tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81275073104622343252024-03-19T15:10:20.038-07:00IRENG BLOGblogger seo tips and techniquesireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-68532540392029360372011-03-05T11:39:00.000-08:002011-03-05T11:40:23.033-08:00Google and Bing Love Anchor Text Link Spam<a alt="Google and Bing Love Anchor Text Link Spam" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-and-bing-love-anchor-text-link.html" title="Google and Bing Love Anchor Text Link Spam"><b>Google and Bing Love Anchor Text Link Spam</b></a><br />
While many bloggers and the media are calling Google's search results out lately, most of the focus has been on the somewhat low-quality pages that show up for informational long-tail searches. <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/dear-google-290" target="_blank">My concern for Google's search results</a> is different, however. As I touched upon in the last newsletter, I'm tired of Google (and Bing) returning sites that use anchor text link spam to get on the first page of results.<br />
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For those who don't know what anchor text is, here's a quick explanation:<br />
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Anchor text is the words in the clickable part of any link. For instance, when someone links to my site, they typically use either my name or my company name in the anchor text, which looks like this:<br />
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<a href="http://www.highrankings.com/" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">Jill Whalen</a> is an SEO consultant. <br />
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Or...<br />
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Visit <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">High Rankings</a> for SEO consulting.<br />
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But those links are not all that valuable in SEO terms. What would be better (for search engines) is for the links to be more like these:<br />
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Jill Whalen is an <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">SEO consultant</a>.<br />
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Visit High Rankings for <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">SEO consulting</a>.<br />
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...with the keywords that people might type into Google (or Bing) as the clickable anchor text link.<br />
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Search engines assign a lot of weight to the words that are in that clickable link. It does make sense because you're telling both people and search engines what they'll get when they click the link.<br />
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The problem is that it's not a natural way for people to link unless they know a bit about how search engines work. It's more natural to link using the company name, even through links that just say "click here" or "more information."<br />
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Part of what I do as an SEO consultant is to train clients to think like a search engine. I teach clients to link more descriptively on their own sites via "internal" links as well as linking to other "external" sites. But to get honest-to-goodness natural links - that is, links from others just because they really like you or your company - it's unlikely that the link will have the best anchor text for search engines. And yet, natural links are exactly what Google claims to value. It's what their PageRank algorithm was originally based on. <br />
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But today, natural links and true citations are nearly useless in helping search engines show the best sites for the search query at hand.<br />
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For instance, this past Sunday I was quoted in a Washington Post story about <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012803849.html" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">Google's less-than-stellar search results</a>.<br />
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I spoke with the reporter for quite some time and also emailed him numerous examples of how some companies easily manipulate Google. He was kind enough to mention me and my company (on page 2) in the article, which was great -- but there was no link. I don't know if it is the Washington Post's policy not to link, or if they just don't think about it, or if they have not ever been taught to link. It seems to me that a mention in the Washington Post in this context provides me and my company some credibility, because the WP is a mainstream news outlet. Yet any credibility I may have gained with the people reading the article is completely lost on Google because there's not only no descriptive anchor text link, there's no link at all!<br />
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Instead, the links that Google (and Bing) end up valuing the most are those where people control the anchor text. Unfortunately, when anchor text can be controlled, it often means that the link:<br />
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* was purchased<br />
* was traded for<br />
* was added to a site that is controlled by the owner<br />
* was added to a site in a network controlled by multiple stakeholders (like a link farm)<br />
* was added into an article or bio of an article and posted to an article directory or similar site<br />
* was used in a blog comment<br />
* was part of a forum signature<br />
* was obtained naturally, but the linker had to be asked to edit the anchor text.<br />
Only the last one of those is truly in line with what search engines want to value, and even that one is sketchy because it becomes somewhat unnatural by virtue of requesting different anchor text.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">May the Biggest Spammer Win</b><br />
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Most reasonable people would agree that it doesn't make sense that the companies who own or take part in a network of interlinked websites should rank higher than those who don't. And why should the websites that have people "writing" boatloads of blog comments outrank their competitors who have no desire to spam others' blogs? If you're commenting because you'll possibly get some link value rather than because you feel the need to add to the conversation, it adds unnecessary clutter and should be counted as spam by the search engines (in my opinion). I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of blog and forum comments fall into that category, as do most articles submitted to article dírectories.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Here's the Rub</b><br />
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All of the above types of links still count very highly in Google (and Bing). While links and their anchor text are by no means the only ranking factor for how sites show up in the search engines, they are a very large one at the moment. And surprisingly, neither the relevance nor the quality of those links appears to play as big a role as search engines would like you to believe.<br />
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You can take any product search query (both highly competitive and somewhat competitive) and review the backlinks of the sites that show up in Google's (or Bing's) top 10 to 20 results and see what I'm talking about.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Random Example</b><br />
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Let's look at the search query "baby furniture," which I just randomly thought of as I was writing this. I'm not going to call out any of the sites by name, and your results may differ slightly from mine, but you should get the picture.<br />
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The first site to show up in Google is a big brand, which makes sense. In fact, I wasn't even going to check the backlinks because I figured they likely deserve to be there based on their brand. But then I noticed it's just a random catalog page from their site. So I looked at their backlinks, and sure enough, there are 357 links pointing to that one page, most from completely irrelevant sites. Some are even hacked sites. But they've got keyword-rich anchors that Google (and Bing) love. Many of the links are in blog comments and others in "pártner site" areas (paid links). Wonderful.<br />
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Let's check the #2 site that shows up in Google (which for me was the #1 site in Bing). Looks like there's a whole network of interlinked baby-related sites that use keyword-rich anchor text links to get all the various sites to rank well for those words. While it's possible that all those sites have different owners and they really just want to recommend (using juicy anchor text) all those other baby product sites, it sure smells fishy to me! At least in this case they seem to be on relevant sites, unlike the big-brand one above.<br />
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The #3 site that I see on Google is also a big brand, and it looks as if many of their links are purchased from mommy blogger-type sites, based on my random clickthroughs of their backlinks. While they at least seem relevant, most are anything but natural. I would consider them akin to ads, aka <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/buyingtextlinks" style="color: #005099;" target="_blank">paid links</a>. Nothing wrong with them purchasing ads on relevant sites, but it's Google's job not to count paid links, and yet they do.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-78860277587812962882011-03-05T11:25:00.000-08:002011-03-05T11:30:18.562-08:00Facebook Advertising Made Easy With SocialBoost<div style="text-align: justify;"><a alt="Facebook Advertising Made Easy With SocialBoost" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/facebook-advertising-made-easy-with.html" title="Facebook Advertising Made Easy With SocialBoost"><b>Facebook Advertising Made Easy With SocialBoost</b></a><br />
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You may have already established a social media presence for your business. However, you - like many others - may be facing the challenge of getting loyal followers and fans. You want to grow your authority and influence in the social networks. You want to earn the trust and interest of your blog visitors, but where do you begin? </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Okay, so now that the scene has been set, let's dive in. Listed below are 5 great tips that I have been using to grow my tribe of followers and fans. Pretty successful so far. My influence now extends beyond my blog and I am actively engaging my followers and fans on a myriad of social media platforms. How do I achieve that?<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Provide Exclusive and Unique Content</b><br />
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The number 1 bait to attract visitors to your blog or website is to have compelling content. Personally, I spend around an hour a day to update my blog with fresh, great content. Every single day - without fail. That is the only way to satisfy my tribe which is always thirsty for knowledge. With a little creativity, you can even use premium content as a means of getting fans to "like" you on Facebook. I also use controversy to generate lots of buzz and interactions on my blog. Controversial blog posts usually get viral very rapidly. Controversy sparks emotions and makes it compelling to share that sparked emotion with others. If you can do it correctly, it will create a flood of new visitors and readers for your post. However, be mentally prepared for the backlash when people start to debate on the points you have made.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Engage the Tribe Through Interactive Sessions</b><br />
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This may sound overwhelming and requires a considerable amount of effort as compared to other methods, but the returns are good. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Webinars, for example, are great. I was able to interact with my subscribers who asked me questions and got their answers on the fly. Such platforms are awesome in gathering valuable feedback and concerns from my tribe followers.<br />
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How about hosting a contest? People love to participate in contests. Contests with your blog audience can grow the amount of engagement you experience rather than having them simply reading, re-tweeting and sharing status updates. For example, I held a contest called "My Biggest Fan" where I had my fans tell me why they love my blog. The prize? A four hour private consultation with me. Not really that great, but it did help the contest wínner who went onto make a four figure income every month. My contest results? 2,937 comments, 5,846 re-tweets and an additional 1,547 subscribers on the day of the contest. Pretty incredible huh? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">The Trust Factor</b><br />
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Trust is the most important element in any true relationship and it is something that you need to build with your tribe. No tricks or tactics here. There's only sincerity and honesty required. So how do I build the trust between me and my subscribers? I listen to them. I empathize with the problems that they face. I provide advice and resources to help them solve their problems. Well, even if I do not have an instant solution at hand, I am able to provide a listening ear, just like a friend will if his friend is in need. Create honest relationships with your tribe and you will reap the fruits of your labor!<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Creating Value</b><br />
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This point re-emphasizes what I covered earlier. A blog reader or customer may ask, "What's in it for me?" Thinking from the perspective of my blog audience, I do constantly reflect on this - on whether I am creating value for my blog audience or not. If you are an Internet marketer, you need to create value for your subscribers first before they are willing to hand you the cash from their pockets. That rule hasn't ever changed since the start of civilization. But whether that value is tangible or not, it does not really matter. It has to be there however to propel people to take any action. Most of the time, I will do my best to solve my customers' problems, to satisfy their needs or just to answer their queries. That is unless the odd demanding customer's request really ticks me off when I am out of sorts. HA! Alright, I am just joking, but I am a nice guy generally. My subscribers have always said that I have over-delivered on most occasions so I guess I am!<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">Discipline, Patience and Your Road to Success</b><br />
