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The Importance of Search Engine Optimization | Part 2

Everything starts with planning but before you begin planning your search engine strategy it's worth considering exactly how important the results are to you. This is because you need to decide how much energy and resources to put into SEO, so you need to know what sort of results to expect for your efforts. If the benefits are likely to be minimal then you might be better off spending your energy on other areas of the website. On the other hand, if your entire business plan relies on good search engine results, you should be prepared to spend a lot of time and money getting them. Work in stages and set your goals. Channelize your efforts and time. You’ll definitely see positive results after your planned hard work. It's easy to assume that by having good search rankings; lots of people will find for your website or blog and become customers. You need to test this thinking and make sure you're not just being optimistic. Who exactly is the type of person you expect to attract? Be targeted and plan strategies according to the targeted market. Imagine customers as a single real person, sitting at a computer. And then answer the question that why will this person use the internet to find your product? What will they expect to find? If they do find your website or blog, will they buy from you or will they just use you for information and buy somewhere else? In most cases good search engine results will benefit you, but it pays to be realistic about how significant the benefit will be. In the previous part of this training I talked about getting listed in search engines. Now I’ll move ahead with this:

What Are Your Chances of Getting Listed?

Getting a basic listing isn't hard and you should be able to get at least a small presence in the main search engines. The question is how many actual visitors will result from your listing. If you have something reasonably unique to offer, or if you are targeting a particular geographical region, your chances of getting visitors are fairly high. Most businesses could expect to attract at least a few visitors each day through search engines. To get more than a few visitors per day (up to around a hundred) will take more effort but is still quite achievable. It all depends on the SEO strategy and how you are applying it accordingly. If you are aiming to attract hundreds or thousands of visitors per day, you will need to have something a bit more special — either some very unique content or a very good optimization SEO strategy. The next part of the training will be on SEO Terminologies. Learning and understanding basic terms in SEO and their meanings.

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Interview With An Entrepreneur | Ivana Sendecka

Late last week I spent a fascinating hour with Ivana Sendecka from Life Long Learner – an amazing person to be with always smiling with motto “Super Cool Life”. Today I’d like to share that interview with you guys as an example of a blogger who has created a difference in her part of the world and now dedicated to bring some change in the rest of the world. Her energy shows that she has all the required potential and she knows how she can create a difference. Wondering how? Well she is doing this using all the Web 2.0 tools and Blog is on the top of the list. I took an exclusive interview about what she is up to lately, how she is engaging people on her blog and what are her plans ahead. Let me start by giving a short round up about her! Ivana was born on 18th June 1982 in Poprad, city in the north of Slovakia, just under the peaks of the highest mountains the High Teatras. She has spent first eighteen years of her life in her hometown – Poprad. In November 2004, Ivana needed to get three months internship experience as part of her fifth year at university. After flooding the globe with her CV, she has got very exotic offer to go for three months to Dubai. After her internship ended she got the job offer and so she pursued her professional career there and spent three learning years there. She then started realizing that she has an objective larger than life and that was time she decided to return back home. Ivana has returned to Slovakia in December 2007 and her purpose has started to awaken. Super cool attitude has entered her life, when seeing the same world very differently. In July 2009 she quit her job as consultant in Capgemini, in order to give her full attention to living her passion and to help awakening of Slovakia via her gifts (blogs, videos, etc.) and project Next Generation Leaders of Slovakia. In this interview you will find out following interesting things about Ivana’s entrepreneurship and blog:

1. Her blogging journey
2. Current status of her blog that she shared with us
3. Exclusive Interview with her
4. A six months overview of her blogging
5. Best features of her blog
6. Suggestion for her blog
7. Her social media links

But before we jump in the interview let us have a look what people say about Ivana. Ron Carucci Mick Pilath Karen Davis The interview is in PDF format, so grab a cup of coffee and sit back to read Ivana’s insights on blogging! Click the button to download the Interview:

Check out her blog after you finish reading, here is the link: Life Long Learning .

About the Author

ZunNurain is a geek, a Blog Mentor/Trainer and the founder of UltraSpectra. He writes about SEO, Blogging, Social Media and everything between them. ZunNurain always has some great tips and tricks to share. This blog is a hub of all the professional blogs. He will be blogging about "Blogging" on TheBigMark and about "SEO" on SEOPragmatic real soon.

