If you haven’t tried it you should. Many people get a good chunk of their traffic from Google images.
If you are interested in getting traffic traffic from Google Images, here are some tips for you:
- Use keywords on img alt tag.
For example <img src=”a.gif” alt=”classified ads” />
- Use keywords on image file name.
For example <img src=”classified-ads.gif” alt=”classified ads” /> is better as compared to <img src=”a.gif” alt=”classified ads” />
- Make sure your robots.txt does not restrict access to the image folder.

As you know link building is one of the most important things as per marketing goes. And Directory Submission plays a vital role in link building. Its probably the easiest way of getting one-way free/paid links to your website.
This article will explain different aspects of where to submit, how to submit.
DMoz
Also called “Open Directory Project”, or “Google Directory”. DMoz is the biggest open directory project. You may find it very difficult getting listed on DMoz. Google and many other major search engines use DMoz directory listings. So its worth giving …

On occasions we have to change our hosting company for many reasons. Some common questions that arise are; will I loose my PR? Will I loose my SERPS?
I will discuss some aspects here you should be aware of while changing hosting.
Theoretically you won’t loose your Page Rank or SERPS just for changing hosting. But there are some catches.
Location of Server is an Important Factor
First thing to note is search engines can detect where the server is located using the IP address of server. So IP address plays a vital …

You may already have raised your eyebrows, but this is true! Brand name bulk-seller Wal-mart and Sam’s Club got into SEO and SEM services recently. Journalists are writing about this all over the web.
This new venture made many well-established SEO, SEM professionals really angry. Aaron Wall links to it and threatens to fight back by selling Chinese-made US flags for three cents each. Some people are concerned about the return policy.
Lot of people find it ridiculous. Why? SEO and SEM is a highly specialized job requiring a good amount …

For many reasons often webmasters tend to optimize their site for Geographic Locations. Lets say you are selling candy online for USA, and you don’t ship anywhere else. Its very likely that you would want to optimize your site for that geographic location.
Why you wanna optimize for geographical location?
First of all to get higher ranking on search results. If you specify your site for a location your site will will be the preferred one over the ones that are not geographically targeted.
Another reason could be you just don’t wanna do …

Blog commenting used to be a popular way of getting traffic as well as link juice. Then bloggers started getting huge amount of spam comments spending much of their time cleaning them or deleting them. When Google and Yahoo introduced the NOFOLLOW tag for links, it was quickly adopted by many bloggers. Using NOFOLLOW will make sure a link does not get any credit towards its rank.
Commenting for traffic
Blog Commenting still is very handy in getting traffic. Some blogs get thousands of daily unique visitors. And you can …

Lot of people struggle with search engine optimization. Most don’t even realize where to start. Here is a list of Basic Search Engine Optimization Techniques to get you started, hopefully they will help you.
* Shorten the title to 55 characters or less.
* Put important keywords at the beginning of the title.
* Make different titles for each pages.
* Use H1 tag for page headings.
* Put links to your pages with Keywords as anchor text, where possible.
* Use title attribute for anchor links.
* Use Alt attribute on img tags.
* …

Live Search Engine has launched the Webmaster tool, a good move to gain ground on the search engine marketplace.
Its still in Beta. Got some very nice functionalities. You can add your site same way you do on Google Webmaster tools.
Some functionalities to mention are:
- Validate Robots.txt is there for you to validate your robots.txt file.
- You can also specify a sitemap for your site.
- Shows top 5 ranked pages on Live
- On the “Keywords” section you can see how different pages perform for a specified keyword. I think this …

Live Search Engine has launched the Webmaster tool, a good move to gain ground on the search engine marketplace.
Its still in Beta. Got some very nice functionalities. You can add your site same way you do on Google Webmaster tools.
Some functionalities to mention are:
- Validate Robots.txt is there for you to validate your robots.txt file.
- You can also specify a sitemap for your site.
- Shows top 5 ranked pages on Live
- On the “Keywords” section you can see how different pages perform for a specified keyword. I think this …

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking sites is the recent BUZZ of the web industry. With the huge number of visitors they have become widely popular.
Here is a list of social bookmarking and social networking sites.
Social Bookmarking:
i89.us – Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.
AllMyFavorites.net – Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer.
Backflip.com – Check out the most popular links each day, set “The Daily Routine” as your homepage so you can visit …