This code snippet will get just the Featured Image URL without any HTML tags in Genesis sites,

$featuredimage = genesis_get_image( array(
'format' => 'url',
'size' => 'full',
) );

echo $featuredimage;

Then following code will get all other images attached in the post to an Array. Then I got 2 Array Keys to output just the Image URL again,

$images = get_children( array (
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'post_mime_type' => 'image',
'exclude' => get_post_thumbnail_id()
));

echo $images[$key1]->guid;
echo $images[$key2]->guid;

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$tag = get_term_by ( 'name', single_tag_title( '', false ), 'post_tag' );
$tag_id = $tag->term_id;

If you don’t have the Tag Name already, this code can be used.

$tag_id = get_queried_object()->term_id;

I have tested both codes on Tag Archive pages.

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However, lot of things in this world rely upon Trust. It could be a trust with your life partner. A relationship first starts with the small trust occur in the heart of men and women.

But, you know what relationships aren’t the only one which consume Trust.

Yeah, it could be your prospect who decide whether or not to buy your stuffs according to the trust they have on you. Remember the quote which I used to give the go for this post.

Did you ever think about what level of trust your target audience have on you, on your business and on your products?

It always a good practice to find the answer.

One of the greatest ways to connect with our prospects is direct email. It’s the great deal for catching them while converting them.

Importance of Trust With Prospects

When you walk in the streets, there are so many strangers too. Do you talk with everyone of them or only with a few? I’m sure! you don’t have any bolt nuts in your head to talk with everyone.

Okay. Now you’re keep going forward, you see someone taking that bad smoke and really looks weird!

Would you talk with that person or simply go away? You might go away, because you don’t have any trust on him. You feel like he’ll become a trouble for you. Sometimes you are in a fear of such people.

This same situation could occur with you and your potential customer. How?

If your business website looks weird, it can be a sign of losing trust. And when your business email looks pretty spammy, it’s a great way to say “Do not TRUST me” for your potential customer.

Remember, your online business relies on your customers. They rely on the trust they have upon you. If you harm that trust between you and your customer or let’s say potential customer, it’ll lead to no sales in the future.

I have seen many people sell web designing services. Oh! I almost forgot that it’s one of the hottest industries right on this planet now. So you should start this business, if you have the guts.

Now back to the story …

Those web designers use their business website to promote their business and they know what they are doing with a good old experience. But they lack of something, So they lose their business.

That something is their own business website, it looks so simple and hardly convert its visitors.

You might be a person like in the above story who knows the work, but lacks the look of your own website. Think for a moment, if your prospects are hoping to get *your* web designing services, then you need to satisfy them with your website first.

Awesome experience and a higher visitor satisfaction always adds few lines to the trust they have upon you!

That’s why making a strong trust with your prospects is a must for every business, no matter whether it is online or offline. Start concentrating on it.

In the next few minutes, I’m going to explain you how to use your business email as a way of building a strong trust.

Business Email For Building Trust

Marketing of the products and services directly with a prospective customer is commonly known as Email Marketing.

Email is so powerful when done correctly. It can build your trust and kill your trust. So use wisely!

Don’t look like a newbie, be a professional voice in your industry right in your business email.

Are you using a free email account for managing business emails? If you’re using Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and all other email accounts provided by email service providers for free, that means you’re not a professional and often looks like a spammer.

Because, anyone can create free email account to send such business emails at anytime. That shows the sign of “Do not TRUST me” for your prospects. People are tired of getting scammed and they need to find more about you and your business before making that decision of purchasing.

There are many people who have websites, but doesn’t know anything much about web designing & developing. While surfing here and there you find one such website. Then you use their contact page to get in touch with the potential customer showing what’s lacking and why they should fill it.

This kind of email can be a great deal for a sure fire sale. But you make a mistake of using your free email account as your email. So, the potential customer can be misunderstand your message as a spam.

Finally you lose few minutes from your time, from your potential customer’s time and a potential sale.

Isn’t that feel really bad …?

You also might be using a free email account with your business name or your name.
eg. Your business name is “Extra Traffic” and you’re using “extratraffic[at]gmail.com” for all your business email campaigns.

Sometimes, the reason is that you don’t know how to use email address from your domain name as the business email. Other reason is you don’t know that you’re not building trust with your prospects.

If it is 1st reason, I’m going to solve it just like how I already solved the 2nd reason.

How to Create a Domain Business Email With cPanel

I guess you do have a Shared hosting account from a popular hosting partner which supports cPanel access. My go to hosting partner is HostGator which supports cPanel and lot more features.

If you are using a hosting service without the ability of cPanel, then right now I recommend you to switch your hosting partner strongly.

Because cPanel makes your job easier with the backend tasks of your WordPress website. Also you could install WordPress less than 5minutes using cPanel.

Here I’m going to show you how to create a business email with your cPanel. Here we go!

I’m using HostGator cPanel in this tutorial. Even this is HostGator cPanel, you can follow this tutorial for all other cPanel supported hosting partners to create your domain business email account.

❶ First, go to the cPanel of your website. Simplest method is to use “http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel” or “http://www.yourdomain.com:2083”.

❷ Scroll down to the “Mail” section and go to Email Accounts. Now you can create your Domain business email account using the form displayed in this page.

If you have couple of domains, you can select which domain you’re creating your business email. Our business email is shyam [at] scorpiongodlair.com

Enter your name or business name in the 1st input and fill others your way.

❸ Once you’re done, click on the “Create Account”. As soon as you click, your domain business email will be created. But you can’t use it the way you do with Gmail, Yahoo etc.

Yeah! You can check each and every email comes to this business email account by logging.

Isn’t that make you a boring rabbit?

In this case, I’m going to make you a real scorpion by forwarding each & every email which comes to your newly created business email to your simple to use Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts. So you can check your business emails quickly and respond.

You can find this Mail Forwarding page in the “Mails” section of the cPanel. See the above screenshot again for a recall.

BUT, One question stays the same!!

Even you can read all the emails which comes to your business email, you cannot reply those with *your* domain business email. If you want to reply them, then you have 2 options,

1. Reply using the free Gmail account.
2. Reply using your business email account. – HOW …? See below

How to Use Your Business Email With Gmail

As I explained you clearly the disadvantage of using free email account to connect with your prospects, I’m sure you want to follow this tutorial. So you could email your prospects using your business email right within your Gmail account.

❶ Since you’re going to setup a connection in between Gmail Server & your website. You need to go to Settings page of Gmail first. Note the top right corner of Gmail just below your profile picture. Click on that Gear icon and go to Settings page.

❷ Now go to the Accounts section of the Gmail Settings, there you can see an option to add your newly created domain business email to Gmail. See the screenshots left for a quick glance. Click on that link, so the setup begins.

