Archive for November, 2007

How to Properly Utilize Headings in SEO

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

So we all know that the title is the most important single element to optimize on a page, but it’s all to easy to forget the power of headings. Headings are like little titles that can be worked into a site’s content, and while no one heading can affect rankings as much as your title, having several keyword rich headings on your page can be an extremely powerful optimization strategy.

It is important to remember that there are actually six different kinds of headings ranging from H1 to H6. H1 tags have the most effect on your ranking followed by H2, and so on. To turn a piece of text into a heading you simply need to place it between <h*> and </h*> tags

A word of caution, however: it’s not a good idea to overuse headings on any one page as search engines might see this as spam. I n the vast majority of cases, you should be using only one H1 tag per page, and include at least two paragraphs of content for every H2 tag.

Overall, heading optimization is just a matter of common sense. Just write a good page of content, then spread a few relevant, keyword rich heading tags throughout your page, and your search engine ranking should be affected for the better.

 

 

writing good seo content???

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

‘How do i write content for SEO?’ or ‘How do i optimise my content for the search engines?’

Its not something, i’d really spend too much time thinking about, a naturally written article, with a few or no SEO considerations is likely to actually be the most optimised article, not least because its likely to flow and read much better for your visitors.

Some people worry about targetting an article to a specifically targetted phrase, spending time worrying about having a certain keyword percentage, worrying if they’ll be penalised for this or that, do they have too high a keyword percentage or worried that they won’t rank well if they only mention their keyword once or twice in an article, its just counter productive.

I’d love to be proved wrong, but try it for yourself, trying firing off an article about a subject you have a knowledge about, now trying writing another article but ‘deliberately’ optimise it, sticking to a certain keyword percentage, studying possible long-tail search phrases to include within the article, how long does the second article take to write compared to the first?

Which performs better in the search engines? Which is more optimised? and which is more SEO friendly?

Google PR and Backlink Updated - Have You Been Affected?

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

After an unusually long time, it appears Google is updating its PageRank and Backlink measures according to many website owners.
Google’s PageRank and Backlink count are are key measures Google uses to determine its search engine rankings. While many skeptics believe PageRank is an irrelevant indicator, its hard to dismiss it when Google continues to promote as a pivotal measure of a site’s ranking potential - and Top Google rankings = Better website traffic.
Did you notice something different on my this domain? I mean the PageRank icon at Google toolbar above!

It is showing a PageRank of 3 out of 10. I know, I know there is nothing to boast around with just a PR 3 but I am really happy about it. I was like waiting for so so long, finally I got ranked by Google within 3-4 months. I still remember a few weeks back, how I’d always check my Pagerank and worried why I am still not ranked (N/A) by Google. But now, I am relieved but I will keep on working on this blog and target a higher PageRank on the next update.

And most importantly,

Thanks to my readers, visitors and drop-byers. It is you that keep this blog growing !!

Google will update the PageRank once in a while hence we would have no idea when it is going to update again.