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		<title>The Wix SEO Clinic : Chapter 2 (SEO Treatment)</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Wix SEO Clinic. An examination of selected users&#8217; Wix websites. Last week, we opened up the Wix SEO Clinic. We took a deep look at the websites of 3 wedding photographers. While the sites may have been ranking well for their own names or domains, the odds are you want your business [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">Welcome to the Wix SEO Clinic. An examination of selected users&#8217; Wix websites.</span></em></p>
<p>Last week, we opened up the Wix SEO Clinic. We took a deep look at the websites of 3 wedding photographers. While the sites may have been ranking well for their own names or domains, the odds are you want your business or website to rank well for your keywords, or words used in a search in Google. Refer back to <a title="Chapter 1 of the Wix SEO Clinic" href="http://seomywix.com/2010/07/26/the-wix-seo-clinic-chapter-1/" target="_blank">Chapter 1 of the Wix SEO Clinic</a>, to see the condition of these sites&#8217; SEO before they were checked in and given a full check-up by our team of SEO &#8220;doctors&#8221;.</p>
<h3>Real Results in Google</h3>
<p>While conducting SEO for these websites, we tracked the progress made, by searching for each site&#8217;s main keyword in Google. We marked down this # every few days. Sure enough, over the course of 5 weeks, some <strong><span style="color: #000000;">real progress</span></strong> was shown:</p>
<p><strong>Case Study # 1:</strong> <a title="Blaine Photographers" href="http://www.blainephoto.com/" target="_blank">Blaine Photographers</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Main keyword = &#8220;California wedding photographers&#8221;</li>
<li>Google rank before SEO:  <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">650 </span></strong></li>
<li>Google rank after 5 weeks of SEO:  <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">49</span><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Case Study # 2:</strong> <a title="Jaime Miller Photography" href="http://www.jaimemillerphotography.com/" target="_blank">Jaime Miller Photography</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Main keyword: &#8220;New jersey wedding photographer&#8221;</li>
<li>Google rank before SEO:<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> 350<br />
</strong></span></li>
<li>Google rank after 5 weeks of SEO: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>70</strong></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Case Study # 3:</strong> <a title="Studio 48" href="http://www.studio48site.com/" target="_blank">Studio 48</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Main keyword: &#8220;Minnesota wedding photographer&#8221;</li>
<li>Google rank before SEO: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>150 </strong></span></li>
<li>Google rank after 5 weeks of SEO: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>25</strong></span></li>
</ul>
<h3>How Did These Jumps Happen?</h3>
<p>Magic? No. SEO efforts? Definitely.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">As you can see, some real changes were made in the rankings of these 3 Wix websites. (Remember: in terms of search engine rankings &#8211; the lower the ranking, the more visible your site is to those searching for your keywords!)</span></span></p>
<p>We provided step-by-step instructions to these users in terms of what they had to do on their end, inside their sites. We supplemented this by submitting these sites to some key places on the web.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s exactly what we prescribed for these 3 case studies:</p>
<p><strong>1. Optimize Meta Data </strong>(<em>Blaine, Jaime Miller, Studio 48</em>)</p>
<p>This is probably the most important thing you can do for your website&#8217;s SEO. It&#8217;s also really easy with the Wix website builder. There is now a main keyword for each site in  both the &lt;Title&gt; tag, and meta description.</p>
<p><strong>2. Added Content to Home Page </strong>(<em>Blaine</em>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blainephoto.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1045" title="seo-clinic-1" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seo-clinic-1.jpg" alt="seo-clinic-1" width="606" height="67" /></a></p>
<p>To add some content to their site&#8217;s home page without disrupting the page&#8217;s clean look and feel, we told the folks of Blaine Photography to add <strong>footer text</strong>. This was done by creating a text box, and simply dragging it to the bottom of the main page. Using the color pickW tool in the editor, a <strong><span style="color: #808080;">light gray color</span></strong> was chosen for this text, keeping it readable yet not too distracting.</p>
<p><strong>Footer text</strong> is a terrific opportunity to get in some quality content, while preserving the look of your site&#8217;s homepage. Blaine wrote a basic description of their services in their footer text. And of course, keywords were also included.</p>
<p><strong>3. Added Keyword-Rich Headers </strong>(<em>Blaine, Studio 48</em>)</p>
<p>Google loves headers. To add a header in a Wix document, select the &#8220;Text&#8221; tool and select &#8220;Title&#8221;. Title texts in Wix are interpreted by Google as header tags.</p>
<p>Blaine was asked by one of our doctors at the Wix SEO Clinic, to add the following keyword-rich headers to various pages in their site.</p>
<p>Home Page Header: &#8220;California Wedding Photographers&#8221;; Page 2 Header: &#8220;California Wedding Photos&#8221;; Page 3 Header: &#8220;California Engagement Photos&#8221;; Page 4 Header: &#8220;California Wedding Photographers&#8221;; Page 5 Header: &#8220;Wedding Photographer Prices&#8221;; Page 7 Header: &#8220;Wedding Photographer Blog&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blainephoto.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1050" title="seo-clinic-2" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seo-clinic-21.jpg" alt="seo-clinic-2" width="602" height="391" /></a></p>
<p>Studio 48 was told to add a keyword header on Home page = &#8220;Minnesota wedding photographer&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.studio48site.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1051" title="Studio 48 Header" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seo-clinic-31.jpg" alt="seo-clinic-3" width="602" height="391" /></a></p>
<p><strong>4. Submitted to Google Places </strong>(Blaine, Jaime Miller, Studio 48)</p>
