Google – Future Predictions of Ranking Factors

google ranking factors 2011Google roll out many minor changes to their search engine results every month.
About 2-3 times a year Google roll out a major change to their ranking factors and around 2-3% of sites become massively effected.  The last big update was in May and effected long tail keywords noticed by many webmasters.

Some changes to Google’s ranking factors completely knock websites out of the search results as they used copied content, keyword stuffing or some black-hat techniques to gain position ... (Read more)

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Thai Sabai Pioneers – Thai Cuisine in Leicestershire

For anyone living in or visiting Leicestershire Thai Restaurants seem an unlikely item to add to your agenda. If you have a taste for first class dining in impeccable surroundings, it may be something you should consider.

Thai restaurants really started hitting the UK restaurant scene about 15 years ago, and Leicestershire can boast its own excellent example. The prestigious Thai Sabai is located in the unlikely place of Melton Mowbray. A town already associated with fine quality food, it is a ... (Read more)

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Google Caffeine – Recent Blog Posts

google caffeineGoogle Caffeine can be used for a great little SEO tool.  The new ‘real-time’ indexing service that will be rolled out fully by Google in the up-coming months uses “pings” from blogs, news sites and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to create a live search.  This is especially useful for any breaking news, gossip or discussions over debated issues.

So how can Google caffeine help you out with SEO?

One area of SEO is blog commenting where you add a useful ... (Read more)

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SEO Myth – Google’s Maximum Keyword Density Percentage

What is Google’s Maximum Keyword Density? The simple answer is that there isn’t one!

So why is there so much fuss over keyword densities online? The answer lies within past spammy SEO techniques…

When Yahoo were the top search engine you could rank highly by simply adding every keyword you could think of within the Meta tags and on the main site.  There would be the same keyword adding in hundreds of different variations across the top of bottom of the webpage ... (Read more)

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Choosing the right SEO company

To many people SEO is a complete mystery; a worryingly large amount of business owners don’t even know what search engine optimization is!

For the website owners who do know the power of SEO there is usually a hard decision which SEO company to chose.  Many people blindly go with the web design company who built their website not knowing that they could possibly know very little about SEO techniques or they may have built a badly optimized site in the first ... (Read more)

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WordPress SEO Blogging

A WordPress blog has become the most effective tool for SEO experts within the last 4 years. User-generated content on the blog will be presented to Google and other search engines in the ideal way to get the maximum impact on search engine rankings. Here at RealWebSEO.com we use our own custom written WordPress plugins to automatically refresh a website’s main page content and to also promote every single blog post written (again automatically).

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Google’s May ’10 Update – Long Tail Keywords

At the beginning of May Google rolled out one of it’s many new updates and this effected many websites including RealWebSEO.com.

The update affects rankings for ‘long tail keywords’ over 3 words such as “sell and rent back“.  Before the May update Google would do an educated guess at the best webpages to rank for these keywords and usually land with big “authority” websites that mentioned the words on a certain page.

Currently Google looks at the order of the words in the long tail keyword – so if a user ... (Read more)

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Real Web SEO – Page 2 in Google.co.uk for “SEO”

Around 6-7 weeks ago we noticed that our site RealWebSEO.com was top for the keyword “SEO Nottingham” but even more excitingly page #9 for the highly competitive term “SEO” by itself!

So in the last month and a bit we optimised RealWebSEO.com for the keyword “SEO” as well as building a flurry of backlinks and blog posts.  Real Web SEO had a make-over to convert more visitors into clients and the outcome has been very positive!

On the 10th of June 2010 this ... (Read more)

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Getting Backlinks from Forums

As with a lot of SEO methods writing unique and interesting content can work wonders to your site without any fancy tricks.  If you’re a passionate writer then congratulations you have what it takes to keep writing content and reap the rewards in the long run!

You don’t have to just write content on your own site, it’s very important to promote your website throughout the internet on related sites (and that means getting backlinks from these sites).

There are forums on ... (Read more)

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Making external links appear in a new tab or window

Having links on your website to other related websites in your field makes your website more useful to visitors.

Google also favours sites that have useful external links; it’s a semi-large ranking factor which many bloggers seem to miss out as they don’t want to lose traffic.

There IS a solution luckily, a perfect balance between the SEO benefits of the external link and the traffic leak.

The [target="_blank"] attribute
Make sure that if people do click on an external link on your site they’ll open ... (Read more)

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