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SEO: The first step to Internet Marketing – Knowing SEO |
SEOThe first step to Internet Marketing – Knowing SEO SEO is “Search Engine Optimization”. A website, after SEO manipulation, is spontaneously pushed closer toward the top of a particular search result. Consequently, the percentage that your website being clicked or viewed is more probable than as if you got your website being placed at the bottom or the end of a search result. As the number of visitors to your website increases, so is your sales growth. When you are trying to find something on the Internet, your instinct tells you to dig up something from Yahoo or Google search engine no matter what. Once your hit the enter button, what you will see is the ten best search result along with some other banner advertisements on the side. Almost all the web hosting sales will ask you if you would like to subscribe the Yahoo’s Publisher Network or Google’s Adsense service. They will somehow persuade you that the Publisher Network or Adsense service is the best route for your merchandise to reach your potential Internet customers. However, while they push you into such services, they never mention about “SEO”. Why? The main reason is: Once you succeed SEO implementation and end up of being number one in search engine placement, you will NEVER pay THEM a penny for the Internet advertising fee and at the same time you are ready to start harvesting the benefits that come along. Just within the last decade or so, doing business over the Internet is getting more popular. Perhaps you consider putting your business on the net as well. However, when you consult a web designing company, the sales representatives will try to talk you into the advertising service they offer and the its cost is surprisingly expensive. Through hours of sales talk, all they will tell you is that such ads placement is a very good business strategy but they won’t tell you the insight story of it. Why? The main reason is: They fully understand that SEO is a secret that shall never be told for it is a lethal weapon to the success in doing business on the Internet. Once you manage to master SEO for your business advertising, money is all yours to take. The most profound and secretive place about SEO is that everyone has his or her own version of perception or explanation addressing how SEO works but no one can ever prove his or her own theory is correct. Why? The reason is that you are not Google’s or Yahoo’s search engine software engineer who can utilize all the resources for such experiment on your theory. Since it seemingly comes to a dead end, is it worth our time to continue this discussion? The answer is: Yes! After today’s discussion, you will fully understand how SEO works and become a SEO Master. And yet, the web designing sales representatives shall no longer play any mysterious tricks, dazzle your eyes with all the benefits from ads service and finally squeeze money off your pocket. SEO – Starting from ZERO! Now, imagine you are a Google engineer! The Origin of SEO – The better you know your enemy and yourself, the better you stand the chance to win the battle Here is a question: Where would you go when you would like to make a search query? Yahoo or Google? Ask yourself again: How do Yahoo and Google place the order of the search results? You may say: How would I know since I don’t work there?! Good answer! Ok, let’s assume that you really work at Google! Then, you might know the answer? You may say: There should be all sorts of factors and how would I know all of them? Regardless to the above Q&A, all of you should probably know the answer that we have actually been talking about along the way. Let me hold on to the answer first and elaborate our discussion a little bit more. Let’s make an analogy here. The websites are like pageants competing in the Miss Universe beauty contest and the search engine schemes are the judges. The judges weigh all the required elements these pageants possess such as beauty, knowledge, and witness with respective percentages. Toward the end of the competition, every pageant has a total score derived from performance of all the elements. As a result, all the pageants are placed in the order according to their final scores. Now, what if we replace the scenario of the pageant contest with our website ranking? Exactly! The websites and their contents are what the searching engine is judging upon. What SEO does is nothing but fully optimizing all the essential elements of websites that the searching engine is weighing upon along the order placement process. As long as we hold on to all the major factors and optimize them, it no long makes difference how each search engine varies its weighing scheme. Our website still hangs around the top of the first page no matter what! List all your website’s variables and optimize each of them to achieve SEO.
