There is often talk of building ‘natural’ links when it comes to link building in search engine optimization. What does it mean to build a natural link profile? While the idea is quite simple, there is significant debate on the issue’s importance and how much we are able to push the envelope.

The general idea of a natural link profile is that the links to your site should appear to have come about without the aid of heavy link building techniques. A site should not have tried to ‘game’ the search engines by paying for links or doing anything that manipulates the search engine. This goes both for the type of sites that are linking to your website, and how quickly they have arrived.

If a new website appears and suddenly get thousands of links from nowhere – this can raise a red flag with search engines. However, some people overestimate this effect, particularly on the modern web. It can sometimes happen that a new website can get thousands of links in a short period of time, if it is a noteworthy site launched by a significant entity. For example, a car manufacturer could launch a new website, and this will generate a lot of links and traffic from social networking and the blogosphere.

Search engines therefore have the difficult task of automatically working out which sites are relying on link-building tactics which are falsely inflating their importance, and which sites people are actually interested in. If a search engine is too lenient, then its listings will be full of irrelevant content. If the search engine is too strict, then its content becomes outdated. Of course, they have incredibly complex algorithms that take into account many different factors to do this. But what does this mean for the search engine optimizer?

When link building, try not to focus on simply one type of attack. A link building campaign should target different areas that would naturally be linking to your website – some small sites, some large sites, certainly some social networking sites, blogging sites and forums. If possible, your link building should be more focused on ways that will encourage other people to build links for you – this will result in the most natural link profile.

Building a natural link profile is simply about spreading your time correctly across all of the various places that would link to your site naturally.

Attracting links to a site can be a tough job, as link building has become an incredibly important part of the SEO mix, and more of a challenge as search engines are discrediting link brokers. Organic linking still has its place in the SEO mix because the art of building a natural link can be time consuming and at times frustrating.

So, is it still possible to blindly email someone asking for a link and receive it? Yes, it can be, especially if your site is Link Worthy!

How does one go about making a site linkable? Here are some tips that will assist you in your link building:

1. Presentation : First impressions mean a lot, even online.

2. Personality : This gives the reader of the blog a sense of warmth, like they really know the person.

3. Interactivity : Giving people something to do on your website will get them interested and active on the site.

4. Accountability : Sure, you may have personality but are you accountable for your site? Can you be reached? Having a contact information page, an about us section and an address which matches your email information (always use a sig in your email when asking for a link) are basic pillars of an organically grown website, but you would be surprised how many businesses or online publications overlook these simple steps.

Blogs are inherently interactive, with commenting, polls, tagging, voting and other tools to get the reader, or potential linker. And the way you present you site means a lot to the person who may be linking to you, because by linking, they are making a warm introduction for you to their site audience, which includes search bots. If your website looks like it was thrown together overnight, or may spam the hell out of the people they will send to you … chances are they’re not going to send a link your way.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to doing business on the internet. No, not everyone who is on the internet needs to use SEO, but if you are offering any kind of product, service, or want your opinion to be read, you need SEO.

Just 25 short years ago, the internet was simply a tool for scientists. Cell phones were big bulky things that cost a bundle and were hideous to carry. Ten years later, the internet was starting to invade the common person’s environment and cell phones got smaller. Five years later, more than half the planet is surfing the World Wide Web and carrying a cell phone in their pocket.

Social Networking

Over the last five years, we’ve been seized by social media. Places like FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin, and all sorts of social networking hubs have popped up like dandelions on a sunny day.

SEO is mostly about building links, and using keywords, to distinguish your goods and services. You want links inside pointing inside your site, inside pointing out, and outside pointing in. We won’t get into keywords here, but you need them, too.

Social networking builds all kinds of links to and from your site. It also brings a different group of people to your store or services.

Places like FaceBook, Linkedin, and MySpace are like virtual picnic areas with billboards. You can gather there, talk about stuff, look at interesting things, share what you know, and build camaraderie’s. Twitter is like the news scroll on the bottom of your television screen. You post the latest hot news, offer the latest deals, or dangle the carrot.

Using Social Networks

Both are effective if you use them right, and both can bring potential business to you that wouldn’t have come to you through search methods. If you need something like data recovery services, you don’t have to rely on search alone anymore. You can use your social networks, “talk” to people, and refer people, too!

Instead of gathering down at the town square, people are gathering at the town network and sharing what they know. It’s word-of-mouth by typing. There’s no telling where this will all be in ten or twenty years, but it’s a highly effective tool to use today. Using social networks to complement your SEO efforts is smart business.

