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Free Website SEO and Traffic For Beginners

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Free Website SEO and Traffic For Beginners

This do-it-yourself quick-start guide will help beginning website owners set up their own SEO and increase their website traffic quickly and for free. No history or elaborate explanations will be found here. This article explains a simple, easy to implement, generic way of doing a specific SEO plan yourself. This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up some good, safe, white hat SEO/Traffic on your new or existing website with the least amount of effort in combination with the easiest-to-use free online resources.

Let’s begin:

1. FIND YOUR KEYWORDS

a. Are you a local business/service or more global?

i. Local examples will be demoed with the following example business:

Mr. Kung Fu’s Karate School in Seattle, WA, USA.

ii. Non-Local examples will be demoed with the following example business:

Susie Smith’s Arts & Crafts Blog

b. Time to think like a potential customer. What word phrase would you expect someone to type into a search engine (like Google) and have your website come up listed on the first page of results?

i. Local businesses owners, be sure to include geographic words. For example, Mr. Kung Fu might use: ‘Seattle Karate’ or ‘Seattle Martial Arts’. He might also use a specific suburb of Seattle instead (like ‘Redmond’ or ‘Duvall’).

ii. Non-Local businesses owners, like Susie Smith, might use: ‘home arts and crafts’, ‘home decorations’, or ‘arts and crafts ideas’.

c. Use the Google AdWords Keyword Tool (adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) to help you find the best keyword phrases for you. Pay attention to LOCAL and GLOBAL search volumes that best represent your market. WARNING: The more popular your keyword phrase is, the more competition you will probably have. If it’s too popular, you probably won’t make the first page of any search engine results. Try to use more specific keyword phrases whose search volume is below 40,000 a month.

d. Pick the TOP SIX best keyword phrases for you. Write them down in order of importance. Keep the list handy – you will use them later on in this article.

2. PUT IN YOUR WEBSITE TITLE

a. Find the HTML tags at the top of each of your HTML pages in the HEADER section. Your title will go between these two tags.

b. Enter in your TOP THREE keyword phrases (in order) here separated by the ‘pipe’ character ( | ) and save it. Redundant words only need be used once here. See the example below how the words ‘Seattle’ and ‘Home’ are only used once but apply to other keyword phrases:

1) Mr. Kung Fu: Seattle Karate | Martial Arts | Self Defense

2) Susie Smith: Home Arts And Crafts | Decorations| Ideas

3. PUT IN YOUR WEBSITE KEYWORDS & DESCRIPTION

a. For HTML Websites – Find the HTML tags and at the top of each of your HTML pages in the HEADER section. Your keywords and website description will go between these two tags respectively.

b. Type your SIX keyword phrases into the keyword section. Separate each phrase with a comma. Here it’s OK to have redundant words in your phrases. For example:

1) Mr. Kung Fu would type: Seattle karate, Seattle martial arts, Seattle self defense, etc.

2) Susie Smith would type: home arts and crafts, home decorations, arts and crafts ideas, etc.

d. Type 3-5 sentences into your website description section that describe your business/service. Try and insert the TOP THREE keyword phrases into your description content. Be sure to do so in a way that is readable and natural-looking, otherwise it will look like you are ‘keyword stuffing’.

4. CREATING YOUR HOME PAGE (LANDING PAGE) CONTENT

a. Without diving too much into how to create an effective landing page design let’s just focus on the SEO aspect of the landing page. Your landing page is your most important page, so we need to include your keyword phrases here in your content. Your top three keyword phrases should be included more than once. Insert your keyword phrase in a readable and natural-looking way to avoid looking like you are “keyword stuffing”. Try and do so with the least amount of content you can. If you insert more of your keyword phrases than what I recommend, you run the risk of getting penalized, so don’t do any more than what is listed here. Insert them the following way:

i. Your #1 Keyword Phrase – insert it in 4 different places.

ii. Your #2 Keyword Phrase – insert it in 3 different places.

iii. Your #3 Keyword Phrase – insert it in 2 different places.

iv. Your #4, #5, & #6 Keyword Phrase – insert once.

b. Content Ideas – You might find it hard to come up with enough content to insert your keyword phrases naturally. It is a delicate balancing act. If you create too much content, new users to your website will leave (nobody really wants to read all that stuff). But then again, you need some content for SEO purposes. Here are some valid content ideas that will help you get your SEO keyword phrases in without overfilling your landing page with useless babble.

i. Write a brief description of what your business/service does. When someone first comes to your website, you need to let them know right up front what you do and how you can help them with their needs. A general description of your business/products/services is useful to new visitors to your website as well as a great place to sprinkle in some SEO keyword phrases. Again, don’t go overboard. Keep it simple.

