1. Optimize Your Web site's Content:
First and foremost, get your website content right. Make sure it is easily read by both humans and search engines. An essential variable applied by Search Engines in the way in which they rank websites is based on the relevancy of the content that the search engine is indexing.
2. Create a Content Development Strategy for Your Website:
In addition to optimizing the existing content on your website, it is essential that you develop a strategy to continuously grow your websites content on an ongoing basis. All new content should be written specifically with the web reader in mind and should also be optimized for the search engines.
3. Invest in a Paid Search (Pay-Per-Click) Campaign:
When you pay for traffic (visitors) that click on your advertisements that are being advertised on search engines, this is called pay-per-click or search engine advertising. Paid search allows you to quickly leverage search engine traffic by bidding for keywords that are related to the products or services that you promote and sell on your website. Paid search advertising is particularly beneficial to companies who are not yet well ranked on search engines through natural search.
4. Publicize Your Website Through Article Marketing:
Article marketing is regarded by Internet marketing experts as one of the most effective promotional methods to publicize your website and to grow the number of back links (incoming links) to your website content. To ensure ongoing awareness, articles should be submitted to suitable article directories, content publishers, article announcement lists and content syndication (RSS feeds). Each article should be published on your website first and should include a bookmark button to encourage social bookmarking.
5. Develop a Social Media Marketing Strategy:
Studies show that by the end of 2007 more than 60% of top global companies will have had some form of social media marketing strategy in place. Corporates and small business owners should create a clear social media marketing strategy as part of an integrated communications and marketing strategy. Social Media has become an essential component of online marketing and search engines are adjusting their rankings to include search personalization. One of the effects of the social media revolution is an exponential growth in the amount of content online.
6. Create a Company Blog:
In the past, corporates have focused marketing and communications efforts on becoming faceless. This has changed significantly. Where the online consumer has become very much in control, companies will no longer be able to connect with their customers in a meaningful and emotional way without having a personality. More and more companies are starting to realize the significance of establishing a company personality and we are starting to see more Corporate Blogs coming alive. Business Blogging will continue to become more lucrative as more and more people look to new media such as Blogs and social websites for insight.
7. Experiment With Video Marketing:
There is tremendous power and revenue-generating potential in Video Marketing. With the rapid ongoing growth of YouTube's traffic in addition to the emergence of Internet Television websites, streaming video is dominating the international web and marketers are quickly scrambling to capitalize on this exciting channel. As companies seek to simplify video sharing, video marketing will become more interactive which could have huge implications for Affiliate marketing.
8. Engage Your Audiences With Web Widget Marketing:
Widgets have made significant strides as an accepted marketing technique in recent months. Many new Blog oriented services are launching Widgets providing businesses with the opportunity to quickly introduce their services and new products to audiences.
Web Widgets are small applets that live in HTML and provide miniature versions of a specific piece of content outside of the primary web site. Web Widget Marketing is not only an exciting new marketing technique; it is fast becoming one of the leading brand-building marketing strategies for businesses advertising online.
9. Discover the Benefits of Mobile Media Marketing:
Mobile media marketing has continued to grow at a meteoric pace as many web companies recognize the huge potential in mobile marketing. As new technologies emerge and standard websites are converted to ones that can easily be accessed by mobile devices, companies will need to ensure that their websites are mobile-friendly. This leads the way for new and innovative opportunities to provide the consumer with improved brand and marketing experiences.
10. Create an Effective Email Marketing Strategy:
Introduce an effective Email communications strategy as part of your marketing strategy to grow your existing customer base and to expand your client base significantly through permission marketing and regular targeted communications. Engaging your customers with relevant, targeted information when, where, and how they want it is crucial to marketing success. By combining technological advances with tried-and-tested best practices, the future still looks bright for email marketers.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
SEO and Link Building Challenges for 2008
I was reading a good article of seo. Written by Justilien Gaspard he has also own blog of Link building http://www.justilien.com/ I like most of his seo article.
Google's public attack on paid links has caused a flood of scared Webmasters who are scared to link to other sites. Google's assault on paid links has forced Webmasters to ask: What is a paid link? Here are the top five trends and challenges SEOs, link builders, and Webmasters face
1. Webmasters Scared to Link Out
2. Overuse and Abuse of NoFollow Tags
3. Neglected Link Building Destroys Top Rankings
4. Google Paid Links Assault: Collateral Damage
5. Scarcity of Link Building Resources
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Google's public attack on paid links has caused a flood of scared Webmasters who are scared to link to other sites. Google's assault on paid links has forced Webmasters to ask: What is a paid link? Here are the top five trends and challenges SEOs, link builders, and Webmasters face
1. Webmasters Scared to Link Out
2. Overuse and Abuse of NoFollow Tags
3. Neglected Link Building Destroys Top Rankings
4. Google Paid Links Assault: Collateral Damage
5. Scarcity of Link Building Resources
Learn More
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Business makes strange bedfellows
Business makes strange bedfellows. Just in time for the FTC to approve Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, and with it an SEO firm called Performics, the company has changed its tune a bit about how to deal with SEO companies.
For the longest time, Google advised webmasters to be wary of SEO companies, and put up this warning at the Webmaster Help Center:
"For your own safety, you should insist on a full and unconditional money-back guarantee. Don’t be afraid to request a refund if you’re unsatisfied for any reason, or if your SEO’s actions cause your domain to be removed from a search engine’s index." Read More.....Saturday, October 27, 2007
Combo Link Building Services
As you all know me very well and in this update I got pretty results. Here on V7n members earlier my Directory Submission Service is going very well and I am always ready to provide you quality job in future also.
Recently I have done big expansion to increase no of submitters. In the mean time before this Google updating I have done one experiment, only directory submission is not enough for your Google PR and ranking. Your site contents and promotion work mutually. You need strong contents as well as promotion.
Now question arise how can we do promotion?
1) Directory Submission
2) Article Submission
3) Build Quality Links (One way prefer)
4) Social Bookmaking Submissions
5) Stumbling
6) Blog Posting and comments
These are the some simple way to get Google PR & ranking. Above mention tips are easy and affordable to every one. Here is many other tactics which you can use but am sorry can’t mention here right now. But, if some one is very interested to know more you’re most welcome to contact me.
In this update if you are not happy please, I have good offer for you all guys.
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Google Apps
Google announce that you can now create and share presentations with Google Docs -- the application in Google Apps formerly known as Docs & Spreadsheets.
With this feature, you can create a new set of slides from scratch or import existing presentations and share and collaborate on them in real time. You can even drive a presentation remotely while colleagues or clients look on from their own computers.
Curious about how it all works? Check out this short video, Google Docs in Plain English. You can also take the Google Docs Tour.
With this feature, you can create a new set of slides from scratch or import existing presentations and share and collaborate on them in real time. You can even drive a presentation remotely while colleagues or clients look on from their own computers.
Curious about how it all works? Check out this short video, Google Docs in Plain English. You can also take the Google Docs Tour.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
What is Social Bookmarking ?
Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. - a personal knowledge management tool
Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks to an online service and "tagging" them with keywords you create instead of saving the bookmarks in your browser's favorite's list. Your collection of bookmarks is viewable to others users who may easily copy bookmarks to their own collection. Social bookmarking enables a you to discover other people who are interested in a topic and know about an excellent web resources that you may not have found by using a search engine.
Tagging is a term used in a number of contexts for different purposes, mostly referring to adding a tag of some form. Tags can be thought of as keyword that allow ad hoc classification and sorting of a variety of types of information. Tagging can be applied to URLs (in the case of social bookmarking),
Google and major search engines have decided to go content centric, in a nutshell the more places you have your content the greater traffic you generate. This means that submitting your site manually with social bookmarking sites like Digg, blogthis!, myspace will ensure a greater volume of traffic. However the operative word is not pointless, i'll directed traffic but relevant traffic, our constant endeavour is to serve sites with well researched and well directed traffic by our bookmarking submission.
Our team ensures that every site is first indexed for the intended target audience, only sites with suitable page rank and pedigree are selected. All links are strictly one way and permanent, our service is tuned in to the ever changing world of search engine optimization. With the implementation of context sensitive search algorithms and with the advent of more personalised search results for users, submission of your site contents to a social bookmarking site is a no longer a trial and error affair.
Below are the list of Social bookmarking Sites.
