SEO Tips: Proper submission to DMOZ.ORG - Open Directory Project

A DMOZ listing is valued highly by Google and this gives you an edge over your competitors. Since DMOZ is a .ORG website, it is a high authority website that boosts your Google ranking score.

Here are some tips on how to get listed in DMOZ:

1. Professional-looking website.
You will give the DMOZ editors a good impression if your website looks professionally designed. This will increase your chances of getting a spot in DMOZ.

2. Original and quality content
Make sure that your website contains quality content that is relevant to its theme and target niche.

3. Business/Personal Contact Information
Give your visitors a way to contact you. Adding an email address, phone number, and business address will definitely help.

4. Proper and relevant category:
Submission to a proper and relevant category is important because DMOZ editors reject submissions on improper or incorrect categories.

5. Follow DMOZ Guidelines
Be sure to follow the DMOZ guidelines on "Site URL", "Title", and "Description" text. Following guidelines help in getting a DMOZ editor's approval.

6. No broken links and no spelling errors
Check your site for dead or broken links. You don't want to annoy DMOZ editors and visitors with "Page Not Found" error pages. Check also for spelling errors in your page content before submitting your site to DMOZ.

7. Website Usability
A website's ease of use will be a factor for DMOZ listing inclusion. DMOZ editors will be impressed by the time spent on your website's user experience design and subsequently your website will get their approval.

8. Lots of Patience
Patience is a virtue. DMOZ Editors receive several website URL submissions every day. It may take weeks or several months before your submission is approved by a DMOZ Editor.

My blog's DMOZ Listing is at http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Philippines/Provinces/Davao_del_Sur/Davao_City/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet.

The blog site's primary DMOZ search keyword is "seo freelancer tips".

SEO Tip: Streamline Target SEO Keywords for HTML Title tags

After SEO keyword analysis and research, you found a lot of good keywords but found some to be too wordy. So what will you do next?

For example, you have the keyphrase:

"best tourist spots and cheap hotels in the philippines"

Here's an optimized version:

Best Tourist Spots Philippines | Cheap Hotels Philippines"

I removed the word "and" and replaced it with a separator "|" and repeated "Philippines" to double the score for the "Philippines" keyword.

Three to four word keyphrases are used more commonly now. Using the Long Tail SEO Strategy, you can bring more exposure for your keyphrases while avoiding highly competitive two-word keyphrases. You can bring more traffic to your site this way since you have a bigger captured market for your keywords.

I recommend that you use your country's name as the last keyword. This will bring more targetted traffic to your site since most of the time, users add the country name as the last keyword before generating a Google Search Engine Result Page (SERP).

SEO is quite challenging, the more you are exposed to it, the more you'll learn and improve your methods.

SEO Tip: Find the Right Keywords for SEO

Keyword analysis requires a deep knowledge of the target market. Before setting up a new website, you should have the target keywords ready and build your content from these keywords.

Use the Google Adwords: Keyword Tool to perform a comparative analysis of the keywords you are generally aiming for.

Use an online spreadsheet tool like Google Docs to tabulate the keyword info. Prepare columns for "keywords", "Average CPC", "Local Search", "Global Search", and "Google Competitors". Set the "Match" option to "Exact" and locate the best match for your target keywords.

You'll need to find the ten best keywords by analyzing the Average CPC, Local Search Volume, and Global Search volume and the Google competitor pages. The value of the Google competitor pages is generated by doing a Google search of the focus keyword(s).

Enter the selected keyword details on a Google spreadsheet of your keyword list. This list will define the content of your home page and landing pages. The top one keyword on the list will be your website's primary keyword.

Just be patient when building your keyword list becase you'll need one day to prepare and finalize a good keyword list.

One last tip, don't focus on one or two-word keywords/keyphrases because buyers rarely use them. Focus on what you would type when searching for a specific product that you'd like to buy. It's something like [name of product] + [location].

For example:
"best tourist spots philippines"
"cheap hotels in the philippines"
"freelancers from the philippines"

If you would like to learn more about SEO, just shoot me an email at seo.expert4hire@gmail.com.

Freelancer Tip: Top Ranking in Google using the right SEO methods

After one month of focused SEO, my blog is currently number one in Google Search for the keyword "seo freelancer tips". This top spot was achieved thru several SEO methods such as keyword and competitor analysis, on-page and off-page optimization, and Internet marketing.

Google Search result for "SEO Freelancer Tips":


Top page ranking requires in-depth knowledge of Google's page scoring factors and the keyword relevancy and quality of the website's content.

Shoot me an email at seo.expert4hire@gmail.com if you want a free SEO Analysis report of your website.