ii. Insert a few images – Images are a great way to break up the monotony of large amounts of content as well as get a few keywords in. Every image you insert into your content area allows for a TITLE and an ALT tag description. Slap one of your keyword phrases in. Use the same phrase for both tags. Make the image a clickable anchor linking back to your landing page.

iii. Testimonials – Testimonials are great. Get a few from some of your clients/customers and add them to your landing page. “Tweak” them slightly to include your keyword phrases (if your client/customer doesn’t mind). Try not to go overboard on these. Include too many and people will get bored and leave.

iv. Awards/Articles – Show off any awards and/or articles you may have about your business/service. Write in a few quotes from them into your content. ‘Tweak’ them to accommodate some of your keyword phrases. Be careful not to alter them too much… they are quotes after all. If you misquote an article, you might get some backlash from the writer. Make sure any changes you make are very subtle and don’t alter the author’s intended message.

5. PUT KEYWORDS IN YOUR WEBSITE’S FOOTER

a. There are a thousand ways to implement internal links, but to keep things simple, just create three links in your website’s footer using the TOP THREE keyword phrases to point back to your lading page. With most website builder tools, the footer is ’static’ and will appear on every page, so these links will be on all your pages. Here is the keyword phrase that our examples might put in their footer. Remember, these would be set up as three separate links pointing back to the landing page:

1) Mr. Kung Fu: Seattle Karate | Seattle Martial Arts | Seattle Self Defense

2) Susie Smith: Home Arts And Crafts | Home Decorations| Arts And Crafts Ideas

6. ADDING YOUR WEBSITE TO FREE DIRECTORIES

a. Free directories are pretty much worthless. Don’t waste your time. Some paid directories are worth it, but they are NOT free. This article is about FREE SEO. There is only one free directory that is worth submitting your URL to: DMOZ (dmoz.org/add.html). Be sure to drill down into the LOWEST category you think your website falls under, THEN click on the ‘Suggest URL’ link at the top. Unfortunately, they are so overloaded that it may take months before they list your website. But… if/when they do, it’s very good SEO points for you!

7. EXTERNAL LINKS TO YOUR WEBSITE

a. Links from other websites to your website is the best way to help with SEO. If you have any friends or acquaintances that have a quality website you trust, ask them if you can put a link to your website on theirs. Be sure to use one of your TOP THREE keyword phrases as the link phrase that points to your website landing page.

b. If you don’t know of anyone who has a website, then don’t worry about it. Skip down to the next step. DON’T GO LOOKING FOR LINK EXCHANGES WITH STRANGERS. If you go looking for websites you don’t know to post your link on, you will probably hurt your SEO more than help it. Because you are a newbie to SEO, people will take advantage of you. SEO is a complex thing to learn and you probably don’t have the time to master it. It’s best you just avoid trying something like this all together.

8. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

a. There are hundreds of social bookmarking websites. For the sake of simplicity, we will only submit your website URL to 5 of the better ones. You will need to create an account on each of these (if you do not have one already). You might want to add their ‘bookmark button’ to your browser toolbar as well for future ease of use.

i. Digg ( digg.com )

ii. Del.icio.us ( delicious.com )

iii. StumbleUpon ( stumbleupon.com )

iv. Reddit ( reddit.com )

v. Propeller ( propeller.com )

b. Look for the ’submit link’ or ’submit website’ link/button once you are logged into each of these website. Submitting your website link to each of these will usually consists of providing the following information:

i. URL – The ‘www’ address that people type in the address bar of their browser to get to your website.

ii. Title – Your website’s title.

iii. Description – A brief description of your website. You might want to use the same description you created earlier for your website’s Description Meta Tag.

iv. Keywords – Use your SIX keyword phrases here, separated by a ‘comma ‘or a ’space’. Look at the label on the form, it should tell you how to separate word phrases.

9. JOIN LINKED-IN

a. There are thousands of social/professional networking groups/forums you can join, but to make things simple, we are just going to join this one: Link-In ( linkedin.com ). Create an account with them (if you have not done so already). Be sure to include a link to your website in your profile. Put as much valid information into your profile about your business/services as you can. The more professional you make your profile, the better.

b. Login and search for groups to join. This is what makes Linked-In such a great tool. Look for other groups of people that have the same business interests as you and join their groups. There will probably be lots of groups to pick from. Try and go with the ones that have the most relevance and/or members. Don’t overdo it. To begin with, let’s just stick to around 5 groups. If you feel you can handle more later, then you can join some more then. When searching for groups, try and think beyond just what your business focuses on. For example, Mr. Kung Fu would probably search for ‘karate’ groups or ‘martial arts’ groups first. But he might also want to look for ’small business’ groups.

c. Wait for your group invitation to be accepted. Once you request to join a group, it might take hours or days before you get accepted. Be patient.

