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Cum să-ţi creşti traficul în mod gratuit

2012-03-16T11:06:00.001+02:00

Nu-mi spune că vrei şi tu trafic. Nici măcar nu mă uimeşti. Hai să vedem cum se poate încropi ceva decent în direcţia asta:

1. Totul porneşte de la motoarele de căutare. Realitatea este că oricâte eforturi ai face (feed ars, newsletteruri, forumuri ataşate etc.), cei mai mulţi dintre vizitatorii tăi vin de acolo. Milioane şi milioane de oameni caută ceva zi de zi, şi potenţial zeci de mii ar putea ajunge la blogul tău, cu condiţia să ai conţinut valoros şi susceptibil să le trezească interesul. Aparent, motoarele de căutare fac toată treaba, tu numai trebuie să aştepţi flexat să dea lumea peste tine, însă în realitate poţi şi tu da o mână de ajutor. Întâi de toate, trebuie să bagi pe gât principalelor motoare, şi anume google şi yahoo, harta blogului tău, aşa încât să-ţi fie indexate paginile foarte repede. A doua chestie este să adaugi metataguri la blog. De aici pot veni destul de mulţi vizitatori, dar numărul lor până la urmă este decis de conţinutul pe care îl faci public (pe internet, ca peste tot, se caută lucrul bine făcut).

2. Înscrie-ţi blogul în Directoarele de bloguri. Partea proastă e că pentru această operaţiune trebuie să parcurgi proceduri niţel complicate de înregistrare, ba te mai şi trezeşti ulterior cu e-mail-uri trimise de la administratorii acestor liste (lucru pentru care recomand creearea unei adrese de mail fantomă). Partea bună e că pot veni şi de aici vizitatori, şi nu puţini. O listă a celor mai interesante Directoare de Bloguri este: Technorati,Topblogarea, Topblogging, Blogtoplist, Fuelmyblog, Blogcatalog,BloggingFusion, Bloghop, Blogarama, Topbloglist, Myblogdirectory, Blogroll.

3. Participă în forumuri, grupuri de discuţie, etc. Să presupunem că blogul tău este despre pisici. Caută pe google “pisici forum” sau “pisici group”, caută apoi pe googlegroups şi pe yahoogroups. După ce găseşti câteva, înregistrează-te şi foloseşte ca semnătură un link spre blogul tău (nu te obosi să trimiţi mesaje de genul “Cel mai pisicos blog din lume” că vei fi cu siguranţă ejectat ca spammer). Răspunde la întrebări, arată-le că te pricepi cu adevărat, şi te vei face respectat mai uşor decât crezi. Asta, fireşte, dacă ştii care e probabilitatea ca un motan alb şi cu ochi albaştri să nu fie surd (cunoscătorii ştiu, dacă nu ştii, lasă pisicile şi apucă-te de altceva, de exemplu de Paris Hilton...).

4. Foloseşte bookmarkingul social (del.icio.us, digg, furl, technorati). Este vorba despre comunităţi internet care partajează resurse, link-ul spre blogul tău fiind considerat o astfel de resursă. Pentru digg există şi versiune în limba română!

5. Înscrie articole în Directoarele cu Articole. Cele mai populare sunt: goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, dar pot fi găsite şi altele cu google.

6. Lasă comentarii pe alte bloguri. O metodă foarte simplă, care-ţi permite să laşi un link prin locurile pe unde deja există vizitatori. Partea drăguţă a acestei ocupaţii este că uneori technorati se lasă convins să-ţi crească astfel autoritatea, şi se pare că metoda mai are efecte pozitive şi la calcularea Page Rank-ului în google. Ca şi mai sus, nu încerca să apelezi la metode care să poată fi calificate drept spam, pentru că rişti să-ţi vezi comentariul şters.

Top 5 Ways A Blog Can Boost Your Business

2012-03-12T13:25:00.000+02:00

A blog is a website that is updated frequently and is loved by Google for this very same reason. You see, the thing about Google is that it loves fresh new content and a blog is meant to do just that.

But how can a blog boost your business? Below we discuss five ways that a blog (any blog) can help your business and attract whatever it is you seek.

1. Visibility – one of the best things that can come out of you creating a blog for your business, is visibility.

As in getting your name and your brand out there on the web for people (and Google) to see. The worst thing about not having an online presence is someone (a potential client) typing your name or business name in their search engine of choice and coming up empty. No mention of you or your business. This is not 1996, this is 2011. Get with the program! And if you’re worried about bad publicity or negative customer reviews, guess what – a negative mention in 2011 is better that NO MENTION at all. So get out there and get visible. The way we see it, customer feedback is opportunity for improvement. Listen and fix it.

2. Leads – the great thing about setting up a blog is that it can fulfill whatever goal you set for it.

If leads is the name of your game, then make sure your blog does this for you. See more on that below.

3. Customers/Clients – I’ve done business with numerous clients as a direct result of my blog.

4. Referrals – if you decide to begin an informal social media marketing campaign on Twitter or Facebook, you will need a website to direct people to.

Make it a blog instead. This way you can update it regularly with news, tips, quotes, business photos and videos.

5. Sales – yes you can make money blogging, however the key is to set up a good business blog.

One that has goals attached to it and knows how to meet them. If the blog is generating clients for you, then you will be making sales. If the blog is generating leads for you, then you will be making sales. Referrals? The same applies and so on.

I am convinced that any business can benefit from a blog, any business including retail, food, finance, a local plumber, attorney, etc.

Keep It Simple

As long as you have an end goal in mind when you FIRST create the blog, you will reap what you sow. If you’re after leads, then set up an email marketing campaign to capture the email address of those who visit your site. What you do is offer a solid high quality freebie in return for the email address, and the trick is to keep it simple. Don’t go offering everything under the sun and clogging up your site with too much info, keep it simple and remember your end goal – to capture emails for email marketing.

Example – email marketing

Want a few good examples of what this might look like?

Ok. Have a look at what Chili’s and Learn Vest Daily are doing. They’re a great example of a simple (laser focused) site that is most likely meeting its goal. In fact, I am sure of it. They have an email sign up form front and center on their site and give away something for free to entice peole to sign up. The page is fun, clear and they have easy sign up forms.

To wrap this up, you now know five ways how a blog can boost your business. If you need help creating one, hit our contact button above and let me know.

HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Traffic

2012-03-09T11:37:00.000+02:00

Many first time bloggers automatically assume that once their blog is setup and they put a few posts on it, they will get some hits and regular readers. This is quite untrue. You won't get any traffic if no one knows about your website. In this article I hope to tackle these problems and discuss some of the common ways bloggers and webmasters drive more traffic to their site by understanding the user. I have received many emails from aspiring bloggers asking me what they can do to get more traffic, so hopefully this will help out at least those people.

