By most SEO professional's estimation, the keyword Meta HTML tag is dead. There is a general consensus around the Google SEO community that the days to manually improve your SEO results through Meta keyword stuffing are over. One used to be able to stuff the meta keywords tag with up to about 270 characters worth of keywords, which then helped improve the page's SEO results, it became so easy to do, that its overuse caused most search engines to decrease their importance in ranking or completely eliminate their ranking value altogether.Now most search engines have a mathematical formula called an algorithm that takes several elements into account, assigns them a numerical value, compares them to other sites that are optimized or focused on the same or similar keywords and then gives it a ranking. The algorithm for each search engine is different but everyone in SEO agrees that Google's is the most complex and hardest to optimize for.Because of the increased complexity of the Google algorithm, and the fact that it is always evolving and changing, oh yeah, and very secret, it has become a niche area few have mastered.Since the Meta keyword is no longer useful in helping your .. more »
By most SEO professional's estimation, the keyword Meta HTML tag is dead. There is a general consensus around the Google SEO community that the days to manually improve your SEO results through Meta keyword stuffing are over. One used to be able to stuff the meta keywords tag with up to about 270 characters worth of keywords, which then helped improve the page's SEO results, it became so easy to do, that its overuse caused most search engines to decrease their importance in ranking or completely eliminate their ranking value altogether.Now most search engines have a mathematical formula called an algorithm that takes several elements into account, assigns them a numerical value, compares them to other sites that are optimized or focused on the same or similar keywords and then gives it a ranking. The algorithm for each search engine is different but everyone in SEO agrees that Google's is the most complex and hardest to optimize for.Because of the increased complexity of the Google algorithm, and the fact that it is always evolving and changing, oh yeah, and very secret, it has become a niche area few have mastered.Since the Meta keyword is no longer useful in helping your .. more »
Search engine optimization pricing is really a difficult number to come up with. And if you want proof, just check out all of the companies out there offering search engine optimization (SEO). These companies' prices are all over the place, but mostly because they offer different twists and services within their SEO program. Below are some of the items you should look at when comparing search engine optimization pricing. Don't look at price. Look at the services. If you look at price, you will end up deciding on a service based on price and not value or what you really need. There are plenty of people and companies out there offering full blown web site SEO for dirt cheap prices. Be careful of these, because you will get what you pay for. If they tell you they can guarantee #1 ranking in less than 30 days, I would be skeptical. This usually ends up involving black hat techniques, and is a short term fix. Also, it might get you fully banned from the search engine index. Ensure they offer the basics: title tags, Meta tags, optimization of certain areas of the text, and keyword density. These are basics in SEO. .. more »