Archive for ‘SEO’
Directory Submitter
The main reason for submitting to directories is to obtain backlinks as well as improving on your placement in the search engines such as Google. SEO work is not just about link building or getting San Diego arbitration services, it is also about keywords, site-building and search engine submission. In short, webmasters would need a powerful tool to help them with the many activities they have to perform in their SEO work and submissions to web directories.
I found a great tool for that purpose. Called Directory Submitter, the free version allows you to submit to 360 free web directories and the paid version will allow you to submit to 1500 web directories. That is certainly a lot of backlinks! You can download the free version at the Directory Submitter website.
With or without www. in domain? It does not matter!
Actually we find the debate surrounding the issue of whether one should have www. or without www. in their domain to be extremely pointless. Search engines will still pick up your site regardless whether you choose to keep either one or otherwise. In my experience, I find that Google spiders my website URL with the www. far more quicker than the URL without the www.
Regardless, there is the danger of Google thinking that you have duplicate websites if both the www. and the non-www. of your URL are spidered and listed side by side in search engine rankings. To solve that issue, use a .htaccess redirect to forward either the non-www. URL to the www. one, or vice-versa. My personal recommendation is to go with the www. version.
Apples WordPress Theme (sponsored theme from Emporium Directory)
We are happy to announce that we are officially sponsoring a WordPress theme from Themey called the Apples WordPress Theme and are proud to be associated with it. We bidded for a link spot because we feel that this theme is befitting our Emporium Directory as a family-friendly, human-edited directory.
Here is the description of the theme by the developer:
Apples theme for Wordpress. Apples is a crisp, fresh theme for Wordpress with bright, light, green colors. This is the ideal theme for a diet or health blog, or change the main picture (easy) and use it for an environmental, gardening or outdoors blog maybe? Widget ready.
To download this theme, please go to this page for the files or you may see it at the WordPress ThemeViewer.
Online internet advertising
Internet advertising is a thriving business on the World Wide Web. Businesses are always looking for opportunities to direct traffic to their websites and increase their presence on the search engines and get themselves listed higher on page searches for specific keyword terms. In order to cater to these needs of businesses looking for search engine optimisation, advertisers will try to purchase ad space to inform visitors about their online products or services. This is usually done through banner ads or links purchase on high Google PR or high-traffic websites but there is no real mechanism in place for the advertisers and webmasters to negotiate with each other for these purchases.
How to get your blog noticed by Google
The secret of getting visitors to your blog is a good placing on the major search engines. So you have made your killer website or written an irresistible blog. One of the things you should do by default is to add the URLs to Google and Yahoo and they both have processes for doing this.
Maybe you have done that many times.
However, with billions of web pages worldwide to index, it could take up to six months to get noticed. Don’t get me wrong; it’s still worth doing, as patience plays a part in succeeding in online businesses. You will see plenty of ads from organizations pledging to get you a high placing on Google and Yahoo if you’re willing to part with hard-earned cash. I cannot comment on the success or otherwise as I have never been able to afford them.
There is one way to draw your site to the attention of the big boys.