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Expectations for an SEO Company

SEOnotepad — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Don’t be so excited as to getting an SEO company that sells itself as “the best” outright. Be reminded that you are working on the Internet and you should always do background checks on who you work with even more than that of the offline setting of businesses.

For one thing, you might end up with a company that isn’t actually the best, if not anything at all. They could be scammers, and you will want to stay away from them.

SEO: Know Your Terms

SEOnotepad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

One of the practical uses of knowing the basic terms popularly used in SEO is that you will better understand any online and offline resource on Search Engine Optimization that uses such terms as you go on. So here are some words to start you off.

SEO – short for Search Engine Optimization. If you don’t know this by the time you start working then chances are you won’t get far. SEO is what

Remove Google Indexed Websites

SEOnotepad — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Site owners are familiar with the method of preventing your websites from being indexed with the use of the robots Meta tag, which commands engines not to include this particular website in their searches.

But what if your website is already indexed? How do you remove them from the list? This, however, might depend on the case, which is explained by Google

Blocking Search Engines with robots.txt

SEOnotepad — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

This happens to so many people: you make a website and they don’t want just anyone to be able to access them. Unfortunately, once your website goes live, many search engines like MSN, Google, Yahoo, etc., are already way ahead of you in terms of indexing your work.

You can, however, create a command that will tell search engines to not include your website. First you have to create a

Blogs, SEO, and Google Indexing

SEOnotepad — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Back then blog posts really took a while for the crawlers or indexers at Google to enlist. The time it took was at least three months. It wasn’t only until mid-2000 when the people at Google were working harder. Indexed materials are becoming more frequently fresh and better as time passes by. There have even been cases where posts were on the list in a matter of minutes.

For those of you who haven’t realized this yet, this fact is

Doing SEO for WordPress

SEOnotepad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

WordPress is perhaps one of the most popularly used websites for Search Engine Optimization, but starting out may not be as easy as it sounds. More often than not, you will have to get used to a couple of things in WordPress and learn a few tricks to help you in your trade. One of which is focusing on your permalinks.

First thing you need to know about is working with permalinks. Your default permalink will look something like:

Defending Your Site From Scrapers

SEOnotepad — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

One of the problems with RSS and Pingbacks in SEO right now is the presence of scrapers or lazy black hat webmasters over the internet that steal your own blog content using some commands that redirect content from your well made blog to theirs. This is actually copyright infringement, so webmasters should know how to defend their own blogs.

While there is no current means of necessarily

Telling SEM from SEO

SEOnotepad — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

While the two do have related meanings, SEM is a much broader term and SEO is a subset or subcategory of the former.

Search Engine Marketing is basically anything that you would do to promote your website with the use of a search engine. You do this so that people will visit your site more and you can earn more profit. This can be done simultaneously with different methods such as online advertising, paid inclusions, and of course,

Getting Exempted from Google Sandbox

SEOnotepad — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Google Sandbox is there to prevent new websites from going into mainstream search engines immediately by putting them on probation first in order to reduce the instances of search engine spam.

But while it is an effective way to prevent spam, it also affects the efficiency of some webmasters whose content need not be doubted. There are, however, methods (ones that are legal, of course) that can

Making Money with Blogs

SEOnotepad — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:27:56 +0000

Blogging is perhaps the staple for every person who wishes to make money online. While there are indeed other methods of doing the same, the profits from blogging benefit you long term because of what blogs are capable of.