Blog Usability

Before I get into getting your name out there, your blog has to have some style. Most web users are instantly turned off by tacky site designs or extreme neon colors. I know I won't stay at a website too long if the layout or navigation annoys me. The goal is to have a unique blog, different than all the other weblogs on the net. The one thing I really stress to others is making it easy for your readers to contact you. It shouldn't take a reader more than a click, if any, to find your email address or a contact form. This makes the reader feel like someone actually runs and cares about the website. An about page is also a great asset to have on a personal site or blog. The more a reader knows about you, the more they trust your content. I highly recommend reading this weblog usability article by usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

Content

Your blog's usability goes hand in hand with its content. You can specialize in a niche subject as long as you have an idea of how many people might be interested in that subject. If you do well with your niche subject matter, you could get some crazy traffic for being the only decent blog online with that type of content. On the other hand you could have widely used content, such as some aspect of technology, but add your own twist with your opinion or comparing/contrasting from other tech analysts. People won't go to your site to read something they could have read on CNet or Tom's Hardware, they want a unique take on it. If you learn anything from this article, I hope its that reblogging is a very bad thing. The one thing to kill your traffic is having identical content to another several hundred blogs. I suggest taking a glance at Mr. Veloso's Evils of Constant Reblogging to get a better idea. Finding out what your content should be is a key element of your blog's identity and the type of image your blog will ultimately emit.

Technorati is Your Best Friend

Technorati is one of the best traffic providers for bloggers. It makes your blog much easier to find when people search by technorati tags. Technorati is also a large blog ranking engine. Based on the number of links to your blog from various websites, your blog is given a rank. The higher your rank the easier your blog is to find when people search for things. A higher rank gives your blog greater credibility in technorati. If you don't already have a technorati account, get one. After you have setup the main settings, such as your profile, you need to claim your blog. Go to Account and then down the page to Your Blogs. Enter the URL of your blog in the URL field and then hit "Claim this weblog." Once you've done that go to "Configure this Blog" and fill in what you can. Click the checkbox to select "Include this blog in Technorati's Blog Finder" and fill out as many tags or keywords that accurately represent the content in your blog. When you've done that, click "Save Changes" and then grab your claim code. There are two types of codes that you may put somewhere in your blog for technorati to verify that your blog exists and keep track of it. If you have a blog that is Blogger powered or some other blog host that does not give you direct control of your blog files you will want to use the "Link Code" and post it somewhere on your blog. If you are using a more versatile blog publishing system, such as a customWordPress or Movable Type installation you should copy the "Embed Code." You can edit your sidebar, header, or footer file and put it wherever you like. You also have the option of posting a Technorati search box or various links on your blog without altering the code you just pasted. Select the options you like and click "Save Changes." Everything is done by automatically by Technorati. One last thing you might consider is adding the Technorati ping link to your weblog. Doing this will let Technorati know when you have updated your blog. Find out how to do that on Technorati's Ping Configuration page.

You will also want to search for a plugin for your publishing platform that supports Technorati tags. For WordPress users, I recommend Ultimate Tag Warrior. Installation can get a bit complex, so moving to a WordPress theme that has support for UTW, such asK2, is a good idea. Basically, when you post an entry you can supply it with Technorati tags. Update: WordPress 2.3 has built-in support for tags.

Blog Rings/Networks

Submitting your website to a blog network or blog ring is another excellent way to get more readers. There are many of these networks but the one that I use is BlogTopSites.com. BlogTopSites is a blog ranking website that makes your blog easier to find and search for as well. After you sign up for an account on their website, you just need to copy a bit of code and paste it somewhere on your site just like we did with Technorati. Make sure you select an appropriate category to post your blog in. If you are not careful, you'll find yourself in the same pool with some heavy hitting blogs and your ranking will be fairly puny. For WordPress users, you can join Blogs Of The Day by simply installing their plugin, which uploads your blog stats directly to them.

Burn that Feed!

By now you may have a few extra readers, but how can you help them come back? Many blog users will immediately scan the page for an RSS feed if they like your content. Most blogs, such as WordPress, already have RSS feeds integrated for entries and comments. Using the default feeds may suffice, but you won't have any idea about how many people you will be catering to. The FeedBurner service will take your feed and reproduce it on their fast servers while tracking reader statistics. I highly recommend signing up for the service and letting them burn your feed. I won't through the steps of signing up for FeedBurner, but once you're done with that find the "Publicize" tab. Click on "FeedCount" and activate the service. FeedCount lets you post a little icon on your blog that displays the current circulation of your feed as well as make it easier for people to subscribe to your feed. Select the colors you wish to use for the icon and post the code somewhere on your blog. Come back a few days later and you should see some detailed reader statistics under the "Analyze" tab on the FeedBurner website.

As long as you are going the FeedBurner route, replace the current RSS links on your blog with the FeedBurner link. This usually means digging through some code to find that link and replace it. I really can't go into details as it varies greatly by publishing platform and theme.

So Now You're a Serious Blogger

You have found your unique blog style, mastered the type of content you want to deliver, and gained some regular readers but you want even more. If you are still on a free blog, get rid of it! Even if it is a paid TypePad account, you still have a shared domain name (e.g., yourname.typepad.com). It is time for you to become independent and get your own domain and hosting.

Having a weblog address ending in blogspot.com, typepad.com, etc. will soon be the equivalent of having an @aol.com email address or a Geocities website: the mark of a naïve beginner who shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Jakob Nielsen

If you are open to hosting recommendations, a (gs) Grid Server plan from Media Templeis the perfect solution for the dedicated blogger. It is when you start receiving over 150k hits a month that you might consider upgrading your plan.

Getting To Know Your Readers

The next step is tracking your visitors, seeing where they came from, what they saw, and how they left. You will be able to easily assess what content your readers appreciate the most and concentrate on that aspect of your blog. Most webhosts include some type of stats monitoring applications such as the Urchin suite. However, I use Mr. Inman's Mintreligiously. The best part of Mint is an open API that lets developers create plugins called Peppers that dramatically extend functionality. I had previously posted an article about the top Peppers I use. It is definitely worth a look if you want to get a better idea of how great Mint can make your life. There is also a Mint Pepper for tracking your FeedBurner stats.

Final Thoughts

Hopefully my suggestions have helped out at least a few people. If you post guides or reviews on your blog that you think many people can benefit or learn from, I suggest posting a link on del.icio.us or Digg. If your page gets on the frontpage of Digg or on del.icio.us popular, you're set. Many tech websites have an email address for tips. If you think your content is worthy, I would try sending them an email with your article. You never know, they might post it. Even if they do not have a tips line, a polite email to the editor-in-chief or webmaster could do the trick. As a blogger, you really should not have any trouble talking to strangers... you practically preach to them everyday. While looking for companies to send me review products for my other website, I must have sent out over 150 emails. It is amazing what a nice email can get you. I gained a contact with at Akasa, who was kind enough to trust me and send some computer products for review after a few emails. Even at the lowest level you will establish some rapport between that company or person, which may help you out in the future.

