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Ebon Talifarro SEO Q&A From Australia

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I recently took a vacation with my family “down under” to visit Australia and wow! I must say it’s truly a completely different world down there. First, I’d like to say that the rumors are indeed true: everything there wants to kill you and it can. The spiders are huge and the plans shouldn’t be touched unless you know exactly what you are dealing with.

As far as wildlife goes, Australia is a total nightmare! Everything else about the location is awesome. The temperature isn’t too hot and, again, other that the wildlife, your only worry is understanding what people are saying.

While there, I still had to do some work and had the honor of going into a college classroom to answer as many SEO Q&A questions as I could understand. The good news is they study hard and do their homework, so I wasn’t there answering questions for no more than 15 minutes.

Here are some of the questions along with my responses:

Q: What’s the difference between internal and inbound links?

A: Ah, yes, I get this question often, but surprisingly I haven’t lately until then.  Both of these types of links are very necessary for SEO. Internal links are links that are connected to another page on your site whereas an inbound links are links to other websites.

Q: How long do I have to wait to see my SEO results?

A: The results happen anywhere within 48 hours. You do your work and then the search engine will do its work. Certain things contribute to the placement or rank of your content in the search engine, such as the quality of the content you have published and how much of it. The size or strength of your site also plays a big role. To be sure, I often tell my students to wait at least a week.

Q: Is there such a thing as too many links in the content?

A: There isn’t exactly a magic right number, but there is such a thing as link overload. You don’t want your entire content to be riddled full of links to the point it hinders the reader’s experience. Depending on the word count of your content, I’d say follow the hundreds rule I learned in school. If your content has 100 words, add 1 link, 2 at the most. If you have 200 words, 2 links, 3 at the most. 300 is equal to 3 links, 4 at the most and so on. Another thing you can do is try to have one link in every paragraph.

 

Ralph Slaske Answers SEO Questions

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Today’s SEO Q&A is hosted by my special guest, Ralph Slaske, as he attempts to answer common SEO questions starting, of course, with #1.

#1. What is SEO?

A: SEO Stands for Search Engine Optimization. This uses a range of marketing techniques to make a website’s current ranking in search engines better. SEO uses keywords, quality links and content as the foundation to achieve the goal.

#2. What is “Black hat SEO?”

A: Black had SEO is sort of like black magic in SEO world. Think of it like that. Google will punish you for using black hat SEO by a few ways with one of them being removing your website from their search results. Just say “no” kids.

#3. How do I know the best keywords to use?

A: Let’s say you run a business. An SEO will ask you to describe your business and market/niche with a few words which they will put into their fancy SEO tools and from that they get countless search information that is related to your business. The SEO tools will also give them information about how many searches are being done for specific keywords that relate to your business.

#4. Can the SEO get a website back online that Google has removed?

A: Absolutely! An SEO will first conduct an audit to ensure you’re using the recommended tactics that don’t go against Google’s guidelines. Before you know it, the world will be seeing your website again.

SEO To Go

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If you do not want to employ a SEO tech the rest of your business live then SEOuntitled (6) images63AZ1Z6V To GO is for you.  If you want to just pay as you go with the SEO tech then this may be worth considering.  Most search engine optimization jobs are extensive and will require a lengthy relationship to complete. You may have the expertise to do most of the link work yourself an just use the SE tech as needed.  http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=143342150&privcapId=262551869  is a site that needs SEO help often and the SEO To GO would not help them. A more comprehensive approach will be needed.

SEO Confusion

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untitled (38) untitled (37)Are you in need of SEO assistance or not.  Is your online business failing due to market shifts or a SEO issue?  I think that id your product is poorly designed and not in demand the best SEO work will not help.  If you have a bad business don’t expect the money spent on search engine optimization to pay off.  If you have a hot item for sale and just fail to have the needed hits on your site to get business levels up then a SEO tech can help.  This recent post on facebook will give you a better idea of what to expect from your SEO investment.

