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edit SEO Chat - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization

Search Engine Optimization, known as SEO is very important. No matter how good your product or service is, you can’t get customers to purchase it if they don’t know about your online presence. With so much competition in the e-business world, you have to have good SEO location. While search engines are used daily by millions of people, most of them only browse the information on the first page.

SEOchat.com offers vital information any website owner needs to have a productive business. The site offers valuable articles that are based on frequently asked topics by people who use SEO. They also offer information on SEO topics that some web owners aren’t aware of. For example, back links from your site affect your rankings in the search engines so make sure you know where they are coming from. It is also important that you are aware of click fraud and how it may be draining your advertising dollars.

edit Inter-Engine Optimization

Did you know that SEO is calculated differently for each search engine? That is why it is important to be in the directory for a variety of search engines. SEOchat.com discusses the criteria that Google, Yahoo, and MSN use. This information will help you create the best submission to their directories.

Find out the latest controversies and updates taking place on the World Wide Web in the areas of SEO by checking out the Search Engine News section of the site. You will also want to read about the functions of search engine spiders to find out how they can benefit you.

edit SEO for the Average Guy/Gal

While all that information may be useful for a seasoned SEO web designer, how about those with minimum knowledge or who are very new to the process? Don’t worry, SEOchat.com offers basic information as well. They understand that many small e-businesses don’t have a great deal of money to hire a professional web designer. Therefore they offer as much information as they can about what SEO is, how not to get your site viewed as spam, and valuable tools for SEO on your website.

Website marketing and promotion is vital for getting your service or product recognized and offering a steady flow of traffic to your website. SEOchat.com provides you with a wealth of information to get the most out of your marketing dollars. Learn how to gear your ad campaigns towards a target market. You will also get information on tracking the ad campaigns so that you know which ones are working well.

Submitting your website to the various search engines doesn’t have to be difficult if you follow the information provided at SEOchat.com. Discover information on how use them to your advantage without paying for expensive advertising. SEO tools can be found in a variety of locations throughout the internet. SEOchat.com offers you all the tools you could possibly need in one central location. They are very simple to use and free. Some of the featured SEO tools include Adsense calculator, Alexa ranking tool, Keyword position, PageRank Lookup, URL redirect check, and URL rewriting.

edit Why SEO Chat?

SEO is one of the most important elements regarding a successful search engine ranking, so this isn’t something that should be taken lightly. Having the right information regarding the terminology and the ways SEO can work for you is essential. All of that information is offered at SEOchat.com. The materials are easy to find and the tools are simple to use for your particular needs.

This site offers you the latest information on the world of SEO as it relates to the industry as well as how it will affect you. Using the information you find at SEOchat.com will ensure your SEO is the best it can be while taking the struggles and guess work out of the project. You can spend hours researching this information in your own or simply use this site to find a step by step guide to help you make your e-business a success.


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SEOChat.com Home Page Analysis Summary

Titles & Headings The title and headings on the home page tell people and search engines what a website is about.
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Title

The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page. Learn more ...

Purpose

The title of a web page appears as a clickable link in search results and bookmarks. A descriptive, compelling home page title with relevant keywords can increase the number of people visiting the site.

Search Engines

Search engines view the text of the title tag as a strong indication of what the page is about. Accurate keywords in the title tag can help the page rank better in search results.

Length

A title tag should have fewer than 70 characters, including spaces. Major search engines won't display more than that.

Content

The title tag of your home page (and any other page on your site) should not contain the site’s domain name or URL. These will appear near the title in search results, so use your 70 characters to tell people what the page is about. The title tag should not contain any HTML, because it will be displayed incorrectly or not at all.

  • Good: This web page has a title tag.
  • Good: The title tag is a good length.
The title of this site's home page:
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Meta Description

Search engines often use the meta description of a web page to describe it in search results. Learn more ...

Purpose

The meta description tells searchers what a web page is about. It is often displayed below the title in search results, and helps people decide if they want to visit that website.

Length

Search engines will read 200 to 250 characters, but usually display only 150, including spaces. The first 150 characters of the meta description should contain the most important keywords for that web page. Using fewer than 50 characters could mean you’re not saying enough about the page.

Content

The meta description should be engaging, and should include keywords that accurately reflect what visitors will find on the web page. The keywords should be the same ones that a site's potential customers are using to search. Include a site’s location if it is important.

  • Good: The meta description is the right length, between 50 and 150 characters.
The meta description for this site's home page:
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H1 Headings

The H1 heading is an important sentence or phrase on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there. Learn more ...

Just one H1

In most cases, a web page should have just one H1 heading. Using multiple H1 headings is okay if that is a logical way to organize the page, but they should be used sparingly. That’s because search engines can view multiple H1 headings as an attempt to signal that all the content on a page is equally important, a tactic that’s seen as an attempt to game the search engine algorithms.

Purpose

Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.

Content and placement

The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.

The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.

The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.

  • Problem: This web page does not have an H1 heading. It should have one.

SEOChat.com in search results

You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.

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Robots

Your website's robots.txt file can tell search engines to ignore parts of your site. Learn more ...

Purpose

Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.

Be careful!

If you're going to use robots.txt, be careful not to accidentally exclude search engines from pages you want people to find. To learn more, read Don't Block Search Engine Crawlers.

Search engine robots

You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.

  • Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
  • Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
  • Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
  • AboutUs.org’s bot is called AboutUsBot. To create a Site Report, AboutUs uses crawling technology that’s similar to what search engines use.
  • Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.

Canonical Url

This website can live at www.SEOChat.com or SEOChat.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...

Choose one or the other

Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.

Be careful!

If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.

If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.

Learn more about why you should have just one home page: Read Twin Home Pages: Classic SEO Mistake

  • Good: Your website resides at www.SEOChat.com, and SEOChat.com is permanently redirected to it.
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Web Presence

Search Engine Visibility

Check this site's prominence around the web and in major search engines.

Backlinks

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Indexed Pages

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value for Bing 19,700

Rank

value for Quantcast 39,720
value for Compete 25,699
value for Alexa 2,091

Date Last Crawled

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Social Media Visibility

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value for Google Groups 274
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Redirectory

Below we show domains that redirect to SEOChat.com.

We survey every domain on the Internet ending in .com, .net, or .edu to see if any redirect to this website. Large or famous websites like Amazon.com often have many sites redirecting to them.

Domains that redirect to the home page of SEOChat.com

A website owner can point one domain to the home page of another. Learn more ...

Capture visitors who type the wrong name

It can make a lot of sense to redirect a domain to an existing web page. For example, many people are likely to type wikipedia.com when they are really looking for wikipedia.org. Creating a redirect from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org helps these people get to the site they want.

2 domains redirect to the home page of SEOChat.com.

Domains that redirect to a page within SEOChat.com

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Get people to a specific web page

Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

We have not found any domains that redirect to pages within SEOChat.com.

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