01/01/2009 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

Hello Everyone,

New Year is the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the coming year. It is the time to forget and get past memories that are no longer useful or worth pondering upon. It is the time for new beginnings and new starts in life. New Year has a message for each one of us. One should let go of the past that has bad memories and accept what has happened, has happened for some reason. Instead of clinging onto your past and things that have gone, it is better to let go.

There is an old saying that goes, “Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened”. This essentially means that there is no use crying over spilt milk. You cannot turn back time and do things that would benefit you. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue. New year is the time of new beginnings. It is time to start afresh and do things that would make someone else smile. Make a pledge to make at least one person happy. You will see the difference it can make in both your lives. The essential message of New Year is let go off the past and embrace life as it comes to you. You will be happier and merrier that way.

“May this new year all your dreams turn into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.”

HAPPY NEW YEAR! and best of luck to you, my reader!

Regards,

Junaid Ashraf

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31/12/2008 In Gadgets by SEO Specialist

Phenom Cellphone Watch

The new gadget is a Phenom SpecialOps Cellphone Watch, an unlocked GSM cell phone, MP3 and MP4 player, a digital and video camera all in one device and available to the user right from their wrist whenever they need it.

If i’m not wrong so, The Phenom Watch Phone’s asking price is $295 and includes up to 2GB of memory, a touch screen, built in Bluetooth, USB port and speaker phone.

To make it possible for the wide array of gadget lovers and consumers to enjoy the device,  it also comes in a variety of models,  styles and colors.

If the SpecialOps’ $295 asking price is a little high for your tastes so, Phenom has other models available, including the $235 Mi5.

For further detail visit Phenom Cellphone Watch Official Website at: http://www.phenomwatchphone.com/

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29/12/2008 In WordPress by SEO Specialist

Hi Readers!

Today, i’m going to share with you “WordPress SEO Plugins“. For those of you who don’t know what SEO is, it is short form for Search Engine Optimization. For further about SEO, read my previous Posts …Anyway, Below are list of few useful WordPress SEO Plugins…

WordPress SEO Plugins

1. SEO Title Tag allows you to decouple post titles from title tagsone and this is helpful in SEO. This plugins lets you define a custom title tag for each of your posts. Title tags are very important in SEO. Normally the post titles are used as title tags by Wordpress but this can really affect your blog SEO.

2. Optimal Title is another SEO plugin that performs similar to SEO Title Tag plugin, it can also perform the job of Optimal Title. It will let you optimize your Wordpress post/page titles for better SEO visibility.

3. All in One SEO Pack is exactly what the title says. This plugin has claimed a lot of popularity in such a short time period. The specialty of this plugin is that it does not concentrate on only one blog SEO factor rather takes care of all of them at once. It…

• Generates META tag
• Optimizes your Titles
• Avoids indexing of duplicate content

I’m also using this plugin on this blog www.junaid.biz/blog/    :)

4. Permalink Redirect is a SEO plugin saves your blog from getting a duplicate content penalty by major search engines. The plugin makes sure that all of your blog posts and pages are associated respectively to only URL and in case of otherwise query it will reply with a 301 redirect. This will help search engines bots to understand whether the URL ends with a trailing slash or even without it, in both cases the URL is the same and so is the content. For example look at the URLs below:

http://www.junaid.biz/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-seo-professional/

http://www.junaid.biz/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-seo-professional

These URLs will trigger a duplicate content penalty for your blog if you do not use this plugin.

5. SEO Wordpress is another SEO plugin that helps you save your blog from triggering a duplicate content alert just like Permalink Redirect plugin except that it uses a custom robots.txt file to handle the search engine spiders.

