How Images get into the Search Engines

The next thing we want to look at are the Images options in the search engines, and although I explained this some time ago in  Working with Images for SEO�there are still some things to look at. Because with most content management systems the image directory is blocked by the robots.txt file to prevent the search engines to crawl and index those files.... Open it up, remove that block! It will give you more traffic and especially if you have a website that is heavily loaded with … [Read more...]

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Matt Cutts on Snippets and Meta Description tags

As an extra to my latest post, and the one I wrote earlier about how to use Description Metatags you can view this video of Matt Cutts explaining how the results below your Title tag is build. One of the nice things here is that he also tells you to experiment with these tags, like using just .. or ... at the end of the description... Guess there is some rewriting to do on your descriptions tags... you did use them right? Anyway, here is Matt's explanation: … [Read more...]

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Web and Search – How to Optimize your pages

I wrote my last post some weeks ago here, and know its time to get back to speed with the articles about Search Engines and future and current search options through all engines. Search Engine Ranking factors Here is a short recap of the things that you should have in place for your current Search Engine Optimization, it really is just a recap of the Search Engine factors by SEOmoz (if you haven't read that one? GO There! now? Please...?) Keyword use in Title Tag Anchor text of … [Read more...]

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Focus for Search Engine Results

Anastacia

If you are building a blog or a website, you need to focus on the topic of your online adventures. Why? because search engines love websites and blogs that have only one or two topics, if there are more than two, they need to be related to the main subject. The relevance of the site that is focused on just one topic is much easier to classify for them. If you have pages or blog entries and categories that are "all over the place" you will have a hard time trying to get into top search … [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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