The Google sandbox!

The Google sandbox came to be in the beginning of 2004, basically it’s a new spam filter that excludes new websites from the search results for a period of time. The sandbox is basically a place that google holds websites in until they believe it’s time to start allowing them to rank. This even happens with websites that have a high quality unique content and which are promoted using legitimate techniques.

So basically a new website is created, great content is added and you do SEO correctly but you still can’t rank!

The trick to the sandbox is learning how to be patient; you just have to wait until they start treating your website like its normal, which usually takes around 90 days. In these 90 days you can take advantage and start building your website would legitimate white hat seo techniques.

Google filters these websites to try and trace any websites that are using black hat techniques to push their way to the top of the rankings in any niche. This is one way that Google eliminates any spammers from entering their index!

By Google implementing the sandbox filter it has allowed us as he SEO’s to use our legitimate techniques for ranking our keywords properly. It eliminates spammers making our job easier; however it does get tiresome having to wait 90 days to see some real ranking placements! I wish Google would speed that process up a little bit.

Articles Are The Quickest Way To Your Customers Wallet

One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income.

Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How does this work?

Write articles relating to your website and submit them to “free content” submission sites. Easy to do, takes little time and can increase your website traffic, sales and of course, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.
If they do, your article will include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.
If you site is into promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and became enticed by your promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.
Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.
The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your website and your products or services.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.

SEO URL’s!

Today we’ll be discussing SEO URLs and how they help you in search engine rankings.

Seo URLs have long been overlooked by the massive amounts of PHP systems out there which use session IDs as the URL structure. The session ID URL structure usually consists of a bunch of numbers defining what page to pull from the database. Although a lot of websites rank well using session IDs they would rank even better if they would’ve started out with SEO URLs. If your website is already using session IDs we do not suggest changing if your website is older than six months. Any longer than this and Google has alreadu considered your website and authority an changing it now would be like starting right back at the beginning!

On the other hand SEO URL’S do several jobs that session IDs cannot, for instance when labeling your URLs using your keywords in those URL’S will tell the search engines what your pages is about before they even enter the page to read the title tag which should have your keywords in it already. To impress the importance of SEO URL’S on your brain here are some examples of good and bad URL structures.

Both use the SEO friendly structure but as you will see one is definitely better than the other.

1. www.mykeywordurl.com/keyword1/keyword1.html
2. www.myurl.com/key-word/long-tail-keyword.html

Although the first example is good and way better than session IDs it is in fact listing your keyword too many times. It only needs to be mentioned once for the search engines to get the message for your keywords.

As you can see in this second example we are first listing the URL which is not a keyword domain, most of the good keyword domains are taken and this is why we did not list it in the second example, wishful thinking will get you nowhere!

Next we are mentioning the keyword ending with a long tail keyword for your HTML page. This URL structure will help you get ranked as fast as possible in your desired keyword although not perfect and many other examples will work we have found this structure to yield the best results.