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2012-01-20T18:43:00.001+01:00

Link Emperor Review Linkemperor http://ping.fm/gW2GG

2012-01-13T16:59:00.001+01:00

Beste Bedrijfscatering Service in Amsterdam volgens de kenners: http://ping.fm/bDK73

2012-01-13T14:36:00.001+01:00

Hosting, Webhosting, Website maken - One.com http://www.one.com/nl/

2011-12-31T16:47:00.001+01:00

Artikel Tornado Ervaring – Oplichting of echt resultaat? http://ping.fm/0VCn4

2011-12-26T16:34:00.001+01:00

How to set up automatic birthday reminders and increase click through rate with 60%s

Linkemperor Review, Will it really get you automatic SEO results?

2011-12-16T18:25:00.001+01:00

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2011-12-16T05:02:00.001+01:00

It takes only one click to add your affiliate link or integrate having sign up and payment forms in your video marketing videos. http://ping.fm/JvZl9<==

Save Money and Time on Staffing Cost with Automated Time Attendance Software

2011-12-11T20:41:00.001+01:00

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Afleveringen Jort Kelder “Belasting Betalen is Voor de Dommen”

2011-12-11T01:54:00.001+01:00

http://www.belasting-ontduiken.nl/afleveringen-jort-kelder-belasting-betalen-is-voor-de-dommen/

Webdesigners Vergelijken – Vergelijk offertes van webdesign bureaus uit Nederland.

2011-12-11T01:49:00.001+01:00

http://www.webdesignersvergelijken.com/webdesigners-vergelijken-%e2%80%93-vergelijk-offertes-van-webdesign-bureaus-uit-nederland/

Malaga Apartments Malaga Accommodation

2011-12-11T01:42:00.001+01:00

http://www.apartment-malaga.com/cheap-accommodation/

Links

2011-12-11T01:39:00.001+01:00

http://www.appartementmalaga.nl/links/

Privacybeleid Simple SEO

2011-12-11T01:22:00.001+01:00

http://www.simpleseo.nl/privacybeleid/

Dode Links Checken – Broken Link Checker – Dead Link Check Tool

2011-12-09T17:38:00.001+01:00

http://www.linkbuildingexpert.nl/methoden-om-dode-links-te-checken/

Linkpartners Tekst Vertaal- Add Site – Add URL – Website Toevoegen

2011-12-09T17:32:00.001+01:00

http://www.tekstvertaal.nl/links/

Online Vertalen Online Translator – Vertaalprogramma

2011-12-09T17:29:00.001+01:00

http://www.tekst-vertaler.nl/online-translator/

SliderWall HTML5 Header, Great Alternative for Cu3er Flash

2011-12-09T17:16:00.001+01:00

http://www.flash-effect.com/sliderwall-html5-header-alternative-for-cu3er-flash/

The best websites about making money online according to Xmarks

2011-12-09T17:06:00.001+01:00

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mediation Bussum

2011-12-09T16:23:00.001+01:00

Mediator bij echtscheidingen. Een echtscheiding luidt de start van een emotionele periode in.Het huwelijk, geregistreerd partnerschap of samenlevingsverband wordt be�indigd, er wordt gerouwd om het verlies.Tegelijk wordt een nieuw leven opgebouwd, een leven zonder de vertrouwde ander.Het is een periode van emotionele verwarring, opluchting, verdriet, pijn, schuldgevoel, boosheid, ambivalentie en/of verwijten. Kortom een periode die gekenmerkt wordt door hoge pieken en diepe dalen.

http://www.schmitzmediation.nl/

Apartment Malaga Holiday Apartments

2011-12-08T15:56:00.001+01:00

Find an affordable luxury self services apartment in Malaga, Spain. Right in the centre or on the beach. Enjoy spanish culture and kitchen. Affordable drinks, tapas, restaurants and Malaga is famous for its great nightlife. A great way to escape from everyday life and enjoy the costa del Sol.

http://www.apartment-malaga.com/

Linkbuilding Expert Amsterdam

2011-12-08T05:19:00.001+01:00

Hoge rankings in Google krijgt u door met het uitbesteden van linkbuilding bij de de enige echte linkbuilding specialist.

http://www.linkbuildingexpert.nl/

The best websites about making money online according to Xmarks

2011-12-08T05:16:00.001+01:00

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2011-11-16T01:37:00.001+01:00

Quickping free smart phone ap allows ping.fm status updates from your phone. Check it out at www.ping.fm

2011-11-12T14:51:00.001+01:00

Goedkoop reclame verspreiden huis aan huis Rotterdam. Voordelige drukwerk verspreiding in en om Rotterdam.

