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New SEO Tactics Seem Spammy

Posted on2016/03/162016/03/16AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Web site SEO tactics have changed in the past 3-5 years. Tactics of getting their sites up front and high traffic that seem to be less than, well let’s say “Honorable”.
I was looking to see why some of my posts have no traffic. I was searching for tips to keep myself fresh and ran into endless posts on the first few pages of my search that were just appalling compared to ethics codes of web design. Such as those annoying popups that people have on their sites that seem to come up when you are trying to leave the site. The popups that say “Wait don’t go just yet” and then offer some pointless coupon to a product that you no longer trust because it seems the site is using some sort of intelligent software that tracks your mouse and is scheduled to come up when you try to close a tab or hit the back button. Well that is in fact what they are doing. So um, yeah, I don’t trust those types of sites and instantly close the tab/page. and you should too.

Weird redefinition of common items. AKA Double Talkin Jive
Infographic – Sounds like a great word that has scales and graphs. Right? nope. Just means Relevant picture that gives the readers a visual of your page.
Responsive site – Means the site changes shapes and size as you use a different display dimension.

Content increases page navigation
Slide shows – The site is designed for images to be seen and the first page is titled “700 top funniest pictures on the internet”. You give it a go and the page loads slow as mud because of all of the Ads populating and the image is the first image leading to a joke. now you have to click the “next” button” which in theory should take you to another page so you can see the rest of the page. Nope just loads the same image with more pre-joke garbage and another 5 minutes of ads loading. Five clicks later you see the joke yet there is still a “next” button, for the next joke. Nope. I am now thoroughly frustrated and will not be back. and wish I could submit your site to a list of sites to be blocked, so I can help prevent people from wasting their time.
No one wants to click through a slide show to eventually get what they came for.

Calling their site a blog when it it’s more of an internet infomercial
Get a link to a site and it is presented to you as a blog but turns out to just be a website selling you get rich quick material, but written in a manor that seems makes you “feel like the writer is just like you”. The writer is not. The writer is just skilled at writing that way.

Hacked accounts spamming social sites
Those links you click that steal your passwords, were created to gather up popular accounts and confirmed accounts and spam links to the followers. Those accounts will stay hacked for weeks, months and sometimes forever. The garbage they post will be to get traffic to junk websites.
Reddit is notorious for having people with multiple accounts upvoting (click the “agree with” button) their own content and then downvoting (disapproval button) all other content submitted with in the same time frame so their content is seen the most.

Click bait
Titles for clicks- Content lacks. “Three guys meet a dragon you won’t believe what happens next”. “Man finds kitten, you won’t believe what happens next”.
How about some content and a title that doesn’t tell me what I will or won’t believe next.

Using apps that “consolidate your work effort” such as contact email blasts and such. Dude that is spam.

Using the pop-ups that say “wait don’t leave until you hear about this”. Dude that is a pop up. stop it. Stop trying to make that a thing. That just makes people leave faster and never come back.

What’s with the new pages looking like MSN 1998 ? No defined lines, just one table in the center of the page.

Is Search Engine Optimization Dead?

Posted on2013/07/012018/09/06AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Latest news buzz in webdesign world “Is Search Engine Optimization Dead?”.
Short answer:
NO.

Long Answer:
Still no but a few things have changed and a few things have been stopped. You now get penalized for using tactics like Google Sniper. Google bombing, keyword plugging, etc etc. Truth is, that never was Search engine optimization. that was ghetto style pyramid scheme junk.
The team at Google has removed most scams you can pull on Google and just left the actual optimization part in there.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Well let’s look at a book store as an example. Imagine if you have a bunch of great books. An entire book store full of books. Now picture yourself opening this new book store. you came up with this cool idea of hiding all of the book in the ceiling tile, and the signs you purchased were inside out, upside down, and behind the building and just say “Dave’s” on them. What is Dave’s? Why is the sign not where everyone expects it to be? Why is it backward? why is it upside down? For that one guy who rolls his car in traffic trying to read the sign in his rear view mirror? It’s not great forethought. Now a person walks in.. Where the heck is everything? Why aren’t these people listed anywhere? they aren’t in a phone book, they aren’t in a news paper… What the heck is this place? When they figure out it’s a book store, where is everything? and why isn’t it in order? Everything is just chunked about in the ceiling area.
Search engine optimization is so you can fix those issues on the internet. Optimize your website for search engines. Pretty simply stated.
Google is leading the way to fixing it so scammers can’t just jump ahead of people with decent content, well organize easily navigated websites. sites with titles that match the content. Page titles that match that page’s content and a small “card catalog” type section built just for search engines so they know what the main items are that you want people to focus on when they hit hat page, the stuff that the page is about. This is called “Keywords”. Some people believe that keywords are dead. They are far from dead. The people that say that “Keywords are useless”, are people who use heavy searched words that are totally unrepresentative of their content. These people just want traffic to their page, they are of no help to society and are scammers.
Meta tags matter.
Meta tags are fairly simple to understand. These are the important ones.
Title: tells people the name of your page
Description : tells people what your page is about.
Keywords: words associated to your content that people will search for that is relative to your page.

