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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.
If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).
Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.
If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

create a giant list of resources,
write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:

commenting on other blogs in your niche,
linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.

Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:

letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.

If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:

a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers

While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.

101 Blog Tips

if you are not, start blogging today
write about something that you love
if you are serious about blogging buy your own domain
make sure your domain name is equal to your blog name
use a short and easy to remember name
use WordPress
use WordPress plugins
blog with consistency
write at least 5 posts a week
proofread
proofread one more time
interact with other bloggers
leave meaningful comments
leave funny comments
leave the first comment
backup your blog
get rid of the sidebar calendar
choose your niche wisely, not too big and not too small
participate in online forums
put a link on your signature
use blog carnivals
content is king
customize your blog template
use trackbacks
simplicity is the way to go
leverage social bookmarks
consider joining a blog network
write “Top 10″ lists
use tags
use pings
write “How to” articles
make your posts scannable
list your blog on directories
ask questions to your readers
use Feedburner
use sense of humor
be generous
encourage readers to subscribe
have some spare posts for emergencies
encourage readers to digg your posts
put an RSS subscription icon on every single page
use “series” of posts
return comments
return links
use readable fonts
gather .edu and .gov backlinks
break long posts in more parts
experiment with different revenue sources
write “pillar articles“
use Google Analytics
study those numbers
use email interviews
be yourself
avoid duplicate content
use an RSS reader
read as many blogs as possible
focus on timeless content
have an “About” page
have a picture of yourself on the “About” page
crate your own “Advertise Here” page
use meta tags wisely
learn the basics of SEO
use pictures whenever possible
create value for your readers
place ads wisely
be patient
consider getting a co-blogger
submit your articles to directories
share what has worked for you
share what has not worked for you
read Problogger.net
do not clutter your sidebar with icons
get rid of looooong blogrolls
experiment with Google Adsense
experiment with Text-Link-Ads
link to other blogs as often as possible
make it easy for visitors to contact you
use titles effectively
offer email subscriptions
always answer to questions
always answer to comments
use Technorati
enable subscription to comments
offer useful tools or resources
write with a personal touch
become an expert in your niche
do not rely on “linking posts”
always give your opinion
use simple colors
participate in blogging projects
get to know other bloggers personally
list your best articles
have a voice
organize your categories
talk directly to your readers
make your URL structure efficient
put functional links on your footer
mention your sources or references
do monthly roundups
consider adding podcasts
create a “101 list”

30 Traffic Generation Tips

First of all a big “thank you” for every one who participated. As I said before the number of entries surprised me (and the quality as well, I will definitely apply some of those tips myself).
Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips:
1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.
3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)
4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.
5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.
6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.
7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.
9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.
11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.
12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.
13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.
14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).
16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.
17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.
18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.
19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.
20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.
21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.
22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.
23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.
24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.
25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.
26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.
28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.
29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.
30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.

