SEO and positioning your website to rank top spots in the search engines require some careful planning. Just like setting up a business or going to war, it requires strategizing for optimal results. Diving straight into the internet without any clear game plan is time-wasting, dangerous and more often than not, a futile attempt to rank any website for maximum targeted traffic. Let’s dwell a little deeper into some useful SEO and positioning tips to get your web pages indexed and ranking faster.

1. SEO and Positioning Tip 1 – Determine Your Objective

What is your objective in optimizing your website? Is it for maximum general traffic or targeted niche traffic? Once again, webmasters are unable to get this part clear. Many think that driving as much traffic as possible to their websites is the way to go. Unfortunately, this is a big pitfall. A web site may attract loads of traffic but yet don’t perform as well as another with little traffic but making more sales. Know what your objective is, to sell more products or to get more people to visit your website. If you are building an interest-based website or hobby website, perhaps getting maximum general traffic is the right solution for you.

2. SEO and Positioning Tip 2 – Plan Your Keywords Right

This is applicable for all websites that intend to tap into free organic traffic. By that, I mean SEO and positioning high in search engines for specific keywords. One clue for you before you compile your keyword list is to understand that search engines rank individual web pages, not websites. The systematic way to do it is to first look at your objective of SEO and positioning. If you are targeting a niche market, for example SEO tools, target the niche keyword SEO tools for your home page, and drill into this main keyword for related keywords such as SEO Elite, effective SEO tools, etc to target for each internal web page.

Don’t make the mistake like many webmasters do in targeting one main keyword for the entire website. The smart approach to SEO and positioning is to target a list of low competition, moderate demand keywords and rank well for them. This would potentially drive more targeted traffic, than to blindly hit at one main keyword.

3. SEO and Positioning Tip 3 – Simple Well-Thought On-page Optimization

Use your keywords in the meta-tags, web page title, sub-headers and web content. Make your web content unique. A keyword density of 1-3% and word count of more than 400 words is ideal for on-page optimization. Create a sitemap page to make search engines spiders love your web pages. This helps in indexing the internal pages fast.

4. SEO and Positioning Tip 4 – Effective Off-page Optimization Techniques

Building link popularity of a website is far more crucial than any other factors for SEO and positioning for top search engine ranking. But pay attention to who your link partners are. Trade links with websites in a similar niche, and high Google PR if possible. Links from authority websites such as educational or government websites, ie domain names with .edu or .gov extensions are valuable. Buying links from link partners is perfectly fine if you can verify the quality of the websites. Search engines nowadays can be quite demanding and look for quality more than quantity of links.

5. SEO and Positioning Tip 5 – Using Search Engine Optimization Tools

Webmasters used to do everything traditionally from on-page optimization to off-page optimization such as emailing fellow webmasters to exchange links. Technology and software development has made it much easier for SEO and positioning websites using search engine optimization tools. These smart tools are designed to automate all manual tasks necessary to grab a top search engine ranking for a website fast. Almost every webmaster has one or two of these in their arsenal as they are big time and money savers.

Feel free to drop by at my blog to read more about search engine optimization tools and grab a free ebook worth more than $97 packed with detailed SEO tips and techniques to help your SEO efforts. This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author’s name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

