Posts Tagged ‘blog seo’
How to Craft an Effective SEO Plan
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Any experienced blogger or site developer will tell you about the importance of creating a solid, goal-oriented SEO plan before launching a website. Like a good business plan, an SEO plan outlines what you hope to accomplish with your site, who you’re looking to market your site to, and how you plan to meet these goals.
Unfortunately, so much of entry-level SEO is focused on keyword development that other important factors, including content, links and promotion, are often left by the wayside. While keywords are still hugely important, a site that focuses on them exclusively is comparable to a table with one leg – it falls down, and fast. By understanding the value and proper implementation of keywords, content, marketing and links, you can easily create a site-specific SEO plan that search engines and your audience alike will notice and appreciate.
6 Traffic Generation Tips for Bloggers
Friday, August 26th, 2011
If you want your blog to succeed, you need traffic. The best part is, you don’t need lots of money to sent people to your site. Traffic doesn’t come overnight; it requires time investment and a little beat of hard work.
Below are list of the twenty traffic generation tip your site needs to start generating reasonable blog visitors.
1. Attract search engine spiders
Write good search engine optimizable content at your site. These don’t only send you targeted traffic, but it’s free. When search engines indexed your site, you will get tons of traffic too your site from places like google, yahoo and bing.
When linking to pages within your blog, use keyword to hyperlink to any page. This helps explain that page and this may make the page rank higher for that page.
2. Submit your sites to search engines
There are hundreds of search engines online, but majority of internet users’ use the three most popular search engines, which are google, yahoo and bing. Submit each page you publish to this search engines and once you appear among the top three, your site will definitely appear in other search engine.
3. Comment on related blogs
Blogging is growing fast by the day and making comments in blogs has turn out to be one of the free ways of sending people to your blog.
Though not every one will visit your blog if your comment is not informative. If your blog comment is nothing to show, no one will visit your site.
To make the most out of your blog comments, it’s important to comment in blogs related to the theme f your blog and be among to the first five people to comment.
4. Guest post
One way to build your credibility and gain tons of traffic is via writing and submitting a guest post. This happens when you write post to authority site in exchange for link back to your blog.
This makes the site owner get some breaks from writing, while still updating its site on a regular basis and the guest author enjoys the exposure.
Look for sites under your niche, contact them and start submitting your guest post.
5. Utilize forums/message board
Look for forums under your niche, become a member and start posting. The great thing about forum is, you can create signature file and a link back to your blog will appear every time you make a post.
The key to becoming successful is when your forum post are informative, that people will click the link as they will tag you as an expert in that niche.
6. Give away free report
If you have some helpful information you want to give away, why not put it in an ebook format? You can create useful information imbedding links to your blog within the text.
When you have created a useful report with at least 10 long, you can give away for free with resale rights. When people sell your ebook, they make the money while you gain exposure.
Traffic generation is build over time, continues building of traffic helps you build credibility and visibility online.
The OnlineMBA.com Awards are Part of a Deceptive Link Baiting Scheme Aimed at Bloggers
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Hundreds of bloggers are falling prey to a deceptive link baiting scheme that I would like to expose.
The website OnlineMBA.com has a section for ‘awarding the web’. This award system is 100% illegitimate.
Six powerful link building tips for your blog
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
A guest post by Gagandeep Singh, an Internet Marketing Executive working for Fortepromo Promotional Products, a promotional tool Kits Company based in Minneapolis, USA.
If content is the king and visitors are the loyal subjects of your blog, then links are the kingdom’s currency. Simply put: the greater the number of external links to your blog, the higher organic search engine rankings will be and the more traffic your blog will receive.
A few days back, Chris wrote about do-follow blog commenting, which is one of the most effective methods for link building and developing new relationships with fellow bloggers. To help you succeed in your link building efforts, I have highlighted a few more link building techniques that will transform your blog into a hyperlink haven.
Yahoo to release a new style guide for web writing
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
If it’s one thing serious bloggers need, it’s an objective style book like what print publications have in The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style.
Is website one word or two? Is internet capitalized? Is it re-tweet or retweet?
Writing blog tags properly for search engines (SEO) and human visitors
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Yesterday, I gave a very thorough definition of what blog tags are. Today, I’m going to tell you how to create blog tags for SEO as well as for human interaction purposes.
The practice of blog SEO can sometimes create a dilemma. Everyone wants their blog to be optimized for search engines but no one wants to make readability sacrifices. Blog posts written to target keywords can sometimes be less legible than blog posts written in ignorance of search engines. With tags however, the more efficient they are for people, the more efficient they are for search engine optimization. In other words, you get the best of both worlds! If you use tags properly of course.
What are blog tags and what purpose do they serve?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Picture yourself: a big time sports blogger at the top of your niche. The AdSense dollars are rolling in. You’ve got more subscribers than Curt Shilling. You’re sensational. Not a care in the world.
