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Choosing Keywords: What They Don't Tell You

Website Design What They Don't Tell You Let me start off by saying that I am no web design expert but I have designed a few websites and the biggest challenge I found was choosing keywords . It seems like it would be easy but it is not. Choosing keywords and keyword placement is the foundation of getting indexed properly in search engines , choosing the correct ones and placing them on your web page is not an easy task. First off your keywords or key phrases have to make sense so that a person visiting your website can understand what you are saying. All well and good, we can all do that. The problem comes when a machine is sent to look at your page all of the sudden it no longer looks the same. Take this page for example http://www.globalwebmonitor.com, after reading this page you would know the following things about this company: Global Web Monitor sells business services. The business services are designed for IT departments, website owners, web hosts and website developer

SEO Content Distribution Linking For Newbies

The new buzz on the internet is all about getting one-way links by distributing content to other sites in exchange for backlinks. As with every other SEO or website promotion technique ever devised, there are plenty of newbie myths about it that can ruin your chance for success before you even start. Newbie Myth 1: The "Duplicate content penalty." Some webmasters worry that if the content on their sites is suddenly on hundreds of other sites, search engines will inflict a "duplicate content penalty." Why is this concern unjustified? * If this were true, every major newspaper and news portal website would now be de-indexed from the search engines, since they all carry "duplicate content" from the news wires such as Reuters and the Associated Press. * Thousands of self-promoting internet gurus have proven that distributing content is an effective method of improving search engine rank. * Even more thousands of content websites have proven that republishing