❸ You can write any name, no matter it’s your name or your business name. Type your domain business email for the email field and go to next step.

❹ In the this step, choose the 2nd option and fill the details. I’m using HostGator and the details I used in the screenshot worked fine for me every time. But if those details don’t work for you, try changing “yourdomain.com” to “mail.yourdomain.com”.

You can use the cPanel login details for the login details requested here. Once you confirm everything is right, Click on the Add Account. If everything is right Gmail will show you a success confirmation message happily!

Now send a test email with any subject to your domain business email with your Gmail account. Within few minutes you must see the forwarded email. Now open up another email that you received from another person and go to reply. You must see the option to choose which email account to use. (Down arrow in the From field.)

End of the line …

What’s your opinion about domain business emails? Can they really affect your credibility and trust? I’m sure you’ve got something to say, So I don’t stop you. – Say it below!

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And they moved their business from those platforms to the great WordPress platform.

Another half, struggles to find a way to establish their online business using WordPress. But they still don’t know how to install WordPress. Sometimes these people worry so much of being lost in the tech world. People who have used WordPress know how it feels

And people who haven’t, don’t know how it feels.

That fear of dealing with things they called “so techie” leads them to no business at all, even they have great plans to start, launch and marketing. So if you have been one of them in the past, I’d like to fish you from that group of people in the next few minutes.

Get ready for the fastest WordPress installation!

How to Install WordPress Manually

When I was on Blogspot platform in my early blogging career, I thought moving my blog from Blogspot platform to WordPress self-hosted version is so complicated.

But, It wasn’t what I thought!

First reason you don’t not want to deal with WordPress may be, this mind complication. You think it is complicated even it isn’t and even you never tried it. Now you’ll see how simple it is to install your WordPress website in less than what they called famous 5-minute installation.

Yep! If you’re ready with the goods, you can complete this in under 3 minutes. Save that extra 2 minute for a quick relaxation.

Install WordPress Using Server cPanel

This is the fastest manual method of installing WordPress for me. I know it is same for you too. Okay let’s start the race. Tick the clock!

Things you need:

❶ cPanel login details
Once you purchased a hosting service like HostGator which gives you the great chance of using cPanel, you’ll receive the cPanel login details in a matter of seconds. This email contains all the important details that you should know as the owner of the hosting account.

Also, they supply you the default URL for the cPanel access. However, you can use these simple methods. For a moment suppose your website URL is “www.example.com”

➠ Add the word “cPanel” after your website URL. www.example.com/cpanel (Note the forward slash)
➠ Add the cPanel Port after your website URL. www.example.com:2083 (Note the colon)

If you are using another hosting provider other than HostGator, then above 2 methods will slightly different. Interesting fact is all the hosts which I’ve worked with my clients are supporting above methods.

❷ Correctly setup domain name
Yeah, I mean correctly setup nameservers of the domain. There are chances which you bought the hosting at one place and the domain at another place. One company may provide all the trades, but they might not be the best.

So, if you are in this situation don’t worry. Nameserver setup is just a 30 second job. Yeah, It’s that simple. In my case, I purchase all my domains through Namecheap and hosting through Hostgator. So I also had to forward my domain nameservers from Namecheap to my hosting account nameservers.

I said, you get all the important details of your hosting account in the 1st email they sent you. So open it and check for the Nameservers. In most times, they mention 2 Nameservers for your Shared hosting account. Now copy those 2 Nameservers. Make sure you do remove “http://” once you pasted in the notepad.

Okay, it’s time to login your domain account. Now go to your domain settings and find the Domain Nameservers page and paste the 2 Nameservers that you pasted into the notepad in this page. Depending on your Domain registrar, you need to find the accurate page.

If it is Namecheap you’ve got, here’s a quick screenshot from my Namecheap account.

Go to the arrowed page and you’ll be here.

Ready, Steady, Go!!!

I guess you’ve found everything and ready to go for the 3 minute WordPress installation. Follow the exact steps below and make sure to post a comment if you’ve any questions. From here, I think you already transferred the domain nameservers correctly and your domain is linked to your hosting account.

❶ First of all, you need to login your website cPanel. So type your domain name or URL in the browser address bar. Then depending on your hosting provider add the access port or word cpanel. In my case, I can use this one to access the cpanel. – http://www.example.com:2083

Now login to your cPanel by using the login details provided in the 1st email after purchase. Things may look like below screenshot.

❷ In order to install WordPress, it requires a working MySQL Database where it stores everything from posts to images in your website.

This second step is to create that MySQL database by using the MySQL Database Wizard in the cPanel.

As you can see in the screenshot right, follow the simple 4 steps to create your MySQL Database. If you’re still in the cPanel dashboard, then scroll down for the section called “Databases”.

Click on the Database Wizard to start the step by step wizard for database creation.

Step ➀ – Give a name for the Database such as ‘wpdb’
Step ➁ – Create an user account to deal with the DB such as ‘dbuser’ with a strong password.
Step ➂ – Assign all the privileges for above user to play with the DB. *VERY* IMPORTANT.

You need the details of this MySQL Database in the process of WordPress installation. Therefore, don’t forget to save these details in a notepad at least until you finish installation. DB Name, DB User & DB User Password are the details you want to save.

Many hosting providers like HostGator do host the Databases in your own server. But others do store it in another server. At this situation, you need to include the Database Hostname for that details you saved above.

❸ Once you completed the Database creation process, you need to upload the WordPress files to your server. It’s this step which save you those minutes. Did you download the latest version of WordPress? If not, you can download it on the wordpress.org

You should have the zip file of WordPress by now. You don’t need to unzip it because the cPanel can unzip or extract it after upload. In order to upload the WordPress Zip file, you need to go to “File Manager” in the cPanel under the section of “Files” section.

Choose what I selected in the screenshot and click Go. Then you’ll see the File Manager. If you haven’t uploaded anything, you will see only the default directory called “cgi-bin”. Click on the Upload button in the top navigation bar and select the WordPress zip file to upload.

Once the upload is completed. Go back to the File Manager and click on the Reload icon in the small navigation bar. You’ll see the WordPress Zip file there. Right click on it, then click on Extract. Done? you’ll see the extracted files of WordPress.

Now you can remove the WordPress zip file since it is no longer required for your site.

Final step in the File Manager is to rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php after adding the accurate Database details which you saved in the 2nd step. Oh! I forgot to mention, you can right click on this file and Click on Code Edit to edit it in the browser.

Make sure to change the DB Hostname from “localhost” to your one, if your host store the Databases on another server.

