http://www.devhunters.com/blog.php Find webmasters, web designers, SEO techs, web developers, designers PHP experts, SEO advice, marketing tips and resources. Our forum provides a way for people to find web help and support! en Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:05:05 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.devhunters.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.devhunters.com/blog.php http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/5-magic-tricks-seo-gone-pt-1.html Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:36 GMT Well we have just had our quarterly dose of Google PR juice recently, and as usual there were many people that said YAY, and some that said Google was no good for taking their site down in PR which is very typical of every Google update. I don't think that this behavior will end any time soon and for the people that gained PR will be celebrating as well as contemplating their next move and advertising to capitalize on the PR that they've just obtained, and then for the others that were not so fortunate, they will get back on the saddle and get everything ready for the next update in hopes to be victorious.

I have to say that I've seen many different trends in the search engine optimizing world and I don't think that any SEO technician could honestly say that he can fully understand the flow of the search engines 100%, but I believe that some of the true professionals can hold the majority of that percentage and do some powerful things with that knowledge.

I am definitely one of these people to devote a good portion of my life studying in researching the search engines and I can boldly say after recent changes in closely watched experiments over the last several months that the magic tricks are gone as far as SEO is concerned! Let me say one more time, the magic tricks are gone!

Black Hat as SEO, White Hat SEO, and the few other fancy technical terms that us as SEO technicians have used over the years are going to be a thing of the past here very soon as they will just be mere residue hanging around indexing or on the Internet because things are changing and pretty soon people realize that in SEO that everyone has been used to for the last 10 years will be dead!

What is the answer? It's time to get honest about the way you present your website in the Internet! :whistle:

One thing is for sure, doing true search engine optimization for a website is and has always been a lot of work to do it correctly. Along with that, it takes a certain amount of maintenance to keep your website flowing and breathing in the Internet but one thing you do not have to do any more is use black hat type methods of getting your website seen. The fact of the matter is that adding great content into your website has become one of the most powerful tools that your website can have as far as getting into search terms. The search engine's are finally achieving what they have been trying to do all along which is to read content inside of websites with sophisticated robots in order to judge popularity.

Many clients that I work with emphasize on keywords in the meta makeup and I cannot stress enough how keywords have totally changed their purpose. It is true that your meta makeup, being your tags and description have value that it has switched to a different kind. I have found that if you make your main title, meta description, and meta tags stay no less than 90% relevant, and the next that in with valuable rich content that flows in harmony within that relevancy somewhere is the true winner these days. I cannot reiterate enough that achieving top ranking terms and page rank is still a lot of work and requires many resources to gain popularity but the good news is that you can present yourself out there honestly and target your goals and good old-fashioned clean way to get the great results.

Is PR important? Do we achieve great positions in search terms by having PR? :firstplace:

This opinion will be argued continually by impaired up to a but as far as search term positions, PR does not get the job done. Does it help you? Sure it does but not in the way you might think. I have known sites to sell homepage link spots on PR 8 sites for as high as $5,000 a month which if you were on a PR 8 homepage I can almost guarantee you that you would achieve a PR 6 or better but what does that do exactly? For one thing, it will get your website cached a lot quicker being that power website that you are attached to know we'll have search spiders flowing through it probably 24 hours a day which runs into your link and then cycles through it which in turn will help you out with gaining popularity but I am here to tell you if you think that that's going to get you in top search positions, forget it!

The only way that you're going to achieve maximum search engine term positions is to throw the gloves off and jump in the ring and prepare yourself for some good old-fashioned hard work. Or, you could have an SEO Tech do it but either way the work has to be done!

Continued next week!! Hunter1 :holy_sheep:
]]> Hunter1 http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/5-magic-tricks-seo-gone-pt-1.html http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/sportsdude-reese/4-continuance-my-website.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:13:58 GMT Ok, well with my website, I had to revert a bit, found some sloppy coding of mine...--I did a register/login/logout script using COOKIES!! AHHH.:whistle: Welllll, it turns out, it sucks, so I'm having to recode all my website to use sessions now. So gay... ]]> SpOrTsDuDe.Reese http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/sportsdude-reese/4-continuance-my-website.html http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/3-seo-localized-search-will-get-weird.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:00:57 GMT Times are changing quick in the world of SEO and now comes a fierce focus on localized search!