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The fact that links mean nothing without some effective on-page search engine optimization cannot be overstated. On-page SEO is simply essential for every SEO campaign. If a search engine can’t determine what your content is about, there’s no way it can rank you high for the keywords that you target.

On-page SEO doesn’t have to be complicated. Many webmasters associate on-page SEO with coding and programming, but this isn’t the case at all, especially if you’re using a blogging platform like WordPress. To effectively optimize the pages on your site for search engines, you have to let search engines know what you want to rank high for – and you will have to tell them in a variety of different ways. Let’s not beat around the bush anymore – here are 5 on-page search engine optimization tips that you can’t miss. Note that some parts of the following tips may be a little focused to bloggers, but with a little creativity, can be used to boost the search engine rankings of any type of website.

Tip #1: Write An Optimized Title

Your meta title is where you should focus on SEO, not readers.

Tip #2: Focus On Your Content

Even if you’re an internet business without a blog to write content for, the words on your website that your visitors see cannot be left unoptimized.

Tip #3: Be An Internal Linker

A great internal linking strategy is to always think about internal linking while writing your website’s content.

Tip #4: Have A Clean URL Structure

A clean URL structure is made up of URLs that a web visitor could remember if necessary, but most importantly use have important keywords in them.

Tip #5: Have A Good Navigational Structure

Link to important pages within your navigation bar.

It should go without saying that writing quality content is very important. Doing this often also gives Google reason to index your content more frequently and think of your site as an authority one. Writing quality content gives a reason to readers to promote and link to it.

On-page SEO is often overlooked. While no experienced webmaster forgets the phrase “Content is KING”, internet professionals often forget that there’s a lot to optimize on your site and resort to link building, which does nothing without some effective on-page work.

Technorati Tags: on page optimization, on page SEO

Link building is a very important part of the SEO process and probably the most affordable and quick way to increase your website’s popularity. There must be thousands of different ways to gain good amount of quality backlinks, but in this short article I will show you some of the simplest and free techniques to do just that. Of course, if you are already running a successful company and have a large advertising budget, you might want to seek SEO consultants that offer professional link building services and spend your time focusing on your core business.

Tip #1: Create an eBook: The internet is a giant information directory which can deliver answers to almost every single question, if you can find it. Ebooks are of great value because the gathers relevant information and saves the reader a lot of time searching the web. Apart from actually increasing the value of your site eBooks can actually also be used as an advanced link building technique. By submitting your eBook to affiliate marketplaces like Clickbank you will enhance the income potential from your eBook.

Tip #2: Press release: Whether you own a brick and mortar company and have just launched your company’s website, or have developed a new and exciting product, you can inform the whole World by writing and issuing a press release.

Tip #3: Social media sites: Social bookmarking is also a great way of link building, but you should spend the time learning how most of them work: unless you write some very good content that most readers find appealing, your submission will quickly be pushed down.

On the other hand, if you submit content that is sensational, unique, or bizarre, your link is likely to gain you a lot of targeted traffic and benefit your site in the long run. 10 ten lists and controversial topics tend to do well in on social platforms.

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People have been using questionable techniques to rank high in search engines for years. As a result, people have been penalized on or even banned from search engines for years. So, it is important that we follow Whitehat SEO techniques to continue marketing our products online.

1. Avoid Keyword Stuffing: If you think of keyword stuffing, the part of keyword stuffing that makes it a blackhat technique is the fact that you are overusing keywords in your page intentionally. However, if you take out the part where you are stuffing keywords into your page, you end up with the most powerful whitehat content writing search engine optimization tip ever: use important keywords in your content. Although writing content with keywords is nothing new, you now see the power of coming up with new ethical and organic SEO techniques by bouncing off blackhat ones.

2. Avoid Blog Spamming: Blog commenting, although I personally use it more for building relationships with other bloggers, can easily be used to build powerful backlinks. Think about it. Dofollow blog comments are linksfrom powerful blog posts from powerful bloggers in your niche. Plus, blog comments are a great way to have a discussion not only with a blogger, but other commentators.

3. Avoid Cloaking: Writing great, keyword-rich content and showing the same page to users and search engines is as organic as you can get. One tip I can give you on it is to always think of search engine optimization during your writing. This will have a very positive effect on the on-page optimization of your content.

4. Be Careful With Mass Article Submission: Guest posting is amazingly powerful, and not just on an SEO level. It brings dofollow backlinks from the powerful pages of other bloggers, but it also has the potential to drive thousands of targeted readers to your website, and all after the the effort of writing a single article.

