Automation is one of the things that most internet marketers are looking for. If you can automate a task, particularly a recurring, time-consuming one, it can free up your time for other tasks. In this article, we're going to look at some of the pros and cons of automating your backlink generating.
There are a number of ways to automate your backlinks, some totally automated and others partially so:
- Article submission services or applications
- Blog commenting applications
- Blog network posting
- Automated link exchanges
By automating these things, you can generate backlinks on an ongoing basis without having to constantly go searching for new places to link from.
The biggest drawback to these automated services is the fact that they tend to generate links from places that aren't necessarily all that valuable.
Take blog networks, for example. There are a number of services - both free and paid - that have a number of blogs where you can post with backlinks to your site. Some of them will take one article you submit and post it to multiple sites, sometimes even spinning the article in the process.
But many of the sites it gets posted to may have little or no value. They're often set up purely to accept these "free" articles, and they have no Pagerank and may not even be fully indexed in the search engines. Those types of links really don't give you much value.
In most cases you can choose any two of these three things:
1. Low cost
2. Easy
3. High quality
High quality links that are easy to generate will cost you more money. Easy to build links that are inexpensive will not be very high quality. High quality links that are inexpensive will be more difficult to generate.
Automated backlink generating is often best used as one part of a larger plan.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
How To Optimize WordPress For The Best SEO Results
WordPress is a popular platform for building websites because it make the process so easy. WordPress handles all the formatting and layout of your site so you can focus on the content. But the default setup isn't very well optimized for the search engines. In this article we're going to discuss some ways to improve the SEO on your WordPress-based sites.
Privacy Settings
The first thing you should do is check the privacy settings in the WordPress admin dashboard. You can choose whether or not to make the site "visible" to the search engines. If the wrong option is set, your site won't be indexed or ranked.
The default setting is to make the site visible to the search engines, but it's still a good idea to double-check. If this isn't set right, nothing else we're going to cover will matter.
Permalinks
The next change you should make is to the permalink structure. By default, WordPress uses a pretty unfriendly URL structure - your posts and pages will show up as something like www.mydomain.com/?id=123.
There's no keywords included in the URL and there's some debate about how effective the search engines are at even indexing sites with these types of URLs.
Instead, you should change the permalink structure to include keywords. You can make this change in the Permalinks settings page, and set it to something like this:
/%postname%/
This will use the title of your post as the URL for the page. For example, if your post title is "My First Post" the URL would be www.mydomain.com/my-first-post. This will ensure that you get the keywords in your URL (assuming you use them in the post title).
SEO Plugin
Another important step to improving the SEO on your site is installing an SEO WordPress plugin. There are several of them available but the most commonly used plugin is called All-In-One SEO.
This plugin will optimize the HTML tags on each page - title tag, meta tags, etc. - using the post title and the content of the post itself. You can override these settings manually if you want to really optimize each page, but even the default settings are a huge improvement over the default setup for WordPress.
Note: Some premium themes, such as Thesis, have SEO features built into them. If you're using one of these themes, there's no need to install a plugin. In fact, doing so can cause conflicts between the theme SEO and the plugin SEO so you're better to leave it up to the theme in this case.
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Privacy Settings
The first thing you should do is check the privacy settings in the WordPress admin dashboard. You can choose whether or not to make the site "visible" to the search engines. If the wrong option is set, your site won't be indexed or ranked.
The default setting is to make the site visible to the search engines, but it's still a good idea to double-check. If this isn't set right, nothing else we're going to cover will matter.
Permalinks
The next change you should make is to the permalink structure. By default, WordPress uses a pretty unfriendly URL structure - your posts and pages will show up as something like www.mydomain.com/?id=123.
There's no keywords included in the URL and there's some debate about how effective the search engines are at even indexing sites with these types of URLs.
Instead, you should change the permalink structure to include keywords. You can make this change in the Permalinks settings page, and set it to something like this:
/%postname%/
This will use the title of your post as the URL for the page. For example, if your post title is "My First Post" the URL would be www.mydomain.com/my-first-post. This will ensure that you get the keywords in your URL (assuming you use them in the post title).
