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Newbie 101: Keep up with the latest news on SEO (search engine optimization) SEM (search engine marketing) SERPS (search engine result pages) and Web Design. The news will be here everyday and updated daily. You should read the latest news to keep up with the changes in search engines, the market, and more. It is a proven SEO fact that those that research and follow the newest information about optimizing their websites, and marketing will be ahead of the rest.

Search Engine Optimization Tools and New traffic generations techniques are born everyday, and that is why I have to stay current in the website optimization community. I have gathered up some tools for you to use so eventually you can maximize your traffic, and Page Rank. Optimizing your website for traffic is just one major area of web design optimization that you must consider. Do you know I can count over 10 specialized areas in basic web design - and search engine optimization - marketing? Learn more about these areas by visiting all areas of Michele's Paint Shop Newbie 101 Design.

We study the Search Engine SEO market daily so that we can bring the newest and best tips to our paint shop just for you. Our goal is to help you maintain a profitable, popular, and safe website. Visit our page that lists the Search Engines that you would want to consider submitting your site to. You also should check out our page on Fake Page Ranks and our SEO Education Page!

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New or Old Websites that are not doing well in the search engines?
What can you do to be better?

Promoting your website and business online it is critical that you get traffic. If you do not have traffic then what is the point of having a website? If you have just built a new web page or have had a site for sometime now but it seems to be lost in search engines you may want to consider having someone trained in search engine optimization to look over your web pages. Did you know that there are over 10 areas of a web page that can seriously increase your page rank and traffic if it is properly optimized? How do you know if you are even using all those areas? What we could do for you is that we will put your page up against your competitors pages and return the information to you. With that information you can optimize your site and get your website noticed.

Get Your Site Noticed!

Search Engine Directories: Here are some link directories to submit your site to.

DMOZ Human Editor Directory *Be sure to read their terms!

Free web directory Quality human edited free web directory

Free Submit Shop

SEO Web Directory

Directory List

Alive Web Directory

ICQ Sites. Submit your site here.

SurfGopher

Free Directory

Page Rank: Find out what your Page Rank is for every page on your site.

Live Page Rank

What is your Link Popularity: How aware are search engines when it comes to your site.

Link Popularity

Keyword Verification Tool: Is your main keywords working for you?

Our free search engine keyword rank tool lets you look up keyword terms to see if you place on the major search engines.

Another favorite keyword tool to use is: Keyword Verification

Search Engine Saturation: How well has the search engines listed your site:

Search Engine Saturation

Search Engine Top Sites: List your site in Category Top Sites:

Add URL-Free.com

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I belong to a closed Search Engine Marketing group where some of the elite get together and discuss the hottest new ideas, tips, tricks, and tools found in the closet ciruits. If you find any of these tips helpful a link to my site would be appreciated. I would also like that thank you in advance for your kind considerations on doing so.

The truth is that designing and optimizing a website is a full time job. If you want to stay on top you must wake up everyday, start working at 7am, but you can't leave this job at 3pm everyday. Well, strike that... you can, but what will happen is you will begin to fall in the SERPs. If you do not have time to keep up with your website drop me an email and we can come up with a budget that is right for you. In the meantime here are some cool tips!

Productive Search Engine Marketing Latest tips, tools and secrets for SEO.

TIP: Sign up with DMOZ Directory. To do this your site must be complete with no under construction pages. When you are there use their directory to find the BEST area for your site to be listed. Once you find this area and are very sure this is the correct area for your site then you scroll up and click "Suggest URL" and fill out the form. This part is very important as you want list your site properly so take your time. DMOZ Human Editor Directory *Be sure to read their terms! (NOTE: I've been finding that DMOZ seems to keep dead or spammy sites in their listings, and tend not to list new sites that are truly helpful. Go ahead and try it out, but I striked this tip out until I see them clean up their listings a bit)

TIP: Do a search on a few search engines for your sites main topic and topsites. Example SEO Topsites. Locate like two topsites that fit your sites subject and sign up with them. Be sure to follow their rules (such as banner size and site content) and have a banner ready.