<p>This is a crucial step for any small business hoping to get ranked for regional keywords. We submitted each of these websites to Google Places, and customized their profiles. The instructions for doing this are explained pretty well at the <a title="Google Places" href="http://www.google.com/local/add/analyticsSplashPage" target="_blank">Google Places</a> site.</p>
<p><strong>5. Submitted to Wedding Photographer Directories</strong></p>
<p>To gain some more backlinks (and inject some SEO juice into these sites), we looked for some good wedding photography directories. Getting listed in a directory once you submit your URL can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, but it&#8217;s well worth the wait. Especially if it&#8217;s a directory with a good PageRank. For our wedding photographers, we submitted to the following directories: <a title="wedplan.net" href="http://www.wedplan.net/" target="_blank">www.wedplan.net</a>, <a title="photographypros.com" href="http://www.photographypros.com/" target="_blank">www.photographypros.com</a>, <a title="freephotogallery.info" href="http://www.freephotogallery.info/" target="_blank">www.freephotogallery.info</a>,  and <a title="ferenc.biz" href="http://ferenc.biz/" target="_blank">www.ferenc.biz</a>.</p>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<p>We told these users exactly what to do in order to optimize their site&#8217;s performance in Google. If you want to do the same for your site, follow the steps listed above. Here are some helpful links to help you along the way:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="How to Choose Your Keywords" href="http://seomywix.com/2009/11/22/choosing-the-best-keywords-for-your-website/" target="_blank">How to Choose Your Keywords</a><strong><br />
</strong></li>
<li><a title="How to Fix Your Site's Meta Data" href="http://seomywix.com/tag/seo/" target="_blank">How to Fix Your Site&#8217;s Meta Data</a></li>
<li><a title="How to Make Header Tags in Wix" href="http://seomywix.com/2010/05/06/making-the-most-of-heading-tags/" target="_blank">How to Make Header Tags in Wix</a></li>
<li><a title="How to Get Ranked Locally" href="http://seomywix.com/2010/07/01/adding-your-physical-location/" target="_blank">How to Get Ranked for Physical Locations</a></li>
<li><a title="How to Gain Backlinks" href="http://seomywix.com/2010/04/18/link-building-strategies/" target="_blank">How to Gain Backlinks</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Note: These methods can be applied to both a free website, and a premium site with its own domain. There&#8217;s no excuse for applying some basic, subtle SEO adjustments to your site to get the best traffic you can. Remember: SEO is an ongoing process.  We will continue to track the position of these sites as time goes by, more pages are crawled, indices are updated &#8211; and SEO efforts continue to be made.</p>
<p>Good Luck, and stay tuned for the next Wix SEO Clinic chapter!</p>
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		<title>Making the Most of Heading Tags</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In HTML, they&#8217;re called heading tags.  In Wix, they&#8217;re called Titles. These texts present the structure of your website&#8217;s content, not only to users but to search engine crawlers as well. However, the method you are using to make certain text jump out to your users might not be effective in getting that text to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In HTML, they&#8217;re called <em>heading tags</em>.  In Wix, they&#8217;re called <em>Titles</em>. These texts present the structure of your website&#8217;s content, not only to users but to search engine crawlers as well. However, the method you are using to make certain text jump out to your users might not be effective in getting that text to stand out to Google.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>How Google Reads Text</strong></span></p>
<p>When someone enters your website, they naturally will notice the Titles of paragraphs, before reading the content within them.  Search engine crawlers actually function the same way.  When a search engine crawls a page, one of the first things it does is attempt to know what that page is about. It does this by first reading the heading tags, from the HTML code. Google recognizes &lt;h1&gt; through &lt;h6&gt; tags.  Wix uses only &lt;h1&gt; through &lt;h3&gt;, to make things neater and easier for users. Search engine crawlers prioritize the importance of your headers based on their numbers.  Their importance is arranged by their relative size and position.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Heading Tags in Wix</strong></span></p>
<p>Use the Title tool in your editor, found inside the Text section, to create headers. Many Wix users might not realize that using large text in a paragraph will never cause that text to gain recognition as a header. You can make text in a Paragraph as large as you want, but it will not gain &#8220;heading&#8221; status in the eyes of Google. Titles are golden when it comes to attaining text recognition.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Tips on Title Use</strong></span></p>
<p>Here are a few guidelines for you to make the most of your Titles (header tags).</p>
<ul>
<li>The relative font size and position of your Title texts determines their header tag.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Titles with larger fonts and higher positions on your web page are more important.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>For an &lt;h1&gt; header tag, place the Title with the largest text size at the top of your page.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Use keywords in your &lt;h1&gt; tag.  Keywords used as the first word(s) are best.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> To see the code of your website, and check your heading tag sizes, go to your website (not in the editor), right click your mouse and choose &#8220;View Page Source&#8221;. Your heading tags will appear along the left margin.</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Resizing Titles</strong></span></p>
<p>You can resize your Titles so that they appear smaller, while maintaining the size of their fonts (and their heading tag assignment). This is easy to do, just by clicking on your Title and dragging the corners of its outline.  The text will change in its appearance, while the size of its font will remain the same.</p>
<p>To see an example of this, see the <a title="Green Properties real estate template" href="http://www.wix.com/flash-templates/Green-Properties">Green Properties real estate template</a> in Wix&#8217;s gallery.  A clip is shown below.  The &#8220;Real Estate&#8221; text appears to be smaller than the &#8220;Hello&#8221; text.  However, if you place this template inside the editor, you will see that &#8220;Real Estate&#8221; actually has a larger font size than &#8220;Hello&#8221;. This is a great way to get your keywords &lt;h1&gt; status, without having them pop out at visitors.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-735" title="Header" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Header.jpg" alt="Header" width="657" height="202" /></p>