Also, holding a contest can greatly boost traffic. Even if it is for a small thing such as aWordPress golden ticket, you will be amazed at how many people find out about it. You can establish a relationship with some of your readers, and they might link to your blog on theirs. Commenting on other blogs can also earn you a few hits if you put down your URL. Oh and how could I forget a de-lurking post to talk to those hidden readers of yours.

5 surse de trafic pentru blogul tau pe care nu le folosesti indeajuns

2012-03-09T11:17:00.000+02:00

Una dintre ideile generale referitoare la blogging cu care sunt de acord in proportie de 100% este aceea ca mai mult trafic (mai multi vizitatori) inseamna mai multi bani. Este cat se poate de simplu si de evident: daca 100 de vizitatori iti aduc 1 dolar, e clar ca 200 iti vor aduce mai multi bani, iar 2,000 si mai multi.

Asadar, astazi va propun sa discutam despre 5 surse de trafic pentru blog pe care cu siguranta nu le exploatati la maxim (sau chiar deloc). Si cred ca nu va permiteti sa spuneti “NU” unui plus de cateva zeci – sau chiar cateva mii – de vizitatori!

1. Facebook

Toata lumea s-a mutat pe Facebook si este momentul sa va pese mult mai mult despre aceasta retea de socializare. Sa creezi o pagina de Facebook pentru blog nu este suficient insa pentru a aduce cat mai multi vizitatori pe blogul tau, desi este un inceput. Trebuie sa:

a) te implici direct in activitatea grupuli, sa raspunzi la intrebari, sa lasi impresia de persoana vie, nu robot care doar posteaza linkuri si atat.
b) mergi mai departe de pagia blogului de Facebook si sa dai share la articole pe wall-ul tau.
c) inviti prietenii, cunoscutii si necunoscutii sa dea share la articolele tale. Fii sigur ca, pentru asta, ai butoane vizible, la indemana, care sa faciliteze vizitatorilor promovarea continutului tau.

Nu toate tipurile de bloguri dau rezultate bune pe Facebook (un blog ca acesta despre bani pe net are slabe sanse sa devina un hit pe aceasta retea de socializare), dar merita incercat. Si 10 vizitatori in plus pe zi sunt buni!

2. Alte bloguri din aceeasi nisa

Cate bloguri din nisa ta urmaresti? Cu cati bloggeri din aceeasi nisa esti in contact? Pe cate bloguri populare, din aceeasi nisa, postezi regulat?Cu cat numerele sunt mai mari la intrebarile de mai sus, cu atat este mai bine. Comentariile UTILE (si repet asta: UTILE!) pot sa va aduca foarte multi vizitatori si multe alte beneficii pe termen lung.

Ganditi-va doar ca postati un comentariu pe un blog foarte popular unde s-a scris un review al unui aparat foto. Daca va scrieti o parere pertinenta care aduce niste plusuri review-ului postat, vizitatorii vor da click pe numele vostru pentru a va vizita site-ul, constienti ca vor gasi pareri pertinente si poate mai complexe decat pe blogul pe care sunt.

Postati 20 de astfel de comentarii si veti primi de 20 de ori mai multi vizitatori. Suna bine, nu?

3. Toate blogurile

Probabil una dintre cele mai utile, bine intretinute si bine intentionata comunitati de bloggeri din Romania - click aici sa ii vizitezi daca nu ai facut-o deja. Nu doar ca poti folosi acest site pentru a-ti promova continutul blogului (inclusiv la foc automat), dar poti cunoaste oameni din aceeasi nisa, poti invata lucruri noi si poti crea legaturi care sunt extrem de importante si in lumea blogging-ului.

4. Listele de genul “Top 10″

Topurile si articolele care prezinta liste de… orice au un imens succes, atata timp cat au legatura cu nisa blogului. Ideal ar fi sa nu mai existe altele asemanatoare deja scrise. Partea buna la acest gen de articole este nu numai aceea ca aduce utilizatori organici (din motoare de cautare, care vor sa gaseasca “cele mai bune ceva-uri”) ci si ofera un risc de preluare de catre alti bloggeri si postare pe site.

De exemplu, sun convins ca ati citi cu interes articole gen “Cele mai bune 10 metode de a face bani pe blog,” “Cele mai bune 10 Metode de a aduce mai multi vizitatori” si asa mai departe. Din start suna interesant si atractiv.

5. Prietenii, cunostiintele, bunica de la tara

In momentul in care v-ati lansat un blog, toata lumea trebuie sa stie despre asta. Asa ca fiti sigur ca toate persoanele pe care le cunoasteti stiu cum sa intre pe blogul vostru. De la parinti la rude indepartate, fiecare poate da mai departe blogul, rezultand intr-un efect de bulgare de zapada care se va sparge pe serverul vostru cu mii de noi vizitatori. Nu poti stii niciodata sigur de unde sare… blogul.

Si acestea ar fi, momentan cele 5 surse de trafic pentru blog pe care probabil nu le folositi indeajuns de bine. Probabil va urma si o continuare cu posibile surse de trafic ceva mai obscure dar care, puse una langa alta, pot aduce niste rezultate spectaculoase.

15 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

2012-03-08T13:33:00.000+02:00

The blogosphere is a big and busy world with over 100 million blogs and growing. How do you attract visitors to your blog? Follow these simple tips to drive traffic to your blog.
1. Write Well and Write Often
Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.
Furthermore, post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog's content to be noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.

3. Use and Update Your Blogroll2. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines
Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! bysubmitting your blog's URL to them. Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results.
It's important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn't mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.
By adding links to sites you like in your blogroll, the owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be likely to add a reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the link to your blog in front of many readers on other blogs. The hope is that some of those readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
4. Harness the Power of Comments
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation. This will increase reader loyalty.
Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Make sure you leave your blog'sURL in your comment, so you create a link back to your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a blog post. If they read a particularly interesting comment, they are highly likely to click on the link to visit the commentor's website. It's important to make sure you leave meaningful comments that are likely to invite people to click on your link to read more.
5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.
6. Use Links and Trackbacks
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you've linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People do click on trackback links!
7. Tag Your Posts
It takes a few extra seconds to add tags to each of your blog posts, but it's worth the time in terms of the additional traffic tags can drive to your blog. Tags (like links) are easily noticed by search engines. They're also key to helping readers find your blog when they perform searches on popular blog search engines such as Technorati.
8. Submit Your Posts to Social Bookmarking Sites
Taking the time to submit your best posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg,StumbleUpon, Reddit and more can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.

