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Don’t Be Fooled By the Google Search Results on Your PC

Google is continually striving to improve the way we interact with the internet. They are innovative and forward thinking. Some things they get right and some they get wrong.

I love this about them, they are not afraid to try things.

One of the ways they tried to improve our google experience was to interact with our computers. This has lead to many of us jumping up band down shouting ye ha or wa hoo and a number of other excited expletives. Unfortunately, this can be followed with severe bouts of depression and outbursts of tears and tantrums.

Let me explain, a few weeks ago I had an email from someone who was ecstatic, they had setup a website in a tough niche and they had been working hard to get it ranking for what I had told him were very, very difficult keyword phrases to rank for. He was writing to rub my nose in his superb SEO skills and to inform me that I did not know what I was talking about. Several of his keyword phrases were now at the top of the google search results. Numero uno, number one the top spot and all within a matter of weeks. He was so excited he thought all his birthdays had come at once. He, was ready for the money to come rolling in in bucket loads.

He was of the opinion that this SEO stuff was indeed a piece of cake.

Now, I do not like to see a grown man cry or to wet on his fireworks but, I had to tell him that although he was looking at his website on the top spot for his keyword terms, the rest of the world could not find them on page 10 and beyond for anything at all.

Google Search Results Can Be Unique To You

The reason is that google wants to make your experience the best it can and one of the ways it does this is to hijack your computer if you use the google toolbar or are logged into your gmail account. Websites that you visit regularly are often placed higher up the results for your convenience.

He had been doing two things that helped his meteoric rise to SEO stardom (on his computer only disappointingly)

First he used to type his domain name into the google search box instead of the address bar and he was also searching for his keyword phrases daily, searching down the results pages until he came to his site and then clicking on it. Google had noticed this and in their desire to help him, or maybe they do it for a laugh, who knows, they then placed his website to the top of his personal results pages.

If you are going to check your own rankings do so through a proxy server and also stop google from following your search patterns in the settings pages.

Luckily, he was able to cancel his order for the Porsche Carrera and he has now stopped swearing at his computer. I have told him that things can only get better and he will get over the overwhelming feelings of disappointment that he feels, especially when his site does get recognised by google as the authority place to go for his niche and can be seen by the rest of the world, or at least the UK where he is based, and not just on his machine.

Good luck and do not get fooled by the mighty google search results appearing on your pc.

Getting Accurate Google Search Results

If you want to get accurate google search results then the best way is to use a proxy server. You can use hidemyass.com, freeproxyserver.net or zend2.com. Go to one of these sites and go to google.com or whichever google site you want to check your ranking for and then search for your keyword phrases you will then be given the google search results as seen by anyone else when they do a google search.

The other way is to use a firefox plugin called google global. You can then check a list of other google websites  from within the firefox browser instantly.

So, dont be fooled into thinking that you are number one just because you can see your site on the top of your search results, use the techniques above and get the right google search results.

Rank Your Blog in Google

Writing effective titles for articles whether for article directories, syndication or for content on your own site is important if you want to rank your blog in google for your given keywords. 

You need to think about the structure of the title to allow you to rank for as many keyword phrases as possible.

In other words the more keyword phrases that can be made out of the title the better it will be for your site and the more keywords you will eventually rank well for.

This is one of the most important parts of the article writing process in my humble opinion.

There has been a lot written about keyword density and latent semantic indexing and the perfect article length, but I have found again and again that the title can make or break the success of the article when it comes to ranking your blog well in the search engines results pages.

There are certain things that you can do to help rank a blog post or article on your website. I use a wordpress plugin called Auto Social Poster You do not need this plugin but it automates the process and gives you an indication by way of a percentage rating. You can do it manually by following the guide. How to rank your blog well in google. You can also use onlywire which is a great service to rank your blog in google.

If you check out the title to this post you will see a number of variations for phrases that we could eventually rank for.

Rank Your Blog in Google and You will See Big Results

Lets take the title of this article “How to Write An Effective Article Title To Rank Your Blog Well in Google” The following is some of the keyword phrases that you should be able to rank for with relative ease.

• “How To Write an Effective Article Title”"
• “How To Write an Effective Article”
• “An Effective Article Title”
• “Rank Your Blog”
• “Rank Your Blog Well In Google”
• “Rank Your Blog Well”
• “Blog Well in google”

Over time your post can also begin to rank various words within the title such as :-

• “How to Rank in Google”
• “Rank Your Blog in Google”
• “How to Rank Well in google”
• “How To Write An Article”
• “Write an Effective Blog”

So, next time you write an article take the time to create an effective title that will work for you in your aim to achieve better rankings in the SERP’s and rank your blog well in google and the other search engines.

