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	<title>Skill Web Design &#187; SEM</title>
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		<title>Update your links periodically</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anchor texts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incoming links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you want your website to soar high in the web world, you procure links from several sites. You start applying for links or buy links from several website owners. Once you earn the links, you become jubilant. You tend to forget to cross check whether the link and the anchor text are accurate enough [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you want your website to soar high in the web world, you procure links from several sites. You start applying for links or buy links from several website owners. Once you earn the links, you become jubilant. You tend to forget to cross check whether the link and the anchor text are accurate enough to draw attention of search engines and visitors. </p>
<blockquote><p>Moreover, you hardly attempt to undergo a routine checking for all the links. This may reduce the value of your hard earned links and at times, the incoming link may be even redundant.</p></blockquote>
<p>Every link is invaluable and you have to show a highly caring attitude to each of them. Once you change your website content or you want to highlight some of the web pages of your choice, updates in the incoming links are mandatory. Take an example, you want to promote a new product of your choice; you need to change the anchor text or you may wish to point that incoming link to the newly launched page, you require. </p>
<blockquote><p>The best part is that you can open up a communication channel with your partner website, which may help you in various ways.</p></blockquote>
<p>Its not tough. There are plenty of link checking tools available on the Internet and perhaps Google analytics is the best, as it traces even if the link can send you a single visitor. What you require is a consistent effort. Never forget that your exuberance of earning a link may bite the dust, if you are inconsistent or defocused.</p>
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		<title>When niche visitors are concerned</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/when-niche-visitors-are-concerned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your unabated effots to make your passionate website populated in the browsers of individuals have been always threatened by the SEO techniques applied in other websites. You become completely puzzled by the question, how to get visitors and at times it really gets onto your nerve and you feel frustrated. Its not compulsory that your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your unabated effots to make your passionate website populated in the browsers of individuals have been always threatened by the SEO techniques applied in other websites. You become completely puzzled by the question, how to get visitors and at times it really gets onto your nerve and you feel frustrated. Its not compulsory that your website should have a traget of millions of visitors, but it should be reckoned by the major section of the crowd.</p>
<p>People apply several ways like sponsored reviews, which have really propelled the victory in many cases. Never have the guilty feeling that you are trying to topple somebody, rather, you are armed with the shining armors to survive in this competitive world.</p>
<blockquote><p>A new era has been heralded in the web world, where the extravaganza of forum and community orientation is used for SEO purposes.</p></blockquote>
<p> If you think deeply, you will find a strong correlation with the age old concept of marketing through various seminars and campaign. In the reign of Internet, your seminar hall has been converted to forum, where you get a sustainable amount of population.  You must learn to use the advantages of forum for your own branding and never start feeling adrift or alien.</p>
<p>SEO is a continuous process and you will always find newer techniques to overoverture the prevailing practices. You need to become innovative and patient. Success is not a far cry!</p>
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		<title>Automated Submissions can become disastrous</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/automated-submissions-can-become-disastrous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The glitters of advertisements like 1000 links in 72 hours or 250 search engine submissions in 48 hours are found all over the Internet in today&#8217;s SEO driven world. Its a real serious concern as there are people, who are carried away by such terms and often faces a wrath of the search engines.
Most of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The glitters of advertisements like 1000 links in 72 hours or 250 search engine submissions in 48 hours are found all over the Internet in today&#8217;s SEO driven world. Its a real serious concern as there are people, who are carried away by such terms and often faces a wrath of the search engines.</p>
<p>Most of such companies use automated tools, which even submits the listing in a site without the consent of the webmaster or website owner. Google or any search engine prefers the boost, but they have got strict measurement criteria for that. </p>
<blockquote><p>Most of the search engines don&#8217;t prefer link trading, the way it is happening today and they become brutal to slap a ban on such websites. </p></blockquote>
<p>Remember, we should not take the short cut method, which may steer to a win immediately and later on we might discover that it has been penalized by the search engines for adapting unethical ways. Its better to believe in the golden words, Slow but steady wins the game.</p>
<p>If you want to submit your website in several search engines or participate in  genuine link trading, you should start avoiding such glitzy Ads, rather, you should focus on SEO companies or consultants, who promises realistic commitments. </p>
<blockquote><p>Your desperation or exuberance may prompt you to such lucrative figures, but you must be cautious about them.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Competitive Keywords to forge ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keywords is the gateway to your website. Millions of people are engaged in search activities while browsing on a daily basis and it is the keyword, which leads them to your beloved website. In reality, the keywords determines the number of visitors, you can draw to your web pages.
