Monday, July 21, 2008

Florida Interactive PR Agency Introduces SEO/PR Audits

The Buyer Group asks: What does online PR mean to a business? Answer? More than just an optimized press release. Can Google index your site? Is your online news optimized for today's journalists and bloggers? Does your Web site have good and useful content that is relevant to a user's search?

What does online PR mean to a business? Answer? More than just an optimized press release. Can Google index your site? Is your online news optimized for today's journalists and bloggers? Does your Web site have good and useful content that is relevant to a user's search?
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM

I found really good article for link building Pls, read it and hope you like also...

Is anyone else sick of link baiting yet? I sure am. It’s dominating talk on all the SEO forums and conferences; it’s gumming up the works of all of my favorite social bookmarking sites; and it’s forcing me get off of my lazy rear and make good content.

Damn that link baiting.

Of course, it’s also the most cost- and time-efficient way of building relevant, trusted, editorially-given backlinks; it’s the critical success factor in getting ranked in Google for competitive keywords; and, it’s making smart SEOs a veritable boatload of money.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Negative SEO

I found interesting article about Negative SEO. I hope you enjoy it also...
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017495.html

Monday, May 19, 2008

Link Building Expert

Are you on the look out for somebody to help you to promote your website? Have you heard about the benefits of starting up a link building campaign but are not sure about how to proceed with this venture? Would you like to learn about how you can get into the top five of the organic search results(not pay-per-click) of the major search engines? I imagine that many Internet newbies would have answered yes to at least one of these questions. In this article I am going to write about web promotion and will share my knowledge from nine years of web marketing. I am sure it will prove to be of great benefit to many people.

It should go without saying that there is no real point of having a superb looking website if nobody can find it via the search engines. As soon as I had what I believed was a very professional and easy to navigate website, I was eager to learn about how to reach the top of the search engine rankings. It seemed so hard as the sites at the top were already established with good page rank and many backward links pointing to their sites.

It was very tempting to join one of the many dodgy ventures like a link exchange program but I was quite lucky to gain some great advice which was that hard work and patience will pay off. The sites at the top can be caught and over-taken but of course it will take time. The age of the domain is also important, why for example would a search engine like google give a new site a higher serps position than a site which has been around for three years. That new site may not even be around this time next year as many webmasters do not even renew their sites after one year. For this reason it is also a good idea to buy your domain for perhaps five years instead of just one as it shows that you have good intentions etc. It is also cheaper in the long run.

I decided to stick to the common forms of web promotion such as article marketing, gaining one-way links and ensuring that the content of my website was content that other webmasters would want to link to.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

BASIC CONCEPTS OF SEO

BASIC CONCEPTS OF SEO article on v7n by "Bob Massa"

There are some basic concepts that all search services have to follow. They all follow certain concepts because they are all driven by humans and humans are governed by certain laws of nature. Any search engine will always try to return whatever it has available that it thinks is the most relevant data to a specific query based upon ranking criteria set by the specific search service itself. That is the search service's core mission. Read More

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Balance of Your Link Building Strategies

I found a post regarding link building strategies from blog
http://www.linkbuildingbestpractices.com/
The solution is to balance your link building strategies for the greatest possible coverage over a multitude of formats. If you do this, you’ll find that you are always hitting on multiple cylinders. Although you might not be getting great results from every single link strategy, you’ll be getting pretty good ranking from several of them. It’s like playing a good point spread – coverage is key.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Build a Blog and Get Ranking

Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They're easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.

Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that's been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do. So here are 25/50 tips to get your blog ranked by the world's biggest SE.

Wordpress is a blog platform that's open source (free), robust, extensible and easy to use. Add Feedburner, which equips site owners to broadcast RSS feeds and develop user metrics. Next, synch up Google Analytics and a sitemap plug-in to simplify populating the blog and developing useful, actionable metrics. Also, make sure your blog is pinging www.technoratti.com and other social-ranking sites like www.digg.com.

Don't worry about page rank
PR is highly over-rated as a yardstick of online success. Connectivity within a web community and expansion through content syndication and guest blogging are more critical to building site credibility than page rank. PR will take care of itself over time if you do it right.

Differentiate your content on every post. Cover lots of editorial ground. Dry, starchy academic writing is strictly for the textbooks. Write words that people "hear" instead of read. Birds of a feather do, indeed, flock together. So, if one of your regulars shares an interest in philately, chances are s/he has other friends with an interest in stamp collecting.

Remember SEO basics
Use provocative, keyword-rich title tags, meta keywords and descriptions, and only link to high-quality sites. Never over do it. Keep your posts relevant, natural, accurate and, above all, current.

Don't stuff blog post titles with keywords.
It's a form of keyword stuffing and spiders hate keyword stuffing. The ratio in headlines should be 40% keywords, 60% non-keywords.


Submit your URL to blog directories. There are "best of the web," and paid directories, like Yahoo, and free directories like the Open Directory project at www.dmoz.org. Every directory listing is another link to your site and another way visitors can find you. Just google them to find more.

Content quality counts
Research topics about which target readers want to learn. Write something new, useful and relevant. And don't forget to regularly update older posts. Things change fast on the web so last year's "next big thing" is this year's hackneyed cliché.
However, be consistent, as well. Keep blogging. It can take time for a blog to catch the notice of a search engine spider. Add links from their blogs and establish your site's link community. There are people within your web neighborhood with opinions and good information. Contact them to invite submissions to your blog and your site in general.

