Query Classes

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Query Classes

Identifying query classes is one of the most powerful ways to optimize large sites. Understanding query classes allows you to identify both user syntax and intent.

I’ve talked for years about query classes but never wrote a post dedicated to them. Until now.

Query Classes

What are query classes? A query class is a set of queries that are well defined in construction and repeatable. That sounds confusing but it really isn’t when you break it down.

A query class is most often composed of a root term and a modifier.

vacation homes in tahoe

Here the root term is ‘vacation homes’ and the modifier is ‘in [city]’. The construction of this query is well defined. It’s repeatable because users search for vacation homes in a vast number of cities.

Geography is often a dynamic modifier for a query class. But query classes are not limited to just geography. Here’s another example.

midday moon lyrics

Here the root term is dynamic and represents a song, while the modifier is the term ‘lyrics’. A related query class is ‘[song] video’ expressed as ‘midday moon video’.

Another simple one that doesn’t contain geography is ‘reviews’. This modifier can be attached to both products or locations.

Recently Glen Allsopp (aka Viperchill) blogged about a numeric modifier that creates a query class: [year].

best science fiction books 2015

This often happens as part of a query reformulation when people are looking for the most up-to-date information on a topic and this is the easiest way for them to do so.

Sometimes a query class doesn’t have a modifier. LinkedIn and Facebook (among others) compete for a simple [name] query class. Yelp and Foursquare and others compete for the [venue name] query class.

Of how about food glorious food.

That’s right, there’s a competitive ‘[dish] recipe’ query class up for grabs. Then there are smaller but important query classes that are further down the purchase funnel for retailers.

You can create specific comparison pages for the query class of ‘[product x] vs [product y]’ and capture potential buyers during the end of the evaluation phase. Of course you don’t create all of these combinations, you only do so for those that have legitimate comparisons and material query volume.

If it isn’t obvious by now there are loads of query classes out there. But query classes aren’t about generating massive amounts of pages but instead are about matching and optimizing for query syntax and intent.

User Syntax

One reason I rely on query classes is that it provides a window to understanding user syntax. I want to know how they search.

Query classes represent the ways in which users most often search for content. Sure there are variations and people don’t all query the same way but the majority follow these patterns.

Do you want to optimize for the minority or the majority?

Here are just a few of the ‘[dish] recipe’ terms I thought of off the top of my head.

Look at that! And that’s just me naming three dishes off the top of my head. Imagine the hundreds if not thousands of dishes that people are searching for each day. You’re staring at a pile of search traffic based on a simple query class.

It’s super easy when you’re dealing with geography because you can use a list of top cities in the US (or the world) and then with some simple concatenation formulas can generate a list of candidates.

Sometimes you want to know the dominant expression of that query class. Here’s one for bike trails by state.

Here I have a list of the different variants of this query class. One using ‘[state] bike trails’ and the other ‘bike trails in [state]’. Using Google’s keyword planner I see that the former has twice the query volume than the latter. Yes, it’s exact match but that’s usually directionally valid.

I know there’s some of you who think this level of detail doesn’t matter. You’re wrong. When users parse search results or land on a page they want to see the phrase they typed. It’s human nature and you’ll win more if you’re using the dominant syntax.

Once you identify a query class the next step is to understand the intent of that query class. If you’ve got a good head on your shoulders this is relatively easy.

Query Intent

Not only do we want to know how they search, we want to know why.

The person searching for ‘vacation homes in tahoe’ is looking for a list of vacation rentals in Lake Tahoe. The person searching for ‘midday moon lyrics’ is looking for lyrics to the Astronautalis song. The person looking for ‘samsung xxx’ vs ‘sony xxx’ is looking for information on which TV they should purchase.

Knowing this, you can provide the relevant content to satisfy the user’s active intent. But the sites and pages that wind up winning are those that satisfy both active and passive intent.

The person looking for vacation homes in tahoe might also want to learn about nearby attractions and restaurants. They may want to book airfare. Maybe they’re looking for lift tickets.

The person looking for midday moon lyrics may want more information about Astronautalis or find lyrics to his other songs. Perhaps they want concert dates and tickets. The person looking for a TV may want reviews on both, a guide to HDTVs and a simple way to buy.

Satisfying passive intent increases the value of your page and keeps users engaged.

Sometimes the query class is vague such a [name] or [venue] and you’re forced to provide answers to multiple types of intent. When I’m looking up a restaurant name I might be looking for the phone number, directions, menu, reviews or to make a reservation to name but a few.

Query classes make it easier to aggregate intent.

Templates

On larger sites the beauty of query classes is that you can map them to a page type and then use smart templates to create appropriate titles, descriptions and more.

This isn’t the same as automation but is instead about ensuring that the page type that matches a query class is well optimized. You can then also do A/B testing on your titles to see if a slightly different version of the title helps you perform across the entire query class.

Sometimes you can play with the value proposition in the title.

Vacation Homes in Tahoe vs Vacation Homes in Tahoe – 1,251 Available Now

It goes well beyond just the Title and meta description. You can establish consistent headers, develop appropriate content units that satisfy passive intent and ensure you have the right crosslink units in place for further discovery.

The wrinkle usually comes with term length. Take city names for instance. You’ve got Rancho Santa Margarita clocking in at 22 characters and then Ada with a character length of 3.

So a lot of the time you’re coming up with business logic that delivers the right text, in multiple places, based on the total length of the term. This can get complex, particularly if you’re matching a dynamic root term with a geographic modifier.

Smart templates let you scale without sacrificing quality.

Rank Indices

The other reason why query classes are so amazing, particularly for large sites, is that you can create rank indices based on those query classes and determine how you’re performing as a whole across that query class.

Here I’ve graphed four similar but distinct query class rank indices. Obviously something went awry there in November of 2015. But I know exactly how much it impacted each of those query classes and then work on ways to regain lost ground.

Query classes usually represent material portions of traffic that impact bottomline business metrics such as user acquisition and revenue. When you get the right coverage of query classes and create rank indices for each you’re able to hone in on where you can improve and react when the trends start to go in the wrong direction.

I won’t go into the details now but read up if you’re interested in how to create rank indices.

Identifying Query Classes

Hopefully you’ve already figured out how to identify query classes. But if you haven’t here are a few tips to get you started.

First, use your head. Some of this stuff is just … right there in front of you. Use your judgement and then validate it through keyword research.

