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Why is SEO so important?

Monday, November 16th, 2009 | 72, Technology | No Comments

Internet has become a part of life. These days, we do everything from communication to shopping, from gathering information to providing information about our business. If you are not ‘online’ you don’t exist. This trend has given way to a whole new venue where businesses can grow and operate.

There are millions of people who are running their business through the internet and are earning great profits from it. Now you must be wondering, why some websites are so popular, while a large number of websites stay in obscurity? Why do some websites pop up in the first few search engine results while others come in later pages?

The answer to this question is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO means optimization of the content of a website in a way that it’s ranking in search engines rise. Search Engine Optimization involves using the right number of keywords and keywords that are in the right place in the content. This ensures that when those particular keywords are searched, the website is shown in the first few search results.

Naturally, the higher a website is shown in the search engine results list, the more traffic it will get. This is the main reason why some websites get more traffic and bigger profits than others. For example, suppose you run a travel website about tourism in London.  Just writing good content won’t be enough to get good traffic to it. You will have to make sure that the people who are trying to gather information about tourist activities in London get to see your website. For this, you will have to use the right keywords and key phrases in the content. This is what we call SEO.

Search Engine Optimization can be a tricky thing because you must know exactly the right keywords and phrases and put them in the right places. You must also know which keywords are searched most and which keywords will be beneficial for your website. In SEO, there is not a “one size fits all” rule. Each website is different and its optimization should be according to the specifics of that website. That’s why you must hire a professional SEO service to optimize your website.

Why SEO Services?

SEO Services will use the right keywords to ensure better ranking for your website. A good SEO service will make sure that your website content includes the popular keywords which are searched frequently in the niche of your website.

A SEO service will increase visitors to your website by presenting your website when they are looking for products, services and information that your website provides. It will definitely increase your online business. This practice is known as SEO Marketing.

SEO Marketing is one of the best tools to promote any website because it solves the basic problem with any online venture. It solves the problem of getting enough exposure in the search engines. It doesn’t matter how much you try to publicize your website through other means of internet marketing unless and until you get your website optimized. Therefore, hiring SEO Services is a step in the right direction.

The best and the most effective method of SEO optimization is through organic SEO. This kind of optimization is perfect for people who are working with a limited budget, but still want to reach large audiences.

What is Organic SEO?

Organic SEO is search engine optimization in its truest form. These days, many search engines offer paid SEO services. This service allows a website owner to “buy” a few keywords and phrases of his choice. When those phrases are searched, his website is displayed in the top search results. In return, the website owner is required to pay a certain amount for every click to his website. This is known as pay per click optimization.

Organic SEO, on the other hand, has no such formalities. In this kind of SEO, the website is optimized by good and popular keywords and the rest is left to the search engines. No amount is paid to anyone. Organic SEO has many benefits such as:

·        People trust organically optimized websites more
Anyone can buy any keywords in the pay per click method, so potential site visitors cannot be sure of the legitimacy of their content. This is why people are more likely to trust the organically optimized websites in favor of pay per click optimized sites.

·        It’s affordable
Organic Seo is much more affordable than the pay per click method. One doesn’t have to keep making regular payments to search engines using this method. Plus, the pay per click method carries the risk of getting increased traffic, but potentially fewer sales, i.e., you can lure people to your website through this method but can’t force them to buy. This sometimes becomes a raw deal for website owners.

·        Relevance
Organically optimized websites ensure relevancy of the content. The search engines display these websites because of their content and not because they were told to pick them, so this relays a better image to internet users.

In short, organic SEO is the safest and best choice for website owners who want to create a good and substantial website that people can trust in the long term. This is also very good for those who want to increase traffic to their website without spending too much money.

If you want to get your website optimized, then you should contact an SEO service that provides guaranteed SEO for the website. This means, hire a service that has expertise in this field and that knows how to optimize in the best possible manner.

There are hundreds of websites on the internet which claim to give the best and guaranteed SEO services. You must make sure that you hire the best by checking their previous records, the testimonials and reviews on their website. This will give you an idea of their performance.

In the end, all I can say is that there is hardly any popular website that hasn’t been Search Engine Optimized. And if you want your website to be popular, you now know what to do.

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Tweeting iPhone users petition O2 for a better deal

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Technology | No Comments

Apple announced a new iPhone 3G S on Monday, which created a problem for people who already had an iPhone 3G but who really need the new features, or whose lives are hopelessly incomplete unless they can flash the latest shiny shiny gadget. Well, it was O2’s fault, really. The phone company decided that people who wanted to upgrade would have to buy out their existing contract. In other words, it was offering “business as usual” rather than doing them a special deal.

Steve Alder, general manager of devices for O2 UK, told TechRadar:

“Having subsidised much (or all — depending on tariff) of the price of a customer’s iPhone 3G, we simply cannot justify invalidating that contract and subsidise a second device for the same customer.
“Much as we understand the desire of many customers to have the latest version, this would be a loss making deal for O2 and would be a distinct set of business terms for iPhone customers that don’t apply to our other customers.”

