Agnivo Roy

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process applied to a website to increase the number of visitors, revenue or brand image by gaining high rankings on the search engines. Effective SEO involves hundreds of different variables that should be analyzed and applied in a strategic process. SEO seeks to increase a site’s visibility in search engines and enhance its value to visitors through topical page design, consistent HTML tagging, and focusing content on core keywords. SEO can be on-page, off-page or a combination of both based on specific requirements for a website.

It is a well known fact that even the websites of high quality and editorial standards & content cannot even rank in top pages of popular search engines for search queries highly related to the topics without SEO. Thus these days, to have a successful website with steady traffic from organic search engine results resulting in more revenue/brand awareness, one must employ different kinds of SEO tactics to stay in the race. If you are aware of the current and hot SEO tactics and strategies, then it’s easy and affordable for you. But those who don’t have a clue or their SEO knowledge can’t match up to attain higher rankings can make use of professional SEO services offered by many firms and individuals.

To those who have some SEO knowledge or interested in this field, let me introduce you to the SEO Blog I found today. This blog is maintained by SEOptimize – a professional company offering creative search engine marketing and pay-per-click management solutions to clients across the world. Quite expected, the content and posts are really rich with valuable information of high editorial standards, knowledge based on true facts and findings which should benefit all webmasters looking to enhance their search engine rankings. (hey! that what we all webmasters want)

I really like the way they present various SEO news, tips and tricks and focus on the various current trends in the SEO industry. This is enhanced by the simple and clean design of their blog. Most of the posts involve Google as it’s arguably the best and most popular search engine webmasters look to rank higher at. Not only this, the SEO Blog also offers great tips on traffic generation, social bookmarking, link baiting, PPC, keyword research and more to enhance your knowledge and stay up to date with the happenings in the webmaster arena.

Here are some of the great posts I liked on the SEOptimize Blog. Hope they are interesting and useful to you

• Ultimate Social Media Optimisation List
  This post is really a great resource on social media optimization, listing over 30 articles from various websites/blogs on SMO, linkbaiting tactics and general understanding of the term.
• 6 Reasons Why Link Building is So Hard
  Can’t agree more…really. Learn about the various factors that hinder natural link building process.
• Why Digg is better than Google
  Oh yes, not all use Google for serious searches but to kill time. This post discusses the growth rate of Digg and it’s rising popularity above Google for guys who who don’t quite know what they are looking for until they find it.
• How to increase StumbleUpon traffic
  Yeah, it’s ridiculously boring to me watching people trading or begging stumbles around. But hey, StumbleUpon is quite popular now and can attract huge traffic to your website.
• How Content Management Systems changed SEO forever
  This post explains the evolution of CMS and SEO becoming a built-in part of them, enabling easy page by page customization for SEO, saving valuable time and effort.
• The Real Secret to SEO
  What? The real SEO secret? Hmm…read the post to see yourself! This will save you from Google bans of course.

So have a look and feel free to comment.