Second, look at what comes up in Google’s autocomplete suggestions for root terms. You can also use a tool like Ubersuggest to do this at scale and generate more candidates.

Third, look at the traffic coming to your pages via Search Analytics within Google Search Console. You can uncover patterns there and identify the true syntax bringing users to those pages.

Fourth, use paid search, particularly the report that shows the actual terms that triggered the ad, to uncover potential query classes.

Honestly though, you should really only need the first and second to identify and hone in on query classes.

TL;DR

Query classes are an enormously valuable way to optimize larger sites so they meet and satisfy patterns of query syntax and intent. Query classes let you understand how and why people search. Pages targeted at query classes that aggregate intent will consistently win.

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Manny Rivas on YouTube & Retargeting: SMX 2013 Coverage

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Manny Rivas on YouTube & Retargeting: SMX 2013 Coverage

It’s always bittersweet to make it to the last day of a conference, and today was no exception. Outspoken Media has two interviews going live today, so keep your eyes peeled for Casie Gillette’s interview with actionable tips from Content: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. We interviewed Manny Rivas earlier this week, which was really a bonus, since he spoke on Pro-level Tips For Succeeding At Retargeting on Tuesday, and he was on the fantastic YouTube panel this morning. YouTube takeaways are below, and it’s no surprise that the panel—Greg Finn of Cyprus North Moderating, Matt Siltala of Avalaunch Media, Purna Virji of Stroll, and Manny Rivas of aimClear–brought it.

SMX East 2013 Coverage: YouTube: Optimization Tips For the Second Most-Popular Search Engine

If the panel on YouTube optimization didn’t know their audience, I don’t know who does. It’s hard to win over a group of marketers the morning after a killer party (thank you Yext! Love those hummingbird cocktails!), but they came in with the perfect approach: brilliant tips, and a few videos appealing to that base level we all needed.

• Manny Rivas took the audience through strategizing your YouTube approach. B2B can be sexy too; you just have to tell a story to the right audience. Make sure you are optimizing your videos with annotations, and external links, but start with the keyword research.
• Thought leadership, tutorials, infographics, branded yet catchy, thematic series are all great approaches to creating video content. Video engagement success will be determined by research and relationships you build well before the video is created. Identify users by mining comments, and finding active users in the fields you are targeting.
• Purna Virji pimped everyone’s YouTube channels, and offered up tips for building a strong foundation for your channel, curating your content and engaging your visitors to keep them there, and using analytics to audit your efforts. To start with make sure you’ve made the most of your channel icon, and channel URL. Make your video metadata compelling with core keywords first, and branding later. With annotations make sure you avoid the lower third of the video, don’t obstruct content, and use analytics to test time and placement.
• You want to develop a subscriber following; you can customize your channel page for new viewers and subscribers, which offers a new experience for different kinds of users. Let your viewership know why they should become a subscriber, and commit to putting the effort into following through. To get a better sense of viewer process make sure you are looking at playback locations and traffic sources reports in analytics. To evaluate your user engagement make sure you use subscribers report to show which videos stand out, and to evaluate what kind of content works for you.
• Matt Siltala, social maven, emphasized the importance of certain user signals to monitor: you want user engagement with likes and dislikes, and full views. Use humor in a dryer industry like pest control, or use a targeted traffic approach by creating a video where the subject matter and title are specific things people are searching for to guide your content.
• Are you optimizing? Did you forget to link to your site? For shame! Make sure your using proper categories and GEO tagging. Share your videos across all your social profiles. Add your videos to your Google+ profile, it helps with authorship, and use those same social profiles for video ideas: local Facebook groups will give you insight into local community questions and needs. Lastly, repurpose your most successful content as a video.

Manny On YouTube Optimization and Marketing

You got your start in marketing through rap videos on YouTube, can you talk a bit about how your YouTube work for clients has driven value, and what kind of obstacles you’ve come up against, whether it was initial client buy-in, resource allocation, etc.? Also as a side note, that’s probably one of the cooler entries into marketing.

Surprisingly enough, there are actually a lot of similarities from what I was doing – posting rap videos to what we’re doing for clients, because at the core of what I was doing, I wanted to build a subscribership, a viewer base, that would come view my videos time and time again.

The way that I had to do that was find interested users. I would go out there and I would identify other hip-hop artists that were publishing videos and I would just engage with them. For a hip-hop artist one of the biggest things for us is attention to lyrics. The way that I found the most engagement and made sure that I got people back to check out my content, was I would listen to the lyrics of other artists that are trying to build their viewer base. I would comment and say, “Man, this line right here where you said …, was really cool,” or quote certain parts of their verses and more often than not you’re complimenting them, so they come and check you out.

But anyways, what we’re doing for clients here is the same sort of demographic research where we’re trying to find engaged, active users and when we start out with companies that are looking to start a YouTube presence, we have to find those individuals – it’s all demographic research. We have to find the most engaged users that we can potentially engage with and bring into our community.

Resource allocation is a big thing. Clients get so excited about what they could do with video, but they just don’t have the resources to commit to it. They have amazing ideas of what an amazing video would be; they just don’t have the resources.

It’s having an understanding of what you can do. Animation is a great way to effectively create video and communicate your message without having to pay for actors, or pay for a whole lot of voiceover acting and things like that.

We’ve also had wins with direct response in YouTube selling products. For one particular company, we increased sales of their products through selling on their channel page. When I’m thinking about video as a sales mechanism, you have to think about it as a landing page. It’s just like a landing page. You have to give enough information to the viewer to take them to the next step.

You think about if a viewer were to do a search in YouTube; they find your YouTube ad; they’re expecting to see a video, which they’re going to; they come to your video and if the searches that you’re targeting are intent driven, you should be able to target those individuals that are seeking or close to farther down in the funnel. If your video is able to answer their questions and take them to the next level, you shouldn’t have a problem converting them.

We were using longer form videos, there were two different lengths. There was one that was 17 minutes and one that was more along the 30 minute line. Once users get past a certain point in the video, we’re pretty confident that they’re going to convert. We were able to identify the searches that were the ones where users had a higher proclivity to convert, and optimize towards showing those users, or those people searching for those terms the right video. We were able to dramatically increase conversions since we came into the picture and started optimizing those video campaigns, which was a pretty good win.

You had a great article in Search Engine Land back in January about building a direct response funnel in youtube. What are some of the ways that you begin to think about process and strategies for individual clients? What’s in your toolbox?