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what does SEO mean? Translated, SEO means Search Engine Optimisation. Everybody who has a site want’s a lot of traffic on it. And the best way to get good targeted traffic is from Search Engines like Google, yahoo or Msn. But For your site to get the great traffic that you’ve always dreamed it must rank well in search engines. And this is where SEO comes up. SEO means optimizing your site in any legitimate way to have high rankings in the most important search engines. I will try to give you a top 10 list with the most important terms meet in the SEO business. 1. Anchor Text. The anchor text is very important in SEO. It means the specific text for a hyperlink. Try to use as anchor text your most targeted keywords. 2. Ethical SEO. You can think about Ethical SEO as the opposite to Unethical SEO. It is SEO made without using any illegal activities that might get your site banned in the most important search engines. 3. Inbound links are links that point to your site. This are some kind of votes in your sites favor, from the search engines point of view. The more of these the better, obviously for traffic reasons, but also because they help build link popularity. 4. Keyphrase is a group of keywords. 5. Keyword is a word that is very important for your site. You keywords and keyphrases are the search terms that you want to rank high for. 6. Keyword Analysis means to analyze all the keywords that are related to your site and see which of them have more searches on search engines. You should optimize your site for related keywords that have the highest search rates. 7. The Link popularity is one of the most important thighs when it comes to SEO. Link popularity means the amount of links that point to your site. The link popularity while raise your site in the eyes of the search engines depending on the quality and quantity of the links. 8. META tags are special tags included at the top of a HTML page. Their purpose is to provide extra information about the web page. The most influential tags for search engine ranking are the Keywords tag and the Description tag. 9. Natural Links. SEO can come from natural ways too. This means that a webmaster on the net finds your site likes it and decides that it’s quite useful for his visitors and links to it. This kind of links are called natural links and this are one of the most powerful links. 10. PageRank. It’s some kind of ranking system invented by Google. The only real problem with PageRank in SEO is that is given much more attention that it deserves. The PageRank can bee seen with the PageRank meter included in the Google toolbar. You can think of it as a tool that measures the popularity of a wesite but only in the eyes of Google. PageRank is important but there are many other factors that are more important in the SEO process for the ranking of a website.

11. BlackHat SEO – is generally referred to as search engine optimization that abuses and goes against the terms of servic set forth by each inidividual search engine’s policy.

12. Spider Also called a bot (or robot). Spiders are software programs that scan the web. They vary in purpose from indexing web pages for search engines to harvesting e-mail addresses for spammers.

13. Spam – In the SEO vernacular, this refers to manipulation techniques that violate search engines Terms of Service and are designed to achieve higher rankings for a web page. Obviously, spam could be grounds for banning. Alan Perkins has published an excellent white paper on Search Engine Spam that is highly recommended. Here are some definitions of spam from the search engines themselves:     * Google     * Yahoo      * MSN

14. Robots.txt – Robots.txt is a file which well behaved spiders read to determine which parts of a website they may visit.

15.  Keyword Stuffing – Keyword stuffing refers to the practice of adding superfluous keywords to a web page. The words are added for the ‘benefit’ of search engines and not human visitors. The words may or may not be visible to human visitors. While not necessarily a violation of search engine Terms of Service, at least when the words are visible to humans, it detracts from the impact of a page (it looks like spam). It is also possible that search engines may discount the importance of large blocks of text that do not conform to grammatical structures (ie. lists of disconnected keywords). There is no valid reason for engaging in this practice.

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Using the right SEO software is one of the most important things you can do for your website’s success but finding it is not always easy. The products you hear the most about are often just the most advertised and not necessarily the best, or at least not the best to fit your particular needs.

For the most part, just about any product can help you in some way unless it’s a real piece of junk. So if you already have one and are not getting the results you want, try to spend a little more time with it and make it pay off. But if you are looking, read on. This article covers 3 that have helped thousands get the ranking they need. Even if one is not right for you, you can see what the top rated tools do.

But before we dive into the tools, let’s look at why we need them. In short; using SEO software is like buying time and expertise. A good product will save you a great deal of time and deliver the results of a search engine optimization expert. If you have a lot of free time to learn and perform manual SEO, you can save a hundred or so bucks and do it all without a tool. If you’d like to see faster results and focus your time in other areas, it’s probably worth the money to buy a good product. Of course with so many claiming to be the best, the hardest part is finding the one that will work for you.

