It’s been nearly three years since my last post and a lot has changed personally, and despite all the doom and gloom merchant’s predictions, nothing basically much has changed SEO wise – for those of us plugging away in the trenches at least!

I have gone from working full time in a SEO / web marketing corporate environment, to working full time for myself in a log cabin down the bottom of my garden. Ironically I launched a couple of online shops to fill the time between clients when I was first setting up, and these online shops have become my main income generator.

Although I have done a little SEO for clients – my main client has become myself! In the last couple of years I have worked on holiday cottage, printing, insurance, car hire, dating and a few other website niches for a few outside clients personally introduced to me by family and friends.

Anyway, I was doing some URL house keeping and refound this SEO blog that I had initially started with grand ideas before I ‘went it on my own’, due to the pressures of time when launching a new business this DIY SEO blog has sadly been left by the wayside.

Now I seem to have a passion for SEO for the small business, the Mum and Dad team working at home in the evenings attempting to suppliment their day job incomes, the underdogs, the Davids working against the Goliaths, those who seem to be able to sneak under the corporate radar and dominate a small but profitable niche right under the noses of the big boys.

I intend to update this a bit more regulary in future, so hopefully it won’t be three more years of SEO before the next installment!

Your website’s title ‘tells’ the search engines and the potential visitors viewing their result pages, what your site is all about. Your website’s title and the effective use of keyword target ’rich’ titles on pages deeper within your website, can make or break your website’s natural search engine ranking on your site’s chosen keywords. 

Getting your website’s title tags right could see your site leap-frogging your competitor’s websites in the natural SERPs on your chosen keywords, and gaining your site high visitor traffic as a result of these boosted search engine result listings.

So with title tags there are only a few things for you to consider;

This is nothing to do with the actual truth of the situation, but it helps keep the myth alive for certain individuals who’d have you believe that SEO is a ‘black art’, in order to discourage you from having a ‘go’ yourself.

In fact, in some way the whole of website DIY SEO is based around the keywords you’re site is targeting. You need to target keywords that are relevant, uncompetitive, trafficked and profitable. It sounds hard doesn’t it, don’t worry though, it’s not that difficult!

The keword wizardry section of the website traffic blog will concentrate on aquiring effective, uncompetive, trafficked and profitable keywords for your website. I’ll show you simple methods of discovering the keywords your website should be targeting.

With a little bit time and practice working on DIY SEO, you can become proficient enough to make a positive effect on your website’s search engine optimisation through ‘doing it yourself’.

This section of the 123 website traffic blog will show you simple, easy and effective methods of DIY SEO. If you’re prepared to put some time in, there’s no reason why your website won’t benefit from your efforts.

Like most things, you can measure effective SEO in either time or money. If you’re ‘cash’ rich, get someone to do it for you. If you’re ‘time’ rich, then do it yourself.

Keep an eye out for simple daily DIY SEO tasks that I’ll post here.

According to reports published at the back end of last year, Yahoo Answers had 96.1% of the online ‘questions and answers’ site type traffic. This worked out to be over 47x more visitor traffic than their nearest competitors.

The report published by HitWise, measured Yahoo Answers against other ‘question and answer’ type websites, the results also showed that Yahoo Answers was ranked 100th most visited domain against over 500,000 other websites tracked by HitWise. The site was 2nd in the Education – Reference category, although interestingly, Yahoo Answers’ traffic stats are only 1/5th of Wikipedia‘s.

So the question now is; can internet marketers take advantage of Yahoo Answers’ massive visitor numbers? The answer is yes of course we can!

Over the next few posts, I’ll show you how to ethically exploit the ability to provide answers to questions posted by other Yahoo Answers’ members, and gain additional free website traffic and visitors to you site.

So in answer to my original question of; does Yahoo have the answer? My reply is, yes they have the answer, one of them in any case!