10. Don't Forget Images9. Remember Search Engine Optimization
When you write your blog posts and pages, remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include relevant keywords and links but don't overload your posts with too many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from Google's search entirely.
Images don't just make your blog look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can easily boost your traffic.
11. Consider Guest Blogging
Guest blogging can be done when you write a guest post on another blogger's blog or when another blogger writes a guest post on your blog. Both methods are likely to increase traffic as your blog will be exposed to the other blogger's audience. Many of the other blogger's readers will visit your blog to see what you have to say.

13. Promote Outside Your Blog12. Join Forums, Web Rings or Online Groups
Find online forums, web rings, groups or social networking sites such as Facebook andLinkedIn where you can share ideas and ask questions of like-minded individuals. Add a link to your blog in your signature line or profile, so each time you post on a forum or participate in another online network, you're indirectly promoting your blog. Chances are many people will click on that link to learn more about you.
Promoting your blog shouldn't stop when you step outside the blogosphere. Add your blog's URL to your email signature and business cards. Talk about it in offline conversations. It's important to get your name and your blog's URL noticed offline, too.
14. Nominate Yourself and Other Blogs for Blog Awards
There are a number of blog awards given out throughout the year. Nominating yourself and other blogs and bloggers can draw attention to your blog and drive traffic to it.
15. Don't Be Shy
The most important part of the blogosphere is its community and much of your success as a blogger will be tied to your willingness to network with that community. Don't be afraid to ask questions, join conversations or just say hi and introduce yourself. Don't sit back and hope the online world will find you. Speak out and get yourself noticed. Let the blogosphere know you've arrived and have something to say!

How to Make Money Blogging

2012-03-08T13:29:00.000+02:00

Unless you plan on getting paid to blog for others, the key concept to understand when trying to make money blogging is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). SEO is a crazy science of wizardry. It involves millions of factors that are so hard to understand and comprehend that I think we should leave it to the experts. And lets [...]

Unless you plan on getting paid to blog for others, the key concept to understand when trying to make money blogging is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

SEO is a crazy science of wizardry. It involves millions of factors that are so hard to understand and comprehend that I think we should leave it to the experts. And lets allow them to charge premium dollar for their efforts too. Really? … Well not so much. SEO isn’t really all that difficult. In fact I would go as far as to say that a lot of it is mostly grunt work, applied intelligently. So why do people think it is so difficult to understand how to rank in Google? Well the truth is that it isn’t that difficult to understand, and it certainty isn’t rocket science.Wouldn’t you like to know what the key factors are that determine what pages rank well in Google? Well the information is out there freely available, and you don’t have to buy some dick head’s Ebook to find out, lets take a look.

Key Factors for Ranking in 2011

Keyword use in title tag
Keyword use in domain name
Substantive, unique content on page
Keyword focused anchor text in links
Quantity/quality of links
Diversity of link sources
Page specific trust rank
Relevance of link sources
Keyword specific anchor text from internal links

Source: Search Engine Ranking Factors

Keyword use in title tag

This one is straight forward and the most widely used SEO technique. If you simply include a keyword in the title of your page, you tell Google what the page is about. This will help that page rank for that keyword.

Keyword use in domain name

Domain names that have keywords in them will rank much more easily for a keyword than ones that don’t. It doesn’t mean your domain won’t rank well for any chosen keyword. But it may mean you need to build more backlinks to be on a level playing field. Believe it or not this site ranks on the front page of Google.co.nz for the keyword phrase “Make Money Online”. This doesn’t bring a huge amount of traffic because nz is small in a global search market. But it is still well worth the effort.

Substantive, unique content on page

Google loves unique content. And pages with lots of it, targeted to a keyword will rank better than those pages that may be similar in every other way, but lighter on unique content.

Keyword focused anchor text in links

For me I rate this the most important factor, but also the most hard work. To rank well for competitive keywords you are going to have to build links to your site that have your keyword as the anchor text of those links. I obviously want links aiming at this site with the phrase Make Money Online as that anchor of those links.

Quantity/quality of links

A lot of links aiming at your page or site is going to help you rank better. And a fewer amount of quality links will have the same effect.

Diversity of link sources

Having a site wide link on another site may help you rank a little, but to improve your site ranking you are going to need to build links from a variety of different sources.

Page specific trust rank

Does Google trust your site? Is it new? Or have you been around for a while. Google likes to sandbox new sites to avoid spam sites. This will stop them from ranking for a period of time. The longer your site has been around to more trust Google applies to that domain. As a result very old sites rank easily for competitive keywords.

Relevance of link sources

Relevance of links is important. If you are trying to rank for a term about Internet Marketing, You are going to want to gets links from other sites about Internet Marketing.

Keyword specific anchor text from internal links

This is something you can easily control, and it certainly does help. Think of it this way. Google doesn’t know what your site is about unless you tell them. You can tell them by including the relevant keywords to links around your site. The link at the top of this site has my main keywords in it. The links to different articles have keywords in them as I try to use keywords in titles.

Ok so that’s it. It doesn’t sound that hard. And the above list was agreed upon by 72 of the industries most influential SEO’s. So these factors are very close to fact rather than opinion. Obviously understanding SEO is one thing. Having the skills and character to be able to pull it off is another.

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

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#1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share

When strategizing about who you're writing for, consider that audience's ability to help spread the word. Some readers will naturally be more or less active in evangelizing the work you do, but particular communities, topics, writing styles and content types regularly play better than others on the web. For example, great infographics that strike a chord (like this one), beautiful videos that tell a story (like this one) and remarkable collections of facts that challenge common assumptions (like this one) are all targeted at audiences likely to share (geeks with facial hair, those interested in weight loss and those with political thoughts about macroeconomics respectively).

If you can identify groups that have high concentrations of the blue and orange circles in the diagram above, you dramatically improve the chances of reaching larger audiences and growing your traffic numbers. Targeting blog content at less-share-likely groups may not be a terrible decision (particularly if that's where you passion or your target audience lies), but it will decrease the propensity for your blog's work to spread like wildfire across the web.

#2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers

Advertisers on Madison Avenue have spent billions researching and determining where consumers with various characteristics gather and what they spend their time doing so they can better target their messages. They do it because reaching a group of 65+ year old women with commercials for extreme sports equipment is known to be a waste of money, while reaching an 18-30 year old male demographic that attends rock-climbing gyms is likely to have a much higher ROI.

Thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. In fact, you probably already know a few blogs, forums, websites and social media communities where discussions and content are being posted on your topic (and if you don't a Google search will take you much of the way). From that list, you can do some easy expansion using a web-based tool like DoubleClick's Ad Planner:

Once you've determined the communities where your soon-to-be-readers gather, you can start participating. Create an account, read what others have written and don't jump in the conversation until you've got a good feel for what's appropriate and what's not. I've written a post here about rules for comment marketing, and all of them apply. Be a good web citizen and you'll be rewarded with traffic, trust and fans. Link-drop, spam or troll and you'll get a quick boot, or worse, a reputation as a blogger no one wants to associate with.