❹ After everything above, it’s the fun time with user-friendly installation. Now you can go to your website by typing the URL in the address bar. If that doesn’t bring you to the above page and mention “Error establishing database connection”

Then your Database details may be wrong or it could be your hostname is wrong. Also it could be a mistake done by you in the process of Database creation in the step 2.

If everything okay and it still doesn’t show you above page after trying with www.yourdomain.com
Then this one will do the trick. – http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

Now fill the details as you wish and you can login to your WordPress website in the next minute. This is how you need to install WordPress using cPanel method. So what you think? Is this the fastest manual installation method ever?

Install WordPress Using FTP

If your hosting provider doesn’t support for cPanel, File Manager or Zip file extraction. Probably, you cannot go with the fastest manual method. But this one can help you to install WordPress again manually.

When you use FTP Installation method, you are going to spend more time than you would spend with cPanel method. The process is still same with the Database Creation.

But the difference is you need to use FTP client such as FileZilla to do FTP installation. You can download the FileZilla here and it’s free!

In the above screenshot, notice the area covered with the Red lines. You need to enter the FTP login details for your Hosting account in this area. If you’re using HostGator, then you can use the same login details which you used for cPanel access.

But, some hosts doesn’t provide this feature. If this is the case, you need to find the FTP login details from the after purchase email or by logging to your hosting account. When you do have the stuffs, just enter as shown in the screenshot and click Quick Connect.

Then you can see the files in *your* computer in the left side and the files in your *server* in the right side. Before you upload, unzip the WordPress zip file and go to that unzipped WordPress folder from FileZilla. Now select all the files of this folder by clicking the “Ctrl + A”.

Right click and select “Upload”. Once the files has been uploaded successfully, you need to edit the wp-config-sample.php file as I explained in the cPanel method. This time right click on the file and click on Edit.

Once done follow the same steps mentioned in the Step 4 of cPanel WordPress Installation method.

How to Install WordPress Automatically

Personally, I don’t recommend anything that happens automatically. But you may want to free your head from the headaches if above processes looks too difficult to achieve. So here is the easiest method that installs WordPress with couple of clicks.

When used this method, you don’t have to upload, create databases or deal with FTP clients. Automatic installation can be completed by filling few fields, but you have to aware how to fill these.

You are going to use the cPanel software called Fantastico De Luxe for this automatic installation of WordPress. Find the Fantastico De Luxe software at the place shown in the screenshot and click on it.

Now choose the WordPress under “Blogs” in the left sidebar and click on “New Installation”. This will proceed the installation form where you type the Usernames, Password, Emails and the Domain name. Once you completed this form, there’s nothing to do much.

The next step is to proceed the installation and you’ll be given the Login details which you typed earlier with the Login URL. Simply login and start your journey to become the next internet marketer.

You can’t be a successful internet marketer by having just only a WordPress site, you have to learn what works and what not. So, what’s your favorite method of installing WordPress? Is there a specific reason for choosing that method? If so, I’d like to hear it from your words!

HINT: Comments are opened for you! Sharing buttons are waiting for you!

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Just after the launching of my 1st loving WordPress plugin called SEO Advicer by spending 2 whole days to develop and launch, I’ve got another idea for a perfect plugin.

This time also I thought to keep SEO in the first priority for this new plugin or let’s say my 2nd loving WordPress plugin!

If you had sometime to read the launching post of SEO Advicer plugin, then you already know what pain which I had with the thing called WP SVN.

Fortunately, after the 1st commit of my 1st plugin, I realized much more about SVN.

This leads to a smoother committing of the 2nd WordPress plugin to the world. The plugin is having some connection with the whooping word – Genesis Framework!

Gift For Genesis Lovers: Best Social Share Counter

Yea! A gift from ScorpionGod Lair to the lovers of Genesis Framework. If you never heard of Genesis, it’s the #1 WordPress theme framework created in the SEO & Simplicity in the mind by the group of hard working people called StudioPress.

Just like Genesis, my 2nd plugin also kept SEO in the first priority when developing and even the benefits of this new plugin also directly related to your website’s SEO strength. By now, you may want to know the name of it …

It’s the Genesis Optimized Social Share.

At the second you finished reading the name, you realized few things about this. See whether you’re right or wrong. But now let’s make it short and sweet, so that I don’t have to bother with writing that long name every time I want to mention it.

Let’s say GOSS. Agree …?

GOSS is specially created for the Genesis users, because I’m also a Genesis user. Simply, GOSS can minimize the impact which is generated by your average social share counter plugin. The impact is the influence created onto your website speed and loading time.

How?

Yea, you should ask that, if you didn’t. Almost each and every social share counter plugin loads many JS files for thousands of social media sites, sometimes you don’t use all of them and that could be a problem.

But that is not the catch with GOSS WordPress plugin. when the average social share counter plugins load the JS files Synchronously, GOSS loads the selected JS file Asynchronously. That’s the catch.

Sometimes, you might be thinking what the hell is Synchronous & Asynchronous. Let me take 60 seconds to explain you the alien words.

When you load your social share counters using the Synchronous way, each social counter will be loaded in the initial page load by making the user waiting time high. In other words, this method adds more seconds to your Page Loading time.

Do you know that all the internet users don’t need to share something until they read it. Perhaps, you realize the fact: Loading social share counters in the initial load is NOT necessary!

If there’s no any usage of these counters for the user, until they consume your content. Why showing them at the same time your page loads. Even it kicks off your website speed?

Asynchronous method do the inverse of the above procedure, means it will not load the counters in the initial load of the page. Instead of that counters will be loaded once the page is loaded completely. This cut off the seconds added by the average social share counter plugins.

Simply, your website Loading Time will be much lower than what you could see with an average plugin. Want to check this new GOSS plugin on your Genesis site? You can download the latest version of the Genesis Optimized Social Share plugin on its own room of the WordPress plugins repository.

May be you want more …

Live Demo of GOPSS Plugin

• Increases your Website Speed while kicking off unnecessary delay. Since GOSS is loading each and every JS file Asynchronously, website speed will be much faster.
• As I said earlier, SEO was in my mind when I develop this plugin. So GOSS plugin doesn’t create any separate CSS & JS Files. Moreover, CSS styles and JS codes are fully minified and outputted on the same page itself.
• Best is always enough for a perfect play. GOSS doesn’t use all those thousand Social Media counters. Instead, GOSS uses only 4 Counters by default in its initial version. Best 4 includes Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest.
• There is nothing to configure in the initial version of the GOSS plugin. Just install it and forget it. Settings page and more features will be launched soon!!
• All 4 social counters will be displayed after the post content as soon as you activates the GOSS plugin.
• Vertical counters are available for all 4 social media sites and aligned beautifully.
• GOSS plugin will appear only on Post Pages. Therefore, social counter JS files and plugin CSS styles will NOT be loaded on WordPress pages.