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There is no way (other than using some automation tools which are pretty much useless from what I see) to amass tens of thousands of followers in the space of days. Patience does go a long way. Right from the start, I pushed myself to share at least a post a day on my blog. Well, not that I was really pushing myself hard since I enjoy blogging, but as the days went by, it was really gratifying to see my subscribers growing steadily from my consistent efforts.<br />
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Fans and followers do matter. They are the ones who will be interested in what you blog about and what you pitch. Remember that they are always right. They can choose whether or not to read your blog or your messages. My fans, my followers and my customers are my bread and butter. Without them, I would not be earning a six figure income every single month.<br />
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What tips do you have to get more fans - more followers - more subscribers? I may have missed some. How are you using social media to grow your tribe? Share your thoughts - the comments are yours. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a alt="Top 5 Tips to Grow Your Social Media Tribe" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/top-5-tips-to-grow-your-social-media.html" title="Top 5 Tips to Grow Your Social Media Tribe"><b>Top 5 Tips to Grow Your Social Media Tribe </b></a></div>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-41627947519558937362011-03-05T11:11:00.000-08:002011-03-05T11:13:05.427-08:00How Social Media has Changed SEO<div style="text-align: justify;"><a alt="How Social Media has Changed SEO" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-social-media-has-changed-seo.html" title="How Social Media has Changed SEO"><b> How Social Media has Changed SEO</b></a><br />
Social media websites have spread like wildfire over the past couple of years. Today, so many people spend more time on Facebook, Twitter or some other social network than any other website.<br />
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Aside from connecting people, social networks also provide advertising opportunities. Take Facebook, for example. What do you do when you come across a website with half a billion active users? Develop Facebook Web promotion strategies and use the website as a marketing tool, of course.<br />
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It's not surprising to find so many businesses utilizing Facebook Web promotion these days.<br />
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In fact, lots of businesses have an FB page as their second homepage. So, the challenge here is how to use social media SEO to your business' advantage.<br />
Social Media SEO<br />
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It's not so hard to advertise via Facebook Web promotion. FB and other social networks allow you to post ads, updates, pictures and videos in a snap. When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), on the other hand, there is some doubt whether Facebook SEO is really effective. For one, this particular social media site uses the “nofollow” tag. This means that your backlinks from Facebook aren't given any value by search engine crawlers. Thus, those links aren't affecting your search engine rankings at all (but they will still give you traffic).<br />
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Facebook links may be nofollow, but this doesn't mean that the website completely doesn't have social media SEO opportunities. Here are a Facebook SEO tactics:<br />
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* Post links to your website in less obtrusive areas. A good thing about Facebook Web promotion is that it presents ads and links in a rather subtle way. If you can notice, most of the ads on FB are at the right side. Although links can be found everywhere, they aren't slammed right in your face. By posting links only in your bio box, info tab, right side panel etc., you won't be turning off users by spammy messages. Thus, there are more chances of people checking out content in your site and linking to it.<br />
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* Don't stop the posting. Many a time have companies felt excited about reaching fans via Facebook Web promotion, but find that the excitement dwindles after a month or two. Keep on posting --- send out daily posts, and write about interesting things regarding your business, services, and products. These posts can encourage conversation, likes, and comments. Besides, if all your status messages are all about your products and services, your page will lean more on spammy.<br />
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* Give away free stuff. Almost everyone loves free stuff. Start a contest or coupon codes with enticing value to encourage fans to participate in your social media SEO campaign. If you get fans excited, they just might tell their family or friends and blog about it. This Facebook Web promotion tactic can result to more links pointing to your main site.<br />
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* Don't hesitate to ask for a link. It never hurts to request, or even beg, for a link. Once you have a minimum of 25 fans, post an update and ask your fans to post a link pointing to your site on their blog. If they're truly your fans, chances are they'll help you out with this Facebook SEO strategy. To increase the chances of getting that link, give out coupon codes or other free items.</div>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-7990545401094865182011-03-05T11:07:00.000-08:002011-03-05T11:09:11.740-08:00Facebook SEO vs Regular SEO<a alt="Facebook SEO vs Regular SEO" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/facebook-seo-vs-regular-seo.html" title="Facebook SEO vs Regular SEO"><b>Facebook SEO vs Regular SEO</b></a><br />
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Using Facebook SEO can get a bit tricky since the social media SEO benefits are indirect. On the one hand, Facebook also has lots of search potential. In fact, many Facebook users today are blurring the lines between social and search. External websites are being tied up to FB's internal systems, allowing the social media site to hop on the search market bandwagon.<br />
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With that said, seriously consider integrating Facebook Web promotion in your online marketing efforts now before you miss out on great online marketing opportunities.<br />
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Moreover, FB isn't exactly a search engine; or at least it's not an Internet search tool we're used to. Nonetheless, one other nagging issue is hitting the heads of SEO experts: Should Google worry about Facebook Web promotion's SEO potential?<br />
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Ever since the social network's search engine enhancements and open graph were announced, the SEO world increasingly heard about Facebook SEO. What's more is that Facebook and Microsoft has partnered, and that Bing will start integrating FB features in searches.<br />
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It may be too early to say that Facebook SEO has Google shaking at the knees. What this tells us is that social media has made a great impact on search engine optimization. While Facebook remains the most popular social network today, there are other social media sites can provide direct link building benefits. LinkedIn, for instance, allows you freely to embed valuable inbound links. There's also Digg, which has become a destination for social media SEO and even link spamming.<br />
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Social Media SEO has immensely evolved over the last ten years or so. It may take a while for you to build an account in each of the major social media sites, but it's definitely worth it. Moreover, Facebook web promotion and marketing via social media is a fun online marketing strategy. Make the most of this lucrative social media SEO to reap the rewards.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-91505646112891558792011-03-05T11:01:00.000-08:002011-03-05T11:03:29.468-08:00Title Tags Written for SEO instead of for Prospect<div style="text-align: justify;">While you may argue that if you don't optimize your Title Tag you won't be able to rank at the top, I'd reply, "You're wrong." When is the last time you have actually studied the search results in Google? Often, results #2 - #4 do not have the keyword you searched for in the Title Tag.<br />
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It isn't a big secret that you can use incoming anchor text to get the top rankings, but making the Title Tag compelling means that you can get more clickthroughs than your competitors even though they outrank you. And that is the key: clickthroughs.<br />
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Due to "Off Page Factors" Google doesn't require the keyword phrase to be in the Title Tag to rank well. If you've been in SEO for the last few years, you're already aware of this. Let me share two examples: "job search" and "search engine".<br />
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Notice that Career Builder has the search term in the Title Tag while Monster does not. However, which is more compelling? Read both out loud. Hands-down, Monster.com is more compelling. "Find Jobs. Build a Better Career. Find Your Calling." That's powerful, especially in this economy where jobs are a premium.<br />
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The next example shows the top two results for "search engine" and neither have the keyword in the Title Tag. Yahoo! is listed twice in the top ten, and in both occurrences it does NOT use the keyword in the Title Tag. But the main problem is neither of these results are compelling. And Dogpile has created the "ultimate SEO sin" in using "Home Page" as part of their Title Tag.<br />
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There are, of course, exceptions, such as the term "used cars" which has the keyword phrase present in all top ten results, but for the most part, about half of the top results do not have the keyword phrase in the Title.<br />
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So, does that mean you should no longer use the keyword phrase in the Title? No, of course not. This is to get you to think more "outside the box," as too many SEOs have the false belief that you throw a keyword phrase in the Title Tag and buy a couple of links with the phrase in the anchor text and they're done with SEO.<br />
Hardly.<br />
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Recommendation - Keep your Title Tag to eight (8) words or less (65-character limit) and make it compelling.<br />
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Hint: Write your Title Tags on your web pages the same way you write your Headlines for AdWords. Be direct, to the point, and SELL the click!<br />
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Clickthroughs only happen when the searcher is compelled by what they have read, and that begins with the Title Tag. A top position is worthless if it isn't clicked. Master this art and you will always have an advantage over your competition. Always.<br />
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Proof: When you search, do you just click the number one listing? Of course not. You scan the page and click on the result with a Title Tag that matches your needs. That is your key: "Give the user what they want and they will click."<br />
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Remember the three-step process to successful SEO: ranking, click-through and conversion. Ranking is worthless without a click-through, and the click-through is wasted without a conversion. Start your conversation with the Title Tag.<br />
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Further Proof: Titles that are either keyword stuffed or boring have poor click-through rates because people scan the results looking for what they want. Another thing that my fellow faculty member David Bullock says is prospects think about what the solution should be and approximately what it should cost before they search.<br />
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Therefore, when the prospect starts their search, they scan the search results looking for what matches the internal pre-search conversation in their heads. Titles longer than eight words make scanning more difficult and are often bypassed by searchers, as they are not perceived to continue their conversation. Testing has proved Generic Titles are not what they're looking for.<br />
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Here is an example of a "keyword stuffed" Title. Even though this page ranks well for a highly competitive phrase, the click-thru will be low due to the "stuffing" of keywords. The Webmaster was just trying to get as many as they could in there. Read it out loud to gain the full effect.<br />
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Hot Tip: While you know that your solution and price are perfect for the prospect, if your Title Tag does not match their conversation you won't earn the click. It doesn't matter how effective your landing page is; if few prospects see it, your sales will also be few.<br />
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What can you do to make your Title Tag stand out? You've heard advice to ensure the Title Tag is "READABLE and COMPELLING", but how? This task is not unique to SEO. A compelling Title tag is fundamental in any marketing campaign. You always need to break down your market into segments.<br />
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What I do is open my Business Journal and map out what I think the typical prospect needs. I then look at the Titles for the competing sites and look for possible inspiration.<br />
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Here are examples and results for a few tests which I have personally run:<br />
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Plastic Surgery - Don't Trust Your Body to Just Anyone - This achieved a 4-1 clickthrough ratio over a listing above it in the SERPS, mainly due to the word "trust" being added.<br />
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Looking for the Best Mortgage? - This achieved a 3-1 clickthrough ratio over a listing above it and the conversion ratios were very good as the landing page contained a graphic, "See Us for the Best Mortgage Offer for your Home." This is a strong call to action.<br />
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Get Help Finding a New Job - The director reported since changing the Title their overall traffic has decreased, but the number of closes for their resume help service has gone up sevenfold. Visitors are not just more qualified, but they come in with an obviously better outlook and attitude. This can be referred to as "pre-selling" the visitor without them seeing a "pre-sales page".<br />
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Health Insurance: Avoid the Traps, Get Expert Advice - This Title has boosted leads to the highest point in this firm's web history. They have their top keyword phrase "health insurance" but they also tell them why they should click: to avoid traps and also get expert advice. Notice they did not place their company name in the Title, which is often just a waste, because the prospect doesn't care.<br />