2011-11-12T12:32:00.001+01:00

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2011-10-14T03:03:00.001+02:00

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Linkpartners

2010-02-07T19:18:00.009+01:00

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How does a search engine spider index your website?

2009-11-27T02:54:00.004+01:00

It is good to know what a search engine spider will see when it tries to index your webpages because sometimes you will need to make adjustments to your site to get your site indexed better. Also always make sure you provide a sitemap to your visitors and a xml sitemap to the search engine robots. The sitemap will help getting your site indexed better.

To view how a search engine spider looks at your website you can enter your URL in the free search engine spider simulator below.

Free keyword density checker

2009-11-25T15:55:00.003+01:00

Don't worry to much about keyword density, just write natural text for your webpages. But this tool will give you insight in which keywords occur on your site. You might want to check if these are the keywords you want to rank for in the search engines.

Google analytics iPhone application - Google Analytics on your mobile phone

2009-11-23T16:23:00.002+01:00

For more info follow this link: Google analytics iPhone application

Free Google pagerank checker

2009-11-16T22:01:00.002+01:00

Use this Pagerank tool to find out what value Google gives to your website.
The value is one important factor Google takes into account when calculating your score on keywords in the search engine result pages.

Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:

Seo definitions list - Get to know seo terminology

2009-11-09T19:35:00.004+01:00

Below you will find a seo definition list which you can copy and print and use as a reference. It will help you understanding what the hell all these seo guys are talking about.

.HTACCESS
Used for redirecting, sanitizing and excluding duplicate content.

3-way link exchange - a link agreement when there are no two sites pointing to each other

301
A permanent server redirect - a change of address for a web page found in the htaccess file on apache servers. Also useful for dealing with duplicate content issues.

404GRABBER
Unemployes your 404 page.

ADSENSE
Display paid relevant links by Google on your site.

ADWORDS
Google’s pay per click (ppc) links auction. For advertising your website on relevant sites. (Opposite of Adsense)

ADWORDS SITE (MFA)
A website made with the sole purpose to display Google Adsense advertisements.

AFFILIATE
An affiliate site markets products or services that are actually sold by another website or business in exchange for fees or commissions.

ALGORITHM
The mathematical formula which search engines use to rank sites

ALT TAG
The alternative text that the browser displays when the website visitor does not want to or cannot see an image on a website. Placed in the image tag: img src="image.jpg" alt="image description"

AJAX
A technology to enhance web pages.

ANCHOR TEXT
The text that is clickable, also known as hyperlink.

ASTROTURFING (the opposite of full disclosure)
Attempting to advance a commercial or political agenda while pretending to be an impartial grassroots participant in a social group. Participating in a user forum with the secret purpose of branding, customer recruitment, or public relations.

AUTHORITY (trust, link juice, Google juice)
The amount of trust that a site is credited with for a particular search query. Authority/trust is derived from related incoming links from other trusted sites.

AUTHORITY SITE
A website which has many incoming links from other related expert/hub sites. Because of this simultaneous citation from trusted hubs an authority site usually has high trust, pagerank, and search results placement. Wikipedia, is an example of an authority site.

BACK LINKS (BLs)
Incoming links to a website

BLACK HAT SEO
Unethical techniques used to gain high rank that do not follow Googles webmaster guidelines. Some examples are hiding written text (black letters on black background), link farming and cloaking. If caught the site can get banned from the search results.

BLOGGER
Person who blogs. Blogger is also the name of Googles free online blogging software.

BLOGGING
Goog blogs can create a lot of linkjuice.

BLOGROLL
A list of links, usually placed in the sidebar of a blog, that reads as a list of recommendations by the host of the blog

BOT (robot, spider, crawler)
A program which performs a task more or less autonomously. Search engines use bots to find and add web pages to their search indexes. Spammers often use bots to “scrape” content from websites like email addresses for spamming puposes.

BOUNCE RATE
The percentage of users who enter a site and then leave it without viewing any other pages.

