One of the most frequently asked questions from website owners is, “Why can’t my site be found on Google?” They know it’s important to appear in search engine results but they just don’t know why it doesn’t happen to them.

They may well be in awe of the ‘black arts’ of search engine optimization or puzzled by the complexity of it all. If they’re unlucky they will have paid out money to some snake oil salesman guaranteeing to get them to the top in 48 hours - and been sorely disappointed with the lack of traffic that results.

Most search engine optimizers are highly ethical, professional people but they do tend to keep their cards close to their chest.

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Search engine optimization has far greater bearing on e-commerce websites than non-e-commerce websites simply because e-commerce websites need to make money by selling goods and they can only sell those goods if they can attract relevant traffic from the search engines. But with most of the e-commerce items generated dynamically with search engine unfriendly URLs, how do you optimize your e-commerce website for the search engine crawlers?

It’s not as tough as it sounds. Follow some simple rules and the search engine crawlers will be eating out of your hands. Read the rest of this entry »

We already know that ALT tags should be used for relevant images (I say relevant because you can skip putting ALT tags for images placed in your page for purely aesthetic and/or organisational purposes such as borders). However, what many neglect to do is to take advantage of Google’s enhanced image search. Read the rest of this entry »

Webmasters knows; “stronger keywords means more traffic”. If you optimize your page according to one of this keywords, you can easily get more visitors to your page. Here is the list of most searched 500 keywords on favorite search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

Increase search engine traffic to your WordPress blog with one night’s work!
Imagine having the search engine traffic to your blog increased by tens of percentages, or perhaps even doubling it, by just a few hours work. With putting just a bit of SEO effort into your WordPress you can increase your search engine traffic, just by getting the basics right. I’ll walk you through them one by one. Read the rest of this entry »