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5 Basic Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 15:33:00 +0000

Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic?Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.

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1. Build a list of blog services to ping
There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you've updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. I've made a list of 50+ blog services you can ping on my site. These list are also available if you search google or any other search engine for it. That should be enough to give an initial boost to your traffic.

2. Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or google or bloglines etc, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let's say 50 blogs listed on one page. I have a list of these popular pages on my website plus the buttons which link to them. Users can then easily add my blog to their news reader members area.

3. Update your content regulary
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It's very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regulary. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What's too many? 10 or more.

4. Post in forums
Post in forums, but don't spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling cds, post in forums that are about music and cds. Don't post in car forums if you're selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like google or msn or yahoo.

5. Submit to blog search engines
There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just google for „blog search engines“ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.

Follow these 5 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don't forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself.

7 Reasons Why Do We Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 15:30:00 +0000

Did you ever ask yourself, why do you blog, or why do you have to? Nowadays on Internet there are more than 70 millions blogs, and it is interesting what purposes do they pursue?

Until recently, to make money online was not easy for usual people like we. 4-5 years ago it was difficult to earn something on the Net until WEB 2.0 era had came. The only way which could help us in that time was website creating, it’s promotion, and selling of advertising places.

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Today everything changed. Blog fever amplifies day by day, and everyone, who heard something about blogs, wants to have it. So, why? Lets try to make some supervisions.

1. Glory. The vanity was, is and will be always. Whether is necessary to be surprised that people wish to be famous? Look at how many amazing people did you know since you have enjoyed blogging. Seth Godin, Steve Pavlina, Darren Rowse… Did you ever know them if not blogs?

2. Self-expression. Many people are blogging because it gives them some charge of energy. I created this blog because I just want to share of my thoughts… Why not? And there are guys, who are the professionals in different spheres, but they don’t have another opportunities of expression. Internet is the best instrument for people like we.

Internet is not developed even on a half and I do not exclude such opportunity, that people will become famous all over again online and only after, in real life. Blogging is what such people need.

3. Job. For many, blogging is a real time job. Companies are hire people to write about their new products and its announcement. Like I wrote in my post Occupation Bloggger, the middle salary of such blogger in US is equal $2,5-3 thousands per month.

4. Sale of own products. Through Internet, we can start selling our products worldwide from the minutes after beginning. Especially if we have an electronic product like eBook or useful software, Internet is the best that we can use. And people use it. Blog helps to realize these purposes.

5. Sale of affiliate products. Recently, are appeared the new techniques, which help anyone to sell affiliate products with help of blog. Check this out.

6. To Help Another. Yes, yes, yes… And why not? I found many blogs of family doctors, radio engineering and even workers of the zoo which are writing about what should we do in different situations.

7. Money Making Online. And eventually people are blogging for the sake of money. Look at John Chow, if to be honest, I’m not against that my blog brings me $18,000. But while I have no such purposes. And John is not alone. For many people blog is a big business. I read some there, that Engadget make more than $100,000 per month. You are probably agree with me, that these people don’t have any financial problems.

Get Keyword Density Just Right

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:28:00 +0000

It has always been about being noticed. People dress well or do something bizarre in order to be noticed or make a statement. To get ahead in life or business one needs to be at the top, first in line. Now more often than not, the World Wide Web to functions along the same principles.

With tough competition between websites, articles, and e-commerce sites what makes one more successful than others is the position a site gets on search engines. The higher the ranking the larger the number of hits or traffic to the site. To achieve a higher position websites use the strategy of SEO optimization and content is written such that it is keyword dense.

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It is not as simple as using words repeatedly you need to know which keywords are relevant to your website and pages. Once you have a master list ensure that :

• Match keyword tag with content. Ensure that the keyword meta tag has around 900 characters or 25 words.

• Ensure that the keyword density in between 3-10% . And, avoid using the same word more than once in a sentence. Check keyword validators to determine the exact density percentage.

• Try and maximize use in the top half of the page. Many search engine spiders do not go beyond 25-50%.

• Be smart and spell your keywords with variations and also include plurals.

Go one step ahead and make use of a keyword density checker. This is an automated system that will comb through your web content and highlight words used in higher density. The system will enable you to perfect your pages and provide what search engines or spiders want.

A Keyword Density Cloud see http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php can be used effectively to crawl selected URLs, analyze word density, and remove common stop words. The tool can be added to your website and fulfil a vital role in SEO optimization.

It is all about knowing how to gather your audience or customers and the keyword density checker or cloud can help you through several stumbling blocks. The golden rules of SEO are: keyword density, keyword frequency, keyword prominence, and keyword proximity.

The basic rule of thumb is to know "what are the keywords your potential customers are likely to use." Keywords must not be random but relevant to your line of business. The trick is to strike a balance neither too many nor too little. Too many can get your site banned and too little means you get lower rankings and your wonderful site goes unnoticed.

So, while sticking to your marketing plan and focus take a moment to take care of web content and its many nuances. Make content meaningful and relevant, find out the most important words that will be used to find what your site has to offer (put yourself in the user's shoes). And construct content using all the golden rules and keys mentioned above.

If you tread the right path success in the World Wide Web will be yours.

Effective Internet Marketing Plans

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:21:00 +0000

It can be hard, but nothing is hard with hard works.

Internet marketing isn't always the easiest thing to do. However there is one key to effective internet marketing that far too many people overlook. So, what is it that they don't do? They don't make a plan. To be fair, a lot of internet marketers think they have a plan, but saying "I'm going to make some money" is not a plan.

Perhaps that's one of the primary reasons why franchises are so popular. They present a very detailed plan for just about every aspect of running a business. But we are talking about internet marketing, not a traditional bricks and mortar business. So, what you really need for effective internet marketing is a business plan.

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Let's be blunt, creating a business plan is going to take time and effort. Without one, however, you will be wandering aimlessly through your business and bringing in money in a way that's too hit or miss. You may do okay without one, but you won't see your full profit potential unless you have a business plan in place. Think of it as the difference between having a hobby and having a real business that makes you money. If you want it to be a hobby, then that's up to you; maybe you don't really need a plan.

Your plan is a sort of road map to help you define and reach your goals. A good way to start your business plan is to think of where you want to end up, then start working backwards from there. What steps will you have to take? How much will you make? How will you make it? How much will you invest? What marketing methods will you use to promote your online business? Answering questions like these will help you make a good plan.

The questions you ask are important. Try to think of as many aspects of your business as you can. And when answering, be as detailed and specific as you can. In fact, if you find you are giving vague answers, take that as a sign that you need to give your business plan for effective internet marketing more thought.

Once you have asked and answered the necessary questions, it's time to start organizing your plan. Try to arrange things in a logical way so they make more sense. Be as linear as possible. You should also divide your plan into short, medium and long term goals. This will help you to stay on track as your business grows.

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You should be ready to make revisions to your plan as needed, but don't make those changes lightly. However, your business is going to grow, and you won't be able to predict how things turn out with 100% accuracy. So you need to be able alter your plan if the situation warrants it. Remember, your business plan isn't written in stone and is there to work for you, not against you.

As you can see, one of the keys to effective internet marketing is to have a business plan. IT could be argued that if you don't have such a plan, then you don't really have a business. If you are just doing this for a hobby, that's fine, but if you want to make money like a real business, then you need to treat it like one.

Meta Tag Optimization, Still Relevant?

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:52:00 +0000

I was compelled to publish this article after noticing several SEO specialists writing in reference to meta tags being dead or obsolete. Meta tags are not dead. I will be the first to say, meta tags are utilized by all major search engines and are very much in use and extremely important to search engine ranking. If you need proof of how important meta tags are, try removing your meta tags and watch what happens to your search engine positioning. Your site will plummet to the depths of the unvisited web. Meta tags are frequently an overlooked factor which can improve the ranking of most any website.

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This is an example of how vital meta tags are to your webpage and to your search engine ranking. Our website ranks #6 and #7 consistantly on MSN for the keyword submit site. To test the dead meta tag theory, our source code editor changed one word in the meta description tag and we dropped to #15 in the search results. Our rankings on Google and several other search engines suffered even more so. Needless to say we made changes accordingly. All major search engines definitely utilize meta tags for a description of the webpage and for indexing within the search results.

The title tag is one of the most important on page factors to consider. This is because search engine spiders read this tag first and place a high level of importance on the keywords found there. The title tag is also used for the title of your listing in the search results. The contents of your title tag will also appear in the top left corner of the browser bar. Correct title tag optimization is essiential and will result in a dramatic increase in your search engine ranking. The title tag should contain at least one or more keywords to be of any relevance to the webpage.

Search engine spiders read the description meta tag next. This tag is often used as a website description in the search results. The description tag should also contain a few keywords. The keyword meta tag is also vital to search engine ranking giving search engine spiders a sample of relevant text and content within a webpage. Other meta tags include robots, resource, author, copyright etc. These tags are not as important as the title, description and keyword tag, however they should be included if possible. To acheive high search engine ranking optimize your meta data. Proper onpage optimization will greatly improve your search engine placement.