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Other examples from the SERPs:<br />
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Good Example:<br />
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Notice how the Title is concise and uses the power word "tips." While the Description is too long, it is also well focused.<br />
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Example of What Not to do:<br />
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Beyond "Traditional ..." what? This is why you want to limit the characters of your Title Tag. eHarmony should be smarter than this.<br />
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Exceptional Examples:<br />
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Notice the Venetian uses just four words ("the" isn't counted as it is a "stop word") and it does not mention the phrase "Las Vegas hotel" in the Title, yet it ranks #2 in the SERPs. Note the highly compelling description.<br />
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In the above example, Thrifty uses the keyword twice (car rental) in the Title and holds the #6 position. The fact is, since other car rental places in that industry rank WITHOUT that keyword in the title tag, Thrifty should take a different tack. <br />
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Right now, they are doing little to set themselves apart from their competition. They could probably safely take "car rental" out of the title tag and should instead use that valuable real estate to help convert the searcher by selling the click (just like you would in a PPC ad headline).<br />
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Other Examples:<br />
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"Online computer store" gets 110k searches and only one page in the Top Ten contains the target phrase.<br />
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"Find a job" and "work from home" have three or fewer results with the keyword found in the Title Tag.<br />
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Bonus Examples - Nothing but Pure Comedy<br />
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All of these are actual Titles taken from the web. This is stuff you just can't make up ... even if you wanted to:<br />
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Untitled document: this is a great example of the "Lazy Webmaster" who hasn't taken the time to change the default text. I love the Meta Description ... "logo."<br />
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"The web pages uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them." Okay, if this is your Title, I am sorry, you are just an idiot Webmaster and you really need to outsource the work to someone else who "gets it."<br />
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Insert Keywords Here: Another example of being lazy, but also telling the world that you are, well, an idiot. At least the "Untitled Document" is descriptive ... "Insert Keywords Here" does not help your online image. It is the online version of a "Kick Me" sign on your back.<br />
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Home Page - That's your Title. "Home Page." Go ahead and cancel your hosting and see if you can get your old job back.<br />
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You have heard the hype and read the stories on monetizing the traffic on your blog but what's the real story. It sounds easy and simple, but the truth is that simply getting traffic to your blog does not mean you will make money from those visitors. That is what it means to "monetize your blog traffic" and here are a few things to keep in mind.<br />
Methods to consider:<br />
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Monetization of your blog traffic can be accomplished in several ways. Some are easy and some are a little more complex. The most straightforward way is to use a "pay to post" service where you get paid by a third party to post blog messages. Another is where people pay you to include links inside your blog posts to their products or service. These two both first require that you have an established blog with loyal readers but can generate income. The amount of income is going to be a direct result of your traffic levels.<br />
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The fact is that if you have traffic to your blog then there a number of ways you can generate income from each post. One of these is to include ads in your highest traffic areas of your posts. You would offer to place an ad into your blog's highest traffic areas for a fee…based on the amount of traffic that section of your blog will receive. This is very straightforward, very common and an extremely easy way to add a new revenue source to your blog.<br />
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An extension of this is to use a Cost Per Click (CPC) program (Adsense) or add affiliate links and earn when a visitor clicks a CPC ad or from each order generated through affiliate links. The best part of these methods is that these require very little effort or work to get started. These methods can be done quickly and can be expanded over time and has the potential to provide a good level of income each month.<br />
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By far, the most lucrative way to make money from your blog traffic is to offer something that people want and then charge them to access it. In other words, your visitors have to want to pay you for what your write about. If not, they will go away to another site on the same niche. There are many things that fit into this category like eBooks, video instruction courses or podcasts. All you need to do is find a niche that other people are already interested in and are already paying for content and focus your energies there.<br />
Things you should know ahead of time:<br />
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Before you try to monetize the traffic to your blog, you need to know a few basic points to insure your success.<br />
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First, you need to know your niche. Say your blog is focused on dog training products. You do not want to place ads, links or products that are unrelated to that main category of dog training products. Keep it all focused on your niche. Remember, content is king but it needs to be quality and tightly focused content to keep the search engines and your visitors coming back for more.<br />
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Next, you need to know where your traffic is coming from and where it goes when they leave your blog. Most web hosting companies like Host Gator offer a suite of tracking tools to help you with this, so take advantage of what they offer. Reports are available that detail the time of day, what and how many pages your visitors viewed as well as what day of the week the visitor came and how long they stayed. You can even run a report that tells you what page is the starting point of every visit. This kind of information is golden….BUT only if you use it.<br />
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Why should you keep track of the click path for your visitors? With this information you could target your audience with ads, guest posted articles or through comments to articles on other sites that your visitors frequent.<br />
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Once you're up and running, you can build it from there or move into other niches and repeat the process</div>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-68147120171618268252011-03-05T10:39:00.000-08:002011-03-05T10:40:50.467-08:0012 Most Common SEO MistakesHave you ever embarked on some SEO work and got that sinking feeling that you might be doing something wrong? You're not alone. Our expert Mark Nunney gives us the dirty dozen top mistakes he sees being made in SEO, as well as tips on how to negotiate the pitfalls.<br />
<b>1. Missing the big picture</b><br />
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Most SEO advice is given for a single page, word or technique. But if a site is to be responsible for a profitable small business then in most situations it will need hundreds of pages targeting hundreds of thousands of keywords using a wide range of techniques.<br />
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All of these pages, keywords and techniques need to work together so you need a plan to coordinate that, including:<br />
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Keyword research looking for potential keywords with Wordtracker Keywords Toolß and existing traffic with Wordtacker Strategizer)<br />
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Strategy (your prioritized groups of target keywords)<br />
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Site structure (matching your target keywords) and navigation to distribute link power around your site<br />
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On page SEO<br />
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Link building with Wordtracker's new Link Builder tool and online PR.<br />
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To work at any scale beyond a micro-niche business, you must change your perspective from single (or exact match) keywords to keyword niches - groups of keywords sharing the same seed ...<br />
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... so right now I'm helping a site selling slippers and I might focus a lot of SEO and link building on the single keyword slippers but I'm really interested in tens of thousands of keywords containing slippers, including leather slippers, men's slippers, ladies slippers, etc.<br />
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I designed Wordtracker Strategizer to work with this shift in perspective from single keywords to keyword niches.<br />
<b>2. Not having a keyword or SEO strategy</b><br />
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What are you trying to achieve? Most importantly your SEO strategy should serve the company, marketing and brand strategies. A keyword strategy is a prioritized list of the company's target markets' niches, as defined by the keywords used in those niches - the words and phrases used in search engines.<br />
<b>3. Putting too much trust in an SEO company</b><br />
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You need to get whoever you have approached to prove what they've done, even when you have a personal reference for that company. You should take a step back and ask yourself, "what is being delivered?" Make sure you are getting your money's worth.<br />
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Often they (businesses) will see a company with a nice website and they may be inclined to trust them because of that. Here are a few simple questions to ask any agency you might be talking to:<br />
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Do you always give complete ownership of site analytics accounts to your clients? If not, why not? (The answer is they want to 'lock you in'.)<br />
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How do you build links other than paid, directories, press releases, article sites and using your own websites?<br />
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Can you list all the link building techniques you have planned for me, give the weighting you'll give to each and why?<br />
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Give examples of how your strategy and tactics might change with circumstances.<br />
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If their given link building techniques include the likes of comment spamming and buying links ask: I understand they can work now, but what happens when Google stops them working?<br />
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(Following up on the question above) Remember the Florida update? If the person you're speaking to doesn't remember 'Florida', ask to speak to an SEO who does.<br />
<b>4. Having a company structure or systems that are unable to accommodate change</b><br />
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Change is always difficult. But combine it with something completely new and you've got a problem. The new thing is SEO and online marketing - neither is particularly well understood or even trusted, and in some cases companies have never heard of it.<br />
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Change is never going to happen unless those with authority and responsibility absolutely insist it does. This slows down many large companies and allows the small, who do embrace SEO, to do well. Here's a nice example - do a search for hotels in London, Paris or New York. You would think you would see all the big names at the top, but you'll see plenty of companies you've never heard of.<br />
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<b>5. Not coordinating SEO with your editorial, sales and marketing departments</b><br />
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New content without SEO to maximize the number of target visitors seeing that content is a waste.<br />
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SEO without marketing to convert those visitors is a waste.<br />
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Your content, SEO and marketing should work together as part of a process.<br />
<b>6. Not monitoring response or acting on results</b><br />
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You have to monitor response eg, the numbers buying your product or signing up to your newsletter.<br />
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You may find that the market niche you hoped would work ends up being lame. If so, move on.<br />
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Monitor traffic, rankings and response for relevant searches. If you are getting good or bad results you need to act appropriately. That might be moving on to the next target niche, or investing more resources into the same ones.<br />
<b>7. Poor content management systems</b><br />
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It's a cliche to say you need the right tools to do the job. One of SEO and online marketing's tools is a content management system (CMS) that gives you complete control over most of the content, on most of the pages, including site navigation, menus and all marketing. Not having that is like entering a car race on a scooter.<br />
<b>8. Letting developers control website content</b><br />
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Partly as a result of companies having no existing knowledge and systems to accommodate online marketing and SEO, those who build the website have by default often become in charge of its content.<br />
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But letting developers take control of online content is like letting the mechanic drive the racing car. Or buying a car from a Ford garage and letting the mechanics decide where you can drive.<br />
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Take control of your website.<br />
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The developer's job is to deliver the functions you want and keep the site working. What goes on the site and where and when is the responsibility of editorial and marketing, including SEO.<br />
