SEOmoz Cheat Sheet

SEOmoz merupakan sumber laman web yang baik untuk servis dan panduan SEO (Optimisasi Enjin Carian). They provide all kinds of tools and advice to assist you in maximising your web search engine optimization efforts.

Baru-baru ini SEOmoz telah melancarkan “The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet”, yang memberikan panduan ringkas, termasuk topik-topik berikut:

• Important SEO Html Tags, Search Engine Indexing Limits
• Recommended Title Tag Syntax, Common Canonical Issues
• 301 Redirect, Important Search Engine Robot User-Agents
• Common Robot Traps to Avoid, Robots Meta Tag Syntax
• Robots.txt Syntax, Sitemap Syntax

Click to here to download the SEO Cheat Sheet.

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Jika anda memerlukan search engine opimization services for your website:

• Visit our Search Engine Optimization Services (Eng)
• Rujuk kepada servis Optimisasi Enjin Carian kami (BM)

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Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Ingin hantar atau daftarkan domain laman web anda kepada enjin pencarian seperti google, yahoo dan lain2? Well walaupun search engine seperti google boleh “index” atau “crawl” laman web anda secara automatic, you can cepatkan that proses by notifying them that your website exsists.

Manual Submission

Yup if you want, you can go and submit your website manually to search engines. here are some sample submission links:

• Google
• Yahoo
• Lycos

Automatic Submission

You can also use free online submission sites like Submit Express to do the work for you. Check out their FREE Website Submission service.

Does it guarantee high ranking?

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Following post is taken from Sitepoint.com, view the original post here.

50 Tips to Get Your Blog Ranked in Google (Part 1)

Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.

Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do.

So here are 10 daripada 25 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.

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1. 50.

   Build your own or move to Wordpress. Wordpress is a blog platform that’s open source (free), robust, extensible and easy to use. Add Feedburner, which equips site owners to broadcast RSS feeds and develop user metrics. Next, synch up Google Analytics and a sitemap plug-in to simplify populating the blog and developing useful, actionable metrics. Also, make sure your blog is pinging www.technoratti.com and other social-ranking sites like www.digg.com.

2. 49.

   Don’t worry about page rank. PR is highly over-rated as a yardstick of online success. Connectivity within a web community and expansion through content syndication and guest blogging are more critical to building site credibility than page rank. PR will take care of itself over time if you do it right.

3. 48.

   Make a difference, or at least have a clear purpose. Differentiate your content on every post. Cover lots of editorial ground.

4. 47.

   Use a conversational tone. Dry, starchy academic writing is strictly for the textbooks. Write words that people “hear” instead of read.

5. 46.

   Provide a “Tell Your Friends” link on your blog. Birds of a feather do, indeed, flock together. So, if one of your regulars shares an interest in philately, chances are s/he has other friends with an interest in stamp collecting.

6. 45.

   Study the competition. They’re studying you. Check out spyfu.com to do a little undercover work on search analytics employed by competitor sites and their visitors. You can’t touch the content but you can’t copyright an idea, either, so pick up some new paths of thought from others in your site’s arena.

7. 44.

   Remember SEO basics. Use provocative, keyword-rich title tags, meta keywords and descriptions, and only link to high-quality sites. Never over do it. Keep your posts relevant, natural, accurate and, above all, current.

8. 43.

   Don’t stuff blog post titles with keywords. It’s a form of keyword stuffing and spiders hate keyword stuffing. The ratio in headlines should be 40% keywords, 60% non-keywords.

9. 42.

   Submit your URL to blog directories. There are “best of the web,” and paid directories, like Yahoo, and free directories like the Open Directory project at www.dmoz.org. Every directory listing is another link to your site and another way visitors can find you. Just google them to find more.

10. 41.

    Create blog categories that contain keywords, i.e., Ecommerce, SEO, Affiliates, etc. for use with a “site hosting” or “site design” blog.

11. 40.

    Content quality counts. Research topics about which target readers want to learn. Write something new, useful and relevant. And don’t forget to regularly update older posts. Things change fast on the web so last year’s “next big thing” is this year’s hackneyed cliché.

