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How Smart Web Designers Screw Up Your SEO

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Many sites on the web are amazing – a real tribute to their designers. Many of these are attractive, functional and compelling for visitors. But look a little deeper and we see a consistent problem with search engine ranking possibilities across many sites. The snazzy site’s creators are good at their job. Their job is site creation. They also generally think they understand site prioritisation but screw up their clients SEO such that the search engine optimisation effort is multiplied through re-work and necessary architectural changes. The main issues are URL manipulation, duplicate content and a serious downside of popular shopping cart software products. Related issues are potentially endless, particularly with future site changes/overhauls and their abandoned URL’s that have desirable search engine clout. The Cause Leading to the Effect. Since people in business generally have a skill base that doesn’t include web site design, they dip into the sizable pool of inexpensive web creator talent around. They’ve heard of SEO, but their chosen web design company who produce dazzling samples of work along with shopping carts say they will create the site in line with SEO principles. Great! Once producing a great looking site that works superbly, works with the shopping cart, demonstrably has customers going through the shopping cart and parting with their funds, has products easy to add and subtract through an external interface with the database – the customer is pleased and pays the bill after agreeing the ongoing fee structure with amendments and changes. And start a PPC campaign. And realise that the cost of the PPC campaign is about the same as their premises rental at their high street but with a huge cost increase at Christmas time. And realise that now they have two landlords – their High St premises owner and Google (and/or Yahoo, MSN, etc-). Or, they realise that whilst they thought that with their new online company the web would be free, they, like their real estate counterparts, have an expensive landlord of the search masters, led by the -benevolent’ Google. But no matter – just have to wait a while until the organic results show their site highly through the efforts of those clever people that created this great site – just wait a few weeks- months- years. Here’s why it’s going to be years- decades… never. And here’s how to make it, realistically, a few months.

Unfriendly URL. The URL problem is not limited to the use of shopping cart software like OS Commerce and others that make use of session ID’s, although they are default offenders. Some web design companies compound the problem with the use of session ID’s apart from their shopping cart software, or use -cart created’ session ID’s throughout their design. Session ID’s are a handy means of keeping state and identity across several pages for a particular user’s sequence of pages within the domain per session. The main fully featured shopping cart – OS Commerce – which is free and hence attractive – appends a session ID to every page. The ID is unique to every user session (so if the user closes the browser and re-starts a session on a site the ID will be different). See an example of this with naturalfigures(dot)co(dot)uk. Go to any category and see the session ID appended. Now close the browser and open the same URL again – note that the session ID has changed for the same pages selected. What’s the problem with this? When the Google bot or any other SE’s bot comes along to examine the page – it sees the page with appended session ID and indexes the page. Then the next time it visits the page it lands on the same page and sees the same content, but this time for a different apparent URL – which is the same URL with a different session ID appended. What’s this? Duplicate content! Most web designers have little understanding of why this would ever be a problem.

A similar issue of duplicate content exists with the way that most web designers have internal links to some start file like index.htm. Back to the home page? Go to thedomain/index.htm. But this is the same content as thedomain.com. But there-s more. Not only are these pages the same, but also http://thedomain and http://www.thedomain are also the same content. To demonstrate the SE’s viewing this as different, try it with xe(dot)com and note the different PageRank scores. It’s easy to fix these problems, it’s just that web designers are generally oblivious to the problem.

Site Redesigns, Wasted Pages. Occasionally, like your living room, the site needs an overhaul. Or it could be that some web designer believes that the way to higher ranking for their client is to redesign the site because they’ve heard that page names should have hyphens, not underscores, or that page names shouldn’t have hyphens but should have underscores (it doesn’t matter a hoot). In the redesign – many web designers destroy any search engine clout currently enjoyed and end up with a negative affect for the site. Oh well. At least it looks much nicer after the redesign.

