If you’re in a competitive niche or a large market, you’re likely going to need to sign up for an SEO package to get your website on top, but if you’re in a small niche or small local market then there are a few things you can do yourself to try and get your website on page one of search results:

(1) Do some Spring Cleaning on your Website

If you’re slightly technically inclined, you can go into your website and make some small changes to the coding and content. When it comes to coding, you want to make sure you have optimized title tags, meta information, and anchor text. That means using your keywords that you want to rank for strategically in these locations to tell search engines what your website is all about.

On top of this, you also want to have quality, original content on your website. That means adding content when needed and making sure that you update this content regularly. The best way to add content is through regular blog posts on your website. This will help keep your site fresh, which search engines love, and it will help generate natural links to your website from 3rd party sites.

(2) Have a Properly Coded and Structured Website

So many small businesses hire a friend, neighbor, or kid down the block to build their website, and they end up with low quality websites that aren’t properly coded. This means websites that are made in flash, websites that are missing title tags, and websites that don’t convert well. Before you can market your website, make sure it is worth marketing and represents your business well. Your website is the first impression people will have, so make sure it’s a good one.

(3) Build some Inbound Links to your Website

Link building is a critical part of search engine optimization, so don’t be afraid to build some links on your own. You can do guest blog posts, submit articles, or try to get mentioned on a local news website. All these links will count as a vote for your website and tell search engines that your site is important and deserves to rank higher.

Again these three steps won’t rank a site in a highly competitive niche, but they certainly can rank a site in a small local market or less competitive niche. It’s a great place to start and if you find that you don’t have the time or expertise to rank your site on your own, there’s always companies out there who will take the online marketing burden off your shoulders.

This is a guest post by Brendan Egan, who is the owner of Simple SEO Group, an online marketing, web design, and SEO firm that helps small businesses improve their web presence. Brendan can be reached by visiting SimpleSEOGroup.com

Use Google News – Google news (http://news.google.com) is a great way to stay updated with industry related news. Use your keywords to find latest news and updates to find a story which interests you. You might find an interesting news story, or you can write about something you agree or disagree with. Be sure to search around for related stories to get ideas and use your thoughts while writing content. Remember, do not simply repost summaries of the news you read on Google because that will only lead to duplicate content being added to your site. If you add your opinion or view point in the article, it gives it genuine value and makes it more interesting for the readers.

Leading Industry Blogs – Find out what other leading industry bloggers are discussing and posting on their blogs. If something new is happening in your industry, you should discuss it on your blog too. Read through “expert” blogs of your specific industry and subscribe to their RSS feeds.

Website User Logs – Use your website analytics to look for “long tail” keywords or phrases which are relevant to your website. Find information about those subjects and write detailed articles about these areas. Since these keywords were used by users when they come to your site, they will be interested in reading more about them. Focusing on less popular or obscure phrases, keywords and search terms helps in bringing targeted customers and readers to your site. These keywords will also attract more traffic to your site or blog.

Search for specifics in your industry niche – You might think that there is a lot of information related to your industry published on the internet, but that is not always the case. If you start searching a particular topic, you will find areas which have minimal content published. If you are searching for it, there can be other users searching for it too. Use this opportunity to develop and write content. Do your research and write a blog post on that topic.

If you are good at tackling controversial topics, which most people find difficult to write about, you can consider writing challenging content as an opportunity. These kinds of topics are often overlooked, but can attract a lot of users to your blog, which will result in an increase in the number of comments people leave on your posts.

You might be wondering that the sources for new content mentioned above are all originating from content already present on the web, but you will be surprised to know that ideas for blog posts are mostly influenced by other web content. Use these tips to write unique, fresh and compelling content to add to your blog. You will not only find an increase in the website rankings and search engine traffic, but you will also experience an increase in your subscribers.

Firstly, one of the most trusted strategies for optimizing a multilingual website is through geo targeting. In layman’s language this involves creating micro sites that specifically target particular visitors from another country. To make your sites friendly for your users, the micro sites should offer the prices of the goods or services that you are offering in the currency of that particular region, along with the relevant language. Chances of your main website overshadowing the micro site will therefore be minimized. You would want to do this as the main site is usually the most optimized. However, achieving this is not a mean feat and an experienced SEO services provider is required to make this strategy a success.

Mostly, website optimization, even for a multilingual one, cannot achieve its target if there is no appropriate and adequate use of the relevant keywords. For a multilingual website you need to select and use the keywords of the target language appropriately. Do not make a mistake of merely picking keywords from your main website and translating them in to other languages; this will not work. The meaning of words and phrases change depending on the context and this can mostly happen when translation is being done from one language to another. Context and language-specific use of keywords is very crucial for a multilingual website.