CACHE
A storage area within a search engine's database for copies of web pages

CANONICAL (duplicate content)
Canon = legitimate or official version - It is often nearly impossible to avoid duplicate content, especially with CMSs like Wordpress, but also due to the fact that www.site.com, site.com, and www.site.com/index.htm are supposedly seen as duplicates by the search engines. It’s hard to believe that search engines can't see that it is the same site but it is true. To avoid the search engines accusing your site of having duplicate content you can use the noindex meta tag in the non-canonical copies, and 301 server redirects to the canon.

CGI-BIN
A storage folder that contains Common Gateway Interface - Binary scripts. There is normally one cgi-bin per website.

CLICK FRAUD
Improper clicks on a PPC advertisement usually by the publisher or his minions for the purpose of undeserved profit. Click fraud is a huge issue for add agencies like Google, because it lowers advertiser confidence that they will get fair value for their add spend.

CLOAKING
A black hat system of delivering different content to search engine spiders than to human visitors of your site. If caught then a virtual death penaly will follow by the search engines.

CMS Content Management System
Programs like Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal, which can make a publisher effective without having to know or understand any coding.

CODE SWAPPING (bait and switch)
Changing the content after high rankings are achieved.

COMMENT SPAMMING
Posting comments on blogs for the purpose of generating a inbound link to a site. To prevent comment spam many blogs use the nofollow link which makes comment spam useless for linkbuilding.

COPY/PASTE PENALTIES
If you copy content and publish it elsewhere, the search engines will give you a penalty. Also copying code and pasting it into another program will result in a penalty, whether you modify it or not.

COPYRIGHTS
All writings are automatically copyrighted for 75 years.

CRAWLER DIRECTIVES
Telling search engine spiders how they have to behave.

CTR
Click Through Rate. Measures clicks on ads, banners, textual ads, SERPs.

DOFOLLOW
Standard incoming links that do not have the nofollow attribute

DOORWAY PAGE
A webpage designed to draw in internet traffic and then redirect this traffic to another website. Also known as bridge, entry, gateway, jump and zebra pages [a probable engine penalty]

DUPLICATE CONTENT
My aunt has twins and a daughter. Guess which 33% of Peter, Paul and Mary count as duplicated content.

E-COMMERCE
Selling the letter “E” on the ‘net. Most instances of “E” dealers are well known for overpromising and underdelivering, if delivering goods is part of the business process at all.

FOLKSONOMY
A social system managed by users that tag and label web content. Examples include delicious.com, flickr.com and technorati.com

FRAMES
Website design using multiple, independent sections to create a single webpage. Each frame is built as a separate HTML file, but with one "master" file to identify each selection. [unfriendly to engine crawlers]

GOOGLE
A software shop in Mountain View providing the world with free services, not so free paid links, and relevant search results.

Google Analytics
A free service offered by Google which assists in gathering and analyzing data about website usage. Google analytics is a feature rich, popular, free analytics program. With Analytics you can check the Page Views your site gets, determine pay-per-click and other paid ads quality, tracking: Keyword popularity specific to a search engine, all other referring websites and visitors' physical location

HTML
HyperText Markup Language. Designed for the creation of webpages with clickable text and other information to be displayed in a web browser

HTML validator
A tool used to check an HTML document for various write-up problems. Use of a validator, most likely, improves a web site's load time. Example: OnlineWebCheck.com's CSE HTML Validator Lite

HOTLINKING
Unscrupulous hijacking of foreign resources. Also known as bandwidth theft. A suitable method to slow down your worst enemy’s Web sites.

IBL
In bound (incoming) link

IP address
Internet Protocol address. A unique identifier that has four numbers separated by dots, like this: 59.357.894.73. All computers across the internet are assigned one. They are used like street addresses.
(Google gadget toevoegen: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?synd=open&source=ggyp&moduleurl=aruljohn.com/gadget/ip.xml )
IIS
For a definition please refer to crap.

JAVASCRIPT REDIRECTS
A sneaky method to show x-rated ads to children.

KEYWORD
A important word about the topic in a web page's content, url address or backlink titles that indicates it's subject

KEYWORD STRING
Multiple keywords which combined make a keyword string. Also reffered to as the long tail.

LANGUAGES
Used to communicate with computers. Popular languages are Cobol, Assembler, RPG, Fortran, Algol, SmallTalk and PL/I.

