Even if you have the right keywords to target you also need to ensure that the url of your page is set up for the maximum benefit for the search engines.
The best way for a three word phrase is to set it like yourdomain.com/category/keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.html
Or instead of an html page call it a directory (then the […]

How do you choose the right keywords to target?
Well you should first of all use some of the free tools available (see the tools section of this website) to drill down and see what people are searching for.
The best way is to start with a very broad term (like business or seo or child) from […]

The element you should spend most of your time for getting free search engine traffic is researching your keywords.
Now, this may sound boring and tedious but it will bring you the results you need.
The trouble with most people and their new sites is they believe they should be targeting just 2 or 3 big money […]

Back to webdesigners and I suppose folks who don’t undertake SEO for a living.
Some sites are just images - real images rather than flash pages.
Images are great - they can often portray much more than words on a web site and portray a professional organization.
The trouble with search engines is that they are machines. They […]

One item a lot of webmasters get hung up about is the volume of links linking to their website.
They check on a daily basis how many links they have and get upset if the search engines don’t show them.
If you have placed links on other websites then I wouldn’t bother checking to see if they […]

If you want to check out some of the best seo forums on the web and undertake your seo training yourself then we take a look of where to go.
One of the first and still one of the best is www.webmasterworld.com - this is as old as the web itself and is frequented by employees […]

So you want high(er) rankings but can’t afford the services of a professional SEO?
Well you can do this yourself.
You can spend months and months digging through the information on the web - forums are probably the best places to embark your journey but there’s a lot of information that isn’t published on the forums and […]

So you go off to a great webdesigner to get your web designed.
Back comes a wonderful looking website that you admire and your customers think it excellent. Nice colours, great graphics and an easy way to pay.
But you don’t get the top search engine rankings you are looking for
Why?
Well most web designers are looking after […]

When you are optimizing your website for the search engines you need to monitor your progress. I mean what is the point of putting in a ton of work seoing your site if you don’t track what has happened?
So, there are many SEO tools on the market - even the best tools are absolutely free.
Perhaps […]

Hi and welcome to seo services direct
The aim of this site is to give you an insight into search engine optimization (SEO) and what works and what doesn’t
You can undertake search engine optimization yourself and the aim is to get your website higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs) in all the main search […]