So, do SEO Whitehat to get ranked higher in Google and other search engines!

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SiteSell SBI Review

What is all the craze about SiteSell? I have been asking myself this question for quite a while now. Friends of mine dont get tired of recommending this internet marketing full service to me. Finally, I got very curious and made some investigations and took a closer look on SiteSell, SiteBuildIt and SBI. I think, that most internet marketers have heard of SiteSell as it is well known and spread among the IM community. There are many advocates of this service. But lets be critical!

Who is behind "Site Sell"?

SiteSell Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada managed by 60 professionals from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

Founded by visionary leader Ken Evoy, SiteSell has developed an almost cult-like following after successfully instructing over 100,000 novices - including solo entrepreneurs, small business owners, work at home moms and retirees - on how to build websites that outperform large competitors at less than a dollar a day.

No company in the world does what SiteSell does. A 30 minute video shows the complete picture: http://videotour.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

FLAGSHIP PRODUCT: SITE BUILD IT!

SiteSell's flagship product, Site Build It! (SBI!) is a step-by-step, all-in-one tool kit for developing a Top 3% website in terms of free, organic search traffic, at least that is what SiteSell claims. Lets take a look at this claim later on.

SBI! is built to empower ordinary people to successfully research, conceptualize, build, market, and host ”best of breed” Web sites across the globe. If you don't already have an existing offline business, SBI! will teach you how to build a website around one of your hobbies, passions, or interests.

In a league of its own, SBI! is the only Internet business building tool and methodology taught at over 25 Colleges and Universities around the world. I have been quite impressed by that fact as I know how hard it is to get a recommendation from a university. Here is the proof:

Major universities (ex., University of Arizona and Penn State), community colleges, and even MBA programs (ex., The Citadel) include SBI! in their curriculum. No other commercial product is offered by any school, anywhere.

SBI! further claims to eliminate technology barriers and to keep the process simple. With over 70 time-savings tools and easy-to-follow training modules, SBI! is aiming at empowering people to focus on building their business instead of fighting technology and mastering Search Engines. SBI! indeed provides a wide range of tools, training, software, and support necessary for proven-success, all in one-place. Simply put, SBI! is aimed at offering customers a simple proven formula that builds long-term Internet success.

Here is a detailed breakdown of everything you get when you sign up:
http://tools.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

I have learnt from my friends that SBI! Customers have 24/7 access, guidance and support every step of the way including: a step-by-step Action Guide, customer support, world-renowned forums, RSS Feeds, a Blog, cutting edge business-building and marketing tools, and "best-of-breed" partner resources. Indeed, I have found many testimonials in the internet backing up this view.

While scanning the internet, I have detected some sort of fanaticism related SiteSell. That is a fact, I dont like and it makes me a bit nervous, to be honest. However, I hardly found any negative feedback on SiteSell and so for the better of SiteSell let us assume, that this fanaticism comes from the quality and effectiveness of their products - as well as from their well paying affiliate program. The truth is, that I have subscribed as an affiliate as well but nevertheless, I try to be as accurate and honest to you as possible. I dont want to play with my reputation as a serious reviewer. This is way more valuable than earning a few bucks from a scam product. If you decide to purchase the product through my affiliate link, I will invest the money in improving this website for you.

So what about the results of SiteBuildIt?

If increasing web traffic is important to you, then you will be happy to know: 62% of SBI! sites are in the Top 3% of all sites on the Internet! In other words, 62% percent of SBI! clients beat 97% of Internet competition in terms of organic search traffic. The truth is, maximizing online sales and driving tons of free organic webtraffic is one of SiteSell's biggest benefits. http://results.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

So what is the price?

Customers can purchase SBI! for an annual, all-inclusive price of only $299. At the first glance, this is a heavy price!! But to put it into perspective a bit: SBI! tools are valued at more than $5,000 if bought through other sources: SBI! delivers high-value, proven-results, an all in one price, and is backed by a 100% money back guarantee. I was taken aback by the price in the first moment, to be honest. But the 90 days 100% money back guarantee gives you the possibility to try everything without much of a risk.

Any proof of success?

I think, it cannot be argued that since 1997 SiteSell has helped over 100,000 build successful top 3% websites with no prior experience. And when I say “successful” consider this fact: 62% of the people who sign up for SiteSell's flagship product Site Build It! (SBI!) end up with a website in the Top 3% of all sites on the internet in terms of traffic.