1) http://www.gravee.com/
2) http://www.bibsonomy.org
3) http://www.blinklist.com/
4) http://bluedot.us/friends/dots
5) http://del.icio.us/
6) http://de.lirio.us/
7) http://www.diigo.com/
8) http://www.furl.net/
9) http://www.looklater.com/
10) http://www.markaboo.com
11) http://ma.gnolia.com/
12) http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces
13) http://www.shadows.com/
14) http://www.simpy.com/
15) http://www.spurl.net/
16) http://www.netvouz.com/
17) http://www.igooi.com
18) http://www.hanzoweb.com
19) http://wink.com/
20) http://www.digg.com/
21) http://www.ekudos.nl/
22) http://www.complore.com/
23) http://www.tallstreet.com/
24) http://indiagram.com/index.php
25) http://www.goesby.com/
26) http://www.portachi.com/
27) http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
28) http://www.bookmark.it/
29) http://www.wirefan.com/
30) http://www.linkatopia.com/
31) http://www.optimiz.us/
32) http://www.linklog.nl/
33) http://www.blogmarks.net/
34) http://reddit.com/
35) http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
36) http://www.listible.com/
37) http://www.kaboodle.com/
38) http://www.wists.com/
39) http://otavo.com/
40) http://clipclip.org/
41) http://www.citeulike.org/
42) http://www.i89.us/
43) http://www.smarking.com/
44) http://www.indiamarks.com/
45) http://www.meme-stream.com/
46) http://www.getboo.com/
47) http://www.tabmarks.com/
48) http://www.zurpy.com/
49) http://clipmarks.com/
50) http://www.linkagogo.com/
51) http://www.bookkit.com/
52) http://www.lilisto.com/
53) http://feedmelinks.com/portal
54) http://www.bmaccess.net/
55) http://www.linkologia.pl/
56) http://segnalo.alice.it/?
57) http://www.eigology.com/dogear/
58) http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu
59) http://www.lookmarks.com/
60) http://www.30daytags.com/fresh
61) http://imp.etuo.us/
62) http://rollyo.com/
63) http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/
64) http://www.librarything.com/
65) http://www.linkblog.com.br
66) http://www.oyax.com/
67) http://www.urlex.info/
68) http://www.web-feeds.com
69) http://www.browsr.com/
70) http://www.rojo.com/
71) http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
72) http://buddymarks.com/
73) http://www.butterflyproject.nl/
74) https://www.chipmark.com/Main
75) http://ez4u.net/
76) http://www.fungow.com
77) http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/
78) http://www.mobleo.net/
79) http://www2.myhq.com/
80) http://www.mylinkvault.com/
81) http://www.mypip.com/home/
82) http://www.myvmarks.com
83) http://www.pixelmo.com/
84) http://www.searchles.com/
85) http://www.shoppersbase.com/
86) http://www.sitejot.com/
87) http://socialbookmarking.org/
88) http://www.syncone.net/
89) http://www.startaid.com
90) http://www.zoogim.com/
91) http://bwsmith.com
92) http://aboogy.com
93) http://socialbookmarkingsite.com/
94) http://www.putvote.com
95) http://www.tagcloud9.com/
96) http://kinja.com
97) http://www.philoi.com/
98) http://www.technorati.com
99) http://www.ambedo.com/
100) http://www.icio.de/
101) http://www.netscape.com/
102) http://newskicks.com/submit.php
103) http://www.fark.com
104) http://www.mysitevote.com
105) http://www.articlesarchieve.com
106) http://www.article-publishers.com
107) http://www.articlesnetwork.net
Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks to an online service and "tagging" them with keywords you create instead of saving the bookmarks in your browser's favorite's list. Your collection of bookmarks is viewable to others users who may easily copy bookmarks to their own collection. Social bookmarking enables a you to discover other people who are interested in a topic and know about an excellent web resources that you may not have found by using a search engine.
Tagging is a term used in a number of contexts for different purposes, mostly referring to adding a tag of some form. Tags can be thought of as keyword that allow ad hoc classification and sorting of a variety of types of information. Tagging can be applied to URLs (in the case of social bookmarking),
Benefits of Social Bookmarking Sites.
Why is social bookmarking significant- Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of users around a topic
- allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for example) to share resources efficiently
- Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and connect to it
- Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts)
- Most tools incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging software)
- You will easily Discover what's popular i.e. On most social bookmarking sites you can see what's hot and what's not - that is you can see what everybody else are sharing in their bookmarks for a particular tag. This is an excellent way of finding relevant bookmarks for you.
- Many will find your content compelling enough may just consider to link-back from their websites to your website. This way you can again gain a relevant one-way backlink for your web site.
- Last but not the least, when you bookmark your web site URL to these Social Bookmarking sites and agree to share it with other people, your link, depending on the 'tag' you choose, is often placed for some time in good relevant web pages having fairly high Page Ranks. And that's exactly what you may have wished for.
Google and major search engines have decided to go content centric, in a nutshell the more places you have your content the greater traffic you generate. This means that submitting your site manually with social bookmarking sites like Digg, blogthis!, myspace will ensure a greater volume of traffic. However the operative word is not pointless, i'll directed traffic but relevant traffic, our constant endeavour is to serve sites with well researched and well directed traffic by our bookmarking submission.
Our team ensures that every site is first indexed for the intended target audience, only sites with suitable page rank and pedigree are selected. All links are strictly one way and permanent, our service is tuned in to the ever changing world of search engine optimization. With the implementation of context sensitive search algorithms and with the advent of more personalised search results for users, submission of your site contents to a social bookmarking site is a no longer a trial and error affair.
Below are the list of Social bookmarking Sites.
1) http://www.gravee.com/
2) http://www.bibsonomy.org
3) http://www.blinklist.com/
4) http://bluedot.us/friends/dots
5) http://del.icio.us/
6) http://de.lirio.us/
7) http://www.diigo.com/
8) http://www.furl.net/
9) http://www.looklater.com/
10) http://www.markaboo.com
11) http://ma.gnolia.com/
12) http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces
13) http://www.shadows.com/
14) http://www.simpy.com/
15) http://www.spurl.net/
16) http://www.netvouz.com/
17) http://www.igooi.com
18) http://www.hanzoweb.com
19) http://wink.com/
20) http://www.digg.com/
21) http://www.ekudos.nl/
22) http://www.complore.com/
23) http://www.tallstreet.com/
24) http://indiagram.com/index.php
25) http://www.goesby.com/
26) http://www.portachi.com/
27) http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
28) http://www.bookmark.it/
29) http://www.wirefan.com/
30) http://www.linkatopia.com/
31) http://www.optimiz.us/
32) http://www.linklog.nl/
33) http://www.blogmarks.net/
34) http://reddit.com/
35) http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
36) http://www.listible.com/
37) http://www.kaboodle.com/
38) http://www.wists.com/
39) http://otavo.com/
40) http://clipclip.org/
41) http://www.citeulike.org/
42) http://www.i89.us/
43) http://www.smarking.com/
44) http://www.indiamarks.com/
45) http://www.meme-stream.com/
46) http://www.getboo.com/
47) http://www.tabmarks.com/
48) http://www.zurpy.com/
49) http://clipmarks.com/
50) http://www.linkagogo.com/
51) http://www.bookkit.com/
52) http://www.lilisto.com/
53) http://feedmelinks.com/portal
54) http://www.bmaccess.net/
55) http://www.linkologia.pl/
56) http://segnalo.alice.it/?
57) http://www.eigology.com/dogear/
58) http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu
59) http://www.lookmarks.com/
60) http://www.30daytags.com/fresh
61) http://imp.etuo.us/
62) http://rollyo.com/
63) http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/
64) http://www.librarything.com/
65) http://www.linkblog.com.br
66) http://www.oyax.com/
67) http://www.urlex.info/
68) http://www.web-feeds.com
69) http://www.browsr.com/
70) http://www.rojo.com/
71) http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
72) http://buddymarks.com/
73) http://www.butterflyproject.nl/
74) https://www.chipmark.com/Main
75) http://ez4u.net/
76) http://www.fungow.com
77) http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/
78) http://www.mobleo.net/
79) http://www2.myhq.com/
80) http://www.mylinkvault.com/
81) http://www.mypip.com/home/
82) http://www.myvmarks.com
83) http://www.pixelmo.com/
84) http://www.searchles.com/
85) http://www.shoppersbase.com/
86) http://www.sitejot.com/
87) http://socialbookmarking.org/
88) http://www.syncone.net/
89) http://www.startaid.com
90) http://www.zoogim.com/
91) http://bwsmith.com
92) http://aboogy.com
93) http://socialbookmarkingsite.com/
94) http://www.putvote.com
95) http://www.tagcloud9.com/
96) http://kinja.com
97) http://www.philoi.com/
98) http://www.technorati.com
99) http://www.ambedo.com/
100) http://www.icio.de/
101) http://www.netscape.com/
102) http://newskicks.com/submit.php
103) http://www.fark.com
104) http://www.mysitevote.com
105) http://www.articlesarchieve.com
106) http://www.article-publishers.com
107) http://www.articlesnetwork.net
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics
User Contributed-Making Money With A Video Blog
Mark, a knowledgeable reader and benevolent commenter here has made a separation and started his own blog called Digerati Marketing. It’s pretty new and only has a couple posts so far, but I got to say the material thus far is absolutely fantastic. I think it’s a great representation of the Blue Hat spirit. So I have absolutely no problem plugging it, because I really do think you should add it to your readers in case he keeps up the excellent work. He was kind enough to donate one of his posts here. It’s called Making Money With A Video Blog. I think it’s a great post and if you’ve been paying close attention you’ll know that I also already do this idea and he is absolutely right on all counts. So enjoy.
