
Inbound links, or backlinks, are very important to your search engine rankings. Search engine algorithms consider the number and quality of links back to your site as a determining factor in how popular and relevant your website is. Each backlink is a “vote” on your site’s popularity and the more votes, the higher your ranking. [...]

It’s important that your website appear at least among the top three pages of a search engine for a keyword, since few will look beyond those first three pages. Knowing how your page ranks for a keyword is valuable information, to be able to quickly make adjustments to increase that important organic ranking. The free [...]

Generating keyword and phrase lists for PPC campaigns can be tedious and time-consuming. You want to maximize your ad ranking by including every word combination you can and listing those combinations for exact match, broad match, and phrase match. It’s important to use every possible word combination since people enter queries in different ways. They [...]

There are certain website that are involved in spamming or other undesirable practices that make linking to them unsuitable and could result in having your site penalized by the search engines. The Bad Neighborhood Check Tool will alert you to any sites that may be in industries that have been known historically to employ search [...]

Search engine spiders see your pages much differently than you do. Though the different search engines vary in their ranking algorithms, their spiders all work in basically the same way. They read the text only, ignoring other elements like Flash and JavaScript that are there to please human readers. It can be very helpful to [...]

One of the factors search engine spiders consider to determine ranking is keyword density. That’s one of the factors that tells the spiders the page theme and relevancy. It’s important to optimize for targeted keywords and phrases by using the terms with a certain frequency while not over-optimizing, or using the phrase too often, so [...]

Quality backlinks, or inbound links, to your website is vital to achieving high search engine rankings. Backlinks are the “votes” your site is getting that tells the search engine spiders how popular and important your site is. This factor is considered highly in search engine ranking algorithms. The number or quanitity of backlinks is considered [...]

Using all possible keyword combinations can improve your ranking from search engine query results. Though different people may enter the same words in a query, they often use them in different orders. For example, someone may be looking for flowers to be delivered. One might enter “deliver flowers” and another “flowers deliver”. By using all [...]

The free Keyword Density Analyzer from SEObench is a handy tool. Keyword density is an important factor in search engine ranking since that is one of the things spiders look at to determine the theme and relevance of a website. Optimizing for targeted keywords will help improve organic ranking as well as paid search. It’s [...]

WebSite Auditor from Link-Assistant.Com is like having an SEO guru installed on your computer. This software will take you step by step to put your website on the first page of search engine results within weeks. In their demo video, they show how they took a real-life website and pushed it to the first page [...]