I am actually trying to start some SEO service and reading up on a lot of different stuff to buck up my skills. And I found this great SEO Guide for beginner by Google, so I am sharing this with my readers here. This is the very basic of Search Engine Optimization, this are the stuff I have been learning and implementing for my whole 6 years as a webmaster.

Basically it includes, Title Tags, Meta Description, SEO Friendly Link, Anchor Text,  Related Content, Easy Navigation and much more. This 22 pages of free SEO ebook by Google is packed information for those who like to learn about SEO

This is a free SEO lesson provided by Google itself, so you will be sure that you are not learning anything that would voilates their TOS.

SEO Guide

Everytime I make a post, I am thinking of SEO on mind as my ultimate purpose is to get people searching for my post. There is some trick and technique to this and most season bloggers do this if you pay attention and study their posting method. Your post title play a very crucial role.

1. Write Post Title with Search Term

You have to always think of what a people would type at Google when they are doing a search. If you are writing about a car, have the car manufacturer, year, model included or the type of car,  having post title like “I like the new Honda” wound not help your Search Engine Traffic as most people would not search for this word and “new Honda” would be a competitive keyword.

2. Keyword Density

It is important for you to use the similar keyword that you have used in your title and use them at least once or twice the post body. Do not repeat them too often that you will actually get penalize.

3. Start with Long Tail Keyword

Try to aim for something smaller when your blog is new as you will not win the big boys by having the same title keyword for your post. Be specific so that you are targeting a niche and smaller crowd.

4. Make sure that your html title <title> does have your post title

Although it is mostly built in with most blogging theme / templates, you have to make sure of this. If you look at the following picture. You notice that the search terms are in bold and your website link is actually using the <title> of the current link or title of your blog post.

Another flexible alternative for Wordpress user is to have All in One SEO Pack plugins installed. It is quite easy to use, but the latest version require some pre-configuration before you can actually use this plugin. Nevertheless, it is still a very powerful tool.

5. Permalink

This is a superb built in function on Wordpress and Blogspot because having the post title on the link gives you a slightly better advantage over sites that does not have them. Although this may not ensure that you beat another website / blog that does not use this, but we are sure that it is taken into account because it will be highlited in bold.

You can see that top 100 malaysia blogs is highlighted.

Give this a try and you shall see some differences in time to come. SEO does not happen instantly, even if you have made some changes to your previous post, it will take days to week for Google Spiders to come crawling to your website and update their database.

This is an interesting topic about Internet Marketing. I am always fascinated about the power of Internet marketing because we use Internet so much that anything that we do not understand, we tend to search for it (at least for me).

I started this topic because I wrote a post about a clinic here in Klang, Malaysia in another blog. This is a post that I complaint about the unprofessional service that I have receives from the clinic. Yes, I was pissed and did not know where should I voice my complaint, therefore I decided to just post it just to take out my anger.

Never did I know, this post is now ranked 1st for the keyword “dr alice” or “dr. alice” for Google Malaysia and 3rd for Google.com for Malaysia searches.

Because the post is up it started a snowball, people elsewhere started to come to my blog and comment about Dr. Alice, mostly unprofessional stuff. And at the same time  someone representing her/might be herself is coming to my blog and emailing me to remove the post and offering me an apology letter from her.

The truth is that I have no intention of hiding the truth about my posting, and I have emailed her about the post when she replied with a standard email template. She would not have care about my blog if it did not reach such a high placing for her name.

My post will definitely stay. But I would like to know if I should remove those comments that actually have no proves/evidence?

There is a difference trying to target SEO Malaysia or SEO for worldwide searches. You basically view a slightly different set of result even if you are using Google.com but searching in different parts of the world. I guess the question asked would be, “How can we target for one location?”.

My opinion is that including the location like “Malaysia” in your content would place more emphasis that you are trying to target Malaysia traffic. Also getting backlinks from other website in the same geographical location would definitely helps.

Here is how you can check if you are interested to know what US resident are seeing from a certain keyword search at Google.com.

http://www.google.com/search?q=KEYWORD&gl=US

For example, if you are searching for SEO service

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=US

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=MY

http://www.google.com/search?q=SEO&gl=SG

I used three different location MY=Malaysia, SG=Singapore and US=United States. I could omit the second query with &gl=MY because I would see the same result.

On top of that, you will also get a different result from Google.com.my. And sometimes it is better if you are concentrating in a regional Google. This is how you could check other country search result. If you check Alexa’s Malaysia Top 100 website, you will notice that Google.com.my gets more visitor compare to Google.com. This is because a lot of computer have default on Google.com.my when the first time Google detects IP from Malaysia and people do not change it as long as the searches works.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/adpreview (without the backslash, it will not work)
2. Enter the keyword
3. Enter Google Domain
4. Choose the country of the searches

You will see the result that is different from countries to countries.

A minor update on the status of this website. Another 4 days pass and it is recorded 3,785,880 on 26th.

It seems to be on track since my last update on Alexa ranking.

You may see this on a lot of webmaster forum who are suggesting to do a 3 way link exchange. This is actually a good method as Google will not see it as reciprocal link.

How 3 way link exchange works

There is 3 websites involve, which meas one of the people exchanging links will need to have 2 websites.

1. Owner 1 [owns Site A (high PR/Traffic site) and Site B (new site)]
2. Owner 2 [owns Site C (high PR/Traffic site]

In order to promote and exchange more links to go to Site B (new site), Owner 1 would offer a link from Site A to Site C and in return, Site C will link to Site B (not Site A).