d. Look for friends and associates to link to. You can search for people you know and send requests to them to join your network of contacts. This is a great way to find old friends and business acquaintances. Tell them about your new website! Find out what groups they have joined. You might want to join the same groups!

e. Post an introduction of yourself to each group you get accepted to. As you get accepted into each group, go into the ‘Discussions’ page and add a discussion introducing yourself and what it is you do. Then ask for a website review of your new website and post a link to it (be sure to include the ‘http’ at the beginning of your link – this will make it clickable). This is completely legit and a very acceptable thing to do. Just don’t go overboard on your intro. Keep it to only a few sentences. Here is an example what Mr. Kung Fu might post as his first discussion:

Introduction and Website Review

Title:

Post: Hello, my name is Mr. Kung Fu and I just wanted to introduce myself. I own a small martial arts school in Seattle, WA. I have about 35 students and have been in business for about 14 years. I look forward to discussing martial arts and karate with everyone in the group. I just created my first website and would appreciate any feedback you could provide. Here is the link: http://….. Thanks!

10. JOIN YAHOO! ANSWERS

a. Join Yahoo! Answers ( answers.yahoo.com ) if you have not done so already. You will be answering people’s questions that relate to your website/business.

b. Do an ‘Advanced’ search. Fill in each section of the advanced search as follows:

i. Keywords – Enter in keywords that relate to what your website/business is about. Make sure the ‘Search for keyword match in’ is set to ‘Questions’.

ii. Category – Pick the category that relates to what your website/business is about. If you can’t find a good category, just select ‘All’.

iii. Filter – pick the one that fits your needs.

iv. Question Status – select ‘Open Questions – Best answer has not been chosen’.

v. Date Submitted – Set to ‘Anytime’.

c. Submit your search. If no results come back, keep modifying your keywords till you start getting results that you feel comfortable answering.

d. Answer 5-10 questions. In the form you fill out for the answer, there is a ‘What’s your source?’ textbox. Put the URL to your website here. Make sure to include the ‘http://’ in your URL. This makes it ‘clickable’. Don’t worry about having the perfect answer (or even the correct answer for that matter!). All answers are just opinions for the most part.

11. WRITE AN ARTICLE

a. Article websites are a place where people provide information to others on how to do things. There are hundreds of article websites you can submit articles to. For the sake of simplicity, we will use just one: EzineArticles ( EzineArticles.com ). Join this website if you have not done so already. Fill out all your PROFILE information. Upload a professional looking photo of yourself if you feel comfortable doing so.

b. In your Profile admin page, under the ‘Profile Manager’ menu, click on the ‘Edit Author Resource Boxes’. Here is where you put links to your website and write a brief resource description about your website/company.

i. Watch the ‘Learn How to Create the Perfect Resource Box’ video on this page.

ii. Include your TOP TWO keyword phrases (no more than this) that link back to your website sprinkled in with your Resource description.

iii. You will have to write the links as ANCHOR CODE. In the following examples, I will use ‘brackets’ to indicate what keyword phrases would be converted to anchors linking back to their respective websites:

1. Mr. Kung Fu – Mr. Kung Fu is owner of a [Seattle Karate] school called ‘Mr. Kung Fu’s Martial Arts’. He has been in business teaching [Seattle Martial Arts] for over 14 years. He has a 5th Degree Black Belt in Kung Fu.

2. Susie Smith – Susie Smith is the owner of the [Home Arts And Crafts] website called ‘Susie Smith’s Online Crafts’. Her website is an excellent resource for [Home Decoration] ideas as well as other arts and crafts.

c. Now write an article relating to your website/business. It has to be at least 250 words long (that’s not very long). You don’t need to be an expert to submit an article. Most, if not all, articles are just people’s opinions on how to do things. Write something that relates to what your website/business is about. For example:

i. Mr. Kung Fu might write about the ‘Benefits of Martial Arts Training’ or ‘Top 5 Reasons to Get Your Children into Martial Arts’.

ii. Susie Smith might write about ‘Family Fun Making Homemade Christmas Ornaments’ or ‘Top 5 Craft Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day’.

d. DO NOT put links to your website in your Article content. They will be removed from your article content or even worse, your article may not get published at all. Your links will be displayed in your ‘Resources’ section you completed earlier.

e. Submit your article and wait. It might be a few days before they approve it. Be patient.

12. CONVERT YOUR ARTICLE TO A BLOG POST

a. Many website builders have a Blog built into their websites. Other users will need to find a blogging website to join.

b. Copy your article content and paste it into your first blog post. Here you have more flexibility creating links, so you go ahead and ‘tweak’ your content to include the TOP TWO keyword phrase as anchors linking back to your website landing page.

