Google SEO tips – whitehat

Posted on December 6, 2010 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks, SEO.

SEO Tips and tricks simplified to get highly ranked by google and other search engines:

  • Make your website keyword focused so that popular keyphrases appear in the URL, Title and H1 tags.
  • Content should be relevant to why the visitor is on that particular page.
  • Write or get a copy writer to create Search Engine Friendly content.
  • Arrange for relevant inbound links, they should summarize what’s on your page, not just “click here” (link:mywebsite.com).
  • Check your anchor text that the links target for relevancy.
  • Make your popular keyphrases very close to what you see in your analytics for search terms, add more and refine them.
  • Utilize deep linking by having pages that attract traffic, like a recipe page on a ecommerce food website.
  • Use alt tags for all images and treat them like extra opportunities to stuff keywords without going blackhat.
  • Do a check of your total website indexed (site: mywebsite.com) and if it’s not, create a sitemap which has all of your pages in simple links so you are sure the search engines can find every one by spidering.
  • Optimize your title tags, short and sweet, every word maximally relevant to that page’s purpose.
  • Write and submit articles and press releases which mention and link to your other pages, this is link sculpting. You bring in traffic and flow it to the pages you want. In the link to the page use the keyphrase for that page. Check your analytics and send your incoming keyphrases to the page you want to get the action for each one.
  • Submit an XML sitemap of your website to the search engines, if your website changes or products change, make it an automated XML feed.
  • Make all changes look natural and do them steadily and gradually.
  • Freshen up your website with regularity, both search engines and people sense this, a stale website becomes a backwater.

SEO keyword process in 6 steps:

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Categories: Google tips and tricks, SEO.

SEO keyword process in 6 steps:

  • Find your best keywords: Figure out your golden keyphrases. Brainstorm, think like your target audience, not like a pro. Be specific for who you want to land on your website and “convert”.
  • Keyword research: Research your keyphrases for popularity. Whittle out the ones that are too short and thus too competetive.
  • Compare website competition on search engines: Do your competitive analysis and use the highest ranking websites for inspiration.
  • Keywords on website in order of importance: Write your content, or edit your existing content to use the keyphrases. Try to use your best keyphrase in your URL, page title, H1 tag and content, in that order.
  • Google analytics techniques: Setup your analytics, check your incoming search terms regularly. Suggest keyphrase changes based on what people are typing. Fold into website and repeat.

What is SEO?

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Categories: Google tips and tricks, SEO.

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means to build and edit a website so that it will be discovered by search engines and the content on the page is written and organized to be the most relevant it can be to what the searcher is looking for.

Organic Search Results are the usual source of search engine traffic which often comes from being listed on the first page of ten hits.

Adwords search results are the couple search results to the top in a light color called “sponsored” and the row to the right in google also sponsored in google. They are competitely bidded on and are worthwhile, however organic should always come first and adwords are optional if the budget allows.

Not only is the number of your “hit” on a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) important, but what it blurts out in it’s short title and summary and even the link matter. These are the items that may compel the searcher to click yours even though it’s a lower hit number. Be aware that if you attracted them with specific text, then look at the page it links to and make sure your page speaks to that. This is called “relevancy”.

Keyphrase Research and Intelligence:

Your keywords and your keyphrases are your lure to the whole world. When it comes to search engines, you won’t even get a chance to show dazzling content if you haven’t succeeded in attracting attention. It’s almost imitating mating behaviour in life these days, the peacock has a short and distinctive call to attract through a forest of trees in order to get you close enough to see it display it’s most dazzling visual effects.

Keywords are the peacock’s call. Your website may have the feathers and features, but it must attract the attention to be seen.

Your “divining” of what your visitors will type into a search engine to find you is a marvelous sense.

Our “mining” of what they actually do type, combining with divining makes a process. This is the process of keyphrase optimization, it’s not a one time deal, a shot in the dark, or an expert’s guess at what a layman will type.

Every month (or bi-weekly) we deliver a report to you which reveals so many unexpected habits and quirky searches of your visitors. This is real world intelligence, if you are not taking advantage of your analytics data, you are wasting an opportunity presented on your doorstep.

We also have ways of finding out what people searched for and didn’t click on your hit. This can open up a world of unexpected keyphrases that can be folded into your content month by month.

You will have a baseline report, and you will have future reports which show clearly how your traffic is increasing or decreasing.

We can customize the reports to show you how many times your shopping cart was loaded with product but not purchased. This is the process of optimizing “conversions”.

Meta Tags – Titles and Descriptions – Google was the first to ignore the “keyword” Meta Tag:

Meta Tags “keywords”, “description” and “Title” Tags are hidden HTML code that helps describe and classify the content on a web page.Of these “Title” is the most important to getting organic traffic. In fact it’s #2 on the MASTER LIST.

