Search Engine Positioning

Submit An URL, Advice on the various methods search engine submissions

What is an URL? URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It’s the standard way to give the address of any resource on the Internet that is part of the World Wide Web. Our URL, for example, looks like this: http://www.positioning-search-engine.com Why Submit An URL? In order to get your website registered for review and indexing [...]

Chapter 8: Understand the King of Search Engine Confusion – Google PageRank

Chapter 8: Understand the King of Search Engine Confusion – Google PageRank When the Google technology known as the PageRank system was created and then installed on its free toolbar, it opened up quite a can of worms. Because, predictably enough, website owners began equated their PageRank with their search engine rankings… a mistake that [...]

Chapter 6: Submitting Your Site to the Main Search Directories and Engines

Chapter 6: Submitting Your Site to the Main Search Directories and Engines Let’s look at some non-automated ways to get your site noticed and indexed by a search engine: 1.    Manual search engine submission using online submission forms. Since the top three engines – Google, Yahoo! and MSN – drive most of the traffic cruising [...]

Chapter 10: Using PPC Campaigns to Drive Traffic to Your Site

PPC programs, also known as pay-per-click or cost-per-click, are online Internet advertising vehicles and they are growing fast. They usually involve short text ads positioned either above or beside the free search results. When someone clicks on an online PPC ad, the online Internet advertiser pays a set amount ranging from as little as $0.01 [...]

Link Popularity as a Search Engine Marketing Strategy

Building link popularity as a search engine marketing strategy has become more and more important over the years. In fact, many search engine experts believe that a solid link popularity strategy can literally make or break a site with the search engines. Why Building Link Popularity is a Difficult Task Life would be simple if [...]

Meta Tag Tips and how meta tags relate to search engine optimization

What are meta tags? Meta tags are special HTML tags that do not affect how the page is displayed, but instead provide information such as who created the page, how often it is updated, what the page is about, and which keywords represent the page’s content. Many search engines use this information when building their [...]

Automated URL Submissions

Automated URL Submissions: The Easy Way Out? Automated URL submissions seem almost too good to be true. “Submit to 1,000,000 search engines and directories with just the click of a button,” says one automated submissions company. “Optimize and submit your site to 750,000 search engines for only $15 per month,” says another. Just like the [...]

Search engine submission techniques issues – how to use meta tags, submit URLs.

Automated Search Engine Submissions If you run a search on Google for “automatic search engine submission services” you may be surprised by a couple of things: firstly, you will get millions of results, which would seem to indicate this is a growth industry. Secondly, one of the top sites listed in those results promises to [...]

Search Engine Glossary

When discussing search engine positioning or search engine optimization, sometimes we can get confused by the specialized language or lingo being used. That’s why we’ve created a Search Engine Glossary that can hopefully put us both on the same page when discussing your search engine optimization project. For definitions not contained in our Search Engine [...]

Content is King

Many search engine optimization (SEO) experts say that content optimization should be the second task in your optimization process, right after selecting the keywords. So for the purposes of this article, let’s assume that you have already selected a set of keyword phrases for each page you intend to optimize. You’ve chosen search terms that [...]

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