London 020 Directory SEO Review

London 020 Search Engine Directory SEO Review

Unique contents and possibly unique website is the holy grail of online SEO success. Doing what many people are already doing online is not one of the best recipe for SEO success. This does not faze the creator of London 020 directory . Not only does a website with similar name already exists but there are dozens if not hundreds of website targeted at Londoners. The creator of London 020 argued that it is still alright to get into a saturated market, you just have to bring something completely new to the market to carve out your niche.

Some of the new things (which this author does not quite agree is so new) London 020 is bringing to the crowded London portal market is his own unique listing of small businesses in London in and easy to search and easy to browse format. Basic listing in London 020 directory will be free for all London businesses.

London 020 in addition to the directory also features blog, special features pages where spotlight is focused on a specific business or topic. The first topic to feature in the business spotlight section is Office Plants.

London 020 has some SEO feature that should help the site get indexed and rank well in leading search engines. All pages on the site are SEO friendly, a feat the webmaster said they achieved by using apache mod_rewrite.

If you are based in London, you may want to consider suggesting your site for listing in London 020 directory.

You can comment on this blogpost on this site or you can discuss it further at UK webmaster Forum.

Free SEO Tools Kit from Microsoft (useful only if you use IIS)

Free SEO Tools Kit from Microsoft

Microsoft released a tool kit to help you optimise your website for search engines in last month. Their way of helping webmasters make their website display better in organic search engine results. In a blog announcing the release of the free SEO tool kit, the blog announcing it list some of the following as part of what you can do with the SEO tool kit:

• Increase website traffic and revenue: analyse your website and find ways to boost your number of hits. Use SEO recommendations to improve traffic and increase your revenue stream.
• Influence and update search engines: control the access and display of your content in search results. Keep search engines current with the latest information from your website.
• Improve customer experience: discover and solve common problems in your website content and design to enhance your end user experience. Make it easy for your customers to find what they’re looking for.

You can download the SEO tool kit directory from Microsoft website by going to: http://www.microsoft.com/web/seo/

Like with most Microsoft products, things are never straigt forward. The SEO tool kit you are invited to download contains SEO tool kit and several dozens of other Microsoft tools, initially I actually though I downloaded the wrong product. After 5 minutes of so of messing about I eventually found where I can choose to install the SEO tool kit.

Haven install the SEO tool kit i found out that its a pointless exercises, the tool is for users of Microsoft platform with I am not so it was a complete waste of time for me and I suspect most webmasters as most people do not use Microsoft IIS to develop their website.

10 Quick SEO tips to help your site rank better

10 Quick SEO tips to help your site rank better

Getting your site to rank high on search engines using natural search result, ( also called organic search engine ranking) can be a moving target. You have a higher chances of hitting the target if you stay on top of the search engine ranking algo trends that if you use outdated ranking methods.
Search engines regularly update the algorithm they use to rank one site higher than the other for one keyword or the other so what help you achieve a higher ranking last year may not necessarily help you this year. To help your site rank well for your target keywords, a 10 point list of some of the factors that can help you is compiled and can be found below.

10 Quick SEO tips to help your site rank better

Getting your site to rank high on search engines using natural search result, ( also called organic search engine ranking) can be a moving target. You have a higher chances of hitting the target if you stay on top of the search engine ranking algo trends that if you use outdated ranking methods.
Search engines regularly update the algorithm they use to rank one site higher than the other for one keyword or the other so what help you achieve a higher ranking last year may not necessarily help you this year. To help your site rank well for your target keywords, a 10 point list of some of the factors that can help you is compiled and can be found below.

1. A domain name with the desired keywords in the domain name rank better than a domain name that has nothing to do with the target keywords. For example if you are targeting the keywords “yurts” a site called “Yurtsandtipis.co.uk will rank better than a domain name called “nothingToDoWithYurts.com”
2. When you buy or negotiate link exchange, the higher your link is placed on the page, the better SEO benefit the link passes on to your site. As a rule of thum, ensure link you buy or exchange are above the fold. Link on footer are not very valuable.
3. Get involved in social media site such as Twitter, setup a twitter page, customise it and link to your site from the twitter page, it is said to influence ranking on search engine result pages.
4. Create a Facebook page for your business or site using your desired keywords, this does not directly affect you site ranking but they keywords rich page you create on Facebook will get you more traffic and you are well placed should Facebook link start influencing SERPS.
5. When creating title tag, the keywords that are most valuable to you should lead for example if you are targeting the keyword “Press Release Distribution” and your site is called Newsmakers.co.uk . Your title tag should be something like this: Press Release Distribution – Newsmakers and NOT Newsmakers – Press Release Distribution.
6. You should add images to your text and and keyword rich Alt tag to your images.
7. Ensure you use the keywords you are targeting in your title tag, body and if possible footer of your page.
8. Ensure you page does not contain unnecessary text and images, the faster your page load the better for your ranking.
9. Ensure your site is hosted on a fast serve. Sites hosted on slow servers are penalised by search engines.
10. Ensure your copy is written in quality English with no spelling mistakes and avoid copying and pasting text that has already been used once before on any site on the Internet.