6. Permalink Validtor is the twin brother of the Permalink Redirect plugin but it has been specially coded for those wordpress blogs that are hosted on IIS (Internet Information Services). This plugin validates your permalinks and checks if a certain permalink really redirects to the post that has been requested. It will do these following  SEO tasks for you

• Adds trailing back-slash if missing
• Adds or removes www prefix according to your permalink structure
• Forces a correct 404 page instead of showing an empty search result when using an invalid URL
• Fixes pagination for WP on IIS

7. WWW Redirect allows users to have more control over the URI in which their users access their blog. www or no-www have been issues of great concern for SEO analysts and it has been recommended that you should either give all your URLs a www or no-www prefix. If you allow your visitors and search engine spiders and bots to access your blog through both www or no-www this can potentially result in a negative search engine optimization and can even conflict with your blog pagerank.

8. Ultimate Tag Warrior is probably the oldest and the most finest multi-features SEO plugin ever built for Wordpress. This plugin will do everything from letting you add META keywords in your blog posts to adding Technorati tags.

9. Head META description is another one of my favorite SEO plugins that I use in collaboration with Ultimate Tag Warrior on this blog. META tags are very important through SEO point of view and the META Description tag is basically used by search engine spiders to show little text snippets for your posts/pages on big search engines.

10. Another Wordpress Meta Plugin is yet another SEO plugin that can do the job of both UTW and Head Meta Description alone by itself. It focuses on the META tags because of their high importance in search engine optimizations and basically allows you to add META keywords and META descriptions to your posts and pages. The best thing about this plugin is that it is backward-compatible with All-in-One-SEO-Pack.

11. Google XML Sitemaps is the mother of all SEO plugins and I can’t imagine a single blog that is not currently using this plugin. The plugin creates valid XML sitemaps of your blog on the fly which you can submit to Google using the Google Webmaster service for faster and better indexing. This plugin ensures that your blog is indexed in Google search results so you can apply your best SEO techniques to get maximum traffic.

12. Search Meter is a plugin that helps you in doing better search engine optimization for your blog indirectly. Through this plugin you can see what people are looking for on your blog and what are the most wanted and hottest searches. Once you find out what people are looking for on your blog you can optimize your blog for those searched keywords so that you get a higher search engine ranking for those searched terms.

13. Nofollow Case by Case helps you remove the nofollow attribute from links in your blog comments. You can also selectively apply nofollow to any comment link you do not like to support or you can even selectively apply nofollow to any comment author link too. The plugin also has a feature that can make all your comment links open in a new window using target=”_blank”. This way you can control the crawling of search engine spiders which are responsible for blog SEO. This plugin should be used with great caution as it can cause negative SEO as well pagerank leaking in some cases.

14. Bunnys Technorati Tags is a simple plugin that is used to display technorati tags in your blog post or pages. Though Ultimate Tag Warrior can do the same job for you but Bunnys Technorati Tags is always a good choice when you want a light and not-heavy plugin unlike UTW. It is always good to display your Technorati tags in posts as this helps you getting extra backlinks from blogs and splogs that copy and republish your content.

15. Simple Tags is yet another plugin used to display Technorati below your blog posts or pages but itis unique and different in the sense that it does not any custom fields. Just by following a simple format you can display technorati tags below your posts and pages even if you are blogging through a remote blogging software like Windows Live Writer etc.

16. Wordpress Tag Clouds is a little-complex plugin that will generate a tag cloud of your blog categories. The tag cloud is generated in accordance to the post concentration of a category i.e. the category with greater posts in it will get a bigger shape and so on. Tag clouds are important through SEO point of view as they tell search engines which links and categories hold more weight and which of them are more important.

17. Permalinks Migration is a SEO-Support Plugin that will not improve your search engine optimization rather it will save it. For example at some point in your blogging career you plan to change the permalink structure of your blog, for better SEO, but are unable to do so because you fear that all of your blog pages and posts indexed by search engines will become invalid and you will lose all your search engine traffic. You don’t need to worry about this anymore as Permalinks Migration plugin will use a 301 redirect to save your SEO and broken links thus you can change the permalinks structure of your blog anytime ever in your life.

