Google! one of the Internets most powerful (and developer friendly too) search engines has a free service that makes it easier for you to improve
your websites coverage within Google's index through its collaborative crawling system. Although, Google does not 'Guarantee' immediate inclusion, But, is still good
news for those of you who have just finished building a website and are
ready to submit to the top search engines. So, what's this Google's service called?
Is Google Adword a right tool to promote your website?
As my regular readers will know, I often share my own online experiences in my articles in the hope that it will help some of you. As my regular readers also know, despite the fact that I have achieved a degree of success with my Internet ventures, I can be pretty lazy when it comes to the more mundane aspects of running an online business. It is usually these 'boring' tasks that end up saving or making me large sums of money (when I eventually get around to dealing with them!). One day I will learn..... :-)
This week, the incredibly boring job that I want to talk about is ad-tracking. Now please bear with me on this - I know it isn't the most exciting topic in the world BUT spending (literally) five minutes on this task a month ago is already saving me over $750 a month (that's $9,000 a year!) and there is every possibility that I could end up saving more than double that amount!
How to Bring More Traffic to Your Blog
There are many factors that make blogs much better
than normal Web Pages including the speed at which blogs are indexed,
ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings
and track backs. All these little things can help drive more traffic to
blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:
Easy Way to Generate Google Sitemap Fast
The best and easy way to have your website indexed is by submitting a sitemap to the search engine like Google.
How to Get Website Indexed Fast
The biggest problem that most website owners/developers are running into seems to do with getting into the search engines. Rankings aside, you need to first get them to index you. Here are the four main ways to assure yourself fast indexing:
How to Increase your Website Traffic and Search Engine Positioning by Articles?
You've probably heard by now that article marketing can help you build links back to your site.
But there's a lot more to it than that. Articles aren't only good for leveraging yourself stronger positions in Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other big search engines, though that's what we'll be focusing on today. Keep in mind that learning a more balanced view of promotion and marketing with articles can help you reap all the perks with essentially the same amount of work.
But there's a lot more to it than that. Articles aren't only good for leveraging yourself stronger positions in Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other big search engines, though that's what we'll be focusing on today. Keep in mind that learning a more balanced view of promotion and marketing with articles can help you reap all the perks with essentially the same amount of work.
How to Make Website Search Engine Friendly
So many people have asked me how can they bring their website on the top of search engine listing. Well! If you want your website at the top you can start by not making 3 common rookie mistakes. Here take a look at the 3 search engine mistakes which everyone should avoid.
Link Popularity: Distribute content, not just links.
You've spent many hours trying to increase your
online traffic with your linking campaign. You've sent out 200 e-mails
pleading with other web sites to trade links with your site. Many of
your e-mails bounce back.
The requests that find thier targets get rejected for numerous reasons. For example, your Google pagerank is too low or your links pages are dynamic and not static, etc., blah, blah, etc., ad nauseum. Out of those 200 requests, you wind up getting 25 reciprocal links, if you are lucky.
So, you say to yourself, "Great, now i have 25 more links!". But are these links really worth it? Do they generate any traffic?
There are many reasons why your links won't even get counted or indexed by the search engines. If your link is on a page among 100 other links, or the page is irrelevant to your subject matter, the page probably won't hold much weight with most search engines. It's also rumored that Google is changing it's algorithm to discount reciprocal links altogether.
So, what can you do to get your links indexed and noticed? Write your own content, distribute it to article directories or trade it with other related websites!
Here are 8 tips on increasing your online traffic with distributed content.
1. Try to write about popular content. The more popular it is, the more people will download it and want to include it on their websites and the more links you'll have pointing back to your site.
2. Try not to use any promotional jargon or sales pitches in your articles. If you do, many webmasters will not want to include your article on thier site.
3. Use plain English. Don't try to get too technical. Read it back to yourself and make sure you don't get tongue-tied while reading it.
4. If possible, work in your site's main keyword phrases into your articles. If your site is about online marketing, write articles about online marketing.
5. Make sure you include an "About the Author" section at the bottom. Make it somewhat short and always include a link back to your site in an anchor tag. And once again, include your keywords in the link text.
6. Proofread your article carefully. I see so many articles out there with misspellings. It just makes you look bad. After you spell check, have a friend or co-worker read it to double check for errors.
7. When you're finished with your article, submit it to popular article directories like goarticles.com, articlefactory.com, amazines.com and imparticles.com. For a fee, there are even services out there that will submit your articles to the top directories for you.
