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Tips for enriching your Blog’s SEO

Posted: November 12th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Internet Tools and Tips, Small Business, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , | 14 Comments »

1. Content. Creating truly informative and quality content will keep your readers returning to your blog much more often because the people don’t want to be misled and tricked into visiting your blog. Create economized titles that incorporate at least a couple of the keywords related to your post to draw the right trafic in the first place.

2. Frequent updates. Posting frequently with quality information is another key technique. The search engine spiders will crawl your site much more often.  Frequency will help keeping the visitors who came once and  are returning to find new and helpful content.

3. Incorporate your blog content into Facebook and other social networking platforms. Watch this you tube video! Facebook can be a bridge to your blog.

4. Index your blog. Indexing a blog refers to the blog becoming recognized by a search engines. This is something you can do proactively by submitting your URL within each search engine manually. Today, most bloggers would want to initially index their blog with Google, Bing, and Yahoo. By indexing a blog, your blog is more likely to show up in searches, therefore more likely to be visited.

5. Submit your blog to blog directories. Links are an important element to consider which  can affect your ranking.

6. Comment on other blogs. Look at other blogs in your same niche.  Comment on their posts giving them feedback and encouragement.  They may find your blog helpful as well and comment on your content!  All this traffic and linking will help get you recognized

7. Leave your URL within  appropriate forums. Being present at community resource forums is a great place to recruit some traffic to your own blog. Hopefully they will find what they are looking for at your blog.  This is why you should find niche appropriate forums related to your own content.

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SEO -much has changed!

Posted: October 21st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bend Oregon, Internet Tools and Tips, Web Development, Website | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

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Search Engine Optimization for  promoting one’s website used to be much easier not too long ago.  Much has changed! When search engines first got started they used to rely simply by trusting what the website owner said about their site. If you were looking to add specialized optimization, you would need only to add some meta-tags.  This would get you to the top rankings. If your competitor listed a keyword 7 times and you listed it 8 times; you would out rank your competitor.  You can see how things were systemically favoring 2 parts dishonesty and 4 parts chaos. The game has changed since then.

Much more complex formulas are running the leading search engines of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. While meta-tags are still essential and helpful in helping your website get recognized by the most used search engines within particular searches; there is now a whole list of elements that comprise the essentials for optimization techniques!  No longer is it as simple as repeating the same word a thousand times, and giving attention to the met- tags simply.  Now search engines are looking for a whole spectrum of essential elements to better ensure accuracy and fairness, including:

  • Meta tags
  • Domain names
  • Header tags
  • Bold text
  • Keyword weighting
  • Keyword prominence
  • Alt tags
  • File names
  • Link text

In addition to these is Google’s PageRank formula.  This is how Google assesses all the links that are directed to your website from outside websites.  If a well ranking external website has a link to your site in good standing, this helps you out.  It is a kind of who you know system.  Getting a good page rank takes time and a bit of work in getting this done.

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Search Engine Optimization: Page Titles!

Posted: September 27th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bend Oregon, Internet Tools and Tips, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Your website’s individual page titles are one of the most essential and natural ways to infuse relevant S.E.O. content into your website! In HTML code, the page title tag specifies the title of an individual page within your website. It is code which is inserted into the header of your web page and should look something like this:

<head>
<title> Search Engine Optimization: Page Titles! </title>
</head>

Of course, you will probably have quite a bit of additional tags within your opening and closing head tags, such as the various meta tags. Each one of your website’s pages should have its own unique title that describes pointedly what the respective information is in that particular page itself.  The viewer of your website will  see this information in Google’s natural listings in a search results page, as well – at the top of the internet browser window in which one views the web page.

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If you do not have a page title tag on any of your web pages, then you will be one of the current 19,000,000 results who come up on a Google search for having “untitled document” as their page title. Please, do your self a favor and don’t be one of those.

I hope this post is helpful. I will be continuing with more S.E.O. helps a couple times a week, so bookmark this blog on your R.S.S, or share it on Facebook or Twitter through the social media link below! Thanks for stopping by!

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WordPress, A Professional Resource

Posted: September 21st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Internet Tools and Tips, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments »

Watts Web Studio offers the setup of a WordPress blogs. WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as a full content management system and much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes. WordPress is rapidly becoming an excellent tool for building your blog as well as your website.