If you are planning on running your business inside and outside of the Internet you may want to read this:

Many brick and mortar companies that are catering to their local clientele find it hard to SEO for local markets despite targeting the best keywords. Quite naturally this is not a surprising matter as many of them, although efficient in running their off line businesses, typically stumble over two critical blocks.

Stumbling Blocks and SEO for Local Markets

When local businesses set to do SEO for local markets, many of them invariably ignore the need to think rationally because they are advised by SEO experts to target the big three search engine users and sometimes get confused and tackle this feat on a global level resulting in global traffic. The direct fall out of this step is exposing your business offers, products or services to the world at large only to dilute all other local online SEO efforts. If your product is not global you are in trouble.

So here is the stumbling block number one.

1. Not using localized target keywords, however good they are, will leave your new websites way down the SERP's locally. Actual localized keywords you should be targeting in which will bring you a steady stream of natural traffic.
The second block where you might probably stumble, especially if you are new to web and optimization is wrongfully assuming internet marketing techniques as something radically different and for removed from the earthly- worldly affairs that we all do by trial and errors over and again. The crux of the matter here is SEO for local markets is only a small part of larger marketing exercises, with certain twists, to get exposure with local locations.

Here is the second stumbling point in SEO for local markets.

2. SEO for local markets is not a marketing technique but a sophisticated local technique of optimizing websites on a local basis. Obviously, the one who knows the pulse of the market is not the SEO expert but can contribute his knowledge to SEO expert.

So, What Is Actually SEO For Local Markets?

Let me take you through steps involved in SEO for local markets in short.

1. Localize your target keywords. This includes prefixing or suffixing local terms, names, and names of areas, cities or zip codes with target keywords. Example: "remodeling contractors Orange County", not "remodeling contractors".

2. Submit to local search engines (find one, if you don't know already), directories and web based yellow pages.

3. Display your mailing address with street address, zip code and complete. Once your site is indexed, these words gain prominence as a part of content.

4. Submit to local listing sections of Yahoo and DMOZ which is in addition to generalized listing.

5. Don't leave out general SEO techniques because you want to SEO for local markets which the power of link building which can be done globally as there might not be enough local sites to beat you competition.

6. Get on the local maps of Google, Yahoo, as this generally puts you on front of the local search engines.

7. Exchange links and banners with local businesses as the local traffic exchange will bring you new business. Avoid changing banners or links with competitors but exchange them with businesses that will complement you. Verify their traffic so it's an almost even exchange.

Dominating local SEO can be done fairly easily, you just have to either hire a professional with a proven track record or take time to learn local SEO. The main concern is to be patient as it takes at least 3 months to start seeing results.

Hopefully these tips will help you through the tough changes that we will be faced with as the search engines change the way they do things! :thumbsup: ]]> Hunter1 http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/3-seo-localized-search-will-get-weird.html http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/2-seo-thoughts-techniques-news-hunter1.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:51:44 GMT I have been in the business of SEO for many years but I do not believe that DevHunters.com should be a place to Spam about my SEO business so you will rarely find any posts about my company. I have however decided to start this blog to share some of my thoughts, techniques, and news concerning the industry as well as some personal thoughts and great article pieces from sources that I know and trust from time to time! I will try to post to my blog at least once a month and members are welcome to comment on the posts, good or bad because we all have opinions which we are entitled to. I hope that you enjoy! :feedback: I have been in the business of SEO for many years but I do not believe that DevHunters.com should be a place to Spam about my SEO business so you will rarely find any posts about my company. I have however decided to start this blog to share some of my thoughts, techniques, and news concerning the industry as well as some personal thoughts and great article pieces from sources that I know and trust from time to time!

I will try to post to my blog at least once a month and members are welcome to comment on the posts, good or bad because we all have opinions which we are entitled to.

I hope that you enjoy! :feedback: ]]> Hunter1 http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/hunter1/2-seo-thoughts-techniques-news-hunter1.html http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/sportsdude-reese/1-starting-blog.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:08:44 GMT Well here I go, this is my first ever blog. I think I just post what I'm doing this week. Well I'm working on a website with Tutorials, forums, arcade, a store, and much more. This is a humongous project and I'm about 79% done. I am the only person working on this and I get a lot done every day. Right now I'm working on the CSS tutorial. I'm done the HTML, JavaScript, and PHP tutorial so far. ]]> SpOrTsDuDe.Reese http://www.devhunters.com/blogs/sportsdude-reese/1-starting-blog.html