Today I visited two of my blogs, this blog and my funny jokes and amusing stories, and noticed something very much significant for a website. My PageRank increased. This blog goes from 0 to 2 pagerank, while my funny jokes and amusing stories blog went to 4 from a long time 3.
For many who don't know, PageRank is very important for a website if you are just relying in the search engine, like Google, Yahho, MSN and etc., for you website's traffic source. It helps you get high rank in the SERP (Search Engine Result Page) - it's the results when you search for something in search engines.
Imagine if your website is always in the number #1 spot of a highly search word or phrases (ie: 'recipe') in search engines, you will get literally thousands or even millions of visitors per day. Which means, more visitors, more money in advertising revenue.
Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Search Engine Friendly Design
If you want your website to be search engine friendly, you should focus on the design of each of your page. Make it as easy for them to crawl your site. Google, Yahoo and other search engines use bots or spiders to visit and index your website. They do not reveal when and how they crawl a site, it's their sort of business strategy. But when and how they do it, you should optimize your website's pages because you'll never know when they going to do it.
When optimizing your site, you should not only focus on the main page but rather all the pages of you site. This way you can maximize your potential to get listed in organic searches.
A search engine friendly design focuses on four areas, title tags, meta tags, main body text, and spider friendly navigation.
A) Title Tags
The title tag a short description of your page and can be seen as the caption of your page at top left corner. When making your title tag, your most important key word should go first. Don't use the same title for multiple webpage and make it no more than 60 characters of 6-12 words.
<head>
<title>Joel Badinas dot Com</title>
</head>
B.) Meta tag (Keyword and Description tags)
Meta tags are tags embedded in the HTML of your page, at the top just after the Title tags.
When writing your Meta Desciption tag, write it in sentence structure and should be 150 characters or below or 25-30 words. It must contain you most important keywords.
<meta name="Description" content="This blog is about my ramblings, make money online tips, programming stuffs, blogging tips, views and my everyday life"/>
When writing your Meta Keyword Tags, use keywords or phrases. It should be 100-250 characters in length. Start with your most important keywords or phrases and the proceed with the less important ones.
<meta name="Keyword" content="ramblings, make money online tips, programming stuffs, blogging tips, views, everyday life"/>
C.) Main Body Text
The main body text is the contents of your web pages. In the body text, scatter your keywords near the top of the page, be careful not to overdo it or else search engines might think you're spamming your contents with your keywords. 3 to 5 times of occurrence is considered fine. Use <h1> - <h5>, <b> tags to highlight those keywords.
To see a live example, visit my apple recipes page in my online recipe website. Notice how I highlight my keyword, apple recipes.
C.) Spider Friendly Navigation
The navigation in your website is the menus and URLs that leads to other pages in your website. When a search engine spider crawls your website, it will follow whatever URLs it will find in your website. If some of your URL isn't working, the spider can't access it and will lead to some of your pages not being crawled and indexed.
When optimizing your site, you should not only focus on the main page but rather all the pages of you site. This way you can maximize your potential to get listed in organic searches.
A search engine friendly design focuses on four areas, title tags, meta tags, main body text, and spider friendly navigation.
A) Title Tags
The title tag a short description of your page and can be seen as the caption of your page at top left corner. When making your title tag, your most important key word should go first. Don't use the same title for multiple webpage and make it no more than 60 characters of 6-12 words.
<head>
<title>Joel Badinas dot Com</title>
</head>
B.) Meta tag (Keyword and Description tags)
Meta tags are tags embedded in the HTML of your page, at the top just after the Title tags.
When writing your Meta Desciption tag, write it in sentence structure and should be 150 characters or below or 25-30 words. It must contain you most important keywords.
<meta name="Description" content="This blog is about my ramblings, make money online tips, programming stuffs, blogging tips, views and my everyday life"/>
When writing your Meta Keyword Tags, use keywords or phrases. It should be 100-250 characters in length. Start with your most important keywords or phrases and the proceed with the less important ones.
<meta name="Keyword" content="ramblings, make money online tips, programming stuffs, blogging tips, views, everyday life"/>
C.) Main Body Text
The main body text is the contents of your web pages. In the body text, scatter your keywords near the top of the page, be careful not to overdo it or else search engines might think you're spamming your contents with your keywords. 3 to 5 times of occurrence is considered fine. Use <h1> - <h5>, <b> tags to highlight those keywords.
To see a live example, visit my apple recipes page in my online recipe website. Notice how I highlight my keyword, apple recipes.
C.) Spider Friendly Navigation
The navigation in your website is the menus and URLs that leads to other pages in your website. When a search engine spider crawls your website, it will follow whatever URLs it will find in your website. If some of your URL isn't working, the spider can't access it and will lead to some of your pages not being crawled and indexed.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Online Recipe SEO Success
Last June 30, I blogged about the initial success of my free source codes blog. This time, it's my other website, online recipe collections.
A Brief History
This website has been online for about 8 months now. I don't really market this aggressively except for putting it's URL in my signature sections of my emails. I rely mainly in search engines for it's traffic.
