Search Engine Optimization

Google Panda Updates Effects On Link Wheel

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0000

SEO has been one important and vital tool to be able to top the major search engines like Google. However, not all of the content made available on the web are quite useful as there are some content which are very useless. This may have helped some Internet marketers top the search engine results for a while but not until the Google Panda Update was launched and introduced to the Internet. Due to this, there had been major changes to how the search results appear. Panda was created to “content farms” as they called it, which combined the content with low-quality according to the most searched keywords up on Google and in sites like About.com, eHow.com, etc.
What the Google Panda Update did was that it removed the spam farms on the top page of the search results and this is quite an advantage for the quality publishers. Most of the sites with spun content have lost their rankings and those with quality content have moved higher on the Google search result rankings. Usually, the sites that come with duplicate content have been removed while those sites having editorial, opinionated and original content were not affected on the Google Panda update. Some of the content sites that did well contained unique videos embedded on their pages, social networking site accounts and others.
For those Internet markets who have been affected with the Panda update in some ways, well they may find it a good news that they have not see the result of dropping in Yahoo or Bing where they get a foundation to build. Surely, they want to get their rankings back online, so they should ensure to install Google Webmaster Tools account and be able to rebuild each segment of their site. Furthermore, they can also improve their site by adding new content in the site and creating social media profiles and be able to add them into the site.

For the Internet marketers or site owners who wish to take advantage of the Panda, it is advisable that they look at installing blog on the site on a daily or weekly basis. More than quantity of content, fresh and brand new content is more essential than ever and they should also be able to integrate Facebook as well as Twitter feeds into the site. When they get more links from these two social networking sites, it will be of better advantage on their part. When their site comes with duplicate content on the site, they need to watch those no-indexed pages to be able to avoid the whole site looking a splog or a spam blog.

Panda is considered the largest algorithm change for the past decade and this affected over 16% of all search questions. It was recommended that 300-word unique and fresh articles would be able to provide better index rate and get to pass a considerable amount of “link juice” compared to the 200-word article post. Also, link wheel web 2.0 is being abused by the automated software and Google Update Panda reduced the number of Web 2.0 websites to only those sites having better and stricter editorial standards.

Tips for Lead Generation (Advanced SEO)

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:45:00 +0000

Excellent SEO writing requires a great deal of work, research, and attention to detail. When you add the end goal of marketing for lead generation to the mix, it becomes a delicate balance of compelling content, proper grammar, clever keyword use, and persuasive style.
Outstanding SEO writing for lead generation is highly valuable to your clients, as well as to your own freelance business. Follow these 10 SEO writing tips and watch as your marketing content becomes more effective:

Know What You’re Selling

Whether it is an informational product or the latest, greatest high-tech gadget, you will not produce very compelling content if you do not know anything about the product. Take the time to get to know the product by researching, reading customer reviews, and asking the manufacturer questions whenever possible. In short, become an expert before you ever touch the keyboard.

Know Your Market

You would not try to sell a tractor to a New York business executive. It does not matter how persuasive your SEO writing is; the executive would neither be interested in nor have a need for such an item. When you are using SEO writing techniques to generate leads, it is important to focus on targeting qualified leads. These are people who would be interested in the product and have a need for it.

Know How to Relate

Once you have established who your targeted market is, you need to understand how to relate to them on their own level. If you are targeting average income households, do not use jargon that high-paid professionals use. You want to bond with your audience with your writing, not alienate them.

Know Your Approach

You must remember that you are not actually trying to sell the product at this point; you simply want to entice the reader to take further action. This action may be filling out a contact form, signing up for a free report, or clicking on a link.
This is where many writers encounter trouble with their lead generation content. You need to provide enough information that the reader is intrigued to take action, but not so much that there is nothing left to learn. Be careful not to browbeat the reader; you could risk deterring them from investigating the product further. This is where that delicate balance is so crucial. Practice is key.

Empathize with Your Readers

As you are crafting your content, it is prudent to consider the questions and concerns your targeted audience might have. Ask yourself what you would want to know if you were considering this product, and then answer those questions in the appropriate tone. Provide as much detail as possible without giving away the big picture.

Write for Your Readers First

Before you go crazy with SEO practices, be mindful of the fact that search engines are not actually reading your content: your audience is. Keep thoughts organized, cohesive, comprehensive, and relevant. Avoid overwhelming your readers with long sentences and paragraphs. Break up the text with lists and strong subheadings so that it is easier to digest.

Pass on Passive Voice

Passive voice is poor grammar; it is also confusing to readers. You want your audience to take action. It is very difficult to motivate action with passive writing. Always use active voice when generating leads.

Hook Your Readers

If you are going to turn casual browsers into valuable leads, you have got to sell them on the idea that your product is unique, valuable, and highly beneficial for them. Provide examples of how the product is innovative. Give charts and statistics when available. Include testimonials from other customers. Make it irresistible to your readers.

The Power of Psychology

One tried and true marketing technique is creating a sense of urgency in your readers. Simply adding language such as “for a limited time only” triggers an instant reaction in the mind that compels your reader to take action. Use it.

10. Adding the SEO: Now it is time to add your SEO to your writing. Go through your content and find places that you can work in your keywords naturally. If you have to restructure a sentence or two to make it work, then do so. Add meta tags and descriptions and promote your content.

Excellent SEO writing for lead generation is writing that focuses on your targeted audience first. Only after you have created this compelling content should you incorporate your SEO power. The result will be high quality content that is motivating, captivating, and high ranking.

