Promote your website in the right ways

While most of the links to your site will be gained gradually, as people discover your content through
search or other ways and link to it, Google understands that you'd like to let others know about the
hard work you've put into your content. Effectively promoting your new content will lead to faster
discovery by those who are interested in the same subject. As with most points covered in this
document, taking these recommendations to an extreme could actually harm the reputation of your
site.
Good practices for promoting your website
• Blog about new content or services - A blog post on your own site letting your visitor base
know that you added something new is a great way to get the word out about new content or
services. Other webmasters who follow your site or RSS feed could pick the story up as well.
• Don't forget about offline promotion - Putting effort into the offline promotion of your
company or site can also be rewarding. For example, if you have a business site, make sure
its URL is listed on your business cards, letterhead, posters, etc. You could also send out
recurring newsletters to clients through the mail letting them know about new content on the
company's website.
• Know about social media sites - Sites built around user interaction and sharing have made
it easier to match interested groups of people up with relevant content.
Avoid:
• attempting to promote each new, small piece of content you create; go for big,
interesting items
• involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the
top of these services

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FILE NAMES FOR SEO

This is another are in which opinions are varied as to the effect of file
names on search engine ranking. But it’s good protocol to name your
files – webpages, mp3s, images, videos etc with useful, relevant
names, and since it definitely won’t hurt your rankings, I say ‘why
not?’. Without being spammy, you can choose wisely when naming
your files to make them relevant. If you have MP3s, don’t just name
them “track one” or something generic like that. Include the name of
your band, genre and track title for example, and remember to use
hyphens to separate your words
eg. “Blue-snake-rock-girls-are-cool.mp3”

Search engines like content that is updated regularly. If your site gets
stale, your ranking will drop because it becomes less relevant. Not
every kind of site lends itself well to updated content which is where a
blog can come in handy. A blog, by its nature can be any kind of
content and is frequently updated. If you are a band you can utilize a
blog even when you don’t have an album out because you can let your
fans know about what you are up to. Are you in the studio recording?
Post pics of your sessions or let them know what songs you are
working on. Share rough cuts of tracks – ask for feedback. Give your
fans the feeling they are getting some personal insight into your life as
an artist. This kind of regularly updated content not only helps develop
your relationship with your fans, keeping them engaged and coming
back to your site frequently, but it also looks good to the search
engines.
Also keep in mind that the more pages your site has, the better it
looks to search engines. So it’s important to keep adding pages on a

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Know Your Network For Seo

Imagine going to battle without an understanding of the terrain, roads, buildings,
weather, or even your own fighting force’s tactics and capabilities. This is the situation
faced by many information security professionals when they initially attempt to monitor
their network environment. Knowing your network is akin to understanding your
military capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses when preparing for an enemy attack.
In information security, the enemy will change tactics continually, but you have a
“home field advantage” because the battleground is your network. History proves that
blindly charging into or defending the unknown will almost certainly end in defeat.
One of the best ways to express this concept comes from Richard Bejtlich, information
security professional and author of The Tao of Network Security Monitoring. In a January
2007 post on his blog,* Bejtlich describes the “Self-Defeating Network” as having
the following characteristics:

• Unknown
• Unmonitored
• Uncontrolled
• Unmanned
• Trusted

Although you may not have control of or influence over these characteristics, you must
make every effort to Know Your Network! Doing so will help you succeed in most of
your security-related endeavors. In this chapter, we will explore two primary methods
of learning about a network: network taxonomy and network telemetry.

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How To Increase Traffic to Your Website

• Review sites are the most cost-effective form of social marketing for small, local businesses.
• Make sure your listings on review sites include plenty of relevant keywords so that people can find
you in search results.
• Respond to negative reviews, but always remain calm and try to resolve the issue.
• Unlock your business page at Yelp.
• Post stickers and badges on your websites and physical locations to encourage more reviews.

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Considerations for Multi-Lingual Sites

Creating SEO-optimized content for a multi-lingual web site presents a whole new challenge for
SEO. Needing a multi-lingual site is a good problem to have. It usually means that you have customers
in multiple countries. However, it also means you have to double or triple your SEO efforts.
The good news is that optimizing your foreign-language web site is very much the same as optimizing
your English one. You just do it in a different language. Here are some guidelines that should
serve as reminders of what you should plan to do during the SEO process:
Translate keywords into the new language. In some cases, you won’t be able to translate
your keywords into a matching word in another language. In that case, you’ll need
to choose new keywords.

Translate existing web content. Again, translations can sometimes be squirrelly. Unless
you’re an expert in the language to which you’re translating, hire someone to do it for you.
A bad translation could cost you more in lost traffic than the services of a good translator.
Apply all of the same SEO rules to your foreign content that you’ve learned for your
English content. Just because the language is different doesn’t mean that the search
engine or the search engine crawler is any different.

Include the proper links both to and from your English site to your foreign-language
site, but also include the appropriate links to English on the foreign-language site.
Make language options clearly available on your web site. If these options are not clearly
marked, your foreign visitors could miss them, and then you’ll lose visitors before they’re
fully engaged in your site.

SEO is really no different in any other language than it is in English. The biggest concern when
translating your site to another language is the actual translation. The SEO efforts are essentially
the same, but getting the language wrong could cost you just as much as not having a foreignlanguage
site at all.

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Seoo Traffic Sources

On this page, you can see a summary of your inbound traffic. This includes direct traffic,
search engine traffic, and referring sites traffic. The top part of the page shows this type
of information.

The bottom part of the page is divided into two tables. The table on the lower left shows
a summary of your main sources of traffic. The table on the lower right shows the
pertinent keywords bringing the traffic.

The submenu options under the Traffic Sources main menu item include pages that
show segregated views of traffic. If you are using Google AdWords, you will see the
options relevant to AdWords paid ad traffic. Other SEM networks can have tagging
included in the

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