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Majestic Million
Is your SEO company in the top one million sites in the world? Majestic seo have produced a new tool and this is what they say:
Today we are proud to announce the Majestic Million. This is a new way to rank websites based on how other sites see them.
Majestic Million is useful as:
* An easy way to quickly assess the relative importance of a website
* An international metric, as we crawl from all over the world
* A sign of trust
* A way to see changing patterns over time.
See the position of SEO it Right below!! Not bad out of nearly 300 million websites worldwide!!
Maximize Your Search Engine Optimization Potential With These Suggestions
For any business with an online presence, the key to increasing site traffic, as well as, increasing sales and profits, is by utilizing search engine optimization. The way to do this is by educating yourself on what tactics do and do not work in terms of optimizing your site and increasing search page rank. This article contains a number of search engine optimization tips.
To help you get a higher search engine ranking with a site that remains largely unchanged you should include a blog on your site. Search engines want to see a site with updated fresh content and if you add a blog, you have the opportunity to keep adding relevant information to your site.
Make URL’s with easy, simple and user-friendly keywords. Visitors will have a general idea of what your page is about without even clicking. Search engines will take these pages and rank them under those keywords, thus improving your ranking and getting you closer to a top page listing.
Always create content that is high in quality rather than quantity. A mass submission of poor content might catch more attention at first, but as people notice the lack of thought, design, and execution they will fade away. After that point, getting any sort of traffic to your site will be nearly impossible.
One easy search engine optimization technique you can implement is to include keywords in your HTML title tag. This helps the search engines to easily determine what your page is about. Not only that, but when visitors search for your keyword, it will show up in bold in the search results, drawing more attention to your listing.
A good search engine optimization tool lets you check the popularity of keyword searches on the internet. Having popular keywords is imperative in optimizing your search engine results. SEO tools allow you to see which keywords are trending in popularity at any given time.
Networking is an integral part of any successful SEO campaign. Network with other website owners as often as you can to build what will hopefully become mutually beneficial relationships. Use these connections to learn “tricks of the trade,” get insider advice and foster link-exchanging relationships that will help both of your sites.
Build contextual links throughout your website. Interlinking your website’s internal pages gives Google and other search engines clues to what your pages are about and helps guarantee that your internal pages share in higher rankings. To make this easier, many modern content management systems offer plug-ins that detect contextual link opportunities and automatically build them.
Pay close attention to the keywords you are using and how often they are placed within your article. You do not want to stuff the article with too many words because it sounds terrible and sets off red flags within the search engine that will hurt your rankings. A good number to remember is between 3 – 5% density of the page’s total text.
SEO it Right Director celebrates blogging award
SEO it Right Director and copywriting guru Frances Berry was delighted to this week be named as Language Blogger of the Year 2011.
The accolade awarded by Linguascope was given in recognition of Frances’s editing and copywriting work on the Business Language Champions blog. The blog brought together schools and businesses from across the UK who were participating in the Business Language Champions programme, which brings the world of work into the classroom to demonstrate to young people the importance of language skills at work. Through regular posts the blog kept BLC project managers, schools and businesses up to date with the events taking place country-wide as part of the programme as well as sharing relevant language-related news.
Although funding for this particular project came to end at the end of the financial year, the blog is still accessible and the Business Language Champions initiative is being kept alive by the new BLC social enterprise in the East Midlands, for which Frances is also involved.
Speaking about the award Frances said:
“It is such an honour to receive this award at a time when we are telling our customers how important blogging and the social side of SEO is. I have worked with Business Language Champions for many years and it is something that I feel really passionate about so I’m delighted that the small part I have played in helping encourage young people to keep up their language skills has also been an award-winning contribution.”
To find out more information about the Business Language Champions programme please visit the new BLC site.
If you want more information on how a blog can help your business please contact us today on 0121 288 2787 or email frances@seo-it-right.co.uk
How To Choose An SEO Company
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Online Marketing Now Accounts For 25% Of All Advertising In UK
According to an item on today’s BBC News website, online marketing has broken through the £4bn barrier and now accounts for a quarter of all advertising spend in the UK.
Last year the value of online marketing grew by a whopping 12.8%, three times as quickly as it did in 2009! Perhaps, more significantly than even these figures is the fact that online advertising actually out-paced the rest of the advertising market – proving that if you have got a point to make or a product to sell, your website and online presence are now your two most valuable tools.
Ian Barber of the Advertising Association says there is one clear attraction which is boosting online spending: “It’s targeted, it makes it easier for brands to work out who they’re advertising to.”
And this is by no means the end as online spending is expected to grow further, with increasing broadband speeds making the internet even more accessible and attractive.
