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SEO for Dubai Portal - A
case study for Dubai Portal Optimization - PriceOutDubai.com
2009-07-02 09:09:58
Optimizing a big shopping portal is not that easy! it needs huge
focus and technical skills to carry the shopping portal onto the
right track. I have got a query about a SEO DUBAI SHOPPING PORTAL,
the website is www.priceoutdubai.com.
I am sharing this post to deliver inside knowledge and get inside
feedback from you guys.
I just paused the keyword analysis work on your website (as it’s
a huge one) :). It’s a portal like WWW.AMAZON.COM.
___Keywords Analysis___
Usually, we select 10-15 keywords and target them for SEO strategy.
Like www.arbico.co.uk they have only one product and that is computers.
So, we could easily target computer related keywords.
For www.carjunction.com they have one product and that is vehicles,
we targeted vehicles related keywords.
But, www.priceoutdubai.com is a combination of huge variety of
products. It means we have to vary keywords on category by category
and target them to get high rankings.
First of all, i am sure you not only need an specialist SEO but
a focused SEO as well for this kind of portal. This is not going
to be easy for anyone saying i can promote in 2 months or 3 months
etc.
Let's talk about the variety of products they have got! It’s
a 7 time work required on this website and all done professionally
and technically.
___Target Market___
Target market is ONLY DUBAI. Not world wide
___TRAFFIC MATTERS not RANKINGS___
Normally, we send ranking reports to our clients showing them how
we are proceeding to the ranking list. However, for this web portal
Dubai traffic matters not ranking. You will never know and you will
receive traffic on variety of keywords which even I have not thought.
____Competitors____
There will be not one but many competitors, competing on different
terms. Let’s say TOP 10 on "buy computer Dubai"
is totally different from "buy camera Dubai".
____Special Branding____
We will give "DUBAI" the special weight in SEO everywhere
on the website. Like someone searching for "Dubai computers",
"Cameras in Dubai" etc. could find our website. We will
give it a branding touch rather than focusing only on results.
People should know and remember the name of www.priceoutdubai.com.
____Keywords ___
Keywords are going to play the top most part for this Dubai web
portal. Keywords decide whether we are targeting the right path
or wrong, if we make foolish things up in selecting keywords, we
are goanna always find where we are and where we are going...
____Technicality and SEO Friendliness____
There is one way we can be strong and play with Google "Technically
SEO friendly website". The web portal is not SEO friendly (I
hope you understand this term).
An SEO friendly website is what qualifies for Google guidelines
in terms of technical development. We will have to focus on these
things:
1- META TAGS SYSTEM
We will need a system to EDIT Meta tags on each and every page
2- SEO FREINDLY URLs
Current URLs are not SEO friendly, there is a big hope that SEO
Friendly URLs are very popular in search engines, we can keep keywords
and get higher on competitors...
Like computer category has the URL like:
Current:
http://www.priceoutdubai.com/categoryList.php?catId=1
Recommended
http://www.priceoutdubai.com/online-computers-shopping
3- INTERLINKING, JUICE FORWARDING and INDEXING
The main problem of this kind of portals is indexing, search engines
come on website and they are unable to index whole website due to
complex interlinking. The current drop down menu is built in JAVA
SCRIPT; search engines are unable to read java script so they can't
index the website.
We have to provide guidelines to search engines so they can easily
crawl and index website, like links in footer, links in content,
recommended links etc. (a major point of on page optimization).
Also, we will make sure to make full use of GOOGLE SITEMAP (tells
Google which URLs are new, are which URLs are old). We will need
a dynamic Google Sitemap otherwise i will spend all my time on it
:)
____LINK BUILDING____
As i said earlier, we have to produce 7 time more work than a normal
website to achieve traffic. Link building is most important external
part of OFF PAGE OPTIMIZATION. we have got high PR and quality links
for dubai and worldwide. So you don't worry about it.