Why would you use meta tags?
This is for search engines. Google needs to display the title of the page in the results. So title is important. Description, well all search engines put a small two or three sentence snippet in the search results, it’d be nice if the person doing the search knows what might be there before he/she clicks. Keywords, when they search for a specific item by one word, Search engines will search for sites with that word in it’s keywords and then highlight it in the search results. If it’s not in your keywords and in your actual content, then your site most likely will not show up in the results.
No you do not want to show up in every single search for every single item on the internet. You want to show up for items related to your content. You are most likely to please the reader that way, and your items will move faster.

What Google has done
Google has stopped people from plugging their meta tags with unrelated items and made Search Engine Optimization exactly what it is. Optimizing your website for better search results and they penalize anyone who is scamming the system. This could mean anything from bumping them down in importance, all the way to kicking them out of search engines.
This will help you in all search engines, and help your content be better found by people who actually want your items. If you are set to bring anyone and everyone to your website, you are less likely to bring the people who actually want your items. If you focus on your items and products, then you will receive traffic from people who are looking for your products or services.

The better your SEO is done, and the better your content is, the higher a priority you will become for your items.

The Importance of Alexa Ranking For SEO

Posted on2013/05/30AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Alexa.com is a web information company. A site to get detailed traffic information about other websites on the internet. To me, this is the most important ranking system on the internet.

How Alexa works

Alexa judges your site’s traffic and locates other sites with the same traffic, then measures the length of time that the user spend on your time and how deep they go into your website, The rank is given at that point. as your traffic increases, you are now placed into a better category, and sometimes, you are the worst in that category, so your rank can suddenly look worse. as you level out, your rank will level out. If you finally hit a a solid rank, now is the time to make your articles worth reading longer, and your interior pages worth navigating to.

What good is Alexa?

Alexa tells you what you are worth on a local and worldwide scale. If you desire advertisements on your website, then a good rank in Alexa is helpful in getting affiliates to purchase space on your website. The better your score, the higher the value.

How do you get a better Alexa score?

Traffic. You need traffic. You need lots of people knowing that you have great content and are a great resource for specific information. You don’t need to be Wikipedia, but being Snopes.com wouldn’t hurt. You have to get better rank. You need to be found in search engines for everything your website is about, so that all of your content is easily found under the right category. Your target area is under 100,000 worldwide. and this is very hard to achieve. My Alexa rank is not quite close enough to that but after a good long time, It will be. I plan to be here a while doing this.

Simply put, you can look at the effectiveness of your search engine optimization and content value.

My Top Pick SEO Ranking Toolbars

Posted on2011/10/122011/10/13AuthorTips Of Tech

My Top Pick SEO Ranking Toolbars
I have been watching the stats on my sites and sites that I work on, for quite some time. For the longest time I was using my own website, a little spot that allowed me to type in any website address and see statistics, like page rank, traffic details, and such. Just so I know if I am targeting traffic properly. With in 20 minutes of checking sites, I have so many tabs and windows open, I can actually sample Alzheimer’s. I just suddenly start forgetting steps and it gets worse as I go along.
So I had to do some searching. In my search for the perfect or best Seo toolbar for my web browser I sampled a bunch of toolbars that just either got dropped by the creators and no longer worked, or just didn’t really do much. Many of the toolbars seem to have done stuff like checking statistics from other websites that show website statistics, but did not like the method this person used, so the toolbars were all blocked.
Now, I have found three SEO toolbars that are a must have, and made one of my one that is a “cool to have”, for Seo statistics. Mine is just a jumble of stuff I found on the web, so , I don’t deserve any praise for the efforts other than updating.

Let’s get to this.

SEOQuake is the ultimate Toolbar for Seo information, from Serp, to alexa rank, back links, in links and a few more options that you have to find in the settings area.
Quirk Runs at the bottom of your browser window, gives you four statistics and does ot take up much real estate.
Alexa Toolbar straight from Alexa themselves
Mine allows you to check multiple websites at one time. Comes with some tech podcasts to listen to. Note the radio player at the top.

Don’t for get to watch your SERP, page rank and alexa ranking, these all matter.

As of the date of this post, these toolbars have the latest fix for google page rank checking.

