Win Cash Money $120, EC Credits, Blog Layout On Mira's Contest

On one great year of Mira's blogging, She would like to give-away much fabulous prizes with holding a contest with prizes $120 Cash, 75000 EC and a Lot More. Here the Prizes:
1st PRIZE
$25 - c/o Random Thoughts
Customized Blog Layout (blogger platform) c/o My Web-Blog Designs
1 Swarovsky Bracelet c/o Yen's Handmades [Click here to see the ITEM]
$20 + 2000 EC credits c/o Windmill on the Hill
$10 + 500 EC credits c/o My Life's Journey to Success
$10 + 500 EC credits c/o Things I Did Not Know Before
$10 + 500 EC credits c/o Unique Ideas For Your Beach Weddings
2000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Night Clicks
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o NetFreeSource
3000 - EC credits c/o Random Thoughts
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Dashing Beauty
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Tales of a Pinay Single Mommy
1 Photo Pop Art Make-over c/o Sweety Tots

2nd PRIZE
$20 - c/o Mira's Web Journal
2500 - EC credits c/o Mira's Web Journal
2000 - EC credits c/o A Moment to Exhale
20GB Web Hosting c/o http://angelic-melody.net + 500EC credits
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o My Countryhome
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Live Love Pink
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Samantha's Own
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o 1716 South
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Garage Sale
1 Photo Pop Art Make-over c/o Sweety Tots

3rd PRIZE
$15 - c/o A Moment to Exhale
3000 - EC credits c/o Big Boys Have Toys Too
2000 - EC credits c/o A Taste of Both Worlds
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Kharlota dot Com
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o A Girl for All Status
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o A Fil-Am Journey
1 year text link ad c/o http://glamorous-heart.info
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Symphony of Love
1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Sweepstakes Girl
1 Photo Pop Art Make-over c/o Sweet...Pretty...Naughty

4th PRIZE
$10 - c/o My Barefoot Journey
2000 - EC credits c/o Mommy's Little Corner
2000 - EC credits c/o My Online Paradise
2000 - EC credits c/o Kinda Life of Mine
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Just About Anything
1 month text link ad Thomas Travel Tales
1 month text link ad Great Finds and Deals

5th PRIZE
2000 - EC credits c/o Wife of a Warrior
3000 - EC credits c/o Life's Sweets and Spices
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Simply Irresistible
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o My Sweet Haven
1 month text link ad Work At Home Jobs
1 month text link ad Erlinda‘s Wandering Thoughts

6th PRIZE
2000 - EC credit c/o The Solitairy Love
1500 - EC credit c/o My Barefoot Journey
1000 - EC credits c/o My Kitchen Table
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Kalidadis
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Cooking is Fun
1 month text link ad CompTechGadgets.com
1 month text link ad Healthy Living and Lifestyle

7th PRIZE
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Simplement Belles
1000 - EC credits + 1 month 125x125 ad space c/o Moi et mon univers!
1000 - EC credit c/o Scrappy Mommy
1000 - EC credits c/o Dashing Smiles
1000 - EC credits c/o Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink
1000 - EC credits c/o One at a Time
1 month text link ad Thomas Web Links
1 month text link ad Bohol Paradise

8th PRIZE
1000 EC + 1 month 125x125 ad space from My Daily Sunset
1000 - EC credits c/o My Kitchen
1000 - EC credits c/o My Life and Family Journey
1000 - EC credits c/o My Whole New World
1000 - EC credits c/o Definitely Maybe
500 - EC credits c/o I Thought So
1 month text link ad Batuananons

9th PRIZE
1000 EC + 1 month 125x125 ad space from Lovely Pink
1000 - EC credits c/o Small Side Bits
1000 - EC credits c/o In His Steps
1000 - EC credits c/o Moments of My Life
1000 - EC credits c/o My Crossroads
1 month text link ad Filipino Online Community

10th PRIZE
1000 EC + 1 month 125x125 ad space from Hobby and Such by Carlota
1000 - EC credits c/o My Life's Adventure
1000 - EC credits c/o Wonderful Things In Life
1000 - EC credits c/o The Joy of Life Forever
500 - EC credits c/o Life's Journey
1 month text link ad from Nita's Random Thoughts

11th PRIZE
1000 - EC credits c/o Medan Daily
1000 - EC credits c/o Wiehanne Lounge
1000 - EC credits c/o Simply WP
1000 - EC credits c/o Everything Under the Sun
1 month text link ad from Nita's Corner

12th PRIZE
1500 - EC credits c/o A Moment to Exhale
1000 - EC credits c/o My Barefoot Journey
1000 - EC credits c/o EastCoastLife

To win this contest you must link back to Mira's Random Thoughts(required). It is REQUIRED to include the prizes and sponsors' links in your post for your entry to be valid. Go ahead to joining this contest with do posting widely.

