Ada yang ngaku terbaik, ada yang bilang jasa abal-abal, ada yang iseng ikut ngejar keyword target tadi, ada juga yang mau gelar tiker (ya itu saya … ) ).

Pakar SEO eh pakar lendir juga mulai berhamburan ikutan main keyword ini. jangan dong!!!! Kasihan yang buka jasa SEO beneran tar kelabakan nyari posisi teratas. Sekarang aja tak lihat di halaman 1 ada postingan si baladika ama si broken. Malah Baladika nyalip broken.

Gak percaya, coba googling dengan dengan keyword konsultan seo

Update :

Konten ini dibuat hanya untuk ikut2an saja, sekedar test case. Tidak ada maksud apa2. Hal ini sudah pernah saya jelaskan ke pak Faizal Kamal. Dan kalau ada konsultan SEO yang mau masang link di posting saya ini saya persilahkan, silahkan komen lengkap dengan url dan anchor. Pissss

List :
Ali Akbar-Pakar SEO-wannabe

And here are my last SEO effort on optimising this Busby SEO Challenge page. Nothing to do more, I can’t find any new source for backlink , to give more power for my SEO Challenge single post.

I think it’s true, need more effort to make our page stay on top.

Just like what I said in my previoust post, I very much appreciate your concern for support us in this challenge. I really appreciate your help without even us asking for. But, please don’t overhelp. In SEO newbie brain like me, to much ping will kill me. For an example, if you already ping my post, please do that just once, no more. And because of that, I change my Busby SEO Challenge title for a while with “Busby SEO Challenge – Stop ping this Post, Please”. But then, I think this make junthit ask me about remove his support link to my busby page.

I don’t mean to say, I don’t need your help. I just underline the word, don’t overhelp.

Now, my position is drop, drop down to 12 from 5. I need more help, Yes, I need it, but please leave your comment here or on my Yahoo Messenger, I will tell you what to do. O.K my friends, this a few example ( a little experiment from a newbie, because I use only one post to join Busby ) : because it’s not about Busby SEO Challenge Reward, but it’s about Busby SEO Challenge Strategy. Follow the rules, and hope all our effort will paid and our position will end at the best place.

I think in this last week, all contestant will do everything to push their position, and few of Busby contestant has got attention from google. Their position are raising up, congratulation to you all.

Bagi yang sudah memiliki account affiliate amazon, hal ini mudah saja dilakukan. Dengan hanya membuat astore, kalian sudah langsung bisa membuat 1 backlink untuk situs kalian. Nah bagi yang belum punya account di amazon, daftar dulu jadi affiliate disini (no ref). Setelah daftar, cobalah untuk membuat astore, pilihan menunya ada disebelah kiri (lihat gambar).

Step by Step :

1. Setelah mengklik pilihan astore lanjut dengan memilih add an astore.
2. Pilih Add a new Tracking ID. Sesuaikan namanya dengan keyword target. Dalam contoh ini saya memilih bali villas.
3. Kalau id pilihan kalian tersedia maka akan muncul pesan berikut : Congratulations, bali-villas-20 is available. Click the Continue button to configure your new aStore.. Kalau tidak berhasil silahkan pilih id yg lebih unik
4. Click Continue dan akan muncul halaman seperti gambar dibawah
5. 
6. Isi form sesuai dengan gambar lalu lanjut dengan klik continue
7. Namun sebelum itu ingatlah untuk mengisi konten astore tadi. Dalam contoh ini saya membuat 2 kategori yang isinya masing2 buku dengan niche Bali dan Villa
8. Kalau sudah berisi konten click continue.
9. Di halaman ini kita akan bisa merubah tampilan astore. Bisa pula dengan menambahkan logo web kita. dan kalau sudah silahkan continue
10. Selanjutnya setting sidebar, silahkan berkreasi.
11. Langkah terakhir klik finish & get link
12. Dan tugas terakhir dari link building kali ini adalah mempromosikan astroe tersebut sehingga ia di index oleh mesin pencari.

Dan hasil dari membuat astore yang dipaksa-paksakanterkait dengan Bali Villas adalah http://astore.amazon.com/bali-villas-20.

Bagian dari seri belajar SEO

Coba lihat profile saya di http://del.icio.us/dstudiobali/ dan coba lihat source codenya. Masih, nofollow kan .

Lalu, bagaimana caranya agar kita mendapat backlink follow dari del.icio.us? Sangat simple. Manfaatkan saja rss dari profilemu di del.icio.us. Coba scroll browser hingga halaman paling bawah.
kamu melihat gambar ini bukan ? klik disana, dan lihat source codenya. Violaa…. follow. Ini contoh rss feed delicious saya http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/dstudiobali.

Dan hal paling simple yang paling sering saya temui dilakukan adalah, membangun backlink tanpa pernah memastikan bahwa backlink tersebut diindex atau tidak oleh search engine. Jadi, setelah mengetahui url feed dari delicious-mu cobalah untuk membuat feed tersebut di index search engine.

Cobalah untuk berkreasi dan mencari social bookmark lain atau feed reader lain, dan coba manfaatkan salah satu celah tersebut.

