoming aware of it, but it's not too late for you to start targeting them instead of common short keywords which have high competition. As usual, I'll be using Google AdWords' Keyword...

The success of your website depends on its contents. It's not for nothing do we have in a popular English proverb 'content is king', emphasizing the importance of good content. Want to get higher ranks in the search engines , then it is necessary to focus on good content of your website. Content is King! If the content is poor, it does not meet the readers' requirements and you will never rank highly in the search engines, which will result in a few visitors. Good content on the other hand guarantees you a high position in the search engines, which has been proven over the years time and time again. The content of your website should make clear the purpose and the target audience at a glance. If the content does not reflect this then you will not be able to achieve its relevant visitors and you will go wrong. There are several factors that determine the success of your website, which is mainly related to the topic of the website. However, there are also independe...

White hat SEO or black hat SEO? That's the question. From the moment that there was talk about optimizing a website for search engines, it's not clear whether black hat SEO is or is not a convenient way to achieve better results. We can indeed see black hat techniques as applying optimization techniques in a way that it really should not. In this article I will explain exactly what is the difference between the two forms of and especially whether or not it is wise to go to the "Dark" side. There have been several discussions about whether or not to follow black hat in recent years all over the world. Basically, it's is nothing more and nothing less than a collection of tricks that make it possible to mislead Search Engines so that they still get a better position in the search engine results page also known as SERPs. A familiar example is in the placement of keywords in a specific location in your page as the same color as the page background. Visitors...

How to get your website "slapped by Google"? It's pretty simple. Try to bend the rules of SEO even slightly and all your hard work in gaining backlinks and authority for your website goes to waste. There is a catchy term webmasters use for this - Black Hat SEO . Search engine marketing is an important part of  internet marketing . Ideally you want as many visitors angling towards your website as soon as possible for maximum profit. To accelerate that process, website owners do some crazy things that makes the the big brother G unhappy. Here are 5 tips which you should implement if you want your site or blog to get slapped by Google and get little to literally no search engine traffic at all. Tip 1: Keyword Stuffing: Use excessive keywords in your text. In the SEO training, I explain that it is important to use your target keywords to an optimum level of about 2-3% in your text . If you insert a keyword many times in your website, Google will treat it as spam an...

Yes folks , its finally here. Google PageRank has been updated just yesterday (December 6 2013). I read few days ago that Matt Cutts said there will be no PR update of any kind till 2014 Jan and now we see it. Some sites have taken a major beating, most of them Tumblr blogs, while others have seen a substantial increase in PR all of a sudden. PR for my blog has still not been calculated by Google yet. So it shows N/A as of now. I hope it gets a nice number. It was PR 3 until yesterday. Yes, It's a major update. Lot of changes. A friend of mine said his finance blog's PR changed from PR 5 to PR 1. He posts only original content, no ads and updates regularly. Whereas his adult site increased from PR 0 to PR 4 which has loads of ads. He said he doesn't notice any changes in traffic though for both the sites. Taking his example, I'd like to point out that PR is good only for setting the link price... Seller - "Hey, I have PR5 site, wanna buy ...

This article is not a run-of-the-mill list of SEO tricks . In fact, the tips here are things that I have picked up through experience, and I am extremely excited about sharing them with the readers of Tech Terrain . One of the biggest privileges and coincidentally, one of the largest responsibilities of a freelance web designer is the fact that they act as the gate-keeper to most small business owner's "marketing-budgets." A lost of small business owners trust the advice their web designer's give them. So, here is a list of the most critical and fundamental aspects of SEO that designers need to consider before building a site. This will empower you to give clients a website that will outperform even some of the most "optimized" sites in your industry. These tips are a mix of technical, developer-focused tips, usability tips, and design philosophy. For the sake of the entire in-bound marketing community, I hope this helps set a standard of web designe...

When it comes to the finance niche, we often think that big companies and tycoons rule the keywords in the search engines ; admittedly, it’s a broad niche and the competition is high. There’s a vast range of keywords in the finance niche that would be those real “keys” to your website. The Perfect Mix for SEO Along with the right keywords and top it off with white hat link building techniques , your vision of landing on the first pages on the SERPs wouldn’t be such a far-fetched dream anymore. After selecting a specific category in the finance niche, consider the “search volume” and the “competition” of the keywords. While it is true that highly competitive keywords would bring in more people to your website, it is still without a doubt that high competition will constrict your chances of landing that page on the top results. One factor you must practice is targeting low competition keywords or “ long tail keywords ”; use that as your leverage to build your rank. Get...

 Why you shouldn't ignore  Search Engine Optimization or SEO A brick-and-mortar store with an unlisted phone number, no signs and no advertising will quickly find itself struggling to survive. That’s because word of mouth on its own is rarely enough to make any business successful. A business needs to be known and to be found easily by potential customers in order to be patronized. Additionally, potential customers appreciate knowing what goods or services a particular business offers before they visit it. The same is true for websites. A website that is not easily found or does not have an obvious purpose is not going to be frequently visited.  Search Engine Optimization  ensures that potential customers can easily and readily locate your business’ website. I have already posted an article on White Hat SEO Techniques , which you will find useful. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of designing individual webpages and entire websites...

Why you need to build links? Links assist users to locate what they need in the vast expanse of the internet. They also help users to read as well as ascertain between relevant and irrelevant information. This makes them a vital aspect of any SEO campaign . It is therefore important to learn ways to create links for success. This is because search engines normally rate a website on various aspects including link building. Having many quality links in a wide array of websites which are already established and valued will make your site to be rated higher by search engines. This in turn enhances the intensity of traffic on a site. There are various ways of creating a huge amount of links that are of high quality. They include the following: One of the greatest ways of enhancing link building is by submitting articles that contain useful information to article repositories or directories. You should publish your articles in the specific biography area in which you choose you...

Wordpress is by far the leading blogging platform in the face of the world today. It boasts a variety of plugins which if utilized wisely can greatly improve one's online experience. Here's a are some of the top most plugins to look out for over the year. Top Wordpress Plugins: 1. Akismet Akismet is a handy tool for dealing with spam comments and trackbacks. It's an essential defense feature which can be of great use in your quest to steer clear from cruel spammers and bots. If you're aiming to improve the quality of your site, make sure to get this crucial tool. 2. Digg Digg Digg Digg is a powerful social media sharing tool that has always proven to be of great use to Wordpress users- especially in the modern social-media dominated world. It features a plethora of sharing buttons that are essential for information sharing and marketing. 3. Google XML Sitemaps If you're looking for a new way to attract more web-traffic, Google XML ...

Google sent you to this page because of one and only reason. The reason being that I successfully applied White Hat SEO  techniques to make Google love my blog. have In this post, I will teach you exactly how I made this possible. Without further ado, I'll start right away... SEO has three main areas: 1. Changes to a site's code (referred to as "on-page factors"). 2. Getting links from other sites (referred to as "off-page factors"). 3. Choosing proper long tail keywords that bring millions of visitors to your site in no time. The last point is  the most important  and the most ignored one by newbies. Choosing relevant and proper long tail keywords can shoot your site to the first page in search results and bring in load of  targeted traffic . Now let’s take a look at the techniques I applied to make my blog reach top results. Apply them faithfully and you will see the results yourself. Guaranteed! 1.   Keywords ! Keywords ! Keywords ! ...

Want your website to be on the first page of every Search Engine? You can influence your search engine visibility by yourself and it is much easier than you expected. The best way to have a good position on Internet search engines is to combine your advertising campaigns (Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing or Microsoft AdCenter) with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Thus, by implementing a good SEO strategy, you can significantly increase both the number and quality of visitors.