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Monday, October 10, 2011

Seo Curiosity is joining BC Bloggers

11:17 PM atty. stacy

Seo Curiosity is joining BC Bloggers! If you haven't heard of BC blogger before. Don't fret because BC bloggers is a secret bloggers group. Its membership is most of the time closed except only for a certain time. Luckily, it is now open until October 15, 2011. If you want to improve blog traffic, join now!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN BC BLOGGERS

Hope to see you there!

FREE Directories to Submit Your Blog or Site

1:16 PM atty. stacy

Submitting your blog or site to FREE directories is a good idea to increase your traffic. Here's a list of FREE directories I have searched so far. If I missed any, please inform me so I can add it.
NOTE: Don't forgot to confirm your links via email sent

http://www.dmoz.org/
http://www.somuch.com/ - with reciprocal
http://www.txtlinks.com - with reciprocal
http://linkcentre.com/ - need to create a FREE account
http://www.viesearch.com/ -with reciprocal
http://www.exactseek.com/ -need to create a FREE account
http://directorywind.com - with reciprocal
http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/ - with reciprocal
http://www.jayde.com
http://www.directory.ldmstudio.com/
http://www.directory-free.com
http://www.blogs-collection.com
http://www.wikidweb.com
http://www.turnpike.net/directory.html
http://www.netinsert.com-must insert metatag (can't get it to work with blogger)
http://www.littlewebdirectory.com - with reciprocal
http://www.infignos.com/
http://www.pegasusdirectory.com/ - with reciprocal
http://www.directoryarchives.com
http://www.webworldindex.com/

How to Submit Site Map to get your URLs indexed faster

10:31 AM atty. stacy

What are Site Maps?
Site Maps are ways for the web page to inform and invite search engines to crawl on their site contents. Before, Site Maps are submitted to search engines by filling out forms. Now, thorugh XML Sitemaps, Site Maps can be submitted directly or by waiting for search engines to find it.

Where to submit your Site Maps?
You can submit your to top search engines listed below:

1. Google - top search engine (64.8% market share as of August 2011)

Go to www.google.com/webmasters/
Verify your site through any of the given method
Go to Dashboard>Add a site>Continue
Added Site Dashboard>Site Configuration>Sitemaps
Click Submit a Sitemap
Enter the code below after in the box and click Submit Sitemap

If limited to 26 posts and below: (any)

atom.xml?orderby=updated
atom.xml
rss.xml?orderby=updated

For 1 to 500 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
For 501 to 1000 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
For 1001 to 1500 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

2. Bing - From Microsoft, formerly MSN and Live (yahoo has now merged with Bing)

a. Go to https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

Log in with your windows live ID
Click Add Site
Input your site URL
Click Submit
Verify through any of the two options
Go to Crawl>Add Feed
Enter the code below after in the box and click Submit Sitemap

If limited to 26 posts and below: (any)

atom.xml?orderby=updated
atom.xml
rss.xml?orderby=updated

For 1 to 500 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
For 501 to 1000 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
For 1001 to 1500 posts atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

c. Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YourWebAddress.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 (replace with you site address)

You should be redirected to a white screen that says "Thanks for submitting your sitemap."

3. Ask.com - (3% market share as of August 2011)

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.YourWebSite.com/sitemap.xml (replace with your site address)
You shoud receive a verification "Your Sitemap submission was successful"

NOTE: I just don't know how to verify that it is actually being indexed.

4. AOL - (1.4% market share as of August 2011)

Submit through http://www.dmoz.org/
You have to narrow down the category before you can submit an URL

NOTE: Some are claiming that AOL and Google are the same.

Other sites to submit a sitemap:
For business blogs:
1. Moreover.com - a premier provider of real-time news and business information on the Web

Sites that generate and submit site to google:
1. http://www.webmasterserve.com/seo-tools/xml-sitemaps/index.php - not sure if this works

Sites that notify or submit your sitemap to search engines:
1. http://www.ongsono.com/submit_sitemap.htm - works except for Yahoo!

What is a Robots.txt file
Robots.txt file restricts search engine robots that crawl the web. They first check the Robots.txt file and skips those which are included in it.

For example my blog has 2,109 URLS restricted by blogger which I cannot edit.

NOTE: In case you want swtiched your blog from blogger to word press, it is still advisable to submit of your old sitemap to help search engines find your new blog.

SEO Image Tips: Image Titles , Image Alt Texts , Image File Name and Image Location

2:56 AM atty. stacy

I've been including images in my blog posts for quite some time. Most SEO experts have SEO Image Tips on Image Alt Texts but never misses out on Image File Names, Image Titles and Image Location. Why is that?