Google Reject Article Directories NOW

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:51:00 +0000

From SEO Experts Team research, we found that Now due to now escape of Google Panda, Google is going to reject for Article Directories Back linking with any PR ( Page Rank ) and Do-Follow Links.
Before this we think about this why Google rejected it. We should clear this concept that what is Google Panda and What is its role in Google Search?
Google Panda : Google Panda is new tool of Google due to which Google comes to know that Is this article is copy write or not? If that article is copy write Google keeps it back ward and maintain it their. And if Google Panda shows to Google that Article is fully unique then Google provides Ranking + Traffic + Queries in Google Search Indexing.
Now we are in this situation that we can understand that what is the role of Google Panda in Google Search as well as Google SEO Search. Google Panda is a Tools type software built-In in Google. It works like Google Spiders. And visit every site and locate that which data is copy right or not. We can avoid Google Panda from CopyScape.com. It is a great tool which tells us that how many data is copy right in our site and
what we can do for its modification.
Now I hope so that this concept that what is Google Panda? has been cleared in your mind. Now we are in this situation that you can understand that Why Google Reject Articles Directories NOW?
Mostly people 75 % people write their article themselves and make it popular from Social Media or Social SE (Search Engine ) Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Digg and many more in the history of Internet with the passage of time. People or their followers make that post and click on the source link and come the their sites / Blogs and meet Same Data Quality their. Its mean that 2 sites has same data.

Spider Modification Tricks

Spider Modification Tricks : Google or other Search Engine works for searching data base of your site, that where your site data is located. When you register any domain and upload your website data and also do not submit your site into Google.com. Then you see after 1 week that your site in indexing into Google or major search engines without submission. You think that what is doing on? You search on Google, Yahoo, MSN but confused and did not find any answer about it. How Google did it?
There are 3 thinks in every major search engine, which are

Spiders
Web Crawlers
Robots

Google is a major search engine in this time in the world and locating all domain hosted or non-hosted. There are sever billion people in this time in the world and open Google.com 500 Million times in a day. That is really great success for Google that this world has been made Google world due to the hard working of Google Developers. And their formulas in Google Search Algorithm, which are very powerful. And in Google Algorithm three things are working in the formulas that are given above in categories. Spiders, Web Crawlers, Robots are mostly working in every search engine but in Google all are very powerful. They are search in every website / blog in internet and pickup all broken links, 404 error pages links, 302 error pages links, 301 redirection, 404 redirection, 302 redirection, Do-Follow links, No-Follow Links, sitemap.xml, robots.txt file, w3 validation errors report and many more take away in search engine back.
If your site is free and pure from all broken links, 404 error pages links, 302 error pages links, 301 redirection, 404 redirection, 302 redirection, Do-Follow links, No-Follow Links, sitemap.xml error, robots.txt file, w3 validation errors report and also you building some high quality back links for your site and get a quality PR ( page Rank ) in Google.com. And also make a good position in Google then Google Takes updates of your site every after 10 minutes and you make your website great in Google indexing through spider modification tricks and can drive a lot of traffic on your site from Google SE ( Search Engine ).

Sell Products online using SEO

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:02:00 +0000

There are alternatives to using dated websites or platform by building a new segment and using a sub domain or sub folder as a proxy to augment existing pages. We use this technique often when the legacy site has less than favorable dynamics (such as the inability to control page output/templates, meta data, navigation or internal links). You can read more about creating a hybrid CMS to augment rankings by following the link.

The ability to customize the title and meta data of EACH page
The ability to change the URL structure / output for the page URL slug
The ability to suppress specific server side includes, footers, sidebar or navigation
The ability to add content in a strategic, orderly fashion segmented by tiers of relevance
The ability to create themed internal links to pass ranking factor and prominence from supporting to primary landing pages.

Ironically, all of these things can be accomplished in a few minutes using WordPress and SEO Ultimate. The only consideration for initiating a keyword conquest is (1) can I afford the time (2) can I spend the money on supporting content, site revisions and links and (3) what is the ROI for that keyword for my business.

Thinking Beyond Rankings

Aside from that, SEO is just technique and timing. What happens next is the site either reaches page 1, requires more fine tuning (to other on page or off page elements) or takes longer than expected (due to vacillations in search algorithms, lack of trust or authority or a friendly battle or two with competitors (who are also trying to reach the same precipice for that keyword).
Regardless of your budget or the amount of time required, you need to have a conversion objective fr each page before you even target a keyword or phrase. You should NOT be thinking of SEO if you have no idea which actions are critical for conversions on your website.
What are some common conversion goals?

Selling a product or service directly
Filling out a contact form (potential lead gen revenue)
Picking up the phone (to close a sale)
Subscribing to a newsletter, RSS feed (to enter them into your list so you can drip on prospects over time with offers, links or related products or services)
Sending that visitor to another website (via affiliate links or paid ads)

Regardless of why or what you are going to do with that traffic, SEO is merely one means (a very cost effective means) to reach more targeted users online.

The Investment ROI Factor

Before embarking haphazardly for a campaign, you need to know which keywords buyers use vs. browsers so you can continually scale and conquer keywords higher in the “traffic and popularity food chain” to yield higher profits. This is where most fail, they either underestimate the amount of work that needs to be done or they underestimate the greed of others as they contend for competitive keywords.
A properly leveraged keyword with the right sales funnel could mean tens of thousands of dollars to a business. Also, keep in mind that conversion and rankings should go hand in hand. So, sending traffic to a weak offer or optimizing a keyword that is not properly mapped out from a time/ROI perspective, means you can’t measure its effectiveness, advantages or weaknesses.
You should also understand the depth of the task ahead of you when you target a keyword – some take weeks, others can take months or even years. If your ROI is attached to a competitive keyword, you may spend as much to get there (or maintain that position) as you net from the profits of being there.
The idea is to target keywords within your reach that you can test, test and refine conversions, as you scale and acquire more related keywords with more search volume and semantic variations.
Until you know what type of conversions those keywords can facilitate, there is no need to try to target multiple keywords, think more about targeting the right flavor of keywords.
If you knew:
1.       How long a keyword would take to get ranked
2.       How many supporting pages (or internal links) are required
3.       How many links you need from other sources
4.       The price of those links, articles and the conversion rate once someone took action
This type of pure market intelligence exists, but putting it to good use was never as easy as it is now with tools like the Krakken, The Last Keyword Tool and DWS (Domain Web Studio).

