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<title><![CDATA[SEO Tips]]></title>
<link>http://rvanderhurst6649.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/seo-tips/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Correct optimization tips can turn out to be seriously useful in getting your internet site listed i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Correct optimization tips can turn out to be seriously useful in getting your internet site listed in top ten of the search site result page.  And now, as with Bing purchasing the rights to Yahoo&#8217;s Search Promoting operation things may change extremely soon.  <br /> 1.  One of the most serious SEO tips is to continuously add fresh content.  There are potentially billions of sites out there on net and search engines need to display most applicable and updated sites.  So they always crawl to internet sites and look for fresh content.  If your website has been found with the fresh new content, your website will be rather more likely be into good books of google.  <br /> 2.  Developing and posting articles not only help you in getting some good links from convincing sites but also help you getting free advertising for your products.  <br /> two.  Submit your internet site in directories &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t submitted it yet, do it as early as now.  <br /> 3.Search engines still think about your website good, if it is submitted in right classes in all major directories.  It also helps you in getting some good links for your internet site.  <br /> 4.  Develop a topical blog / niche topic -make sure that this blog contains some basically excellent quality content.  Quality does matter.  <br /> five.  If you don&#8217;t maintain a business topical blog or a blog on a particular niche, then this is going to be on top of your search engine optimization list.  A blog focused on a particular topic not only drives traffic to your internet site but also supplement your search engine optimization efforts.  It&#8217;s essential that you implement above listed SEO tips constantly for long time to doggedly enhance your position in search engines.  </p>
<p>About <a href="http://richardvanderhurst.in">Richard Vanderhurst</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.me">Richard Vanderhurst</a> teaches his students about a time line that shows them how the Internet evolved throughout the years and the way forward for the web.  </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation Management by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvan226.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/corporate-reputation-management-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Due to fresh corporate events, lots of the top companies saw major shifts in their corporate reputat]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Due to fresh corporate events, lots of the top companies saw major shifts in their corporate reputation ratings, claims new results from a yearly study conducted.  The study reveals sharp declines in company reps of previous leaders of the index, while reputations for prior laggards rose significantly.  The rise and fall of company reputation ratings is affecting the ability of a company to achieve its goals and to control threats to its greatest asset&#8211;its price in the marketplace.  </p>
<p> According to the latest Reputation Index Survey, the final reputation index for the set of 30 companies has stayed at a consistently high level for the previous 3 years.  However , four companies that formerly had very powerful reputes experienced heavy declines.  Top corporations lost 20 points.  Many of these drops are associated with company-specific developments, including senior executive performance, market changes and being dropped, and the recall of preferred arthritis drug while other massive corporations were impacted by sector issues.  <br /> by contrast, some companies with weaker reputations made major strides in improving their reputation.  Leading in positive change in their reputes were Altria, SBC and JP.  Altria&#8217;s improvement can be attributed to the current reduction in public feedback of tobacco-related corporations, while both SBC and JP profited from increased advertising activities and media coverage surrounding their respective mergers.  Overall, the companies that saw the most important swings in company reputation are from a diverse range of industries, meaning that individual company management has command over how their companies are understood by financiers.  </p>
<p>&#8216;Reputation matters.  Those firms influenced by bad news related to products, executive behaviour, or sector issues, lost reputational equity notwithstanding their blue chip status,&#8217; says a general boss of a gigantic Management Center in America. &#8216;Good corporate reputation acts as a buffer, shielding a company in the midst of detrimental reports or negative industry developments.  People tend to give the benefit of the doubt to a well-perceived company which has built up reputational equity over the years.&#8217; </p>
<p> The impact of corporate reputation on share price is mixed.  </p>
<p>Generally, the fall in company reputation has a much less obvious impact on stock price in a stable or rising market, as it is factored into a company&#8217;s price.  Lowering the risk of bad impact on stock costs in puny markets and on negative reports is the reason bosses consider reputation management to be so significant.  </p>
<p> The main factors when individual financiers evaluate corporate reputation are : <br /> &#8211;Fair and ethical business practices <br /> &#8211;Trustworthiness <br /> &#8211;Quality goods and services <br />&#8216;In today&#8217;s business climate, companies never know when regime officers or other shareholders will accuse the company of improper or illegal activity,&#8217; announces TNS senior vice president. &#8216;With directors held increasingly responsible for both company performance and behaviour, executives will have to target reputation management with the same discipline they manage other facets of their business.&#8217; <br /> About the TNS Overall corporate Reputation Index Survey <br /> The TNS survey measured changes in corporate reputation of the Dow 30 corporations with individual speculators annually between 2003 and 2004.  The releasing of this info was timed to make it historical in nature, not always reflecting the position of the corporations today.  The TNS company Reputation Indices reported here are based mostly on thousands of individual backers who rated the companies constituting the DJIA index on factors that make a contribution to company opinion, reputation, and equity.  The ratings were collected in the last months of 2003 and ber 2004 [*COMMA] respectively [*T].  </p>
<p> About the TNS Overall company Reputation Index Survey <br /> The TNS survey measured changes in company reputation of the Dow thirty companies with individual stockholders annually between 2003 and 2004.  The release of this information was timed to make it historical in nature, not necessarily reflecting the position of the corporations today.  The TNS corporate Reputation Indices reported here are based primarily on thousands of individual backers who rated the companies constituting the DJIA index on factors that contribute to company opinion, reputation, and equity.  The ratings were picked up in the last months of 2003 and ber 2004 [**].  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.naymz.com/richard_vanderhurst_2302887">Richard Vanderhurst</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.naymz.com/richard_vanderhurst_2302887">Richard Vanderhurst</a> teaches SEO engineers the best practices in Corporation Reputation Management.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation Management by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvan985.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/corporate-reputation-management-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Due to fresh corporate events, plenty of the top corporations saw major shifts in their corporate re]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Due to fresh corporate events, plenty of the top corporations saw major shifts in their corporate reputation ratings, announces new results from a yearly study conducted.  The study discovers pointy declines in company reputes of prior leaders of the index, while reputations for prior laggards rose dramatically.  The rise and fall of company reputation ratings is affecting the capability of a company to achieve its goals and to manage threats to its best asset&#8211;its worth in the marketplace.  </p>
<p>  four companies that formerly had terribly powerful reputes experienced significant declines.  Top companies lost 20 points.  The majority of these drops are associated with company-specific developments, including senior executive performance, market changes and being dropped, and the recall of preferred arthritis drug while other large firms were impacted by sector issues.  <br /> by contrast, some companies with weaker reputations made major strides in improving their reputation.  Altria&#8217;s improvement can be accredited to the current reduction in public criticism of tobacco-related corporations, while both SBC and JP profited from increased advertising activities and media coverage surrounding their respective mergers.  Overall, the companies that saw the most important swings in corporate reputation are from a various range of industries, meaning that individual company management has command over how their corporations are perceived by investors.  </p>
<p>&#8216;Good company reputation acts as a buffer, shielding a company in the midst of detrimental news or negative industry developments.  Folks have a tendency to give the benefit of the doubt to a well-perceived company which has built up reputational equity over the years.&#8217; </p>
<p> The impact of corporate reputation on share price is mixed.  </p>
<p>In general, the fall in corporate reputation has a much less obvious impact on stock price in a stable or rising market, as it is factored into a company&#8217;s price. </p>