I’d like, If you could …

Genesis Optimized Social Share is my 2nd WordPress plugin. With the release of this 2nd plugin, I’ve got a huge passion to create more useful WordPress plugins. So this won’t be the last plugin I launch.

But I’d like to ask you few things,

1. GOSS is designed to work with any Genesis website. If you’re a Genesis user or going to be a one of them, please download my plugin and use. After that you could write a review for GOSS. Your reviews will influence on me to build more features.

2. I know you have a blog, So what’s wrong with writing a post about GOSS. Your readers may interested in GOSS.

3. Finally, If you’re serious enough to read this release post, You should have guts to share it.

If you have any questions related to Genesis Optimized Social Share WordPress plugin, please write a comment below or open a support ticket on repository page of the GOSS.

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Yes! I made it by spending 2 whole days to write, update and launch. I’m really happy about my 1st Plugin and had a headache experience with WordPress Repository SVN thing.

There weren’t any killer tutorial which explained each of the steps clearly, but after some research I managed to solve my SVN issue and the Plugin is now live at WordPress Plugins Repository for all of you.

SEO Advicer Live Action Screenshot

SEO Advicer, Name of the 1st Plugin

Actually, SEO Advicer does the task of providing various SEO Actions to the website owner, so he can implement those action points to make his website more powerful in SEO.

SEO Advicer is developed to provide SEO Advices of both types. Means you can receive OnSite SEO actions and OffSite SEO actions. Simply if you have guts to do what is suggested by this plugin time to time, you’ll make it to the higher in Google Search Engine Results Page (SERPs) positions. It’s a guarantee only IF you follow what is being displayed to you over the time.

Since both OnSite & OffSite SEO tips are provided by the plugin you could easily improve your website such as Performance, Loading Time, Usability, Navigation and many other factors that needs to be improved under OnSite SEO. For the OffSite SEO you’ll see Link Building Strategies, best practices and perfect plans from time to time.

Okay, you can download the up-to-date version from the Official WordPress Repository Page.

What’s Next…

The first version of the SEO Advicer Plugin is released with little amount of SEO Action Points. This Version 1.0 contains,

• 40+ SEO Action Points.
• Some fancy styles to display.

However, I have planned to update this plugin to deliver more thriving SEO Tips which will be relevant to the Industry best practices and Strategies. This plugin delivers only WhiteHat SEO Tips and it’ll be strictly same in the future too.

If you read each Action Point or SEO Tip displayed in the top center of the WordPress Dashboard, you’d learn most of the things about SEO. This means by using SEO Advicer Plugin you’ll gain regular updates about SEO Industry. At that point, it’s good to be used by even SEO Service Providers too.

As a WordPress Blogger or Internet Marketer you don’t need to forget what’s your Goal and what’s the To-Do list for your website improvement. Therefore this plugin can be a nice reminder for you to work for your Goals. There is a big probability of doing what you see more often that you should do. That’s why I read my To-Do List everyday morning to make me motivate enough to continue for my Goals.

I’d like, If you could…

Yes, tell me what you’re feeling about my first WordPress Plugin to deliver SEO Tips. Perhaps, you need to have something nice in my SEO Advicer Plugin, I’d be glad so much if you could tell me that suggestion too. If I’m capable of delivering what you want, I’ll definitely do it in this plugin or by creating another WordPress Plugin.

Finally, I’d like to invite you to download and check out my first WordPress Plugin now and Review it by spending few seconds of your valuable time. That makes me happy, that makes me motivate and that means you’ll get more from me in the near future.

Now go here to download and review SEO Advicer Plugin on WP Repository.

Once you checked, If you think that your website readers will get something from this plugin why not spread this Free SEO Advicer Plugin in one of your articles…

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Since the early days of Internet, people took various actions to stop – no, say minimize – the Web Spam. Internet giants like Google also wants to create a Spam Free web. So you should too,

You own a WordPress website, you get Spams to it. Yes, WordPress frequently gets lot of Spam Comments even it has the most powerful WordPress spam protection systems, when compared to other CMS.

That is why I said “minimize” instead of “Stop” – You can’t Stop it, Unless they Stop it!

The Spam Story

You know I started this blog few weeks ago and tomorrow will be the 6th Week of the blog. As you know blog turned to 1month on April 19th. That means 4 weeks and 1 day. In the first 2 weeks I was waiting for comments. Yeah, it’s just 2 weeks only, So How is it going to get more Comments? Damn!!

I started to get comments at the end of the 2nd week saying “I found your blog thru Google, Bing or Yahoo”. First, there were only a few of those kind of spam comments, But at the middle of 3rd week the number of spam comments started to rise. I can happily say, All those comments have been caught in the Spam Box. See the image below.

This is my up to date Total Stat in Akismet Plugin which I used to kill the spammers in their neck!. Look total number of Spams I got up to now(24.04.2012) is 383. That’s so bad. Within the first month I got 383 Spams.

Now I’m getting around 20 such Spam Comments and all are ended up in the Spam Box thanks to the WordPress spam filtering systems.

Then what is this ‘Ham’ means here? Ham is simply non-spam comments. So Ham can be known as good, correct, valuable comment. According to Akismet, They do catch non-spam comments as Spams VERY RARELY.! I mean very rarely.

Then how is this Ham number got 80? Is that your question?

Yeah, This is how it happened. Akismet knows the bad behaviors of spammers and their spamming styles too. I said Spam Comments are started to caught in  Spam Box at the end of 2nd week. So I thought those are good comments – I felt like that!. And published some of them.

Then the ‘Ham’ number increased to 80. So the accuracy in the screenshot is also wrong a bit.

If all those Published Spam comments also deleted, then the accuracy must be passed at least 99.99%. See the below image to get an idea how Spammers started their work more seriously!

March which is the launching month I got only 17 spams, but in April I got over 360 Spams. I read most of the Spam Comments and got a bunch of ideas how these dead-brains work

If any of the WordPress spam protection strategies fail to catch these, you’ll be able to use your Living Brain to catch these Dead-Brains’ work.

The Spammers Behavior

If you are blogging for a while, definitely you have some ideas about this. Below are three comments I get everyday. I think they haven’t brains to understand this.

I’ll immediately clutch your rss feed as I can’t in finding your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you have any? Kindly permit me recognise in order that I may just subscribe. Thanks.

You’re in reality a just right webmaster. The web site loading velocity is incredible. It kind of feels that you are doing any distinctive trick. Moreover, The contents are masterpiece. you’ve performed a fantastic task in this matter!

Hi, i feel that i noticed you visited my site thus i got here to return the desire?.I’m attempting to in finding issues to improve my site!I assume its good enough to use some of your ideas!!

