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The Three Must Have's For Google Site Ranking

One: A Readable Website.
Readable to search engines that is. It’s the “text behind the text” that really matters – your coding. If Google can’t read it, it doesn’t matter your site says. Having a site that Google can’t read is like printing 1,000,000 postcards and not mailing them. You spend a lot of time developing the concepts of your website. Make it search engine friendly! Read more...

Healthy Times can analyze your site and make recommendations to your designer. Or, we can optimize your health-related site for you. Either way, search engine optimization is the first and best thing you can do.

Two: Unique Content.
Most people don’t need to worry about this one. If you have a site, make sure the content is not auto-generated or scraped from another site. Besides being of questionable character, Google will filter you out of the searches. Enough said! Make your site your own so the world has the chance to see, hear and read your unique message.

Three: External Links to Your Website.
Web guru Danny DeMichelle says, “Think high school popularity contest.” It’s true. The more sites that link to your site (one-way links), the more authority you have with Google. If you and a competitor have similar keyword content, “chiropractor” or “integrative health” for example. Google will pick the site that has the most other websites linking to it. If you have 10 external links pointing to your site and your competitor has 10,000, they win and you get buried on page 1027!

The good news is that as soon as you have more links, you begin to rank higher. Google (theoretically) doesn’t play favorites. It simply follows its algorithm.

The problem. Backlinks are painstaking to find. One by one, you may make 10 requests for a link per hour. If five of those came through, you’d build about 1750 links in a year, assuming you took two weeks off. And it would be worth the effort. Backlinks make that much difference.

The Healthy Times Online Link Solution. It’s easy. You don’t need to spend any of your time making link requests. We’ll plug you into our 3,000+ pages online and link every one of them to your site. If you link 10 pages to our 3,000, that’s 30,000 external links! Link problem solved! Even better, Healthy Times links are relevant links for any health-related business.

Healthy Times Online uses several other methods to generate more exposure and links to your site. We distribute your press releases to 90 PR sites. We can syndicate your health-related educational article to the top health and wellness sites on the Internet. We can also broadcast you through our network of 40+ social media sites. Every time we do this, hundreds of external links are placed on the Internet for you.

Social Media Strategy

• Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours.
• Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide.
• Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year. (Source: eConsultancy.com)

There’s little doubt that you, as a business owner, need to be involved in Social Media. If you’re not, you are running behind. If you are, but you’re lazy, you’re still lagging far behind. Here’s what it takes. Read more...

Set up your social media, blog and micro-blog accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Bebo, Blogger, WordPress, etc…

There are dozens of them. And you need to be in all the popular social media sites. Here’s why. They get traffic. They are a source of external links to your primary business site. Enough said! Your accounts can be set up in a basic fashion – no need to get fancy (and costly, unless you want to), but your logo and proper business descriptions need to be there.

Maintain your social media sites! Regular blogs, status updates, bookmarks and micro-blogs need to be posted. This is how you generate interest, traffic, and again, links to your site.

Get targeted followers. The way to get followers on Twitter, for example, is to follow other people. As a courtesy, they will follow you back. If they don’t, then you can stop following them. You can target followers to within miles of your location, as well as by their interests. So, this is a MUST DO for your local online presence.

Keep it up. Online social media presence takes consistency. Keep it up and in a year or so, you’ll have links, followers and business will begin to roll in.

The problem. Few people have the time to create all the accounts and post to each of them regularly. This is where Healthy Times Online can be a true, cost-effective resource. We can create your Social Media Identity for you – all the accounts with your business name and logo and descriptions. The accounts will belong to you. We can maintain those accounts for you, post regular updates, target followers and grow your online social media base. We can do all this for you without you having to lift a finger. You can be as involved as you want to be. Or, just sit back and watch the links build and your follower grow.

More Twitter Followers

Social media. It’s all the rage, but does you no good if you don’t have followers. And gaining followers takes consistent marketing.

The good news with Twitter is that you can target your followers by location and by keyword interests. Wow. Develop your own, custom, targeted list. Broadcast your message and watch the business roll in! Sound easy? Read more...

Here’s the problem. It takes time and effort to learn social media strategy and begins to feel like you are living in an unreal cyberworld that just doesn’t pay off.