How to Get Traffic to your website FREE

Posted on2011/07/102016/10/09AuthorTips Of Tech1 Comment

There is no single post that teaches you to get more traffic. I have multiple pages that explain search engine optimization, Google index and link submissions. The intention is to help you build a better website, gain traffic, and be listed correctly in Google to help you gain traffic, and reduce people who just like to call every page on their website, what ever it is that gets them traffic, while not related to the search terms at all.

We all want to know How to Get Traffic to your website FREE. I know I do. I always look for ways to Get Traffic to my website. be it cheap or free, or anything that doesn’t cost me much.
So over the years I have picked up a few ideas and tips. Most of the Webmaster Search engine optimization knowledge, I got straight from Google. Google’s guidelines are what showed me how to properly index my website in Google and get listed with other websites for specific correct categories.
I have also come up with tricks or shortcuts that cut out all of the webdesign chaos that we normally have to face when we want people to find our websites. All of these tricks, I have posted them on the web so that I can help others get their site seen and yo get traffic to their websites, and to make sure the internet is not so messy anymore.

Here is a list of previous posts on the topic of getting rank to your website.

Start with a good Website Template to work from. And of course a good website host (this is a sponsored link but I do use them)
Gaining Rank In Google
SEO KeyWord Analyzer
Selecting The Best Online Advertising
Search Engine Indexing
Site Submission Links
Always Check Page Rank
Check Site Owner Whois if you want to quickly see if a domain is available or soon to be.
SEO Tools

Main thing you need to know about getting traffic to your website, is make sure your content is something that a lot of people will want to read about, purchase, search for. If you are building a website for teaching puppies how to do tricks, you will have more traffic on your website than some guy who is teaching how to properly sort flea shampoos at Wal~mart. obvious which one will be searched more.

This is not all there is to Webdesign. Not by a long shot. It is great to have good graphics on your website.So good knowledge of graphics design is a good thing. Good content and well worded descriptions of your content. You must have pictures for everything you are selling or giving away. People like pictures. They like pictures a lot. If you do not stick to at least the basic rules, you will not make it to the full 12 second attention window that people have, if they can even find you.
Seo is a fun game, when you get into understanding how you can get rank and get your website seen and how to work on indexing your website with Google and other search engines.

On another lower note, for all of the SEO and web-designers who build for other people. This link powweb try it and look at the cost, to show thanks please note that you got that link from me, I will get a discount on my next payment. Look. The first two years are an amazing cost, and each follow up is pretty typical, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts. So, thank me with saying you got the link from here.

Is Google Sniper a Scam ?

Posted on2011/02/162012/12/28AuthorTruXter43 Comments

What Is Google Sniper?

Are you considering buying Google sniper scam? or Google sniper scam2 or Google sniper 2 ? Are you wondering if Google sniper is to scam you or scam Google? Well let’s discuss Google sniper and if it is a scam or not (up front… yeah it is).

Well I checked Mark Thompson’s website because it was the first one that came up in Google that wasn’t trying to sell you the Google sniper product. and it took a bit of looking to find him.

I agree with what he is saying. I hate all of the websites that say “I got rich from a loop hole, you can too!”. He goes on to explain that he makes lots of money from his advertisements on the pages that talk about his product. If this was true, then the guy would not be at a loss by letting people download the content for free.(free brings people wanting to sample) In fact the media on his site being free would be cause enough for even more people to come to his site and double his income from his advertising affiliate.
These sites that try and sell you tricks to get to the front of Google and other search engines, will get you banned from all search engines. And it happens very fast. If you disappear from the search engines, then you may as well be running a koolaid stand inside your closet. No one will find you.

This Google Sniper or Google Sniper 2 , is preying upon your laziness. If you are too lazy to learn how to legally, properly optimize your website and are not willing to pay a search engine optimization company to put you on the right path, then he figures you are getting what you deserve, and he is profiting on your loss. Well that is a theory because if you get banned from search engines, using his system, then um, what else could he be thinking other than you did it wrong? Of course you did it wrong and that’s final.

From what I gather, the maker of Google Sniper and Google sniper 2 is showing you how to use keywords to get high rank in Google for the products you sell. Can’t you do that your self? Like if you are selling locks think of everything related to locks and use that for your keywords and build your site and pages to represent your product? like say “safety,security,intruder” etc etc etc in your meta tags and then make sure you say it a few times on your website ? All he is going to do is tell you the basic knowledge of advertisement and how to add it to the internet. You can find that information all over the internet. Like search for “Search engine optimization tips”. If you do not get bombarded with good useful legit tips, then you just aren’t trying and you are looking for a magic elixir to build your website for you.

So far, all of the sites I see talking positive of Google Sniper, are selling Google Sniper. like stated here . Or linking to a website that is built specifically for selling Google sniper. Isn’t Google sniper for people who have a product and need to target customers well for that product? Well… then why is Google full of these sites that are targeting people looking for real reviews? Can’t call it a pyramid scam. because you don’t know if it’s the maker of the program, or a person who bought the program under the contract of selling the program for profit or gaining profit from helping sell the product.