9 Blog Hacks to Help Show Readers Your Best Stuff

Are you letting your killer posts languish in your archives, sandwiched between January and March? How many great posts have you published in months gone by that new visitors will never see?
Readers come to your blog for its content, so it’s important to show them straight away what you have to offer.
Your recent posts will hopefully go some way towards doing this, but to rely on them alone is to short-change the long-term effort you’ve put into building your blog. This post contains 9 blog hacks you can use to show new (and regular) visitors the best that your blog has to offer.
1. Introduce highlighted content. This could be a list of reader favorites, popular posts, most commented posts, and so on. Most bloggers handle this with a ‘Popular Posts’ widget. This is one of the most important elements of your sidebar, as it shows new visitors straight away why your site is worth exploring.
2. Take control of your highlighted content. Though most bloggers handle ‘Popular Posts’ with a plug-in there are plenty of benefits to doing it manually. You can choose which posts you want to highlight, and mix up new and old content. If you’ve got a guest-post at another blog, or if one of your posts makes it big on social media, you can tailor your ‘Popular Posts’ to suit the incoming audience.
3. Make your highlighted content unmissable. Your list of killer posts is probably more useful and interesting to new visitors than anything else in your sidebar. The perfect place for it is right under your feed button, towards the top of your sidebar. If you want to be more inventive with your placement you can, but keep it above the fold.
4. Use images to draw attention to your best posts. Images are eye-contact magnets. Rather than displaying your best posts as text links, why not create images for them? The strategy I use on my own blog is to make a medium-sized button from the image I included with the post, and add the headline as text over the image. It’s something a lot of readers seem to enjoy interacting with, and it adds some more visual interest to the blog.
5. Regularly change your highlighted content. Don’t forget about regular readers when highlighting content. If your list is static then visitors will engage with it once and forget about it, thinking they’ve seen everything it has to offer.
If you regularly change your highlighted posts you give new and old visitors a reason to engage with the content you’ve highlighted. One advantage to using images to highlight your content, as suggested above, is that it’s immediately clear when you’ve added or subtracted an item from the list.
6. Give readers somewhere to go when they’ve finished reading. Many bloggers use a ‘related posts’ plug-in, and while I do like this plug-in, I suspect that it suffers somewhat from being outside the content of the post. Firstly, feed readers miss it. Secondly, readers turn down their attention levels once they’ve finished an article. One way to best ensure readers explore your related content is to recommend it at the end of your article. For example:
Interested in this topic? You might enjoy another article I’ve written called …
Adding the suggestion to your article will catch readers while they’re still in ‘reading mode’ and devoting maximum attention to your words. However, I’d suggest using this only when you’ve written something else directly related to the topic. If your recommendation is spot-on, readers are likely to listen to other recommendations you make in future.
7. Weave targeted internal links into your posts as you write. This can be done badly, or it can be done well. A good guide is to make sure your links are highly relevant to the keywords you’re making a hyperlink. Linking a specific match (for example, linking the words ‘writing with clarity’ to an article you’ve written on the same topic) will be appreciated by your readers. Linking vague terms (like ‘blogging’, or ‘making money’), however, is not good usability because it’s simply too unclear where the link will lead.
8. Mix up posts linking out with posts linking in. A great way to draw readers deeper into your blog is to highlight great content in dedicated posts. You could highlight a selection of the best posts last month, or the most popular posts on a specific topic. You might highlight posts from this time last-year, as Lifehacker does, or list some undiscovered gems from the early days of your blog.
9. Give readers a birds-eye view of your blog. Your archives present the perfect opportunity to allow readers to view your blog from a top-down perspective, with everything it has to offer on one page. The SRG-Clean Archives plug-in presents all your post headlines under sub-headings for each month, and displays the comment count besides each. This allows readers to browse through your headlines and explore those they’re interested in.

The Best Website Taglines Around the Internet

A tagline can make or break a website (well, maybe not, but it is cool to be dramatic). Below you will find a collection of the best taglines around the Internet. Some of them are funny, some are clever; but all of them deliver the message! Hopefully it will serve as inspiration.

The Straight Dope: Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought).
Maxim Philippines: The best thing that ever happened to men … after women!
The Consumerist: Shoppers bite back.
Random Acts of Reality: Trying to kill as few people as possible…
Joshuaink: Same old shit, different day.
The Superficial: Because you’re ugly.
Smashing Magazine: We smash you with information that will make your life easier. Really.
The Best Page in the Universe: This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.
Scaryduck: Not scary. Not a duck.
The Art of Rhysisms: Chronologically inept since 2060.
Needcoffee.com: We are the Internet equivalent of a triple espresso with whipped cream. Mmmm…whipped cream.
Ample Sanity: Life is short. Make fun of it.
Rathergood.com: The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom – a load of stuff by Joel Veitch that will probably crush your will to live.
The Breakfast Blog: In search of the best eggs in town.
Dooce: Not even remotely funny.
Pink is the new blog: Everybody’s business is my business.
Shoemoney: Skills to pay the bills.
Oh No They Didnt’t!: The celebrities are disposable, the content is priceless.
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself.
Waiter Rant: Do you want Pommes Frite with that?
Newshounds: We watch FOX so you don’t have to.
Sabrina Faire: All the fun of a saucy wench, none of the overpriced beer.
Defective Yeti: A maze of twisty passages, all alike.
All About George: All about George Kelly… you know, if you go in for that sort of thing.
Go Fug Yourself: Fugly is the new pretty.
kottke.org: Home of fine hypertext products.
Slashdot: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Gawker: Daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Reporting live from the center of the universe.
Get Rich Slowly: Personal finance that makes cents.
hi5: Who’s in?
Fotolog: Share your world with the world.
Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women, Without Aribrushing.
Autoblog: We obssessibely cover the auto industry.
Boing Boing: A directory of wonderful things.
Perez Hilton: Celebrity Juice. Not from concentrate.
DumbLittleMan: So what do we do here? Well, it’s simple. 15 to 20 times per week we provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.
Lifehacker: Don’t live to geek, geek to live!
Gizmodo: The gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.
John Cow Dot Com: Make Moooney Online with John Cow Dot Com
WebWorkerDaily: Rebooting the workforce.
The Simple Dollar: Financial talk for the rest of us.
TrafficBunnies: Making your hits multiply like rabbits.
Mighty Girl: Famous among dozens.
The Sneeze: Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
Buzz Marketing: Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.

