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Is Social Media Hummingbird Mass follow / unfollow software worth your investment?

July 9, 2009 By fsemaan Leave a Comment
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When I posted the last article about Twitter’s policy of suspending people who do mass follow and un-follow, I received an overwhelming response from readers. The largest response regarded the use of automated applications, especially Hummingbird.  Comments regarding Hummingbird were mostly attacks on the software for being a commercial product which sells for $200 compared to other products that are free. Unfortunately, we did not find any other real technical reasons that would support these attacks.
Is it fair for people to trash a business just because it is not giving something away for free? Should I start giving away my custom web design and my custom SEO for free?

Does Hummingbird work? [Read more...]

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Add 1000 Followers on Twitter Weekly- 10 Simple Rules

May 2, 2009 By fsemaan 3 Comments

When I started twittering 8 weeks ago I had no idea what to do. I knew little about Twitter. I knew that I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives and I also wanted to leverage Twitter from an SEO standpoint, to bring additional traffic to my blog and my custome SEO website.

I sat down and established the following rules which have helped me to gather more than 8000 followers in about 7 weeks, without using any viral software or automated mass following tools. [Read more...]

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Meta Tags Keywords and Description – Should I Use Them?

April 22, 2009 By fsemaan 4 Comments

Meta Tags – Old School

Recently, I was lectured by an old school SEO expert on the subject of using meta tags. He insisted on the importance of the use of meta tag keywords for search engine optimization.

However, every article I have read, every discussion I have had with other experts and every test I have done in my custon SEO practice shows that meta tag keywords are simply not relevant anymore, at least for Google. The optimization tools that I use also confirm the same results.

Are Meta Tags Irrelevant?

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Keywords in Your Website URL – Should an SEO Worry About It

April 14, 2009 By fsemaan Leave a Comment

Should you use your keywords in the URLs of your web pages? Do search engines look at the keywords that are included in the addresses of your web pages and do these keywords have an effect on the website SEO rankings ?

Google’s Position About Keywords in URLs

Google’s Matt Cutts recently posted a video about keywords in the URL of a web page. He said that keywords in the URL do help a little bit. [Read more...]

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Natural- Acceptable Links For Google Ranking vs Bad Links

April 7, 2009 By fsemaan Leave a Comment

Sometime in the distant past, it was enough to get any and as many inbound links as possible to get high rankings on Google. The source of the links didn’t matter, only the number was important.

Today, that is no longer the case. Getting the right links is essential to getting listed on the first page of search engine results.

Normal, acceptable links that will increase your Google rankings

Natural links are links that are related to your website content. For example, if you have a website about Search engine optimization, a totally unrelated link from an acrylic painting website would look odd. The links that point to your website should be from related websites and from sources that would “normally” link to you. For example, it would seem normal for a blog that is dedicated to alternative therapy to link to your massage therapy website. The more related the link, the higher is the rank you will get.

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Get Better Ranking With Google SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

March 30, 2009 By fsemaan 5 Comments

Targeting several keywords on your website is crucial to get high rankings on Google. The more keywords that are related to a particular topic that can be found on your website, the more likely it is that Google will find your website relevant to that topic.

If you choose black hat SEO, search engines will treat you as a spammer. If you choose  ethical SEO, your website will get higher rankings.

Here are our recommendations for a better SEO:

Remove keyword repetition

Some inexperienced web designers gather all the keywords that they want to optimize for and place them on every page of the website. Their title tags and meta tags become extremely long.

Unfortunately for them, Google truncates the title and ignores anything after 10 keywords. They consider keyword stuffing spam, which puts the entire website at risk of being penalized and dumped into the sandbox. (You really do not want to be put in Google sandbox.)

Check if your web pages contain long keywords lists. If they do, remove them from all your pages. [Read more...]

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Russian Roulette Or Safe Website Design

March 24, 2009 By fsemaan 6 Comments

In a discussion with a friend last week, she mentioned that she wanted to have a simple and safe website.

Her target clients are those with a higher-end income who could buy her luxury services.  Her definition of simple was disguising the real word, lowest possible cost. She also added she wanted to play it safe since she is just starting her business. She was going to ask a friend who has a hobby of web development to design her new high-end website.

Is designing a low cost website considered a safe way to build your high end business?

To have a successful website you need to have a:

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