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Getting Listed On Search Engines | Part 1

Once you have your website up and running, one of the first things you'll probably want to know is how to get your site listed in the search engines. Although it can be hard work, search engine optimization (SEO) can also be a lot of fun and reap huge rewards. Let us figure out how to get listed and what are important things in getting listed in search engine. For that you need to know the following basic things.

Page title – [high importance]

If the page title doesn't contain the keywords included in the search then the page won't be ranked or listed.

Meta Page description – [high importance]

It must describe accurately what the page is about. It's no use describing your page as sales and marketing page if you are not selling or marketing anything. Don't try and fool the search engines with false descriptions as it won't do you any good.

Meta Tags – [low importance]

The jury's out on this one. Some search engines use them, some don't, some require commas between them some don't. Some people believe you don't need them at all.

Keyword density – [high importance]

Different to Meta keywords, this accounts for the number of times a key word appears on a page.

Content – [medium to high importance]

Sites that are content rich and relate to the particular subject have a high search engine ranking. The search engines love this - and so will your visitors.

Manual submission – [mandatory]

Submitting your site manually will always pay dividends. In the case of Yahoo, the only way you will stand any chance of getting listed is by manual submission. Check out for the guideline to submit site in Google.

Professional service

We offer a full search engine optimization service and have had considerable successes in getting listed on search engines and obtaining high rankings on the top search engines. If you are having no luck getting listed on search engines or are not attracting traffic to your site then contact us and we can advise you and put you on the right track to obtaining a top 10 search engine ranking.

Note

This tutorial assumes that you have a commercial website or blog with business goals; however this is just to illustrate the process of optimization. The same principles apply to any type of website, commercial or otherwise. The next tutorial lesson is on the importance of Search Engine Optimization. So just stay tuned!

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Google X | Dock User Interface Search

Google is known as the king of search engines. Ever since Google launched back in 1995 it has been improving searching capabilities, known to try out everything to give user a better searching solution. One such effort was Google X which not so many people know. Let’s have a look at Google X’s inside story. Google X was a project launched by Google Labs on March 15, 2005 and was rescinded the next day it launched. It was made on the basis of Dock User Interface (a way of launching, switching between the interfaces of application). It was made on the concept of Apple’s Mac OS which uses Dock User Interface approach. Google X has been taken down without releasing any official statement about it. But apparently the story is very clear. Apple has patent protection covering the implementation of the Dock effect together with trademark protection for the graphical elements of the Dock. Since Google has taken down Google X but its mirror still exist. Click here to see working Google X mirrors.  Here is one working Google X : ThePlaceForItAll

Interesting Fact about Google X

Shortest ever life span Google Product which remained active for just under 24 hours before it was withdrawn.

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Search Engine Terminologies | Part 3

This is Part 3 of SEO for Business Training. In this part I'll be discussing search engine terminologies that I'll be using in the later parts of this training. There are thousands of search engine terminologies but here I don’t want to put on all of them and distract you from this training. Here I am going to tell you the terminologies regarding to SEO for Business that’ll be used in later parts of training. So let’s jump straight into it. 1. Inbound Links Hyper-links from other websites to yours. Also known as return links or back links. 2. Page Rank (PR) Page Rank. A number between 0 and 10 given by Google to every page on the internet as a rating of how popular the page is. 3. Reciprocal Links Links between two websites - each webmaster agrees to provide a link to the other website so both will benefit. 4. Robot / Spider An automated piece of software which travels around the internet looking for web pages and storing them in the search index. Robots are good - you want them to visit as often as possible. 5. Search Algorithm The "equation" used by a search engine to decide which web pages are the best match for a search term. 6. Search Index The database of web pages used by a search engine. When you perform a search, the search engine looks in this database to find the best matches. 7. SEO (a) Search Engine Optimization - The process of optimizing. (b) Search Engine Optimizer - A person who offers optimization as a commercial service. 8. SERP Search Engine Result Page, i.e. the list of web pages shown when you perform a search. 9. SEM Search Engine Marketing, i.e. it is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine. 10. SES Search Engine Strategy, i.e. Link Wheel is one search engine strategy and like that there are many SES that we apply according to the conditions.