What Is A Blog?

It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at least one email from someone asking if I believe blogging has a future. My answer is always “as long as the Internet has a future, blogs do too.” You will see why I answer that below.
You also have countless articles being published every week where the author suggests that blogs are obsolete, and that the next big thing is micro blogging, or lifestreaming or something else. Again I don’t agree with any of those predicted trends.
The second reason for trying to define what a blog is in 2008 (many people have already done that in the past after all) is because blogging is a social phenomenon. As such, it is constantly evolving, and what was true two years ago might not be anymore.

Blogs Aren’t Necessarily Personal

The main misconception regarding the definition of blogs comes from people that associate blogs with their content. More specifically from people that associate blogs with the content from one particular type of blog: personal blogs.
In other words, those people think that blogs are online diaries where people share their opinions, ramblings and personal events.
Wrong!
That is just one of the things that you could do with a blog.
Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders. Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers. Individuals that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.

Separate The Content

If you separate the content from the website, it becomes much easier to work with the definitions.
Consider a person that wants to publish a Questions & Answers column online. She could use several types of websites for that purpose.
She could create an online forum, for example, where each thread would be an answer to a specific question. She could create a static HTML website and publish all the questions and answers on a single page. She could create a wiki where users would be able to edit the questions and answers directly. Finally, she could also create a blog where each post would contain a question and its answer.
As you can see, the content is not attached to the website. The picture below illustrates that (note that only four types of websites were used, but there are many more).

Obviously one type of website will be more suitable for a certain purpose than others. It would be easier for a company to use an online forum on its customer support section, for instance.

So What Is A Blog?

A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it.
The features that make blogs different from other websites are:

content is published in a chronological fashion
content is updated regularly
readers have the possibility to leave comments
other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks
content is syndicated via RSS feeds

Keep in mind that it is the bundle of those features that should define a blog. An online forum could also offer an RSS feed for example, but that would not make it a blog.

What Is Your Definition?

As I mentioned on the beginning of this article, blogs represent a social phenomenon, so they are in constant evolution. The Internet itself is changing very fast, so pin pointing a single definition for blogging is a hard task.
The definition above is my personal one, and I am sure that other people will want to add or remove details to it. Some might even completely disagree.
That is why I decided to turn the mic to the readers. I want to hear what you think a blog is. What characteristics define it? Is the definition changing over time?
I am looking forward to reading your definitions of blogs!

Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips

One of our readers, Max Pool, was kind enough to send a guest post with 40 practical tips to setup and optimize your blog. All the tips are actually links to previously published articles on Daily Blog Tips. Enjoy!

WordPress Setup

Do your homework first and read about others’ mistakes
Choose a reliable web host
Choose a good domain name
If you need inspiration, check this list
Register and keep your domain name with a registrar
Always install WordPress in the root directory
Update your ping list

Themes & Design

Check & Validate

Plugins

Install Akismet
Install WordPress Database Backup
Install Subscribe to Comments but leave it unchecked
Install Chunk URLs
Install Related Enteries and consider setting it to 3
Install Custom Query String
Install Jerome's Keywords
Install sig2feed

SEO & Analytics

Install Google Sitemap Generator
Install Enforce www Preference
Optimize your Meta Description Tag
Setup an optimal URL structure
Make category pages display excerpts
Setup any needed 301 Redirects
Create a robots.txt file (and here is a collection of different ones)
Modify your title tag to be optimal
Remove the hyperlink from the single post titles
Offer email subscriptions
Install the Feedburner Replacement plugin
Add the Google Analytics plugin and track your stats

What Is Bounce Rate?

