Introduction of SEO

Posted by admin on May 27th, 2010
There is nothing better than a bunch of useful information that you can continually understand. First, to allow you know, I did all of the research myself. I couldn’t Delegate this task to a freelancer because I knew that I was the only One skilled of putting together such a quality resource that Webmasters can benefit greatly from and the time I invested into compile the data was worth it. I have tested hundreds of free networks in 07 and let me tell you that contrary to popular belief, alexa rank is an important factor to determine which sites to send most of your time on while marketing. What this means in internet marketing terminology is that you CANNOT generate huge traffic from an online network that is itself not generating massive traffic. This is such a simple concept but so many webmasters overlook it.
How many times have you wanted to submit your site to thousands? Of article directories?
However, here is my philosophy what’s the point of submitting to thousands of directories if less than 30 of them will bring you the most traffic? The same concept applies to search engine marketing but webmasters don’t even realize it. What’s the point of being listed in 1000s of search engines in which 3 of them is responsible for 98% of the searches in the world while the remaining amount will generate less traffic then your site? It doesn’t make sense at all, so that’s why alexa ranking can be a pretty good indicator of determining how much traffic a site is getting so that’s why I felt it was extremely important to include this data in this resource.
Let me warn you that alexa rankings can be inaccurate at times. They can’t calculate the exact number of visitors a website is getting they can only guess because they don’t have internal access to the logs of one’s server (at least I hope not).
Secondly, like page rank and other website factors alexa ranking can easily be inflated with a couple of black hat tricks.
Third, it’s the internet and it’s a free tool– so it’s not the Holy Grail when it comes to determining how much traffic a network is getting, but from my testing it’s pretty accurate, especially with the popular online networks.
It tends to be more inaccurate with smaller websites, but with the bigger and more popular networks it is usually dead on.For example, digg is a social media sharing site that generates the most traffic compared to related sites according to alexa because its “alexa number” is a lot lower compared to that of its competing sites. The lower the alexa number ideally means the more traffic theWebsite is getting.
So, last year I started testing to see if this was true by submitting several pieces of content that was exactly the same at the same interval in time for several of weeks and guess what? Digg always out performed them. I also did this type of testing for article directories like ezine articles and it usually almost always out performs articles form sites with a much higher alexa rank.
However, don’t take my stats as gold either, I only tested this on a small area of niche sites so results could easily depend on your website’s theme and other variables and parameters. However, I still thought that this still would be helpful information to share extra food for thought if you will.However, having lots of traffic is one thing, but the quality of traffic is another valuable asset. Even though digg is an extremely popular social media sharing site, it traffic converts next to zip. That doesn’t neglect the benefits that the site can have because it can help your site for search engine purposes. But, for immediate traffic through the digg network, the traffic is trash. What is even more interesting is that there are other social media sharing sites out there that get so much less traffic then digg–I’m taking about a couple of decimal points lesser, but there traffic is so much of a higher quality which means it converts well.
So, even though traffic matters, what matters most for webmasters when it comes to monetary gains is if the network visitors are performing some type of action of a webmaster’s websites whether it is clicking on a contextual advertising ad, entering their name and email, or clicking on the buy right now button. So again, traffic helps, but traffic that performs specific accurate actions on your site is what will put bread on the table.Next, other important factors for judging the quality of a website is the page rank. Yes, I know some seo professionals will probably fall out of their chairs if they heard this but let me tell you why. According to Google, page rank is its system that it uses to judge the quality of a site it’s kind of like its quality score for sites. They rank sites on a scale from 0 to 10.
There are only a handful of sites in the world that has a page rank of 10, like Google itself, yahoo!, adobe, and some other highly regarded sites. One of the keys to increasing page rank is collecting lots of links from other quality sites. Well, other quality sites will usually have lots of traffic flowing through them. Visitors comes to a site by way of links, so a site with more links pointing to it will usually mean a site that is generating more traffic which in return would probably mean a successful site. So, that’s why page rank comes in handy.
Also, I can personally vouch that getting links from sites with a high PR does matter. I once got a link from a site with a pr of 9 and my rankings shoot up like a speeding bullet in minutes, so this experience has helped me learn more ways to gather links to my sites. So, sites with a higher page rank could equal that it gets more traffic.
Remember, could not always, page rank can be inflated as well with some black hat redirects but this is not very common dealing with the bigger sites, usually with sites that are trying to sell links and inflate its value. For More info please visit categories of SEO Tips