18. KB Robots.txt helps you create, manage and maintain a robots.txt file from within your Wordpress admin menu. I have already mentioned that robots.txt is a very important text file that search engine spiders check whenever they enter your blog. This file keeps robots and spiders out of reach of those regions which can trigger negative SEO and duplicate content alerts. This is a very good plugin for blogs which are hosted on a subdomain and for Wordpress MU blogs.

19. Objection Redirection is another SEO support redirection plugin that controls your blog URL redirects. It will let you redirect your old or broken URLs to new and clean ones. Basically the purpose of this plugin is to control your site redirection without having to touch htaccess file and preserving your search engine optimization.

20. SEO Slugs is a pure SEO tool that will generate search engine optimized and SEO friendly posts slugs for your blog posts by removing the common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ automatically. This plugin strips common words like “what”, “you” or “can” out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly and the good thing about it is that i won’t overwrite an existing slug. However you can force a new slug generation by deleting your old one.

21. Wordpress Subdomains is a plugin that will convert all your blog categories to subdomains. This is a very good plugin regarding SEO point of view but very dangerous at the same time as it may or may not work with your hosting provider and is kind of complex. Search engine spiders give more weight and ranking to subdomains than mere URLs so this is a good plugin if you want to improve your search engine rankings.

22. Really Simple Sitemap is a plugin that will generate a very simple sitemap of all your blog posts and pages. Unlike Google XML Sitemap plugin this plugin just lists all your published posts for a user or search engine spider to see and does not create an XML sitemap. This plugin is very useful if you want to stop bots and spiders from indexing your categories, archives and feeds.

23. No Ping-wait is a plugin that does not directly help you in any SEO but it can be referred as a long-term and indirect SEO-supporting tool. This plugin will prevent the delay that is caused while publishing your blog post when you are pinging a huge amount of services by making the pinging-action passive. Pinging a huge amount of services gives your blog a better search engine visibility and buzz. You should use this plugin if you are pinging more than 20+ services at once.  You can also ping by using service like Pingomatic.

24. Wp-Supercache - This is really useful in SEO but many people and even qualifies professional forget about this factor. Using this speed up your wordpress blog as it stores a cached version of a page. So when a user requests the page it displays the cached version by not making any heavy server queries every time a user requests the same page. So when a bots vists your site, you site would load much faster making it to index more each visit. 

25. KB Linker - KB Linker will link phrases you specify to sites you specify. For example, you could make it so that whenever “Wordpress” occurs in a post it is automatically linked to wordpress.org. All you do is enter keyword->URL pairs into the Options->KB Linker page in your admin screen.

The list of WordPress SEO Plugins has been re-produced from Sizlopedia.com ’s post on SEO Plugins for WordPress.

Please share your thoughts, WordPress SEO Tips or if you have any better SEO plugins to share so,  please do let me know your review and I will publish the review to my blog.

Comments are welcome

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29/12/2008 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

Yesterday, I was reading Articles @ http://junpak.org/ for latest technology and ideas…So, i got one article on SEO with title  “SEO Permanently In The Gray Area” by Julie Johnson. In this article, she did try to explain more about SEO….

According to Julie…

The term SEO, or search engine optimization, is still an unknown to virtually everyone who doesn’t work in that field. Most people have never even heard of the term nor know what it refers to. But the more interesting part is that even within the SEO industry, not everyone agrees on how best to approach the problems SEO sets out to solve.

There are some standard guidelines like high volume of content on the website, giving outbound links and receiving inbound links, properly formatted meta tags, and a well organized site. Most in the industry do agree that these are basic tenets for a successful SEO program, but there is no magic path to getting there. SEO is not divined from a scientific method, but remains almost like a dance, an art form. The SEO provider is constantly working and reworking their formulas while they keep a close eye on the website’s movement in the rankings.

Ask 10 SEO companies s to perform a site analysis, and you;ll get 10 different reports. Luckily most of them will have quite a bit of overlap. And luckier still, provided they are bona fide SEOs , most will not have any outright conflicting advice. But still, the finesse and attention to detail that a good SEO agent possesses will be evident in the varied responses you would see in these 10 reports.