Since the site was fully index by Google, Yahoo and other search engines, I've been enjoying good amount of traffic from those search engines. But I noticed that some of the recipe categories pages do not appear in organic searches. Further studying revealed that I was because of the URLs I used. Instead of the actual names of the categories and recipes (Ex: appetizers, bread, cakes, etc), I used the ID's from the database tables (Ex: 1, 2, 3, etc).
In search engine's point of view, appetizers, breads and cakes are more relevant than 1, 2 and 3 when a user searches for recipes.
Although my website's contents is optimized for every recipe categories, it lacks one key optimization point, the URLs.
To counter this weakness in SEO, two weeks ago I recode this website (I use PHP) to display the category and recipe names instead the ids. Here's an example:
Before
1) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?category_id=1
2) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?category_id=1&recipe_id=25
After
1) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?c=Appitizer-Recipes&p=1
2) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/recipes.php?c=Bread-Recipes&r=Apple-Roll&p=1
The Result
This morning when I check my sitemeter, I was very excited to see that my online recipe collections website more than doubled it's visitors. The keywords before that I don't rank well in searches suddenly become my traffic sources. Let's see if this big adjustment I made well bring more traffic to this website.
A Brief History
This website has been online for about 8 months now. I don't really market this aggressively except for putting it's URL in my signature sections of my emails. I rely mainly in search engines for it's traffic.
Since the site was fully index by Google, Yahoo and other search engines, I've been enjoying good amount of traffic from those search engines. But I noticed that some of the recipe categories pages do not appear in organic searches. Further studying revealed that I was because of the URLs I used. Instead of the actual names of the categories and recipes (Ex: appetizers, bread, cakes, etc), I used the ID's from the database tables (Ex: 1, 2, 3, etc).
In search engine's point of view, appetizers, breads and cakes are more relevant than 1, 2 and 3 when a user searches for recipes.
Although my website's contents is optimized for every recipe categories, it lacks one key optimization point, the URLs.
To counter this weakness in SEO, two weeks ago I recode this website (I use PHP) to display the category and recipe names instead the ids. Here's an example:
Before
1) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?category_id=1
2) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?category_id=1&recipe_id=25
After
1) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/categories.php?c=Appitizer-Recipes&p=1
2) http://onlinerecipe.grinhost.net/recipes.php?c=Bread-Recipes&r=Apple-Roll&p=1
The Result
This morning when I check my sitemeter, I was very excited to see that my online recipe collections website more than doubled it's visitors. The keywords before that I don't rank well in searches suddenly become my traffic sources. Let's see if this big adjustment I made well bring more traffic to this website.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Free Source Codes Blog Initial Success
Last week I blog about my new free source codes blog which I created also last week. I'm excited to say that I having a good traffic to this blog, mainly from search engines, particularly Google. And what's more exciting to me is that this free source codes blog is generating clicks from Google Adsense ads. In fact for the past two days, it is my highest earner in Adsense. This is a success in itself considering that this blog is just a week oldI give credit to this initial success to the search engine optimization, careful selecting of the keywords and the techniques I used in this blog first milestone. I think it's working also in my free source codes blog.
Friday, June 22, 2007
First Joel Badinas dot Com Milestone
Yesterday was the first milestone this blog has attained. According to Google Analytics, this blog was visited 98 times yesterday. With that 98 visitors, 83 was unique. Ok, for some bloggers this number of traffic is not a reason to blog about, but for me it is. Since starting this blog last year, this been through up and down. This blog went to "sleep" for months until I decided to "awaken" it again. Lucky me I didn't delete this blog. I was on the brink of doing that.
I think the traffic was the result of some techniques I made to this blog. Before yesterday, the average number of visitors was just 30 and then it jumped to 98 all of the sudden. But don't ask me about those techniques because I'm not telling about it just yet. I need more proof before I will blog about that techniques I made to this blog.
For the meantime, I'll just keep on blogging and using those techniques. (^_^)
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Free Blogging Report: Blog Profit Blueprint
Have you heard about the Blog Profit Blueprint? For some of you who don't know, it's one of the best free blogging report I've ever read in my whole blogging life, really.I downloaded this free report just this week through an invitation from John Reese's newsletter.
I have downloaded and read other blogging and make money online reports, but this one is really different. In this free report, the author, Yaro Starak, shared his blogging techniques that he used to make his own blogs one of the successful blogs on the internet today.
Here are some of the things you'll learn from the report
- The one vital skill that most bloggers lack, and how YOU can easily learn it.
- "Pillar Method" for creating killer content that attracts links and sucks in waves of traffic for months or even years to come.
- How to build multiple, ongoing streams of blog traffic using Communication Channels
- The exact methods Yaro Starak use to make money from his blog.
- Plus, access to a LIVE VIDEO that let's you "look over his shoulder" as he give you a guided tour of exactly how he make money from his blog - and how much!
If you are really serious about blogging and monetizing it, I recommend you to download this free report and read it from start to finish.
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