SEO Help – Easy to follow guide to Search Engine Optimisation

SEO Help – Easy to follow guide to Search Engine Optimisation
Small businesses and individual website owners can go head-to-head with with huge corporation and win, when it come to getting website and keywords ranked very highly in search engines. The same feat cannot be achieved in the brick-and-mortar world where huge companies buy the most prominent advert spots in newspapers and magazines, not forgetting TV airtime while small businesses are relegated to obscure classified section.

Ability to compete with bigger businesses on the Internet can only work for the smart web savvy website owner who know how to optimise his or her website and build the relevant backlinks required to get rank well.

Big companies can buy the best SEO services online and get their website ranked pretty well in all major search engines, though a small business may not have the same huge budget but for web-savvy small business owner with a some time and a little bit of cash to invest in SEO, you can well achieve better ranking that larger company. The biggest barrier to doing SEO yourself is always getting the right information and knowing how to go about it.

A new search engine optimisation book by David Amerland called SEO Help has the answer for all the question a small business or any webmaster who want to optimise his or her website could possibly have about SEO.

The book is written clear concise language and arrange in a step-by-step guide so that you know the correct sequence to follow when optimising your website. You can buy David Amerland’s book at Amazon, just visit Amazon and search for “SEO Help”. For a limited time the books is also available at UK Webmaster Forum free free charge. Webmaster Serve is making the book available to their established members and new but very active members. Visit the SEO forum section of Webmaster Serve to find out how to get your copy of SEO Help free of charge.

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.

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