-Eli
An Introduction to Video Websites
There’s a lot of them about, a lot. Apart from the old-timers like Ebaumsworld, Google’s acquisition of YouTube has really seen them starting to eat up this market. The great thing is, that doesn’t matter, videos are a disposal media - people look at them once, show their mates and then it’s old news. You’re only as good as your last video! What we’re going to look at doing here is setting up a video website with minimal cost & time and maximizing our profit.
Now, I’m not claiming this will make you a millionaire, but you can earn around £500 ($1000 to our American friends) per month without too much trouble. So it’s well worth it for the day or two it will take to set up!
Step #1: Monetization Strategy
Okay, for this site we are going to make our bucks from a couple of different sources. Our main income will be made from Google Adsense. If you haven’t got yourself a Google Adsense Publisher account, click the big button below and sign up. Adsense will display contextual adverts which you can neatly blend in with the design of your website, to make them non-intrusive, yet a natural click away. For this website we are aiming at generating a 25% click-through rate while staying well inside the Adsense Terms Of Service.
An important note: I’m going to give you some tips on optimizing your Adsense placement and layout later, if you want to take the optimization further, you may be pushing the limit on what Google does and doesn’t allow. The Adsense team can be merciless at times if they think you are breaking their TOS, which can be quite “grey” at times. So, stick to the guidelines and you’ll be fine, cross the line at your own risk!
So, if you haven’t already,
Step #2: Setting up the website with Wordpress
Yay for Wordpress and its many uses! Wordpress gives you an off the shelf platform for out video blog (vlog). It allows comments, pings, trackbacks, easy archiving, it’s SEO friendly and has loads of plugins. For this kind of mission, it’s definitely the number one choice.
There are two ways you can go about getting Wordpress up and running:
1) You can go to wordpress.com and sign up for a wordpress account, they will provide you with a hosted blog such as myvideoblog.wordpress.com
or
2) You can go wordpress.org and download Wordpress and install it on your server. This is really the preferred option as it will give you the power to use some neat features in the future, which will smooth out the money making process! If you haven’t got web hosting, I use Site5 (aff link) and they’ve always been good to me and are fairly priced.
Once you’ve uploaded Wordpress to your server, follow the installation guide (it’s pretty simple) to get your Wordpress installation and database up and running.
Step #3: Choosing a domain name
Probably the hardest part of building any website is finding a domain name! Don’t worry too much about getting keywords in there, organic SEO isn’t how we’ll be doing the bulk of our promotion, try and focus on getting something short, snappy and memorable. (That means no hyphens!). If you can get something with a keyword or two (funny, video, comedy, humor - reach for your thesaurus) all the better, but as I say - don’t sacrifice the name for it. Once that’s sorted, point it at your server so it will have resolved by the time you’re ready to launch.
Step #4: Plugins Galore
There are some great plugins for Wordpress that will save you a hell of a lot of time and coding. I’ve experimented with quite a few and whittled the list down to some essentials.
Viper’s Video Quicktags - This plugin will save you having to rip out all the embed code from videos on major sites like YouTube, all you need to do is paste in the video ID and this plugin will do all the rest of the code & alignment for you. It’s essential to make adding videos as quick as possible.
WP-Email - This plugin adds an “E-mail This To A Friend” option at the bottom of every post (which will be your videos). I’ve been using these for a while and although you don’t get loads of people use them, personally recommendation is the best kind of marketing your website could hope for.
WP-PostRatings - This will add the “rate this video” 0-5 stars function at the bottom of each post. It’s a nice addon to get people to try and interact with your site if the can’t be bothered to post comments. Interaction is good - it’s the first step in relation building with your visitors and ultimately trying to get them to come back.
Sociable - Adds a mini-bar of just about every popular social bookmarking site worth mentioning at the bottom of each post. Digg, Reddit, Bloglines, they’re all there. Optimization Tip: From experimenting, I found it is best not just to select all the social sites going, choose a maximum of 5 major ones, then rotate to see what is most successful. Having a line of 20 social bookmarking icons looks a bit confusing and seems to ultimately put people off using them.
StumbleUpon It! - StumbleUpon is a really great way to promote sites with entertainment and disposable content. This plugin gives you a “stumble it” button at the bottom of each post, which will play a part in our future marketing strategy.
Did You Pass Math? - Did you? This is just a basic anti-spam measure that puts one of those sums before you’re allowed to comment. Spam is a major problem, so I’d recommend this one, just to save you some time.
Akismet - This should be present in your default Wordpress installation, you require a Wordpress API key - but this little gem has stopped more spam than anything else I’ve ever tried.
Step #5: Get Feedburned
Okay, with further promotion in mind it’s time to sign up to Feedburner. RSS is going to be one of the main ways we keep in touch with our readers, letting them know we’ve put more videos on our site and Feedburner offers a load of other ways to let people subscribe to your content.
Step #6: Theme Design
There are loads of great Wordpress themes at themes.wordpress.net. Have a good look through them until you find something you like. I would generally recommend going for something fairly simplistic and neat with an either 2 or 3 column design. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you could always design your own!
Once you’ve got your theme and uploaded it, I’d suggest tweaking some of the graphics to make it your own. Get your branding up there, design a logo and base your site around the domain name. This is why we wanted something easy to remember and relevant earlier, it’s no good calling your site “Video Hustler” then having www.my-funny-internet-videos.cc and hoping people will remember it.
This article is taken from http://www.bluehatseo.com/making-money-with-video-blogs/
Monday, July 16, 2007
Biggest Mistake When Choosing Keywords
The most common mistake most novice webmasters make is targeting keywords which are too competitive. You simply will not be able to compete or place for extremely competitive keywords. Well established sites and businesses with very deep pockets have the resources to completely dominate those keywords.
While it is not entirely futile nor a waste of time to concentrate your efforts on highly competitive keywords, you will have better success if you target low to medium competitive keywords.
Long Tail Keyword Marketing
Besides online marketers have discovered that longer keyword phrases are usually the most lucrative. These phrases deliver traffic which is better targeted and more likely to convert into a sale. "Dog hunting training" which gets around 100 searches a day will be more targeted than the general term "dog training" and if you have a site devoted to training hunting dogs then this keyword phrase may convert better for you.
Always keep this "Long Tail" keyword strategy in the back of your mind as you implement the following steps to achieve your own Top 10 Rankings in Google.
1. Make A Master Keyword LÃst
Your first step is to make a master lÃst of the keywords you wish to target. Obviously these should be closely related to the theme of your site. Chëck the keyword competition by seeing how many sites are listed in Google for that keyword. Webmasters should also chëck the Google PageRank of the sites that hold the top 10 positions. If all those sites are PR6 and above it may be hard to get ranked high for your keywords.
2. Choose Related Keywords
Once you have your master lÃst of keywords, find long tail related keywords to target. Again, check out the competition and daily searches made for each chosen keyword.
3. Use Quality Content For Your Keywords
Creating quality content should always be your main goal. Write for actual visitors who will see and read your content. First and foremost you must have good useful content that your visitors will use themselves and recommend to their friends or colleagues. Tie this quality content in with your chosen keywords. Use one keyword phrase per page.
4. Keyword In Domain Name, Title and URLs
Having your keyword in your domain name will score big points from search engines. Plus, each page of content should contain your keywords in the title & meta tags for that page. Most experts also suggest you have your keyword in the URL and use hyphens to separate your keywords. Although the author has gotten good results by using an underscore and htm in URLs.
Example: www.yoursite.com/your_keyword.htm
While it is not entirely futile nor a waste of time to concentrate your efforts on highly competitive keywords, you will have better success if you target low to medium competitive keywords.
Long Tail Keyword Marketing
Besides online marketers have discovered that longer keyword phrases are usually the most lucrative. These phrases deliver traffic which is better targeted and more likely to convert into a sale. "Dog hunting training" which gets around 100 searches a day will be more targeted than the general term "dog training" and if you have a site devoted to training hunting dogs then this keyword phrase may convert better for you.
Always keep this "Long Tail" keyword strategy in the back of your mind as you implement the following steps to achieve your own Top 10 Rankings in Google.
1. Make A Master Keyword LÃst
Your first step is to make a master lÃst of the keywords you wish to target. Obviously these should be closely related to the theme of your site. Chëck the keyword competition by seeing how many sites are listed in Google for that keyword. Webmasters should also chëck the Google PageRank of the sites that hold the top 10 positions. If all those sites are PR6 and above it may be hard to get ranked high for your keywords.
