Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Here is a list of Free search engine optimization tools that I use for Search Engine Optimization to obtain high ranking on search engines:

FREE: Good Keywords – free downloadable software which can be used for preliminary keyword research. (http://www.goodkeywords.com)

FREE: Ontology tool – finds related keywords using the Google ~ search. (http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/)

Various Prices (Can be FREE or Paid Membership): WordTracker – web based leased product which has many more features than the other tools. WordTracker traffic is generally more representative of actual traffic than Overture’s tool since many fewer automated bots scour its data collection network than Overture’s. (http://www.wordtracker.com). This tool can be used free for one day, but you will have to register. WordTracker will send you a temporal link, that you can use to log into your temporal account and research keywords for your website.

Various prices: Keyword Discovery ‐‐ deep database of keyword data. Contains historical data. Some of their partners made them sign a non disclosure agreement. The database may not be as clean as the WordTracker database, but it does contain more data. (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/)

FREE: Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool – offers search frequency for the prior month throughout the Overture network. Please note that many bid checkers and other automated bots cause this number to skew high. (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/)

FREE: Google Keyword Sandbox – shows related search terms but not search quantity. (https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox)

FREE: Google Search Suggestion Tool – auto‐completes search queries to help you find more related search terms (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en)

Once I wrote an eBook entitled “Vital Search Engine Optimization: Simple Steps to get to top of Google Pages for Free“. The main reason I wrote this eBook was just because after so many years of doing organic Search Engine Optimization on one of the websites, and collecting so many useful tips and tricks about it, I had to write about it and remember what steps I took to make sure that my website gets to very top of Google without spending a peny.

Well, what did I write about in this eBook and How do you get on Google Top Searches for Free?

There have been many books written on how to do search engine optimization. But for a man who is familiar with coding it is too much information. Therefore I prepared a few checklists that will help you get to the top pages of Google. If you follow all of the items in these checklists it is guaranteed that you will get the best position on Google.

If you have already created a brand new website and posted it live hoping that you will see it on Google without using Search Engine Optimization then you ought to rethink it again. So, to help you in the process of achieving the best results on getting to the top pages of Google or any other search engines, I’ve put together this eBook. In here you can find a few checklists that help you to quickly identify key points that may affect the Search Engine Placement.

“Vital Search Engine Optimization” has four main sections.

The first section is called “Where to start”. This section provides the basic steps for optimizing web pages. For those who want to make changes to their current website to make sure Google or other search engines see them in no time, this section is the way to go. Once completed steps in the first section, I would recommend moving on through the remaining sections in this eBook.

The second section “Best practices of well optimized and designed websites” talks about key points of a website that may be considered Search engine friendly. You may want to review this section before planning to develop your new website or redesigning your current one. Then, during the development phase you should implement the key points described in this section. Although you don’t have to follow all the steps in this section, for best results I highly recommend to read it before doing any work. It is important that you do your homework first before doing the actual work.

For detailed steps on search engine optimization you should visit sections called “Search Engine Optimization Checklist” and “How-To”. Both of those sections will tell you in detail what professional SEO consultants do to their clients’ websites to ensure their web pages high rankings. “How-To” section provides visual examples of certain software and online tools that I use for doing Search Engine Optimization and Website Analysis. Oft times I find these basic tools helpful if you don’t own a complete package for Search Engine Optimization of your website.

For more advanced tools used in Search Engine Optimization, web developers, and web/SEO consultants should reference my last section called “Free Search Engine Optimization Tools”. Definitely, some of those tools made it possible for me to achieve positive results in Search Engine placement today. You shouldn’t be afraid to try new tools in your web development and marketing process.

So, let get right into the vital information about this long process of Search engine optimization and good practices of website design.

I will be posting some tips and tricks from this eBook under “Search Engine Optimization (SEO)” category of my blog.

Fast indexing in search engines is an important task for any webmaster for better SEO ranking (positioning on top of search engines). The main thing that attracts search engine robots is a new content. If the site is updated frequently, such as news portals, the problems with indexation should not arise if you have the resources, new pages and all of these are literally in minutes fall in the index. But not every website needs constant updating. If it is, for example, the company’s website, it can be filled once, and then only sometimes add news. And how to get the search engines to see them quickly? Reindex or updated pages? Consider a few ways to get to the site search bots.

How do you make crawlers quickly index the new pages of the site?

Regularly updated blocks

Virtually any resource page can be placed in the form of updated blocks, for example, with news, commentary, offline messaging or social networking. Online stores can display on each page the list of recommended products that will change randomly. Search engines, in each case will see a “new” page and get used to that it is constantly updated, and those search engines will feel that they need to go there more often.

The downside of this method is considered to be that there is a small leak page that provides more weight for the same forum or news page.

Visitor retention

If you allow users to post comments on articles, add comments about the goods, own articles and other content, it will constantly update the website. It is clear that the activity of visitors should be encouraged and supported, as well as there is a need to monitor the quality of the same comments and feedback to the site does not become a spam site.