In terms of driving sales with YouTube, like I was kind of saying before, I like to start by understanding how video can effectively communicate a particular product or service. Understanding, can video sell my blue widgets with one touch or are viewers more likely to come back or continue gathering information first after they watch the video?

There are three primary tools I use for doing direct response in YouTube, and those are the in-search ad unit, in-display, and the pre-roll, which is in-stream. I tend to use the in-search and in-display. I have found those to be more effective in terms of direct response.

In terms of building my campaigns and identifying search inventory, one of the most powerful tools that I have found is Scrapebox. Scrapebox is a tool that actually scrapes the AJAX suggestion box in YouTube. When you go to the search box and you start typing snowboard or something like that, and then there are a whole bunch of suggestions that populate below it, what Scrapebox does is scrape those suggestions.

YouTube has this keyword research tool and it sucks; it’s completely horrible. It doesn’t give you anything relevant. The best keyword research that I’ve been able to do is literally looking at the suggestions in the dropdown menu from YouTube because those searches, or those recommended queries are coming because they’ve been searched for quite a bit. There is high frequency in those areas, and people are either searching for those things or there is a lot of content out there. That’s where I like to start.

In that example of increasing success events with YouTube remarketing, one thing that we did was use custom thumbnails in the headline. What we were trying to do with the video was specifically get them to go back to the knowledge center or back to the site and get the free download for this particular white paper. The custom thumbnail really helped to prequalify the traffic because in the image that we’re using for the video, it talked about downloading the free guide. Not only did we have our copy in the ad, we had copy within the image that talked about what the end objective was. I think custom thumbnails are great.

External linking annotations, which are only available to certain advertisers if they are spending a certain amount with ad words per month, allows you to place external links in the video, at certain points in the video, to a particular page. You can usually look at analytics to determine when viewers are most engaged to put that annotation, and direct them back to the site.

Lastly, the video remarketing pivots around engagement. If you look at how or what these remarketing list options are, it’s things like “this viewer watched a certain video”, or “this viewer liked this specific video”, or “they disliked this certain video”. “They subscribed to your channel”; “they unsubscribed to your channel”. You can begin to develop some pretty customized messages to those individuals to bring them back or hopefully get them to subscribe again if they unsubscribed.

Manny On Retargeting

Can you talk a little bit about how complex the world of retargeting has become between search retargeting, site retargeting, Facebook exchange, etc.? What are some ways that marketers can begin to think about navigating that landscape?

No matter what the marketing channel or medium is, I think you have to know what to expect and just understand where those channels fit within the purchasing cycle or whatever goal you’re trying to accomplish.

It’s not necessarily that retargeting is just for e-commerce. E-commerce retargeting is just really common. You hear these examples of e-commerce as retargeting being a channel that can help out e-commerce marketers, but there are publications that use retargeting for their editorial calendar. We do that.

I think it begins with a fundamental understanding of the business, like understanding how long your purchase cycle is or what kind of information satisfies a potential customer when gathering information. Do customers often repurchase and how often do they repurchase? Do they buy the same items? Do they buy similar items?

Think about visitors that are coming to read your content. If you’re retargeting those, you’re going to want to make sure that they’re engaged users. What’s the threshold for determining an engaged user, do they view x many pages? Do they stay on the page for more than x many minutes? At what point, in terms of time on site are pages viewed, is a visitor likely to return? I think those are some basic questions that can help you determine how retargeting is going to fit into your marketing mix.

What are some of the bigger wins you’ve had for clients with retargeting?

With one client in particular, this is B2B, we effectively used YouTube remarketing lists, which in my personal opinion, are one of the most under-leveraged or under-utilized remarketing plays out there.

We used those remarketing lists to increase success events and those success events vary from actual sales to leads to white paper downloads. We effectively increased those success events using these remarketing lists because the content that they were publishing – this goes for any company that’s publishing helpful video content – if you’re driving users down the funnel in way that you’re starting with information – was informative pieces of content that drove them to the next logical place in the funnel.

You should be creating lists, remarketing lists for each step on the funnel so that you can remarket to those individuals and serve them ad messages that meet them where they’re at in the funnel. You know what I mean?

One of my favorite approaches is leveraging prequalified organic traffic. When I say prequalified organic traffic, make sure that these users are engaged. I only want to retarget people that have been on the site for more than three minutes and viewed more than four pages or something like that. It gives me an idea that these users are a little bit more valuable and show a little bit more intent on my site than just any visitor to the site.

I like the idea of leveraging the organic side of that traffic to drive conversions. If you think about it, a lot of retargeting, you pay for the visitor once. Let’s say you do a search ad or a display ad and you pay for that visitor to come to your site. They go through; they might load up their shopping cart and then bail. You retarget them and that’s great, but you already paid for them once, so you’re paying for them again.

If you’re getting organic traffic for your site, you can set up organic lists of folks that are still coming in, loading up their cart, and possibly abandoning it and retarget those folks. Essentially, the first time that you’re actually paying for the visit is on the retargeting level so you know that they show some interest; they’re already aware of your brand, so that’s something that I always tend to try and set up whenever I engage a company. I will start setting up remarketing lists and retargeting lists within Google analytics because no matter whether or not they’re going to use it, I like to at least have the option there. That’s one practice that I just commonly do with new accounts.

Manny On Retargeting On a Limited Budget & Not Being a Creep

If I have a limited budget, what type of retargeting would be best? Or are there certain businesses where certain retargeting methods work better than others?

Yes, I like to identify my most engaged users. We work with some of the largest household brands in the world, and we work with some of the coolest startups too. The cool thing about really large brands is you have tons and tons of data. With smaller brands or really cool startups that are just getting their start, you are working with small sets of data. So what I like to do is identify the most engaged users.

They might be 25 users on a list, but those are my 25 best friends. It’s not always about targeting a massive audience. Many times it’s just about targeting a small number of your biggest fans. I keep saying it over and over, but targeting users who have spent so much time on your site and visited so many pages, is a good place to start. If you’re seeing that your list is growing and growing and it’s bigger than you want to commit to adding dollars to, then pick apart the amount of minutes that they have spent on the site; really dig down into how engaged these users have to be.

Keep in mind through this, that if you’re targeting a small group of people, you don’t want to creep them out. One of the balances with retargeting is making sure that you’re not being a creep, so you want to make sure that you’re adding frequency caps per day and make sure that there is a life span on those remarketing lists so that they don’t just go on indefinitely and keep serving those users ads.

