The year 2011 is said to be the year of the mobile because of the fact that this year is the year where computer developer companies like HP are going to release their version of the slate tablet PC that was first introduced by Apple. Looking at the trend from the last quarter of last year up to the present it would seem like more companies are jumping into the bandwagon and modifying it by developing a cheaper version of the slate tablet pc. These companies have targeted the price to range from one hundred to three hundred dollars, which is very affordable for a lot of people which would therefore mean that many people will be able to own a tablet pc and this is expected to rise at an exponential rate.

With the expected rise of the slate tablet pc production and ownership it is also expected many products will be searched via mobile applications or mobile search engines. As of now,  many SEO companies and have developed their SEO campaign in terms of optimising the website for the conventional search engines, however with the expected proliferation of the slate tablet pc optimising websites for mobile search is deemed to be imperative. The following are some simple guidelines when developing an SEO campaign for your mobile search.

1. Start incorporating mobile keywords in your websites’ content – mobile keywords are different from the traditional keywords that are integrated within the websites this is because of the fact that the mobile search engines would have to compensate for the limitations of the slate tablet pc. This is why it is imperative to research and include mobile keywords in your content and one of the best tools that you can utilise is Google’s mobile keyword tool.

2. Make your website and its content mobile friendly – this means that you have to develop your website in accordance to the standards set by the world wide web consortium and develop it also according to the mobile standards for the ultimate purpose of making your content easy to read via the different mobile devices.

These two guidelines will if not already are helping SEO consultants tap into this new market in Search engine optimisation, with the growth of the number of mobile pc owners comes the growth of mobile traffic.

Every SEO consultant and SEO company knows that keywords are considered to be one of the most important element in an SEO campaign this could be attributed with the fact that keywords are considered to be one of the cornerstones of an SEO Campaign. Further, Keywords are always utilised by those who are using search engines to search topics or URLs of websites. Every SEO expert knows that Google will display the website or website content which is highly optimised in terms of the keywords used or entered by the searcher in the search engine query box. Relevance therefore is measured according to how well optimised is the keyword within the website.

Optimising the keywords can be done by repetitious yet relevant use of such keyword, another way is via the use of the chosen keyword on specific locations within the website. The first method of course would border on whether or not using it would result to a spam or not, we should take note that excessive use of the keyword without relevance to the statement or article or content would constitute a spam. The second method on the other hand is fully controlled by the website owner, developer or SEO agency. The following are the different ways on optimising your keywords by integrating them in different prime locations in your website.

1. URL or Domain Name – whenever possible utilise or insert your keyword in your domain name, this is highly likely to be achieved since keywords chosen are closely related to the overall or general theme of your website or it would also center on the main services or product that you would be offering in your website thus it would be wise to incorporate such main keyword in your URL or domain name.

2. Integrate Keywords in File Names – if your website will be using various files like images it would also be prudent to add the keywords in the file name of the said images. This is apart from the fact that you could also add the keyword in the alt attribute of the image element in using HTML code.

3. Whenever possible and relevant use keywords in the header – headers marked by the header tags or elements like

A website that has been made for business or public viewing purposes are obviously developed for a large audience base. Many websites nowadays except for personal blogs have been developed in order to gain viewers, users or customers and clients thus there is that primary need for a large website viewer base. However, traffic for a certain website does not come easily, it is necessary to take several steps or processes in order to make your site visible over the internet, remember hundreds or thousands of websites are created daily thus it would be difficult for a website to become visible instantly to the internet users or the online public in general. Unlike for an offline business recognition or increasing your products’ visibility is not contained only within the ambit of marketing through the tri-media, radio, television and print. Gaining traffic through the internet can be cheaper and a lot more diverse, the following are some tips that could help you gain traffic for your website.

1. Make your website visible in the search engines, this means that you will have to make SEO campaigns for your website, in short you have to optimise your website for search engines to index and rank it. You can either do the campaign yourself or have an SEO Company assist you.

2. Search engines and even your viewers love fresh content therefore it would be prudent for you to regularly update your content, for search engines use the proper keywords and for your users you have to give them fresh and informative contents.

3. Use social bookmarking sites to make your content or even your website popular. Social media is becoming one of the richest source of relevant traffic since you are dealing with actual people.

4. Use social networks like twitter and facebook to update your clients or your friends and relative, these social media platforms easily distributes content across their networks so it would help increase viewership of your website.

These are just some of the processes that you can do in order to promote your website and increase traffic, just remember an increase in traffic would mean an increase in the chance for conversion.

Content up to now is considered to be one of the most sought after factor in the field of search engine optimisation, this is because of the fact that content is still one of the best factor to utilise to increase keyword visibility, aside from that, a website rich with content would mean an increase in the probability of being indexed by the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. However how does one determine content quality or what are the parameters in considering whether or not a content is good or not?