<b>9. Not doing SEO now</b><br />
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Here's a simple point; every day you wait to start SEO means it will be more expensive to get the same results when you do start. If you can get to the top of Google for a collection of keywords this will give you momentum and help you stay at the top, and it becomes cheaper.<br />
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Serious search engine success allows for serious business success - put these things together and you've basically got a gold rush. If you don't do the work now it's going to cost you a fortune to do it in the future. There is a simple reason for this and it's inbound links.<br />
<b>10. Neglecting the importance of site structure and navigation</b><br />
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Most reasonable sites for reasonably sized businesses are going to need hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pages.<br />
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If you have hundreds of pages you need an optimized site structure and an accompanying site navigation. Even on a small site it's possible to get this wrong and waste all your work.<br />
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You might have wonderfully optimized pages and links but if you don't have your navigation right, or your structure isn't right then your success will be limited.<br />
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What should you do? It's hard to give a quick answer, but you should organize your site content into categories of related content. Let's say you had a site selling chocolate - you would have all your Belgian truffles in one place and chocolate cake recipes somewhere else, almost working as different sites with their own home page (category home pages.)<br />
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On larger sites, related categories can be grouped together into channels.<br />
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Make sure your home page links directly to your site's most important category pages. See Are your Superman Pages trapped in a basement full of kryptonite?<br />
<b>11. Neglecting your home page</b><br />
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Your home page is by far your most powerful page because most of your site's inbound links will come to there. Use that power with copy to both target your toughest keyword niches and help other niches with links to their category home pages.<br />
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You can test what works, trying keywords of varying degrees of difficulty and ambition.<br />
<b>12. Over-relying on your home page</b><br />
This is just as problematic. There are only so many different keywords you can effectively target with one page. When success is achieved for a keyword niche with your home page - move that success to other pages using internal and external links.<br />
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<a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/12-most-common-seo-mistakes.html"><b>12 Most Common SEO Mistakes</b></a>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-31447763883187528552011-01-28T11:34:00.000-08:002011-01-28T11:34:44.645-08:0010 SEO Link BuildingSEO link building is one of the most crucial methods you can use for website promotion. While on-page optimization is important, it doesn't take you really far. Once your website is up and running, the next thing to do is build quality inbound website links, which can help your site appear higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs). <br />
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Here are valuable tips for search engine optimization link building. If you're an expert in SEO already, these tips will remind you of the basic yet essential link building strategies.<br />
<a href="http://www.sitejazzer.com/product-overview.html?utm_source=Addme-SJ&utm_medium=Addme-email-Blast&utm_campaign=Addme-Jan11-SJ&utm_content=SJ_ProductsPage" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"></a>1. Go for Higher Quality Links <br />
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All links are not created equal. SEO links that have higher value provide greater optimization benefits compared to low quality links. There are several factors that can determine the quality of website links. These are: <br />
The reputation and trustworthiness of the domain giving the website links. For instance, a link from <a href="http://cnn.com/">cnn.com</a> would have higher value compared to a link from a website that ranks lower in the Alexa rank checker.<br />
How relevant the anchor text is to the link. This means that an anchor text saying "fish tank" would be far more relevant and valuable than a "click here" anchor text.<br />
The link's location within the site structure. For obvious reasons, SEO links embedded on a site's homepage is more beneficial than a link that comes from a deeply hidden page.<br />
The link's visibility on a webpage. It also matters where the inbound link is located on a webpage. Website links at the top of a webpage are more visible than those at the bottom.<br />
Similarly, a link that's one of three on a page is more valuable than a link that's one of 80. <br />
<br />
Now that you have an idea of how website links are given value, the question is: How do you get high quality links? The tips below will explain different methods of effective search engine optimization link building. 2. Create Useful, Relevant and Interesting Content <br />
<br />
Building superior quality content remains an effective method of getting SEO links from other websites. With excellent content, not only will you be able to build backlinks naturally, requesting a link also becomes easier since the partner website can benefit from the link request as well. <br />
<br />
In addition, building good content is one way to get all your SEO links for free. Link baiting is a method made for the sole purpose of attracting links using interesting and useful content. All you have to do is create a site with great content, and wait for the website links to come. 3. SEO Link Building with Blog and RSS Feeds <br />
<br />
Promoting your site via blogs and RSS feeds is an easy and great way to boost your site's exposure and SEO link building opportunities. Blog readers are always looking for interesting sites and posts. If your website is listed in their preferred blog and RSS directories, there's a decent chance that your site will be found. 4. Submit Your Site to Directories <br />
<br />
Another easy way to get website links is through directory submissions. Although this method doesn't quite give good quality SEO links, it's a good place to start if you're new to search engine optimization link building. <br />
<br />
There are two ways to submit your site to directories. You can use a directory submission service that automatically sends your site to over 100 directories, or you can manually submit the site yourself. Doing it automatically saves you a lot of time; while manual submission allows you to easily send your site to major directories (the more popular directories usually don't accept automatic submissions). <br />
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All Jazzers can be published in HTML5, making them viewable on iPhones and iPads. You have the choice of Flash and HTML5 Jazzers. <a href="http://www.sitejazzer.com/product-overview.html?utm_source=Addme-SJ&utm_medium=Addme-email-Blast&utm_campaign=Addme-Jan11-SJ&utm_content=SJ_ProductsPage">See All Jazzer Prices</a> 5. Research on Your Competitors' SEO Links <br />
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Look up the sites that are providing links to the websites of your competitors. This is a good way to start your SEO link building efforts, since websites that link to your competitors are likely to be interested in linking to your site as well. However, before implementing this strategy, make sure that your website is as good as your competitor's. <br />
<br />
There are many SEO link building tools that can help you check your competitors' SEO links. SEOBook Back Link Analyzer provides comprehensive backlink information. It's free, but only runs on Windows. There's also the impressive (paid) SEO SpyGlass, which runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. 6. Writing and Submitting Articles <br />
<br />
There are several websites out there that you can submit your articles to. EzineArticles, for example, is a popular article site that allows you to post writings, as well as build website links. You can either create SEO links within the article or at the bottom section of the article called the "bio box" or "author box." <br />
<br />
Again, it's important that your articles are useful and informative. Bloggers, news reporters and other industry experts might be interested in posting your article to their blog or creating SEO links to your site. So, make your article as interesting as possible. 7. Purchase Links and Look for Link Brokers <br />
<br />
Although Google is becoming stricter on link renting, it's possible to purchase temporary website links. The reason why Google is cracking down on link renting is that these SEO links are there on your site one day, and then suddenly disappears once you stop renting them. <br />
<br />
For this reason, it's advisable to permanently purchase these one-way website links. 8. Use Local Directories <br />
<br />
Website owners who have a brick and mortar business can find local directories very useful in their search engine optimization link building campaign. If your business is in the United States, for instance, you can submit your site to the Better Business Bureau or the Chambers of Commerce. Not only will you receive high quality SEO links, your website will also appear in regional searches, or even rank higher. 9. Press Releases <br />
<br />
Don't underestimate the power of press releases. If you write something very interesting about your business, website or company, there's a good chance that your press release will be picked up by news organizations, such as <a href="http://cnn.com/">cnn.com</a>. This can be a huge website visitation and SEO link building opportunity for you. 10. Participate in Forums <br />
<br />
Interacting in communities and forums is another grSEO link building is one of the most crucial methods you can use for website promotion. While on-page optimization is important, it doesn't take you really far. Once your website is up and running, the next thing to do is build quality inbound website links, which can help your site appear higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs).<br />
<br />
Here are valuable tips for search engine optimization link building. If you're an expert in SEO already, these tips will remind you of the basic yet essential link building strategies.<br />
<b>1. Go for Higher Quality Links</b><br />
<br />
All links are not created equal. SEO links that have higher value provide greater optimization benefits compared to low quality links. There are several factors that can determine the quality of website links. These are:<br />
<br />
* The reputation and trustworthiness of the domain giving the website links. For instance, a link from cnn.com would have higher value compared to a link from a website that ranks lower in the Alexa rank checker.<br />
* How relevant the anchor text is to the link. This means that an anchor text saying "fish tank" would be far more relevant and valuable than a "click here" anchor text.<br />
* The link's location within the site structure. For obvious reasons, SEO links embedded on a site's homepage is more beneficial than a link that comes from a deeply hidden page.<br />
* The link's visibility on a webpage. It also matters where the inbound link is located on a webpage. Website links at the top of a webpage are more visible than those at the bottom.<br />
* Similarly, a link that's one of three on a page is more valuable than a link that's one of 80.<br />
<br />
Now that you have an idea of how website links are given value, the question is: How do you get high quality links? The tips below will explain different methods of effective search engine optimization link building.<br />
<b>2. Create Useful, Relevant and Interesting Content</b><br />
<br />
Building superior quality content remains an effective method of getting SEO links from other websites. With excellent content, not only will you be able to build backlinks naturally, requesting a link also becomes easier since the partner website can benefit from the link request as well.<br />
<br />
In addition, building good content is one way to get all your SEO links for free. Link baiting is a method made for the sole purpose of attracting links using interesting and useful content. All you have to do is create a site with great content, and wait for the website links to come.<br />
<b>3. SEO Link Building with Blog and RSS Feeds</b><br />
<br />
Promoting your site via blogs and RSS feeds is an easy and great way to boost your site's exposure and SEO link building opportunities. Blog readers are always looking for interesting sites and posts. If your website is listed in their preferred blog and RSS directories, there's a decent chance that your site will be found.<br />
<b>4. Submit Your Site to Directories</b><br />
<br />
Another easy way to get website links is through directory submissions. Although this method doesn't quite give good quality SEO links, it's a good place to start if you're new to search engine optimization link building.<br />
<br />
There are two ways to submit your site to directories. You can use a directory submission service that automatically sends your site to over 100 directories, or you can manually submit the site yourself. Doing it automatically saves you a lot of time; while manual submission allows you to easily send your site to major directories (the more popular directories usually don't accept automatic submissions).<br />
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<br />
SiteJazzer makes it easy for businesses and agencies to create and show off their web content in style.<br />
<br />
Sign up for free to try out and pay only as you download individual Jazzers.<br />
<br />
Login to SiteJazzer and introduce dynamic elements into your website today.<br />
<br />
SiteJazzer has amazingly easy-to-create Jazzers such as 3D Flip Book, 3D Carousel and others.<br />
<br />
All Jazzers can be published in HTML5, making them viewable on iPhones and iPads. You have the choice of Flash and HTML5 Jazzers. See All Jazzer Prices<br />
<b>5. Research on Your Competitors' SEO Links</b><br />
<br />
Look up the sites that are providing links to the websites of your competitors. This is a good way to start your SEO link building efforts, since websites that link to your competitors are likely to be interested in linking to your site as well. However, before implementing this strategy, make sure that your website is as good as your competitor's.<br />
<br />
There are many SEO link building tools that can help you check your competitors' SEO links. SEOBook Back Link Analyzer provides comprehensive backlink information. It's free, but only runs on Windows. There's also the impressive (paid) SEO SpyGlass, which runs on Mac, Linux and Windows.<br />
<b>6. Writing and Submitting Articles</b><br />
<br />