#3 - Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly

Search engines are a massive opportunity for traffic, yet many bloggers ignore this channel for a variety of reasons that usually have more to do with fear and misunderstanding than true problems. As I've written before, "SEO, when done right, should never interfere with great writing." In 2011, Google received over 3 billion daily searches from around the world, and that number is only growing:

sources: Comscore + Google

Taking advantage of this massive traffic opportunity is of tremendous value to bloggers, who often find that much of the business side of blogging, from inquiries for advertising to guest posting opportunities to press and discovery by major media entities comes via search.

SEO for blogs is both simple and easy to set up, particularly if you're using an SEO-friendly platform like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. For more information on how to execute on great SEO for blogs, check out the following resources:

Blogger's Guide to SEO (from SEOBook)
The Beginner's Guide to SEO (from Moz)
Wordpress Blog SEO Tutorial (from Yoast)
SEO for Travel Bloggers (but applicable to nearly any type of blog - from Moz)

Don't let bad press or poor experiences with spammers (spam is not SEO) taint the amazing power and valuable contributions SEO can make to your blog's traffic and overall success. 20% of the effort and tactics to make your content optimized for search engines will yield 80% of the value possible; embrace it and thousands of visitors seeking exactly what you've posted will be the reward.

#4 - Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections

Twitter just topped 465 million registered accounts. Facebook has over 850 million active users. Google+ hasnearly 100 million. LinkedIn is over 130 million. Together, these networks are attracting vast amounts of time and interest from Internet users around the world, and those that participate on these services fit into the "content distributors" description above, meaning they're likely to help spread the word about your blog.

Leveraging these networks to attract traffic requires patience, study, attention to changes by the social sites and consideration in what content to share and how to do it. My advice is to use the following process:

If you haven't already, register a personal account and a brand account at each of the following -Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn (those links will take you directly to the registration pages for brand pages). For example, my friend Dharmesh has a personal account for Twitter and a brand account for OnStartups (one of his blog projects). He also maintains brand pages onFacebook, LinkedIn and Google+.
Fill out each of those profiles to the fullest possible extent - use photos, write compelling descriptions and make each one as useful and credible as possible. Research shows that profiles with more information have a significant correlation with more successful accounts (and there's a lot of common sense here, too, given that spammy profiles frequently feature little to no profile work).
Connect with users on those sites with whom you already share a personal or professional relationships, and start following industry luminaries, influencers and connectors. Services likeFollowerWonk and FindPeopleonPlus can be incredible for this:

Start sharing content - your own blog posts, those of peers in your industry who've impressed you and anything that you feel has a chance to go "viral" and earn sharing from others.
Interact with the community - use hash tags, searches and those you follow to find interesting conversations and content and jump in! Social networks are amazing environment for building a brand, familiarizing yourself with a topic and the people around it, and earning the trust of others through high quality, authentic participation and sharing

If you consistently employ a strategy of participation, share great stuff and make a positive, memorable impression on those who see your interactions on these sites, your followers and fans will grow and your ability to drive traffic back to your blog by sharing content will be tremendous. For many bloggers, social media is the single largest source of traffic, particularly in the early months after launch, when SEO is a less consistent driver.

#5 - Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results

At the very least, I'd recommend most bloggers install Google Analytics (which is free), and watch to see where visits originate, which sources drive quality traffic and what others might be saying about you and your content when they link over. If you want to get more advanced, check out this post on 18 Steps to Successful Metrics and Marketing.

Here's a screenshot from the analytics of my wife's travel blog, the Everywhereist:

As you can see, there's all sorts of great insights to be gleaned by looking at where visits originate, analyzing how they were earned and trying to repeat the successes, focus on the high quality and high traffic sources and put less effort into marketing paths that may not be effective. In this example, it's pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are both excellent channels. StumbleUpon sends a lot of traffic, but they don't stay very long (averaging only 36 seconds vs. the general average of 4 minutes!).

Employing analytics is critical to knowing where you're succeeding, and where you have more opportunity. Don't ignore it, or you'll be doomed to never learn from mistakes or execute on potential.

#6 - Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)

If you're someone who can produce graphics, take photos, illustrate or even just create funny doodles in MS Paint, you should leverage that talent on your blog. By uploading and hosting images (or using a third-party service like Flickr to embed your images with licensing requirements on that site), you create another traffic source for yourself via Image Search, and often massively improve the engagement and enjoyment of your visitors.

When using images, I highly recommend creating a way for others to use them on their own sites legally and with permission, but in such a way that benefits you as the content creator. For example, you could have a consistent notice under your images indicating that re-using is fine, but that those who do should link back to this post. You can also post that as a sidebar link, include it in your terms of use, or note it however you think will get the most adoption.

Some people will use your images without linking back, which sucks. However, you can find them by employing the Image Search function of "similar images," shown below:

Clicking the "similar" link on any given image will show you other images that Google thinks look alike, which can often uncover new sources of traffic. Just reach out and ask if you can get a link, nicely. Much of the time, you'll not only get your link, but make a valuable contact or new friend, too!

#7 - Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts

Not surprisingly, a big part of showing up in search engines is targeting the terms and phrases your audience are actually typing into a search engine. It's hard to know what these words will be unless you do some research, and luckily, there's a free tool from Google to help called the AdWords Keyword Tool.

Type some words at the top, hit search and AdWords will show you phrases that match the intent and/or terms you've employed. There's lots to play around with here, but watch out in particular for the "match types" options I've highlighted below:

When you choose "exact match" AdWords will show you only the quantity of searches estimated for that precise phrase. If you use broad match, they'll include any search phrases that use related/similar words in a pattern they think could have overlap with your keyword intent (which can get pretty darn broad). "Phrase match" will give you only those phrases that include the word or words in your search - still fairly wide-ranging, but between "exact" and "broad."

When you're writing a blog post, keyword research is best utilized for the title and headline of the post. For example, if I wanted to write a post here on Moz about how to generate good ideas for bloggers, I might craft something that uses the phrase "blog post ideas" or "blogging ideas" near the front of my title and headline, as in "Blog Post Ideas for When You're Truly Stuck," or "Blogging Ideas that Will Help You Clear Writer's Block."

Optimizing a post to target a specific keyword isn't nearly as hard as it sounds. 80% of the value comes from merely using the phrase effectively in the title of the blog post, and writing high quality content about the subject. If you're interested in more, read Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization (a slightly older resource, but just as relevant today as when it was written).

#8 - Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others

The web was not made for static, text-only content! Readers appreciate links, as do other bloggers, site owners and even search engines. When you reference your own material in-context and in a way that's not manipulative (watch out for over-optimizing by linking to a category, post or page every time a phrase is used - this is almost certainly discounted by search engines and looks terrible to those who want to read your posts), you potentially draw visitors to your other content AND give search engines a nice signal about those previous posts.