Classifieds
Article submissions
Link exchanges
Blogging
Directory submissions
Forum postings
High PR links
Social media contributions
Do follow linkings
I hope you liked this one!!!
Please share your ideas here in comments, please take 5 minutes...
Are you noticing huge crises
in your traffic sales less searches in advertising and search results
2009-04-15 20:39:02
The whole world is currently affected due to the crises and recession
in each and every field. I have been noticing a fall down everywhere
in my client's search engine's traffic. This recession has specially
affected US and UK customers who are feeling this heat. They are
avoiding unnecessary expenditures, fun times, tourism, spending
money, keeping money in banks. Similarly, peoples are avoiding searching
or shopping now a days.
This is only a prediction but when I researched on it, I found
some interesting facts which I am sharing here: Rimm-Kaufman posted
data which is a summary showing people are avoiding searching for
products and services to purchase, leading to fewer sales, which
is also impacting the whole PPC campaigns and budgets. Yes! This
is all related to this global recession.
• Approximately 20% reduction in sales from search ads from
last year
• Approximately 20% reduction in his costs from search ads
from last year
• The average order value from search ads dropped 10% from
last year
• The conversion rate from search ads seemed to remain stable
from last year
• There may be more competition in the space, but hard to
prove
I know you are a SEO expert or beginner reading this post. And,
of couse, running your own clients. If you are noticing a fall down
in traffic, please take part here and let us know if less people
are searching and clicking on your ads.
Categories and Levels for
SEOs in Karachi Think more SEO Think Bigger
2008-08-02 07:59:54
Another Post Especially for Junior SEOs in Karachi, Pakistan My
dearest and dearest SEOs from Karachi, Pakistan or any other part
of the world! Please I need your time especially for you.J Is this
necessary to always wear a HAT either BLACK or WHITE…
When you are planning our future as junior SEO, you also think
about learning something which could enhance your abilities, your
experience, your skills and your value. There are 100s of other
things which we already know play a vital role in enhancing search
results in Google, Yahoo or Msn. Today, I want to be some different
than a traditional SEO. Nah, today we will think different…
SEO is a part of internet marketing, if there would not be Google,
Yahoo, and Msn…?
Who would have cared of them, but unfortunately we always stick
to the knowledge what we have. We don’t try to learn different.
I have updated few links in the right side of my Blog; you can now
see some of the Top Super Stars of search engine industry. Google’s
Employees, Yahoo Employees and Microsoft Employees, i will market
them later, but currently its about learning something that is not
SEO but necessary for an SEO.
What SEO needs to know? I think there are three levels of SEOs.
First Level: Basics
Second Level: All-rounder
Third Level: True Marketers
First Level: Basics In this
level, a guy understands the basics of search engine optimization
and starts thinking about getting top in the search results by optimizing
the following components: Keyword Density Content Optimization SEO
Friendliness of Website Pros and Cons Code Links etc. This has been
again and again studied and are basics for someone looking to learn
SEO.
Second Level: All-rounder
There are guys who have had problems in understanding the online
articles. The problem is that everything is linked on the internet,
and they need professionals to teach them. Most of the time, they
read whole but don’t understand the purpose. Similarly, if
you don’t know what’s harming your web presence, you
will never find out solutions..
Designing Abilities You must spend your time to
improve your design scanning skills. You need an eye which can scan
the website design for both SEO friendliness and user friendliness,
if you can catch up with color theme, the quantity of images, text,
content and links you are very near to be a Guru. You must know
the right placements of your website content to interact visitors
into paying customers.
Development Abilities You can improve your programming
skills in the leisure time. Web development has always been one
of the very critical parts of businesses. Database structure Fast
indexing inside databases Possibilities and Difficulties of particular
mark up languages Specific application development Software development
Search Function on the website Login hassles and various other web
features… If you are a true SEO Guru, you will encounter these
problems and solve them in to your company’s favor, this is
another good example of pro active SEOs.
