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The importance of meta title and description are greatly diminished in Google and other major search engines. It no longer help with SERP position, as it's just to easy to manipulate SERPS with text that isn't even displayed to the casual browser.

However, Google and other search engines DOES still display meta descriptions if it matches the key phrase searched for. And, there are still some older engines out there that will still use the description and keyphrase.

So, while it isn't as important as it used to be, you should still take the time to fill out your meta description and keywords appropriately.

Ninty-nine point nine percent (99.9%) of all online business conducted on the internet begins with a simple search on a search engine. That's why it's absolutely crucial that you research and select the key phrases you optimize your website for. In fact, selecting key phrases can, and often will be, the determining factor that 'makes or breaks' your online business.

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Some of the key phrases we optimize for will be natural. Product names in an e-commerce store for example, are examples of natural key phrases. Each product description page in an online store should be optimized for that product name.

But there are many other key phrases that are not as natural, and we'll want to choose our key phrases carefully.

There are essentially 3 different factors we want to consider when selecting key phrases.

• Number of times the keyphrase is searched for in Google (where 90% of all internet traffic comes from)


• Amount of competition a keyphrase has. A lot of people think this means the number of results you get from the Google search for a keyphrase, but really we want to know how many people have optimized a page for this keyword.


• How relevant a keyphrase is to you. Obviously, we want to select key phrases that closely match the content of our website.

There are four different tools that I normally use to do my keyphrase analysis and evaluate these key factors. ...Read more

This has been a hotly contested debate over the past year as webmasters continue to try to find new ways to improve their rankings in SERPs.

The basic premise of a link wheel goes like this. You set up 5-10 hosted blogs on sites like Blogger, Wordpress, Sqidoo, etc. These are called the 'spokes'. Then you place a prominent link on each one of them to your main site that you are trying to promote, called your 'hub'. You also place a link on each 'spoke' to another 'spoke'.

When you are finished, your configuration should look a little like this...


Unfortunately, that's where most webmasters stop. "I've built my wheel, now where's my traffic?"

But that's not how it works. This configuration in and of itself is practically useless. Links to your site on these 3rd party hosted blogs, having no inherent traffic, no backlinks, and no PageRank, are worthless.

Unless, of course, you actively promote each 'spoke' in your wheel. If you build links for each one of your 'spokes' through traditional link building techniques, such as blog commenting, forum posting, social bookmarking, etc, then you build up traffic and popularity of these sites, which in turn pass some traffic and popularity on to your main target site.

But wait a minute. Now instead of promoting one site, you've got SIX sites to promote. Sounds like alot of work, doesn't it? Well, it is. Not only do you need to promote each spoke, but you also have to provide unique content to each one.

And what benefit is it to link the 'spokes' to each other? This just makes it look like some complex reciprocal linking scheme that Google hates so much.

But there ARE some advantages. For one, you control the content on each one of these spokes. You can optimize each page for your important key phrases, in some cases you can get on the same page of a SERP as your main target site. I've seen one site that has FOUR different pages, one on their target and 3 on their spokes, all on the same first page of a SERP they were targeting. Can you imaging having 4 out of the top 10 results of a targeted SERP? Talk about blowing away the competition.

My recommendation is that if you can come up with enough unique content for each spoke, and you have the time to do the extra search engine optimization and link building for each spoke, it can be very advantageous to set up a similar configuration. But I wouldn't link the spokes together. I'd set up more of a 'star' than a wheel.

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