To determine content quality one must have a good method of analysing such content. First step that one must do is to find a good measuring application, for those SEO experts and SEO consultants with a small budget using Google Analytics, would do, however it would not hurt to add other analytics program to your arsenal. To measure the success of your content several parameters should be taken into consideration and these are the following:

1. Make it your goal that your content is visible – visibility does not pertain on the physical visibility pertaining to fonts, rather it pertains to the ability of your content to be easily seen by users and webcrawlers. For users, making your content interesting would make it visible to users, choose a topic that would be interesting and relevant to your readers and their needs respectively.

2. Actual readership must be measured, this means that with your analytics programs you have to measure the number of people who actually read your website content, this way you will be able to understand what are the specific contents in your websites are actually gaining traffic.

3. Provide an Avenue for sharing your contents – as much as possible incorporate in your content different buttons that would enable the reader to share your content to the different social media network websites.

4. Generate Leads through your content – through your content you are given the avenue to convince your readers to purchase or avail of the services or products you are selling.

These four guidelines could help you create a good content that would not only be interesting for your reader but very much crawlable for the search engine bots.

Last year Apple released their mobile PC via their slate table PC known as the Ipad, with this release it has strengthened the speculation that the era of mobile is at hand. During the CES 2011 convention we have seen a lot of new technology that most of which are dealing with mobile and it is because of this that many SEO experts are starting to make preparations for the possible increase in the field of mobile search. Anticipating these types of progress in terms of technology which are going to affect the field of search engine optimisation, would help increase revenue for those in the online business. To start off with the mobile search engine optimisation process it would be necessary to follow the same format as what is done in a normal search engine optimisation process and that is research, keyword research in particular.

It is a known fact that search for mobile is different from the normal internet search are the applications are made a lot more compact and not to mention that there are other players dominating the mobile search not only the big three which are Google, Yahoo and Bing. This is the reason why it would be very helpful for SEO Consultants to take the following mobile search engine optimisation processes.

1. Use Google Mobile keywords – this is the service that Google made available to include mobile search volume into the keyword research for internet or website content. Google mobile Keywords could account for around ten percent (10%) of the total query volume of the search engine giant.

2. Make mobile formatted contents for your website – The year 2010 saw the increase in the sale of smartphones which are of course enabled to conduct mobile browsing, not to mention the predicted releases of Ipad rivals making the race for mobile application and search engine optimisation a lot more significant. This is why for most webmasters it would be prudent to format their website to being compatible with mobile search or with mobile content format.

For now these two points for consideration would help you start with making your site mobile friendly, a lot more tips and tricks may be updated as soon as they unfold.

A keyword is a very essential part of an SEO company’s SEO campaign. This is due to the fact that it is through keywords that Search engine users are searching for the websites that they are searching for, it is therefore imperative that a website’s chosen keyword should  rank high in a search engine results page ranking. The ultimate purpose of ranking high on the chosen keywords in the search engine’s SERP is to gain more traffic for possible conversion and revenue. Making a chosen keyword for a website to rank high in a search engine results page could be a very daunting task and many SEO companies find that sometimes their client website would rank best on the General Keyword terms but would rank poorly on specific search or keyword terms or vice versa. This type of problem could emanate from different sources or reasons but one of the most common reason on why this happens is the fact that there is a poor page to page linking as caused by indiscriminately linking one page to another. This process of indiscriminate linking will dilute the organisational theme of the website making it a lot more difficult for the chosen keywords to naturally rank in search engines.

To solve this problem top SEO experts are resorting to siloing. Siliong is a solution for problems arising from unfocused linking giving you the opportunity to achieve high search engine ranking for both the search specific and general keywords via themed vertical page linking. There are two type of Siloing, one is directory silo and the other the virtual silos. To start creating a directory silo you have to prepare a single directory where you will place like-content pages. The key here is to properly group contents which are closely related with each other and place them in a single directory. Categorising contents with other similar contents would increase efficiency in crawling the content pages.

For a virtual silo, the theme is developed through linking. The silo here is determined by the pages that the main silo links to, this can be achieved by creating a landing page or a main page and there are several pages that are linking to the said landing page or main page to support such landing page.

Following these two types of silo structures could help increase the crawling efficiency for search engine bots which would in turn help increase the visibility of your chosen keywords to the search engines.

Just last year many Search Engine Optimisation Companies anticipated and lauded the release of Google’s new search engine algorithm which was brought about by the launching of the search engine giant’s new product, the Google instant and the Google instant preview. With the introduction of these two new features for the Google search engines the search engine giant’s ranking factor was also modified in ways that would require SEO Consultants as well as SEO Experts to make some changes in their website and SEO campaign approach in order to accommodate Google’s new ranking factors. Change is constant in the world of the search engine giant because of the fact that the company is constantly improving their products and the delivery of their services to their clients or loyal users. It is because of this passion to improve that Google has again rolled out another new feature, this time involving a Google product the Google Adwords. It is a known fact that Google Adwords has become one of Internet Advertiser’s tool for generating revenue for their respective website and it is also a known fact that Google has not yet provided for any avenue for Adwords user to manage the use of negative keywords.