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		<title>About Social Bookmarking &amp; SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Social Bookmark? Bookmarking occurs when you want to remember or save a specific link to a site or blog post and you save it on your computer&#8217;s memory. Most of you do this regularly with your browser. If you’re using internet explorer, you&#8217;re saving web pages to your &#8216;favorites&#8217; list, and if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>What is a Social Bookmark?</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_617" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 464px"><a href="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bookmark1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-617 " title="social bookmarking and SEO" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bookmark1.jpg" alt="Seo Bookmarking" width="454" height="330" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Seo Bookmarking</p></div>
<p>Bookmarking occurs when you want to remember or save a specific link to a site or blog post and you save it on your computer&#8217;s memory. Most of you do this regularly with your browser. If you’re using internet explorer, you&#8217;re saving web pages to your &#8216;favorites&#8217; list, and if you’re firefox fans you have a bookmark list.</p>
<p>Social bookmarking allows you to “share, organize and search through bookmarks of web resources” – to quote Wikipedia’s definition of the term. You’re not sharing entire files, you’re sharing references to them, or links. You can usually add a short description and tags to your bookmark to describe what the bookmark’s content is about. Tags are a method that has been developed on the net to inform users of the subject and content of a specific entry, bookmark, post etc.</p>
<p>For example, if I were to bookmark this post on Digg.com, I’d add the following tags, SEO, Wix, social bookmarks, optimizing Wix websites etc.</p>
<p>Different bookmarking websites provide different features. Most of them let you add comments and many provide RSS feeds to their list of bookmarks drawing attention to the different bookmarks, or links, available on their site. Social bookmarking sites are a great place to come across interesting content and it also a great way to get noticed online and get traffic to your website.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>How does it work?</strong></span></p>
<p>You create an account in a social bookmarking site. There are lots and lots of bookmarking sites out there and I will also provide a short list of ones that have been getting lots of great feedback from users at the end of this post. Don&#8217;t try to sign up for all of them but choose a couple you are comfortable with and which you think will be useful for you.</p>
<p>You can browse through the different bookmarks already available, also in categories and subjects that are relevant to you and add comments to it. Usually the bookmarking site will have the option of marking a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Participating in the site is actually important so you distinguish yourself as a legitimate user, as opposed to a spammer.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Posting on your own</strong></span></p>
<p>Once you’ve got your bearings, it’s time to post your own bookmark. Add a description in the same way you add a description to your Wix website. This is important for both the users and also for the search engine &#8211; which will crawl the site and see your link. Add tags to your entry and when adding links, place them in anchored text &#8211; if possible. Different social bookmarking websites provide different features and capabilities. Not all of them will allow for anchor texts – but I recommend you use those who do. Why not give yourself a bump.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Will this help my website in the search engine results?</strong></span></p>
<p>The question actually is: will this improve my page rank (PR)? The answer to this is basically a derivative of the answer to – will these links give me link juice from the mother site? The answer is, depending on the popularity of your bookmark. <a href="http://about.digg.com/blog/recent-changes-nofollow-external-links">Digg adds a nofollow tag</a> to each outgoing link until that bookmark surpasses a certain level of popularity &#8211; determined by the amount of diggs to that site.</p>
<p>Also, the idea behind this system is that people who like your bookmark will bookmark it themselves on their own pages, doubling, tripling and quadrupling the amount of FREE back links to your site, sometimes in a matter of hours.</p>
<p>Also, because SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) are so closely knit together, you’re benefitting one by improving the other and vice versa. In the worst case scenario you are improving traffic to your site thanks to all the people who are discovering it through the highly digged, voted for and ranked bookmark which you posted. In this case, it’s a win-win situation.</p>
<p>At some point you’ll find the traffic from your bookmark slowing down, but that’s okay too. At this point, this old link will have been cached by Google (and the other search engines, let’s not forget them completely). You can enjoy this link just like any other back link to your website – and in particular from a reputable link-juicy website, which affects your PR, which in turn affects your ranking in the search results.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>The Keys</strong></span></p>
<p>Social bookmarking isn’t a new toy in the SEO playground and search engines are very aware of the spamming attempts made on them from this direction and have already been acting to minimize the advantages of spamming techniques. So don’t spam –</p>
<ul>
<li>Think <span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>quality</strong> </span>and take the time to create something that will really draw people to your site.</li>
<li>Adding an endless stream of links will simply diminish the effectiveness of each of the links and will flag you as a possible threat and spammer.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t bookmark every page of your website but consider the pages that are useful and bookmark them from time to time.</li>
<li>This shouldn’t be your single strategy to SEO, but rather viewed as another tool in your toolbox.</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Lists:</strong></span></p>
