Search Engine Optimization or SEO

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines would be the most widely used internet tool to find the sites that they need to go to or the product or information they need

Most people that use search engines use only the ten top search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more business you rake in.

But, it is essential to grab a hold of that spot or make your ranking even better.
So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is an easy one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or maybe at least make your site income generating.
To read about some of the things you can do to optimize your website go to:
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Organic Search Engine Optimization

Organic SEO seems to be the catch phrase of the moment. However, unlike many other linking tactics and strategies, this one actually works.


What is Organic SEO or Organic Search Engine Optimization?

Explained simply, it's where all your linking structures originates from the content up - in other words, you let all your content created for your sites, blogs and articles do your link building for you.


Actually, the answer is as simple as this blog. You're probably experiencing one of the best examples of Organic SEO right this moment by reading this article. Article marketing and blog marketing are pure Organic SEO. You let your articles and blog and your links throughout build one-way links from your article or blog to your website.

But the keyword is content. You must create high quality original content for this system to really develop and flourish. The better the content, the faster your rankings and traffic will grow. By producing valuable content in articles, sites and blogs, you are building real traffic and real links that the search engines salivate over. And they will reward your site with higher rankings and even more traffic.

Try Article Writing...


Frankly, I was rather surprised at the effectiveness of article writing. It seems like such a benevolent little creature. You write about your own experiences on the subject of your site or blog, keeping your articles short, around 500 to 800 words - although some of my best performing articles have been longer, about 900 to 1200 words.

If you need help coming up with keyword rich content for your websites and blogs let me write do it for you just email me at:info@a1aweb.com or call: 800-459-8675 and while you're at it please visit my main business website:
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Anchor Text for Link Exchanges

Whenever you ask someone to put a link to your site on theirs it is best to also email them what you want them to put on their site. The link should contain your most important keywords. The more of these links you have on other peoples sites that are pointing to your site the higher your site will get indexed for those keywords. For instance I use the anchor text "internet advertising" and "search engine optimization" in the anchor text when I send someone the title and description for my link. This means the search engines will see these words as linking to my site from someone elses and give me points for them. The more of these words you have on other peoples sites that link to yours the better. OF course it is also good to have keywords in the description as well-but the description is not given as much weight by the search engines as the anchor text. As an example below is what I send to people that I want to do link exchanges with. I try to send it in html format so they can easily copy and paste it onto their site.

A1AWEB Discount Internet Advertising and Search Engine Optimization - Internet Advertising, website design, webpage creation, SEO, search engine optimization, marketing and promotion of websites.

As you can see I use lots of keywords pertaining to what my site is about in both the anchor text and description. If you need help getting more hits to your site please see "How to Improve Your Websites Performance"

Add more Content-Get More Hits

That's the nice thing about adding content, it can do so many things for your site: -A growing site helps encourage search engine crawlers to visit repeatedly. -A growing site has more pages which have the potential to rank for other phrases. -A growing site offers more entry points to searchers. -A growing site offers more opportunities for others to link to it. -A growing site can help positively influence link popularity ...
There are many other great reasons for starting an ongoing content development program. Aside from the link building opportunities, you can also begin to develop your online reputation as an expert in your field.
Further, as visitors do searches on search engines, there is a greater opportunity for your content to appear for those searches, helping to build your sites and your products and services exposure. I add content every day to Florida Earth movers and copy some of it to my other related sites Vintage Restorations and Advanced Performance Diesel . Add more pages to your site today and more content to your existing pages. Need help call me at: 800-459-8675 or visit A1AWEB - Thanks for visiting my Blog - Ann Menke

Google Adsense Hot Tip

If you are a Google Adsense advertiser you might want to try this to get your ads clicked on more. When displaying 728x90 leaderboard ads put thumbnail images directly above each of the four ads. It helps of course if your images correspond in some part to the ads being displayed. I have yet to try this but I plan to. I have been too busy working on two new websites Walling Dental a dental practice for sale in Walling Tennessee and Scruftys Riverwood RV Park an RV Park on the St.Johns River in Georgetown Florida