Then a problem arises like a pigeon from hell.
You would like to give your visitors the ability to view all posts on the topic of ‘Yankees baseball’ but your a little wary of creating a new category for just five posts. You’ve got about 600 posts categorized in sections like baseball, hockey, soccer, volleyball, tennis. What do you do? Create a new category just for ‘Yankees baseball’? Unfortunately you find a few problems with that approach.
A free alternative to the WordTracker keyword traffic analysis software
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Rather than paying a $329 annual subscription to WordTracker, I’ve found alternative free keyword traffic analysis software that works just as good if not better.
The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a tool designed to help Adwords advertisers analyze competition for keywords. I have found that you can use it to analyze traffic for keywords regardless of what your intent is.
Why the Google PageRank of your blog does not matter
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Ah, Google PageRank. The crown of every newbie blogger. Yup that’s right, I said it: Google PageRank doesn’t mean squat. Unless of course you are a newbie blogger.
PageRank is a value from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to websites in its index. The higher the PR value, the more authority and credibility a site has. Naturally, Google is the only website with a PageRank of 10 and all of the lesser websites are given values from 0-9.
Graphic by Elliance, an eMarketing firm specialising in results-driven search engine marketing, website design, and outbound eMarketing campaigns. First sourced at Search Engine Land.
Newbie blog marketers pay a lot of attention to Google PageRank because it is a simple number. Unfortunately, using a blog’s PR value to judge its worth is like judging who the best baseball player is solely on the number of homeruns hit. There are so many other factors not considered.
Where to allow dofollow and nofollow links on your blog
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Nofollow is an HTML attribute value which tells search engines to not follow a link. Search engines like Google use internal and external links to determine page ranks (or which pages are important and which are unimportant). Webmaster’s use the “nofollow” attribute to tell search engines that a link is not important. By telling search engines that a link is not worth following, webmaster’s can preserve the rankings of individual pages.
How to change the links on your blog to nofollow
There are a few different ways you can change the attribute of links on your blog or website. You can manually change each of the links by adding rel=“nofollow” in each of the <a> (link) tags. In WordPress, you can click on the HTML tab of your post editor and insert the “nofollow” attribute on each of the links manually. You can also click insert/edit link button in the post editor, then click the “Advanced” tab and then change the ”Relationship page to target” setting to “nofollow.” For WordPress blogs, you can also install a plugin which will automatically add the “nofollow” relation to the links you specify.
Building links to your blog through commenting on other blogs
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Building links to your blog for search engine rankings is little different from building relationships with people in the real world — networking — for desired jobs and positions.
Employers judge prospective employees based on references from other individuals. If the prospective employee is in good favor with people in high positions, specifically positions in the same industry, the employer is more likely to hold the applicant in higher regard. It is no different in the cyber world. Commenting on other blogs relevant to your niche is just another method you can use to get search engines to hold your site in higher regard, thereby giving you higher rankings and more traffic.
Think of a search engine as an employer seeking a man for a job. The job is specific to the search term entered by a user and those applying for the job are the many sites and pages that the search engine has in its index. The search engine asks these questions for each site in its index: is the site reputable? Is it productive? Do other sites in the same topic range hold it in high regard?
Targeting search engine crawlers vs. human readers on your blog
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
My last post on this blog was a bit out of the ordinary. I’m sure if I had a large subscriber base, I would be getting tons of emails asking what the deal was. I wrote an entire post on one very simple thing: how to check which version of WordPress you are using. That little piece of information is probably not useful for any subscriber base. After all, most WordPress users who happened to be subscribed to my blog either already know which version they are running or don’t have a particular need to find out.
So why did I create the post?
The answer starts with a G and ends with an E. Yup, you guessed it: Google.
Yesterday, while I was tweaking the custom theme I built (which is almost ready) for this site, I had to find out which version of WordPress I was using to determine whether or not a PHP function would work on my blog.
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Featured Posts
Popular Posts
- The Best Blogging Sites and Platforms | Top Blog Sites 63 comment(s) | 229579 view(s)
- Random Topic Generator | Blog Topic Generator 59 comment(s) | 91554 view(s)
- Choosing a name for your blog 4 comment(s) | 26647 view(s)
- The Custom Post Background WordPress Plugin 105 comment(s) | 18003 view(s)
- Why you should use images excessively on your blog 3 comment(s) | 8413 view(s)
- Wp-config.php security leak - hundreds of blogs hacked 9 comment(s) | 5878 view(s)
- What is Akismet? 4 comment(s) | 4843 view(s)
- How to host your own blog in 5 easy steps 6 comment(s) | 4795 view(s)
- Setting up an email subscription form with Google FeedBurner for your site or blog 19 comment(s) | 4112 view(s)
- Controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Takes to Twitter to Counter Critics 1 comment(s) | 4089 view(s)
