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		<title>Vertical Search Engines</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/05/vertical-search-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Image Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8216;vertical search engine&#8217; was historically used to describe any one of the many search engines that focused on a particular industry or niche. In the recent past though, the major search engines have widened their search offerings, and can now be used to search for niche content. Some examples of these vertical searches [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The term &#8216;vertical search engine&#8217; was historically used to describe any one of the many search engines that focused on a particular industry or niche. In the recent past though, the major search engines have widened their search offerings, and can now be used to search for niche content. Some examples of these vertical searches provided by the big three (Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo!), are listed below.</p>
<p><strong>Bing:</strong><br />
Bing News, Bing Health, Bing Video, Bing Maps, Bing Products</p>
<p><strong>Yahoo!:</strong><br />
Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Audio</p>
<p><strong>Google:</strong><br />
Google Images, Google Blog Search, Google Maps, Google Video, Google Product Search, Google Book Search, Google News, Google US Government Search<br />
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Vertical searches are sometimes ignored by even major sites, so provide lots of opportunity for any website owner to get a leg up over the competition. The main search engines sometimes incorporate the results of these searches in their traditional SERPs (search engine results pages). These are often displayed at the top of the pages, meaning that high placement in these vertical searches can easily translate to higher overall traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Image Search</strong><br />
There is a surprising number of image searches performed on the major search engines every year. ComScore puts the figure of image searches at well over 1 billion per month, or some 8% of the overall searches on the net. Nielsen Online&#8217;s figures are more conservative, giving image searches 6% of the traffic, a still not insignificant figure. Clearly, taking time to properly populate the &#8216;alt&#8217; and &#8216;title&#8217; tags for images can yield a positive result.</p>
<p><strong>Video Search</strong><br />
With broadband becoming more ubiquitous, many people now view videos online. Although YouTube remains the top destination for online video, these search engines will index and show results for videos held on any websites. Again, making sure that your video&#8217;s tags and meta data are optimised for search engines is an effort well spent for any website owner who has video on their site.</p>
<p><strong>News Search</strong><br />
The biggest difference between traditional websites, and news sites, is that most of the content on news websites is very time sensitive. Football results from a month ago are far less interesting to a user than results from a game that has just ended. News searches are often as close to real time as is technically feasible. A lot of news searches are conducted, but to have your site included in these results pages, it should generate timely and topical news stories on a fairly consistent basis. If this applies to your specific website though, the opportunities are immense, since &#8216;news search&#8217; results are often included at the top of the standard SERPs.</p>
<p><strong>Local Search</strong><br />
Sometimes referred to as maps, or map search, this is an attempt to deliver locally specific information to search engine users. Examples include addresses of geographically local business. Businesses that serve a particular geographic area cannot ignore local search, particularly since more and more people are using their mobile phones to search for local businesses and service providers while on the go. This too, is one of the reason why local searches are now increasing being integrated into regular web search results.</p>
<p><strong>Blog Search</strong><br />
Although referred to as blog search by Google, this should more appropriately be called feed engine search. Sites that regularly publish new content, such as blogs, often have feeds that users can subscribe to. It is these feeds that Google indexes and returns in its &#8216;blog search&#8217; pages. Again, there is a lot of opportunity for websites that might not qualify for the &#8216;news search&#8217; to feature in the blog searches.</p>
<p>The number of vertical search products from just the major search engines cannot be fully covered in one article. Besides the sheer number of already existing verticals, the search engines are continually trialling and adding new ones. Given that many website owners are not seem to ignore them though, vertical searches provide opportunity for website owners to see significant returns on their SEO efforts in this area.</p>
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		<title>WebHostingHub is Renowned as Best WordPress Hosting</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/04/webhostinghub-is-renowned-as-best-wordpress-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since its introduction in the year 2003, WordPress has only increased its fame and popularity. Today millions of websites are built over WordPress and it continues to be the best tool when it is about hosting your own blog. WordPress was originally a platform for blogs only but it evolved and transformed into a CMS [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since its introduction in the year 2003, WordPress has only increased its fame and popularity. Today millions of websites are built over WordPress and it continues to be the best tool when it is about hosting your own blog. WordPress was originally a platform for blogs only but it evolved and transformed into a CMS or Content Management System; this can be easily made to behave and look according to your needs without having any kind of technical expertise. Once you decide on using WordPress, you have to be sure and choose the best WordPress hosting to make the most out of this platform. Not all hosting companies are the same so keep that in your mind.</p>