<p> &#8211;Trustworthiness <br /> &#8211;Quality goods and services <br />&#8216;In today&#8217;s business climate, firms never know when regime officers or other stakeholders will accuse the company of unacceptable or illegal activity,&#8217; says TNS senior VP. &#8216;With directors held increasingly responsible for both company performance and behavior, executives will have to concentrate on reputation management with the same discipline they manage other sides of their business.&#8217; <br /> About the TNS Overall corporate Reputation Index Survey <br /> The TNS survey measured changes in company reputation of the Dow 30 companies with individual stockholders annually between 2003 and 2004.  The releasing of this information was timed to make it historical in nature, not always reflecting the position of the companies today.  </p>
<p> The TNS survey measured changes in corporate reputation of the DJX 30 corporations with individual investors yearly between 2003 and 2004.  The TNS corporate Reputation Indices reported here are based on thousands of individual backers who rated the companies constituting the DJIA index on factors that contribute to corporate opinion, reputation, and equity.  The ratings were picked up in the last months of 2003 and ber 2004 [*COMMA] respectively [*T].  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.naymz.com/richard_vanderhurst_2302887">Richard Vanderhurst</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.naymz.com/richard_vanderhurst_2302887">Richard Vanderhurst</a> teaches SEO engineers the best practices in Corporation Reputation Management.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's new algorithm affected blog sites around the world]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst1.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/googles-new-algorithm-affected-blog-sites-around-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s new algorithm recently affected blog and website page positions around the world. Aft]]></description>
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<p>Google&#8217;s new algorithm recently affected blog and website page positions around the world. After scouring the Internet the past few weeks, I was unable to find a single post that reported any change in Google’s latest algorithm this month. It appears I am the first to post any content on this subject.</p>
<p>On October 4, 2009 at approximately 9 p.m. my staff and I noticed a dramatic change take place with hundreds of web and blog sites in the Google search term that we currently monitor for our clients. We noticed that these web and blog sites, that did not belong to us, that previously appeared on pages five through thirty, suddenly moved up in rank to pages one through five.</p>
<p>On October 8, 2009 these sites that made these dramatic changes suddenly moved back to their original positions for 24 hours. On October 9, 2009 between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. these same exact sites once again, returned back to the original change of October 4, 2009.</p>
<p>Unless you are monitoring the positions of thousands of sites as we are, you may have thought it was simply a fluke to witness this dramatic shift in page position.</p>
<p>Make no mistake; this was our first assumption, until we noticed that it affected all of our client sites as a result of this sudden shift. We had recently taken snapshots of the first 5 page results for all of our clients, then immediately compared them with the dates of these changes.</p>
<p>If you’re reading this and you experienced a similar event with your own sites, please let me know and post your experience on this blog. I know this was not an isolated incident and it affected search engine optimization engineers around the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.com" target="_blank">Richard Vanderhurst</a> is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Google. He teaches some of the most advanced search optimization techniques to engineers around the globe through online training seminars held each month. Throughout the years, he has written hundreds of articles on reputation management and advanced search engine optimization along with Google’s latest algorithm changes.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[On-page and Off-page Optimization by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/on-page-and-off-page-optimization-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With all of the hot subjects in SEO these days, it&#8217;s straightforward for newbie’s to miss the ]]></description>
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<p>With all of the hot subjects in SEO these days, it&#8217;s straightforward for newbie’s to miss the fundamentals, or for those more experienced to forget about them. So long as there&#8217;s a need for SEO, the core elements will always be “importance and authority” and it is important for us to understand what these mean.</p>
<p>This is also called content optimization or &#8220;on-page optimization&#8221;.</p>
<p>There are a large amount of strategies for making quality content and for on-page optimization, except for now you simply need know that “importance” is predicated on content.</p>
<p>It is not possible to have a good SEO technique without firmly integrating both content creation / optimization and link building. Take a glance at water: it is a unique entity made of elements in perfect combination but if one of these elements is missing, it is not water. SEO works the same way: you want both Significance and Authority for an internet site to attain the very best rankings. Sadly, plenty of folk today are attempting to optimize sites and are forgetting one or the other. Inversely, a site can have superb content that is completely optimized, but if it only has a few inbound links, it probably will not rank well.</p>
<p>However if you&#8217;ve a site which has great topical content and you build links from other sites, it will have both it will rank. It would take time, but it will rank. I&#8217;d like to answer those questions here, but the answers could fill up many books. There are numerous other subtleties and factors that go into improving rankings, but it is crucial for each one of us, whether experienced or beginner, to realize significance and authority first.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Quality Links by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/building-quality-links-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your internet site and products online, t]]></description>
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<p>When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your internet site and products online, there is an ability that frequently gets overlooked. Relationship building gets plenty of lip service these days, but I occasionally wonder how many tiny companies truly, really know how much work goes into it.</p>
<p>Relations go past reading a single blog post or scanning a Facebook page, it implies investing time in somebody. With so much focus today on link baiting, the idea of making the effort to make an individual connection to secure a link has been tossed aside.</p>
<p>Of course, who wants to invest resources in folks when you can make up fake stories story and generate thousands of links in a weekend? The issue here is that expanding your business is about more than building a large amount of links. Sure, link baiting strategies can generate links and can end up in a lift in your search rankings, but you still need to balance the true cost of a link. Is the worth only in the potential search ranking impact, or is it in the possibility for new purchasers and high conversion rates? What about the aptitude for future links from the same sources down the road? It became clearer the links were not built primarily based on worth or credibility. Is a day coming when search engines begin to devalue all links made by link baiting? I suspect it&#8217;s much more likely the strategy will begin to wear on folk and lose it&#8217;s efficacy.</p>
<p>I also think it&#8217;s rather more likely that site owners will start to notice that all those links are not sending much in the way of engaged traffic and possible customers. Anyone that has spent time in a university or raising youngsters knows how simple it is to get attention. You&#8217;re making a scene, pitch a fit, dance on a table or do any amount of things engineered to shock or surprise.</p>
<p>When it comes to link bait, you may also get masses of links. Simply won attention is fleeting, it does not last for long. I have seen this occur with links and link baiting. It showed up in a wild fire and then disappeared just as fast.</p>
<p>When I look thru my logs, I could see how very little time this traffic spent on the site, most disappeared with shorter page view times than it might have taken to read even a part of the content.</p>
<p>Just about none of this traffic ended in a conversion and there wasn&#8217;t any residual linking effect from the traffic. On the other hand, that same content only generated a few links from bloggers and internet sites in the same vertical.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Paid Links and SEO by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/paid-links-and-seo-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the speculation over paid links continues to wage lots of trusting entrepreneurs get caught in th]]></description>
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<p>As the speculation over paid links continues to wage lots of trusting entrepreneurs get caught in the crossfire. They frequently hear bits and bobs of info and then have to make calls based primarily on that info. Rarely is the average business owner as totally informed as the average SEO.</p>
<p>Even the average SEO is in the dark a lot of the time attempting to parse statements and alerts manufactured by the search engine members.</p>