Third Level: True Marketers
Think what if there are no search engines? Think what if one banner
advertisement provides you with more clicks than Google itself?
Think what if the main source of your referrals is email? You have
good quantity of traffic. But what when the most of the traffic
comes from USA (where you don’t deal)? A popoular local London
website can give you with more relevant and targeted traffic than
you will imagine from Google. True Traffic! True hunt! Hmm, at this
level, gurus have responsibilities to promote and market the company.
Remember, if you rely on one of those search engines you are mistaken.
There is still so much on the web which is waiting for you: Banner
Advertisement Classified Advertisement Article Publishing Rss Marketing
Blog Marketing Forum Marketing Link Network Recommended Links Paid
Advertisements It all works, you have to analyze the audience before
you invest money. This is more effective than the traffic you have
from search engines. It’s fishing where the fishes are! Well
the purpose of this post was only to let you guys know, that we
have developed a wrong concept that high rankings are enough.. High
rankings don’t increase sales High traffic don’t increase
sales its your testing and testing, experience and experience, insights
of web and other knowledge which enables you to decide on the right
time. And on the right track…
Think marketing. Feel marketing.
Don’t forget penalized
by Google encountering Spam
2006-07-05 05:26:30
Looks very light question but it does have immense bad affects
on your online business sales, Not appearing in Google results for
the competitive terms related to your business is some way appearing
no where on the web. Missing a lot of buzz of those searching you
seriously… Well, that was the right definition of how badly
wrong or deceived techniques could affect your business, SPAM TECHNIQUES
are not going to be appreciated by any search engine. Search engines
are very intelligent they keep updating their algorithms to catch
those cheating them through spam techniques. Daily we see new people
complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites
have been banned by Google and they "have no idea why".
These people claim they've done nothing wrong and are absolutely
clueless as to why their site is no longer In Google? Factors NOT
to follow when optimizing your web site: You are banned! How to
confirm you’ve been banned? People often realize they’ve
been banned looking at their current rankings, when practically
they are just few results dropped in the rankings and can’t
find their website.
There are few methods you can implement:
1. See Google toolbar.
2. Check Google’s search results
See Google Toolbar. If you have already installed Google Toolbar
then simply visit your website. If the Google toolbar is completely
gray, this means you have been banned by Google. Another successfully
utilized way to know if you have been banned is: Check
Google's search results. Go to Google and place your exact URL
into Google's search box and click "search" Note that
Google says there is no information available for this URL? This
means that the URL is no longer in Google's database.If you enter
a brand new website into Google, you'll always get this message
until the website has been crawled.
But, here, our website has been banned by Google for some reason.
So what exactly SPAM TECHNIQUE is? There is not only a single SPAM
TECHNIQUE there are many ONPAGE ranking factors and OFFPAGE ranking
factors that can cause Google to ban a website. Still when this
is so unveiled many webmasters don’t mind applying them. They
DO NOT help your rankings and is simply a waste of time, so don't
try them. Sooner or later Google will Catch up to these websites
and will remove them.
Some of the ONPAGE SPAM TECHNIQUES can be explained within:
Hidden Text As by its name HIDDEN TEXT is hidden among the content
or placed anywhere upper or downer position that is not readable
by visitors. Some webmasters will do this so that they can add keywords
throughout their webpage without it interfering with what the visitors
actually see(placing too many keywords could disturb the visitor
as we have to bound us in limits when writing copy), the search
engines can still see hidden text. For example, let's say you have
a blue background on your website. If you wanted to hide text, you
would simply make the color of your text blue and users couldn't
see it (search engine reads/crawls the source of the website not
the display as users experience) Another technique is to HIDE TEXT
behind an image so on. These techniques are very useful unless search
engine catches and bans you. Lets see this example
It doesn't look Spam but you would be wondered watching this one...Just
prest Ctrl+A and see
See how professionally they've exploited HIDDEN TEXT technique
: ) Alt image tag spamming This is another way that people will
try to stuff keywords into their website, allowing search engines
to see their keywords, but not allowing visitors to notice any difference
in their website. Logically “Alt Image Tag” is some
sort of hint for those who doesn’t let the browser display
images due to some problems and could see the hint to be informed,
graphic is not loaded due to heave images or flash animation or
cursing mouse over an image displays its original description and
often used for blind people. But Stuffing keywords and overdoing
your efforts would no longer be appreciated at all, you must use
ALT IMAGE TAG comprehensively considering OPTIMIZED level of both
keywords and benefits.