In other words, 62% of their clients beat 97% of the competition in terms of “free” web traffic on the net -- And that stat becomes even more impressive when you consider that virtually all of their clients started with virtually no experience.

That is what SiteSell tries to back up with real proof and stats. In stark contrast to many “Get-Rich-Quick” offers out there that provide 3 or 4 case studies on their site… Site Sell puts their money where their mouth is by providing proof of succes.

For instance, here is a link to over 500, Top 1% websites build with Site Build It! (SBI!)

http://proof.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

Here's another link to 21 in-depth case studies:

http://case-studies.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

Here's another to some home page screen shot with site owner testimonials:

http://samples.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

Here's another to a page that delivered a wide variety of “proof.”

http://proof.sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

So what is the verdict?

According to what I have seen, read and heard about SiteSell, it seems to be the case that SiteSell really tries its very best to deliver real success for its customers. It doesnt seem to be a scam product nor have I found any proof that SBI does not work. To the contrary, I have found many case studies, reviews, samples and opinions stating that SBI provides overwhelming success to its customers. Additionally, friends of mine - experienced internet marketers themselves - use SBI and dont hesitate to recommend this product. Last but not least, SBI offers one of the best money back guarantees in the industry.

So I guess that SBI will be the next product in my wishlist. At the moment, I just dont have the time to thoroughly implement and test it as I have other ambitious projects. But I will try to test it in February or March 2011. I will be back then with more information and test results for you.

For now, If you want to know more visit this link:

http://sitesell.com/silversunrise.html

Please note: this is an affiliate link. If you decide to purchase SBI, the commissions will be invested in improving this website.

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Tip #1: Add Titles related to targeted keywords, place only important keywords, do not exceed more than 25 characters

Tip #2: Meta description should be unique for each pages with targeted keywords. Do not stuff keywords into Meta description.

Tip #3:Layout pages with CSS, avoid tables

Tip #4: Add Keywords towards H1 tag as page headlines.

Tip #5: Implement Bread crumbs for increasing web site navigation structure example Home >> Service >> SEO

Tip #6: Create Static Header and footer navigation links, Links should be text not as images

Tip #7: Analyze your targeted keywords using Google suggest

Tip #8:Keywords in navigational links play a vital role and have its own importance to search engine eyes

Tip #9: Use most important keyword in file name or URL

Tip #10: Minimize table especially nested tables

Tip #11: Say yes to Quality links and No to Quantity links

Tip #12: Never try to place hundreds of link for a new site on the very first day

Tip #13: Your targeted keywords need to vary a lot in anchors

Tip #14: Always have a good combination of links from new and old sites

Tip #15: Try writing articles having links and have them in the resource page of your site

Tip #16: Images are important, make sure your site logo contains your keyword

Tip #17: Put CSS and JavaScript into external file / folder

Tip #18: Pay special attention to your content

Tip #19: Make sure to have sitemap as text links

Tip #20: Place robots.txt in root on your server

Tip #21: Create Google site map to your web site

Tip #22: Start a blog and participate with other related blogs

Tip #23: Submit site to open directories

Tip #24: Create feed xml and ror xml for xml search engines and directories

Tip #25: Try to avoid automatic directory submission and build manual links

Tip #26: Monitor your hits and traffic by using free Google analytics

Tip #27: Know how to analyze the reports and to optimize the results

Tip #28: Know about redirection methods and theory - 301, 302, and 200 response codes

Tip #29: Implement, understand and react to website analytics reports

Tip #30: Make your body copy sufficiently long and keyword rich

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Have you tapped true potential of social media, yet? Social media is much more than just making friends on Facebook and MySpace. It is a great way to find new clients and form your brand online. New age social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc. have completely transformed the way people do networking.

Today, it is as important to create your social media presence as it is to create a website. However, just signing up to these websites and posting information on them is not enough. You must take the right steps to ensure that you maximize your potential from social media. You can get quality backlinks through social media bookmarking.

Just how you can maximize from your Social Media efforts?

1. Sign up to the right media: All social media websites are not appropriate for all kinds of business. Every company runs on its own principles. So, just make sure that the social media does justice to your business’ motives and objectives be it Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Craigslist, MySpace or any other.
2. Join the right people: After signing up to a social media website, search for people who can be potentially beneficial for you. Experts related to your industry, people who are working in your niche, your targeted consumers and existing customers should all be in your network.
3. Take part in conversations: You will see various discussions on most social media websites. People express their views on various issues and by joining these conversations; you can come in spotlight and increase your brand visibility. But choose the conversations carefully. It should be relevant to your business. Make sure that the people involved in the conversation are intelligent and interested in serious discussions. Becoming a part of a frivolous discussion might hurt your reputation.
4. Avoid becoming monotonous: Your social media campaign should focus on your business, but avoid just talking about it all the time. Talk about different issues, engage people into conversations and give them something that they can think about.