Apart from making micro sites which use the target regions language and currency, along with the relevant keywords searched highly in the regional search engines for that region, you should ensure that your website has attracted inbound links that are local. Regional links are the ones that are usually behind SEO success. The main idea here is to create content that is localized with an aim to attract traffic from your target country or region.

An SEO service provider should use the inbound links of their clients’ sites to create an advantage, even if they have no control over where these may be coming from. Sticking to the basics of inbound marketing can also be very crucial. However, you still need to stick to the rules of thumb in as far as optimizing a multilingual website is concerned.

RSS feed in Google Chrome:

This is because Google Chrome does not have a built in feature to display RSS feeds in the browser. However, the solution is quick and easy. Simply install the RSS Subscription Extension by Google in your browser which auto detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading. If the extension finds an RSS feed on the page you are reading, it will display an RSS icon in your address bar, or the Omnibox as shown in the picture below. Simply clicking on the icon will allow you to preview the feed and subscribe to it.

I ran into a similar problem recently when adding products to a small store for a client. The store had 6 products only, and each of them was manufactured by a different manufacturer. Since the products were related, I also did not add any categories or sub-categories to the web shop as I felt it was not needed. But this is where I went wrong.

Solution

If a product is not added to any category or sub-category, it will not show in the search results. So the solution to this problem is to simply make a dummy category, like “our products” and add all the products to that category.

This might sound like a really simple solution, but it works. You can simply hide the category box if you do not want to display it on the website.

If your products are not assigned to any category then they won’t come up in the search results, nor in the advanced search results.

Just like online marketing is a way to provide exposure to companies and businesses, mobile marketing has also gained a lot of popularity recently. According to Wikipedia, it is a relatively new method of marketing through a mobile device such as a mobile phone. SMS or Short Message Service is used to send messages to thousands of users every day by companies as a means to promote their products or services. Although SMS marketing has now become legal over the years, it can still cause a lot of unwanted trouble to mobile phone users, as they can be charged by the service provider for every text message they receive on their mobile phone. In such cases, cell phone users can install mobile phone utilities to help them block unwanted text messages and message spam on their cell phones.

TextGuard is a third party mobile phone utility which provides text archiving, SMS monitoring and SMS spam filtering services to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users. It allows users to filter certain SMS messages by a particular keyword or by blocking certain numbers from text messaging you. The utility not only allows you to block incoming text messages, but you can also block or stop messages from going to a particular number. The utility is extremely handy and can be used by parents to block and monitor the cell phone activities of their kids.

Template World offers all kinds of website templates from HTML sites, to full flash websites, Joomla templates, Simple CSS websites, osCommerce Templates as well as xHTML and CSS Templates. They also offer all kinds of Web 2.0 Templates, Logo Templates and WordPress Themes. Downloading templates from the website allows you to preview the website which you will be downloading before you pay for it. The templates are easy to download, use and customize according to your needs. They are also easy to setup and can save you hundreds of dollars without having to contact expensive web design companies.

The templates available at TemplateWorld.com are easy to upload and are made keeping in consideration the latest trends in website design and development. They are compatible with the latest web browsers and can be easily edited using any popular HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, GoLive, Homesite, 1st Page, etc. Their screen resolutions are also available for different screen resolutions as viewed by the users. All website templates are user friendly and use navigations to allow the website visitors to browse around the web pages easily. Even if you have to incorporate them with a custom CMS (Content Management System), you will have no problems in doing that.

The images and logo templates available at TemplateWorld can be easily edited using any image editor, just like the web templates can be edited in any HTML editor. All source files for images and web templates can also be downloaded from the website.

At TemplateWorld, you can browse through a wide range of categories for website templates, which include beauty & fashion, business, cars & vehicles, computers, entertainment, flowers & gifts, food & restaurants, games, health & fitness, hotels, jewellery, online stores, portals, real estate, sports, travel & vacation, web design and web hosting to name a few. They also offer custom web template designs services which you can hire to get a custom website design made for you website.

• What should my website look like?
• Whom should I contact to make a design for my website?
• Is there a quick way to grab some ready-to-use designs which I can use for my website?

The design, layout and look and feel of your new website are some of the most crucial parts of the whole process of getting a new website made. A poorly designed website may not captivate the attention of the user visiting it, could be boring or might not be able to convert the users to customers for you. Therefore, choosing the right design for your website is very important.