I get large number of above type of comments. Some comments are in my mind coz everyday those idiots do spams.
Did you noticed the thing behind their English …?

Below are some of behaviors of Spammers.

1. They sometimes paste the same comment or write the same thing like robots.

Remember the 3 comments above? Most of the Software based Bulk Spammers use the same content for a large number of comments. If you approve these nuts, you’re in a danger of duplicate content and spam website.

2. They always link to inner pages.

This isn’t always a bad behavior, but Spammers tend to do this in an unusual way. Usually very long URLs to their inner pages.

3. They use keywords in the name field.

Recently, I had a beautiful day in reading Spam Comments, See below for the surprised Name of the Spammer!

online money, emoney, imarketing, internet money, online jobs

Using keywords in the Name Field of a Comment form is really looks like Spam. These spammers use their Primary Keywords in the Name Field to get the anchor text value. They are day dreamers.

4. Their language is on a fence.

Noticed the 3 comments above? They had unusual sentences. Many Spammers aren’t native English people or the clients of these Spammers aren’t. That is not a matter.

If you see something really funny like above in a comment, surely it’s a Spam.

5. Their comments are irrelevant.

Most of the times, their comments are totally out of the content scope. Sometimes they tend to mention that their comments are off-topic. Isn’t it funny?

6. Sea of Links in comments.

Software based spammers do comment with lots of links to their inner pages in the comment body. These are simply captured in Spam box instantly with these WordPress spam protection methods.

7. Affiliate links in the comments.

This isn’t always a behavior of the bad guy. Spammers who use their Affiliate links in the URL field, often creates a dump comment body. So aware about these.

Why They Spam?

Did you ever had a time to think why these people earn the Sin of Web Spam? Like any other question, this one too has an answer. It’s better to see why they do it,

So you can come up with a better WordPress spam protection plan.

Get Backlinks, Cheating in SERPs

Primary hope of a Spammer is to get the Links which feed the Search Engines mostly. Simply, they don’t understand what is SEO. – It’s a Knowledge Problem.

Promote Dumbest Sins

Yeah, I mean the world’s most nastiest Sins such as P0rn, Dru9s and all other illegal stuff. One of the aims of Google is to create a family-friendly Internet, So SEs don’t treat these bad stuff.

These sinful people become Spammers to build their establishment as a result. – It’s a Mental Problem.

Beginner Blogger

These days there are so many beginner bloggers with their new blogs. But not all these people know what they are doing exactly, nor do they have a clear picture about their goals.

Lack of knowledge on their own actions lead to Spams. – It’s again a Knowledge Problem.

WordPress Spam Protection Strategies

I think you know what I’m going to talk about. Yeah I’m going to tell you the killer. Killer is the Akismet as you assumed. This is the best Spam-Detecting Plugin in the world.

Above image is the Homepage of Akismet.com There’s a number which is continuously increasing. That’s the number of Total Spams. I believe that number should be increase like that. because spammers all around the world do this damn Spamming.

The Akismet is a service offered by Automattic Company. They are the owner of the world most popular blogging platform WordPress. When someone commented on your blog it’s first send to Akismet server and it does various kind of tests over 100. Then reply to your blog whether it’s a Spam or a Ham!.

As I said Akismet do over 100 tests to identify Spams. So Spams never gonna be Hams. If it occurs that’s rarely. These 100 tests include every point of a spammer. They don’t reveal it, because you know why!. Another good of Akismet is it test Trackbacks and Pingbacks too.

So you don’t want to offer a link to crappy spammers. If one comment in the spam box, You must check that comment again before hitting Un-Spam, because Akismet put it in Spam Box for a reason not for a funny Joke. I think you understand it on the dot.

The Akismet technology is updating real-time means you don’t want to make any doubts about Spam in the future too. This plugin is developed to 20 other platforms too. But that list does not include most famous beginner blogging platform Blogspot!.

There’s a Free version of this service for Personal & Non-commercial websites, but buying a paid version is good and a mode of returning the favor.

To use the Akismet free version just signup in Akismet.com and get a free API key and set up it in the Akismet Plugin which is already installed with WordPress. Then you are ready to GO!

Still want something more?

Akismet is the world’s No.1 WordPress Spam Protection system, but you might want to make it more tighter for Spammers without breaking the Akismet system.

The next system to protect your website from Spam Comments is to use GASP Plugin by CommentLuv developer Andy Baily.

What do you think about these 2 WordPress spam protection strategies? Would you use both Akismet and GASP or just one of them?

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Think different and you’ll have a nice one.

There are two things bloggers always like to use, SEO – Search Engine Optimization and Social Media/Networking/Bookmarking. For now let me keep SEO aside. Let’s talk about Social Media a little.

From the very beginning of the Internet Marketing Social Media and other things were started.

Then the Bloggers also started to use those Social Media sites and started to optimize those sources to get them sales and traffic. At that time there weren’t high competition for those bloggers and Social Media users also bought their products and visited their blogs.

Today, there are so many bloggers to teach the same thing as others. High competition for the same thing. They are using social media to attract visitors anyhow. Now social media users’ mind is changed and they know what’s going in. So you can’t trick them using old goodies. More specially you can’t grab them doing the same thing as others.

That’s where the word ‘UNIQUE’ comes to the game.

You need be different, Think different, see different and all the things need to be different and feel different. There’s no value to anything if it does not change. So there’s no point at all if you do the same thing as others.

Success comes by thinking differently. Old goodies can’t make you succeed. Create your own strategies. Bloggers always very likely to use Social Media sites. But do all of them get what they want? Nope. Only a few amount achieve their wants, their goals. Using the social media in the old-fashioned way is a one cause for this.

How Bloggers use Social Media

There many people who write something on their blogs. Most of them using Social Media in the same way. Creating a FaceBook fan page and share your posts automatically using some tool is not getting traffic. People don’t like to deal with robots. You need to be active on them.

Some bloggers write posts and share all of them in their wall, Group walls and friends wall and every where there’s a wall. But it does not give them high traffic.

Do something different then you can have something better from Social Media sites.

Blogging style Followed by Failing Bloggers

When you sing a song, you have your own style. You’re singing the song using that style. But what if that style sounds bad? Your song is finished. Same point goes on beginner blogging style. Most of the beginner ones start their blogs same as others. But they are following a very bad style. It’s worse!.

They are like robots made by blogging gurus. They learned blogging from those gurus and going to apply those. But it might not give results for them. Most strategies are now getting old. You can’t get results today like yesterday that guru got. So change that old one little by little and optimize it for today strategy.

Those bloggers follow this worse method and break their hopes on blogging.

