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6 Keys to Increased Blog Traffic and Top Search Rankings

colevans — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:28:48 +0000

Blogging is perhaps the easiest way to get traffic to your content, and the nature of blogging makes it easier to get top search engine rankings. As long as you follow these six key steps:

1) Post Often

Blogging can result in good search engine rankings for a number of keyword phrases. You’ll be surprised at the number of top ranking terms you get in search results which no keyword tracker will ever uncover.

The more you post to your blog, the more content is made available for search engines to include in their index. The rankings of each post improve as other webmasters and bloggers to link to them.

2) Mention Other Blogger’s Posts in Yours

Most bloggers are not scared to link out to interesting content, it improves the quality and professionalism of their posts.

But it’s a two way street. Don’t expect many links from other bloggers if you never link to other interesting posts.

Mentioning other posts within your blog content is worthwhile because you will receive a trackback link on the blog post you mention - usually in the comments section after the post. As other bloggers will when they mention your posts in their content. Trackbank links also send traffic, but nowhere near as much as being the first to leave a comment.

3) Be the First to Comment

Search out other blogs in the same niche as yours, and be the first to make sensible and constructive comments on a few of their posts, and you will get traffic. Do it often and you’ll be amazed at the increased traffic.

Some bloggers drop the “nofollow” attribute on comments so you also get a proper link back to your blog. The traffic you get from these comments is probably worth much more than the link value (I’m pretty certain the search engines devalue blog comment links because they are easy to automate).

When you start commenting on other blogs the owners often return the favor, but your content must be useful. This pays dividends because once bloggers are aware of your quality content, your better posts will often be mentioned within the posts of other bloggers. These are better quality back links in terms of SEO value.

4) Submit Your Blog and RSS Feeds

Submit your blog to blog directories, and your RSS feed to feed aggregators using software like RSS Bot and your content will start appearing all over the internet. Much of the time this will be on splogs, but most will link back to your individual blog posts.

These may not be the greatest of links in the eyes of search engines, so never approve a trackback from a splog which is using (stealing?) your RSS content.

5) Take it Easy with Social Bookmarking

Don’t go overboard with social bookmarking if your blog is new. If your newest post receives some traffic, submit it to a few of the bigger social bookmarking sites.

As your blog grows, start submitting to more social bookmarking sites. Provide social bookmarking buttons under each post and if your content is good enough, your readers will do that for you.

6) Maximize Your Optin Form Usage

Another way to increase traffic to your blog is to use an optin form to build a list. Not just a form in the sidebar, but also on your blog comments.

People who leave comments have to enter their email address before their comment will be displayed, so why not incorporate this with your normal list building activities?

Action Comments is a useful plugin which can be used with any autoresponder service. It works by placing a checkbox underneath the comment form. It’s already checked by default, so readers have to uncheck the box if they don’t want to opt into your list.

Once they submit their comment they will also be added to your optin list. You can make this a painless process by offering them something useful as a reward.

Chances are if they are taking the time to leave you a comment, they’re already interested in your information and won’t mind opting into your list.

All you need to do is send your list an email every time you publish a new post. Your traffic will grow dramatically over time.

Follow these six key steps and your blog traffic will increase dramatically. As more and more people start linking to your posts, your search rankings will improve resulting in even more traffic.

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Affiliate Link Cloaking Tips - Part 1

colevans — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:26:52 +0000

The Reasons For Cloaking Affiliate Links

Cloaking links in any Internet Marketing activity is important, especially in email marketing because:

In the Internet Marketing game, their are plenty affiliate link hijackers who will simply substitute your affiliate ID with their own in the link, and earn a commission on their own purchase.
By using a decent link cloaking system there is no visible affiliate link for link hijackers to manipulate to their own advantage.
Uncloaked links leave you vulnerable to spam complaints and the chance of losing your affiliate account. Uncloaked links in an email have a direct link to the website you are selling the product for, and if a subscriber lodges a spam complaint with their ISP, the ISP could get the website shut down. To counter this, many website owners do not allow affiliates to use their affiliate link directly in email promotions.
Any link cloaking system will have your own website domain in the link which helps to protect the product owner (for whom you are selling the product on commission) from spam complaints.
Cloaking links can assist in building brand awareness for you or your website. One of the easiest ways to do this is to upload all the webpages which cloak your affiliate links into a folder on your website named “Recommends” or “Go” - the link you use in your emails will look something like this:
http://www.Your-Website.com/Recommends/This-Product.html
Using a link cloaking system you can quickly change the destination page to send your subscribers. Often a product you are selling as an affiliate is withdrawn, or the website is closed. If you have used a direct link to the website or product in the email you sent your subscribers, you will be sending your subscribers to something which doesn’t exist, and you will lose credibility.
However, if you have used a link cloaking system, all you have to do is change the link in the webpage on your site (or the service) which does the cloaking and you can send your subscribers to an alternate webpage.
A decent link cloaking system will provide you with click tracking records. If you participate in any form of email marketing this is import - As an Internet Marketer you need to know how many subscribers respond to the emails you send so you can fine tune your marketing.
There are an infinite number of variables you could test, and you would do this by using a system known as split tracking. For example, you might want to learn which type of email subject results in the highest click rate. To test this you would create two emails with identical content, but with different subjects and send one email to half your list and the other email to the rest of your list. By using a different cloaked link in each email you would soon learn which subject line resulted in the highest click rate.