Today, there are hundreds of websites on the web which offer thousands of website templates to people looking to start their new websites. DreamTemplate is a website selling thousands web templates, flash templates and powerpoint and word templates categorized according to different themes. They even have free website templates which can help you start a business or personal website in no time. You can also benefit from their limited time offer for unlimited access to all their website templates for a special price of only $59.95!

Benefits of using web templates

Choosing a website template to start your new site has its own benefits. Some of the most important benefits are listed below:

• You have a wide variety of options available to choose from
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• Saves time contacting a web design firm which can take a lot of time, effort and money
• HTML Text is also available readily so you do not have to worry about the design conversion
• You also have an option to pay the unique price for a template

There are many more advantages of choosing a website template for your website. Another interesting thing about these templates is that they follow the latest design guidelines. If you hire a web designer, you might be worried if the designer will be able to make a design for you which is colorful, trendy, stylish, and modern, is user friendly and meets your needs. Moreover, you should make sure that the design is completely user friendly as well as search engine friendly so you will not have problems with the site later on.

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Title Tags, Meta Keywords and Meta Description Tags, along with the website content and keywords used in the body content all contribute towards the on-site or on-page factors. What webmasters sometimes ignore is that the design and development of a website is also another factor which affects Search Engine Rankings.

A website can be designed with a table layout or it can be made div-based. The DIV based design uses CSS styling to control the layout of the entire page. Since most of the design is controlled through the CSS Style Sheets, the HTML code of the web pages itself decreases considerably, hence improving the Text to HTML ratio of every page of the website. This improvement helps in on-page optimization and hence, can lead to improved Search Engine Rankings.

Having a Search Engine Friendly website is important for improved Search Engine Rankings. Some webmasters focus on making their websites W3C compliant. However, it should be taken into consideration that W3C standards are over-hyped and making websites compliant is not extremely necessary.

Other factors which contribute to having a Search Engine Friendly website include the following:

• Text based navigation
• Good Internal Linking of the web pages
• Website Sitemap

Other things to avoid are the following:

• Flash navigation
• JavaScript drop down navigations
• Use of Frames
• Flash based website

So when you design and develop your website, make sure you follow the above listed points to make it as Search Engine Friendly as possible. Stay tuned for more tips on making search engine friendly websites.

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Here is a screenshot I saved from Google for my rankings

Sadly, I just checked it a few minutes back and my site is again near the bottom of page 6 on Google. I’m looking forward to a lot of improvement in this week, especially after the new updates get indexed on Google.

There are now 3,480 results on Google SERPs for the search term SEOContest2008. Almost 55 days to go. They are definitely going to increase to a very large amount.

Yahoo Back Links Update for my SEOContest2008 page

I checked my back links on Yahoo yesterday and I had 13 Inlinks to www.seo-reloaded.com/seocontest2008/, but when I checked them in the morning today, Yahoo! wasn’t showing any links at all, which was a bit strange. I rechecked the Inbound links again now, and they are finally back. Yahoo is showing 43 Incoming links to my SEO Contest 2008 page, which is good

Here is the link to check my updated links on Yahoo to the contest page:

Yahoo InLinks for www.seo-reloaded.com/seocontest2008/

UKWebmasterWorld.com is holding a 2 month contest starting from 1st February 2008 and ending on 31st March 2008. Google.com will choose the winning entry and results will be checked on 1st April 2008 1pm UK time.

The rules for the contest are simple!

1. Create a brand new page on an existing website, domain or sub-domain of your website which has no backlinks to it, and compete in the contest to take it to Number 1 on Google in 2 months for the keyword SEOContest2008!

2. Insert the following HTML code into the competitive design page, where “your name” is the ID you use on the forum:

<a href=”http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/” target=”_blank” user=”your name”>UK webmaster forum seo contest</a>

3. Register yourself on the website to enter yourself in the SEO Contest as an entrant, using the registration form.

I entered the contest yesterday with this new page for SEOContest2008 on my blog.

You can also register yourself today for the grand prize of $1000 or $100 for the 3 runner up positions. Winners will receive the prize through PayPal transfer!

For more updates on the contest and its progress, do visit my contest page regularly!

Change from 2 column to 3 column

I wanted to have a new 3 column layout blog, so I tried my HTML skills last week to change my blog to a 3-column format from the old 2 column layout I was using before. I’ve tried to keep it similar to the old design so my viewers don’t get a completely new blog when they visit seo reloaded

Dedicated IP for my blog

I now have dedicated IP for my blog which is great You can access my blog by going to http://208.76.245.13/

Yes I was announced the winner of the free LCD giveaway at Cash For Comments!

