7 Must Do Tips to Increase Views On Your YouTube Videos

30% of videos on YouTube gets less than 100 views. To create a Massive Surge in Traffic to your video’s use these 7 steps to increase the number of views and make sure your viewers are coming back for more.

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5 Reasons Why Your SEO Campaign Did Not Work

SEO has often gotten a bad rap for being a practice that seems shady, spammy, and full of lies. SEO has gotten this reputation because there are too many self-proclaimed SEO experts out there flooding the web with tips and tricks that aren’t true at all. Then there are the people who are all about doing things themselves these days just to save a few bucks. They will read a blog post or two, try it out for themselves and then sit back and wonder why they didn’t get the results they were expecting.

In order to have a good SEO campaign there are certain things you need to consider for it to be successful. First off you need to be strategic in your methods and have a well thought out campaign that is executed to a T. Here are five of the most common mistakes that DIY SEO “experts” make all the time. (more…)

Increase Website Traffic with Stumbleupon

Are you looking to get more traffic to your web page? Have you ever considered a social bookmarking site like StumbleUpon? Stumbleupon is a great tool for increasing web traffic, and will also increase back links to your page. It’s great for SEO! It’s extremely easy to get started, let me show you how.

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5 SEO Tips for WordPress

If you’re serious about blogging these days, you have your own webpage URL and a hosting membership. You’re also most likely using WordPress as your content management system based on its ease and ability to be customized virtually anyway you like. But are people actually reading your blogs? Are your posts SEO optimized so that search engines and other people can find them? If you’re not sure you probably need to get some type of analytics to see what kind of traffic you have. If your traffic is not ideal I suggest you read these 5 SEO Tips for WordPress, in order to gain more traffic to your pages. (more…)

YouTube SEO

Not many people out there know this, but YouTube is actually the second largest search engine in the world. It’s no wonder that people continually upload their videos everyday in hopes to get their videos to the top of search engine results. It truly is a dog eat dog world out there in the land of search engines. When it comes to Internet traffic, (more…)

Does Social Media Affect your Real Time Search Rankings?

Ever wonder how important your Social Media Interactions are on your search engine results? Well let me just say this, it has just become significantly more important! Google is now indexing tweets and other status updates from social media sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. Google’s lead developer of real time search, Amit Singhal, has just recently shed some light on the super secretive real-time search engine strategy.  Here is the break down of what matters socially! (more…)

5 SEO Tactics To Avoid

This blog post will go over 5 Black Hat SEO tactics that will have adverse effects on your website’s SEO. Therefore you should really try to avoid these in order to maintain a high ranking within search engines. SEO doesn’t happen over night, it takes patience and consistency. So trying to take the shortcut to higher rankings will just put you farther behind your goal. So lets dive in and see what you need to avoid.

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5 SEO Tips to Get Higher Rankings

Search Engine Optimization, a big scary phrase that frightens a lot of business owners who are new to expansion through the Internet. For most, they barely understand what it means, let alone know how to do it. Well don’t fret; we’ve got some really easy tips that can get your page ranking higher in no time. (more…)

5 Reasons Why WordPress + SEO = Awesome

SEO can be a challenging task for a business owner or blogger to deal with. You are continually pumping out great content on a regular basis and putting a lot of effort into your posts, so it only makes sense to spend some time thinking about ways for this great content to be seen. From our experiences, we have found wordpress to be a spectacular platform building sites as well as blogs. We also love using it because of how easy it is to incorporate great SEO. Lets examine some of the things wordpress does for you automatically or very easily via its great plugin system, to get you on the right track for SEO success!

1. To WWW or not to WWW

Google’s bots hate “duplicate content” and since their bots determine where our page ranks, we should try to keep them happy! One thing that can happen if your site is accessible both with and without a “www” in front is that the google bot will think they are 2 seperate sites and view this as duplicate content. WordPress solves this issue automatically for you. You are welcome.

2. Sexy Permalinks

Most people think of a URL as a long list of numbers and letters that will eventually take them to a website. This is true for the most part however not all URLs are created equally. I think an example illustrates this best:

ugly URL www.ugly-url.com/232-2923=?26

pretty URL www.pretty-url.com/nice-informative-article-title/

The first URL gives us no indication of what may be on that page. The second URL is much more informative and useful to both the user AND the search bots. Not even google’s crazy algorithms can make sense of a bunch of numbers jumbled together to form a URL. It can however “read” keywords and other relevant data in the pretty style of URL. As is the case with a lot of SEO this particular item is helpful to your readers as well as your page rankings. WordPress includes a simple options panel for you to enable pretty URLs in seconds.

3. Custom title and meta tags

The title tag is considered one of the most important on page factors for SEO. It should give a clear indication about what is on that page and include any keywords or phrases you may think are relevant. Unfortunately by default WordPress doesn’t allow much customization in this area. This is where the world famous all-in-one seo pack plugin comes to the rescue! This is an outstanding plugin that turns WordPress into an absolute SEO powerhouse. Once enabled you can set custom title tags per post and page throughout your entire site.

4. google XML sitemap plugin

This wordpress plugin creates a map of your site and then hands it over to the search bots. The developers description sums it up quite nicely:

“This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.”

So not only does this plugin create the map. It adds to it everytime you create new content and it picks up the SEO telephone and calls google to let them know (ed:there is no such thing as an seo telephone so please stop emailing us about how to get one lol ).

5. WordPress is easy to use

Some may argue this last item has no place on this list. “How does being easy to use help my SEO?” you may be thinking. Its simple, none of the above technical improvements will help you at all unless you actually have great content on your site. More than anything WordPress succeeds at enabling people to get up and running with creating content quickly and easily. We tell our clients “If you can use word you can use wordpress”.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of whats possible with wordpress and SEO. If you have any questions or need some help feel free to get in touch or leave a comment.

Using SEO to Drive Business to Your Website

Wednesday, Feb 16th, 2011, Marieke Hensel will be giving a workshop on Search Engine Optimization. Marieke Hensel, owner of Branding Personality has more than 10 years of experience in Search Engine Optimization, and has helped 30+ clients generate leads by optimizing their sites for the search engines.

TOPIC:
This valuable course removes the mystery behind SEO (Search Engine Optimization). You’ll learn what SEO is and how it impacts the numbers and types of visitors coming to your website.

Topics covered include:
• The differences between a search engine friendly website and an search engine optimized website
• How to position your website for SEO
• The necessary steps to optimize your website for search engines
• Tips and techniques for increasing traffic
• What elements your site needs to convert traffic into sales
• Glossary of search engine marketing terms

Discover how to create an SEO friendly website, how to use keywords, tags, & metatags, how to use links, and the top mistakes to avoid. This course will leave you better prepared to maximize the sales potential of your website.

TANGIBLE TAKEAWAY:
A step-by-step one-page guide on how to maximize SEO for your business.

The workshop is hosted by NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) Orange County. If you’d like to attend, please contact NAWBO for more information.