Archive for November, 2007

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Published by uGuX on November 30, 2007 under SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

A quote from Emerson.

Currently, I’m running a few SEO experiments:

How to Rank #1 for SearchEngineOptimization

Published by uGuX on November 28, 2007 under SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Just take away the spaces!

Okay, I’m going to try and do that. Using this type of ingenuity may work out just right. Here are my steps to do it:

  1. Put “searchengineoptimization” in the title.
  2. This will result it in being in the <h1>*</h1> tags once.
  3. Use it in special formatting (i.e. bold, italics, ordered lists, etc.) — simple HTML.
  4. Check the amount of competition:
    results for searchengineoptimization
  5. Check the quality of the competition:
    competition for searchengineoptimization
  6. Make sure you inter-link to this page correctly.
  7. Use proper meta-tags (between your header tags: <head>*</head>): 
    <meta name=“description” content=“I’ll show you how I optimized for searchengineoptimization.” />
<meta name=“keywords” content=“searchengineoptimization, search, engine, optimization” />
  8. Use a nice clean URL (i.e., http://seo.ugux.com/searchengineoptimization/).
  9. And make sure your site has some backlinks and a decent reputation.

Now, that’s some real SEO. :)

Free Godaddy Promo Codes and Coupons

Published by uGuX on November 27, 2007 under Misc.

All of the following promo codes (a.k.a. coupons) are non-expiring — unless otherwise stated. You can click GoDaddy, below — which will cost you nothing extra and support this site with some affiliate commission at the same time.

GoDaddy (opens in new window)

Coupon Codes

OYH3 or chill3 or hash3 - $3 off / $6.95 on any .COM

OYH1 or command10 or hash1 or BTPS4 or chill1 - 10% off anything

OYH2 or chill2 or hash2 - $5 off a $30 purchase

Possibly Expiring Coupon/Promo Codes

BTPS7 - 20% any order of $50 or more

gdm0716 5.99 .net renewal, 7.95 .coms

If you find any that don’t work or know of additional promo codes, post a comment.

Achieving a High Keyword Density Without Keyword Stuffing

Published by uGuX on November 25, 2007 under SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

keyword density and stuffingIt’s very obvious and apparent that one major technique in SEO — is to stuff a bunch of similar and same keyword phrases in a page that one wants to rank well for. However, keyword stuffing to achieve a high keyword density is pointless and this post will explain why.

Keyword density & stuffing — summed up

Many webmasters claim that there is an optimum level (or percentage) of keyword phrases compared to the rest of their content to use — usually around 2-4% (in Google). Many times in Yahoo or even MSN/Live.com, you can use a much larger percentage and rank much better.

However, going for too high of a keyword density can be hazardous to your health (or maybe just your site’s). A large keyword density can be considered search engine spam or even blackhatseo.

Getting a huge keyword density without stuffing

Google and other search engines are getting close to over analyzing websites. So, what do they analyze? They place certain weight to certain phrases within certain HTML tags.

  • Put your phrase just once in <h1> tags, but make sure it is only once and try to make it slightly different from the phrases in your <title> tags.
  • Do not stuff your alt=”" attributes either. The sites that are optimized the best are ones that only display one phrase in each image’s alt attribute.
  • Make sure to use nice long, descriptive keywords and phrases in links and in their relative title attributes (i.e., title=”")
  • Use <i>, <b>, <em>, & <strong> for incorporating phrases. Google understands all of these methods.
  • Using lists of keyword phrases in lists certainly can’t hurt (i.e., <ul>, <ol>). This list you are reading is a good example of that.
  • I’ve also have had excellent experiences with putting keyword phrases that are embedded in the table-header (<th>keywords and phrasing</th>).

By far, the title tags and header tags are most important, and certainly more weight is given to them. Make sure you mix up the way you use your key phrases.

Best of luck

If you look at this page, I use nice long and descriptive <h3> tags that incorporate similar phrases. Always keep in mind that search engines generally are quite able to analyze keyword phrases embedded in nice and simple HTML tags (that’s been around awhile) — hint, hint. ;)

search search.dll sofocus bs pf

Published by uGuX on November 19, 2007 under SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

search search.dll sofocus bs/pfLet me guess; you…

  • are a Webmaster or Advertiser
  • were searching for either search search.dll sofocus bs or search search.dll sofocus pf on Overture
  • wondered why there were 297,594 searches for these key phrases or terms; so, you searched (Google, Yahoo, MSN) it and found little competition for the phrase
  • still wondering what it was, you found yourself reading this blog

This phrase (search search.dll sofocus bs/pf) is actually so highly popular because of Webmasters’ automated requests that read data from Overture and then send their requests to either Yahoo, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, etc., and scrape the search results from these search engines.

Next, the Webmaster has their server cache these results to their database and then provides these scraped search engine results on their site and displays ads along side them.

How this could have started was probably from a messed-up eBay search — Just a thought:
http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?fp=4&sofocus=bs

PS: This is an SEO experiment to see if I can top the search engine results for this spammed (not by me) key phrase. If you like the type of original research this blog does, maybe you should take a minute to subscribe to this site’s feed (xml, rss) or peruse some of the other content available here.

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