2. Choose Related Keywords
Once you have your master lÃst of keywords, find long tail related keywords to target. Again, check out the competition and daily searches made for each chosen keyword.
3. Use Quality Content For Your Keywords
Creating quality content should always be your main goal. Write for actual visitors who will see and read your content. First and foremost you must have good useful content that your visitors will use themselves and recommend to their friends or colleagues. Tie this quality content in with your chosen keywords. Use one keyword phrase per page.
4. Keyword In Domain Name, Title and URLs
Having your keyword in your domain name will score big points from search engines. Plus, each page of content should contain your keywords in the title & meta tags for that page. Most experts also suggest you have your keyword in the URL and use hyphens to separate your keywords. Although the author has gotten good results by using an underscore and htm in URLs.
Example: www.yoursite.com/your_keyword.htm
Friday, June 22, 2007
Online Coupon Codes
A coupon is a ticket or document that is being exchanged for getting financial discount or rebate on the purchase of a product. Mostly it is distributed through magazines, newspapers and the internet. Internet coupons have become very popular these days because they are being printed by the consumer himself and are easily available. Many retailers find it easy to sell their products online with the help of these coupon codes. In addition to the discounts, a consumer also gets additional benefits like free shipping, offers, gifts and other rebates.
You get many promotional codes that are either numeric or alphanumeric codes also known as free shipping codes, online coupon codes, key codes, media codes. Promotional codes have many special offers from many of the big brands. You can get such discounts on any of the products such as food, clothes, cosmetics, stationery, health products, travel etc. One feature of these promotional coupons is also that you can use them along with other promotional offers.
These promotional codes help not only individuals to avail discounts and offers on their purchases while shopping but also helps business merchants to get huge savings and incentives while they make any purchases in bulk. Now many websites offer such promotional codes to the consumer whereby you can choose from number of discount deals and decide which one is the most suitable for you.
If you want to get these promotional codes and make the proper use you should use these tips:
1. You can subscribe to the email newsletters of such websites that offer online coupon codes because this will keep you updated of the latest offers and discounts.
2. You can get direct emails and catalogs that carry these promotional codes from such online stores.
3. You can check the preferred items while you visit such websites so that you get all the promotional information related to them as and when available.
4. Many a times, these promotional codes could be used during holiday season when mostly people shop out.
5. You need to compare the products and discounts offered by different websites that will help you to decide which one is best for you.
6. You should print or keep a copy of the order confirmation page so that you could avoid any hassles after a purchase.
You get many promotional codes that are either numeric or alphanumeric codes also known as free shipping codes, online coupon codes, key codes, media codes. Promotional codes have many special offers from many of the big brands. You can get such discounts on any of the products such as food, clothes, cosmetics, stationery, health products, travel etc. One feature of these promotional coupons is also that you can use them along with other promotional offers.
These promotional codes help not only individuals to avail discounts and offers on their purchases while shopping but also helps business merchants to get huge savings and incentives while they make any purchases in bulk. Now many websites offer such promotional codes to the consumer whereby you can choose from number of discount deals and decide which one is the most suitable for you.
If you want to get these promotional codes and make the proper use you should use these tips:
1. You can subscribe to the email newsletters of such websites that offer online coupon codes because this will keep you updated of the latest offers and discounts.
2. You can get direct emails and catalogs that carry these promotional codes from such online stores.
3. You can check the preferred items while you visit such websites so that you get all the promotional information related to them as and when available.
4. Many a times, these promotional codes could be used during holiday season when mostly people shop out.
5. You need to compare the products and discounts offered by different websites that will help you to decide which one is best for you.
6. You should print or keep a copy of the order confirmation page so that you could avoid any hassles after a purchase.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Role of Quality links in Link Building
Its very important to get your site on the competitive position in the online market. So, now many questions arise like How this can be possible? How one can increase customers interest on own site? What steps are to be taken to increase traffic? What can be done so that site rank high in search engines? and many more....
Link building is one of the answers to these questions. Link building is to build quality inbound links to own site with the intention to get the answer of all above questions.
Link building is one of the most important factors to get your site to rank high in the major search engines. As a result, it increases your traffic significantly. So always keep in mind that which link brings more traffic and attract clients. In addition, it also increases the website importance.
Link building is not just the no. of links you get, but is the benefit which those links give to your business. Link Building helps your site to gain page rank. Higher the page rank, more chances it give your site to rank high in search engines with relevant keywords.
Quality than Quantity of Links:
Now a days, Quality of those links is more important than the quantity of links. Quality of links simply means to provide related information in the pages and with the high page rankings in the search engines. Link building is time consuming, difficult and sometimes confusing too. But it is unavoidable as it improves your visibility in the search engines.
It doesn't mean that only to rank high in search engines, you place a links of other sites to yours which is not providing appropriate information to the customers. It can reduce your customer's interest in your site. Adversely, one of the benefit of having more Quality links is the ranking in search engines.
If you want other people to get gain from your site, then you should highlight necessary and interesting information relevant to the topic. The contents must be clear and impressive. Once you understand the customer requirements and lifetime value, you are sure to get quality links.
Always try to get links from related sites rather than from irrelevant sites only to increase traffic. Make contacts with those sites which have related business and selling related products like you in order to get a link from their web site to yours. As a result, it will improve and simultaneously boost your websites Page rank.
One point to be keep in mind, never waste your time and effort in fake and irrelevant inbound links. Always try to invest your time and money in building real quality links. Avoid linking high page rank site having many outgoing links than the low PR page having less outgoing links. You can improve the rank of your site by increasing related high quality links to your site.
Conclusion:
Building high quality links is essential and more effective way to gain traffic and of course rankings in search engines too. In addition, good link building campaign will attract real customers and improves search engine performance.
Link building is one of the answers to these questions. Link building is to build quality inbound links to own site with the intention to get the answer of all above questions.
Link building is one of the most important factors to get your site to rank high in the major search engines. As a result, it increases your traffic significantly. So always keep in mind that which link brings more traffic and attract clients. In addition, it also increases the website importance.
Link building is not just the no. of links you get, but is the benefit which those links give to your business. Link Building helps your site to gain page rank. Higher the page rank, more chances it give your site to rank high in search engines with relevant keywords.
Quality than Quantity of Links:
Now a days, Quality of those links is more important than the quantity of links. Quality of links simply means to provide related information in the pages and with the high page rankings in the search engines. Link building is time consuming, difficult and sometimes confusing too. But it is unavoidable as it improves your visibility in the search engines.
It doesn't mean that only to rank high in search engines, you place a links of other sites to yours which is not providing appropriate information to the customers. It can reduce your customer's interest in your site. Adversely, one of the benefit of having more Quality links is the ranking in search engines.
If you want other people to get gain from your site, then you should highlight necessary and interesting information relevant to the topic. The contents must be clear and impressive. Once you understand the customer requirements and lifetime value, you are sure to get quality links.
Always try to get links from related sites rather than from irrelevant sites only to increase traffic. Make contacts with those sites which have related business and selling related products like you in order to get a link from their web site to yours. As a result, it will improve and simultaneously boost your websites Page rank.
One point to be keep in mind, never waste your time and effort in fake and irrelevant inbound links. Always try to invest your time and money in building real quality links. Avoid linking high page rank site having many outgoing links than the low PR page having less outgoing links. You can improve the rank of your site by increasing related high quality links to your site.
Conclusion:
Building high quality links is essential and more effective way to gain traffic and of course rankings in search engines too. In addition, good link building campaign will attract real customers and improves search engine performance.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Benefits of manual directory submissions
Every owner of a site thinks how he can increase the traffic in his site & also search engine rankings. If you want your site to be ranked high in the search engine, high-quality original content and the number and quality of links to the site are the main factors to be considered. This improves and strengthens your rankings on the major search engines like Google, AltaVista and Yahoo.
Submitting site in SEO friendly Directories :
Submitting to directories is one method for obtaining more links. These submissions can be automated and manually too. One best and easiest way is to submit your site manually to hundreds of directories. No doubt there are many software products available in the market for directory submissions. But, one should follow manual directory submissions for obtaining more links.
Manual Directory Submission :
Manual submissions may be labor intensive, time consuming and cost effective way to build inbound one way links, but it definitely gives us greater control in the submissions. It helps in building a brand and also increases traffic and promotion to your website.
The time taken for listing a site depends on each search engine or directory. Manual submission requires some extra work of optimizing page and also patience. Your search engine rankings gradually improve for this extra effort and you get definite the required results.
Many web directories provide you submissions manually by their well trained and experienced staff. The only need is to fill the submission form correctly by follwoing the guidelines that really benefit your site. Automated software cannot adequately submit a site to directories because it cannot study the directory structure.