LINK BUILDING
Mass inserting of promotional links onto unattended Web sites. There’s a manual variant too.

LINK FARM
A group of links on a variety of pages solely for the purpose of increasing link popularity for search engines. Link farms are normally created by programs, rather than by human beings. [an engine penalty]

LINK JUICE
Traffic coming to your site generated with hyperlinks to your site.

LINK POPULARITY
The number and quality of inbound links pointing to a given web page

META tags
Write-up placed within the HTML head tags of a webpage, providing information that is not visible to browsers

MICROFORMATS
If you don’t build Web sites for search engines you really don’t need that.

MSN
MSN operates a tiny search engine called LiveSearch in Redmond. I can’t find their SERPs in my logs, hence I think they’ve just indexed the M$ campus so far, although their crawler is somewhat busy requesting compelling contents from my servers.

NATURAL LINK
A hyperlink placed on a web page because it offers useful content.

NETSCAPE
They had a browser, a directory, and whatnot. Not sure what they deal with today.

NOFOLLOW
An HTML attribute used to instruct search engines spiders that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's engine ranking. Used to give less weight to irrelevant content to improve the quality of search engine results. To attach nofollow to your link: Text.

ONE-WAY LINK
A link that has been obtained without a link exchange. A non-reciprocal link

ORGANIC SEO
Techniques used for unpaid high ranking results on search engines

PAGERANK
Google PageRank: a numerical value that represents the popularity of a website. Found on the Google Toolbar

PAID LINKS
Paid links are the backbone of the Internet. Google’s mission is to replace hard coded paid links with JavaScript ads. They shanghaied Vint Cerf already to accomplish that, and if they manage to bribe Tim Berners-Lee they will succeed. Unless Al Gore invents the World Wide Web.

PLAGIARISM
Copyrights multiplied by minus one.

POWNCE
A tool to distribute commercials, selfish myths, rumors, and fabrications. All of them votable at Digg.

PROGRESS EASYASK
A neat piece of software.

RECIPROCAL LINKS
A classic sixty-nine in cyberspace. Learn more at risky linkage.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Things you really should try buy coz they pay my bills.

REDIRECTS
Forwarding requests on the Interweb. Some sorts of redirects are used to hijack foreign contents (302), fake toolbar PageRank (301), fool visitors (JavaScript/Meta refresh), or to irritate (300, 303, 305, 307) respectively upset search engines.

RISKY LINKAGE
Every link crawlable by Google and not on their explicit list of allowed link patterns is risky. Currently this list has just one item, that is number 68: you do me and I owe you one. The other 69 link variants known to man are on the don’ts list, hence risky.

ROBOTS META TAGS
Page specific “get the fuck outta here”.

ROBOTS.TXT
Side-wide “get the fuck outta here”.

SEARCH QUALITY
High quality searchers type in my URIs for navigational queries. Clever. Low quality searchers rely on a search engine’s capability to retrieve my sales pitches from a multi billion page database. Suckers.

SEM
Search engine marketing

SEO
search engine optimization. The search engines don't like 3rd party optimization because most SEOs write scripts to optimize their SERPs.

SERP
Search engine results page. The page that users see after clicking Search at an engine

SITE-SEARCH
Annoying visitors with custom search engines which rattle, cough and claim to be buzzy but don’t deliver due to the incompleteness of their underlying search indices.

SOCIAL WEB
Spiderman and spiderwoman doing it on the web. Usually spiderwoman is a bald and bearded fake.

SPAM
Sites Positioned Above Me. Anything from the desk of Sebastian Foss. I email you and you don’t sign up for my get-rich-in-a-nanosecond thingy because I guessed a hapless email addy and you turned catchall off. Selfish voting using multiple accounts.

SPAM REPORT
Asking Matt to mark machine generated Web contents with an unavailable_after tag pointing to the stone age.

SPOOFING
In spiderwoman’s toolbox. See social Web.

TECHNORATI
A hairy monster sitting in the middle of the spider web it has spun in the blogosphere, eating pings.

TESTING
(Next) generation of Web contents the search engines may or may not list on their SERPs.

TOOLS
Both spiderman as well as spiderwoman have a tool. See social Web.

