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!

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.

A popular website List-of-domains.org posts a daily list of newly registered domain names. On April 28 2010 there were 102,000 new registered domain names. In one single day there were over one hundred thousand people that said “I want to create a website!” How many of these sites wanted to make money from the Internet? That figure is a bit harder to know at this time but briefly looking over the list showed that many, many of them had names that could be geared towards generating income. With 100K new websites a day coming online, how is your business going to stand out? Are you going to do on page SEO? Pay Per Click AdWords? Link Building? Article Marketing? Its safe to say that it is going to take alot more than just using 1 or two of the techniques to help your site get found on the net. Lets talk about some ways that you can think outside of the box in your Internet marketing campaign to gain viral traffic.

• Offer Something Free – Post it everywhere!
• Create a press release on something outrageous
• Video Tape your self jumping out of a plane with your logo on your shirt. (better yet have a pretty girl do it for you)
• Get On TV
• Advertise on a radio station in an interesting way
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Wrap your vehicle on decals and stickers (how many thousands of people see your car each day?)
• Be unique
• Ask friends to give you ideas
• Dont be just like the next guy (or girl)
• Your idea Here

Remember that thinking outside of the box is to think differantly than others do. Think of your problem (your need to reach new clients) from a new perspective, in new creative ways. The coined term “Thinking outside of the box” has been around since the 1960’s but the message is still ironically exactly the same. 

If you would like some personalized tips for your online business, contact Adam@hitbrandconsulting.com We give free online marketing services where we offer one on one coaching to help your site become the next HitBrand!

Here we are, 2010 is in full swing and what do you have to show for it? Is your site on pace for your expectations for the year? If your site is hitting a bit lower than what you had expected here is a list of our top 5 traffic building techniques in 2010.

1) Create unique content!! – Google is rooting for you, they really are. What do they want in return? unique content!! make sure your website or blog is giving visitors something worth finding.

2)Articles – With the exception of going viral, this is one of the best methods of traffic building of 2010. Time after time we have seen success from article writing and you can to! Want to know the best article sites to post to? they are not all created equal. If you want our private list of the best article sites just shoot me a letter. I will send it to you for free.

3)Press Release- Dont be scurred! You dont have to be a guru to create a press release. Its as easy as an article and it creates some great links and traffic.

4) Social Networking – The art of advertising, without advertising. Do this correctly and you can build some amazing traffic and links. Start with sites like Digg and StumbleUpon and go from there!

5)Be everywhere! post in forums, post in blogs, tag your name and signature line on facebook, myspace and every other site you can find. Remember your customer will read your advertisement up to 7 times before actually clicking on your link.

Want some free help? Contact me, we offer free SEO coaching. Find the contact me box on the 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.

I am not sure if you are aware but Google really respects .EDU, .ORG and .GOV sites. If you had the capability to find EDU blogs and comment there you could read some great posts as well as provide meaningful feedback. We are sharing the scoop with you and wanted to let you know of a great tool to find EDU blog sites in your niche.

Just click on the link:

FIND EDU BLOG SITES FREE

In an exciting new announcement Google will not allow you to bid on adwords using the popular Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). This will help increase profit as costs will only be incurred on actual sales. This is an awesome new feature from Adwors!! See the full story from Google here:

What is the new Bid Type advanced option of Conversion Optimizer (Target CPA and Max CPA)?