Submissions for directories require careful choices regarding categories and subcategories. Manual submission is more effective than Automated submission as it goes through all the relevant information. Manual submission might be the best option to promote your site.
Web directories arranges these sites into several categories. The choosen of most relevant category not only depends on the content or some keywords of a site's web pages, but also on the quality of a whole website. The manual submission of directory minimized the chances of any mistake, by using multiple title, anchor text, description and most appropriate category. Listing in such manner gives two benefits. First it increases back links quantity and secondly it increases web site reputation.
Sometime Automatic directory submission software may cause a problem that it can't always place a link in the most relevant category, therefore, hand-submit your site to hundreds of directories by considering close attention to the directories page ranks, their rules, submission guidelines and many other criterions is the best. By following all these, you get to know where and how to submit a site so that you can gain highest chances of getting your site listed quickly.
Conclusion :
There is no doubt that Manual directory submissions require time, effort and money. But this investment ensures you to give full benefit to your link popularity and business as well. Opting for Manual submission is the only way to ensure that your site is submitted to the required category and that all guidelines are fully and correctly followed.
About the author :
This article is written by vv associates, service providers Link Building Services, Directory Submissions Services, Content writers & Article Directory Submission and a seo consultant service providers.
Copyright Notice :
This article is free for reproduction but must be reproduced in its entirety, including live links & this copyright statement must be included. © 2007 The vv associates
Submitting site in SEO friendly Directories :
Submitting to directories is one method for obtaining more links. These submissions can be automated and manually too. One best and easiest way is to submit your site manually to hundreds of directories. No doubt there are many software products available in the market for directory submissions. But, one should follow manual directory submissions for obtaining more links.
Manual Directory Submission :
Manual submissions may be labor intensive, time consuming and cost effective way to build inbound one way links, but it definitely gives us greater control in the submissions. It helps in building a brand and also increases traffic and promotion to your website.
The time taken for listing a site depends on each search engine or directory. Manual submission requires some extra work of optimizing page and also patience. Your search engine rankings gradually improve for this extra effort and you get definite the required results.
Many web directories provide you submissions manually by their well trained and experienced staff. The only need is to fill the submission form correctly by follwoing the guidelines that really benefit your site. Automated software cannot adequately submit a site to directories because it cannot study the directory structure.
Submissions for directories require careful choices regarding categories and subcategories. Manual submission is more effective than Automated submission as it goes through all the relevant information. Manual submission might be the best option to promote your site.
Web directories arranges these sites into several categories. The choosen of most relevant category not only depends on the content or some keywords of a site's web pages, but also on the quality of a whole website. The manual submission of directory minimized the chances of any mistake, by using multiple title, anchor text, description and most appropriate category. Listing in such manner gives two benefits. First it increases back links quantity and secondly it increases web site reputation.
Sometime Automatic directory submission software may cause a problem that it can't always place a link in the most relevant category, therefore, hand-submit your site to hundreds of directories by considering close attention to the directories page ranks, their rules, submission guidelines and many other criterions is the best. By following all these, you get to know where and how to submit a site so that you can gain highest chances of getting your site listed quickly.
Conclusion :
There is no doubt that Manual directory submissions require time, effort and money. But this investment ensures you to give full benefit to your link popularity and business as well. Opting for Manual submission is the only way to ensure that your site is submitted to the required category and that all guidelines are fully and correctly followed.
About the author :
This article is written by vv associates, service providers Link Building Services, Directory Submissions Services, Content writers & Article Directory Submission and a seo consultant service providers.
Copyright Notice :
This article is free for reproduction but must be reproduced in its entirety, including live links & this copyright statement must be included. © 2007 The vv associates
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Blog Directories Submissions
Another way to promote your site and get popularity in search engine ranking you can submit your site in blogs. Here is many blogs some are blogspot ,wordpress and anther. Most of valuable blogs are if you have own particular domain. Submit your site in these site you will get deferent C-class IP during submit in deferent blogs directories.
The number of inbound links to your blog or website is part of the search algorithm that the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, use to calculate their search rankings. That means you, and where your site ranks for searches for your most important keyword phrases. The more incoming links, the better. They all have some value. They all add up to better search engine optimization.
Blogs are no different, except that there are traditional blog directory submission sites to which it’s important you submit your blog’s address, as well as blog directories that accept submissions
Here is list of some blog directories where you can submit your blogs or site.
1 http://directory.autismlina.com/
2 http://www.biggerblogger.com/
3 http://blogannounce.info/
4 http://www.blog-directory.org/index.php
5 http://blog.hotornot.com/
6 http://www.blogpoint.com/
7 http://www.blogratingz.com/index.jsp
8 http://www.blogtoplist.com/
9 http://www.blogdir.co.uk/
10 http://www.blogdust.com/blog-directory/
11 http://www.blogroll.net/
12 http://www.blogs-collection.com/
13 http://www.blogsrating.com/
14 http://directory.blogthat.net/
15 http://browseblogs.com/
16 http://www.delightfulblogs.com/
17 http://www.kookkoo.com/
18 http://www.quickblogdirectory.com/
19 http://www.search4blog.com/
20 http://www.thevital.net/
21 http://blogs.tomstopsites.com
22 http://wutzle.com/
23 http://www.technorati.com/
24 http://www.bloglines.com/
25 http://www.blogstreet.com/
26 http://www.blogwise.com/
27 http://boingboing.net/
28 http://www.globeofblogs.com/
29 http://www.truthlaidbear.com/
30 http://memigo.com/
31 http://www.bloghop.com/
32 http://www.blogarama.com/
33 http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
34 http://portal.eatonweb.com/
35 http://www.blogdigger.com/
36 http://www.bloogz.com/
37 http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
38 http://www.blogmatrix.com/
39 http://www.headlinespot.com/
40 http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
41 http://www.crayon.net/
42 http://www.findory.com/blogs/
43 http://bulkfeeds.net/
44 http://www.blogpulse.com/
45 http://www.blogcatalog.com/
46 http://www.blogdir.com/
47 http://www.blurtit.com/
48 http://www.newstrove.com/
49 http://www.getblogs.com/
50 http://geekphilosopher.com/
51 http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/
52 http://www.yourwebloghere.com/
53 http://www.blogrankings.com/
54 http://www.bloghub.com/
55 http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/
56 http://www.icerocket.com/
57 http://www.bloggernity.com/
58 http://www.blogsforsmallbusiness.com
59 http://www.rateitall.com/
60 http://www.blogscholar.com/
61 http://blogoriffic.com/
62 http://findingblog.com/
63 http://www.blogtopsites.com/
64 http://dir.blogflux.com/
65 http://www.thevital.net/
66 http://www.5starblogs.com/
67 http://www.rssmad.com/
68 http://blogexplosion.com/
69 http://www.blogion.com/
70 http://www.bloggeries.com/
71 http://www.lsblogs.com/
72 http://www.bloguniverse.com/
74 http://www.blogsbywomen.org/
75 http://blog.announce.googlepages.com/
76 http://www.blogflux.com/
78 http://www.blogexplosion.com/
79 http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_I…s/Directories/
80 http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/…s/Directories/
81 http://www.blogaudit.com/
82 http://www.bloggerhq.net/
83 http://www.bloggeries.com/
85 http://www.bloglisting.net/
86 http://www.2rss.com/
87 http://www.blizg.com/
88 http://www.blogdex.net/
89 http://www.bloghop.com/search.htm
90 http://www.blogrunner.com/
91 http://www.blogvision.com/
92 http://www.boogieplay.com/
93 http://www.daypop.com/
94 http://www.fastbuzz.com/
95 http://www.feedster.com/
96 http://fried-spaghetti.com/links/
97 http://www.localfeeds.com/
98 http://www.geourl.org/
99 http://www.memigo.com/
100 http://www.newsisfree.com/
101 http://pepys.akacooties.com/
102 http://www.popdex.com/
103 http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/findchannels.php
104 http://www.readablog.com/
105 http://www.rootblog.com/
106 http://www.top100bloggers.com/
107 http://www.blogcode.com/
108 http://blogcatalog.com/
109 http://rss-feeds-directory.com/directory/
110 http://www.search4blogs.com/
111 http://www.search4rss.com/
112 http://www.syndic8.com/
113 http://www.waypath.com/
114 http://www.zopto.com/
115 http://www.pubsub.com/
116 http://www.rss-clipping.com/
117 http://www.rssreader.nl/
118 http://www.spurl.net/
119 http://www.weblogalot.com/
120 http://www.weblogs.nu/
121 http://www.yellowbrix.com/
122 http://www.yenra.com/
123 http://blogcritics.org/
124 http://blogdex.net/
125 http://blogmatcher.com/
126 http://www.blogdrive.info
127 http://www.blogscanada.ca/directory/
128 http://www.weblogverzeichnis.de/
129 http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/
130 http://www.blogbot.de/
131 http://www.blogg.de/
132 http://weblogcheckup.de/carmina/
133 http://www.izigo.nl/
134 http://aggregator.weblogs.co.uk/
135 http://www.weblogabout.com/
136 http://www.plazoo.com/
137 http://www.misohoni.com/bba/
138 http://www.blog5000.com/
The number of inbound links to your blog or website is part of the search algorithm that the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, use to calculate their search rankings. That means you, and where your site ranks for searches for your most important keyword phrases. The more incoming links, the better. They all have some value. They all add up to better search engine optimization.