Five Great Examples of Content Presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 04:00:00 +0000

We’ve seen how businesses, both large and small, are turning to the Internet to expand the reach and influence of their businesses. The exponential increase in the use of e-mail and social media has convinced companies of the need for them to have a strong online presence. Remember how Google+ went from an invite only platform to a freely accessible one? Remember the emergence and rise of Pinterest as one of the most frequented social media platforms? What’s the success secret? Great content, and artful presentation.

1. Easy to navigate interface

Google’s very own Quarterly publication discusses rollercoaster-like Web trends and movements, and has been hailed as a breath of fresh air in this dull and content-cramped world. And kudos to the Quarterly team; it has more than managed to provide users with a unique reading experience.

What it has done right:

The entire website’s layout gives a fresh and open environment for users, with maximum impact, minimum fluff.
Google’s Quarterly comes with an easy-to-navigate index that features stylish roll-over drop down links that give you a short brief of what an article is all about, ensuring great reader continuity.

2. Content Prioritization

The Boston Globe has gone from one of the nation’s most read newspapers to one of the nation’s most read online news dailies. The newspaper literally changed the way readers read news after it underwent a site-wide redesign, and was the first of the mainstream websites that picked up on the top secrets of responsive website design.

What it has done right:

As a newspaper, the Boston Globe website has ensured that the star of its publishing, the content, remains so by ensuring plenty of whitespace.
Following the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, the site ensures a clear visual hierarch, making its articles all the more attractive and engaging.
The website has successfully prioritized its content’s images in a way that indicate which articles are the most important.

3. Audience-specific Content

Probably the original technology and geek portal, Wired, is every geek’s dream, as it blissfully portrays its content to its readers in a way that makes it extremely enjoyable, almost addictive. And keeping in tune with the sentiments of its target audience, geeks, the site offers a pan-genre variety of comprehensive content for its beloved readers.

What it has done right:

The clear text (sans-serif) and generous column widths have enabled Wired to keep the website simple and concise, leading to a pleasurable reading experience.
The site has also kept typography consistent throughout its content, including headlines, sub headings and any other text elements.
Check out how PaintTheMoon’s Volcano Vaporizer review mixes multimedia into its product reviews to establish credibility, communicate a sense of info-richness, and come across as wholesome to the reader.

4. Neat and Clean Layouts

The Black Harbor is a show stealer with its minimalist, yet highly impactful design and is a showcase of various art electives and a variety of styles. The website is centered on its prime focus, images, and has made sure that there is no unnecessary text to hinder the view of its hosted images.

What it has done right:

Well designed, and highly organized homepage design that represents each article with an aptly-sized photo image, presented in a neat grid layout. This layout prevents any sort of visual confusion.
Black Harbor only reveals the descriptions and captions of its images when a user hovers over the image they are interested in, as an overlay, with the opportunity to reveal more info as the user scrolls down.

5. Signature Styling

After decades of ruling the print media as one of America’s largest newspapers, USA Today is now known online for its ability to manage copious amounts of content within limited spaces.

What it has done right:

USA Today’s website offers readers a clean grid with sharp lines and a rigid design that ensures a well-organized user interface, adding to the site’s user experience.
By offering a choice between Lists or Grid views of their articles, the website gives visitors a viewing choice that is most comfortable to them, allowing them to control how much content they are exposed to.

It would be fool-hardy to think that these websites just randomly threw a bunch of variables together in the hope that it would lead to great content presentation. It is pretty obvious that the developers of these sites took a lot of time devising and implementing their designs, allowing for agreat combination of content optimization skills and presentation genius.

Why Your Great Content is Going Unnoticed

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 03:33:00 +0000

A lot of site owners, especially SMBs, are still looking for the ‘Field of Dreams’ effect with their content marketing efforts. If you build it they will come… may have worked for Kevin Costner but, for the rest of us, waiting and hoping is no way to build your online brand presence. A lot of small business owners have a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that Google isn’t there to help their business succeed. Google doesn’t really care about your business (as harsh as that sounds); they care about their customers, the searchers. If your content helps Google deliver the best possible search results to their users then it will do well organically. If someone else is doing a better job, your content will get pushed deeper and deeper into the SERPs.

Just because you write and publish a piece of content, even a great piece of content, that doesn’t automatically mean Google will love it or reward it. You have to earn the trust and respect of the search engines; something that comes with time and consistent effort.

In a recent interview I did with Ann Handley, the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, she summed it up perfectly;

"Good content is only noticed if sharing is a key part of any content marketing effort. You can’t expect Google to do all the work for you — you’ve got to actively share and engage on social media channels as well."

Social Promotion

Are you actively promoting your content on social media? Obviously the big sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn (for B2Bs) are a good place to start, but there are dozens of other social platforms you could be leveraging: Tumblr, Pinterest, and Vine are some of the other popular ones, but smaller, industry specific social communities like Inbound.org (for SEOs) are great places to start building your social presence. Look for forums and communities that cater to your audience. If there is a niche you can almost bet there is a social site somewhere that you can promote your content on (such as Ravelry, a site for knitters and crocheters).

Social Signals

By actively promoting your content on social networking sites, every time your content is shared, it creates a social signal — basically a thumbs up in the search engine algorithm. Although we don’t know for sure how influential social signals are, the search engines have admitted that shares are a factor—the idea being that often-shared content is more valuable and, therefore, worthwhile in the search results. The Bing-Facebook integration, for instance, is trying to tap into the social opinion of the Web, making search results more relevant and personalized for each user. A piece of content that has been shared by someone in that user’s network (generating a social signal) could show up in the SERPs on Page 1 while for another user it might still be bogged down on Page 3. The more times your content is shared, starting with your own profiles of course, the more valuable it becomes in the eyes of the search engines.

Author Authority

Both Bing and Google have confirmed they take into account a person’s authority when looking at social links. This means it’s far more valuable to have one real human with a real social presence sharing your content than to have 10 bot accounts Tweeting a dozen times a day. The search engines know that spammers are looking to take advantage of social signals for their own gain, and author authority is one way they can prevent that. Don’t waste your time amassing tons of “followers” that are spam or bot accounts. I’d rather have 100 dedicated, engaged social connections that actually share my content to their own networks than 1,000 dummy accounts that just make the numbers look good. Look to connect with real people with real social presence. Just about every real connection, no matter how small, is worthwhile.

No matter how great your content is you have to do some heavy lifting if you want to get the word out and get that piece of content doing well organically. Don’t wait for things to pick up—build the momentum yourself.

Getting Your Content Seen

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:25:00 +0000

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When you’re putting content out into the digital stratosphere, you want to make sure it reaches as far and wide as possible. Time is of the essence, and you may not always have the luxury executing multiple strategic marketing tactics to get your compelling content read. So how do you make sure that your content is reaching its distribution potential? Here are a few key tools you can implement now to help maximize content distribution without eating up your time.

What is Content Distribution?

First, let’s do a quick review of content distribution before jumping in. There are three channels that you use when you release your content:

Owned
Earned
Paid

Owned includes channels where you are the decision maker on content. Places such as your email, blog, or social media accounts are under this category.

Earned concerns the content that is shared by others. This may be when your blog gets a review or someone shares a post from your social media account.

Paid involves paying for your content to be viewed. Ways to utilize paid media include pay-per-click, social media advertisements, or press releases just to name a few.

Now that you’ve been refreshed on the bare bones, here are some key tools to help achieve content distribution in all three channels.

Tools for Owned Outlets

Buffer
This ingenious marketing tool is a piece of cake and an uber-time saver. It allows you to compose multiple content pieces at once, decide which social media profiles to send them to (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, or Twitter accounts) and then Buffer will post them over the course of the day or week for you. This application also gives you the option of re-circulating previously posted content, right from the Buffer dashboard.

MailChimp
MailChimp is a platform set up to send out email marketing campaigns or newsletters. For users who have 2,000 or fewer contacts on their mailing lists, the service is free. MailChimp is customizable, and you make the decisions on delivery. Organize automatic campaigns you’ve handcrafted or simply send out new content once you’ve completed it.

Quora
This may be an option you may have not previously considered. Quora, a service that receives multi-million hits per month, is set up as a question and answer website. You can pose a question and users will answer and give their input. Be sure to include a more detailed post, rather than a straight question, as it engages users more. You may also get involved by answering posted questions yourself by providing an in-depth and thoughtful answer with a link to a relevant topic from your own website. This will prompt other users to go to your website/blog/social media account.

Other ways to capitalize on your owned content include:

Posting more frequently. If you normally post one piece per week, step it up by posting two. This will allow users to see new content from you more often, thus keeping you fresh in their mind.
Open up new channels. Blogging may be your style, but try something else in conjunction with it, say a newsletter. Send out a weekly newsletter with an overview and few extra bits of information plus a link to your newest blog post(s).

Utilize These Resources to Boost Your Earned Outlet Views

Help a Reporter
Help a Reporter (HARO) connects experts and reporters together. This website works with reporters that are looking for individuals who have expertise on certain topics. In return they cite you for your input. A fresh idea on how to get your name and content out to more people while building networking relationships. And it doesn’t get much better than free publicity!

