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No tags for this post.Link Building: I Ask You, What Is Yahoo! Buzz?
Throughout some of the various blogs I read I always noticed a button labeled Yahoo! Buzz at the end of each post, but I never knew what exactly is was until now. Kind of like Digg, Yahoo! Buzz allows its users to determine what are the most “remarkable” stories and videos around on the Internet. By voting for a particular article or video that you think is “remarkable” it will give that article the attention it deserves. Basically, Yahoo! Buzz showcases the best of the best voted by us everyday people as instead of editors, the Yahoo! users get to decide what is the best story / video out there on the Internet and these becomes to top-rated stories / videos around. Thus, you can see the resemblance to Digg and how Digg works.
According to Yahoo! Buzz’s website here it how it works:
- First, we determine the most popular topics that people are searching for on Yahoo!.
- Then, we showcase the most popular stories within those topics, based on activities like voting and emailing stories to friends.
- Stories with most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page - you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!.
You can also email any top story / video that you think is interesting to your friends as well as download Yahoo! Buzz widgets for your website. And, they even have a buzz log to show you what everyone is “talking” about on the Internet. It looks like this will be a very useful site for Yahoo!’s users. Now the question to answer is; which will be more popular: Yahoo! Buzz or Digg?
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporation, search engine optimization, seo company, yahoo, yahoo buzzI Ask You, What Is Twitter?
Several days walking around the office and reading my daily blogs, I kept seeing the word twitter. “What is twitter?” I ask myself. I turned to the almighty Google and typed in “twitter” and began my search.
It turns out that Twitter is a free social powerful networking and micro blogging service which allows users to send “update” or “tweets” up to 140 characters long on Twitter’s website. The updates are displayed on the users profile page and instantly delivered to other users have subscribed to them. You can even have your Twitter updates show up on your personal/business website as well as a few social networks such as Myspace and Facebook. There are also Twitter clients that you can use to see updates the people you are “following” have issued as well as post your own updates.
Twitter is also a helpful writing tool when it comes to writing title tags as well as description tags. For SEO purposes, title tags should be between 60-80 characters and description tags should be between 150-225 characters. You can start learning how to summarize your ideas and thoughts and thus incorporate that into your work.
What else is Twitter good for you ask? Well you can also use it to network with people in your industry as well as indirectly talk about your products and services. With Regency Interactive being in the Internet marketing / SEO industry, I find it a fascinating and amazing tool. It’s also very addictive I might add so be careful!
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporation, social media, twitterSEO: Google’s Design & Content Guidelines
Every person knows Google is #1 when it comes to the major search engines. Thus, it’s important to follow their guidelines. Here are some helpful design and content guidelines that Google would like for you to follow with your website and its design.
Design & Content Guidelines
- Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
- Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages. Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
- Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
- Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images.
- Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
- Check for broken links and correct HTML.
- If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
- Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).
Be sure to follow these guidelines with your website so that you can stay in the good graces of Google.
Tags: google guidelines, seo, web design, web design guidelinesSEO: Common SEO Tips For The Beginner
From time to time we come across companies that just do not understand the basics of SEO work. There is a lot of out of date and black hat SEO advice out there, which acted upon will get your site banned. The SEO tips below should inform the reader what they can and cannot do in regards to SEO. If you need more in depth help, Regency Interactive has a staff of employees with over 30 years combined experience that is ready to help you!
- Do not use the same exact title on every page on your website. The search engines may determine that all your pages are the same if your titles tags are the same and thus those pages would not have as much relevancy!
- Do not link to link farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods. You also shouldn’t buy any links as well. It’s known that Google does not like sites that purchase links.
- Describe your images with the use of alt and title tags. This will help the engines index your pages better in terms of relevancy and helps readers who use text only browsers.
- Do not use doorway pages. Doorway pages are mostly used for robots and not humans. Search engines like to index human-friendly pages.
- Do not “spam/keyword stuff” your site with meaningless keywords in meta tags or anywhere else on your website.
- Do not use any type of black hat cloaking. Blackhat cloaking is when the content presented to the search engine spider differs from the content that is presented to the users’ browser. They want to be able to see the same content your users see.
- Do not use hidden content within your website. Search engines want your content to be visible to your users and will penalize you for hidden content.
These are just some basic hints and tips that any website owner can use to enhance their website.
Tags: search engine optimization, seo, seo tips, whitehat seo
