Jun 02

One of the most important ways to earn money from your site is to pick a popular niche subject to base your website on. You’ll have a starting point, and you’ll be able to target your audience with specific keywords. Use each keyword to make an article for each page of your site. By doing this, you’ll be able to target many people in your niche, even though it’s just one niche. If you can captivate visitors with pages that interest them, they will keep coming back to learn more about your niche subject.

Use keyword software to find keywords for your niche subject. A list of keywords and phrases for your niche should appear, as well as an estimated number of people who search for them. Use software to figure out how many sites are competing with your keywords and phrases. Determine which option is the most lucrative by seeing which one has the least competitors, ensuring a high ranking in search engine results; you will also see which has a large customer base. Your niche site should be based on these keywords or keyword phrases.

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Jun 02

Optimizing of your articles for search engines is heavily based on keyword density and placement. Search engine spiders will look at your article to detect keywords, and then display your article when people searches for those keywords.

What are keywords?

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Jun 01

A search engine may offer different services to its users. Along with the text search it may also offer searching for images, groups, news and videos etc. the web site owners or developers should also keep in mind that along with the text and key word efficient Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, they also need good Image Search Optimization (ISO) techniques to improve the ranking of their sites among the engine’s data base. I give you some extremely simple and easy Image Search Optimization (ISO) techniques. Keep in mind the following factors. • The name of the image Your image should have a name and the name should be meaningful. Try to include the name of the topic that your website is about, in the nomenclature. • the description of the image It will be a very good practice if along with the name you are giving a short and concise description of the image. The description can contain mechanical details, if it is a picture of a gadget. It can contain also contain the date, time, venue of the picture, along with the name of the photographer. • The Quality of the image The image should be clear, sharp and non-offensive. Its resolution should be high. Try to keep the same image, available in 2 or 3 different resolutions. • The accessibility of the image Make sure all the images of your site are in search engine’s directory and easy accessible to the ‘crawlers’. • The size and placement of the image Although it may surprise you but the size and placement of the image also counts. It should be neither too small (that it remains almost hidden on your page) nor too large (that the text of your page is over-shadowed). Also some text should be placed around 3 or at least 2 sides of the image. Take care of these things and there would be no reason why your image won’t be among the first ones in the web search.

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Jun 01

What is search engine optimization and how is it relevant to your web site? The truth is that, more than anything else, search engine optimization is vital to the success of your web site.

You may have an excellent company web site but without visitors, your web site is useless. To attract visitors, your web site has to gain high visibility, meaning high ranking, in the top search engines which are Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves.

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