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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Keep your email address private

Would you place your home phone number in a place where millions of people can see it? Well, you maybe exposing your private email address to millions of people every time you send an email, every time you download a file from a FTP site, every time you subscribe to a mailing list or a web page notification, every time you submit forms, every time ... (and the list goes on) :)

So what's the downside? One day you might come home and your email box may have more junk mail than your regular mail box. While it's difficult to completely stop your private email address being exposed to strangers, you can certainly try.

One way to handle this problem is to get a secondary email box and use it to send mail to "public" places, while using your primary email address to communicate with your friends and family. If your secondary mailbox starts to receive too many junk mail, you can simply close it or change it's name.

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Blog monetizing starter tips

One important principle to observe when you are blogging for money the first time is to keep everything simple. There is nothing gained with haste, but waste.

2 Ways You Can Blog for Money:

1. Blog for Yourself. If you are fascinated how your neighborhood have realized their income goals just by setting camp at home and working long hours in front of their PCs, blogging as a business is the easiest way to venture into online commerce.
2. Blog for Others. Online businesses thrive through the written word. You can blog for businesses for a fee, as specified in a contract that can run for a minimum of three months. Search via google and send out your proposal. Many people have started making lots of money this way.

There are many ways you can monetize your blog. Most people recommend Google AdSense as the topmost choice. Ads by Adsense should run on your blog, same with Text Ads while you should enroll as an Affiliate with the Affiliate Marketing of your choice, before you can promote a product of the Affiliate Company and earn from it.

Either you blog for others or for your personal website, you can blog your way to riches if you apply the necessary strategies that could work well with your type of blog or website. To determine what works, it is best to apply one strategy at a time and observe how it affects your blogging efforts. If it does not seem to work, you may replace it with another.

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