• The Importance of Correct HTML Syntax in Search Engine Positoning

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    There is a lot of competition to get good spots in the search engines. Proper html syntax and a clean code will help toward better positoning.With website design mostly done with wysiwig editors now, there seems to be a lot of reliance on these tools without realising that they are far less than perfect.Read more…
  • Beginners - Getting Listed In Search Engines

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    Once you have your web site complete and ready to be listed you need to take a slow step by step approach to get listed in the search engines. If you do it right the first time and then build on that formula, your profits and your site will benefit in the long run. Those willing to spend the time and put these techniques into practice are the ones that will benefit and are more likely to be successful.Read more…
  • The Write to Link Popularity

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    Incorporating writing as a means of boosting your link popularity can be a turnoff for many webmasters, when in fact it can lead to a wealth of links.I first learnt about link popularity while researching about many different methods that I could use to market a Geocities site I had. After emailing countless webmasters and receiving some dismal results, I realized that it was hopeless to get people to exchange links with my freebie website.Read more…
  • Copywriters: Make Friends with Search Engine Optimization

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    I don’t know about you, but I felt a lot of internal resistance when it was first suggested to me that I write ‘for’ the search engines. Years of training and habit, and a lot of pride, turned me against the idea of adjusting or changing my copy to suit ‘spiders’. It’s about the reader, not some computer.Read more…
  • The Search Doesn't End at Your Homepage

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    In a recent report for a new client, I wrote: "Remember, a visitor's search doesn't end when they leave Google. Their search and the phrases associated with it continue right through to the completion of the task they have in mind." Many of us pay attention to the keywords and phrases being used by our visitors when they arrive via a search engine.Read more…
  • Web Site Copy is about More Than Keywords

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    Let’s say you are writing a web site to sell beach homes on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.You look for some good keywords and come up with ‘Vancouver Island waterfront property’. So you use that term in your title, headline and here and there in the text.Read more…
  • Get More Cosmetic Surgery Patients From The Web

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    It’s no surprise that dominant cosmetic surgery practices also have a dominant web site and presence. More than ever, cosmetic surgery patients utilize the Internet to help select a credible surgeon. If you want more quality leads and patients, it’s time to upgrade your Read more…
  • New MSN Search Engine: How Good is it?

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    If you have an online business or you just use Internet as one of your marketing tools, you know that how important are the search engines in your quest to get more targeted visitors to your website. The changes in search engine field can have unexpected outcome for your online endeavors. That’s why it is important to be well-informed on impending progress in this sphere.Read more…
  • Using Google

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    Thanks to a unique algorithm that produces most relevant results to any given query, Google has become, indisputably, the best search engine on the Internet. On the last count, Google has indexed over 4 billion pages and tackles around 200 million searches a day! A cluster of 100 thousand servers are used to store, crunch and spew out the query results with lightning speed that you are so accustomed to see.Read more…
  • Optimizing Your Website

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    Search Engine Optimization, optimizing your website for it to be visible in the search results of a search engine’s query or in a search result of a directory.Basically, SEO is a marketing strategy for your site. To be included in the top ten search results of an impressive search engine/directory guarantees a return of investment.Read more…
  • Without Conversion Rates You Don’t Know If You’re Mickey Mouse Or Mickey Mantle

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    I couldn’t agree more with the headline of this article and it’s one I’m afraid I can’t take credit for. I found this line in Paco Underhill’s book, Why We Buy – The Science Of Shopping, and found myself comparing many of the things he has measured in the retail world to the tests I’ve done with online, visitor-based activity. The conversion rate on a website is easy to measure.Read more…
  • How Do I Improve My Web Site Conversion Rate? Part 3

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    Question 1How do keywords effect your conversion rate in terms of SEO/SEM (search engine optimization/marketing)?Keywords are important for two reasons.Firstly by using the keywords which relate to your reader you get listed by search engines accordingly meaning that people can find you.Read more…
  • How Do I Improve My Web Site Conversion Rate? Part 1

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    Question 1.What do you mean by conversion? Do you mean getting someone to answer the simplest call to action such as “read more here” or actually selling a product or service?What you’re talking about here are two different ways to measure your website.Read more…
  • How Do I Improve My Web Site Conversion Rate? Part 2

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    Question 1Does it help to track visitor behavior on websites through software?Yes is the simple answer. No debate is required but I’ll offer a simple explanation.Read more…
  • Five Short Quick Tips on Web Page Titles

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    By Catherine FranzSearch engine spiders read and record page titles first. Here are five tips on how you can get the search engine spiders to read your titles and use them in their optimization process:1. Character count is important: Google's maximum character count for page titles is 83. Yahoo's maximum character count is 111.2.Read more…
  • eMarketing Sabotage - Top 10 Steps To Kill Your Search Engine Marketing Practices

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    We at America Web Works find ourselves amazed at the amount of effort people spend trying to fool or manipulate their positioning in search engines. People seem to focus on the shortcuts to success and NOT on their Web site or the true value their content provides to their prospects.In the spirit of educating marketers about best practices, we present this list of ten things you can do to sabotage your search engine marketing project in a "New York" second.Read more…
  • 6 Ways To Attract Search Engines To Your Website More Often

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    Adding fresh, updated content to your website is the surest way to get search engines engines to spider your site more often. Search engines are known to index sites updated on a regular basis more frequently. Updating and adding to the content on your website frequently will give you an advantage in the search results and also help you expand the number of search terms or key phrases you can get found for.Read more…
  • Link Popularity Pitfalls

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    As we all know Google uses their PageRank technology to measure link popularity by counting the number of inbound links to your web pages, and it is one of the many factors influencing your ranking. Most website owners do not utilize properly what PageRank they already have. Their linking campaigns could be in vain if they let a large number of outbound links drain their existing PageRank.Read more…
  • Abandoned by Google! Googlebot, Wherefore Art Thou Googlebot?

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    As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to the site and see pages re-indexed by Google within a week. This only happens with existing business sites that have been online for a few years. Google seems to be updating their index as often as every other week at this point and older established sites that are already indexed seem to be re- crawled on that twice a month schedule on a fairly routine basis.Read more…
  • Creating Search Engine Friendly Web Sites

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    With tons of competition and copycats online, you need a trustworthy search engine expert to help you tackle the competition and outdo your competitors in internet sales. There are many ways to go about killing the competition online and as long as it is honest work by your search engine guy, your web site will reap profits from it.Millions of people use search engines to find products and services online and many global companies grew from merely having a web site and search engine expert.Read more…

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