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If you’re not familiar about RSS feeds, an RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.

 RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web.RSS allows you to:

*Easily stay informed – by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in and regularly follow.

*Save time – by not needing to visit each site inpidually.

*Ensure your privacy – by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter. So why are RSS feeds valuable to a marketing campaign? And how does it make a difference? When it comes to Online Marketing strategies, it is essential that a company conducting business over the internet reaches the maximum possible audience. You may have top quality products or the best deals available, but this would be completely useless if no one sees it. An RSS can be used as a tool by websites to increase their chances of getting noticed by its target market.  

By using RSS feeds, the content of one site is also visible on another website.  Whenever new information is added in to the feed, a notification is sent to the user and news readers to easily monitor the feeds they’ve subscribed to. The online business world is basically revolving around the need of getting “quality traffic.” As difficult as it is to acquire quality traffic, RSS can be one of the most effective tools in promoting your website.

One way of getting more traffic and more importantly making the traffic come back to your site over again, is by having your own blog with an RSS feed.  RSS feeds can be used for articles, news updates, even ezines. An addition of RSS feed to your blog or website enables you to add theme related content.  This will help increase the level of popularity of your website with the search engines.  

You can also increase your page ranking by driving more traffic to your page by regularly updating the website page content. Making use of a feed gives an article better chances of being read, rather than if it was sent through email which is subject to how often they open their emails, spamming filters, and virus threats.

The Northern Office - innovative marketing support uses proper search engine optimization techniques when it comes to online marketing and reputation management. TNO creates websites for its clients that are search friendly and rank very well in major search engines.

TNO also provides an array of services like Content development, Social Media and many more. If you need help in making your brand dominate the front page or If you need an assessment of your SEO efforts for your website , click here.

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 09:09

First Weekly Roundup

MSNBot is about to retire and its predecessor, BingBot, is taking over. To make the technicalities clearer, below is a list of what to expect from this new crawler:

 

Name change in user agent name: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0 +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

HTTP header form: bingbot(at)microsoft.com

Important reminders:

1. Implementation will start on October 1st. Shortly thereafter, other MSNBot crawlers will be phased out. No change will be seen in its performance.

2. Review server configurations in case adjustments are needed.

3. BingBot will still recognize all applicable robots.txt directives, including those of MSNBot. On the date of implementation, BingBot will take precedence on detection of separate sets of custom directives for both MSNBot and BingBot robots.txt.

4. Bing is now powering Yahoo! so it is important for it to have the same access to your site as given to MSNBot.

5. No changes done for IP addresses.

6. Crawl rate is not affected.

7. Use standard search engine optimization (SEO) methods.

This new spider is an opportunity to maximize your online presence. Check your web logs now to see the new crawler.

Need help in assessing your online presence? Click here.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:29

Website Traffic Generation

Regardless of whether your web site has just gone live or has been online for a significant period of time proactively generating traffic to your web site is imperative. Build it and they will come is not an option, the Internet is much to populated with competing web sites, online games and Social Networks to site back and wait for your web site visitors to arrive. In today’s highly competitive environment it has become absolutely necessary that you use all the tools available to your business to drive traffic to your web site. And this does includes off-line methods as well.

  1. Organic Search Optimization - Organic SEO cannot be overlooked, the advantages are many and not isolated to generating Organic Search traffic. Many of the processes of Search Engine Optimization are usable in other aspects of traffic generation tactics, primarily keyword research. It also provides an indication of the most popular terms used to find your product and services which can be used as attention grabbers in Social Media discussions, Tweets and Forums.
  2. Social Media has the potential to drive significant volumes of traffic to your web site. The options to drive traffic to your web site using Social Media are primarily Social Networking, Social Recommendations / Bookmarking and Micro Blogging using the services of Twitter, and these are just the beginning there are numerous other Social Media Tools which are capable of assisting you to bring significant volumes of visitors to your web site who have a pre-recognition of who you are and what you offer, which is a contributing factor to increasing the actual conversion rate of your web site.
  3. Search Engine Marketing most certainly has its’ place in the traffic generation mix. Sure only a small number of Internet users click on Paid Results but take into account monthly search volumes of some high popularity keywords and this can account for a significant number of targeted visitors to your web site.
  4. Don't forget how businesses were promoted before of the Internet marketing become popular. These methods in many cases are still effective and with the huge popularity of mobile devices can be leveraged in locations not previously considered as an outlet for promoting your web site.