SEO Plugin
Another important step to improving the SEO on your site is installing an SEO WordPress plugin. There are several of them available but the most commonly used plugin is called All-In-One SEO.
This plugin will optimize the HTML tags on each page - title tag, meta tags, etc. - using the post title and the content of the post itself. You can override these settings manually if you want to really optimize each page, but even the default settings are a huge improvement over the default setup for WordPress.
Note: Some premium themes, such as Thesis, have SEO features built into them. If you're using one of these themes, there's no need to install a plugin. In fact, doing so can cause conflicts between the theme SEO and the plugin SEO so you're better to leave it up to the theme in this case.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Improve Your Adsense Earnings
No doubt that Google is the undisputed search leader in the entire world in other to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance. Adsense lover tells that doing the wrong things in the Adsnse and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated.
Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines from then until now, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.
For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated. Nothing like a good action taken to keep wrongdoers from doing the same things over again.
So for those who are thinking of getting a career in Adsense, do not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. Consider some things first before you actually get involved.
Hidden texts. Filling your advertisement page with texts to small to read, has the same color as the background and using CSS for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are hiding links.
Page cloaking. There is a common practice of using browser or bot sniffers to serve the bots of a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.
Multiple submissions. Submitting multiple copies of your domain and pages is another thing to stay away from. For example, trying to submit a URL of an Adsense as two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. Better check first if your domain is submitted already an a certain search engine before you try to submit to it again. If you see it there, then move on. No point contemplating whether to try and submit there again.
Link farms. Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.
Page rank for sale. If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is okay to sell ads or gain the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on search engines bad side.
Doorways. This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many SEO firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, try to avoid them at all costs.
Multiple domains having the same content. In case you are not aware of it, search engines look at domains IP’s, registry dates and many others. Having multiple domains having the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.
Many of the above techniques apply to most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense together with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you can be assured of the great things for your ads and sites.
Not to mention avoiding the wrath of the search engines and getting your Adsense and site account terminated altogether.
Ranking Number One: 50 Essential SEO Tips To Boost Your Search Engine Results
Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines from then until now, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.
For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated. Nothing like a good action taken to keep wrongdoers from doing the same things over again.
So for those who are thinking of getting a career in Adsense, do not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. Consider some things first before you actually get involved.
Hidden texts. Filling your advertisement page with texts to small to read, has the same color as the background and using CSS for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are hiding links.
Page cloaking. There is a common practice of using browser or bot sniffers to serve the bots of a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.
Multiple submissions. Submitting multiple copies of your domain and pages is another thing to stay away from. For example, trying to submit a URL of an Adsense as two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. Better check first if your domain is submitted already an a certain search engine before you try to submit to it again. If you see it there, then move on. No point contemplating whether to try and submit there again.
Link farms. Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.
Page rank for sale. If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is okay to sell ads or gain the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on search engines bad side.
Doorways. This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many SEO firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, try to avoid them at all costs.
Multiple domains having the same content. In case you are not aware of it, search engines look at domains IP’s, registry dates and many others. Having multiple domains having the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.
Many of the above techniques apply to most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense together with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you can be assured of the great things for your ads and sites.
Not to mention avoiding the wrath of the search engines and getting your Adsense and site account terminated altogether.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Domain Names and Search Engine Ranking
Will the length of your website's domain name registration have an effect on search engine optimization and results?
Should you renew your domain name for a long period of time? And if so, how long is long enough? If you want to stay ahead of your competition, then you might consider looking at the length of time your competitors have registered their domain names. If your competitors have generally renewed their domain names for one or two years, you might consider registering your domain name for 5 or 10 years. While putting off your domain name's expiration date might help your search engine rankings, keep in mind that this may be only a small victory when it comes to search engine rankings.
Its good business sense to register a domain for at least 10 years. You don’t want to deal with the yearly process of renewing them each year. It’s best to get the domain names that you want to keep for a while and renew then on a 5 to 10 year plan.
