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SEO Help: 20 Search Engine Optimization steps to get your website to Google’s #1 page
Help your website be found without spending a fortune. Every webmaster and every website owner wants the same thing: to see their website on Google’s first page and to keep it there. SEO Help is a practical, step-by-step guide which in 20 easy-to-understand chapters gives you the kind of practical advice a leading SEO engineer would give you if he were standing over your shoulder and helped you search engine optimize your website.
An optimized website gets:
- Greater online visibility
- More targeted visitors
- More online sales and advertising enquiries
What usually stops you from succeeding in the online world is the fact that by the time you learn the valuable lessons you need to apply you have also ran out of time and money. SEO Help helps you gain both time and money by showing you how to avoid costly mistakes and apply technical shortcuts which will help you optimize your website fast.
The book is designed to hep you:
- Save time
- Save money
- Make money
Totally accessible, with complete, step-by-step details and no need of any deep know-how, it gives you the distilled knowledge of a successful search engine optimizer. Provided you follow the advice in each one to the letter your website will start to outperform your competitors’ and you will be well on your way to search engine dominance and online success.
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Directory Submission Service – A comparative review
When it comes to SEO the first step of an offline SEO strategy is free directory submission. Although most of the directory submissions comes free of charge or require a reciprocal link, it is a tedious and time consuming process. For a novice website owner it will take hours and hours to manually submit to the popular directories under the right category. It is an obvious fact that automated directory submission is SPAM and anyone with little SEO knowledge will not touch automated directory submissions with a 10 feet pole. There are SEO submission companies mainly from India who does the manual directory submissions ranging from $12 to $25 per 100 submissions.
There are so many stories where the website owners get ripped off by fraudulent SEO companies who claim to submit the website to 1000’s of directories and they just provide a list of web directories with categories where they submitted to. You have no idea on if they had really submitted the website there in the right category. The important aspect of a SEO job is reports and gone are the days where a SEO company tells a client that his strategy is secret.
After trying several directory submission companies, I came to know about submitinme.com through one of my contacts. I was skeptical initially that they may be yet another Indian company who tries to sell low quality service. But when I visited their sales page for directory submission service I was confident that they will provide a better SEO Service than others. The sales page for directory submission service was very clear and transparent. They had mentioned that every submission made will be proved with a supporting screen shot of the submission with the content filled in for the submission. Their rate was very reasonable, priced at $14 for 100 manual directory submissions with screenshots and excel reports.
What came as a pleasant surprise was that the submissions included DMOZ.org at no extra cost. I had been paying $49 for DMOZ submission alone for a single submission. To clarify this I had a chat with the live support staff and she confirmed that DMOZ submission comes free of cost with no extra charges as they do 102 -105 submissions for every 100 submission order. I came to know from her that they are serving the industry since 2004 offering unique and innovative SEO services to a wide variety of clients. She went on to offer a discount coupon of 5% on their SEO services and 10% on their page speed services which are eligible till 2012
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I had ordered for the directory submissions and one of their staff had responded in hours for the data to be submitted. I got a clean report in 3 day’s time with 102 screenshots and an xcel sheet containing the list of directories they had submitted to. YES, THE REPORT INCLUDED SCREENSHOTS OF DMOZ SUBMISSION AND THEY HAD SUBMITTED UNDER THE RIGHT CATEGORY FOLLOWING DMOZ GUIDELINES.
They also had created a free email for the submissions and confirmed all the submissions. Overall I am very impressed by their quality of job timeliness and rate. I was able to save over $55 as the DMOZ submission came entirely free of cost. I would recommend submitinme.com not only for Directory submission service but also for all their services.
Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond
This is not another SEO book written for marketing professionals. Between these covers you’ll find practical advice and examples for people who build websites aiming to reach their target audience. Each chapter will introduce you to best practices and fresh perspectives on how to accomplish these simple, yet indispensable goals:
- Help more people find your site
- Help users find content within your site
- Encourage return visits
The path this book travels through the villages of Web standards, accessibility, and contemporary technologies like Ajax, APIs, Flash, and microformats. You’ll find the big ideas behind these technologies and real world examples, illustrating that you don’t have to compromise the user experience to create search engine friendly, findable websites.
Although this book illuminates a broad range of findability strategies, one common theme pervades:
Web standards + compelling content = improved findability = more successful sites
You’ll find even more findability guidance on the book’s companion website (http://buildingfindablewebsites.com) including 5 bonus chapters.
SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
Detailed, practical guide to increasing your Web traffic through better search results
Wonder how some companies pop up high in search engine rankings? It’s all about search appeal. Master the strategies, techniques, and shortcuts in this detailed guide and you can improve your Web site’s search rankings and drive the targeted traffic you want to your virtual door. Learn new ways to add social media to the SEO mix, make your site mobile Web-friendly, write SEO tags for maximum exposure, and more.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is hot; the online advertising market is expected to grow at 34% CAGR between 2005 and 2010, and nine out of ten companies are estimated to be implementing SEO strategies
- Find out how to get listed in the major search engines, directories, and indexes, and learn strategies for planning and implementing a successful SEO campaign
- Take advantage of the case studies of readers who implemented the SEO techniques outlined in the first edition of this book and significantly improved search rankings
- Discover how to target and reach the customers you really want; optimize your site specifically for Google, MSN, or Yahoo!; demystify the role of links and linking in search; implement social media and mobile search optimization; and analyze your SEO efforts to see what works
If you want to make SEO work for you, the new edition of this practical book is what you need to succeed.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets
Tips, tricks, and little-known methods used by professional SEO consultants to rank in some of the most competitive search phrases
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of creating, formatting and promoting web pages in a manner that ensures that they are ranked highly for chosen keyword phrases after a user performs a Web search. This unique book taps the relatively unknown market of advanced SEO knowledge, and reveals secrets used by only the best SEO consultants.
You’ll take your Internet marketing skills to the next level as you gain a thorough understanding of standard SEO techniques such as on-page optimization, off-page optimization, and link building. Packed with real-world examples, this essential guide demonstrates how real SEO consultants work with Fortune 500 companies to get the results they desire.
- Explains the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) and how it enables a specific site to rank high in a Web search based on particular keyword phrases
- Shares little-known tricks and tips of SEO consultants that work with Fortune 500 companies
- Demonstrates how to perform a professional SEO Web site audit
- Reveals the techniques that current SEO leaders use to remain high in rankings
- Divulges secrets for spying on your competitors’ ranking techniques
As the only book focused on the subject of SEO consulting, this must-have resource unveils secret tricks of the trade.
