Newbie SEO Faq

• Subdomain hosting - How to use it?
  A subdomain is the part of the website address before the domain name. For example, http://forum.domainname.com. Here, forum is a subdomain of the domainname.com. Subdomains are also known as the third level domains or canonical names.
• Ten Site Improvements You Can Make in 30 Minutes
  September 12, 2004
  This article is designed to be a checklist of sorts, allowing you to go through your Web site and give it a checkup; look for potential issues that may affect user experience, conversion rates and liability with site security; and, also, diagnose other issues or problems that you may not have thought about.
• What is branding?
  September 6, 2004
  According to the American Marketing Association, brand image is the perception of a brand in the minds of persons. The brand image is a mirror reflection of the brand personality or product being. It is what people believe about a brand-their thoughts, feelings, expectations.
• Maximizing Your Search Engine Promotion Productiveness
  September 4, 2004
  An important element to being productive in search engine promotion is to continually stay focused on the goals of your web site campaigns. When I say "stay focused" though, what comes to mind? Most likely you are thinking, "Concentrate on what increases relevant traffic."
• What is the Hilltop Algorithm?
  September 4, 2004
  Hilltop algorithm is the patented algorithm provided for Google’s use by its creators, Krishna Bharat and George A. Mihaila. It is an algorithm that finds so-called expert documents related to particular keyword topics.
• Why bending some SEO rules is OK
  September 3, 2004
  Most professional search engine optimizers know how to obtain high rankings in Google using tricks that break Google’s inclusion guidelines. Testing methods are important and “throwaway’” domains are often used for testing purposes. If a professional search engine optimizer does not know how far he/she can go before seeing a penalty, they are not going to be able to optimize a website to the maximum possible.
• How Bid Management Tools Can Help Your SEO
  September 3, 2004
  If you participate in a PFP (Pay for Placement) ad program such as offered by Overture or a few other companies, bid management tools (BMT) can simplify your life quite a bit, while at the same time, they might help increase your ROI.
• Natural Search - The Great Equalizer
  September 2, 2004
  Welcome to the world of natural search - a world where mom-and-pop shops compete with million-dollar companies, and where million-dollar companies compete with billion-dollar corporations. And, while many will argue to the contrary, the playing field is more or less level. Small companies can and do dominate their behemoth competitors in this world, for a variety of reasons.
• Top 10 Ways Websites Make Me Suffer
  August 25, 2004
  The following lists the top ten ways that a website misses the boat and contributes to hair loss and nervous breakdowns. Notice the common thread that runs throughout each of these. Namely, a bad website neglects to consider the site visitor's experience in some fundamental ways.
• How to build link popularity?
  August 25, 2004
  It's important to note that Google PageRank is not the same thing as link popularity. PR is actually a subset of link popularity. Whereas PR focuses strictly on the quantity and popularity of links, link popularity adds a "quality factor" into the equation.
• 4 Tips to help you from being banned by search engines
  August 18, 2004
  Want to avoid being blacklisted by the search engines and banished to the sin bin never to receive a single search engine visitor ever again? Thought so. Here's some tips to help you..
• Search Engine Marketing: What can I do?
  August 16, 2004
  Search engine marketing—the art and science of making Web sites visible on the Web—involves a lot of messing about with code. Few of its exponents can agree definitively on what works. Which is probably why marketers have been happy to leave it in the hands of the IT folks. Until now, that is.
• What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
  August 16, 2004
  Search engine optimization is everything that can be done to make a search engine send more traffic to a web site.

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