Sep 29 2008

Commonly used terms in SEO

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Adwords
Advertising system provided by Google(Pay Per Click).

Backlinks
Links that came from other websites,otherwise known as Inbound Links. Coming in links.

Blog
An outcome of views, insights and opinions of a person. Oftentimes called as Web Log.

Black hat SEO
The unethical use of SEO. Wrong tactics.

Bookmark
A website/link has been bookmarked, tagged or added to favorites.

BAP
Blog and Ping. A procedure used by some bloggers to get ranked in Search Engines.

CMS
Content Management System. A tool to make a website. Premade themes and plugins.

Copyright
Legal publication. A certain person own that particular content or website.

Directory
A list of all webpages in the internet.

Feed
Tool to allow readers to subscribe to contents of a website. Such as allowing the users to be updated with the latest posts on your site.

Fuzzy Search
Mispelled search.

Google
Leading Search Engine in the world.

Keyword
A word or phrase which is used in optimizing a certain site

Keyword Stuffing
A massive production of keywords in a website

Landing Page
The first page where the visitor can see after clicking

Link Building
A process or strategy in SEO

No Follow
An html attribute which stops the bot from following a certain link

Outbound Link
A link from a certain website going out to another link. Otherwise known as external link.

Pagerank
Shows the ranking of your page or website

Quality Content
A fresh and relevant content or topic.

Reciprocal Link
Some example of Link Exchange

SERP
Search Engine Results Page. Shows the ranking of a webpage in the search engines

Splog
Spam Blog

URL
Uniform Resource Locator otherwise known as Links

Whois
A certain tool used to detect the owner of a certain website or IP address


Sep 10 2008

Squidoo: Next Big thing in SEO

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Internet Marketers or SEO Specialists had been using this powerful tool to rank their websites in search engines. What is Squidoo? It is a website where you can create lenses. Others use this for monetizing purposes, and some are for marketing strategy. People who create lenses are often times called “lensmasters”.
How can Squidoo be a part of SEO strategy? Well, in squidoo you can place the link of your website on your lenses. And you can write a snippet of your article and link it in your site. The advantage of using Squidoo is that, it is approved and recognized by search engines, specifically Google. The only way to be known in Squidoo, your lens must be really unique, provides helpful information to people, and it has fresh contents.Find lenses that are relevant to yours, and give out a useful comment, you may insert a link of your lens/website on the comment field. Just make sure that it is not sound like spammy. If your lens got the highest rank for a certain topic, I bet your website is also rank in Google. Gain more visits, and let other lens masters rate your lens. The good news about Squidoo is that, it pays you off. But they will only pay you if you’ve got a higher rank, bunch of visits from other lens masters, and most importantly your lens is informative and useful.

Terms and Definitions to help you understand more on this topic:

Lense – A mini website or a page that contains a person’s thoughts, ideas and topics.