SEO Tactics to Avoid

In this post i am just explaining the points you should avoid to do in SEO. If any of these are in your task list then go ahead and cross them off. They will not help you to reach high in search engine but some of them can hamper your progress.

Hidden Stuff

The days of filling a page with hidden text are long gone. Google, Bing, Yahoo and the other major search engines are sophisticated enough to catch you out at this. If you think that you can use different methods to hide content then you are just wasting your time and efforts because the collective mind of Google's web spam team is smarter than all of you.

Keyword Stuffing

Spamming a page with so many keywords does not help you at all. The content should be original and relevant to the website. Putting so many keywords in content, title or description do not help but just lower the quality of your content and lower your ranking.

Cloaking

Do not try to make two faces of website i.e. one for bots and other for human visitors. Many people do this to boost ranking it also works up to some extant but once you have been found out then you will be in trouble.

Link Competition  

If you see your competitor has so many link backs but you have very few as compare to him then don’t list your website on a host of spammy directories to bulk up the numbers. It is only the quality of the links that matters. Focus to get lower volume high quality links than high volume low quality links.

Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is also a big problem for websites. It affects website a lot. Google algorithm ranks any website according to which page it believes is original and authoritative. Google bots do not revisit website frequently if there is duplicate content, due to this website’s ranking goes lower in search engine. So always use fresh and unique content to overcome these problems.

SEO Hosting

SEO Hosting is all about providing different class C IP address and enables webmasters to host their websites and blogs from separate name server on separate class C IP addresses. Multiple class C IP scan really push SEO score of a website to a large extent. Class C IP technique works great enough that there is no scope of its failure. Earlier Black hat SEO used to create blogs, websites and insert their target keywords as anchor text linking to their original websites. These dummy blogs and websites got mushroomed in such a spammed way that Google Spam Filters started to not to value links from these webpages that were hosted on the same class C IP as the main website.

What is Class C IP anyway, as all of us know that each IP is divided into 4 parts like AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD. For example, if the IP address is 69.65.140.134 then 140 would be the C Class. Backlinks i.e. links from webpages hosted on different Class C IP’s will score more over backlinks coming from webpages having same Class C IP.

Many web hosting companies have now come up with the concept of SEO Hosting Plans which do offer a set of Class C IP’s to host your websites and blogs. If your website is hosted on such a SEO Plan then what you need to do is just host a website or a blog like wordpress on each of unique Class C IP and post article on regular basis in these blogs with links linking to your target site but all this should not look like spam, articles must be unique with keyword density of up to 8 percent and not more than two links in a post of 400 words.

These techniques are not recommended for a newbie webmaster as it takes a lot of time in writing and posting these things. There is nothing as good as there is fresh and new content with backlinks in the field of SEO , Search Engines like Google actually do love articles but do mind to take Class C IP into consideration for link valuation.

The New Mobile SEO

The usage of smart phones is increasing day by day. If the usage is getting increased so it is oblivious usage of mobile optimized websites too. So when we talk about websites then we can not forget about search results. So we need SEO. But here we will use Mobile SEO. 

Mobile search engines use different bots and algorithms as compare to normal search engines. Most important thing for search results on mobile depends upon the type of phone e.g its iPhone, Nokia, Blackberry etc. Sometimes Google shows different results on different phones, because mobile search results depend upon user agents and for different mobile phones user agents are also different. The best thing you can do to improve your mobile SEO is to ensure that the mobile crawlers and user agents determine that your content will render well and load quickly on any mobile phone. But the search on mobile is not so popular, because it is facing heavy weight on website’s mobile bounce rate, using the mobile visitors as barometers for how the website renders on their phone. Here you can improve mobile ranking of your website.

Things to know about Mobile SEO

• One of the best things you can do to improve your mobile search results is follow traditional SEO best practices as closely as possible. While mobile bots and indexes are different from web search, things like title tags, heading tags and alt tags are still very important. 
• Create a secondary mobile style sheet for your traditional site, and call it “handheld.css.” This will allow you to format your existing pages for viewing on a  mobile phone without having to create separate mobile content. 
•  iPhones are bit different, and do not look for mobile “handheld” style sheets. To address this problem, you should duplicate your handheld sheet to create one that is specifically for the iPhone, and call it “iPhone.css".
•  In some cases, mobile search engines will want to rank a traditional page, but deem it ill-suited for rendering on a mobile phone—sometimes even if it has a mobile-specific style sheet. In these cases, the mobile search engines will rank your traditional content, but “transcode” it for viewing on a mobile phone. 
• The next step is to include a mobile site map. Google has a tool that can help you build a mobile sitemap. If you are using multiple markup languages, for instance XHTML and WML you should submit a separate mobile sitemap for each language that exists on the site, and include only the pages that will render in browsers that can read that type of code. Be sure to link to the mobile site map in your robots.txt file, just like you would for a traditional site map. 
•  Sloppy HTML, or bad JavaScript can really cause problems on some mobile browsers and can also impact download and rendering time of pages. Making sure you have pristine code will create an efficient crawl for the mobile bots, ensuring that they index as much as possible with each visit. If the content on your traditional website is very streamlined, with small file sizes and minimal complex code like JavaScript, AJAX and Flash, this could be enough.