There are several websites out there that you can submit your articles to. EzineArticles, for example, is a popular article site that allows you to post writings, as well as build website links. You can either create SEO links within the article or at the bottom section of the article called the "bio box" or "author box."<br />
<br />
Again, it's important that your articles are useful and informative. Bloggers, news reporters and other industry experts might be interested in posting your article to their blog or creating SEO links to your site. So, make your article as interesting as possible.<br />
<b>7. Purchase Links and Look for Link Brokers</b><br />
<br />
Although Google is becoming stricter on link renting, it's possible to purchase temporary website links. The reason why Google is cracking down on link renting is that these SEO links are there on your site one day, and then suddenly disappears once you stop renting them.<br />
<br />
For this reason, it's advisable to permanently purchase these one-way website links.<br />
<b>8. Use Local Directories</b><br />
<br />
Website owners who have a brick and mortar business can find local directories very useful in their search engine optimization link building campaign. If your business is in the United States, for instance, you can submit your site to the Better Business Bureau or the Chambers of Commerce. Not only will you receive high quality SEO links, your website will also appear in regional searches, or even rank higher.<br />
<b>9. Press Releases</b><br />
<br />
Don't underestimate the power of press releases. If you write something very interesting about your business, website or company, there's a good chance that your press release will be picked up by news organizations, such as cnn.com. This can be a huge website visitation and SEO link building opportunity for you.<br />
<b>10. Participate in Forums</b><br />
<br />
Interacting in communities and forums is another great, not to mention free, way of getting SEO links that point to your website. Forum users are usually free to post links to their websites in the footer of their profile or posts. Just make sure that you're not spamming. You should contribute to the forum positively.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, many forums have the "nofollow" tag, so those inbound website links might not help in boosting your site rankings. Nonetheless, while communities and forums may not help in your SEO link building efforts, they can help increase website traffic, especially if other forum users are interested in what you have to say.eat, not to mention free, way of getting SEO links that point to your website. Forum users are usually free to post links to their websites in the footer of their profile or posts. Just make sure that you're not spamming. You should contribute to the forum positively. <br />
<br />
On the other hand, many forums have the "nofollow" tag, so those inbound website links might not help in boosting your site rankings. Nonetheless, while communities and forums may not help in your SEO link building efforts, they can help increase website traffic, especially if other forum users are interested in what you have to say.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-6397140758493463612011-01-11T13:42:00.000-08:002011-01-11T13:44:34.486-08:006 Tips to Improved Facebook Marketing<div style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 10px; text-align: left;">When it comes to social networking there's little doubt that Facebook is the largest and most influential of the social networks online. It has more than 500 million registered user and, at the time of writing this, the average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events. For businesses this means that a Facebook page or other piece of Facebook real estate is a serious way to generate social and viral traffic, but only if it is done well. </div><table align="middle" border="0"><tbody>
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<a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325"></a><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325"></a><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325"></a>There are 900 million objects that people interact with which means, first and foremost, yours needs to stand out. It either needs to provide something that others don't (unlikely given the amount of competition) or it needs to do what it does better than the competition. One of the most common mistakes by small businesses is believing that Facebook traffic is a quick hit; it can take months to build up a decent sized list of fans that avidly read your content, but there are some steps you can take to help attract greater numbers.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">The Facebook Platform</b><br />
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Fortunately, there is an extensive platform on which you can build unique Facebook pages and interact with existing and potential readers and your business needs to make the most of these in order to generate the best possible results.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">1. Be Unique Not Generic</b> - There is a lot of competition on Facebook, regardless of the type and topic of content that you're providing. Ensure your Facebook page really stands out by creating a unique design. You don't have to have the standard Facebook page design and you can implement all sorts of features that help your visitors recognize you as a leader in your field.<br />
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You can also serve different landing pages to different visitors. For example, fans and first time visitors to your page do not need to see the same thing and Facebook offers the functionality to change these settings. Show a page that encourages non-followers to fan your page, and show the main content to those that have already done so. Provide incentives such as coupons for your products or services, or free resources like Ebooks and other giveaways, to members that have not yet clicked to follow your page. <b style="font-size: 14px;">2 . Use Giveaways</b> - Giveaways have long been and continue to be one of the most effective branding and promotional techniques there is. Ebooks, gift items, and coupons are just some of the Facebook-specific items you can provide to those that are willing to sign up for your Facebook fan page. You can provide regular giveaways to members to ensure that people follow you over time and as an extra incentive for becoming what is essentially a subscribed member of your fan page. </div><table align="middle" border="0"><tbody>
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<div style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 10px; text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">3. Use Competitions</b> - Competitions can generate even more buzz than a giveaway. If you place a financial value on each of your fans, then you can calculate a decent prize to give away. It could be one of your products or services or something relating to one of your partners. Make sure that it is related to the content you provide as well as the products or services that you promote. Competitions can go viral too, so encourage your readers to spread the word with their friends - you can even build this into the competition by offering extra prize draw entries for each friend referred to your page.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">4. Get Personal</b> - Facebook is first and foremost a social network. The fact that it can also be used to help promote your business is an added benefit, but users are predominantly on the site because it allows them to connect with others and hunt down content that they are interested in. It is, therefore, a personal experience and your readers will for the most part want to believe that they are dealing with real people. Add a large photo to your Facebook page. </div><table align="center" border="0"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>If you organize events or can take photos of your visitors some other way then do so, and tag the people in those photos. It is possible to let readers upload their own photos and tag themselves (I would of course watch this carefully, but it can be a great way to get people involved).<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">5. Say Thanks</b> - A little "thank you" can go a LONG way. As soon as somebody becomes a fan send them an unobtrusive message thanking them for becoming a fan and welcoming them to the fold. The message doesn't need to be long and it can be automated, but remember, people buy people, so a little personal touch will go a long way!<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">6. Don't Give Up</b> - Don't be surprised if your Mom and your Sister are your only fans after a few days of adding content and personalizing your page. It does take effort to develop a high quality Facebook fan page. Keep posting, keep updating, keep testing, keep evolving, and keep trying - don't' give up!<br />
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Facebook is the largest social network online having surpassed half a billion users. While competition is fierce, if you can master the art of creating a popular and beneficial Facebook page then you can also master the art of generating social traffic and your marketing message can go viral producing massive returns in the long run.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-48050678036502900522011-01-11T13:35:00.000-08:002011-01-11T13:36:44.061-08:003 SEO Traps to Avoid During Your Redesign<div style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I receive a lot of SEO questions from business owners who want to spruce up their aging websites, but are dead afraid of losing their existing search engine traffic. And for good reason. Going live with a redesigned website without considering the SEO implications is like being ensnared in a nasty trap that you cannot escape from. It's hard to make monéy while stuck in a trap!<br />
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With that in mind, here are a <b><a alt="3 SEO Traps to Avoid During Your Redesign" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/3-seo-traps-to-avoid-during-your.html" title="3 SEO Traps to Avoid During Your Redesign">3 SEO Traps to Avoid During Your Redesign</a> :</b><br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">1: Your Content Management System</b><br />
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If you are switching to a different content management system, (CMS) it often means that the URLs from your current site will have to change to something that fits with the new system. It's likely that the new URL naming convention will not match your old one. </div><table align="middle" border="0"><tbody>
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<div style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The Escape: If this is the case with your new back end, then 301-permanent redirect all of the old URLs to their new counterparts if you can. If this is a practical impossibility, then review your analytics to find the landing page URLs within your website that receive direct search engine visitors, and redirect those. Also redirect any URLs that have links pointing to them from other sites. While it's best practice to redirect all URLs, those that don't receive any direct search engine traffic and don't have any external links are less important.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">2: Your Site Architecture</b><br />
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Your new website is likely to be sporting a brand new navigational scheme as well as an overall change of its site architecture (how each page links to each other). This is a key element in determining whether pages from your website will show up in the search results. For instance, if you take a page from your website that is currently featured in the main navigation (meaning that every page of the site links to it) and you feature it less prominently within your new website, don't be surprised if it doesn't show up in the search results for its targeted keyword phrases as it used to. </div><table align="middle" border="0"><tbody>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8127507310462234325" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The Escape: You can tell the search engines which pages are the most important ones on your site by how you link to them. Be sure that the pages you are optimizing are linked from your main navigation so that they will receive the internal link popularity they deserve. They'll stand a much better chance at bringing you targeted visitors than those that are deeply buried.<br />
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<b style="font-size: 14px;">3: Your Content</b><br />
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If you hadn't previously optimized the content of your old site, I highly suggest doing so with your new site. This means that you research the keywords that people use at the search engines to find products or services like yours, and then use them strategically within each page of the website. Doing so will likely boost the targeted visitors to your site fairly quickly after going live. </div>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-18196863145526386082011-01-11T13:28:00.000-08:002011-01-11T13:37:56.211-08:00Find More Terms With Yahoo Keyword Extraction ToolEnsure that you're emphasizing every available keyword! It's generally easy enough to pick two or three of the most important phrases out of a chunk of text, but the major search engines go far beyond that. <br />
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So give the <a href="http://tools.seobook.com/yahoo-keywords/" target="_blank"><b>Yahoo! Keyword Phrase Term Extraction tool</b></a> a shot. Using the Yahoo Search API, it will find loads of keywords within a piece of writing; this is especially handy when it's a long piece, or when it involves a subject with which you're not familiar. Follow the tool's recommendations, and go about your business of reaching search engine success.<br />
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See your content the way the search engines do! Spiders don't operate like normal users, and yet you've got to take their perspective into account. The <a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/" target="_blank"><b>Spider Simulator</b></a> will help you do exactly that. <br />
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Just enter the URL in which you're interested, and the Spider Simulator will return "spidered" page titles, text, meta descriptions, meta keywords, internal links, and external links. <b><a alt="Find More Terms With Yahoo Keyword Extraction Tool" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/find-more-terms-with-yahoo-keyword.html" title="Find More Terms With Yahoo Keyword Extraction Tool">Use this information to your advantage and gain new insight into how the search engines work</a>.</b><br />
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Whether the subject is life or online campaigns, adopting a different perspective on things can prove valuable. In terms of online campaigns, adopting a search engine spider's perspective can be especially fruitful. And so the <a href="http://www.webuildpages.com/seo-tools/spider-test/" target="_blank"><b>Spider Viewer tool</b></a> is a handy thing to know about. <br />
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Just enter a URL, and the Spider Viewer will list details relating to the page's title, description, keywords, size, text, links, and HTML. Use this information to mold your campaign and you should receive the search engines' favor.<br />
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The concept of achieving search engine success is centered on the idea of keywords. Choosing the right keywords can be a tricky matter, however, and things are sure to fluctuate over time. <br />
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Fortunately, you can use the <a href="http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/" target="_blank"><b>SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool</b></a> as a guide. After signing up for a free account (a process that should take less than a minute), just input any keyword term or phrase, and it'll generate a list of related suggestions, complete with monthly search volume estimates connected to Google and Yahoo. <b>Let these lead your online campaign to victory.</b>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-21269442030995843722011-01-11T13:16:00.000-08:002011-01-11T13:18:22.667-08:0010 Tips to Write Your Most Popular PostOne popular post can bring your more traffic and links than a month’s worth of your usual content.<br />
In this post, I want to set you a challenge with the potential to launch your blog into the stratosphere.<br />
Make the next post you write <b><a alt="10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post" href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/10-tips-to-write-your-most-popular-post.html" title="10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post">your most popular post ever</a>.</b><br />
The following ten tips form my key advice for tackling this task. I used all of them when hitting the Digg front page for the first time. There’s no blueprint you can follow to write an incredibly popular post, but you won’t have a chance unless you try. I’m confident these tips will give you a good shot at success.<br />
<b>1. Time is more important than talent. </b>Work on something for eight hours and you can bet it will be good. You don’t need to spend that long, however (though that’s how long it took me to craft the first post I wrote that hit the Digg front page). More time means you can refine, format and fill your post with plenty of value. Take the time to really <i>craft</i> your content. It will show in the finished product.<br />
<b>2. Use your best idea.</b> A post will never become wildly popular unless it fulfills a need, and does so emphatically. What’s something your niche wants but hasn’t got yet? Can you assemble a whole lot of really awesome (targeted) resources in one place? The more your posts helps people, the better it will do.<br />
<b>3. Use formatting to your advantage.</b> These days, social media is key when it comes to launching your posts into the stratosphere. Social media users are notoriously spoiled for choice, however. Use formatting to emphasize the best aspects of your post. Hone in on your funniest lines, your most profound bits of advice, your best resources. Make them stand out.<br />
<b>4. Brainstorm headlines.</b> There are probably one or two bloggers who’ve completely mastered the art of writing headlines for social media (you’ll know who they are). The rest of us haven’t been blessed with such skills. When you see a great headline, chances are it’s option #12 of a dozen choices. Few of us can think of a great headline straight away. Spend ten minutes brainstorming and you’re bound to stumble across something that works. A weak headline will cripple your post’s chances of success. It’s essential that you put a lot of work into getting it right.<br />
<b>5. Invest plenty of value in your post.</b> Ever bookmarked or voted for something without completely reading it? We’ve all done it. It’s because of the ‘Wow’ factor — the presence of enough promised value in one place gets the reader enthusiastic about the post straight away. Instead of 5 tips, why not share 50? Instead of 9 resources, why not 40 or more?<br />
<b>7. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.</b> If your post looks good, it will draw readers in. Take the time to add images, thumbnails and formatting to what you create. Make your post a visual feast. With so much web content presented in a bland way, your post is guaranteed to stand out.<br />
<b>8. Tell them what you’re going to tell them.</b> Readers will skip your waffly introduction. You can say the same in less words, particularly when you’re writing for an impatient reader: someone who wants to get straight into your tips/resources/opinions. Use your introduction to highlight why the reader should stick with your post. There’s a reason my post introductions mainly consist of: “In this post, I’m going to do this, this and that.” It’s what people <i>really</i> want to know: what am I getting in exchange for my attention?<br />
<b>9. Send messages with links.</b> The best way to get a blogger to investigate your blog is by linking to them. We’ve got a natural desire to know what’s being said about us. If your post becomes really popular, each link inside it should send enough traffic outwards to be worth investigating. Be generous with your outbound links when writing your most popular post. It gives other bloggers an incentive to link to you, because it’s ultimately more promotion for them.<br />
<b>10. Utilize your network.</b> If you want people to Digg, Stumble or Reddit your post, there’s no reason why you need to sit back with fingers crossed and hope it happens. Ask them. Your loyal readers like you. You entertain them, or teach them, or help them. If voting is a simple matter of clicking a link they’ll be more than happy to do so. Ask for votes in your post and email readers and social media influencers. In most cases <i>you</i> will need to get the snowball rolling. After that, others will do most of the work for you.<br />
<b title="10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post">Bonus tips:</b><br />
<b>11. Examine what worked before.</b> Study your most popular posts so far. What’s common about them? Why did they work? What needs did they address? In creating your most popular post, it’s important to learn by example and build on what has worked for your blog in the past. Another good idea is to analyze the most popular posts on other blogs in your niche. Why did they work? What’s remarkable about them? You can transfer those qualities over into what <i>you</i> write.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-70789660096784103662010-12-12T14:36:00.001-08:002010-12-12T14:36:28.682-08:00seo on pageOn page SEO or search engine optimisation is making sure that your website is as search engine friendly as possible. If your website is not optimised then you have less chance of getting good results in the search engines, here is a quick guide towards good on page SEO:<br />
<ul class="list"><li>Make sure that all of your web pages can be indexed by search engines - make sure that they all have at least one link from somewhere on your site.</li>
<li>Make sure that you have unique content on every single page.</li>
<li>Make sure that your meta-tags are arranged correctly - your page title tags and description tags should describe the content of your different web pages. The page title tags should be less then 68 characters and the description tags more detailed but less then 148 characters.</li>
<li>Make sure you label the different headers on your web pages using <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp">H tags</a>.</li>
<li>Make sure that your web page URLs are SEO friendly, use <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod re-write</a> for Linux and Apahche hosting or use <a href="http://evolt.org/search_engine_friendly_urls_with_iis_and_classic_asp">IIS redirect</a> for Windows. Ideally make it so that the URLs describe your content i.e. use domain.com/blue-widgets.php as apposed to having something like domain.com/product.php?cat=146. Use hyphens or underscores to separate words in the URLs.</li>
<li>Make sure that the links within your site are complete i.e. if you are linking to the blue widgets page link to domain.com/blue-widgets.php as apposed to just blue-widgets.php.</li>
<li>Make sure that you use descriptive URLs for your images i.e. use blue-widget.jpg as apposed a bunch of numbers and or letters .jpg.</li>
<li>Make sure that you label all of your images with descriptive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute">alt attributes</a>.</li>
<li>Make sure that you make good use of anchor text links within your content - if you have a page about blue widgets, use the phrase blue widgets in the text that links to it.</li>
<li>Make sure that there is only one version of your site - <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php">301 redirect</a> all non www. URLs to the www. ones or vice versa.</li>
<li>Make sure that there is only one version of your homepage - 301 redirect the index or default page back to domain.com.</li>
<li>Use the rel="nofollow" tag in the links to websites that you do not trust, you think maybe using spamming techniques or you do not want to help in the search engines.</li>
<li>Make sure that your code is valid, in some instances bad code can lead to search engines not being able to properly read a page. Use the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">W3C validator</a> to check your markup.</li>
</ul>If you follow these guidelines you are on your way towards good on page SEO and to good rankings in the search engines.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-89291042680701386082010-11-25T10:16:00.000-08:002010-11-25T10:21:09.947-08:00Popular Adsense Keywords<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNXAUatfrXjWgsLpF2oMng8SBpHBeb248Ck0rId9z-iP2LKe44hngzStpXprC2FWQvu149cDs3k4UfNjIEMDTaLzEx81LrI07r_k62Ztewrxn01LEKpShx6aEWWTq8Sz6-Mica8wOjEQ/s1600/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Popular Adsense Keywords" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNXAUatfrXjWgsLpF2oMng8SBpHBeb248Ck0rId9z-iP2LKe44hngzStpXprC2FWQvu149cDs3k4UfNjIEMDTaLzEx81LrI07r_k62Ztewrxn01LEKpShx6aEWWTq8Sz6-Mica8wOjEQ/s1600/1.jpeg" title="Popular Adsense Keywords" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Popular Adsense Keywords</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The following are the <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/popular-adsense-keywords.html"><target=_blank alt="Popular Adsense Keywords" title="Popular Adsense Keywords"><b>Popular Adsense Keywords</b></target=_blank></a> digital versy point, this list handy for those of you who seek money from Google Adsense :<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title=""><br />
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credit score $05.00<br />
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The above is the result search <b>Popular Adsense Keywords</b>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-16483706691319576832010-11-19T12:06:00.000-08:002010-11-19T12:15:04.945-08:00Image SEOSo far we spoke about title optimization, importance of heading tags, anchor text but we just mentioned images for once or twice.<br />
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Even tho the weight search engines give to optimized images is not heavy as the title tag it still does help us in our SEO Optimization venture to rank higher in the SERPs. I have seen many web masters avoid optimizing their images because they are not aware of it, or simply because they don’t think it is worth the time.<br />
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Well let me tell you, on one of my web sites I had a typo on the image alt tag, and on my stats i kept seeing organic traffic coming to my website with a typo word. I was like going mad and worried that I might have made a typo and maybe my business would not be taken serious. I kept digging deeper and deeper into the side and checking every single paragraph for the possible typo. It ended up that I had the typo on the image alt tag *shocking..no?*<br />
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Okey with that said I just wanted to show you that I have experienced and that image optimization DOES help. But now, lets see how to optimize a image (but not for image searches). I want to avoid image optimization for image searches since we want traffic to our content and not directly to our image.<br />
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Lets presume we have a search engine optimization website and we want to use a image logo instead of keywords in headings.<br />
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The next image is NOT what I would call optimized<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><img src=”logo.gif” width=”180″ height=”60″ /></span><br />
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Neither this is what I would call image optimization<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><img src=”logo.gif” width=”180″ height=”60″ alt=”Logo” /></span><br />
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While this is what I would call SEO optimized image<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><img src=”logo.gif” width=”180″ height=”60″ alt=”Search Engine Optimization (SEO)” /></span><br />
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Oh hold on, neither this is image optimization, actually this would be keyword spamming (and might harm you)<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><img src=”logo.gif” width=”180″ height=”60″ alt=”Search Engine Optimization (SEO), SEO Service, SEO Company, SEO Expert, SEO software, SEO Tools” /></span><br />