TRANSLATIONS
To post on Webmaster hangouts you need to translate some terms. For example “DMOZ clone” becomes “niche directory”, “displaying AdSense above the fold” becomes “adding value for users”, “smut gallery” becomes “photo album” and everything else considered fishy on your Web site turns into a “green widget”.

TROLLING
Outlawed assclowns posting shitloads of crap in newsgroups, blog comments and forums. Everybody is allowed to kill trolls, but feeding trolls is strictly forbidden.

TWITTER
When it’s not out of service, at least partly, that’s a neat place to point your RSS feeds to.

URI SHORTENING
A sure fire way to kill traffic, search engine rankings, and revenues on the long haul. Invented by TinyURL, made popular by Twitter, short URIs (falsely known as shortened URLs) are often abused for traffic theft and other evil Internet marketing purposes (for example bypassing filters that are supposed to prevent minors from viewing hardcore porn and other adult content).

URL
Uniform Resource Locator. A world wide web address

URL REMOVAL
The process of deleting URIs in a search index before the spam filters catch them.

USABILITY
Figuring out sure-fire methods to steer the user’s mouse pointer above the ads and trick her/him into clicking. There’s a shortcut called popup window, where the sponsor’s landing page overlays the page without user actions.

wWEB 2.0
The second generation of internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in ways previously unavailable. For example: social networking sites, wikis, communication tools and folksonomies

WEB DEVELOPMENT
Web developers version 1.0 write scripts to manage self-produced or bought respectively borrowed Web contents. Web developers version 2.0 steal the contents from their users and add nifty round corners to the output.

WEBMASTER CENTRAL
A cool Webmaster hangout where you can submit your tanked sites to have Googlers and forum regulars check them and tell you which optimization techniques you’ve to dump to get unbanned respectively unpenalized. Don’t lie there, and don’t widgetize your posts (see translations).

WEBSPAM
Showing unique and compelling contents provided by Google AdSense above the fold is Webspam and gains your site the much sought after MFA award. Of course you can enhance your Webspam by launching every paragraph of scraped or machine generated content on a gazillion of AdSense laden pages, that lowers your CTR but gains you more clicks overall. Search engines have huge departments supporting Webspam. For example Matt Cutts heads Google’s Webspam support division with its HQ in building 43 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, along with Webspam departments in Dublin, Zurich, Beijing and whereever to handle Webspam in foreign languages.

WHITE HAT SEO
Techniques for high rank that follow search engine guidelines.

X-ROBOTS-TAG
Web object specific “get the fuck outta here”.

XML
Extensible Markup Language

XML-SITEMAPS
A protocol invented by Google to mass submit Webspam to search engines. Provides settings like “priority” to tell the search engines where and how fast the Webspam should rank for its desired money terms. Google indexes and ranks such mass submissions within a few days. Other search engines support the sitemaps protocol half-hearted.

YAHOO
Yahoo sells links for an annual fee of $600 without guarantee that your link will be listed. The piped feeds contain the nofollow link.

Chinese domain name registers try to scam companies worldwide

2009-11-07T15:25:00.006+01:00

If you have a domain name registered with your company name in the domain name than you are likely to receive scam mails from China, in that case read on to be allerted.

Today we at Styling Designs found a scam mail in our Spam folder from a domain name registry company from China trying to make us believe that a company from a foreign country is trying to register our company name for certain extensions. Their email is suggesting that they are allerting us for this and that they can register the domain name extensions for us. This way they are trying to get more business. We file this under "Smart Scamming Techniques", the bastards.

At this internet security blog you can find many examples of domain name scam mails just like ours and also a list of websites / companies involved in this scam / spam emails.

Below you will see the spam mail we have recieved:

Dear "company name" Team,

Good day to you
We received a formal application from Netlon Company are applying to register "company name" as their website and internet brand name in European, American and Asian area on "date. During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged Netlon Company has no trade mark nor patent even similar to that word. Hence we need you confirmation for two things,

First of all, whether this alleged Netlon Company is your business partner or distributor in business world.

Secondly, whether you are interested in registering these domains and internet keyword.

(.eu/.asia/.cn/.com.cn/.com etc)

This is a letter for confirmation. If we haven't receive your reply. We will automatically confirm application from Netlon Company after this audit procedure.

Yours Faithfully,

spark

Registration Commissioner

China Anti-Cybersquatting Organization

'Tel: +00852 8135 9416

Web: www.mwwgroup.cn

So be aware for strange Chinese emails about domain name registration.
Please share your experience about any strange internet scam emails you might have received.

