Category Archives: Smart Traffic SEO Tips

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #76 – When You Don’t Know What to Search For

Occasionally you are absolutely certain which terms, words or phrases to use to search Google to find the information you need. However, sometimes you have to try different search terms, words or phrases to accidentally come across a good result…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #75 – How to Rank in Google Maps/Local Search

What is Maps optimisation and why it is important? Maps optimisation is making your business visible to local searchers. We all know the trend that most people nowadays do not use the printed yellow pages anymore in finding local businesses, they now use the internet like Google which is the major search engine today and other sites such as Yahoo, Yellowpages.com and many more. This is a perfect opportunity for you to reach the people searching for your business products or services online…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #74 – Does Google Instant Affect Link Building?

Google instant was launched a month ago. Some thought that it might affect the ranking algorithm of Google, some even thought that it will kill SEO. Fortunately, Google cleared things out saying that it doesn’t affect SEO but it affects how people search and what they search for…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #73 – Consistency is King

Google confirmed that they are using more than 200 signals as ranking factors. Each of these factors communicates to Google, and some are applied to engine’s internal algorithms…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #72 – Meet WebP – an Alternative Image format for Faster Web

We all know that Page Speed is already one of over 200 ranking factors in Google. And because of this, Google launched Page speed in Firebug and even provided other tips to make the page load faster. Notice that in every test you’ll do for your site’s speed, aside from javascript and CSS, among the factors responsible in slowing the page are the images. Because of this, Google offers WebP (pronounced as “weppy”)…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #71 – About META NOODP tag

If SEO is about getting your shop window on to the high street, then the meta description is the doorway to that shopping experience.

The Meta Description is your opportunity to put some sales copy in front of Google’s searchers to try and entice them to click on your listing over your competitors. Although not a ranking factor you should still provide unique descriptions and make them appealing. This is your sales copy. You should also include a mention of your main keyword/keywords as these will be highlighted to the user…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #70 – The Use of rel=”nofollow”

The rel=”nofollow” is an attribute that can be used in the anchor links if we want to block the passing of link juice to the target pages…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #69 – Google’s Use of Rich Snippets for Local Search

With their constant work for delivering relevant search results, Google recently announced the use of Rich Snippets for local search. If your making a website for your business or article that relate to particular place, you can apply these to reference those places and optimise for local search results…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #68 – Types of Keywords, The Advantages and Disadvantages

There are two types of keywords, Short tail keywords and Long tail keywords. Short tail keywords are keywords composed of 1 or 2 words while the Long tail keywords are composed of 3 or more words…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #67 – Time Saving Analytics Verification

Google Analytics is very useful for tracking your website traffic and Google just made it easier for us, from setting up to ownership verification saving time and effort. Prior to verifying ownership, you need to add a Javascript tracking code first to your web pages specifically…