Hermesmyth Internet Marketing Blog

Many of you if not having a website, would surely use a blog either Blogger or Wordpress. You may be posting lot of good articles, but still you may not see your blog listed in any of the first 10 pages of your favourite search engine.  Are you really interested in bringing your blog within those first 10 or 5 pages or even to the first page, then follow the below simple web blog optimization tips.

1.      Choose a domain / blog name (With a keyword, else if you want you to have general name then go ahead and follow the below optimization points – a domain name with a keyword is an add-on to seo technique.)

2.      Have a theme / template that is really pleasing to the eyes. There are lot of free templates available, use them

3.      Checkout for a good and reliable webhosting provider. Also if you use a wordpress or blogger for blogging, they can you their self-hosting.

4.      Avoid overloading the widgets in your blog, it will slow down the web page ie. It will take long time to open the blog itself.

5.      Provide a Descriptive Title with right keywords in it. Title should not be more longer.

6.      Use original content, do not copy somebody’s content and post it in your blog, it will be duplication and your site won’t rank at the top.

7.      Permalinks – while give the links for the post, use the month / date and title of the blog. And again in wordpress you have an option to edit the link itself. Say if you have a got link as “blog.com/november/26/Web-Blog-Optimization-Tips-and-Techniques-for-all-blog-beginners.php “ you can make that as “blog.com/November/26/blog-optimization-tips.php”

8.      Make use of the RSS feeds. Submit the feed links to RSS feed reader sites, this will help your content travel. Customize your feed content like only first 2 paragraphs appears and there is a option to read more which brings the feed readers to your blog.

9.      Submit your blog to web directories and search engines.

10.     Keep posting and updating your blog regularly

11.     Use descriptive and relevant keywords in the tags. The tag clouds will help in bringing visitors when indexed by search engines.

12.     Keep submitting your blog links to social networking sites like digg, delicious, stumpleupon , technorati and many more

13.     If available install some seo supported plugins in your blog. Also when there is newer version of blog available upgrade it.

14.     Add social media websites icon in the footer of the blog to share your posting in social networking sites.  You can do this by visiting www.addthis.com register and add the code provided in the template footer.

15.     Keep you blog interesting and precise. (This is a pretty long post for me….but thought this would be a great interest to my readers )

16.     Keep reading the latest Search Engine optimization (SEO) techniques and follow them

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1. Title Tags – Give higher importance to title tags hence 9.8/10 importance is given to Page Title by Search Engines.

2. URL Structure – Build a short keyword optimistic page link with relevance

3. Content – Content is like a king in Search Engine Optimization. A good content with right keywords and relevancy would bring good results. Include your targeted keyword in H1, H2 and H3 Tags

4. Internal Linking & Navigation – Provide proper and right anchor texts. Anchor Texts also is an important attribute in on-page optimization, which helps the visitor to navigate throughout the website.

5. Dead Links – Have a periodic check on the broken links and redirect them to the relevant urls. More the number of broken links can also affect the search results and ranks.

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Christmas Season has started, and there is a long Q in the ATM’s to withdraw money and spend it for shopping. As this is a season of Christmas shopping, most of sellers provide attractive offers both offline and online. When it comes to offline shopping, you go pick up the product pay for it and come back happily.  But wonder some people in order to avoid over crowded places, start shopping online, and also gift their beloved ones with gifts that would be delivered at their door steps. But the question is how do you trust an online shopping site?

Many of the business sites who sell products using a ecommerce shopping cart with lot of attractive colours , festive offers and special discounts, but still do you thing the conversion rates are high.  Do you think that they are really turning visitors into buyers?  The answer would be “NO” until and unless the visitors trust that the site is a genuine one and really have got its market presence.

What should online shopping cart provider do to gain user’s trust?

Whenever, a shopping cart or any confidential details such credit card information, passwords etc are going to be taken from  the website visitor, in order to gain the trust of the customer, the online shopping service provider should have an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certification from any of the Certification Authorities. Eg. VeriSign, Comodo, Geotrust are leading certification authorities. Once the business is validated, the SSL certificate would be issued for the specified domain name, where the shopping cart is placed. This certification is mostly used by online banking sites, registration sites, shopping sites and other ecommerce related websites.

How will a user identify, if a site is secure and safe for shopping?

Generally websites start with the pre-text as http:// whereas when an SSL certificate is there it would begin with https://. Also a golden pad lock (lock image) would be found in the browser. When a website visitor clicks the padlock, he can see the certification details and know whether the certificate is issued to domain where the visitor is going to shop, the validity of certificate etc.

Having this point in my mind, I thought this blog post would be useful for new shopping cart builders and in the meantime would create awareness to a customer of about how to identify a secure online shopping website.

Thought that the below links would be useful for you in getting the right keywords and generating the meta tags.

Free Keyword Suggestion Tools

 http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

 https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

 http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

 Keyword List Generator

 http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-list/generator.php

 Free Meta Tag Generator

http://www.free-webmaster-tools.com/Meta-Tag-Generator.htm

 Free Meta Tag Builder with Time Interval

http://www.1stsitefree.com/meta_gen.htm