They start their blogs suddenly, after that they are writing some posts by watching what other bloggers are written. Sometimes they are reading one post from a well-known blogger and write the same thing without adding more to it. As I said bloggers love to use Social media sites. So these bloggers also use social media with the hope of getting traffic to their blogs.

But do they get it? No, they only get 10-15 visits from those social media sites. That’s the bitter truth about beginner blogging life. Then they are raving why I don’t get good number of visitors? But do they understood what they did? I think most of them don’t understand it. Because they are powered by the myths. Once they get rid of it they are going to understand it.

Beginner blogging world is a full of myths. They have various kinds of myths. Those are beside the topic of this post. But why they failed? Is it only the myths they believe? Yeah, I think.

Why they failed?

Most people got failed in the first attempt of something. Only a few managed to become success. So every failed time is adding experience to your career. But failing by the myths is the worse thing here.

Bloggers going to fail, when they don’t do their tasks in the right way. Suppose you have an exam, then you don’t study hard. How can you pass that exam? You didn’t study your subject matter deeply. So how can you? That’s why students failed in their exams.

If you’re into blogging, then you must be familiar with blogging and learn about blogging. You can’t swim without knowing how to do it. And You can’t make a successful blog without getting know about the core formula. You need to learn about it, you need to grab as much as knowledge about it. You need to throw your myths out of you. Then you can ride to the Successful blogger from beginner blogger.

Simply you need to know what you’re going to do. You wake up in the morning and sit in front of your computer. Then you’re going to write a post. But what are you going to write? That’s the case. You sat by the practice of everyday route. You didn’t select what you’re going to write about. So you need to plan and think about your blog as a very IMPORTANT thing.

When you care about it like that, You’re going to work hard for it. As I said earlier without knowing the core formula you can’t build it. Familiar with it then you’ll meet it.

Then What’s the catch

In order to become a successful blogger you need to care about what you know and what you do. You know every blogger should use SEO and Social Media. But the blogging life is not about them. It’s about writing. Those two are only helpers to your writing.

Remember you can’t put every hope on those two – Social Media, SEO. Then what are the things you need think?. You need to think simply this formula. It’s the formula for creating a successful blog.

The Core Formula

See above image. As I said you this is the formula and I break it a little for easy grabbing. The Formula is

1. Foundation.
2. Content.
3. Promotion.

You can see how I broke those 3 parts into few parts.

The Foundation

I broke this Foundation into 3 pieces. They are Knowledge, Writing Skills and Blog Design. You need to fulfill these 3 requirements before jump to Blogging world. If not you’ll fail at the start-up.

Knowledge – When you start your blog, you choose a niche. Choosing the niche to start blogging gets a big attention. Because if you choose something you don’t know, then you can’t be with that blog anymore. So you need to be master in your niche. If not you need to learn about your niche and get as much as information about it.

Writing Skills – Everyone can’t write fabulous way(me too). So you need to master at a style of writing which people love to read. There are more posts on Content Writing in out there. Just read all of them and get their style of writing. You need to make people interest in your content. If they feel bored, they might find someone’s content. Try to become Headline Writing Master. After the blog design Visitor get into headlines of your articles

Blog Design – Great point to think again and again. Because design of your blog does the first role when visitor come to your blog. So if it’s not a eye-catching visitor may go away. You need to put every useful thing to it in a manner of neat. use smart graphics for it. Most bloggers don’t use graphics much.

After you fulfill these 3 requirements then you’re ready to GO.  Next one is Content.

The Content

This is the King of your blog. Everyone defines Content as King. So you also. People care about the King very much and King care about the people very much. So this time King is your Content and People are your readers. So what you think? You need to think about reader when writing your content. In order to do that You need to fulfill that Writing Skill which included in Foundation part.

There are so many different kind of Content types. But when look in common corner, It must give some invaluable information to the reader. The content types are:

Killer Posts, Tutorials

These are posts which are very long. That very long comes from writing information rich points not by writing some story or something else. You need to aim for writing one point in different views and different corners. Or you can write more points in that way. Usually this kind of post gets over 1500 words. Anyway aim of these kind of posts is describe every simple point every complex point and offer highly valuable content.

Videos

There various ways people use to get information. one cause of that variation is using videos to grab information. Some people don’t interest in reading something. So they can use your videos. Create How-To videos, Tutorial Videos, Presentation Videos and upload them to YouTube and other video sites and see the results.

Images

You know and everyone knows Images get more traffic from search engines. If you make some complex points into an attractive Image like the one I made above, You can give very high value for your Images too. Then people can share those easily. They can remember those points easily.

Presentations

You can create presentations to describe something nicely. It’s like a post write on your blog, but nice way to teach something.  Create those and share in sites like SlideShare.

EBooks, Reports

You can write monthly traffic reports or some other very important thing as an EBook or Report. People like to read these too.

Do various things using all these content types, then you’ll have a great time.

The Promotion

This one needs to do in a clean way. I broke this part into 3 parts but actually It consist 3 parts. Because Link Building belongs to Off-Site under SEO. Link Building consist of using Social Media and every other link sharing methods. Other than SEO you can do Advertising, but it doesn’t want If you don’t want quick boost. Using Free ways means some time spending not Instantly.

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Even there are many link building strategies around the web, this list includes only WhiteHat or Google loving link building strategies.

You’ll never get penalized by Google for following these strategies as long as you keep the Rate and Relevancy in a constant point.

Reason why this list does not contain any BlackHat link building strategies is – Google doesn’t love them and you’ll not get long term results by following bad strategies. Okay, now you’re proceeding to the 42 Link Building Strategies which delivers you the results you want.

1. Sharing links with your friends

You have so many friends. So tell them to add your link on their little blog. They might not blog professionally. But they can give a link. The link value will be not worth much, But remember it’s worth even a little.

2. Sharing homepage links with other bloggers in your niche

See your competition as your friends, because the word ‘Relevancy’ is in their hands. Start a true relationship with other bloggers in the same niche you blog. Exchange links with those friend bloggers under Partners or Friends section of their Sidebar.

This will bring you Sitewide Links, but it’s always good to use NoFollow attribute link in this case as it is said by Google.

3. Sharing post page links with other bloggers in your niche.

This one is the best method of link exchanging. Because it don’t put you in a Risk!.

Google also likes these type of links, as they are relevant. You need to ask your niche bloggers to exchange links on their posts. Simply, you make a Backlink for him with the requested Anchor Text from your blog post and he do the same for you with your Keywords as the anchor text.

This improves your power for that keyword brilliantly …!

4. Write Professional content regularly.

Yeah I mean regularly. It might be hard some times, but your dedication can defeat it.

Don’t write ordinary posts all the time, instead of ordinary posts you need to write killer posts – They will eat the competition!