<p>As promised, a short list of popular bookmarking sites. You can always check their popularity on <a href="http://www.alexa.com/">Alexa</a> and even by reading some feedbacks in different forums that deal with it. A short search in Google on the subject of bookmarking can keep you busy for a while &#8211; trust me.</p>
<ul>
<li>Digg.com – Google’s own.</li>
<li><a href="http://delicious.com/">Del.icio.us</a> – one of the very first bookmark sites, launched in 2004.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">Stumbleupon</a> – recommended by many for its stable traffic</li>
<li><a href="http://www.reddit.com/">Reddit</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Furthermore, you can always take a peek at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_bookmarking_websites#Social_bookmarking">Wikipedia’s list of social bookmarking sites</a></p>
<p>Have Fun!</p>
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		<title>SEO LINGO 101 – An SEO Glossary for Beginners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;ve been talking about SEO for a while, but it just may be that you&#8217;re not familiar with all the terms I&#8217;ve been using in this blog and others that may be helpful in understanding general SEO. Here is a compilation of basic SEO terminology: Analytics: This is a type of software that enables [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/j0399580.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-578" title="CB029654" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/j0399580.jpg" alt="CB029654" width="328" height="410" /></a>Well, we&#8217;ve been talking about SEO for a while, but it just may be that you&#8217;re not familiar with all the terms I&#8217;ve been using in this blog and others that may be helpful in understanding general SEO. Here is a compilation of basic SEO terminology:</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Analytics</strong></span>: This is a type of software that enables you to track all sorts of information on your website, such as the traffic to your website, the sources, the keywords, the bounce rate and a useful comparison to the past, so you can assess your website&#8217;s growth, strengths and weaknesses.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Alt Tags</span>:</strong> Short for alternate text. This text is associated with graphic elements and describes images so that search engine crawlers know how to index a specific image.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Anchor Text</span>:</strong> Anchor text refers to a word or phrase used as a link. This is used by search engines in the ranking process.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Back Links</span>:</strong> A synonym for incoming links. These are links in websites other than your own, pointing at your website.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Bounce Rate</span>: </strong>The rate of visitors to your website who choose to leave your website after viewing only one page, and &#8216;bounce&#8217; away.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Cache</span>:</strong> Cache refers to copies of your website stored in the search engine&#8217;s database or on the user&#8217;s hard drive. This makes it possible for web pages to load faster when you hit the back button for example.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Directory</span>:</strong> An online categorization and listing compiled by humans.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Google XML Sitemap</span>: </strong>These are xml files that list the URL&#8217;s on a specific website.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Internet Promotion</strong></span>: Marketing done on the internet through emails, banners and other web based techniques.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Keyword</span>:</strong> This is a word or a phrase (which could include even four words or more) that describes a product or service and is used recurrently.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Link Building</strong>:</span> The process of obtaining quality incoming links or back links in an effort to encourage the search engines to trust your website and increase its ranking and importance.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Link Farm</span>:</strong> A group of highly interlinked sites with an agenda of inflating the popularity (PR) of the websites. This is considered an illegitimate technique, spamming of the search engine index process.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Meta Tags</strong></span>: These are tags that are not visible to your website&#8217;s visitors but provide important information to the search engine <em>crawlers</em>. Some of these meta tags are visible in <em>SERP</em> pages.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Meta Keywords<span style="color: #000000;">:</span></strong></span> These are the keywords that appear in the meta tag. In the Wix website builder, this tag is accessed through the settings box at the top of the builder. Customarily you would enter around 7 keywords. These keywords will only be seen by search engines or by viewing the source of your website.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Meta Description</span>: </strong>A description, about to 200 characters long that is not visible on the actual website but appears when your website shows up in a <em>SERP</em>.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Meta Title</span>: </strong>A short title – up to 70 characters long (when optimizing for Google) that can be viewed at the very top of your web page as well as any time your website shows up in a <em>SERP</em>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Natural Listings/Organic Search Results</strong></span>: Non-paid listings in search engine result pages.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Optimization</strong></span>: The process of strategizing and tweaking your website so that the content and structure of the website is best suited for search engine crawlers with the objective of getting listed and ranked well by the search engines.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Out bound links</span>: </strong>Links directing to external URL&#8217;s outside the website.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Page Rank (PR)</span>: </strong>This is a scale named after Larry Page (one of Google&#8217;s co-founders) which estimates the importance of a web page. This is estimated on a scale from 0-10.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Page Views (Impressions)</strong></span>: The number of times a visitor views a certain page or a specific ad.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Redirect</span>:</strong> A user who attempts to enter a certain URL is automatically taken to another page without clicking on anything. There are different types of redirects. Redirects are generally not good for page rank.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Search Engine Ranking</strong></span>: A measure of the popularity of a specific website based on its placement in the results page for a specific keyword.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>SEM</strong></span>: Search engine marketing.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">SERP</span>: </strong>Search engine results page. A list of the pages that come up when searching for a specific keyword.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Spider</span>:</strong> The search engine&#8217;s &#8216;crawler&#8217; or &#8216;spider&#8217; which scans your website pages in order to index it.</p>