Give these sites a visit to see some of the work I do. You can also see all of my sites at A1AWEB. Thanks for visting, Ann Menke

Content is King

Develop a content strategy. The truth is, "Content is King". Most people online are looking for information. The more information that you provide for your customers, and the more valuable it is, the more likely you will make the sale.
The first and most effective strategy are articles.
Articles actually work for you in several ways.
a. Brands you as an expert so that customers come to you.
b. Provides valuable content to your potential customers.
c. Builds a relationship between you and your potential customers.
d. Creates a viral marketing strategy for your site.
e. Builds a linking strategy for you every time a webmaster publishes one of your articles or links to it.
However, if the thought of writing your own content gives you nightmares, there's a way around this.
You can use public domain information. Public domain information is information that is frëe to use because it's in the public arena, or the copyright has expired.
To help you easily locate this information, I recommend that you download the public domain toolbar. You can get it at the Public Domain Forum. You have to register for an account to get the toolbar, but both the forum account and the toolbar are frëe. The toolbar is a very comprehensive resource of public domain sources.
I hope this information will help you get your website optimized for the search engines.
If you need help and more advice please visit Improving Your Websites Performance by A1AWEB

Exchanging Links with Related Sites

I have learned after doing many link exchanges on many different sites that it is better to share links with others in related industries-similar to the way you see many different businesses of the same ilk grouped together at intersections-like car dealerships and gas stations for instance. The reason for this is because the more businesses you have grouped together-it works just like the shopping mall concept-you get more traffic and more traffic means more customers to browse in your store and thus more buyers. It is all a numbers game-the more hits you get to your website (the more eyeballs you can get to look at it) the better your chances of making a sale. I am trying to instill this concept into the minds of some of my newer website customers that are dealing in gemstones but they are afraid of losing potential customers to other dealers thru a link exchange. I beleive that you have far more to gain from networking with other businesses in the same arena than you could ever lose. They will be linking back to you-so they are taking just as much of a chance as you are. It also builds rapor and comaraderie and they are more likely to refer someone to you because of it.
If you would like more information about how to increase hits to your website please go to Improving Your Websites Performance Thanks, Ann Menke

How to get on the Search Engines Faster

How to get Google to index your website fast:
Go to Blogger.com and create a blog about the same thing your website is about.
In the blog put links in it going to your website (you can copy the text from your website into your blog) Then ping your blog URL so google will pick up those links using Pingomatic.com, it fast, easy and best of all free.

You can also ping your blog so it will get indexed by Yahoo fast by opening a free yahoo account at http://my.yahoo.com/and then bring your blog into it as content for your yahoo page. This will cause yahoo to spider your blog and find the links to your website.

I hope you have found this informative-if you need me to do this for you or need help with your website-email me at info@a1aweb.com or call 800-459-8675-Thanks, Ann Menke

Blogging to Help Your Site on the Search Engines

I have recently suggested to some of my A1AWEB customers to create a blog thru blogger.com to help their sites do better on the search engines. It is the easiest way I know of for them to create content online. The way this works is they write about their website and whatever else they want to write about and put links to their website within their blog. This can also help if you have affiliate programs you want to get more traffic to. Add links to some of your affiliate programs and mention one of your web pages every few days within your blog postings.
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to remember to put a link to your websites within your blog.
After you create a blog be sure to join yahoo.com and add your blog as an RSS feed to your My Yahoo web area. You can also do this by joining MSN.com as they offer MSN webspaces for you to create a blog in which you can pull into your yahoo web area. Pulling your blog as an RSS feed into the content of your My Yahoo will cause Yahoo to index that blog. If you post to your blogger for 8 days in a row Google will pick up your blog. And if you put links to your website within the blog-this will cause google to crawl and hopefully index your website as well. I hope you find this information helpful- if you need help with getting your website to do better on the search engines please contact me Ann Menke at 800-459-8675 or email me at: info@a1aweb.com

