January 27, 2011

Why SEO Is Better Left To Professionals

Filed under: Web services — Jon Skulemowski @ 11:04 am

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is changing. Ten years ago, you could rely on Google to find you on their own by using the magic of their engineers and their proprietary algorithm. However, people figured out how Google works. Over time, this has lead to a huge amount of firms offering SEO to their clients and has changed the rules of the game for everyone. No longer is it enough to have a simple, informative website. All the clamoring to get to the top of Google’s first page pushes out legitimate sites in favor of those who have figured out how to manipulate the rankings.

Content especially must be specifically manipulated for specific keywords. In the good old days, a nice website included some very simple items; an ‘about us’ page, a site map, a list of products or services, and a home page explaining what the site was about. Now, in order for a website to get a decent ranking on the search results, it must be packed with keywords that make the site look like it was written with poor grammar, or worse – completely unreadable.

Many programs have been written with SEO in mind, but even though they may automate some aspects of SEO, many of these fall short. They may take a few steps to help your site look better in the search engines’ eyes, but many search engines look at different aspects of the website to rank them. These programs don’t specify which are changes are the best for a specific engine; they just apply generic steps that often aren’t enough for quality rankings.

Lastly, quality SEO efforts take a significant amount of time to complete and take effect. SEO is better understood as “marketing to the search engines.” The goal with this is to get the attention of the search engines, themselves – not customers. Since you’ll be running a quality business, meeting the needs of paying customers, isn’t your time better spent attending to them rather than working to make the search engines happy?

With this in mind, doesn’t it make sense to let the professionals handle your SEO? (click here to view our SEO options at iScripts.com)

What are the safety measures taken by Google to prevent spam sites in 2011?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — admin @ 6:06 am

Google has proclaimed that they will increase the efficiency of their search engines by reducing spam contents.

“We’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.
We’ll continue to explore ways to reduce spam, including new ways for users to give more explicit feedback about spammy and low-quality sites.”

How do you think Google is going to do this? What do you think Google will do?

a) Content farms may be down ranked
Within few months low quality Internet sites are going to have a tough time:
“As pure web spam has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content.
We hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content.”

Google ranking might go down if you are creating a website solely for the purpose of monetization. A website created for the purpose of monetization will not help in the long run.

“One misconception that we’ve seen in the last few weeks is the idea that Google doesn’t take as strong action on spammy content in our index if those sites are serving Google ads. To be crystal clear:

1) Google absolutely takes action on sites that violate our quality guidelines regardless of whether they have ads powered by Google;
2) Displaying Google ads does not help a site’s rankings in Google; and
3) Buying Google ads does not increase a site’s rankings in Google’s search results.”

b) They may provide you an additional feature for you to tag other websites as spam
A user, who has a personal domain backlist for Google accounts, can remove spam sites from his search engines to get an optimized result. It is said by Google Matt Cutts that this will be an additional option in the future.

“We’ve definitely discussed this. Our policy in search quality is not to pre-announce things before they launch. If we offer an experiment along those lines, I’ll be among the first to show up here and let people know about it.”

c) Clone sites will lead to lower ranking
To increase Google ranking most spammers copy the content of an existing website. There was an instance were some spammers cloned the contents of Google Groups and actually obtained a higher ranking than the original existing Google Group in the Google search engine.

January 26, 2011

Facebook Clone Script

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — admin @ 11:24 am

With more than 800 million active users, Facebook is the largest social networking site.  Users register and create a personal profile, add friends, exchange messages, upload pictures, join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, and categorize their friends into lists.  Modeled after popular social networking sites, iScripts SocialWare is highly user-friendly and graphic intensive.  This Facebook clone Script allows you to build a facebook clone social portal with widespread features and tools like Multilevel Administration, Friends Management, Invite Contacts, Internal Messaging, Blog, Chat, Discussion Boards, Contact Groups, Gift Shop, Powerful Search, Event Management, Classifieds and more.

Groupon Clone Script

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — admin @ 11:08 am

Groupon is a group buying site that negotiates huge discounts with businesses. Deals are sent to thousands that subscribe to free daily emails. While businesses receive more exposure and traffic, users can save 50-90% on goods and services.  Create your own successful group buying site like Groupon by using the Groupon clone script, iScripts DailyDeals.  By joining the site and selling products and services at a discounted price, businesses gain more exposure and instant access to customers.  As the administrator, you may cater your site to specific cities, states, types of merchants or users.  The possibilities are endless and completely up to you.

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