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		<title>SEO Summary – 5 Most Important Points When Optimizing Your Wix Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;ve been discussing SEO from many different aspects for quite a while. We&#8217;ve touched a variety of different topics relating to the optimization of your Wix website. I thought this is probably a good opportunity to do a little review and summary of the most important aspects of SEO and how to implement it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So we&#8217;ve been discussing SEO from many different aspects for quite a while. We&#8217;ve touched a variety of different topics relating to the optimization of your Wix website. I thought this is probably a good opportunity to do a little review and summary of the most important aspects of SEO and how to implement it in your Wix Flash websites, and have it posted all in one place. So here goes:<strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>1. Content</strong></span></p>
<p>Google and the other search engines crawl your website using the text. They crawl text. That is why you need to have as much of it as possible on your website. A website with no text will simply look empty to the search engine. <em><span style="color: #0099ff;"><a href="../2009/08/13/4-things-google-loves-about-texts/">Make sure you have content</a></span></em> in your website and that this content is informative, in the sense that it will tell the search engine who you are and what your website is about.</p>
<p>To be more specific for Wix,<em> <span style="color: #0099ff;">I recommend at least 400 words in the homepage</span></em>. Don&#8217;t sweat it though, if you&#8217;re using mini-pages you can spread the words throughout the mini-pages, as they&#8217;re all counted as one.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>2. Keywords  &amp; Meta Tags</strong></span></p>
<p>Keywords are important in search engine optimization. Keywords are the search terms used by your target audience to reach you. For small to medium sized websites, <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em><a href="../2009/11/22/choosing-the-best-keywords-for-your-website/">think of 3-5 main keywords which you would like to optimize</a></em></span>. These should be terms (they can be one, two, three or more words) that are relevant to your website and are likely to be searched in order to reach you. The first thing you can do is <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>integrate these keywords into your content as naturally as possible</em></span>. They should be part of the natural flow of information, and they should make several appearances.  The second thing is using headers to emphasize your keywords. <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>Use your keywords in your headers</em></span>. This is done through the title text box in the Wix website builder.</p>
<p>Third but certainly as important, <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>use the keywords in your Meta tags</em></span>. Meta tags are added through the website builder settings that appear at the top of the editor.  Add a title (up to 70 characters long) and a description (around 155 characters including spacing). Use the keywords you want to promote and make sure your description isn&#8217;t too short.</p>
<p><strong> </strong><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>3. Links</strong></span></p>
<p>Links are an important part of search engine optimization. A link pointing at you lets the search engine know you&#8217;re there. <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>The more links pointing at you’re the higher your chances of getting indexed faster</em></span>. Links from high ranking websites, or more important websites (aka – websites with a high page rank) are better and more meaningful than links from link farms or websites of low importance (meaning – websites with a low or no page rank). <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>To take full advantage of the linking system use anchor links</em></span>. Anchor links are links that are embedded organically into the text. For example, I could say that if you want to learn more about <span style="color: #0099ff;"><a href="../2009/11/12/using-links-to-promote-your-website/">using links to promote your website</a></span>, you should follow the link. So now the search engine knows that the target page has something to do with information on links and website promotion, and if lots of you start clicking on that link, it will also learn that the content on that page must be valuable. This will increase the ranking and rating of the target page.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>4. Structure</strong></span></p>
<p>The structure of your website is the way each page is connected to another and the manner in which information flows through your site. These days it is understood that the best type of website architecture is a flat architecture. By <span style="color: #0099ff;"><a href="../category/website-architecture/">creating a flat architecture</a></span> you are endeavoring that each page on your website can be reached with a minimum amount of clicks. This is good both for your website&#8217;s users and for search engines. If your homepage has the maximum page rank and importance, than that importance is trickled down throughout the pages. That&#8217;s why keeping as many pages as possible as close as possible to the home page (close in terms of the number of links apart), increases their importance.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>5. </strong><strong>Sitemaps, Directories and Submitting to the Search Engines</strong></span></p>
