Twitter Crash - September 13 2009

So its another Twitter crash its happening all the time Reasons given now include

Excessive amount of connections
Some strenage API project absorbing resources
Staff changes that have gotten messed up
Errors between databases, page caches, servers and daemons
It is a scheduled database update (really?)
The caching had an unscheduled restart
* etc.

Whatever the issue - Google gets like 3 gazillion hits every minute, when is the last time google crashed….

Err,,, someone remind me for a free ‘Buy Me A Drink’

Top 10 SEO Myths

The top 10 SEO myths that are constantly resurfacing have been briefly discussed below


Myth # 1: Most Meta Tags must have equal importance -
Some of the meta tags are useful and most of the search engines rely more on these tags and you should concentrate on robot tag and description tag.

 

Myth # 2: Should you submit your site more than one time
This is not required, you must ensure that you submit it once and the search engine come back on their own. If you want to increase the traffic then you could index your site to high traffic or high PR site.


Myth # 3: Is SEO very expensive
SEO are the most cost effective online marketing methods and to set up and maintain a SEO would not cost you much. 

 

Myth # 4: Natural SEO may not be better than PPC
This has to be analyzed both in near term results and long-term impact. For short-term results PPC would be effective but to have a long-term strategy SEO structuring would do wonders.


Myth # 5: To hire a SEO specialist in house is cheaper
SEO is a process and one person will not be able to handle all the aspects of SEO, so it would necessarily requires a team and so it would be costly.


Myth # 6: Can I optimize only my home page for keywords
You could but need to optimize every page to have better search engine results.


Myth # 7: All I should do is write content having correct keyword density and my site will rank well
This would not work in many of the search engines including Google, but would work well in MSN.

 

Myth # 8: I shouldn’t aim for most competitive Keywords

Keywords are very important and should be handled properly.

 

Myth # 9: To work with companies that can give you a guarantee

Guarantees could be misleading and no SEO formula would be perfect for every web site.

 
Myth # 10: A minimum commitment for SEO

This is not true as it would very much depend on the terms of duration you agree upon.

Tips For Better SEO

Search Engine Optimization is the process by which you can improve the quality of the website and also increase the flow of traffic to your website. There would be different searches like images, different vertical and industries. There are several tips for better SEO and most important tip is to have the right content in your website. This should be done by researching the content of your website with the other competitor websites and ensure that the content and HTML coding are optimized to have a significant increase in the traffic. The term search engine friendly would describe the right website design, content management and have the right menus that are simple and trouble free to optimize.

 

The SEO technique is divided broadly into two categories one is white hats SEO that produces long term results but would not provide you high ranking to your website. White Hats SEO is not just following the guidelines of search engine algorithm, but is to ensure that the content the search engine indexes is the same content that the user would like to see. The other category is black hats SEO where it is expected that the website would be banned due to unethical methods being adopted. The black hats SEO would be focused on getting better rankings in such ways that would be condemned by different search engine. So the search engine can reprimand the website if they adopt black hats SEO method.

SEO Services

SEO services are provided to individuals or businesses to make them achieve success. They are customizable and must be done correctly and continuously. To find a Proper SEO service provider would be tough task. There are different SEO services that are provided by different people and one has to know what his wants and needs are. SEO service providers understand the requirement of the client and ensure to provide then the best option in SEO and ensure that they have a good return on investment for the money spent on Internet marketing and optimization.

 

The SEO service providers would guarantee that there will be significant increase in your online business if they adopt the right strategy and thereby improving traffic to your website and improve your business. It is very important to understand the skill level of the team that would be working on SEO services. They must also ensure that the SEO service provider has the necessary experience in handling such projects at a cost effective manner. The money spent on such services must provide the client with the necessary results and the web technicians must use their skill to help your website indexed properly. The service provider must also make a complete analysis of the traffic and discuss with the client the right strategy for them to ensure that the targeted customers visit their website.

Understanding Link Building

I have a few thoughts on the problems and risks of current link building techniques. The best opportunities to entwine the keyword and page title to links might lead to more problems that was first envisioned. Search engine optimization as a service is growing with impressive speed, it seems almost that every week a new “SEO Agency” is established. Search engine optimization has two parts; On Page Optimization for a most part encompasses small web designers and programmers implementation and simply has too little potential for large jumps in search engine ranking. Off Page Optimization has to do with Pay per click and incoming links or link building. In the past Google has tried to prevent several factors in the process of link building including

Lack of market transparency - Google has agreed with the fight against links that come from private link networks and sources are more important than ever, public marketplaces such as Teliad or Text-Link-Ads are losing importance. Fortunately when this is hidden from Google there is so much benefit in moving up in rankings. One such service is Free Link Building Tools. They have a novel method of keeping link building practices below the radar.

 

Uninformed customers - SEO by the current hype, there are many customers who buy SEO, “because would it work.” I am firmly convinced that it is in the field of SEO clients have a solid basic need for the services of the SEO agency can be assessed. The accusation is not the customer alone, in my eyes is the SEO agency have a duty to enlighten people of the dangers of these link building practices.

Tight supply, high demand - no less surprising is the range of “good” links are very limited and is determined by actions of Google will become increasingly smaller. At the same time, growing demand for fast links to help link building to drive traffic is important.

Each of these three reasons would be on their own, already a problem, all three in the medium and long term harm the entire industry.

Conflict - The SEO Agency is usually at the same time, both sellers of link-building measures as well as consultants on the appropriateness of that level. Not a good combination - especially not if the customer is uninformed and trusts to be properly advised. We strongly recommend using link building more in the method of driving traffic rather than boosting page rank. We will look into building Google page rank practices in the near future.

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