SEO Free Backlink Building Tool

I found a tool that webconfs.com offers that is useful in researching sites for link exchange and backlink partners. Several sites across the web recommends this tool as being much easier than manually searching and filtering links on your own. Just click here for the back building tool

Boosting You SEO With Images

Jenny Field with the Denver Internet Business Examiner shares some interesting tips on how images can actually help with SEO. Many of us has been taught otherwise when it comes to image use and SEO. For interesting tips on how images can boost your SEO efforts read below:

"Images often get a bad rap in the SEO world, as SEO experts mostly give a brief explanation of their common hindrance in website ranking. The fact of the matter is that images, when used properly on your website, can actually help your site's ranking. Images, after all, are important, as our human eyes are naturally drawn to images before any text." for more SEO tip #2

On Point Strides Towards SEO Success

Many businesses put more effort into the aesthetics of their website and when they don’t get the business or traffic they were anticipating, turn to SEO as a last resort. In actuality Search Engine Optimization needs to be established from the beginning of a websites development project. Like many businesses, who learn the hard way; are left with an astonishing site to look at with few visitors. A site that is nearly impossible to locate via top search engines. This is where SEO comes in to save the day.

Often SEO professionals find their work cut out for them. Trying to optimize a site already built is quite difficult. It’s like trying to improve a home whose foundation was done all wrong to begin with. It often leaves businesses at a point where they are better of re-doing the entire site. Re-designing a site and creating one that has SEO success on the forefront instead of the back end. He are just a few beginning SEO thoughts to consider:

~A company area of expertise should be the basis of the text and keywords on the landing page of the site.

~Words used to describe the service you provide should also be included in your contents and tags.

~Select titles of site pages that are unique and contain frequently searched keywords.

~Select titles that are rich descriptive keywords to ensure increased hits and traffic.

~Due to the importance of keywords, knowing what your target keywords are from the beginning is best. Do so by researching the best keywords for your site.

~Search engine spiders crawls a site page and seeks Meta tags. This is where titles are obtained and used in search engines, examples are keywords and the description for each page.

15 Reasons to Take a Further Look at Video Optimization

As mentioned in a previous post…. “Video Submissions” is a great way to advertise your URL by uploading videos content that is product related with the goal of attracting more clients. Reel SEO discusses the top 15 tips for SEO for Video Optimization:

1. Create Relevant, Unique, Informative Videos
2. Video thumbnails
3. Videos <5 min.
4. Sitemaps
5. Surrounding HTML
6. Descriptive Meta Data
7. Title
8. Tags
9. Optimize URLs
10. Branding
11. Inbound Linking
12. Syndicate
13. Upload to Video Sharing Sites
14. Allow Embed Code
Encourage Ratings and Reviews

For a closer look into these 15 tips visit Reel SEO

SEO Secrets to Success

Ideally a SEO Professional’s goal is to increase their client’s rankings in the top search results. Have greater visibility in leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Knowledge is always key. Many SEO Professionals attended the Internet Retailer Web Design “09” Conference in Miami Beach, FL to gain some better insights on how to achieve those goals. SEO experts Stephan Spencer and Marion Sharkey offered some vital tips to reach those top rankings. Spencer and Sharkey provided a review of both strengths and weaknesses of websites of those in attendance during a session titled “Top Design Tips to Boost SEO Rankings.” Here are some of the key points mentioned:

-Every page should feature a title that includes few keywords the client ultimately wants to rank high on. Limiting the title to three keywords is best.

-The header on each page should have a H1 tag that contains the keyword, for instance a given brand or product. Your H1 tag should have in sync with the focus keyword of the page.

-Be sure to title each page. The keywords the Client prefers to rank high in should appear at the top of the page in the browser frame.

-If your industry is designer shoes then it would be best to list the names of top brand names of designer shoes. So as customers search for these items they find you in their search. Listing them in the title tag will improve your client’s rankings.

During the session there were some common errors mentioned to avoid. Avoid using an extended block of text containing keywords towards the bottom of the home page. Often this is done to have the site’s search terms appear more relevant to search engines. Apparently such actions causes search engines to consider this as “keyword stuffing” and will generally end in a penalty. So it's clear that just by practicing these key tips SEO Professionals will be well on their way to success.

Beware the emails requesting a link exchange

Here is one along with my response: (scroll to the bottom for my reply, i have edited their email request for easier reading, you get the point of what they are asking...

This is something to consider when receiving these email link exchange request.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daisy [mailto:links (at) realestatewebsitesmarketing.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:10 AM
To: XXXXXX
Subject: House Repair Related Link Exchange Request

Dear owner of http://www.precisionatlanta.com/,

I'm the webmaster of http://kimberlypainting.net/cumming-painting.htm.
We came across your site on the Internet and feel that it would fit perfectly into our collection of quality industry related partners at http://kimberlypainting.net/cumming-painting.htm.

The Google PR of this site is currently 2.

We've already placed a link to your site on the page http://www.kimberlypainting.net/links-guter-repair10.html , We'd appreciate it if you place a link back to our site using the following HTML code (just copy and paste it into your links page):

(blah blah blah...)
Best regards,
Daisy
Webmaster, KimberlyPainting.net

Note: This is not spam -- this is a one-time link exchange request. To ensure that you will not receive any more emails from us in the future, please reply to this email with ‘not interested’ in the subject line. Thank you.
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My Response:

Daisy,

I would be interested except for the fact that the page you put our link on is not even indexed by Google, nor is the main links page http://www.kimberlypainting.net/links.html and there is no way for any spiders to even find those pages.

You do not even link your main "links page" anywhere on the site for Google or any other Search Engine to index. The link you have placed is invisible and worthless - if you want me to link back to you on a page that will never be indexed by Google I suppose I could do that but that would just be wasting both of our time wouldn't it?

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I love the email disclaimer that its not spam, I guess everyone's definition of spam is different. From what I can recall spam is an unsoliceted email with a sales pitch in it. Now, I myswelf have sent unsolicted emails to websites asking if they want to exchange links, but its never a form letter and its never one of the "I already placed your link here, here is the HTML code for my link" - but nevertheless, it is technically spam, oh well. Daisy seems to think spam means your on a mailing list. Whatever

The point is these bulk link exchange programs are pretty much worthless, 10 good solid links are worth 100 of these crappy link exchanges where you end up on a page with 50 or 100 otherlinks and its on one of 50 link pages... its spam garbage - work on building quality links, not junk links.

Some SEO Predictions for 2009

Happy New Year to all! With a New Year we often wonder what the year will actually bring. When it comes to SEO trends and practices it would be great to get a prediction of what to expect in 2009.

Well William Flaiz discuses on Search Engine Watch what some of his predictions for 2009.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632258 We welcome anyone else to share their SEO predictions for 2009.