<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:22:19.457-08:00</updated><category term='seo'/><category term='marketing'/><category term='Affiliate'/><title type='text'>SEO Blogspot</title><subtitle type='html'>The world of SEO new articles weekly on search engine optimization and ways to promote your web site</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-867067849717228908</id><published>2008-06-22T23:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T00:01:56.425-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Affiliate'/><title type='text'>We Can Work The Net</title><content type='html'>We Can work The Net is my new website, and ebook a 27 page guide to how to create promote and market your websites. Including a video of how i made a 200 page website in under 10 minutes. Plus a free ebook of 25 of the top seo tips. All this is available to those of you that buy my ebook "&lt;a href="http://www.wecanworkthenet.com/"&gt;We Can Work The Net&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;I also off a few tips and tricks for free on the site, and some of the best tools for createing websites fast, geting free google adds, and a tool for getting backlinks to your site the easy way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come check it out for those seriouse about &lt;a href="http://www.wecanworkthenet.com/"&gt;ineternet marketing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-867067849717228908?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/867067849717228908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=867067849717228908' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/867067849717228908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/867067849717228908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-can-work-net.html' title='We Can Work The Net'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-4674151975891612551</id><published>2007-04-15T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T08:37:39.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Using a free source to submit your website</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I use WebCeo mainly to monitor my sites rankings in the search engines.  Here are some of the things that it can do:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Get the list of keywords and keyphrases that will bring most targeted visitors to your site. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Optimize your Web pages for top-10 positions and superior visibility in major search engines all over the globe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Submit your site to search engines that bring so much traffic to your competition. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Analyze and build links by performing a profound link research and then finding and contacting the best of potential link partners. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Manage pay-per-click campaigns from a single unified workspace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Track your positions in search engines and know for sure how effective your Website promotion efforts are. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Get a ground-breaking insight into site, its visitors, and the origins of traffic. Who are they? Where do they come from? And 100 more reports! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Easily edit your Web pages in Visual and HTML views. Get instant access to important tags without striving through HTML. Change anything on your pages with one click. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Upload any file or folder to your host without getting through sophisticated FTP routines. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Monitor the availability of your website to know when your server or host goes down to immediately react. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Web CEO comes in a free version that is completely full featured and ad free.  The paid edition is even better and has no limitations at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-4674151975891612551?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4674151975891612551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=4674151975891612551' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4674151975891612551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4674151975891612551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/using-free-source-to-submit-your.html' title='Using a free source to submit your website'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-3426595231824101583</id><published>2007-04-13T09:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T10:38:31.601-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Web promotional tools that WILL help you.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I have been using many tools over  the years that help to promote my websites, and receive the traffic  that we all wish for. Imagine having thousands of visitors to your site  everyday, yep that's right imagine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there is no need to to that it can not be done, IT CAN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every  now and again someone somewhere creates a new promotional product that  will help you get better rankings , more traffic and help you make your  web site TOP of the SEO world within your category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now  not every product works and many are a scam but none the less i buy  them and try them out, the ones that do not work , well lets just say  "Trash can" , but there are a few that have proven very worth while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in this post i am going to give  you a short list of products  that i have bought and DO really work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1: &lt;a href="http://ash11.htmlintro.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt;Michael's traffic videos&lt;/a&gt; This is a series of video tutorials and great advice and ideas that  absolutely rock, if you watch listen and do you will not go wrong,  trust me buy the videos and see the turn around in no time at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2:&lt;a href="http://ash11.adw180.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt;Adwords 180&lt;/a&gt; Looking At Google Adwords From A New Angle. Probably The Most Revolutionary Adwords Guide In The Last 4 Years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3: &lt;a href="http://ash11.bookdemon.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt;Social Book marking software&lt;/a&gt;.  Have you ever wondered if there was an easy way to add your links to all  those top social book marking sites? Yes then here is your answer New  Software! Bookmarking.com - Tagging With Social Book marking And Get  Targeted Traffic And High Pr Back links Automatically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway there are just a few of my top products so far in 2007 if you do  end up taking my advice and buying one or all of these products i would  love to here how you got on, and how you managed to turn your website  around in just a few days or weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-3426595231824101583?