If your domain name expires, there's a good chance that someone will register your domain name as soon as it expires. If, for whatever reason, you don't renew your domain name, someone watching a 'watch list' of expiring domain names will try to capitalize on the online business that you've built over the years. They know that there is potential website traffic they can have simply by renewing your old domain name. By renewing your domain name for several years, your domain name won't expire for a while, and it won't be opened up to expired domain name buyers.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) At An Affordable Price Or For Free
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the hottest technique to drive targeted traffic to your website. Maximizing the benefits of a well optimized website will yield plenty of income for the marketer. However, optimizing your site might cost you thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area.
But to tell you the truth, you can effectively obtain information at a low cost anywhere on the Internet. But only a few really explain to you how to work out an inexpensive search engine optimization enterprise. And those few that really inform include this article.
1. Link exchanges
One cheap SEO technique that can get you best results is through link exchanges or linking to and from other web sites. Based on the websites that you would like to exchange links with, this tool could even cost you nothing at all. Contact the author or owner of the web site you want to have a link exchange with. You will be amazed with the eventual spiking up of your page ranking using this means of getting your website optimized.
2. Write or acquire key word rich articles
Writing truly educational and keyword-rich articles is one dependable way to make your Internet business more visible than ever. It's either you write your own articles or you get them from article directories that allow you to post these articles on your website as long as you keep the resource box or the author's byline in tact. Just don't stuff your articles with keywords that even idiots would get bored of reading. The readability and freshness of your articles will still be the basis of whether your writers will keep on coming back to your website or not.
3. Popular Domain Name
What better way to make your target visitors remember your website but with a very easy-to-recall domain name. Something short and sweet will prove to be very invaluable. Registering your domain name is not for free. But creativity is.
4. Organize your site navigation
Providing easy steps in navigating your site is one way to make your visitors become at ease with your site. This, in turn, will improve the flow of traffic to your website.
Low cost SEO is always evolving like any other method in information technology. There are many methods that can very well land you on the top ten rankings of Google or on any other search engines. Some may cost a lot but there are methods that can give you the same outcome at a low cost or you can even do on your own such as those described above.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Free Internet Marketing Methods that will Save your Internet Business
The best things in life are free, as many would say. This especially holds true with efforts in advertising one's products or services. With free Internet marketing services, one can save a lot. Instead of shelling out for the marketing aspect of your product or services, that chunk of money could be put to other important elements of your business since many information websites now offer knowledge regarding Internet marketing services that comes with no price tag at all.
This is not to tell you that better focus on plain Internet marketing. It still will do your business a lot good if you mix traditional advertisement efforts such as traditional and new marketing media.
Here are few of the free methods that you could employ to make your products and services be in their most visible form.
1. Promote your business through free search engine submission and optimization.
Submit your website to various search engines monthly. This will make many more people know that your website actually exists. Aiming for the top search engines will help a lot in this endeavor.
2. Improve and spin your articles.
Remember that information on articles with good content as traffic-bringer of websites? This time it's about making these articles serve your website better by using keyword suggestion tools that are offered for free. Update your web site's content by regularly checking the standing of your keywords with the current market.
3. Acquire free article content.
If you have no time to increase the SEO or search engine optimization-friendliness of your articles, you can look for free content from article directories. All you need to do is retain the resource box of those write-ups.
4. Avail of free comprehensive web traffic analyzers.
These are tools that you can make use of without costing you a cent. Your website's hits statistics will be produced by this kind of Internet marketing tool for your own analysis.
5. Learn to manipulate web design templates.
You don't have to be too techie-geeky to be able to design your web site. Oftentimes, web design templates or custom-made layouts are available for the Internet marketer to use.
6. Monitor your website's visibility.
Tools such as search engine position trackers may be used to see your website's standing.
These processes are very convenient to use as long as you keep in mind that you use and try to master their use for your own benefit. Just don't get obsessed with your achievements when you finally learn how to use them and incorporate them in your Internet marketing feat.