<p>One of the areas of bewilderment that many have referring to paid links is knowing when a paid link is truly a paid link, and when is a paid link punished. I believe a fair debate can be a payment doesn&#8217;t always need to be financial. Any quid pro quo on a link can legitimately be considered a &#8220;paid&#8221; link. But don&#8217;t fret, Google and the other engines do not work that way.</p>
<p>The party line is that with directories you are paying for the site review. The inclusion into the index isn&#8217;t automatic based mostly on payment. Naturally, this ignores the question why paid reviews are regarded as paid links, or why other &#8220;paid reviews&#8221; do not get the same treatment. One can only presume that somehow directories have established themselves as a valid service business that isn&#8217;t simply subject to manipulation. Except for once, the search engines failed to throw the babies out with the bath water. These directories, like every other site, are put to the test by the search engines to ascertain their legitimacy. Almost all of the top quality directories withstood and still maintain their worth while lots of the junk directories were devalued and prevented from passing link juice. Naturally, you may be careful about which list you submit to.</p>
<p>Simply because a list says that you are paying for a review does not make it so. And because an index doesn&#8217;t charge for inclusion doesn&#8217;t mechanically make it meaningless. Each catalog has to stand on its own merits. The most important thing to have a look for is whether submission and / or payment means automated inclusion. If the catalog you are submitting to gives a manual review of each submission, then that gives you an indication to the list&#8217;s overall credibility.</p>
<p>But not all directories that say they review sites essentially do. You can generally tell by doing your own review of sites listed in the directory. If enough of included sites look like rubbish then there&#8217;s a good chance the catalog itself is junk and the search may already know it. Another place to find quality directories is in your neighborhood and precise niche. Plenty of times you can find good, quality free and paid directories that have awfully high worth, both to visitors and to search engines. One thing to keep in mind with any list is if it seems to be considered a junk list by the search engines, you will not be punished by being listed.</p>
<p> There actually is no penalty to sites listed in directories, even if those directories are thought to be junk. At worst, the index itself will not pass any link worth to your or any other sites. This is truly no different than if a nofollow tag was added to each link. If the you&#8217;re feeling you will get quality, centered traffic from any special index, then having small search engine price or nofollowed links will not matter a bit. If it is link value &#8216;re looking for then think about the links you will get from plenty of your website visitors alone, not simply from any single list listing.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Promoting Yourself through a Website by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/promoting-yourself-through-a-website-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s business environment, a domain is absolutely required. It provides an avenue for ev]]></description>
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<p>In today&#8217;s business environment, a domain is absolutely required. It provides an avenue for everyone to find you and learn more about you as they sit in the comfort of their houses or while waiting in line at the store.</p>
<p>Sadly too many business take the wrong approach to how they build and market their sites. Most corporations stop their web site development once the site is developed, and then move into selling mode.</p>
<p>We discuss web site promotion rather a lot, which we understand is the method of getting the site visibility on the search engines. But getting folk to the web site isn&#8217;t the end goal. The internet site is yet another something the business must have to do business, but it never completely succeeds in being a tool that works for them to generate business. With radio and TV you do not have to go out of your way to get folks to listen.</p>
<p>Internet sites must first be optimized to help improve traffic and visibility before they can be employed as a business generating tool. When it comes to correctly planning and executing the development and promotion of their site, well, it is a little more difficult. When building your website there actually is no one-size-fits-all pattern to follow. Your website should be built to satisfy your educational and sales wants, while being effective for your audience. While acknowledging that, there are express elements that nearly every site wants to be a good selling tool. The index page is the web &#8220;face&#8221; of your company. It won&#8217;t be the entry door for each visitor, but it is your front door and you must ensure that you have it right. To be effective, your index page must do many things:.</p>
<p>Create your brand: your default page sets the tone of the visitor&#8217;s expectancy. Everything from brand identity to confirmation that you can offer what they need must be established here. Display your services: Visitors need to be supplied a fast view of the products, services and info they can expect to find as they dig more deeply into the site. Convey trust: your default page can regularly be the 1st impression you give your visitors, so it has got to be able to build a factor of trust. Too many sites simply don&#8217;t provide enough&#8211;or the right&#8211;information on the current page. You must also include a physical address and doubtless even a map. This is also a handy place to display hours of operation.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Google SEO Algorithm Problems by Richard Vanderhurst ]]></title>
<link>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/google-seo-algorithm-problems-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, Google has introduced a sequence of algorithm and filter changes that have ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Over the last two years, Google has introduced a sequence of algorithm and filter changes that have lead directly to unpredictable search engine results, dropping the rankings of many clean web sites.  But with so many servers, there appear to be many alternative results rolling through the servers at any time in 1 / 4.  Claimed to be employing a 64-bit design, BigDaddy is an update of Google&#8217;s infrastructure as much as it is an update of its search algorithm.  </p>
<p>When Google does this, it flags the different copies as reused content, and punishes them.  These are basic issues that other main engines, as an example Yahoo and MSN, have no problem working with.  Google&#8217;s reputation as the planet&#8217;s&#8217;s best search engine is obstructed by its disability to handle basic indexing issues.  It&#8217;s thought that Google has implemented a time penalty for new links and sites before completely marking the index, primarily based on the theory that 100,000-page net sites can not be made overnite.  </p>
<p>Certain web sites, or links to them, are &#8220;sandboxed&#8221; for a while period before they&#8217;re given full rank in the index.  A drifting legend in the search engine world, the existence of the Sandbox has been debated, and is yet to be confirmed by Google.  Since web pages drive search engine positions, Black Hat SEOs started copying the content of entire sites under their own web site name, right away manufacturing plenty of pages.  </p>
<p>Due to this abuse, Google aggressively attacked reused content abusers with their algorithm updates, knocking out many bonafide web sites as security damage in the method.  For instance, when any one scrapes your internet site, Google will look at both renditions of the site, and in some cases it may identify the valid one to be the copy.  The only way to stop this is to find sites as they are scraped and then submit spam reports to Google.  Issues with copy content also arise because there are plenty of legitimized uses for them.  Reports feeds are the most evident example : a reports story is covered by many web sites as it&#8217;s the content that viewerss want to see.  <br />You could be advised that Google has 2 indexes : the main index, which is the one you see when you search ; and the Supplemental index, a cemetery where old, erroneous and out of favor pages are interred ( among others ).  No-one&#8217;s disputing the duty for a Supplemental index, it does indeed offer a meriting cause.  Which is precisely what&#8217;s been going down : active, fresh, and clean pages have been showing up in the Supplemental index.  The true nature of the difficulty&#8217;s confusing, nor has a standard causing leading to it been determined.  When you searched for a term, Google ordered all of the web pages that were deemed topical to your search by their Page Rank.  </p>
<p>About <a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.ws/">Richard Vanderhurst </a></p>
<p><a href="http://rick-vanderhurst-x-111.wetpaint.com/">Richard Vanderhurst</a> reviews the most recent PC hardware &#38; software and instructs SEO engineers on the island of Samoa, located between Australia and Hawaii, cutting edge formulas for site design and page rank systems to push businesses in the local communities, through online coaching classes held every month.  <br />.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Google SEO Method Problems by Richard Vanderhurst ]]></title>
<link>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/google-seo-method-problems-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ignaciohughes532</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/google-seo-method-problems-by-richard-vanderhurst/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, Google has introduced a sequence of algorithm and filter changes that have ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Over the last two years, Google has introduced a sequence of algorithm and filter changes that have lead directly to unpredictable search engine results, dropping the rankings of many clean Internet sites.  But with so many servers, there seem to be many different results rolling through the servers at any time in a quarter.  Apparently employing a 64-bit architecture, BigDaddy is an update of Google&#8217;s infrastructure as much as it is an update of its search algorithm.  </p>
