When considering a marketing service there are many things to think about. First you have to decide your goals and aims - what do you want the seo consultant to do for your site? Achieve higher conversions on your sales, get better rankings or better qualified traffic or simply overhaul your website tomake it more […]
Once you’ve got your Japanese website up and running you need to start getting links. One of the easiest ways to do this is to submit your site to web directories.
There are quite a few directories in Japan that accept submissions so here is a brief list of some of the better ones I’ve found. […]
Paid for inlcusion, or PFI, is where you pay to be included in a directory or similar website which will then bring you website traffic and/or better search engine rankings.
However, the PFI model has basically died when yahoo removed that option and went for a PFI and Pay Per Click model. All that remains are […]
If you’re new to SEO, or even an old hand, all the terms and jargon can cometimes be baffling.
However there is now a really funny alternative SEO / webmaster glossary written by a UK consultancy.
Some examples:
Content Website: A site put together by someone so full of himself that he believes what he has to […]
With the advent of widespread internet use and ecommerce paying by credit card online has become an everyday occurrence for millions of people around the world.
The problem faced by merchants who run ecommerce stores is how to integrate a credit card processor into their store so they can accept payments online.
There are many credit card […]
There are several different versions of the Japanese character set, three popular ones being shift_jis, x-euc-jp, and iso-2022-jp.
Depending on the charset encoding that you use in your webpage a browser, especially older ones, will have massive problems displaying the text.
Also, having your source strings and then converting between the charactersets renders them into meaningless babble.
If […]
When launching a new site or trying to promote it, a somewhat slow but cheap and effective method is to get backlinks to your website from directories.
This means that you get a lot of one way incoming links which help with your search engine rankings.
Sometimes the directories will charge for a listing, or require you […]
If you’re thinking about buying several domain names, expired or new, then it’s tedious having to find out if each one is registered or not.
There are however several great tools you can use to speed up the process and find a great expired domain name.
One of the best programs I’ve used is called Domain Research […]
The term ’search engine submissions’ is as the name suggests about submitting to the search engines, in order to get your site indexed by the search engines and web directories, so that people can find your site. Search engine submission is also known as search engine registration.
Search engine optimization on the other hand refers to […]
Here are the major search engines that you should submit to.
Google
Google is the most popular search engine, powering Google, AOL and Netscape search.
Google searches over 4 billion Web pages, supports 82 languages and processes more than 200 million searches a day.
Read Google’s own site submission and ranking tips in the Google Information for Webmasters section. […]