Perhaps even more valuable is referencing the content of others. The biblical expression "give and ye shall receive," perfectly applies on the web. Other site owners will often receive Google Alerts or look through their incoming referrers (as I showed above in tip #5) to see who's talking about them and what they're saying. Linking out is a direct line to earning links, social mentions, friendly emails and new relationships with those you reference. In its early days, this tactic was one of the best ways we earned recognition and traffic with the SEOmoz blog and the power continues to this day.

#9 - Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon

The major social networking sites aren't alone in their power to send traffic to a blog. Social community sites like Reddit (which now receives more than 2 billion! with a "B"! views each month), StumbleUpon, Pinterest,Tumblr, Care2 (for nonprofits and causes), GoodReads (books), Ravelry (knitting), Newsvine (news/politics) and many, many more (Wikipedia maintains a decent, though not comprehensive list here).

Each of these sites have different rules, formats and ways of participating and sharing content. As with participation in blog or forum communities described above in tactic #2, you need to add value to these communities to see value back. Simply drive-by spamming or leaving your link won't get you very far, and could even cause a backlash. Instead, learn the ropes, engage authentically and you'll find that fans, links and traffic can develop.

These communities are also excellent sources of inspiration for posts on your blog. By observing what performs well and earns recognition, you can tailor your content to meet those guidelines and reap the rewards in visits and awareness. My top recommendation for most bloggers is to at least check whether there's an appropriate subreddit in which you should be participating. Subreddits and their search functioncan help with that.

#10 - Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others)

When you're first starting out, it can be tough to convince other bloggers to allow you to post on their sites OR have an audience large enough to inspire others to want to contribute to your site. This is when friends and professional connections are critical. When you don't have a compelling marketing message, leverage your relationships - find the folks who know you, like you and trust you and ask those who have blog to let you take a shot at authoring something, then ask them to return the favor.

Guest blogging is a fantastic way to spread your brand to new folks who've never seen your work before, and it can be useful in earning early links and references back to your site, which will drive direct traffic and help your search rankings (diverse, external links are a key part of how search engines rank sites and pages). Several recommendations for those who engage in guest blogging:

Find sites that have a relevant audience - it sucks to pour your time into writing a post, only to see it fizzle because the readers weren't interested. Spend a bit more time researching the posts that succeed on your target site, the makeup of the audience, what types of comments they leave and you'll earn a much higher return with each post.
Don't be discouraged if you ask and get a "no" or a "no response." As your profile grows in your niche, you'll have more opportunities, requests and an easier time getting a "yes," so don't take early rejections too hard and watch out - in many marketing practices, persistence pays, but pestering a blogger to write for them is not one of these (and may get your email address permanently banned from their inbox).
When pitching your guest post make it as easy as possible for the other party. When requesting to post, have a phenomenal piece of writing all set to publish that's never been shared before and give them the ability to read it. These requests get far more "yes" replies than asking for the chance to write with no evidence of what you'll contribute. At the very least, make an outline and write a title + snippet.
Likewise, when requesting a contribution, especially from someone with a significant industry profile, asking for a very specific piece of writing is much easier than getting them to write an entire piece from scratch of their own design. You should also present statistics that highlight the value of posting on your site - traffic data, social followers, RSS subscribers, etc. can all be very persuasive to a skeptical writer.

A great tool for frequent guest bloggers is Ann Smarty's MyBlogGuest, which offers the ability to connect writers with those seeking guest contributions (and the reverse).

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ are also great places to find guest blogging opportunities. In particular, check out the profiles of those you're connected with to see if they run blogs of their own that might be a good fit. Google's Blog Search function and Google Reader's Search are also solid tools for discovery.

#11 - Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site

The power of beautiful, usable, professional design can't be overstated. When readers look at a blog, the first thing they judge is how it "feels" from a design and UX perspective. Sites that use default templates or have horrifying, 1990's design will receive less trust, a lower time-on-page, fewer pages per visit and a lower likelihood of being shared. Those that feature stunning design that clearly indicates quality work will experience the reverse - and reap amazing benefits.

These threads - 1, 2, 3 and 4 - feature some remarkable blog designs for inspiration

If you're looking for a designer to help upgrade the quality of your blog, there's a few resources I recommend:

Dribbble - great for finding high quality professional designers
Forrst - another excellent design profile community
Behance - featuring galleries from a wide range of visual professionals
Sortfolio - an awesome tool to ID designers by region, skill and budget
99 Designs - a controversial site that provides designs on spec via contests (I have mixed feelings on this one, but many people find it useful, particularly for budget-conscious projects)

This is one area where budgeting a couple thousand dollars (if you can afford it) or even a few hundred (if you're low on cash) can make a big difference in the traffic, sharing and viral-impact of every post you write.

#12 - Interact on Other Blogs' Comments

As bloggers, we see a lot of comments. Many are spam, only a few add real value, and even fewer are truly fascinating and remarkable. If you can be in this final category consistently, in ways that make a blogger sit up and think "man, I wish that person commented here more often!" you can achieve great things for your own site's visibility through participation in the comments of other blogs.

Combine the tools presented in #10 (particularly Google Reader/Blog Search) and #4 (especiallyFollowerWonk) for discovery. The feed subscriber counts in Google Reader can be particularly helpful for identifying good blogs for participation. Then apply the principles covered in this post on comment marketing.

Do be conscious of the name you use when commenting and the URL(s) you point back to. Consistency matters, particularly on naming, and linking to internal pages or using a name that's clearly made for keyword-spamming rather than true conversation will kill your efforts before they begin.

#13 - Participate in Q+A Sites

Every day, thousands of people ask questions on the web. Popular services like Yahoo! Answers,Answers.com, Quora, StackExchange, Formspring and more serve those hungry for information whose web searches couldn't track down the responses they needed.

The best strategy I've seen for engaging on Q+A sites isn't to answer every question that comes along, but rather, to strategically provide high value to a Q+A community by engaging in those places where:

The question quality is high, and responses thus far have been thin
The question receives high visibility (either by ranking well for search queries, being featured on the site or getting social traffic/referrals). Most of the Q+A sites will show some stats around the traffic of a question
The question is something you can answer in a way that provides remarkable value to anyone who's curious and drops by

I also find great value in answering a few questions in-depth by producing an actual blog post to tackle them, then linking back. This is also a way I personally find blog post topics - if people are interested in the answer on a Q+A site, chances are good that lots of folks would want to read it on my blog, too!

Just be authentic in your answer, particularly if you're linking. If you'd like to see some examples, I answer a lot of questions at Quora, frequently include relevant links, but am rarely accused of spamming or link dropping because it's clearly about providing relevant value, not just getting a link for SEO (links on most user-contributed sites are "nofollow" anyway, meaning they shouldn't pass search-engine value). There's a dangerous line to walk here, but if you do so with tact and candor, you can earn a great audience from your participation.

