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With SEO, being faster is not always better. When you are targeting competitive keywords, slow and steady wins the race. Just as what goes up must come down, understanding the dips, peaks and valleys of search engine algorithms and how they impact the search engine result pages is a work in progress.

You’ve heard of link velocity, but what about optimization velocity? Grasping the phases of optimization in layman’s terms can help you prepare for these cycles and use them to maximize the best possible trajectory for long-term SEO results.

The Ping Phase - Much like a love affair, this is the introduction or the courtship phase with search engines known as the fresh link factor. If you have a blog or an RSS feed whenever you publish or modify content, then your site can technically build its own backlinks as a result of aggregating itself through a feed (much like a broadcast).
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We all know that the most effective Pay Per Click advertising campaigns use landing pages that are matched perfectly to your target search keywords and designed to follow through with the idea or theme that your PPC ad has hinted at.

But how do you determine the effectiveness of those landing pages? How do you know what design or page features will trigger a better response in your audience and lead to more conversions? The answer is that you don’t, unless you test.

Benefits of Landing Page Testing
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Many times web developers experience a similar scorn but not always from humans. A site has been designed with an interface that pops with beautiful GIFs and JPEGs, dazzles with Flash and functions like a charm with JavaScript. The search engines do not care. The content, the keywords and the tags do not correspond with the criteria of the search engines. Therefore, you are ignored.

It is a struggle between art and science that frustrates many. The responsibilities of web developing — the art — clash with the role of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — the science. That is why some companies and development firms are designating web developer and optimizer as two distinctive jobs.
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Search engine optimisation or SEO, is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines. The aim of SEO for webmasters and online business owners is to get their websites to rank highly on search engine results pages for keyword phrases that are both heavily searched for and related to their industry or niche. Three of the most common types of SEO work carried out are keyword optimization, link-building and increasingly article writing (coupled with a link building strategy with the aim of increasing the number of incoming links to a website or specific page within a website.
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The position that your site holds in the search engine rankings is often closely tied with how well connected you are. That simply means how well you are connected to other sites, do you have authority websites or indeed any websites pointing in your direction. Whilst there is no doubt that having a link with an authority site is an ideal way to boost your ranking, the reality is that for a small or niche business this may be difficult or expensive to achieve. For this reason an alternative such as a directory can be a much better option.
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If you know how to use them, you can parlay your social connections into higher popularity for your website. All of those people can become visitors or even paying customers for your site, as well as a free way to spread the word about your product or service. If you have a website, there are ways to take advantage of knowing people through social networks to drive traffic to your website – here’s how it’s done:

Offer high quality free website content.
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