<p>Mostly hosting packages based on Linux will run WordPress but not every host will make it easy for you to set up and not all of them will provide sufficient support whenever problems occur therefore choosing the <a href="http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com/linux-web-hosting/best-wordpress-hosting/" target="_blank">best WordPress hosting</a> matters a lot. What you need to do is find a hosting provider that specifically markets its support for WordPress and carries a good reputation generally in hosting and especially in providing support. This will help you a lot in making the right choice.</p>
<p>Without thinking a lot I would personally suggest that you go for WebHostingHub. You will not face any problems in the technical department since the most updated software is put into use; for instance, web server and all. Also, you get a hold of the best security running on suPHP. You also get quick install which makes things a lot easier and installing WordPress becomes a piece of cake on a single click. Not only this, if you have a WordPress site already hosted somewhere else which includes WordPress.com as well; it can easily get transferred without any charges. If you wish to choose from shared web hosting packages, here is some basic information.</p>
<p>You can avail the facility of paying every month but this will cost you a little more so you can pay in advance for up to 36 months. Also, you should know that you are not bounded by any contract therefore cancellation at any point will not be a problem. You also get a money back guarantee. If you wish to cancel your hosting within one and half month; your money will get refunded. Uptime of 99.9 percent is guaranteed as well this means your website will always be accessible and will rarely ever be down. You can avail unlimited resources including email addresses, bandwidth, storage, etc. It depends on what hosting package you go for. cPanel is also given for being in control of everything.</p>
<p>There are plenty of reasons for choosing <a href="http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com/webhostinghub-coupon-reviews" target="_blank">WebHostingHub</a> as your WordPress hosting. There are extras for customers as well such as 100 dollars Google Adwords voucher which is only for US customers but was just an example. Technical support is available 24 hours a day and throughout the entire week including Sundays and other holidays. I think this is plenty to make up your mind.</p>
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		<title>Top Ranking Factors in SEO</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/04/top-ranking-factors-in-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ranking Factors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rewards for sites that make it to the top of the first page on SERPs (search engine results pages) are quite significant, and consequently, the competition for this is quite significant. Rightly so, the exact criteria used by the different search engines to rank their results is not public information. That said, many attempts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The rewards for sites that make it to the top of the first page on SERPs (search engine results pages) are quite significant, and consequently, the competition for this is quite significant. Rightly so, the exact criteria used by the different search engines to rank their results is not public information. That said, many attempts have been made to at least try and understand the main ranking factors. While different studies will come up with different factors, there is some consensus on a few key elements, and these are discussed below.</p>
<p><strong>Title tags with relevant keywords.</strong><br />
Most consider the page title as the most relevant factor in determining a page&#8217;s relevance. The words in the title should give some indication of what the page&#8217;s content is about. This has proved to be an interesting challenge for newspapers migrating to the web, as they survived for decades with clever titles that made sense in print, but are totally meaningless in the new digital age. Additionally, words that appear at the start of the title seem to be more highly weighed than later words.<br />
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<strong>Authority of the site</strong><br />
There are a lot of different factors that affect the determined authority for a site. At its most basic, this is an attempt to measure both the quality and quantity of inbound links to an entire site, and not just those to a specific page.</p>
<p><strong>Internal link popularity</strong><br />
Given that search engines are ultimately machines, they rely on prompting from website owners, for a lot of their calculations. One area where this is the case, is in determining the most important pages on a specific website. Pages that are linked from the homepage, or by many other pages, are thus determined to be more important than pages that require five or six different clicks to find.</p>
<p><strong>Keyword use in site&#8217;s content text</strong><br />
This seems like a no brainer, but it is still amazing how many webmasters still try to stuff keywords into the titles of pages whose content makes no mention whatsoever of these keywords. You need a good balance of these to avoid being considered spammy and being penalized. Rather than repeating the same keywords ad nauseum throughout your pages, it helps to use synonyms and other related words and terms.</p>
<p><strong>Specific text used in inbound links</strong><br />
Not all links are created equal. The specific anchor text used by a one page to link to another provides a strong signal to the search engines on the intent of the original author. As you build inbound links to your pages, it is therefore quite important that the anchor text for these links be at least semantically relevant.</p>