Search Engines Don't Care How Big You Are

I consistently hear from companies who are puzzled as to why their expensive, cutting-edge website is perpetually outranked by a site of perceived inferior quality - “our website is better than theirs” or “we are a much bigger company” are common remarks. Beauty is, as always, in the eye of the beholder. The sites that consistently rank highly are almost always using optimization methods that offer something of value to people who entered the search query. Search engines care as much about the size of a company or how much it spent on its website about as much as they care about what you had for breakfast this morning.
Rather than chase the ever-changing technical attributes that can get you short-term results, you instead use optimization methods that leverage your company’s knowledge of your industry to create something useful for the searcher. You can improve your website and offer the information and products that prospects are seeking, even if those prospects are in the earliest stages of the buying cycle. In general, you will not have to watch your rankings swing wildly based upon new spam filters or algorithm shifts, and thus will enjoy a higher level of predictability when it comes to your website (although with search engines, there are never any guarantees). Since you aren’t constantly forced to re-address your site’s search engine optimization methods, you’ll have more time to focus on other online marketing areas that need attention, such as doing link exchanges, creating a newsletter, etc.
So just add more relevant content-even just one page a week or even one page a month and slowly but surely you will get a more long lasting boost on the search engines.
Need help on the search engines go to A1AWEB
or call me - Ann Menke at 800-459-8675.

Use Paypal to accept credit cards online

You can sign up for Paypal for free to accept all types of credit card payments, and direct debit on checking accounts for payments on your website. I highly recommend using paypal as I have been using it myself for well over 6 years now. My Internet Advertising customers use it to pay me when I send them invoices from Quickbooks. I can also use it to send money requests to them. And for paying for something on ebay it is so much easier to use then having to write a check. It's completely secure and the processing fees are not charged to you until you actually sell something. The rates are competitive with merchant accounts without having to pay all those monthly merchant account brokerage and gateway fees. Giving your customers an easy way to pay you increases your chances of making a sale online.

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Optimizing Your Website for the Search Engines

Website Optimization means fixing and updating your pages to increase ecommerce sales, lead generation and search engine ranking.
There are many ways to optimize your website-you can read about them at Improving Website Performance.
I can help you with your websites SEO planning, Search Engine Submission, Pay Per Click (PPC) Management, Targeted Traffic, Email and Newsletter creation and marketing, Content Creation and Building, Link exchange management and building.These are all a part of getting your website up higher on the search engines. If you are not doing these things yourself then you need to hire someone to do them for you. Otherwise your website will be sitting in cyberspace with no visitors. The old adage of "Build it and they will come" just isn't true for the internet. Anyone can create a website but getting it easily found on the search engines take content building talent and years of marketing and promotion experience. If you can't do it yourself call me at 800-459-8675 or email me at info@a1aweb.com. You can see all the websites I've created for my customers at A1AWEB. Thanks for reading and have a great online day-Ann

Exchanging Links Is Essential For Higher Ranking

You absolutely must trade links with other sites to get ranked better on the search engines. But you cannot trade links with just anyone-you need to concentrate on exchanging links with sites in industries related to your own. Do you ever wonder why you see so many car dealerships in one place or so many restaurants all on one road. More related businesses attract more customers. Do you want to hang with the big boys or be out in the desert all alone. It is a good thing to advertise for others on your website as long as they are doing the same for you on theirs. And I don't mean just a few sites. You need to exchange links with at least 200 sites to help your site get a better ranking on Google. I charge $5 per link exchange as this is a very time consuming process...so that can really ad up if you don't do it yourself. I must search for sites related to yours for you to exchange links w. then put their links on your site, and then email them to ask them to put your link on their site-then check to make sure it is there.Try it yourself to see how much work is involved. Just try doing one a day and in a year you will have 365 links.To see examples of link exchanges scroll to the bottom of my site Promo-Plates and if you want me to do it-fill out the contact form at
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Getting More Profitable Online

