http://silentavatar.com/blog Speaking Up About All Things Internet Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:24:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/11/28/long-tail-marketing/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/11/28/long-tail-marketing/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:59:27 +0000 the silent avatar http://www.silentavatar.com/blog//?p=200 The long tail of search phrases will build traffic. You can not count on 80% of your traffic coming from 20% of your top used keywords based on readings at Google. Because competition for highly used keywords is so big, long tail marketing makes perfect sense.]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/11/28/long-tail-marketing/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/10/13/top-5-plus-bonus-seo-tips-for-small-businesses/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/10/13/top-5-plus-bonus-seo-tips-for-small-businesses/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:15:08 +0000 the silent avatar http://www.silentavatar.com/blog//?p=153 Getting high rankings in most important search engines is essential for maximising your visibility online and improving traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google. Hiring a good Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialist is important, but what do you do if you don’t have the budget?]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/10/13/top-5-plus-bonus-seo-tips-for-small-businesses/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/08/20/robots/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/08/20/robots/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:24:14 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/?p=88 Many search engine spiders routinely look for the robots.txt file as they arrive on a site and many Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts agree that including this file makes good sense because it acts as an invitation to crawl and to index your website's content. ]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/08/20/robots/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/13/sitemap/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/13/sitemap/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:26:47 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/13/sitemap/ A sitemap has often been considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/13/sitemap/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/12/noticed/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/12/noticed/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:23:10 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/12/noticed/ I read a lot of information on the web, some I take on board, some I reject. Not becasue the advice is not sound, but because it may be difficult to implement their suggestions right now (financially and technically). This seems to be common with "newbie" website entrepeneurs. One of my readers posted a comment to my blog article "How to Get Your Site Visitors NOT Doing What You Want" asking how do they get their website noticed. There is no one step answer to this question. In fact it's hard work! However there are many ways which (when you combine them together) you can drive visitors to your site. I will give you my top 4 ways to get your website noticed. Just keep reading...]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/03/12/noticed/feed/ 2 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/02/07/anchortext/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/02/07/anchortext/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:32:25 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/02/07/anchortext/ Anchor text optimization can be deployed throughout your site to enhance the relevance of most of the web pages based on individual page content. You'll be surprised, how easy it is to find suitable instances of hyperlinking structures to make use of optimized anchor text. When linking to internal pages, it is better to use the format...]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/02/07/anchortext/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/01/23/urls/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/01/23/urls/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:04:29 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/01/23/urls/ It appears the results from MarketingSherpa's lab tests conducted in 2007 for the 2008 Marketing Benchmark Guide asked real life business professionals to conduct Google searches. Among other results they discovered that executives are 250% more likely to click on an organic listing if it...]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2008/01/23/urls/feed/ 0 http://silentavatar.com/blog/2007/12/07/hire-an-seo-expert-for-295/ http://silentavatar.com/blog/2007/12/07/hire-an-seo-expert-for-295/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:33:22 +0000 the silent avatar http://silentavatar.com/blog/2007/12/07/hire-an-seo-expert-for-295/ Attracting crowds of qualified buyers with a top ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN just got a whole lot easier... and cheaper. The term "search engine optimization" used to be synonymous with difficult and expensive. Not any more. ]]> http://silentavatar.com/blog/2007/12/07/hire-an-seo-expert-for-295/feed/ 0