The above two simple rules explain why SEO is not that mysterious and scarce. However, it is your call whether or not implementing SEO on your website. Since it is easy to understand the logic behind the scene, lots of so-claimed SEO Masters don’t ever want to share a word on these two basic rules for they are too simple and intuitive. Only the ones who really spend time on aggressive and thorough brainstorming deserve the final harvest. SEO – All variable discussion-in-depth SEO Variable 1/13 – Keywords shown on your web content
Upon optimization execution, we need to be aware of that the number of appearances of certain keyword DOES affect the search engine listing priority. Apparently and evidently, the webpages with certain more frequently-appearing keyword has a higher ranking over the ones with the same certain less frequently-appearing keyword. However, there is one reminder that keywords WOULD BETTER BE shown as it normally and grammatically would. Unnaturally over-populating keywords may be caught by the search engine and may be considered cheating.
SEO Variable 2/13 – Keyword appearance on webpage’s header <html> Explanation: The <title> tag is the title of the webpage and keywords must be shown here. The <meta name=”description” .. is the depiction of the webpage and keywords must be shown here. The <meta name=”keywords”.. is the keyword declaration for the webpage and keywords must be shown here (Use “,” as separator for multiple keywords). One reminder: A lot of us often ignore the essence of comparison result between 100% match and partial match. For example: What difference does it make for a user’s search request of “SEO” if we were to put “SEO” or “SEO Optimization” after the “description” content= ? The answer is simple that “SEO” gives 100% match while “SEO Optimization” gives only 30% match. Which comparison result do you think would be placed ahead? The priority obviously goes to “SEO”. Another reminder: During search engine’s searching process, the description metadata of your webpage with proper length of character string may be recruited by Yahoo or Google as the searching string for the website search result. Therefore, you ought to decorate this string with MEANINGFUL phrases that are attractive enough for users to click in your webpage. On the other hand, if you merely use a few words for the description, then it will normally be ruled out by Yahoo’s or Google’s searching engine scheme. Instead, they will quote the web content to generate their own version of description, which may turn out to be meaningless or less attractive. As a result, users may be unlikely to click in your website. So, you need be aware of this! Difficulty: Extremely Low / Perceivable Level: Medium
SEO Variable 3/13 – Internet Marketing: Content Language Declaration <html> The red-colored “big5” declares the website’s language as Tradition Chinese. Other commonly used declaration codes are gb2312 for Simplified Chinese and utf8 for Unicode. Here comes an important point that some people regard “big5” as an inappropriate code so that they prefer using “utf8” for web designing. This assumption results actually goes against SEO. Why? For example, if your website is targeting at Traditional Chinese market and your website’s language is “utf8”, then the search engine is not able to recognize your targeted region and will not expose your website to search requests from people within Traditional Chinese region. Difficulty: Extremely Low / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 4/13 – HTML’s Tags Within Website’s Source Code: Inseparable Relationship With SEO Description: Question – Is anyone still learning website designing by writing source code line by line within notepad? I really doubt it! I suppose that everyone nowadays is using DreamWeaver or some other more convenient tools. However, HTML source code still has hidden some of SEO’s secrets. What are they? HTML codes have countless tags. Here, we cut off those irrelevant ones and pin out the related ones and analyze them. As those of you who have seen HTML codes all know, HTML codes contain nothing but strings of characters whether they mean something or not. Only a part of codes are really shown on your website. Here comes a good point: For search engine’s spider is a piece of human-written program, how would it know all these strings of characters are meant for something or not? The following tags are related to SEO:
<h1>SEO</h1>
<p>SEO is good</p>
SEO Variable 5/13 – Domain Name: A Shortcut to SEO Nevertheless, what if the keyword being searched is not a trademark? What if it is a type or category of product? Then, whoever that owns the domain name with such keyword would have the absolute advantage over SEO ranking? For example, whoever owns “books.com.tw” shall reign over the keyword of “book” upon keyword search. The whole situation seemingly is getting worse because all the top-ranking domain names have already been long gone and there leaves nothing for both you and me.
