Did you know that Google is freely giving away advice to help you perform what they consider the BEST SEO PRACTICES? Are you ready for some good news? Google is freely giving away advise to help you perform what they consider to be the best SEO practices. The Google chat forums have multiple PDF’s providing information on just about everything you need to know to have a wildly succesful site.

Check out this PDF for a full SEO overview created just for you by google:

SEO pdf by Google

In this guide google goes over:

SEO Basics

Create unique, accurate page titles

Make use of the “description” meta tag

Improving Site Structure

Improve the structure of your URLs

Make your site easier to navigate

Optimizing Content

Offer quality content and services

Write better anchor text

Optimize your use of images

Use heading tags appropriately

Dealing with Crawlers

Make effective use of robots.txt

Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

SEO for Mobile Phones

Notify Google of mobile sites

Guide mobile users accurately

Promotions and Analysis

Promote your website in the right ways

Make use of free webmaster tools

Just Another Free SEO Tip from the guys at HitBrand Consulting!

Does Google know what you do? Are you sure that google puts your site in the right category? This is an important question and we are going to show you how to make sure.

if google puts your website in a category that doesnt relate to the niche that you are in, it is going to be very hard to rank well for your keywords. To find out how google categorizes your site perform a search for the following query:

related:www.hitbrandconsulting.com
(where your site is the domian name listed after the related:)

If the sites that show up are related to your niche than you are on the right page. If the website is about something different than we have more to talk about here. Contact me and we can talk for free on how to get your site fixed.

So why would Google put you in the right category? I mean… common its pretty clear, there is a big picture of a tennis racket on your homepage, they should know its a site about tennis rackets right? Remember that amazing google is trully amazing, however it still is jsut a machine. You must give Google hints to understand what it is you do. You can do this by using alt-image tags on images, using the correct headers, titles and descriptions on your pages and using a good link structure.

If you would like to receive free SEO coaching from me, contact me at Adam@hitbrandconsulting, its free!

Are you looking for an automated tool to ping your blog? This is a great way to get the word out about your new content!
simply go to:

http://up8.org/service_pingservice_index

This is a question we get asked alot, and for good reason! Google offers heavy emphasis to these title tags and you can increase your chances of good ranking by following some simple rules:

Through testing we know that Google will show up to 70 characters (including spaces) in the title tags. Its best to keep your Keywords in the first 50-55 characters. Once you get over 70 characters, Google will start chopping up your title tag into what it thinks is the most important info.

As Twitter continues to make national headlines, companies are racing to search engine optimize their tweets, and now with Googles real time search there are different ways to get ahead of the conversation.

In the latest video from Jennings Social Media Marketing, how to search engine optimize (SEO) tweets. Google real time search updates as stuff is happening around the web-for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles and web pages now stream in on the actual results pages for your query. Search engine optimization twitter tools used for real time search include Twitterfall, Trendistic, and Tweetbeep. Mike Dobbs from mashable.com gives the top ten twitter SEO tips that are out of this world.

Jennings Social Media Marketing http://www.jenningssocialmedia.com is a full service company that utilizes the art of online storytelling with the science of measuring quantifiable results. Jennings provides comprehensive social media marketing strategies from Web design and development to viral Web videos and represents publicly traded to medium-sized businesses, across the U.S. and overseas. These businesses include technology, sports, sustainability, entertainment, travel, financial, health care and real estate

Here is another free resource. Check your site for W3C validation service for free. Will this affect your your SEO on your site today? maybe not, will it affect your site in the future? we think so!

What is W3C Validation?

“The Markup Validation Service by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows Internet users to check HTML documents for conformance to HTML or XHTML standards. It also provides a quick method for web page authors to check their posted pages for mark-up errors.^{[1] ” Thanks To Wikipedia}

So here is the the link- Simply enter a website and the service will check your site for W3C errors and create a complete report for you free of charge!

W3C Validation Service Checker

Domain Age is an important aspect for SEO. Not only does google give authority depending on length of time the site has been established, it also prefers that you own it for several years in the future!

HitBrand Consulting Tip- Purchase your domain name for 2 years or more from todays date. This is a cheap fix and you will be investing in your long term business presence on the net without any out of pocket expense, heck, you might even save money by purchasing extra years up front.

Contact HitBrand For Free Internet Consulting Services. ß

We got a few emails this weekend asking for more information on what it is that we do exactly. Its pretty simple really. We offer free SEO advice on ways we think you could optimize your site. Have a question about an SEO topic? Send us an email and we will discuss it on our site. If you would like to have HitBrand offer you free seo tip to make your site the next Hit Brand then use the sign up form on our homepage.

Everytime I create an article in a directory for on of our clients I end of doing a search for link html or html link. I memorized the structure buts its jsut easier for my to copy and paste the code, then to type it in myself. Use this post as a referance on how to create a link for html. 

Links and Hyperlinks

In web terms, a hyperlink is a reference point (an address) to another resource on the web.

Hyperlinks can point to any resource on the web like an HTML page, any image, any sound file or a movie.

An HTML Link

Link syntax:

The start tag contains attributes about the link.

The element content (Link text) defines the keyword to be displayed.

There is a stigma in SEO that portrays the secret art of high ranking as only attainable from a mysterious potion of mixing overpriced consultants with confusing SEO definitions to create a result of page 1 ranking. Well I have good news and its not going to cost you, in fact if you are willing to put in a little of the leg work, your efforts can actually start paying you! Here are 5 easy steps to improve SEO on your site that won’t cost you a thing!

1)Create unique title pages, page descriptions, keywords and content on as many possible pages. We think that Google likes unique content. From our research, a strong factor to high page ranking is having a large amount of unique content pages.

2)Create inbound links. We think that Google likes inbound links. Search engines interpret these inbound links as recommendations to your site. The more inbound links you have the more recommendations you have. If I have the opportunity and all other things are equal, I would choose the candidate with more recommendations, wouldn’t you?

3)Create a Blog- Create a blog on your sites topic. Write it in everyday. Occasionally link back to your main site referring to a product or service. Obtain inbound links from other blog members by posting comments on blogs from similar sectors as your site.

4)Write articles. Write articles like this one and post them on an articles site. You might read this post and think what I have is interesting to say. You might read about this subject and want to learn about other subjects I discuss at my site. You might click the link at the bottom of my post to read my other blogs and when you do I receive another visitor. I also use the keyword in the signature of my article to receive a recommendation from the article site back to my site for the keyword I choose. Some article sites have a high page rank which means they have more authority making a bigger recommendation then if a link came from a low page rank site. Good, now your getting it!

5)KISS. That’s “keep it simple stupid”. There’s no magic potion for good SEO and there’s no black hat method that will work forever. Wear a white hat, focus on the fundamentals and basics. Do the basics and do them well. Don’t give up. Expect to put several months of effort into your SEO effort before you first start seeing an effect, but when you do, look out!