In the recent update that was released by Google in their Google Adwords service however, the search engine company has released their new Adwords interface in order to accommodate or allow internet marketer to be able to utilise a single negative keyword list across multiple campaigns. This will make it easier for internet marketers to incorporate negative keywords to multiple campaigns.

Another change that was implemented by Google is the modification of the Google Search ads display. It can be observed that the search ads of Google had some changes like that of a bigger space was allocated for a headline ad in order to accommodate the first line of description, ads being displayed in rows of three, and two description lines being merged into one for better presentation were among the said changes.

In the field of website design the “rel” attribute in the anchor tag of HTML is not widely utilised for the sole reason that webdesign-wise there is no direct effect to the website, in the point of view of an SEO company or an SEO consultant on the other hand there is a big significance in terms of page ranking among others. The rel attribute is useful for many SEO companies especially if they are utilising blog campaign for the promotion of their website. Many blog software nowadays automatically includes comment form where anyone could just comment on your articles or posts. Commenting is not prohibited instead it is encouraged especially if such comments would spark discussions within the community, however commenting could be deemed as a spam when the comments would only be for the sole purpose of gaining backlinks and not taking into consideration the relevance or the quality of the comment being posted. These spammy comments are what many bloggers or website owners are combating because of the fact that links to the website of the person who commented are created when comments are posted in effect this would cause the passing of your web page’s reputation on to the site that is linked to. There may not be a problem on linking with the different sites through comments however one must always take a careful look on where the site is linking to because it might ultimately have an adverse effect on your blog’s page ranking or your blog’s reputation in general.
In order to solve this problem many SEO firms and SEO experts are using the “rel” attribute with the attribute value of “nofollow”. In effect the nofollow attribute value would tell the search engine not to follow crawling on to the other website thus saving your websites’ reputation from linking to a spammy website.

In the field of search engine optimisation there are the so called Black Hat and White Hat SEO. These search engine optimisation type of approaches are on different side of a coin, which means one is dwelling on the good site or “legal” side of SEO and the other on the dark side of SEO. However, because of the different tools and SEO techniques that are coming out these days it is difficult for any search engine optimisation company to identify which technique coul be considered as white hat and which could be black hat. Knowing or identifying the type of SEO technique used is imperative for every SEO agency or SEO company because of the fact that this will help prevent them from committing mistakes when developing or when implementing their SEO strategies. Although there is no actual checklist on what White Hat SEO is, due to the fact that some white hat SEO techniques may later on be considered as a black hat SEO technique due to the fact that some SEO consultants or SEO agents would abuse the use of such strategy. Even though there is no legitimate standard list on the white hat strategies there are several criteria that can be considered when identifying a White Hat SEO technique from Black Hat SEO.

One of the criteria that can be considered when identifying white hat SEO technique is that the SEO company or the SEO consultant is always creating unique and high quality content, fresh unique and high quality content for a web page is an SEO gold mine because of the fact that writing fresh unique content by itself is already time consuming and very tedious but the rewards of course is very high. Second criteria for a white hat SEO is the there is a continuous development of the links and such links are taken only from relevant and high quality websites and not resorting to any link farming spamming techniques.

These two criteria if you can notice is rooted to the two factors that can affect one’s SEO campaign that is both content and link.

As what every SEO company and SEO consultant would always say a website especially an ecommerce website is going to be useless if it is not found by its target audience online. This is the major or driving force of Search engine optimisation, the ability to provide website the opportunity to gain traffic by becoming visible over the different search engines. Promoting your website is the second main path that you should take after developing your website which also includes of course the different on-page optimisation processes. Promoting your website can be done by gaining backlinks from other websites, although if your website is regularly updated and is structured properly it is imperative to still promote your website and that could be done via the use of social media sites. Submitting your website to social bookmarking sites could actually help promote your website online, however a word of caution, having to promote your website excessively to social media sites could also harm your campaign as it might be interpreted by many search engines as spam contents or spam promotion.

One of the best way in promoting your website is through blog posts, announcing any updates or new products in your website could help increase your websites’ reputation. Not to mention the fact that you already are marketing your product through your blog post. When creating your blog post though you have to make sure that your content would mean something and not just a one paragraph or one sentence announcement. Go big and write interesting items, remember you are not mainly promoting your website to search engine crawlers you are promoting your product as a whole to potential human internet users.

Second is to think of your target community, open up communication with other people in your target community and spark discussions as this would also again help in the promotion of your website. Avoid spammy link requests and even purchased links.