Search Engines Optimization (Part 1)

 

Search engines optimization is a very important part to get more traffic to your site. Search engines optimization is often called SEO. SEO is the way to get your site listed in the search engines and this is a very effective way to get traffic very fast for your site.

SEO can get your site listed but if you can't get your site listed in the first page of the search engines, your site will not get a lot of traffic. The first step to SEO is to submit your site to major search engines.

Submission to major search engines can be done manually or using websites offering submission services to automate it.

You can use the following links to submit your sites.

Manual Submission:
You can submit manually by doing some searches in Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista and so on.
For manual submission to:
Google:
http://www.google.com/addurl/
Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
MSN:
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

Automated submissions:
The free services that I use is called SubmitExpress. The website offer free services to submit your site to a lot of serach engines directories. If you are interested, you can use the link below:
http://www.submitexpress.com/

Search Engines Optimization (Part 2)

 

My blog is found at the first page of Google search and it is the top 1. This is great.You can try to search of "earn maximum from adsense" in Google and you will find my blog at the 1rd place.

The previous post of Search Engines Optimization (Part 1), I talked about submission to search engines. This post will will about "feeding" the search engines.

How To Feed the Search Engines?

Feed the search engines do not mean that you use FeedBuner, FeedBlitz or other RSS Feed services. Feed here means that you create new contents and original contents everyday. This is because search engines like contents very much and search engines like frequently updated sites. So, please do it as often as possible.

Creating Contents:
Creating contents is a tough thing to do everyday especially when you are out of ideas. Personally, I also face this problem to create new contents everyday. The way I use is to think for a keyword and then use mind mapping.

Mind mapping help a lot to create contents. It is very useful. So, when you are out of ideas, you can use mind mapping too.

Create a lot of contents to your blog with 100 posts for a start. Then, set a higher target to achieve. For example, you can set 500 posts or 1000 posts to achieve. With a lot of posts, it will not be hard to get to the top of the search engines.

Check the top blogs at the links below, all of the blogs are optimized with a lot of posts.

• Engadget
• BoingBoing
• Gizmodo
• TechCrunch
• Problogger
• LifeHacker

Search Engines Optimization (Part 3)

In this post, I will discuss more tips about Search Engines Optimization.

Getting to the top of the search engines results list is a very useful way to get traffic but before you get to the top, you need several Search Engines Optimization techniques to help your site get to the top.

Let's make it simple for you, I make a simple list with 10 ways of optimization you can do to your site for Search Engines Optimization.

1. Title of Your Site:
Naming your site is very simple. You can simply use a word or short sentence to name your site. Most of us never really realize that the "Name" of the site is important to help your site get listed at the top of the list of Search Engines Results. The thing you need to do is to create a good name for your site to get to the top of the list.

How Good is Good? What Name is Good?
The answer is simple. Use words that describe your site best.

Example:
If your site is about "Blogging" then you can try words like "Blogopedia". Search for the word "Blogopedia" using Google Search. If the results appear to be millions then find for other words. ***Try to search for the word "Blogopedia" using Google now. Check the results
I search for it and the result is "178,000" sites have such word.

So, if you create a site using this word "Blogopedia", then your site maybe listed in the middle of the search result. If you optimized your site with contents and frequently update it, then you can climb very fast to the top.

***Important: Do not use words that are too general like words that already existed in our dictionary. Create your own words.

Why do you need to create new words?
Remember the words like "Yahoo", "Google" and "MSN"? What is their meaning? The meaning is very hard to define and before their existence, they are not in the dictionary. During those days, when you search for these words in search engines, they are not there.

Now, try to search for them in search engines, they are everywhere and they are at the top of the result list.

In short, new words can help you to get to the top of search engines very fast.

2. URL of your site:
The URL of your site is also very important. Use new words that you create. Repeat steps in step 1 above. This is a good way to help your site to get to the top.

Words like Gizmodo and Engadget are also new words but they show clear meaning and clear idea about their sites. Think a good name for your site fr higher ranking in search engines.

3. Using Tags:
Make use of HTML tags in your site. You can use bold, italic, emphasis and underline in your contents. This will further optimized your site.

Remember: Use those tags for certain important keywords in your site.

For example, if your site is about "Cars". Then, you can make brand of cars bold and so on. This enable better indexing of the search engines bot and can help to get better ranking too.