The SERP summary is also very important because this is what humans will see as your blurb next to the other nine on the SERP page, who’s blurb will they click in their 8 second window? Meta Description can come in to play when the SERP page shows your summary, sometimes it’s this Meta Tag and you have direct control over what the search engine puts for your summary. Sometimes you don’t have direct control and have to finesse it with your actual page content. (back to page relevancy, a careful rewording by a top notch copy writer is worth it here)

We focus quickly and clearly on Meta Titles to help your SERP standing in the quickest and least laborious way.

Keyphrase Optimization Service:

Find, fix and fold. Each iteration it gets better and the analytics should show this.

Roll your own:

Have your own copy writers? We will train them. This information is gathered from over 15 years of continuous internet field experience by our founding member and amplified by our bright and sharp new guys and girls.

We want you to look good, it is in our best interest for you to do very, very well and become a testimonial and a reference for what we can do for you. When your website gets traction, you may want to take off your training wheels and be free.

Google Them

Posted on August 2, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

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Keyword Tools and Keyphrase Checking

Posted on June 11, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

Keyword and Keyphrase tools:

Google Rankings keyword density tool

Keyword density of over 25% is a no no,  I’d stay under 15%.


Added a client to google analytics but they cannot see their account

Posted on June 1, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

If you’ve  added a person with a google account (gmail or whatever) and they cannot access their analytics account that you’ve shared with them from your account:

Try this link instead: https://www.google.com/analytics/settings/?et=reset&hl=en-US

If Google’s summary description for my page is not from my home page content or description Meta Tag

Posted on May 24, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks, Uncategorized.

This information comes directly from google.

If google’s summary that’s listed on the search results page is not what you expect and it doesn’t change when your page content or Meta Tag Description does:

First make sure your page has been crawled lately, you can do this manually by submitting your website to google. You can do this automatically by generating a sitemap.xml file and forcefeeding  google all of your pages with it.

Prevent search engines from displaying DMOZ data in search results for your site

One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project. You can direct us not to use this as a source by adding a meta tag to your pages.

To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page’s description, use the following:

<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">

To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page’s description, use the following:

<meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP">

If you use the robots meta tag for other directives, you can combine those. For instance:

<meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP, nofollow">

Note that once you add this meta tag to your pages, it may take some time for changes to your snippets to appear in the index.

If you’re concerned about content in your title or snippet, you may want to double-check that this content doesn’t appear on your site. If it does, changing it may affect your Google snippet after we next crawl your site. If it doesn’t, try searching Google.com for the title or snippet enclosed in quotation marks. This will display pages on the web that refer to your site using this text. If you contact these webmasters to request that they change their information about your site, any changes to their sites will be recognized by our crawler after we next crawl their pages.

Filter yourself out of Google analytics

Posted on May 10, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

To not count yourself in your google analytics reports.

1) Filter your own IP by finding your external IP address, then in Analytics->Filter Manager (bottom right)->Create New Filter->Name it, set to “Exclude all trafffic from an IP address”, use your external IP or better yet use a range of IPs close to yours (if you have a dynamic IP, which most people have)->Name your filter something like “me filtered out”.

You can calculate your range of IPs using Regular Expressions (Regex) on this page at google.
If your IP is 67.154.12.152 Then after adding the whole block from 1 to 255:
ex:^67\.154\.12\.([1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1([0-9][0-9])|2([0-4][0-9]|5[0-5]))$

2) You need to add a new website profile in analytics:
Analytics Settings->Add Website Profile->Add a Profile for an existing domain->Name the profile something like “mydomain.com with me filtered out”->Finish (button)

3) You need to add your filter to a website profile in analytics:
While viewing all of your “Website Profiles”, Click the “Edit” text to the far right of the new one you created and named (me filtered out)->Click the “Add Filter” text->Apply existing Filter to Profile->Click your filter->Click “Add” (button)->Click “Save Changes (button).

Your new profile will have 0 visits up to the day you added the new profile. So your previous numbers of visits do not transfer to your new profile. From now on your new profile will have lower numbers than the original profile because the new profile doesn’t count your visits any more and the old one still counts everything.

Meta Tag Description length

Posted on May 4, 2009 by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

The Meta Tag Description  is what usually shows on your google search result summary under your page title link. There are exceptions. The maximum number of characters for the meta tag description are listed here.

Meta Tag Keywords length

Posted on by GoogleThem.
Categories: Google tips and tricks.

The Meta Tag Keywords is obsolete. The maximum number of characters for the meta tag keywords including spaces and commas is listed here.

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