TIP: Consider signing up with OnlyWire. This is a multiple social bookmarking service, and when someone else bookmarks your site it basically gets more listings and somewhat assumes a link to your site. Another great list is found at 3spots

TIP: If your interested in a Pay Per Click site then check out SpyFu. It is a great keyword research tool and one worth putting in your SEO arsenal. Check out SpyFu keyword research tool.

TIP: Do not forget that there are great image hosting companies out there that will host certain files for you. This could help take off a server load for you and save you money by spending like $25.00 now rather then hosting increases which may cost you much more. Check out Photobucket Pro

TIP: Are you looking for a quick and easy way to analyze your sites hits, and what brought traffic to your site? Check out Hit Tail.

TIP: Start a Blog today. Blogging can be very helpful to absorb quality traffic for your cause/purpose. It is a very popular feature today so why not take advantage of it. You can set up and a blog in less then ten minutes. Once you have a nice blog rolling along you should consider using a blog and ping program. A ping program such as Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated. Check out Google Blogger and Ping O Matic

TIP: Start a controversial headline at your site or blog. Use the days news reports and slam down your thoughts about it in your blog. This is a true white hat tactic to gather links.

TIP: Go and search for sites that promote the same area of subject that you have on your site. See if they offer to put your link on their site, but make sure the page you will be going on has a Page Rank of 3 or higher and has under 50 links

TIP: Go and search for sites that promote the same area of subject that you have on your site. See if they offer to put your link on their site, but make sure the page you will be going on has a Page Rank of 3 or higher and has under 50 links

TIP: Upload some videos to YouTube! Be sure to add your URL to your video!

TIP: One of the best ways to start marketing and making money online is by becoming an affiliate. There are many good places to find products that you can promote and earn a commission. Such as Click bank for digital products and Commission Junction for everyday products. These aren't the only places but they are a great place to get started. When you have signed up for an affiliate program don't forget to always use you affiliate link when selling products otherwise the vendor will not know who to pay and this could cost you a great deal of money. However there is a warning here. Do NOT make your site into a clickbank link-farm. You need to sincerely promote a single product that you know is good. The product you should have used and know good details about it so that you can write about it and recommend it to others. My suggestion is promote one or two items only that fits the sites theme/subjects.

TIP: Today's tip is do NOT stuff keywords into your .css files. Spamming your style sheets is not a good idea. Google knows about this little trick and they can demote your site for it or even worse not index you at all. Check your .css file for spam issues here W3C CSS Validator

TIP: Today's tip is "Know your html code to text ratios." For example the Google bot comes to crawl the web page. What will it see? Will it see 200 lines of javascript, flash, and 10 words? If that is the case then you are in for a rude awakening. You also want to do this with keywords. Check to see if you have to many keywords stuffed into your text areas. For those that are serious about their website's success I suggest you use IBP as this will tell you multiple ratios, and so much more. Internet Business Promoter.

TIP: Today's tip is pretty basic. Please make sure your sites anchor text is listed properly. Never use "click here" Use only proper keywords/phrases. If you have a link about Website Marketing and you use "click here" ... that is a major SEO mistake. Go fix your links and remove all click here anchor texts, and replace them with proper anchor texts.

TIP: Today's tip "to vote or not to vote." When you add a link on your website to go to someone elses website that means you gave a "vote" for that site. The search engines look at it as a vote. Do you want to vote for that website? Usually yes you do IF the site is helpful to your website and its visitors. If you want to link to a website, but you are not so sure you are ready to "vote" for that site then you have the option to add this code within the link code. Add this tag in links that you do not want to give a vote to. What is the point? My experience has shown me that when I do my analytic research I can see if an outbound link helps my site or not. Basically over time you can play around with site votes to see how it affects the site.

TIP: Today's tip is to know your sites bounce rate. What is a bounce? Basically a bounce is when someone comes to your site and leaves from that very same page. Why did they leave? Did they arrive there because your keywords do not match the sites content? To get that answer you need to know where you can see your sites bounce rate. First you need to sign up with Google webmaster tools and use their analytic tools. Enter some code to each page on your website, and wait a few weeks. Go back and now you can see the bounce rate. I only recommend this tool to those that have a good understanding of web design/SEO experience.