The industry is an exciting one for SEO providers. Because there’s no clear cut right or wrong way, much of their work is based on inherent knowledge, experience, and a whole lot of intuitiveness. Nobody has a secret plan that will work 100% every time, and every website is different in its needs and goals. Building traffic and improving rankings are the only way a SEO provider gets a “report card”. And because SEO work takes time before the effects are seen, there’s almost a magical excitement present that the suspense of not knowing brings.

The mystery of SEO also makes it hard on a layman though. It is nearly impossible to perform truly stellar SEO work to your own site, because the finesse it requires only comes with volumes of clients under your belt. Further it makes it harder for a layman to choose an SEO provider, and to know if the changes his SEO wants him to do are right answers. It requires a leap of faith and at least a basic understanding of SEO to dive into it.

Article Source: http://junpak.org/seo-permanently-in-the-gray-area/

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24/12/2008 In Outsourcing by SEO Specialist

In the past few years, the fact has came in front clearly that Pakistan has become one of the prominent figure for SEO Outsourcing. The developed countries like America and some parts of Europe prefer to Outsource SEO to Pakistan for its cheap rates and high profitability. The great benefit of outsourcing seo to Pakistan is it is highly beneficial for the company to get the results at half rates due to money conversion between states and the maintenance at low costs. 

Not only Pakistan, but also now other Asian countries like India and Sri Lanka are also preferred for outsourcing services from the developed countries just because of the low labor rates and maintenance at low costs. 

There are a lot of benefits for Outsourcing SEO to Pakistan. The abundant profit achieved by the company and the minimum expenditure to promote success is only possible by outsourcing services to Pakistan. 

Though in early times, Pakistan’s IT field has no exposure to seo and its services, but with the sudden growth in the IT knowledge and related experiences, Pakistani businessmen has not only settled companies for this sake but also the individuals are involved in providing SEO Services. Not only seo, but other related projects and contracts like that of building website, website content, website designing, and so on projects are easily worked by the Pakistani IT Professionals. It technology is a vast field, and that of a developed country; it has more chances to progress and expand. There are many companies in Pakistan that work on seo grounds. 

SEO Outsource to Pakistan has changed lot of minds of people for self-convenience. The projects from abroad can either be treated by a particular company or can be handed over to individual seo professional at home. The abroad people or the developed country that believes in outsourcing seo to Pakistan is correct to take the decision, as he will receive number of benefits including money savings, required labor in controlled costs, lining up with one particular business dealing and reduce the risk.

These services are easily forwarded to Pakistani individuals, being punctual and willing to work, the professionals here get the project done in the required time. This has made the projects provider rely on the Pakistani professionals. No such cheats, and dirt activities has been found regarding working behavior of Pakistani professionals in the given tasks. Being punctual with ending up the tasks, it is more flexible to work with Pakistani professionals, anytime you can begin with new projects and think done. 

The Outsourcing SEO to Pakistan has dramatically taken position in the Internet business market, the current situation of the working speed and the number of professionals involved in the seo services and other internet discipline might make this possible to figure Pakistan in the established countries where Internet businesses will play a major role. 

Pakistan is counted as a developing country, certain drawbacks has made Pakistan appear a dull region but the citizens of Pakistan are pure workers and have enormous talents which they can use in any of the fields, and when it comes to the IT technology, Pakistan has no doubt developed a strong base and is engaged to build a strong network with the developed countries and magnify the internet businesses.

The IT professionals in Pakistan have a heart to work for their nation. It is more compatible to work with Pakistani IT professionals as compared to any other of another country. Outsourcing SEO to Pakistan has made it possible for the developed countries to communicate in a friendly manner and get a complete working environment similar to their own staff.