Blogs are no different, except that there are traditional blog directory submission sites to which it’s important you submit your blog’s address, as well as blog directories that accept submissions
Here is list of some blog directories where you can submit your blogs or site.
1 http://directory.autismlina.com/
2 http://www.biggerblogger.com/
3 http://blogannounce.info/
4 http://www.blog-directory.org/index.php
5 http://blog.hotornot.com/
6 http://www.blogpoint.com/
7 http://www.blogratingz.com/index.jsp
8 http://www.blogtoplist.com/
9 http://www.blogdir.co.uk/
10 http://www.blogdust.com/blog-directory/
11 http://www.blogroll.net/
12 http://www.blogs-collection.com/
13 http://www.blogsrating.com/
14 http://directory.blogthat.net/
15 http://browseblogs.com/
16 http://www.delightfulblogs.com/
17 http://www.kookkoo.com/
18 http://www.quickblogdirectory.com/
19 http://www.search4blog.com/
20 http://www.thevital.net/
21 http://blogs.tomstopsites.com
22 http://wutzle.com/
23 http://www.technorati.com/
24 http://www.bloglines.com/
25 http://www.blogstreet.com/
26 http://www.blogwise.com/
27 http://boingboing.net/
28 http://www.globeofblogs.com/
29 http://www.truthlaidbear.com/
30 http://memigo.com/
31 http://www.bloghop.com/
32 http://www.blogarama.com/
33 http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
34 http://portal.eatonweb.com/
35 http://www.blogdigger.com/
36 http://www.bloogz.com/
37 http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
38 http://www.blogmatrix.com/
39 http://www.headlinespot.com/
40 http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
41 http://www.crayon.net/
42 http://www.findory.com/blogs/
43 http://bulkfeeds.net/
44 http://www.blogpulse.com/
45 http://www.blogcatalog.com/
46 http://www.blogdir.com/
47 http://www.blurtit.com/
48 http://www.newstrove.com/
49 http://www.getblogs.com/
50 http://geekphilosopher.com/
51 http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/
52 http://www.yourwebloghere.com/
53 http://www.blogrankings.com/
54 http://www.bloghub.com/
55 http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/
56 http://www.icerocket.com/
57 http://www.bloggernity.com/
58 http://www.blogsforsmallbusiness.com
59 http://www.rateitall.com/
60 http://www.blogscholar.com/
61 http://blogoriffic.com/
62 http://findingblog.com/
63 http://www.blogtopsites.com/
64 http://dir.blogflux.com/
65 http://www.thevital.net/
66 http://www.5starblogs.com/
67 http://www.rssmad.com/
68 http://blogexplosion.com/
69 http://www.blogion.com/
70 http://www.bloggeries.com/
71 http://www.lsblogs.com/
72 http://www.bloguniverse.com/
74 http://www.blogsbywomen.org/
75 http://blog.announce.googlepages.com/
76 http://www.blogflux.com/
78 http://www.blogexplosion.com/
79 http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_I…s/Directories/
80 http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/…s/Directories/
81 http://www.blogaudit.com/
82 http://www.bloggerhq.net/
83 http://www.bloggeries.com/
85 http://www.bloglisting.net/
86 http://www.2rss.com/
87 http://www.blizg.com/
88 http://www.blogdex.net/
89 http://www.bloghop.com/search.htm
90 http://www.blogrunner.com/
91 http://www.blogvision.com/
92 http://www.boogieplay.com/
93 http://www.daypop.com/
94 http://www.fastbuzz.com/
95 http://www.feedster.com/
96 http://fried-spaghetti.com/links/
97 http://www.localfeeds.com/
98 http://www.geourl.org/
99 http://www.memigo.com/
100 http://www.newsisfree.com/
101 http://pepys.akacooties.com/
102 http://www.popdex.com/
103 http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/findchannels.php
104 http://www.readablog.com/
105 http://www.rootblog.com/
106 http://www.top100bloggers.com/
107 http://www.blogcode.com/
108 http://blogcatalog.com/
109 http://rss-feeds-directory.com/directory/
110 http://www.search4blogs.com/
111 http://www.search4rss.com/
112 http://www.syndic8.com/
113 http://www.waypath.com/
114 http://www.zopto.com/
115 http://www.pubsub.com/
116 http://www.rss-clipping.com/
117 http://www.rssreader.nl/
118 http://www.spurl.net/
119 http://www.weblogalot.com/
120 http://www.weblogs.nu/
121 http://www.yellowbrix.com/
122 http://www.yenra.com/
123 http://blogcritics.org/
124 http://blogdex.net/
125 http://blogmatcher.com/
126 http://www.blogdrive.info
127 http://www.blogscanada.ca/directory/
128 http://www.weblogverzeichnis.de/
129 http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/
130 http://www.blogbot.de/
131 http://www.blogg.de/
132 http://weblogcheckup.de/carmina/
133 http://www.izigo.nl/
134 http://aggregator.weblogs.co.uk/
135 http://www.weblogabout.com/
136 http://www.plazoo.com/
137 http://www.misohoni.com/bba/
138 http://www.blog5000.com/
Friday, March 09, 2007
Internet Advertising Tips
The world of internet advertising changes constantly so it's very important to keep up with trends. We're not saying you should necessarily follow them, but at least know what's going on out there. Info tech websites and magazines are a good resource - they frequently run stories on internet marketing.
Target Your Banners
Make sure they are on websites which fit your market. Banners which are linked to keywords in searches perform much better than random placements.
Try Different Banners
Use a variety of banners and track their click-though statistics (the number of people who click on them). Be systematic - find out which ones work best and concentrate on them.
These internet advertising tips are designed to help you to understand and implement the secrets of converting visitors to customers. No matter how well your website is ranking, making money comes from effective sales copy. To construct an effective sales process online, your site must be "Customer Focused". If you have a good product or service that is not selling online, you can dramatically improve your Internet sales just by following these simple step-by-step instructions:
Target Your Banners
Make sure they are on websites which fit your market. Banners which are linked to keywords in searches perform much better than random placements.
Try Different Banners
Use a variety of banners and track their click-though statistics (the number of people who click on them). Be systematic - find out which ones work best and concentrate on them.
These internet advertising tips are designed to help you to understand and implement the secrets of converting visitors to customers. No matter how well your website is ranking, making money comes from effective sales copy. To construct an effective sales process online, your site must be "Customer Focused". If you have a good product or service that is not selling online, you can dramatically improve your Internet sales just by following these simple step-by-step instructions:
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
How To Increase Page Rank of Website!
If you've struggled to get your site listed high in Google, or if you have a new site and want to by-pass the weeks or months it can take to get indexed, you need to pay attention to what Google is all about. This is what Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (the two founders of Google) wrote about their new search engine while at Stanford University:
"Google is designed to be a scalable search engine. The primary goal is to provide high quality search results over a rapidly growing World Wide Web. Google employs a number of techniques to improve search quality including page rank, anchor text, and proximity information.
"The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page's "PageRank", an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people's subjective idea of importance. Because of this correspondence, PageRank is an excellent way to prioritize the results of web keyword searches. For most popular subjects, a simple text matching search that is restricted to web page titles performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the result.
"Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and have a high PageRank. Intuitively, pages that are well cited from many places around the web are worth looking at. Also, pages that have perhaps only one citation from something like the Yahoo! homepage are also generally worth looking at. If a page was not high quality, or was a broken link, it is quite likely that Yahoo's homepage would not link to it. PageRank handles both these cases and everything in between by recursively propagating weights through the link structure of the web.
"Academic citation literature has been applied to the web, largely by counting citations or backlinks to a given page. This gives some approximation of a page's importance or quality." (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine)
And this is what Google currently says about page ranking:
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
"Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query."
So if you have a new website, the fastest and easiest way for it to get in all the major search engine indexes is to have a few strong text links from relevant websites. This can get your site listed in days rather than weeks or months because as the search engines spider websites with high page rankings, they'll also follow the link to your site and spider your content. And since high-ranking websites often get spidered many times a day, your site will also be visited and indexed.
"Google is designed to be a scalable search engine. The primary goal is to provide high quality search results over a rapidly growing World Wide Web. Google employs a number of techniques to improve search quality including page rank, anchor text, and proximity information.