Here comes a reminder! If keyword for your website to be found is an English word, then I strongly suggest you a shortcut to SEO that you should register a domain name with your chosen keyword! Even if you cannot find an appropriate one, take out your keyword and add one letter to it and make the combination as the domain name for your website. For example: ibooks.com.tw. But, such domain name would not yield a 100% match to user’s keyword search. And yet, there is another variable that comes along with the domain name; even though it has not been proven of any important relationship to SEO. Just for your reference, the “whois” property of a domain name gives you an idea of where the website is located. This piece of information may help search engines to determine where a particular website is geologically located. There are instances that some website is physically located in Taiwan but registers its “whois” as the United States. Maybe this property of domain name will be included as a variable in search engine’s evaluation scheme and will somehow be affecting website’s ranking position over its designated geological zone. Please refer to “whois” website at: http://www.register.com/whois.rcmx Difficulty: High / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 6/13 – Folder Name And File Name for Web pages If your keyword is “SEO”, then it will be fairly easy for SEO. We just simply name the URL of the webpage file after it: So far, both Google and Yahoo only recognize English keywords. If you want a string of meaningful Chinese characters to be your keyword, then you may have to wait till the future possibility.
Difficulty: Low / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 7/13 – Web Server’s Geological Location: One Important SEO Factor That Has Nothing To Do With Your Webpage Content Description: If you take a closer look, you will find out that content of www.google.com and www.google.com.tw are different. The first one is a global site with its content majorly focusing on the US while the later one pays more attention on users in Taiwan region. This slight change then gives a totally different search result when you look for the same keyword here and there. Basically, the search result from Google’s global search engine in the US has the following characteristics:
On the other hand, the search result from Taiwan Google has the following characteristics:
Now, some people may wonder: How would Google know what region does your IP address belong to? In fact, it is fairly easy to accomplish for Google has already had such database through which Google knows where you are exactly from. In case you are curious about it, you can dig in the following website and find out about it: Difficulty: High / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 8/13 – Age Of Web pages – Younger? Older? The important point here is that the LAST MODIFIED DATE of your web page may turn out to be one of the key factors for search engine ranking. For all you webmasters, be sure to remember updating your web pages. Even if there is nothing to be updated, you at least have to refresh the file date or add a few words. Thus, a few changes at your fingertips rewards you in a way that search engine will think your web pages have been newly updated. One question: How would search engine know the date of your web page? The answer is simple! Search engine reads the HTTP Header including the last modified date from your web server upon accessing the requrested html file.
As we know, wine gets mellow as it ages. Woman goes the other way around that they are prettier while they are young. Let’s apply the analogies in term of domain name and web pages of a website. A long-lasting and well-kept domain name on the cyberspace reflects its importance to SEO. If a website does not run well, I suppose its owner wouldn’t pay for its annual fees for it to live on year after year. Also, the longer time a domain name lives the better creditability it has. Why? Let’s assume a web server with a good domain name is running on something illegal. It will perhaps be caught and shut down shortly. Once the registration bill for the following year arrives, no one is going to pay for it. Eventually, this domain name will no longer exist. Therefore, we come to a point that a long-lasting running website with a well-known domain name is strongly and positively suggested. One question: How would Yahoo’s search engine obtain the information of registration date for the domain name of a particular website? The answer is simple! The search engine queries from a global database of “whois”.