<p>There are a number of methods to help your website get indexed along with all the pages in it. The first method of getting all your pages indexed is by <span style="color: #0099ff;"><em><a href="../2009/10/22/using-a-sitemap-to-get-indexed/">using sitemaps</a></em></span>. Sitemaps map out all the pages of your website through links. As the search engine crawls your website, having a sitemap increases the chances that all the pages will be crawled and indexed.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><em>Get listed in as many directories as possible</em></span>. The more traffic a directory has the better. Getting listed under the most relevant category lets search engines know more about your website and also leads relevant traffic your way. It&#8217;s an all round beneficial method of promoting your website online.</p>
<p>Last but not least, you can also submit your website directly to the search engines. Both <span style="color: #0099ff;"><a href="http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html">Yahoo</a></span> and <span style="color: #0099ff;"><a href="http://www.google.com/addurl/">Google</a></span> have manual submission pages. This does not ensure that the crawler will index your website but it certainly increases the chances.</p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
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		<title>Developments at Wix and More about Inner Pages</title>
		<link>http://SeomyWix.com/2010/02/04/developments-at-wix-and-more-about-inner-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;d like to talk to you about a great new feature being introduced to Wix. Many of you have used Wix to create a Flash website for your business or non-profit organization and this could be particularly interesting for you. So first things first: Wix is introducing a new deep linking feature. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week I&#8217;d like to talk to you about a great new feature being introduced to Wix. Many of you have used Wix to create a Flash website for your business or non-profit organization and this could be particularly interesting for you.</p>
<p>So first things first:</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Wix is introducing a new deep linking feature</strong>.</span> This will enable you to send links directly to the inner pages of your website. For those of you who are still confused consider what has been happening with your website until now. Anyone who enters your website is automatically redirected to your homepage.  With the new deep linking feature, you can send visitors to a specific page, leading to a better promotion of inner pages. For example, suppose you have a pretty large photography website, and you&#8217;ve met a potential client. You have a specific picture you think will be perfect for him. Instead of sending him to your website with a list of explanations on how to reach the exact picture, gambling that this potential client has the patience and determination to actually reach this page, you can send him (or her) directly to the photo or gallery page you want. Good idea right?</li>
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<p>At this point, this feature will only work on regular pages (as opposed to mini-pages).</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Getting Inner Pages Crawled.</strong></span> This part of this post is in direct response to recurring queries that have been sent to our support department. Some have noticed that Google will index your inner pages and they will appear as additional results to search queries underneath the homepage result. In some cases, when you change your website&#8217;s description you will see that it has been updated in the main result, while these inner pages are still accompanied by the old and outdated description.</li>
</ul>
<p>This happens in cases where your homepage is crawled and your inner page is not. To see this, visit the cached view of your inner page and compare the date that appears in the header at the top of your page with the one listed for your homepage.</p>
<p>To see the cached view either click the &#8216;cache&#8217; link which appears alongside your website&#8217;s URL in the Google search results, or enter the following search:</p>
<p>Cache:http://www.domainname.com</p>
<p>The solution for this is simple. You must wait until your inner page is crawled and you can hasten this process using the same techniques you used to get your Flash website crawled. You are welcome to browse other posts that appear in this blog for more tips.</p>
<p>One last thing – many of you have been sending different support questions through the comments option. The bad news is that I can&#8217;t answer all these support questions through this blog. The good news is that you can easily get an answer through the <a href="http://support.wix.com/index.php/Wixpedia">Wix support</a>. That&#8217;s where you can get answers to any technical or even non-technical question you have!</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
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		<title>Using Keywords in Website Texts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about finding the keywords to use in your website but we never really got down into the grit and grind of how best to integrate them. How you use your keywords is important, particularly now as the new caffeine version of Google is coming out. If you use the keyword out of context, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/keyword.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-478" title="keyword" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword" width="434" height="283" /></a>We&#8217;ve talked about finding the keywords to use in your website but we never really got down into the grit and grind of how best to integrate them.</p>
<p>How you use your keywords is important, particularly now as the new caffeine version of Google is coming out. If you use the keyword out of context, or repetitively in an exaggerated manner, it will not benefit your website in the same way as correct implementation.</p>
<p>Here are a few tips and ideas on how to use your keywords organically to get the best results:<strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>1. </strong><strong>Keywords in Your Titles</strong></span></p>
<p>Even if you have a really catchy poetic title to give your website, you may want to reconsider and use your most important keyword here, or even two if you can. The search engine spiders read article titles and so do users for that matter. The title&#8217;s weight in determining indexing is quite large, so take advantage of it.<strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>2. </strong><strong>Photos</strong></span></p>