"The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page's "PageRank", an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people's subjective idea of importance. Because of this correspondence, PageRank is an excellent way to prioritize the results of web keyword searches. For most popular subjects, a simple text matching search that is restricted to web page titles performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the result.
"Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and have a high PageRank. Intuitively, pages that are well cited from many places around the web are worth looking at. Also, pages that have perhaps only one citation from something like the Yahoo! homepage are also generally worth looking at. If a page was not high quality, or was a broken link, it is quite likely that Yahoo's homepage would not link to it. PageRank handles both these cases and everything in between by recursively propagating weights through the link structure of the web.
"Academic citation literature has been applied to the web, largely by counting citations or backlinks to a given page. This gives some approximation of a page's importance or quality." (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine)
And this is what Google currently says about page ranking:
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
"Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query."
So if you have a new website, the fastest and easiest way for it to get in all the major search engine indexes is to have a few strong text links from relevant websites. This can get your site listed in days rather than weeks or months because as the search engines spider websites with high page rankings, they'll also follow the link to your site and spider your content. And since high-ranking websites often get spidered many times a day, your site will also be visited and indexed.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Using RSS to Increase Your PageRank.
There are millions of dollars and multiple hours spent every day trying to increase website traffic, by both ethical and unethical means. There is so much demand for traffic solutions that people will go to any lengths to get ranked higher in the search engines. But did you know that you could increase your traffic by about 20% right now, with virtually no effort?
Most times when you hear something like this I suggest that you turn tail and run as it will normally lead to your site’s ranking demise. This particular method of boosting traffic, however, is not a scam; it’s not an unethical ploy; it is a genuine method of increasing traffic via a future internet standard. The reason that you can increase your traffic so vastly is because you are getting in on the ground floor of a new technology which will revolutionize the internet and the way that traffic is distributed.
To understand what we’re about to tell you, you need to understand what an RSS feed is. Put simply, it’s a standard format for sharing your content instantly with users and other websites. People can quickly get access to ‘teasers’ for your latest newsletters, articles, blogs, content and more, and click through to see the full version. This method of distributing your information is very helpful because it basically generates dynamic newsletters without spamming and without causing your visitor any grief at all. In fact, many users find RSS to be their preferred way to hear about updates as RSS is so fast, user-friendly, and (most importantly) dynamic.
RSS feeds are often used by news sites or blogs, as the content changes often enough to make it worth while. By using highly targeted RSS feeds, you can improve your site's web content without having to write it on your own – if someone offers you an RSS feed of their site, you can add it to your site easily. This provides you with a good content base which will keep visitors coming back. The more information that people associate your site with the more important they consider your site. The more important they consider your site, the more important search engines will consider your site. Providing RSS yourself will get lots of people to link to you and so potentially improve your search engine rankings. Why?
1. RSS feeds can provide good, relevant content for your website – there are plenty of RSS publishers with themed content for you to choose from. These highly-targeted feeds will often contain your keywords, and so increase the keyword relevancy of your website. This helps even more than you may think as the key words will be within link or “anchor” tags. Search engines value anchor tags almost as much (if not more than) header tags (h1-h6).
2. RSS feeds can provide new, fresh content. When new content is added to them, the old content drops off, making sure that your website’s content doesn’t go stale. Most of your visitors will not visit your site if they find that there is nothing new between the first and second time that they visit it. If you want to keep your visitors where they belong, you have to have a good selection of content that is updated on a regular basis.
3. RSS feeds can get search engines to crawl your site more frequently – daily in some cases. This helps your site to rank higher in the search engines, and gives you an advantage over your competition. Your RSS feed can do your SEO work for you.
RSS feeds can be great for getting your newsletter, articles, or blog onto other people's sites, and that’s very powerful, as long as you make sure that your RSS feed is adding more to your business than it takes. In some situations, you might find that including RSS on your page makes visitors click away from your site, as they find that site’s content more interesting than you – and people who click on RSS links might be less likely to click on ads. Use caution with RSS feeds, or you could be in for a shock.
Most times when you hear something like this I suggest that you turn tail and run as it will normally lead to your site’s ranking demise. This particular method of boosting traffic, however, is not a scam; it’s not an unethical ploy; it is a genuine method of increasing traffic via a future internet standard. The reason that you can increase your traffic so vastly is because you are getting in on the ground floor of a new technology which will revolutionize the internet and the way that traffic is distributed.
To understand what we’re about to tell you, you need to understand what an RSS feed is. Put simply, it’s a standard format for sharing your content instantly with users and other websites. People can quickly get access to ‘teasers’ for your latest newsletters, articles, blogs, content and more, and click through to see the full version. This method of distributing your information is very helpful because it basically generates dynamic newsletters without spamming and without causing your visitor any grief at all. In fact, many users find RSS to be their preferred way to hear about updates as RSS is so fast, user-friendly, and (most importantly) dynamic.
RSS feeds are often used by news sites or blogs, as the content changes often enough to make it worth while. By using highly targeted RSS feeds, you can improve your site's web content without having to write it on your own – if someone offers you an RSS feed of their site, you can add it to your site easily. This provides you with a good content base which will keep visitors coming back. The more information that people associate your site with the more important they consider your site. The more important they consider your site, the more important search engines will consider your site. Providing RSS yourself will get lots of people to link to you and so potentially improve your search engine rankings. Why?
1. RSS feeds can provide good, relevant content for your website – there are plenty of RSS publishers with themed content for you to choose from. These highly-targeted feeds will often contain your keywords, and so increase the keyword relevancy of your website. This helps even more than you may think as the key words will be within link or “anchor” tags. Search engines value anchor tags almost as much (if not more than) header tags (h1-h6).
2. RSS feeds can provide new, fresh content. When new content is added to them, the old content drops off, making sure that your website’s content doesn’t go stale. Most of your visitors will not visit your site if they find that there is nothing new between the first and second time that they visit it. If you want to keep your visitors where they belong, you have to have a good selection of content that is updated on a regular basis.
3. RSS feeds can get search engines to crawl your site more frequently – daily in some cases. This helps your site to rank higher in the search engines, and gives you an advantage over your competition. Your RSS feed can do your SEO work for you.
RSS feeds can be great for getting your newsletter, articles, or blog onto other people's sites, and that’s very powerful, as long as you make sure that your RSS feed is adding more to your business than it takes. In some situations, you might find that including RSS on your page makes visitors click away from your site, as they find that site’s content more interesting than you – and people who click on RSS links might be less likely to click on ads. Use caution with RSS feeds, or you could be in for a shock.
Meta Optimizing
There is an interesting thread at OutFront that discusses the meta description tag and what limit there is on length. When it comes to optimizing your site for search engines, how important are meta tags? In the view of many experts, search engines (especially Google) have learned to minimize the importance of meta tags as being little more than internal spam.
An exception would be the description meta tag which is your best opportunity to sum up what your site is about in a few, carefully picked, descriptive words. The description will be picked up by search engines, so what you say is important. Not only that, but how fast you say it can be important. Too long a description may look like “stuffing” and will be truncated anyway.
“Most search engines will truncate the description tag displaying no more than 200 characters so there is likely no reason to go higher. Also, meta data used to be a place where many people would stuff keywords (now, it’s content stuffing). You *may* look like your keyword stuffing if you have too much information in the meta description.
To avoid truncation by the search engines in their SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), your meta description tag should be concise, within 140 to 200 characters. Truncation will vary depending on the search engine and the number of characters displayed in the search results.”
An exception would be the description meta tag which is your best opportunity to sum up what your site is about in a few, carefully picked, descriptive words. The description will be picked up by search engines, so what you say is important. Not only that, but how fast you say it can be important. Too long a description may look like “stuffing” and will be truncated anyway.
“Most search engines will truncate the description tag displaying no more than 200 characters so there is likely no reason to go higher. Also, meta data used to be a place where many people would stuff keywords (now, it’s content stuffing). You *may* look like your keyword stuffing if you have too much information in the meta description.
To avoid truncation by the search engines in their SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), your meta description tag should be concise, within 140 to 200 characters. Truncation will vary depending on the search engine and the number of characters displayed in the search results.”
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Reciprocal Links to Boost Link Popularity ?
Link popularity means the number of incoming links pointing to your website. This is one of the criterical factor that rank the search results. If you are have link on website with high PageRank (PR4+), you will benefit from it and your ranking will boost. Im recently looking at ways to increase my link popularity.
It gives a clear definition for different link terms. Let me summaries a bit here
- reciprocal links are link exchange between 2 sites. Site A have link to Site B and vice versa
- one way link are one way, Site A links to Site B, but Site B has no link to Site A
- trianglar links are one way link among 3 sites
It is not advisable to have too many reciprocal links. Yes it can be nature to have reciprocal links, but too much simply means you are suspected to do it on purpose (to boost link popularity)
On the other hand, outgoing links to good and relevant sites can also be benefitical to your website. So, dont bother to put more relevant links with great contents in your pages.