Click the following link to read part two -> Affiliate Link cloaking - Part 2

You can download the three part Link cloaking Tips as a single PDF file by right clicking on the PDF image to the right ->

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Affiliate Link Cloaking Tips - Part 2

colevans — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:19:49 +0000

How to Cloak Your Affiliate Links

There are a number of methods you can use to cloak affiliate links, some you have to pay for and some which are free. Here are a couple of simple free methods available to you:

If you just want a simple link cloaker which does not have any built in form of tracking and doesn’t require you to install any scripts on your website, you could use the cloaking service available at NicheSiteProfits.
You can access the link cloaker by clicking on the following link:

-> Free Link Cloaker <-

Full instructions are given on the link cloaking page and this system works for any affiliate link, including ClickBank links. One advantage of this system is your affiliate link is never visible which makes it a little more secure against link hijackers.

While this system does not have any inbuilt form of tracking, you can still track hits to the page through your hosting webstats.
If you want a simple link cloaker with built in tracking you could install the free script available from FreeLinkCloaker.com. To run the script you need to be able to run PHP scripts on your website and have access to a MySQL databse. You can access the link cloaking script by clicking on the following link:
-> Free Link Cloaking Script <-

Installation instructions are given in the email you receive with the script and on the install page you run once you have created the database.

While this system works with any affiliate link, the one disadvantage is your full affiliate URL will be visible in the browser search bar which leaves your affiliate link vulnerable to link hijackers.

Both of the cloaking systems mentioned above can be used for email marketing and for cloaking links on your webpages. You can also use the cloaking systems if you are involved with article marketing because you can include cloaked links in the author bio included at the bottom of each article you submit.

Click the following link to read part three -> Affiliate Link cloaking - Part 3

You can download the three part Link cloaking Tips as a single PDF file by right clicking on the PDF image to the right ->

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Affiliate Link Cloaking Tips - Part 3

colevans — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:56:49 +0000

Using Aweber to Cloak Links, Track Clicks and Conduct Split Testing

Aweber is one of the best autoresponder services available to Internet Marketers because it has one of the highest email delivery rates. This means if you use an Aweber autoresponder for your email marketing, you can rest assured that a very high percentage of your emails will actually make it into your subscribers inboxes.

Aweber also have a system whereby you can track clicks on the links in your emails and at the same time cloak your affiliate links. They also have a very useful system which allows you to split test your emails to a configurable percentage of your subscribers.

For example you could write an email and split test two different subject lines by sending the email with the first subject to half your list and the same email but with the second subject to the other half of your list. Aweber will automatically add different tracking links to your emails and display the number of times your subscribers clicked the link in each email. This is a useful way of establishing the type of subject lines your subscribers are responsive to.

When you create a new follow up message or a new broadcast message, you can activate click tracking by checking the “Click Tracking” option in the window you enter your subject and message text into. Checking this option will automatically cloak any website link you include in the message text.

To conduct split testing you need to create a new broadcast message and click on the “Create Split Test Broadcast” button. A new window will open into which you enter the split percentage before clicking the “Create Split Test” button.

This creates pending broadcasts which you now need to edit. You open each pending broadcast by clicking on the subject links. Notice that the Click Tracking status is “off” - you need to turn this on by either clicking the “off” link text in the Pending Broadcast view, or by checking the “Click Tracking” option when you are editing each email.

There is one important point to remember – If you use an affiliate link in your email, you cannot change it once the email has been sent by Aweber. If you have entered the wrong link you have no way of solving the problem.

The secret is to enter a cloaked link into your Aweber email…

If you discover something is wrong either with the affiliate website you are sending your subscribers to, or your affiliate link itself, all you have to do is change your cloaked link on your website.

The simplest way to do this is to create a redirect using the NicheSiteProfits free link cloaker, save this as a webpage and upload it to your website. You then enter the URL to this webpage in your Aweber email. If you want to change this at any point, all you have to do is create a new cloaked link and save it using the same name as your previous page. The link in the Aweber email your subscribers have received remains the same, but you have changed the destination where your subscribers will end up.

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The Aweber autoresponder service is one of the most reliable autoresponder services available today…

When you open an Aweber account you can create an unlimited number of autoresponders and rest assured that your emails will be delivered.
Your Aweber account has a simple user interface to create opt-in forms which you can add to your websites.
If you’re not sure what to do, you will find free training guides and videos inside your Aweber account.

Click the following link to take a FREE test drive of the Aweber autoresponder system:

-> Aweber Test Drive <-

You can download the three part Link cloaking Tips as a single PDF file by right clicking on the PDF image to the right ->

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From $0 to $150 per day using Article Marketing - Is it possible?

colevans — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:26:53 +0000

I have just read Gordon Lee’s “Article Marketing Auto Profits Uncovered” to find out whether his actionable 5-Step Plan to go from $0 to $150 a day with power article marketing he mentioned on his sales page was possible.

On a personal note I was a little disappointed because his report is a rewritten PLR report which I already own, but many people won’t own this. On the whole, the information covered in the report is solid, but the $0 to $150 plan is a bit thin on the ground.

That said, Gordon’s report is a classic example of how to take a PLR product and turn it into a product of your own.

If you have never written an article, or done any article marketing before, your best bet is to go and search Google for “Bum Marketing” and read all you can as Gordon’s report might not have enough depth to get you going, but…

And this is a big BUT…

There is a tip in the audio you get with the report that is worth much, much more than the report’s $7 asking price. It’s an absolute gem of a tip - and the first new usable tip I’ve learned in months!

Want to know what is is?

I’ll give you a clue… The major problem with article marketing is when you submit your articles to article directories like EzineArticles, the articles often get good search engine rankings for a couple of weeks and then drop down the rankings very rapidly. The tip in the audio is a couple of methods you can use to keep your articles in the top search engine rankings.

Click Here to get the report and the audio…

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