<p><strong>Inbound links and their topical relevance</strong><br />
It is not enough anymore to just have the right anchor texts in your inbound links. These links increasingly need to be from pages that are topically relevant. While all inbound links are beneficial, those from pages whose content is semantically related to both the anchor text, and the target page&#8217;s content will be more highly weighted.</p>
<p><strong>Popularity in the topic&#8217;s community</strong><br />
The more links you have from members of a community that is topically related to your page&#8217;s content, the more authority your site will be determined to have.</p>
<p><strong>Authority of sites linking to the pages</strong><br />
Just as important as it is for a site to have its own authority, the authority of the sites linking to a page will affect its performance in the SERPs. The higher the authority of the sites linking to a page, the more valuable those links are, and the more authority that page will eventually acquire.</p>
<p>Whilst the list above is not exhaustive, it does cover the main areas that any SEO effort should focus on. That said, the field is constantly changing, and any website owner should still keep abreast of developments in the SEO community, as it is entirely likely that new factors will gain importance in determining the ranking of pages in SERPs.</p>
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		<title>How to Select a High Quality ASP.NET Hosting</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/04/how-to-select-a-high-quality-asp-net-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASP.NET Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since released in 2002, ASP.NET has become one of the most popular web development languages. But finding a good ASP.Net hosting is still a tough task for ASP.NET developers as it’s really very few web hosts could do it well. And in this article, we will discuss about how to find the best ASP.NET hosting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since released in 2002, ASP.NET has become one of the most popular web development languages. But finding a good ASP.Net hosting is still a tough task for ASP.NET developers as it’s really very few web hosts could do it well. And in this article, we will discuss about how to find the best <a href="http://www.webhostingclue.com/best-asp-net-hosting" target="_blank">ASP.NET hosting</a> provider.</p>
<h2>ASP.NET Hosting Requirement</h2>
<p>Besides some generic web hosting features, you should pay special attention to bellow items which are highly related to ASP.NET hosting:</p>
<ul>
<li>A good ASP.NET hosting solution should support the latest Microsoft .Net technologies and their most recent versions, such as Windows 2008 server, ASP.NET 3.5/4.0, IIS 7, Silverlight 4, MVC 3, Ajax 3.5, MS SQL 2008 and etc.</li>
<li>In terms of ASP.NET trust level, it should be no lower than Medium trust level, and ideally it could be at FULL trust level.</li>
<li>Customer support teams have deep knowledge on ASP.NET. You definitely want your web hosts could answer any question related to ASP.NET hosting. We prefer to consider the hosting service from Microsoft partner first, if not, it would be great that the support engineers are certificated with one of Microsoft technologies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Where to Find a High Quality ASP.NET Hosting</h2>
<p>Finding a high quality web hosting is always a tough task. The key reason is that web hosting is a service sold online, people could not try it before buying. The main information they could refer to are reviews, and unfortunately there are full of spam reviews on the internet. Reading reviews from trusted place is critical when making right GO decision. Here we will recommend WebHostingClue.com, a hosting review site operated by a group of professional reviewers. Its annual <a href="http://www.webhostingclue.com/" target="_blank">best web hosting</a> awards is one of the most authoritative one in the industry.</p>
<p>WebHostingClue.com ranks each asp.net hosting service providers based on product features, affordability, reliability, usability and customer support. Each year, they will recommend 3 web hosts for ASP.NET. And the awards winners in this year are Arvixe, DiscountASP.NET and Hostgator. All of them have demonstrated their strong capability on hosting ASP.NET in the industry. And the price is also very affordable. Besides this, you could also search for a <a href="http://www.younok.com/" target="_blank">coupon code</a> to save further after you have finalized the decision.</p>
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		<title>Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Hosting</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/04/beginners-guide-to-wordpress-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is preferred blog platform over all others for many reasons, including the availability of tens of thousands of themes to build a beautiful and unique blog. And a good WordPress hosting will help make blogging online a pleased journey. Hosting Requirements for WordPress According to the technical document in WordPress official site, to install [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is preferred blog platform over all others for many reasons, including the availability of tens of thousands of themes to build a beautiful and unique blog. And a good <a href="http://www.webhostingclue.com/best-wordpress-hosting" target="_blank">WordPress hosting</a> will help make blogging online a pleased journey.</p>
<h2>Hosting Requirements for WordPress</h2>
<p>According to the technical document in WordPress official site, to install WordPress only requires “PHP version 5.2.4 or greater” and “MySQL version 5.0 or greater”. It looks very easy to find a web hosting solution for WordPress as there are hundreds of thousands of web host are present out there could offer those features. But Just like flowers need the right environment to grow, WordPress works best when it’s in a rich hosting environment.</p>