Making The Most Of Your Content For SEO Purposes
There is a common saying in internet marketing - Content Is King. This means that good content is important because without it, it's pretty hard to convince your visitors to do anything. In this article, we're going to look at some ways that you can get more leverage from your content.
Let's face it - creating content can be challenging. Whether you're writing articles, making videos, designing images or creating any other type of content, you're probably going to be faced with "writer's block" at some point or another.
One way to minimize this problem is to get more mileage from your existing content. There are a few different ways you can do this.
Spun Content
A very effective way to reuse your content is to spin it into a totally different format. If you have an article on your website, create a new version as an audio or video. The content is ultimately the same but with different formats you can post it in different places, such as YouTube, to increase your exposure.
Plus, the spun version can link back to your website, helping with SEO as well.
Rewriting Content
You'll need to write even more content if you use article marketing or free hosting to get backlinks. Rewriting content that you have already created is a good way to simplify this process.
It still takes time and effort, but it makes it easier by not having to come up with new ideas for content. This is especially true if you're working in a niche that you're not necessarily all that familiar with yourself.
Spinning Content
Article spinners will take a "seed" article and spin it into multiple versions. In some ways, it's like rewriting, but spinning will generate many more versions.
Spinning has a bit of a mixed reputation - some people swear by it and others swear at it.
But spinning works well as long as you take the time to create a good seed article. It can take some work to generate a seed article that creates readable spins, but if you do it right you can generate dozens of unique articles from that one seed - saving a lot of time and effort in the process.
Let's face it - creating content can be challenging. Whether you're writing articles, making videos, designing images or creating any other type of content, you're probably going to be faced with "writer's block" at some point or another.
One way to minimize this problem is to get more mileage from your existing content. There are a few different ways you can do this.
Spun Content
A very effective way to reuse your content is to spin it into a totally different format. If you have an article on your website, create a new version as an audio or video. The content is ultimately the same but with different formats you can post it in different places, such as YouTube, to increase your exposure.
Plus, the spun version can link back to your website, helping with SEO as well.
Rewriting Content
You'll need to write even more content if you use article marketing or free hosting to get backlinks. Rewriting content that you have already created is a good way to simplify this process.
It still takes time and effort, but it makes it easier by not having to come up with new ideas for content. This is especially true if you're working in a niche that you're not necessarily all that familiar with yourself.
Spinning Content
Article spinners will take a "seed" article and spin it into multiple versions. In some ways, it's like rewriting, but spinning will generate many more versions.
Spinning has a bit of a mixed reputation - some people swear by it and others swear at it.
But spinning works well as long as you take the time to create a good seed article. It can take some work to generate a seed article that creates readable spins, but if you do it right you can generate dozens of unique articles from that one seed - saving a lot of time and effort in the process.
How To Do SEO That Won't Affect Human Visitors
SEO is all about the search engines - structuring your pages and links to get the most value in the eyes of the search engine algorithms. But getting high rankings is only half the process - once you get ranked, it's real humans who visit your site. If you optimize your site too much, you'll wind up with something that doesn't really work for your visitors. In this article we're going to look at some ways you can accomplish both.
Most importantly, remember that your site needs to provide value to your visitors. The search engine spiders aren't going to make you any money - real people are.
That means you need to be sure that the content is useful to the people who land on your site. People won't stick around long if your content is barely readable, stuffed full of keywords. They'll just click the back button and find another site.
Always write for real visitors. Yes, you should optimize your pages for their primary keywords, but never at the expense of readability. Generally, it's a good idea to stick to 2% or less for your keyword density. That means you should only use it once or twice for every 100 words of content.
Your title and meta description tags are also important for getting people to visit your site. The title tag is one of the most important components of your page for SEO, so it should definitely include your keyword.
But most of the search engines also use that title tag as the title of your page in the search results. And they often use the meta description content as the description in the search results.
So including a good call to action in both tags will help improve your click-through rate in the search results. If your title and description tags are well-written, you can often get more clicks in the second or third position in the search results than a site ranked at number one but with a poor title and/or description tag.
