SEO-Focused Web Content Writers
Archive for April, 2011
SEO For Blogs Part II - Length of Search Query
Apr 18th
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Part II of our discussion on SEO for blogs focuses on the phrases and keywords you should use to attract the most visitors to your site.
Recent research suggests that the highest conversion rates from search engine traffic actually comes from people who use a specific number of words in their search queries. The first question is: Do you know how many words you should be using? And the second more important question is, If you don’t know the answer to this question, how are optimizing your site for SEO?
The great thing is that your blog can become so well-indexed with the proper promotion that you have potential to show up for a large number of these phrases relevant to your industry with that knowledge.
Targeting your blog discussion to shorter phases is another strategy to potentially yield high traffic to your website and blog, once again by choosing appropriate keywords that may have less competition than others, and even less so since they aren’t what some consider the “optimal” length.
And think of it this way: Would you rather be the 20th result for a very competitive query, with loads of competition vying to win it, or be the 2nd or 3rd More >
Increasing The SEO Visibility Of Your Blog - Part I
Apr 11th
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A keyword focused and well written, keyword rich blog can naturally attract search engine traffic to your site for a variety of reasons.
Most blogs already have an “optimized” site architecture for the search engines, and have clear navigation options and links that go back to the homepage and other main pages of your site. They are also a simple way to keep your website content updated with fresh and relevant information for your readers, as thousands of readers of our Hat Trick Associates blog already know – increasing not only your search traffic, but you conversions and sales revenue, too.
So what are some of the other ways you can the SEO value and effectiveness of your blog?
Blog Directories
Links that “aim” back to your site can be very valuable to you in the eyes of Google and the other search engines, since they help prove that your content is valuable and relevant to readers. “One way” links, or non reciprocal, are the most valuable…the premise being that “two way” links (from two sites linked to each other) could simply be part of an agreement to boost each other’s SEO score.
One great way to provide some of these great one-way links back More >
“Facebook Depression” Appearing In Young People
Apr 4th
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Taking another quick break from web content and e-marketing topics, to shine a light on a harmful side effect of our nation’s current fascination with social networking services:
Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.
Researchers today disagree on whether it’s simply an extension of depression some kids feel in other circumstances, or a distinct condition linked with using the online site.
But there are unique aspects of Facebook that can make it a particularly tough social landscape to navigate for kids already dealing with poor self-esteem, said Dr. Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-area pediatrician and lead author of new American Academy of Pediatrics social media guidelines.
With in-your-face friends’ tallies, status updates and photos of happy-looking people having great times, Facebook pages can make some kids feel even worse if they think they don’t measure up.
It can be more painful than sitting alone in a crowded school cafeteria or other real-life encounters that can make kids feel down, because Facebook provides a skewed view of what’s really going on. Online, there’s no way to see facial expressions or read body More >