<p>So, what are the advanced requirements for WordPress? Below are our lists:</p>
<ul>
<li>Linux is preferred web server for WordPress. It’s not just cheaper than Windows server, it’s also faster and more reliable when come to any application built on php&amp;MSQL.</li>
<li>Apache mod_rewrite should be installed by default to make the URL of the posts search engine friendly.</li>
<li>PHP runs as suPHP for increased WordPress security.</li>
<li>PHP memory_limit should be at least 32MB. Ideally, it could be 64MB, which would be good enough to handle large photos in WordPress.</li>
<li>WordPress friendly customer support team, who could help on WordPress related hosting issues.</li>
<li>1-Click WordPress Installation</li>
</ul>
<h2>Where to Find WordPress Hosting</h2>
<p>Although you could search for a good WordPress hosting from HostUCan.com based on your traffic, it’s more for an experience WordPress blogger. As a beginner, we would recommend you to visit WebHostingClue.com, a site operated by many professional web hosting experts, where you will find a list of great web hosting solutions they recommend for WordPress blogs.</p>
<p>Every year, the editors in WebHostingcue.com will conduct <a href="http://www.webhostingclue.com/" target="_blank">web hosting review</a> to analyze WordPress compatibility of each web host and come out a list of best wordpress hosting which are good for both individual freelancer and businesses. For example, in this year, they recommend Bluehost for individual blog, and InmotionHosting for Business blog, which have been proven to be a very good choice in the industry. Finding a WordPress hosting from WebHostingclue.com is hard to be wrong.</p>
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		<title>Choosing the Best Web Hosting is Very Significant</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/04/choosing-the-best-web-hosting-is-very-significant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sooner or later everyone will own a website and for this web hosting is something necessary to have. Although the success of your website lies on several other factors but web hosting plays a very important role as well. How would your website be successful when it loads up slow or goes through downtime a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sooner or later everyone will own a website and for this web hosting is something necessary to have. Although the success of your website lies on several other factors but web hosting plays a very important role as well. How would your website be successful when it loads up slow or goes through downtime a lot? I am just giving a couple of examples of how web hosting can really affect your online success. You can only get the <a title="Best Web Hosting" href="http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com" target="_blank">best web hosting</a> plan from the right web hosting company that has a good reputation. Although there are tons of choices and it can be a little overwhelming to decide but you can still choose the right one.</p>
<p>It is important for you to pick the right plan so your website is always available on the web for visitors. Also, soon it might start bringing in profits and you might have to enhance your website therefore it will need more space to grow as well. Not only it is hard to find the right web hosting plan but you have to keep all these factors in mind too when searching. Since web hosting packages differ from each other and various companies offer different web hosting plans; you might face confusion.</p>
<p>You do not need to focus on what all hosting plans are offering; just see what all you need out of web hosting. You need to focus on bandwidth and disk space the most. Go for a web hosting plan that offers you large amount of disk space so you can keep on extending your website and uploading heavy content on it without the worry of exceeding your limit. Bandwidth limit should also be considered in the same manner and your website should never be inaccessible for the visitors due to the limitations. The best web hosting companies would offer packages that will perfectly cater to your needs and requirements.</p>
<p>Another thing that might confuse you is all those so many web hosting companies offering packages. Now which company would you go for when search for the right web hosting package? Well, simply start your search and see what all web hosting companies attract you. It all depends on your satisfaction level. You will finally choose from the <a title="Top 5 Web hosting" href="http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com" target="_blank">top 5 web hosting</a> companies offering services that suit your requirements. Do not search things like cheap hosting services or companies; only search out the best and the most reputable companies out there. Once you have the top 5 web hosting companies picked out; now research on them. See which one out of them is offering the hosting plans matching your requirements in every way possible for the cheapest price. Do not forget to read the reviews regarding all of the top companies to be a hundred percent sure about your pick.</p>
<p>Choosing web hosting is a very important and delicate step when you are starting off with your online career. It has to be made sure that you do not choose wrong web hosting plan otherwise it might be a big headache and costly for you to switch or make adjustments later on.</p>
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		<title>Updated SEO Tips for Your 2012 Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.getrank.org/2012/03/updated-seo-tips-for-your-2012-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>getRank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO fundamentals have changed drastically over the last year or so. Using “old school” techniques on your blog will be ineffective, and in some cases counterproductive. Here are several of the key changes. Keywords Old: Use the same keywords over and over New: Keyword variation is important In the old days, we would use the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SEO fundamentals have changed drastically over the last year or so. Using “old school” techniques on your blog will be ineffective, and in some cases counterproductive. Here are several of the key changes.</p>
