Do You Over-Optimize Internal Links? Be Aware of Google

Filed Under (Web Promotion) by admin on 13-07-2009

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When a visitor lands on a particular website, what he or she wants to see is the menu “Home,” but not the other links that may say “Education Loan Home” or “Music Gallery Home.” These links are least bothered by the visitors. Internal links hardly improve the usability of a website. Jealousy and temptation are part of the human nature, so do the SEOs. Over-optimizing internal links is just a technique of SEO, which gives no substantial benefit to the visitors. It is one of a few mistakes most SEO commits.

Optimizing internal links reduce the usability of a website. When the usability of a website is lowered, it affects Google. Google wants quality contents to be displayed on the Internet. Thus if you over-optimize your web page, your website becomes less usable, and its ranking will go down. Web promotion specialist is the last person to rectify it. So, Google has justified its action of giving penalty to those websites that over-optimized internal links. So, never sacrifice readability just for the sake of searchability. Therefore, it is always suggested not to include too many internal links, as well as many key words on the web page.

Once the ranking is down, it takes time to recover because Googlebot do not come very often. If it happens, take the help of web promotion specialist who can analyze and fix the errors. Web promotion specialist will help your website recover its lost ranking. Consider yourself as a real estate developer. If you are over developing your land, you are actually reducing it worth, and finally no one will want to live there. The same is true for SEO also.

Using RSS feeds for web site promotion

Filed Under (SEO Services, Web Development, Web Promotion) by admin on 16-06-2009

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Used widely across the internet marketing community, you must have come across to a link - “subscribe to feeds”. To define, a feed is a web document ending in .rss or .xml file extension. It comes as a link to any website content update – be it a blog or an article, or anything that worth sharing with your audience. Web feeds help in better content syndication and keeps your audience up to date with the latest changes/ updates/ appends corresponding to your website.

The easiest method to display RSS on websites to create additional dynamic content can be implemented through Javascript. You can to use client side javascript to parse and display the headlines on your site. To achieve this all you need to do is cut and paste some HTML or javascript code into the web page where you want the RSS feed headlines to display.

However javascripts are not search engine friendly and hence are not visible to search engine spiders. Therefore the Googlebot probably will see the RSS feed you have parsed into your site using javascript and so this RSS might not benefit your search engine rankings. Alternatively, you may communicate few web site promotion firm, who may help you in improving your search engine rankings thru various other methods. Many a web site promotion firm also offer pay per click feeds or merchant product feeds for syndication services. A web promotion specialist may devise customized feed creation delivery system to help a business/individual to propagate its identity better across the span of the web.

If you are using a third party service, and there is a possibility that the javascript is on your site you are actually calling a script on another server. If the server is busy at the other end it will mean the news feed will take longer to display on your site. And if the third party server fails or disappears altogether then your feed will not be displayed at all. So there are a few downsides, but if you do not code and want some feeds on your site quickly then this is the way to go.

Few sites that provide the free RSS to javascript service -

  • Feed2JS
  • RSS2HTML
  • RSS-to-Javascript
  • FeedSweep
  • RSS Xpress Lite

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