List.ly
A creative way to share information, List.ly allows you, the user, to create lists on whatever topics are relevant to you. Then post and share your list to social media accounts. Be sure to include an embedded link so that future sharers and readers have access to your original content.

Paid Outlets That Will Reach New Viewers

Sponsored Facebook Posts
A simple, yet effective way to have your content reach more people is to pump some oomph into its advertising. Facebook allows you to choose which demographics you would like your content to target including age, interests, location, or gender. And with Facebook being the number one social media outlet, this can be a powerful tool and money well spent for content distribution.

SimpleReach
SimpleReach works with content publishing and marketing that will help you to reach new readers and spread your content to the corners of the Internet. It also provides you with tools to keep tabs on metrics such as social interaction and how well your content is captivating readers. SimpleReach utilizes channels and works with companies such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, HuffPost, and Outbrain to name a few. With this advertising partner on your side, your content will reach new heights in terms of outreach.

Conclusion
Content distribution doesn’t have to be labor intensive or time consuming. By implementing multiple tools and strategies, you can have your content reaching new viewers in no time. There is an abundance of content distribution outlets, and it’s up to you to choose which ones best suit your needs. Don’t be afraid to experiment and give new platforms a go. After all, there’s no such thing as getting your content out there too much!

What other tricks and tools do you use to get your content seen?

If You're Not Linking, You're Losing Money!

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

If you have a web site and you're not actively linking to other relevant sites, you're losing a great opportunity to improve your link popularity, get targeted traffic and increase your income. Read on to find out why.

Why Link?

There are only a few ways you can generate traffic to your site. You can pay someone to generate leads, but you have no way of knowing whether your visitors are interested in your product, service or message. Some organisations that promise thousands of visits to your site deliver the goods, but the problem is, the people who visit aren't targeted to match your product, service or message.

You can advertise on or offline to generate leads, you can wait and watch and hope someone finds your site among the many millions, or you can actively generate traffic yourself.

If you create links to other sites with high traffic, some of the people who visit those sites will click on links and visit your site. Let's face it, if no-one visits your site, the chances of selling something or getting your message read, are minimal. So, creating targeted visitors should be one of your key priorities. By targeted visitors I mean people who have bought a similar product or service to yours, or who are predisposed to do so. Consider this example. I sell an ebook titled, "Winning That Government Job" which, as the title suggests, helps job seekers to understand the government recruitment and selection process so they can be competitive when applying.

If I advertise in the employment pages of the Saturday morning newspaper in Sydney (the most populous Australian city) it will cost me $200 for one edition. I usually generate several dozen sales, but as soon as I stop advertising, the sales drop off.

If I link with another organisation having something to do with job seekers, numbers of their visitors visit my site and buy my publication. It costs much less than successive $200 adverts. Imagine what happens when I link to a dozen similar sites? I think you can see the benefit of linking.

Making Links

When I began linking I would place a keyword in a search engine and then look for sites that were suitable to exchange links. I'd find several sites, email them and occasionally get a response. I tried to find link partners for whom my products and services were complementary - so they could add value for their clients while doing me a good turn.

The process worked, but I had to spend an inordinate amount of time doing it, so I looked for a better way and couldn't believe my luck when I found a software program designed specifically for this type of activity. The program automates much of the process so, one evening per week for about two or three hours, I work with it to find and contact potential link partners.

Measuring Progress

At the end of every month I measure my site popularity, links, traffic volume, sales, expenses to sales ratio, pay-for-click search engine placements etc and compare statistics with the previous month. Slowly, but surely, my site is getting a higher position in search engines and I'm getting more referred traffic from sites with which I have exchanged links. But that is my achievements so far. How about yours?

How and Why Should I Start Building Backlinks?

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

The idea behind building backlinks is as simple as trying to get links that point directly to your website. Most people do not understand the concept of this search engine optimization activity. However, if you are aiming to put up an online business, then you should carefully understand the reasons why you should spend some time in building quality backlinks for you website.

The main reason why you need to build backlinks is to get higher traffic in such a way that when people come across your links over the internet, they are most likely to click on them and visit your site. When you are able to reach more people and direct more people to your site, the more likely you are going to get your products sold. Aside from the visible links that you get to see on web pages, it can also be the start of a good viral marketing campaign wherein people who notice your site are most likely to tell their friends about it; hence, driving more visitors to your site.

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There are far more other reasons on why you should concentrate on how you can effectively build backlinks and among these reasons is for your site to gain higher search engine rankings. Gone are the days when you simply have to put up your site, get a catchy domain name, and put up keyword-rich contents to see your site top the search results. The way that search engine providers such as Google, MSN Bing, and Yahoo deal with page rankings and search result positions are far more complex now.

It has been a common knowledge that what drives up your popularity and page ranking is the number of quality links that are targeted towards your website. This means that the more links you get, the higher your chances are of being on top of the search results page. However, this does not mean that search engine providers prefer the quantity of links you have rather than the quality of such. In fact, Google and Yahoo generally look into the quality of each link. Simply put, search engines will find your site to be relevant and reliable if popular sites link to you. This does not only pulls your page popularity up, but it also drives more traffic to your site while allowing you to reach more readers and prospect customers in no time.

There are far too many ways to build backlinks. In fact, the possibilities are only limited by the creativity and patience of the internet marketer. With the advent of Internet technology and the evident ease it shows in communication, it is impossible for you not to find an avenue where you can kick-off your internet marketing campaign. You can try finding sites that you like and simply e-mail the webmaster and offer a link exchange. There are also social bookmarking sites which you can take advantage of. These sites can generate quality links to your site without requiring you to link back to their site as well.

Website Traffic Is Not The Key To Success

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Website traffic is deemed the single most important factor when it comes to the success of a website but that statement needs to be qualified. Although it's true that a constant stream of traffic is the lifeblood of a website, the quality of the traffic is far more important than the quantity.

Of course, any amount of website traffic is better than no traffic at all but even if you have the most perfect website, your site is doomed to fail if you are not getting visitors that are looking for the products or information you have available on your site.

It's easy to get caught up in a numbers game. It's exciting to see the number of visitors to your site climb from a few a day to a few hundred a day. On the surface, this looks like exactly what you want but if your visitors are looking for something other than what you are offering, for the most part, your website traffic is wasted.

You could have a great website design, compelling copy, the lowest prices and fantastic specials but all your efforts will be useless unless your website is drawing traffic that is interested in what you are providing or promoting.

What you need are visitors specifically interested in your product or service -- you need 'targeted traffic'.

Don't think of targeted traffic as a sub-category of website traffic because they really are two separate entities. If you're marketing plan is designed to drive as much website traffic as possible to your site, no matter what kind of traffic it is, then you're not making effective use of your time and you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

The web is a very different venue than a shopping mall. A shopping mall relies on unfocused traffic, wondering from store to store, not looking for anything in particular but willing to spend it's money on an impulse.

Believe it or not, people surfing the web will leave a website after viewing it for only about 2 seconds. They're looking for specific items or information and if they don't quickly find what they are looking for on your site, they'll click out of your site and go to one of the other millions of sites on the web.

That's why most of the successful websites are tightly focused on their 'niche' and their marketing plan is focused on driving people to their site that are looking for what they offer - they understand the importance of 'targeted traffic'.

Of course, targeted traffic and a website focused on a particular 'niche' go hand and hand. Think about your website. Does it really lend itself to a specific product or service, or is it so broad that it tends to confuse potential customers?

Here are a few tips to help you prepare your website for targeted traffic:

Design your website to promote one particular product or service as your main item.

Determine the type of people that will be interested in your product or service and adjust your website to be attractive to them.

Establish the items or services that are 'closely' related to what you're promoting on your website. If you think that they would be interesting to your visitors, offer those items on your website as well.

Keep a constant flow of free content, that your visitors will find useful, on your website and add new content and information often. Invite your visitors back to your site to see the new material you're constantly adding.

Keep in mind, a website that's focused on a particular 'niche' item or service lends itself to targeted traffic simply because there is something specific to target and the more targeted traffic your site receives, the more productive your site will be.

There are many conventional and many not so conventional ways to drive targeted traffic to your website but we'll explore them in other articles.

The purpose of this article is to point out the difference between website traffic and targeted traffic. More isn't always better and if you focus your marketing on 'targeted traffic' you'll quickly find that the hits your getting on your website aren't just empty numbers - they'll be potential customers and, more importantly, sales.

Create A Profitable Blog In 9 Steps

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

How to Money-Blogging

How many times have you heard about someone making money with their blog? It’s probably happening more often now than you think. With hundreds of millions of blogs in the world today, it’s not about creating a blog, instead, it’s about properly planning out your blog and treating it like a business before you even get started.

If you want to find success in the world of blogging, you need to plan out your niche, find your audience and build a plan around your monetization and future growth for your blog.

Of course this is easier said then done, but there are actually plenty of useful tools and resources out there to help you along the way. For example, a make money blogging infographic breaks down the whole process into a simple nine-step formula while also providing you with key examples and visuals as well.

Once you understand the value of pre-planning your blog, it’s time to walk through the process yourself and build a blog that has the potential to stand out from the crowd and make you some money in the process.

Here are the key areas you will need to focus your efforts on.