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Keep in mind, image alt tag can HELP us in SEO Optimization of our web site, but as any other tag that search engines read, it can harm our web site too if we abuse and over use it (avoid keyword stuffing).ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-89544408066656633752010-11-19T11:41:00.000-08:002010-11-19T11:43:47.733-08:00Building Business Website<div style="text-align: justify;">This time I'm going to talk a little about how to select a domain name that is right for your business.<br /><br />If you already have a busy <span style="font-weight: bold;">website</span> and you like your domain there's no need to change it but as soon as you set up a new website or if you are going to rebrand your business with a new business name you need to consider carefully what domain name to choose.<br /><br />For those of your who don't know the domain name is the base part of the address you type into the browser address bar to open a website. Like "google.com", "secretsearchenginelabs.com" or "cnn.com"<br /><br />First of all you need to know what you are going to use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">domain</span> for. It could be any of the following.<br /><br /> * The <span style="font-weight: bold;">website of your business</span>.<br /> * A niche website to make money from ads or selling a ebook<br /> * A SEO website, like a feeder blog, that exist for the sole purpose of helping your business or niche website rank in the search engines.<br /><br />Considering the different purposes a domain and <span style="font-weight: bold;">website</span> can have your might want to optimize your domain for some but not all of the following<br /><br /> * A short name that is easy to spell and that people will remember after they have heard someone mention it on the radio or if they read about it two days ago.<br /> * A name the is built from the nr 1 keyphrase your are targeting with SEO<br /> * A name that does not conflict with trademarks or business names already in use in your target market (or you could lose your domain to a trademark holder)<br /> * A name you want to live with for many years (a lot of your marketing is tied to the domain name)<br /> * A name without hyphens if possible<br /> * A .COM or country specific domain for your business<br /> * A .ORG or country specific domain for your organization<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building</span> Your <span style="font-weight: bold;">Business Website</span><br />When your select a domain name for your business, most of the time your want the domain name to be the same as the name of your business.<br /><br />If you have a long or complicated business name it's usually best to select a domain name that is a short version of your business name, the name of a popular product you sell or a completely new name<br /><br />Branding is important here and you want a short and memorable name that you remember from the radio or from a billboard.<br /><br />Always go for a .COM or a country specific domain extension, like .CA or .CO.UK, for your business.<br /><br />Use a country specific extension if the large majority of your customers are from a singly country. The country specific extension will help your search engine rankings in that country, but will reduce your rankings in the rest of the world. Many times a country specific extension will make your look more trustworthy in the local market.<br /><br />Use a .COM extension of you sell to many countries and especially if you sell to the US. The United States country specific extension .US is not popular so avoid it and use .COM<br /><br />There is a reason to not use .NET domains. Most people only remember the name part of the domain and automatically adds .COM when typing it into the browser address bar. This means you lose a percentage of visitors that go to the .COM domain instead, and if there is something interesting (perhaps a competitor) on the .COM domain they may never return to your hidden .NET business.<br /><br />If you really want to have a .NET domain make sure to also register the .COM domain with the same name and redirect it the your .NET website. That way you don't lose the type in traffic that uses dot com by mistake.<br /><br />The same goes for hyphens. Many times your visitors will not remember the hyphen when they type in your domain and you'll lose some visitors again.<br /><br />Lets talk about domains for SEO and niche websites in a later newsletter.<br /><br />Also remember to check out my list of best domain name registratin sites if you need a safe place to register your domains.<br /></div>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-44552580332770752612010-11-18T07:26:00.000-08:002010-11-18T07:27:47.812-08:00tips on the most effective search engine optimization<p>Need high website rankings but not sure where to start? Or do you already have an effective <span style="font-weight: bold;">SEO</span> plan for promoting your website? Check whether you can improve it, or make your own plan from scratch! Even if you're a complete beginner, within 5 minutes you'll have a clear idea of what SEO is about and where to start. Just read on!</p> <p>Roughly, any SEO has to make the following vital steps:</p> <ol><li><strong>Choosing the right keywords</strong></li><li><strong>Optimizing your site's content</strong></li><li><strong>Cleaning and organizing your site's structure</strong></li><li><strong>Finding places to get backlinks from</strong></li><li><strong>Building a wide network of quality links</strong></li><li><strong>Monitoring website rankings over time</strong></li></ol> <p>Don't even think to miss any of these tasks — these five are absolutely inevitable. </p> <p>Let's go over each task to find out how to perform best at each point, and which search engine optimization software from SEO PowerSuite should be used for better results.</p>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-59667547819831598612010-11-03T13:27:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:02:04.747-08:00MetatagWhat are <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/metatag.html"><b>meta tags</b></a>? They are information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages. Other than the title tag (explained below), information in the head area of your web pages is not seen by those viewing your pages in browsers. Instead, meta information in this area is used to communicate information that a human visitor may not be concerned with. <a href="http://blogdopping.blogspot.com/search/label/meta%20tags"><b>Meta tags</b></a>, for example, can tell a browser what "character set" to use or whether a web page has self-rated itself in terms of adult content.<br />
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<a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/metatag.html"><b>Metatag</b></a> example <i><b>:</b></i><br />
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<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials" /><br />
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript" /><br />
<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes" /><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /><br />
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<b>Definition and Usage</b><br />
Metadata is information about data.<br />
The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.<br />
Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.<br />
The <meta> tag always goes inside the head element.<br />
The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), <a href="http://blogdopping.blogspot.com/search/label/submit%20blog">search engines</a> (keywords), or other web services.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-26182579289384477572010-11-03T13:18:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:03:58.771-08:00SEO KeywordAlthough you may not optimize your site for such keywords. <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/seo-keyword.html"><b>SEO keyword</b></a> learning is very important that you know what they are, as it applies to your site. As you work through this post, make a list of the 5-10 “major” keywords that describe your website. It's named <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/seo-keyword.html"><b>SEO keyword</b></a> learning. <br />
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<b><a href="http://blogdopping.blogspot.com/search/label/seo">SEO</a></b> are the most important thing when we have a site, one of the worst mistakes that novices make is trying to focus on a single word or phrase for <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/seo-keyword.html"><b>SEO keyword</b></a>, and attempt to build a good website that will rank well. Extremely general terms such as these are very competitive, difficult for search engines to handle well (in terms of giving good results to searchers), and hardly worth the trouble in the first place.<br />
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What I have done to most of my post titles is composing them from some <a href="http://apa-apaada.blogspot.com/search/label/seo">keyword</a>s that usually searched by people. Maybe you ever found there are some titles that false to be said as a title. This might caused by I am not the expert in combining these keywords. But what you need to underlined is make your post title contained with multiple <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/search/label/keyword"><b>keywords</b></a>.<br />
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Then the second is about writing your first page of your post. I am not forcing you to do this but I this is what I always do to my first line of my post. I rewrite my post title and combine it with the other word until appropriately, it become a sentence.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-38778616658508228582010-11-03T13:02:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:04:52.777-08:00Top Social Bookmarkthis is list of <a alt="Top Social Bookmark" href="http://apa-apaada.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-social-bookmark.html" title="Top Social Bookmark"><b>Top Social Bookmark</b></a> :<br />
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<span class="fullpost">http://digg.com<br />
http://hatedorloved.com/<br />
http://pixelmo.com/<br />
http://socialogs.com/<br />
http://www.business-planet.net/<br />
http://swik.net/<br />
http://www.folkd.com/<br />
http://www.mecozz.com/<br />
http://linkatopia.com/<br />
http://www.quadriot.com/</span><br />
<span class="fullpost">http://www.blogcatalog.com/</span><span class="fullpost"> </span><br />
<span class="fullpost">http://lintasberita.com<br />
http://infogue.com</span><br />
<span class="fullpost">http://www.zimbio.com/</span><span class="fullpost"> </span><br />
<span class="fullpost">http://www.squidoo.com</span><br />
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<span class="fullpost">try the </span><a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-social-bookmark.html" title="Top Social Bookmark"><b>Top Social Bookmark</b></a><span class="fullpost"> </span>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-30027781361108716372010-11-03T12:49:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:07:56.394-08:00Social Bookmarking List<a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-bookmark-list.html"><b>Social Bookmarking List</b></a> :<br />
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<a href="http://www.backflip.com/">Backflip</a> : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools. <br />
<a href="http://www.barksbookmarks.com/">barksbookmarks</a> : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-bookmark-list.html"><b>social bookmarking</b></a>, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. <br />
<a href="http://www.bibsonomy.org/">BibSonomy</a> :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies <br />
<a href="http://www.blinklist.com/">Blinklist</a> :A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. – Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet. <br />
<a href="http://www.blipoo.com/">Blipoo</a> :Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion.. <br />
<a href="http://www.blogbookmark.com/">BlogBookMark</a> : Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly sugggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here. <br />
<a href="http://www.bluedot.us/">BlueDot</a> : This basic social networking service allows users to save and share bookmarks. <br />
<a href="http://www.blurpalicious.com/">blurpalicious</a> : Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline. <br />
<a href="http://www.bmaccess.net/">Bmaccess</a> : Social bookmarking with thumbs :) <br />
<a href="http://www.bookkit.com/">Bookkit</a> : BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs. <br />
<a href="http://www.bookmarkall.com/">BookMarkAll</a> : Bookmarkall is an online bookmark community where users can create, organize and share their favorite web links online and access them anywhere. <br />
<a href="http://www.bookmark-manager.com/">Bookmark-manager</a> : Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge. <br />
<a href="http://www.bookmarktracker.com/">bookmarktracker</a> : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks. <br />
<a href="http://www.bookmax.net/">Bookmax</a> : You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking. <br />
<a href="http://www.buddymarks.com/">Buddymarks</a> : The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager. <br />
<a href="http://www.bukmark.net/">Bukmark</a> : Bukmark is a social bookmarking website. <br />
<a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/125-social-bookmarking-sites-importance-of-user-generated-tags-votes-and-links/6066/https%20://www.chipmark.com">Chipmark</a> :Another basic social bookmarking site. <br />
<a href="http://www.citeulike.org/">Citeulike</a> : A free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. <br />
<a href="http://www.claimid.com/">Claimid</a> : Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion. <br />
<a href="http://www.clipclip.org/">Clipclip</a> : Clipclip allows you to save images and text, with a “bookmarklet”. <br />
<a href="http://www.cloudytags.com/">Cloudytags</a> : A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world. <br />
<a href="http://www.complore.com/">Complore</a> : Derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds <br />
<a href="http://www.connectedy.com/">Connectedy</a> : Lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you. <br />
<a href="http://www.connotea.org/">Connotea</a> : <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-bookmark-list.html">Social bookmarking</a> (for researchers). <br />
<a href="http://www.contentpop.com/">Contentpop</a> : It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good. <br />
<a href="http://www.corank.com/">coRank</a> : coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion <br />
<a href="http://www.crowdfound.com/">Crowdfound</a> : CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind <br />
<a href="http://de.lirio.us/">de.lirio.us</a> : Store, share and tag your favourite links. Open source clone of <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a> with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes <br />
<a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a> : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy. <br />
<a href="http://www.diigo.com/">Diigo</a> : Social bookmarking on steroids. <br />
<a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a> : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg. <br />
<a href="http://www.dropjack.com/">Dropjack</a> : DropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company. <br />
<a href="http://www.easybm.com/">Easybm</a> : Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites. <br />
<a href="http://www.enroll.in/">Enroll</a> : Social bookmarking system based in India. <br />
<a href="http://www.ez4u.net/">ez4u</a> : Social Bookmarking – Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember” <br />
<a href="http://www.favoor.com/">Favoor</a> : Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses. <br />
<a href="http://www.folkd.com/">Folkd</a> : Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs. <br />
<a href="http://www.freelink.org/">Freelink</a> : <a href="http://freelink.org/">Freelink.org</a> provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime. <br />
<a href="http://www.freezilla.co.uk/">Freezilla</a> : FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site. <br />
<a href="http://www.fungow.com/">Fungow</a> : Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks. <br />
<a href="http://www.furl.net/learnMore.jsp">Furl</a> : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic. <br />
<a href="http://www.gather.com/">Gather</a> : Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site). <br />
