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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Terrence Hoover</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When setting up a website, search engine optimisation should be top of your list of important rules. People generally use Google or Bing to look for sites on the internet and if your site is not optimized, you will not appear in the search results. Optimizing your site is a way for the engines to spider you so that they can put your website at the top of the results list.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When setting up a website, search engine optimisation should be top of your list of important rules. People generally use Google or Bing to look for sites on the internet and if your site is not optimized, you will not appear in the search results. Optimizing your site is a way for the engines to spider you so that they can put your website at the top of the results list.</p>
<p>Optimizing a website is actually quite simple although optimizing an entire website is a bit laborious. It is also much easier to design a website from scratch than to rework an entire existing website.</p>
<p>There are various points that Search Engines look for. The page size should be under 25kb. Ensure your html is compressed. Backlinks from other sites are another factor. A sitemap.xml file lists the URLs that are available for crawling. Make sure you place a lot of attention on the Meta-Tags. These are the Meta-Title, the Meta-Description and the Meta-Keywords. Here are some tips of what to do when making websites regarding the Meta-Tags.</p>
<p>When starting a website, make a word document and jot down everything you think is important for the website. Then read the document for a second time and allocate headings and sub-headings. The last task is to break it up so there are different pages. Then go through each page and identify the main phrases and words on each page. Your main keywords and phrases from each page become Meta-Tags. Edit the document again and ensure that each particular webpage has those main keywords and main keyphrases.</p>
<p>You should also ensure that the main keyword or main keyphrase appears in the Heading 1 and in the first few sentences of each page. It is a good practice to have the particular words or phrases scattered throughout the document. The keyword density range for you to aim for is between 2% and 4%. Do not exceed the keywords or keyphrases as you will be severely penalized by the engine spiders.</p>
<p>Now that you have decided on your keywords and phrases for each webpage, you must also make sure they appear in your Meta-Tags as the Meta-Title of the page as well as the Meta-Keywords Tag and also in the Meta-Description of the page.</p>
<p>So as you will see from the above, search engine optimisation is not brain surgery. If you follow the steps above, and make sure that your website is optimized, the search engines will find you.</p>
<p><a target='_blank' href="http://www.deeho.co.uk/seo_blog/?p=399">Search engine optimisation</a> or SEO is the process of maximizing the number and/or quality of website hits on a specific website via a search engine. <a target='_blank' href="http://www.deeho.co.uk/seo_blog">Search engine optimization</a> shouldn&#8217;t be confused with SEM or search engine marketing.. This article, <a target='_blank' href="http://www.uberarticles.com/home.php?id=1017118&amp;p=26097">The Rules Of Search Engine Optimisation</a> has free reprint rights.</p>
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		<title>How To Utilize The Mechanics Of SEO In Designing Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT specialists discover that Internet users can only wait for 8 to 10 seconds for the page they are requesting to download. A few seconds delay is forgivable though. But to keep them waiting for more than 30 seconds without any feedback, online businesses can say goodbye to their target customers as well as to their profits.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT specialists discover that Internet users can only wait for 8 to 10 seconds for the page they are requesting to download. A few seconds delay is forgivable though. But to keep them waiting for more than 30 seconds without any feedback, online businesses can say goodbye to their target customers as well as to their profits.</p>
<p>Speed is not only needed in making Internet surfing a compelling experience, but it is also equally important in making a website get into the various search engine&#8217;s topmost results. The association therefore lie in how online businesses make use of the mechanics of SEO.</p>
<p>SEO is simply the process of improving a website&#8217;s visibility level by getting listed in the search engine&#8217;s topmost results. Generally, search engines are of two types: the paid ones and the organic. Majority of online businesses favor the latter. As a result, ranking on top of search engines results have become a very challenging task.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t lose hope just yet. IT experts after all have already determined how to track the unique algorithm used by search engines in ranking webpages. The following are the general ways which online businesses can use (with the help of SEO firms) as a road map in tracking the footsteps of those who have successfully conquered the search engine&#8217;s topmost results:</p>
<p>1. Create unique, compelling and relevant keyword-rich content</p>
<p>2. Post the content on a well-designed webpage</p>
<p>3. Place multiple backlinks from credible and authoritative sites</p>
<p>4. Regularly update the content</p>
<p>Organic search engines make use of software called spider to easily determine the words or phrases that are relevant to a particular website. These key words and phrases will then be collected for indexing.</p>
<p>Spiders do pay attention to HTML tags of every web page on the Internet. These tags are called meta tags, which determine the overall concept of a particular website. Businesses therefore have to use tags in the form of HTML title, description and keyword that meet the purpose of their website.</p>