To find out more about harnessing the power of online marketing please visit our website.
Achieve Real Results With SEO London Services
If you have a website but are concerned that it isn’t really delivering the volume of traffic or creating the level of awareness that you need for your business then you may want to consider the benefits of working with an SEO London company.
If you haven’t got a website, then firstly what planet are you on? And secondly, don’t you think it is about time you got one? Don’t worry because your London SEO company will most likely offer web design services as well so you can have a fully optimised website and on-going search engine optimisation services all through the same company.
Search engine optimisation is a complex and time-consuming process and thus should only be attempted by the experts. There are plenty of people out there who claim to be experts but you should trust only those SEO companies who appear competent and able to complete their own SEO – a simply way to check this is to see what keywords they rank for. If they don’t rank for major SEO and associated keywords, using both local and generic search terms, then chances are they don’t have the knowledge and experience to get your business ranked for your favoured keywords either.
An SEO London company can bring many benefits to your business, such as increased traffic, improved search engine listings for targeted keywords and an increased online presence thanks to social media marketing, organic SEO services and email marketing campaigns.
Aside from the offsite search engine optimisation services, your London SEO company will also provide onsite SEO to make sure that your website is search engine friendly. This will include adding relevant keywords meta data to the site, adding XML sitemaps and installing analytics software to enable you to track the number of visitors to your site, where they come from, how long they stay on the site and what keywords, if any, they used to find you.
There are many more benefits to using SEO London services and to find out all you have to do is pick up the phone and contact your local SEO company (after doing a search and finding them on page one for some SEO keywords, that is!).
If you want to find out more about SEO London then why not visit the SEO it Right website where you can browse their full range of London SEO services.
How Much Are You Paying For Your SEO
Ever wondered if you are paying too much for your seo? Not sure who to compare to? Look at the link below it will give you some good isight to how much you should be paying your search engine optimisation company.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-pricing-costs-what-should-you-charge-how-much-should-you-pay
Here is the price list taken from the website. Bearing in mind the prices are in Dollars and we are an UK based company.
| Service | Low End | Mid Range | High End |
| Site Review + Consulting | $500 | $2,500 | $10,000 |
| Hands-On Editing of Pages/Code | $2,000 | $10,000 | $50,000 |
| Manual Link Building Campaign | $500 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
| 1-Day SEO Training Seminar | $750 | $4,000 | $12,000 |
| Keyword Research Package | $100 | $500 | $2,000 |
| Viral Content Development + Mktg | $1,000 | $7,500 | $20,000 |
| Web Design, Development + Mktg | $5,000 | $25,000 | $100K+ |
| Monthly Retainer for Ongoing SEO | $2,500 | $7,500 | $20,000+ |
The Importance Of Web Design and SEO
The Prospect that you should have SEO on your site even before you develop it appears counter-intuitive, and in many different ways, it is. But, not entirely. I’ve been an SEO for over 4 years, and I still can’t get past the fact that optimisation continues to be the “after thought,” only entering play even after the site has been installed and operating for months or even years.
This mindset must change.
The achievements a website’s web marketing efforts can make or break many businesses. It no longer is practical to employ your SEO company only following a website has been developed. That’s like doing demographic research when you have already chosen your store’s location and invested thousands of money in putting together the shop.
Just like demographic research should be carried out to determine where and how a business sets up their brick and mortar store, SEO is needed before you start to program the first piece of code or design the first graphic for your website. The truth is, development and SEO are so completely intertwined which they both have to be considered together. Failure to do so frequently leads to expensive re-development costs as the SEO company requests changes that may have been done within the initial development stages.
I frequently get calls from businesses exploring Search Engine Optimization but would like to hold back until their site is fully developed and operational before they sign up with any particular SEO company. This tactic seems to make logical sense because business people often desire to make sure the web page looks and performs properly before dropping money into a long lasting commitment to an online marketing firm. But, SEO is just as much part of the business plan as the web development.
The web site marketing plan really should be one of the driving facets of web site development. But, unfortunately, many of the things connected to marketing are usually done wrong during the site development. That’s not saying developers don’t understand what they’re doing, quite contrary. Developers are usually great programmers, designers, and creators. They’re just generally not great optimizers. And there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s simply not what they specialize in.
Rolling out a web site that operates well below a it’s full performance capabilities isn’t only a waste of time, it’s a waste of money, even if you’re not quite ready to place the thing into high gear. It doesn’t make smart financial sense to develop an internet site that has got to be re-developed again when you get your SEO company involved. Nor can it make good sense to tie your SEO’s hands since you don’t wish to put money into site development again. Ultimately, this puts you in a lose/lose situation.
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