If you open some major news sources in Romania:
, you will notice something like this: VIDEO / AUDIO / LIVE TEXT. +Continue Reading
I work a lot online, for three months I have been online for about 60 hours a week, on average, each week, as monitored by Rescue Time (Time Management, Productivity, & Project Tracking Software (Mac/PC) | RescueTime).
I get this feeling a lot – “Oh, I’m online, I promote an online brand, things should be online”.
To some degree, it’s true. Online is, in a lot of cases, a good investment for promotion, brand recognition, selling, cross-selling and so on.
What I do tend to forget is that, people don’t live online. Sure, me and others spend a lot of time online, but online is not the only place things happen.
Thus a conclusion:
You can try this here:
5 tips from her & other advisers (including me)
I think any SEO with some experience should take the following two surveys:
Why?
In a recent Q&A session (Answers to 43 Questions About Search, Social, Content, Conversions and More | SEOmoz), Rand FISHKIN (Rand’s Blog) referring to:
@randfish any opinion on which SEO plugin for wordpress is “best”? (IF there is good content and if not)
— Aly & John (@hopandjaunt) January 24, 2012
, said:
I’m a longtime fan of Yoast’s WordPress plugins. They’re powerful, flexible and nearly easy enough for beginners (at least, with a little light reading). He also keeps them updated regularly and allows for some of the cool, new functionality like rel=author (to be fair, you can do this without the plugin, too).
There is a lot of emphasis on blogging for SEO purposes – The minimum thing every site owner should do: blog + social networks – Get SEO ideas!.
But why should you write?
It may look, at a first glance, that it doesn’t really matter how you write, you just need to write. I don’t think that’s true, for both humans and the search engines you need to write well. While humans are, for now, better than the engines at spotting what’s a good content and what isn’t, I would put more emphasis on writing well. Thus, the following 10 tips from David OGILVY come in handy:
- Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
- Write the way you talk. Naturally.
- Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
- Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
- Never write more than two pages on any subject.
- Check your quotations.
- Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning—and then edit it.
- If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.
- Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.
- If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
(source - 10 Tips To Write Well From David Oglivy. | Rich Gee Group)
It may seem obvious – in order to have a problem solved, you first have to present it and explain it clearly.
Yet, from time to time, I see this rule broken. People get into explaining the problem, and I need to understand the context.
Sure, it’s much more rapid to dive right into the problem and start with the assumption we’re all quick, fast, geniuses, experts in the field.
But more often than not, the time gained won by not explaining the problem is lost someplace else.
As a conclusion – in SEO and other fields, when you want the problem solved, first state it clearly.
A bare minimum which every site owner should do, according to Rand FISHKIN:
That said, if you do nothing else, have a blog you update religiously every week (or every day if possible), occasionally targeting keyword phrases for SEO, and get accounts on Facebook/Twitter/Google+ where you share your posts. It doesn’t work for everyone, but it’s a content+social strategy that often yields consistent rewards. (source – Answers to 43 Questions About Search, Social, Content, Conversions and More | SEOmoz)
So, at a minimum, you should at least have a blog and promote it on social networks.
I find this bookmarklet: SEO to be most useful when I want to quickly-quickly find out SEO details about a page. I found about it from SEOmoz:
Go ahead, drag it to your toolbar.
If you want to find out more about what industries contributed to Google’s billion in revenues, you now may see an infographic at:
You may know some examples of deal-of-the-day web sites: FunDeal.ro, Groupon.ro (details – Wikipedia), Zumzi.ro, GoldenDeals.ro.
Vlad ANDRIEȘ talked yesterday at Lumea SEO PPC (Follow-up ediția #49: SEO și PPC pentru site-urile de reduceri colective: vineri, 24 februarie 2012, 18:30, Orange Concept Store: Lumea SEO PPC) about campaigns for promotion of deal-of-the-day web sites. +Continue Reading
In order to do professional Search Engine Optimization, one has two main options, with two different perspectives:
How can you do internal SEO? Well, you can read online blogs (SEOmoz, SEObook, SELand, and the list can continue), read books on SEO, do some trainings, get an expert on this.
But what I would suggest is having a web site audit for your web site.
I have done on my Romanian and English blog lots of SEO audits for web site. You can only view the public ones, there are still quite a few.
Conclusions? People love to know what’s wrong with their web site, and, generally, they apply what I tell them they should change.
I have a common template for an SEO review, I just follow it and make sure that everything is fine. I look on the web site, on various pages, I check the links, the hosting, the domain name registrar, and generally focus on doing a good job with this by looking at all the small details that make SEO good SEO.
Finally, one important note – take it outside. While you can learn to do SEO by bouncing up with problems, it’s much better to get the help of a professional company and let them do the hard work for you. They have much more experience in this, and, on the long run, it will save you money & time.
I’ll talk in this blog post about Premier Service’s web site: Ansambluri rezidentiale direct de la dezvoltator. Comision 0% la apartamente noi. +Continue Reading
And just tell them “Hello, we’re this & that & we want to sell ads”. Contact them and see what you get out of this.
Strategy #2:
Another strategy would be to go to companies that would be interested in your kind of visitors (banks in Romania, private medical services in Romania, stuff like this) and approach them directly.
In my opinion, the best method to do link building is: create great content. I find there are lots of good reasons for this:
Hello, I’ve seen a pretty good infographic (created by AYTM) on SEOmoz‘s blog post about the price of SEO services. Here goes. +Continue Reading
The following infographic shows why great SEO services are rather hard to find, and thus, deserve to be expensive.
It’s one of the best infographics I’ve seen about SEO, showing tips&tricks on how to get a good SEO service (as a client) and how to avoid SEO selling mistakes (as a service provider). +Continue Reading
There are a lot of factors when it comes to SEO – from having a lot of good links, to making sure that search engines can crawl a web site fast & find what’s good about your content to make it rank.
But, to me, the most important & simple at the same time element is this – the title attribute. It’s simple, basic, and sometimes ignored.
The rules for it are simple:
Avoid having too many keyword synonyms – stick with the basics;
Do this, and you’ve easily done a change with a big impact for the search engines. The change has one of the highest ratio between results and efforts.
Read more on keyword cannibalization:
and on general title tag information:
Happy titling in the New Year!
Hello,
Sometimes I comment on other people’s blogs. From my experience, it’s best to read what others have said after you. There is more than one option to do so:
http://example.com/post-name/feed/)
So, here goes – a best practice to commenting on someone’s blog is to follow-up.
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