SEOcontest2008 entry to win money for charity

And the winner is Kevin: Comment contest here at SEOContest2008winner.com

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | April 2, 2008

I thank all of you who commented on my post to support my entry. I didn’t win SEOContest2008 but I learned a lot about SEO.

Here is result of my comment contest. The post received total 56 comments. I used www.Random.org to generate random number and Kevin won $100.00 for his comment:

good luck with your SEOContest2008. Some good SEO site reviews on this blog. Thanks.

Here is a screenshot of my draw.

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SEO site review - Blog of Michael Gray :: Part of SEOContest2008 review series

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 19, 2008

Michael Gray is well known SEO expert and public speaker at SEO conferences. As his pubcon profile explains, He worked with major retailer to develop online sales into millions.

It is amazing these wonderful people explain lot of great stuff thru their blogs. This kind of knowledge costs thousands of dollars to large corporations.

Top 100 posts form Michael give a quick glimpse of variety of SEO topics he writes. Some of these posts were viewed more than 70000 times.

Here are few of his posts:

Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets

AdSense Arbitrage: Tips, Tricks & Secrets

Adsense Arbitrage: Automation and Button Pushing

Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I

Superficial Crawling SEO Strategies

Looking at Link Building Tips

What’s One Digg Worth

Local Search Tips, Tricks & Secrets

Michaels blog is defanitely worth subscribing to.

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SEO site review - Blog of Matt cutts :: Part of SEOContest2008 review series

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 18, 2008

As many of you people know Matt cutts is Software engineer at Google and currently head of spam team. Who else can be better person to tell about how search engines rank, filter, give preference other than an engineer who is incharge? His personal blog contains many words of wisdom related to SEO. Looking at archives, there are posts from July 2005, means lot of stuff available there.

Here are few posts related SEO:

Buying links and avoiding SE penalty (Nofollow in the tag).
NoIndex tag to tell Google to remove from their listing.
Detecting spam and cloacking

Matt’s blog is first hand source for many bloggers and lot of top SEO professionals. It is a must visit blog to get very important SEO tips.

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39 SEO mistakes to avoid.

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 14, 2008

39. No back links. Don’t be alone, get some link love.

38. Links from Bad Sites. Incoming links from bad sites. Don’t need links from bad sites.

37. Paid Links : Using Paid links.(Use “no follow” tag in the link if brought for traffic purposes)

36. No Links from Authority sites Missing incoming links from authority sites related to your web site.

35. Toomuch Javascript Using Java script where simple HTML can be used.

34. Keyword Spamming: Repeated keywords are no good (Aka keyword stuffing), don’t be a spammer.

33. Too much on homepage. Slow page loads., People leave and never comeback, One the other hand too less on homepage is no good either.

32. Too many pics: Too many pictures and less content.

31. Duplicate content with in the site or from other sites.

30. No Site map. Give a map to spiders.

29. Keywords Keywords: Missing usage of top keywords related to the content. e.g.: “cheap insurance” might be better compared to “most economical and affordable insurance”.

28. Session IDs. Using session ids in URLs. Keep them in cookies.

27. Hidden text, so 1990ish.

26. Links to others. Missing links to relevant sites.

25. Geek URLs: These are not seo friendly. (something like “www.xyz.com/pid?=12345“; Use proper directory structure).

24. Missing Robots.txt Robots.txt must be in the root folder on your hosting directory.

23. Bad links : Links to bad sites.

22. Spelling mistakes : spelling mistakes and grammer mistakes.

21. Useless Robots.txt Disallow everyone in Robots.txt, Duh, Allow spiders where you want them to crawl within your site.

20. Wrong anchors : Bad anchor text for links (use relevant words rather than click here).

19. Design issue: Missing user experience in design. If they leave immediately, SE’s know that.

18. No meta tags : Not using meta tags.

17. Same meta tags on all pages. Spiders are hungry and they like variety.

16. Specific content : Missing focused content.

15. HTML errors. This makes spiders to interpret in totally incorrect way.

14. Same title : Same title on multiple pages.

13. Bad navigation : Bad navigation within the site.

12. Keywords issue : Very minimal usage of relevant keywords with in the content.

11. History : Deleting old content rather than keeping in archive mode.

10. Splash pages. Big SEO killer and waste of time for users.

9. SEO practices : Missing good SEO practices in the beginning, they tend to cost more later.

8. Open Target : Targeting for very generic keyword like car or lawyer.

7. URL structure : Using different versions of urls(both www.mysite.com and http://mysite.com). Use one url for links (either www.mysite.com or http://mysite.com).

6. ALT Tags : Misusing or ignoring ALT tags with images.

5. Lengthy Title Very lengthy Title..Keep it simple and smart.

4. Title : Missing most important keywords as part of title.

3. Flash usage : Missing HTML version if flash is used.

2. Header tags : Misusing or not using header tags and hierarchy. (<h1> at the top level and so on).

1. Wrong domain name: This could be the biggest mistake and hard to fix.If your site is related to dog grooming, don’t use your favorite pet name. Use most used keyword available related to pet grooming.

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SEO site review dfinitive.com :: As part of SEOContest2008 review series

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 11, 2008

Dfinitive is an excellent SEO site. Julian Paling created this amazing site with very valuable SEO info. Who is Julian Paling? In his words:

Hi, I’m an Internet Marketer from London, England. My first adventure into world of internet marketing was in 1999 where I asked to create the first website for large UK retailer, and within 12 months the site generated over £2.5 million in sales. Since then I have worked my way up the career ladder, through hard work, long hours, and more hard work.