Over the past nine years, as an SEO consultant, I’ve used over a dozen well known, and not so well known SEO tools. The results have varied from “Wow!” to “What a waste!” We’ll focus on the “Wows!” three types, one of which is likely to do what you need; 1.) Jumpstart (for maximum return with minimum cost), 2.) Site Owner’s Best Friend (to tackle major SEO tasks and more), and 3.) SEO Pro Pick (what SEO professionals use to get the best possible results in the least possible time.)

So here they are, arranged by cost starting with the least expensive…

1.) SEO Equalizer ($77)

Those new to SEO, looking for a jumpstart with SEO software have found a winner with SEO Equalizer (http://www.EqualizeSEO.com). It became popular as an SEO spy tool and soon caught on as a great link building program and keyword analyzer. It provides an easy ‘in’ for anyone wanting to take control of their Web placement destiny. It’s great for anyone who wants to minimize spending, boost ranking and does not mind waiting a little longer to see great results (as compared to the Pro Pick, SEO Elite below.)

Here’s what it does best:

A.) Finds your most competitive keywords and phrases

B.) Locates and analyses competitor sites

C.) Builds and helps maintain link partnerships

Quick to learn and easy to use, SEO Equalizer is also one of the best bargains at $77 for a full license.

2.) Traffic Travis ($99)

This is a one of those hidden gems you dream about finding. A great app that not a lot of people know about (probably because the name is not very descriptive.) With a price tag of about $100, Traffic Travis (http://www.TrafficTravisSEO.com) is powerful enough for professionals and easy to use for a website owner, new to search engine optimization, who just wants results with very little learning curve.

Traffic Travis is like the “Swiss Army Knife” of SEO software and has become known as the “Site Owner’s Best Friend.” Here’s some of what it does…

A.) Finds, sorts and organizes your most important keywords

B.) Shows your site’s (and competitors’) rankings on major search engines

C.) Completes full SEO page analysis for any Website, so you can see what the top ranked pages are doing right fro ‘on page optimization’ and how you can do even better.

D.) Helps build and manage backlinks (very important for Google.)

E.) Manages your Google AdWords campaign if you do PPC.

F.) And even builds online survey pages to quickly collect visitor feedback once they find your site.

It’s tough to do an “apples to apples” comparison of this one with either of the others. It wears a lot of hats that Website owners can benefit from. Like SEO Equalizer it has shown me slightly slower results than SEO Elite, but is a great value.

3.) SEO Elite

My first “Wow!” happened in 2005 with SEO Elite (http://www.SEOeliteWeb.com). This app was the first truly affordable piece of SEO software I came across that did all it promised. At $167 it’s about half the price of similar products but packs a lot more punch. It has three things that impress me almost as much as the results it gets…

A.) No annual fees (unlike some that charge $100 a year in “subscription” fees.)

B.) Free lifetime upgrades (I’m already on my 3rd version and it keeps getting better!)

C.) No Questions Asked, 8 Week Guarantee or full refund

That’s why I bought it. This is why I kept it…

Google results after the first four weeks:

# 1 Spots = 7

# 2 Spots = 11

# 3 Spots = 16

Links = 409 high quality inbound links obtained (extremely important to rank well on Google)

That was all in the first month and for just one site. In the three years since then I have received hundreds of additional top rankings spanning multiple sites.

Here are some of the things SEO Elite does very well…

A.) Let’s you check your site’s ranking for unlimited keywords on the major search engines

B.) Tracks any changes in rank and notifies you

C.) Finds the best possible link partners for your site, based on Google’s standards

D.) Shows which partners are still linking back to you

E.) Performs backlink searches on all major search engines

F.) Analyzes and compares special search commands on Google

G.) Finds exactly which websites your competitors are advertising on

H.) Helps you eliminate any penalized websites you link to

If you need great SEO software, can invest $167 and don’t mind spending a few hours mastering a new tool, SEO Elite is worth looking at. It’s the most widely used professional SEO software package for a reason.

Getting the right SEO software can be the best buying decision you ever make for your website. Enjoy!