Manny on Holiday Retargeting & SMX Sessions

With the holidays approaching, what are some tips for retargeting for ecommerce providers?

I think you have to start early, so start targeting and building your audiences early. I’m personally a procrastinator when it comes to this type of thing and holiday planning, but there are a lot of people out there that are not and hunt early, like my wife.

I would start early to build those lists, because I think that there are folks out there that are starting the planning, and you have the opportunity to build lists around certain categories of your products, or certain areas of your business, and communicate with them as they begin to make their purchasing decisions. Right now they’re most likely doing information gathering, so I think starting early is very important.

The other thing is to focus on devices. We don’t want to forget about smart phones and tablets and how these devices are being used in the buying cycles. Many people, myself included, will be on their smart phones researching a product while they’re physically in the store. It’s an opportunity for e-commerce businesses to stay competitive with brick and mortar and offline means of sales.

I think search targeting also presents a unique opportunity, because a lot of the inventory that you are getting within Chango, and other search remarketing platforms out there, are taken from shopping sites. These are people searching within shopping engines. I think search retargeting is an excellent place to consider retargeting for the holidays.

What SMX session are you looking forward to the most, and why?

Well, of course, the Pro-level Tips for Succeeding at Retargeting and YouTube Optimization! I was interested in Richard Albonzi’s keynote, because I just want to see where Twitter is going next and with the new release of Twitter’s social retargeting, I’m curious if they’re going to make any advancements with that, or if they’re going to make any changes/updates to that type of retargeting. I know there are some limitations to it.

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Affordable SEO is Returnable SEO

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Affordable SEO is Returnable SEO

The website is an integral part of a company’s marketing tool, and with clever design and application it can be an integral part of its revenue stream. Affordable SEO is the ability to create an internet marketing campaign that can source out relative streams of traffic and offer returns on the monies invested. Searchers have become inpatient and agitated in their quest for a result that is relative to their search. This frustration has made the searcher wiser and savvier. In their undeniable quest for self efficiency they have the learned to pin point with greater accuracy a search that responds with a result closer matching their query.

Gone are the days of a one worded keyword search, now the surfer strings together three, four, five keywords, they include operators such as “and”, “or”, and “+”. As soon as they have satisfied their curiosity with information gathering the final keyword in their query is a locality; London, Manchester, Liverpool or Chester. This final keyword is an attempt to source their request in their immediate locality. This searching technique has become wide spread, habitual, in return and in the process has created a market. A micro market that we call the niche market, and within this growing market we find the affordable SEO, the SEO that offers greater returns.

Smaller to larger business owners with websites now have a growing market available. The beautiful thing about this market is that enables website owners to influence with greater stability, and financial control, the amount of visitors reaching their site. No need to concern themselves with turning away business, or infrastructural changes that are necessary today and not tomorrow.

They are comfortable enough to know that to increase their business increase their niche market. All that is necessary is to achieve this is to add another page to their website and optimise that to page to rank highly for their newly chosen keyword phrase. The visitors have found them through a more specific search so the likelihood of a more promising lead or sale is greater than before. Affordable is one that can grow at the pace of a business, it is more efficient, but more importantly affordable SEO is returnable.

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Temech: Lessons from Jerusalem’s Religious Women’s Entrepreneur Confer…

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Temech: Lessons from Jerusalem’s Religious Women’s Entrepreneur Confer…

Everything is different in Jerusalem. Temech’s 6th annual conference for entrepreneurs, for example, is geared to religious Jewish women. No men allowed.

The conference is a mixture of divrei Torah, which I’d call life lessons from the Torah, and practical business lessons that can help you advance. Even the divrei Torah are focused on how to succeed in business.

In some ways it’s a very different world than I’m used to. When one of the speakers asked everyone to turn off their cell phones, I was astonished. How were we supposed to tweet and facebook and instagram everything that was going on? I guess social media wasn’t really right for this crowd of people, most of whom had “Kosher” phones.

The theme of this conference was about story telling, specifically how to tell your own story. Rabbi Dovid Kaplan started off talking about the strength of speech. How we need to understand it. That the way to judge a person is by how others speak about them.

Nir Barkat, a highly successful entrepreneur, my husband’s former boss at BRM, and currently Mayor of Jerusalem, talked about how Jerusalem is being developed for economic growth. His advice was to learn the market that you are in and find your competitive advantage. Jerusalem has a competitive advantage for tourism, health service and high tech. A new industrial center will be opening by the entrance to Jerusalem. It will have thirteen 35-floor buildings which will bring jobs and growth to the city. The number of startups in Jerusalem has more than quadrupled since he’s taken office.

The most dynamic speaker was Idit Neuderfer. In her session, The Redhead Technique, she spoke about how to make yourself stand out. It’s not enough to have an elevator pitch which quickly tells people what you do. You need something to stand out in a crowd. What people remember are stories that they can digest and bring back to memory when they need a service. If you create an emotional connection to people, if you provide a service that they need, they will think of you. Bring them in to your story.

Laura Ben David emphasized starting with a plan. If you don’t stick with your plan, that’s OK. Having a plan gives you focus. You can rewrite your plan as you need to. People have ideas all the time. Most people don’t act on them because of fear of failure. It’s OK to fail. It’s OK to be afraid, just don’t let it stop you from what you want to do.

It was an excellent conference. I look forward to going again next year!

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What’s Wrong With My Website? Hiring an SEO Consultant

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What’s Wrong With My Website? Hiring an SEO Consultant

Are you being found in the major search engines by the people that matter most to you? If you aren’t being ranked highly in the SERPs (search engine result pages) the chances are that your customers will not be finding your website and making you sales.

For your business website to make money it has to do well in the search engines, whether that is Google, Yahoo, Bing, or the lesser known search engines.

But how do you get your website to rank highly in the search engines?

This is where on-site SEO (search engine optimisation) is essential for your website to do well in the SERPs, to rank highly, to out-perform your competitors and to get you found by your customers.

Let’s be honest, you will never make any money online if people cannot find your website.

Being ranked highly in Google for a competitive keyword or keyword phrase can bring your website more visitors in a day than having a shop placed in the centre of Oxford Street in London. Just think what that sort of traffic can do for your business.

When you purchase a car do you just expect it to keep working and performing to it’s best without ever having to take it in for a service?

