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SEO |
Search Engine Optimisation - This defines the work carried out by an indiviual or company on your website in order to get it up higher in the rankings or onto the first page of a search in search engines. |
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Webpages |
These are the individual pages that make up your website. A webpage is a single entity or document that is created using a programming language like HTML, PHP or ASP. A big website like Amazon would have thousands of webpages but a website for a small company may only have 5 or 6 pages. |
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Website |
This is a collection of webpages all connected for a single purpose. |
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URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. This is the name given to your website address. If someone asked what your URL is, you would tell them www.YourName.co.uk |
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Anchor Text |
This is the text you click to go to a website or URL. Here's an example: In the link <ahref=http://www.amazon.co.uk>Go To Amazon</a> the words Go To Amazon represent the anchor text. |
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Website Hits |
When a web page is served to a user or comes up on their screen it counts as a hit. Also, if there are 10 images on the web page these will count as hits. So in this example the total number of hits would be 11 - 1 for the page and 10 for the images. Don't get bogged down with hits as the most important element is the number of unique visitors to your website. |
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Log File |
A web server records everything that happens on it. The types of things it records are who requested a file, when they requested it, which file it was and problems that occurred as well as much more. |
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Natural Search Listings |
These are the results on the left side of the search results that are not sponsored or paid links. The term 'Natural Search Listing' or 'Organic Search Results' is a term used by SEO companies and consultants to differentiate between paid and unpaid positions in a seach result. |
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Page Views |
How many of your web pages have been viewed. A page could be viewed hundreds of times but this doesn't mean there have been hundreds of individuals looking at it because one person could have looked at it 10 times. The point to remember is that unique visitors is the statistic that is most important because the more of these the better chance you have of selling something. |
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SEO Practices |
The practice of SEO is not regulated and because of this anyone at anytime can say they are an SEO consultant. Because of this fact there are a lot of so called SEO consultants who haven't got a clue about how to SEO a website. You must be careful when choosing an SEO company and make sure they can show you face to face what they have achieved with their clients websites. |
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Search Term Marketing |
This is based on the idea that you have search terms that are relevant to your business or service that you provide and you use these as your keywords for SEO purposes. |
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PPC
Pay Per Click
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PPC has become one of the most used phrases on the web. PPC or pay per click means you are paying every time someone clicks on your ad in a PPC campaign. The cost of a click for a given search term all depends upon how popular it is. A mortgage company might pay £20.00 per click and a florist might pay £1.75 per click. |
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Website
Grading
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It is possible to have your website graded for SEO purposes. We offer this service, as do other companies, but remember some 'bad' SEO consultants will tell you everything is wrong so they look like they know what they are talking about for the purposes of getting more work out of you. Make your SEO justify the things they are telling you and if they don't just walk away. |
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Can you afford to SEO your website?
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This is the question we always ask our clients in the first meeting we have. The response is nearly always the same 'that depends on how much it costs'. If your response would be the same as this or similar to this one then really you should considered if you should actually have a website in the first place. Ask yourself this:
If you owned a fairground would you leave it in a lock-up and never take it out?
Obviously, the answer is no because if you don't take it out you won't make any money from people going on the rides.
Your website is exactly the same thing, if your not going to take it out why have it in the first place. And just to clarify taking your website out is the equivalent of getting it highly ranked in the search engines. |
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Common Sense |
If it sounds good but the person selling it can't explain how they are doing it then walk away because you will end up spending a lot of money and getting very little if anything for it. |