Difficulty: High / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 9/13 –Website’s PageRank (For Google only)
As we can see here, sites with high PR values do have the advantage in the search engine process. On the other hand, what about the rest of us who just barely get started with low PR value? Don’t you worry about it! This is exactly where the SEO comes in and shows its beauty! SEO ensures our low-PR-valued websites to be as competitive as the higher ones. How? The logic behind SEO lists all the possible variables and teaches us how to optimize these factors toward perfection. Finally, we shall succeed! Yahoo has no such tool as Google’s PR utility for website rating assessment. Difficulty: High / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 10/13 – Linking IN
LINKING IN is the pop-up text when you place mouse icon on the hyperlink to your website in other websites. The following is an example about what other websites address yours: <a href=http://www.xxx.com title=”Bad Website”>There is a Bad Website</a>
Within this hyperlink, both link itself and the title tag appear to be showing the keyword of “Bad Website”. Since your website has already been associated with “Bad Website”, you can do nothing to change this association to other keywords such as “Good Website” even by keeping on emphasizing “Good Website” on your website! Therefore, the correct and good way for how they code the link is: Besides, we see webmasters asking other websites to address the link to their websites as “Click Me”. This is totally meaningless and it is irrelevant to your product that you are selling. Thus, if our websites ever have a chance to be posted on other people’s websites, we ought to ask other websites’ webmasters to create a meaningful links which shall contain keywords about your products! For example, if your company is selling microwave oven, you shall ask the webmasters to write “microwave oven” in the link in order to achieve the best SEO effectiveness. Difficulty: High / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 11/13 – Linking OUT You then may think: It is easy to cheat if you do have a good connection with Tom’s Hardware, isn’t it? Don’t you worry about this! These search engines have their own logic on judging whether this particular consumer’s-guide type of website is really just making a comparison among all sorts of products or not. For example, based on common sense, if such website is doing business for its own good, how would it make any linking outs to its competitors’ websites? Therefore, under search engine’s logical control, we
SEO Variable 12/13 – Shorthand for Keywords Do you see the importance behind the scene? Google’s built-in dictionary reminds us to not only solely emphasize on the keyword but also the extracted version of the keyword if the keyword has been abbreviated.
Difficulty: Low / Perceivable Level: Low
SEO Variable 13/13 – Secrets Behind Media Files Method 1: Method 2: Example: <IMG SRC=”seo.jpg” ALT=”SEO” Difficulty: Low / Perceivable Level: Low SEO Analysis: Has your website been SEO’ed yet? You then may ask: What numbers do we use for making comparison? Ok, here is the tip. Our website’s visitors can be classified into three categories:
A well-developed website is surely well-known, significant and SEO’ed. You may use a variety of website status logging software to calculate the percentages and ratios of different kinds of visitors. The following diagram is a current visitor source pie chart of a website under our webmaster management. (Evaluated by Google Analytics)
So far, I believe you have learned how to analyze and determine whether your website has been SEO’ed. SEO – Search Engine Optimization – A sure ride to success! Since you have read so far down here, we believe that you are one of the website type of persons who manage to run sites or servers of any sort. If you have been running into all sorts of problems while setting your servers and still can’t get everything smooth, you may want to try our complete product lines for server software. We believe that our server products will surely offer you a nice, easy and cost-effective experience of server installation and management as you never have before! WWW server: Raiden HTTPD web server Finally, one last secret to share with readers who really crawl down here! From time to time, users always told me that their new companies have been ranked number one on search result while keying in their own companies’ names. After I heard this, I felt it was very funny and stupid! Why? No typical and non-related Internet users would actually know the new companies’ name of theirs and no one would ever type in an “unknown company name” for searching an anticipated product. If they tell me their websites reach the top ranking when type in the name of product they are selling, then I will congratulate for them because they made it! Ok, let’s turn to the key point here! Which word is the popular one that users would enter in search engine when they are trying to look for the product of your specialty? This is a very serious matter that turns you into a hero or into a loser! If you use the wrong keyword, all the effort that you put into for SEO would turn out pointless! If you chose the right one, then you may receive countless on-line orderings when you wake up next morning! Let me introduce you the “keyword selector tool”! Through this tool, you can find your ultimate keyword that you really want for optimization. Google keyword selector tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Do you have any questions? Any comments from your SEO experience are also welcome! Please contact us! Team Johnlong Other SEO relared resources: SEO - ultimate guide (chinese) Other userful websites PDF Programas PDF gratis que puedes descargarte a tu ordenador |
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