A Brief History of SEO
Webmasters and internet content providers started doing SEO in the mid-90s. However, what actually constitutes SEO work has changed as the field evolved over the years, sometimes rather drastically.
The Early Years
According to Danny Sullivan, a respected search engine industry analyst, the actual term “search engine optimization” started being used around 1997. But even before that, in the early days of Yahoo!, people were already starting to mess around with SEO concepts, testing out different keywords and different keyword densities and placement.
In the early days of search engines, webmasters needed only to submit their page addresses or URLs to the various search engines, who would then send spiders to crawl through and index the sites. As soon as people started to realize the value of having their websites show up on the first page of SERPS, they began looking for ways of manipulating the search engines indexing algorithms.
Back then, search algorithms relied on on-site information to determine page rankings. In other words, they relied on information that was provided by the webmaster, things like keyword density, meta tags and index files. All people needed to do was put in the right keywords in the sufficient density and they would start seeing front-page SE rankings in no-time. Web content providers also started manipulating HTML source attributes to get clients higher rankings. This started to result in the SERPS becoming unreliable, often filled with spam pages whose keyword tags did not accurately represent the pages’ actual content.
Tags: certified traffic, google algorithm, google algorithm updates, google ranking algorithm, google seo, MSN, organic traffic, seo search engine optimization, seo service providers, seo techniques, Yahoo, Yahoo algorithm
How to Build Backlinks Effectively
The Building of SEO backlinks is not always an easy thing to do. However, there are ways of doing it right if you know the right tools and ways. Backlinks is not a method to get results overnight. Although it is a popular SEO strategy, it does take some time to give results. However, the results you get are worth the effort and patience.
Tags: backlinks, blog backlinks, blog ranking, SEO, website backlinks, website ranking
6 steps to choose the “RIGHT” keywords
Aug 6, 2009 SEO
Picking the right keyword phrases is perhaps the most important step in creating a successful SEO (Search Engine Optimization) campaign. Why? Because if you pick the right keywords, they will drive the right traffic (if you rank well for them of course!). So let’s learn how to pick the “right” keywords for your website.
Tags: CPC, keyword competition, keyword selection, PPC, right keywords, SEO
The Ten Commandments of Link Building
Ten Commandments of Link Building When considering the inbound links to your website, you just can’t get enough of them. Getting people to link to your website isn’t easy but that’s the only way to get traffic and of course, the moolah! Webmasters and bloggers know many ways to build incoming links and use them daily to acquire more and more links.
Tags: article submission, directory submission, link baiting, link building, link exchange, Social Bookmarking
3 Keys for Effective Search Engine Optimization
Jul 14, 2009 SEO
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Some facts of SEO continue to wax and wane in their importance. Ditto with the various aspects of content optimization. There have been times when “content might not exactly be the king”. Like in the present scene, it is incoming links on your page that are of prime significance for SEO. That doesn’t devalue the content on your page. For a simple reason that is- what if the algorithms change the next day? Besides, different Search Engines
Tags: bing, Google, optimization, search engine, SEO, Yahoo
10 Popular SEO Tools
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What are the best ways to get top rank in search engines? What keywords should you use on your posts/webpage? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank?
Tags: Blogging, make money online, SEO, seo tools
SEO Secrets
Feb 27, 2009 SEO
What is all about SEO ?
Every webmaster or a blogger today running one site or multiple sites knows the importance of having his site/blog ranked highly in the search engines. If your site is not in the top 20 of your selected niche, then you will not be getting much traffic from any search engine. People who search on search engines usually never go past the first page in a search result.
Tags: Google, MSN, page rank, Ranking, Search Engine Optimization, Yahoo