<p>When Google does this, it flags the different copies as reused content, and punishes them.  These are basic issues that other main search engines, as an example Yahoo and MSN, have no problem working with.  Google&#8217;s reputation as the&#8217;s best search engine is obstructed by its disability to cope with basic indexing issues.  It&#8217;s thought that Google has implemented a time penalty for new links and sites before completely marking the index, primarily based on the theory that 100,000-page web sites can not be made overnite.  </p>
<p>Certain Internet sites, or links to them, are &#8220;sandboxed&#8221; for a period period before they are given full rank in the index.  A drifting legend in the search engine world, the existence of the Sandbox has been discussed, and is yet to be confirmed by Google.  Since web pages drive search engine positions, Black Hat SEOs began duplicating the content of full sites under their own web site name, right away manufacturing masses of pages.  </p>
<p>Due to this abuse, Google aggressively attacked reused content abusers with their algorithm updates, knocking out many bonafide web sites as security damage in the method.  As an example, when anybody scrapes your internet site, Google will look at both renditions of the site, and in a few cases it may identify the valid one to be the copy.  The sole way to stop this is to find sites as they are scraped and then submit spam reports to Google.  Issues with copy content also arise because there are plenty of legitimized uses for them.  Reports feeds are the most obvious example : a reports story is covered by many websites as it is the content that viewerss would like to see.  <br />You might be advised that Google has two indexes : the main index, which is the one you see when you search ; and the Supplemental index, a cemetery where old, erroneous and out of fashion pages are interred ( among others ).  Nobody&#8217;s disputing the obligation for a Supplemental index, it does indeed supply a deserving cause.  Which is precisely what&#8217;s been going down : active, fresh, and clean pages have been showing up in the Supplemental index.  The true nature of the issue&#8217;s confusing, nor has a usual causing leading to it been determined.  When you searched for a term, Google ordered all of the Internet pages that were deemed topical to your search by their Page Rank.  </p>
<p>About <a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.ws/">Richard Vanderhurst </a></p>
<p><a href="http://rick-vanderhurst-x-111.wetpaint.com/">Richard Vanderhurst</a> reviews the most recent computer hardware &#38; software and teaches SEO engineers on the island of Samoa, located between Australia and Hawaii, cutting edge formulas for site design and page rank systems to push businesses in the local communities, through online training classes held each month.  <br />.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst - Advanced SEO With Data Centers Worldwide]]></title>
<link>http://richvancom.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/richard-vanderhurst-advanced-seo-with-data-centers-worldwide/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://richvancom.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/richard-vanderhurst-advanced-seo-with-data-centers-worldwide/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the early 1990&#8217;s, Richard Vanderhurst created one of the first platforms that integrated th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In the early 1990&#8217;s, <a href="http://richardvanderhurst.com">Richard Vanderhurst</a> created one of the first platforms that integrated the travel and public relations industry&#8217;s with broadcast fax and Internet technology. As the Internet began to grow in 1995, he was one of the first to develop and market websites through a variety of Internet based malls.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[ Richard Vanderhurst debates Website Interactivity ]]></title>
<link>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/richard-vanderhurst-debates-website-interactivity/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ignaciohughes532</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/richard-vanderhurst-debates-website-interactivity/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At the dawn of the internet, a site did nothing less than share information with users. Reading was ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>At the dawn of the internet, a site did nothing less than share information with users. Reading was the only sort of interaction you might do with a site. But times shortly started to change. Net and SEO guru, Richard Vanderhurst explains that reading is still crucial to user-website interaction due to the requirement for product outlines, info databases and so on. But, there are much more interesting applications today than there ever was in the age of text.</p>
<p>These days, users expect some sort of interactive part from your website and may become bored if it is overstuffed with words and info. Try drawing them into the site and make them feel welcome by interacting with them. But except for the users, search engine crawlers are checking for interactions as well. This is mostly described as an action that a user does on your website that lets you more information about them. Goal conversions are customarily in the shape of an easy activity, like enrolling for a membership or joining a newsletter. These are designed to persuade your visitors into staying just a bit bit longer and sharing with you some of their information. </p>
<p>About <a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.ws/">Richard Vanderhurst</a></p>
<p><a href="http://richardvanderhurst.ws">Richard Vanderhurst</a> reviews the latest computer hardware &#38; software and indoctrinates SEO engineers on the island of Samoa, located between Australia and Hawaii, cutting edge formulas for web site design and page rank techniques to push companies in the local communities, thru online coaching classes held each month.<br />This can be in the form of a blog that they may comment on, possibly a game related to your site, the ability to download content for further use or a poll they can vote on. But aside from the users, search engine crawlers are checking for interactions as well. Interactivity is a criteria that is not nearly as important as some others, such as the content itself, but it could mean the difference between a first and second page rank on search results. </p>
<p>This is usually described as an action that a user does on your site that allows you to gather more information about them. Goal conversions are usually in the form of a simple activity, such as signing up for a membership or joining a newsletter. These are meant to persuade your visitors into staying just a little bit longer and sharing with you some of their information. Ultimately, the more interactive your site is, the more likely users are to participate and reach that goal conversion.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst reviews the Kingston SSDNow E Series SNE125-S2/64GB SATA II]]></title>
<link>http://richard643x.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/richard-vanderhurst-reviews-the-kingston-ssdnow-e-series-sne125-s264gb-sata-ii/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://richard643x.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/richard-vanderhurst-reviews-the-kingston-ssdnow-e-series-sne125-s264gb-sata-ii/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Kingston SSDNow E Series SNE125-S2/64GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid state disk. Kingston&#8217;s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The Kingston SSDNow E Series SNE125-S2/64GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid state disk.</p>
<p>Kingston&#8217;s new range of SSDNow solid state drives rounds out its suite of concern products. The SSDNow E Series uses Intel&#8217;s solid state drives, which are the best-performing drives on the market. Designed for the server environment, SSDNow E Series is the select class of Kingston&#8217;s SSD product line.</p>
<p>The SSDNow E Series creates bigger return on investment due to its galvanizing input and output operations per second (IOPS). Higher IOPS performance means you need significantly fewer SSDs compared to HDDs while saving energy in a server environment.</p>
<p>With no moving parts, Kingston&#8217;s SSDNow generates less heat, no noise, quicker boot times and faster boot times and faster application loads? All with lower power consumption than normal hard drives. SSD uses the standard hard disk drive interface but unlike an HDD, SSD is very rugged and can handle more extreme environments because it&#8217;s built with no moving parts.</p>
<p>Kingston&#8217;s SSDNow E Series drives are supplied with S.M.A.R.T ( Self-Monitoring, research and Reporting Technology ) to tell the user when a drive is getting ready to fail.</p>
<p>For added quietness, the drives are backed by 24/7 tech support, a three-year guaranty andlegendary Kingston® reliability.</p>
<p>Kingston SSDNow E Series SNE125-S2 / 64GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid state disk Kingston&#8217;s new selection of SSDNow solid state drives rounds out its collection of company products.</p>
<p>The SSDNow E Series uses Intel&#8217;s solid state drives, which are the best-performing drives on the market. Designed for the server environment, SSDNow E Series is the select class of Kingston&#8217;s SSD product. This solid state drive uses NAND Flash memory elements and is not just faster but also more loyal and more robust than mechanical hard drives.</p>
<p>About <a href="http://rickvanderhurst.com/">Richard Vanderhurst</a></p>
<p>For over 30 years, Richard Vanderhurst has been on the leading edge of selling and complicated technology.</p>