5. Use PPC and see the results.

PPC or Pay Per Click can be useful some times, but I don’t use it for ScorpionGod Lair. If your content rocks, the people arrive from PPC Campaign may share your stuff on their Social Media accounts and probably they will blog about your post.

6. Write articles for article directories

You can write some articles to article directories such as EzineArticles, ArticleBase etc.

Usually they all have great rankings and Authority.

So the links from them will manage to flow more SEO juice which are more valuable. Try to write killer professional 30 articles and then submit them to highest ranking article directories. You’ll feel the increase of Visitors after a month.

Don’t forget to add few Backlinks to your website.

7. Submit your feed to Syndication sites

There are many sites that Syndicate content. Try to participate in them. I mean add your blog to those Syndication lists. You’ll have some readers also from those sites.

8. Write Guest Posts

This is the best link building strategy I recommend. Find some well-established blogs in your niche and write cracking Guest Posts.

Those posts also bring you lot of visitors while giving extremely high quality relevant links. So this is the game. Write 50 Guest posts now and select 50 blogs and distribute them within a week of time frame.

You’ll have cracking party in your blog. I’m sure you’ll have that party – If you Do!

9. Email your best content to bloggers in your niche

Yeah, this is looking little spammy. But spammy is your behavior not your work.

If you managed to write Killer Professional Articles, then you can recommend them to bloggers in your niche. Write a professional email saying only that you believe the blogger likes your article. And put the link to it. No need to say stories in your mail. You’re dealing with bloggers. So you need to care about their valuable time.

If your article win the mind of that blogger. Then surely they will recommend it to their readers also. That gives you a link.

10. Submit your blog to DMOZ

This is the first and most wanted Directory you need to submit your blog. This is the ODP Directory or Open Directory Project runs totally by humans.

All the submissions are manually checked by someone. So this directory offers the most valuable links. Authority of your blog also rises. Google and other Search Engines are using information on DMOZ.

11. Submit your blog to Technorati

Then the second Directory you need to submit is Technorati. Register for an account and claim your blog. This is valuable as much as DMOZ.

12. Submit your blog to other Quality blog directories both paid and Free

There are so many other useful blog directories. First, make a list of High Quality Free blog directories and submit to them.

Then if you like try the paid directories. When you submit to blog directories always care about the directory. It might send bot traffic or other spammy thing and will lead your blog to penalized by Search Engines. Google don’t like low quality bot directories. So try the most popular directories only.

13. Submit your blog to RSS directories.

This one also like blog directories but gives more links than those blog directories. So you must try this also. Make sure you review the quality of the RSS Directory before submitting.

14. Tag your blog in Delicious.

Share your blog in Delicious. It will give you more exposure and Backlinks for every time you share your stuff.

Don’t forget to share others’ stuffs too.

15. Share your content in FaceBook, Twitter.

These are the big buddies of Social Media and you want to build your exposure on these 2. Because when you build the exposure, it builds you Backlinks.

16. Get Google +1s for your Posts.

Google is the giant of the Internet and Google Plus is their Social Media site. Having more +1s means you’re increasing the value of your website more than what you will get in other Social Media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

17. Pin your interesting content in Pinterest

This is the new Social Media site which captured a higher place in Social Media list in the world. It’s a cracking rocket for Graphic attachments such as Infographs, Photographs.

Pin your bests in interesting Pinterest.

18. Share your content in Digg

Digg is also another Social Bookmarking site but with higher rankings. Add your best there too.

19. Tell your friends to vote for your Digg & Delicious links

Try to bring your link into homepage or featured list in those social bookmarking sites. Then you’ll have great rankings and much traffic. That traffic also helps you to get more shares on those sites and on other Social Media sites too.

20. Link to other WP blog posts – Trackbacks

You have other bloggers in your niche. Recommend their posts to your readers. Then that blogger will be notified your link to his post and will be appeared in his post under Trackbacks section. You get a link nicely. Do this honestly.

21. Answer some questions in your niche on Yahoo Answers

Another cracking place to grab more links and traffic. You can answer relevant questions and add your link to resource box. This will bring traffic to some extend. Try to answer 10 questions every week.

The more you answer with your Resource Links, the more Backlinks you get. Before you can post clickable links you need to be in Level 2.

22. Post a classified add on Craiglist

Craiglist is a classified ad service for large number of niches. You should try with Craiglist, One of my customers receive more than 500 visitors per day from running Craiglist campaigns.

23. Use Google Groups to distribute your content.

Create a Google group in there and get some members. Distribute your content. Get links!

24. Try to create a Wikipedia page for you or for your blog after becoming popular enough.

Don’t do this one If you’re still not a well-established blog. And Wikipedia don’t let you create pages as you want them. You must offer some value to its readers. So do it only if you have something special.

25. Use Squidoo Lenses

This is same as Article Directories, but Squidoo is a web 2.0 content directory and you need to supply real content

26. Add Links to your RSS Feed

Bad guys use automated software to publish blog posts, interesting thing is they can use your RSS Feed to publish your stories to their blog automatically. When you place links to your Post and Blog in the RSS Feed story footer, you get those links when they publish your stuff.

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a plugin that can do this and lot of OnSite SEO tweaks.

27. Use your blog links in the Signature field of Forums

Use relevant niche Forums and be active on them.

Start a thread about anything with 2 or 3 concrete facts about the topic. If you have relevant articles in your blog, just link them at the necessary place.

Don’t go to do this once after you register there. First be active and show you’re real. Start your Forum journey from WarriorForum and make sure to read the tough rules of WF.

28. Post your blog links in the Personal Profile of sites

There are so many membership sites. Most of them allows you to add your blog link to profile page. FaceBook, Twitter are two examples, But there are non-Social Bookmarking sites too.

You find them!

29. Write Reviews in Alexa for related blogs

Write a clear honest Alexa review for related blogs in your niche. This will add exposure to your blog. Sometimes a link back.

30. Write Testimonials for new Digital Products

There are so many products and services released on Internet every day.

Most of the new products have review copies or just buy the product. Write a testimonial about the product and ask the seller to mention your Website Link with your testimonial.

If the product is a goldmine, it’ll bring you high quality links once it become popular.

31. Write Professional Useful comments

You may already have a list of relevant blogs in your niche. So read their posts and write a Quality & Valuable Comment.

All the big attracting comments get traffic and exposure while giving a relevant link. This one also used by me widely.

32. Hold Interesting contests

Think different and unique way, and Hold a cracking contest. It’ll help you to get large number of links depending on your contest. Try to design one that gives optimum results.

33. Design Few Web Tools

You may be blogging about Blogger Tricks and then you can design some web-based applications or funky tools. For example design a tool to check how many links in a page. There are so many tools like that. So think different.