New webshops lack seo and visibility in the search engines.

2009-11-06T19:52:00.000+01:00

Marketing specialists have recently analized 200 new webshops on the most important criteria for being findable in the serps (search engine result pages) from Google. They discovered that only 8% of the investigated webshops conform to the basic criteria. This is a major difference with the 70% from renowed companies.

Source: Internet Retail

Seo is good for webshops

2009-11-06T19:43:00.001+01:00

Natural search engine listings are the most important marketing channel for ecommerce sites. A group of internet marketeers made this conclusion after asking webshop owners about their marketing experience. The web shop owners praised search engine optimization for their webshops because of the positive effect on their name recognition (branding) and Return on Investment (ROI).
More than 60% of the questioned webshop owners decalred to be satisfied or more than satisfied with the results from search engine optimization.

48% Was satisfied or more than satisfied about advertising in search engines like Google Adwords en Yahoo Search Marketing.

The webshop owners were much less satisfied with their return on investment on email marketing and PR.

Sourse: blikopnieuws.nl

How to get your site listed in DMOZ?

2009-11-06T02:36:00.003+01:00

Getting your site listed in DMOZ.org (Open Directory Project) is very good for your seo. Besides that you have to be aware that Google often grabs the description from DMOZ in the search results descriptions.

What do I need to do to get my site listed?

First of all you will need a good quality site.
DMOZ doens't want to be a promotional tool for webmasters but want to be a library with interesting internet sources. Any site that has quality content that can serve the public good can get listed.

Make a as short as possible title for your listing with your companies name in it.
Don't use your companies or websites name again in the description. Make sure you don't advertise your site but give a neutral objective subscription of your site. As a referrence you should use your websites or companies email address e.g. info@company.com

What to do when you have a good quality site but your site doesn't get listed in DMOZ?
To find out if your site is listed in DMOZ you have to go to http://www.google.com
and enter: site:dmoz.org title
Where "title" is the title you submitted with your dmoz listing.

Beware that if you have double submitted your site to DMOZ you can get blacklisted. Wait at least six months before resubmitting to DMOZ.

If you have a site that contains a lot of advertisements or non informational content than your site probably will not get listed.

It is not proven but there is a hunch that a small proportion of the 8000 DMOZ volunteer editors could have benefits from being a DMOZ editor. They could get their own websites and their friends websites listed and keep competitors from being listed which could make DMOZ not objective. But the majority of DMOZ editors seems ok and does an objective job. Don't worry to much about this, I believe they do an objective job.

When applying for listing it is important that you select the right category, narrow your catagory down as much as possible. DMOZ is a list which is very geo targeted so you shoul try to list your site as much as possible in your region/city/area.

Some catogories have strict editor volunteers and limited submissions, so no submission waits for more than a couple of days. Other categories have many submissions and have few editors, so any submission are waiting for years.

How to get more listings in DMOZ?
Only extremely high content rich sites get listed in more than three catagories, with the exception of sites that offer content in multiple languages. These sites can get listed in all their language regions.

Now you know how to get listed in DMOZ. You can go to their website www.dmoz.org and submit your site by pressing the "Suggest URL" link. We hope you will succeed.

By commenting you can let me know if you have more ideas on how to increase the chance of being submitted to DMOZ.org

Geo targeting your website using Google Webmaster Central

2009-11-05T03:26:00.009+01:00

I found this video super informative as I'm planning to move to different parts of the world to make websites. This is essential seo information for geo targetting websites.

Geo targetting will only affect the search result if the searcher is not using Googles default search function "search the entire web", but if the searcher is searching in Google within its own geo region.

The essence of geo targetting basically is that you shouldn't geo target your website if you want to reach all speakers of the language in which your site is written.

Geo targeting is usefull if you want to limit the geographical area you want to be found in. For example if you have a shop and only people from within your reagion would be interested in buying. But on the other hand if you also have an internet shop and ship to different countries, then geo targeting will make your site less visible countries you don't target for.

Other examples where geo targeting your website could be usefull is if you want to move to another country and want to prepare your site to be found in that particularly country.

Many other reasons are thinkable. Please share your ideas in the comments.

How to geo target your website in Google Webmaster Central?

