Recent content by Layla Smart

I would never accept an SEO order with a two month dead line. Try to convince him of the potential danger of spamming in haste, tell him that "You don't want to cheat him for money, by accepting it and ruining his web presence". It all depends on your verbal and sales skills, make him understand...

For most part directories are dead, apart from a few may be, as far as Social Bookmarking we don't use them properly. Social Bookmarking sites can give great results and work magic if they are used effectively. To start with they are not the place to build links, but traffic. And that means you...

It largely depends on what you need from your website. Flash website although, hated for it's much slower load time and poor performance on Search Engines, still has it's own advantages. Advantages of Flash Website: Easier to create animated movies and menus Flash makes it easier to create...

It surely does, and a lot more. But it all depends on your content, no one want to like your business page just because you said "You are offering Web Designing Services at 10% less price this month". But they might like your page if you post about your company's "Corporate responsibilities" and...

Any logical source to bring potential clients is a good thing in Business. And that counts more in Classified ads, than SEO element. Today most classified sites had gone "No follow" and some don't even allow a link, yet these sites can give some leads on their own. Ensure you leave phone number...

To be frank, social media sites don't help directly in SEO. Contrary to popular belief, links from Social Media sites are not directly counted as +1 by Search Engines like Google. Instead they count the number of social engagement on the specific page (On a given website) as well as number of...

There is no similarities between them to start with, apart from both being Marketing strategies-Content marketing and Internet Marketing. In reality Social Media should be used more often for building networks and reputation, which will then slowly convert to leads and business. However mail...

PR stands for Page Rank. It is a scoring system used by Google to set a value for a website based on several factors. Factors affecting page Rank of a website: Website's Structure Internal Links Number of pages Number of incoming Links Quality of Incoming links Number of incoming "Branding...

What is W3C Validation? You might have come across "W3C" while checking a website's SEO performance on sites like Woorank. W3c Validation is used to check the HTML and XHTML documents and on your website for well-formed markup. Just as in SEO, web designing too has it's own updates...

I am really surprised to hear that, SEOs usually spam like hell on High PR sites just to increase their PR. But your case is quite different, although your dreams of achieving high PR is unfortunately not going to happen (at least not any sooner) your efforts might get more traffic and even get...

To start with Please avoid copy pasting the question into details. You are supposed to specify details about your question in a ways it helps others to understand your question better. And to answer your question, there are several means to increase a website's traffic. It depends on what...

Robot text is useful is an effective way to communicate with Search Engines (bolts or crawlers). If you don't want a Search Engine to crawl a specific (set) of Page(s) you can list those link on Robot text and tell SEs not to crawl. You can also use Robot Text to prevent Search Engines from...

In my experience I had never come across such a term. My best bet is that is a term used to fool clients into thinking that by hosting on a specific server (hosting service) their website will rank well on Search Engines. And to me hosting plays a very little role in SEO, the only factor that...

Classified ads are highly useful provided they are used effectively. And to speak clearly they are not to be spammed for link building, and most of these sites are no follow sites. However Classified ads are really a great way of generating direct leads, just make sure you write an attractive...

I completely agree with uditsh. And most of us do it even without knowing it.!