Conclusion

I suggest you sincerely:

Understand your market
The competition swimming in it
The best prospects for conversion
Your costs for reaching those prospects
Your conversion rates
The amount of time it takes to reach your goals

If you can look at each keyword (and whether to rank for it or not) as a business decision and have hard facts to support a campaign in addition to just throwing money at it “to see what sticks” – then you can build profitable revenue streams indefinitely as a byproduct of market analysis, planning and execution using semantically themed websites, content, offers and links to reach your goals.

Social Bookmarking Strategy Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:04:00 +0000

A recent study found that the social bookmarking site StumbleUpon accounts for 50% of all traffic derived from social media , surpassing even Facebook as the leading source of traffic. While we have to take these numbers with a grain of salt—StumbleUpon exists solely to share links, while Facebook is the central hub of most users’ online social lives—this data lends credibility to the value of social bookmarking sites as part of your social media marketing and content promotion campaigns.
A social bookmarking strategy, when handled correctly, provides a lot more value than just a few credible links. It can help drive traffic, increase brand awareness and build your online presence. Here are 3 tips for developing a social bookmarking strategy:
1. Promote everything, every time
The crux of a strong social bookmarking strategy is consistency. Every time a company blog post or article goes live, you’ve got to submit to all of your bookmarking sites that day. You want to give all of your content a fighting chance to be found by your target audience, so cherry picking which days and which content your submit undermines your own efforts
2. Find niche social bookmarking sitesJust because they may be smaller, that doesn’t mean they can’t be valuable. Large social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit cover dozens of topics and cater to a vast audience. A niche social bookmarking site allows you to submit your content and know that it is being presented in front of the right audience. For instance, in the SEO world, two big niche social bookmarking sites are sphinn and SERPd. When I submit Brick Marketing blog posts to these two bookmarking sites, I know that other SEO and Internet marketing professionals are going to be reading them.
3. Make your content shareable
You don’t have to be the only one that submits your content to social bookmarking sites. By incorporating social bookmarking buttons into your blog and website, you are encouraging your audience to share your content with their own social network. The search engines look at social signals like this (how many people are sharing your content) to determine how valuable a piece of content is and where it will rank in the search engines. Every share counts!

30 Black Hat SEO Techniques

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:25:00 +0000

Hidden text – Create modern CSS based websites with JQuery effects. They often hide large portions of text in layers to display them on click or mouse over for usability reasons. Example: CSS pagination.
IP delivery – Offer the proper localized content to those coming from a country specific IP address. Offer the user a choice though. Shopping.com does a great job here.
301 redirects – Redirect outdated pages to the newer versions or your homepage. When moving to a new domain use them of course as well.
Throw Away Domains – Create exact match micro sites for short term popular keywords and abandon them when the trend subsides. Something like tigerwoodssexrehab.com
Cloaking – Hide the heavy Flash animations from Google, show the text-only version optimized for accessibility and findability.
Paid links – Donate for charity, software developers etc. Many of them display links to those who donate.
Keyword stuffing – Tags and folksonomy. Keyword stuff but adding several tags or let your users do the dirty work via UGC tagging (folksonomy) every major social site does that.
Automatically generated keyword pages – Some shopping search engines create pages from each Google search query and assign the appropriate products to each query. You can do that as well if you have enough content.
Mispsellings – Define, correct the misspelled term and/or redirect to the correct version.
Scraping – Create mirrors for popular sites. Offer them to the respective webmasters. Most will be glad to pay less.
Ad only pages – Create all page ads (interstitials) and show them before users see content like many old media do.
Blog spam – Don’t spam yourself! Get spammed! Install a WordPress blog without Akismet spam protection. Then create a few posts about Mesothelioma for example, a very profitable keyword. Then let spammers comment spam it or even add posts (via TDO Mini Forms). Last but not least parse the comments for your keyword and outgoing links. If they contain the keyword publish them and remove the outgoing links of course. Bot user generated content so to say.
Duplicate content on multiple domains – Offer your content under a creative Commons License with attribution.
Domain grabbing – Buy old authority domains that failed and revive them instead of putting them on sale.
Fake news – Create real news on official looking sites for real events. You can even do it in print. Works great for all kinds of activism related topics.
Link farm – Create a legit blog network of flagship blogs. A full time pro blogger can manage 3 to 5 high quality blogs by her or himself.
New exploits – Find them and report them, blog about them. You break story and thus you get all the attention and links. Dave Naylor is excellent at it.
Brand jacking – Write a bad review for a brand that has disappointed you or destroys the planet or set up a brand x sucks page and let consumers voice their concerns.
Rogue bots – Spider websites and make their webmasters aware of broken links and other issues. Some people may be thankful enough to link to you.
Hidden affiliate links – In fact hiding affiliate links is good for usability and can be even more ethical than showing them. example.com/ref?id=87233683 is far worse than than just example.com. Also unsuspecting Web users will copy your ad to forums etc. which might break their TOS. The only thing you have to do is disclose the affiliate as such. I prefer to use [ad] (on Twitter for example) or [partner-link] elsewhere. This way you can strip the annoying “ref” ids and achieve full disclosure at the same time.
Doorway pages – Effectively doorway pages could also be called landing pages. The only difference is that doorway pages are worthless crap while landing pages are streamlined to suffice on their own. Common for both is that they are highly optimized for organic search traffic. So instead of making your doorway pages just a place to get skipped optimize them as landing pages and make the users convert right there.
Multiple subdomains – Multiple subdomains for one domain can serve an ethical purpose. Just think blogspot.co or wordpress.com – they create multiple subdomains by UGC. This way they can rank several times for a query. You can offer subdomains to your users as well.
Twitter automation – There is nothing wrong with Twitter automation as long as you don’t overdo it. Scheduling and repeating tweets, even automatically tweeting RSS feeds from your or other blogs is perfectly OK as long as the Twitter account has a real person attending it who tweets “manually” as well. Bot accounts can be ethical as well in case they are useful no only for yourself. A bot collecting news about Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake would be perfectly legit if you ask me.
Deceptive headlines – Tabloids use them all the time, black hat SEO also do. There are ethical use cases for deceptive headlines though. Satire is one of course and humor simply as well. For instance I could end this list with 24 items and declare this post to a list of 30 items anyways. That would be a good laugh. I’ve done that in the past but in a more humorous post.
Google Bowling – The bad thing about Google bowling is that you hurt sites you don’t like. You could reverse that: Reverse Google bowling would mean that you push sites of competitors you like to make those you dislike disappear below. In a way we do that all the time linking out to the competition, the good guys of SEO who then outrank the ugly sites we like a lot less.
Invisible links – You’d never used invisible links on your sites did you? You liar! You have. Most free web counters and statistic tools use them. Statcounter is a good example. So when you embed them on your site you use invisible links.
Different content for search engines than users – Do you use WordPress? Then you have the nofollow attribute added to your comment links. this way the search engine gets different content than the user. He sees and clicks a link. A search bot sees a no trespass sign instead. In white hat SEO it’s often called PageRank sculpting. Most social media add ons do that by default.
Hacking sites – While crackers hack sites security experts warn site owners that they vulnerabilities. Both discover the same issues. Recently I got an email by someone who warned me to update my WordPress installation. That was a grand idea I thought.
Slander linkbait – Pulling a Calacanis like “SEO is bullshit” is quite common these days. Why don’t do it the other way around? The anti SEO thing doesn’t work that good anymore unless you are as famous as Robert Scoble. In contrast a post dealing with “100 Reasons to Love SEO Experts” might strike a chord by now.
Map spam – Instead of faking multiple addresses all over the place just to appear on Google Maps and Local why don’t you simply create an affiliate network of real life small business owners with shops and offices who, for a small amount of money, are your representatives there? All they need to do is to collect your mail from Google and potential clients.

