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		<dc:creator>Gregg</dc:creator>
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		<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><!--S-ButtonZ 1.1.5 End--><p>Obviously, the Internet is huge and <strong>the latest data tells us there are 1,802,330,457* people that are connected</strong> to it. All types of subjects about the Internet are now being discussed in everyday life all around the world. One area that has grown steadily is how to get a top ranking in Google. There are a lot more people wanting to know more about <a href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com">search engine optimization</a>. There&#8217;s a considerable amount of curiosity about how to get a top search engine ranking on the internet as this <strong>paves the way to website visitors and new sales</strong>. Knowing what to do can be overwhelming, so keeping it simple is best if you are just learning SEO.</p>
<p>This article is intended to assist you a little further on how to get a top search engine ranking. If you want to know how to get a top search engine ranking continue reading and find out how to do it in <strong>3 easy steps!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Step one</strong> is to choose one specific <strong>keyword phrase </strong>through performing research that shows enough traffic and not too much competition and that is highly relevant to your website. If you choose to target the wrong keywords your efforts may not bring the best results.  Finish this step promptly, correctly and completely. This is very important. If it isn&#8217;t done correctly, for whatever reason, then you will get the wrong type of visitors that don&#8217;t convert or you will be unable to rank for that specific keyword target.</p>
<p>You can use the <a title="Google Search-Based Keyword Tool" href="http://google.com/sktool/#" target="_blank">Google Search Based Keyword Tool</a> or <em>better yet</em> use the <a title="Keyword Research Software" href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com/top-keyword-software.shtml" target="_blank"><strong>Download Your Free Copy of Market Samurai</strong></a> and save a ton of time and find those &#8216;money&#8217; words much faster.</p>
<p><strong>The next step</strong> is going to be optimizing all the possible <strong>on-page factors</strong> for that keyword phrase that make sense for that page. Things you will want to look at optimizing are using the keyword phrase in the Title, Description, H1 tag, using in-content links for that phrase, and you should also add related keywords in the body that would occur naturally around this keyword phrase, or LSI words. Words that relate to your keyword but do not have the main keyword in the phrase. Synonyms, and words only those in the industry would know.  We actually offer an in-depth <a title="SEO REPORT" href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com/seo-report.shtml" target="_blank"><strong>FREE SEO REPORT</strong></a> that will analyze a specific page of your website for a specific keyword and give that page an SEO Score which and will give advice and point out areas for better optimization.</p>
<p><strong>The third step</strong> will be to gain different types of backlinks with the specific keyword phrase in the link text. This can be done many various ways, and should be.  Having a variety of links is better than having all your links coming from one or two sources. Ways to get links include <em>article marketing, participating in related forums with your link in your signatures, blog commenting, social media profiles, social media syndication and bookmarking, press releases, directories &#8211; general, niche, blog, rss directories, micro-blogging i.e. Twitter, video, audio, photo sites, document sharing like Scribd.com, even creating an account at a Question and Answer site</em>, these all give you the opportunity to build your own links specific to your target keyword phrase.</p>
<p>This is very important because the more links you have with that keyword phrase the better your chances will be to move up the search engine rankings.. What&#8217;s important to avoid here is spam linking or linking on PageRank 0 sites. Higher quality links are much better and worth much more in the eyes of the top search engines and are truly worth the effort of finding and developing links on these high PR web properties.</p>
<p>Follow the steps outlined above and you ought to be able to gain that <a href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com">top search engine ranking</a> on your specific keyword target. Then take advantage of the fruits and benefits of having a traffic producing keyword at the top of the search engines that you will have earned by your time and effort.</p>
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<p>If you would like help with keyword research and your SEO Campaign please <a title="Philadelphia SEO Company Contact Page" href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com/contact_us.shtml" target="_blank">contact us</a> at <strong>(610) 768-0357</strong> or get yourself a no obligation, <a title="SEO Report" href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com/seo-report.shtml" target="_blank">free SEO report</a> for one of your individual web pages and get to work on that first place ranking on Google for that target keyword that will drive hundreds of new visitors to your site!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregg</dc:creator>