Today I was going to write about why new websites can display very misleading bounce rates, but I realized I had never covered the bounce rate concept before, so I’ll stick to the basics today, and expand on the topic over the coming weeks.
If you already know the term, consider this post a refresher.

What Is Bounce Rate?

Bounce rate is a very important metric for website owners. It basically tells you what percentage of your visitors are “bouncing” away after landing on your site (e.g., they just visit one page and leave before clicking on to a second page inside your site). A bounce can occur for several reasons, including:

The visitor hit the “Back” button on his browser.
The visitor closed his browser.
The visitor clicked on one of your ads.
The visitor clicked on one of your external links.
The visitor used the search box on his browser.
The visitor typed a new URL on his browser.

All the actions above would cause the visitor to leave your site. Provided he did any of these actions right after arriving at your site (and before clicking on to a second page), it would be counted as a bounce. In fact the formula for finding the bounce rate on your website is:

Bounce rate = Visits that left after one page / Total number of visits

For example, if during a certain month your site received 120,000 visits, out of which 80,000 bounced after visiting just one page, your bounce rate for that month would be 80,000 divided by 120,000, which equals to 0.66 (or 66%). Notice that you can calculate the bounce rate of your whole website or of single pages inside it.
Obviously the lower the bounce rate on your website, the better, because it means that visitors are getting engaged by your content and design, and that they are clicking to visit a second (third and so on) page on your site.
How do you know the exact bounce rate on your site? A web analytics program like Google Analytics will automatically track the numbers for you.
Next week I’ll talk about what is considered to be low and high bounce rates, as well as about the misleading numbers you can get from new websites. Stay tuned.

How to choose a blog name

There are three simple rules to follow when choosing a blog name:
1) It must describe your blog: it is probable that lots of people will see a link to your blog before having the chance to actually read it (in search engines, for instance). Guess what, if just by looking at the name they can figure what the blog is about they will be more likely to visit it.
2) It must be easy to remember: suppose your blog talks about cycling, fitness and health advice in general. Naming it “The Cycling, Fitness and General Health Advice Blog” would offer quite an exhaustive description of the blog, but would it also be easy to remember? Stick with simple names.
3) It must be equal to the domain name: this rule is often ignored by people, probably because finding a suitable domain that has not been registered yet is a difficult task. Still if your domain name does not match the blog name you will probably lose some readers along the way. When people visit your blog through a link they will just read the name of the blog. Should they decide to revisit the site a couple of days later they will just type that name followed by a dot com. If they do not find your blog once they hit enter they will just go somewhere else.

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# How to get Indexed by Yahoo! fast

# Link Building

# Effective SEO Tips to Optimize

# Backlink Loophole

# How many backlinks need to get PR3, PR4, PR5

Thursday, September 29, 2011

How many backlinks need to get PR3, PR4, PR5

	No of Backlinks from Website with PR
RANK REQUIRED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
2	101	18	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
3	555	101	18	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
4	3055	555	101	18	3	1	1	1	1	1
5	16803	3055	555	101	18	3	1	1	1	1
6	92414	16803	3055	555	101	18	3	1	1	1

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

How to get Indexed by Yahoo! fast

How to get Indexed by Yahoo! fast
The best source of targeted traffic to your blog is still the natural traffic provided by the search engines. If your blog is new, getting indexed by Yahoo and Google takes time and a lot of effort.
Constantly updating your blog is necessary to attract the search engine spiders. But there is one trick that can be done to get your blog indexed really fast. You may be surprised that Yahoo may do it in one hour. Google can in as fast as 15minutes.
Here’s how. You must have your real simple syndication feed ( RSS ). I prefer using the one provided by feedburner.com. I won’t discuss feedburner anymore. Getting an account is so simple.
For Yahoo:
1. Access your My Yahoo page. If you’re not using a yahoo mail, get one.
2. On “My Main Tab” click the “add content” link.
3. Click the “Add RSS Feed” link at the bottom.
4. Type or paste the exact link provided by feedburner, NOT your blog url.
5. Click “Add” and you’re done.
If you’re lucky, you will immediately see your feed, the name of your blog and the titles of your posts.
If not, be patient. Try again after an hour. The worst is it may take up to a day.
When you have successfully added your feed to your My Yahoo, you will get an added bonus. Google will follow and index your blog. If you need to be sure, do the same for Google reader. Get a gmail account, look for the “reader” link. Same principle applies.

