If you’ve already read one of my latest posts regarding the RSS subscription and commenting issue at this blog, you know I’m talking about Martin Dolan. He’s the one who has helped my FREE SEO Tips Blog get back on its feet and open the door to more comments and community building. He’s our most active reader of February 2009 contributing remarkably to this blog.

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Keywords research plays such vital role in the entire process of search engine optimization (SEO) that it cannot be ignored from the first stage of building a site/blog. You need it from the time when you register a domain name until you go out to promote your site. This will help your organic SEO ranking as well.

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When’s Day One in SEO Process?

It’s when you start building up a site/blog. You know that the first step is to register a domain name. In most of the cases, your top keyword should be included in your domain name. It will show what the purpose of your site is. Also, search engines will notice the relevancy between your domain name and your content, links, etc.

Article marketing is another method of online marketing  (a type of off-page SEO) that helps your organic SEO results a lot if done properly. A well-written article is composed of certain elements arranged into a structure. But, what converts this structure into a winning article marketing campaign is the soul of the article, rich content, which should be smartly created.

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In off-page SEO, getting backlinks to your sites is the top priority. If you know how to do it, this method could be very beneficial for your search engine ranking, organic SEO results and online business. Article writing is a good method for building up your link popularity.

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There are various methods to get a link back to your site/blog, but one-way links are always the best ones. You will write an article to be published in another website. In return, they will allow you to place a backlink to one of your webpages, which adds to the link popularity of your site. You can use your keywords as anchor text in the links.

This is the first of a series of news I will announce from time to time about this SEO tips blog.

I’m very happy that among the readers of this blog, there are some people who are actively participating anyway they can. Less than a month ago, this blog started and so far several posts have been published about search engine optimization and the best practices of SEO toward having a search engine friendly website. People have already begun subscribing to receive alerts when a new post is published, BUT …

Alt tags or alternative tags are the meta tags that are alternatives for images on your pages. These on-page SEO factors have several different functions and are useful for various purposes. One such usage is to increase search engine ranking as well as search engine visibility of your webpages. But, let’s see what exactly alt tags are.

Alt tags are descriptive phrases that are attached to the images in the source code of your webpages. They could be visible to your readers or invisible. Some people prefer to use text-only browsers or opt to turn off their images for some reasons like having higher internet speed. In such cases, they would see and read such descriptions to know what type of images are used at the page.

There’s no doubt that having unique title tags are extremely helpful in your search engine ranking. SEO experts all agree that title tags are the most important on-page SEO factor that should be optimized. One very important feature of a winning title tag is its uniqueness. I will explain this point as one of the many SEO Tips you need to know for your site.

Every website owner would like to increase search engine ranking and improve it to get better search engine visibility on the web. I’ve already written about various methods to achieve this. You can find such posts at search engine ranking category of this blog. Here, I want to tell you about the top 3 factors you should consider when this topic is on the table.

1) Which Keywords Do You Target to Increase Search Engine Ranking?

This may seem a simple issue, but I’ve heard it over and over again that people say:

Participation in blogs by commenting, in forums by sharing your thoughts and in social communities networks by bookmarking, sharing and publishing could be extremely useful for your recognition among search engines. It’s a very important step you could take to increase search engine ranking while you create a web awareness about your online presence, products, services, etc.

Clever SEO services incorporate social media bookmarking into their range of services. They are aware of the fact that search engines send their crawlers to visit such sites and index their changes several times an hour. So, they take advantage of this and help their client’s indexation and link popularity by introducing their pages, content, etc to such websites.

A Word about Social Media Bookmarking

Social media websites are the sites that are based on user participation and user content creation. People go to these websites for three main purposes:

• Bookmarking
• Sharing
• Publishing