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/3426595231824101583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=3426595231824101583' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/3426595231824101583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/3426595231824101583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/web-promotional-tools-that-will-help.html' title='Web promotional tools that WILL help you.'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-4092040635983567868</id><published>2007-04-12T02:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T04:14:29.473-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Ways to Generate Traffic</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;To put it bluntly, you need capital to start up a company. Making money means spending money as well. However, with the flexibility and versatility the Internet offers its users, there are many ways of optimizing the potential of your business site in gaining traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traffic flows can be jump started in many ways, but many sites don’t have enough capital to generate tons of traffic to their sites. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to generate traffic. All you need is the right mindset and a careful discipline. In addition, drive and perseverance must come naturally to you to bring more traffic to your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paying nothing for site traffic is a topic dwelled upon by many SEO and self help sites with articles. Since it is possible, I’m going to just tell you that paying for your advertisements is the best way to go as far as traffic is concerned. These free methods only serve to reinforce or giving you a chance against the big guys, while paid advertisements can put you over the top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first step is to make use of online forums and online communities. These communities consist of people who compose of a special demographic that might be the target of your web pages. Through posts and threads, you can act as an informed subject on the niche at hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With message boards, you can establish yourself as an authority and build a solid company reputation. Your range of expertise should be presented here. By being helpful to other members and making use of the signature feature, you can build a reputation and earn trust amongst the people who belong in your niche.&lt;br /&gt;In addition, you can use newsletters to present people with a catalog of your products and services which can be complemented with highly informative and entertaining articles. If your articles are full of zip, more people will be encouraged to sign up for your newsletter and visit your site – which boosts traffic.&lt;br /&gt;Another trick of the trade is to trade links with other websites. This does not require any capital. Just contact other webmasters and come to an agreement over a link exchange to benefit both sites. Every person that goes to the other person’s site with your link attached stands a nice chance of visiting your page as well. This trick is especially promising when both sites discuss the same niche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is another way of piquing interest in your products and services. Write articles that are chockfull of information and be well written enough to be readable and attract other aficionados. Your traffic flow can be greatly helped by this strategy. Take advantage of article submission sites like ezinearticles.com and articlesarea.com, where your signature line to every article can contain a link to where the article originates. This signature should include a small description of your company along with the article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One last bona fide trick of the trade is to write excellent content for your website. Search engines are supposed to track down keywords and keyword phrases appearing in your content to index it correctly. Content does not always have to be written by a professional freelance writer or Pulitzer Prize winner. All you have to do is make sure that an article can hold a reader’s interest enough to take action. Generally, in the freelance writing world, you get what you pay for. Stay away from freelance writers that charge abysmally low rates, such as $3 for every 500 words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally, internet users use search engines to check out what they’re looking for. In return, search engines use keyword searching to help the search &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-4092040635983567868?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4092040635983567868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=4092040635983567868' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4092040635983567868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4092040635983567868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/free-ways-to-generate-traffic.html' title='Free Ways to Generate Traffic'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-4968420113390643981</id><published>2007-04-12T02:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T04:15:31.861-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Should I Hire a Designer?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;For someone who has started up a website with no money, you might feel tempted not to believe a web designer could do a better job than you. However, hiring a designer means a lot more than finishing a job you’re not capable or willing to do. By hiring a web designer, you transfer annoyed feelings to that designer that always leave the main picture and coming barging in right in the middle of the job. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Here, your actually business strategy can be paid more attention to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;On the flip side, make sure the designers you hire are complete professionals. By outsourcing your work to them, they can be in charge of troubleshooting and fixing any problems that might arise. Professional web designs are more adept at locating and fixing problems, perhaps faster than you can spot them. In addition, you can expect professional work coming from people who do this for a living. Remember, grow your business as well and focus on the business strategy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-4968420113390643981?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4968420113390643981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=4968420113390643981' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4968420113390643981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4968420113390643981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-should-i-hire-designer.html' title='Why Should I Hire a Designer?'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-531078112140911469</id><published>2007-04-12T02:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T23:26:43.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Search Engines is a Mini-Science</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Search engines are the No. 1 means of introducing new, prospective clients and visitors to a website. Therefore, it is savvy to know how search engines operate and how they present information to users conducting a search. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;For starters, there are two main kinds of search engines. One is by robots known as “spiders” or “crawlers.” Search engines use these trademark spiders to index websites by “crawling them,” or looking for what’s most relevant. When pages are submitted to search engines through required submission pages, the spider will proceed in indexing your whole site. In essence, it is a automated program that is used by the search engine to read the content of a site, follow with its Meta tags, and follows the links appearing on the pages. All of this information is sent back to a central depository where all of the data is index. This spider will visit each link on your site and index those too. Many spiders are only capable (or willing) to index a few pages on a site, so don’t focus on making a 600 page site!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;It doesn’t end here. The spiders return periodically to the sites to check for any changed information. Moderators of the search engines decide how often spiders crawl through a site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Spiders almost act like books where it holds a table of content, the content, and the links and references for each website linked on the pages. Search engines are capable of indexing close to one million pages daily. These search engines include AltaVista, Google, Lycos, and Excite. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;When a search engine is asked to target information, it is actually going through its created index and not searching the actual Web. Many search engines have varying rankings because of the different algorithms involved with searching through the indices. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Search engine algorithms are responsible for scanning the frequency and location of keywords on a page. In addition, it has an eye for spamming by detecting keyword stuffing or “spamdexing.” After this, algorithms get to work analyzing how the page links to other pages on the Internet. By checking for how many pages link to each other, search engines can guess correctly the site topic and if the keywords of the linked pages match the keywords on the original page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-531078112140911469?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/531078112140911469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=531078112140911469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/531078112140911469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/531078112140911469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/search-engines-is-mini-science.html' title='Search Engines is a Mini-Science'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-4686630957822933791</id><published>2007-04-12T02:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T02:09:58.631-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Search Engine Optimization  Explain It to Me!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search Engine Optimization – Explain It to Me!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Search engine optimization is   a mini-science that involves choosing the right set of keyword phrases   pertaining to your site and making sure that this lists your site highly in   search engine page results so that when a user searches for phrases, your site   appears on the first search result landing page. Search engine optimization, or   SEO in Internet lingo, means configuring the written content of your site and   HTML/meta codes to do this – along with link building. Some of the most widely   acclaimed search engines out there include the mega power Google, Yahoo, MSN   Search, Aol and Ask Jeeves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Search engines keep sophisticated algorithms that   are crafty enough to find the most relevant search engine results and to prevent   spam pages from appearing on these results pages. A search engine may   incorporate tons of criteria when coming up with listing rankings where the   criterion themselves and the weight each carries may change every day.   Algorithms are very customized, so customized that a site appearing #1 on Google   may appear as #125 on another search engine. New sites don’t need to be   submitted to search engines to appear. One simple link from a reputable, well   established site will encourage the search engines to target your new side and   begin to index its contents. Indexing is a process that may take as little as a   few days to even weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;  If keyword research to appear well on search engine   rankings is not your area of expertise, there are SEO professionals available to   work with you on this problem. There are tons of search engine marketing and   promotion companies on the Internet doubling up as consultants who look after   your site’s content plan and make recommendations based on what you already have   to improve your search engine listings and traffic conversion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; If you want,   these SEO consultants will provide consultations and periodic reporting to keep   your website ranking high and offer editing and improvement suggestions to keep   site traffic flowing normally. Basically, your web designer should work closely   with your search engine optimization consultant to exercise an integrated plan   from the get-go so that all design components are fully compatible and   practical.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-4686630957822933791?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4686630957822933791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=4686630957822933791' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4686630957822933791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/4686630957822933791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/search-engine-optimization-explain-it.html' title='Search Engine Optimization  Explain It to Me!'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-7200828236381401807</id><published>2007-04-04T13:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T14:07:58.307-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Webmaster Forum UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Hi and yep i am back after quite a time away from my blog, sorry about that folks,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Well I have been busy setting a new forum called Webmaster Forum UK that can be found here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.webmasterforumuk.co.uk"&gt;http://www.webmasterforumuk.co.uk &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;I have set this up in the hope of getting some UK webmasters and beginners to get together and chat about the world of SEO and web site design over here on the little green island i call home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The site has started of quite well with 40 members already signed up and over 150 posts, so within time i am hoping to get quite a community together, and some good info. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;I find that alot of the big forums are State Side (USA) but we have quite a big web community over here as well, i know there are other forums here in the UK like webmaster-talk.co.uk  but there is not alot going on, mmm am i looking in the right place ??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Any way here are some new tips for you to get repeated traffic to your website hope this may help some of you out there, speak tyo you all soon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;cheers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;2. Offer additional value on your website. &lt;i&gt;For affiliates and partners &lt;/i&gt;you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;3&lt;i&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-US"&gt;9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-7200828236381401807?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/7200828236381401807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=7200828236381401807' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/7200828236381401807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/7200828236381401807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/webmaster-forum-uk.html' title='Webmaster Forum UK'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-9153884138384340140</id><published>2007-02-11T10:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:56:10.657-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Page rank links</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;One way to icrease your paage rank is to link to other sites that have a good page rank. Although for  most of these sites the links will have to be bought. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;here are a couple of good anchor link sites that do have a pagerank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.platinumregistry.com"&gt;Platinum Registry Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tag2me.com/"&gt;Tag2me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-9153884138384340140?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/9153884138384340140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=9153884138384340140' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/9153884138384340140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/9153884138384340140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/02/page-rank-links.html' title='Page rank links'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116741160481435635</id><published>2006-12-29T08:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-02T12:39:39.316-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Video Tutorial To adding a link to tag2me.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_RPY28cT8g"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_RPY28cT8g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116741160481435635?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116741160481435635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116741160481435635' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116741160481435635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116741160481435635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/video-tutorial-to-adding-link-to.html' title='Video Tutorial To adding a link to tag2me.com'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116730589441487199</id><published>2006-12-28T03:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-28T04:04:37.006-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wikiasari the new search engine</title><content type='html'>Wikiasari  the new search engine that is to hit the internet early in 2007 looks like it is set to shake things up in the search engine wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find out more visit the &lt;a href="http://www.wikiasariblog.com/"&gt;Wikiasari Blog &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/claim/hsmhrmrmnn" rel="me"&gt;Technorati Profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116730589441487199?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116730589441487199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116730589441487199' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116730589441487199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116730589441487199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikiasari-new-search-engine.html' title='Wikiasari the new search engine'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116725989340417510</id><published>2006-12-27T14:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-28T03:36:22.050-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Looking to the future 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Looking to the future of web site promotion creates its own  unique concepts. If you have an e-commerce store that sells a particular  product and you wish to gain high traffic and large sales, how are you going to  make it happen?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Well, here at Web Design Studio we keep our finger on the  pulse and stay ahead of the rest when it comes to marketing your products. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The power of the media: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;No longer do you have to spend thousands of ££ on TV  advertising. In 2007 web media i.e. video marketing on websites such as You  tube, Google videos, flur and many others is what will drive sales and visitors  to your site this year. In February of 2006 You tube received over 4.2million  visitors, now if just 1% of those visitors saw your advert for your product,  and if just 0.5% of them came to your site. and if just 0.25% of them had  bought your product for £10 you would have earned £10.000 in sales, from one  video advert that would have cost you less than £500.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Web design Studio are pleased to offer you this marketing formula  and with the right concept in mind you could double your sales within one  month.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The proof ! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Take for example a company that wishes to market a brand new  blender called the "totalblender" what they did to drive sales  through the roof and receive tens of thousands of visitors was inspiring to us  all. Here’s what they did for their video media advertising campaign.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&amp;amp;video=crowbar" target="_blank" rel="no-follow"&gt;View the video "Blending a crowbar"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116725989340417510?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116725989340417510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116725989340417510' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116725989340417510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116725989340417510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/looking-to-future-2007.html' title='Looking to the future 2007'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116722926489043339</id><published>2006-12-27T06:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T06:21:04.