What are web designers missing? As SE’s traverse a page they analyse it and index it assuming it doesn’t offend them in some way (cloaking, dup content, redirects defined in the wrong way, etc.). It’s indexed. Got that? Indexed. That is, the page – referred to by its URL – now exists in some database patrolled by Google’s armed guards. When web designers change a site design and invent new page names without properly redirecting from the old page, Google see another shiny new page – note that it has exactly the same content as another on the same domain they already have indexed – and index the new page too. Only now the site is devalued in the eyes of the search engine because it clearly duplicates content. This is not anywhere near as serious as duplicate content across distinct domains, but is still a red flag when seen within a domain. But wait – it’s not duplicate content! The old page has been changed – sure – it still exists because there may be external links to it – but there are no internal links to the page – it’s been replaced by the new page. But did anyone tell Google about that? What?! How do you tell Google about anything? By a properly defined 301 redirect in the htaccess file. Hmmm. Try that on your web designer – if there’s the slightest questioning lift of eyebrows – run. But the problem doesn’t end there; since this is now a new page, it doesn’t have the establishment of the old page. The SE doesn’t know it’s a replacement, it just thinks it’s a new page, something that has to earn it’s place through time and new internal and external links. The htaccess 301 redirect resolves all this.

The Solution. A popular web presence is no longer the breeze it used to be. Everyone flocks to the web – but how do the SE’s sort out the wheat from the chaff? The solution to this and much more is the design of pages from the start with SEO principles in mind. But this has become a buzz-phrase. The web designers need to understand how search engines see pages as well as how humans see pages. Let’s face it – if SEO’s designed all the web sites it wouldn’t be pretty. Both skills are needed. For proof of this see the site cited in the bio box for this article – as site which to prove an SEO point is distinctively un-pretty. But the SEO’s have the upper hand. They know they aren’t designers and they know they need clever artistic designers to build something that is not just functional but also attractive. The converse is not generally true. Web designers in general don’t really understand search engine optimisation – despite their sales people’s sale oriented claims. They think they know the SEO science.

We’ve yet to find a web designer who does.

Bio. By Baron Turner of TurnerDow Search Engine Optimisation. There’s Only One High St Now! Be on it with TurnerDow SEO

Seo Article Writing Services – Are You Taking Full Advantage Of Your Market

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Many people have come to be familiar with SEO article writing services and the role they play in the internet today. For those who are not up to speed, the skinny is that SEO article writing services produce content for sites, blogs, and article directories with the intention of increasing their rank in the search engines thus driving more traffic and business to the site owners.

SEO Article Writing Services -A Continual Process

Many people think that once they have hired a company offering SEO article writing services and had their content produced, they are done. Nothing could be further from the truth. The tap the full potential of SEO article writing services, you need to have a continuous campaign to keep your page rank up. This is especially true for blogs, since they need fresh content on a continual basis. If you have taken advantage of some SEO article writing services in the past, but have discontinued it, check your statistics and chances are you will find a significant decrease since you stopped using SEO article writing services.

SEO Article Writing Services 101

The first thing you must know about SEO article writing services, is that the tone of the product must fit the page wherein it is going to be used. This will vary a great deal from site to site. For those using SEO article writing services to create back links via article directories, the tone is not so important as the content quality, relevance, and keyword density. But for those publishing content to a blog or web page from SEO article writing services, you must be sure that you contract a company that specializes in SEO article writing services. They can make or break your SEO campaign and if they break it, you lose money twice. The first money lost is in choosing poorly in your SEO article writing services you pay to produce the content. The second monetary loss is from reduced traffic and lost revenue from potential sales and repeat customers.

When you are choosing a company to provide you with SEO article writing services, you need to make sure that the company is custom writing your content. You don’t want SEO article writing services that consist of large packages of articles of a general nature. That is just filler for your site and will probably do more harm than good. You will notice the best results when you hire a firm that specializes in SEO article writing services and has a writer create content specifically for your website and then the company transfers full rights to you; you own the work.

Nike SEO article writing services will be able to consistently produce content that is half and half. This means that half of the content is mean to be interesting and informative and the other half will be formatted in a strategic fashion that only a company experienced in SEO article writing services will be able to combine. Choosing wisely from among the many SEO article writing services is paramount to your success.

Be Smart! Seek Seo Consultancy!

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What is SEO?