1. Click on your site in the dashboard.
2. Click on "site configuration" and "preferences"
3. Select the desired option from the 'Geographic targeting' option.

Wikipedia and seo, how to get your company listed in Wikipedia

2009-11-04T20:03:00.004+01:00

When you subscribe yourself to Wikipedia they warn you not to write articles about yourself, your friends, your website, a band you're in, your teacher, a word you made up, or a story you wrote.

Don't take this advise to lighly. Your company needs to deserve to be in Wikipedia. This means you need to prove that your the article you are writing about your company is noteworthy, or else it is likely that your articles will be removed and you may be blocked from editing if you repeatedly make attempts to re-create the article.

So how do you get your company listed in Wikipedia?

Your article might remain if you have enough humility to make it neutral and you really are notable, but even then it's best to submit a draft for approval and consensus of the community instead of just posting it up, as unconscious biases may still exist of which you may not be aware.

Being an author really helps with notability. It really helps if you have prove of being an author and being noteworthy by referencing your book's ISBN number. If the entry is for your company, a press mentions page on your website where you link to all the different media coverage you ever received will also make it easy for Wikipedians to establish your level of "notability."

On Wikipedia, reputation is everything. A central tenet is to become an upstanding member of the Wikipedia community. Do this by building a solid history of edits that aren't self-serving. Engage with Wikipedians through your Talk page, their Talk page, the Talk pages of entries you wish to contribute to, and The Village Pump. Creating an informative User page can build credibility and boost social networking, too.

Wikipedia good for linkbuilding?

All external links within Wikipedia are "nofollowed" and don't contribute to your linkbuilding project but having a Wikipedia entry for your company that shows up in the search results lends credibility to your organization. Secondly, if high rankings for a competitive keyword prove exlusive, you can get Wikipedia into the top 10 with relative ease.

More tips on Wikipedia listings

If you want to add a link to an entry, it's preferable to add it to the References section rather than to the External Links section, as it's more likely to stick around and not get reverted. If you do add a reference, make sure it substantiates a statement made in the main body of the article. Avoid adding links where registration is required to access the content, as that will be removed or flagged as spam.

Wikipedia sister sites like Wikinews should be on your radar too, as the sites interlink and achieve visibility in their own right.
Don't add photos to entries that are not Creative Commons (commercial use) licensed; they will be removed because of copyright infringement.
Hochman suggests monitoring entries that are important to you by way of the "watch" function within Wikipedia. When you log in, you will be alerted to any changes that have been made to those entries.
It's wise to use categories and add entries to relevant categories, because links are part of the category pages.

After adding a new entry, build up its PageRank with internal links from other Wikipedia pages including

Most of the time you will want to be logged in, so that your edits become part of your viewable contribution history. However, there may be times where it would be appropriate to be logged out and only known as by your IP address, for example, if you edit a controversial page.

If you just start out on Wikipedia you shouldn't just jump into a high profile entry and start editing. First try less complicated entries. Also you shouldn't put an entry you create into a high-profile category becuase high-profile categories are monitored by a lot of people and you can get a lot of critisism which will affect your status as a newby.

Please submit your comment and share ideas to make this article more complete.

Thanx and good luck with your Wikipedia listings.

Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version released

2009-10-29T22:59:00.005+01:00

Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version released

The second Joomla 1.6 alpha version brings us one step closer to the official Joomla 1.6 Beta release which we expect to be released in the beginning of 2010 if the development process keeps at this pace.

This release contains many new features requested by the community. The features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.

This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.

New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:

* ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast
* Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
* Tableless com_content layouts
* Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
* Article linker plugin for editors
* New frontend template (atomic)
* New backend template (bluestork)
* New uploader for media manager

Other Joomla 1.6 improvements that existed in alpha 1:

* Mootools 1.2
* Refactored backend
* JForm
* Nested Categories and category parameters
* New views in frontend: categories, category
* Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality
* PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5

For the Beta version you can expect improvements on:

* Commenting solution is going to be added
* Additional DB drivers
* Lots of small performance/UI/code improvements

Download Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version here.

Free keyword density tool for seo purposes

2009-10-13T22:47:00.003+02:00

Even though keywords density is not important for seo purposes keyword density can give you information about weather your website is optimized for the right keywords. Check the keyword density of your webpage with this free keyword density tool. The default settings are quite ok but you should definately exclude the Meta Keywords Tags from the results because Google only looks at your body text, title, headers and alternative text for your pictures. You can exclude the Meta Keyword Tags from the Keyword Density results by selecting the appropiate checkbox in the "Do NOT add the folowing to final text" table.