In Summary Web site traffic generation includes, but are definitely not limited to the above mentioned tools and methods. Be innovative and continually changing when it comes to your marketing content, marketing strategy and marketing approach.

Web site owners are well aware of the importance of Twitter to Social Media programs. Due to the implementation of Real Time Search, Twitter, one of the most popular social networks today, now also benefits Organic Search Engine Optimization programs.

The top 3 Search Engines Google, Yahoo and Bing all have agreements with Twitter to access up to the minute Tweets for inclusion in the "Real Time Search" results now included within the primary search results. So just how does this influence your Social Media and SEO?

Authority and Relevancy  Google has historically depended on the authority and relevance of a web site to determine which pages were included in search results for a specific search request. Although these two factors depend on numerous elements the two issues which relate to these within the Twitter context are: Authority  and Relevancy

•    Links: The number and quality of inbound links to a web site Relevancy

•    Words and phrases used in content Twitter Authority Google has apparently reworked their Page Rank Algothrim which evaluates the quantity and quality of a web site’s linking environment to evaluate the value of Tweets and Retweets. In the Twitter equivalent of Page Rank it is not how many links and who the links are from, but how many followers and the quality of these followers which is taken into consideration.

Number of Twitter Followers The number of Twitter followers you have is taken into consideration when including specific Tweets into the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) similar to how the number of links are considered when including specific web pages into the SERPs. Growing the number of people following you on Twitter can assist to improve your visibility in the Real Time Search Results. Just like links, more is better. A large following can also assist by providing a larger audience who will potentially retweet your Tweet.

The number of times a Tweet is Retweeted is also likely to be a factor in Google’s Real Time Search Algorithm. Quality of Twitter Followers The quality of Twitter followers is also taken into consideration by the Google Real Time Search Algorithm, which is similar to the quality score used to rank the value and authority of inbound links to your web site. Ideally you want to keep your Twitter followers focused on your keywords and your business niche. Targeting within your niche will be important. Keywords are obviously a large part of this strategy when determining who to follow with the hope you will get a follow in return.

Twitter Relevancy Keywords are again the driving force behind building relevancy. The use of topical keywords within Tweets will be one of the primary elements which assists Google and other Search Engines to determine the primary topic of your tweet, and when to include it in the SERPs for a particular search query.

In Summary... It is still early days with regards to Real Time Search and without doubt all will be involved in a learning curve. However, by including some prior knowledge of how Google interprets and evaluates web pages and putting this information into a Twitter context, it is clear that the number and quality of a Twitter accounts followers and how keywords are integrated into the Tweets will be dominant factors in obtaining visibility in the Search Engine Results Pages.

SEO optimization of a wordpress blog can be tricky at first but becomes easier once you know the drill. You need to learn how to use any and all the features, plugins, and tools is highly recommended. A lot of newbie webmasters and blog owners make the mistake of trying to use pictures to make their sites attractive. This is good if such site is just an online album or a blog created for leisure with a very little significance.However, commercial, industry or corporate blogs require more than images. However, we are not discouraging you from adding photos into your site, as long as it has relevant link material and text. Remember, search engines aren't interested in how good your picture looks, but primarily with the content you add in your site and what you share with visitors. It is always best to be conscious of every word you write and publish on your blog because this is the criteria the search engines will use to track or evaluate your blog. Your primary aim of setting the blog is to share some certain information or knowledge with fellow internet users. It is then proper to take into consideration any act that will favorably bring more internet users to your blog or site. This will create awareness and relevant traffic to your blog. Search engines make use of relevant and target words when ever searching for sites. Good, relevant, useful, targeted and up to date content will make sure search engines will keep your website in the first page of search results. The first thing you should do is to put the most relevant information on the top f your blog because the search engines spiders may stop at the top and evaluate your blog based on their findings there. These search engines conduct regular keyword checks, content relevance, links and title text evaluations. Submitting your blog to search engines are usually performed free by some sites online but you need to constantly evaluate the results of these submissions. Blog directories are also advisable. Add your blog into these directories, but make sure that you have a catchy synopsis or a phrase that would attract any potential visitor and lure him or her to your blog. The above tips are basics and should be taken further by adding Meta tags to your site or blog. This helps to pronounce the theme of your site. You are now almost ready to explode on the internet. Set some realizable goal and try to learn how these tags works and the feeds that are available for your site.

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