I have found this book, “Professional WordPress WordPress, A Professional Resource” to be an excellent resource for learning the ins and outs of customizing the WordPress platform.

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Importance of Domain Name Choice for Search Engine Ranking

Posted: September 17th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bend Oregon, New Clients, Portfolio, Small Business, Website | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments »
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OrganicScapes Website

I just completed this website for OrganicScapes landscaping company of Bend, Oregon at this domain name: bendorganiclandscaping.com. Take a look!

One of the most important elements in achieving top search engine ranking is choosing the best domain name for your business. When picking a domain name for a client is very helpful to incorporate relevant keywords within the very domain name itself.

If one were searching the powerful Google search engine looking for a landscaping company within a particular city, the search may look like this:  “Bend Oregon Landscaping”.  Google gives the highest priority of keyword ranking to the domain name itself. If an individuals search words/phrase are present in your web domain name, all the better! Therefore, the best available domain name for my client OrganicScapes incorporated both the location of city (bend), and the industry subject (landscaping) within their domain name.  We choose to include (organic) in the middle to have continuity with the business name.  While there is are many more tricks and tools that go into building a website with organic S.E.O. (search engine optimization), this should be given the most consideration.

The book Getting Noticed on Google in Easy Steps Importance of Domain Name Choice for Search Engine Ranking is an excellent resource for incorporating organic search engine optimization.

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Social Networking and Business

Posted: August 11th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Internet Tools and Tips | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Did you know that if Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest Country in the world behind China, India, and the United States. That is what this quick Youtube video is about. Having a company or personal website is just your starting point. It is very helpful to have in addition to a website, a social network presence as well! This video does an excellent job in communicating the reach of social media sites like Facebook.

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Absolute Effects Painting Company

Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bend Oregon, New Clients, Portfolio, Small Business, Web Development, Website | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

This was an earlier website that I developed for Absolute Effects Painting that shows what organic S.E.O (search engine optimization) techniques can do over time.  Currently, this Bend, Oregon based company’s website has climbed to the top of Google’s search engine ranking within the year. From the inception of each website project Watts Web Studio is strategically placing essential S.E.O elements in the structure of the website’s code.  This includes behind the scenes meta-tags, keywords, title and alt tags that never get seen by the websites user; of which are absolutely essential for any hopes of rising to the top.

The optimum keywords would most likely be all or a combination of the following keywords: “Bend Oregon Painting Company”. Check it out.  This company’s domain name absoluteeffectspainting.com comes up in the top 10 everytime.

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7 Helpful Google Search Engine Tools

Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Internet Tools and Tips, Search Engine Optimization, Web Development | Tags: , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

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  1. Use the ‘site:’ operator to frame your searches for a particular site.This is a great tool, and it’s very useful because many site’s search tools do not work properly anyway. This is how it works. If i want to find references to Photography this is what you enter: photography site:wattswebstudio.com
  2. Use Google to check your spelling. Entering any word into the Google search box is an excellent way to see if you have the right spelling. If your spelling is not correct, Google will suggest the correct spelling instantly
  3. Google can help you with word definitions using the ‘define:’ operator. Just another helpful tool Google offers. You might use it to define the word ubiquitous. ( define: ubiquitous )
  4. Look for specific document file types. Using the “filetype:” operator google can searche the internet for specific types of files . If you’re looking for JPG files about hawaiian turtles, for example, you could try: ( honu filetype:jpg )
  5. Google can do currency conversion, This could be your search: 1 dollar in Thai Baht.
  6. Make a search within a numerical range. For example, if you want to look for information about U.S. Presidents between 1930 and 1950. This would be your search U.S. Presidents 1930..1950
  7. Make Calculations using Google. This would calculate 110 * (654/8 + 3). This is much quicker than opening up your computers calculator program.
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Red Hammock Website

Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bend Oregon, New Clients, Portfolio, Small Business, Web Development, Website | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Red Hammock vacation rentals website completed!

Check out this  website that I finished recently.  A beachfront condominium rental company near San Pedro Belize.

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Red Hammock Vacation Rentals

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Red Hammock Image Gallery

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