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2009 saw a lot of exciting changes and additions to the world of online marketing and search engine optimization. Some important events that took place were the launch of BING, announcement of Google Caffeine, the merger of Yahoo and Microsoft search. 2010 will see real time web emerging which will become more popular than the traditional methods of optimization.
Following is the list of pointers to get your website on top, reach out to potential customers and ensure brand visibility in 2010.
1. Decrease Webpage Load Time. Google’s Matt Cutts recently hinted that the load time of a website may affect its ranking in the search engines. That is, the faster a website loads, the better its chances to rank well for its niche keywords. Website load time is touted as the next big step towards improved rankings. The pre-requisites to a good webpage load time are; reputable web host and fast internet connection.
2. Get Listed in Google Local Search. Getting listed in Google Local Search ensures brand visibility in front of visitors from the nearby places. It has been proven that the number of visitors to a website increase exponentially when listed in local search results. The reason being, a customer will always prefer to purchase a quality product which is easily available in his or her vicinity rather than order it from another unfamiliar city or state.
3. Get Involved in Social Media. Social Media is the flavor of the season and in 2010 organizations are going to actively engage in conversation and social networking and reach out to their potential customers. Social Media Marketing is a must for every organization as it helps create brand awareness and build relationships with consumers in the highly competitive market. Micro targeting and Personalization will be the keywords in 2010.
4. Optimize Your Website Mobile Users. With and ever increasing number of people tweeting and using Facebook from their mobile devices, a lot of organizations are now finally paying attention to how their websites appear on mobile phones. You can have your website appear on the mobile under the same URL or have a special domain for the same. The most common way is to have the domain name as mobile.websitename.com.
5. Apply Web Analytics to its full potential. There are hundreds of web analytics tools in the market which provide a mountain of data pertaining to the visitor’s usage. Some of the most well known web analytics tools are Omniture, Google Analytics and Yahoo! Web Analytics etc. Web Analytics tools can answer the “how” but not the “why”. That is, you can find out how many visitors checked the product catalogue webpage, but not the answer to, why the visitors didn’t place an order for the product. Organizations need to dissect the data from web analytics tools and successfully apply its learning’s to enhance their visitors experience and in turn increase sales revenues.
In 2010 companies must go beyond organic search engine optimization by integrating social media marketing and optimizing their websites for mobile users.
Google, one of the most used search engines is coming up with a new organization process that will make Google search engine faster for searchers as well as crawl the web faster therefore rankings to be updated faster. Many people are concerned about the changes and how it will affect their Search Engine Optimization. If you have a web site and are concerned about your ranking, speak with your SEO Consultant to review what changes are necessary to keep your ranking the same.
There are a couple of things that will change in Google. It’s important that you take interest in these changes as they will have an effect, though in some cases small, on your Search Engine Optimization. The primary change that will be noticed is the speed at which Google will be able to update the rankings due to web site changes. With this new change you will need to adjust your Search Engine Optimization as follows: higher web site speed, no broken links, neighborhoods, and the overall quality of your web site. It’s important that your SEO Consultant is aware of these changes and keeps your web site up to par.
In order to adjust your web sites Search Engine Optimization so the ranking doesn’t drop you must make sure that your web site doesn’t have any spam elements. In general your web site would have a low ranking if there are spam elements in it, however, with the new Google Caffeine it will be easier to spot spam. Make sure that there isn’t any invisible text or text close to the color of the background, keep it clean and simple. Have your SEO Consultant review the text and if there is any spam within your website.
Also, it’s very important that the web sites design and navigation are well organized. With good Search Engine Optimization, it’s good to have a clean and easy to read web site. It’s important that not only searchers are able to navigate through the web site smoothly, but also web spiders that will determine the ranking. A SEO Consultant will be able to review your navigation and make sure that all the pages work properly and it’s easy to go from one page to another and back smoothly.
Another important point to good Search Engine Optimization that will come with the change is that you must review are the social bookmarks in the web site. The more bookmark links you have to trusted and from trusted web sites the better. In order to understand bookmark links speak with your SEO Consultant, they will be able to explain the best way to optimize your web site with the appropriate social bookmark links.
Quality over quantity is the important thing to remember when it comes to using links to for better Search Engine Optimization. An SEO Consultant will assist you in finding the appropriate web sites that are perfect for input and output links. It’s important that the sites that you are linked to are not spam sites or frowned upon sites by Google, as that will drop your rating.