Cons of this method is possible to reduce the Relevance page keyword density. The keyword density is reduced even on a perfectly optimized pages as there is a new non-optimized text, which dilutes the main content.

New links

If there is a need to attract search engine spiders to a new updated page, then it is necessary to get new links to that page (there may be a link to a new page from your site, but it is better to get new links from external resources). According to the robot, it hits the page and reindexes it. It is ideal to get links from news sites.

For Google System, to expedite indexing there is a very well-proven service such as twitter – though at the corral in the index using twitter, so much depends on the account from which there is a link.

The only negative fact is that you have to spend money on buying links or run the link on twitter accounts.

Redirect

You can always just delete the old page and create a new one – with a new address and new content. In this case it is best to make a redirect from the old page to the new one not to lose all the weight and external links. It is clear that some parameters, such as age of the document will be updated as well.

The disadvantage of this method is that it is impractical, for example, if you want to reindex a large number of pages.

What methods are acceptable, available and most appropriate for the site – everyone decides for himself, because it all depends on the features and capabilities of the resource. But best of all, if the site is constantly updated with fresh content then the search engine spiders will continue indexing your pages as often as you update content.

Here is the list of Free SEO Tools.

More suggestions will come.

• FREE: Good Keywords – free downloadable software which can be used for preliminary keyword research. (http://www.goodkeywords.com)
• FREE: Ontology tool – finds related keywords using the Google ~ search. (http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/)
• Various Prices (Can be FREE or Paid Membership): WordTracker – web based leased product which has many more features than the other tools. WordTracker traffic is generally more representative of actual traffic than Overture’s tool since many fewer automated bots scour its data collection network than Overture’s. (http://www.wordtracker.com). This tool can be used free for one day, but you will have to register. WordTracker will send you a temporal link, that you can use to log into your temporal account and research keywords for your website.
• Various prices: Keyword Discovery ‐‐ deep database of keyword data. Contains historical data. Some of their partners made them sign a non disclosure agreement. The database may not be as clean as the WordTracker database, but it does contain more data. (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/)
• FREE: Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool – offers search frequency for the prior month throughout the Overture network. Please note that many bid checkers and other automated bots cause this number to skew high. (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/)
• FREE: Google Keyword Sandbox – shows related search terms but not search quantity. (https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox)
• FREE: Google Search Suggestion Tool – auto‐completes search queries to help you find more related search terms (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en)

If you don’t know where to start, here is a simple checklist the will get you started. More in detail is described in SEO Checklist and in Best Practices for Well Designed and Optimized Website sections.

This simple start‐up check list will definitely get you seen on Google and will help you to achieve top ranking on major Search Engines. After you went through the list and applied SEO tips to your website, continue monitoring and optimizing your website.

10 Key factors in on-page organic SEO

Nr 1. Research your keywords.

You have to know what people are looking for, it just might not be what you think. So try these links https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/  I don’t need to explain them to you, You know what to do when you get there. I listed some free tools at the bottom of this email. 

Nr 2. Create good Titles

By now you have your keywords list of high demand searches. Put those keywords into your Title, but make it work the right way. Create Titles that work! On MOXTEK website if it is related to certain product (for example to X-ray Detectors), then include in the title “X-ray Detectors…”  

Nr. 3 Create Quality Content

I won’t go into this one to deep, it speaks for itself. If you build a website, make it stand out with high quality content that people are coming back to because they want to read and read again. 

They might even place it into there favourites and send it to there friends…or even Digg it? Best part from this is, if you are found and people click through the site and don’t go back to search the some keyword again in Google, you just won some extra points for your Page rank People don’t read the page once they found it, they “scan” to see if it contains the right information they are looking for. Make your pages “scan able” with short paragraphs and white space between sentences if it makes the page easier to read. Use bullet-point if you are listing things like features of products, web readers love these sections…it gives them a quick overview. 

Nr. 4 Create good Headings

Headings are the Text items that stand out, like “Nr 4. Headings” in HTML Country they come as <h1>Big Heading Nr 1!</h1> and <h2> Somewhat less Big Heading Nr 2</h2> And there are their buddy’s <h3>Nr 3 </3> and <h4> nr 4 </h4> and the list can go on and on…For Search Engine’s a H1 means that this most be really important!! So let’s give it somewhat more power is somebody looks for the keyword within that Header. A header H2 is given also so what more importance. So make sure you have your Keywords in between those HTML Tags, most of the time your online WYSIWYG editor give you the option to select this kind of header. 

Nr 5. Using Bold and Italics

The use of Bold and Italic Fonts are for Search Engines also an indication that this text is Important and is given a priority in showing them on the Search Engine Results page. Ever wondered why on earth these one page sales pitches that go on and on and on… use Bold Fat text on a Yellow background?

Well, does this stand out or what… most be Important. Just analyze a few of them and look and learn how they put their major keywords in these fields.