75 Ways to Increase Your Site’s Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:05:00 +0000

Write more content. If you want to increase site traffic, you’ve got to write content. People will not visit your site if you don’t write a decent amount of good quality content, and new visitors definitely won’t come back. So keep writing great posts!
Have a good design and layout. If your site or blog’s design is messy, sloppy, hard to navigate, a rainbow of colors that don’t match or are hard on the eye, or full of errors, you will instantly go down the drain.
Get your own domain. I promise that if you have your domain, you will get more traffic. You will linked to more and people will more easily remember your URL.
Start using StumbleUpon.When the right article from your blog meets StumbleUpon, expect a lot of people to rate your post a thumbs up, and then even more people “stumbling upon” your blog.
Guest blog. Offer to write a post on someone else’s site. Even better, have the post already written up and then let the blogger know you have a post ready to guest blog on their site, if it’s okay with them. When you write your guest blog post, find a post on your own blog that’s related and link to in your guest blog post. A link for you on their blog, and more ability to increase site traffic.
Begin tagging your images. When you have an image in your post, it should always be tagged properly. Make sure the width and height are clearly defined. But most importantly, fill out the alt and title tags with the image’s keywords. To learn further and learn how this helps,
Respond to your comments and email. People love a blog whose owner is interactive and thoughtful, an owner who gets back quickly with response to their comments and emails. If you can do this, except more loyal readers who will love you. :) Then expect more increased site traffic and more linkage.
Use MyBlogLog. Make sure you have an eye-catching avatar. Then join all the MyBlogLog communities you can (daily limit of 15). In no time your avatar will be all over all the MyBlogLog blog and community pages, and you’ll see more and more visitors coming to you.
Don’t waste your time. Don’t waste your time with crazy “money earners” such as those that pay you to click, pay you to read, pay you to surf, pay you to search, or anything like that. Those aren’t worth anything. Instead, spend your time writing quality content and the increase in site traffic will follow.
Pay attention to your stats. Pay attention to your stats and Google Analytics. See what keywords are getting you the most traffic and what posts your readers like and don’t like. Use this knowledge to keep writing more popular posts filled with great keywords.
Link to other posts. When you link to posts on other blogs, that creates a trackback, or pingback. When you link to another blogger’s post, if they have trackbacks turned on, you will receive a link back as well in the comments section of the post of which you linked.
In your posts, ask your readers questions. Readers like to feel important and a lot of them like to talk. The next time you write a post, ask them a question or their opinion on something. You’ll receive a lot more comments and many of the visitors will be more likely to come back.
Make a lens on Squidoo. On Squidoo, you can make your own lenses, aka, pages, on their site. Make a lens that is relative to your blog or site’s topic, and then be sure to link to your blog on the lens! Did I mention you can also make money on Squidoo?
Comment on other blogs. When you comment on other blog’s 99.9% of the time there is a box you can write in your own site’s address. Then from there, when people view your comment, they can click through to your blog or website! Comment on as many different blog’s as you can. Maybe even set aside a day of the week for commenting. The more comments you leave, the more you are noticed, and the more traffic you get.
Write list posts. Everybody loves list posts. This post is a list post. Examples are “Top 10 Blog Themes”, “25 Uses for Vinegar”, and “5 Helpful Website Tools”. List posts are usually linked to a lot more and get a lot more traffic than normal posts.
Submit your blog to search engines. Most people get the majority of their traffic from search engines. When people search for your keyword and find your site or blog, there’s more traffic! to submit your blog to be indexed in Google if it hasn’t been already, and remember to keep writing fresh content for the engines to chew on!
Establish relationships with fellow bloggers. Develop relationships with all kinds of bloggers, especially those also in your niche. Comment on their blogs, have conversations, link to them, make friendships. And before you know it, they’ll be linking to you too and maybe sending some traffic your way.
Use traffic exchanges. I’m not quite sure if you can be penalized for using traffic exchanges, but they can bring you loyal readers if your blog is good enough, besides the continuous traffic.
Link to your other posts as often as you can. Link internally to posts on your own blog. This helps your rankings and also helps your site traffic increase. If people who come to your your blog have nothing else to see, they will leave. When you link to your other articles, they will most likely choose to go read those as well before leaving, and will stay on your blog longer.
Sign up on Yahoo! Answers. On Yahoo! Answers you are able to answer other people’s questions, help them, and give answers. There is a box where you can write the source of where you got your answer. Answer questions in your field and link to your blog posts as the source!
Sign your blog up on blog top lists. A blog top list is a chart of all the blogs that are in it. The list is numbered and your blog can go higher on the list when it has more traffic, more votes, more incoming visitors, etc. They’re very simple and easy to join. Plus, they can rake in the traffic!
Submit to site directories. Some directories list hundreds of sites, some list thousands. The backlinks are great, but the traffic from the directories will be less than a trickle, most likely nothing. However, submit with your site’s name using your keywords, and then you could be ranked more highly on Google for those keywords, which means more traffic!
Don’t use link trains. This does not directly related to traffic but it’s still good advice. I made the mistake of joining in on the ViraLink and ViralTags, and you should never do that! Besides, your readers will appreciate it and they’ll stick around longer. ;)
Reread, edit, and go over your posts. No one wants to link to a post that is poor quality. Even if the post is a brilliant idea, if it’s full of spelling and grammatical errors, it won’t be linked to. And no links means no traffic.
Submit your posts to blog carnivals. Go to the Blog Carnival website and submit as many of your articles to as many carnivals related to your niche as you can. When the carnival edition you submitted to is posted, not only will you have linkbacks, but you’ll have more visits to your blog. If you don’t understand what a blog carnival is, read about it
Hold your own blog carnival. I think blog carnivals are very fun to hold. People submit their articles to your carnival. When you publish your carnival, almost all of those people go to the carnival edition to view their link there. And you carnival can also be featured on the Blog Carnival website homepage.