Lastly, Google will rank sites higher if they are updated regularly. Outdated web sites will be dropped in ranking. So, as your new Search Engine Optimization technique make sure that you put in constant updates in your web site, depending on the type of web site it is. If you use your web site as an online store speak to your SEO Consultant about setting up a shopping cart with a space for reviews of your web site, so its constantly updated by your customers. This way you will never fall behind on updates.
Overall, the change that will come with Google Caffeine will affect your web site primarily if you don’t use the appropriate methods. Make sure that you use the right Search Engine Optimization methods, and that your SEO Consultant is aware of the changes and updates your web site as necessary. As always content is very important, however, now the importance is also the organization and easy accessible pages. Make sure that the web site is clean and organized and that you are using appropriate links. Aside from just a more organized and updated web site Google Caffeine will not have any effects, except a faster upload time of your updates.
Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pages, including yours.
If that doesn’t sound ominous enough, according to Matt Cutts (Google Spokesperson) one database is already showing Google Caffeine, and the full blown version will be released after the holidays. The reasoning behind this, Google doesn’t want to upset webmasters and site owners during the lucrative holiday buying season. In the past, other major Google Updates have come around this time of the year, most notably the “Florida Update” which severely
affected many web sites and webmasters.
Recently, Google has been more aware and much more generous to webmasters by being more open and forthcoming in regards to how it indexes its pages. This time around, webmasters were even given access to a beta version of Caffeine which Google released last summer (’09) where webmasters could check to see how well their keywords and site would fare in this new search index. This beta site (www2.sandbox.google.com) has now been taken down by Google.
Like any professional search engine marketer who works online, I was constantly checking my sites and keywords in Google’s new search engine. I have drawn some conclusions from what I have observed, but please be aware it is often very foolish to draw conclusions and make predictions from your own small sampling of results. You can end up with egg on your face very quickly, especially when you consider Google is probably still making adjustments and refinements on Caffeine as it analyzes the results.
However, there are certain ranking factors that even Google is telling us about, mainly “Site Speed” or how fast your site loads will play a part in how it’s ranked. We have also heard a lot about “Broken Links” and if your page or site has them, then it will probably be ranked lower. Of course, linking out to “Bad Neighborhoods” will probably still not be a good practice if you want higher rankings within Google.
It should not come as a shock or a surprise, that “Over-All Page Quality” will play a greater role in how well your page ranks. Keep in mind, Google is like any other company putting out a product, if that product doesn’t have a high standard of quality, it reflects badly back on everyone concerned. Google’s SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) is the key to all their online revenue, they must do everything in their power to keep that product fast, relevant, current and above all, something of high quality.
Therefore, expect “OnPage Factors” to play a much greater role in Google Caffeine. Quality unique content, page design, good navigation, title, meta tags, description, keyword density, alt tags, page views, bounce rate, traffic numbers, time spent on page, and the number of social bookmarks may play an increased role in achieving high rankings. A perfectly optimized keyworded page, with the keyword in the title, description, meta tags, alt tags, on the page… will probably get you ranked higher in Caffeine, as well as most search engines on the web.
This may be pure speculation on my part, but one of the areas Caffeine will be addressing or incorporating is “Social BookMarking”, that is the number of social bookmarks a page receives will determine how high it is ranked. I also believe one of the major reasons these bookmarks will become much more important has to do with the whole nasty issue of link buying.
Now, the integrity of Google’s index is not in question, but any savvy marketer or webmaster knows any individual or company with deep pockets and huge resources can buy their way into the top spot. Despite Google’s attempt to stop it, link buying and keyword positioning, is a thriving industry on the web. Rightly or wrongly, money and unlimited resources will get you or your company to the top in organic search, regardless of which search engine you’re targeting.
All moral and ethnical issues aside, the small webmaster and/or online marketer is stuck right in the middle, with Google on one side and these major multinational competitors on the other. Looming on the horizon is Google Caffeine, a new sheriff in town!What new rules will this sheriff bring?
The major question here is this: has the importance of backlinking been downplayed in this new index in favor of the keyworded domain and onsite content and optimization? Has there been a major shift to listing more quality content rather than relying on the number of backlinks a site is receiving, even from important related themed sites? The major problem and question to Google is this: if links can be bought, how do you keep your organic results democratic and fair, which was the original intention of Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they started Google in 1998.One possible solution is social bookmarking.
Will we see an ever growing importance of social bookmarks and links in this new index. It is quite easy to buy 1000 links, but getting 1000 or 10,000 “re-tweets” is a little more difficult, similarly getting two or three thousand “diggs” may be a little harder to pull off. Same goes for Del.icio.us bookmarks, Facebook fans… well you get the picture. Will Google’s use of these new social sites make Caffeine faster, more relevant, more current and most importantly of all, can it bring some democracy back into their index?