Tips ini merupakan bagian dari seri belajar SEO

As a general rule of thumb I tell my employees who are doing quality and relevant comment driven linking to comment on all relevant blogs which allow comments and a URL field. Then, I go back and analyze the percentage of blogs which use NoFollow to those which do not. Usually 65% to 70% of the blogs end up using NoFollow, but search engines follow links and identify sites via links using NoFollow anyway, so this is fine.

This practice results in more natural blog linking and in my opinion, if you only comment in 100% DOFollow blogs or 70% DOFollow blogs, your blog comment participation is not following natural trends, and could be viewed as anchor text and linking manipulation.

I think this make sense, at least for me in this situation . I joined SEO contest ( Busby SEO Challenge Contest ), and I try to find dofollow blog with related content. It’s a hard job to do in a short time.

Then, I try to build links via blog commenting, via a nofollow blog, as long as that blog have relevant content with my blog. Is this SEO trick still useful ? Yes, blog commenting is still useful. But, don’t try to make spammy comment, try to adding value to the discussion. And, to see how comment spam can be identified algorithmically read here

First thing that I always trying to do when designing a website is the page structure. How I create the page, the structure, etc. But the problem is, I don’t really know, is that what I’m doing right or wrong .

Finally I found Bill from SEO by the SEA article about how search engines are evaluating the links and content importance based on on-page factors.

Some of the factors that Yahoo confirms in the paper:
* formatting of the text – bold , h1 etc. – GOOD
* content / links that are at the absolute header/footer of the page – BAD

read more here The Importance of Page Layout in SEO

Congratulations to all Busby SEO Challenge winner. What Next ? Other SEO Contest : Kabonfootprint by UKWW forum has been cancelled. Next is Busby SEO Test by Busby Web Solutions.
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Thanks for Busby Web Solutions, thanks to Google, Thanks to all my friend. Here are DStudioBali POST achievement on Busby SEO Challenge. Finish at nine .

Busby SEO Challenge last day. Now, nothing I can do to rank my blog using they keyphrase : Busby SEO Challenge.

Fast Reading Guide :
Reward | Rules | What is Busby | Position Report | Strategy

Search Engine Optimization Competition

An SEO competition (contest) or SEO Challenge is an activity where one has to optimize their site or blog for any specific key phrase. In other words, it is a challenges using certain keyword(s) to search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners to rank themselves as a challenger among the major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo. In this case SEO practitioners have to optimize their page for keyphrase : Busby SEO Challenge in Google SERPs

This contest is just another sport, another adventure for me in the SEO world. In this competition, I must optimize this blog with keyphrase : Busby SEO Challenge.

Busby SEO Contest Rewards

First winner will earn $5,000, second winner earn : $2,000, and third winner will earn : $500.

Busby SEO Challenges Rules

• This contest has been start from 1st June 2008
• And the winner will be posted at Busby Website on 12:00 Midday, 31st August 2008, Pert, Australia local time.
• No use of Black hat technique. The judges reserve the right to review the winner techniques.
• No illegal behaviour is permitted, no discrimination and no pornography is allowed.
• Do not include key phrase in domain and sub domain names
• Domain ages is doesn’t matter
• Only registered entrants are eligible to win the prize. Go to Busby website to see the Entrants List, and make sure you are on the list.
• Registration is totally free for everyone.
• Place a link back to busby in your entrant page.
• Only one prize per person.
• No prize for licensees of Busby, franchisees and employees and each of their family members. But they still can compete in this contest.

To win this Busby SEO Test Challenge, there’s only one things to do. Optimize the key phrase to make it appears as number one on www.google.com. Remember only 3 entrants will get the money, and dignity .

So What is Busby ?

I found explanation about this on wikipedia.

Busby is the English name for the Hungarian prémes csákó or kucsma, a military head-dress made of fur, worn by Hungarian hussars. In its original Hungarian form the busby was a cylindrical fur cap, having a bag of colored cloth hanging from the top. The end of this bag was attached to the right shoulder as a defense against sabre cuts.

In Great Britain busbies are of two kinds: (a) The rifle busby, a folding cap of astrachan (curly lambswool) formerly worn by rifle regiments, in shape somewhat resembling a Glengarry but taller. (b) the hussar busby, cylindrical in shape, with a bag; this is worn by hussars and the Royal Horse Artillery; Both have straight plumes in the front of the headdress.

Possibly the name’s original sense of a ‘busby wig’ came from association with Dr Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School in the late 1600s; it is also derived from buzz, in the phrase ~ buzz wig.

Busby also a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Located 37 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. Neighbouring suburbs include Miller, Heckenberg, Hinchinbrook, Green Valley and Bonnyrigg.

Busby SEO Contest Position Report : Based on this datacenter

July / 09 / 08 : 28 + 29
July / 10 / 08 : 26 + 27
August / 01 / 08 : still in 6. (need more magic to buzz it up)
August / 09 / 08 : Drop to 7, and now my competitor want me to get away from this position ). Take your place dude, do what you should do, and you’ll get the place. peace
August / 13 / 08 : Position Drop to 13.
A U G U S T 16 : up to 8
A U G U S T 21 : my position in this Busby SEO Competition is up to : 5 (not bad for single post and newbie like me ), do I need more buzz ? or wait and see ?