I don’t suspect you do! For your car to stay tuned and optimised for the job it is meant to do, getting you from A to B, then you have to make sure it is in working order by completing regular checks.

This is the same for your website! You cannot upload a website and just hope for the best, you have to make sure it is optimised for the search engines and reviewed regularly to make sure it is still performing to the best of its ability.

So what can you do?

You need to hire an SEO consultant, an expert in search engine optimization, to optimize your website for you. A typical on-site optimization will include:

· Meta-description

· Meta-keywords

· Title Tag Optimization

· Content Optimization

· Keyword Research Specific to the industry your business operates in

· Image Optimization

· Robot Txt

· XML Sitemap Creation

· And many more tweaks that will improve the chances of your website being indexed by the search engines.

Why hire an SEO Consultant when I can do it all myself?

This is an option but you will need to take into account the time it will take to learn all what you need to know to optimize your website properly. Would you study medicine just to cut out visiting the doctor? An SEO Consultant will be up-to-date with the latest SEO practices that will help to continually improve your websites SERPs. Just remember, one mistake can seriously damage how the search engines view your websites and this could be very costly to your business.

Conclusion

Hiring an SEO Consultant can be one of the best ROI (return on investments) you will make in your business.

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Scalable Link Building Process Using Influencer Marketing

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Scalable Link Building Process Using Influencer Marketing

Effectiveness and consistency in link building has always been about the process you put in place at the very beginning of the campaign.

That’s why it’s very critical to align your link building efforts with the site’s overall brand strategy –particularly in knowing the influencers/publishers/brands you want your brand to be associated with (to create better signals and perceived value).

Link building is still very valuable in today’s (and even in tomorrow’s) digital marketing. Links are still a major ranking factor in Google’s search algorithm, and its importance won’t go away as long as people use it to navigate the web.

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Cheap Designer Clothing

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Cheap Designer Clothing

It is every person’s long cherished dream to own a few designer outfits from high street fashion labels and make an elitist style statement. But regularly purchasing designer clothes from top brands especially haute couture, are beyond the means of ordinary lesser mortals.

One needs to have really deep pockets to afford those mesmerizing gowns worn by Hollywood celebrities on red carpets.

But all is not lost because there are means for getting hold of designer items, apart from splurging your entire salary, if you just know how to go about it.

Haute couture is definitely expensive. A cheaper and perhaps better alternative would be to go for designer prêt lines. All the top fashion designers have woken up to the needs of the middle class and they have realized that the middle class comprises the largest segment of customers, rather than the niche elite class.

So, in order to woo the affluent and fashion conscious middle class, all the top global fashion houses are creating their prêt or comparatively cheaper ready-to-wear lines for discerning people who want value for money fashion at affordable rates.

An even cheaper alternative to this would be picking up timeless classy designer clothing from online stores and normal departmental stores when they offer their season’s end discount sales and stock clearance sales. You can strike really cheap bargains for prices are at times slashed by 70% to 90%.

If you are discerning enough and have an eye for culling the best designer outfit from among the thousands of clothes on display, a discount sales offer would be undoubtedly the best place to source your dream wear at rock bottom price.

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Cheap Website Design Software – Designing Your Site on a Budget

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Cheap Website Design Software – Designing Your Site on a Budget

Welcome to the virtual world! The Internet has created a lot of possibilities including a lot of jobs that actually have something and everything to do with staying online. The convenience it is bringing to all users is just impeccable and more and more people are discovering the benefits of being a “virtual surfer” everyday.

You’ve finally become enticed with all the fun stuff and decided you want to create your own website. But, where do you start? Are you proficient with web design software programs or are you a beginner?

For those who do it for a living, since there is a lot of demand for DreamWeaver, you may want to refrain from using this software for the meantime if you are just aiming for the cheapest. If you are looking for a software program where you can draw and illustrate, try FreeHand. The program is very affordable as Adobe tried to move most of the users to use Illustrator instead. Now if it’s really the design, try CoffeeCup and WebStudio. Other options are NVU, Amaya and Aptana. They are awesome substitutes to DreamWeaver and have great market reviews as well.

For starters, there are actually a lot of options available for you. If you want it free, those who offer free web hosting actually have website builders that go along with them. It’s as easy as drag-and-drop. However, if you prefer doing it offline, try Microsoft FrontPage. A lot of designers actually started with this software. Try the basics first before using the really complicated ones.

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New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website

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New year, new look: Introducing our new Webmasters website

It’s a new year and a perfect time to share with you our brand new Webmasters website.

We spent a lot of time making this site right for you. We took our own advice by analyzing visitor behavior and conducting user studies to organize the site into categories you’ll find most useful. Thanks to our awesome community and Top Contributors for the valuable feedback during the process!

Our new Google Webmasters website

The site contains support resources to help you fix issues with your website, SEO learning materials to create a high-quality site and improve search rankings, and connection opportunities to stay up-to-date with our team and webmaster community. It also contains new features such as:

• Webmaster troubleshooter: Need a step-by-step guide to move your site or understand a message in Search Console? The troubleshooter can help answer these and other common problems with your site in Google Search and Google Search Console.
• Popular resources: Looking for popular Google Webmasters YouTube videos, blog posts and forum threads? Here’s a curated list of our top resources – these may differ across languages.
• Events calendar: Want to meet someone from our team online for office hours or at a live event near you? We have office hours and events in multiple languages around the world.

Browse around and let us know in the comments below if you stumble onto something new!

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10 Things You Must Know Before Designing Your Website

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10 Things You Must Know Before Designing Your Website

If you just started a business and want to save a few hundreds/thousands of pound, you may consider designing your own website for the business. Unless your business is heavily dependent on your website, there’s really no need to hire a professional web designer or have professional experience in web designing. When your business gets bigger you can then hire a web designer / web design company to take the website to the next level. The one thing you have to know and know well is the audience that you are targeting, therefore it’s worth spending a whole day(at least) researching and brainstorming before jumping into Dreamweaver or Frontpage.

