Blogging for SEO

Um, go. The brain is not functioning at it’s peak this morning (or any morning for that matter), it takes a few minutes of solid work to get the hamster into the wheel and running. A great way to to get going in the morning, other than a vigorous work-out or slap in the face, is to jump right in and submit some finished work. I complete a cruise to cash site yesterday before I went home but because the server was running so slow I did not have time to finish and submit. The cool thing about this is the cheap feeling of early success in the work day, which will give me the boost I need to get the hamster upstairs to roll out of bed.

Well, the insurance sites are all finished up and now we’re moving onto real estate. Regretfully it seems like the predecessor has taken less care of these, but of course, that’s why we’re working them all over again. But I must admit I do like the styling of a New York real estate site that I recently worked on. Pretty nice even though it would’ve been nice if they put as much work into the content as they did the styling. Though that’s all fixed now.

Sometimes it is better to go with plain and simple instead of all that fancy-shmancy. I did just that on a recent site. There is not much in the way of graphics, or even design really, but it meets the eye with a warm smile soft hug. I would like to tell you that I did this because I’m smart and good at my job, and just know what the heck I’m doing when it comes to making a pretty website…but I can’t, because I don’t. Though, I was lucky enough to pull it off - no pun intended - more than once. Here is a site for an electronics store.

Wikipedia says PageRanks is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

You can find several different sites that allow to check your page rankings. If you need some examples of sites, there are some listed below.

1. Bellevue Roofing Co.
2. Creative Remodeling Solutions

I had just finished a site for an insurance company and realized that I heavily rely on colorzilla because I use the hexadecimal color system to style all my pages, using CSS of course. Once you get your CSS skills down I highly recommend downloading colorzilla, it can be found at mozilla.com.

Not very creative this morning, so I found this article on Ezinearticle.com about SEO for MLM….so if you are working on an MLM and looking for a few tips on what might be the most important aspects of it…heres your sign!!

8 Best SEO Tips to Boost your Home Based Business

Doing these reworks for insurance sites can be a little frustrating when you see the same mistakes made on them over and over again. Hopefully they get better from this point on, but while working on an insurance in Utah site, I saw a lot of improvement in comparison to the other ones I’ve had to correct. Regretfully, it still had the major mistakes. I’m hoping that today is a better day for these reworks.

1. Specifying no title for your page:

I cannot stress how important the title of a web page is. Failing to specify a descriptive, keyword optimized title will do untold damage to your ranking with the search engines. It is the equivalent to owning a shop and boarding up its windows. Ideally each page on your site should have a unique, content-specific title following the guidelines specified in the Title Tag Optimization article.

2. Excessive use of images or Flash animation on a page:

If your web page has plenty of nice-looking graphics and eye-popping Flash animation and not a lot of textual content it may indeed look nice but have you ever considered what how the search engines might see it. Search engines thrive on textual content, scavenging as much text as they can but unfortunately they cannot understand images or Flash animations like we can and so will find nothing of real value on your page. Try to balance your page so that the textual content is given priority and that any images or animations are used only when needed. Also it is a good idea to attach some text to an image by using its ALT tag as search engines use this text when determining rank.

3. Complicated menu systems:

Search engines spiders that crawl through our pages are a relatively primitive bunch. They find in hard to navigate complicated menu systems implemented for example in JavaScript or as a Java applet. Just because it is easy for a human to navigate through the site never assume it will be as easy for a search engine spider. A menu system using simple textual links will be easier for a spider to understand and it will be able to successfully navigate your site. A lot of the time complicated menu systems can be replicated using textual links and CSS.

If you must use a complicated menu system be sure to provide a site map that is clearly accessible from the homepage of your site and contains only textual links to your pages. This ensures that even if the spider cannot understand your menu system that it will be able to find the pages on your site.

Article borrowed from www.geocities.com/frakilk

As a web design and SEO neophyte I am constantly learning, a perpetual student of code, method, style and life. Thus far, the most useful skill one can have in their arsenal of web tricks is the ability to manipulate a web site using Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is does amazing things! From changing background colors to positioning content and tables, CSS is versatile, functional and down right needed when styling pre-formatted templates to fit the size and scheme of a particular industry or even a clients personal requirements.

Add CSS to your bag of tricks and witness the change in your approach to web design.

Routine in life is about as natural to me as swimming in a nasty swamp. When dealing with business, school, bills, responsibilities, and your basic day to day - or week to week - needs you have to have some kind of routine just to accomplish these task and survive. The same concept applies to when working on the web, especially in SEO. To keep up rankings and site traffic the basics must be ran through on practically a daily basis, such as writing in your blog everyday to keep readers continually interested and coming back.