Guide to Site Navigation for SEO

When SEOs talk about navigation, we tend to stick to the technical side of things: “Make sure that you have internal links to every page on your site.” “Don’t put too many navigation options on a page because you’ll have too many internal links.” “Load your drop down link content before JavaScript so that search engines can read it.”

Website creators have to put navigation together on their own, gathering bits and pieces from different articles around the web. So, I’ve put all the tidbits together, creating a guide to building site navigation that’s optimal for search engines (and visitors, too, never forget your visitors!).

Universal Navigation

A case study in sham SEO

A case study in sham SEO

How do you know when you’re not getting your money’s worth?

A couple of months ago, I was speaking with a prospect about his current web marketing, and it became clear that what he was getting from his current agency had little to no value.

Meet Mike

“Mike” had been paying his agency for months but had seen zero results. A website he’d made for himself on the side was ranking better than the business website he was paying his SEO agency to promote. Having no knowledge of web marketing or SEO himself, he was paying hundreds of dollars a month to this agency for their expertise – for nothing.

How to get more website visitors with SEO Tools?

How to get more website visitors with SEO Tools?

Introduction to SEO and SEO Tools SEO stands for Search Engines Optimization. This is a systematic process by which one can improve the visibility of a website in search engines. Search Engines follows a definite procedure to search and rank each and every website. The magic of SEO is that it can make one site popular and high ranked page even if it is not. Many organizations now hire SEO Agencies to promote and popularize their website. There are many tools are available that helps in the SEO process. Those tools are usually known as SEO Tools. There are many SEO tools are available from different Search Engines. Google SEO Tools, Bing SEO Tools are more famous than others. If one can handle those tools successfully, improved visitors statistics is just a matter of time. Different part of SEO Tools There is no one singular SEO Tools are available who can handle each and every issues regarding SEO Management. So,

I Want to Fire My SEO!

I Want to Fire My SEO!

Here is an example of an imaginary conversation that a “good SEO” may have with a “bad client”.  This post is not real and is meant to be humorous! although this [fake post] does address some real issues that we have encountered when dealing with clients.  If you have a bad experience with an SEO or if you are an SEO who has had clients similar to this one please feel free to share your stories in the comment box below.

About 3 months ago I hired an SEO for my company, John’s Quilting. Right now I am not even sure what in the world I was thinking when I wrote that check as I am so disappointed in the service I have received, or should I say what I haven’t received. I am not even sure where to start I am so upset. The SEO and I talked about my business site for an extended period of time and I was very clear about some things like what keywords to use, where I wanted my site to be in the search engine result pages and what the design of John’s Quilting should look like. I’m wondering if he is just deaf or chose to ignore what I asked him to do.

5 top tips to a smooth SEO-client relationship

5 top tips to a smooth SEO-client relationship:

It seems like everyone has an idea of what ‘SEO’ means these days – whether it’s correct or not.

It used to be that an agency needed to explain SEO from top to bottom to a potential client, but lately clients at Summit Web Solutions are more often coming to us with a pre-formed idea as to what SEO is.

With the myriad Internet marketing blogs, websites and affordable SEO tools out there, it seems like most business leaders now can grasp just enough information to understand the basic principles of SEO.

List of Websites & Directories to Submit Your Blog

Here is a quick list of Websites, directory and places where one should submit their blog. Most of the sites listed here are free and if you are creating a new blog/Website or have not submitted your existing Website to these places, you should go ahead and create one.

This also includes many social networking site and social bookmarking profile. It’s not an extensive list like 1000 sites or something, but I’m creating a list of those sites which are important and will be helpful in either search engine ranking or tracking your site report.

Where to submit your Blog?

Let me start the list with Webmaster tools as it will be first step to get your site on search engines. Submitting you blog to other sites will help in better indexing and crawling of your blog. Specially when you create a new blog, it takes time for search engine bots to find your blog and crawl it, by submitting your site to these Websites which is listed below, it will help in faster indexing. Though if your sole motto is to let your site index in no time, here is a quick guide : How to index your site in 24 hours.