#14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!)

If someone drops by your site, has a good experience and thinks "I should come back here and check this out again when they have more posts," chances are pretty high (I'd estimate 90%+) that you'll never see them again. That sucks! It shouldn't be the case, but we have busy lives and the Internet's filled with animated gifs of cats.

In order to pull back some of these would-be fans, I highly recommend creating an RSS feed using Feedburner and putting visible buttons on the sidebar, top or bottom of your blog posts encouraging those who enjoy your content to sign up (either via feed, or via email, both of which are popular options).

If you're using Wordpress, there's some easy plugins for this, too.

Once you've set things up, visit every few weeks and check on your subscribers - are they clicking on posts? If so, which ones? Learning what plays well for those who subscribe to your content can help make you a better blogger, and earn more visits from RSS, too.

#15 - Attend and Host Events

Despite the immense power of the web to connect us all regardless of geography, in-person meetings are still remarkably useful for bloggers seeking to grow their traffic and influence. The people you meet and connect with in real-world settings are far more likely to naturally lead to discussions about your blog and ways you can help each other. This yields guest posts, links, tweets, shares, blogroll inclusion and general business development like nothing else.

I'm a big advocate of Lanyrd, an event directory service that connects with your social networks to see who among your contacts will be at which events in which geographies. This can be phenomenally useful for identifying which meetups, conferences or gatherings are worth attending (and who you can carpool with).

The founder of Lanyrd also contributed this great answer on Quora about other search engines/directories for events (which makes me like them even more).

#16 - Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog

As a blogger, you're likely to be sending a lot of email out to others who use the web and have the power to help spread your work. Make sure you're not ignoring email as a channel, one-to-one though it may be. When given an opportunity in a conversation that's relevant, feel free to bring up your blog, a specific post or a topic you've written about. I find myself using blogging as a way to scalably answer questions - if I receive the same question many times, I'll try to make a blog post that answers it so I can simply link to that in the future.

I also like to use my email signature to promote the content I share online. If I was really sharp, I'd do link tracking using a service like Bit.ly so I could see how many clicks email footers really earn. I suspect it's not high, but it's also not 0.

#17 - Survey Your Readers

Web surveys are easy to run and often produce high engagement and great topics for conversation. If there's a subject or discussion that's particularly contested, or where you suspect showing the distribution of beliefs, usage or opinions can be revealing, check out a tool like SurveyMonkey (they have a small free version) orPollDaddy. Google Docs also offers a survey tool that's totally free, but not yet great in my view.

#18 - Add Value to a Popular Conversation

Numerous niches in the blogosphere have a few "big sites" where key issues arise, get discussed and spawn conversations on other blogs and sites. Getting into the fray can be a great way to present your point-of-view, earn attention from those interested in the discussion and potentially get links and traffic from the industry leaders as part of the process.

You can see me trying this out with Fred Wilson's AVC blog last year (an incredibly popular and well-respected blog in the VC world). Fred wrote a post about Marketing that I disagreed with strongly and publiclyand a day later, he wrote a follow-up where he included a graphic I made AND a link to my post.

If you're seeking sources to find these "popular conversations," Alltop, Topsy, Techmeme (in the tech world) and their sister sites MediaGazer, Memeorandum and WeSmirch, as well as PopURLs can all be useful.

#19 - Aggregate the Best of Your Niche

Bloggers, publishers and site owners of every variety in the web world love and hate to be compared and ranked against one another. It incites endless intrigue, discussion, methodology arguments and competitive behavior - but, it's amazing for earning attention. When a blogger publishes a list of "the best X" or "the top X" in their field, most everyone who's ranked highly praises the list, shares it and links to it. Here's an example from the world of marketing itself:

That's a screenshot of the AdAge Power 150, a list that's been maintained for years in the marketing world and receives an endless amount of discussion by those listed (and not listed). For example, why is SEOmoz's Twitter score only a "13" when we have so many more followers, interactions and retweets than many of those with higher scores? Who knows. But I know it's good for AdAge. :-)

Now, obviously, I would encourage anyone building something like this to be as transparent, accurate and authentic as possible. A high quality resource that lists a "best and brightest" in your niche - be they blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, individual posts, people, conferences or whatever else you can think to rank - is an excellent piece of content for earning traffic and becoming a known quantity in your field.

Oh, and once you do produce it - make sure to let those featured know they've been listed. Tweeting at them with a link is a good way to do this, but if you have email addresses, by all means, reach out. It can often be the start of a great relationship!

#20 - Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog

Many of you likely have profiles on services like YouTube, Slideshare, Yahoo!, DeviantArt and dozens of other social and Web 1.0 sites. You might be uploading content to Flickr, to Facebook, to Picasa or even something more esoteric like Prezi. Whatever you're producing on the web and wherever you're doing it, tie it back to your blog.

Including your blog's link on your actual profile pages is among the most obvious, but it's also incredibly valuable. On any service where interaction takes place, those interested in who you are and what you have to share will follow those links, and if they lead back to your blog, they become opportunities for capturing a loyal visitor or earning a share (or both!). But don't just do this with profiles - do it with content, too! If you've created a video for YouTube, make your blog's URL appear at the start or end of the video. Include it in the description of the video and on the uploading profile's page. If you're sharing photos on any of the dozens of photo services, use a watermark or even just some text with your domain name so interested users can find you.

If you're having trouble finding and updating all those old profiles (or figuring out where you might want to create/share some new ones), KnowEm is a great tool for discovering your own profiles (by searching for your name or pseudonyms you've used) and claiming profiles on sites you may not yet have participated in.

I'd also strongly recommend leveraging Google's relatively new protocol for rel=author. AJ Kohn wrote a great post on how to set it up here, and Yoast has another good one on building it into Wordpress sites. The benefit for bloggers who do build large enough audiences to gain Google's trust is earning your profile photo next to all the content you author - a powerful markup advantage that likely drives extra clicks from the search results and creates great, memorable branding, too.

#21 - Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers (and Nab 'em!)

If other blogs in your niche have earned references from sites around the web, there's a decent chance that they'll link to you as well. Conducting competitive link research can also show you what content from your competition has performed well and the strategies they may be using to market their work. To uncover these links, you'll need to use some tools.

OpenSiteExplorer is my favorite, but I'm biased (it's made by Moz). However, it is free to use - if you create a registered account here, you can get unlimited use of the tool showing up to 1,000 links per page or site in perpetuity.

There are other good tools for link research as well, including Blekko, Majestic, Ahrefs and, I've heard that in the near-future, SearchMetrics.