As we all know every online business must maintain and optimize profitability to survive in the increasingly competitive world of internet based eCommerce. In fact, if you"ll excuse the pun, in the "Kingdom of Business", "Return On Investment" or ROI is King.
One sure-fire way, of meeting this objective, in an online environment, is to maximize the number of targeted visitors to your business website. This is unfortunately, "easier said than done". There are many who claim to show you how to do this so very easily and to even get you "boatloads of traffic". This is undoubtedly an arena where "Smoke & Mirrors" seems to reign supreme. Online Marketing, seems to have had more than its fair share of Hype Merchants, Hucksters and Scamsters who promise you the earth for just a few more dollars of your money. "Buy one million hits of laser targeted traffic" is seemingly one such device.
There are a very few who can actually deliver on their promises. But fortunately, this does not have to be so.
I show you every step you need to take in the pursuit of more traffic-please read Improve Your Websites Performance, follow each step and I guarantee you will increase your traffic. If you need help doing it-call me for a free consulation. You can see all the websites I have created at A1AWEB Internet Advertising, Thanks for visiting and have a Great Day! Anny

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Using Google Adsense to Make Money

I post google banners on the tops of my personal websites to help them generate more revenue.
It has proven quite lucrative otherwise I would not recommend it.
To sign up for Google Adsense go to: http://www.google.com/adsense
Of course it helps if you know some of the Google Ad Secrets to help your banners get more click thrus. I would like to share some of these secrets with you here.
Try to make your google banners have the same background color as your webpage and no borders-this makes it seem more like a part of your website.Put the banners below the main heading or navigation bar. To see examples of where I have done this please visit my site Used Heavy Equipment.
Put them on the tops and bottoms of each webpage and add a Google Search bar below the bottom one on your site.Try to integrate google ads throughout your site so they seem to be a part of it.

It Takes Specialized Knowledge to Market Online

It does take Specialized Knowledge to Market Online.
It takes a specific set of skills to be successful online and then, even once you've acquired these basic skills, you'll still need to know in which order to apply them all.
And so, despite the great wealth and independence that's abundantly available as an online marketer -- precious few folk ever seem to take full advantage and make really great
money.
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Don't do Pop-Up Advertising Read Why

It's amazing that there are companies that still sell this worthless form of advertising and it's even more amazing if they make anyone money doing it. My opinion of this advertising is that it's a waste of your money. I have tested many of these through different companies and the end result was always a loss of money. Do yourself a favor and don't do it.Instead read my article about the right way things to do to promote your website at http://www.a1aweb.com/improve.htm then decide what your next step should be. Email me your website address and I will let you know what you need to do to improve your websites performance. See all the people I have helped by going to http://www.a1aweb.com
Don't wait for your website to die on the vine, do what it takes to make it grow and make money for you.

Finding Interesting Content For Your Website

A friend of mine recently announced he was going to create a website all about chocolate and yet he knows absolutely nothing about the subject...other than that he likes to eat it. So he told me he got some hershey chocolate recipes in the mail and was going to post those on the website along with affiliate links to chocolates for sale.He found information about the history of chocolate to put on there as well. So with very little forethought he was about to become a chocolate afficiando and well as chocolate merchantier.Of course he plans to put the appropriate color coordinated google banner on his site.I am looking forward to his foray into this new and exciting business enterprise in which he won't even get his fingers sticky. Who says you can't sell sticky sweets without knowing about them.I will keep you posted on how this new venture turns out.In the meantime if you are at a loss as to how to make money on the internet contact me as I and my friends are always choc full of great money making ideas.

How to Get more Traffic to your website

Another way I tell people to get more traffic to their website is to create a separate webpage that focuses on one keyword or a closely related set of keywords.
When you try to make your website cover too many subjects you don't do well on the search engines for any one subject. This is why you should focus single pages on one subject.For example let's say you are selling all kinds of motorcycle accessories...create one page devoted completely to motorcycle helmets-go into detail about the different brands of helmets,which helmets you recommend most or which ones you use yourself. I could site lots of examples for many different types of industries. For clothing-concentrate one page to be all about capri pants, who wears them, what they look good with, the type of weather to wear them in, where to wear them, etc.,. Try to stay positive in your writing-don't put down someone elses products-that is bad karma. If there is some product you don't like-just don't mention it.The more pages that the search engines have to index that are related to your site the better-so start building more webpages-one page for each keyword. It does take time for the search engines to index your site but it is better to have the pages ready ahead of time for when that time comes.