<p>In mid 1990&#8217;s, he integrated fax and Web technology into web based platforms. Today, <a href="http://rickvanderhurst.com">Richard Vanderhurst</a> teaches advanced Search Engine Optimization techniques through on-line classes. On this website, Richard Vanderhurst reviews the latest PC hardware technology available today.<br />This solid-state drive uses NAND Flash memory components and is not only faster but also more reliable and more durable than mechanical hard drives. Higher IOPS performance means you need significantly fewer SSDs compared to HDDs while saving energy in a server environment.<br />SSD uses a standard hard disk drive interface but unlike an HDD, SSD is very rugged and can handle more extreme environments because it&#8217;s built with no moving parts.</p>
<p>Kingston&#8217;s SSDNow E Series drives are equipped with S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to tell the user when a drive is about to fail.<br />For added peace of mind, the drives are backed by 24/7 tech support, a three-year warranty andlegendary Kingston® reliability.<br />Kingston SSDNow E Series SNE125-S2 / 64GB SATA II SLC Internal Solid state disk Kingston&#8217;s new selection of SSDNow solid state drives rounds out its collection of company products.<br />The SSDNow E Series uses Intel&#8217;s solid state drives, which are the best-performing drives on the market. Designed for the server environment, SSDNow E Series is the select class of Kingston&#8217;s SSD product. This solid state drive uses NAND Flash memory elements and isn&#8217;t just faster but also more trustworthy and tougher than mechanical hard drives.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[RICHARD VANDERHURST REVIEWSMININUM HOW TO ACCOMPLISH KEYWORD SUCCESS]]></title>
<link>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/richard-vanderhurst-reviewsmininum-how-to-accomplish-keyword-success/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ignaciohughes532</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rickvanderhurstx333.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/richard-vanderhurst-reviewsmininum-how-to-accomplish-keyword-success/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Keyword success, according to Richard Vanderhurst, does not only rely on choosing the best keywords ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Keyword success, according to Richard Vanderhurst, does not only rely on choosing the best keywords but employing them in keyword ads. These keyword or PPC advertisements must be rigorously worded in such a fashion that would attract folk to click the announcement that leads them directly to your web site.</p>
<p>Note: The content of your landing page in which the PPC announcement directs visitors should be as nicely-written as the advertisement.<br />Richard Vanderhurst tells his scholars to consistently do comparison testing when choosing the right keyphrases for ads. Working on the best keywords should be done regularly for your announcement to be successful. This lets you to have the maximum return on your advertising investment, because PPC advertising nowadays comes with a hefty price tag. It dear as dear as the other standard advertising strategies, but, as in any exchange you venture on, you should be able to maximize your return on investment.</p>
<p>Richard Vanderhurst endorses using the correct keyphrases in advertisements that may raise your click-though rates by as much as fifty percent. That&#8217;s why he urges each web site owner to do a thorough keyword research and come up with a last list ( or lists ) of keywords acceptable for the announcement. Richard Vanderhurst reminds his scholars to group together the keywords in the announcement text for it to be coherent to the pages of the web site.<br />In addition to that, you have to determine a call objective, which is what you want your keyword to obtain. call can come in the form of sales, a call to your office for more information or a newsletter sign-up, to name some.</p>
<p>Last, but not the least, you have to think about the benefits that your products and goods Such information is important to attracting folks to visit your site and should appear in your PPC advertisement.<br />Once you get everything above down, Richard Vanderhurst strongly recommends to write your PPC announcement a tone which will attract your target audience. This means taking into consideration your precise demographics. Remember that there&#8217;s a different approach when trying to reach out to teens, mothers, sports enthusiasts, seniors and so on. That is why your style of writing is extremely critical. If your product applies to more than one set, Richard Vanderhurst daunts writing a generic announcement. One size does not fit all in PPC advertising. It is best to write one announcement text for each group.</p>
<p>Bear in mind that PPC programs have different announcement text requirements. It is critical for you to learn them before taking part in a particular program. They also differ dependent on how the ads are arranged by certain search engines. For instance, secondary search engines like Marchex and Kanoodle rank the advertisements based on the bids that the PPC announcement owner places, while major search engines like Google uses an algorithm that combines the price for each click and how important the announcement is to the user.</p>
<p>A nicely-crafted and well-performing PPC announcement could provide advantage to you in one of 2 techniques : pay less on the ranking you wish to achieve, or rank higher than expected without shelling out additional money. Either way, it might be an investment that promises great returns.</p>
<p>About <a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.ws/">Richard Vanderhurst</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.org/">Richard Vanderhurst</a> reviews the latest computer hardware &#38; software and instructs SEO engineers on the island of Samoa, found between Australia and Hawaii, cutting edge formulas for website design and page rank methods to plug companies in the local communities, through on-line training classes held each month</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst Discusses Elements of Competitive Content]]></title>
<link>http://richard643x.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-elements-of-competitive-content/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>allentodd7184</dc:creator>
<guid>http://richard643x.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-elements-of-competitive-content/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Like any other promoting firms, the purchasers are the &#8220;end all and be all&#8221; of the busin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Like any other promoting firms, the purchasers are the &#8220;end all and be all&#8221; of the business. In the case of internet sites, your audience is your target customer. Each word written in your internet site should be attuned to what is going to be valuable to consumers and visitors. , the main goal is to choose topics that will tickle their interests. A good subject will serve no worth without excellent content. Whether you write your own or hire someone to pen for you, it&#8217;s critical to regularly update the content of the site in order to draw more attention and recall from consumers.  <br />Creating interactive features in the texts on your page makes a contribution to a more competitive level of content. You can do so by adding links to certain keywords in the text.  </p>
<p>Contextual relevance. Any content including adverts should be related to the context of your site. Otherwise, it will cause confusion to consumers.  <br />Originality of context. The website is your product. When promoting a brand, there should always be a unique selling point &#8211; what sets your site except for the rest? If the content of your website can be found somewhere else it defeats the usefulness of alluring folks to view your internet site. Spelling and Grammar. Poor spelling and grammar reflects a low level of professionalism. If revising isn&#8217;t your field of expertise, have your content checked by someone that is or hire that person to be your editor. Concision.  <br />Maximizing White Space. Unlike made public text, reading on-screen is a load more tough for the majority. Save futile efforts and use keywords only when it is most sensible to.  <br />Call to Action. Take this rule at face value. There is no other way to receive response from spectators, but through invitation. .</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst Reviews the Nvidia GeForce]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurstreviews363.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/richard-vanderhurst-reviews-the-nvidia-geforce/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://richardvanderhurstreviews363.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/richard-vanderhurst-reviews-the-nvidia-geforce/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The original release of next-gen games is a bit far off. But one of the main variations in the GeFor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The original release of next-gen games is a bit far off. But one of the main variations in the GeForce 8800 GTX&#8217;s design lies in how we consider its pipelines. In the past, we&#8217;ve related a 3D chip has X quantity of pixel pipelines and Y pipes for shader calculations. This suggests that if your card is processing a shader-intensive scene, it can tap from more of the pipeline pool to process that image, rather than being capped at twenty four or 48 pipes because some of the other pipes are put aside for geometry only. This capacity should give game designers much more pliability in how they design games, knowing that if they can balance the workload properly, they can pump plenty of processing power into a given calculation.</p>
<p><a href="http://richardvanderhurst.com/aboutus.aspx">Richard Vanderhurst</a> states that its transistor count sits at 681 million on a 90-nanometer producing process chip. But the trick is the power supply must have 2 PCI Express card power connectors to plug into the 2 sockets on the back of the card.</p>
