Dont Buy SEO Elite

Thursday, April 30, 2009

By Hass67

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best way to get long term targeted traffic from the search engines. But SEO requires hard word and commitment on the part of the webmaster. It may take a few months before results start appearing.

If you dont know SEO than it means optimizing your site for search engines so that it gets ranked on search engine pages. You do this by On Page Optimization and Off Page Optimization. On page Optimization means that you include the title tag, description tag, keyword tag and H1/H2 headers to tell the search engine the keyword that you want to be ranked. Search engines dont like keyword spamming. So keep the keyword density on your page below 4%.

This is known as On Page Optimization. The search engines like it. But they love the number of quality back links that your site and that particular web page gets from other authority sites. This is called Off Page Optimization. The more quality back links your site gets, the higher it will get ranked.

Lets be clear; this requires lot of work. Its not easy especially link building. There are SEO companies that can do this work for you on payment of a few thousand dollars. Why pay this much, when you can do it for free. And it is fun too!

Many people want to take short cut to SEO. They download Black Hat SEO eBooks thinking that these black hat techniques may give them success. Nothing is further from the truth. Search engines dont like black hat techniques.

A number of SEO software are now available online that claim to help you in getting good traffic from the search engine. One such software is SEO Elite. Many people think that this software get help them in getting there website get ranked on Google, Yahoo or MSN.

SEO Elite is expensive. It only tells you how many websites are linking back to your site. And what is the ranking of your site for a particular keyword. It does not help you in link building and it does not help you in on page optimization.

So why pay a few hundred dollars when you can get the same information from Google free. Google wants to help you in building a better website that users like. This is what SEO is all about; a user friendly website with good quality content.

Open a Google Account and register your website at Google Webmaster Tools. Submit a sitemap of your site. Within days Google will index your site. When you add new pages, Googlebot will get notified and index that page in a few hours.

Use the link Search Queries in the Google Webmaster Tools to find whether your site has been ranked by Google. It will give you the list of keywords that your site has a ranking.

Use: link:http://www.yourdomain.com on the Google Webmaster Tools page to find the backlinks that Google knows your site is getting. If Google is not counting a backlink, it simply means Google does not know about it and that link has no value for Google.

Now, isnt this method better than purchasing SEO Elite? If you advertise on Google Adwords than you can use Google Analytics as well for your site free!

Google Analytics is a great free tool provided by Google that tells you everything. How many visitors visited your site on a given day, the countries from where the search was made even the cities, how much time they had time spent on the site, their referral path, the bounce rate that your site had, how many pageviews per visitor; keywords they used to find your site on the search engines, how many direct visitors and how many referring sites are giving you visitors. - 20764

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