Posts Tagged: ‘seo’

Alexa ranking value is it good for anything

8. October 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

Last week I got an article on Pagerank, backlinks, indexed pages and Alexa ranking, published on Famousbloggers.net.(Great site btw, it has a lot of good writers so go check it out.) ;)
I wrote it for the obvious reasons to help other webmasters, to understand the meaning and value of the different things.

But the part about Alexa ranking, was also to try to find out the common believe about what Alexa is and isn’t. And I have to say that I would have said you where nut I you told me last week that there are so many webmasters and advertisers, that don’t even know what their stats on Alexa is based on.

So let us for ones set the record straight about what Alexa ranking is and isn’t, so you as webmaster and/or advertiser knows what it’s all about. (more…)

All you need to know about Search Engine Optimization – The Evergreen basics

27. September 2011 Posted by Arba

Let’s face it; Search Engine Optimization has not changed a bit, not at all. Now, don’t start giving me the names like Mayday, Panda, Scrapper, or any of those XYZ Google updates, I won’t buy it. Oh, and you don’t need to be an Internet Marketing Guru or SEO expert to be able to carry out Search Engine Optimization for your website. Unless you are looking to opt for Search Engine Optimization as a profession, you can learn the basics of SEO and you’re good to go, and the best part is, the basics you need to learn can be counted on your finger tips.

If you’re confused by all those highly technical SEO articles doing rounds on the Internet, you don’t really need to comprehend any of that technical stuff. Because at the end of the day, it all comes down to some pretty straight forward basics, that haven’t changed in almost a decade and will not change in the coming years. When I first got into online business almost a decade ago, the nitty-gritty were pretty much the same. You can bookmark this article and come back after some years, and the basics given below will still be holding the same weight. Let’s get to those evergreen basics of Search Engine Optimization. (more…)

The Panda is not only a bad thing

26. August 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

Panda update

I have read god knows how many blogpost´s on how evil and scary the Panda Update is, but is such a bad thing or is it something they we need.

Well as you all properly already has figured out, I don´t think that the Panda update is such a bad thing. I do in fact think it was way overdue, for too long has websites gain better positions on Google and other search engines by using blackhat seo, spam sites and others work.
They were hurting real blogs, websites and the article databases and of course the link directories that really work on their sites to give the users quality unique content, and information the users can use.

But now they have felt the consequence of their actions, and has been sandboxed or better. And I can´t be more happy about it.!
Because that now we all are working on the same terms.!

So how do make sure that you website don´t get hammered by Google.?
It´s pretty simple.! (more…)

Get More Visitors To Your Blog

18. August 2011 Posted by Keith

Writing a blog can certainly be a rewarding experience, but it’s most enjoyable when we know that others are taking an interest in our thoughts. The feeling that we’re simply writing words for our own entertainment may be somewhat less thrilling!

In short, we want people to read what we write! Sometimes this isn’t as easy as it could be. Sure, we’re capable of writing some interesting content, but that’s not always enough.

It would be great to think that thousands of lucky readers would be attracted to read what we have to say, but there’s a good chance that the vast majority of people out there will be oblivious to our existence. To rectify that, we need to think about marketing our blog.

Blog marketing

Marketing may not come naturally to us. There’s no particular reason why it should do. Being a good writer doesn’t immediately mean that you’ll be great at marketing. The good news, however, is that it’s likely to help rather a lot!
Getting the word “out there” about your blog will involve a combination of techniques. It will require you to know a little about search engine optimization (SEO). It will also involve some creative thinking. (more…)

Use webmasterforums for more than just signature backlinks

1. August 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

A high number of webmasters, only see webmasterforums as a quick way to get free backlinks from their signatures. Which imo is a big mistake, because they have much more to offer any blog or website owner than just these links.
They can be a create way to build relationships with other webmasters like you do with blog owners every day, they can also a source for link exchange and a lot more.

So why is it that theses forums are fighting a constant battle, to survive and stop spam comments.?

And another thing that puzzles me is, why is it that we as webmasters tend to be egotistic when it comes to providing good backlinks for other sites when we give them though approved comments.?

We are all working constant to build more links to our own sites, that we tend to forget linking back to the good sites we find. And it´s really stupid if you think about it, if we linked back to a website where we have gotten a backlink from it would give that site more value hence more value to the link we received.!

I my self are active on a number of forums, where I besides links has gotten a lot of new ideas on how to link build my sites, I´v got some constructive comments on my sites and blog, that i can use.
And I can only encourage you all to use them, so if this is something that you could use also, then I´ll recommend these forums!!