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEO in 2007</title><content type='html'>Predictions for 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1/ Google's early entry to radio advertising will bear fruit prompting Google to start examining television advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to the allocation of advertising dollars, Google fundamentally altered the rules of the game. In the past, mass market advertisers would gamble on a shotgun approach to ad-spending. The options consisted of newspaper, magazine, telephone directory, radio or television. While each medium could provide statistics showing their print-run and audience, tracking the success or failure of these types of advertising has always posed a problem for manufacturers and retailers. When Google popularized the pay-per-click model in which advertisers only pay when a person actually views the ad, a new model was born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google's billing model will have to alter slightly to meet the radio and video formats however, as digital radio and television becomes the norm, tracking will become far easier. Google will be able to charge by the listener or viewer though it remains to be seen if listeners or viewers will actually listen to or view advertisements on digital radio or television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2/ A consortium of major newspapers and publishers will form a consolidated advertising group to combat Google. The initiative will fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2006, Google literally sucked much of the money out of the pool of resources shared by publishers on or offline. With its venture into newspaper advertising, Google has threatened the classic golden goose of traditional news publishing, the classified ad section. News gathering organizations, already reeling from a loss of advertising income to other facets of the online marketplace should band together much as several airlines have to reduce cost and difficulties booking tickets. The newspapers and magazines could easily promote local, regional, national and even international advertising opportunities at a much lower cost than they could individually. If they can band together to undercut Google's costs is another question however they will either figure out how to collectively raise advertising income or they will become Google advertising affiliates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3/ Congress will initiate an open investigation of pay-per-click advertising models.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We already know of closed-door congressional inquiries into the PPC market. Stemming from the AIT vs. Google case, we have learned of FBI and Secret Service investigations, and in-camera hearings before congressional committees. We also know of at least two republican and one democratic senators interested in opening further investigations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How this one plays out is a mystery, but it will likely play out this year. Thus far, the investigations have been kept behind closed doors, a silent testimony to the strength of Google's lobby effort in Washington DC. No matter how talented and strenuous the lobby, an investigation of Click Fraud will be made public sometime this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4/ An investigation of pay-per-click advertising models will threaten Google's stock values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence the strong lobby effort. If common sense doesn't threaten Google's stock values, the threat of congressional oversight will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5/ Google will drop below $450 before the end of first quarter 2007. If Google drops below $425, watch for a major landslide in California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The market is softening. With expected slowdowns in the housing, building, manufacturing and retail sectors, tech investors are showing signs of skittishness going into 2007. The first part of January is traditionally a time when the market readjusts to decisions made by investors in the last weeks of December. Many sell shares towards the end of the year in order to clarify their incomes for tax time. This year, a number of analysts have advised clients to unload some of their Google shares as a hedge against an expected downturn in share values. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Google remains far above the $450 range, expect it to drop to around $450 by mid-March. It's earnings to assets ratios are way too extended and though it has better prospects than any of its competitors, the search advertising market is changing rapidly. The only thing that saves Google from dropping is rapid entry into the television advertising market. The first signs of a weakening AdWords market will be the catalyst of the first round of a Goog landslide. If the share prices hit $425, watch for major selling. If it goes below $400, buy a boat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6/ Yahoo will find focus and direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having freed itself from the sticky peanut butter mess it found itself in late 2006, Yahoo has made the first steps towards reorganizing their messy organization. The battle between Hollywood and Sunnyvale has been settled with the geeks coming out on top of the agents. This year is Yahoo's year to stage a serious comeback or to languish into obscurity. I suspect the former. However, all the major algorithmic search engines will face a new challenger this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7/ The major search engines will face a new and socially adept competitor this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has hooked up with Amazon to produce a human-powered search engine that will be released sometime in 2007. This collaborative effort to dethrone Google will be moderately successful. Wikisari will quickly become one of the biggies, but Google will still be king.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8/ 2007 will be the year Internet marketers discover the power of online video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The use of video will become a standard component of online communication. Advertisements, long-distance conferencing and public relations in general will be affected. The advancement of video online will set the stage for a major realignment in the traditional entertainment industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9/ DIY Infotainment Distribution for fun and profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using tools like the Yahoo Publisher Network, YouTube, Flickr and distributed podcasts, webmasters and private websites will start to replace professionally developed network broadcasts as an information and entertainment source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add efficient monetization to the mix through Yahoo Search Marketing ads and you have an effective enticement for adventurous webmasters to try entering the market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10/ YPN will see challengers this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Yahoo Publisher Network is by far the