Jan11

It is often a preference of the designer to use very little text on a website, but is it possible to achieve good rankings for those pages in search engines’ The answer is yes, but you should follow the guidelines outlined in this document if you wish to succeed.Firstly, let’s look at some facts. Images are slower to load that text, which may lead to your low-band visitors becoming somewhat agitated. There is also the issue of increased bandwidth from the server, which might lead to higher costs in terms of web hosting. If both of these issues are not a problem for you then continue, but so far they alone have been enough to put me off moving to a image only website.

First thing to realize before optimizing is that by having very little text on the page, you will find it harder to rank better, and if you’re in a very competitive market, then I highly advise that you opt to have at least some text on the website.

After you have designed the web page and layout, the first thing to do is ensure that your images / media content is as compressed (in file size) as possible. I personally recommend the XAT.com image optimizer for shaving the bytes off of images, both GIF (non-animated) and JPG. This will be important for many reasons, it will decrease both download time and bandwidth, it’s really a double win situation. The only further advise on this that you should ensure you don’t decrease the image so much that its quality becomes seriously compromised, otherwise your website will look cheap!!

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Dec23

Believe it or not, but with the help of the search engine optimisation (SEO) your website can really make a significant sum of money for you. SEO hell will help to increase the quality of movement that is increasingly being driven to your website. Plus the quality of traffic leads to your website, the more sales you make, or more paid clicks, you will have the chance to obtain. Your site can be made or sponsor is based, but as you will be able to earn a lot of money with SEO. There are a few points to keep in mind when trying to get more quality traffic sent to your website. To begin make sure that you have high-quality content. There is no way around this so do not even try to find a shortcut. Also keep in mind that the keywords are always hot so you need to change the best tool to keep track of keywords that are most popular now.

Another excellent way of SEO is to increase the total number of back links to your site as much as possible. By having the highest quality content, you can get this eventually come on its own, but you can help speed up the process by promoting your site in blogs, forums, as well as discussion forums. Exchanging links is another way to help this process.

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Dec23

What is the sandbox?

For this article the Google Sandbox Effect is defined as the situation where the results of Google’s main ranking algorithms (PageRank, TrustRank, HillTop, whatever is in place) are initially inhibited when applied to a new property due to one or more temporal algorithm procedures taking effect. Put simply, when it’s obvious your recently launched site deserves a decent rank based on typical factors, but instead it’s nowhere to be seen.

Does the sandbox really exist?

Google engineer Matt Cutts has essentially acknowledged that a sandbox effect exists and that it’s a product of their algorithm, and at least one other anonymous Google engineer is reported to referred to a “probation” period for new sites. Despite some differences in terminology, the sandbox as an abstraction for a specific sum of parts in Google’s larger algorithm is almost certainly existent.

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Dec23
  1. Myth: PageRank is dead

    To understand why PageRank is still of importance, you only have to accept one simple thing as fact: PageRank is a formula based on link popularity. Google decommissioning PageRank, would mean them concluding the core foundation of the web’s structure — links — to be dead. PageRank may evolve, get re-branded, or take on a smaller role, but it’s a long way from being dead.

  2. Myth: It’s Search Engine Optimizers Against Search Engines

    The word for people who try to rank poor quality, scraper, and keyword stuffed, sites high in search engine results, is not SEOs it’s spammers. These are the people search engines are really at war with. More and more search engines companies are embracing SEOs and showering them with knowledge, and tools to assist their work, in the realization that we share the same ultimate goal: to organize the web’s content. Continue reading »

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