Here are the 10 things you need to know before designing your own website:

1. Get to know more about the traffic that you are planning to drive to your website. Find out what will make them visit your website.
2. Determine the functionality of your website. How do you like your website to function- as contact point for customers? Or perhaps like a gallery where you can display your featured products or services?
3. Decide what components you would like your website to have and what tools and technology you are going to use to build your website.
4. Find the appropriate software tools that you will use to design your website. You can find several online with most of them offering trial versions. These software tools are usually user-friendly that even if you don’t have any prior experience in web designing, you will be able to learn the basics almost instantaneously.
5. Come up with a mock-up version or a draft of your website. When you are using the trial version of the software tools, you will find the draft useful as it can be saved in your hard drive.
6. Review the draft of your website and see if it conforms to the purpose/s and goal/s of your website as well as if the design is appropriate to respond to the needs of your targeted traffic. Do some tweak and adjustments to enhance the website.
7. Find a good web hosting provider. The provider shall be able to offer you the appropriate space for your website. Depending on the purpose and traffic of your website, you may choose between free web hosting and paid subscription to store the files from your site.
8. Take note that in a free web hosting service, advertisements may be placed in your website to cover for the free hosting.
9. Understand the goals of the your business.
10. Think about how your website will be structured. And the best way to do this is to use post it notes.

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How Content on Its Own Brings Traffic, Links, and Leads

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How Content on Its Own Brings Traffic, Links, and Leads

I have been publishing Websites since August 1996. Although I have worked at improving visibility for sites through all those years, I have never seen content fail to bring traffic, links, and leads. I have even watched spam blogs drive…

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Web Design is Dead! Long Live the Internet Pro

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Web Design is Dead! Long Live the Internet Pro

The Internet has come a long way in the little over a decade it’s been part of daily life. Not only do some 25% of the world’s population now have ‘net access [Internet World Stats, June 2009], but it’s easier than ever for those users to contribute to the Web rather than just passively consuming its content.

Only recently the field of Web design emerged as a hot new profession. Every business wanted a presence on the Web, and in the days of the dotcom bubble investors were lining up to throw money at Web startups. Someone had to build those sites, and that someone was the Web designer.

The profession lost its sparkle after the 2000 crash left too many Web designers chasing too few jobs. But the technology that’s arrived since has virtually killed Web design. That technology includes blogs, social networks, cell phones and everything else that allows anyone to establish a fancy Web presence with just a few clicks and update it just by typing in a box.

These days there’s scarcely a high school student who doesn’t have their own blog or Facebook page complete with flashy design, audio & video.

But all is not lost for former Web designers. Like a phoenix, the occupation has risen from the ashes, transforming itself into the Internet professional.

Internet pros have a deep understanding on the Internet environment and generally specialize in one or more of the following areas:

• Understanding and refining the client needs
• Selecting, modifying or creating the most appropriate technologies to build the site
• Planning the architecture and creating the infrastructure to form the client’s site
• Implementing the decisions to build a platform that the client can maintain
• Designing site-wide usability aspects that enable users to easily find what they are looking for, avoiding loss of traffic through frustration

There are a number of niche areas offering the Internet pro gainful employment, including:

• eCommerce – building the infrastructure of online shopping including product location, selection and payment processing
• e-learning – a huge and growing application of the ‘net. The role involves building platforms to support online learning and may be advertised as learning technologist, educational technologist, e-learning specialist etc
• Security – keeping sites and data safe from hacking
• Search engine optimization – modifying sites to maximize free targeted traffic from search engines

The Internet has already revolutionized society, but we have only witnessed the tip of the iceberg. If you’re a Web designer frustrated by the lack of work, don’t despair. Broaden your horizons, re-brand yourself as an Internet pro, and be ready to take advantage of the huge potential yet to come.

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Google Now Supports JSON-LD for Product and Review Rich Snippets

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Google Now Supports JSON-LD for Product and Review Rich Snippets

Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller announced today on Google+ that Google is now supporting JSON-LD “for Reviews and Products structured data markup.”

Until today the generation of review and product rich snippets in Google search results required either microdata or RDFa. Unlike these two inline structured data markup syntaxes, JSON-LD can be placed anywhere in an HTML document with a tag, entirely separate from the page's presentation layer.

Today's change for reviews and products (which employ the schema.org types Review, AggregateRating and Product) is the latest of Google's incremental efforts to support the protocol, following on the heels of JSON-LD support for event rich snippets and Knowledge Graph features early in 2015, and recipe rich snippets in July 2015.

The Google Developers pages for product and review rich snippets have been updated to reflect the fact they're now supported by JSON-LD, but other documentation is still in the process of being changed.

Mueller also said in his post that "we've cleaned up some of our application logic. For example, requirements for explicit reviewed item and correct property name values are now enforced." He advises verifying that a site's code is compliant by using the Structured Data Testing Tool and the Search Console Data Dashboard, and to review the structured data documentation on Google Developers.

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Get Your Website Seen Using Search Engine Optimisation

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Get Your Website Seen Using Search Engine Optimisation

The Internet is increasingly becoming the marketing tool of choice for many businesses around the world. The theory might be solid, but the actual process of getting started isn’t without it difficulties.

First of all there is the website. A website should market your company and make it stand out from the competition. Getting the design right and ensuring that it has a decent architecture to allow for easy navigation is key. Of course, this is simply the first of many required steps.

Aesthetics and structure will only get you so far. Whilst fulfilling the expectations of your visitors, it probably won’t get them through the door in the first instance. It’s now time for you to aid get it found on the Internet. To accomplish this, you should consider Search Engine Optimisation or, as it is more typically referred, search engine optimisation.

In all likelihood, you will already be well aware of just how effective search engines are at generating traffic. There really is no comparison comes close to their ability to get your company seen and website visited. Without meaning to say the apparent, it doesn’t take much to figure out that search engines are key in ensuring long-term success.

Search Engine Optimisation is a system of strengthening a site. By proving your weight through creating a potent link profile and securing relevance through keyword usage, you can achieve fantastic rankings within Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Of course, there is plenty more to it than that; especially if you want to actually succeed. Links don’t always come effortlessly. It doesn’t get any less challenging when it comes to the broad range of optimiseable elements on the site itself. There is plenty that goes into developing a successful search engine optimisation campaign for a site.

The search engines are fickle remember. Their rankings are seen as treasured, so you will have to put in some serious effort to indicate that your site is deserving of a decent place. This is when it’s time to consider SEO.

If you play by the rules and improve your site in conformity with the search engines’ requirements you should promptly see the benefit. Before getting too far ahead of yourself though, you first have to specify what phrases you are optimising for. So before doing anything else, you need to do a bit of keyword investigations.

This research should give you a clearer sign of how many sites are already going after the same phrase and how much traffic it already attracts. When you are in the early stages of the whole search engine optimisation operation, you might be well-advised to go after key terms that don’t have restrictive levels of solid competition. By doing this you can bi-pass the more established sites that are out there. By getting these more straightforward rankings earlier on you can begin to get yourself seen and customers should follow.