Webmastertalkforums

Webtalkforums

The V7 Network

Webmaster Forums

You can find me under the aliases w3blog and soft.

Why do you think that we as webmasters do the thing we do.?

Track your keywords Google rank with paid or free software

22. July 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

I have for some time being using Seo Powersuits free edition “Rank Tracker as my main tool for checking my blogs and websites rank on Google, Bing and/or Yahoo.
And I was quite happy just using that, although I would like to have the option to make reports so I could keep track om the ranks over time. But 99$ it a lot of money for it.!

But last week i found this blogpost on a free ranking tool Google keyword rank tracker, and after I´ve tested it I have to say it quite good. So why not compare some of these softwares, so that you might can find the one you want to use.

So without further ado here is my review of 2 free keyword rank tracking tools and 1 paid.!

Free Monitor for Google
The first free one is the one from Cleverstat called “Free Monitor for Google”. Here you can check a domains keywords up against one Google domain, in other words Google.com or in my case Google.dk. When it´s done you will get the positions on your keywords, you can also see the best rank any keywords has ever had. Another really nice feature is that you also get the sites that has the best rank, and the ones just over and under you. Therefore giving you the opportunity to see those sites also, so you can see what they are doing. ;o)

Conclusion: It´s a okay tool for any hobby webmaster and others too. The only think it lacks is the possibility to check more than one Google  domain in on report. Like Google.dk and “pages from xx”, besides the normal Google.com.!

Rank Checker (more…)

Just added – Google +1 Button

10. June 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

Google has recently launched their new + 1 button, and it obviously has led implementation of it here on the blog. It ´s already well known among blogs and websites to safety no doubt that it will be and wil out doubt be an equally big hit as both facebook, twitter, digg and all the others.Just added – Google +1 Button

The reason why i have added this on the blog is, that Google already have statet that the number of clicks will in time have a impact on seo and sem. So I can´t afford not to have it on the blog

I would therefore like to invite to you click on it if you think that blogs and what I write is worth a click.! You can also do so if you like or use one of my themes, it will also help to show that they are used.

Google +1′s impact on SEO and SEM

 

But what about you use this new feature on your own blog, or do you think it is a waste of time and space on the blogs.?

50+ good blogs with Commentluv enabled

5. June 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

As all other blog owners I do also have a list with blogs that I follow, and why not share them with all of you.!

But while it is a list of blogs that use CommentLuv, it is not an invitation to spam them with bad comments. Read the various blogs and see if they have something for you, and then perhaps write a comment if the topic is something that you are interested in.!
And even though I read the various blogs, it is far from all of them that I have written a comment. And it’s not because there hasn´t been opportunities, It´s more the lack of times or that others have asked the same question.

And without further ado, here is the list with blogs that uses Commentluv

  1. http://comluv.com [PR 6]
  2. http://www.blogussion.com/ [PR 5]
  3. http://curiouslittleperson.com/[PR 2]
  4. http://www.famousbloggers.net/ [Pr 4]
  5. http://w3blog.dk[PR 4]
  6. http://www.fmsseo.com/[PR 3]
  7. http://www.howtospoter.com/[PR 3]
  8. http://www.geekyard.com/[PR 1]
  9. http://thebitbot.com/[PR 2]
  10. http://www.bloggingjunction.com/[PR 4]
  11. http://www.rojish.com/[PR 2]
  12. http://kaiserthesage.com/[PR 0]
  13. http://wassupblog.com/[PR 4]
  14. http://www.smartbloggerz.com/[PR 4]
  15. http://www.iblogzone.com/[PR 4]
  16. http://www.netchunks.com/[PR 3]
  17. http://www.entrepremusings.com/[PR 4]
  18. http://www.bloggodown.com/[PR 4]
  19. http://dailytechpost.com/[PR 0]
  20. http://www.theinternettimemachine.com/[PR 3]
  21. http://www.webmaster-success.com/[PR 2]
  22. http://niceblogger.com/[PR 2]
  23. http://www.techiemania.com/[PR 1]
  24. http://www.bayofblog.com/[PR 0]
  25. http://www.neo1seo.com/[PR 3]
  26. http://www.iblogzone.com/[PR 2]
  27. http://basicblogtips.com/[PR 0]
  28. http://www.prav-talks.com/[PR 2]
  29. http://www.the3dtechnologies.com[PR 4]
  30. http://dailyseotip.com/[PR 4]
  31. http://marketingblogtools.com/[PR 4]
  32. http://www.earnmoney-fromhome.com/blog2/[PR 1]
  33. http://www.thefriendlyblogger.com/[PR 0]
  34. http://www.seomistry.com/[PR 0]
  35. http://www.stayonsearch.com/[PR 4]
  36. http://purplehazard.com/[PR 1]
  37. http://epiclaunch.com/[PR 0]
  38. http://myblog2day.com/[PR 3]
  39. http://www.smartbloggerz.com/[PR 4]
  40. http://blazingminds.co.uk/[PR 4]
  41. http://another-blogger.com/[PR 3]
  42. http://www.bloggingjunction.com/[PR 4]
  43. http://weblogbetter.com/[PR 4]
  44. http://www.waynejohn.com/[PR 4]
  45. http://kikolani.com/[PR 5]
  46. http://www.dragonblogger.com/[PR 4]
  47. http://www.jacknguyen.com/[PR 2]
  48. http://www.icantinternet.org/[PR 2]
  49. http://softwarebuzzer.com/[PR 1]
  50. http://www.crunchyblogger.com[PR 0]
  51. http://gaylabaer.com[PR 2]
  52. http://internetmarketingformommies.com [PR 2]
  53. http://www.growmap.com [PR 3]
  54. http://jymtarrant.com [Pr 3]
  55. http://www.geeks4share.com [PR 3]