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<p>Keywords have a monetary value when ranking in the top positions  of Google even at the lowest conversion rates.</p>
<p><strong>Learn to convert better and increase the value of your current  traffic overnight!</strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #ff6600;">If a keyword has 100 searches a day, that’s 3000/month.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff6600;">If you ranked #1 on Google you would get approximately 42% of the  clicks or 1260 visitors.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff6600;">At a 1% conversion rate you’d get 12.6 sales.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff6600;">Determine your average customer value, let’s say $325, that’s an  extra $4,095/month form ONE 1ST PLACE RANKING KEYWORD!</span></li>
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<p><strong>This is why keyword research is so important, target the right  keywords and get the most from your SEO efforts.</strong></p>
<hr />Just came across this in my email this morning and thought it good to keep things accurate, so I&#8217;m posting it here for you.</p>
<hr /><strong>How to Value SEO Ranking</strong><br />
<em>Ed Gluzman at 10:18 pm &#8211; March 27, 2010</em></p>
<p>The first question to ask before investing in an SEO campaign is  “What is the value of the first page organic ranking anyway?” For  example, I’ve calculated the annual market value of a first page Google  organic ranking for ‘Cosmetic Dentistry’ to be $295,367. For a strategic  business decision maker, putting a dollar value on the 1st page organic  ranking is critical in determining how much time, money and effort to  invest into your SEO campaign. Armed with this information you can  perform a pro-forma ROI analysis that compares search engine  optimization with other forms of marketing such as PPC or direct mail.</p>
<p>Calculating the fair market value of an organic ranking is a straight  forward process that requires a few assumptions. Google gives you most  of the information you need with their <a title="Tools for estimating a  value of 1st page organic rank" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">keyword</a> tool, and the assumptions can be gathered  from the <a title="Gathering analytics from your website" href="http://www.hitslink.com/" target="_self">analytics data collected  from your web site,</a> or from other sources. The fair market value  calculation is basically  a “comp analysis”, or what would be the price  of another comparable  source to drive the same amount of targeted  traffic to my website.</p>
<p>You  may have had to perform a fair market value “comp analysis” the  last  time you purchased a new home.  When performing a home comp  analysis,  you average the price of other comparable homes recently sold  in your  area.  If you can calculate what the market is willing to pay  for a  given home, you can determine if the seller’s price is fair. This  same  type of analysis can be performed before undertaking a search  engine  optimization campaign by analyzing what your competitors are  paying  Google Adwords to rank for a given search term.  If your SEO  campaign is  going to cost more than paying a search engine directly for  the  traffic, SEO may not be the optimal solution.  Of course  pay-per-click  can be extremely effective when applied correctly.</p>
<p>So here’s how I  came up with a conservative estimate for the fair  market value of the  search term “cosmetic dentistry” using Google  keyword tool:</p>
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<p>The first step is to gather 2 pieces of information from the keyword  tool. You will need the Global Monthly Search Volume and the Estimated  Average Cost Per Click. In the case of ‘cosmetic dentistry’ search term,  the Exact Match values are 40,500 and $7.15 respectively. These figures  are outlined in red in the screen shot. Please note that I changed the  match type to Exact, so that my valuation will not include any of the  long tail derivative rankings. Usually when you optimize your website  for a specific search term such as ‘cosmetic dentistry’, you will also  attain top rankings for long tail keyword phrases such as ‘florida  cosmetic dentistry’ or ‘cosmetic dentistry specialist’. Since we’re  working on a conservative estimate, these rankings will not be  considered in this valuation.</p>
<p>To complete our analysis we need to know the average click through  rate of a top organic search engine position. If you already use a web  analytics tool such as <a title="Hitslink Web Analytics" href="http://www.hitslink.com/signup.aspx?source=STBL">Hitslink</a>, you  may already know the average CTR for your organic listings.  Other  sources such as <a title="Marketing Survey" href="http://http//www.enquiro.com/whitepapers/" target="_blank" class="broken_link">Enquiro/Marketing  Sherpa B2B Survey</a> indicate that 52.6% of all search engine visitors  click on a top 4 organic listings. Further, the study shows that 27.1%  click on the first organic listing. Since this is a conservative  estimate, I will drop the top position and will only consider positions  2, 3 and 4.  So subtracting 27.1 from 52.6 and dividing by 3 gives us an  average click through rate of 8.5% for positions 2 through 4.</p>