Your website always suffers from identity crisis [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keywords is the gateway to your website. Millions of people are engaged in search activities while browsing on a daily basis and it is the keyword, which leads them to your beloved website. In reality, the keywords determines the number of visitors, you can draw to your web pages.</p>
<blockquote><p>Your website always suffers from identity crisis due to the maddening rush in the Internet regime.</p></blockquote>
<p> You mat have launched a decent website, but if it excludes glances of browsing individuals, the objectivity finds a big threat. You need to ensure that people reaches your website while searching the keywords related to your products or services, you want to promote. Keyword research is an art and it requires continuity as the people&#8217;s mood remain hardly consistent over a period of time. </p>
<p>The reign of Internet has given you a lot of free keywords tools, which includes the giant Google also. You wont have any problem in finding the appropriate keyword based on the objectives of your web pages. </p>
<blockquote><p>Its better to avoid highly competitive keywords as many established brands with their longer tenure on the web world may occupy the top positions in the SERP.</p></blockquote>
<p> Its advisable to look for the parallel keywords, which does not dilute your objective. </p>
<p>Your web pages should not be in such a daunting form that they fail to carve out its own niche in this crowded world wide web. When you can never insulate yourself from the trend, its better to come to limelight using varied set of keywords, which yield.</p>
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		<title>Make your website ready for the jolt</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/make-your-website-ready-for-the-jolt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/make-your-website-ready-for-the-jolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[off-page optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on page optimization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Application of several SEO techniques to reach your website in that  pedestal, from where you can simply watch the jealousy of your competitors, requires you to be highly systematic. 
In general we classify the SEO in two major segments namely on-page optimization and off-page optimization.
The on-page optimization restrains to the techniques and methods applied [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Application of several SEO techniques to reach your website in that  pedestal, from where you can simply watch the jealousy of your competitors, requires you to be highly systematic. </p>
<blockquote><p>In general we classify the SEO in two major segments namely on-page optimization and off-page optimization.</p></blockquote>
<p>The on-page optimization restrains to the techniques and methods applied to your website only and off-page optimization bridge the gap between your website and the other relevant websites. While on-page optimization can be solely controlled by you, the off-page optimization depends upon the moods and whims of the others and you attempt to build up links with them.  </p>
<blockquote><p>Lets take a simple example, the meta description of the web page is completely your prerogative, whereas the placement of your banner in some other websites depends upon that website owner, where you have got a very minimum level of control.</p></blockquote>
<p>Webmasters should never forget that the on-page optimization comes much ahead. Once you are ready with a proper on-page optimization like proper content, proper descriptions and keywords, application of right tags, a proper site map in place, then only you should look for off-page optimization. As in most of the cases off-page optimization incurs cost either in the form of money or in the form of allowing outbound links from your website, you should be ready for a go. </p>
<blockquote><p>This is true that the off-page optimization gives your website the desired jolt, which allures the search engines and the visitors to look up at your website.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, be prepared, otherwise off-page optimization will hardly give you the proper return on investment. </p>
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		<title>Why do you need SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/why-do-you-need-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engine oprimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engine result pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serp]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its still a question in many leaps, why do you need SEO? Perhaps the best answer is when you want to make your website visible to wider gamut of people, you need SEO. You need to pursue policies that enable your website to be well integrated with the global trend defined by the reign of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its still a question in many leaps, why do you need SEO? Perhaps the best answer is when you want to make your website visible to wider gamut of people, you need SEO. You need to pursue policies that enable your website to be well integrated with the global trend defined by the reign of Internet. The policies which can reach your website to a desired rank in the search engines are basically called Search Engine Optimization or SEO.</p>
<p>Let us try to summarize the key issues, which should drive you to the SEO</p>
<blockquote><ul>
<li>You are receiving lesser number of traffic</li>
<li>Visibility is a concern for not getting adequate traffic</li>
<li>Your prospects are getting diverted to others</li>
<li>You are not placed in the 1st page of Search Engine Result Pages based on your primary products or services</li>
<li>You are lacking global branding</li>
<li>People are not ordering by looking at the website</li>
<li>You are not getting oversees orders</li>
<li>Your sales has come down against your competitors</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>In all the above cases, SEO is the only solution to bring a phenomenal change in your revenue. As an entrepreneur, you know better that each visitor can become your prospect! </p>
<blockquote><p>May be you are loosing much more as you are failing to grab the enormous opportunities of the evolving global economy.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Link building still glitters</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/link-building-still-glitters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/link-building-still-glitters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make money]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When most of the traditional methods have stopped giving the advantage to make money for the SEO people, link building can give them the solace. 
Link building, the age old concept of SEO has been refined, rather reformed in today&#8217;s world, but the value is retained.
SEO has become a highly complicated task in today&#8217;s web [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When most of the traditional methods have stopped giving the advantage to make money for the SEO people, link building can give them the solace. </p>
<blockquote><p>Link building, the age old concept of SEO has been refined, rather reformed in today&#8217;s world, but the value is retained.</p></blockquote>
<p>SEO has become a highly complicated task in today&#8217;s web world, where the smarter search engines have outwitted the intelligent SEO specialists, who have attempted some camouflaging techniques to make money. The key change is that the search engines have emphasized on the relevancy part, by which they have tried to bring some sort of  filtration in the link building process.  </p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, if you look at the concept of contextual links, you will find the importance of such relevancy factor.</p></blockquote>
<p>Continue link building, but change the way. You start looking for relevant websites and try to publish your links over there. The enormous growth of websites have made no dearth of such relevant sites, if you search seriously all over the Internet. </p>
<blockquote><p>The key concept that one link is equivalent to a positive vote in favor of your website still holds good. Its a tedious job mainly in the age of automation, where robots also submit your links in different websites. </p></blockquote>
<p>We can perhaps say, link building has become a bit more tough, but has hardly lost its value even in modern world. If you want to make money through SEO, you can never deny the contribution of link building.</p>
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		<title>When to plan SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/when-to-plan-seo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/when-to-plan-seo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java script]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on page optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webmaster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To speak honestly SEO is an all time requirement from the beginning till the end and never think that SEO is just a one time activity, rather it is a continuous process.