Search engine optimization commonly known as SEO, is a powerful and operative web marketing methodology which assists to intensify the ability to view a website or a specific webpage in the search engine. SEO enables to present accurate and the best results in response to search query. SEO is an effective web marketing tool for all internet users.

What is SEO consultancy?

There are numerous SEO consultancy and SEO agency establishments worldwide, in which SEO UK firms are indeed the most pursued due to immense productivity and popularity. These SEO firms provide consulting services that are tailored to suit the exceptional requirements of internet users and industrial websites with many products and tactful strategies to strive in the fast paced and competitive business sector and unique target markets. These consultancy services provide research tactics, accurate analysis for all websites and internet users who are facing complications with search engine visibility. The key aspects of SEO consultancy services are that the consultancy program commences with an SEO assessment which surveys in detail the key elements that have an influence on the search engine visibility. This includes technical framework, data content and link profiles. The consultancy services also enjoin their potential customer to apply strategies and tactics and keep one informed of the forthcoming changes in the search engine algorithms that could affect the enactment of the websites. Every amendment and modification of ones website is documented in detail. The customer/ companys consent is always sought before any alteration is made to a specific website.

SEO consultancy services are customer friendly

SEO establishments and their SEO analysts always focus on the SEO specifics. These consultants make sure that every aspect of the overall business state inclusive of the branding, positioning, evaluating models and mainly focusing on the customers desired keywords, codes and website links. These SEO consultancies are customer friendly and do share their proficiency and experience along the way with the clients /company who require assistance with their web rankings.

SEO Consultancy services include:

Competitor analysis determines the requirements to be instigated to efficientlystrive in the business market for targeted key words.
Analysis of a websites framework – This is inclusive of the prominence ofcoding,rapidity, IP address, robots.txt file, sitemap configuration and URL/filename naming
Assisting clients with the right keyword helps the customer in targeting the accurate keyword phrases for target markets.
Assesses content of a site to ensure that it is portrayed in such way that both search engines and site visitors will find it simple to comprehend

SEO consultancy services comprises of accurate analysis, comprehensive recommendations, latest modernisms and developments in SEO. SEO consultants are customer friendly and deliver their best. Thats one requires for a high web ranking to boost their business tactics. The future of the business sector relies majorly on SEO. SEO is the key element to victory!

Seo Marketing And Indie Filmmaking A Powerful Combo

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Independent filmmaking is a creative passion I love. Nothing beat the rush I get writing scripts and directing movies. I am a filmmaking junkie. When one movie wraps I’m looking for my next creative high. I head out looking for a money tree I can shake to produce my next movie. In tough financial times it’s very difficult to find money to make a indie movie.

Many indie filmmakers can relate to the story I am about to share. A few deals fell through for film funding leaving me without the backing to produce my next movie. Life is strange when it comes full circle. Before signing a distribution deal with Maverick Entertainment Group for Consignment co-producer Tim Beachum had a insane idea. At least it was insane to me. He made it possible to stream the first 10 minutes of Consignment online for free. A Virginia Beach based newspaper posted an article online about it. Seems there were not many indie filmmakers doing what we did. It worked out good, but it still took time for what Tim told me about SEO marketing for it to sink in and share with you.

Independent filmmaking success can be reached with SEO marketing. When I started producing movies I had a hard time looking at them as a product when they were done. My thinking has since changed. After a movie is done it needs to be handled like a well packaged and promoted product. I am not taking away from the creative art of making a movie. As a screenwriter and director I dig deep to put all I have into making movies.

It’s now crystal clear in mind that movies need to be marketed to viewers or they do not exist. The major brick walls facing many indie filmmakers is they lack a big marketing budget, the distributor they signed with can only do so much, or they are that sure how to use SEO marketing to promote their movie. I sure as hell didn’t coming out of the gate with my first movie. I thought Maverick Entertainment Group as the distributor releasing the movie would make a marketing push, so I laid back waiting for them to spread the word Consignment was a hot urban action movie people had to see.