<h2>Keywords</h2>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> Use the same keywords over and over<br />
<strong>New:</strong> Keyword variation is important</p>
<p>In the old days, we would use the same keyword phrase as anchor text for inbound and internal links over and over. Google is smarter now and looks for variation in root keyword phrases. Using identical anchor text will lead Google to devalue the link. Keep this in mind for new links, and consider tweaking anchor text on existing ones as part of a link reclamation project.<span id="more-229"></span></p>
<h2>H1 Tags</h2>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> H1 tags matter<br />
<strong>New:</strong> H1 tags matter less</p>
<p>Google doesn’t give as much weight to H1 tags as much as it used to. On the other hand, Title tags are still of paramount importance. In the past, bloggers would “double dip” on keywords by skillfully varying the composition of H1 and Title tags, but today that’s probably not the best use of a blogger’s time. H1 tags should still be optimized, but my recommendation for blog posts, for both SEO and social marketing optimization, is to make Title and H1 tags identical.</p>
<h2>Reciprocal Links</h2>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> Reciprocal linking is good<br />
<strong>New:</strong> Reciprocal linking is bad</p>
<p>Link exchange programs used to be a blogger’s bread and butter for SEO. No more. Google is smart enough to detect these arrangements and now concludes that such links are weaker than unreciprocated ones. As reciprocal links have been devalued, the technique should not be emphasized.</p>
<h2>Content Location</h2>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> Onsite content is everything<br />
<strong>New:</strong> Offsite content is important</p>
<p>There was a time when bloggers blogged on their blogs, period. While onsite content obviously is still important, bloggers are going offsite to guest-post, in large part for the opportunity to build high quality links to their blogs. This is a powerful technique and one every blogger should consider.</p>
<h2>Google+</h2>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> No Google+ to worry about<br />
<strong>New:</strong> Worry about Google+</p>
<p>Google+ is an SEO game changer. To quickly point out just three areas that bloggers need to be aware of:</p>
<ol>
<li>Rel=Author links associate a page of content with the author’s Google+ profile. Authors with high authority on Google+ have the potential to rank well for content even if it lives on a lower authority domain.</li>
<li>Google+ content is indexed by Google and displayed prominently in SERPs. This has led some bloggers to produce lengthy, optimized, original content directly onto Google+.</li>
<li>Google’s continuing shift toward personalized search means it will display content from one’s Google+ community in SERPs. This favors bloggers with Google+ influence (however that is determined) and who are in a lot of Circles.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Old:</strong> SEO<br />
<strong>New:</strong> Social SEO</p>
<p>Google values social shares not only on Google+, but on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms as well. Whereas in the past SEO could be divorced from social media marketing, this is getting to be less and less the case. A few years ago, if a blogger had slick SEO-social integration, it was a competitive advantage. Today, in many niches, it’s a requirement.</p>

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		<title>Make Use of the Most Updated SEO Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unending number of internet marketers are mastering the techniques of search engine optimization or SEO today. These are the people who are the most successful ones in this line since they keep on practicing the most updated tips and tricks of SEO. If you think that you are losing it all after trying all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An unending number of internet marketers are mastering the techniques of search engine optimization or SEO today. These are the people who are the most successful ones in this line since they keep on practicing the most updated tips and tricks of SEO. If you think that you are losing it all after trying all that you knew; below are a few updated SEO practices that you should try. These are not hard to put in action and if you end up practicing them in the wrong manner; they would not really do any damage to your online business either.</p>
<p>The usage of keywords is very crucial therefore you need to know the right amount to use. There are certain keywords that the play the main role in getting articles up to the top rankings in the search engines. You need to scatter these keywords in the article, its headers, its title, and other such areas that will in return alarm the search engines to index it. However, you need to remember that search engines will just rank your articles, the real audience would actually be reading it; prepare the content keeping this key aspect in mind. If you have your article stuffed up with keywords; the audience will clearly know that your article is there for advertisement only or it would make no sense at all. Additionally, if you use a lot of keywords; search engines such as Google might de-grade your article as well.<span id="more-226"></span></p>
<p>Secondly, quality content is what people want. It does not really matter how nicely the keywords are placed in your article if the content is of no use. Your sales will be lost and there will be not as many opt ins either. What you can do is prepare the content and read it over and over again considering yourself as a visitor as well; this will give you an idea about what corrections need to be made if needed. You can also let a friend of yours read it and see how effective it really is.</p>