Countryside Dating

Countryside Dating

Countryside Dating is one of the few niches of online dating services that seem to have slipped the attention of multinational dating agencies and conglomerates. This niche of online dating focuses on the needs of a distinctive groups of singles; those that live in rural area or love to live in the countryside such as farmers, forestry workers and single men and women who love the countryside.

The founder of Horse Lovers Dating, who himself lives in the countryside spotted the need for a countryside dating agency what could meet the needs of rural singles much better than large dating sites which tends to be targeted at City dwellers. He calls his countryside dating website Horse Lovers Dating for various reasons including the fact that you never see any horses in the city apart from the occasional Police horses that tends to be brought out in the city on special occasions.

Countryside dating services is aimed at people who live in the countryside, however, it is not exclusively for country dwellers, it welcomed people who live in the cities but like country pursuits and love to work in the city Monday to Friday and heads for the loved one in the countryside at weekends. The type of singles attracted by country dating also includes singles who loves the outdoor and outdoor activities such as camping, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, sailing adventure travelling and rambling.

Meeting other singles who share your passion for the countryside or active lifestyle cannot be simpler, all you need to do is sign up free of charge to join countryside dating . One you join and complete your profile including a picture upload, very shortly you can start interacting with countryside singles from all over the UK and from your locality. You do not have to pay to join straightaway, registration and uploading your profile is free, you can even send up to 400 messages to other singles to find out if they are you kind of singles before you upgrade you account to a premium online country singles dating account.

For single men and women who are feed up with online dating sites that contain profiles of men and women whose primary interest are city type activities such as going to the cinema and watching soap operas, its time you join a dating site that is dedicated to outdoor active people like you who loves nothing more than exploring the countryside.

New County by County Dating Filter

Countryside love finder experts Horse Lovers Dating has just added a section that helps its users fine their countryside love more quickly. Apart from the usual dating search filters that help user drill down the likes and dislike they are looking for in a partner, the date by county helps users find compatible singles in a particular county for example if you dram of having an online date from Herefordshire, the most rural county in England, you can just go directly to Herefordshire section of the countryside dating and select the area of Herefordshire you want.
If on the other hand you live in London but would like a partner that does not live too far away from you but lives in a rural setting, you can go directly to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire or any of the shires that are not far from London and you can get the best of both world from countryside dating.

Link Wheel – SEO friendly way to build quality backlinks?

Build Quality SEO Friendly Backlinks with Linkwheel

Now that Google and other search engine are placing a lot of emphasis on quality rather than quantity of link pointing to a website or web page for SEO ranking purposes, getting quality links to help your site rank better is more difficult than ever. You could just sit back and let other webmasters link to you naturally like most search engines suggested or you could be proactive, go out there and find way to generate quality links.

Webmasters and link builders use various creative ways to obtain SEO friendly links to their site, quite a lot of this way are sneaky which mean as soon as site owners discover that links are being obtained from them through the back door they close the loophole. Some of the popular ways of obtaining links sneakily includes forum signature and forum posting at dofollow forums, commenting on dofollow blogs and so on.

This article look into another link building technique called Link Wheel (also known as a Social Media Link Wheel when you use social media sites to develop the Link Wheel). Link Wheel is basically building several mini niche websites mostly using hosted blogs, linking the sites together and then harvesting links from the mini website to boost your principal site.

As the saying goes, pictures says a thousand words hence this article will not go into the complexity of how the link should be arrange but instead point you to the image on this article which shows how the sites should link to each other with the principal site you want to boost getting one way link from most sites.
The Link Wheel configuration in the attached diagram is not necessarily the best way, there are a number of other ways to set the link Wheel up, the most important thing is that you point links from the mini sites to the principal site and you link most of the mini sites to one another and get external links to point to the mini sites.

Free hosted blog website such as WordPress and other like is is recommended for the mini sites for two main reasons; to reduce the cost of creating your mini site and the fact that the principal domain is already trusted by search engines.

You should pay attention to the quality of the contents of the mini site, you should take the time to create and post quality article on the mini sites, if you do not do this, links harvested from the mini site will be useless.

Hosted blogs you can use for linkwheel hosting

Haabaa Free hosted blog
Livejournal
Gather.com
Rev.iew.me
Wikispaces
Wordpress
Blinkweb.com
Wetpaint
Wikidot
AboutUs
Weebly

You can discuss this link wheel article and other webmaster related issues at at UK webmaster Forum.

HaaBaa.net

Livejournal
Gather.com

Rev.iew.me

Wikispaces
Wordpress
Blinkweb.com

Wetpaint
Wikidot
AboutUs
Weebly

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