8. Make sure you publish your articles on your own website too, more content equals more traffic. Don't worry about getting penalized by search engines for having duplicate content. You only get penalized if the content is duplicated on your own domain, not if it's duplicated on other websites.
So there you have it. Distributed content allows you to make every link count, by creating targeted links that directly contribute to your search engine rankings, and by delivering targeted traffic on it's own. And besides, it might even make you famous!
The requests that find thier targets get rejected for numerous reasons. For example, your Google pagerank is too low or your links pages are dynamic and not static, etc., blah, blah, etc., ad nauseum. Out of those 200 requests, you wind up getting 25 reciprocal links, if you are lucky.
So, you say to yourself, "Great, now i have 25 more links!". But are these links really worth it? Do they generate any traffic?
There are many reasons why your links won't even get counted or indexed by the search engines. If your link is on a page among 100 other links, or the page is irrelevant to your subject matter, the page probably won't hold much weight with most search engines. It's also rumored that Google is changing it's algorithm to discount reciprocal links altogether.
So, what can you do to get your links indexed and noticed? Write your own content, distribute it to article directories or trade it with other related websites!
Here are 8 tips on increasing your online traffic with distributed content.
1. Try to write about popular content. The more popular it is, the more people will download it and want to include it on their websites and the more links you'll have pointing back to your site.
2. Try not to use any promotional jargon or sales pitches in your articles. If you do, many webmasters will not want to include your article on thier site.
3. Use plain English. Don't try to get too technical. Read it back to yourself and make sure you don't get tongue-tied while reading it.
4. If possible, work in your site's main keyword phrases into your articles. If your site is about online marketing, write articles about online marketing.
5. Make sure you include an "About the Author" section at the bottom. Make it somewhat short and always include a link back to your site in an anchor tag. And once again, include your keywords in the link text.
6. Proofread your article carefully. I see so many articles out there with misspellings. It just makes you look bad. After you spell check, have a friend or co-worker read it to double check for errors.
7. When you're finished with your article, submit it to popular article directories like goarticles.com, articlefactory.com, amazines.com and imparticles.com. For a fee, there are even services out there that will submit your articles to the top directories for you.
8. Make sure you publish your articles on your own website too, more content equals more traffic. Don't worry about getting penalized by search engines for having duplicate content. You only get penalized if the content is duplicated on your own domain, not if it's duplicated on other websites.
So there you have it. Distributed content allows you to make every link count, by creating targeted links that directly contribute to your search engine rankings, and by delivering targeted traffic on it's own. And besides, it might even make you famous!
Keyword Targeting Strategy In Your Site
Once the keywords have been decided for the site
one has to come up with a strategy to target those keywords across the
site. Here is a primer on that.
Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word:
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Keyword of Single word is useful to attract general audience and helps in getting high rank ,if the web site is new. Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word is that they should be more used in the root level pages or top level domain pages. This is because these pages are the ones that attract the general traffic & are generally the pages which do not specify specifics. Hence single word keywords based on themes can be targeted for on these pages.
Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word:
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Keyword of Single word is useful to attract general audience and helps in getting high rank ,if the web site is new. Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word is that they should be more used in the root level pages or top level domain pages. This is because these pages are the ones that attract the general traffic & are generally the pages which do not specify specifics. Hence single word keywords based on themes can be targeted for on these pages.
Keywords are for humans not search engines
It seems keywords are making the top of SEO list
time and time again. The problem is that some optimizers do not
understand the rightful purpose of keywords. Keywords should not be
solely embedded for the purpose of reaching the top of search engines.
Search Engine Optimization should not be the primary focus of any
website. The primary and number 1 focus should always be the visitors.
If you create a website for your audience and for your visitors then
you should rank fairly. I can't see why any legitimate website can not
rank properly within search engines, after time and dedication. Search
Engine Optimization main purpose is ranking faster within search
engines. Instead of gaining a good balance of traffic within 1 or more
years, it is possible to gain a good balance of traffic within 6-9
months with SEO.
Internet Marketing Without a Big-Picture Strategy Dances in Circles
Stop Tracking the Illusive "Magic Bullet"
It seems like everyone is beating the drum for one Internet marketing method or another. And in the process they create plenty of hype and conflicting messages.