Your link profile and site content will have to be up to a decent standard also. Inbound links show a site’s effectiveness. Links are a symbol of confidence, it signifies to the search engines that other sites are inclined to direct traffic your way likewise, the content that you have on your pages is a doorway into your company. It portrays the message you are trying to represent not only to visitors (essential) but also to the search engines (hugely vital). It is here that they determine the substance that helps them to evaluate where it is that you rank.

With all things considered, the vitalness of having some excellent content and a potent set of incoming links is tricky to exaggerate. Slowly, once your pages have been indexed, your site should start acquiring some decent visibility on the search engines as a result.

The only trouble is that there is no effortless way to get around this. If Google rankings are your target, then you will have to get on and do some SEO. It can be difficult and it will take time to do suitably. so as not to put in all this toil without any obvious return, many businesses opt to outsource their duties to a experienced search engine optimisation agency. This way your business can benefit from professional knowledge right from the outset. You can spare your resources too, with both financial and time savings being achievable.

So if you want to get your website seen, the search engines are key. To get a decent profile in this environment, you’ll need seo. It could well make all the difference.

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Goin’ Away

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Goin’ Away

It was the Winter of 2004 if I remember correctly, although I use the term “Winter” loosely being that I was living in Miami at the time. I’d toyed with the idea of learning to play the guitar now and again, mostly while listening to Dylan’s acoustic stuff, but never followed through for one reason or another.

One day – I can’t remember if it was during the day while toiling away for CBS Sports or at night while under the influence of one thing or another – I recall hearing the stark and beautifully haunting sounds of Lightnin’ Hopkins while listening to Yahoo’s old streaming music service (it was powered by a great little algorithm, which I believe could have easily rivaled the likes of Pandora and Spotify had it been properly managed, but that’s a story for another day).

And that’s when I knew I had to pick up the guitar.

Hopkins’ Goin’ Away is not considered to be one of his most popular songs, but its powerful lyrics and delicious guitar riffs have rattled my brain for years. What appears to be a simple story of love gone wrong is actually a fairly complex tale about a black man leaving home for an extended stint at a prison work camp (whether the crime was real or imaginary, we will never know).

I’m pretty sure that I’ll spend the rest of my days continuing to be transfixed by this song just as I was back in days when I first got acquainted with it. And so I figured why not also spend the rest of my days attempting to pay tribute to the man that put a guitar in my hand by covering his song.

You can get my musical take on the matter over at Spotify or iTunes.

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Free Web Page Design – Web Design on a Budget

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Free Web Page Design – Web Design on a Budget

Ever wondered how you could start designing your own web page? It’s simpler than you think. Contrary to popular belief, Web page design is not a difficult task. And you need not burn a hole in your pocket. Would you be interested in giving your website a new life if we said that it was for free? Of course you will be.

If you have an existing website that just simply isn’t getting the amount of traffic that you’d hoped for, then you can develop this further by simply changing or improving the design. Internet users have a more sophisticated preference when it comes to websites. If a site looks boring, or dreary, they’ll simply close the window and go on to look at more interesting and attractive ones.

So imagine having amazing content on your website that can change so many people’s lives. But if the design isn’t as amazing as the content, expect your site to fail. People are not going to give it much attention. The key to a successful web page is to have design that has the qualities to grab a visitors mind. It has to be inviting. It has to be different. It has to make the visitor want to explore all the pages in your website.

So don’t be that person who owns a boring website. Search for free web page designs using your search engines and be amazed with the many tools that you can use in turning your plain old web pages into fantastic ones.

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Do Search Click-Throughs Help Determine Whether a Page Appears in Goog…

In a recent article at Search Engine Land we were told that Google Posts That Local Results Are Influenced By Clicks, Then Deletes That. It caught my attention, and had me investigating further.

Patents Involving Clicks Influencing Search Results

It made me recall three patents which described when clicks might influence whether or not pages appeared for certain queries.

The first patent I wrote about in a post titled Google Patents Click-Through Feedback on Search Results to Improve Rankings. The patent that post was about was Modifying search result ranking based on a temporal element of user feedback

The second patent was one I wrote about in the post How Google May Identify Implicitly Local Queries, which told us that Google might start showing additional web search results in response to queries, when they had some kind of local significance. I noticed Google doing this for a client in Florida, and on searches in the two counties where the client operated, a link to the site was showing up at number 4 in the search results for a very relevant and broad query. The patent that this post was about was Identification of implicitly local queries.

In February of 2012, Google reported upon an upgrade of this nature in the post Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February, where they told us about this:

Improved local results. We launched a new system to find results from a user’s city more reliably. Now we’re better able to detect when both queries and documents are local to the user.

But that first version of the patent had nothing to do with click-throughs. Those appear to have possibly been an added feature. I noticed that this patent had been updated a couple of years later in a continuation patent, where an author had been added to the patent (Navneet Panda – the search quality engineer that the Google Panda update was named after), and the claims section was rewritten to include both web search results and local search results, and a kind of a click requirement appeared to be added, so that the elevation of results that were showing that might have been added to results because of some local significance seemed to depend upon whether or not they were getting clicked upon sufficient numbers of times. As the claims section of the newer version of the patent tells us:

9. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting a final set of search results responsive to the search query comprises selecting, for inclusion in the final search results, local search results that have at least a minimum threshold click-through-rate when presented in response to the local search query.

The newer version of the patent is:

Locally Significant Search Queries

Check to See if Your Pages are Considered Locally Significant

It can help you to perform searches that may appear to be local to a place to see if it is showing up in search results as a locally significant page. One of my co-workers, Dan Hinckley, wrote a post today on the Go Fish Digital blog about how you can use the Emulator built into Google Chrome to do so, in the post How to Change Your Location for Local Search Results – The Always Up-To-Date Guide. Try it out, but be careful. I was being blocked by a Chrome Extension from using the Emulator built into Chrome correctly.

