Ever wonder why some websites view so well on cell phones, and in particular iPhones? There’s a special little feature that helps you convert your website to a mobile site, viewable on cell phones. InterSquash.com squishes your website down and creates a mobile version, optimized for anyone.
While browsing the World Wide Web searching for information on SEO, or reading this blog, you’re going to come across some terminology that you may not be familiar with. Instead of you running around all confused, I thought I would put together a list of terms that you’ll find fairly frequently. I know for me, it’s easier to refer to a list for information, than random paragraphs all of the time.
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Adding Flash to your website can be either an improvement or a destructive practice. Sure, the Flash may help beautify your page, but what is it doing to your SEO? Did you really just help your website or did you set it back a few years?
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From forum listings to backlinks, to images to keywords, this entire website is full of tools and tips to help you maintain your own SEO. SEO on your own may seem like too much for one person to do, but when you’re pointed in the right direction, suddenly it becomes far easier than once thought.
When you think about social networking sites, you may or may not think of them as a lucrative way of getting the word out about your business, but it’s really a fantastic opportunity. The SEO involved in these sites is substantial; you’ll increase statistics like your backlinks in no time. These sites are not just for kids, or people to look up long lost friends anymore, they’re effectively utilized by businesses. Social networking sites are of course social, and give you the ability to network with many people. There will be more people to keep in contact with, and more people you’re going to connect with. People who are interested in what you have to offer will flock to you!
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You may feel belittled by the big businesses out there, but in reality you have many more facets available in the business world than they do. Where they are spending large sums of money on single endeavors, you are frugally spending time and money on a multitude of outlets for your business. Sometimes, a hundred little guys are better than one big one.
Keyword selection, where it sounds like an easy task, can be a little difficult when it comes to the full optimization of your website.
When choosing keywords, you tend to gravitate towards words that describe your site, which is what you should do. However, there are instances where people do not choose keywords that are either generic enough, or precise enough, which will of course affect your search engine ranking.
At this point you’re probably tired of reading about how you’re supposed to read and edit your work, and make sure it looks and sounds good. Blah, blah, blah, sounds like English class. Tired you may be, but I really can’t emphasize this enough. There are huge companies and corporations out there that have typos in their information, or missing words, and you can only find so many before you start to lose faith in them.
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What are backlinks?
The term “backlink” is widely used in SEO. Backlinks are inbound links to your website. Every time someone makes a link containing a URL to your website, that is your backlink. When you put a link in your article, directing someone to where you obtained your information, that is a backlink for them.
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Readability is of course of utmost importance when you have a website. You don’t want anyone to struggle with any part of your site, especially your content. This is after all what keeps them coming back for more.
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As if there even needs to be an article on why spam is a bad idea, but it seems that people keep thinking it is a good idea, so here I am.
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Images are a large part of websites, and just as the rest of the website needs to be optimized, so do the images. It is really easy to maintain images once you get a little system going, and understand what you need to do for each one.
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Blogs have become very popular in recent internet history. They pop up on all sorts of websites, and contain a variety of information. You may not understand web logs (blogs), or feel that you want to get involved with them, but they are actually quite beneficial to your website’s traffic.
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