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SEO Terms

Anchor Text
Anchor text refers to the visible text for a hyperlink on a web page.
Here is an example: < a href="http://www.searchbliss.com/" >This is the anchor text< /a >

Back Link
Any link on another page that points to the subject page. Back links are also referred to as inbound links.

Bot
Abbreviation for robot, refers to software that scan
the web. Bots vary in purpose from indexing web pages for search engines to
harvesting e-mail addresses for spammers.

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5 Ways to increase traffic using social networks

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If you are an avid online social network'er, you will have a pimped out profile page. Here are 5 ways to get free traffic from spending 5 minutes a day pimping out your profile pages on MySpace, Digg, Facebook and other social networking sites. Utilize your friends list, send out bulletins and reap the rewards, but don't push so hard or you are bound to loose those great friends! 

Social networking traffic and the sites you should know about

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A high number of users on this site frequently ask "why is social networking traffic so important to a website and how can it improve sales and/or ad dollars?". Well in this article I will go over different social networks and the traffic they tend to attract.

 

Blogs: A SEO Overview

Blog is basically an online diary which usually comes in the form of a website. Users can add postings from time to time. Blogs include photos, text etc. Blogs are in different templates, designs, background colors. You can create your own blog. There are websites like blogger.com which is owned by Google. It allows you to choose blog address and control your blog and post messages on to your bog. Other web users can subscribe to your blog and you can edit or control the comments.

Best SEO Strategies

When you are aiming to increase the traffic to your webpage, hiring an SEO expert or company is not the only option you have. With some many do-it-yourself guides available in the internet today, you can help your webpage rank higher on search engines without shelling out your precious money.

Pay Per Click and Search Engine Optimization - A Perfect Marriage

Pay per click or search engine optimization, which one should you use? Many view PPC marketing as a colossal waste of money while others disdain search engine optimization. In reality, the two marketing strategies form a perfect marriage.

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The Secret To Getting Indexed In Yahoo

Getting indexed in Yahoo has become very difficult in the last few months. The indexing robot, Yahoo!Slurp, has become erratic. For some sites, the robot will view all pages, but only add a few to the Yahoo database. For other sites, sub-domain listings actually start disappearing! So, what’s the secret to getting indexed?

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Creative Search Engine Optimization - A Case Study

Search engine optimization this and search engine optimization that. You read and hear about it all day, but what about your site? While there are plenty of articles providing useful information, this article shows you how a real world example met with success. The point of this article is to emphasize creativity when approaching tough optimization situations.

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Lucky Thirteen: An SEO Spot Check

We can't all be SEO experts but here is a list of 13 ways to give your SEO a boost from the experts.

1) Search Engine Crawl Error Pages - It's important to check search engine crawl errors reports to stay on top of your site and its pages performance. Checking the error reports can help you determine when and where Googlebot or other crawler is having trouble indexing your content - which can help you find a solution to the problem.

The Dark Side of SEO: Black Hat SEO

Search engines are not infallible. We have all, at some point in our searching lives, found a link on the web that seemed interesting or helpful but when clicked were disappointed to find that the destination page was rubbish. Not only is it frustrating but a complete waste of time.

To receive a good ranking, some web page designers use spamdexing or as we like to call it black hat seo. Spamdexing or black hat seo techniques are the use of various methods to deliberately manipulate HTML pages to artificially increase their positioning on the search engines results page.