Meta Tag Stuffing
What I'm referring to here is when people throw in thousands of
the same exact keyword into their meta tags. For example, a website
is trying to rank well for
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="computers, COMPUTERS,
Computers, computers computers computer supplies, computers, computers
computer, computer, Computers, COMPUTERS, computers, Computers,
computers, COMPUTERS, Computers, computers computer computer supplies,
computers, computers computer, computer, Computers, COMPUTERS, computers,
Computers, computers,COMPUTERS, Computers, computers computers computer
supplies, computers, computers computer, computer, Computer, COMPUTER,
computers, Computers, computers, COMPUTERS, Computers, computers
computers computer supplies, computers, computers computer, computer,
Computer, COMPUTERS, computers, Computers, computers, COMPUTERS,
Computers, computers computers computer supplies, computers, computers
computer, computer, Computers, COMPUTERS, computers, Computers">
This is absolutely bizarre. It WILL NOT help you dart higher in
search results while Google doesn't use Meta Tags when ranking websites.
Google WILL surely penalize it, why would someone do anything silly
like this? Plz stay away from it. Title Tag Stuffing The title appears
on the top left corner of the webpage in blue background. Lets see
an example of Title Tag Stuffing.
<title>Computers, cheap computers, Best Computers, COMPUTERS,
affordable computers, discount computers, computers parts for computers</title>
Stay away doing this, you must include your keyword once in the
title. Anymore than 1 time will only weaken the effect, and if you
overdo it as shown above, you may get banned. These are few ONPAGE
SPAM TECHNIQUES that people keen to do online. These things WILL
eventually get your website banned and WILL NOT help you rank well.
It's just a waste of time and effort, plus ask yourself why applying
those strategies that doesn’t work and will get your website
banned from the search engines? Although in some cases organization
let their websites optimize through third party search engine optimization
companies or individuals, if they are doing anything from the following
then you must take care of your online business marketing plan.
“Don’t Get Your Website Banned... By Accident!"
Google wins because of it's
greatest research
2009-05-12 20:55:05
Google is the pioneer company in search industry right now. This
is not only a perception, this is true. They have been successful
in providing easy to use, searcher oriented technology which we
all admire today. There are many other fields in which Google still
struggling to beat Microsoft and Yahoo (such as Windows Operating
System and Internet Explorer from Microsoft - Messanger, chat, shopping
and B2B search from Yahoo).
I love search industry and this is my field so i would focus on
it. Also, Google advertising channels "Google Adwords and Adsense"
are the hottest in the world. Google first time introduced "Pay
per Click Advertisement" and it became a huge success that
Yahoo and Msn had to follow them. This is all possible because people
started loving and using Google more than any search platform due
to it's usability. What they have got!! ALL MASTERMIND WINNERS...
They have no time to lose, but RESEARCH... GOOGLE RESEARCH is what
stands alone on Yahoo and Msn. This is a great place... You will
find Google Engineers, Google researchers, Google policies, Google
Codes, Google Labs and more interesting things on this link: DON'T
MISS TO VISIT IT
GOOGLE RESEARCH
More traffic = more money
It's simple math
2008-12-03 09:11:36
Keep it to yourself.
If you generate an income online (or plan to soon),one thing is
for sure.