Your plan for Search engine optimization should start even before the launching the website and its better if the webmaster can frame a guideline [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To speak honestly SEO is an all time requirement from the beginning till the end and never think that SEO is just a one time activity, rather it is a continuous process.</p>
<p>Your plan for Search engine optimization should start even before the launching the website and its better if the webmaster can frame a guideline for the designer and the programmer. </p>
<blockquote><p>If SEO does not feature in the strategic planning, then it can lead to exorbitant cost at a later stage. So, its always better to plan your SEO strategy at the conceptual phase.</p></blockquote>
<p>While the designer and the programmer has to adhere to the guideline for the on page optimization, it is the webmaster, who needs to prepare a plan for off page optimization. In most cases the off page optimization becomes costly and the plan should have a tacit approval from the website owner. </p>
<p>A designer has to take care of the images and other design elements. Its better to avoid flash movie, which can hypnotize a visitor by its glitzy appearance, but hardly attracts the search engine crawlers and spiders. </p>
<blockquote><p>In some cases the flash codes remain absolutely obscured from the search engine robots pushing all your efforts in vain.</p></blockquote>
<p> The programmer has to take care of all tags and page development. Its better to avoid Java scripts. As most of the Java scripts call external files, it can even lead to some security features and visitors may not rely upon your security mechanism. Some Java scripts show multiple tab options to show your content as the part of the same pages, which hardly affects your search engine ranking. </p>
<blockquote><p>Its a better idea to create different pages and call them by simple menu items with legible hyperlinks, which can call the corresponding pages.</p></blockquote>
<p>We have tried to highlight some basic guidelines, but the webmaster should portray all its features in details in his guideline to ensure the proper success of the website in the long run.</p>
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		<title>Does link trading help in SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/does-link-trading-help-in-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade links]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skillwebdesign.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the million dollar question in the SEO driven world is whether search engine crawlers and spiders are irresistibly drawn to traded links or they tend to ignore them. The question which can raise acrimonious debates due to the top most level of confidentiality maintained by the Search engines can never be answered in a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps the million dollar question in the SEO driven world is whether search engine crawlers and spiders are irresistibly drawn to traded links or they tend to ignore them. The question which can raise acrimonious debates due to the top most level of confidentiality maintained by the Search engines can never be answered in a few words. Its really unknown whether we are knowledgeable enough to comment on it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lets try to analyze it in a simpler way, where link trading helps in increasing back links. As Google and most of the search engines have been continuously emphasizing on relevant links only, mere link trading without noticing the relevancy factor can hardly propel you to a victory. </p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately most of the link trading automated software fails to analyze the relevance factor and start submitting links virtually at all websites, where they find a chance to intrude. </p>
<p>This is a dangerous way, which can even kill your websites as Google or other search engines may even slap a ban on you.</p>
<p>Why not go by the hard working way, whereby you need to submit the link in different websites by sending request or by paying money? Its better to be in mental peace, rather than hopping for an instant victory.</p>
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		<title>Can you balance Google and Alexa?</title>
		<link>http://www.skillwebdesign.com/can-you-balance-google-and-alexa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexa ranking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google page rank value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google PRV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skill web design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google Page Rank Value and  Alexa Ranking have become the buzzword in the reign of Internet. As every website has got the ultimate objective of holding a good rank in the search engine result pages as well as a constant increase in number of hits, these two have become highly relevant in today’s world.
It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Page Rank Value and  Alexa Ranking have become the buzzword in the reign of Internet. As every website has got the ultimate objective of holding a good rank in the search engine result pages as well as a constant increase in number of hits, these two have become highly relevant in today’s world.</p>
<blockquote><p>It is true that if your website by nature is irresistibly drawn to visitors, then Alexa ranking comes down automatically so as Google Page Rank Value (PRV) increases by default.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem is that most of the websites in today’s web world fail to draw those many number of visitors everyday. Most of the webmasters and website owners just are digging their heads out to achieve a commendable hit count. To further fuel the fire this is to inform that Google and Alexa have got their own criteria just the way every search engines have their own algorithm.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lets take an example, if the number of outbound links become much higher, it affects your Google PRV, but the Alexa Rank remains unimpaired. </p></blockquote>
<p> Perhaps the key solution is to stick to the basics of SEO and a proper maintenance of your website, as decided in your strategic planning.</p>
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