Next Strategy for my Busby SEO Challenge page:

• Following everything my competitors did to their Busby SEO Challenge Page, as long as that are good for my page (at least almost all of them). And of course I will continued to use my technique.
• Following where they get backlink, and try to get backlink from that place too. And of course I will get backlink for my Busby SEO Challenge, with my own ways.
• Last : let’s copy and paste other contestant technique in Busby SEO Challenge as long as that is a legal technique in this SEO competition.

2 Days left, and my position in this SEO contest are not in top five. I have to buzz this single post to make it go to the top. But How? would you mind, lend me a hand ?

And for the final word, I hope this blog end up with a good result on Busby SEO Challenge.

Alasan tidak ingin menggunakan teks di bagian header biasanya : Memperburuk tampilan web; karena teks akan membuat web terkesan kaku dengan bentuknya yang flat. Kalaupun ada teks yang bentuknya bagus, belum tentu komputer visitor kita memiliki font tersebut.

Sebenarnya sih tidak ada masalah dengan menggunakan gambar sebagai pengganti teks di bagian header kalau kita tidak mementingkan optimisasi web. Bahkan secara estetika web kelihatan jadi lebih indah. Namun ada kendala yang sebenarnya sangat fatal. Yakni, kita akan kesulitan untuk mengoptimisasi situs tersebut.

Solusi :
1. Menggunakan alt tags
2. Menggunakan trik CSS

Kelemahan :
1. Dengan menggunakan alt tags, kita bisa “menyembunyikan” teks. Kadang2 juga dimanfaatkan untuk spamming keyword. Namun, kalau menurut saya alt tags di bagian header tidak berfungsi maksimal untuk meningkatkan peringkat situs kita karena kita tdk mungkin utk memanfaatkan H1 disana.
2. Dengan menggunakan trik CSS kita bisa mengatur posisi teks tersebut yakni dengan memanfaatkan fungsi text-indent dan tetap memasang H1 di bagian header web.

Contoh Trik CSS 1
file html :
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="http://seminyak-villa.com">Seminyak Villas</a></h1>
</div>

file css :
#header h1{margin-top:10px;margin-left: 0px;background: url(images/seminyak_villas_teks.png) no-repeat;float: left;text-indent: -9999px; }

Dengan trik css yang pertama ini si text-indent: -9999px pada css akan “menendang” teks seminyak villas yang telah menggunakan H1 keluar dr web. Namun robot search engine akan tetap melihat kalau di situs tersebut terdapat teks H1 sebagai header web. Dengan teks ini pula kita bisa mengejar keyword utama yang kita inginkan untuk dioptimasi.

Namun trik tersebut kelemahannya terletak pada saat fungsi menampilkan gambar pada browser kita matikan. Menurut saya tekhnik kurang human friendly, meskipun syarat utk optimisasi sudah dipenuhi.

Solusi berikutnya :
Agar lebih human friendly namun tdk melupakan fungsi optimisasi untuk search engine saya menampilkan kedua-duanya (teks dan gambar). Hasilnya bisa dilihat pada situs Seminyak Villas yang baru saja di launching. Padahal pada awalnya, saya tidak ingin menampilkan teks H1 tersebut. Namun dengan pertimbangan tadi, akhirnya saya menampilkan keduanya.

Dalam tekhnik css yg digunakan di situs tersebut meskipun image di disable pada browser, pengunjung masih bisa mengetahui konten utama situs tersebut, yakni tentang Villas in Seminyak. Dan saya pun bisa menambahkan konten teks di alt tags image logo tersebut.

Dan agar lebih bagus lagi (menurut saya), saya memposisikan element H1 tersebut diatas atau lebih awal dr gambar, diharapkan robot crawler searh engine membacanya lebih awal.

Berikut Contoh Trik CSS 2 :
file html :
<div class="header_index">
<div class="judul-head"><h1>Seminyak Villas</h1></div>
<div class="teks-gambar-header"><img src="images/seminyak_villas_teks.png" alt="Seminyak Villas Logo Header"/></div>
</div>

file css :
.header_index { height: 109px; width:870px; background-image:url(../images/head_index.png); background-repeat: no-repeat;}
.judul-head h1 { padding: 5px; font-size: 22px; float:right;margin-top: 50px;margin-right: 5px; width:280px;text-align:center;}
.teks-gambar-header {float: left;margin:0 0 0 10px; width: 339px; height:73px; margin-top:25px; margin-right:10px;}

Semoga bermanfaat

Sebenarnya sih blog ini sudah masuk halaman satu, namun posisinya kurang menguntungkan, karena masih berada di bawah situs2 jasa web design lainnya. Ada beberapa hal yang mesti dilakukan untuk mengejar posisi itu. Apa aja itu? nanti saja saya posting .

Jadi posting ini harus saya sudahi, karena harus lanjut mengerjakan optimisasi web untuk keyword Indonesia Web Design.