Saturday, 8 November 2008

SEO Studio

The Simplest SEO Software Tool - Guaranteed

Get a Top-10 Ranking on Google, Yahoo and MSN and Save Thousands on SEO Fees!! 

You don't need months to learn search engine optimization with SEO Studio. We have not only created the most powerful SEO tool on the internet, but we have also created a Free SEO guide that virtually holds your hand during your site's optimization process. 

SEO Studio gives you all the tools necessary to optimize and improve your website's visibility instantly and gain top ranking for any keyword.

Visit the website for SEO Studio and grab a trial version and see it in action for yourself. I've chosen it after testing most of the other alternative SEO apps.

Finally SEO Made Easy and Simple 

As an internet marketer you have hundreds of options to promote your website, but all cost a lot of money. The answer is getting a top 10 ranking on Google, Yahoo and MSN and sending a steady flow of FREE search engine traffic to your website. 

If you ever wondered how some successful websites get their top ranking and thousands of visitors a day, SEO Studio will put you in the know even if you are brand new to SEO. 

By using SEO Studio, you'll be able to reveal..

  • What are the factors that affect search engine rankings
  • Why your competitors are getting top rankings
  • How to target the right keywords
  • What are the seemingly invisible factors the search engines use to rank your site
  • What are inbound links and how many do you need to beat the top sites
  • How to optimize your pages without the risk of being penalized
  • Finding the most suitable links for your site

I love all the tutorials they have provided, along with a series of email tutorials. And, as a sneak preview, you can take a look at the video.

Website Design Software and SEO Tools

I took a while to decide what software to use, and I ended up choosing XSitePro 2.0 for the dsigning of the new websites and SEO Studio to find keywords, promote, rank, monitor etc.,

More about these later... Just a very quick update to my progress.

I've done a quick info page about SEO Studio if you want to have a look.

Thursday, 6 November 2008

SEO Elite - The Dream and The Reality

Over the past few months and weeks I have reviewed loads of software and read countless e-books about search engine optimisation. I've been on 'information overload' without a doubt.

But, the big issue is; which book do I believe and which software really is the best at analysing my web pages and adviseing me of the best tweaks to make it to the top of google.

I got it down to a few possibilities, based on my own reviews and the reviews on the web. One of the favoured apps is called SEO Elite. What a sales job these guys do. When you subscribe to the newsletters etc (as I always do to see what sort of garbage, oops! I mean information they send out), you get loads of 'lessons' that are based around using SEO Elite.

I was almost convinced that SEO Elite should climb my list of possible packages, until I got an email today: The email said "I just created a special Google ranking video for you this evening
to answer a VERY frequently asked question. Have a look by visiting the link below:
=> http://www.seoelite.com/SpecialVideo.htm
Enjoy!"

So I immediately clicked the link to view the video. And he shows the rankings of a bunch of web sites. So what did I do next, I opened a browser window and went to google and did exactly the same searches that are shown in the video...

Within minutes I was saying (to myself of course) what a load od BS!!!!

Take a look and see for yourself.

Look at the results you get in Google compared to the results in the video. Also pay attention to the number of sites found by Google compared to the sites found according to the video.

I'm pretty sure the video was NOT made recently. So why the BS email about a video he made 'last night'. Does he really think we are all that stupid and think we are are not going to check for ourselves?

That has knocked SEO Elite off my list all together... Back to comparing Web CEO, iBusinessPromoter and SEO Studio...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Where To Start with SEO

Over the past few months I must have downloaded a couple of dozen free ebooks, bought a dozen or so and followed countless 'tutorials' from the ultimate Gurus (self-claiming of course) but there are one or two guides that say exactly what needs to be said about Search Engine Optimisation - without the hype.

So may ebook promoting websites start with hype, build on hype and close with even more hype. They include the innevitable screen shots of their clickbank revenue, they show us the massive cheques from Google Adsense, and make us feel like we're missing out on the fortunes the Internet can deliver...

But, if you are like me and simply want to get your website into the prized top spot on Google, Yahoo! and MSN, all that crap about affiliate revenue, adsense earnings etc., is totally irrelavant. We want traffic to our products and services, not how to be the king of affiliate marketing.

So Who Should You Trust?
Well, That's a tough question. But as a few tips, I'd steer clear of anyone raving on about millions of search engines, about raking in millions of clickthrough dollars (pounds, shillings and pence to me of course), anyone teasing our subconcious with big cheques (we call it willy waving). What you want is results in only 3 search engines, Google, Yahoo! and MSN (and to a smaller degree, AOL search). The rest (if there are millions which I doubt) account for a percent of all web traffic and so what is the point anyway.

In a very good book about SEO I read that Google is the biggest with almost 50% of all web searches, Yahoo! id way back in second place with about 23/24% and MSN bringing up the rear with 8 to 9%. The reason I mentioned AOL in the previous paragraph is because they do (apparently) handle about 8% of searches. The rest of the search engines either use data provided by the top 3 or they share a meesly few percent of web searches between them.

Anyone who is honest enough to tell me thos facts is a good egg in my book. And I'd rather listen to him/her who seems honest than someone raving about getting me into 'millions' of search engines and waving a clickbanks statement...

So What Next?
Well, the first thing we need to do is build a website! Oh, you already did that? Fantastic! Then we're ready to optimise aren't we? That's exactly what I thought a month or so back, until I started to read about 'webcopy' and realised my site content was not good enough to sell my services.

So before I get into the optimisation stage, which begins with choosing the right keywords, I'll be finding a few good blogs and newsletters about 'writing webcopy that sells'... You'll find the links to what I find right here tomorrow.

Thanks for reading so far!

Gaming Google... What its that all about?

Well I'd never heard of 'gaming google' untile a book I was reading last night referred to 'black hat' techniques as 'gaming' the search engines.

So what is it?

In generel, it means the spamming of keywords in the web page copy, in the keywords, descriptions, titles etc., AND getting links from all the link farms availeble - just to get a short term high ranking on Google.

Ten years ago this would work. Loads of websites did it. No doubt you've seen web pages with lists of words at the bottom or a big white-space at the bottom (because the webmaster had loads of text in the same colour as the background).

If you are doing anything the feels unethical, seems unethical, or that you KNOW is unethical - don't do it. It won't get you anywhere.

My Project: To Reveal The Secrets Behind SEO

I've been reading book after book about Search Engines and how to optimise web pages for page ranking and search engine positioning and, like so many people, find it a massive task and wonder if I'll ever get a web page ranked at the ultimate number 1 spot on Google.

Like many people with a busines website, my aim, and the aim of the few websites I design and host, I have what appears to be an un-enviable task of proving the 'theories' published in the countless ebooks that are available either work, or not.

This is not a blog with loads of affilliate links! That is not the aim at all. If I like something, or find someone's book useful, I will simply link to it and let you pop along and see for yourself if it's worth buying.

This may take me several weeks to complete, and I will add as much info as I can along the way. The idea is that I will start with (almost) a blank canvass of a couple of websites that are currently ranking low in Google, Yahoo! and MSN, and see what I can achieve with them after each update. Each update being something I've read and applied.

The sites I am working on are a mobile disco and a double glazing company. Two very different businesses. Each with it's own target market and each with completely unique styles and goals. Obviously a company that manufactures replacement windows and doors requires a lot more visitors and a lot more sales than a wedding dj is going to need. However, the main aim is to get the sites 'right' for the visitor and for teh search engines and to pull in targetted traffic.

Subscribe below and stay with me, hopefully this will not only help me, but help countless other aspiring webmasters to get the most out of their websites.