Shoestring Search Engine Optimization - Part 1

You have just launched your website/blog and now want the whole world to know about it but you do not have deep pockets and heavy budgets to pay some expert for Search Engine Optimization. This scenario is faced by many of us everyday as we struggle to attract traffic towards our website. What can you do to help bring traffic to your website? Here are some main strategies you can implement. I will be discussing these strategies in detail in future.

1. Push Strategy
2. Pull Stragegy
3. Parasite Strategy
4. Scratch Strategy

Stay tuned for details :)!

Can You Rank High On Google?

Ranking in the top three to five results on Google or at least on the very first page is every website owner's dream. But is it easy to rank that high on this popular search engine? The answer is Yes! Infact, I should say it all depends on the keywords you have chosen and what sort of competition that keyword has.

If your keyword matches your domain name and your description as well as page title also shows that keyword, Google will start ranking you on top of the results in no time! For instance If your domain name is www.rankhigh.com and your desired keyword to rank high is also "rank high" then its comparatively much easier to grab a better position in the search result on Google. Remember! if no one is searching for the keyword 'rank high' then even with your high google rank, you won't get any traffic. So the goal has to be clear in your mind i.e. You wish to rank high or get more traffic to your website?!

I will dicuss different strategies for ranking high on Google in my later posts so stay tuned!

Have a Blogger Review Your Website!

I know you are passionately trying to get your website optimized on the search engine, to hit the home run on Google search results and to eventually make decent money out of your blog or a website. In your SEO mix, never forget to have some impartial reviews from good standing bloggers. This not only helps your users but greatly impact on your search engine standing. There are several websites/bloggers who may charge you for a blog and many are free. You can also design and launch your review campaigns on the websites like ReviewMe.com.

Got Alexa Down by 2 Million in 10 Days!

This may be surprising to many but for one of my blogs, I was able to pull down my Alexa score down to 5 million from 25 million initial rank in just less than 10 days! I started my other blog www.syedgilani.com almost 1 1/2 week ago (i know its fairly young) and only by installing Alexa tool bar on my IE browser and with absolutey NO traffic to that blog at this time, I was able to punch a big dent in my Alexa Ranking!