Learn The Top 3 Major Components That Is Important To The Search Engines Like Google

That should have been the title of my post today. Unfortunately, based on my previous post, a lot of bloggers were cautious if their blog or site will be banned by Google for using some tricks in their back link building efforts. I guess a lot of my readers are aware of what happened to JCPenney being banned or sandboxed by Google for using black hat tactics.

Afraid of Google Ban? Read for more information

According to the news,as reported by New York Times, JCPenney created a lot of buzz in time for the 2010 holiday season. Unfortunately, it was found out that thousands of unrelated web sites were sending link juices to JCPenney.com. This is a broad day light cheating, at least to the eyes of search engines.  As I’ve mentioned in my last post, linking strategies takes time and lot of efforts. If you will hire an SEO company or a professional to do it for you, make it a point that company or individual is not using black hat SEO tactics. This is a crucial step in choosing for the right SEO company if you don’t want Google to de-listed your website.

Now, instead of looking for the negative aspect of back link buildings or linking strategies, let’s concentrate our focus on the major components that are relevant not only for the search engine but for the readers as well.

1. Great and Relevant Content. By having a great content and relevant, you are not attracting the readers but the search engine as well. Make sure you contents are unique and don’t just stuff it with keywords. Create content the users and the search engines would grow to love.
2. Build Natural Backlinks. Don’t ever participate in any linking schemes.  If you remember, I promoted a backlink tool where you can submit your URLs and they will be automatically submitted on their own network. There’s nothing wrong in using an automated software in building back links. The tool that I’ve mentioned, even though it is a legal way to build natural links,  I suggest that you be cautious in using it. Don’t be greedy in submitting your sites. Take it slowly, make it natural by pacing it over time rather than getting 200 or more links in one month and nothing on the following.
3. Submit Site Map. This is one of the requirements of most search engines if you want your site to get index and rank. Submitting a site map will help the search engine spider to craw your site properly. It can identify easily the pages that belonged to your site. If you want to know how to submit your site to Yahoo and Google, you may want to check the instructions here: Submitting your Sitemap file to Search Engines

The three major components that I’ve mentioned here are just some of the things that you can D-I-Y SEO for your site or blog. They are not hard to implement but please take not that optimization is just one of the tools that you can use in promoting your site. I hope that you will see an improvement in your traffic from the major search engines after applying the  major components described above.  The only thing that I can assure you is, if you follow them then expect a great result.

For more information, I encourage you to check the following:

1. SEO Tips – All you need to do to have a site optimized for SEO

2. SEO Tools to Help you Rank Higher

3. SEO Services Firm you can count on

Just a very, very quick post here while having my sumptuous breakfast .  I’ve  posted yesterday the continuation of our SEO secret topics and I hope you’ve learned  one or two techniques from that.

I’m taking the weekend off ( you should as well), but I just can’t control myself not to remind you that WordPress SEO Secrets will be pulled from the market at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT EASTERN TIME (January 17) and this is your LAST CHANCE to grab your copy and get the bonus. There will be a last-minute rush, so early today is the day to get yours!

Did I mention BONUS? Oh yes, there’s a lot of them. Do a quick check at WordPress SEO Secrets site and see it for yourself.

So today is the last day to grab  Michael Martine’s treasure.

That’s it from me. I’m going back to my breakfast meal now. Have a great weekend and be sure to take your rest too!

Oh boy, I was busy for the past three days and time flies so fast. It was only 3 days ago when I wrote my last post and now, weekend is almost here. A friend of mine is launching a business next week so she asked for my hand to helped her in preparing some business materials.

Anyway, today I will give you the 2nd part of our topic “SEO Here, SEO There, SEO Everywhere“. Remember the WordPress SEO Secrets that I mentioned on my previous post? Well, it’s timing because I received some additional secrets from WordPress SEO author Michael Martine that he wants to share to us.

Basic Education in SEO according to Michael Martine (WordPress SEO Secrets)

For SEO point of view, the parts of the blog the matters most are: Titles, post slug names, headings, and text content. Let’s discuss each one.

• Titles: Keywords (search terms) in titles are very important to search engines. Titles appear at the top of a browser window or in a browser window tab. The problem with blogs is that your headline automatically becomes the title unless you have a plugin that allows them to differ.

• Post slug names: The post slug is the virtual file name of a blog post. This is very important to search engines. It becomes part of the permalink for a blog post. You need to set up what are known as “pretty permalinks” in WordPress, and you need to edit the slug for SEO reasons. You want to use important keywords in the slug, just you do for the title.

• Headings: In your WordPress blog, you can use various heading levels when writing posts to break up the content into sections. Search engines pay attention to keywords in headings. Many people don’t know how to see the controls for headings in WordPress. You have to click on the “Kitchen Sink” button on your WordPress toolbar (barring special buttons added by certain WordPress plugins, it should the last button on toolbar above the write box). Once the second row of toolbar buttons is revealed, use the “Format” drop-down to set headings.

• Text content: Of course the content of the post must be relevant to a searcher’s needs. Use the same words in the post the searcher would use in a search (keywords). Use them as frequently as you can while still sounding natural (read it out loud to test). Think of it this way: if your searcher has a question, you want your post to be the answer.

If you want to more on how to make your wordpress blog visible to Google and other search, I suggest you check WorPress SEO Secrets. It will explain how to do all of this step by step in words, audio, and video.

If you  have questions on what I posted here, just write it on the comment area and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Update! Update!: WordPress Secrets SEO will be taken out of the market in 2 days. Saturday, the 17th is the last day.