Thursday, October 14, 2010

List of Social Book marking sites

The following are famous bookmaring sites

http://www.social-bookmarking-sites-list.com/
http://www.directoryroll.com/new_directories
http://www.equicktips.com/dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites/
http://www.gracioustech.com/social-bookmarking-sites-list.html
http://csshook.com/cssresources/top-50-social-bookmarking-sites-list/
http://tech18.com/list-of-best-indian-social-bookmarking-sites.html
http://www.wmtips.com/seo/list-high-social-bookmarking-sites.htm

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Article Submission

5 Tips for getting your articles picked up by ezines, newsletters, blogs, magazines and newspapers.

1. No Self-Serving Links in the Article Body - Ezine and other online publishers want content and information, not links. Syndicators want a unique perspective on the subject.

2. No More than 2 Self-Serving Links in Your Resource Box - For the best chances of massive distribution, limit yourself to only 1 link.

3. Keep Your Articles Between 400 and 800 Words - Too short and you won't be able to convey your information. Too long and the reader may bail on it.

4. Make Sure Your Articles are 100% Original - That means you wrote it and own the rights to it. Also, make sure that it's easy to read.

5. Become the Expert in Your Niche - Publishers want to use articles that make them look good.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Image Optimization

• Use brief, but descriptive filenames and alt text - Like many of the other parts of the page
targeted for optimization, filenames and alt text (for ASCII languages) are best when they're
short, but descriptive.
Avoid:
• using generic filenames like "image1.jpg", "pic.gif", "1.jpg" when possible
(some sites with thousands of images might consider automating the naming of
images)
• writing extremely lengthy filenames
• stuffing keywords into alt text or copying and pasting entire sentences
• Supply alt text when using images as links - If you do decide to use an image as a link,
filling out its alt text helps Google understand more about the page you're linking to. Imagine
that you're writing anchor text for a text link.

Avoid:
• writing excessively long alt text that would be considered spammy
• using only image links for your site's navigation
• Store images in a directory of their own - Instead of having image files spread out in numerous directories and subdirectories across your domain, consider consolidating your images into a single directory (e.g. brandonsbaseballcards.com/images/). This simplifies the
path to your images.
• Use commonly supported filetypes - Most browsers support JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP
image formats. It's also a good idea to have the extension of your filename match with the
filetype.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Steps in Optimization of a site

There are two major steps in the optimization of a website.

(I) On-Page Optimization steps- which includes
(1) Content Optimization
(2) TITLE-Tag
(3) META-Tags includes keywords and description
(4) ALT-tags in Images
(5) Sitemap creation
(6) W3 Validation
(7) Addition of Google Analytic code
(8) Webmaster tools
(9) Verification of sitemap

(II) Off-Optimization steps - which includes
(1) Major Search engine Submissions
(2) Free directory Submissions
(3) Social Bookmarking Submissions
(4) Article submissions
(5) Forum submissions
(6) Classifieds submissions
(7) Press release and Forum postings
(8) Reciprocal link building
(9) Blog Posting
(10) Local Business Listing

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often considered the more technical part of Web marketing. This is true because SEO does help in the promotion of sites and at the same time it requires some technical knowledge – at least familiarity with basic HTML. SEO is sometimes also called SEO copyrighting because most of the techniques that are used to promote sites in search engines deal with text. Generally, SEO can be defined as the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine-friendly, thus getting higher positions in search results.

1. Choosing the Right Keywords to Optimize For

Generally, when you start optimization, the first thing you need to consider is the keywords that describe the content of your site best and that are most likely to be used by users to find you. Ideally, you know your users well and can guess correctly what search strings they are likely to use to search for you. One issue to consider is synonyms

2. Keyword Density

After you have chosen the keywords that describe your site and are supposedly of interest to your users, the next step is to make your site keyword-rich and to have good keyword density for your target keywords. Keyword density is a common measure of how relevant a page is. Generally, the idea is that the higher the keyword density, the more relevant to the search string a page is. The recommended density is 3-7% for the major 2 or 3 keywords and 1-2% for minor keywords.

3. Keywords in Special Places

Keywords are very important not only as quantity but as quality as well – i.e. if you have more keywords in the page title, the headings, the first paragraphs – this counts more that if you have many keywords at the bottom of the page. The reason is that the URL (and especially the domain name), file names and directory names, the page title, the headings for the separate sections are more important than ordinary text on the page and therefore, all equal, if you have the same keyword density as your competitors but you have keywords in the URL, this will boost your ranking incredibly, especially with Yahoo!.

a. Keywords in URLs and File Names
b. Keywords in Page Titles
c. Keywords in Headings

Source: http://www.webconfs.com/seo-tutorial/seo-and-keywords.php