Link exchange with other people in your field. Whether the link exchange is on a sidebar on every page of the site, on one page of the site, or in a post on the site, it’s up to you. But link exchanging with others who have related blogs can be a big help. And when their sites grow, an even bigger help!
Use Feedburner for people to subscribe to your blog. When people subscribe to you via RSS or get your blog updates in email, they’ll see your posts whenever you make a new one. This is vital for keeping people in touch with your blog and getting them to come back.
Use Youtube. Make an account on Youtube, and then on your profile you can list your website address. List your site or blog’s link there. Then start making videos and when people view your profile, some of them might click through to your website!
Ask the bigger blogs for a link.I can’t stress enough that you’ve got to do this right or not at all. You need to be polite and not beg. Start building your conversation with the A-lister and developing the relationship before you ask for anything. Make sure you give to them, link to them in your posts.
Use Technorati tags. Getting into more categories in Technorati will get you a lot more exposure, which means more traffic.
Write a post about a celebrity. No matter what your niche is, you can find some way to relate your topic to a celebrity. People search for celebrities all the time and love the dirt on them. Quadruple your traffic when you right a post about a celebrity right after a big event in the celebrity’s life. For example, the shaving of their head, the birth of their child, their marriage, or their death, to name a few.
Encourage others to Digg your articles. Digg is a site that lets people vote on articles, on whether people like them or not. Your blogger friends will most likely Digg your work for you if you politely ask, or even better, add a Digg button at the bottom of all your posts. Make sure your best articles get Dugg and started in the right direction, and if the post is good enough, it can generate thousands of visitors a day.
Get a plugin for the social bookmarking sites. At the bottom of this post you will see a line of buttons that lets people submit and vote my articles to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, Netscape, and others included).
Link to the A-listers. This ties in a little with asking the A-listers for a link, or sort of pushing them in the direction of giving you one, but this is much for subtle and much more nice. The more you link to the A-listers and probloggers in your niche, the more they will probably notice you. Then they might link to one of your posts as well, which could send huge amounts of traffic your way!
Write a pillar post. This is not only a list post, but a pillar post as well. This post is a long, authoritative, instructional post (and has also quickly grown to be this blog’s most popular article). Pillar posts should take a long time, hours, to write. You should link to your pillar posts often in your blog, and make sure they get top exposure. Pillar posts will get linked to and receive decent amounts of traffic.
When a major holiday rolls around, write about it. When Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or another big holiday comes, make a post about it a month beforehand. Give yourself time to be indexed and linked to. When the holiday comes, it will be searched for a lot and your site could be found!
Use smart URLs on Wordpress. If you’re using Wordpress and are using their messy URLs, you’d better get this plugin to switch to the URLs that include the date and post name in the link. Using that plugin will not make you lose your search engine stats or anything, it is a redirect.
Make your readers feel at home. If you are rude, never give back, don’t answer your comments or emails, don’t help other bloggers, or are always uptight and don’t make your readers feel at home, chances are they might stop visiting your blog. When you make your readers feel at home, you get more traffic.
Be a human, not a robot. If in all your posts you sound extremely business-like, never mention yourself, only talk about the same thing all the time, or are 100% perfect, it could actually send people away. I’m not telling you to be sloppy, talk about yourself all the time, stray from your topic, or make a lot of mistakes. But let your readers know you’re like them too and that you have some things in common. Don’t make your site be boring.
Take the ads off your site. To increase your traffic remove your ads. When you have no way of making money on your website, you seem a lot more serious and devoted. Most likely you will get more traffic and loyal readers. And then maybe in the future, you can ad the ads again to start making some money!
Start your own blog directory. This is something I tried once but failed at miserably. However, I’m sure if I tried again I could do it right, and you could too! When you make your directory at first, make all the links completely free and just have a link submit form where the submissions are emailed to you. You can do a weekly/daily roundup of all the links sent to you, or you can assign the links to their proper categories. When your site gets even bigger, you can ask for a reciprocal link. Then have a “featured site” table, and link to your main website in it. I’m not sure how this would work for everyone but it’s worth a shot.
Post about A-listers in your field. For me this would be people like Darren Rowse and John Chow. You can write about them as a person or a blogger or you can write about how they’re running and doing things. You can post your thoughts on something they’ve said or extend on one of their posts and then leave a comment saying you’ve done so.
Interview other bloggers. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but never got around to. Interviews of other bloggers usually generate a few links, including a link from the blogger you interviewed. And links mean traffic!
Write link love posts. I try to write link love posts every couple of weeks where it is just one big post linking to articles in the blogosphere or on the web that I like, mostly ones related to my niche. Not only does this get you trackbacks, but it also gives you the higher chance of getting linked to in return, which then means traffic.
Have a contest or giveaway! This is a great idea. Hold a contest or a giveaway for a very awesome prize, and people will flock to your site in hopes of winning it. If you give away something really cool, the news will spread like wildfire. Beforehand though, make sure your blog is already receiving a fairly decent amount of traffic with some loyal readers.
Pretend to sell your blog. This is something you can do to get traffic but I do NOT recommend it. This idea has sprung up lately but in my opinion it’s not a good one. You can pay forty dollars to list your blog in a marketplace, and get a huge spike of traffic from potential buyers. Then, you take down the offer and keep your blog. NONE of that traffic will ever come back. It’s not targeted and it is a waste of money. But if you want to get traffic this way, go for it.