Rank Your Blog In Google – Something extra.

Do not limit this practise to the title. Try and use this same strategy when writing the body content of the article as well. The title is all important but getting the body text right will also have a positive effect on your rankings. Remenber what you are trying to do is show that you are an authority in the subject. The more recognised and relevant phrases that you have in your article or blog post the more keyword phrases you will rank for and the more of an authority you will become in the eyes of google.

This will mean is will be much harder for someone to knock you off your perch as king pin the in top spot of the search engines.

Try it and you will soon see that it will make a big difference when you want to rank your blog in google.

SEO and the new Google algorithm 

Google recently made a major change to their algorithm to continue in their efforts to make the search results more accurate and useful to those if us using google to search for a multitude of things.

 

Some people have seen their sites drop way down in the serps (search engine results pages) and there has been a lot written about it but in the big scheme of things this is all good in my opinion.

 

If your sites have good content and are well structured offering your visitors valuable information then you should be ok. 

 

In fact some of my sites in the more competitive markets have risen in the rankings as other websites have been penalised for being naughty

 

If you have a lot of auto generated websites with duplicate content or links from similar sites then you may well have seen a drop. 

 

The thing is do not panic, you can in fact improve them and get them back up there. IT will take work but with a little effort and a few tweaks it is possible to get them ranking on the first page of google once again.

 

You can bet your bottom dollar that google will continue to make changes to their algorithm and try to stay ahead of those that work hard to beat the system.

 

I say why spend time and effort trying to trick or fool the system when all you have to do is make sure that your website adds value to your visitors and the internet user.

 

That way, you should be able to rank well and stay there without worry.

 

In my next post, I will dispel the myths surrounding keyword competition.  

Traffic Geyser Review 

 

Video marketing can have a dramatic effect on your SEO results with Traffic Geyser

There is a lot of talk about fast SEO results and the various methods that are used in the process to achieve SEO god status in the rankings.

If you have a decent website that has been well optimised and has good content relevant to the market you are in then over time your site will climb the search engine results pages.

There are however, so many factors to take into account the main one is of course the amount of other websites and web pages that are competing for the same terms that you are working on and also how much work others are putting into their own SEO. 

Trying to break into a market like credit cards for example is very, very difficult. This is because there are companies spending a fortune on their SEO efforts as well as making sure that they do it right. 

Other niches may have a lot of competing pages but they do not understand the importance of optimising their website or how to do it properly. Therefore it is easier to rank for.

Traffic Geyser For Video Marketing

Video marketing is a great way to get your message out. Not only is it visual but sites like youtube rank well in the SERPS (search engine results pages)

Do a search in google and see for yourself how often a youtube video or two appears at or near the top of the results pages. 

If you want to get found for a given keyword phrase that is quite difficult to rank for then it might be better to use video marketing and produce a few videos. Creating and posting a video on youtube and other video sites can help you get found for your chosen keywords. 

People searching for your keyword will find the video on the front page of google and hopefully click on it. If they all have a link back to your site you will also get high quality backlinks which will also help in the long term in ranking your own site.

Believe me, is is a lot easier in a lot of cases to rank a keyword phrase in youtube than it is for your own site.

Traffic Geyser Has the Answer 

Traffic geyser is an automated service that will take care of your video marketing. By uploading your videos to a number of video sites and pinging them Traffic geyser takes the grunt work out of video marketing.

Traffic geyser does a lot more than just post the videos, it also converts them into other formats as well as bookmarking and pinging them.

The results can be amazingly fast and help to bring you traffic to your main site.

I thoroughly recommend traffic geyser. Rather than me spout on about it they have a 21 day for $1 dollar trial offer to allow you to test it out for yourself.

Take the Traffic Geyser $1 21 Day Trial

I suggest you take up the trial and see for yourself how good traffic geyser is.

Traffic Geyser Help    

There are loads of training videos to help you get tarted although it is really easy and intuitive to use but, if you do have any problems then let me know and I will do my best to help you get it sorted out. 

Here is to your success.

Traffic Geyser 

Pro Tech Roof Solutions For Roof Repairs

Pro Tech Roof solutions have recently setup a website for their clients to go and check them out. 

Their marketing director as talking to me about pro tech roof solutions services and products. They use direct marketing to generate their clients and then use each client as an example of the quality of their work and also for referrals.