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Find a Niche Topic, then Niche Down Again

Yes, we all know the importance of finding a niche, but why are so many people still doing this wrong? Finding a niche isn’t as simple as saying “I want to blog about pets.” That is simply way too generic. You need to niche that niche down even more.

Here’s an example of how you should break down your niche: Pets; Dogs; Dog Toys; Unbreakable Dog Toys.

Now that’s a solid niche, and definitely one that could be profitable as well. Millions of people are searching for dog toys on Google every day and a good portion of them are probably looking for ‘unbreakable dog toys.’ This is a great niche for you to create a blog and maybe even become an authority within that niche.

Creating Content that Provides Real Value

The success of a blog lies within the content that is found within the site. With millions of blogs already out there, your blog needs to have better and more detailed content then the majority of them.

Sticking with ‘Unbreakable Dog Toys’ as our niche topic, you could create a blog that provides reviews on all of the best dog toys out there.

In addition to posting a content-rich review article on your site for the top selling dog toys out there, you could also embed videos of the toys. If you really wanted to take your blogging efforts to the highest level, you could do video reviews with your and your dog playing with the toys and giving the pros and cons of each.

How to Monetize Your Blog Content and Traffic

You might now be saying ‘Wow, look at all of this great information on how to create a niche blog on unbreakable dog toys. But I don’t want to actually sell physical dog toys… I just wanted to start a blog.’

My thoughts exactly… thankfully bloggers can take full advantage of affiliate marketing — the concept of earning a commission every time you refer a sale or lead transaction to another website, brand or company.

Most sites on the Internet these days have affiliate programs, and in the case of our unbreakable dog toys blog, we would want to join the affiliate programs for Petco, Petsmart and Amazon.com.

Without going into too much detail, any blogger could join the affiliate program for each of these sites, or any sites that sell unbreakable dog toys. Every time we review a new product on our blog, we could include a link to the product (using our affiliate link) and then earn a commission on each referred sale. (This method applies to nearly any niche, as their are thousands of affiliate programs and through Amazon’s affiliate program you could be earning a commission on any of the millions of products sold via its site.

Best of all, as the blogger/affiliate, you never have to deal with the customer, product, transaction or anything like that. You simply need to create awesome content and get people to your site. Once they click on your affiliate link and make a purchase, you will simply earn a commission and be paid at the end of the month (or whenever their terms say) for referring new leads and sales to their site.

The Business of Blogging is Booming

Millions of bloggers are making money with their sites every day, especially fashion bloggers. Nearly all of them are treating their blog like a business and putting in the necessary time, work and effort to get it to where it is today.

In addition to the three major points I mentioned above, bloggers should also be taking advantage of social media, creating original content (like infographics) that can go viral and build new incoming links to their sites and also use guest blogging to effectively bring in high quality and relevant backlinks to their sites.

Once all of these methods are in place, you will start to see your blog’s organic listings jump higher in the search results.

The most important thing to remember when attempting to create a profitable blog, is that it’s a long-term process. Since the costs to startup a blog is minimal, it will take a decent amount of time to build out content, rank organically and build an audience if you aren’t putting any paid advertising methods behind the site.

While this may seem like a disappointment to anyone who was hoping to make big bucks over the next week with their blog, the benefit of creating a high authority and content rich blog, is that it will continue to rank, get traffic and make money for many years to come.

Google Pagerank From A to Z

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Tips To Invade Google Pagerank

If you're a website owner and you're trying to get organic search engine traffic then you've probably heard the term "Google Pagerank". But what is Pagerank and how does a websites pagerank effect search engine rankings? In this article I'll address those questions and try to give you some insight into this often confusing topic.

What is Google pagerank?

Google developed the "pagerank" system several years ago for the purpose of gauging how "important" a web page is. The higher the pagerank, the more "important" Google thinks the webpage is. Google uses this gauge as a part of its ranking algorithm.

Where does pagerank come from?

Pagerank is all about webpages linking to other webpages. You see, every page that Google indexes has a pagerank value associated with it. Every time one page links to another page, a portion of that pagerank value "passes" to the page it links to. Higher ranking pages, pass more pagerank to the pages they link to.

What happens is, when one page links to another page, it's kind of like the page that does the linking is voting for the other page. So to get pagerank to your webpage, all you have to do is get other pages to link to it.

Pagerank is really just a mathematical calculation that determines how "important" a webpage is based on how "important" the pages that link to it are.

A crucial point here that is often misunderstood is that pagerank is passed on a page by page basis. Many webmasters assume that a sites pagerank is determined by its home page. While it's true that the homepage is often the highest ranking page within a website, it doesn't have to be. Any page on a given website could rank higher then the homepage.

The myth that the homepage will have the highest pagerank comes from the fact that many webmasters (especially old school webmasters) participated in reciprocal linking programs where they would exchange links to each others homepages. So, by default, the homepage wound up with the highest pagerank simply because it had the most links pointing to it.

So how will my pagerank affect my search engine rankings?

Pagerank is simply not as powerful as it once was. There was a time when all you had to do to rank well was to get enough websites to link to you and you could dominate virtually any listing you wanted. Today, the ranking algorithm is much more complex. Many other factors are taken into account. However, pagerank does still play a reasonably important roll so getting backlinks is still a major task in the search engine optimization world. It's just that the way we go about getting those links has changed.

How do I check a sites pagerank?

Google offers a free toolbar that you can download and install on your machine. One of the things this toolbar does is to display the Pagerank of whatever webpage you're looking at.

One final note, my recommendation is to never worry too much about Pagerank. Build your website to the best of your ability; create well written, compelling web pages and you'll get backlinks naturally. Further, take some of your better articles and submit them to a few article directories - include a resource box which links back to your site and you'll get some excellent backlinks pretty quickly. Just stay away from reciprocal linking campaigns, whatever benefit they once had is long gone.

Promoting Your Business on the Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

When it's time to promote your business on the Internet, you will first want to make sure that your website looks good and is user friendly. If it does, it’s possible to gain trust and credibility, while poorly designed websites will have a hard time to appear trustworthy.

What to primary consider when your site looks good is to promote it on the Internet.
So what does that mean? To put it a different way, in dollars and cents, sacrificing your Internet marketing means sacrificing money from your business's bottom line. But which kind of marketing will make the most money for your company?

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Most online marketing professionals agree that SEO, the short form for search engine optimization, is what can make your business the most money online.

This means that you are trying to drive traffic to your web site in order to gain new customers, make more sales, and make more money. No business in this day and age can survive without a full and complete Internet presence, and no online presence is complete without a search engine optimisation process.

So, how do people search in the major search engine?

Well, the most common is without doubt to search by keywords or phrases. That is at least what most people do when they sign on to the Internet and begin to look for something that they want.

That means they type one or several search terms into Google or Bing in an Internet browser. What you need to do as a business owner is think about what terms your customers might type in order to try to find your business. Make sure to use the kind of language as people do when they speak to each other, and not the technical terms as might be used by professionals in your business.

Further, you want to make sure those terms are listed prominently on your web site. Your web site should have these terms on them so people who are looking for your business will be able to find it without a problem. This is the most effective way to promote your business on the Internet.

SEO your way to success involves adding pictures with proper alt text to your Internet posts as well. In addition to alt text, you can list little strings of metadata in your articles, often referred to as meta descriptions. They are basically there to summarize what the article is about and will be visible for potential customers using search engines to search for your product or services related to your business.

Another SEO optimisation tool is to include outbound links to related web sites in your text. That way, users can navigate to and from your site, getting additional information to read.

Of course, you don't want to direct your customers and clients' to competitors' web sites, but perhaps you can link them to educational pages where they can learn about things that will make them convinced that they need your product or service. Regardless what which SEO procedures you use to promote your business, the point is that you can't go wrong by using this kind of process, and that in fact this process is essential to help you grow your business, find new customers, and move to fulfil your dreams as a business owner.

4 Best Ways To Improve Your Content Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Substance advertising is the new popular expression be that as it may, the fact of the matter is, we've been utilizing substance to market ourselves and our capacities since we were cavern individuals gladly flaunting our accomplishments on the mass of our neighborhood cover. It was dividers then, its dividers now; but advanced ones as opposed to stone ones. However, in the event that you're going to utilize substance to market yourself or your organization, then there are four snappy lessons to manage as a top priority.

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Non-Sales Focus

Producing quality substance is not about offering, its about teaching and educating. So regarding your substance advertising you have to uproot any center it may need to push your item or administration. In the event that you neglect to do that, those connecting with the substance will see through you straight away and see your endeavor to illuminate as truly being an endeavor to offer. There is an almost negligible difference here and regularly its much too simple to fall over it.

Expel Your Brand from Your Content Marketing

Individuals need to hear stories yet they would prefer not to hear stories about your image. Your image is NOT the center; your clients are. It's as terrible as concentrating on the "deal" inside of the substance; on the off chance that you slap your image all over anything you deliver, individuals will switch off. This isn't to imply that you can't say your image – you can. Be that as it may, it must be unpretentious, agreeable and tuned in to the general discussion. Furthermore, that is the decisive word – "discussion." You wouldn't continue reminding individuals who you were whether you were in a discussion with them, so don't do it when attempting to instruct them.