Be a comedian. Make people laugh. For a lot of you out there, this shouldn’t be hard. When you make people laugh they will feel a connection to your site or blog and want to tell others and come back.
Help bloggers that need you. If a beginner, newbie blogger leaves you a comment or email that is at least polite, don’t brush them off because of their lack of experience. Help them! You never know, they could become big one day and remember your kindness and assistance.
Have polls on your blog. If you’re using Wordpress, get the Wordpress polls plugin. People like voting in polls and like seeing what the outcome of a poll was. Polls are popular, and popular means traffic.
Start more blogs. Think you can handle it? They can be free blogs, or they can have their own domain. Whatever you want. Work on traffic for all of your blogs, and then have all your blogs link to each other (especially the smaller blogs linking to your main one). Then whoever reads one of your blogs can also be introduced to the other ones.
Create or hack a Wordpress plugin. Okay, this one might be for the smart computer geeks out there, because I couldn’t do it. But if you can, then expect to get lots of links and traffic from all over the place from all the people that use your plugin.
Create a blog theme (Wordpress, Blogspot, whatever). Same goes as for creating a plugin. I could probably do this one more easily than I could make a plugin, though. If you think you can, give it a shot! The traffic will pour in, as will the links.
Make graphics that are useful to others. If you make some free graphics people can use on their website or blog, you’ll get more traffic from this as well, and it’s not nearly as hard. If you’re a professional at making graphics, even try charging a little bit to get money on top of it!
Make graphics for social networking sites as well. People who use Myspace, Facebook, and all those types of sites love using graphics. Colorful banners. Animated, blinking images. If you can make awesome things like that, then they’ll use it. It’s worth a shot for some traffic and links.
Make a Myspace and get a lot of friends. Make a Myspace and work on getting a lot of friends. This doesn’t mean adding the bands or celebrities that automatically accept you. This means the real people. Just go around adding people. Go to “Browse” and add people. Once you have hundreds of friends, link to your site or blog in bulletins and on your profile and everywhere you can. It could draw in some traffic if you do it correctly.
Answer questions you get through comments or email in a post. If someone comments or emails you with a question, and you could give them a very long, drawn out answer, write a post instead. You won’t be wasting your time and then to answer that person, just give them a link to the post you’ve written!
Work on search engine optimization. The better you rank and do in the search engines, the more visitors they will send you. Do your research and homework on search engine optimization and get started right away!
Start an awards series. Spend some time making a little trophy or banner for an award. Make sure your award has a theme and a name, for example, “The Kind Blogger Award”. Then link to five kind bloggers. In the rules, get each of them to link and pass the award to five more bloggers that they think are kind. Many will link back to you as the creator of this award series and you will receive traffic for it.
Buy ads using Google Adwords. Something I haven’t done but might prove very helpful if you’ve got the money. Sign up for Google Adwords and buy advertising. People will click on ads and get to your site. Some could become loyal readers but many will not. A good way of getting traffic.
Order reviews through ReviewMe. If you order reviews on other blogs using ReviewMe or even PayPerPost, you can create a buzz on your site or blog. Reviews are probably the best form of advertising and the best way to get more loyal visitors.
Use ReviewBack to get reviewed for free. Most likely your free reviews will be on small blogs, and you also have to return the favor, but you could still get some nice traffic from it. Something to consider.
Write a press release.
Get on the most favorited list on Technorati. The Technorati top 100 favorited list can be viewed . It will be very hard to get on to and require a few hundred favorites (a few thousand if you want to be at the top of the list). But you will surely get a lot of traffic if you make it on this list.
Join forums and message boards. Join forums and message boards related to niche. If it is permitted, link to your site or blog when/where you can. Other people on the forum are very likely to check out your site.
Add your link to your forum signature. Another idea, but also only if this one is permitted. Add your site or blog’s link to your forum signature and get active in the community. The link will show up under all of your posts. You can get a nice little amount of traffic if the forum has a lot of members.
Write catchy post titles with keywords. First of all, posts with catchy titles receive more traffic than those with bland, unoriginal titles. Secondly, add some keywords to your catchy titles! You will get ranked better in the search engines. Also, when people link to your post with its keywords, you’ll get ranked even better, with even more traffic from Google, Yahoo, etc.
Use images in your posts. This is something I need to work on more. Use images in your posts. When a post is full of just text, it can get boring. However, (and this depends on your niche), I would recommend using only one image. You don’t want to get too cluttered.
Write a review. If you write a really good honest review of a new product or brand, it could get a lot of attention from people who are interested in purchasing the product.
On high traffic days, write more great quality posts. Let’s say you’ve just written a linkbait (on purpose or by accident) that hit the front page of Digg or did awesome StumbleUpon. That same day and the next couple of days, post more great content. Let the people who’ve came across your site know they should stick around because of your quality content. Keep the traffic going!
Post about important events in your niche. If something important is going to happen in your niche, post about it a couple months, one month, or a few weeks before it happens. Give yourself time to be linked to and indexed by the search engines for that post. When the event rolls around, you will get a lot of traffic if you played your cards right!
Share one of your secrets. Whether it be a huge secret about your success or a personal secret about your life, nobody can resist.
Do something unique. Build a brand and do something original that no one else has done. You will receive a lot of links and traffic for it and the name will stick around for a long time, if not forever. Come up with a new concept that no one else has done before.
Keep improving your blog. People will keep coming back to a blog or site that is constantly worked on and improved. Set aside daily time to plow down and tweak your blog. Also try to write that daily content.
Be yourself. The internet is a great place to be anonymous, but if you are, no one will feel a connection to you and want to keep visiting your blog. Just be yourself, don’t pretend to be someone you’re not, and people will love you for it. I promise.