13. MASS EMAIL EVERYONE

a. Send out a mass email to everyone in your email address book(s) announcing the opening of your new website with a link to it. Ask them to send it to other friends and/or family members they know of that might be interested in it. Word of mouth sometimes does wonders.

14. DONE! SIT BACK, RELAX, AND WAIT

a. It can take a few days for all of this info to get digested by search engines and users. Be patient and wait. If you did everything I listed here, your website will be well recognized by ALL search engines and you will start to see traffic flowing in. Be proud of yourself! You just did hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars worth of SEO work on your website… for FREE! Depending upon which SEO company you might use, everything you just did could easily cost someone a few thousand dollars.

b. SEO is an ongoing exercise, however. You cannot just do what I have listed here once and then be done with SEO forever. If you want your traffic to increase and grow, you will need to continue doing some things. Lucky for you, everything you need to continue growing your SEO is already set up! See the next section below on how to maintain your website’s SEO.

MAINTAINING YOUR WEBSITE’S SEO

1. FOLLOW UP ON ITEM #7 (EXTERNAL LINKS TO YOUR WEBSITE)

a. Always keep an eye open for external link opportunities from other websites or web services you know and trust. If a new opportunity arises where you can get a link to your website from one of them, implement it ASAP. Always be sure to use one of your TOP THREE keyword phrases as the text for the link to your website’s landing page.

2. BLOG

a. Outside of external links to your website, blogging is the next best way to increase traffic & SEO to your website, especially if your Blog is part of your website. Try to post a blog entry at least once a week if you can, no less than once month. Write about broader subjects outside of your smaller website community. Post things that thousands (if not millions) of people might relate to in your industry or that they might be interested in knowing. Make sure it relates to your website. In your blog posts, work in ONE keyword phase of the SIX you created. Try and use the TOP THREE keywords most of the time… but not all of the time. Make that ONE keyword phase an anchor linking back to your website’s landing page. Try and make it the only link in your post if you can, and place it near the top of the post. Make it look natural and not like you are ‘keyword stuffing’.

3. SOCIAL BOOKMARK YOUR NEW BLOG POST

a. If your blog post is something that might interest others outside of your local network, you should Social Bookmark it (see item #8 above). Instead of putting in your website landing page as the URL, put in the link to your blog post. Do this for all 5 social bookmark websites listed above. If you have more time to kill and want to expand your SEO, try using Social Marker ( socialmarker.com ) to submit your blog post URLs to 50+ social bookmarking websites.

4. USE LINKED-IN TO POST LINKS BACK TO YOUR NEW BLOG POST

a. Login to Linked-In (see item #9) and post a new discussion in each of the groups you joined telling people to check out your new blog post. Make sure it is relevant to the group and something they might be interested in. If it is not, then don’t post it. Also, don’t forget to add the ‘http://’ to the beginning of your link to make sure it is clickable.

5. CONVERT YOUR NEW BLOG POST TO AN ARTICLE

a. This is a flip on what you did for item #12. Instead of converting your article to a blog post, you will do just the opposite: Convert your new blog post to an article. Login to your article website (see item #11) and submit your blog post to it. Again, be sure that it is relevant to something that people might want to read an article about. If it is not, then don’t submit it. For instance, if Mr. Kung Fu posted a blog post about his team winning a local tournament in Seattle, you would NOT want to post this as an article. However, if Mr. Kung Fu wrote a blog post about ‘How to prepare For a Karate Tournament’ that would be something that would interest readers outside of his local community and he could post to an article website. Use good judgment to figure out if you should submit your post as an article.

6. ANSWER MORE ‘YAHOO! ANSWERS’ QUESTIONS.

a. Once a week try to answer 5 – 10 Yahoo Questions (see Item #10 above). Add a link back to your website’s landing page in the ‘What’s your source?’ text area. Be sure to always include the ‘http://’ at the beginning of the link to make it clickable.

7. PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE

a. Patience and persistence will bring you a wealth of SEO and traffic. If you do everything I have listed here at least once every two weeks (or more if you can), I assure you – you will be set within a year. The longer you do it, the more successful you will be! The hard part is being persistent and doing it as often as possible. If you keep it up, your website will thrive, I promise you!

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A Beginners Guide to SEO

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A Beginners Guide to SEO

What is Search Engine Optimisation?

Search Engine Optimisation or SEO, in simple terms is a set of methodologies used to get websites higher up the search engines in the unpaid search results also known as the organic search results.  Common sense suggests that the further up your website is up the search engines, the more visitors you will receive, the more visitors your receive, the greater your profits.

Why is SEO needed these days?

These days the internet is so competitive.  If customers looking for products and services find what they need from the top few positions on the search engines, they won’t go past the first pages.   The main aim of SEO is to get your website as high up the search engines as possible.  Why? I hear you ask, well I don’t know about you but I don’t often go beyond the first page when I’m looking for something on the internet, and I hardly ever go beyond the second page.  I tend to find what I need Ii from the first few websites don’t you?

