Avoid this blog title

Because your goal should be to different from other blogs that exists, you need to think past your initial instincts when it comes to naming your blog. Most people tend to come with similar names, and by avoiding those same traps, you start to set yourself apart from the mob.
The top ten names to avoid:

blog
news
weblog
world
life
thoughts
with
daily
from
journal

This does not mean that the use of these words will necessarily damage your brand, but rather that, if you find yourself back on the same keywords, you’re probably thinking fairly predictable. Break out, go crazy and creative with the name of your blog! Just like this blog :)

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Essential SEO Techniques

Search Engine Optimization is becoming a more and more complicated area especially with the recent updates and data refresh on the search engines index. However, the basic concept for good ranking does not change. The following illustrates five most important SEO techniques as summarized from the Google Webmaster Guidelines that all webmasters should follow.

It is stated clearly in the Google Webmaster Guidelines that they do not index urls with session ids. In addition, they will not index pages that require user authentication as the bots visit pages like a general user. Search engines also cannot guarantee that they will index all the dynamic url. Therefore, in order to facilitate the search engines in crawling all the pages, static url are always preferred.

The second technique is to create a site that holds unique and fresh content. Search engines like to index fresh content. A frequently updated site will find the bots returning to visit at a shorter interval. Adding unique content regularly will also help other users to find the site more easily as these pages will add on to the respective domain’s search index in the search engine database.

Third technique is equally important as it ensures that search engines can crawl every page in a site successfully. Having a text link navigation system is highly recommended for SEO purposes as it is almost guaranteed that the bots will visit all the pages via the text links. Avoid using JavaScript and Flash navigation system, as the bots will ignore them. Implement a Google Sitemap is also recommended, as this will help the search engines to find any pages that may be missed during the crawl.

After implementing a search engine friendly navigation system, the Webmaster should focus on the keywords allocation and place the targeted keywords in appropriate places. Of the entire HTML markup, the most important tags to take note are the title and the headers. It is advised to have a different title for every page and to adopt a proper hierarchy of headers so that search engines know what the content that the pages are focusing is.

The final step towards a good search engine ranking is to attract organic links. Organic links are natural links from content related pages. Google only takes into account of these natural links when ranking and indexing pages as stated in their guidelines. Although linking from the unrelated pages does not hurt its rankings, they will not help either.

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Tips For Learning SEO

First step: create a practice Web site. This can be a blog, personal home page, or a hobby site. If possible, start with a new site that has never been submitted to search engines or directories. There's some evidence that using a domain name that has your keywords in it can give you a slight boost in rankings, so keep that in mind. To start, you might want to try optimizing just the main page of your site and see how that goes. Alternatively, you could try different techniques on different pages and see which work best. If you choose a subject you know and love, things will be much easier.

Next step:

Choose the proper keyphrases. What you think will be the perfect keywords and phrases might not be what people search for.


Learn to create great meta description tags and meta keyword tags. These two tags are important, but not as important as most people think. It's a good idea to create a good meta description tag that uses your keyphrases and is a good description of your site. This is often the info that appears under your search engine listing. The meta keyword tag isn't quite as important. Contrary to popular belief, what you place in the keyword tag will have little bearing on what keyphrases your site is found under. Use this tag, but don't obsess over it.

Learn to create a killer title tag. This tag is critical because it's given a lot of weight by most search engines. You must put your keyphrases into this tag and not waste space with extraneous words. Don't use the title tag to display your company name or for the phrase "home page." Think of it more as a title/keyphrase tag and create it accordingly.

Learn about the extra goodies that can boost rankings. These include alt tags, header tags, link popularity and keywords in the domain and file names.

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Google Tips and Tricks

Here's the google tips and tricks that many internet users don't know about.

1. Calculator - Use the Google Search engine as a calculator by typing a math problem in the search. For example, typing: 100 + 200 would display results as 300.

2. Track packages - Enter a UPS, FedEx or USPS tracking number to get a direct link to track your packages.

3. Phone number lookup - Enter a full phone number with area code to display the name and address associated with that phone number.

4. Definitions - Pull up the definition of the word by typing define followed by the word you want the definition for. For example, typing: define bravura would display the definition of that word.

5. Track airline flight - Enter the airline and flight number to display the status of an airline flight and it's arrival time. For example, type: delta 123 to display this flight information if available.

6. Find weather - Type weather followed by a zip code or city and state to display current weather conditions and forecasts for upcoming days.

7. Local search - Visit Google Local enter the area you want to search and the keyword of the place you want to find. For example, typing: restaurant at the above link would display local restaurants.

8. Stocks - Quickly get to a stock quote price, chart, and related links by typing the stock symbol in Google. For example, typing: msft will display the stock information for Microsoft.

9. Find PDF results only - Add filetype: to your search to display results that only match a certain file type. For example, if you wanted to display PDF results only type: "ibm" filetype:pdf -- this is a great way to find online manuals.

10. Pages linked to you - See what other web pages are linking to your website or blog by typing link: followed by your URL. For example, typing link:http://itfreakszone.blogspot.com/ displays all pages linking to this blog.

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Find out who's linking to your blog

Do you wonder who's got links that bring people to your blog? Well, See who's linking to your blog or web page by searching for link: followed by your URL. This is just another simple internet tips, but can be usefull if to check your backlink.

For example, when searching for " link:http://itfreakszone.blogspot.com/ "in Google the results will display pages linking to the itfreakszone home page.

You can use this tips for google, altavista, infoseek. Try another search engine and tell me about the result.

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