How to optimize your website
August 19, 2009 by SEO Admin
Filed under SEO Tutorials
Website Optimization is a complex issue, but it must be known to any employer wishing to succeed online.
According to the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, optimizing is to find the best way to carry out an activity. Therefore, optimization of your website would make it comply best with each of its functions.
Recall that if a site is intended only for success in the Search Engines, better known as search engines will not be successful with users and the machines do not buy, not sell it. If, however, is intended only for individuals, difficult to achieve a good positioning in search engines and users do not find, therefore, not sell. In conclusion, a successful web site must comply with its duties unfailingly related to Search Engines such as those related to usability from site visitors.
We have said that anyone wishing to succeed in the Internet market, you should make a website that is a true “virtual branch.” Ie, it must be an extension of your company and function as a local online. For this, the site must achieve the objectives for which it was created, it must be compatible with the principles and policies of the Company, be functional and actually convey useful information to its users.
To specify a site that complies with the characteristics listed above, you must be using a Web Optimizer know how the site should work and how to achieve it.
While we know what we need, we do not know how. The optimization process is not fully structured, but could result in the following steps:
1) Analysis of the competition.
A competitive analysis will help us to know what strategies people are using “quarrel” with our company to win the segment. Through this research we can understand their keywords, their advantages and weaknesses. This copy does not mean that all its attributes, but watching you learn. Learn about our competitors will be very useful to know where we can fight and how we should improve.
2) Survey of Keywords.
Through a detailed study we can know the keywords in place and mostly used by the audience that his company will target. Getting on keywords is a vital step for the success of its “virtual office” as they carried their visitors from search engines or search engines to your website.
3) Development of a database for the site.
We must improve the site pages, and starting from scratch, create them. This step optimizes both HTML coding (headings, metatags, etc..) And “site architecture” (internal structure of links to Web pages that compose your site) as the graphical interface of the website (content and design). Recall that a site that has a great design but not the content it offers its visitors need is a sterile site.
4) Incorporation of keywords.
Once you choose the most effective keywords, we must place on our website. These should appear in the most important pages (Home Page and Services page) and in the measure. A repetition of the excessive lead in some Search Engines to erase from their site.
5) Review and building links.
Acquire high-quality links pointing to your website generates 95% success to get high rankings in Search Engines. Although rated to increase in the search engines is also important to have a large number of links pointing to your pages, we see that the truly important is the quality and degree of the same relationship with your site.
6) Measure the results.
Through various methods you can tell if your site traffic has increased after the optimization. Also, obviously if you will notice the presence on the Internet is giving better results in terms of sales since the Optimizer “he threw hand” to your website. If properly complied with their professional work, you will notice the good results.
7) Maintenance of the site and its contents.
Remember that the last step is the longest and perhaps most important. Once your website is ready and positioned in the search engines to be maintained. If not fed by updated and interesting content for its users and does not make the necessary changes so that they like, the previous optimization has been a waste of time and money.
5 SEO mistakes to avoid
August 13, 2009 by SEO Admin
Filed under SEO Tips & Tricks
Just as there are different ways of writing for novels, for advertising and for films, there is a way to write for the Internet. To find content on the web we use search engines. To make sure the search engines find our content we optimize it. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) copywriting is writing content that the reader wants to read and will be easily found and rank well with search engines.
The object of writing for the Internet is to get the reader to use your content to click through to your website. If they don’t get to your website, they can’t look at your products or services and you will have lost a potential customer. Here are a few mistakes that you’ll want to avoid.
Mistake #1 - Have a Boring Or Vague Title
This is a very important mistake not to make. If they don’t even look at your article, all your time and effort are wasted. If you provide an attention grabbing title, one that makes them curious enough to open your article, you’re halfway there.
Here are just a few ideas to get you thinking: Use titles that describe the content of your article but are short and concise; Use keywords in your title that people might be searching for; People can’t resist articles with lists or tips such as, “Top 10 Copywriting Mistakes” or “Top Tips on Getting Your Articles Read”; and “How to” articles are popular as well.
The bottom line here is to put some thought into your title. Think about how to get a reader’s attention.
Mistake #2 - Create Bland Content
From beginning to end - try to keep it interesting. Make reading your article a pleasurable experience for your reader. Here are a few suggestions.
Make it fun, relevant and grammatically correct. Nothing pulls the reader out of a story more than bad grammar and misspelled words.
Use short sentences and try to limit paragraphs to two or three lines. Concentrate on writing rich and appropriate copy rather than just practical words.
Have a sense of humor. This gives your articles personality. Don’t give a sales pitch - use a call to action. The purpose of your article is to get your reader to get to your website. Your writing could include a reason for them to find more information, either from another article that you’ve written or from your website.
“Content is king”. If you keep this in mind, you’ll be ahead of the game. Search engines love well-written and useful content. So do readers.
Mistake #3 - Make Your Article As Hard To Read As Possible
Every post should be easy to scan. That means your reader should be able to easily scan your article and find headings that will tell them what the section is about. You can use numbered lists and bullets to organize your ideas so they are quickly read. If you italicize, bold or underline a word, the search engine assumes that it’s a keyword. You can use this to your advantage. However, if you use these tags a lot or if you use them on non-keywords, you’ll confuse the search engines and lose any advantage you would have gained.
The other thing that makes a page easy to scan is short paragraphs. When you look at your copy on the page, you should see a lot of white space. Looking at a page that’s completely filled with words is intimidating to a reader. You want to make it as friendly and welcoming and as easy to read as possible.
Mistake #4 - Misuse Keywords
Keywords are at the core of writing for the web. You should research and know your keywords. Here are a few suggestions about keywords:
• Target a set of keywords in every post but don’t use them more than three or four times on a page. If you use the same keywords again and again, search engines can tell that the article isn’t very useful.
• Use a wide variety of words that pertain to your topic.
• Use synonyms of your keywords in addition to the keywords.
• Don’t stick to a standard keyword density for every article or post. You want your words to flow naturally, and overuse of keywords makes your copy sound forced.
• Review your keywords every so often. Sometimes your business changes and you want your articles to change also.
If you provide your reader with content that lets them learn or experience something, you’ll have a happy reader. If you provide the search engines with good keywords and a variety of them, you’ll have a happy search engine.
Mistake #5 - Try To Trick the Search Engines
Practicing questionable tactics like cloaking and using hidden text is a bad idea. The last thing you want is to get your site banned. These kinds of tricks will do it. So can using hidden links, link farms, linking to bad sites, distributing viruses and sending spam. Don’t try to trick the search engines and don’t work with any companies that use these techniques.
Overcoming these common mistakes can give you head start when creating effective content on the Internet. SEO copywriting requires effort. Putting content on your site and distributing it on the web takes time. If you work at it over time and create lots of valuable content, effectively “brandcasting” your site, you’ll be rewarded with more traffíc.
About The Author
Enzo F. Cesario is a Copywriter and co-founder of Brandsplat, the only online marketíng and advertising company employing Brandcasting, the most effective way to brand your company on the web. Brandcasting uses informative content and state-of-the-art internet distribution and optimization to build links and drive the right kind of traffic to your website. The approach is simple, highly effective and affordable. Learn more at: Brandsplat.com and www.brandsplatblog.com .







