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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can seem a daunting topic when you are new to the internet. A professional SEO can be expensive but some of the most effective fundamentals can be done for free by yourself.I’m not saying you will become a website seo expert overnight as SEO is a broad topic, but you can effectively optimise your site and increase relevant traffic significantly by following these tips.Put simply SEO is the process of making your pages more focused, so the search engines are clearer what your page is about. There is nothing sinister about this technique, in fact it is fully approved by search engines as long as you don’t take it too far by trying to spam them with ‘black hat’ techniques or irrelevant content.BacklinksThe internet is built on links and search engines love them. As a general rule the more links you have to your site the better, but it’s important that they relate to your website topic.If you have site about internet marketing, links from sites about seo, making money online, and ppc are great so are sites about business, web design and

A newly developed site trying to achieve good visibility in search engines could well mean a lot of expenditure for the owner but in this article we are going to discuss some SEO solutions, which if implemented will help you in proper SEO optimization of your site.We are going to look into important SEO techniques for Joomla sites which will work as SEO checklist for web developers and designers while developing a website.Joomla is a very good CMS system for websites and you can make modifications in it for further search engine optimization of the site. Some of the modifications that are possible are: Improve output of Joomla Core through implementation of table less html in it. Modify content headings & making them SEO optimized such as H1, H2, H3. Creating file within template folder which override html output from Joomla Core. Override/modify title for web pages. Install/Add sitemap component. Implementing Table-less HTML & Modifying Heading TagsJoomla has Bees template folder within which the “html” folder exists. In this folder all core override files are present. Using these files web developers can modify html usage in the

With over 60 Internet regulations, the Chinese government has successfully built a virtual Great Wall that even Google got tired of climbing over. On March 22, 2010, Google officially redirected all traffic from its Chinese mainland site to its uncensored Hong Kong site. Eight days later, all hits for Google and its other international sites ended in a DNS error for mainland Chinese netizens. Some fear the ban may be permanent.But where Google left off, baidu.com, a Chinese Internet search engine and Google’s closest rival in China, has emerged to fill the gap. Well, if the shoe fits. And what a snug fit it is.Baidu, owing to its domestic roots, has emerged as the leading search engine service provider in mainland China. Knowing one’s users in and out, their environment and culture has proved to be the home court advantage of the 10 year-old search engine. Baidu actively censors its content in conjunction with the government’s policies. Its host of local offerings makes the World Wide Web more accessible to its users. With over 140 million sites indexed and growing, Baidu has carved its niche in Chinese

Last month I wrote about a handful of social media successes. That post prompted some conversations around the water cooler, and a few people asked for something similar for search engine optimization. SEO is one of my favorite topics, so who am I to say no to this request? I’ve scoured the web, and here’s what I’ve come up with.Mingle2 – In 2007 Matthew Inman (the former CTO of SEOmoz), designed and built the dating site Mingle2. Because of his previous experience with search engine optimization he knew the importance of inbound links, and he had the skills to boost his fledgling site through the likes of Google and Yahoo!. Within four months he generated nearly a quarter of a million links to the site and ranked #1 on Google for the phrases “online dating” and “free online dating.” This success earned him mentions on popular sites such as Digg and MSNBC.com, and generated nearly 2 million pageviews per month. Inman eventually sold the website to, and now works for JustSayHi. However cool Mingle2 is, it would have never succeeded this quickly (and in such a competitive