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What does “white hat” mean when talking about SEO?

White Hat SEO is the generic term that refers to optimising any website without violating the terms of use (TOS) of all search engines which you need to use.

Search engines use small programs called robots to crawl and index the internet, this process is focused generally on making the site easier for a machine to understand at the same time to maintain a friendly interface for people.

White Hat search engine optimisation is different to Black Hat search engine optimisation. The title and meta tags in black hat SEO might be used in fooling most of the search engines by making search engines think that the page is about something which it is not – e.g. an entertainment website masquerading as an education site.

White Hat search engine optimisation is an honest and reliable approach when optimising your website and the common principle is to do your best in order to be liked by the major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

The whole strategy is to make a right coded website that makes it easy for search engines to understand and to mimic optionally about what should happen for web pages that are liked by users.

So, for example, if a guest found a site and found that it was a good site then he/she would possibly write a good article about it, create a topic about it on the different general forums or add it in his/her social sites, make a group for it and open the discussion so other people try it as well. White Hat accelerates this process and is sometimes an automated process.

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What you need to know about submitting to online directories

One of the best ways to get good traffic for your website is to submit your website to many directories online. These directories are categorised (languages, health, entertainment, etc.), so when submitting your website, you suggest the suitable category that matches with it.

Often, you will be able to submit to a sub-category inside the major category. For example, let us say that your website is about aromatherapy. In the submission request, you can suggest “health” to be the main category.

Some of online directory leaders are MSN, Yahoo!, and DMOZ directory. To get a listing in these online directories is not free. Sometimes, you can submit for free in some search engine directories but they don’t give you any guarantee on how quickly your website will be accepted to be indexed.

So, if you need your listing reviewed faster, you have to pay premium listing fees to get an expedited listing service and they can review your website within few days then if your website is accepted, you would get it listed for a full year and then you can renew it in the next year to gain traffic from that source for longer time.

Listing at the major directories will pay off its costs in many and different ways:
• You will get high traffic to your website and your website will get a higher rank in search engines which will help you gain organic type traffic as people usually search in the directory listings and browse the listed websites.
• You will get many back links to your website. Certainly, this will give more traffic to your website.

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Why manual links to your site are important

One of the most important big steps in an efficient search engine optimisation campaign is link building. You can boost your presence in Google and maximise your Bing results or beyond with the help of our full suite of products!

Online marketing’s results are all about traffic. A business person knows that they have to spend money for marketing. If marketing gets you traffic, then it’s called an investment. You can invest in manual link building service – the best way to get traffic and rank higher in the search engine’s results. You can count each link as a vote for your website.

Advantages of having a quality link building campaign:
• Getting lots of useful and relevant links for your website;
• Search engines will position your website in a higher level in the search engine results;
• Traffic on your website increases due to the presence of high quality links that point and refer to your website;
• Get benefit from more leads if your website is targeting customers who search for buying certain products or getting a service from you;
• Business growth will surely come and improve.

Manual link building services are very important because they increase your website ranking, now more with search engines using SERP for website’s rankings. A complete link building service offers you an increase in the quality as well as quantity of your links, so that the importance of your website is clearly stated. Complete link building definitely offers a higher positioning in search engines’ results.

Digital marketing expert Croydon

We are a digital marketing agency based in South London working with small businesses, as well as those in accountancy and the construction sector to help get them noticed online. Drop us an email at Saymoo@smart-cow.com or give us a call on 020 3137 1826. 

What is the point of blogging?

Everything we do always needs to have a ‘point’ or purpose or it all gets very mundane. We all need a reason to do what we do, even if it’s simply earning a living. Here, Smart Cow Marketing’s owner, Simon, gives us some points to ponder…

1. Blogging is about communication

On my own blog I interact with those people who are searching for daily updates in the normal life events. I use my own experiences to share information and learn new things through contacting with my readers at the same time; I am trying to shed the light on some of the important life problems.

2. Blogging sometimes is about ‘teaching’

I try to solve problems, answer some questions, point people in a new and a helpful direction. I try to give hints when they are puzzled. When they are troubled I try to assist them as best as I can and to teach them how to depend on themselves before asking for others’ help using some gentle nudges from me.

3. Blogging can be controversial

On my own blog, I do encourage the exchanging of views. I started a technology related topic for example and ask questions for the sake of opening a discussion with my readers and get their views.

4. Blogging needs enthusiasm

Sometimes I get very tired but that doesn’t last for a long time as I really love writing in general. So as soon as I start to plan a post, I usually come up with the whole idea which can be created and executed in another time.

Digital marketing expert Croydon

We are a digital marketing agency based in South London working with small businesses, as well as those in accountancy and the construction sector to help get them noticed online. Drop us an email at Saymoo@smart-cow.com or give us a call on 020 3137 1826.