Utilize Your Employees

Numerous individuals stress that they won't have what it takes or aptitude to create quality substance to draw in their customers, or in the event that they do, whether they have sufficient energy. All things considered, in case you're sufficiently fortunate to have representatives, why not assignment them to bolster you? Maybe one of things you need to do with substance is item photographs – well, a great quality DSLR isn't extravagant and a significant number of them are easy to work. Offer one to an individual from your staff, make them snap and transfer the outcomes. Straightforward.

Sustain Your Community

They come to hear you out for a reason, so verify you continue nourishing them. The exact opposite thing you need to happen is for them to starve. Verify your substance advertising arrangement includes conveying suitable material to the individuals who have officially joined.

More Tips To Attract More Traffic to Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

More than ever before, individuals are stepping out of the typical workplace and entering the online business arena for themselves. Solopreneurs — or folks that launch a business venture all by their lonesome — are becoming more and more prevalent. While it is immensely gratifying to start a business by yourself, it also means every aspect of the adventure is in your hands. By far one of the hardest tasks to tackle is the wild world of marketing. Once you launch your beloved site and business, how will you get people to take notice?

There are so many options and tools, it’s easy to be overwhelmed to the point of paralysis. All too often, way too much cash is spent on ads through Google and Facebook that never work, SEO services are employed to boost rankings that never materialize, and backlinks are purchased in ways that Google doesn’t support. If all you want to do is get an uptick on your marketing efforts, there is a more productive way.

Marketing is the place where many fail, and only a few succeed in breaking through to a larger audience. To assist small business owners everywhere, here are three fundamental keys to generating additional traffic to your blog and building a reputable name online — all are doable if you’re running solo, and all will produce you positive results.

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Select the Most Suitable Keywords

When selecting keywords, many gravitate toward the ones that most people search for. The problem with this, however, is that those specific words are highly competitive and more established brands will undoubtedly rank higher when searched. Some of the best words to select are ones that fall in the middle of the competitive spectrum; often called “mid-tail keywords.” These will not be as sought after, yet will still receive ample amounts of search volume. They are longer than highly competitive keywords, but shorter than long-tail options. Think “red designer stilettos” (mid-tail) versus “red shoes” (common) and “red high-heeled stiletto shoes” (long-tail). Small businesses have a much better chance at ranking by selecting middle of the road keywords and phrases.

SEMrush is an incredible platform to assist in this process. The SEMrush tool allows individuals to search keywords and phrases by site. This means that keywords can be searched and established by what words and phrases the competition ranks for. A report of “Top Keywords” can be viewed and sorted from highest to lowest search volume. Select most relevant words that fall towards the middle of the list. While this tool is free to use, only some of the information will be available from this section without a pro account. For additional help to establish keywords, Keyword Tool is great for developing more ideas.

Create Superior Content

This is a massive part of generating traffic to a blog. Without truly great, useful, and inspiring content, the site will never gain traction. To craft genuinely great content, most individuals will need to utilize some expert tools. First, for topic creation the Buzzsumo services are second to none. Simply plug the keywords you previously harvested into the search bar and Buzzsumo will return a list of top articles that rank for that word or phrase. Draw inspiration from these article; they are a valuable resource.

Keep in mind that when creating content, it should not be too short and should cater to the audience at hand. Length dramatically matters too: Okdork.com and Buzzsumo came together to analyze 100 million articles. The results found that the length of the piece and its share-ability are strongly connected. Noah Kagen of Okdork was quoted as saying, “The longer the content, the more shares it gets, with 3,000- to 10,000-word pieces getting the most average shares.”

When it comes to creating quality content, this doesn’t just mean the blogs that you publish, it also means the overall website as well. The design of the site needs to be professional, intuitive, and responsive. This is the first thing a visitor to your site will notice, even before reading any blog posts or other publications. Without these key elements, no one will read your blog or buy your products.
To support this, Derek Halpern discusses how in a recent study, individuals “reviewed the reasons why people distrusted a website, and 94 percent cited DESIGN problems.” Without an aesthetically pleasing site, your blog doesn’t stand a chance.

Promote, Promote, Promote

Many new business owners tend to over-think the promotional aspect, however, there is a simple and effective marketing solution. Send out emails to others who have shared similar content. This may sound like a quick and simple way to spread the word, but while it will be simple, it won’t be quick.
For this task, Buzzsumo is again and ideal tool to utilize. Search the keywords for articles similar to the one you have produced. You will see a list of similar, relevant posts. By clicking the “view sharers” button you will be given a list of individuals who have shared the piece. Select and contact those who have a substantial Twitter following. This list can be sorted by number of followers to speed up the process.

Once e-mail addresses have been acquired and the e-mails are ready to be sent, it is best to employ a tool as this process can take a tremendous amount of time.

Have you used any of the tools mentioned and if so how have they improved your site’s traffic?

How to Market With Articles

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Article marketing has a lot of power to attract web traffic, turn that traffic into customers, and make several sales a day. You can use article marketing to sell any product on earth, from a house, to a car, to a computer to a software package, to a pen or paper, as long as you can earn a commission, article marketing is the perfect way to make sales.

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First you need to become an expert in the profitable niche. Insurance products require you to have deep knowledge about insurance, your article is the sales man and a poor article will not make a reader stay long and much less purchase anything from you. Start by perfecting your knowledge about those profitable niches and turn article marketing into a power house of money.

Second, you need to write a long article. Small articles do not present the reader with much expertise, do not show you are a true expert, just another writer trying to sell them something. Longer articles possess more keyword count and keyword diversity. The ideal article is always at least four hundred keywords long and the perfect article at least one thousand keywords long. Those writers with free time should aim to keep the article as long as possible specially for expensive products. Trying to sell a computer and earning 20% of the revenue? You definitely need to write at least three thousand words, like a sales letter.

Third keep the reader interested in reading more about your expertise. If the directory allows, place several related reading links and focus on the product, send the reader to an article that is similar to the article the reader just read. For example you can write about computer search and in another article internet search or computer desktop search. All topics must be either exact or very similar.

Fourth, aim to keep your article views high all the time, this salesman is very important but only if the salesman is getting customers. Send your article to all directories, Facebook if you have interested friends, Twitter if your followers love article marketing and StumbleUpon and Digg and all other networks that allow articles to be added and indexed. The more the better, this is a key component to success!

One article has enough power to deliver endless traffic, as long as the article is cared about. To care about an article means to constantly increase its size, adding new information, make it fresh. There is no sense in writing a ton of low quality articles that no one reads or clicks.

Finally, your article marketing techniques must be developed by learning new keywords. Google is blind to anything but keywords and so are readers. Research deeply the right keywords, keep them fresh and use them all each one in a new article. Do not combine keywords to confuse search engines and readers.

Remember, the final goal is to convert a reader into a customer and then into a loyal reader and finally a loyal customer.

Common Mistakes in Search Engine Optimization and How to Avoid Them

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

If you want to achieve a strong online presence, you need to optimize your website for search engines for a higher exposure rate. And on that count search engine optimization or SEO is the best option if you want an easy way to obtain huge traffic on your website. However, some beginners do commit some mistakes on SEO practices. So aside from helping their website achieve huge number of visitors, those mistakes only do harm to the website. It is therefore crucial that you know the common mistakes that you should avoid.

The use of too much flash and scripts on the website

One popular mistake in SEO is the use of too many flash and other scripts in the website. Of course, it is a plus point if your website is appealing to the eye thus many website owners try to incorporate flash pages, which are not optimized for search engine to crawl. Since there is not enough content for search engine to index your first loading page, the spider will not be interested in your website. This will result to a very low page rank. If you really want to use flash in your website, it is recommended that you make up your flash page with some text and graphics that optimized correctly for the search engine.

Not maximizing what ALT tags can do for the content and the images
This is one recommendation that should not be forgotten- the need to use the ALT tags. These tags are used to describe the images that are used in the pages. Try to incorporate these tags every time images are used in the website. And when writing these ALT tags for the images, the best SEO efforts means including some of the keywords in these tags.

Keywords are considered as the foundation of search engine optimization. However, there are some who stuff their content with too many keywords. Overstuffing and using too much keyword in the resource will not help your cause. And when the spiders find out what you have been doing, then you are only courting disaster since the page ranking may be affected. Instead of keyword stuffing, a good strategy is writing good and informative resources that readers and internet users can really appreciate. At least by doing that, your site can get a return visit from the readers.

Content duplication

It is also a mistake to steal content from other websites. Take note that robots can distinguish an original content from a plagiarized one. You need to come up with good yet informative content to entice your readers to come back. Therefore, plagiarizing content is not conducive to your page ranking.

And lastly, most of the newbie SEO practitioners overlook the search engine guidelines. It is important to read and be familiar with these guidelines so as to avoid using the SEO techniques and practices that are prohibited. One of the bad or fraudulent techniques in SEO is the black hat. Consider these actions as unethical actions at least in the realm of internet and SEO. Once this is used, you may be at the risk of getting your website banned in the search engines. To put your online marketing on the right note means steering away from these common search engine optimization mistakes and traps.

