Lost and Regained Traffic from Google, Yahoo and MSN the Easy Way

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Above is a little picture I wanted to show you. For those among you who are used to looking at website traffic graphics you see that something strange has happened here... You see, the picture above is from one of my websites and shows clearly what the impact was of the following story. I made a mistake, a simple one but with large consequences as you can see. Because of this mistake traffic for this site almost went done to zero. But if it had gone down to zero it would have been … [Read more...]

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How Search Engines Help finding Keywords

Google suggestions for Keyword Anastacia

You now how to find keywords for your website, right? You know about Google external ad tool, WordTracker, trillian and seobook. But there are more easily and very targeted keyword suggestions to be found. The Search Engines themselves will show you what they think are the most relevant keywords... It is like looking into their database and finding what they think is relevant for you visitors. You just have to now how and where to look. I did some research for a new page of a new site … [Read more...]

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Holiday Thinking and Optimization

I got back from a short Holiday a few days ago. You might have the same problem I had to get started again with work and business, and getting through ton's of E-Mail. Not even all off them where spam.. but there where some nice ones that made it OK. One of the Things I did on my vacation was to read a book.. yes I do sometimes, especially if you have NO Internet connection on you holiday address. But was it relaxing, yes and no, the reading first was somewhat hard to get into the … [Read more...]

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How Joomla helps with LSI and SEO

Oke, you know what SEO means, and what Joomla is.. but this LSI? Well, if you really are into Search Engine Optimization, you have come across this term "Latent Semantic Indexing" or in short LSI. So, is this going to be such a long an technical post about algorithms and how they are build... no, its not.. But what you should know about LSI is simpel, it is all about related keywords! Yes the ones you are so desperately seeking to improve your visitors numbers, but it goes beyond what … [Read more...]

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Joomla Title Plugin for Search Engine Optimization Improvement

Last time I wrote about the Title use in Joomla, pointing you to the Joomla Page Title, and the use of the Alias for schort URLs. I all so pointed you to the Paid SEF Patch that has the HTML Title rewrite in it, and more options then just that. Now there is a new Plugin, the JooFox Content Title Plugin  which gives you a great way to use the Title Alias to improve your HTML Titles... How does it work? Just install the Plugin, go to a Joomla content page, and change the alias to get … [Read more...]

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What Title to Use in Joomla or WordPress

Joomla Title and Title Alias

If you run a Joomla or WordPress Based website, you are of course constantly creating quality content for your users. Writing the best Titles like www.copyblogger.com told you how to do. But there are several options in Joomla, and with the right Plugin you get something similar in WordPress. If you create new content in Joomla, you find yourself with two Title options: The Title and the Title Alias. The first option is what is going to be the title of you page and is show as a … [Read more...]

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