As a conclusion after the link popularity studies, here's my view on it:
1. more links to relevent sites with rich content, and good PageRank.
2. a little link exchange is acceptable, but dont make it over half of your links
3. limit the max number of links to 80 in your link page. Split it if too many.
4. a better appoarch to gain link popularity is by writing ezine articles
It gives a clear definition for different link terms. Let me summaries a bit here
- reciprocal links are link exchange between 2 sites. Site A have link to Site B and vice versa
- one way link are one way, Site A links to Site B, but Site B has no link to Site A
- trianglar links are one way link among 3 sites
It is not advisable to have too many reciprocal links. Yes it can be nature to have reciprocal links, but too much simply means you are suspected to do it on purpose (to boost link popularity)
On the other hand, outgoing links to good and relevant sites can also be benefitical to your website. So, dont bother to put more relevant links with great contents in your pages.
As a conclusion after the link popularity studies, here's my view on it:
1. more links to relevent sites with rich content, and good PageRank.
2. a little link exchange is acceptable, but dont make it over half of your links
3. limit the max number of links to 80 in your link page. Split it if too many.
4. a better appoarch to gain link popularity is by writing ezine articles
Thursday, May 11, 2006
What is link popularity and how exactly does it work?
The number of websites that link to your website is one of the factors that help search engines determine your relevancy for a search term. Link Building, Link popularity and gaining new links from outside websites to your website have proven to be a popular concept for people seeking to improve their search engine rankings.
What is link popularity and how exactly does it work? Search engines don't just look at the content of your website to determine if you are a match for a search. They also look at the number of outside websites that can validate, by linking, that you are a good match.
Search engines have also begun to rank the importance of the sites that link to you. This means if the New York Times links to your site, your credibility is higher than if Joe's Online Newspaper provides a link to your website. Search engines also consider the text contained in the link that is pointing to your website. If the text in the links contains keywords you are trying to compete for, the search engines consider your site to have even greater credibility.
Since link popularity has become a factor that people feel like they have some influence over in determining their search engine positioning, many solutions have been proposed for growing your online link popularity. One of the more popular ways is also one of the least effective.
Several software programs have been written that help you create lists of websites in your space that might be willing to link to you. These programs also help you gather the email addresses for these sites and even help you craft an email requesting that the site add a link to yours.
The concept sounds good but the results are often mixed. If you use one of these tools and simply follow the templates they give you, your email will read like a spam message that won't be taken seriously.
The best way to build long-term link popularity is to offer good content and features that provide real value to your audience. As people discover your website and realize its benefits, the likelihood of them linking to your website naturally increases.
There are several critical targets if you want to build up your link popularity without appearing to be a spammer. The first is good links from Yahoo and the Open Directory Project. Both of these sites are human based directories that have a lot of influence over search results. If your site is listed in the correct category and has a good description, links from these two websites are seen as validating you are the real thing.
The second place it's important to have a link from is topic specific or niche directories. These are websites that are dedicated to news and information that is an exact match for what you provide online. If you have a website that deals with tractor parts, being listed on sites that focus on tractors is very important. In the case where a niche website doesn't know about your website, it's okay to ask them to link to your website. But your message should be personalized to them and also tell them the benefit or feature their users will get from linking to you.
Another part of the web that helps build your link popularity is resource sites. Resource sites are lists of links that people put up on their own. These pages are often spread amongst friends and readers who find good information available from the resource. In order to reach this audience, a good PR campaign and press releases can ensure that these individuals know you exist and have a link to your website that they can easily include.
One of the most overlooked spots for building link popularity is links from partners and vendors for your business. Because you already have a business relationship with these companies or individuals, you are more likely to be able to request and receive a link from their website. These websites help validate your place online and also establish you within a community of websites online. If you are visible to the community, you are more visible to the search engines.
Link popularity also starts at home. You must make sure your link architecture is solid and easily followed by search engines. That's the first way that search engines see you. It's also the way that visitors find information within your website. The easier you make it on your audience to find good information, the more likely they are to link to it.
The final way you can work to increase your link popularity is to participate in newsletters and online forums that relate to your website. You don't want to just jump in and give a plug for your URL. You must participate in the discussion as an expert or authority who gives good advice. When you sign your name at the bottom of your posting, be sure to include a signature that includes a link to your website. If these forums and newsletters are archived and remain online, search engines continue to see them and the links they contain. If your website doesn't have a lot of content and you are wondering how you can build your link popularity you should think about building a tool or feature on your website that will be valuable to your online audience. Marketleap's Search Engine Marketing tools are a good example of a feature built to generate link popularity.
Marketleap's free tools provide unique data for search engine marketers that they can't find other places. We've also made it possible for people to place our tools on their sites easily by cutting and pasting a piece of HTML code into their web page. Because the tools are valuable to our community, many websites have linked to the tools or added the tool to their own website. Consequently, if you search for "link popularity" at Google, Marketleap will usually appear in the top 3 results on the first page. Link popularity will continue to be an essential factor in successful search engine marketing initiatives for the foreseeable future. Links are a helpful tool for search engines trying to wade through billions of documents and find ones that are relevant to their users.
What is link popularity and how exactly does it work? Search engines don't just look at the content of your website to determine if you are a match for a search. They also look at the number of outside websites that can validate, by linking, that you are a good match.
Search engines have also begun to rank the importance of the sites that link to you. This means if the New York Times links to your site, your credibility is higher than if Joe's Online Newspaper provides a link to your website. Search engines also consider the text contained in the link that is pointing to your website. If the text in the links contains keywords you are trying to compete for, the search engines consider your site to have even greater credibility.
Since link popularity has become a factor that people feel like they have some influence over in determining their search engine positioning, many solutions have been proposed for growing your online link popularity. One of the more popular ways is also one of the least effective.
Several software programs have been written that help you create lists of websites in your space that might be willing to link to you. These programs also help you gather the email addresses for these sites and even help you craft an email requesting that the site add a link to yours.
The concept sounds good but the results are often mixed. If you use one of these tools and simply follow the templates they give you, your email will read like a spam message that won't be taken seriously.
The best way to build long-term link popularity is to offer good content and features that provide real value to your audience. As people discover your website and realize its benefits, the likelihood of them linking to your website naturally increases.
There are several critical targets if you want to build up your link popularity without appearing to be a spammer. The first is good links from Yahoo and the Open Directory Project. Both of these sites are human based directories that have a lot of influence over search results. If your site is listed in the correct category and has a good description, links from these two websites are seen as validating you are the real thing.
The second place it's important to have a link from is topic specific or niche directories. These are websites that are dedicated to news and information that is an exact match for what you provide online. If you have a website that deals with tractor parts, being listed on sites that focus on tractors is very important. In the case where a niche website doesn't know about your website, it's okay to ask them to link to your website. But your message should be personalized to them and also tell them the benefit or feature their users will get from linking to you.
Another part of the web that helps build your link popularity is resource sites. Resource sites are lists of links that people put up on their own. These pages are often spread amongst friends and readers who find good information available from the resource. In order to reach this audience, a good PR campaign and press releases can ensure that these individuals know you exist and have a link to your website that they can easily include.
One of the most overlooked spots for building link popularity is links from partners and vendors for your business. Because you already have a business relationship with these companies or individuals, you are more likely to be able to request and receive a link from their website. These websites help validate your place online and also establish you within a community of websites online. If you are visible to the community, you are more visible to the search engines.
Link popularity also starts at home. You must make sure your link architecture is solid and easily followed by search engines. That's the first way that search engines see you. It's also the way that visitors find information within your website. The easier you make it on your audience to find good information, the more likely they are to link to it.
The final way you can work to increase your link popularity is to participate in newsletters and online forums that relate to your website. You don't want to just jump in and give a plug for your URL. You must participate in the discussion as an expert or authority who gives good advice. When you sign your name at the bottom of your posting, be sure to include a signature that includes a link to your website. If these forums and newsletters are archived and remain online, search engines continue to see them and the links they contain. If your website doesn't have a lot of content and you are wondering how you can build your link popularity you should think about building a tool or feature on your website that will be valuable to your online audience. Marketleap's Search Engine Marketing tools are a good example of a feature built to generate link popularity.
Marketleap's free tools provide unique data for search engine marketers that they can't find other places. We've also made it possible for people to place our tools on their sites easily by cutting and pasting a piece of HTML code into their web page. Because the tools are valuable to our community, many websites have linked to the tools or added the tool to their own website. Consequently, if you search for "link popularity" at Google, Marketleap will usually appear in the top 3 results on the first page. Link popularity will continue to be an essential factor in successful search engine marketing initiatives for the foreseeable future. Links are a helpful tool for search engines trying to wade through billions of documents and find ones that are relevant to their users.
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