In 2007, I wrote about another Google patent in the post. Google’s OneBox Patent, where I wrote about the Google patent Determination of a desired repository. This patent told us about when Google would choose to show off an Answerbox result in response to a query, which often would be a local search Maps result at the top of search results (and sometimes it would be an image result, or a news result, and possibly now Question Answer results). The patent seemed to tell us that it would decide upon what to show as an One Box result based upon people clicking that result, and showing an interest in it, and the decision of what to show us might be based upon history of searches associated with a query:

21. The system of claim 18, further comprising: a model generation system to generate a model that determines a score associated with a likelihood that a particular user desires information from a repository when the user provides a particular search query.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the model is a lookup table and the score corresponds to a click-through rate associated with a repository when the user provides the particular search query.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein when determining a score for each of a plurality of repositories, the search engine system is configured to: determine a score for each of the repositories based on the model.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein when generating a model, the model generation system is configured to: store log data associated with a plurality of prior searches, and use the log data to train the model.

Take-Aways

Google does have some patents that illustrate how they might use clicks upon specific searches to determine what results they might display in search results, and where those might be ranked.

Whether or not Google uses information about click throughs seems to be something that they have been denying, and we can’t be certain about. Google has told us that just because they have a patent on something doesn’t necessarily mean they are using what is described in that patent:

Do click-throughs determine whether certain pages appear in search results? We can’t be certain, but it appears like a possibility.

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Best Website Development Plan

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Best Website Development Plan

Essential features of website development that you need to know as a website owner

With increased competition in the present world scenario, top class website development plan is no more the developer’s sole task. It is in fact the website owner’s competitive spirit that defines the business prospect on the internet. Site owners are getting more demanding in their needs. Studies have shown that a discerning website owner, who emphasis’s on being unique and in standing out from the rest, is most often the one to taste a quicker sure-shot-success. In fact, most of the thousands of websites now target on providing something very unique for its visitors. Although similar product based websites abound in hundreds, uniqueness brings things that competitor sites do not offer regardless of their being similar in nature.

It has now become quite imperative for a website owner to know the nuances of a good website. No matter to which part of the world you belong, there are always definite indispensable elements that a website is required to possess.

Before you embark on your website creation endeavour, keep yourself well informed of the essential and necessary features that need be present on your website. I have put up the most essential features that you need to know about your proposed site – so that you can get it designed and developed as a knowledgeable and discerning website owner. You no longer will be left at the mercy of software companies.

Essential features that need be incorporated on a successful website

Feature 1: Home page, Privacy Policy Page and About Us Page

The home page of your website should clearly state the product or service you intend to offer and ought to have that special message which you consider as the most important specialty of the service/product you offer. In marketing terms it refers to your USP (unique selling proposition).

The privacy policy page is a must for every website. Here you can make a declaration of the professional ethics of your company when it comes to protecting the personal privacy of your prospective customers. You can explain them on how their personal information will be used by your company. You can even assure them that such information would never be misused, either by them or by a third party.

The About Us Page is another very essential page for your website. Proving genuineness to your company and its products/services, this page briefly outlines your company activity and details other information such as the contact address of your companies head office, address of branches if any, email id’s, phone and fax number etc.

Feature 2: Have Site Mapping for more complex sites

Visitors should not find it difficult to locate your website’s internal links. There should be an easy to use provision for searching and locating all likely content of your internal pages. Having a site mapping functionality is the sign of a good website.

Feature 3: Make minimum use of frames

Ask the developers to make the least use of frames on your website as it can produce severe uploading issues and can affect the scope of mass popularity. Try using AJAX where possible.

Feature 4: Use client side scripting but don’t overuse it

As we all know, JavaScript or any other scripting language offers extra functionality to the client side of a website and even speeds up operations on a number of occasions. However, excessive use of the script can dampen the hard work as some computers could encounter technical issues. Hence, JavaScript shouldn’t be overused.

Feature 5: Relate your website theme with the product and target audience

The theme and artistic elements of your website design and layout should be related to suit the target audience of your website.

Feature 6: Ensure website compatibility on popular browsers

Your website might just not work well on every browser. Hence, speak out to the designers and developers about compatibility of your website on the most popular browsers. Check out for yourself if it works on all the popular browsers.

Feature 7: Check for an error free content

Get into every tiny detail of the website content, captions, graphic elements etc and ensure that it is totally error free. Look out for both grammatical and spelling errors.

Feature 8: Keep options open for spring up a surprise

Ask our developer and designers to keep options wide open for you to spring up a surprise for the website visitors. You may add a new skin or probably change the images on the home page for an occasion like for example: New Year or Christmas. You could also occasionally change the article content or add a new video etc. This sustains visitor interest in your website.

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Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links

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Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links

I’m not exactly a fan of non-crawlable content, but here it goes, provided by Joshua Titsworth (click on a tweet in order to favorite and retweet it):

What has to be said

[View the story “A rant on Google’s outlandish link policy by SebastianX” on Storify]

Google’s link policy is ape shit. They don’t even believe their own FUD. So don’t bother listening to crappy advice anymore. Just link out without fear and encourage others to link to you fearlessly. Do not file reinclusion requests in the moment you hear about a Googlebug on your preferred webmaster hangout, because you might have spread a few shady links by accident, and don’t slaughter links you’ve created coz the almighty Google told you so.

Just because a bazillion of flies can’t err, that doesn’t mean you’ve to eat shit.

Is anybody aware of the fact that the prerequisite of Google’s absurd link policy is their algo’s inability to judge links?

First they’ve created a huge link economy with their silly PageRank toolbar and green pixels spread all over their DMOZ clone.

Next they were totally surprised that their shiny system was easy to manipulate, and that sooo evil webmasters are clever at all.

Instead of developing tools to rate, rank and judge links independently of the source’s PageRank, they declared war on HTML’s A element.

Of course, it’s way easier to delegate responsibility for “natural” linkage to the world outside building 43, providing only a crappy …

… rel-nofollow instrument that, by the way, suffered from several redefines confusing the hell out of webmasters over the years, than …

… hiring a few bright folks to create sensible methods and procedures to actually interpret links as provided in the markup.

IIRC I earned my first penalty for huge artificial link swaps way back in 2001 or so, maybe earlier.

One should think that a bunch of smart engineers can figure out how to handle links for ranking purposes in a decade, right? Not.

Frankly, I suspect Google can qualify links by now, but out of sheer evilness they still bother us with outlandish rules on googley linkage.

Why don’t they say “THX for your assistance & gazillions of wasted man years for implementing our rules, we don’t need this crap anymore” ?

That’ll be the geek way to handle a major clusterfuck. Coz they still nebulize the truth, they’re un-geeky.

I don’t know a worse cuss word than un-geeky. #thatisall

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