Image with Image Alt Texts with no Image Title

What are Image Alt Texts?
Alt Image Texts primary purpose us to display textual context when an image cannot be rendered or is not yet displayed. So you should describe what the image is about so readers might be interested in it. Only some web browsers like Internet Explorer shows the Alt text when you hover over the image. Google has confirmed that it mainly focuses on Image Alt Texts. Although Image Alt Texts should have your keyword focused description, it is not a tag so try to limit it and avoid keyword stuffing. Remember that it is only one among many SEO factors. If you think that your readers do not need to read any image description you can place Alt Text="" so the Image File Names will be read instead.

Matt Cutts on importance of Image Alt Texts

How to add Image Alt Texts?
Add Image Alt Texts after the image URL. See example below:
<img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mOM_09UCkw4/Tn70F4q0dvI/AAAAAAAAB5E/NpUmqfylj5k/s1600/alt-text.jpg" alt="alt text"/>

What are Image Titles?
Although there are no concrete proofs of how Image Titles can improve searches, most web browsers display the Image Titles when you hover the mouse over an image. So your Image Titles can inform and aid you users in having more information about the image.

What are Image File Name?
Image File Names compose the img url and is therefore also important in improving your searches. It should describe the image so that it relates to your site content.

Image Location
For small to medium website, its better to have a separate image folders.
In my example below, my image folder is "s1600"
<img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mOM_09UCkw4/Tn70F4q0dvI/AAAAAAAAB5E/NpUmqfylj5k/s1600/alt-text.jpg" alt="alt text"/>

For larger websites, it is advisable to have a separate image folder for each category.

In my example below, my image folder is "seo"
<img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mOM_09UCkw4/Tn70F4q0dvI/AAAAAAAAB5E/NpUmqfylj5k/seo/alt-text.jpg" alt="alt text"/>

Image Tips:

Always apply more logical spelling (avoid _, - , etc.)
Always be mindful of harmonious site content
Separate keywords with dashes, not underscores
Place the image in the immediate vicinity of keyword-related content
Try to minimize the number of unnecessary images per page as low as possible (except for photo gallery or product search results)
Avoid using stopwords as keywords
Images include buttons, icons and bullets too

Got SEO Image Tips, Image Titles , Image Alt Texts , Image Titles and Image Location? Hope you can share them too.

What, Why, When and How to Use rel="nofollow"

12:04 AM atty. stacy

What is rel="nofollow"?

It tells crawlers to map out links with rel="nofollow" out of your link graph and thereby stopping the distribution of page rank to it.

What does Matt Cutts say about rel="nofollow"?

Why and When to use rel="nofollow"?

Its clear that if its your internal links, you'd want page rank to flow all over. But with external links which you just happen to mention and don't really want to spread Google juice or page rank, then you can use rel="nofollow".

What does Matt Cutts say about when to use rel="nofollow"?

How to Use rel="nofollow"?

Just add rel="nofollow" (no space in between)

<a href="http://seosemblog.byethost14.com" rel="nofollow">Seo Blog</a>

In summary, rel="nofollow" can increase or decrease your page rank depending on how you use it. Remember to be mindful so you don't exert too much effort in it and end up not having good page rank results.

FREE Online Site Map Generators List

11:21 PM atty. stacy

There are quite a number of site map generators available all over the net. Which one of these do you think is the best?

1. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

FREE maximum 500 pages

2. http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/

cannot spider more than 5,000 URLs per site

3. http://www.xsitemap.com/

FREE maximum 500 pages

4. http://www.ongsono.com/sitemap_generator.htm

FREE maximum 500 pages

5. http://www.makeasitemap.com/

FREE maximum 500 pages

6. http://www.sitemapdoc.com/

FREE maximum 500 pages

7. http://www.zitemaps.com/

FREE maximum 2,000 URLS

8. http://www.web-site-map.com/

9. http://www.check-domains.com/sitemap/index.php

FREE unlimited URLS

10. http://www.rapidsitemap.com/

FREE maximum 2,000 URLS

Adding and Installing Alexa Site Widgets For Your Blogs To Gain Alexa Ranking

12:52 PM atty. stacy

If you’ve noticed most blogging sites contain an Alexa Widget within their site. Bloggers believe that Alexa can improve their traffic.

Who is Alexa Internet?

According to wikipedia, Alexa Internet, established in 1996 by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, offered a toolbar that suggested where to go next based on the traffic patterns. It also offered details of the site such as to whom it was registered, how many pages it had, how many other sites pointed to it, and how frequently it was updated. In 1999, Amazon purchased Alexa for $250 Million. It partnered with google in 2002 for an open directory project. In 2005, Alexa opened its extensive search index and web-crawling facilities to third party programs through a comprehensive set of web services and APIs.
What does the Alexa Widget do?

Basically, it gathers data from page loads and other factors such as Pageviews per each individual User, Bounce Rate, and User Time on Site and ranks websites using the Alexa Tools or Widgets. The ranking is based on a 3-month data so it takes some time before it changes. So the earlier you install it, the earlier you can improve your Alexa Ranking.

Installing Alexa Widget in