The problem is that the pro tech roof solutions website has absolutely no on page optimisation and no thought has gone into the keyword research or the general design of the site.

This means that not only will no one find the site when they are looking for roof repairs, roof coatings or any of the other keywords related to the products and services that pro-tech roof solutions offer.

Also, if people do find the site by searching for the term “pro tech roof solutions” once they get to the site, it is confusing and does not do the product or the service they offer the justice they deserve.

Pro tech roof solutions are not the only ones with this problem

Pro tech roof solutions are not unique in this. So many companies throw up a website in their desire to have an online presence but fail to actually sit down and plan out what they actually want from a website.

As a company that uses a lot of direct marketing which is very expensive to generate leads, I wonder how many they actually lose when clients visit the site.

If you run an offline business and want to get more business by selling your product or service via the internet and your own website then make sure that you spend some time to sit down and work out exactly what you want from a website. Is it to provide information, generate leads, be a place to show off your work, validate the fact that you are a professional company or all of the above?

Whatever it is you will need to spend money on getting your website right but, if it is done properly then you will reap the rewards many times over. Once the site is done then all you need to do is maintain it by adding regular content which takes very little time or money but will make sure that once a visitor comes to your site they are impressed and stay on there for enough time to favour your company when it comes to ordering your product or service.

If , on the other hand you want to start generating business from the search engines then this will take a lot more work on your search engine optimisation, especially in a competitive market. But start with the basics, get that right and you are half way there.

I know that the products that pro tech roof solutions are great, they just need their website to back that up.

Pro tech roof solutions provide ceramic based acrylic coatings that protect and enhance your roof.

You can find out more about pro tech roof solutions from their website.

Free SEO Tools That Will Help Your Search Engine Rankings

There are a number of software programs that can help you in your bid to get your website ranked higher in the SERPS but there is nothing better than FREE SEO tools, especially if those tools are really useful.

I work with a number of great software programs that I have bought over the years that save me time and money but, very often there are a little things that we need to do that are time consuming and this is where my little stash of free seo tools come in handy.

The Second Of My Free SEO Tools

The second of my free seo tools is the keyword-multiplier-tool. This tool will help you create a massive list of keywords.

Quite often, when I am building a keyword list I try to use long tail keywords. So for example I might want be working on solar panels now for a adowrds campaign this can be very expensive. The other thing is when someone types in “solar panels” they are generally looking for information. I want to buy cheaper clicks and have people come to my site that are closer to the buying phase.

With the “solar panel” example I might want to have

• Solar panels london
• Solar panels Enfield
• Solar panels Barnet
• Solar panels North London

With the free seo tool keyword mutliplier tool you simply add your main list of keywords

• Solar panels
• solar panel
• solar panles

Then in the next box you add the areas

• London
• Enfield
• Barnet

You can also add other variables as well. Once completed click the “click to create keywords” button and hey presto. You will have a list of keywords that you can add straight into your adwords campaign.

There are a couple of other handy free seo tools under the menu above.

Anchor Text Link Builder

Anchor text link builder is a free tool that will automate the process of generating anchor text to multipe urls.

If you are involved in any form of search engine optimisation then you need to be using anchore text. The anchor text link builder is really simple tool but very effective and will save you a ton of time. Anchor text link builder is also easy to use.

Anchor text is the highlighted text that is used to link to another wbsite. It is a good idea to use keywords as this will be picked up y the search engines whne they spider your website.

It is also important that the link goes to a relevant page on your site. Not always the front page. This is called deep linking. If you deep link to a page on your site that is very relevant to the anchor text that you use then this will also help your rankings for the given keyword.

Also, if the page where your anchor text appears is also relevant to the keyword and even better, has a high google page rank, then this will help you gain authority status and rocket your pages up the search engine rankings.

One link from another authority or high pr website is worth 20 links on a non related site or webpage.

Using the tool is simplicity itself.

Anchor Text Link Builder Instructions

Simply add the list of URL’s or target pages into the left hand box and a list of the anchor text that you wish to use in the right hand box.

Enter You Data into the  Tool

FREE SEO Tool Options

Click the boxes on the options that you want. They are self explanatory.

Anchor Text Link Builder Results

Once you have entered all of this then tick the relevant boxes underneath like the nofollow tag then click process.

The results will be produced in the bottom box. Copy and paste the code and it is ready to be added to your website, blogs or to include in your article or bio boxes.

This link builder tool is free to use so pass the link onto anyone you know that has the need to use anchor text in their SEO efforts.