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Top SEO Tools Comparison – Best SEO Softwares Reviews

Web CEO – www.webceo.com

Overview

Web CEO is a comprehensive SEO software suite. In fact, it goes beyond SEO and assists in overall website promotion. It has a smart user interface that helps to automate most of the repetitive tasks & encourages you to adopt a more structured approach towards search engine marketing.

Expert Rating: Customer Rating: FUNCTIONALITY: Advance EASE OF USE: Moderate Features : 4 out of 5 Usability : 4 out of 5 Customer Support : 4.5 out of 5 (Details) Return on Investment : 4 out of 5 Overall Expert Rating : 4.12 out of 5  $199 

It helps you to find the most effective keywords by comparing keyword popularity & competition, manages your PPC campaign with service providers, like Google Adwords and helps in validating HTML coding. Web CEO comes up with a very useful website auditing tool that can easily improve the performance of your web pages. It provides information about broken links, missing images, erroneous displayed graphics, slow pages and missing META information.

Features Provides customized tips regarding on page optimization

Monitors your website rank on multiple search engine

Submits your site on major search engines automatically

Analyze the density of your target keywords on your website

Suggests alternate keywords for your SEO Campaign and helps you find the best one

Limit on the number of keywords suggested by the tool

SmallBiz Edition – 50 Professional – Unlimited Suggest keywords on the basis of daily keywords search on major search engines by your customers

Submits your article on major article directories automatically

Helps you create multiple link pages for exchanging links

Helps you find the most effective keywords by comparing keyword popularity & competition

Helps in validating HTML coding

Helps you manage your PPC campaign with service providers, like Google Adwords

Allows you to quickly find out if a PPC campaign is worth your money

Pros

Cons

Customer Support

Online Help Desk Chat / Forum Email Phone

Customer Reviews Average Customer Rating: (Out of 50) Mike Grehan, Author — Search Engine Book “Web CEO Suite 4 looks like a real contender. … It is billed as a suite of power packed solutions and it has to be said: it’s impressive and professional. Web CEO not only does rank checking and submitting (as most of these packages do) it also has its own keyword database to tap into.

As it’s an ASP model, this means that you are always completely current and never using out of date software. Each time you log in and get going, you’re using the most recent data every time.

…I can tell you this for sure: this is a real contender in the professional SEO stakes. Do yourself a favour and download the evaluation copy now. I think, like me, you’ll be very impressed at its look, performance and future potential”

Peter Da Vanzo, Editor — Search Engine Blog

“There are numerous search engine optimization packages around, however this is one of the most comprehensive. Unlike similar tools, Web CEO includes inbuilt keyword research software, so you can establish exactly which keywords you need to target before the technical optimization work begins. In all, Web CEO features nine separate website promotion tools. Recommended.”

Sumantra Roy, SEO— LinkExplore

“I have been optimizing web sites for the search engines for more than 4 years now, and this is the first software that I have seen that does almost EVERYTHING that a web site owner might want it to do. Once you get this program, you can bid good-bye to most of the other programs that you may have used or tried earlier – you won’t need them anymore. Once you get Web CEO, you no longer need to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in purchasing each application separately. Also, if you hate programs that have a steep learning curve, you will be pleasantly surprised with Web CEO – it is so easy-to-use that you will be up and running in almost no time. If, like me, you value your time more than anything else, downloading Web CEO will probably be one of the smartest decisions you will ever take for your business.”

Paul Horner— themexp.org

“ I’ve already recommended your software to a few other SEO guys. I’m even giving a presentation at a local Art Web School about SEO. I’m going to drop WEBCEO’s name to the students. This software has helped me get some of my sites like Themexp.org in the top ten of Google with such huge searches as themes, “desktop “themes”, “windows themes” and “xp themes”. Thanks again for your support. Have a great day!! ”

Morgan Carey AKA SEO GUY, Owner — SEO-GUY.COM

“WEB CEO, I get asked to test and review pretty much EVERY new SEO Software that comes onto the marketplace, and most of the time I do! But honestly the only one I have been compelled to write a testimonial for was WEB CEO.