Top 5 on Site SEO Ranking Factors

These days, it's important to ensure you don't spam your website and carefully consider your keyword usage, so whereabouts on a web page should you be looking to optimise? Here are my recommendations for the most useful parts of a page in which to place your keywords:

No. 1 - Title tags

Probably the most important on site SEO ranking factor, so far as Google is concerned anyway. Place the targeted search term or phrase in the title tag of the web page's HTML header and watch your rankings improve - provided you do it right that is, overdo (spam) it and you could well see your site rank plummet.

No. 2 - H1 tags

Every page on your site should make use of H1 tags if you want to get the page content fully optimised. Try to avoid duplicating the text within the title tag and meta description as this can work against you, as can CSS manipulation in order to over use H tags on a page.

No. 3 - Actual Page Content

Content is still considered king by many, and rightly so. Previously, SEO concerned itself with issues such as keyword density but I don't believe these to be issues anymore with regards trying to obtain the perfect percentage.

Get your keywords in content that reads well to the user and they'll deem the page relevant to what they are looking for. Making them bold doesn't make too much difference from an SEO point of view either, they're useful for catching the user's attention but if you're placing your keywords in every sentence or paragraph, the text will just start to look unappealing.

No. 4 - Internal Links

A good internal linking structure to your website is important (and often overlooked) - therefore it follows that keyword usage within the title and anchor text of your links will assist rankings, in particular for deep content pages. Like with H1 tags, be sure to use variants of the keyword within the titles, anchors, H1 and title tags.

No. 5 - URLs

Having your keyword in your domain name is no bad thing, two keywords is also good but be sure to use hyphens to separate keywords and try not to have more than 2 hypens in the domain name.

Page names containing keywords are also important too, as demonstrated in search engine results where the keywords are highlighted in the url if they appear. Also, a page name with the right keyword in it has the relevancy factor and is more likely to be ranked and clicked than a page which doesn't - for example, if you're creating a page tailored towards "seo ranking factors", which do you think looks more relevant "seo_ranking_factors.cfm" or "seornkfac.cfm".

Dave Ashworth

Senior Web Developer - Gencia, Manchester Design Agency

http://www.gencia.co.uk

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SEO - Web 2.0 to Universal Search

There is a lot written and spoken about search engine optimisation (SEO) and both the discipline and the industry continue to grow with increased strength. As the credit crunch bites and advertisers look to SEO for increased ROI, SEOs are finding themselves under increased pressure to deliver to the expectations of their clients and employers.

The changing face of search

There's no doubt that the search scape is changing and it could be argued that Web 2.0 has been a catalyst for this. Web users are becoming more sophisticated, and with the new generation relying heavily on Youtube, Facebook and MySpace style applications search engines are having to move quickly to retain their share of web use.

No longer is it enough to offer 'web search', the search engines recognise that they must now integrate even more tightly with the user to offer a universal search solution encompassing video, music, images, products, people, places and others.

The changing face of search means that today's SEO has more ground to cover. Today's SEO should not just be looking at core search, but working out how they can pull traffic from other 'search like' properties and anticipating the introduction of true universal search.

The fundamentals stay the same

These are challenging times for SEOs. We should not become overwhelmed, but instead welcome the opportunities that Web 2.0 and universal search brings. Search marketers are creative by their very nature, and for those who can crack the formula, a rich consumer hunting ground exists.

What we should remember is that the fundamentals will pretty much always remain the same. If we build great websites, with great content, look after the technical sides and treat our visitors well, we should have no problems making the most of the new breed of web user.

This article is written by SEO consultant, S Jones of SearchData, a UK SEO & competitive intelligence specialist.

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