most advanced program of its kind, expect to see other search entities introducing their own webmaster friendly monetized information and entertainment distribution programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11/ The search marketing environment will further fragment with the following sectors seeing;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stronger gains: Video, Social Networking, Niche marketing, Vertical search&lt;br /&gt;weaker margins: Traditional domain-driven SEO, Small-scale PPC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12/ Changes to the SEO Billing Model&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many traditional SEOs will be forced to adopt PPC style billing. Fees will be charged based on the success of a campaign as opposed to flat fees charged up front or on a monthly basis. Greg Boser has written and commented on this several times, most recently in a conversation with WebmasterRadio's Daron Babin on the last Rainmaker show of 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13/ Consolidation in the Search Marketing Sector&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2007, financial pressures faced by firms in the SEO part of the search marketing industry will produce a sector that looks very different from the one we work in now. Watch for consolidation between allied SEO, SEM, Public Relations and link-building firms as clients demand full-service vendors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14/ Hasty La Vista&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early Microsoft Vista users will eat a number of worms, catch a bunch of viruses and end up as Zombies. As a result, savvy IT departments put off the update until Microsoft can prove it has created a master-patch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15/ Patch This Microsoft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That big patch will be ready for download in 2008, effectively delaying the rollout of Vista for another year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Bonus Predictions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16/ Duke Nukem Forever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duke Nukem Forever will be noted as the greatest game that never was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17/ Planet Fortune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Webmasters will have more rewarding opportunities this year than ever. 2007 will see the fruition of several major initiatives started in 2005 or 2006 such as the YPN, online video advertising, and the combination of on and offline advertising. With the largest public relations and marketing firms in the world taking serious note of search, the search marketing industry will be truly considered part of the mainstream ad industry. This will empower webmasters as more attention, energy and assistance is directed towards helping webmasters present interesting content framed by increasingly expensive advertising. There is a lot of fortune to be found online this year and much of it will trickle down to the grassroots. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2007 is going to be an intense and interesting year. Next week, we'll take a look at how I did in my 2006 predictions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;Search marketing expert Jim Hedger is one of the most prolific writers in the search sector with articles appearing in numerous search related websites and newsletters, including SiteProNews, Search Engine Journal, ISEDB.com, and Search Engine Guide.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116722926489043339?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116722926489043339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116722926489043339' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116722926489043339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116722926489043339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/seo-in-2007.html' title='SEO in 2007'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116561460889344346</id><published>2006-12-08T13:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T13:50:08.900-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Link Popularity</title><content type='html'>To check your link popularity score, simply go to a website that offers the service, type in your URL, and hit the submit button.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To check the websites linking back to you on a search engine, just type “link:yourdomain.com” and it will show up in the search results. Most search engines support this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How To Increase Your Link Popularity&lt;br /&gt;Getting links to your website isn't going to happen overnight unless you run a huge website of some sort. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing that you should do is put up quality content. If you have quality content, quality websites will link to your website. Some search engines like Google look at the website that's linking to your website in addition to looking at yours. All of this will factor in the search results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also email webmasters whom run websites similar to yours and ask if they would like to exchange links. This method is a more “hands-on” method in comparison with the first one. Of course, you would still need the quality content though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing that you can do is submit your website URL to a variety of directories. You can submit to a couple directories or a couple hundred or even thousand directories. There are services that you can pay for and they will submit your website for you to a list of directories&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116561460889344346?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116561460889344346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116561460889344346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116561460889344346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116561460889344346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/link-popularity.html' title='Link Popularity'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116513398543176024</id><published>2006-12-03T00:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T00:19:45.676-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Future of Back Links</title><content type='html'>Back links are a great way of receiving quality, targeted traffic. They are also a great way of increasing your website's rankings in the search engines; that is, if they are totally related to your website, of course. The history of back links has been a positive one so the future of back links is only looking brighter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As more and more people link to your website from theirs, you will receive more traffic from people interested in your website simply because your link is there. You can be sure that the traffic from back links are very accurate and targeted to your website's content because a visitor would not click on a link unless it is specifically what they are looking for. