Archive for January, 2009
Video For SEO?
Posted by SEO Tips in SEO Techniques, View Seo on January 20th, 2009
Well I know that right off the bat, it sounds a little crazy. I mean after all, any other seo tactics you have heard about have most likely detailed how to use text to get to the top of the search engines and that is right. So, how does a video help with seo?
Well, there are many reasons that videos can help with your websites traffic and since a page is ranked on its traffic the more the merrier. Also, right now many popular search engines including google are starting to weight search results with videos included higher that those without.
So what does this mean? If you are not using videos as link bait to your site right now, the next thing you should do, is turn your web cam on! This is a special point in time and space where you can get more bang for you seo buck out of videos more than in the past and more than you will in the future. If this was a bandwagon, then you need to jump on it and fast.
You can go to youtube and just listen to some of the results these seo experts are getting by using videos. It is utterly amazing and the trend is just now taking off. The time to get involved is now, not in a year when everybody has already flooded the search engines.
So start your video blog, you instructional video tutorial or anything else that you can do with a video on your site today and watch the hits start rolling in.
Title Tag Still Relevant
I have read a few articles on other SEO sites that suggest that the websites meta tags no longer carry much weight in web site SEO. I recently downloaded google’s new “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide” and much to the contrary they talk about how important a good “title” tag is on the second page of there guide.
I have been going through my old pages and checking to make sure that the keywords in my title tags are just as good as the keywords on page. This has been bringing some new and much needed traffic.
So when you are designing your next site, whatever you do, don’t overlook the meta info on your pages, it is still important to google.
DoFollow or NoFollow
Posted by SEO Tips in SEO Techniques, SEO Videos, View Seo on January 1st, 2009
This a questions webmasters have been asking for years. Will the dofollow or nofollow links be better for my website’s search engine optimization? We the answer is not an easy one because even SEO experts have different opinions on the topic.
Many webmasters hunt for sites that allow the “dofollow” links and also allow commenting on there site to make many free back links to there site. This can be an effective SEO tactic if it is done well and at a slow pace, remember link building is not a race, actually sites that build back links to quickly will be penalized by most search engines.
The perceived problem with allowing dofollow tags and links on your site, is that web site surfers can post links to your site that will get viewed by search engine bots. Does having a bunch of links that do not have PR value or maybe are not even in the same niche as your site help? Probably not, but that is the discussion, it may be possible for these type of links to actually hurt your own sites ranking and search engine results.
This is why many webmasters who are trying to get there page listed high in search results will use a “nofollow” tag on all of there blogs or forums, thus allowing people to post links that still function on the site, but just do not count on search engine rankings and results.
Adding a nofollow tag to your links is supposed to stop search engines from indexing that link on your page. According to this video from Revver.Com this may not always work.
View Seo hopes that you found this video informative and helpful, if you are interested in finding sites that have dofollow links to help you build back links to your own web site, here is a dofollow only search engine you can use.