And it's possible that click-through rate has an affect on your ranking, so this could even help you rank higher.
Most importantly, remember that your site needs to provide value to your visitors. The search engine spiders aren't going to make you any money - real people are.
That means you need to be sure that the content is useful to the people who land on your site. People won't stick around long if your content is barely readable, stuffed full of keywords. They'll just click the back button and find another site.
Always write for real visitors. Yes, you should optimize your pages for their primary keywords, but never at the expense of readability. Generally, it's a good idea to stick to 2% or less for your keyword density. That means you should only use it once or twice for every 100 words of content.
Your title and meta description tags are also important for getting people to visit your site. The title tag is one of the most important components of your page for SEO, so it should definitely include your keyword.
But most of the search engines also use that title tag as the title of your page in the search results. And they often use the meta description content as the description in the search results.
So including a good call to action in both tags will help improve your click-through rate in the search results. If your title and description tags are well-written, you can often get more clicks in the second or third position in the search results than a site ranked at number one but with a poor title and/or description tag.
And it's possible that click-through rate has an affect on your ranking, so this could even help you rank higher.
How To Make The Most Of Your Article Marketing
Article marketing is a great way to build backlinks, but simply submitting articles to the article directories and sitting back, waiting for the traffic to start flowing doesn't work like it used to. In this article we're going to look at some strategies for maximizing your results from article marketing.
First, the landscape of article marketing has changed quite a bit over the last few months. Google's Panda update hit most of the article directories pretty hard, and they've really clamped down on their quality requirements as a result.
250-300 word articles that are really just re-worked content from other places just won't cut it any more. You need to write longer articles, 500+ words, and they need to be just as high quality as what you would put on your own websites.
This goes beyond the minimum requirements for most article directories, but look at it this way…
You could get by with the bare minimum but if Google does another big update that spooks the article sites into tightening their requirements even further, those bare minimum articles might suddenly be not good enough, and get removed from the site.
Wouldn't you rather put a little extra effort into writing articles that will stand the test of time?
Another way to get more out of your articles is to build backlinks to your articles once they go live on the article directories. Most people just submit an article and move onto the next one, so if you're building links to those articles you're going to outrank most of your competitors.
And the backlinks you include in those articles will be more powerful, since the article will be getting some "backlink juice" as well. The extra link juice will trickle down to your own website over time.
Finally, treat your articles as a source of direct traffic as well as a source of backlinks. Include a good call to action in your resource box to get people to click through to your website.
You'll still get links to your website, but you'll also get some direct traffic from people who find your articles on the article sites. This direct traffic can come pretty quickly too, so it can help get your site moving while you wait for the links to have an effect on your rankings in Google and the other search engines.
First, the landscape of article marketing has changed quite a bit over the last few months. Google's Panda update hit most of the article directories pretty hard, and they've really clamped down on their quality requirements as a result.
250-300 word articles that are really just re-worked content from other places just won't cut it any more. You need to write longer articles, 500+ words, and they need to be just as high quality as what you would put on your own websites.
This goes beyond the minimum requirements for most article directories, but look at it this way…
You could get by with the bare minimum but if Google does another big update that spooks the article sites into tightening their requirements even further, those bare minimum articles might suddenly be not good enough, and get removed from the site.
Wouldn't you rather put a little extra effort into writing articles that will stand the test of time?
Another way to get more out of your articles is to build backlinks to your articles once they go live on the article directories. Most people just submit an article and move onto the next one, so if you're building links to those articles you're going to outrank most of your competitors.
And the backlinks you include in those articles will be more powerful, since the article will be getting some "backlink juice" as well. The extra link juice will trickle down to your own website over time.
Finally, treat your articles as a source of direct traffic as well as a source of backlinks. Include a good call to action in your resource box to get people to click through to your website.
You'll still get links to your website, but you'll also get some direct traffic from people who find your articles on the article sites. This direct traffic can come pretty quickly too, so it can help get your site moving while you wait for the links to have an effect on your rankings in Google and the other search engines.
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