Well if that’s the case for everyone, there’s no point having a website at all if its not at least on the first pages of the search engines.

One thing you must remember however, which many folk seem to forget [stupid really!] is to make sure you get found for terms people actually search for!  There’s no benefit being at the top of Google for a keyword no one searches for at all.  It might look good for a bit of self gratification, but is it really going to make you any money?

What types of SEO are there?

There are two main types of search engine optimisation; local SEO and national SEO.  Local SEO is where a business targets search terms with a location attached to them such as Accountants in London, Accountant s in Surrey etc.  These people tend to be local people, live nearby and have a local or regional target market.  If I was a window cleaner in London, I wouldn’t want to target people looking for window cleaners in Edinburgh now would I?

National SEO however is where a business aims to get their website found for search terms without locations such as ‘football boots’ or ‘work gloves’.  This tends to be the case when the location of a potential consumer doesn’t matter.  If I was looking to purchase a pair of football boots online, I just want to know who is the cheapest and how long will it take to get them delivered, so long as they were based in UK somewhere, I wouldn’t be bothered.

How much does SEO cost?

The cost of SEO can vary immensely.  Every single SEO campaign is unique so every price or cost for SEO should be too. The amount of time effort and budget required for an SEO project is usually determined by several factor, here are just a few things to think about:

1.       What keywords that you are targeting?

2.       How competitive are your chosen keywords?

3.       How much time and effort have your competitors spent on SEO?

4.       IS your website SEO friendly?

5.       How much budget do I actually have?

One thing to be sure about, SEO can be a real tricky and complex subject so if you don’t know what you are doing when it comes to SEO, I’d suggest you call the SEO Experts.

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SEO Web Design Secrets: Search Engine Optimization Tips For Beginners

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SEO Web Design Secrets: Search Engine Optimization Tips For Beginners

SEO web design is a skill that can be learned, though most search engine optimization for beginners courses dwell too much on linking strategy as opposed to web site design per se. There are many ways for most normal people to get an improved search engine ranking, and secure a high search engine listing, and while linking is important, good on-site SEO is also necessary.

Although it might not seem like it, getting a good listing on Google or any of the other search engines is not as difficult as many like to claim. There are rules to follow, and if you play the game properly then the outcome should be in your favour. The tips provided in this article are not really secrets as such; although many people offer to divulge marvelous secrets to you, all they are giving you is stuff that people have been using for years.

So you won’t get any secrets here. I have nothing hidden away that I don’t want anybody to know, and if I had I wouldn’t tell you about it! Would you? If you had some secrets that were so valuable that they were making you money, would you give them away free in an article like this one? Of course you wouldn’t!

So here are my not-so-secret tips on getting a good listing in Google and improving your search engine ranking. You likely know a fair bit about meta tags, and have been informed that most are not used by search engines. Well let me tell you something. If you ‘Google’ Article Services you will finds my website right at the top in the #1 position for that keyword. Check the description that Google provides right under the title: that is exactly as it is in the ‘Description’ tag that I have on the site. So don’t let anybody tell you that Google don’t use the Description tag, because they do. So do Ask and MSN (now Live Search), and Yahoo also uses it, but not the whole thing exactly as written.

The Keyword tag is another matter. Google aren’t interested in what you tell them the keywords are: they decide the relevance of the page themselves from the text and Alt tags on the page. Google no longer need keyword repetition to understand what you are writing about: they have the LSI algorithm now, that will determine the meaning of your page from the character strings it contains. The algorithm is programmed to calculate a relevance factor from the vocabulary you use in relation to the rest of the vocabulary on the page. However, back to SEO web design, and some search engine optimization tips for beginners.

In addition to the Description meta tag, the HTML tags you should use are:

1. The Keywords meta tag. Although little used it only takes a second to put in, and does no harm. There is evidence that some search engines might use it. The rest of the meta tags are pointless.

2. The TITLE tag. This is the title of your web page, and should contain the primary keyword for the page. Each page should be written round one primary keyword that relates to the subject of your website or niche.

For example, if your niche is costume jewelry, the primary keyword for your home page would be ‘costume jewelry’. You could then have a number of ’silos’ with a main page title each. The title of one main silo page could be ’simulated diamonds’ and the first page title of that silo could be ‘garnets’. All of these are the primary keywords for their respective pages. Another silo could be ‘colored gem stones’, with that as the primary keyword for the main silo page, and that for your first sub-page in that silo could be ‘citrine’. And so on.

Each page must have one primary keyword, and it should be included in the Title tag for that page. The Title tag does not appear in the body of the article, but in the HTML between the two HEAD tags in your html.

