Posts Tagged ‘search engines’

Web Directories: And why they are actually important!

Posted in SEO on March 29th, 2011 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Web-directorySo somebody has advised that to improve the ranking of your website, you should really put some genuine efforts in adding your website to the various web-directories, which claim to pull up the page rank of your website a notch or two!
On the other hand, you have also heard, to your utter confusion, adding your website to these web–directories can prove to be harmful for your website! Now what?!
Perhaps this may help you out. It always benefits to understand the basics of what you are doing first, before you make any attempts. Here’s the big picture of the web directories, which you should understand, because it’s crucial to know WHY you are doing WHAT you are doing.

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SEO Tips and facts few people understand!

Posted in SEO on October 4th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

SEOIt’s about building up trust
Dump the short-cuts and easy solutions which claim to make your website hugely visible; Internet visibility is also about giving time, creating your website’s popularity and building it up slowly, but concretely. Thousands of service vendors might claim to bring traffic to your website, but believe it or not, majority of them are phony!
Once you have gained credibility, sites will link to your website, as a display of that trust, and you must do everything in your hands to maintain it. This is how you enter the family of websites which the big search engines like Google trust.
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How do search engines really work?

Posted in SEO on August 5th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

Search EnginesA survey in 2007 attempted to determine the number of unique websites that were there in the world.

Because the method used to find and calculate this number was not very strong, and fairly speaking, questionable to an extent, the exact number is not known—however, the estimate of the number, correctly speaking, is said to lie in the range of 15 to 30 billion!

With such a huge number, you are still able to find what you want on the Internet. Well, most of the times!

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How to Make your Website SEO Friendly

Posted in SEO on August 3rd, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

SEOSo you are done with the hosting of your web-site successfully, and now all you want it users to visit and see what you have done. Your website’s popularity might be a hugely influential factor especially if you are business is Internet-based, or is closely associated to online users on the web.

There are, however, some very simple steps to follow, which actually have the potential to enhance what is known as your “visibility on the web” or “web presence”, and increase chances that the name of your website comes up in the list when users try to search for it using associated keywords, etc. using the various search engines.  This is known as Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

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