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Searching and search engine positioning - feature articles

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Here is a list of articles on searching and search engine positioning published by Pandia. This list also includes articles written by Pandia's guest writers.

For more articles on searching and search engine positioning, see our news section. See also our Search Engine Marketing 101 tutorial.

The robots.txt file and search engine optimization

On using the robots.txt file to tell the search engine spiders and crawlers which directories and files to include, and which to avoid.

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The best search engine marketing magazines

On US magazines covering the search engine marketing scene.

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Daron Babin on online radio, podcasting and search engine marketing

Online radio expert Daron Babin talks about Webmasterradio.fm, Internet radio, podcasting, podcast search engine marketing and two new search engines for audio and video podcast

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SEO expert Kalena Jordan on search engine ranking success

Universal Search will change the way people search as a whole, therefore impacting the existing business models of SEO and SEM firms, SEO expert Kalena Jordan says in this Pandia interview. Learn what’s important and what’s not in search engine marketing.

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How to survive Google Universal Search ranking wise

Google Universal Search means that news, blog, video, image and local search results become more important. What is a webmaster to do?

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SEM expert Jill Whalen on organic search engine optimization, Google and more

Search Engine Marketing Expert Jill Whalen talks to Pandia.

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How to avoid duplicate content in search engine promotion

The search engines hate finding two pages with the same or similar content. Unfortunately modern blog software and content management systems have a tendency of generating many different URLs for the same page. So what is a webmaster to do?

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How to generate search engine traffic through link building

Links are a very important component of search engine success. Search engines normally consider links a vote of confidence, and a decent number of links from trusted sites will lead to a boost in rankings.

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How to measure success in search engine marketing

On ways to measure search engine marketing success and what statistic you should care about.

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Website owner? Earn money using contextual ads!

Jenstar and Shoemoney presents the best tactics for generating revenue from Google Adsense an the Yahoo! Publisher Network.

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Mobile search optimization

There are many reasons for making your website work for mobiles, not the least of which is the fact that there are some interesting innovations in the field which can help mobile search come into its own.

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How to succeed with online video content

Video search is exploding. Not only teenagers, but also their parents and their grandparents hang out on YouTube. But, according to Chris Sherman, “Optimizing for video search is currently at the stage where regular web search was in, I would say, 1994.”

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Search engine optimization for podcasts

If you don’t already have a podcast show, there are several reasons to consider starting one: Podcasting is a direct channel to your customers, it augments site content, it’s cheap, and it’s easily distributed.

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How to design search engine friendly web sites

Shari Thurow presents some practical hands on advice on designing web sites that rank well in the search engines.

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In-house search engine optimization for big brands

Big companies face special challenges when developing their own search engine optimization strategies, especially when it comes to integrating SEO in other marketing and IT activities. Nevertheless, there are lessons here that can be useful for small companies and organisations as well.

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The role of insite linking in search engine marketing

On using insite links (links from one page on a site to another on the same site) in search engine marketing efforts.

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Using honey pots and sleepers to get higher search engine rankings

A successful search engine marketing strategy requires that you make use of a wide variety of web pages. Welcome to the world of sleepers, rockets and honey pots!

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Search engine marketing spillovers

Many webmasters dabbling in the occult art of search engine marketing are reductionists. They focus on the immediate goal of their marketing campaign and forget about the indirect effects of their efforts. That’s a mistake.

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11 Reasons Why You Should Consider a Job in Search Engine Marketing

Are you currently seeking employment? Looking for a new profession? Considering a career change? Then a job in the field of Search Engine Marketing should be at the top of your list. Here are 10 reasons why.

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How to combine traditional public relation work with search engine optimization.

Pandia Guest Writer Kent Lewis discusses how to use search engine optimization techniques to increase the value of PR activities

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Online search trends - sites and sources

Find out what people are searching for right now, and learn something about the culture you live in.

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Link building, Web 2.0 style

Getting listed in social sites or “folksonomies” like digg, Netscape, Reddit and Fanpop, may help generate links and improve your search engine ranking.

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The A to Z Guide to Getting Website Traffic

A new 26-step plan for search engine marketing success.

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Google and Yahoo! give webmasters a helping hand

Google and Yahoo! add webmaster support portals, with help files, blogs, discussion forums and tools.

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Optimizing WordPress blogs for the search engines

How to configure WordPress for maximum search engine visibility.

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How to rename or move files without loosing your search engine ranking: the 301 redirect

On page redirection techniques, what works and what to avoid.

Let’s say you rename a page on your website, for whatever reason. Perhaps you decided to revamp your entire naming convention, perhaps you decided to restructure your site and need to move pages into different folders, or you just realized that you are missing valuable keywords.

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How to get indexed by the news search engines

More and more people are using special news search engines to get their daily dose of current affairs. But how to you get your news articles listed in these search results?