3. The H tag. These are heading tags, with H1 being the most important. The heading for each main section in your page should be contained within H1 tags, and many pages have only the one set of such tags. Subheadings, containing secondary keywords, should be contained within H2 tags, and so on. Thus, in the example above, the heading or your garnets silo could be could be ‘Garnets in Costume Jewelry’ in H1 tags.

After an introduction to garnets, you could then have an H2 heading containing ‘The Source of Garnets: Where Garnets Come From’, then another passage of text headed ‘How Garnets are Cut for Costume Jewelry’, again held in H2 tags.
4. The ALT attribute. Use ‘Alt = ‘ within the Img tags of your images and graphics. This lets the search engines know what the graphic is about: search engines do not read graphics, and the Alt attribute offers you the chance to use your graphics meaningfully with respect to SEO web design.

TEXT FORMATTING

That’s all you have to worry about regarding the HTML tags. You text formatting can be used to emphasize to search engines what the important text on your page is. Thus, if you use bold text, underscoring or italics, they indicate the important words and phrases. Thus, use the STRONG and U html tags in your heading.

WRITE NATURALLY

Don’t worry too much about your keyword density (KD), other than having to much. Too high a KD could harm you if Google thinks you are making unnecessary use of them. Write naturally for human readers, and not robots. If your text reads well and makes it clear what the subject of the passage is about, then you will be fine. In my writing I ignore the concept of KD altogether. I use my keywords as indicated above, and also in the first and last 100 characters on the page (or at least in the last paragraph somewhere).

Good SEO web design is not keyword fixated, but contains good contextually related vocabulary that the LSI algorithm can use to target the relevance of the page to the search term being used by somebody using the search engine to find information. That’s all a keyword is: a term used by somebody looking for information. If you cannot work without a target KD, then I would go for a max of 1% with plenty associated vocabulary, synonyms. Related terms, etc.

Thus, if you are writing a 400 word article on the keyword ‘losing weight’, use these words four times, not twelve (1% not 3%)

None of these are web design secrets, and I doubt if there are any such secrets left any more. I suppose the only thing even approaching a secret here is that my description meta tag is copied exactly by Google in the listing for my #1 placed website. That allows you to determine how Google users see the description of your site in the listing.

I have several more SEO web design tips to offer, but these will be the subject of another article. In the meantime if you implement these search engine optimization tips for beginners, then you should soon see an improvement in your website’s search engine ranking.

Web Design Software for Beginners – How to Choose

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Web Design Software for Beginners – How to Choose

Choosing web design software for beginners can present a dilemma for the beginner. Before diving into buying software the beginner should always assess whether he or she can learn the software after making the purchase.

Beginners probably waist thousands of dollars each year on software they can’t use because they find it too difficult to learn.

They discover they are not as technical savvy as the thought and once the software package has been opened, it usually can’t be returned.

This dilemma creates doubt which leads to not building a website.

Once you have assessed your abilities to learn software, move forward and make a decision on which software to buy.

You’ll discover that you fall into a three categories;

1. You find it easy to learn software.

2. You find it difficult to learn software.

3. You’re somewhere in the middle of the first two.

4. You are a true techie and have HTML skills.

Hold off on buying web software if your are 2 or 3 on the list or you’ll waist money and end up back at square one; without a website.

Find out if you have a knack for learning HTML and you think you can build websites from scratch. HTML coders are very unique because they are true techies that love coding.

If you believe you fall in that category, check out W3Schools.com and learn from the best coders on the web. You can even get a certified from W3schools.

Keep in mind, HTML 5 is still being developed and that could create a whole new niche market for HTML coders.

You really want to learn how to build websites so what can you do to get started?

1. Start with trial versions of software packages you can play around with for thirty days and really learn the software.
2. Start a blog that wont’ cost you anything to use but web hosting space.

Word Press has the best free software on the market and it’s easy to set up. Get a Godaddy webhosting account for a few months to learn the software. Godaddy makes it easy to set up blogs on their web hosting servers.

Get a feel for how websites are set up before you buy any software.

For any that’s comfortable learning software, do the same. Find out what software you feel comfortable using. Software is expensive so be patient when buying.

Dreamweaver is the top seller because it’s used by most professional web builders but it’s definitely not your only choice.

Also, look into using simple drag and drop software packages as well. If you don’t need fancy, drag and drop web software can be the way to go.

My Top 5 web design software for beginners tips:

1. Assess if you are techie enough to learn software.
2. Assess if you are techie enough to build a website from scratch with HTML.
3. Download trial software before making a purchase.
4. Get a feel for how websites are set up using Word Press.
5. Try less expensive drag and drop software.

Take your time when buying web software whether you’re a beginner or not and remember trial versions of software can help you discover which package to buy.