First Step Towards Success

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Greetings. My fingers have been feeling so itchy to make a blog especially recently. The need to share my experiences of life and knowledge about the whole world is growing wildly, that I myself am not able to hold it anymore.

So thus, here we go to the first knowledge, which is...

MAKING THE FIRST STEP.

From the moments when we were born until the day we die, we will continue to listen to this phrase. "Make your first step.", they said. (It'll be fun, they said.)

Yes, human beings are destined to learn about anything from the day they live to the day they die. The process of learning about any knowledge is a must for everybody. That is when we are compelled to do, perhaps, the biggest decisions of all. Whether to make the first step or just simply leave the opportunities away. Being successful is not an easy thing. It requires us to sacrifice a lot of things. Blood and guts, sweats, money, time, sweat and tears. Yes, it sounds scary. But be not worry, I will try my best to guide you towards facing it with the heart of a lion. God wills it.

1 - THINK about what you want to do. List out the things that you want to do as well as the consequences, positively and negatively. List out the the things that you predict to happen if you walk on this road, and what will happen if you simply leave it away.

2 - PLAN the steps carefully. Give the elements that you are going to use and spend wisely, in terms of economy, your influences, the level of your capability and what do you expect to gain from it. Do not forget to prepare the emergency plans for your future use, in case if you face some obstacles and challenges.

3 - READY yourself in terms of physically, mentally and spiritually. Use the advantages of the LAW OF ATTRACTION to the fullest. It is not wrong to dream big. It is not wrong to dream about it every day. But it is wrong to just simply dream about it and not to work hard for it. Throw the negative thoughts away. The sense of pessimistic, doubtful thoughts, words of hatred from those who do not want you to be successful. Just throw them away and ignore them as you walk into success.

4 - FRIENDSHIP is important. Do not be selfish and do not grow up to be an anti-social. Avoid those negative things. You will make friends with those who you deem as important for you to be successful. Suck all knowledge from them, ask for their opinions and help. Be not shy and do not forget your friends when you are already successful in achieving your dreams. Success is so sweet when you share it with your friends. Who knows, maybe some day they will look at you as their role model and hero.

5 - MONITOR your movements and be sure to plan your next steps carefully. Do not be hasty, patience is virtue. Some say patience is money. Do not let yourself to be influenced with any side pleasures as you walk towards success. Just keep on reminding yourself about your true aim and target. Good things will come as soon as your have reached your main target and dream.

That's all for now, as for a good start. Making the first step is crucial. So be careful and stay frosty, so that you will not be deviated from your true course. Failure is a must for everybody, but the act of getting up again after failures will tell the world that you are the most strongest person ever.

May God's bless be with you kind readers. Amen.

Credit to : http://serbaalah.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-step-towards-success-basic.html

Basics of SEO

noreply@blogger.com (Shahreen Azmi) — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

The Basics of Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.)

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Ph.D.

One means of making sure your site receives maximum visibility is search engine optimization (S.E.O.). You must think in terms of search engine optimization from the earliest stages of planning and design if you want to receive heavy traffic from the major search engines. In order to optimize your site, you need to understand how search engines work, how web surfers search, and what elements of your site contribute to successful search placement. While much information (and misinformation) exists about search engine optimization, experts agree that the elements you must focus on are keywords, meta tags and links from other sites.

How Search Engines Work

Before delving into specific elements, it’s necessary to understand how search engines work. True search engines (as opposed to directories like Yahoo!) use a program called a “robot” or “spider” to “crawl” the web while gathering and indexing the information they find. A searcher receives the results of these crawls when s/he conducts a search. Sounds simple, right? Unfortunately, every search engine (and literally thousands of engines exist) has its own criteria for indexing sites, and further criteria for determining the ranking of sites. It’s easy to see why S.E.O. consultants can make a handsome living – it’s virtually impossible for a single webmaster to know all of the various rules that will optimize his/her site for every engine.

Feeling Overwhelmed Yet?

While a search engine optimization consultant can provide a greater amount of detailed knowledge for an individual web master, experts tend to agree that there are a few rules that almost anyone can apply to optimize his/her site.

First, while thousands of search engines exist, most surfers do their searching on a handful of sites. Yahoo! generally accounts for half of all web searches. While they charge a fee for simply considering a business listing in their directory (currently $299), many business people may find that a reasonable investment, considering the popularity of this portal. Among true search engines, the most popular by far are Google and Overture. It’s important to know that many search engines actually get there results from these giants, so applying the rules that work for these two can help get your site listed in many engines.

Optimizing You Site

In order to make sure your site is listed in searches that directly apply to your type of business, it’s essential to use the best keywords and phrases. Keywords are the words that searchers use to find web sites that will give them the information they want. In order to take advantage of the power of keywords, you must find out what keywords and key phrases are most popular among the searchers you want to attract to your site, so you may want to consider using a service like Wordtracker (http://www.wordtracker.com) to find out the words and phrases that searchers are using. Once you’ve determined this, you want to place those words and phrases at the points in your page most likely to be noticed by search engines. Experts tend to agree that the best places to use keywords are in your page title, your page’s copy, and in the site’s meta tags.

The page title is likely the most important place to use the proper keywords, as all search engine spiders tend to look at it. Precision is key – use the keywords that are most likely to bring the right visitors to that particular page. While some consultants suggest using many key words, or many slight variations of key words, or repeated key words, search engines have caught on to these strategies and may actually penalize your site for using such tactics. According to Webmonkey.com’s Paul Boutin, it’s best not to include extra words, such as a company name; using only the keywords as site title will generally bring the best results.

It’s also important to use those keywords and phrases in the copy of the page, as spiders do look at this also. Note, for instance, how often I use phrases like “search engine opitimization” and “search engine” in this article. That’s deliberate. Keep in mind, though, that search engines have caught on to the practice of loading down copy with keywords to achieve higher rankings, and certain high ratios of keywords to overall copy may actually hurt your placement.

The third place to use keywords is in the site’s meta tags, which are part of the coding for the page. Again, it’s best to use only the words that will bring the best results – repetition or overuse of variations can hurt your optimization.

Finally, some consultants will suggest that regardless of your site’s content, you always include the most popular overall keywords in your title and meta tags. While this may bring more initial traffic to your site, you have to consider whether attracting searches on “Eminem” or “Spiderman” will benefit you in any way. Generally, it’s best to optimize your site so that you attract those searchers that would actually be interested in what you have to offer.

Link popularity

Another criteria that many search engines use for ranking is link popularity. Essentially, is your site linked from other sites, and are those sites ranked well in their engines? This can be a time consuming process for a webmaster, as getting links on other pages generally involves contacting the owner of that page and asking for a listing or agreeing to a “link swap”: you put a link on your page to their site, and they do the same for you. Again, don’t believe that you can fool the search engines through short-cut methods such as FFA pages, as the engine administrators have caught on to these, also. Also keep in mind that links on other reputable pages account for a high percentage of traffic – you really can’t lose by having your site listed on other site’s “Links” pages.

Some Final Thoughts

When optimizing your site for the search engines, it’s also important to remember that a high ranking in a search doesn’t necessarily mean more qualified traffic. As in many aspects of life, presentation is everything. If the listing on the search engine appears clear and professional, you’re more likely to receive more of the traffic that will benefit you. Boutin notes that the meta name field in the coding is important in this regard, as some engines use the information in this field for their site description. While you want to use keywords and phrases in this field, do so in a manner that still will make sense to a surfer looking for a site like yours.

Ultimately, search engine optimization involves using tried and true methods of design and writing to make your site user-friendly.

About the author:
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Ph.D., is an English professor and freelance business writer. You may contact Jeff at mcintirj@lincolnu.edu

Places To Get High Quality Backlinks

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

How do you gain quality backlinks?

Places To Get High Quality Backlinks

Getting traffic to your website or blog is perhaps the most important step in making sales or making money through Adsense. A great way to get the traffic you need is by employing the age-old techniques of search engine optimization by getting backlinks.

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Backlinks tell search engines that your site is popular. Search engines, in turn, kick your site up higher in the search results (which means more traffic for your site.)

Fortunately, there are tons of places on the web that are willing to link out to you making the backlink process a cinch.

Each site is different and offers its own appeal to both marketers & writers like you and search engines. Each of these places offer their own perks (some of which even pay you for using their services for a nice added bonus.) So without further ado: where to get backlinks for your site!

Article Directories That Pay Writers

Article Directories

Article directories are amazing places to get backlinks. Unlike quick bookmarking sites like RedGage and Delicious, submitting content to article directories take a considerable amount of work. SheToldMe and EzineArticles are some great examples of article directories and are mentioned in their own sections in this article because of their uniqueness.

There are a huge number of article directories on the Internet; some pay users to submit content and allow for backlinks and some just allow backlinks (but are still great.)

The best way to take advantage of an article directory is to write a unique article related to your backlink and submit it to only one site. For more tips on getting the most from article directories, check out my article on writing for article marketing.

Squidoo

Squidoo, which is similar to HubPages, allows you to write and publish articles and receive compensation for them. Squidoo is different than HubPages in that you make money within Squidoo instead of the AdSense setup that HubPages has.