<p>Adding texts to a picture is called adding &#8216;alt texts&#8217; and that is how you&#8217;ll find it in the source of your website. Search engine crawlers can&#8217;t see images, but they can read the texts behind the picture, such as the description and the title so take advantage of these fields to use your keywords once again. In the Wix website builder you can add texts to your pictures as you add them to the galleries or by publishing the picture.<strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>3. </strong><strong>Writing a Smokin&#8217; Description</strong></span></p>
<p>The description is accessed through the settings menu at the top of the builder. The description is very important both for search engines and users. When your website appears in search results your description will accompany the result.  Make sure to include at least two of your most important keywords in your description. If you&#8217;ve chosen your keywords wisely, it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult as the subject of your website should be related to the keywords. Take some time to write a super description. It&#8217;s worth the effort.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>4. </strong><strong>Meta Tags</strong></span></p>
<p>Aside from the description Meta tag which you&#8217;re already familiar with there are other ways to get your keywords read in the source. For one thing, consider the names of your website pages. Suppose you&#8217;re building a website about flowers and you have galleries filled with pictures of flowers. Now, imagine you&#8217;ve divided the galleries by color (ex: red flowers, blue flowers, yellow flowers etc). Naming the page on which the gallery is located &#8216;Red Flowers&#8217; if the gallery includes red flowers can help the search engine crawler figure out what that page is about. If you&#8217;ve added tags to each of the pictures and they include (at least some of them) the keyword &#8216;red flowers&#8217;, you&#8217;ve moved a few steps closer to optimizing your website. Headers are another element you should consider. Headers receive greater weight in determining indexing than regular texts and can be easily created in the Wix website builder. To create a header use the &#8216;title text box&#8217; instead of the regular &#8216;paragraph&#8217; text boxes. The bigger the title, the higher that header will rank. The largest header will appear as H1 in your website&#8217;s source (right click over the website &gt; view source), the second largest will be H2 and so on and so forth.<strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>5. </strong><strong>Textual Integration</strong></span></p>
<p>How should you use your keyword? How many times is enough? The purpose of the search engine crawler is to divine what subject your web page deals with. If you keep that in mind it will be easier to figure out how to use your keywords. If you find yourself writing a text and the same keyword keeps coming up naturally, you shouldn&#8217;t feel the need to erase it. <em>If it comes up that often though, you may want to consider using different variations of that keyword as well instead</em>, but that is for your consideration. Depending on how many texts you have on your website, using your keyword 3-5 times is more than enough.</p>
<p>To get some more information on how optimized your website is, you can download <a href="http://www.seoquake.com/">seaquake</a>. This freeware will definitely give you more insight on how optimized your texts are and what the Google bot will see as he visits your website. It includes different statistics and details that are very helpful in the optimization process.</p>
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		<title>What Do You Know About SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Wix Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what have you already learned about SEO? Think you’ve figured it out? Here are a few questions that’ll help give you an idea of how much information you still have to learn, and how much SEO you already know. You can take the entire test at the seomoz website. 1. Where is it LEAST [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/j0434854.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-400" title="j0434854" src="http://SeomyWix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/j0434854.png" alt="j0434854" width="180" height="180" /></a>So what have you already learned about SEO? Think you’ve figured it out? Here are a few questions that’ll help give you an idea of how much information you still have to learn, and how much SEO you already know. You can take the entire test at the <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/seo-expert-quiz">seomoz</a> website.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">1. </span><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Where is it LEAST important to include keywords?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>title</li>
<li>body text</li>
<li>Meta Keywords</li>
<li>Headers</li>
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<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">2. </span><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>What is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your website/web page is crawled by he search engines?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Insert a &#8220;crawl delay&#8221; parameter into the robots.txt file.</li>
<li>Submit your site directly to the search engines through submission forms</li>
<li>Visit Google’s Webmaster Central and increase your “crawl frequency”</li>
<li>Search for your website more frequently in the major search engines</li>
<li>Add new content frequently</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">3. </span><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>How can description Meta tags help with the search engine optimization?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>This is a trick question! &#8211; Meta descriptions are not important</li>
<li>They&#8217;re an important ranking factor in search algorithms</li>
<li>They&#8217;re the texts that entice searchers to choose and click your listing</li>
<li>They help inform search engines which keywords are most important on your page</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">4.</span><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;"> Which of these sources is considered the best source for competitive link data?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Ask.com</li>
<li>MSN</li>
<li>Alexa</li>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Yahoo</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">5. </span><span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>What is the difference between SEO and SEM?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>There is no difference, they are synonymous</li>
<li>SEO refers to organic/natural listings while SEM deals with PPC or paid searches</li>