Website owners are left to wonder whom to believe when it comes to impressing the search engines. Which approach can deliver the "magic bullet" they've been promised? Is it time to jump to the next "sure thing," that will entice both search spiders and web surfers?
It seems like everyone is beating the drum for one Internet marketing method or another. And in the process they create plenty of hype and conflicting messages.
Website owners are left to wonder whom to believe when it comes to impressing the search engines. Which approach can deliver the "magic bullet" they've been promised? Is it time to jump to the next "sure thing," that will entice both search spiders and web surfers?
Internet Marketing – Long Term Strategy
Once your site is up and running, the best method
for getting immediate traffic is pay-per-click search engine marketing.
Although you have to be patient, you should also be focusing on search
engine optimization as a long term strategy.
Search Engine Optimization – “SEO”
Search engine optimization, or “seo” as it is better known, is the definitive long term Internet marketing strategy. So, what is it? Seo simply refers to taking steps to make sure your site appears high in non-paid search results on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Search Engine Optimization – “SEO”
Search engine optimization, or “seo” as it is better known, is the definitive long term Internet marketing strategy. So, what is it? Seo simply refers to taking steps to make sure your site appears high in non-paid search results on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
If You Build It, They Will Come...
...No they won't. On the web, building a web site
is not enough. If there are no links to the site anywhere, no-one is
going to visit it. The site won't even be listed in any of the search
engines without some incoming links. To get traffic, you will need to do
some promotion.
Web Directories
The basic part of any promotion campaign, web directories, whist they may not generate much in the way of traffic, will help in your site's search engine ranking. A good list of free, non-reciprocal, search engine friendly directories can be found at http://info.vilesilencer.com.
Web Directories
The basic part of any promotion campaign, web directories, whist they may not generate much in the way of traffic, will help in your site's search engine ranking. A good list of free, non-reciprocal, search engine friendly directories can be found at http://info.vilesilencer.com.
How to run a successful link exchange program.
Link Exchanges are a very time consuming
project. The time it takes to find the sites to exchange with, contact
them and place a link on your page can seem like an eternity. The
hardest part about link exchanges isn’t the research, it's the waiting.
This article will give you some tips to help speed response time to your
requests.
"How long does it normally take?" you ask. The average wait can be 2 to 3 weeks, sometimes even longer. The reason for this is that many people operate their web site as a hobby or side business and may not be on top of their email. Keep these timeframes in mind before you judge the successfulness of a link campaign.
"How long does it normally take?" you ask. The average wait can be 2 to 3 weeks, sometimes even longer. The reason for this is that many people operate their web site as a hobby or side business and may not be on top of their email. Keep these timeframes in mind before you judge the successfulness of a link campaign.
How to promote your site and also make it sticky
If you have just designed your own site, then you
have probably already realised how hard it is to get visitors to it. You
are probably also finding that once you get visitors to your site, you
are then having problems in making them return back to your site.
Well there are many ways of promoting your site and also making it sticky so that you can receive returning visitors.
To promote your site you can:
5. Write your own reprint articles that are on the same subject/topic as your sites content.
Writing your own articles with your website links contained within your authors bio line is probably one of the best ways to promote your website online. This is because you can add them to some of the article directories where others then can search these article directories and then add your articles to their site, which will then give you credit in return.
Some article submission directories include:
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlefinders.com/submit.html
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.businessnation.com/cgi-bin/library/articles/add.cgi
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitarticle.asp
6. Exchange links with other sites
Exchanging links with other sites take up a lot of work but can give you some positive results. This is because exchanging links with other sites will mean that your site will get more exposure across the Web plus your link popularity will increase, which is then most likely to give your website better search engine rankings within some, if not, most of the major search engines.
7. Add your site to some of the free to submit general and specialty web directories
Adding your website to some of the free to submit general and specialty web directories is a good thing as you don’t have to provide a link back to their directory. Submitting your website to free to submit web directories is better than doing link exchanges as your link is more likely to be given higher priority than what it would on a site that has two way linking. A lot of web directories do rather well in some of the major search engines and also has a good Google PR, which means your site should benefit from this.
8. Do SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very important factor to consider when designing your website. This is because in past research it shows that over about 85% of people use search engines first before using anything else to find what they are looking for online. So if your site has poor SEO then you will not do all that well within the major search engines. If you do well with your sites SEO then you are likely to see some good results from the major search engines. Some sites even receive most of their traffic from the major search engines.