Don't use duplicate content
The only duplicate content that appears in your blog posts are quotes, and they should be identified with quotation marks. Make friends with other bloggers in your commercial, business or NFP space. Ask to become a guest blogger, or seek endorsements from the "names" within your site sphere. Develop some friendly contacts on social media sites and participate in the community. Ask contacts to promote your blog content. Also ask for contributors. People love to express their opinions.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Useful SEO Techniques

Every webmaster should have some basic understanding of these simple SEO techniques if they want to achieve Top Rankings for their site. The more you know about these Search Engine Optimization techniques; the better your web pages will fare in the different search engines, especially Google.

Optimizing your pages for the search engines should be your main priority because conquering and dominating your chosen keywords is often cited as one of the major determining factors in the success of your online site or business. You must have a rudimentary grasp of how SEO can work for you and your site.
"This article is taken from http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/0802298usefulseo.html"

1. Title Tag

The Title Tag is located at the top of your html page and it tells the search engines what your page is about. When you open your page in a browser these are the words at the very top of the screen. Despite its simplicity, the title tag is crucial to 'on-page optimization'; it should include your main keywords and it should be 63 characters or less if you want your title to appear in full on Google. Many SEO experts create web pages in a three-prong approach. They place the title in: - the title tag - on the webpage itself - and in the URL for that page. Sometimes they will just pick the main keywords from the title and place them in the anchor url instead. For example: www.yourwebsite.com/keywords.html

2. Meta Description Tag

The Meta Tag contains the description for your web page. Your description will show up in all the search engines so you have to be careful to write precisely and objectively. It should be about 140 characters or around 20 words. Make sure to include your keywords but don't spam - don't repeat your keywords more than twice, using variations is helpful. Keep in mind, successful webmasters make their descriptions stand out from the crowd and entice the surfer to click their link. It is also the first contact with your potential visitor or prospect so make a good first impression.

3. Anchor Tag or URL

The anchor tag is used to form links within websites or from site to site. This tag should have your title or the main keywords from your page title to be the most effective. Anchor text is also important to know, these are the underlined, clickable text or words in a link. <*A HREF="url"> anchor text <*/A> If you want to check Google for all web pages containing your keywords in the anchor tags. Just type into Google Search: allinanchor:yourkeywords

4. Finding Backlinks

One of the keys to higher rankings is building quality links from relevant related quality sites. The search engines, especially Google, counts each link as a "vote" for your site or content. Many experts suggest you include your main keywords in the anchor text of these inbound links in order to rank high. If you want to find the number of backlinks your site has. Just type into Google Search: link:yourURL and it will give you the number of backlinks you have. Google doesn't give you all your existing backlinks, so you can try Yahoo! to find a more exact number. Just open Yahoo! and type in: linkdomain:yourURL

5. Checking Indexed Pages

If is very important for you to know what content the search engines have indexed from your site. You can also check to see how your links are displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions are missing from your pages. You can see how many of your pages are indexed in Google by using the site command. Just type into Google Search: site:yourURL Another way to look at your pages in Google is to type in "http://yoursite" and "www.yoursite" with the quotation marks to see the exact number of listings for each.

6. Checking Google Cache

You can also check to see the Google Cache of your site by using the cache command. You will also discover when it was last retrieved. Just type into Google Search: cache:yourURL

7. Finding Associated Keywords

Keywords are the heart of the Internet, you must dominate the search engines for your chosen keywords if you are to succeed online. So make sure you have your main keywords in the Meta Keyword Tag on your page. Many experts suggest you place your page's main keywords in the first and last 25 words on that page. You must also be able to find and use variations of your keywords to completely conquer your targeted niche. To find what other keywords Google has associated with your main keywords, just use the tilde ~ command to find associated phrases in Google. Just type into Google search: ~keywords Variations will be highlighted in bold print.

8. Finding Titled Keywords

If you want to find competing sites that have your keywords in the title just use the allintitle command. Just type into Google search: allintitle:yourkeywords In summary, if used consistently, these basic SEO techniques should help improve your rankings and keep you in the picture with regards to your standings in the search engines. Your site's stats or raw traffic logs will also confirm the rise or fall of your keyword rankings. You must have complete knowledge of both your site and your keywords in the search engines, especially Google. Since Google will deliver most of your quality traffic, you must optimize for it and be aware of what is happening to your site and keywords within Google. This is yet another example where knowledge equals success.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Top 10 internet marketing tips for SEO

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.

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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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.

I have collection of 3,000 seo friendly directories of PR-0 to PR-9 and 400 article directories. So I decided to launch new Combo Service here. In my combo service you will get now following benefits.

Bronze Package
500 Directory Submissions + 10 Social Bookmaking Submissions
Price $40


Silver Package
1,000 Directory Submissions + 20 Social Bookmaking Submissions
Price $90


Gold Package
1,500 Directory Submission + 30 Social Bookmaking submissions
Price $155


Diamond Package
2,000 Directory Submission + 20 Social Bookmaking submissions + 30 Article Submissions
Price $199

Platinum Package
2,500 Directory Submissions + 50 Social Bookmaking submissions + 50 Article Submissions
Price $225

We strictly work on performance basis and can assure you of getting quality links for your site as well. Our combo service will help to increase the link popularity of your website.

We are looking forward starting a long and healthy business relationship with you.

We will be happy to AMAZE you with our work. I will really appreciate you please let me know your link SEO requirement.

For Link Building you can contact me separately.

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.

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),

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.
Social bookmarking submission has developed into a powerful tool for SEO experts, it involves linking sites within the various forums, blogs and message boards that exist in social networking websites, blog sites and numerous content centric sites like Digg. Considered to be a better alternative to submitting a website on blogs, manual social bookmarking is a simple, convenient and hassle free way of making sure that your site is noticed and marketed in the right circle.

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

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.

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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 Líst

Your first step is to make a master líst 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 líst 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.

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.

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

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/