<p>Lastly but not the least, being consistent is the key. Once you finally know what SEO is all about; never stop even if your website is full of articles. Fresh content should be there over your site regularly; you can apply the same keyword tricks to the new content as well. Being consistent and putting in new content is something that will always keep your successful.</p>
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		<title>SEO Content Writing Must be Carried Out Appropriately</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when all it took for great copywriting were the skills of using the right amount of keywords and placing them in the right spots; as a result you would easily get into the top rankings. Although these skills matter a lot today as well but a lot of other things also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a time when all it took for great copywriting were the skills of using the right amount of keywords and placing them in the right spots; as a result you would easily get into the top rankings. Although these skills matter a lot today as well but a lot of other things also work in combination to determine what your page ranking will be such as links and other such SEO factors. It is the copywriter’s concern about how to get those links in a natural way and this is considered to be the hardest task of SEO currently. This is the reason why we see the usage of social media marketing so much today in order to make links and attract more people.</p>
<p>Basically, what this means is if your content is poor; it will not really matter how much hard work you put in optimizing it. Putting it in simple words now; a copywriter should be able to prepare content that is good enough that people would love to share it and link to it as well. SEO content writing must be carried out appropriately therefore below are some basic guidelines to do so.<span id="more-222"></span></p>
<p>First of all you need to focus over the headline. Not only readers love going over headlines but search engines do as well. You need to spend time over making headlines. Keywords need to be chosen wisely and used in the headlines. It is wise to use them in the headline’s beginning and make use of H1 tag where ever you can.</p>
<p>Secondly, you need to then focus over the title tag. This is the point where several people would make mistakes; they will stuff this part up with keywords or they will not use any. Title tag gets counted as the most important part of SEO content writing. Although it seems and reads similar to your headline but it has additional alternate phrases and description in order to get more search visibility. You can easily make a title tag that is 70 words long; however, Google would only care about some of the first words. If you are still doubtful; make use of your headline here too.</p>
<p>Lastly, you need to be careful over the main body. As I said before, you do not need to fill anything up with keywords only. Prepare the content for the readers rather than the search engines; you will automatically use keywords on the right spots when you keep this point in mind.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we talk about online marketing of the modern world; you can never be successful in it without SEO. Your online business can literally get wings if you make use of this tool wisely and in the correct manner. However, not using it correctly and making mistakes might result in big failures as well. Although [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we talk about online marketing of the modern world; you can never be successful in it without SEO. Your online business can literally get wings if you make use of this tool wisely and in the correct manner. However, not using it correctly and making mistakes might result in big failures as well. Although it is very important that your company has a website that carries great looks and relevant content but remember that this is not it. You need to achieve top page rankings in all the popular search engines in order to promote your website and get more traffic.<br />
Getting advice and tips from SEO experts at this point can be very helpful. This will make sure that you avoid making silly mistakes and SEO is done in the most effective manner possible boosting your online business.<span id="more-219"></span></p>
<p>Getting inbound links is the top most tip while working over search engine optimization. There is a simple reason behind this; the more inbound links your website has coming from popular and relevant websites; chances will be higher that your ranking improves quickly in the search engines. This is the reason why you need to work on getting as much of these as you can. Your website will built a lot of credibility this way that in return will help your ranking.</p>
<p>Another highly important and essential aspect of SEO is known as social bookmarking. Visitors will then be comfortable and easy in bookmarking your pages quickly. You will also have the opportunity of getting your website submitted to several social bookmarking websites that in return will give you a lot of benefits. Additionally, you can also make use of article directory submissions; it is necessary to make your SEO more effective. It will be a big help for building back links and it is said to be the best tools when it comes to successful internet marketing. There is a wider audience you reach out to this way and in return more traffic comes to your site once they read your articles over the directories.</p>
<p>Lastly,  make sure that you do not overlook website directory submissions either. They are also highly useful in building more links. There are several website directories where you can submit your site and make your online presence stronger. Although there are many free ones but I would say that go for a few of those that ask for a small registration fee.</p>
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