Now I am NOT telling you to go there, unless you really need to, I don’t think it looks nice on a “normal” website. But Bold and Italics, yes you should use them! Create paragraph headings in Bold, so each paragraph stands on its own. 

Nr 6. How to get the right Keyword density

This is one of the more difficult ones. Keyword density means, in short, that you should balance the number of times you use your keyword on a page in relation to the total of words on that page. Let’s say you write down Joomla Templates 20 times on a page that has a total of 400 words, not including stop words.

Then you divide 20/400 = 5% If you would do the same on a 100 words page, you get 20/100 =20% you are in trouble here! With this rate, Search Engines consider this spamming and call it Keyword stuffing. They will penalize you for this….basically try to keep it between 2% to 8%, some people go even as low as a maximum of 5%. But don’t spend to much time on this, just be aware your are not purposely overdoing it 

Nr 7. Use your Alt Tags in Images

Alt tags for Images are most of the time overlooked or not used properly. If you use images in your pages, make sure you always include Alt Tags. Alt tags are shown instead of the image if you are reading through a text based browser. They also come up if you hover of the image with your mouse pointer. Make the tags (and images) fit the content of your page so if you got an image of a Joomla template, then the alt tag should read “Joomla Template example” and for the download icon…”Download your free Joomla Template here” If possible, and this depends on you editor, try and use the Title tag as well.

In the source code it will come out as <IMG SRC=”joomla-template.jpg” WIDTH=”140″ HEIGHT=”100″ ALT=”Joomla Template example” TITLE=”Joomla Template”> You might not see this text, but it is not hidden and Search Engine spiders will read it! 

Tip: If you use images, make sure the relevant keywords are in the name of the image.

In the example above, I used an image called Joomla-template.jpg. People are searching images more and more, via Google, Yahoo and Live…this will bring your site into the “Picture”. 

Nr 8. Using Meta tags or Not

Should you fill your Meta tags like Description and Keywords or not? Some webmasters consider this a waste of time….I am telling you it is definitely NOT a waste of time and a must do in my book. Fill these items on every page, and think about their content!! Why go trough all this trouble, there are even generators that can fill these fields for you. In my opinion, they will not do such a good job as a Human can. And before you go on and tell me the Keywords Meta tag is not as relevant as it used to be, I know….

But you should not stuff is with keywords and you should use only a few keywords that are also mentioned in the page content. It won’t harm your ranking in Google, but could help in other Search Engines like Live and Yahoo.

And the Meta tag description? This is real important, as some of the Search Engines, yes even Google will use this if the can’t use a part of the pages content.

So think long and hard about this description, you must make it like a small advertisement. Try and search for a topic in Google, and look at the reason why you would click on a link! First you read the Title that is displayed… next thing you read the description of the page that was found…got it?

<title>MOXTEK XRF X-ray Products: Tubes, Detectors, Beryllium, Polymer xray Windows, JFET; Optics: Infrared/Ultraviolet Polarizers, PBS</title>

<meta name="title" content="MOXTEK XRF X-ray Products: Tubes, Detectors, Beryllium, Polymer xray Windows, JFET; Optics: Infrared/Ultraviolet Polarizers, PBS" />

<meta name="description" content="X-ray products: detectors, tubes, Beryllium, Polymer xray windows, JFET; Optics: PBS, ultraviolet, infrared polarizers" />

<meta name="keywords" content="x-ray products, x-ray tube, beryllium, xray windows, beamsplitters, jfet, infrared, spectroscopy, optics, polarizer, polymer, proline, pbs, proportional counter, radiation detectors, tube, ultraviolet, uv, XRF" />

Nr 9. Use Internal Linking

If possible link your pages together with the titles.

This is called internal linking, but works for Search Engines just fine. It is not as important as External links, but still you can control this better than anything else. Make your links work for you, don’t make your link in Graphics …Well this one does, but it is not a good example of the way you should form your links. 

Use keywords in the file names: www.domain.com/keyword.jpg or www.moxtek.com/x-ray-tubes.pdf 

Nr 10. External Linking

External linking is kind of a Hype right now, everybody seems to try and get more external links to there website.

Google does indeed give you a better ranking if you have a lot of links pointing to your website. But, and this is a BIG but…If these link come from a Bad Social neighborhood you won’t get what you are looking for, ranking wise that is. Linking Farms, Websites with a lower PR then Yours, Websites linking to you that are not even close to your subject…they all pull you down instead of lifting you up. 

Try to find the best sites that do not directly compete with you, but are close to, or on your website Topic, so they should be related. And ask them friendly if they would link to you, in return for a link back from your website. Try to make them all link to you in the same, give them the code for implementing the link!

That way you make it easier for them to link, and you have some control over the way they link. Code you link code to include your major keyword in the description of the link! 

Most webmasters ask for a link like: http://www.moxtek.com

What do you think that brings? Nothing! Because if People look for that, they already know your domain name.

But if you ask them to link like X-ray and Optical Products that will bring you much more visitors that don’t know your domain. 

I have already included www.moxtek.com into such directory. 

Example: