Thursday 26 December 2013

Basic White Hat SEO to use

White Hat SEO is a practice used to improve search results that is compatible with good search engine practice.

We can describe White SEO as an opposite practice to the Black SEO Hat and it refers to all actions that are ment to improve your search results. White SEO includes:

  • qood quality website content
  • relevant description,keywords, title, meta tags
  • making the site easy to navigate for users

Monday 16 December 2013

5 basic Black Hat steps to avoid

Hidden content

The first thing that ought to be highlighted on our list is hidden text. It's basicaly a content full of stuffed keywords. Marketers can try to hide the content in many ways (in comments, main body, etc.). it happens that developers also hide keywords within CSS by using very small ar invisible text on the background.

Hidden text practice were very popular about 10 years ago and were giving very good results. However, nowadays, it's not recommended to use hidden text in any way as you can get banned and your website is very likely to disappear from serp.

Meta Keyword Stuffing

There are two Meta tags that are used to let search engines know about page content. They are placed between the <head> tag and if within this tag there are too many similar or repeated keywords, you may be considered a spammer and for sure will not improve your page ranking. 

Monday 9 December 2013

Basic SEO rules you need to remember

1. Content is king. Always remember to create unique and interesting content, so that your visitors will read it with pleasure and may even share it on Social Networks. After the latest "Penguin" update, good content is key to succeed.

2. Site performance: Make sure your website is "light", loads quickly and do not contain heavy parts that slows down its performance. Also make sure your site does not have "death ends" and is user friendly.

3. SEO on and off site: Do not forget aboyt optimizing your site aganist newest SEO rulez

4. User experience: It's important your visitors stays on your site and interact with you. The longer they stay the better it is for your site and it also reduce the bounce rate. 

5. Keyword relevancy: use keywords that are relevant to your site and do not practice "keyword stuffing" practices. Do not repeat keywords and do not create "unnatural" description and content. 

6. Do not purchase links: This practice is considered a Black SEO hat and you can be punished for doing that. 

7. Anchor links: Use only natural anchors that match your content. Avoid using exact anchors as they are not the best solution according to Google. 

8. Link building: Build your links responsibly and slowly. 

9. Long-tail keywords: Look for long-tail keywords! By using them you will spend on promoting your website. 

If you would like to broaden the debate about digital marketing subjects, read more information about: components of a marketing plan and share your experience.

Tuesday 3 December 2013

SEO 2014

Despite many changes in 2013, SEO is not death. It's just changing. Moreover, SEO will probably never die. What we have to be aware nowadays is to look how Google update its "virtual animals".

Take a look below where you can find all the metrics what you will need to improve in your html code in 2014:

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Welcome to my SEO blog.

Welcome to my SEO blog.

My name is Kris and I am going to share my thoughts about various SEO subjects. I do hope you are going to find my blog useful.
As SEO changes on daily basis, we should all bear in mind about the importance of good SEO practice not to get punished by Google. Otherwise all our work will be wasted and our website will dissapear from SERP's. That's why it's so important to get up to date with the newest information about search engine optimization. Follow me :)

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