BKSEO’s SEO Blog

SEO Posts - As you may already know, search engines can’t read images so they often look at image attributes for their search results. The most important image attribute, in my openion, is still the Alt attribute also referred to as Alt Tag.

When it comes to the Alt Tags, webmasters often come up with two questions:

1. Which images should have an all tag?

2. What should be the Alt attribute for that image?

And here are my answers based on my findings and experience. Some SEO specialist may disagree with me but I find many that agree with me on this:

Answer 1: Two types of images should have Alt Tags;

a) Action images which are buttons, images in the navigation, and your logo.
b) Informational images which are those images that include important message or slogan on your website.

Answer 2: Alt Tag of the image should describe the image in less than 57 words. For example if you are getting a free credit report, the Alt Tag of the order now button should say Order free credit report now. Keep in mind you should be able to describe the image and Google likes short attributes. Per Matt Cutts, no more than 5 7 words. Any thing more than that may raise a flag that you are trying to stuff your keywords.

SEO Posts - Many novice SEOs often either focus too much into building too many little links with little or no juice or make a few good quality links in a short period of time.

Both approaches are wrong and no one could have done it better than Gary Wolf to explain this concept.

By the way I love the following quote from him:

You want to build as many quality links, from as many trusted sources as possible, with as much differentiating anchor text, to as many different pages, over a prolonged period of time. While concise that was probably about as helpful as Sams “How to Build a Nuclear Reactor in 24 Hours” book, so here are some slightly more instructional links

Be sure to check out one of his latest SEO posts:

Link Building and Development Mistakes - Treetrunks and Houses on Stilts

SEM - LOL…I was researching for some PPC keywords and I came across this rap song made just for PPC. Some PPC specialist raps his away about Pay Per Click and I found it very interesting and I thought I share with you.

I originally found the video on SEO Religion Blog.

SEO Methods - Last time I added a new blog to Google, it took less than two hours for the blog to get listed in Google. No more waiting days, weeks, or months for Google to add your site. This method works. It is like forcing Google to add you ASAP.

Here is what I did:

• Add your URL to Google
• Send a text link to your new site from a high ranking website or blog with the name of your website.
• Make sure the link is a text link
• Make sure this text link contains a title tag with your domain name and\or your in it
• Make sure the anchor text also contains the keywords and\or your domain name
• Make sure this link does not contain a re=”nofollow” tag in it
• Make sure your new website has contents with your keywords and is SEO friendly
• Ping Google from webmaster tool to visit the high ranking website or the blog

And that’s it. You are done. I want to emphasize that this link should be coming from a high ranking website or blog. Prefer with a pagerank of 3 or more but I have seen page ranking 1 sometimes do too.

Here is the logic behind it. When Google crawler visits the web page with a page rank, it will follow all (or at least most) of the links without the nofollow tag. And if the keywords of the text links are related to the destination website (in this case your new website), it saves the content of the destination website  into it’s database since the content is so relevant to the link and will ultimately will list you.

There are other ways where you can get your site listed in Google fast. For example setting up a webmaster account can help too but again you are leaving it up to Google. The key is to force Google to capture your new website content and in order to do that, you need to make sure you follow the steps I explained in this post..