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Free Online RSS Feed Creator

I just found this on Google, but I’m just assuming I’m not the first to post it here, since it was fairly simple to find.

Basically, all you gotta do is fill in the basic information, and smack the “Submit” button. Your Feed URL should be generated instantaniously!

http://www.toucanmultimedia.com/rssmaker.php

Monday, September 19, 2011

Effective SEO Tips to Optimize

Participate in Social Media - SEOMoz released a study correlating data from over 10,000 keyword rankings and the factors that influence Google to highly rank a website. The study found that social media activity is correlated with higher Google rankings.
Optimize White Papers – Document sharing is a great way to increase awareness of your company’s products and services, build inbound links to help boost SEO, and drive traffic to your website. If your company isn’t posting your B2B white papers on Scribd, you need to start doing it now. Within one hour of us uploading a demand generation white paper for our company, we received a Google Alert informing us that Google picked it up on Scribd. Now that’s quick!
Start a Blog – Search engines love lots of content and fresh stories. Blogs have both. Plus, B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads per month than those that don’t according to Hubspot.
Claim Your Listing on Business Directories – There are a number of free business directories such as Business.com, Manta, and others. These directories are indexed well by Google. Business.com’s directory has dozens of categories from Construction to Industrial to Telecommunications. Put your business in the right category. Make sure you show up when prospects are looking.
Optimize Images – Search engines cannot see images so you need to do some optimization to get them crawled. Use alt text and captions for your photos. Place the most important keywords towards the beginning of the caption and include keywords in the file name. Keep the caption short and don’t spam the image by stuffing it with keywords.
Put Presentations Online – Upload your PowerPoint presentation to Slideshare, the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. Worried your competition might find out something about your company? Honestly, don’t worry about it. Stop caring about your competitors and start caring about your customers. There’s probably nothing you can share that your competition doesn’t already know about anyway. Plus, if the White House can use Slideshare, you can, too.
Write SEO-Friendly Press Releases – Use a service like PRNewswire or PRWeb and get your press releases distributed to bloggers and other online outlets. You’ll show up in Google News.
Create a LinkedIn Company Profile– Take advantage of a free LinkedIn listing for your company. Integrate your social media feeds into your profile, embed targeted keywords in your company description, and add eye-catching banners to promote your products and services. After we optimized our LinkedIn profile, our number of followers skyrocketed and our listing shows up on page one of Google.
Optimize YouTube Videos – Insert targeted keywords for your business in the video title and description. Include a hyperlink in the description back to your website. Make sure the hyperlink is within the first sentence. Use keywords when you tag the video, too. Limit tags to no more than 10 to prevent “keyword stuffing”.
Submit Site to Search Engines – Expedite search engine spiders finding your site by manually submitting it to search engines. Submit your site to Yahoo Site Explorer, Bing Webmaster Tools, andGoogle Webmaster Tools.
Use Description Tags – The Meta Description Tag is shown on the search engine results page as the summary snippet for your website. Description tags are limited to 160 characters including spaces. If you don’t use Description Tags, Google will choose for you what your listing says. Don’t rely on Google. Tell Google what you want to show.
Claim Google Place Listing – A completed Google Places listing makes it easier for customers to find you on Google. Listings show up on Google Maps and get ranked on the first page of Google. Include photos, videos, hours of operation, offers and promotions, and company description.
Write Error-Free HTML Code - Code that is written cleanly without any programing errors can rank higher than a site that has coding errors (broken links, missing commands, improperly formatted URL’s, etc.). Use a Markup Validation Service to check whether your website follows the HTML standards as set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Move Your Blog Under Your Domain – If your blog is hosted outside your domain (such as on Blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress.com), you’re not getting Google credit for all the traffic you’re driving to your blog. Move your blog within your website has a subdirectory likehttp://www.yourcompany.com/blog and not as a subdomain like http://www.blog.yourcompany.com.
Create Title Tags – Title tags are shown in search results as the headline for your webpage. Title tags also appear at the top of the browser window when someone is visiting your site. Title tags are prominent and important. The maximum length is 70 characters and anything after that is shown with an ellipsis. So stay within that limit. Make sure you place keywords in your title tags.
Use Anchor Text – Don’t use “click here” when linking from one page of your site to another. Instead, use anchor text strategically to embed a hyperlink behind a targeted keyword. For example, if your B2B company manufactures product lifecycle management software, hyperlink any mention of “entire product lifecycle” of your website to a key page on your website, perhaps a diagram illustrating a typical product lifecycle.
Create a Site Map – A site map helps search spiders index your content. It’s essentially a Table of Contents for your website, ensuring that hard-to-find pages are scanned up by the spider.
Use Nofollow Links – Under Google’s rules, a website with links pointing to sites that Google considers spammy can affect the reputation (and ranking) of your own site. This most often occurs when spammers leave comments on blogs. To combat link spam, use the “nofollow” link command. With “nofollow” turned on, a search engine crawler will not follow the link and your site will not get SEO dinged for pointing to a spam site.
Minimize Use of Adobe Flash – Search engine spiders can’t crawl Flash. So any content that is displayed in Flash is nonexistent and won’t get indexed. Flash use is dwindling anyway…even the iPad doesn’t support it. Stay away from Flash other SEO killers that can alienate search engines.
Include “Share This” – Make your content sharable (and make it worth sharing, too!). Social media activity influences Google rankings. The more your content is shared across the social web, the more it will increase the chance of your website ranking higher on Google.
Get Inbound Links – One of the biggest factors in Google rankings is how many other websites link to you. The more links, the better. Getting links from high-traffic reputable sites is more credible than links from no-name websites. Identify influential bloggers in your industry and trade links with them.
Write Good Content – You’ve heard the saying, “Content is king”. It’s true. Focus your website content on how your B2B product or service solves problems for customers. Be sure to have original, valuable content focused on customers as well as your targeted keywords. You want your site attractive to search spiders as well as humans.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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Link Building