The best way to get backlinks is to write a Squidoo lens (they call an article a 'lens') related to your website content somehow. Let's say you have a website about dog clothes, so you'll want to write about something about dogs, such as dog toys. Then, within your Squidoo lens, you'll want to link out to your website. Let's say a keyword for your website is "cheap dog clothes."

Within your Squidoo lens, you'll want to say something like, "While it can be difficult to find cheap dog clothes, it's easy to find quality dog toys at a good price. It is important that are durable enough to withstand chewing, dirt, and being buried..." In this case, you would link to your site in the bold part of that phrase.

The good part is that you'll make money on Squidoo from what you write, so it'll really pay to get backlinks for your site!

Revenue-Free Article Directories

EzineArticles

EzineArticles is a classic example of an article directory and, besides HubPages and Squidoo, is one of the BEST places to get backlinks! Check out their site, yeah, it's ugly, but Google loves it. Therefore, it should be your new best friend for getting backlinks.

There are a few things that make using EzineArticles not so fun. The first thing is that they don't pay you for the content you submit. Also, each article you submit must go through their editorial process so they can make sure it meets their guidelines. That said, it's like yucky medicine -- it's not fun to do, but pays out in the long run.

The best way to get a backlink from them is the write an article that is relevant to the keyword you'll be using as your back link. They allow you two links per article, but your links should be 100% relevant to the article's topic.

It is better to get just one back link than to put a link in the article that doesn't really fit with the article topic. DO NOT use the extra link to link elsewhereUNLESS the the site you are linking to is relevant to your article.

Social Bookmarking & Social Networking Sites You MUST Use

Social Bookmarking Sites

There are a huge number of social bookmarking and social networking sites and each is unique. Not all social bookmarking sites and social networking sites offer do-follow backlinks, but even so, the ones with no-follow links are still extremely important and should not be ignored.

Reddit and Delicious are decent social bookmarking sites to use, but they aren't great unless your article becomes popular on those sites. Digg is helpful for SEO, but you have to be very careful as to not submit too much of your own work as it's considered a no-no in the Digg community.

Stumbleupon is great for getting traffic, but they can drive down how much you earn from ad clicks. Also, Stumbleupon users are highly unlikely to click an ad. I wouldn't consider it a backlink since the link from Stumbleupon to the article is scrambled and not the actual URL of the site/article.

Twitter can be very useful, but is known for making all their links no-follow. That said, many sites aggregate what people write on Twitter and make links do-follow. Tons of RSS feeds, many also do-follow, are taken from Twitter. Furthermore, many reader services like Google Reader make links do-follow.

You'll want to post things on Twitter that others would be interested in and make sure you participate in retweeting things others say and give kind thoughts and words to others. This way, there's a higher chance that the stuff you post ends up somewhere with do-follow links.

Backlinks are a huge factor in getting traffic to your website or hub.

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RedGage

RedGage pays users to submit teeny tiny bits of content. All users have to do is submit a URL, some descriptive keywords, a small description of the content, and you're done! The catch? Nobody will ever make an income off of RedGage and the the links don't weigh very much. That said, it's an easy way to get some backlinks to your content.

Technically, RedGage is not an article directory. However, they don't mind if you have a long-winded description of your link. Also, since your link is likely an article, for all intents and purposes, RedGage is listed here as an article directory.

RSS Aggregator Sites

RSS Feed Aggregators
RSS feeds allow readers to be the first to know when their favorite blogs get a new post. The purpose of RSS feed aggregators is to give readers one place to read all their favorite blogs (and to help them find new blogs to follow.)

Many of these sites give do-follow links to the blogs in their directories, which is why it's great for getting backlinks to your blog. These aren't the strongest backlinks in the world, but they automatically update as you create new blog posts. You don't have to keep coming back to the aggregator site to add more backlinks as you write more content.

It's extremely important to note that the term "blog" here is meant to mean "anything with an RSS feed." If you're a HubPages user, just add your HubPages RSS feed url to each RSS feed aggregator site!

If you don't know your HubPages RSS url, you can find it in your profile under your picture. Most HubPages users' RSS feed url is: http://YOUR_USERNAME.hubpages.com/hubs/latest?rss

Just replace YOUR_USERNAME with your username here on HubPages.

Posting in Forums

Forums are a phenomenal place to get backlinks, if you do it correctly. If you spam your hub in a post, the mods will just delete your post. If you find yourself a forum where the mods don't care and let everyone link out to anything, then your link won't help you.

You have two real options when it comes to getting backlinks on forums, you can use your signature line which is perfect since moderators usually don't throw a fit about the links people have in their signatures.

Your other option is to find a forum that is related to your hub. You'll want to make a few posts that aren't related to your hub -- just being friendly and replying to things people say. Then after you've at least made a small presence on the forum mention that "this article kind of describes how I feel BACKLINK_HERE." Just be respectful, no-one likes a spammer.

Looking for a forum? There are a huge number of forums all over the Internet. If you need help in finding a forum, I highly recommend making a quick Google search like "your_interest forum." All sorts of results will show up and you'll quickly find the perfect forum for your needs.

There are some things you have to look out for when selecting a forum. First, you'll want to make sure that the search engines can access the posts. This is easy. Just check and see if you can access posts on the forums without being logged in. If not, then the chances that a search engine has access the posts are slim.

Do-Follow Blog Commenting

Commenting on do-follow blogs is a great way to get backlinks. While these backlinks are generally light-weight, you can rack up a ton of them as blog commenting is quick and painless.

There are many directories that have tons and tons of "do-follow" blogs on them. I use the term "do-follow" loosely as many of the directory owners either don't regularly check the list to make sure the blogs remain do-follow or don't know how to check to see if a blog is, in fact, do-follow.

Build up a list of the blogs that pass your do-follow inspection as they are a golden resource if they accept your comments, which brings me to the last bit.

Make sure your comments are on topic and thoughtful. I manage a number of blogs and I delete a TON of comments where I can tell the reader didn't even stop for a second and browse through my post. Comments like "Great post, totally agree" are going to be deleted. Be thoughtful, offer a point or and idea and you should be fine.

Link Baiting

Link baiting isn't, by any means, a direct way of getting backlinks. Essentially it's writing content that so good that people will share it with their friends, family, or post around the net. 'Link baiting' was poorly named because it sounds like something scary and blackhat, but it is seriously one of the best ways to get backlinks -- by writing great content so that other people will get backlinks for you! It's perhaps the most organic way of doing SEO.

Blogger

It takes just a few seconds to set up a Blogger blog and it's a great way to get backlinks. I recommend having at least three articles on your blog for any backlink you get to be a good one. That being said, they don't have to be works of art. Just stick up a few posts full of blah blah stuff that is related to your website or hub and you've got yourself a really nice backlink. I also do not recommend linking to more than one hub with each blog.

The fewer places you link out to, the more worthwhile the links are -- if that makes sense. Think of your blogger blog as the Nobel Peace Prize, it's special because it's really hard to get (few people win this award), if they start giving the award to everyone, it wouldn't be as special. Okay, that's a strange analogy, I admit, but you get the point.

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Write informative answers to questions and link back to a more in-depth article (on the same topic) you've written.
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Create a free website or easily build a blog on WordPress.com. Link to other sites from your blog.

Guest Posting

Is there a particular blog you enjoy reading? Many blogs allow writers to submit content as a "guest post." It's essentially like being a guest star on a television show, you just submit one article to the blog and your commitment is done!

Make sure your post is well-written and original. A guest post on a popular blog not only gives you a backlink, but gets you a bit of fame. You'll want a great article attached to your name, so you'll perhaps get asked back or have other blog owners contacting you for guest post opportunities!

Any nice suggestions and tips? Do share them with us here!

How Article Marketing Works

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000

The main important elements in building a blog.

How Article Marketing Works.

It is well known that Article Marketing is one of the best promotion technique that works perfectly with large number for Internet Marketers in wide variety of niches. The method has proven repeatedly. However, for most newcomer in internet marketing tend to think that article marketing is harder and time consuming. But the truth is yet to be discover. To starts this is by start writing an article. You can do this by yourself or simply hire a ghost writer. Most ghost writer charge less than $10.00 for 300 to 500 word article. When starting your article campaign, always remember that your article should be informative and related to your niche. And one thing should not miscounted is the article should not sound like a sales letter.

You should not forget to include a 'resource box' at the end of your article. A resource box is crucial to your business promotion as it contains an information about the author, a link to the author related website, a link to subscribe to a newsletter, and possibly a phone number or an email address to contact the author.

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Although your article might be written by someone else, you are still the author. There is a common steps widely used to make your article viral. You can type a statement giving others a permission to use your article as long as the the content and shape remain and the resource box is keep attached.

Once you finished written your article, you should submit it to a large numbers of article directories that you can find on the internet. Take a consideration to send your article to enzine publisher within your niche as it also help in your marketing campaign. The internet contain a ton list of ezine directories. Seek what best and suit for you. Its a crucial task to submit your article to this huge list of article directories. But worried no more as this can be accomplished with an article-submission software. This type of software can speed up the article submissions process. There are also a services to submit your article to directories manually. It is a highly recommended to use this services because many articles directories rejected articles that submitted with software.

