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Search Engine Optimization 101

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2010 in search engine optimization

Need to generate more traffic, leads and sales? Then SEO is for you. Search engine optimization (SEO)  is a way of improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings

SEO Process

SEO Process

Using search engines, visitors can find sites in a variety of ways: via paid-for advertisements in the search engine results pages (SERP’S), via third parties who are listed in the search engines, or via “organic” listings.  SEO is primarily concerned with improving the visibility of a site in the organic search results..

What is Search Engine Optimization ?

Each search engine places emphasis on different factors such as the design and layout, keyword density and the number of relevant sites linking to and from a website.  Since Google is by for the #1 search engine, most SEO strategies focus on getting top rankings on Google searches.  But depending on your target market, this may be a very good or a very bad strategy.  If your audience is general, Google is a good place to start.  If your traffic sources are more industry specific, focusing on trafffic sources beyond  just Google (such as industry-specific blogs, directories, message boards, journals and serach engines)  is usually a great way to get more targeted traffic and also boost your search engine rankings without spending all your time and budget on a single channel which may not be as good a fit for your site as others. We will first analyze your situation to recommend the most effective SEO strategy.

How Google Determines Your PR (Page Rank)

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.

Search engines are always changing their ranking algorithms in order to index the most relevant sites the the search term, which means a good SEO program is ongoing and adapts to market and search engine changes.

Using the right strategy, Sunday Media will increase your companies website rankings and traffic. This is is the key to improving your web site so that it will come up on the first page of the SERP (search engine results page).

Our SEO Approach

We will write the meta tags for your page. (Meta Tags are the instructions for the search engine spiders (Robots). We will in some cases recode your site according to web standards, a set of guidelines put in place by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). One of the important recommendations of web standards when creating a web page is to remove from the html file any code that describes the web page’s appearance (fonts, colors, layout) and have all this presentational data in a separate file, known as a Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS.

Coding webpages according to web standards allows search engine spiders to access the content (words) on the page without having to filter through the mess of bloated, typically table based layout code. Html tables were once the only solution for complex web page layouts, but are now obsolete. Visually, a web page coded with CSS positioning will look identical (if desired) to a page coded using table layouts, but the benefits of the CSS layout include smaller file sizes (usually 50% smaller), faster loading pages, a much easier and less costly to maintain website, and most importantly, from an SEO point of view, trims the html file down to content and semantically appropriate tags only.

Remember that the search engines are all based on words, and its our  job to put the right words in the right places, so that the search engine may index your website under the right keywords or key phrases. Our SEO Service will also give you suggestions on modifications to your text (SEO Copywriting) and graphics that will also optimize the site. Sometimes your system of navigation may be working against optimum search engine results. We will alert you to any design problems and suggest solutions. Web standards play a key role these days. When the changes are in place then we will begin search engine submission. Remember that search engines handle 90% of the Internet’s searches every day.

SEO ROI

SEO services will increase your companies website rankings and traffic. We use an advanced search engine optimization technique that is proven to work. Our SEO services are safe and cost effective, building your corporate image, internet exposure and clientele while creating a tremendous ROI.

Optimization, Internet Marketing, Web-Site Promotion Services

The ranking methods of Google, Yahoo and BING change every three months, so we will offer you monthly maintenance packages to make sure you stay up on top even though the search engine algorithms change. There are very few SEO companies and SEO experts that are well rounded and understand the importance of bringing link building and SEO services together in their client campaigns. Some focus on search engine optimization (SEO) while some will build you high page rank, but very few will get you results!

Many companies also use outdated methods that no longer work with any search engine that is link focused. At Sunday Media SEO we have taken our SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company to the top of Google for many of our targeted keywords in a short time. We have combined link building and SEO together to get fast results that would normally take SEO companies much longer to achieve.

Proven Search Engine Optimization Specialists

As a search engine optimization specialist, our firm is all about getting top rankings on Google, Yahoo and BING. To make major money on the web, you have to get free traffic through search engine optimization. A good search engine optimization specialist will use all of the researched keyword phrases by creating individual pages for each on your site. The Specialist will create proper SEO Copywriting text for each of the keyword phrases. If you fail to take this approach, you will be missing out on the massive traffic available on the web.

Google Search Engine Optimization

Our Google packages specialize in search engine optimization (SEO) for the Google search engine. Because Google is the most widely used internet search engine the commercial importance of achieving a good page rank on Google is our goal.

We will review your website and provide an analysis of the following:

* A technical overview of the strengths and weaknesses of your website
* Factors that are preventing top rankings
* An analysis of your website rankings in the top search engines
* A market analysis consisting of the Search Engine Positioning of your competitors
* A detailed report consisting of realistic opportunities for organic positioning
* Keyword use in document title
* Keyword use in outbound links
* Global popularity report of your website
* Keyword use in metatags
* Keyword use in the content of your website
* HTML validation of pages to W3C standards
* Keyword use in headline and highlighted texts
* Search engine compatibility and details
* Keyword use in image ALT attributes
* Keyword density
* Keyword use in bold body text

 
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Top Facebook Pages and Apps

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2010 in social networking

Top Facebook Pages: No surprise, people are spending time gaming, following celebrities and their favorite brands.  Topping the list: Texas Hold’em Poker remains #1, followed by Mafia Wars and Michael Jackson.