To make your site stickier you can:
4. Add games to your website
Adding games to your website is a very good way of making your site stickier. This is because a lot of people like to play games when they are either bored or have nothing much to do. http://games.simplysearch4it.com is an example of a site that has got games added to it just so that it can increase its stickiness.
5. Add free reprint articles to your website
If you find it hard to find content to add to your site to make it bigger or stickier then a good thing to consider is reprint articles. This is because these reprint articles can be added to your site for free and it makes your sites content larger, which can then increase the stickiness of your website. You can find some free reprint articles at the following categorized article directories:
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.goarticles.com
6. Add features to your site that many others do not offer
You could look through a large amount of other sites to see what they have to offer. Once you have done that, you can then see what would be a good thing to add to your site in, which many of these other sites don’t offer. For example, http://products.simplysearch4it.com offers a product price comparison directory, which is a feature that many other sites across the web do not offer.
Doing something like this where many other sites don’t offer it means that more people are likely to come to your site just to use it.
Well there are many ways of promoting your site and also making it sticky so that you can receive returning visitors.
To promote your site you can:
5. Write your own reprint articles that are on the same subject/topic as your sites content.
Writing your own articles with your website links contained within your authors bio line is probably one of the best ways to promote your website online. This is because you can add them to some of the article directories where others then can search these article directories and then add your articles to their site, which will then give you credit in return.
Some article submission directories include:
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlefinders.com/submit.html
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.businessnation.com/cgi-bin/library/articles/add.cgi
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitarticle.asp
6. Exchange links with other sites
Exchanging links with other sites take up a lot of work but can give you some positive results. This is because exchanging links with other sites will mean that your site will get more exposure across the Web plus your link popularity will increase, which is then most likely to give your website better search engine rankings within some, if not, most of the major search engines.
7. Add your site to some of the free to submit general and specialty web directories
Adding your website to some of the free to submit general and specialty web directories is a good thing as you don’t have to provide a link back to their directory. Submitting your website to free to submit web directories is better than doing link exchanges as your link is more likely to be given higher priority than what it would on a site that has two way linking. A lot of web directories do rather well in some of the major search engines and also has a good Google PR, which means your site should benefit from this.
8. Do SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very important factor to consider when designing your website. This is because in past research it shows that over about 85% of people use search engines first before using anything else to find what they are looking for online. So if your site has poor SEO then you will not do all that well within the major search engines. If you do well with your sites SEO then you are likely to see some good results from the major search engines. Some sites even receive most of their traffic from the major search engines.
To make your site stickier you can:
4. Add games to your website
Adding games to your website is a very good way of making your site stickier. This is because a lot of people like to play games when they are either bored or have nothing much to do. http://games.simplysearch4it.com is an example of a site that has got games added to it just so that it can increase its stickiness.
5. Add free reprint articles to your website
If you find it hard to find content to add to your site to make it bigger or stickier then a good thing to consider is reprint articles. This is because these reprint articles can be added to your site for free and it makes your sites content larger, which can then increase the stickiness of your website. You can find some free reprint articles at the following categorized article directories:
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.goarticles.com
6. Add features to your site that many others do not offer
You could look through a large amount of other sites to see what they have to offer. Once you have done that, you can then see what would be a good thing to add to your site in, which many of these other sites don’t offer. For example, http://products.simplysearch4it.com offers a product price comparison directory, which is a feature that many other sites across the web do not offer.
Doing something like this where many other sites don’t offer it means that more people are likely to come to your site just to use it.
How my page rank went from 0 to 5 in one update. How yours can too.
Page Rank. We all know what is. We all want to rank higher. Higher
rankings mean a lot of things to a lot of people. To web masters it
means achievement. They have accomplished a move in the right direction.
A high page rank to a website owner is money in the bank. It is also
an impressive accomplishment. To other website owners your page rank may
be a source of envy.
How important are back links?
When setting up your website for SEO (Search Engine
Optimization) on Google there are several factors you need to look at
in order to obtain a high rank on their search engine. Of course your
content and meta tags must be inline with positive density percentages
and reciprocal links. Google then takes your website and performs a
mathematic equation and places a numeric value on your website depending
on one of the most important features, reciprocal or back links.
Google’s New Direction - Could Your Linking Strategy be Hurting Your Rankings?