Finding a link is great, but it's through the exhaustive research of looking through dozens or hundreds that you can identify patterns and strategies. You're also likely to find a lot of guest blogging opportunities and other chances for outreach. If you maintain a great persona and brand in your niche, your ability to earn these will rise dramatically.

Bonus #22 - Be Consistent and Don't Give Up

If there's one piece of advice I wish I could share with every blogger, it's this:

The above image comes from Everywhereist's analytics. Geraldine could have given up 18 months into her daily blogging. After all, she was putting in 3-5 hours each day writing content, taking photos, visiting sites, coming up with topics, trying to guest blog and grow her Twitter followers and never doing any SEO (don't ask, it's a running joke between us). And then, almost two years after her blog began, and more than 500 posts in, things finally got going. She got some nice guest blogging gigs, had some posts of hers go "hot" in the social sphere, earned mentions on some bigger sites, then got really big press from Time's Best Blogs of 2011.

I'd guess there's hundreds of new bloggers on the web each day who have all the opportunity Geraldine had, but after months (maybe only weeks) of slogging away, they give up.

Good luck and good blogging !

Cele mai cautate cuvinte de pe internet anul acesta. Lista Google pentru Romania

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Divertismentul, social media, tehnologia au fost in topul listei cu cele mai rapide cresteri in 2011. Vezi ce au cautat pe internet romanii si care sunt cele mai tari cuvinte online.

Google anunta astazi traditionalul Zeitgeist ("spirit al vremurilor"), realizat pentru prima data si pentru Romania. Zeigeist arata cum s-a vazut anul 2011 pe internet de catre romani, oferind o perspectiva unica asupra evenimentelor majore din acest an si cele mai fierbinti tendinte bazate pe cautari efectuate in Romania.

In acest an, cele mai populare cautari arata interesul in crestere pentru emisiuni TV, retele sociale, tehnologie si filme.

Cele mai mari cresteri

Emisiunea TV "Romanii au talent" a devenit un fenomen national, implicand romanii in gasirea si selectarea celor mai talentati reprezentanti. Facebook a fost in crestere, din ce in ce mai multi romani cautand sa impartaseasca online experientele lor, cu prietenii si familia. iPhone 5 a reprezentat una dintre cele asteptate lansari ale anului.

1. romanii au talent
2. fb
3. iphone 5
4. yahoo mail sign
5. angry birds
6. bacalaureat 2011
7. x factor
8. pe teava.ro
9. 990
10. culoarea fericirii

Top Google stiri

Cel mai cautat subiect din acest an au fost rezultatele slabe inregistrate la examenul de Bacalaureat, care au starnit o dezbatere intensa pe internet. in plus, subiectele legate de educatie s-au aflat in topul cautarilor.

1. rezultate bacalaureat 2011
2. romania
3. youtube
4. edu.ro
5. romanii au talent
6. stiri
7. loto
8. rezultate evaluare nationala
9. steaua
10. cluj

Cele mai rapide cresteri din Romania pe segmentul divertisment

Televizorul este o modalitate foarte importanta a romanilor de petrecere a timpului liber. Cele mai populare productii TV care ne-au tinut lipiti de ecrane si cu dorinta de a afla mai multe informatii online au mai fost, in 2011, emisiunea Romanii au talent, serialul Culoarea fericirii, precum si concursul international Eurovision, care reuseste sa mentina un interes in crestere in fiecare an.

1. romanii au talent
2. culoarea fericirii
3. eurovision 2011
4. x factor
5. down on me
6. seniorita
7. fb
8. pe teava.ro
9. 990
10. youtube.com

Cele mai rapide cresteri din Romania pe segmentul persoane

Moartea tragica a celebrei cantarete Amy Winehouse a luat prin surprindere multi romani, numerosi fani cautand informatii despre decesul, activitatea si viata ei personala. Au urmat picanteriile despre viata celebritatilor locale, cu Oana Zavoranu si Daniela Crudu inregistrand cele mai rapide cresteri in cautarile de persoane din Romania.

1. amy winehouse
2. oana zavoranu
3. daniela crudu
4. selena gomez
5. florin salam
6. rihanna
7. andra
8. nicolae guta
9. inna
10. justin bieber

Topul celor mai cautate filme din Romania

Cum ar arata filmul perfect pentru romani? Topul celor mai cautate filme in anul 2011 arata ca filmul ideal in Romania ar fi unul actiune sau thriller. Daca adaugam un dram de SF, multa comedie si romantism avem o imagine foarte buna a gusturilor romanilor in materie de filme.

1. Limitless
2. Fast Five
3. Source Code
4. Thor
5. Hall Pass
6. Bad Teacher
7. Priest
8. Friends
9. Beastly
10. The Mechanic

Topul cautarilor in domeniul sportiv

Cautarile pe segmentul sportiv arata ca turneele de tenis aduna cel mai mare interes pe internet, cu US Open in top, urmat de turneele de la Roland Garros, Wimbledon si Australian Open. Dar sa nu uitam ca fotbalul este inca sportul rege in Romania. Pagina Federatiei Romane de fotbal a fost locul de intalnire pentru fani, fiind una dintre cei mai cautate in categoria sport.

1. us open 2011
2. frf-ajf
3. roland garros 2011
4. australian open 2011
5. wimbledon 2011
6. handbal volei
7. champions league 2011
8. cupa romaniei 2011
9. mihai nesu
10. live score hunter

sursa: stirileprotv.ro

Cum sa iti faci trafic pe blog? Cum sa cresti in pagerank?

2012-03-08T13:02:00.000+02:00

Daca vrei sa cresti traficul pe blogul tau si pagerank`ul trebuie sa ai continut de calitate, asta e cel mai important lucru. Daca ai sa cauti pe Google “cum sa imi fac trafic” sau “cum sa imi cresc pagerank`ul” ai sa dai de articole de genul asta. Ti-ai pus intrebarea de ce?

In felul asta se face trafic, chiar daca nu este “frumos”. Informatii SEO gratuite sau cineva sa iti explice babeste greu intalnesti, incearca sa faci rost de cupoane pentru Facebook si Google Adwords, incepe propria ta campanie publicitara si ai sa vezi cum apar usor usor rezultatele. Daca ai un blog persoanl ca si mine nu astepta rezultatele imediat, concurenta este mare pot spune foarte mare. Incearca sa iti faci propria comunitate, raspunde la comentariile lasate si tine legatura cu vizitatorii, oferale ceea ce ei vor.

Nu uita pentru un trafic bun conteaza continutul. Daca ai continut bun si de calitate rezultatele vor veni pe termen lung. Nu trebuie sa copiezi articole de la altcineva sau sa furi idei. Trebuie sa fii constient ca bloguri personale sunt foarte multe, asteapta pana cand lumea isi va dori ca tu sa scrii un articol nou.

Este foarte mult de munca, dar cu rabdare se rezolva totul.