<p>Of course, it does make sense to incorporate keywords in the content of the web page. Search engine spiders distinguish keywords not merely on the basis of the frequency of their appearance but also on how they are used in a meaningful context.</p>
<p>Pick up some great <a target='_blank' href="http://www.seo-magic-webs.com">SEO</a> tricks and tips and find out how you can improve your <a target='_blank' href="http://www.seo-magic-webs.com">online marketing</a>.. Check here for free reprint license: <a target='_blank' href="http://uberarticles.com/business/web-designing-why-it-matters-to-stick-to-the-standards-of-seo">How To Utilize The Mechanics Of SEO In Designing Your Website</a>.</p>
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		<title>One Meta Tag You Should Use Carefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say that meta tags have no effect on your placing with the search engines. Well that is nearly correct except for one " the description meta tag. Most search engines (including Google) do not in reality take it into account for ranking purposes " yet " many use it in their search results.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is only one meta tag that most search engines use &#8211; the description tag. It is not normally used for SEO ranking purposes, but it is commonly used (including by Google) as the text on the search results listing.</p>
<p>Google generally uses the description meta tag as the text to exhibit when it displays your website in the search results. We find that it will use this about 70-80% of the time. The rest of the time it will select random text from your home page but commonly it picks up the first 156 characters of text on the page if it does not use the description tag. Make sure your description tags are always 156 characters or less.</p>
<p>So when you use a good description and a search engine uses it then it will help your click through rate. If your description is attractive people will click though more.</p>
<p>The meta tags should appear in the head section of the page between the head tags.</p>
<p>Google is a little rogue when it comes to using or not using the meta description tag. When it does use it you can have full control of what is exposed to likely visitors but it will often switch what it uses at will with sometimes it just plucking a piece of text from your webpage.</p>
<p>If you want to determine what Google displays then the very first 156 characters of text on a page should be highly controlled because if it does not use the description tag it will use this text.</p>
<p>If you have a flash site or just use pictures with a little text, you have a problem! We have seen Google pick up the alt text from an image and display this when it didn&#8217;t choose to use our description tag. This will tell you to ALWAYS have some text on your page even if it is only 156 carefully chosen characters (including spaces).</p>
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		<title>Basics Of SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Lim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A search on any search engine for a well known keyword yields thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of results. In such a situation, how a website gets itself among the topmost results of a query for a particular keyword is known as Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Finding a place within the top results on related and important searches increases the number of people who are drawn to your website and hence you do more business. That is the reason why SEO has become so important.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A search on any search engine for a popular keyword displays thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of results. In such a competitive scenario, Search Engine Optimization or SEO enables a firm to figure among the top search results for a query relating to a specific word. Figuring at the top of a web search means more traffic for your website, resulting in more business, and that is why SEO has attained such prominence in the past few years.</p>
<p>Black hat and white hat are the two primary classifications of SEO techniques. The tools applied in black hat SEO for ensuring a place for the website in the top results are not seen as fair practices. However, white hat SEO only applies those techniques which are largely accepted and do not violate the principles of the search engines.</p>
<p>With the purpose to comprehend the significance of a web page for a specific keyword, search engines conventionally used the page&#8217;s Meta data, which is inscribed into the code of the page by website managers or developers. However, key search engines now utilise intricate algorithms to display the results that are filtered on the basis of more than 200 distinct factors.</p>
<p>SEO specialists try to figure out the significance of many elements in the search algorithms and keep in touch with the latest advancements that are brought about by different search engines. This information helps them improve upon the SEO techniques for their clients so that they stay competitive for important keywords. For the earlier algorithms, which utilized just the Meta data and web site content, the optimization method used was to bring the concentration of a keyword on the page to an appropriate level and dealing with the Meta tags of the page.</p>
<p>Although these factors are still quite significant, search engines now give much more weight to the popularity of a web page. The popularity of a web page is judged based on the number of links to it from other web pages. Each link is therefore seen as a vote for the page and the system becomes democratic in nature. Due to this major change, SEO now also entails several offsite tactics like distributing free content to get inbound links, and developing an extended presence through blogs and other forms of social media.</p>
<p>The important aspect of SEO to be always remembered is that it is not a one time activity. SEO strategies are always trying to adapt to the changes occurring in the field of online search. This is what makes using the services of an expert SEO consultant so vital.</p>
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