Over the past week, most people have noticed
significant changes in the SERPs at Google. Web sites that previously
held number one positions have dropped to number 89, and some web sites
have disappeared off the Google results pages altogether. As is the case
with all major Google updates, SEOs have been panicking in forums and
there has been much discussion about one topic in particular: reciprocal
linking.
Google Page Rank Is Dead - Part III
HELP! My PR page rank is grey, call the development
doctor. As the world of Google is turning a mile a minute these days,
some really big changes are happening. This weekend, marketers all
around the world don't believe what they are seeing... Google's Page
Ranking system is dead.
Is it really dead?
In an online forum post from WebProWorld.com (A discussion on Google), people from all over are speculating about what is going on. In fact, one member was quick to point out that the last big shift Google had, we saw the PR system go down as well. This begs the question...
Are we on the verge of a BIG PR shift? or,
Are we seeing a Google marketing scheme just to shake people up?
In many ways, Google needs to be improved upon their "broken down PR system". There are so many areas if they payed attention to forums and blogs all around the world, they would have more than enough feedback about their PR system to fix this growing PR issue.
Page ranking is a potentially a great system. It CAN be a great system if it directly ranks websites properly by content, relevance, and not simply by the number of links pointing to an individual website.
These days, you see a website with 15 "medium relevant" links pointing to it while its front page holds a PR of 7-8 out of 10. How do you justify that?
What will it mean if Google's PR systems stays down?
I believe it will mean a big shift to online marketing. Many newbies out there that are barely legal when it comes to SEO have an opportunity to measure everything they do. In turn, the newbies may even sound professional to their clients. Take away these tools and you are left with true marketing gurus that have stood the test of time and can deliver results for themselves and their clients.
The internet is vastly growing into a pool of professional fakes and scammers. This is really giving the internet marketing community a bad name. Without the Google PR, many people won't be able to prove their results nor will they have that "fake respect" that you get from having a website with PR 7/10.
What about MSN & Yahoo?
In growing efforts to keep up with MSN & Yahoo's strong and growing marketing campaign, Google may be feeling left out these days. Many people think that their PR system is simply a gimmick; a gimmick that attracts a lot of attention. By disabeling this system, you create mass fear and confusion. Bad publicity is still publicity neverless?
So, is Google trying to create a buzz?
This could be possible and it could be possible that everything will be back to normal within a couple of days. We won't know until time catches up with us.
Until then, take this "dark saga" moment and find other ways to build your business online. Don't worry about what Google is doing, worry about what you are doing to improve your internet marketing campaign.
Is it really dead?
In an online forum post from WebProWorld.com (A discussion on Google), people from all over are speculating about what is going on. In fact, one member was quick to point out that the last big shift Google had, we saw the PR system go down as well. This begs the question...
Are we on the verge of a BIG PR shift? or,
Are we seeing a Google marketing scheme just to shake people up?
In many ways, Google needs to be improved upon their "broken down PR system". There are so many areas if they payed attention to forums and blogs all around the world, they would have more than enough feedback about their PR system to fix this growing PR issue.
Page ranking is a potentially a great system. It CAN be a great system if it directly ranks websites properly by content, relevance, and not simply by the number of links pointing to an individual website.
These days, you see a website with 15 "medium relevant" links pointing to it while its front page holds a PR of 7-8 out of 10. How do you justify that?
What will it mean if Google's PR systems stays down?
I believe it will mean a big shift to online marketing. Many newbies out there that are barely legal when it comes to SEO have an opportunity to measure everything they do. In turn, the newbies may even sound professional to their clients. Take away these tools and you are left with true marketing gurus that have stood the test of time and can deliver results for themselves and their clients.
The internet is vastly growing into a pool of professional fakes and scammers. This is really giving the internet marketing community a bad name. Without the Google PR, many people won't be able to prove their results nor will they have that "fake respect" that you get from having a website with PR 7/10.
What about MSN & Yahoo?
In growing efforts to keep up with MSN & Yahoo's strong and growing marketing campaign, Google may be feeling left out these days. Many people think that their PR system is simply a gimmick; a gimmick that attracts a lot of attention. By disabeling this system, you create mass fear and confusion. Bad publicity is still publicity neverless?
So, is Google trying to create a buzz?
This could be possible and it could be possible that everything will be back to normal within a couple of days. We won't know until time catches up with us.
Until then, take this "dark saga" moment and find other ways to build your business online. Don't worry about what Google is doing, worry about what you are doing to improve your internet marketing campaign.
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