What you can see is the people Saying positive stuff about Google sniper, sell nothing, but show you how to buy Google sniper. Meanwhile the thing that Google sniper is selling you is ways to put your product out there so you can sell it. If they have no products, then, why do they need Google Sniper? Let alone Google Sniper 2.

My opinion, you did your research, that says you have a brain and know how to find what you are looking for. otherwise you would not have found this post. I am a nobody as far as Google is concerned. Yet you found me. So you know how to search. How about you use a bit more of your brain to make your website easier for people to find. Save yourself a buck and see what happens when you actually try.

So is Google Sniper a rip off? Is Google Sniper a scam? is it worth it for you to buy Google Sniper 2 ? Well if you bought the first one and it didn’t work, Fool me once. I can say, Google Sniper 2 is not for me. You have a better chance with the ads on a website that advertises Google ads, because Google will not advertise scam sites that have crooked methods. Those sites will give your legit tips on how to get seen in Google and how to optimize your website for search engines. Do not trust someone who is a Google bomber.
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So if you are actually trying to get your website some traffic and get your products seen and sold, here are some webmaster tips and tricks. These are all free and legal and okay and recommended by Google. best yet, it’s all free. and when you learn something from there, Google it more and you will see that the world is full of people helping, you just have to learn what it’s all called. because we are talking about it right there under your nose, free. and legit, and a huge abundance of internet webdesign help.
Main thing to remember is seo Search Engine Optimization. Just that alone should get you in the right direction.
If you don’t want to bother with that, there are millions of SEO companies out there that do the work for you.

I hate that this page gets so much traffic. I hate that my fellow man has let me down like this.
Maybe I should just go all out and do a post dismissing the fountain of youth, or magical growth potion for 80 year old and see how many other types of moron are out there.
Hmm, maybe I will break down penny bid auction scams.
looks like people need to hear that also.
jeesh

Here is what you do instead of using Google sniper.

TL;DR It does not work and it only hurts your website to use Google Sniper.

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Here’s the most you will get from Gooogle Sniper

SKTOOL Ends Soon

Posted on2010/10/19AuthorTruXter

Was double checking a post about site stats and analyzer tools I have batched/patched together when I clicked into google’s keyword search tool and found bummer news.

From the google page for SKTOOL

Search-based keyword tool will be discontinued soon
Please try out the updated keyword tool. You can get keyword suggestions by words, phrases, websites or categories.
Why are we transitioning?

Wont be gone, just part of another project.
Seo nightmare is losing good Seo tools. Just ask Search Engine Optimization Master and book writer Alicia Crowder. So I make sure I will not be left in the dark. By putting stuff together that works for me.

SEO KeyWord Analyzer

Posted on2010/08/172013/08/14AuthorTech Review Man

If you have been looking for an SEO Keyword Analyzer for your meta tags. I have one from seo centro.
This tool looks at your meta tags and your body text to see what you have and what you expect. Then it counts for repeated items to tell you what word is said and how many time. Then it does two word phrases and three word phrases. To locate certain specific search terms.
This helps you to better target your customers or readers for what they are actually searching for when they find your item or page for what it really is or is about.
meta tag Keyword usage is very important. If your keyword meta tag is filled with a bunch of gobbledy goop, that is not on your page, then you will not get categorized for what you are. No search engine allows fictional keyword tags. Your keywords say “hey this site is about “blah blah. If your key words do not match your content, you will be labeled as a junk website and it is a hard battle to get back up from that. A very hard long battle.

How to use this tool
Locate the URL box and type in your website address. Do not forget the “HTTP://” or the SEO Keyword Analyzer will not work properly. Locate the “Access code” box and type in the symbols located in the image above (I know…. I hate Captcha also). Press Submit and watch the magic.

Meta Tag Analyzer

Online Meta Tag Analyzer
provide by SEOCentro.

Please bookmark this page and feel free to use when you feel you need .

You can then move to The Site Evaluation tool and see what your statistics and page rank with alexa rankings are on the web. This allows you to evaluate the value of your works.

SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar

Posted on2010/07/29AuthorTruXter

From and seomoz email I received today.

SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar (Almost SOLD OUT)
Tickets are selling fast for our Seattle SEOmoz PRO training seminar on August 30th and 31st. The finished schedule is now available and the content, speakers and venue are absolutely amazing. We’d love to have you join us, but the seminar has sold out every one of the past 4 years, so please book now to limit disappointment.

Hope you’re having a great summer,

Rand Fishkin
CEO | SEOmoz

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