===> You need traffic
More traffic = more money It's simple
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The challenge we all face is, how to get more traffic. With the
fierce competition using pay-per-click advertising, it's tough to
get direct heap traffic anymore. And getting natural (organic) search
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How long do you take to optimize
a Web Site
2009-01-29 09:27:36
Since SEO Industry is becoming popular within Karachi, Pakistan...?
Lots of business and website owners have much to ask from SEO Consultants
and Experts in Karachi, Pakistan. They have many questions and successful
experts answer all of their concerns and fears in hiring you as
SEO consultant specialist.
One question which is asked most often is “How long do you
take to optimize a website and get top search engines ranking which
I am hoping for”?
New SEOs in Karachi Pakistan (relevantly new to the industry) commits
like they have an ALADIN or personal relations with Google engineers
and programmers…
They say I am going to take 1 month, 2 months, 3 months etc…
Well, that depends… GUYS it depends on several things, including
the kind of website you are optimizing, the search engines you are
targeting, the competition you are challenging, competitiveness
of the keywords and your level of monitoring the ongoing tasks and
their effects on search engine rankings, it depends on how much
time you are going to surf on researching the industry and competition
into the optimization process.
At the elementary level, you may select two or three keywords for
your website’s home page, plug those keywords in Meta tags,
Title tag and body text then submit your website to top search engines
and wait for the traffic to come. You can surely do this in less
than one hour. However, such a limited effort is not going to do
anything in terms of generating traffic boost. A highly targeted
and focused SEO campaign requires time dedication, experience, goal
settings and most probably the patience. The keyword research should
be based on comprehensive analysis of strong and weak keywords.
SEO optimized copy writing and continuous link building, as well
monitoring the assessment of the outcome of the campaign. Honestly
speaking, you should creatively and patently develop your website,
rather than rushing things and tasks to the process. The end results
are based on the time you spend understanding the industry and link
building. No one can bring top search engine ranking within nights.
The good understanding with Googlebot and interaction with the search
engine algorithms are very necessary.
The competition makes successful search engine optimization challenging,
time-consuming and, most of the times frustrating. Sometimes, it
can take several months before you see good changes in search results.
If your website is NEW… you are going to face the issues of
“sandboxing” (keeping your site out of Google’s
top rankings for as much as six months period). Google examines
the site’s trust and links by keeping it to the separate database
of new websites called SANDBOX. In the meantime, Google deliberately
keep NEW sites away reaching high rankings in its index.
You may seek out quality and relevant links and keep patience ..
In the end, you must keep in mind that you are optimizing your website
FOREVER (not for one time). Why hiring inexperienced guys who can
take risks and get your website BAN by Google or involve in SPAM
TECHNIQUES. A perfectly-optimized website will not grab immediate
results Time Period to make good understanding with Google Bot Search
engine robots visit the website on the frequency of updates and
good SEO changes and rank pages. We are going to make this process
fast…
Robot Activity Normal Period to Visit a Website = Weekly, or Once
in two weeks Normal Period to Rank Pages = 25 – 35 days Goal
Settings If we are able to make critical changes in the 1st month.
We are going to get good change from the second month and then boost
from the 4th month. Lets say:
1st Month Total Visits = 100
2nd Month Total Visits = 150
3rd Month Total Visits = 200
4th Month Total Visits = 220
5th Month Total Visits = 250 (The continuous good understanding
with Google Bot, Quality
6th Month Total Visits = 500 Linking, PR improvement, Trust Rank
improvement)
7th Month Total Visits = 550
8th Month Total Visits = 600
9th Month Total Visits = 700
10th Month Total Visits = 800
11th Month Total Visits = 900
12th Month Total Visits = 1000 with the patience and the right approach,
the search engine rankings will eventually materialize, and the
traffic will come to your website.