It was a fast lesson that a movie distributor releasing hundreds of titles has only so many resources it can put into marketing. With staff salaries and overhead to meet they have to be fiscal. Bottom-line is they need to earn the most profit, so they dedicate as much of their marketing budget to hype movies that they feel have name actors or that “IT” factor. That’s just good old fasion business sense in motion. Maverick Entertainment Group has a platinum label to showcase their high profile releases. El Presidente Doug Schwab has earned his respect in the indie filmmaking community and has be kind enough to share a lot of solid insight on the business side of movie distribution with me. I see him as a cool older brother.

I started to pay attention to SEO marketing tools. Consignment Co-producer Tim Beachum has been involved in Internet marketing for over ten years strong. As for me I never gave SEO marketing a second thought because I was consumed with writing, producing, and directing indie movies. I regret coming out the gate I did not think about marketing them. Being an amigo Timbo shared with me what he learned from SEO kingpin Frank Kern. Marketing really started to make sense to me. I saw the boost SEO marketing could give indie filmmakers on how to promote their movies online without spending crazy cash. With people searching for so many different topics online it’s easy for your movie to go undiscovered. Unless you start using keywords and phrases to reach out to viewers about your movie. On YouTube the Consignment trailer has 15,000 views to date. That’s cool because being a grounded filmmaker it’s hard to imagine those people set out looking for the Consignment.

I was able to use the SEO advice Tim Beachum and Frank Kern (salud to these two guys). When uploading videos to hype your movie use keywords and phrases. That sounds like common sense, but when I first started uploading videos to promote my movie I only used the title of the movie as a keyword phrase. Not to savvy considering how often the word consignment is typed into a search engine.

When indie filmmakers use the core idea of SEO marketing they will have a better chance of success. The whole idea of making movies to have people watch them. SEO marketing can go a long away to helping reach that goal. Posting trailers using different keyword phrases will drawn in more viewers. Use your movie plot to help you come up with keywords and phrases that relate to viewers. You can’t rely on viewers finding your movie out of nowhere.

Importance Of Pre Planning A Marketing Campaign For Business Marketing Success

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How often have you come across a marketing campaign that strikes you as ill-conceived, slightly out of the times, and generally unimportant in the current climate of marketing and consumer spending. They’re everywhere — unlikely intentionally, but they’re certainly a part of our lives. And while these marketing plans much produce some returns — they’d certainly be canceled or at least modified should they not — they don’t truly connect with us like they could.

Part of this is the massive change in marketing that’s going on currently. With the new methods of communication and message spreading made possible by the social web, companies are desperate to hop aboard the train and get their wares out their and in the open. Twitter, Facebook and other sexy companies are taking up the main view in many marketers’ radars, and entire divisions of companies are being created to decide exactly how to make the most of these innovative new social tools.

The thing is, they’re often poorly planned out. Especially amongst affiliate marketers, the propensity for completely inane and improper social media use is sky-high, and considered a common sense part of our marketing efforts. While it undoubtedly brings around results, much like the relatively poor TV ads of yesteryear, those results are hard to measure in a relative field. How much did your social media campaign really cost you? Not just in terms of cost, since the barrier to enter social media realms is very low, but in terms of the time cost and effort expenditure.

For affiliate marketers, we need to pre-plan our strategies and work around relative results, not just results alone. Opportunity cost should be a huge concern for affiliate marketers, especially if you’re paying other people to work for you. Which metrics bring in the most value and stomp on all the others? Those are the metrics that should be focused on, not those that have the most sex appeal and the greatest amount of attention in the public world.

After all, it’s about sales, isn’t it? We’re all out there trying to boost sales, fight off a lack of spending in a recession, and find the best niches to maximize profits in. But when these diversions and distractions get in the way of finding the most profitable marketing metrics, it’s important to take a step back and take stock of what is and isn’t working. Forcing yourself into a medium that doesn’t sell isn’t the way forward. Finding the most profitable medium, be it SEO, PPC, or social media marketing (or any other) is where the money is.

In order to see truly remarkable affiliate sales results, you need to plan your marketing campaigns to make use of not just the most current and valuable marketing tools, but those that produce highly valuable results. Twitter and Facebook will come and go. What won’t come and go is the customer base that supports you, evangelizes you and keeps on talking.