If you have any problems or issues with this or any of my free tools then let me know via my contact form.

Time is money so try out the anchor text link builder for youself and see the results.

The SEOPressor Review

Seopressor is a great new wordpress plugin that will really help you to rank higher in google.

I have been using SeoPressor since it launched and BOY has this wp plugin been worth it’s weight in gold?

On-page SEO or search engine optimisation can be very effective when trying to rank for certain keywords.

Whilst back links work very well in my experience, I have been able to rank very high in the SERPS with very few links if my content has been well optimised.

SeoPressor Makes Sure Your SEO Is Bang On.

There are many things you have to know when it comes to getting your on page SEO right. Ensuring that all the factors are completed is also time consuming and it is easy to forget to do the odd thing.

With seopressor it does it all for you and alerts you to the things that you should do, like add an image to the post or add links to other internal pages.

The other thing about on page SEO is that it is lasting. If you have good content that is well optimised you can keep your rankings indefinetely. It is also a good idea to build back links to the page and use anchor text for your main keyword phrases but, in my experience if you spend time on link building but offer poor or unrelated content then your time will have been wasted.

SEOPressor – What does it do?

SEOPressor will automatically optimise your post by doing the following things.

Automatically Bold, Italize and Underline Your Keywords
these factors are known to have great influence over how well a document will rank on search engine pages.. SEOPressor will help you bold, italize and underline your keywords on-the-fly.Automatically

SEOPressor will also automatically add alt tags to your images another great seo tactic. The plugin will also give you tips of how to improve the page and also has a great score which is updated and your results can be seen at a glance.

I love seo pressor and I am talking from experience when I say it is one of the best plugins that I have installed on my blogs.

Check out the screen shots of two of my top google rankings to see how I use SEOpressor and then click on the link below to see for yourself how good it is.

See how I rank number 3 for “wp easy content review” agaonst 173,000,000 competing pages.

I rank number one for the term “ultimate rank protector” out of 25,500,000 Not too shabby eh?

All in all, seopressor is a must have tool to have in your amoury if you are serious about achieving the rankings in the major search engines.

How To Avoid Duplicate Content Problems

“Should you avoid duplicate content” is a question that is discussed in many internet marketing forums. There are many opinions and thoughts on the topic but the general concensus is that it is best to avoid duplicate content.

This article is not about the technical reasons or the why’s or why not’s of whether you should avoid duplicate content or not.

The main way to avoid duplicate content is to write unique content for your website and this takes time as I am sure you are fully aware if you have a website and are trying to rank for your chosen keywords.

Not only do you probably spend time writing unique content for your site as well as articles to distribute to a number of directories and blogs.

Using Spinning Software To Avoid Duplicate Content

There are any number of plugins and software programs to spin your articles and text. I use  The best spinner which is a great program and turns a single article into any number of unique articles quickly and easily. You can click on the following link to see a review of the best spinner

The benefit of using spun articles is that there are thousands of blogs that use automated software and plugins to search the article directories and populate their websites. If you distribute the same article to numerous directories the autoblog software will only use an article once to keep the website unique (this is the main problem with duplicate content, having the same article or text published onto your site multiple times). Therefore, if you spin an article and post a unique version to each directory or even mutliple versions to one directory then it has a chance of being pulled in and syndicated numerous times and generate many more backlinks.

Recently I have come across a way to use articles from the directories and avoid duplicate content  that can make a massive difference and shoot you up the rankings in the natural search results pages. (SERPS)

The trick is to add a unique header and footer to the imported articles.

The header should use the keyword phrase in the first paragraph, even better in the first sentence. Make it relevant to the article you are going to publish.

The same with the footer add a unique couple of paragraphs using the keyword phrase.

Example Header:

How to avoid duplicate content is often discussed on blogs and forums, I found this article that I thought was interesting and may help you decide if you need to spend the extra effort and avoid duplicate content.

Example footer:

I hope you found the article interesting and have a better idea of the importance of avoiding duplicate content. This is a contentious issue that will I am sure be talked about for many years to come.

Obviously you will add your own keyword phrases into the header and footer.

Avoid Duplicate Content the Easy Way With WP Easy Content

Of course there is a way to automate this process and this is done using a great little wordpress plugin called WP Easy content This software  will pull in the article based on the keyowrds you select and then add a unique header and footer which will not only help to make google think it is unique but adding the keywords to the start and the end of th post will also help you rank better. All in all a win win situation.

So, if you want to rank well and do it with ease then I suggest you take a look at wp easy content and avoid duplicate content problems.