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Pernah dengar perkataan “Meta Tags”?

Meta tags merupakan code html yang anda perlu tambah kepada bahagian header laman web anda. Meta tag memberi maklumat penting kepada serch engines mengenai laman web anda. Ini termasuk:

• Title/Tajuk Laman Web
• Description
• Keywords

Bagaimana untuk tambah Meta Tags

• Buka file laman web anda dalam html editor (i.e Macromedia Dream
• Alih kepada code atau source view untuk lihat html code.
• Go to the top of the html code and look for the dan (rujuk contoh)
• Copy & paste contoh source code di bawah sebelum laman web anda
• Tukar isi kandungan title, description dan keyword kepada informasi yang bersesuain dengan laman web anda
• Save, upload dan test

Sample meta tag code

<head>
<title>Maxhosting.com.my - Simple Malaysian Web Hosting</title>
<meta name="Description" content="Maxhosting is a Malaysian based web hosting company offering affordable web hosting">
<meta name="Keywords" content="web hosting malaysia, shared hosting, free domain, malaysian web design">
</head>

Online Tools and Meta Tag Creators

• Online Meta Tag Generator
• SubmitExpress Meta Tag Generator
• Simple Meta Tag Generator

Pastikan anda mempunyai meta tag yang unik untuk setiap laman web anda.

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Ever wondered how you can get a number 1 or even top 5 ranking in google?

End of the day, anybody that has a website would like people to find it..regardless of whether you are selling something or not.

So what is Search Engine Optimization?

Is it worthwhile paying for? Yes and No. IS there a difference between Malaysian or global SEO?

Every search engine has a different way to index pages or websites. Most people would look at Google (google.com) or Google malaysia (google.com.my) for reference. If you are ranked highly on google for a particular keyword, chances are that you will be ranked pretty high for other search engines as well.

So how is the ranked determined?

In a nutshell, lets look at an sample for “Search Engine Optimization guidelines for Malaysia” website:

• Title & Description: Make sure every page has a proper title and description in its meta tags. In our case, it could be:
  • Title: Malaysia Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guidelines
  • Description: A guide to set up Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website in Malaysia and around the world. Malaysian SEO.
• Keywords: insert keywords that you think are relevant to your site. These are phrases people may type in google.
  • Examples: Malaysia Search Engine Optimization, Malaysia SEO, top ranking google, how to be ranked number 1, Malaysian SEO Tips, google sitemaps, meta tagging, meta tags, meta-tags
  • You obiovusly need to make sure that you are actually using those phrases, keywords in the page. Otherwise it doesn’t work
  • Find your niche: You can’t be ranked number one for everything so pick keywords that will give you some niche. if you can’t be number one for “Search Engine Optimization”, settle for “Search Engine Optimization Malaysia”
  • You obliviously need to make sure that you are actually using those phrases, keywords in the page. Otherwise it doesn’t work
• Incoming links: this is aprt of your Google PR value, your branding. The more sites link to yours, the better. That easy? Well no. It also depends on the quality of incoming links. A link from a site like cnn.com (which has a high PR rank) is better than from a site that has a low PR ranking.
• Google Sitemaps: make sure you include a google sitemap that tell the crawling google spider what to look for and how to get there.
• Check your page links. make sure there are no broken links.
• Submitting your site? Not absolutely necessary but doesn’t hurt. Submitting your site to google will inform google of your site but doesn’t have anything to do with your ranking.

So should you hire an SEO expert in Malaysia or elsewhere?

Up to you, you can do all the above yourself. Even a so called expert can’t do much more than the above. Thats why its called “Search Engine Optimization” and not all they can do is optimize your webpage based on your market niche and to ensure your content is search engine friendly.
Search Engine Friendly Content?

• Less pictures more content
• Less flash more content
• For CMS’ use Search Engine Friendly Links or work with SEO friendly CMS’ like wordpress
• No broken links
• Use CSS over tables…pages load faster

Good luck. If you need our help, contact us here

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