seo optimization

Everyone knows at present that the best way to get your site up the rankings is to get links from other sites into your own site.
MSN for example just seems to love fresh links. That means links added recently.
One school of thought was that a site wide link only carried the effective weight of one […]

OK this is a self promotion post for my SEO tutorial videos
My main product which is still 100% up to date takes your through the SEO jungle but having each element you need to undertake on your website and with other websites through videos.
You can watch each video on your computer screen and […]

So what on earth is seo or search engine optimization ?
Well of course everyone wants their site at the top of the organic search engine results pages (SERPs) because all the traffic that is generated is therefore free of charge and you don’t have to go into the tricky world of pay per click (PPC).
The […]

Another on page factor is your page description. These are words within your tag.
When HTML was first set up and before anyone thought about SEO, the description was used to describe what the page was about. The search engines use this data as the first two lines of text under the

OK, so the most important on page element for any page is………. your page headers.
This is your tag and it’s what is shown:

in your browser (top left hand corner)
in the search engine results

So what do you need to add into your page headers?
Well you obviously MUST include the keywords you are targeting on your […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]