Try forum profile links. I used to get killer backlinks looking for forums that allowed profile links. I had links from mtv.com, cnn.com, etc… real big sites. Fill your profiles full of text about your site and keyword space. Make it seem genuine and not spammy.
Find a person’s photo to upload as your own. Invent a name login & password thats easy to remember and type that wont exist anywhere you go and will validate for length and security strength. (This is how I got my handle years ago… 5 characters was too short for most forums. 6 almost always did the trick with a 7 letter strong password. If 6 was too short on login I’d know to just add another ‘b’ to the end. ) write your bio and stuff in advance. make a gmail account for the identity… youll have to click on a lot of verify links. Obviously don’t use this account for anything since it will be the account most likely to get hacked or phished by bad forums once you registers to a few thousand of them.
ideally its just a few days of searching for forums and cutting and pasting. Make a text file of all the profile page urls… you put them in a publicly shared google doc in link form and then publicly share the doc an fill it full of niche related content. then submit the doc url to google.Google trusts documents…
If you visit a place youve already been to but have forgotten the name will already exist. Just move on…
eventually you can go back and post at these forums legitimately if they allow signature links and post links. you can also use you profile url on the forum as your sig link then comment on popular threads to boost your profile PR. Sometimes you can linkwheel your profile pages too. You can also find a lot of .edu and .gov forums too.
Back in the day it would take about 2 weeks to linkbuild with forum profiles to PR6. PR7 and above required viral tactics and most likely still does.
Press releases work too if your website is legit. You can always host an empty zip file and then create pad submission files describing it as free software for your keyword niche and then submit to a million freeware and shareware directories. You can author a google desktop gadget, a yahoo gadget, a windows vista gadget, and an apple dashboard widget. They are just html and javascript zipped up in a special way… you can usually find basic examples to modify then upload them the gadget archives and get licks from those sites… just use niche keywords the the gadget name and description and link to your site for the more info and support links. Article writing still works.
Create a single blogger blog… syndicate the whole articles… just be sure to post a link to your site in the middle of every post. Then write to posts a day about your keyword space and ping the blog… scrapers sites will steal the full articles and post them on their site.
Don’t spend time worrying about nofollow. An organic site that isn’t trying to artificially influence google will have a healthy mix of mostly nofollow inlinks. nofollow links still provide good value too.