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23/10/2008 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

SEO or search engine optimization is a practice done for achieving high ranks in the search engine results. It also then links with other activities that are necessary for a website to raise itself in the rush of websites found on Internet. Article marketing is important for a website, not only in the sense that it increases the traffic, but also that it helps creating links density further among other websites. The Google page ranking prefer the websites or the WebPages to the domains of websites so in this case of optimization the article marketing proves to be good.

Article marketing is held in three different methods that are common and reliable. It can also be said that the variety of articles are marketed according to its field. Anyhow it is processed through your resource box or sometimes called bio. Basically the article directories enlist your information by adding one or two URLs. This apart portion comes in three ways, that is either by adding resource at the bottom of your article, or by adding a paragraph at the end of the article or by adding the biography of the author of the article at the end of it. So by doing any of these practice will make your article introduce to the readers and they will prompt you once or frequently to reach you.

The purpose of the article marketing is to get you exposed out in the text form throughout the Internet. This will help many people reach you, by reading your given information in the article. The article can be related to any product or service, and its related topics. A lot of objectives are kept in front before writing an article, the main point is to hit the reader’s mind that is the article must have convincing power and is written in the simple form. The article marketing is helpful in getting your website known by majority of the reader’s audiences and more and more people click on your website link. In a way or other article marketing helps in increasing sales and fame in the commercial Internet. Thus this formula goes parallel, the more article marketed, the more promotion attained and the more high rank is achieved. One important point to note down is that when writing articles not all the information and the knowledge is provided in the article. This is because if the reader will get all the desired information in the article he will of course feel not necessary to visit your website. Thus the article marketing is basically done to bring people and the searchers to reach your website. It is smartly prepared to make the reader finally click on your website to get his complete desired information. Though the last given method of article marketing is usually not favored, but there are a lot of random methods used in the article directories to attract people and get their related information.

Article marketing is an important activity in seo, it has its won role and at many times only article marketing gets the backbone of stand or downfall of a particular website. Self-creativity is necessary for article writing so that the purpose of article marketing gets wonderfully successful and also it is important to expose your website in front of different people in different methods. The article marketing should be done in a smart way to bring people’s attention towards your website, the article marketing at its place if is good, its written form also matters a lot because if the marketing is held correctly and the written form is boring and flat then one doesn’t receive a healthy and wealthy out put of article marketing.

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20/10/2008 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

If you are the new to blogger and you are frustrated because small number of people visit your blog or you are not getting high ranking in search engines; even after you have submitted your blog to blog directories and Google/Yahoo sitemaps.

Luckily, Blogger have come up with a simple fix for this problem for those who use Layouts(Templates).

The following code works for creating different page titles for the homepage, archives, and individual entries.

Go to Layout > Edit HTML, and find this code:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Replace with this following :

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;’><title><data:blog.title/> : Your Blog Title Goes Here</title>
<meta content=’Add Your Description’ name=’Description’/>
<meta content=’Add Your Keywords’ name=’Keywords’/><b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;’><title><data:blog.title/> : Your Blog Title Goes Here</title>
<meta content=’Add Your Description’ name=’Description’/>
<meta content=’Add Your Keywords’ name=’Keywords’/><b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’><title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.pageTitle’ name=’Keywords’/></b:if></b:if></b:if>

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So what have been changed?

The old code only shows your blog title. Vs. The new code shows the post title first plus description and keywords meta tags.

…and now you have an SEO friendly blogspot / blogger page title.

Enjoy…

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19/10/2008 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

Search Engine Optimization is essential for any online business to prosper. A lot of companies realize the importance of SEO and thus the need for it is increasing every single day. SEO is one of the most effective yet basic blocks of online marketing. Several benefits are associated with having a highly ranked website since a huge amount of traffic is directed to a site when this occurs.

Thus, it is very important for a website owner to choose the right SEO professional to work with. Since SEO is a relatively new field in online marketing, it can be really difficult to tell which company is known to be the best in the field and with the various SEO companies around, one must be careful because working with the wrong one can mean disaster for your marketing campaign.