Here’s the solution. Healthy Times Online can set up your Twitter account, if needed, and begin to attract followers for you. We average 300-400 new followers every month for clients. We’ll market your Twitter page organically and to people who have specified an interest in what you have to offer. Sit back and watch your follower list grow! Then send Tweets to people who are interested in what you have to say.
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	SEO Articles & Tips The Three Must Have's For Google Site Ranking One: A Readable Website. Readable to search engines that is. It’s the “text behind the text” that really matters – your coding. If Google can’t read it, it doesn’t matter your site says. Having a site that Google can’t read is like printing 1,000,000 postcards and not mailing them. You spend a lot of time developing the concepts of your website. Make it search engine friendly! Read more... Healthy Times can analyze your site and make recommendations to your designer. Or, we can optimize your health-related site for you. Either way, search engine optimization is the first and best thing you can do. Two: Unique Content. Most people don’t need to worry about this one. If you have a site, make sure the content is not auto-generated or scraped from another site. Besides being of questionable character, Google will filter you out of the searches. Enough said! Make your site your own so the world has the chance to see, hear and read your unique message. Three: External Links to Your Website. Web guru Danny DeMichelle says, “Think high school popularity contest.” It’s true. The more sites that link to your site (one-way links), the more authority you have with Google. If you and a competitor have similar keyword content, “chiropractor” or “integrative health” for example. Google will pick the site that has the most other websites linking to it. If you have 10 external links pointing to your site and your competitor has 10,000, they win and you get buried on page 1027! The good news is that as soon as you have more links, you begin to rank higher. Google (theoretically) doesn’t play favorites. It simply follows its algorithm. The problem. Backlinks are painstaking to find. One by one, you may make 10 requests for a link per hour. If five of those came through, you’d build about 1750 links in a year, assuming you took two weeks off. And it would be worth the effort. Backlinks make that much difference. The Healthy Times Online Link Solution. It’s easy. You don’t need to spend any of your time making link requests. We’ll plug you into our 3,000+ pages online and link every one of them to your site. If you link 10 pages to our 3,000, that’s 30,000 external links! Link problem solved! Even better, Healthy Times links are relevant links for any health-related business. Healthy Times Online uses several other methods to generate more exposure and links to your site. We distribute your press releases to 90 PR sites. We can syndicate your health-related educational article to the top health and wellness sites on the Internet. We can also broadcast you through our network of 40+ social media sites. Every time we do this, hundreds of external links are placed on the Internet for you. Social Media Strategy • Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours. • Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. • Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year. (Source: eConsultancy.com) There’s little doubt that you, as a business owner, need to be involved in Social Media. If you’re not, you are running behind. If you are, but you’re lazy, you’re still lagging far behind. Here’s what it takes. Read more... Set up your social media, blog and micro-blog accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Bebo, Blogger, WordPress, etc… There are dozens of them. And you need to be in all the popular social media sites. Here’s why. They get traffic. They are a source of external links to your primary business site. Enough said! Your accounts can be set up in a basic fashion – no need to get fancy (and costly, unless you want to), but your logo and proper business descriptions need to be there. Maintain your social media sites! Regular blogs, status updates, bookmarks and micro-blogs need to be posted. This is how you generate interest, traffic, and again, links to your site. Get targeted followers. The way to get followers on Twitter, for example, is to follow other people. As a courtesy, they will follow you back. If they don’t, then you can stop following them. You can target followers to within miles of your location, as well as by their interests. So, this is a MUST DO for your local online presence. Keep it up. Online social media presence takes consistency. Keep it up and in a year or so, you’ll have links, followers and business will begin to roll in. The problem. Few people have the time to create all the accounts and post to each of them regularly. This is where Healthy Times Online can be a true, cost-effective resource. We can create your Social Media Identity for you – all the accounts with your business name and logo and descriptions. The accounts will belong to you. We can maintain those accounts for you, post regular updates, target followers and grow your online social media base. We can do all this for you without you having to lift a finger. You can be as involved as you want to be. Or, just sit back and watch the links build and your follower grow. More Twitter Followers Social media. It’s all the rage, but does you no good if you don’t have followers. And gaining followers takes consistent marketing. The good news with Twitter is that you can target your followers by location and by keyword interests. Wow. Develop your own, custom, targeted list. Broadcast your message and watch the business roll in! Sound easy? Read more... Here’s the problem. It takes time and effort to learn social media strategy and begins to feel like you are living in an unreal cyberworld that just doesn’t pay off. Here’s the solution. Healthy Times Online can set up your Twitter account, if needed, and begin to attract followers for you. We average 300-400 new followers every month for clients. We’ll market your Twitter page organically and to people who have specified an interest in what you have to offer. Sit back and watch your follower list grow! Then send Tweets to people who are interested in what you have to say. See more in services.