SEO Mystery

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untitled (33) untitled (32)What magic is involved in search engine optimizing?  Is it pixy dust or science.  How can these individuals really out smart Google?  I guess there has to be something to this.  If you need SEO help you better find someone that has more than magic but also has it intelligence to back it up.  With Google constantly changing their algorithms for ranking searches a SEO tech has to stay current or they will waste their time and your money.   just ask retired dentist Vincent Malfitano.  The fact that it works is amazing to me.  It is definitely beyond me how they do it.

Search Ranking Help

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If you need help with your search ranking the a SEO expert can help.  This area of business directly impacts your business and will need to be address if you plan to stay in business.  Your search ranking can kill your online traffic.  People will not go beyond the first few results when searching for a product an if you are on the next page then you are basically invisible.  If you want to be seen investing in SEO untitled (32) untitled (31)work is going to be cost effective. This link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgJ0pDqP8ssis   can lead you to the help you need.

SEO’s Endless Research

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SEO and research groups have a lot in common, but the main thing is they both spend hours a day researching, looking for answers to many questions people have. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for example, are a research group that really sticks to one core study: Iran. They dedicate time in and time out to bring the latest news of what is going on overseas and you can see it all through their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/followFDD.

Q: What does a SEO spend so much time to research?

A: You’ll can ask any SEO this and somewhere in their answer you’ll hear them say, “Keywords.” Keyword researching has been the “go to” tool for many SEOs over the many years. In fact, the word just may make some of them cringe.

Q: They still use keywords today?

A:  Many years ago, there was a time when keywords were the core to an operation and the way it worked was simple. Google would gather information on a website mainly grounded what keywords were displayed on the pages and within links on the page. With that information, success was understood by companies and how they ranked in search engines determined the success of the site.

Today, Google still operates using text to understand what a company is all about and what service or product they have to offer. With that being said, keywords for an SEO aren’t yet extinct and still provide some great deal of usefulness. Another way to understand it is to say keywords are little appetizers of data for Google. An appetizer gives you a bit of an idea of what a restaurant is all about. Likewise, keywords give a little idea to what a business is about.

SEO Q&A What Search Engines Want

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Q: When it comes to SEO, how does it help what search engines look for?

A: An excellent question! Search engines want to be as helpful to you as they can. What they do is they send web searchers like yourself to websites as accurately as possible based on what is searched. The content is presented by the theme being given, the text on the page, and the titles and descriptions that are given. The performance of the site matters as far has how well the site responds. Remember the theme mentioned? How the site looks plays a part in all this as well as if it easy to navigate. These things are important to keep in mind if looking to attract customers to a store site to buy product such as your live food in stock at Reefs2Go. A couple other indicators are if your site is safe and if the bounce rate is too high.

Q: Bounce Rate?

A: I am glad you asked. No, really. The bounce rate is a metric that has to do with if you are attracting the right traffic to your site or the wrong traffic to your site. You are gonna want that rate to be low on pages with the highest bounce rate which means more committed visitors.

Q: So with that out of the way, what are search engines not looking for?

A: Search engines have these diabolical drone things called spiders or webcrawlers and they limited data storage. If you’re performing shady tactics or trying to trick them you will most likely regret it later. One of the main things search engines do not want are users who lack experience. You can avoid this by making it easy for the user to navigate your website. If you have an overload of ads, this could be making it too difficult for people to find what they are looking for and you know what that means? Up goes the bounce rate.

SEO Short Q&A: Can SEO Help And Is It Worthwhile?

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A construction company in Florida, Dimensional Construction in Palmetto, to be precise, had gotten the right idea and invested in a SEO to help business growth. Growth is the goal of any business, but how does SEO help that happen? The main goal of Google is to provide the very best matches of websites and mobile sites to what it’s users search for.  An SEO’s job is to make your website look like the very best match that Google is able to find.

SEO has been around since the early 90’s. Is it still viable? In short, yes! The skill of SEO is complex and it is still changing even today because it has to keep up with a couple factors, being constant evolving technology and Google updating its search algorithm countless times a year in an attempt to keep their search business relevant or else Google won’t be #1 anymore. Social media such as the popular Twitter and Facebook along with many others are also part of this fierce competition for the attention of the internet users, especially those that are in a mood to spend money!