Showing posts with label Black Hat SEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Hat SEO. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

5 Most Important Rules for Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important sources of traffic nowadays, and absolutely all web masters and site owners employ a few tactics to gain better positions on Google Search and other search engines and get more traffic from them.

Here are the most important rules (or, you could say, guide lines) that will help you achieve success in your SEO efforts and get your site ranking high in any search engine for almost any keywords.

Put readers before crawlers. A lot of people are trying so hard to get the search crawlers on their side and achieve the best search engine search page positions that they forget their main goal, which is to get visitors. Returning visitors are the most important thing for any web site, without them your site will be a passing fad, even if it seems successful for a while. These visitors will tell others about your site and link to you, which will keep bringing you traffic long after the search engines drop your articles from their first pages.
Making human visitors and readers a priority is also important because search engines themselves consider them a part of a good website

Use keywords correctly and effectively. As you may already know, keywords are very important for SEO. Without them being positioned well throughout your site and articles, search engines would not know for what search term to rank you and would just rank you randomly for various words found in your posts, which will get you traffic, but not targeted one that can be converted into leads and sales.

Choose quality over quantity when it comes to content. If you have to choose between 10 interesting articles that people will want to share with others and 100 average to bad articles that provide no new or useful information, you will be much better off choosing the first option.
Use Image Search Optimization. Image Search Optimization is a relatively new branch of SEO, but it’s still very effective. Google Image Search alone gets more than 200 million searches per month, and you can get a part of that traffic, too. Amazon does it and gets millions of new users that would otherwise never find their site.
Get quality backlinks.Once you have done all of the above, the only thing you have left to do to boost your rankings is get links to your site and pages. The links should be anchored by the keyword you want to rank for, but it’s OK if it’s just a “click here” link from a site related to your article.

The best links are those created by your readers on their blogs and various social networks, as they’re the most trusted and also generate a lot of direct traffic. You can also buy links or ads on other sites,
At Levonsys, we have the skills to turn your entire online venture into a huge success. Are you looking for a website design company in Hyderabad, India with real style and visual appeal? We have the skills and commitment to make that a reality. We strive to deliver quality solutions by using technology and our vast experience. We offer services like Website Design, Branding, Flash Design, Mobile Applications, Custom Web Applications and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).


Saturday, October 23, 2010

What is Acquisition in Social Media?


    It’s important to define what you acquisition strategy per social channel. Your acquisition strategy for Facebook, Your Blog, Twitter, or LinkedIn will each have its own strategy and pull points. When amassing fans I always say go with quality over quantity. Your social presence should be an extension of your brand’s voice. To build that foundation, establish and invite your core customers.

    Begin by communicating to your existing database and announcing your brand’s places of contact (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) via e-mail. In addition, link to your profiles and pages on your website at every opportunity. 

Key Questions for Acquisition

  • Why should someone follow you or your company?
  • Intimately know your target market then ask yourself how does social media play a role into my target markets life?
  • What can you offer or what are their expectations from you?
  • What are the acceptable offers within this channel (think Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn as channels)
  • Is this channel strictly inbound or outbound?
  • How do I integrate my other marketing channels to support and acquire an audience within the social space?

Tell them what they get

    A great illustration of this concept comes from a radio commercial I hear from time to time. This commercial is about a chain of weight loss centers. Towards the end of the commercial you hear the announcer say… “you can now find us on Facebook and Twitter”.
What would be more effective and still fit within the space available is something along the lines of “find us on Facebook and Twitter for exclusive weight loss advice”. It’s not enough to state that you can be found within social media - you have to go that extra step and clearly state the benefit someone gets for following you.

Segmentation

    An important point when engaging within the social space is asking whether or not you need an inherent segmentation strategy. For instance, Apple has an Itunes Facebook page and an AppStore Facebook page. When you segment out your product bases like this it allows you to easily craft messages and follow the three core steps we outline below.
    It also does another very important thing. It allows your audience and customer to segment themselves out. If someone is just a fan of one of your products then they only care about that product. With Apple if you only care about Itunes and Music you join the Itunes page where you get special music related content. If you care about applications you join the AppStore Facebook page.

    Our team of web marketing experts at Levonsys will create a SMO strategy that will give your website a good position and exposure in Social Media websites, which in turn will generate targeted traffic and also help create customer loyalty, brand identity among your targeted customers.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Black Hat SEO Techniques Will Get You Banned


    Google has its own parameters for punishing a website when it manipulates the Google algorithms for ranking a site. It is not that Google loves to punish you but a system to prevent the bad SEO practitioners from taking the advantage of using short cuts or better say bad SEO techniques.

    Being punished by Google is the biggest nightmare any SEO company can have as it affects the reputation of the company and also it is very difficult to handle dissatisfied clients. Clients who pay thousands of rupees for SEO heat up the flame when they are unable to find their site on the Google ranking page.

    The process of punishing a site by Google is called banning or penalizing and when this happens Google will not tell you it has banned your site. Your site is said to be banned when there is a sudden fall in the rankings or when the site ranking automatically becomes zero.

What Are Black Hat Techniques?

  • Hiding Links on your pages: This technique puts links in very small images, some as small as 1 x 1 pixels. The visitor never sees them but search engines can.
  • Repetition of keywords on your pages: It is recommended not to repeat keywords excessively in your body text or tags. This technique is used to try to add relevancy for that particular keyword/phrase.
  • Text that is not visible to your visitor: When text is hidden off page or is the same color as the page background, search engines consider it spam. You could easily get caught without even knowing it! For example; let's say your page background is white and you have a dark green color block with white text on it.  The work around would be to change the white text to a light grey or light green, any color that is different than the white background.
  • Doorway or Gateway Pages: These are pages that have been designed to rank high on search engines. They are then set to redirect visitors to the actual website.
  • Link Exchange Free For All (FFA): There are sites that let anyone add banners or links, even if they are not relevant to the site content. Most search engines like to see "relevant links".
  • Cloaking Technique: This technique hides code from the visitor while offering search engine spiders customized content.
    The best approach to avoid Black Hat SEO techniques is to simply build sites for your visitors. Your goal should be to make your site user friendly and incorporate relevant information. All search engines publish their own guidelines. The best approach to avoid being penalized is to review these guidelines and follow them.

     At Levonsys, we are constantly researching and innovating with new Search Engine Optimization techniques to ensure we are giving clients the best possible SEO services, and the best possible results. Our Search Engine Optimization goals may be ambitious, but we also make sure they are achievable by using tried and tested ethical Search Engine Optimization techniques. 

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