Now input the URL of your webpage. After selecting the submit button you will see the keyword and keyword string for which your webpage is optimized. The percentage with this tool should be between 4% and 20% depending on your subject and lenght of your text. Try to write as natural as possible.

If you have no time for optimizing your webpages, you can ask our seo guys here at Styling Designs to get your website in the top pages of Google. We will give a full seo report on how you are currently performing and what we will do to make your website rank in the top positions. Purchase some seo service hours and let them do a great job.

Free word count tool and character count tool for seo purposes

2009-10-13T22:40:00.001+02:00

To keep your webpages optimized for a specific subject will help you to perform good in the search engines for a couple of related keywords you have optimized your webpage for. If your webpage is to long, it is hard for Google to find out what your webpage is optimized for and overall you will rank lower because your webpage is not targetted enough.

For this reason you should try to optimize your body text for a limited and related amount of keywords and your body text should not contain more than 250 words. You can check the number of words with this free word count tool. You will have to copy and paste the body text of your web page in this free online word count tool and the number of word will show on the bottom of the input field.
Free character count tool

Your titles should contain 5 to 12 words and a maximum of 3 keywords and 65 characters. Do not optimize your web pages for more than one or two keyword strings. A keyword string contains 2 to 4 keywords. Keyword strings containing four keywords are the ones you will get the best targeted results with. Your meta description can contain as many characters as you like but Google will only look at and display the first 150 characters. So make sure your keyword string is mentioned in these first 150 characters.

You can count the number of characters of your web page titles and meta descriptions with this free character count tool.

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Adwords free keyword discovery tool - How to use the Google Adwords tool?

2009-10-13T22:18:00.001+02:00

Learn how to use the free Google Adwords keyword discovery tool.

To find out how often people are searching for a particular keyword or keyword string the free Google Adwords tool is your best friend. This tool will also tell you how competitive your keyword or keyword string is for advertising on Adwords. You can even insert yny webpages url and it will give you keywords suggestions based on that url.

Go to Google's keyword discovery and suggestion tool and type in your keyword or url (select the url option) and press enter. Now you will get keywords based on your url or on your keyword.

Sort the result on search volume and pick out the keywords that are most important for you. Keywords with high search volumes and low competition are ones where you can get good results with.

Keyword suggestions

You can always ask Google to give you some keyword suggestions. You will need to select some keywords first and then press the button "Give me more related keywords" which can be found on the right side of the screen. You can also get some inspiration for keywords by looking into the source code of your competitors. You will need to rightclick on their webpage and select > view source code. In on of the top lines you will find:

meta name="keywords" content=" " /

Between the brackets you will find the keywords on which your competitors have optimized their pages for.

How to use your keywords in your webpages?

Make a selection of maximum 20 keywords for your meta keyword tags. Make sure that these keywords actually occur in your body text or else they are useless. You will need to optimize the content of your webpage for a maximum of three keyword(s)(strings). Make sure that the most important keywords are used in the beginning and/or end of each sentence. Put your keywords and keyword strings in your title and in total about four or five times in your headers, bold, italic, alt and content text.

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How to get on the first page of the search engine result pages (serps)? - Top 10 result in Google

2009-10-13T21:53:00.001+02:00

If you have followed our previous steps and used the free seo tools well then you should now have a well seo optimized website.

To get a top 10 position in Google for keyword strings that do have competition you will need to get a lot of relevant incoming links. You will need to set up a link building strategy and ask related websites to link to your website with a description you provide them with and which contains your keyword string(s). Especially high ranking websites linking to your site will give good seo results. You should also think about linking to your website by advertising, writing press releases and articles for magazines and all your other promotional activities. Make sure that people stay as long as possible on your site when they arrive. This way Google knows that the content on your site is relevant and this will get you a better google rank. Also the age of your website is important for Google as well as tons of other more specialized factors.

If you want specialized search engine optimization for your webpages then you can contact Styling Designs seo consultants. We use the best seo tools with which we monitor your seo progress and report to you monthly. All you need to do is to purchase some seo service hours and spend them on our seo service.