Anyone who runs a website should be aware of a few basic search engine linking tactics. Used properly you can interlink your website so that Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines will rate you higher in both page rank and search engine results for your keyword/key phrase niche terms. If you’re unaware of what internal linking means, here’s a basic overview.

Internal linking involves the links on your website that point to other pages on your website. Internal linking is very important because it allows the search engine spiders, those automated bots that scour the Internet looking for information, to find all of the pages on your website. In comparison, external linking are links that are on your website which link out to other websites, and there are specific tactics for those as well. In this article, however, we’re going to cover a few simple tactics and strategies to get your internal linking up to speed.

When you’re developing your website, you will tend to put a whole lot of pages of similar information tailored to a specific niche or subject that you want to convey to your visitors. You probably will have information, news, how-to articles, tips and sales pages, where informed visitors can buy your products or services. Your internal linking structure will not only benefit your visitors, but it will help you rank better with the search engines as well.

Having a good navigation system makes Google and Yahoo happy, and in turn, they will reward because you are doing things to improve the visitors’ website experience. So, for example, if you have an internal linking structure that is seamless, intuitive and allows your visitors to quickly find what they’re looking for, search engines will give you more page rank, index more of your web pages and and return higher search results for user queries.

Why? You have taken the time to help your website visitors have an excellent customer experience. As result, your tactics and strategies should be geared towards giving arriving visitors not only the information that they seek, but have it presented in a way that they will and search engine bots will love.

So how do you accomplish this? There are a few basic tactics, you can use that will increase your internal linking structure right off the bat.

Number 1 - use the rel=”nofollow HTML tag for pages that you don’t want to pass rank to Google. For example, let’s say you had a three-page site. Now, we all know that most people have more than three pages for an entire website; however, this will make it easier to follow. (more…)

  Posted By tyna     Sep 12, 2008       1 comment  

Consider this: Your website hits from Google aren’t as high as you’d want them to be and you realize that your site is placing as the 30th, 50th or 300th site. You then tell yourself that whatever ranking it is you’ve gotten for a functional keyword is still pretty useless.

That might not actually be the case since if you’ve already gotten yourself in Google’s rankings through a keyword, you could still probably have hope. If your web site deals with that particular topic, you could then improve your rankings without having to spend anything. And how is this done exactly? First, you’ll find about how highly you’re ranked for that particular keyword.

Know About Your Keyword Placement in Google

With the Google Rankings site at www.googlerankings.com, you can learn where you are in the list. This can be quite a useful tool if you employ it properly. If you are placed in the first thousand, you could improve your ranking by orienting your page for much greater relevance.

Have Search Traffic Approximations

You should then know about the amount of visits you might get. With Digital Point, you can have a free program that allows you to estimate the number of visits each day that high rankings might then get. It’s at www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion.

Have Keyword Optimization

The next step involves using the term you’ve picked and then having your page optimized with that term. With GoRank.com, you’ll be able to check for continuous ratings on search engines. You also would get suggestions on what Yahoo or Google might want. (more…)

  Posted By tyna     Sep 9, 2008       5 comments  

If money cannot buy happiness and happiness does not come from just one thing, then where does happiness come from? First of all, happiness is not something you find outside of yourself. You cannot go look for happiness and find it somewhere. Nor can you simply just “decide” to be happy regardless of your circumstances. Happiness is more than just a mental state of mind that you can maintain by controlling your focus (although there are some who do believe that). Even though it is true that your thoughts can affect your level of happiness, they are not the only thing that can affect it. True happiness does not come from just one thing, not even just your thoughts. I believe that happiness is a positive state of well-being with many contributing factors. It is something that you grow inside of you.

