SEO and  Search Engine Friendly url’s are vital for any website. Not only will the search engines enjoy feeding on your website, it will also help promote your page rank and increase website traffic. Today we take a look at a few SEF components for Joomla.

 sh404SEF (more…)

SEO or search engine optimisation is a service that will increase volume and quality of visitors to a website via search engines. This is done by targeting certain ‘key terms’ and making sure the websites relevance will boost it up the search engine rankings. (more…)

It is truly a webmaster’s dream to get quality traffic to consistantly come to their website.

You can pretty much do what you want with your visitors when you get good targeted traffic. You can test and track your conversion rate, do list building and click throughs just to name a few.

There are a variety of traffic sources you can pursue such as traffic from a search engine. It is not wise to rely solely on search engines for your traffic or from any one source for that matter. You need to diversify your tactics to create a well-rounded game plan in order to drive traffic to your site.

One thing you are going to need in order to satisfy the search engines and website visitors is content. You know the saying, “Content is king!” How will content bring traffic to your website? When your visitors see that your website is a good and relevant source of information, other people will hear about your website by “word of mouth”. (more…)

Tools that should be used in preparation of your website design .

AWStats – An website analysis tool similar to 103bees and Google analytics however this analysis the Logfile of a website and therefore does not require JavaScript on each page. It does require Perl/CGI access so this may not be for everyone.

Google Keyword Tools – Another handy little Keyword tool, this is nice to find out the cost of the Keywords with Adwords and what is commonly searched on the web. (more…)

Hi Guys, The 1 of april is around the corner and the springleap competition is almost finished.

I don’t think anybody is going to hit springleap off the top spot, but it is going to be entertaining as time draws near.

There is R4000 up for grabs…

So keep promoting those keywords and marketing ideas!

springleap.com has just announced an SEO challenge.

Springleap Competition

Put your SEO skills to the test.

The 1st springleap SEO competition opens today and closes at Noon (12am) on the 1st April.

There is R4000 up for grabs… (more…)

So if your looking for some good tips to optimize your website like professionals here are 10 great tips for you.

The SEO tips below should assist you in forming a basic understanding of how to create human friendly web pages which are easily understood by the most popular search engines.

Know this. There are thousands of search engines but only two of them will bring you most of the traffic. They are google and yahoo. Another search engine that brings me a little traffic is msn but I do not focus too much on tactics for that engine.

Focus your attention on the engines that will bring you the most visitors first and work your way down. (more…)

1.) How do I use a Robots file or do you have an example of one?

A. You mean robots.txt. It’s a file in the main directory of a website which tells the search engine spiders where they are allowed to go.

A basic, spider can go anywhere file is:

User-agent: *

Disallow:

You can disallow folders or files by putting this into the file:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /foldername/ (more…)