<p>Therefore, we didn&#8217;t get to check it, but Nvidia did share the power supply specs with us. </p>
<p>According to <a href="http://richardvanderhurst.com/aboutus.aspx">Richard Vanderhurst</a> still, it&#8217;s clear that building a next-gen SLI rig will be no little undertaking, at least for the present. Heck, many midtowers Computer cases are too miniscule to accept a 1,000-watt power supply. With no DirectX 10 games available to check on now, we won&#8217;t talk to the GeForce 8800 GTX&#8217;s next-generation performance, except for the undeniable fact that it&#8217;s the only card on the market that claims DirectX 10 compatibility.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst suggested Guidelines on Adding Sites to Directories]]></title>
<link>http://rickvanderhurstcom.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/richard-vanderhurst-suggested-guidelines-on-adding-sites-to-directories/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rickvanderhurstcom.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/richard-vanderhurst-suggested-guidelines-on-adding-sites-to-directories/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search directories are most often intertwined with search engines. Although the two serve similar pu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Search directories are most often intertwined with search engines. Although the two serve similar purposes, such as providing related results upon a particular entry, they differ in terms of specificity and results. Search engines operate in a “robotic” process of configuration in where the computer recognizes keywords typed in the search, hence enlisting a wide variety of related links. On the other hand, links in directories are filed in a more systematized manner and are reviewed by actual people before being listed. Links are categorized according to a particular topic or several groups of topics it may belong to, creating limited but more specific results.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rickvanderhurst.com" target="_blank">Richard Vanderhurst</a></strong> emphasizes the advantage of directories that lie more on the quality of traffic volume rather than the quantity of traffic it receives, which is usually the case in search engines. Since directory listings are being monitored by editors, they provide more accurate and precise categorization.</p>
<p>Some directories require you to provide complete information prior to approval of enlistment request and some have registration fees that are usually pricy since it undergoes painstaking process of evaluation. As such, proper listing of the site is important upon submission to directories. The content of the site should have a significant relevance to the category of the directory where you wish to enlist. The content should also have relevance to the title and description of the site. Apart from that, domain names should also be similar to site titles. When submitting, include only the site’s main page. According to Richard Vanderhurst, it is important to keep directory listings regularly updated especially if certain revisions are made in the site. If the directory itself is outdated, it is advised to remove your listings to avoid poor reviews. Be mindful of broken links or links in your site that lead to unrelated pages as it will reflect poorly as well.</p>
<p>Richard Vanderhurst recommends the Open Directory Project (ODP), which is run by dmoz.org. It has a simple procedure when requesting for enlistment hence, less time-consuming. Steps on how to add your site in ODP are given below:</p>
<p>1.    Go to the web page of ODP- http://www.dmoz.org<br />
2.    Search for the related category or sub-category for your site then click Suggest URL located at the upper-right corner of the page which will direct you to the Submission Site.<br />
3.    Read instructions and carefully fill out the submission form.<br />
4.    Click the Submit button and you will be directed to a Thank-You page.<br />
5.    You will receive a notification from the editorial committee upon approval / decline of your request.</p>
<p>* If the content and topics in your site belong to various directories, find the time to organize them prior to submitting. Always remember to update the directories in case of changes in your site such as amendments in title description, grammatical errors, addition of new category as well as changes in site’s URL.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst Discusses Meta Search and Geo-Targeting]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-meta-search-and-geo-targeting/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 22:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-meta-search-and-geo-targeting/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apart from the commonly used search tools such as search engines and directories, another tool makes]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-62" title="Internet_News_Graphic" src="http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/internet_news_graphic.jpg" alt="Internet_News_Graphic" width="400" height="300" /></p>
<p>Apart from the commonly used search tools such as search engines and directories, another tool makes use of results from other search engines and compiles them altogether. This is known as the meta search engine. Many people prefer using this since it gathers wide range of results from various search engines and picks out only the best ones. This, in turn, constitutes to a faster search and offers more accurate results. Meta search engines are also good contributors to site traffic. One of the well- known meta search engines that you can use is DogPile.</p>
<p> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64" title="Internet_Browsing" src="http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/internet_browsing1.jpg" alt="Internet_Browsing" width="283" height="424" /></p>
<p>        Richard Vanderhurst lists three factors to consider when selecting the appropriate directory for your site:</p>
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<li><strong>Relevance. </strong>Never fail to take notice of the connection of a directory to your site as it is essential to establishing a value to it.<strong></strong></li>
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<li><strong>Quality.</strong> Be mindful of the sites that are enlisted in a particular directory. If they are outdated or filled with spam, it is best to bounce off to another.<strong></strong></li>
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<li><strong>Audience. </strong>Situate your site in a directory that is mostly viewed by your specific target audience. Misplacing them elsewhere will slim the chances of getting the response and attention you need. <strong></strong></li>
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<p><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-66" title="SEO" src="http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/search-engine-optimization1.jpg" alt="SEO" width="388" height="309" /></strong></p>
<p> In addition to proper positioning in search engines and directories, Richard Vanderhurst recommends appropriate geographical location as well. Geo-targeting is the technique that helps locate your website where it will be most accessible to your specific target market. Online purchasing is becoming a fad now days &#8211; be it searching a product on the Web and purchasing in the store or vice versa.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is essential for your SEO strategy to get your site listed in a local directory. Some search engines and directories may require you to include the physical location in your site while for others; enlistment in the right section of the directory is needed. <a href="http://richardvanderhurst.info/default.aspx" target="_blank">Richard Vanderhurst</a> also reminds his students that in order for your site to appear in local searches make sure that you have provided the extra information needed. Be it positioning, relevance, quality, audience or geography, it all boils down to proper location. Your SEO strategies will be futile without this important element.</p>
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<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-how-to-use-search-engines-to-your-benefit/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  Before you can successfully implement an SEO campaign, you must first recognize what you are ultim]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Before you can successfully implement an SEO campaign, you must first recognize what you are ultimately working with: the search engine. You know how it functions and how it crawls throughout your web pages, but how do you use it to your benefit? You must learn how to work hand-in-hand with these search engines in order to achieve a higher ranking.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>            </span>Richard Vanderhurst is an expert in search engine optimization and teaches that in essence, what you’re trying to do is algorithmically capitalize your website to a top rank position. You should have this in mind when considering the many aspects of your site, such as content, graphics, structures, titles and any other elements that you have formerly learned that affect your SEO work. Things like meta-tags, links, and keywords are also important. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">You must be thinking about how to make your site as open to search engines as possible. Pages must be easy to maneuver, content must be rich, relevant and refreshing, and links must always be live. In his lectures, Richard Vanderhurst suggests you use all the elements of your site to attract crawlers and in return, your site will be boosted in no time. The most vital factor that you should take away from this is that search engines aren’t looking at one aspect of your site, but rather hundreds. Make sure they are awed at every turn. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Furthermore, you’ll need to continue to entertain them throughout the life of your website. SEO is a procedure that’s never-ending. The internet and predominantly, search engines continuously change and so must your own site including the optimization strategies you use. Your efforts must shift with the “web tide”.