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On search engines, their algorithms still rely a great deal on the number of back links to your website. In the future, new factors may be placed in but back links will probably remain in the algorithm simply because it is an accurate and satisfying way of measuring the quality and value of your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the publisher side, back links will continue to make webmasters more and more money as time goes by. Other website owners are constantly paying other webmasters for back links to their websites. Why? As mentioned before, because back links are providing targeted traffic. They work! This is a win-win situation for all parties involved. More money for a webmaster by selling links; more traffic and increased search engine rank for the webmaster that purchased the back link; and on the search engine side, more relevant search results to provide its users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, the future of back links seems like it will only be moving forward in a positive direction. The only way it could die out is if the Internet died out – and that's pretty unlikely&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116513398543176024?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116513398543176024/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116513398543176024' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116513398543176024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116513398543176024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/12/future-of-back-links.html' title='The Future of Back Links'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116453594412550284</id><published>2006-11-26T02:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T02:12:24.126-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Tagging Sensation</title><content type='html'>The Internet, from its beginning to now, has always been a huge spawning ground for new and sensational ideas. Although these ideas usually come and go, many of them do indeed stick around for awhile. So what is all the hype on the Internet today? Tagging. Tags are relevant keywords related or connected to a piece of information such as an article, blog posting, or even a website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the early stages of the Internet, we had regular, plain ol' directories. Today, we have tagging websites. When submitting your website to a tagging directory, you will select the tags that you feel is relevant to your website and those tags will be used to describe your website. This is truly a revolutionary idea as more and more regular web users will be able to experience an increased user-friendly Web. They will also have the ability to find the information that they want to retrieve quickly and easily without having to rummage through irrelevant links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond the user experience, tagging can be greatly beneficial to search engine optimization. On tagging sites, the tags that you have selected would be relatively similar to the content on your website. It “categorizes” your website using those tags. Adding your sites to these tagging directories give your links that “human” touch that old-style directories lack. And doing all this tagging for your website is extremely simple and takes less than a minute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More and more tagging directories are popping up all over the Internet – because they work. Many webmasters have already added directory tagging to their to-do list when they begin to link build for their own websites. A definite win-win situation for the webmaster and the users. It's a new thing that's catching on fast and becoming a big hit!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116453594412550284?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116453594412550284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116453594412550284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116453594412550284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116453594412550284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-tagging-sensation.html' title='New Tagging Sensation'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37793205.post-116453558007584307</id><published>2006-11-26T02:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T02:06:20.083-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Social Bookmarking</title><content type='html'>Social bookmarking websites are becoming some of the hottest things in Web 2.0 today. If you are unfamiliar with what these social bookmarking websites do, then read on. Using these websites, you are able to store links that you like along with tagging them with relevant keywords to share with others -- social bookmarking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what exactly goes on at these websites?&lt;br /&gt;Well, first of all, you are able to view what people are bookmarking and all of the links that they want to share with you. Of course, you could find these yourself using a search engine; but people are usually better than computers at suggesting what other people may like. That's the main beauty of social bookmarking right there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, you are able to share your bookmarks with other people. If people see what you like, they may contribute similar things to help you out. This leads to more people sharing their bookmarks and before you know it, you are able to view a ton of cool and interesting stuff that you may probably not have seen if you were browsing the Web on your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, the searching. I'm sure you have used a search engine like Google or Yahoo before. Sure, they are great search engines but they lack the personal touch that social bookmarking sites provide. Humans are good at finding what humans may like. While searching on a social bookmarking site, you may find more things that are useful to you because the users are able to tag their bookmarks. This makes everything a lot more precise when searching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And at last, the social part. Browsing these social bookmarking websites, it is astonishingly easy to find cool people with the same interests as you just by looking at the websites that they visit and bookmark. Social bookmarking websites are becoming very popular. With the high advancements in technology, it is only going to get better than ever.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37793205-116453558007584307?l=seoblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/116453558007584307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37793205&amp;postID=116453558007584307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116453558007584307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37793205/posts/default/116453558007584307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seoblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/11/social-bookmarking.html' title='Social Bookmarking'/><author><name>Cold Climber</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16966255956669322309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://tag2me.com/ash.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
