Articles, tagged with "chris angus", page 4
01st January 2007
Search engine optimization (SEO) has grown to embrace a number of different practices including everything from enhancing the functionality of a shopping cart to optimizing copy with keywords to adding metatags to your out of context copy. The term used t...
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Christopher Angus
29th December 2006
One interesting and little known form of SEO is leaving keyword-enriched comments on other people's blogging sites. This is the secret to SEO success that many bloggers use to attract them to their bummarketing links or to their website selling products. ...
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Christopher Angus
28th December 2006
Usability is a key term that you, as a search engine optimizer, will be hearing more of lately. In essence it means the ability of an entity to complete a function once it is started. How does this apply to SEO? Essentially if you brag that your site prom...
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Christopher Angus
28th December 2006
Linking with quality partners is one way of practicing SEO as it can help boost your rankings in the search engines. Link popularity is a factor that many search engines use when ranking web pages within their indexes. Nineteen of the top twenty search en...
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Christopher Angus
28th December 2006
It is easy to master the simple HTML tags that are used in search engine optimized. Keywords and keyword phrases must occur often and near the beginning of the TITLE tag, the DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS meta tag. The more frequent the keywords appear and the...
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Christopher Angus
28th December 2006
There are several myths that circulate about SEO (search engine optimization) in general that have persisted for years. Unfortunately these myths consist of bad advice that could have you wasting your time and money and result in not making much of a prof...
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Christopher Angus
24th December 2006
One of the biggest newbie mistakes made by people first trying out search engine optimization on their websites is to try and cloak it. Most people don't even realize that they are practicing cloaking when they do it and even perceive it as a legitimate f...
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Christopher Angus
24th December 2006
If you are relatively new to the business of SEO you may not be aware that an ancient piece of advice called "adding hidden text" or "camouflaging keywords" not only does not work when it comes to raising your page rankings in the search engines but it ca...
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Christopher Angus
24th December 2006
Having too many bad links on your site can not only lower your site's importance in the page rankings of search engines it can also encourage some search engines like Lycos, Yahoo and Google to permanently remove your site from their search engine ranking...
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Christopher Angus
23rd December 2006
Creating a search engine optimized web site can be confusing. On one hand you have web site designers telling you to include more eye candy on your site in the form of attractive fonts, animations and graphics. On the other hand SEO experts will tell yo...
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Christopher Angus
21st December 2006
One thing that can confuse search engine spiders are sloppy headers on your website. It is just so easy to miss this one little thing especially if you are using a site builder on a host like freeservers.com, bravenet.com or homestead.com. What happens is...
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Christopher Angus
21st December 2006
Trying to cram as many keywords as you can into your home page is called keyword flooding. This includes the type of pages where there is a Title Tag loaded with scores of keywords. Using over twelve keywords per title tag is considered to be too much whe...
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Christopher Angus
21st December 2006
The Google Alert Tool is actually a gadget that can be used for the purposes of search engine optimization (SEO). This tool allows you to fill in perimeters on a form so you can keep your eye on new entries that make it into the top 50 on Google. You ent...
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Christopher Angus
21st December 2006
Sometimes you have great ideas but no talent for writing. This is when it becomes a good idea to hire a writer. Or you may be a very busy professional or expert in your field that is already really busy but needs an e-book or scores of SEO articles and ha...
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Christopher Angus
20th December 2006
Writing titles for web pages is different than writing titles for web site submission. The title that sits at the top of your web page is called the "in-context" title, meaning it is what people see when they are right on your site and reading the page. H...
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Christopher Angus
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