<li>SEM implies association with traditional marketing companies, while SEO is usually independent or uaffiliated with traditional marketing</li>
<li>SEO focuses on organic/natural search ranking, SEM encompasses all aspects of search marketing</li>
<li>SEO is what they call SEM on the West coast</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">6.</span> <span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>Which of the following is NOT considered to be a highly important factor in ranking a particular search term?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Temporal relevancy &#8211; the number and quality of links pointing at a certain page over a given time</li>
<li>An HTML validation (according to W3C standards) of a page</li>
<li>The quality and quantity of all external links to the page</li>
<li>The link popularity of a specific page within the domain</li>
<li>Keyword usage in the title tag of the page</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">7.</span> <strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">When creating &#8220;flat architecture&#8221; for a site, what are you attempting to minimize?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>The KB size/weight of pages targeting search engines</li>
<li>The total amount of scrolling necessary for the website&#8217;s navigation</li>
<li>Colors used in the design</li>
<li>The number of tabs/windows that open during normal navigation</li>
<li>How many links a search engine must go though in order to reach content pages</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">8.</span> <strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Which of the following is NOT the best method for creating quality title tags?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Writing great copy that encourages users to &#8220;click&#8221; on your listing</li>
<li>Making sure each page has a unique title</li>
<li>Including an exhaustive list of keywords</li>
<li>Limiting the title tag to about 65 characters, including spaces</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">9.</span> <strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Which character limitation is the best in regards to the title tags (assuming you want your title tag to be fully displayed in search engines)?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>108</li>
<li>20</li>
<li>65</li>
<li>45</li>
<li>85</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">10.</span> <span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>The &#8216;PageRank&#8217; was dubbed just so because it was created by Larry Page and not because it happens to rank pages.</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>False</li>
<li>True</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">11.</span> <strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Creating a &#8216;sitemap&#8217; with links to other pages in your domain is important because&#8230;</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Most web users outside theUS prefer this navigational method</li>
<li>It can help search engine crawlers access many pages on your website easily</li>
<li>A site map reduces the rate at which spiders crawl your pages</li>
<li>It&#8217;s a mandatory requirement for submission to most of the important search engines</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">12.</span> <strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">Why are absolute (http://www.mysite.com/my-category) URLs better than relative (&#8220;/my-category&#8221;) URLs for on-page internal linking?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Absolute URLs provide a link back to the original website after they are scraped and copied onto other domains</li>
<li>They provide more keyword context for search engines</li>
<li>These URLs provide greater keyword weight</li>
<li>Absolute URLs are filled with vodka &#8211; duh!</li>
<li>Search engines can&#8217;t crawl relative URLs</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">13.</span> <span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>How should you avoid duplicate content issues that are often present in temporal pagination issues (where content moves from page to page, as can be seen in article lists, multi-page articles and blogs)?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Use a Meta robot &#8220;noindex, follow&#8221; tag to the paginated pages</li>
<li>Each page should be displayed in a new tab/window</li>
<li>Link the paginated pages with a rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221; in the link tag</li>
<li>Pagination does not have any duplicate content problems associated with it</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">14. </span><strong><span style="color: #0099ff;">What should you do with old URLs after updating your site&#8217;s URL structure to build new versions of your pages?</span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Nothing</li>
<li>Move the old links to a sub-domain</li>
<li>Create 404 landing pages for the old URLs so search engines &amp; visitors understand that the content is no longer there</li>
<li>Use a 301 to redirect them to the new URLs</li>
<li>Request their removal via webmaster central and site explorer in Yahoo!</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="color: #0099ff;">15.</span> <span style="color: #0099ff;"><strong>When multiple pages on your website are targeting the same keywords, which is the best way to avoid keyword cannibalization?</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Restrict search engines from crawling/indexing less important pages</li>
<li>Remove duplicate keywords from the Meta keywords tag on secondary pages</li>
<li>Add links on all the secondary pages directing back to the page you want ranked for the term/phrase, using primary keywords as anchor texts</li>
<li>Increase keyword density on the main page and make sure its denser than that of the other pages</li>
</ol>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">
<p>Did better than you thought? Not as good?</p>
<p>Here are a few good SEO websites/blogs you might enjoy reading for more information:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog">Matt Cutts</a> has been working for Google since 2000. His blog is an easy read and always a great place to find updates on Google.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.seobook.com/blog">SEOBOO</a>K is also a good read with handy information and links to a good training center.</li>
<li> Another place to read up on SEO tricks and tools is <a href="http://www.seochat.com/">SEOCHAT</a>.</li>
<li>One of the best places to get updates is <a href="http://searchengineland.com/">search engine land</a>.</li>
</ul>
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