Beginners’ Internet Marketing Tips – 3 Secrets Of Taking Control Of An Internet Marketing Business

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Beginners’ Internet Marketing Tips – 3 Secrets Of Taking Control Of An Internet Marketing Business

Most beginners in internet marketing start learning about their business from a starting point of zero knowledge. Working on the internet is nothing like anything else you have ever experienced. It is a big understatement to say that there is a lot to learn; the learning curve is huge. Everything is new and confusing; a lot of things are quite frightening.

The sheer volume of advice and information aimed at internet marketing beginners can cause confusion. This confusion contributes to the reason so many newbies give up before they get started on the real work of internet marketing. Panic can easily build up when you need to make decisions about things you never knew existed before today.

Panic = lack of control.

How can you take control of your internet marketing business?

Learn the 3 secrets to taking control of an internet marketing business.

Secret number 1: Many of the promotions you receive will do the same thing. They might even do the same thing in exactly the same way. If you don’t have any prior experience of working online, you won’t be able to see this.

Take choosing an autoresponder as an example. You get to know the basics of what an autoresponder is for, and you understand that you need one for your business. Until you start marketing, you will only have a vague idea of how you will want to make use of it. For instance, will you want to build one subscriber list or several?

You might be tempted to choose a system offering multiple options. This is not necessarily a wise move and it can incur unnecessary expense that will injure your cash flow. I’ll explain why this is so.

If you are a beginner at internet marketing, you might spend your first year concentrating on building one list in one particular niche. If you are paying a fee to have multiple lists, this is a waste of money. It is better to choose the most basic item that will do the job. Later, when your business expands, and outgrows this system, you can move your contact list to a different autoresponder company if necessary. You will, however, find that most companies have different scales of membership and all you will need to do is upgrade to the next level.

Secret number 2: Price does not always reflect true value. You will be invited to join any number of programs that promise to help you make money. Membership fees vary enormously. Some of the least expensive programs offer great value for money. Some of the high price ones deliver a good service, but are not actually giving good value for the price they charge.

You won’t be guaranteed to get the best by paying the highest price. Two of the best beginners’ internet marketing training courses I have tested are two of the cheapest ones I have seen online. Then again I have tried another one that is equally as good, but which comes with a jaw-dropping price ticket. When you are starting out think basic and buy basic. The option to upgrade is one of the marvels of internet life.

Secret number 3: The most important aspect of making money online is not who teaches you, it is how you apply what you learn. There are many people offering online training courses for internet marketing beginners. Pick one mentor, and stick with that mentor until you fully understand how internet marketing works.

The key to making money online is to be consistent. You might not pick the greatest internet marketing coach in the world, but you won’t be able to judge until you get some experience. Don’t get sidetracked by a new flashy program (shiny new things are an everyday distraction when you work online). You will not work consistently and effectively if you constantly bounce around trying out a bit of one program and part of another. You will do better working systematically through the teachings of a mediocre coach that you would by chopping and changing between various systems.

Online coaches and gurus are individuals and their style of teaching varies a great deal. When choosing a mentor or internet marketing coach pick one who makes you feel comfortable. Don’t enrol with a coach or marketing guru who promises easy results for beginners. Internet marketing requires some hard work if you are going to become successful working online. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Get ready to put on those beginners’ internet marketing overalls and get down to work.

Looking for Website Design Tips For Beginners?

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Looking for Website Design Tips For Beginners?

Whether you’re about to start a business online or simply wants to conquer the worldwide web through your site, designing your website is surely exciting. Kudos for not hiring a professional web designer, but then again where’s the fun in that? If you create your own website, you have full access to its theme, design and insignia. Plus, you can make it as personal or as unique as you want it to be – your imagination is sky’s the limit.

Start by learning how to use and operate HTML. A lot of tutorials are now offered on the web so you can easily learn how it is done. Experiment and play with your options, you’ll be surprised with its many possibilities. Another option is to check out the availability of an FTP client. Afterwards, obtain your own hosting page, don’t fret though because some of it are free on the web.

After all the mentioned procedures, just put all the stuff together and see how every piece works out. Your home page has to be named default.html or index.html based on your host. After which, simply upload it through FTP using your free host and voila – congratulations on your first website. Keep in mind that this is just a test run, an exploratory period to more complex web design.

You should remember though that the internet is a volatile, unpredictable market so you better stay on top of your game. Designing your website is just the first step, you still have to maintain or spice it up every so often. The internet holds a lot of information and available resources to experiment on. Don’t forget to have fun and play with the process. Enjoy!

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Five Simple Steps for SEO and Social Media Beginners

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Five Simple Steps for SEO and Social Media Beginners

I’m frequently asked to look at a website and evaluate it for usability, SEO, and social media optimization (SMO). At times, I’m asked, “What should I fix first?” Below are the five most important things that can usually be done by novices to optimize a site for both the search engines and social media sites.