I will keep updating this list, as I find new good blogs!

These Blogenigne.net blogs are worth a visit

  1. blogenginewall.com[PR 3]
  2. http://rtur.net/[PR 4]
  3. http://linkdatabase.dk/blog[PR 3]
  4. http://www.xn--sigenstrm-s8a.dk[PR 3] My own blog on whiplash ;)

Do you have a list with your favorit blogs.?

If you have one do share.!!

There are many myths about Google Page Rank and it´s significance.

15. May 2011 Posted by Jimmy Sigenstrøm

The most widespread myth is that Page Rank is a quality stamp of your website, blog, shop and so on in Google’s eyes, that is, the higher the PageRank the better your page and content is and the more it is worth.

This is not accurate, which on the other hand unfortunately also means that many are using the different pagerank checker in the wrong way, therefore not having the right basis for further search engine optimization of their website. This ultimately may very well mean that you have spent a lot of time and perhaps money, on something that does not have the result that was the goal.

So let’s once and for all make it clear what Google’s PageRank is and what significance it has.

PageRank evaluates on two things:
On how many links there are to a web page from other pages, and on the quality the sites linking to your website. In other words, the content of your website is completely irrelevant compared to the PR your site gets. So that means if you have a high PageRank, are the pages that links to your quality sites, thus helping to raise the value to your page but not your pagerank.

It therefore means that the number of your backlinks is not the only thing that is relevant, you need to keep assessing the value of the link you get. In other words, a link from a page with great value, is better than a link from multiple pages with a small value. In other words, links from sites like http://www.bbc.com and http://www.nbc.com are better than links from http://www.Peters-hotdogstand.com.
Which is also stated by Matt Cutts.

But how do you find these pages that have a great value, and where you can get backlinks from.
After my personal experience, are these following things something you can do to find them.!

1: If Google indexes the pages quickly, in other words, how often does Google go through the website. You can see it by checking the Google cache content of a given page, take for example the latest blog entry and check it against the Google cache: http://www.dommain.com/blogtitle. If it was indexed 14 days after it´s written, then are the value is not that great.

2: The number of backlinks to the given page, it can be done using a backlink checker.

3: Number of indexed pages from the website, ie how many of the pages on the website are indexed, for example in Google. The more pages are indexed the higher its value. (Indexed page checker )

4: Look at the websites pagerank if it has a high PageRank and therefore has quality backlinks. One must assume that the page also has some value, but not necessarily equivalent to it´s PR.

This is also where the myth of the page’s value is the same as happened PR, and it is easy to see why it happened.
It also means that we can clear up one more of the many other SEO myths, such as the myth that a link directory or / and an article database has no value. They just like all other websites that has different values, so you have to make the same checks as with any other websites to check whether it is worthwhile to create a link / article on that page. If the website a low number of pages indexed below, then is the value is not very high.!

Like this post on how many backlinks it takes to change your Google pagerank, “How Many Backlinks Required for Google Pagerank?

Good hunting for quality links.

This entry is made ​​on the basis of my own opinion, are not necessarily the right one.!
What is your opinion on the issue.?