Looking at blog articles, I see the quality of SEO related info in this site and blog posts. My favourite blog post on this blog is

How I got aerobed to No1 in Google

Julian explains step by step approach how he made aerobed site to No.1 search result in Google. This is real good practical seo post. Thanks Julian for posting the details.

The site summarizes all SEO sites, SEO blogs and SEO forums very well. It is one stop source for good SEO sites. Here is a screenshot:

Hope you enjoy the site.

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SEO site review SEOBook.com and FREE “SEO for Firefox” :: As part of SEOContest2008 review series

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 4, 2008

Today’s site Review features SEOBook.com

This blog is by Aaron Mathew Wall covering SEO. Aaron is wellknown SEO expert and author of top selling eBook “SEOBook”. He put together very good resources and links on this site.

I downloaded one of the free SEO tool “SEO for Firefox” from this site and use it everyday. When you search for something, This tool gives lot of data along with search results like web page pr, domain owner etc.

This tool highlights Keyword research, AW sandbox, Traffic estimator, Trends with search box. This gives a very good picture of how many searches are done from various search engines for specific keywords as well as related keywords.

See the blue lines under search results with PR info etc.

Click on Keyword research and this will give how many searches are done for word “Pizza”

As you can see the approximate 8280 daily searches are done for word “pizza”. Here you can see the related key words, Google, yahoo and MSN seach counts all in one place. You can even upload to CSV file (can be opened with Excel). This is cool way to know popular keywords. When designing new site or blog, It would be great to have one of the top keyword with .com extension as your domain name. This helps a lot in SEO and might bring some type-in traffic. Make sure there are no trade marks registered with that keyword though.

Save this top 20 keyword list and now use this extensively in meta tags, titles, domain folders wherever particular keyword is applicable. Make good use of proper keyword and avoid misuses.

One more super cool feature: Traffic estimator

This gives a pretty cool picture of adwords cost info related to this niche. As you can see average CPC for this keyword is .93 per click. If you are adwords advertiser, you expect to pay around buck for click. Further it depends on your page quality score and ad. If you are adsense publisher, you can estimate how much each click might bring you. If average cost is 93 cents, it will be usually lower with content network and say 50 to 60 cents and after Google’s cut, You may receive about 25 to 40 cents per click.

Here is a page with all you need to know about SEO sites(Aaron put together nice resource page and video of this tool):

http://www.seobook.com/about.shtml

This this review helpful you?

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SEOContest2008 Entries and Sites

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 2, 2008

Here is the list of few sites competing with this site for SEOContest2008. Goodluck everyone:

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SEO site review as part of SEOContest2008 review series: SEOCHAT.COM

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 2, 2008

SEOChat.com scores high for providing great number of tools useful for search engine optimization.

There are whopping 41 tools available for free use. Here is the list:

Adsense Calculator
AdSense Preview
Advanced Meta-Tags
Alexa Rank Tool
Check Server Headers
Class C Checker
Code to Text Ratio
CPM Calculator
Domain Age Check
Domain Typos
Future PageRank
Google Dance
Google Keywords
Google Search
Google Suggest
Google vs Yahoo
Indexed Pages
Keyword Cloud
Keyword Density
Keyword Difficulty
Keyword Optimizer
Keyword Position
Keyword Typos
Link Popularity
Link Price Calculator
Meta Analyzer
Meta Tag Generator
Multiple Link Popularity
Overture Keywords
Page Comparison
Page Size
PageRank Lookup
PageRank Search
Robots.txt Generator
ROI Calculator
S.E. Comparison
S.E. Keyword Position
Site Link Analyzer
Spider Simulator
URL Redirect Check
URL Rewriting

My favourite tools is Spider simulator. This tools gives a spider view of your site/page and gives SE perspective.

Apart from tons of tools, there are great articles and forum discussions related to SEO

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Importance of Domain Name in SEO

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 2, 2008

Domain Name is very important in SEO. Domain name is very fundamental or structural part of website presense. Content is king in SEO. Incoming Links are next important. Both Content and Links can be improved over the time. However domain name can not be changed.

Do’s and Don’t of selecting domain names for SEO:

Try to get one of the keyword that explains best about website. simple is better. Lengthy is OK for SEO. May be little hard for people.
Most preferable tld is .com
Avoid more than 2 hyphens. (Search engines take hyphens as word separators)
Register for 2 years or more. More is better.
Age of domain defanitely helps if buying old domains.
Numbers in the domain are fine. Again make it simple. (Example Site59.com)
Keyword tails are fine. (Adding popular suffixes like online, 411, 247 etc)
Short length domains are better for user experience.
Avoid unrelated name as domain name. It is very hard for SE to assign any quality score.

Here is a very good article about domain names and SEO: 12 rules for choosing domain names

What do you guys think?

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SEO site review as part of SEO Contest 2008 review series: SEOMOZ.ORG

By Siva4SEOContest2008 | March 1, 2008

SEOMOZ is one of the best SEO site with tons of information and tools related SEO.

blog on SEOMOz is veru popular. Blog’s subscriber cout is good measure of the popularity. With 22214 readers, It is defanitely one of the highest subscribed blog related to SEO. SEOMOZ has tons of SEO articles and tools. Some of the articles are available for premium members or price per article.

SEOMoz also got very good set of SEOMOZ tools related to SEO. Here is list of tools available at SEOMOZ:

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