Name # of Fans Daily Fan Growth Weekly Fan Growth
1. Texas Hold’em Poker 16,852,274 0 598,020
2. Mafia Wars 11,639,261 0 393,173
3. Michael Jackson 11,489,275 0 82,551
4. Facebook 8,131,380 0 86,330
5. Barack Obama 8,049,060 2,230 62,062
6. Vin Diesel 7,785,514 0 53,760
7. Starbucks Coffee Company 6,670,307 0 93,801
8. Megan Fox 6,459,896 0 101,469
9. Lady Gaga 6,153,352 3,844 97,901
10. Twilight 5,478,593 0 61,201
11. Coca-Cola 5,355,237 0 33,225
12. I ♥ SLEEP 5,194,492 0 33,810
13. DR. HOUSE 5,127,875 1,532 60,529
14. Will Smith* 5,055,021 2,943 20,774
15. Pizza 5,054,933 0 22,166

So exactly what is everyone doing on Facebook? Playing Farmville, adding pictures to their pages, sending e-cards, networking on their iPhone, playing poker and connecting with friends:

Top Facebook Apps


Name Developer Users Daily Growth
1. FarmVille Zynga 82,686,749 -57565
2. Static FBML Facebook 53,905,650 219291
3. Birthday Cards RockYou! 37,644,729 360718
4. Facebook for iPhone Facebook 31,981,606 169267
5. Café World Zynga 30,382,239 53778
6. Texas HoldEm Poker Zynga 30,055,220 -19568
7. Mafia Wars Zynga 25,471,927 29974
8. Causes Causes 24,475,591 -20178
9. Happy Aquarium (BETA) CrowdStar 22,758,733 -25241
10. PetVille Zynga 21,627,955 165098

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The Best Website and Marketing Checklist. Ever.

Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2010 in website design

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Need a good checklist for your website design and marketing?  Sunday Media can help with a website audit and a redesign depending on your needs. Here is a comprehensive list of things every website owner should consider when making a website both user and Google friendly:

Domain name & URLs

  • Short and memorable
  • Uses Keywords
  • Used in email addresses
  • Uses Favicon
  • Site.com redirect to www. version:
  • Alternate Domain redirects
  • Home page redirect to root
  • No underscores in filenames
  • Keywords in directory names
  • Multiple pages per directory
  • Registered for 5+ years
  • Multiple versions:
  • .com
  • .org
  • .net
  • .biz
  • Hyphenations
  • Misspellings
  • Product names
  • Brand names
  • Type-in keywords URLs

Browser issues

  • Visible address bar
  • Fully functional navigation tools
  • Visible status bar
  • Site works in multiple browsers
  • No browser hi-jacking

Site logo

  • Displays company name clearly
  • Isn’t hidden among clutter
  • Links to home page
  • Unique and original
  • Use tagline consistently across site

Design considerations

  • Instant site identification
  • Crisp, clean image quality
  • Clean, clutter-less design
  • Consistent colors and type
  • Whitespace usage
  • Minimal distractions
  • Targets intended audience
  • Meets industry best practices
  • Easy to navigate
  • Descriptive links
  • Good on-page organization
  • Easy to find phone number
  • Don’t link screen captures
  • Skip option for flash
  • Consistent page formatting
  • No/minimal on-page styling
  • Avoid text in images
  • Font size is adequate
  • Font type is friendly
  • Paragraphs not too wide
  • Visual cues to important elements
  • Good overall contrast
  • Low usage of animated graphics
  • Uses obvious action objects
  • Avoid requiring plugins
  • Minimize the use of graphics
  • Understandable graphic file names
  • No horizontal scrolling
  • Non-busy background
  • Recognizable look and feel
  • Proper image / text padding
  • Uses trust symbols
  • Works on variety of resolutions
  • Works on variety of screen widths

Architectural issues

  • Correct robots.txt file
  • Declare doctype in HTML
  • Validate HTML
  • Don’t use frames
  • Alt tag usage on images
  • Custom 404 error page
  • Printer friendly
  • Underlined links
  • Differing link text color
  • Breadcrumb usage
  • Nofollow cart links
  • Robots.txt non-user pages
  • Nofollow non-important links
  • Review noindex usage
  • Validate CSS
  • Check broken links
  • No graphics for ON/YES, etc.
  • Page size less than 50K
  • Flat directory structure
  • Proper site hierarchy
  • Unique titles on all pages
  • Title reflects page info and heading
  • Unique descriptions on pages
  • No long-tail page descriptions
  • Proper bulleted list formats
  • Branded titles
  • No code bloat
  • Minimal use of tables
  • Nav uses absolute links
  • Good anchor text
  • Text can be resized
  • Key concepts are emphasized
  • CSS less browsing
  • Image-less browsing
  • Summarize all tables

Navigation

  • Located top or top-left
  • Consistent throughout site
  • Links to Home page
  • Links to Contact Us page
  • Links to About Us page
  • Simple to use
  • Indicates current page
  • Links to all main sections
  • Proper categorical divisions
  • Non-clickable is obvious
  • Accurate description text
  • Links to Login
  • Provides Logout link
  • Uses Alt attribute in images
  • No pop-up windows
  • No new window links
  • Do not rely on rollovers
  • Avoid cascading menus
  • Keep scent from page to page
  • Targets expert and novice users
  • Absolute links

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