What are the contributing factors? Amazingly, many of them we do not recognize immediately because our brains are programmed to focus on what will protect us from pain, discomfort, danger and other threats to our survival. We can easily overlook the “grass and flowers” in the field of life because we are too busy checking each area for landmines. We often do not realize how much something means to us until it is gone. Simarly, it is very common for us to be unaware of how much something contributes to our happiness unless it is missing. We often do not realize that the love and support we received from our parents as children including the happy memories, the fun, the birthdays, and everything else that was positive also contributed to our foundational emotional experiences that we are still building on today. But just talk to someone who did not have these things. They have a lot less on which to build in that area, and they usually recognize it. (more…)

  Posted By tyna     Aug 29, 2008       1 comment  

They never said that it will be easy,it have not been easy for me to post on this blog not because of lack of what to write but due to the Internet connection here.I have stayed up at odd hours just to keep in touch but then the Internet connection just goes off and on,very frustrating. During the day the kids will not give me a chance to be able to do anything, the most annoying thing is not been able to watch anything meaningful on television. The guesthouse with all the money that they are collecting from TOTAL can not pay their monthly cable subscription instead they depend on the free channels. This had made me to start watching Nigerian movies on African Magic channel,I noticed that most of the story lines have complicated issues well that is gist for another time. We have been looking for a house,you will think that the company will provide housing for us instead they will pay housing allowance according to your grade as opposed to the number of your family that we are used to elsewhere. My husband can’t take a new post in another department that was offered him that comes with better incentives because according to his boss the AKPO Project can not start up without him,if he is that important to them how come we are in this hotel? how come we have to pay about $300,000 to rent a house for one year and we must pay for 2 years upfront plus agency and lawyer’s fees? This is how the area look like it is called Victoria Garden City or VGC for short.

 The good news is that we have gotten a house,my husband went with the agent on Wednesday to see about six houses by Thursday i went with them to make a choice and by Friday it was settled. My husband is entitled to a status car but he doesn’t like the car being offered him so he needs to add about $50,000 to to get a car of his choice. My first son Chinedu took his grade 7 entrance exams today,he passed,school begins on the 7th of September and he is going to board. Kachi,Joel and Shawn have been feeling caged because of lack space to run around,did i mention that there is no cartoon channel in this Hotel? They are getting some fun now that i have bought a small DVD player to player their Barney tapes. Their school is in the same VGC .As for me i am still trying to establish a business here and it is coming up gradually,I am keeping busy with the thought of how to decorate my new home which happens to have an ocean view.I will post the photos when we move in, so far so good.

  Posted By tyna     Aug 23, 2008       3 comments  

While going through the horror of waiting for a flight at the Newark Airport,the one i wrote about in my post travel nightmare;we met this strange woman with whom i had a strange conversation.I took notice of the woman because of her large backside,i used to think that i was well endowed in that department until i met this woman to worsen her case she is flat chested. Enough about her physical attributes that is not the purpose of this post,she started talking with us in the process of the discussion i mentioned that i was tired of moving from one country to another because of my husband’s job. She replied that she loves moving with her husband,assuming that her husband works in an organization that enables them to move about i then asked her where her husband works,she told me that actually her husband exports goods from Canada.I wondering if she has to moving with the exported goods in the cargo or what? She started this topic about how she have to travel every week for work that she leaves on mondays to return on thursdays;i asked her again what do you do for a living? She then told us that she is an IT consultant,well that was when i knew that she is strange come to think of it any person that can use a computer can claim to be an IT consultant besides she was excited to inform us about a new social network that she just discovered, guess which one? Facebook in july 2008 and she is an IT consultant? She started telling us about how much she hates staying in a hotel and that she always go with her own towel and bed sheet that is very strange indeed.In the hotel that she usually marks the hotel bed sheet to make sure that they were changed,or she will sleep on the couch.As per towel she rather use her dirty clothes to dry her body after having a bath than use the towel provided by the hotel.At this point my husband stood up and left us he couldn’t bear it any longer. She is indeed a strange character,one of many that i have come to meet in my life time.As we got to Toronto airport one of the custom ladies asked us if we have Canadian visa,well i said yes while wondering how we could have gotten there without a visa, very strange question indeed.

  Posted By tyna     Aug 15, 2008       3 comments