I won the free 24 LCD contest at CashForComments.com but did not get the time to update it on my blog. So I’m officially announcing the contest results on my blog and the prize I got from Prija. It was the second contest I won online, after the T-shirt from EverybodyGoTo.com

I’m a sponsor at the Car Give Away at Blogging The Movie

As a thank you note to Prija for the lovely 24 inch LCD, I decided to give something back to him by becoming a car sponsor at BloggingTheMovie.com and I was the 23rd sponsor out of the expected 500

You can also become one of the car sponsors by buying a link for $100 only and get excellent chances of promoting your blog or website. You will get 2 free reviews on his sites, with links to your website or blog, a permanent link on the car sponsors page and your domain on the two Scion tC’s, free car giveaway. Be part of the 1st FREE car giveaway in blogging history with a one time payment of $100. Only 500 spots are available, so hurry before they are filled up.

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Website owners and newbies especially need some kind of guidance or assistance to help make their online presence a success by driving more and more users to their website. Tony Williams’ ebook named Web Traffic in black and white is just the book to cover all the different kinds of methods that one can use to drive traffic to their website. I recently got a chance to read the e-book and in my opinion the book has everything you need to know about the secrets of driving traffic to your website, whether it is free traffic or paid traffic using PPC or any other kind of online advertisement. After reading it, I was surprised to find several methods which I was overlooking which could actually drive tons of traffic to my sites.

Guide to Drive Traffic to your site

There are lots of ways of driving traffic to a website, including white hat and black hat methods. Most of the methods involve optimizing your website so that it ranks high on the Search Engine Ranking Pages (SERPs). The ebook discusses all the possible methods that one can use to drive traffic to their website.

1. Keyword Research

One of the most important steps before starting any website is a thorough Keyword research, which helps refine your niche, the topics you should be targeting in your area of interest and other niche or long tail keywords which you can target to drive traffic to your website.

2. Start Early

As with any other profitable niche or idea, you should always start your website or new project as soon as you think of the idea. Starting a website early can also help you drive more traffic to your website, especially if the topic id related to something new which can cause a hype among the internet users. Also, starting a website early can help you prevent the Google sandbox penalty and your site will get indexed over time, which will eventually lead traffic to your site.

3. On-page optimization and formatting

This part of the ebook covers some of the most crucial and important factors any website owner needs to know who is interested in driving quality and targeted traffic to their website. Some of the on-page factors addresses in the book include Title Tags, Meta Tags, Alt Tags, on-site optimization and similar factors you should be aware of before starting your online project.

4. Fresh and regularly updated content

As most of you might already know, Content is King in the SEO world. Regularly updated websites help drive a lot of traffic to them, and also get natural back links to them from other websites.

5. Buying Traffic

Paid traffic using PPC (Pay Per Click) methods, Online Advertising, Banner exchanges, Paid Links and reviews are all different methods of driving traffic to any website. Many more traffic buying methods are explained in detail in the ebook.

6. Free Web Traffic

Like paid traffic driving methods, there are also free methods which can be used to drive traffic to any website. These methods include Social Bookmarking, Traffic Exchanges, and similar methods.

7. Getting Links for your site

Links are the most important factors when it comes to website rankings for any website. Where Content is considered as King in the SEO World, Linking is considered the Queen in Search Engine Optimization. The ebook discusses and explains the importance of Anchor Texts and discusses all the different methods for “How to get Backlinks” which you wouldn’t want to miss at any cost!

8. Search Engine Indexing

Once your website is up and running, you need it properly indexed on the Search Engines to achieve any rankings on the SERPs. Methods that can help you get your site properly indexed on the Search Engines are also discussed in detail in Web Traffic in Black & White by Tony Williams.

9. Black Hat Methods

Any kind of black hat methods of SEO or promotion should be avoided for a website at all costs, and this section for Black Hat Methods guides newbies about the things they should avoid in order to stay away from any Search Engine Penalties or ban.

10. More Traffic Building Ideas

Tony discusses several other traffic building ideas that you can use to drive traffic to your website. You can actually use these methods to drive a wealth of traffic to your site, for free!

11. Surefire methods of getting traffic

The e-book lists all the Surefire methods of getting traffic to your website, which you will find useful and helpful, even if you have been in the website promotion business for some time now.

So if you are serious about making your online business a success by driving traffic and users to your website, then you should definitely go for the Ultimate Web Traffic Guide by Tom Williams. And the best thing about it is that it is only for $27 and you can instantly get it delivered to your mailbox by ordering online.