The ranking tools make reports and quick rank tracking a breeze and the keyword research tool is one of the “must haves” for any good SEO. If you are thinking about buying a high end SEO software, I suggest taking WEB CEO for a spin, you will be glad you did. Cheers”

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Pricing Options

Version Keyword Ranking Per Run 30 Days Money back Gurantee Price Web CEO Small Biz Edition [Recommended] 30 Available $ 199 Buy Now Web CEO Professional Edition Unlimited Available $ 389 Buy Now

Free Offers: Great if you are new to Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Optimization (SEO) OR want to evaluate Web CEO® as a solution for all your search engine marketing and Web analytics needs. Free Edition:  * Includes 12 tools for every aspect of SEO from keyword research to keyword reporting to specialized Web analytics * Use the HitLens live Web analytics service 15 days for free to analyze your visitors, advertising and marketing campaigns, and improve conversion rates. * If satisfied, pay as little as $9.95 (!!!) and keep on improving your Web marketing results.

IBP (iBusinessPromoter) – www.ibusinesspromoter.com Overview

iBusiness Promoter is a multi-award winning website promotion software tool. IBP helps you in achieving high search engine rankings effectively. It is always up-to-date and helps you optimize your web pages for the latest search engine algorithms.

Expert Rating: Customer Rating: FUNCTIONALITY: Advance EASE OF USE: High Features : 4.5 out of 5 Usability : 4 out of 5 Customer Support : 4 out of 5 (Details) Return on Investment : 4.5 out of 5 Overall Expert Rating : 4.25 out of 5  $ 249

iExpertsforum Presents Top 10 rank Guarantee on IBP within 90 Days or Money Back Apart from providing customized tips for on-page optimization, it submits your website to major search engines automatically and monitors your website rank.IBP also provides 1 year guarantee for top 10 ranking with money back offer if products fails in achieving the claim. Online Help Desk is available as support facility. Features:

Monitors your website rank on multiple search engine

Submits your site on major search engines automatically

Analyze the density of your target keywords on your website

Suggests alternate keywords for your SEO Campaign and helps you find the best one

Limit on the number of keywords suggested by the tool Unlimited Keywords

Suggest keywords on the basis of daily keywords search on major search engines by your customers

Submits your article on major article directories automatically

Helps you create multiple link pages for exchanging links

Helps you find the most effective keywords by comparing keyword popularity & competition

Helps in validating HTML coding

Helps you manage your PPC campaign with service providers, like Google Adwords

Allows you to quickly find out if a PPC campaign is worth your money Pros

Cons

Customer Support Online Help Desk Chat / Forum Email Phone Software Updates Free search engine updation and program updation for 12 months. After that you will have to pay US $59.95 for 6 month and US $99.95 for 12 month. Customer Reviews Average Customer Rating: (Out of 75) Ed Keay-Smith, AdWordsMarketing.com,says:

“I now have many of the top positions on Yahoo, MSN and have far improved my position on Google to the 1st, 2nd or 3rd pages for keywords relating to my website. I liked that I could download the IBP trial version to test drive it before I spent my money.

I was so impressed with it that I would have been stupid not to use it. I really liked the way that I could customize the reports for my clients when doing SEO work for them. This aspect alone has won me tens of thousands of dollars worth of fees when using this part of the software.”

Dennis Begnoche, Palm Springs Art, says:

“I also wanted to show some of the results I am getting now with IBP. Thanks so much. Never had #1 positions before on Yahoo, Google, MSN, AltaVista. Thanks so much, your program is great.”

Mike Goodier, LibraTypingServices.co.uk, says:

“My very first attempt with IBP has brought me straight into the Network (MSN, BBC, HotBot, etc.) at position #1 out of nearly 400,000 sites! Incredible, thank you!”