What do you think about the future of Mobile SEO…?

Social Media Optimization (SMO) - A latest technique to optimize any website

Social Media Optimization is very successful for internet marketing business in these days or we can say Social media optimization is improved and fast growing version of SEO. But it does not take position of SEO because it is just a part of Search Engine Optimization.

What is SMO?

Social media optimization is very helpful in website traffic exposure. In SMO, social profile is used on Social networking sites which gather a huge traffic for website. I am defining here some social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Myspace, You tube which are used for social media optimization. Forums, blogs, Images, Videos, Podcasts are also part of social media optimization. In other words, we can say that viral networking is closely related to Social Media Networking.

Social Media Optimization is smart way to optimize any website. SMO not only generates traffic for website but also increases ranking of the website on Google and your business reputation too. There are some rules of SMO are given below.

• Increase Content's linkability: Linkability is most essential precedence for all websites, because most of the sites are static. To optimize a site for social media, First and most important step is to increase linkability of content and blog hosting is very helpful to improve linkability of content.
• Build tagging and bookmarking: Adding content features like quick buttons “bookmark to delicious” “share on facebook” “Share on twitter” etc. is simple and easy way to make the process of tagging pages easier. 
• Reward inbound links: Return or reward inbound links are used as a gauge for success of a website or blog; inbound links are dominant to rising in search results and overall rankings. From using Permalinks to recreating similarly, listing recent linking blogs on your site provides the reward of visibility for those who link to you. 
•  Help your content movement: For SMO only changes in existing website is not sufficient. When you have a content that is portable like audio files, video files, PDF etc then submit these files to relevant sites only that will help your content travel and will increase a back links for your website. 
• Promote your mashup: For this technique, follow the idea of YouTube which provides a code for videos on YouTube to cut and paste, so you can imbed videos from their site, due to this the rate of popularity of videos and YouTube increases. With the help of RSS feeds you can also create mashup which helps to increase popularity of your website. 
• Develop your SMO strategy: Define your objectives and set your goals and always aware that what you are doing in SMO and what will be the actual results for website with the help of Social Media Optimization.

Internet Marketing- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Now these days everybody wants his website on top position on major search engines like Google, Yahoo and (Bing) MSN. To fulfill these requirements Search Engine optimization plays a pivotal role and this blog describes whole internet marketing strategies which are necessary for any type of web promotion. Search Engine optimization process increases the number of visitors for your website and improves website ranking. Compete and triumphant Search Engine Optimization includes following effect

• Review of your site content or structure
• Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
• Content development
• Management of online business development campaigns
• Keyword research
• Expertise in specific markets and geographies.

Choose the right keywords for maximum Traffic and ROI

Today for every company and ad agency to successful in search engine marketing is choosing the right keywords or those keywords which use in daily search on each engine. Or we can say the whole online strategies depend upon keywords so the selection of right keywords for every online business is very important.

Selecting the right keywords which drives a huge traffic and improve sales for your website is quite simple and easy operation. Using the different suggestions like Google adwords marketers can delete those keywords which do not produce much traffic for your website.

Keywords should be accurate and to the point for attain maximum traffic and ROI. Starting phases of the keywords will need more care and observations for the accurate results. Wrong keywords can obstruct the success of nay online ad campaign.

If any website launches an ad campaign with wrong keywords, then PPC costs drive up a bill that you never thought. If initial keywords attract only few visitors, but not buyers then you should seriously observe your keywords.

Types of Search Engine Optimization

On Page Search Engine Optimization:

On Page Optimization is just a matter of making sure that your pages are in a format that Google likes to see & values highly and these are techniques and methods used on your web site that is hosted on a server. You have full control of how you make these changes and a lot of these can make difference in ranking for a specific keyword on page 500 or page 10 or maybe even higher on page Search Engine Optimization includes following Strategies.

• Page Title
• Meta Description
• Meta Tags
• lean Design
• Navigation
• Content – Keywords
• URLs
• Site map
• File size
• Site size
• Domain name
• Site age
• Images – ALT
• Outgoing links

Off Page Search Engine Optimization:

Because of the complete importance of search engines for the success of your website, search engine optimization techniques have grown in popularity in recent months. It is a well established fact that at least 80% of the traffic you will be able to generate for your website would come from the search engines and off page optimization is all about getting as many valuable links to your website as possible in the most natural way. Hence, search engine positioning can potentially spell the success or failure of your online venture. Off Page Optimization elements includes

• Page Rank
• Back links
• Link Exchange
• Anchor text
• Relevancy
• Directories
• Traffic
• Bookmark
• Directory Submission
• Article Submission
• Blog Submission
• Link Building
• Commenting
• Reviews
• Classifieds Ads
• Press Release