Seo.....What?

By: elizabeth ashe

SEO, to many people these three letters sound like a secret code. But, to Internet marketers these three little letters are priceless. SEO stands for search engine optimization. The process is one that is absolutely necessary for anyone trying to market their website and gain traffic.

SEO helps to make a site and its content highly relevant for search engines and searchers. It aids the searcher in finding your site by putting out specific keywords and phrases for your site into the search engines so that they can be found. Successful search engine optimization can help a site to gain high rankings in the search engines, allowing it to be found more easily.

Here are a few ways to easily search engine optimize your website:

1. Make sure the first 100 words of your website are full of keywords that you want people to be able to search and find your site using.

2. Be sure to use your top keywords in any links back to your site. Have those who link to your site use those top words when linking to you.

3. Target one keyword per page. You can’t expect to try to cram every keyword on every page. It is much more useful to do one per page where once visitors are at your site they can more easily find the info that they need.

4. Use your top keyword in your header. Either as your title of your site or as a tag line works well

5. Use top keywords in both the top and bottom sections of your web copy with a few keywords sprinkled in the middle as well. Keyword rich copy is very valuable for search engine optimization

6. It is important also that when you do obtain links back to your site, try to only have sites which link back to you with the same information on their site that you are trying to target. It does not help to have a site about baby food with a link back to your site about how to sell computers.

7. Continue to have unique content by adding fresh pages to your site on a regular basis. Search engines love fresh content not “Duplicate Content”! This will increase your chances of having people find your site on a consistent basis

These are just a few tips which should help to properly search engine optimize your website. Search engine optimization sounds scary at first but is really not so difficult once you get started and learn the terms and how to use them and put them into place on your website.

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Elizabeth Ashe is an Professional internet marketer and owner of http://www.allnaturalwahm.com/. To learn more about internet marketing and to receive a free gift visit http://www.allnaturalwahm.com/

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Directories and Increased Blog Traffic

Developing a blog may be easy. To maintain it may take a bit of work on your part. However, to market it and create a buzz about it is the hardest thing to do if you don't know how. After blogging for 10 months now, I was able to know little by little that a blog, in order to get a lot of visitors, you need to do your part too. Once you have it, it doesn't end there. For a blog to become successful, proper and effective marketing is the key.

One way to increase your blog's traffic is by submitting it to directories. I've made a list of free blog directories below that will help us in marketing our blogs. Submit your blog to all of them and surely your blog's traffic will increase.

blogcatalog.com
bloghub.com
blogflux.com
blogtoplist.com
blogdirs.com
weblogalot.com
topblogarea.com
totalblogdirectory.com
bestblogs.org
blog-directory.org

More directories to come in my next posts. Hope the above list will help your blog get more visitors. Good luck!