Few Steps Away from your search Engine Ranking

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:42:00 +0000

Seo techniques play a vital role in the success of a website. Latest SEO is a combination

of SEO techniques and SMO techniques.

Latest SEO technique is an amalgamation between latest SEO techniques and SMO
techniques. Both techniques decide the fate of a website. Optimizing websites to major search
engines and to social media searches could really lead you a lot of traffic sailing to your
website

To improve the rank in major search engines for top key phrase or search terms, Social Media Searches are highly effective. The top keywords should be included as anchor text in social media
engines. Inclusion of keywords in the anchor text will improve the website ranking in
search engines.

Podcasting sites and Video blogging are important techniques involved in Social Media

optimization.

Latest SEO techniques include On page optimization techniques and Off page

optimization techniques. A synopsis of On page optimization techniques is listed below:-

1. Title

2.Meta keyword ( Include it, Just keep 10 keywords, Something is better than nothing:-))
3.Meta description (Sprinkle your key words in description, meta description should be
precise and clear, this will be stated beneath your title in SERP,
Users will decide whether to enter to site or not by reading this description, so craft this
carefully)
4.Place your keywords in Header tags(H1,H2, H3,H4)

5.Put keywords in the initial sentence
6)Place your keywords in the file name

7)Include Keywords in the file name of images
8)Add keywords to Alt tags of images
9)Add keywords to tilte attributes
10)Keywords in the anchor text to internal pages
11)Link keywords in the artciles to another article of the same website using Anchor text.
12)Keywords in the internal link can go the home page.
13)Offload your javascript
14)Include the keywords in the javascript file in HTML comment tags
15)Code to text ratio(minimise the code and maximise the content)
16)Reduce the loading time of your webpage
17)Keep the keyword density between 3 and 7 percentage
18)Check your website for W3C Validity
19)Don't copy content from other website, u might be caught and... banned

One good thing about SMO techniques are 'backlinks,' which is a major ranking factor
for top search engines . The back links gathered from a site with high PR is more valued by
search engines rather than the same back link gathered from low PR websites, in deciding the rank of the website. Creating an account with following
social bookmarking sites can get us free placement
in high PR sites.

a. Digg
b. Technorati
c. Del.icio.us
d. NowPublic
e. StumbleUpon
f. BlinkList
g. Spurl
h. Furl
i. Slashdot
j. Simpy

SEO: Overview

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:00 +0000

All positioning campaign must begin with the analysis of the keywords or keywords for which you want to optimize the website. Keywords means those words such as "hotel" or strings of words such as "hotels in Barcelona, and your choice will depend on the content of your campaign goals, and finally, the target or target to which you want to address .
The SEO is roughly 4 points:
* Content. Basis of SEO, without content you have nothing to position . The aim is that the content created, has quality and is accessible and readable by search engines. You      can use SEO-Browser to view your site as you would a search engine.
* S.E.O. (search engine optimization)Keywords (keywords) . The basis for the classification of any form are the key words, for according to the words that we include on our site, we store the search engines. So choose the best keywords for your site is one of the great challenges of SEO . The typical procedure for choosing and finding keywords is that   once chosen the theme on which we write, we make an investigation of possible keywords, through research on the topic to see what kind of concepts and words are which      are more related to it and then brainstorm ideas related words (can be via a tool like Google for keywords ). Once you've identified several key words then check the
frequency with which they are searched and choose according to your target market and existing competition for that keyword. It should be noted that the term " keyword "does not necessarily refer to a word and in most cases refers to phrases .