<a href="http://www.getboo.com/">Getboo</a> : GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online. <br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> : Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm. <br />
<a href="http://www.hanzoweb.com/">Hanzoweb</a> : Hanzoweb – Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online <br />
<a href="http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com/">Hyperlinkomatic</a> : Hyperlinkomatic – bookmark list manager. <br />
<a href="http://www.i89.us/">i89.us</a> : i89.us offers a free service which allows you to save your favorite website/links at one location that can be accessed from anywhere. <br />
<a href="http://www.icio.de/">Icio</a> : Danish Bookmarking engine. <br />
<a href="http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/">Ikeepbookmarks</a> : Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web <br />
<a href="http://www.iloggo.pl/">Iloggo</a> : Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use for attractively displaying your favorite websites on one page. <br />
<a href="http://www.jigg.in/">Jigg</a> : Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name :) <br />
<a href="http://www.kaboodle.com/">Kaboodle</a> : Kaboodle is a 2.0 shopping community where people recommend and discover new things. <br />
<a href="http://www.kinja.com/">Kinja</a> : Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. <br />
<a href="http://www.lifelogger.com/">Lifelogger</a> : “LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign. <br />
<a href="http://www.lilisto.com/">Lilsto</a> : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser. <br />
<a href="http://www.linkagogo.com/">Linkagogo</a> : Favorites and <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-bookmark-list.html"><b>Social Bookmarking</b></a> Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves. <br />
<a href="http://www.linkarena.com/">Linkarena</a> : German Social Bookmarking site. <br />
<a href="http://www.linksnarf.com/">Linksnarf</a> : Social link sharing with groups of friends. <br />
<a href="http://www.listerlister.com/">Listerlister</a> :ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them. <br />
<a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/">Ma.gnolia.com</a> : Like Furl and Delicious, anoter major bookmarking site which lets users organize bookmarks, search other people’s favorites and make friends and contacts. <br />
<a href="http://www.markaboo.com/">Markaboo</a> : MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone. <br />
<a href="http://www.marktd.com/">Marktd</a> : Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community. <br />
<a href="http://www.memfrag.com/">Memfrag</a> : memFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer. <br />
<a href="http://www.memotoo.com/">Memotoo</a> :Lets users centralize and share your personal data. <br />
<a href="http://www.mister-wong.com/">Mister Wong</a> : Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool. <br />
<a href="http://www.mixx.com/">Mixx</a> : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories. <br />
<a href="http://www.mobleo.net/">Mobleo</a> : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer. <br />
<a href="http://www.multiply.com/">Multiply</a> :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority :) <br />
<a href="http://www.murl.com/">Murl</a> : My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community. <br />
<a href="http://www.mybookmarks.com/">MyBookmarks</a> : MyBookmarks – access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Another popular bookmarking site. <br />
<a href="http://www.myhq.com/">Myhq</a> : Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free! <br />
<a href="http://www.mylinkvault.com/">MyLinkVault</a> : A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use – trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating. <br />
<a href="http://www.mysitevote.com/">mySiteVote</a> : mySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is. <br />
<a href="http://www.mywebdesktop.net/">MyWebDesktop</a> : A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email. <br />
<a href="http://www.newsvine.com/">Newsvine</a> : The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism <br />
<a href="http://www.newsweight.com/">Newsweight</a> :NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource. <br />
<a href="http://www.oyax.com/">Oyax</a> : Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords. <br />
<a href="http://www.philoi.com/">Philoi</a> : Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends. <br />
<a href="http://www.plugim.com/">PlugIM</a> : PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page <img border="0" src="http://media-images.nscpcdn.com/media/footerLogo.gif" /> <br />
<a href="http://www.propeller.com/">Propeller</a> : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting. <br />
<a href="http://www.quickieclick.com/">QuickieClick</a> : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist. <br />
<a href="http://www.rambhai.com/">Rambhai</a> : An Indian social bookmarking community <br />
<a href="http://www.rawsugar.com/">RawSugar</a> : A social search engine powered by user contributions. Its an online community, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by their members. <br />
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/">Reddit</a> : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users. <br />
<a href="http://www.searchles.com/">Searchles</a> : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles. <br />
<a href="http://www.segnalo.it/">Segnalo</a> : Italian Social bookmarking site. <br />
<a href="http://www.simpy.com/">Simpy</a> [late addition]: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.” <br />
<a href="http://www.sitebar.org/">Sitebar</a> : A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them <br />
<a href="http://www.sitejot.com/">Sitejot</a> :Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place. <br />
<a href="http://www.sk-rt.com/">Sk*rt</a> : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic. <br />
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a> : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. <br />
<a href="http://www.socialdanger.com/">SocialDanger</a> : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system. <br />
<a href="http://www.socialogs.com/">Socialogs</a> : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service. <br />
<a href="http://www.sphinn.com/">Sphinn</a> : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system. <br />
<a href="http://www.spotback.com/">Spotback</a> : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering <br />
<a href="http://spurl.net/">Spurl</a> : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents. <br />
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/">Squidoo</a> :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects. <br />
<a href="http://www.startaid.com/">Startaid</a> : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites. <br />
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a> : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users. <br />
<a href="http://www.stylehive.com/">Stylehive</a> : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community <br />
<a href="http://www.syncone.net/">Syncone</a> : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing. <br />
<a href="http://www.tagfacts.com/">Tagfacts</a> : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base. <br />
<a href="http://www.taggly.com/">Taggly</a> : Store, share and tag your favorite links. <br />
<a href="http://www.tagne.ws/">Tagne</a> : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more. <br />
<a href="http://www.tagtooga.com/">Tagtooga</a> : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories. <br />
<a href="http://www.tagza.com/">Tagza</a> : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters. <br />
<a href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati</a> : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section. <br />
<a href="http://www.tedigo.net/">Tedigo</a> : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple. <br />
<a href="http://www.thinkpocket.com/">Thinkpocket</a> : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites <br />
<a href="http://www.thoof.com/">Thoof</a> : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about. <br />
<a href="http://www.totalpad.com/">Totalpad</a> : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions <br />
<a href="http://www.urlex.info/">Urlex</a> : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking :) <br />
<a href="http://www.uvouch.com/">Uvouch</a> : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere. <br />
<a href="http://www.myvmarks.com/">Vmark</a> : An online bookmark and online favorites manager. <br />
<a href="http://www.voteboat.com/">Voteboat</a> : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site. <br />
<a href="http://www.votelists.com/">Votelists</a> : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more! <br />
<a href="http://www.vuju.com/">Vuju</a> : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted. <br />
<a href="http://www.wetogether.info/">WeTogether</a> : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites. <br />
<a href="http://www.whitelinks.com/">Whitelinks</a> : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet,: <br />
<a href="http://www.wink.com/">Wink</a> : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).: <br />
<a href="http://www.wirefan.com/">Wirefan</a> : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.: <br />
<a href="http://www.xilinus.com/">Xilinus</a> : Organize and manage bookmarks online.: <br />
<a href="http://www.xlmark.com/">Xlmark</a> : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site: <br />
<a href="http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Bookmarks</a>: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer. <br />
<a href="http://www.yattle.com/">Yattle</a>: <b>Bookmark</b> Management and Mini-Blogging Service. <br />
<a href="http://www.zlitt.com/">Zlitt</a>: Zlitt is a social bookmarking system which gives users the opportunity to share and tag favorite news, images and videos. <br />
<a href="http://www.zurpy.com/">Zurpy</a>: Saves bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place. <br />
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Do you have any suggestions of other <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-bookmark-list.html"><b>social bookmarking sites</b></a>? Please feel free to add them in the comments below.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-23551613655025212652010-11-03T12:37:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:08:51.440-08:00Free Web Link Directory Info<a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/free-web-link-directory-info.html"><b>Free Web Link Directory Info</b></a>:<br />
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<span class="fullpost">enjoy </span> <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/free-web-link-directory-info.html"><b>Free Web Link Directory Info</b></a> and get <a href="http://blogdopping.blogspot.com/">trafick</a> from <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/free-web-link-directory-info.html"><b>Free Web Link Directory Info</b></a>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-74640319271501457902010-11-02T13:33:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:10:20.458-08:00Automatic Reload ScriptUsing this tag you can have your page <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/automatic-reload-script.html"><b>automatically refresh</b></a> itself to the most current version, or change to another page entirely after a set number of seconds (a process known as ‘client pull’). This is useful if you've moved a page to a new url and want any visitors to the old address to be quietly sent to the new location.<br />
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<div class="code"><i><b><code><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=newurl.<span class="searchword">html</span>"></code></b></i></div><div class="code"><br />
</div>The number is the number of seconds to wait before changing to the new page. Setting it to <code>0</code> results in an instant redirect, but this isn’t recommended as it disables your readers’ <i>Back</i> buttons. This method of redirecting is ok, but a better solution is to use URL rewriting.<br />
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<a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/automatic-reload-script.html"><b>Automatic Reload Script </b></a>ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127507310462234325.post-11326219992612441002010-11-02T13:25:00.000-07:002010-11-07T09:12:48.585-08:00HTML Image<b>HTML The <img> Tag and the Src Attribute </b> In <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/html-tag-and-src-attribute-in-html.html"><b>HTML, images</b></a> are defined with the <img> tag. <br />
The <img> tag is empty, which means that it contains attributes only, and has no closing tag. <br />
To display an image on a page, you need to use the src attribute. Src stands for "source". The value of the src attribute is the URL of the image you want to display. <br />
<b>Syntax for defining an image:</b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="code notranslate"><tbody>
<tr> <td><i><b><img src="url" alt="some_text"/> </b></i></td> </tr>
</tbody></table>The URL points to the location where the image is stored. An image named "boat.gif", located in the "images" directory on "www.w3schools.com" has the URL: http://www.w3schools.com/images/boat.gif. <br />
The browser displays the image where the <img> tag occurs in the document. If you put an image tag between two paragraphs, the browser shows the first paragraph, then the image, and then the second paragraph. <br />
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<b>HTML The Alt Attribute </b><br />
The required alt attribute specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image cannot be displayed.<br />
The value of the alt attribute is an author-defined text: <br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="code notranslate"><tbody>
<tr> <td><i><b><</b><b>img src="boat.gif" alt="Big Boat" /> </b></i></td> </tr>
</tbody></table>The alt attribute provides alternative information for an image if a user for some reason cannot view it (because of slow connection, an error in the src attribute, or if the user uses a screen reader).<br />
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<b>Basic Notes - Useful Tips </b><br />
<b>Note:</b> If an <a href="http://irengblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/html-tag-and-src-attribute-in-html.html"><b>HTML</b></a> file contains ten images - eleven files are required to display the page right. Loading images take time, so my best advice is: Use images carefully. <br />
<b>Note:</b> When a web page is loaded, it is the browser, at that moment, that actually gets the image from a web server and inserts it into the page. Therefore, make sure that the images actually stay in the same spot in relation to the web page, otherwise your visitors will get a broken link icon. The broken link icon is shown if the browser cannot find the image.ireng bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897118446645432323noreply@blogger.com0