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This SEO blog is about advanced search engine optimization techniques. All the posts here are proven & experimented SEO skills from my past experiences. A lot of my friends asked me how to do search marketing, so I started this blog. I can tell them to read this instead of explaining to them one by one. I will not do much optimization for this blog as this will take up a lot of time.

The Worst SEO Strategies Ever!

August 24th, 2007

There is no perfect SEO strategy. If you put the same primary keyword phrase in your title tag, H1 tag, bold text, alt tag, once in every paragraph, your web page will likely be considered as created for search engines. Google is too smart for that. In SEO world, imperfection makes perfection!

There are a few Don’t search engine optimization strategies you may like to pay attention:

  1. Do not get involved with some kind of reciprocal link trading and other bottom feeder links, this is just not so effective. Even though these links are related to your niche, you don’to score much from this.
  2. Do not put your keyword in alt tag more than twice in the same page. For example, if you have ‘google pagerank’ and ’search engine pagerank’ already in your alt tag in the same page, you don’t want to add ‘pagerank solution’ in another alt tag. 
  3. Everyone knows keyword stuffing is not the right practice. I don’t understand why I still see it happens. When I browse those articles in ezinearticles.com submitted by people, I see the same keyword phrase can happen 12 times or more in a 500 words article. Maybe those people think only 100 times is considered stuffing, 12 times is not? Try not to stuff your keyword phrase more than 5 times in a 500 words article. And these include once at the first paragraph and once at the end of the page.
  4. Unless you have good link popularity, otherwise do not leave your web page less than 400 words. Google loves content. If you see those website with less than 400 words and still appear in the 1st position of the search result, that’s because they have many links.
  5. Don’t use poison words such as those keywords for 18+ age or keywords related to illegal matters.
  6. Don’t do auto pop up window for your website. Have you noticed websites you found from Google search results usually are very clean. They don’t have many auto pop up windows. Sometimes you still find some have 1 pop up, and that’s it. Search engines are trying very hard to filter these sites with more than 1 pop up. So, 1 pop up is ok? I would say clean page with no pop up at all get better scores.
  7. Don’t build 500 links overnight. Your link profile has to look natural. If people offer you 29.99 for 1,000 links, you should be careful. Although Google says backlinks should in no way would harm you ( in case those links are built by your competitors, Google choose to protect you in the factors you can not control) , but you don’t want to spend 29.99 for something not helpful. 
  8. Do not use any kind of redirect except 301 permanent redirect.

The above information is pretty advanced. Professional SEO should know about that. If you are a beginner in SEO and want to learn the basics, you may want to research on the blog which teaches basics search engine optimization techniques. There are a lot of sites are teaching people how and what to put in their title tags, description tag, contents, and alt tag.

After all Google SEO is about link building. Thounsands of quality sites are pointing at you with anchor text ’smart kids’, you will be ranked as number 1 in the ’smart kids’ search even though you may not mention the term ’smart kids’ at all in our page. Of course this page should be related to ’smart kids’ because Google also consider the user experience. If searchers click into your site from search results and stay long in your site, it is considered as good user experience.

Obtaining Google PageRank 6 Easy

August 22nd, 2007

Talking to a lot of people. They generally think PR6 is something non-obtainable. Actually, it is easier than we think. All it need is links. If you have a few extremely valuable links, you can have Google PageRak  5 to Pagerank 6 too. In most casts, it will need thousands of links to achieve that though.

Have a backlink check for some PR 6 website, some of them have like a hundred thousand links. And you will be supprised that some of then only have one thousand links. How the Pagerank rank is more depended on how valuable are the links instead of the number of the links. If your links are extremely valuable, a few links can get you there.

Although Google PageRank of your backlinks are not the whole picture, it is the first thing you would like to look at when you talk about how to incease your website pagerank. The formular is rather obvious. The higher the pagerank of your backlinks are, the higher PR you will get.

After all, you want to rank good for your targeted keywords /keyword phrases to obtain organic traffic. The PageRank is like the tokens you get in playing TV game. You want to rescue the princess ultimately. More tokens you get, the more power you have, but it doesn’t mean you can win the game with the tokens. You can win the game with little tokens and you can also lose the game with many tokens. Of course, the more tokens you have, the more chance you have to rescue the princess and get a kiss.

 So, pagerank is not the whole picture. It enpower you in the SEO proccess. We will talk about other factors you should consider in getting high ranking for your keywords.