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Search Engine Insight: 10 Questions for Dan Thies

Search engine marketing expert Dan Thies talks about the future of the search engine industry, the best search engine optimization techniques and more.

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Planning a Balanced Search Engine Marketing Campaign

With both natural and sponsored listings, brand reinforcement builds trust with users who skip around to multiple engines while searching for your strategic keyword phrases.

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Why title tags are so important

If you want to improve your search engine rankings, make sure that you use the HTML web page title tags correctly.

Online marketing expert Derek Vaughan tells you how to write the perfect title tag.

A pay per click search engine advertising tutorial

Kalena Jordan discusses the use of pay per click text advertising in search engine marketing campaigns. This three part article includes information about the services provided by Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly known as Overture), Google Adwords, Looksmart and others.

RSS: Cool Tool for Search Engine Marketin

Increase traffic and get inbound links by the use of RSS files.

Log file analysis for search engine optimization

An important part of search engine optimization is analyzing the web server log files in order to study the effects of the campaign.

Hiring Expert SEO Copywriters

You may optimize your web page copy for the search engines yourself. However, often it is better to have the help of an expert. But how do you find the right one?

Heather Lloyd-Martin writes about how to hire search engine optimization savvy copywriters.

Submitting your site to search engines and directories

Guest writer Kalena Jordan looks at how to prepare your search engine and directory submissions.

" Now there is such a huge amount of misinformation on the Web about search engine submission," she says: "I thought it was high time I wrote a basic tutorial to help webmasters sort fact from fiction."

Help, my site has been banned by Google!

It is the ultimate search engine marketing nightmare: Your site has been removed from Google's index and your traffic is falling.

By all means panic. Then draw your breath and read our Banned by Google Survival Guide and learn how to get your pages back in. And yes, the tutorial works for the other search engines as well.

SEO Best Practices for Web Site Design

Most designers and webmasters know the importance of building a site that will attract search-engine traffic, but not all of them are proficient in search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, Paul J. Bruemmer argues.

Using meta tags in search engine optimization

HTML meta tags will not bring you to the top of the search engine rankings, Pandia argues.

The Value Of Professional Search Engine Positioning Services

Pandia Guest Writer Steve Winkler argues that hiring a search engine marketing professional is much more cost efficient than building up your own competence in the search engine optimization area.

How Much Is Your Search Engine Positioning Budget?

Many marketers are in the dark about marketing budgets and particularly about search engine marketing (SEM) allocations, Paul J. Bruemmer argues.

He tells you how to establish a marketing budget and to justify SEM in your marketing campaign.

Building a Search Engine Optimized Website

In this article guest writer Jono Craig describes a broad search engine optimization (SEO) foundation. He blows aside some of the smoke and mirrors to reveal on-line resources for testing and fine tuning a Website's SEO potential.

Finding the right keywords

A content-rich high quality site will probably not be found by searchers unless you have optimized the pages for the right search queries.

Pandia tells you how to find the right keyword combinations.

Developing search engine marketing strategies

Steve Winkler takes a look at the development of search engine marketing strategies for clients.

Search Engine Damage Control

Paul J. Bruemmer takes a look at spamming and how to get back into the search engines when booted.

See also Steve Winkler's article on Rank Rage, with more on spamming and what to do about it.

Copywriting: Key to Search Engine Visibility and Conversions

High rankings in search engines can bring you lots of targeted traffic, but will you be ready to convert those leads when people get there? Paul J. Bruemmer takes a look at search engine and visitor friendly copywriting.

See also Steve Winkler's article "Sell More: 4 steps to better conversion rates", where he looks at search engine marketing and conversion rates.

Search Engine Marketing Buyer's Guide

Guest writer Steve Winkler gives advice on what to look for when buying search engine marketing (SEM) services.

Getting back to search engine marketing basics (again)

The SEO industry is growing at a tremendous rate, with more companies realizing the benefits of this marketing medium.

With this rapid growth come new minds, researching how to get better rankings, all looking for the basic information that will get them started down the road of SEO.

Special guest writer Andy Beal presents his series on basic search engine marketing and optimization techniques.

Here are the articles that have been published so far:

Search the Web more efficiently!

Special guest writer Daniel Bazac gives a thorough introduction to Web searching, with tips on how to formulate search queries, narrow searches, evaluate sources and much, much more.

This is an article packed with practical hands-on advice on how to become a better searcher.

Learn how to search the Web more efficiently now!

Newsletters and search engine marketing

Pandia Guest Writer Garrett French looks at how you can use newsletters and ezines in your search engine marketing campaign.

Using press releases in search engine marketing

Pandia Guest Writer Laura Cunningham looks at how to write search engine friendly press releases.

Developing efficient link strategies

Having relevant high quality sites link to your web pages will help their search engine rankings. But how do you get them to link back to you?

Pandia Guest Writer Peter Larmey discusses the benefits of a good linking strategy.

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