Social media has amazing potential for almost all kinds of businesses. With right attitude and right steps you can maximize from social media networking and build your footprint across the networks!

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Nothing can hurt you more than duplicate content on the World Wide Web. So, do NOT duplicate content.

Do not post several pages with the same title and do not post same content on several pages. If you have two separate addresses to the same page, it will be taken as duplicate content.

Here are some places where duplicate content is likely to appear and must be avoided:

1. It is possible that the duplicate content may appear for product descriptions from manufacturers. Quiet often the publishers, distributors and affiliates reproduce the product description in large e-commerce sites. Consider that there are multiple vendors selling the same product, they are likely to use the same product description. This can lead to duplicate content on the web and cause indexing problems at search engines.
2. Some sites offer multiple versions of the same page like printer friendly format of web pages, etc. In such cases, it is advised that the site owner or the web administrator uses robots.txt for meta “noindex” tagging of these alternative pages. You must avoid search engines from indexing these alternative pages as this will otherwise be considered as duplicate content leading to inappropriate indexing of your web pages.
3. Oftentimes, sites URL include visitor information to track visitors as they go through the pages of a site. You must avoid this type of tracking information to be given to search engine crawling programs. The visitor information within the URLs may lead to indexing of the same page under different URLs, repeatedly and causing duplicate content issues for your website.
4. If you duplicate the content from one to another page, it may create the risk that some of your pages don’t get indexed by search engines, or are filtered out of search results. If you use different sub-domains and different top level domains for your website, it will be better to create different brands altogether.

Google Webmaster Guidelines explicitly mention that you must not create multiple pages, domain or sub domains with similar or duplicate content.

Watch out for duplicate content for your website!

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You can employ several ways to get visitor traffic to your website. However, not all the traffic may be of “good quality”. Even if you have a high hit count, it is really not useful if the visitors do not stick around on your website for a while. It is NOT the numbers that really matter!

Targeted Traffic: In order to get good quality traffic, you really need to attract the “right” kind of visitors - people who are really interested in your site’s topic, people who are more likely to benefit from your site’s content/products, people who may even contribute to your website by purchasing your product or posting comments, or the people who may refer your product or may talk about your website with others. Thus, you need to have “targeted traffic” for the success of your website.

Using Targeted Keywords for Targeted Traffic

Targeted Traffic is focused on target-oriented user activity on the website. You may improve targeted traffic using specific keywords instead of broad keywords with high competition. Long tail keywords can also help in raking higher for less competitive keywords.

Specific Keywords: Using “specific” targeted keywords for your website help you attract targeted visitors who are interested in your web site's content and products. Specific keywords not only include the broad topic but also include keywords that describe the content of your website. While keyword research for your website, you must consider specific keywords instead of overly broad keywords with high competition.

For example, for a broad keyword like "cat", your site competes with many thousands of other sites for attention. However, the more targeted "cat house" or “cat food” phrase increase your chance of appearing near the top of the results list.

Long tail Keywords: Long tail keywords are used for targeting less-competitive niche markets rather than for the hugely competitive broad keywords. Using long tail keywords with less competition may help you rank higher on search engines easily.

For example, using long tail keyword like “home made cat food recipes” instead of “cat food” can get you more targeted traffic by ranking higher on search results.

Remember: Optimize your keywords, use specific and/or long tail keywords for targeted traffic!

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Search engines employ software programs often called “Bots” or “Spiders” to crawl and find new sites, mostly by following links from the sites that are already known. Thus, search engine spiders crawl and index web pages on the World Wide Web.

If a search engine spider has difficulty in “crawling” the links within your website, then your web pages either will only get partially indexed or will not get indexed at all. This will significantly impact your site’s ranking on the search engine.

Remember: Spiders are unable to follow very convoluted navigation menus.

Why are spiders not able to crawl my website? One of the reasons why spiders may not be able to follow your website is if your website has a complex and convoluted menu.

Search engine bots are prone to “traps” wherein complex URLs/multiple links pointing to each other or the same web page can hinder the spiders from crawling the website effectively.