It is a very time consuming to submit your article to article directories by yourself. Why not hire someone who can do it for you, so that you will have more time to concentrate your effort on marketing tasks, including producing more articles.

10 Best On-Page SEO Tips

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Sat, 30 May 2015 16:30:00 +0000

How do you use this advantage to the max?

10 Best On-Page SEO Tips (Basically for starters)

There is much speculation as to which methods boost search engine ranking. Those who are new to SEO or even many seasoned SEO pros may find confusion as to what the rules really are. Many top SEO webmasters share what they do to climb up in the search engines, but are their methods actually 100% correct? Luckily, the Google patent of August 10, 2006 has cleared up a lot of questions when it comes to SEO.

On-site SEO is very important when it comes to obtaining those highly coveted top search engine positions. This guide was written to share what Google has confirmed to be correct SEO methods and contains no speculation as to what could be correct. All information here is collected from the Google patent.

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#1 The Domain Name

Having a main keyword as a part of the domain name is a huge help to SEO. However, caution should be taken in selecting a domain name with a keyword. You should take your audience into consideration when selecting a domain name.

If the keyword is a long-tail keyword like "money making tips for moms," moneymakingtipsformoms.com wouldn't be a friendly domain name for readers. There are two other options in this case, use a partial keyword like moneymakingtips.com or use a completely new name or even a made up word and brand it.

Doing SEO for a site with a made up word as a domain name can be a difficult task, but sometimes it's better than using a keyword in the domain name, especially if you want to avoid sounding spammy to your audience.

#2 Keywords in the URL

Having keywords as a part of a page's URL is different than using them in the domain name, but is still of major importance. Doing this not only helps sites with keywords in the domain name, but also helps those trying to do SEO for a domain with a made-up, branded name. Imagine there is an article on your doll site about vintage doll dresses. For this article, you're likely targeting "vintage doll dresses" as your keyword. To help this particular page along, you'll want your URL to reflect your keyword. If you own the domain name of dolldresses.com, you'll want the URL of this particular article to be something like dolldresses.com/vintage_doll_dresses.

This is the same if you own a branded domain name. The search engine will see the URL of the article and say to itself, "Oh this page is about vintage doll dresses, I'm going to rank this a bit higher in the search results for that keyword." Different content management systems handle URLs differently, so it's important to look into how URLs are generated. Blogger, for example, uses the title of a post as part of the URL. Drupal, another popular blogging platform uses nodes which are not good for SEO. For example, an article on vintage doll dresses will end up with a URL similar to dolldresses.com/node21. Luckily, there are plug-ins and workarounds for Drupal that will create more search engine friendly URLs!

#3 Keywords in the Title Tag

Having keywords in the title tag is one of the most important factors in search engine ranking when it comes to on-site SEO. When adding a keyword to part of the title tag, it's important to make it look natural.

A site with keywords crammed in the title can quickly look desperate (and Google doesn't like it, either.) It's a good idea to avoid adding too many keywords in the title. Instead of having a title like "Dolls, vintage doll dresses, collectible dolls, antique dolls, and more doll keywords," it's a good idea to choose one important keyword to be a part of the title. In doing this, the site name will flow better and look better to both human audiences and the search engines.

It's also a good idea to include part of the brand in the title to help readers remember the site. If a branded domain like SandeesCollection.com is being used, something like "Sandee's Vintage Doll Dress Collection" would be a great title tag.

#9 Site Age#4 Keywords in the Header Tags

The H1, H2, and H3 tags are what make up the headings on a page. Search engines get clues as to the main idea of a particular website from these headings, so it's a good idea to put keywords here. Using keywords in the header tags are perhaps one of the most important aspects of SEO, so it's definitely not something to ignore! However, it is also a bad idea to make headers all about keywords.

Sacrificing reader satisfaction in the name of SEO is never a good idea. One other point about headers that I must mention is that it is a travesty when designers rename the tags when working with CSS. When this happens, search engines are unable to tell whether or not they are headers and thus an important aspect of SEO on a site has been lost (until the designer changes the tags back to their default names.)

#5 Link Churn

There are a variety of topics covered in the Google patent which cover outgoing links on a website, which I will cover in tips 5, 6, and 7. The first of these topics is "link churn." Link churn is the rate in which links on a page change over time, thus is basically a measure of outgoing link stability of a site. When a website frequently changes the sites which it links to, Google starts to penalize the links and the site. This is because when links change frequently on a site, the site is likely a part of some linking scheme (such as paid back links.) Thus, it's important to not frequently change the outgoing links on a particular website.

#6 Don't Link to Spammy Sites

It is also important to link to sites that Google sees as "good." When a website links to a spam site or other type of site that Google looks poorly upon, it makes the website look bad. SEO is basically a popularity contest and if a website hangs out with the bad crowd, Google is going to assume the website is a PART of the bad crowd. This doesn't mean to only link to authority sites, it just means not linking to spammy, blacklisted sites.

#7 Content Freshness

Google loves when a site is constantly adding to its repertoire. Fresh, new content on a site shows Google that the website is important. Nobody wants to read stale, old content from three years ago, so keeping up on the trends and publishing new content on a site is the bee's knees to Google.

While it's important for a website to have fresh content, it's even more important that the content is relevant to the site. Google is all about relevancy (that's the whole point behind SEO, anyway.) Thus, it's a bad idea to publish something new on a site just for the sake of content freshness.

#8 Outgoing Link Anchor Text

The anchor text is also of important when it comes to outgoing links. It's important for links to be somewhat descriptive of the site it's linking to. For example, when linking to a site like eBay, it's a good idea to have either "eBay" or "online auctions" as a part of the link text and not something like, "go here" or "Amazon" as the link text.

Site age isn't just about how old a domain is (although aged domains are pretty awesome to have.) How long a particular site has been up on the domain is what I'm talking about here. The older a site, the better.

Anyone can throw a site on the Internet overnight, but does this necessarily mean that the website is trustworthy? When a website has been up for a long time, it basically shows Google, "Hey, I'm one of the regulars." It's much easier to trust a regular than the new guy in town. One thing that's nice about having an older site is that when fresh content is added to the site, it fares better in the search engines than new content on a new site. This is basically Google's way of saying, "I'm new to this content, but the guy delivering it is cool by me, therefore the content is cool." Like I said, SEO is a huge popularity contest.

#10 Domain Registration Time

I seriously argue this point with a TON of people, but seriously, look in the Google patent: it's there! The length of time remaining on a domain is important. The more time left on a domain, the better. When a domain is registered for 5 or 10 years, it shows Google, "Hey, I'm going to be here a while."

Domains that are only registered for a year make a site look like there's a possibility it may be gone in a year. This doesn't mean those looking to have a successful website need to fork over the money for 5 years on a domain when they register it. The time can be added later and, when it is, Google may give a nice boost in the SERPs. It is seriously really important, though.

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Guest Writer : Melanie Shebel, a well-experienced writer in matters regarding the Website SEO tips and skills.

Tech Cat!

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Thu, 28 May 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Day 1 of the Tech Cat's life, June 2015.

Faced some shits at the service center. Damn wires and dusty desktop, no wonder the desktop tends to get overheated lately.

Time to call the Tech Cat!

Writing An About Page

noreply@blogger.com (محمد شفريزل عزمي) — Wed, 27 May 2015 16:30:00 +0000

Neat, well-presented, and complete (The picture looks cute as well~)
Credit : Katie McCauley

Writing An About Page

Your About page is one of the most important parts of your blog. It’s often one of the first places a visitor goes to decide whether or not your blog is worth their time. Writing a good one is essential.

1. It’s really not about you.

Huh? Yeah. It’s about your readers.

While you are wonderful (truth) the bottom line is, a visitor wants to know what you have to offer them. Therefore, the very first part of your About page should answer this question: What problem does my blog solve for my readers, or what will someone gain from reading it?

Do you offer advice? Entertainment? Hope? Tips? Make it clear why they should come back. And make it clear really quickly. Like within the first couple of sentences.
2. Make it sticky

Once you’ve stated why they should read, next show them what to read. Use the second part of your About page to provide plenty of opportunity for a visitor to dive in and experience your blog.

As bloggers, we should never miss an opportunity to link to other posts/pages on our blogs (this is called “internal linking”). Your About page is one time to link internally. Choose some of your best or most popular posts, incorporate them smoothly into the conversational tone of your About page and link!

If someone lands on your About page, they usually do so because they want to know more. Don’t just say, “Hi, here’s my life’s story. The end.” Instead, give them many opportunities to explore further.
3. Tell them about yourself

Ideally you’ll weave your personality throughout your About page. The key here is to share the part of your story that’s relevant to your readers and relevant to the topic of your blog.

The facts about where you went to college, what your favorite food is or where you grew up can provide a nice glimpse into your personal life, but put these at the end of your About page, stated briefly and succinctly.

Of course, these types of facts should most definitely be stated more prominently if they are directly related to the topic of your blog, or if they are of unusual interest, like, “I grew up on an island in the South Pacific, raised solely by birds.” Now that would be interesting.

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