You have to closely consider some things before choosing an SEO professional so that you get the services that you want. Firstly, you have to take a close look at the SEO professional’s website. Do a thorough review and analysis of the website with regards to content, SEO methodology, and design, and if you feel that they have done a good job, then it is likely that they are really experts in their field. Check for their search engine rankings and ask for the keywords they use to have their site ranked. If they have made their own website successful, it is just so that they will make yours as successful as theirs.

After analyzing the website of the SEO professional you want to work with, you should request a portfolio. If there is a portfolio page in their site, make sure that they have a good and updated one containing links to the websites they have done marketing campaigns for in the past. Some SEO professionals will not put a portfolios page in their website for privacy issues so you can just request an email from them or perhaps conduct a meeting in person.

More importantly, you can check out the track record of the SEO professional by getting reviews and feedback from clients of the particular professional. Make sure you ask them regarding the SEO satisfaction they got when they worked with that particular professional and how long they have worked with him.

If you are somewhat convinced of the ability of the SEO professional to work on your campaign, you can ask him to submit an SEO proposal. Check in detail what the proposal contains and the strategies they use to gain a higher search engine ranking. Make sure that the strategies are indeed legitimate and will not violate any search engine regulations.
Another tip to choose the right SEO professional is to ask a guarantee of rankings from major search engines and they guarantee that you will get the number 1 spot in Google and Yahoo, it is time for you to move on to the next one. Why? Because it is a fact that no one can guarantee rankings since search engine algorithms change from time to time.

Lastly, a good SEO professional will provide you with reports from time to time regarding how your online marketing campaign is going so that you are updated with how things are.

These are the basic steps in choosing the right SEO professional. Hopefully, when you follow these steps, it will lead you to the right person who will bring better business to your website.

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15/10/2008 In Search Engine Optimization by SEO Specialist

What is search engine optimization? Have you heard of this term before? SEO or search engine optimization is the process of enhancing your website through following various tips and tricks so that people who are searching in the internet search engines will be able to find your site on the top of the search results. The most popular search engines right now are MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Search engine optimization makes your website easily accessed and viewed by thousands or even millions of people around the world. With this kind of technological breakthrough, doing business in the internet has never been this lucrative and exciting.

Gone are the days when we have to do a door to door promotion of our products which could be extremely stressful and yielded little results. Search engine optimization can take us to outcomes we never experienced before. As long we see to it that our product is worth the buy and possesses remarkable and lasting quality, we can be assured of great profits arising from search engine optimization. The investment we put up in our business is costly. We can’t just afford to throw away our money for something that does not give us a good return. We cannot just be confident that our website will certainly be viewed by many in the sense that of the millions of people in every little corner of the world a part of them will surely view our site.

People these days want instant results so that they cannot spend very long hours in the internet searching for their needed websites down to the bottom of the list. Doing so would mean that the searcher is not doing anything else in life other than searching and searching. Search engine optimization can offer you the success that you want if you can only bring out the best in the process and in your business.

Normally, people who search in the internet want to know something about a certain field of business or expertise. In other words they have a lot of questions about something. In this case, the searcher wants a website that can explain everything in the shortest possible time and not do otherwise.

Therefore it is best to fill your site with the most likely titles, phrases, and keywords that people will look for. In this way there is really a better chance for your website to appear in the first page of the results, giving your site the exposure it needs. But doing such a thing requires an intensive knowledge and research on the demands and complexities of the market.

Trusting in your own knowledge and business techniques is good but the fact is you may not know everything as everybody else may not know everything. Doing more intensive SEO study on your own or attending search engine optimization workshops can take your business to a longer stretch. It is essential that you know the traits and the tendencies of the internet searchers in your business field. Another common option is getting the services of a search engine optimization company that is if you can afford it.

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05/09/2008 In Google by SEO Specialist

At September 02, 2008. Google launched its new Web Browser named “Google Chrome”. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download Google Chrome and start exploring. (For the moment, it’s available only for Windows users, but you can sign up on the download page to learn when the Mac and Linux versions are available.)

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