INSHALLAH
Make Your Website a Lead
Generating Machine
2009-06-16 05:44:41
Everybody knows one-sided relationships never work. The same is
true with websites. If a website is focused entirely upon you, you
will lose any visitors that may stumble across it. On the other
hand, a website done correctly (one that focuses on the visitor)
can easily become a lead generation machine! When designing your
website, think about these four ideas:
• People are egocentric. Subconsciously they're viewing your
website and thinking, "There's tons of companies just like
you. What are you going to do for me?"
• People love being entertained. If they believe your website
is providing interesting information, you'll have them hooked.
• People want their opinions valued. This is why most companies
have incorporated a blog or forums-so their customers can put in
their two cents.
• And this is the ticket for generating leads for your business:
visitors want to do something.
Give your visitors something to do. Give them something free to
download. Offer a free report or whitepaper. Ask for their opinion
on a blog entry. Do something, anything, and once the person responds,
you "Require" the following information: name, address,
phone number, and email. Guess what you just got? A qualified lead.
Qualified because they stayed on your site long enough to take action.
New Year Happenings in Search
Industry
2009-01-09 07:05:50
Most peoples in Pakistan, Karachi are not aware of most of the
new happenings in Search Industry… You know there is always
an update available, nothing stops… You follow one algorithm
today but it can update tomorrow and leaving you alone with your
old strategies. There are some Good News which I want to share here:
YouTube Growing Up, Google Owns Ad Serving Market & More It
wasn’t too long ago that YouTube was mostly a haven for the
video expressions of teens and young adults; popular clips often
showed skateboard crashes, air guitar contests, and bedroom renditions
of Numa Numa. But now, as the site continues to grow in popularity,
it seems YouTube is finally turning into a serious business and
money-making platform. First, let’s talk about growth. TechCrunch
reports on new ComScore numbers that show YouTube is the second
biggest search engine behind Google; it gets more searches than
Yahoo and accounts for more than 25% of Google’s search queries.
Small Businesses Will Spend on Advertising in '09 Ad-ology has
released some results from a Small Business Marketing Outlook survey
it conducted, which found that in 2009, over a fourth of small business
owners plan to spend more on advertising. Another 60% plan to spend
about the same as they did this year. Somewhat surprisingly, most
businesses (83%) expect sales to either be up or about the same
as 2008 in the new year. In fact, only 25% said they were fearful
about the current economic situation. As far as marketing strategies,
small business advertisers intend to spend more or the same as this
year on: - online advertising (69%) - Yello Pages (54%) - Newspapers
(51%) - Direct Mail (51%)
Email Marketing at Its Best Yes, it's still one the most effective
marketing methods It is interesting that even with alternative marketing
tools such as Twitter, Instant Messaging, and Face book, email marketing
is still holding strong. In 2008, the Digital Marketing Association
estimated that every $1.00 spent on email marketing brought $45.00
in return.
Small Businesses Missing Out on Search Marketing Opportunities
Many Do Nothing to Enhance Online Presence Microsoft adCenter released
the results of a survey today looking at search marketing behaviors
of 400 small business owners in the United States. The findings
indicate that small businesses still have a long way to go when
it comes to Internet marketing. Most have sites, but don't do anything
to enhance their online presence. 90% of those surveyed have never
even attempted a paid search campaign.
SEO in This Economy I was researching a different article this
morning, and stumbled across this one from the beginning of the
year written by Lee Odden of Top Rank Online Marketing in which
he references another article in Target Marketing Magazine. The
article for being written nearly a year ago, seems strangley even
more appropriate now than when it was written. Anyhow, the article
deals with
SEO tips for hard economic times, which obviously we are smack-dab
in the middle of currently, and Lee highlights the following key
tips - Create a Content Promotion Plan - Make It Easy to Publish
and Promote New Content - “Get” Social Media - Unify
Your Efforts With Universal Search After going through these tips,
the article seems strangely even more timely condidering all of
the talk about "getting" social media that has resonated
in recent memory, as well as the rise of universal search, which
has also been a hot topic of discussion as we head into a new year
full of wonder and anticipation surrounding how the search industry
will change.