Of course, nothing in Google’s new index will be that cut and dry, that black and white. Other ranking factors such as age of site, past history and reputation, traffic numbers, authority branding… will all play a role in whether your site gets listed on that all important first page. However, on page factors may play a greater role – title, meta tags, description, keyword density, alt tags, page views, bounce rate, time spent on page, and the number of social bookmarks may play an increased role in achieving high rankings. Website speed or how fast your site loads may also be a new ranking factor.
Underlying this whole issue is the fact which many experienced webmasters/marketers already know, Google’s SERPs is not a one-trick pony anymore. For very lucrative (monetized) keyword phrases, Google’s results are broken up into Five categories… Info listings, Video listings, News Listings, Shopping Listings and Corporate Listings. Forget Caffeine, this is probably the fairest move Google has made in the last few years to make its SERPs more democratic.
Another even more puzzling issue for me concerning Google Caffeine is how much emphasis or ranking power will it place on “Keyworded Domains”, domain names which have your keyword or keyword phrase in them. Will these domains be ranked higher? Webmasters and marketers for years have been telling us we should always pick domain names which have our major keywords in them. Just common sense really, someone searching for “brown widgets” will more likely than not find that item at a domain called brownwidgets(dot)com or brownwidget(dot)com. The major SEO reasoning, all your backlinks will inherently have your searched keyword in the URL, thus bringing it up in the rankings.
Against this whole backdrop, everyone has to realize the web itself is evolving, new sites like Twitter, FaceBook… have changed the whole cyber landscape. Likewise, the web user is also changing and becoming more web savvy in how they use the web. Will search engines, not only Google, take a back-seat role in how we find stuff on the web? As major sites are branded into the web user’s psyche, will these users go directly to these sites, by-passing the search engines altogether?
As the web evolves, keyworded domains will become more valuable and this value will be reflected in the quality of the site. If you’re making thousands or even millions from your keyworded domain, you can afford to invest in quality content and design. Cream rises to the top. Gradually, as these domains become more valuable, they will probably be snapped up by marketers and companies who know just how to exploit them. Thousands upon thousands of keyworded domains will probably be bought up by multi-billion dollar corporations who finally realize what the web has to offer. This new evolved web will probably be much more narrower in scope and very topic specific.In the “next generation” web the re-direct shall be king!
Will the role of the search engines, whether it be Google or Bing/Yahoo, become less and less important, as savvy web searchers go directly to a site by typing in the keyworded domain to find what they’re looking for on the web? Cutting out the middleman may just become a world wide passion as big multinational and fully funded corporations snap up all these valuable and lucrative keyworded domains, will we see these domains grow in importance and the search engines take more of a back-up role? Human nature dictates we always take the fastest route to our destination, the web will be no exception to this rule.
Have all the smart people at Google figured this out already, and designed the new Google Caffeine to reflect the growing importance of the keyworded domain? Of course, we can only speculate when it comes to just what Google is planning and doing with its next generation search engine, but will onsite factors and your domain name play a greater role in their organic SERPs?
Regardless of what the new sheriff actually does, when the dust finally settles on all these latest developments, the keyworded domain will probably be standing tall, watching the sun rise on a brand new day.
Google Engineer Matt Cutts explained on How Google Search works and make a better search in just a half second.
Matt said in order to get your websites or a blogs on the top your site must contain unique keywords on your pages so that Google will read that and put on the snippets. Google view your pages on how it will relevant to the search. Google also view the quality of that content if that is reputable or spammy. That is the reasone why SEO people do onpage optimization in there websites because Google bot likes the good structure of the website.
Remember that in doing SEO, you have two types of visitors that read your site, that is the human reader or the people and the bot or the search engine.
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Optimizing a site is not an easy thing to do. But if you could do it yourself, the better. However this is easier said than done. Having knowledge about the basics of SEO is important if you want to save money while at the same time get the kind of same results.
If you want optimize your site, here are five easy steps that you could do to make your endeavor a successful one:
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There are many Googlers wondering why Google is the best? How it can affect there daily lives?
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The Internet users prioritized this search engine. Google got 62.8 percent and remains the largest search engine and Yahoo got 16.2 search and Bing got 18.3 percent. Those are the big three search engine, AOL Search and Ask.com captured 4.0 percent and 1.9 percent search from internet users.
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