Top 10 SEO Tips and Tricks for Beginners

Posted by emineer on 22 Feb 2012

It’s not easy to say what the top 10 best SEO tips really are, especially with all the so-called “experts” claiming to know the latest SEO tricks and “secrets Google doesn’t want you to know about.” It would take you days, even weeks to sort through this mess. So we thought we’d make it easy for beginners at SEO and condense all the clutter into what we call our Top 10 SEO tips and tricks.

Keep in mind, though, that we did not list these in any particular order. #1 will be just as important as #10 and so on. Our goal is not to say which tips are more or less valuable, but rather, to give beginners a starting point in their SEO efforts. These are all important and they apply to any industry or organization.

So without further ado…

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Getting backlinks SEO best practices

Posted by Toma Bonchiu on 21 Feb 2012

Backlinks are the most important aspect of SEO. It’s like in real life when other people speak good things about you. When a person recommends you to their friends then your trust level is higher than it would be if you would offer your services directly. That’s why marketing to friends is more effective than trying to convince a total stranger how good you are.

When it comes to SEO best practices about Backlinks it comes to four major things:

  1. Diversity: it’s better to have 100 links from 10 websites than 10000 links from one website
  2. Anchor text: the actual text of the links is also very important because it tells to search engines what your page/site is about. That is why, as a word of advice: don’t link externally with your keywords
  3. Link juice (PR): links coming from websites with higher… Continue reading

Metatags best practices

Posted by Toma Bonchiu on 20 Feb 2012

The most important thing you have to know about metatags is that it doesn’t help with your rankings. This is something you have to keep in mind all the time. The second most important thing to know about metatags is that the only metatag that is worth spending time on it is description metatags. That’s it!

Even though the description metatags will not improve your rankings it might increase the click rate. This piece of information is shown by search engines right under the title of the page: if the information presented in the description metatag is interesting enough it might increase the click rate.

Also, consider using your keywords in the description metatag. The reason is because if a search engine finds it in there it will highlight it in bold: a reader might react to it. Google said that if… Continue reading

What is DoFollow?

Posted by  Pixelrage,  17 Feb 2012

Understanding DoFollow
“DoFollow” is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing “NoFollow.” NoFollow is a hyperlink value that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a “comment” area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page, and has become an integral part of Google-specific SEO.

How DoFollow & NoFollow Have Affected Link Building
As a result of the implementation of NoFollow, the process of building links has taken a steep turn. Many sites, including wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plug-ins and many other… Continue reading

What You MUST Avoid Before Submitting To Article Directories

Posted by Tran Tinh on 16 Feb 2012

Article Directories are great sources for link building and traffic that can support your SEO work for FREE. Many of the big article directories, such as Hubpages, are now using sharing revenue models for their publishers. You will loose nothing by submitting your articles to these directories, but in return, you will benefit a lot.

Is it that easy to submit your articles to these directories? Yes, if you know what you must do in order to maximize your benefits from this work. It will also protect your articles from being rejected by editorial staff of these directories. The editorial team of these directories are working very well in order to ensure the quality of every submission.

Article Marketing is very important in terms of link building and traffic generation without cost and it seems very… Continue reading