1) Write good page titles: These titles, which are shown at the top of your browser, are the most important thing you easily control when optimizing a site. Even if you’re using an online “fill in the blank” template program, you can usually control the names of the pages. Just putting the name of your business isn’t enough. You need to have targeted keywords in that title. For example, if you’re selling widgets with a company called “Widgettes”, and your customer base is mostly in the Albequerque, New Mexico area, don’t make the front page title “Widgettes, Inc.“. Instead, try “Albequerque, New Mexico Widgets, from Widgettes, Inc.” Also, make the title different for each page and make it reflect what’s on the page.

2) Maintain your website: You’d be surprised how many people overlook this one. Some search engines will lower your ranking for things like broken links or images. More importantly it looks bad for the people who do find your site. You should check your site every few days to make sure nothing is falling apart. You do that with your house or your office building (I hope). You should do it with your virtual storefront too!

3) Blog (the verb AND the noun): Blogs are painfully easy to build these days. If someone is building your site for you, ask him or her to set one up. If you’re doing your own site, check with your host. I use GoDaddy, which makes it extremely easy to install Wordpress. The most important things about blogging are to do it frequently, and give people quality content. Three posts a week should be your goal. If you’re selling widgets, why not talk about a novel use for a widget or even how to select the right one? If you do that, they may link to your blog, and links are the ultimate goal. Additionally, if you see an interesting article that someone else wrote about widgets, post it on your blog and give the author credit. One last point — if you’re creating a blog for link building, don’t use free services like Blogger. If someone links to your blog on Blogger, it only helps Blogger’s search engine ranking. If the blog is on YOUR site, the link helps you.

4) Build links: I mentioned this above, but I’ll say it again: Link building should be your top goal. Search engines look at links as recommendations. If your site has enough recommendations from other relevant sites, then you’ll be rewarded with higher search engine rankings. There are a lot of ways to build links. Not many of them are easy, but not many of them require you to be an expert in search engines. Building a blog and keeping it populated with quality content is one way to build links. You might also contact a complimentary business and suggest they use some of your blog content. Additionally, get involved in the blogging community for your business, if there is one. If people see your name on smart blog comments enough times, they may consider you an expert. Additionally, when you post on other blogs, use a signature that has your website address in it. In some cases, that will count as a link back to your site. At the very least it might get them to visit your site.

5) Submit articles and blog posts to social media sites: There are literally dozens of different social bookmarking sites. My favorites are Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Reddit, and Stumbleupon. You can find a great list and explanation of each in this article on the site SEOmoz. Sites like these were created so people could list interesting content and share it with others. So, obviously, it’s a great place to gather links and credibility if you have interesting content. Don’t spam these sites with every little announcement about a new employee or whatever. Use it to spread your good content.

General Web Design Information for Beginners

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General Web Design Information for Beginners

Internet websites are really a must nowadays as more and more companies from all over the world are realizing the true potential of the internet. Having the possibility to have websites created and ready to start operations in a very short time allows companies to potentially increase their business figures in as little as one week. Regardless of their size or type of services and products offered companies need to have professionally crafted websites in order to reach their full online potential. However, people that want to present their services online may not be able to afford the costs but this does not mean that they cannot benefit from the great potential of the internet. During these past few years the market for web design software applications has grown quite a lot and a number of tools are now available for very low costs or even for free to anyone wanting a small and basic website. You really don’t need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on professional software solutions until and unless you need a 100% customized web site design structure and design. Word press is now widely used to create blogs but it has a lot of other potential. Some websites are now using it as a CMS solution for their website. So to start with you can consider using Word press to get your basic website. However as for to save money, you may use and utilize default Word Press themes, but they should only be used for blogs. If you are planning to use Word press for your main page and whole website instead of a blog, then we strongly recommend you to get a customized theme designed for your website. There are several word press designers available in the market that can help you design a website which is actually based on Word press theme. Word press can be used if you have a low scale budget and want to get online immediately. There are other several things that should be taken into account. Other then word press, if your budget allows, you can hire a professional web design company to design your website. However before you contact any web design company you have to identify what are your requirements, your goals, targets and what is that you want to achieve through your website? So we recommend you to first of all collect information on what you want to appear on your website. First of all you should try to identify your competitors. Once you have found your competitors you should do a detailed research information have they put on the website, so that this will give you ideas on what information you want to be put on your website. But you have to also think out of the box to put something that has not been put by your competitors. So after doing the research, you should make a list of all the functionalities you require on your website along with the design factors which includes color and structure and many others. These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself in order to finalize the requirements of your website project and once you are done with this phase, you can then go ahead and start looking for a professional website design company.

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