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How to create your business online as a success is all about leveraging the search engines. Google, MSN, Yahoo! are the three largest and should be your main focus. While your website is for users such as yourself, you also want to create the web pages for the search engines. There is a unique balance that gets played when developing web pages for better search engine rankings. The balance is making sure it is easily navigable for humans as well as search engine spiders.
A good point is always having a easy navigation bar either on the top left or right of your website that is consistent. Another good tip is having a heading for those navigation bars and making sure that seven links are not below or above those navigation headings. For example, the heading should be bolded and then have no more than seven links below or above.
If there's too much information for the human eye, they will get distracted and leave the site. Make your navigation bars very simple for users. The faster they can see information in their view, the faster they will click and get to a deeper part of your web page. Search engine optimization includes all of the following. It includes key word research to find out what your customers are looking for and how they say the words about the products or services that you are selling.
It also includes on-site optimization. This is basically organizing your website so it is friendly and also user-friendly for Google as well as humans.
The last part is reports. Reports are effective ways to see what is going on with the website and make the needed changes.
And the most important part for search engine ranking is really the off-site or link building campaign.
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SEO techniques: White Hat preferable to Black Hat
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Sep 3 2008, 1:56 PM EDT
It has been the general practice to categorize SEO techniques into two different types - techniques that search engines find to be of good design and techniques that search engines consider not appropriate as they indulge in what is called spamming. Industry analysts label these methods and their practitioners as either white hat SEO, or black hat SEO. White hats produce healthy long lasting results whereas black hats jittery that their sites may be banned once the search engines detect what they are up to.
White hat techniques are those that adhere to the search engine guidelines and do not attempt to cheat. Despite the fact the search engine guidelines are a set of unwritten rules white hat takes no advantage. White hat primarily lays emphasis in creating content for users and not to exploit search engines. White Hat practitioners are ethical and practice values and rely more on the quality of content and marketing skills to achieve top ranking. White Hats realize that good search engine rankings takes time and avoid shortcut methods. White Hats have their rewards as they are able to get more inbound links from other websites, because their content is widely appreciated as valuable.
On the other hand, black hat unscrupulously uses ways and means not authorized by search engines to improve rankings. Black Hat SEO, more simply called as SEO spamming, is creating websites that have little or no worth, to trick the [search engines] into offering irrelevant or low-quality search results. Black Hat SEO can be likened to fly-by-night operators who are bent on getting instant results. The method they use to optimize their websites will no doubt get the website to the top of the search engines very rapidly, but when the search engines detects the foul methods, the website will crash or even get banned.
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