TIP: Today's tip is more or less a calendar marker. I am not 100% sure, but I think Google did a page rank update last night. I will update this information when I find out more. It is a good idea to keep these dates noted so you can prepare your site for the next update.

Search Engine News
Recent SEO SEM SERP News

1. Facts: 15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 1

Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.

If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In the next articles, we'll take a look a the 15 most common Google spam filters and we'll tell you how you can get around them.

Google's Sandbox, Google's Trust Rank and Google's domain age filter

These three Google filters all take a look at the age of a web site. Many web sites don't get very old. For that reason, Google implemented a filter that prevents new web sites from getting high rankings for competitive search terms. That filter is called Google's sandbox.

Google's TrustRank filter is closely related to that filter. Web sites with a high TrustRank get high rankings on Google. The TrustRank of a web site is determined by the age of a web site, the quality of inbound links and the contents of a web site.

The domain age filter is another filter that considers the age of your web site. Web sites with old domain names are more likely to get high rankings for competitive keywords on Google.

Further information about the sandbox, Google's TrustRank and domain name filters can be found in these articles:

• Google's SandBox and TrustRank filters and your web site
• How to get out of Google's Sandbox
• Google ranking secrets revealed, part II
• Google ranking secrets revealed, part I

How to get around these filters

It's not easy to get around these filters. As they all consider the age of your web site, you basically have to wait some time until Google releases your web site from the sandbox.

The best thing that you can do is to work on the content of your web site to show Google'sweb page spider that your web site is a valuable resource for your topic. Make sure that your web pages are relevant to your search terms.

In addition, get good inbound links to increase the TrustRank website. The better the links to your website, the higher your TrustRank and the higher your web site will rank on Google.

Next week, we're going to take a look at three link filters that Google uses to remove web sites from the search results.

1. Facts: The top 5 factors for successful web sites

Everyone wants to have a successful web site. However, most people do the wrong things to promote their web sites.

If you want to have a successful web site and if you want to get high rankings on search engines then your web site must have the right factors. Here are the top 5 factors for successful web sites

Success factor #1: Accessibility

Search engines must be able to access your web pages. If search engines cannot parse your web pages then they will ignore your site and you won't get good rankings.

Make sure that your web server doesn't return an error code when search engine spiders visit your web pages. If your server returns an error code, search engines won't index your site.

The correct code should be "200 OK". You can check the status code that your web server returns to search engines with IBP's search engine spider simulator (free).

In addition, make sure that the HTML code of your web pages doesn't contain errors that prevent search engines from indexing your site.

The content of your web pages must make sense to search engines. Don't use images or Flash to present the main content of your web pages. Use IBP's Top 10 Web Page Optimizer to find out if your web pages present the right information to search engines.

Success factor #2: Site and information architecture

Your web site should have a good site architecture to make sure that it is not just a collection of random web pages. The pages of your web site should be related and they should show search engines that your web site is relevant to a special topic.

This is very important because most major search engines seem to use latent semantic indexing in their ranking algorithms.

Your site should also have a good information architecture so that search engines and web surfers know where they are within your site on any page of your site.

Success factor #3: The right keywords

Choosing the right keywords is one of the most important steps that determines whether your SEO campaign is a success or not.

It's best to focus on 2 or 3 word keywords for search engine optimization. One word keywords are less likely to convert to a sale and they are also much more competitive.

Use IBP's powerful keyword tools to find the keywords that will work best with your site.

Success factor #4: Content

Web sites that only offer articles and affiliate links that can be found on dozens of other web sites will have a hard time to get good search engine rankings.

Try to create unique and trustworthy content that separates your web site from the others.

Write about things you know. If you're an expert in a special field, write as much as possible about that field to make sure that your web site becomes the best resource for that topic.

Success factor #5: Inbound links

Without good inbound links, it is impossible to get high rankings on major search engines. You should get as many links as possible from related web sites. The more targeted the link, the more it will help your search engine rankings.

Search engine optimization can be tricky because a small error in one factor can destroy all of your other efforts. Take a look at the checklists in our free search engine optimization eBook to find out how your web site can get top rankings on Google, Yahoo and other major search engines.

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