34. Create some nice looking WP and blogger templates and submit them to template sites.

This one is a good way only if all the bloggers who are going to use these themes or templates are going to be popular. But unfortunately even half of them not going to be success. Anyway you can get links from the footer credits every time when someone use your themes or templates.

35. Try designing a Chrome extension or Firefox Addon

The best face to face fighting browsers in the world are Firfox and Chrome. So create some useful Firefox addons and extensions for them.

No matter what it makes easier for the user. Just make a good one.

36. Write really long Killer articles(2000 words or above)

As I said earlier Killer articles win the game mostly. These are going to be viral sometimes.

37. Write cracking tutorials with every single point included

This one also linkbait post – Posts which have the aim of getting trillions of links. Really great tutorials are going to get links easily. Because it is really helpful in any corner.

38. Write list posts like this.

Another type of linkbait posts. List posts are normally points or facts about a topic. It may be a list of achieving something or it may be a list of myths and so on.

39. If you are using your mother language forums. Then write your blog posts summary or half of the post in your mother language and post in those forums.

Try this method if you love to have country traffic. This method is really effective in normal forums.

40. Write an Ebook or a report and submit them to Ebook sites and directories.

There are bunch of Ebook sites. So create a free report or ebook and submit them to those sites with a linkback. You can grab traffic also. Free-Ebooks is a good one to start.

41. Create a presentation and submit it to Slideshare

If you have something to say which is complex and needs much words to explain. Then try creating a presentation. submit it to sites like SlideShare.

42. Create a Free WordPress Plugin & Submit it to the Repository

WordPress plugins are getting talked by all the people who use them. So try creating a one and submit it to WP plugins page. I created my 1st WordPress Plugin called SEO Advicer which delivers SEO Actions right in your WordPress Dashboard.

What’s Next …

Did you forgot we already reached the 42nd Link Building Strategy? There are few things you can do next. Choose a one from the below!

1. Write a comment on what you think about these link building strategies.
2. Write a reply post to these link building strategies in your blog.
3. Click the Google+ button and Twitter Share button by spending 5 seconds.

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You need to aware about Link Building to a great extent, because you can be doing the wrong way without knowing things correctly.

If you want a sad example for such people, just checkout the number of orders for Fiverr Bulk Backlinking Gigs.

It’s always a great deal when you do know what you do. That’s where you take the right decision. So keep reading to the concrete facts of Link Building.

What Is Link Building

Link Building can be known as like this. There are two blogs called A and B, then Blog A links to blog B’s homepage this is called Homepage Link Building.

If the blog B links to blog A’s Post page it’s called Post Page Link Building. Both types are good to get, but you need Post Page LB to boost the SEO Strength of a Post or Page.

Backlinks is another word to LB. You can get these Backlinks by WhiteHat Practices and BlackHat Practices which means Good Practices and Bad Practices respectively.

If you do follow Good Practices, you’ll get the benefits of backlinking for a long time, but if you do Bad Practices, then you will get the benefits for a short time. After that you’re gone with Bad practices.

Benefits Of Link Building

As I said earlier you can achieve many benefits while driving to your Goals. When a blog links to another blog, that means it’s a vote for that linked blog. If you collect many of them, then you’re the king. Search engines are using these votes to show relevant blogs in Search Engine Results Page.

Your riding of up and down is depend on mostly Link Building.

Link Building will help you to

1. Get nice number of REAL readers which can be called Targeted Visitors.
2. Get traffic from those linked pages.
3. Rank high in SERPs.
4. Rank high for a particular Keyword(Word or Phrase searchers are using to find what they want).
5. Become an Authority in your niche.
6. Get smart sales.
7. Get a high Google PR – PageRank
8. Receive credibility and trust.

There may be more benefits which I missed at this time. You find it and don’t forget to let me know below in the comments!

When more relevant links coming to your blog you’ll definitely start getting Targeted Visitors, that means you’ll get visitors who actually reads your posts very likely, visitors who actually comment on your posts and visitors who share your content on Social media sites and their blogs.

Do you understand this huge opportunity? They also take part in Link Building to your blog naturally. They are called Organic Link Building.

And another reason you can satisfy with those Targeted Visitors is, They might be very likely to buy your product, Service or your recommended things. There’s sign of getting sales with these visitors. That means Relevant Link Building will bring you to the Success.

When you get a Backlink, Search Engine just like Google gives you a +Score. The value of this Score is determined by the Quality of the Backlink you get. It includes factors such as Root PR, Number of Links in the page, Post Page PR, Relevancy of the Website, Post to your website or Post etc.

Remember the fact you learned few days ago on ScorpionGod Lair – Quality Over Quantity.

You don’t need 1000s of Backlinks, just 1 Quality Backlink would give you a PR1. Then why do you concentrate on creating 1000s of Backlinks? What’s the point of it, If you’re doing it?

There are many legitimate ways to build links. So try those Legit Link Building methods. Try to get the highest quality backlinks by putting a lot of effort.

It is better than the low quality 1000s …

Common Rules For Link Building

Everything must be done according to a law, unless you’re going to fight with the dead. Since search engines started to offer better relevant information for its users, they started to develop their ranking algorithm continuously. Bloggers also used various ways to Rank well in those Search Engines clean or ugly.

Some used to do it always using ugly things. There are two types of SEO according to it, BlackHat SEO – Rank using bad ways and WhiteHat SEO – Rank using correct natural way. And Google and other search engines started to fight with BlackHat SEO guys.

Search engines started to punish these guys by penalizing from search engines or some other kind. Do you want to face such a disaster? If not, Follow the legitimate ways and it will return the favor.

• Don’t Build It Too Fast – Google don’t like instant, fast Backlinks. So don’t try it. Build all your links as possible as slow. More it’s building slowly, the more you’re out of risky. Don’t let your backlinking pattern go out. You build 10 Backlinks every day then suddenly you buy 500backlinks. Google is watching all these things. So Instant means You’re dying.
• Build Only Relevant Baclinks – Google likes relevant links directly. If you build all your links only from relevant blogs and other relevant sources, then you don’t have to worry about your ranks. Relevant Link Building provides more value to your blogs. Always try to build links using PR high blogs. If you don’t have a clear plan on how to do link building. Then you should learn more about it. Don’t build links from small blogs. This means dump blogs, crappy blogs, content copy blogs and similar blogs.

Now you’re familiar with Link Building and it’s benefits. I’ll tell you Strategical ways to do Link Building in a comfortable manner in my tomorrow post. There are hundreds of things to tell you about Link Building Methods. Think deeply then you’ll also design your own Link Building Strategies like every one else.

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