<span>  </span>Richard Vanderhurst explains that staying on top of that peak search engine ranking can be a difficult task in itself, but it is vital to do so if you intend to get the most out of your site and your SEO work. <a href="http://richard-vanderhurst.org/">http://richard-vanderhurst.org/</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst discusses The History of the Internet]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurstmobi.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-the-history-of-the-internet/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>richardvanmobi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://richardvanderhurstmobi.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-the-history-of-the-internet/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When it all began, the internet consisted of a select number of mainframe computers working together]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:left;">When it all began, the internet consisted of a select number of mainframe computers working together on singular connections. As <a href="http://richardvanderhurst.mobi">Richard Vanderhurst</a> explains in his lectures, this meant it was rarely used for public access and more utilized for governmental and business purposes. Many people don’t know the true revolutionary processes and work it took to create such a thing, as inaccessible as it was at that stage. But Richard Vanderhurst is a scholar when it comes to the World Wide Web and first started using it himself in 1995.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">As the years passed, those mainframe computers evolved into desktop computers which used connections through telephone wires and thus, dial-up was born. But Richard Vanderhurst teaches his students that the internet is ever changing, and once these computers found their way into every home and office, they became faster, smaller and more efficient. The commercialization of these brilliant machines sky rocketed. Richard Vanderhurst explains that this is the cause for the transfer to wireless connections. The demand was growing and people were moving further apart, away from their homes and offices. Laptops exploded in popularity. This wireless connectivity was something of a miracle for web surfers around the world.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">But as Richard Vanderhurst states in his lectures, the growth of the internet does not end there. Still today it is growing and expanding to places our mind can hardly fathom. We see the use of internet wirelessly through our Blackberries and cell phones. Today, it is hard to find a place around the world where wireless internet is not accessible.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst discusses the importance of SEO site structure]]></title>
<link>http://richardvaninfo.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-the-importance-of-seo-site-structure/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://richardvaninfo.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-the-importance-of-seo-site-structure/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Developing the structure of your website is a very important step in its overall optimization. Searc]]></description>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black;">Developing the structure of your website is a very important step in its overall optimization. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#111111;" lang="EN">Search engines are one of the most important traffic drivers to sites, which is why (SEO) has become so essential.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#111111;" lang="EN"><a href="http://richardvanderhurst.info">Richard Vanderhurst</a> teaches the importance of creating a good structure, because the structure determines whether a search engine understands what your site is all about, how easily it will find and index content relevant to your site&#8217;s purpose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The structure will also dictate how the spiders read your site and what information they will gather. You must structure your website to appeal to both the visitor as well as the spiders.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It’s important to note that 80% of usability is down to website structure and navigation. If a user can&#8217;t find what they want in just a few clicks, you&#8217;ve lost them, they bounce and move on. Therefore it is very important to build an effective navigational structure.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Finally, c</span><span style="color:black;">ontent is becoming one of the most important factors on the internet, from search engine positioning to customer loyalty, it is what your website contains that determines its effectiveness.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst discusses the importance of unique SEO content]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-the-importance-of-unique-seo-content/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  Richard Vanderhurst teaches that content is king; it is the backbone and purpose of a website]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Richard Vanderhurst teaches that content is king; it is the <span style="color:black;">backbone and purpose of a website&#8217;s existence. The search engine spiders are constantly looking for unique and well written content. With good quality content you can strategically link throughout your site. It is important to have a professional writer create your content, whether you have an in-house or freelance writer.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Here’s why, in recent months Google has changed the way it evaluates on-page content. It is compared against other websites using the same keywords. Sadly, most SEO engineers aren’t aware of the level of sophistication built into these software enhancements developed by Google in 2008, frankly, they are nothing short of phenomenal. Richard Vanderhurst makes it a point and drives this home to his students in many of his classes. (</span><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.info/"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.richardvanderhurst.info</span></a><span style="font-size:small;">)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Your first step is to have thoroughly researched your keywords. The next step is to create solid, compelling content that will grab your visitor&#8217;s attention and make them interested in what you have to offer. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Find out what your audience is looking for, and then find a solution to their problem. The key is to find them answers to the questions that they don&#8217;t have the opportunity to ask. Don’t expect them to email you or browse FAQ pages. It is so important to give visitors the answers they&#8217;re looking for and keep this information continuously updated.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Remember, the longer you can keep them on your site, the greater the chance that you will build their trust, and then you can help them with a solution to their problem.<span style="color:black;"> (<a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.info/">http://www.richardvanderhurst.mobi</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:black;">)</span></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Vanderhurst discusses White Hat SEO]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/richard-vanderhurst-discusses-white-hat-seo/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a key process for any website holder. It can quickly improv]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44" title="Richard Vanderhurst" src="http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/searcheng2.jpg" alt="Richard Vanderhurst" width="225" height="113" /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a key process for any website holder. It can quickly improve your place in the search engine ranks. In his classes (</span><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.net/"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.richardvanderhurst.net/</span></a><span style="font-size:small;">), Richard Vanderhurst teaches the essential SEO algorithm and promotes what is called White Hat SEO. This is the positively used form of SEO in which improvements are made to your content using keywords.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Once the SEO process is put into effect, it then gives your site a higher chance of being the first site to pop up in a particular search. Richard Vanderhurst knows the importance of making your site colorful with keywords and “spiderable” by the search engine spiders and robots.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">The key to White Hat SEO is to do it responsibly without spamdexing, which always brings down your results rather than picking them up. This negative form of search engine optimization, or de-optimization rather, is called Black Hat SEO. It is much frowned upon and often the engineer performing the SEO is black listed (</span><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.com/"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.richardvanderhurst.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:small;">)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Some of the main points that Richard Vanderhurst makes in his classes are the tips and tricks to a well optimized site. Well structured, indexed pages with things such as headers and footers are a must. Description and keywords throughout your site are also important, whether it is in titles or inbound links. Richard Vanderhurst insists that his students use a wide range of keywords and phrases when performing SEO. Be sure and visit (</span><a href="http://www.richardvanderhurst.info/"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.richardvanderhurst.info/</span></a><span style="font-size:small;">) for more tips and tricks.</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tips for surviving the economic meltdown using Google by Richard Vanderhurst]]></title>