Example 1: When the spiders are crawling URLs pointing to shopping cart software or content management systems, they are likely to encounter a lot of extra information in the web page URL. Multiple references to session ids or a large number of variables included in the URL can cause crawling issues.

Example 2: Another example is where a website has a large number of URL versions or several URLs redirect to display the exact same web page. In such a case, the spiders are unable to follow the links to multiple versions of the same web page which leads to poor crawling.

What should I do? Simple and short URLs are typically the easiest to crawl. So, you must try to use a content management system that produces short and clean URLs.

Additionally, you must strive to have simplified navigation across web pages, as little flash and graphical objects, and readable text with keywords for spiders to crawl easily. Using sitemaps can also help crawlers to identify and index your web pages.

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Having worked in the SEO industry for years, I have been asked the question, “Which one is better among Viral Marketing and SEO?” a number of times. Frankly speaking, it is difficult to pick one over the other. Both Viral Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are very influential tools for promoting websites over the internet and how one will be more effective than the other for an entity is entirely based on its business needs.

Today, I will highlight how each of Viral Marketing and SEO is helpful for effective online branding purposes. In the end, you may be able to choose one among Viral Marketing or SEO as suited to your business needs or perhaps use a combination of both for increasing your website’s popularity over the internet.

How does Viral Marketing help?

1. Refer-a-friend Paradigm: Viral marketing is a marketing maneuver that works like “refer-a-friend” and helps in website growth by spreading a word from one person to another and distributing ideas, products, and services to people across the web like a virus.

2. Heightened Web Presence: Viral Marketing helps in launching huge conversion rates by improved visibility and helps in enhancing business by automating marketing effort

3. Strategic Marketing: In order to advertise your website through viral promotion, you must determine firm and realistic viral marketing plan that will spread the "product virus" to the world creatively and in a contagious way so that it is able to deliver the results desired for your online business.

4. Web Popularity: Viral marketing is often used by large and small organizations to create a buzz around whatever they might be advertising or promoting.

How does Search Engine Optimization help?

1. Higher Page Ranking: Search Engine Optimization is used to optimize a website in order to rank higher in the search engine results making the website globally acclaimed over the internet.

2. Targeted Traffic: SEO helps in long term positioning of the website in search engines and helps in getting highly targeted traffic to the website.

3. SEO Marketing Plan: In order to optimize your website through SEO, you must utilize several methodologies for search engine optimization like optimizing your keywords for targeted traffic and link building to increase the number of quality inbound links to your website.

4. Search Engine Friendliness: Search engine optimization has now become part of website development for most businesses as there is a growing interest in having search engine friendly websites.

How do they work together?

Viral Marketing and SEO can work in tandem. A synchronized and amalgamated use of both can prove to be an unbeatable combination for online marketing and can help you gain unprecedented popularity within no time.

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What is Search engine spamming? Also known as Spamdexing, this practice refers to "trying to influence search engine spiders in order to synthetically enhance a website's page rank on search engine results pages (SERPs)". Web developers often employ techniques to manipulate keywords and website links to rank high on SERPs. There are several ways one can do this. I would highly recommend you stay away from such practices if you really want to rank higher on search engines:

1. Keyword stuffing: Earlier indexing was based on number of times the keyword appears on the webpage. Most search engines used the keyword frequency to estimate the relevance of the page and page ranking. So, the site operators tried to load their website with hundreds of extraneous keywords to improve their page ranking.

2. Link spamming: Often web developers place their website links randomly on blogs, comments, guest books, and any other site that accepts visitor’s comments. As the search engine ranking is highly influenced by the number of backlinks to the website, they try to increase backlinks to their website by placing a desired keyword into the hyperlinked text of the inbound link.

3. Meta-tag stuffing: Web developers try to repeat keywords in the meta-tags, and use keywords that are unrelated to the site's content is considered meta-tag spamming. Most search engines now do not follow meta-tags for ranking purposes anymore.

Most search engines like Google are now able to analyze a page for SEO spamming techniques and are able to block such sites from appearing in search results. Once blacklisted, your site is doomed and you might never be able to appear on Page 1 ever again.
Here are some alternative ways to perform SEO without spamming:

1. Posting high quality content with appropriate keyword density.
2. Link trading with White Hat sites to generate quality back links.
3. Submitting keyword optimized and good quality articles to White Hat directories generating one-way link to your website.

I could not emphasize enough that "quality" of the content is the key. Search Engine Optimization is highly affected by duplicate content and spamming. It is always better to play safe when it comes to SEO!

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