Google & Baidu Fail China’s Pornography Test, May Lead
To Penalties The Associated Press reports that China has begun a
process to “purify the Internet’s cultural environment
and protect the healthy development of minors.” This has resulted
in the Chinese government finding that both Google and Baidu have
failed to take “efficient” actions to remove content
from their results after being notified of issues. The AP added
that China said violators will be “severely punished,”
but did not say how they might be punished. Cui Jin, a Google spokeswoman
in China, told the AP that Google does not have any pornographic
content in Google China and added, “if we find any violation,
we will take action. So far, I haven’t seen any examples of
violations.”
Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results Google’s
“timeline view,” which was previously only available
as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs, is now being seen on some
queries in the main Google.com search results. Todd Mintz tipped
us to the query ["book of revelation"], which shows the
timeline results pictured above at the bottom of the first page.
The timeline can also be seen on queries such as [Thomas Jefferson]
and [Albert Einstein]. Clicking the “More timeline results”
in the main search results leads to a page with much more historical
data about your query that Google says comes from their News Archive
search service:
Google in push to gain e-mail market share Google, the clear leader
in internet search, has been zeroing in on user’s inboxes
in a push to win market share in e-mail, an area where its rivals
Microsoft and Yahoo still dominate. Gmail, its web-based e-mail
product, has become a development focus for the Silicon Valley company,
with a stream of innovations leading to its promotion by influential
early adopters. With links to Google Docs, Calendar and other web-based
services, Google appears to be making Gmail the centre of an online
productivity suite that could eventually challenge the dominance
of Microsoft’s Office collection of programs.
Google Finally Brings Picasa To The Mac Google announced the now
have Picasa for Mac available for download. Why now? Well, MacWorld
2009 is currently underway - so that is why they released it this
week. What took so long for Google to bring Picasa to the Mac? I
am not sure. Google had a Picasa Web Albums uploader and an iPhoto
plugin for Mac users but never the application. The Wired Blog has
a nice walk through the of many features available in Picasa. Below
I will also embed a video demonstration of Picasa for Mac.
Thinking of building a fresh
website or re-working a current one?
2009-10-22 19:35:02
If you are at the moment thinking about a new internet site and
you would like big visitor numbers for the site then now is the
right time to adopt the services of a search engine optimization
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necessary if organizations are to validate the time, effort and
cost that will be invested in a new site.
Depending on the difficulty of the website that is about to be composed
or re-worked your spend could rather easily reach the thousands
of pounds mark. If the goal is that the site brings new customers,
leads and business then it could be the best designed site in the
world but if possible customers don’t get to see it, it’s
useless. This is where the Search Engine Optimization Company comes
in.
though more expenditure at this time may not be great it is absolutely
crucial if any investment is going to create results. You could
have the best appealing website in your industry but if customers
do not see it appear on page one of their searches results all the
effort has been in futile. Your competitors will be occupying the
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what he is looking for among them, meaning that your expenditure
in your new website has been wasted.
If you employ with the Search Engine Optimization Company at this
early juncture they will be able to steer you and your web designer
down the best possible path to make certain that your site is obvious
to the search engines. Whilst this input without help rarely means
that you will achieve page 1 search engine positioning without additional
action, it can radically cut down the amount of money you will need
to spend on Online Marketing once the site is live.
Once the site itself has been optimized to its up most the Search
Engine Optimization Company will then support the site using a variety
of strategies to make certain that the required Search Engine Placement
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indefinite period.
It is possible toban existing website but if this has not been constructed
with optimization in mind then the issue is more time consuming
and therefore costly. Nevertheless if the existing site already
has a valuable number of returning buyers and a reasonable Search
Engine Placement already it might be better to work with what you
have. Either way employ with them as soon as you can.
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