In fact, O2 did do a cut-price deal for iPhone users when the iPhone 3G came out, and it will do an iPhone 3G upgrade on its usual terms. The problem is that O2’s early upgrade programme is only for people who are 6 months or less from the end of their contracts.

The obvious solution, of course, is for O2 to offer iPhones on an annual contract basis, based on the assumption that Apple is going to introduce a new model every year. At the moment, for some buyers, the contract is longer than the useful life of the iPhone.

Some Twitter users (eg me) have seen rather a lot of pleas to sign an online petition or Twitition (how twee!) that says “we the undersigned petition O2 to offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade and tethering #o2fail”. It has 3,902 signatures at the time of writing.

There’s a parallel petition that says: “we the undersigned petition AT&T to offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade prices” with 3,999 signatures. Or twignatures.

But as the LA Times says: “In the name of fairness, it should be noted that this movement comprises a vanishingly small fraction of iPhone 3G owners. The company has sold more than 15 million of the second-generation devices since their release last summer.”

My own view, expressed here several times since 2003, is that it should be illegal to subsidise handset sales, as it is in South Korea. The mobile phone market would be a lot healthier if people knew how much heir handsets cost, and bought what they were willing to pay for, and if phone networks had to compete on the price of minutes and the quality of their service. The current system distorts competition in both areas.

Antivirus companies fined over customer charges

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Technology | No Comments

The world’s two leading antivirus companies have been fined for automatically charging customers to renew their subscriptions.

McAfee and Symantec, which make the computer industry’s most popular virus protection software, each agreed to pay $375,000 (£230,000) in fines and costs after a complaint was brought by the New York Attorney General’s office.

The case came after customers complained that both companies had not been clear that anyone signing up to use their products would automatically be charged to renew their subscription every 12 months. This, said New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, constituted an unfair attempt to separate customers from their money.

“Companies cannot play hide the ball when it comes to the fees consumers are being charged,” he said in a statement.

“Consumers have a right to know what they are paying, especially when they are unwittingly agreeing to renewal fees that will not appear on their credit card bill for months. Symantec and McAfee – two of the nation’s largest vendors of computer security software – will now have to be clear and up-front with their customers when it comes to renewal fees.”

The two Californian companies dominate the market for virus protection with products including McAfee VirusScan and Norton Antivirus McAfee, and between them are worth more than $20bn.

Automatically renewing subscriptions has become standard practice in the antivirus industries in recent years, with companies saying it is vital to protect consumers and prevent potential viruses and malicious software from being downloaded to their computers.

The investigation by Cuomo’s office, however, found that the information on renewal fees was hidden in the small print of the subscription agreement, and that both companies made it difficult for customers to opt out or request refunds if they did not want to keep the service. They have now agreed to make it more obvious that subscriptions will be automatically renewed, and to offer refunds to any customer who requests to cancel their service within 60 days of being charged.

Twitter fights fake celebs by adding verified accounts

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Technology | No Comments

Twitter has always had lots of fake accounts, including fake celebrities, but only now is it introducing a system to verify them. The site has just announced that: “To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a ‘Verified Account’ feature. We’re working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.”

The problem is that authenticating celebrities is hard work, and Twitter may not have the staff or, perhaps, the ambition to handle the thousands of celebrities already using the system. The announcement says: “because of the cost and time required, we’re only testing this feature with a small set of folks for the time being.”

It could, of course, introduce a system where people pay for verification.

Twitter may have been prompted to act by a lawsuit launched by Tony La Russa, manager of the St Louis Cardinals baseball team, over the unauthorized use of his name.

Some people have got away with pretending to be celebrities for a long time, with Twitter seeming to wait for complaints to roll in before it discontinues them.

At the moment, a few users are tackling the problem on a community basis. The Valebrity web site, for example, has been approaching celebrity users of Twitter accounts and asking them to verify themselves by various means. One simple way to do this is by putting a Twitter link on their official site.

One problem is the number of “celebrities” from Britney Spears and Oprah (verified on her own TV show) down to the thousands of members of various sports teams, rock bands, parliaments, TV and radio stations, and so on. All of them could have their reputations damaged by impersonation.

Twitter does not seem to have woken up to the fact that the problem is going to get worse and that it has no hope of coping on its own. It would make much more sense for Twitter to work with Facebook and other sites that have the same problem and come up with a joint solution for verifying not just celebrities but everybody.

Note: I’ve changed “combine” to “work with” in the last para, since it’s been misunderstood.

Update: I talked to Valebrity’s Steven Livingstone-Perez who says he’d already asked Twitter if they were interested in working with Valebrity, but they didn’t get back to him. “For what they want to do, it’s an awful lot of work. I think they’ve been forced into it, and I don’t think they’ll be able to cope,” he says.

Valebrity has already validated more than a thousand celebrities and reckons the site is becoming known: “People are now coming to us before they go to Twitter.”

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