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by Gary Sims
The quantity of links to your site is used by the search engines (like
Google) to calculate the importance of your site. This measure of incoming links
is called "Link Popularity". Press releases are a powerful way in which you can
promote your site, service or product while at the same time increasing your
link popularity.
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a process of fine tuning your website to get
higher rankings on Internet Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Broadly
speaking there are two types of optimization, "on-page" and "off-page". On-page
optimization deals with the layout and format of a web page to make it
attractive to a search engine. Off-page optimization deals with external factors
like the number of people linking to your page. Let's look at off-page first.
Off-Page Optimization
In trying to quantify the importance of a website, search engines have developed
sophisticated algorithms that rank web pages for their quality. The largest
factor in determining quality is the number of links to a web page. Links are an
almost impartial method of determining how popular a website or a web page is.
Or to put it another way, quality websites are the most popular and so have the
most links to them. As previously mentioned this is called "Link Popularity". So
to improve your standing on the search engine you need a higher link popularity.
Another very important factor in off-page optimization is the text used to link
to your site. This is called the anchor text. Adobe ranks the highest in the
search engines for the words "click here". Why should that be? The word "click
here" isn't in the title of the page, nor is it in the page itself! So why does
a search engine like Google rank Adobe so high for this term? Because many of
the websites linking to Adobe used the words "click" and "here" many times in
the anchor text of their links to Adobe. You know... Click here to download
Acrobat Reader...
Press Releases
A press release is a written communication that you submit to journalists in the
media (newspapers, radio, television, magazines, etc.) They are used to make
announcements which are newsworthy. The mistake that many people make when
writing press releases is that they don't find the angle necessary to make their
announcement newsworthy. Press releases aren't for customers or consumers they
are for reporters, journalists who will use them as a starting point for a
larger story or feature. Press releases written as sales pieces will be
completely ignored.
There are various ways to submit free press releases on-line. Some of the
popular sites are:
http://www.free-press-release-center.info
How can a press release help with building your link popularity? Most of the
free press release services are text-based which means you will not be able to
add any HTML tags and so you can't add any keyword-optimized links into the
press release. However others like the Free Press Release Center (FPRC) allow
you to also supply some keywords for that press release. When that page is
viewed by someone, including the search engines, the keywords will be used to
create links within your press release back to your website.
This means:
There is a one-way link to your website The link uses the anchor text of your
choice The link is within a natural context of the press release.
Traditionally, a press release is short-lived, it has a limited amount of time
to make an impact on the media before it becomes old news and is replaced by
fresh press releases. Some services like FPRC allow you to buy a cheap upgrade,
which means your press release will remain permanently in their system. This
means that your "in context" links with the anchor text of your choice remain
permanently for search engines to find and so help improve your rankings.
When preparing your press release you should optimize it for the keywords which
are important for your site, product or company. This means that when someone
searches for information in your industry, your press release will be seen as
relevant by the search engine.
On-Page Optimization
There are several factors in on-page optimization. The first is the title of the
page. This is almost the first thing the search engine reads when it visits a
page. All of the free press release services use the title of your press release
as the title of the web page. So when preparing your press release try to put
some of your important words in the headline, however don't force them in as
then you will alienate your readers (the journalists).
After the title is the heading tags on the page. Like the title of the page,
your headline will become the first heading on the page. Again you should
optimize your headline.
If you prepare an optimum press release and select good keywords you can gain
valuable incoming links to your site as well as gaining exposure through the
media.
================================================================ Gary Sims
has a degree in Business Information Systems from a British university. He
worked for 10 years as a software engineer and is now a freelance consultant and
writer. http://www.free-press-release-center.info
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