<p>Taking all of the figures here is the estimated annual value of the  top organic ranking for the ‘cosmetic dentistry’ search term:</p>
<p>12  x (Monthly Exact Volume) x (Avg. Click Through Rate) x (Estimated  Average CPC)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>12 x 40,500 * 0.085 * $7.15 = <strong>$295,367</strong></p>
<p>As I said before, this is a very conservative estimate, that does not  account for long tail derivative search terms and only assumes Google  traffic. You can adjust this value by including contributions from other  major search engines into the calculation. According to Net  Applications,  <a title="Global Search Engine Market Share" href="http://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4">global  search engine market share</a> for Google in February 2010 reached 85%  of the total search engine market share.</p>
<p>We can use this data to modify our formula and get a slightly better  view of the valuation:</p>
<p>12  x ((Monthly Exact Volume)  / (Google Market Share)) x (Avg. Click  Through Rate) x (Estimated  Average CPC)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>12 x (40,500/0.85) * 0.085 * $7.15 = <strong>$347,490</strong></p>
<p>Now you have a very simple technique for estimating the annual value  of attaining a top organic position for a particular search term. For  more in-depth and detailed analysis of your search terms and web site  optimization requirements, retaining an <a title="Search Engine  Marketing Consulting" href="http://www.netapplications.com/consulting-sem.aspx">SEO consulting  firm</a> can lead to increased search engine visibility and  consequently ROI.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Gregg</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>QUESTION</strong>: &#8220;We understand the exposure/awareness benefits that social networks would provide us, but the primary goal for us right now is to leverage these social networks as a means to build back links directed to our websites. We would like the ability to specify the anchor text of links to web pages that we specify, from do-follow social network pages. We would prefer these links to be embedded in the content of the articles that we create. It would be even better if we could provide a few possibilities of anchor text that would be used in the links.</p>
<p><em><strong>Below is our official response to these questions about using <a title="Outsource Content Syndication Yourself" href="http://www.firstplacepositioning.com/outsource-content-syndication.shtml">SYNND</a> for link building activities:</strong></em></p>
<p>One of the most common misconceptions about social media marketing (SMM) generally&#8230;and about our SYNND software specifically, is that it&#8217;s a tool for building forced inbound links. SYNND should be used to create inbound &#8220;Social Buzz&#8221; first and foremost and only secondarily for creating natural (not forced) inbound links. Social Buzz is a ranking factor all by itself and should never be confused with link building, which is a separate endeavor. A &#8220;natural&#8221; byproduct of Social Buzz Building is inbound references, links, comments, tags, etc. but you cannot force &#8220;anchor text&#8221; within a submission to a social network as this is not natural and is frowned upon by the social networks.</p>
<p>Further to this, the search engines are doing everything in their power to stop or discount traditional link building activities and will continue to do so on into the foreseeable future. We expect to see whole sites that have used these &#8220;linking strategies&#8221; to be severely reduced in ranking, or in some cases de-indexed all together in upcoming Google Slaps. The new focus on &#8220;Social Buzz Building&#8221; is a way around the old pitfalls of link building but, again, should not be confused with traditional &#8220;link building&#8221;&#8230; Building inbound &#8220;Social Buzz&#8221; is a new (about 3 years old) ranking factor that exists within Google&#8217;s complex algorithm (as well as other search engines), regardless of the dofollow/nofollow attributes of the social networks where the buzz originates. Look no further than Google&#8217;s recent addition of BUZZ to their Gmail platform. What people do not realize is that this is only the tip of the iceberg for them. We have tracked Google long enough now to know how deeply they both value and understand everything related to social buzz. Based on this, we are now know it is the &#8220;New Linking Strategy&#8221; and the primary ranking factor every site should focus on. In our business we have abandoned all forced link building activities and are focused instead on using the true power of the Internet to create raving fans based on pure social buzz. It&#8217;s easier, faster, safer, and it is the future&#8230; pure and simple. As a by-product, we also see more natural link building, along with the added benefit of viral social buzz expansion.</p>
<p>Again, Social Buzz is an &#8220;independent ranking factor&#8221; not to be confused with &#8220;link building&#8221;. Social Buzz is more powerful, more long-term regardless of nofollow/dofollow attributes. Social Buzz rises above nofollow/dofollow, Social Buzz cannot be measures by PR (Page Rank) either. It is a ranking factor unto itself and we and our members have proven this fact over and over again.</p>
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