* Optimization. Once you have the list of keywords you're using should try to take the best advantage of optimizing your content using tags , as the title (title), headers (h1, h2, h3, ...) and description (mini-summary of your page.)

* Authority. The way you show the search engines that our site is relevant, is through the sites we link. Making other sites link to us is what is known as link building . In addition, since the content is not sold by itself is important to promote related sites, portals and social networks and eventually cultivate relationships with other bloggers and with your own readers, it is these that can help you promote you by word of mouth.
4 . Professional Services

Hiring an SEO is a very important decision that can improve your site and save time, but also risk damage to your reputation. Make sure to research the potential benefits and the damage that a solvent can cause little SEO on your site. Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners, including:
    * Review the content and site structure.
    * Technical assistance in the development of web sites, for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, using JavaScript, etc.
    * Content Development.
    * Management online business development campaigns.
    * Keyword research.
    * SEO training.
    * Experience in specific sectors and geographic regions.

Advertise on Google does not influence the position in which your site appears in search results. Google never accepts money to include or rank sites in our search results, appear in organic search results is free.

There are free resources such as Google Webmaster Tools, the Webmaster Central blog and the official forum, which can provide a wealth of information about optimizing your site for organic search. You can find many of these free resources and information on paid search in Google Webmaster Central .

SEO: Latest White Hat Methods

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:19:00 +0000

The main goal HTML tags to keep in mind for a good positioning are:

- Title.
Before entering into any other theme or gimmick positioning is important to define the titles of our pages, which should make a brief reference to the content of the page to which you are assigning, taking care to include the most important word describe the page or section to which we refer.

- Description.
Individual short description or abstract of the document as a meta tag that summarizes in a brief and concise content of the document and that may appear below the title in the "SERP's (search results pages of search engines.)

- H1, H2, H3, ... Hn
Correspond to the holders of any websites, so that the text you include in this tag will be taken into account for the contents of the page. Its importance depends on the number that accompanies them, H1 being the most important and so on until H6. You should only use a single level page and not found much use beyond the H4.

"The relevance
Relevance is an important point, this means that any word used in the title and meta tags of the page in question should be included within the text content of the page. It is noteworthy that some practices are penalized by search engines such as using hidden text and word lists.
"The URL
You try to be as descriptive as possible and semantically also facilitate proper indexing of the document. As an example: http://www.nombreempresa.com/ / activity-main.html
To strengthen the content of the page and improve your position in search engines is important that labels view the URL above and have the same content.

»Photos
Are not read by search engines, but you can rename them or give them descriptive attributes to facilitate indexing. A picture of a cat whose name is "12345.jpg" is not very descriptive, but if you change it to "gato.jpg" and you're telling the search engines what is that picture. And you can add the ALT attribute, very important for accessibility of documents and for proper indexing, with a description of the photo, in this case ALT = "a gray cat," and that will also serve people with disabilities be aware of their visual content.

"The outgoing links
They are also an important factor in the confidence that generates a site. Always try to add value to the user through the content with outbound links. Since your users can not navigate all the available web pages: Convert your reference page with unique content and a number of resources that extend and complement the information.

"The map
Finally, your site should include a file sitemap.xml , a map of your site to facilitate proper indexing by search engines.
3. Keywords
One of the most crucial factors in the management of the natural results are the key words, as in any book we are informed of the contents of the page and to be text, are perfectly understood by search engines, you should avoid using text as: "Home Page", "Home," Name of the Institution. "Search engines are the main gateway to cyberspace. A person who wants to find a page on the Internet, usually done through a search engine.

Search engine optimization

noreply@blogger.com (Shamim) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:24:00 +0000

"Doing a good seo is crucial ... but the key is to offer quality content."

In general, users do not make much use of the lists of favorites or bookmarks browsers provide systems and rarely directly typed the URL of the page you wish to go, because he might not know it.

Given this dynamic, web positioning strategies are critical . Since on the other hand, after a search of less than 40% of Internet users reached the second page of results that provides a search engine, and only 10% check to the third. This is where it is clear the need to achieve visibility and to achieve this we need to think like search engines to better communicate with them.

Google, Yahoo, MSN and company order their results through mathematical algorithms that undergo analysis hundreds of factors. Each company uses a different formula and the idea is not decipher.

The answer lies in the SEO . SEO is the acronym for "search engine optimization (Search Engine Optimization) or" search engine optimizer "(Search Engine Optimizer), which gives us a series of clues and techniques to interpret the mode of operation search engines.
1. Content

What users see vs. what are the search engines. Users can watch and / or read the website but search engines can only read the programming code with which they are developed and, even today, still can not read them all equally, for example, Flash has recently joined Google results but can not be optimized as HTML.

Graphics, sounds and videos are part of a page that search engines can not decipher it is for this reason that the positioning work is based on HTML tags and text.

2. Indexability

This concept refers to the ownership of the page to be properly indexed by search engine robots, allowing access to all corners, facilitating navigation and showing all its contents clearly.

"The meta tags
The Meta Tags are code in the header is not visible on screen when displaying the page. There are several types of Meta-Tags and they do a description of the content and features we want that search engines take into account.

    * Meta Robots :         This tag is only necessary if you want that page is not indexed in search engines.
    * Meta Description : This tag is important because it allows us to make a more profound than in the title, which we refer to the page content.
    * Meta Keywords :    Perhaps the most important, she put the key words through the schools want this page to be found on search engines. Any other Meta tag is not considered by most search engines, only for some very specialized. It is noteworthy that Meta tags are not a magic solution to position a site in search engines, you must use all the techniques to be successful.