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Increasing your Website’s Exposure online

Marketing your website online is extremely important if you want to get any exposure. However, it requires skills and knowledge. Press Releases: The best way to spread the word about your online business is by sending out regular press releases. Many media outlets look for press releases on a daily basis. With so many online news distribution services available, it is now very easy for you to announce special events, new product lines and other related news. Submitting Product Feeds: If you sell products online, then always use product feeds to reach out to a wider audience. A product feed is basically a file generated from a site that lists the product details, descriptions, photos, pricing and special offers. You can submit these product feeds to comparison shopping sites. Knowledge Sharing: As a retailer, it is important for you to come across as a voice of authority in the eyes of your customers. Host workshops, classes and seminars. And write, write, write! Apart from these metho

Why you should stay away from some SEO Guarantees

SEO guarantees are supposed to be great right? Not really! In most cases, SEO guarantees are an illusion. Here are a few reasons why you need to stay away from SEO guarantees: Everybody loves a good guarantee and most businesses are built on one. The very word “Guarantee” sells. However, guarantees are only great if they back a business up. Unfortunately, this does not happen in most cases. Today, there are many unethical SEO agencies and experts all over the Internet, and their best way to con visitors into buying their services is by offering an SEO guarantee. Many SEO agencies will claim to put you on the 1st page of Google in just 1 month, and even back this claim up. The catch to this is that not all the Google pages are created equally. What they will do is select a keyphrase that is relevant to your niche, and take the short cut to get you ranked. Another trick that they use is to come up with a keyphrase that sounds great but no one really uses when searching online. Such keyph

The 5 factors that Result in Higher Search Engine Ranking

All website owners desire to have high search engine ranking of their website on all the major search engines. Major search engine giants like Google have their own algorithms used for ranking sites. Although these algorithms keep changing all the time, there are certain factors that determine high search engine ranking and they do not change. Then there are also other factors that result in negative ranking of a website on the search engines. We bring to you a list of 5 positive factors that affect search engine ranking. Top 5 Positive Ranking Factors: Anchor text from all the external links that is rich in keywords: This has a very high importance of almost 73 per cent. Quality of links from other sites and link popularity: Even this factor enjoys a lot of importance of around 71 per cent. Different link sources from unique root domains: This has a little low importance than the above two but still high from the rest, about 67 per cent. Title tags that are rich in keywords: A little

A few important Keyword Placement Techniques

In order to search engine optimize a web page, it is important to know how search engines work. Search engines use web crawlers for going through and indexing your pages. Keywords play an important role in this. Search engine crawlers have no way to index your page unless they go through the crawlers. Therefore it is important to correctly use keywords. We have compiled a list of keyword placement tips which might help you: The title of your web page should most definitely include the keyword. This is highly important because this is the only way crawlers and your viewers will know what your page is all about. The headers in your web page also make a good place for keywords. Make sure you make the most of this, especially if your web page is divided into multiple sections. Include all your important keywords in the header section. Although many people recommend the use of keywords throughout the page, it is easy to over use them. Stuffing your page with keywords may list your site as s