<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/tips-for-surviving-the-economic-meltdown-using-google-by-richard-vanderhurst/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As we enter 2009, it’s great to know that the world of Information Technology and the Internet aren’]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">As we enter 2009, it’s great to know that the world of Information Technology and the Internet aren’t going anywhere because of a recession. In fact, the Internet is going to play a much larger role in our lives as people around the world travel less, spend more time educating themselves and most of all, save money!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">Search Engine Optimization will be the most powerful weapon available to businesses looking to step ahead of the competition. Optimizing your website and utilizing the latest technology is guaranteed to give you that edge in today’s economic climate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Unfortunately, most businesses are clueless when it comes to shopping for the right company to handle this task. Now days it seems like anyone that is capable of designing thinks they can properly optimize a client’s website, perhaps they purchased a copy of Search Engine Optimization for Dummies at their local Barns &#38; Noble or called a friend for a few tips. The bottom line, webmasters <span>don’t take the SEO process as a serious and a complex exercise.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">Your typical web designer is more than happy to take your hard earned money and provide you with minimal if any results. I have seen too many cases where a web designer who didn’t know what they were doing actually caused the client to drop position by making simple coding mistakes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">If you have followed my blogs or any of my articles this year, you already know that Google has made quite a number of changes in it’s page rank <span> </span>algorithm for 2009. I can’t emphasize enough that only a seasoned SEO engineer that has continuously monitored these changes is capable of optimizing a website to be search engine friendly, especially for 2009.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">It’s no surprise Google is the largest search engine in the world and has a solid reputation for delivering quality results. If your SEO engineer is worth his or her salt, they will have the expertise to make the necessary corrections to your website that will return solid results, results that will increase your profits and exposure in spades.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">Did you know that Social Networking used correctly will be one of the most powerful tools for page rank and brand awareness in 2009? I will be discussing and teaching on this subject throughout 2009. Google is looking for quality, relevant content on your site. I cannot emphasize just how important this will be next year. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">If you aren’t satisfied with your current Google page rank and want a solid page one position, pay close attention to the quality of your content as Google bots are very carefully comparing your content with all the other websites related to your industry. If your content is not solid, you could find your site dropping 10 or positions next month.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#131313;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Richard Vanderhurst is recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on Search Engine Optimization. He teaches the most advanced techniques along with the best kept secrets behind Google&#8217;s current web search algorithm to senior techs worldwide.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Verdana;">For more information email <a href="mailto:billlandon37@yahoo.com">billlandon37@yahoo.com</a></span></p>
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<link>http://richardvanderhurst.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/richard-vanderhurst-reveal%e2%80%99s-google-for-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Introduction </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Richard Vanderhurst lectures and teaches advanced SEO techniques and has an in depth understanding of Google’s Page-Rank algorithm.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a </span><a title="Web site" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_site"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">web site</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> from </span><a title="Search engine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">search engines</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> via &#8220;natural&#8221; (&#8220;organic&#8221; or &#8220;algorithmic&#8221;) </span><a title="Search engine results page" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">search results</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;">, this is SEO.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">As an </span><a title="Internet marketing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_marketing"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">Internet marketing</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the </span><a title="Web crawler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">indexing activities</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;"> of search engines.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Let’s face it, SEO’s are really marketers and most of them are starting realize that now. In 2009 it’s all about “building buzz” to acquire clients while the days of creating lots of Subdomains are now over and proving to be a waste of time.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Rank doesn&#8217;t matter if your site earns or generates good leads and 2009 will be year of Traffic &#38; Sales &#38; not Rank.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">It’s important to remember that for every search result there are 10 or more choices for the searcher to click on, so your great ranking position does not guarantee traffic, in order to do that &#8211; you have to stand out from the other links on the search engine results page.</p>
<p>The page title is the most important element that can influence your search engine rankings.  </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">The text displayed in the Google search results the page title is known as the &#8220;snippet&#8221;. The text that is displayed is the meta description of your page, if it includes keywords.  If not, Google will find other text on your page that does. This means that you have the ability to directly change the snippet of your ranking by simply changing your meta description.</p>
<p><span style="color:black;">Great search rankings will not guarantee traffic or sales on your site &#8211; it simply places you in the right place at the right time.  So don&#8217;t forget that <a title="SEO" href="http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/blog/SEO.asp"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;">SEO</span></a> is marketing and not simply web development or programming.  Ensure that your page title and meta description are compelling and &#8220;action oriented&#8221; and you will gain far more from simply being there.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Google in 2009 and the things to watch for:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Video campaigns will be more effective than your PCP programs.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Google has introduced some new functionality to its </span><a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">Site Search</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> product, which allows customers to search within your own site. The feature that everyone is talking about is the ability to add pages on-demand to be indexed by site search, so customers have access to these new pages as soon as they&#8217;re ready.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Google Analytics finally gets a handle on flash, more specifically; the newly introduced Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe, designed to solve a few of the problems.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Black Hat SEO and </span><a title="Spamdexing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">Spamdexing</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> using </span><a title="Link farm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">link farms</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> and </span><a title="Keyword stuffing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_stuffing"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:small;">keyword stuffing</span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines will be detected much faster now and Google has employed new techniques for 2009 to remove these sites very quickly.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Google just released features for iPhone with updated maps that include the addition of Street View, Public Transit and Walking Directions.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Microsoft is close to signing a search deal with Verizon Wireless–making Live Search the default search engine. Under the proposal, Microsoft and Verizon would share ad revenue generated by cell-phone Web searches. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Verizon would also be guaranteed payments of about $550 million to $650 million over five years &#8211; about twice what rival Google offered. In addition, Verizon could agree to use Microsoft’s mobile operating system in more of its phones, generating additional payments. Verizon is still in talks with Google, will Google make a higher bid just to block Microsoft?</span></span><span style="color:black;"></span></p>
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