Marcus Allen, OrlandoVacationsOnline.com, says:

“I wouldn’t normally get too excited about a product but when something like IBP has pretty much quadrupled your online income, it’s only fair to make it known!

I recently upgraded my IBP, spent a few hours working with it over a two week period and the rest is obvious. [...] Our website is positioned at numbers 5, 1, 2, 2 and 1 respectively! Need I say more?

It’s all due to IBP. IBP has secured us an extremely good position in the hugely competitive Travel market. Thanks Axandra!”

Jeremy Cobb, NaturalSearchMarketing.com says:

“I’m a professional SEO advisor for a firm that coaches webmasters to dominate in the search engines. I’m an IBP convert from ****, and nothing has helped my clients more.

IBP is so user friendly that my clients pick it up with ease. I recommend it to all of my clients and I would recommend it to anyone who is trying to dominate the engines. From a professional standpoint I give it an A+!”

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Version No. of Projects* Customized SEO Reports** Price IBP Standard (Recommended) Upto 5* Not Available $ 249.95 Buy Now IBP Business Unlimited Available $ 449.95 Buy Now You can return IBP for a full refund within 30 days Free Trial Download: SEO Elite – www.seoelite.com Overview SEO Elite, Bryxen Software, has been one of the most preferred SEO Tools for quite some time now. It has a well thought out User Interface. However, you would need basic knowledge of Internet Marketing to fully exploit its advanced features. Expert Rating: Customer Rating: FUNCTIONALITY: Intermediate EASE OF USE: High Features : 3 out of 5 Usability : 4 out of 5 Customer Support : 3.5 out of 5 (Details) Return on Investment : 4 out of 5 Overall Expert Rating : 3.63 out of 5 $ 167 It helps you create multiple link pages for exchanging links, submits your article on major directories automatically and analyzes the density of your target keywords on your website. SEO Elite makes the job of article marketing fairly easy. It automatically picks up article directories relevant to your website and then completes the submission process with minimum intervention.

For updates and support facility SEO elite has Online Help Desk and Chat / Forum

Features

Provides customized tips regarding on page optimization

Monitors your website rank on multiple search engine

Submits your site on major search engines automatically

Analyze the density of your target keywords on your website

Suggests alternate keywords for your SEO Campaign and helps you find the best one

Limit on the number of keywords suggested by the tool

Suggest keywords on the basis of daily keywords search on major search engines by your customers

Submits your article on major article directories automatically

Helps you create multiple link pages for exchanging links

Helps you find the most effective keywords by comparing keyword popularity & competition

Helps in validating HTML coding

Helps you manage your PPC campaign with service providers, like Google Adwords

Allows you to quickly find out if a PPC campaign is worth your money Pros

Cons

Customer Support Online Help Desk Chat / Forum Email Phone Customer Reviews Average Customer Rating: (Out of 62)

“Just wanted to let you know that SEO Elite is incredible! 4.0 is even better. It has helped us get to #1 for the term ‘fantasy football contest’and #16 for ‘fantasy football’ (not bad for a term with over 12.4 million results). Again, keep up the good work and I will keep you posted on our progress!”

Shawn Bishop PlayerLine.com

Brad, SEO Elite is incredible… It has helped me rank Number 4 in Google for my selected keyword which has over 2 million webpages competing for it! I’m also getting a lot of No. 1 & 2 positions in other important search enignes like Yahoo & MSN for multiple keywords.

There’s NO DOUBT your software works and gives everyone that uses it, a major advantage!”

John Bertone MobilePhoneSecrets.com.au

“SEO Elite has helped me to rank #1 for the phrase “business practices”. It has made a great many things so much… simpler… faster… better. The really huge plus that SEO Elite provides is the savings of time, which is major to me.”

Tom Goniwiecha Sound-Business-Practices.com

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Pricing Options

Version No. of Users No. of Projects Price SEO Elite Single Unlimited $ 167.00* Buy Now

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