Found a perfect Dofollow search engine

I found a good Dofollow forums search engine on Digitalpoints, Works pretty good, so i wanna share it with you:
Check it out:
http://zhift.com/dofollow/

SEO Method to Increase your Traffic

This method combines four online marketing channels:

PPC Marketing (AdWords)
Article Marketing (posting articles to eZine and on your blog)
Link or Banner marketing
SEO

1. PPC Marketing
Well, everybody knows that you can get traffic from PPC Marketing. But if you know how to use it correctly you receive something more valuable: Data!
For example: You have a blog on the dating niche. Go ahead and grab the most expensive keywords for your niche, like “Dating”. Sure, you won’t have a good ROI, but you will get data. Google will tell you what people have searched in order to find your site. So if someone searches for “dating site” he will find your Ad, because you grabbed the keyword “Dating”. And you will know that he was searching for “Dating site”. That means: AUTOMATED KEYWORD RESEARCH!
But Google tells you more than just the keywords. Because Google places your ads on Publisher Sites from Google AdSense you will see which sites are relevant to your niche.
So now you have 2 things: keywords and related sites. Up to next step.
2. Article Marketing
Start writing posts for the keywords you got from your PPC campaign and post them on your blog. Write similar articles for the same keywords and post them on eZine for example and place a deep link to the related article on your blog. Those deeplinks will be backlinks from related content and Google loves that and your SEO is becomming better…
Article marketing is great. People coming from articles on your site are more willed to buy or do something than other visitors because they have already heard of you.
3. Link and Banner Marketing
Google is placing the ads from your PPC campaign on publisher sites (AdSense). Now look on which sites Google places your ads and contact them. Ask the owners to place a Banner or Link of your site. Those are direct backlinks (links to your landing page). This boosts your SEO because you get backlinks from sites which Google already knows as “related to your content”.
4. SEO
As mentioned above, SEO is not a task in this method but a result of good work. You don’t have to worry about this point because if you are doing the other points right your site will get ranked high in search engines.
5. Repeat the process
If you have created all the articles go back to your PPC campaign and change it. Now you don’t need the main keyword “dating” anymore but you can use some long tail keywords you wrote articles for. And don’t link those ads to your landing page but to articles or products on your blog/website

Trick for Fast indexing in google-msn-yahoo

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3 suite101.com PR 7
4 buzzle.com PR 6
5 helium.com PR 6
6 articlesnatch.com PR 5
7 goarticles.com PR 4
8 articlealley.com PR 5
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10 selfgrowth.com/articles.html PR 5
11 ideamarketers.com PR 5
12 bukisa.com PR 5
13 amazines.com PR 3
14 articlecity.com PR 6
15 isnare.com PR 6
16 searchwarp.com PR 5
17 articlerich.com PR 3
18 articleclick.com PR 4
19 sooperarticles.com PR 5
20 infobarrel.com PR 4
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22 a1articles.com PR 5
23 submityourarticle.com/articles/ PR 4
24 web-source.net PR 3
25 articlestars.com PR 2
26 articlecompilation.com PR 0
27 EvanCarmichael.com PR 3
28 abcarticledirectory.com PR 4
29 site-reference.com PR 5
30 articlepool.com PR 0
31 articleslash.net PR 5
32 articlesfactory.com PR 4
33 365articles.com PR 0
34 upublish.info PR 4
35 articlewarehouse.com PR 3
36 articlenexus.com PR 0
37 e-articles.info PR 4
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39 thewhir.com/find/articlecentral PR 5
40 articlesalley.com PR 7
41 article-buzz.com PR 3
42 fourpxarticles.com PR 3
43 articlecell.com PR 2
44 articlebliss.com PR 3
45 dime-co.com PR 4
46 articles.everyquery.com PR 3
47 articlemonkeys.com PR 4
48 thecontentcorner.com PR 3
49 affsphere.com PR 3
50 carolinaarticles.com PR 4