Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Keyword Ideas

1. Use Google Keywords

You can use Google's free keyword tool to find more keyword ideas. Just type in the keyword that you would like to get ideas for, and Google will list keyword phrases and average monthly search volumes.

2. Use Wordtracker

Wordtracker is one of the leading keyword research tools available. They have a free trial version that you can use. Just type in your keyword, and Wordtracker will list suggested keywords along with their estimated daily search volume. Wordtracker also offers 7 free videos on how to find and use keywords.

3. Use Keyword Discovery

Keyword Discovery also has a free trial that you can use to find more keyword ideas. I like Keyword Discovery because they give more results than Wordtracker's free version. Keyword Discovery also has a paid version that will give you a lot more information than you can get for free.

4. Get Your Competitor's Keywords

One aspect of the Internet is that you can't really hide what you are doing. This makes it easy for anyone to go to a webpage and see which keywords they are using. To do this, just right click on the webpage and view the source. Then look at the top in the title and meta tags to see which keywords they are using on their website.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Optimising Your Website

Optimising your website requires many different skills and tactics to come together for your website. First, let's look at your websites homepage. There are lots you can do to increase your rank on search engines, it still amazes me how few websites make even the most simplest of changes which could have incredible effects on their sites placement.

If like all websites, unless you are in the dark ages, you have images on your website then make them work for you. By editing the 'ALT' tag you can give the images a name which contains keywords so to be useful when search engines spiders trawl through your sites html code. If your website was on classic car sales and you label your images as 'car 1' this will have very little impact for the spiders but if you try naming a picture of an Aston Martin as 'classic Austin Martin' this would only serve to help your sites rankings. But also important to naming your images is that not all visitors to your website will see it the same way that you see it on your screen. Some businesses and users do not view images on sites and turns those functions off.

By turning images off on their browser this allows for faster speeds when visiting sites and controls what employees can see. By giving 'ALT' names to images that say what they are you will enhance the visitors experience as well as helping to increase your ranking. When working with images on your website, you will need to optimise images either using a program like Photoshop or one online. When a visitor to your website has to wait for photos to load, they may quickly decide against waiting even one second longer. Remember, the longer it takes for a page to load the quicker the visitor will want to leave. Keep page loads within a few seconds if possible.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Top reasons to multiple redirected URLs

There are several ways to redirect domains, but, most of them will get you in difficulty with the search engines. The search engine friendly way to redirect URLs is to use what is know as a 301 redirect (you can see how Google and Yahoo! specifically endorse this kind of redirection). Here is my take about the different redirection methods and their implications on search engine optimization:
There are multiple reasons to redirect URLs. For one, your web pages may have moved but their old URLs may still live in users' bookmarks or in search engine indexes. Without implementing some sort or redirection, that traffic would be lost
On occasions, you may also want to register several extensions for your domain name: 'mydomain.com', 'mydomain.net' and 'mydomain.org', and have 'mydomain.net' and 'mydomain.org' automatically redirect visitors to your site, hosted under 'mydomain.com'.

Besides, if your company sells several products, you may want to give each of them an individual domain name, and have it point to a specific subdirectory of your main site. For illustration, if you own a site that sells a product called 'Marketing Made Easy', you may want to set up a domain such as 'marketingmadeeasy.com', and redirect it to subdirectory:

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bad SEO

There are plenty of articles about how to avoid bad SEOs, so I wasn’t too surprised when I started my research to see how many articles have been written about avoiding bad clients. Many were…eloquent, to say the least. They reminded me a little bit of a particularly bad boss I had once. He possessed three nasty qualities: first, everything was a crisis and had to be done immediately; second, he refused to use a computer or even a typewriter (so I had to print out his email and get handwritten replies from him); and third, his handwriting required about a month to learn how to read with any accuracy.

I mention this because clients are short-term bosses. If your client wants you to work under conditions you wouldn’t take from a boss, you shouldn’t be working with that client. Clients are not spouses; you should not take them on hoping that they’ll change (you shouldn’t do that with a spouse either, of course, but that’s a different article). If you turn down a client because it isn’t working, or it isn’t going to work, you end up saving both you and the client a lot of pain and misspent energy and resources.

As with prospective employers or romantic partners, turning a client down doesn’t mean that the client or you are bad, it just means that you aren’t a good match for each other. For example, if you can’t help a business reach its SEO goals for the amount of money they can afford to spend, you should turn them away, and if possible point them to a colleague who can. This can happen for businesses with a highly local clientele. A very small regional real estate company, for example, might or might not get enough traffic from an SEO campaign to justify its expense.
It’s not always that simple though. You might run across clients with attitudes which make your job more difficult. And I’ll start covering these dangerous characters in the next section.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

VIP Marketing Tips For Google


If you own a website, you probably have one thing on the top of your "to do" list- make sure that your website ranks well on the google organics listings for the specific keywords or the phrases of keywords which are most pertinent to your products or services. Making your website appear as the first result to search of those keywords is possible and, as long as you choose the best and most appropriate keywords for the SEO search plan you have in mind.

Here are useful tips in making your site SEO for Google.

1. The first is the most basic, yet most important to Google SEO- making sure the right keywords are chosen. Choosing the correct keywords is the first factor, which contributes to Google page rank success. Try to avoid the use of one-word keywords like pants or bowls. This is important for two reasons; first, it would be impossible to rank well with such obscure terms due to competitiveness and; second, using generic keywords generates generic traffic; undermining the very optimization you are trying to create. Remember- the rule of thumb with keywords and keyword phrases is is succinct while also encompassing at the same time.

2. The second tip is ensuring the overall good optimization of your website. This is yet another basic principle of case studies conducted on those sites which are the most successfully optimized. Optimizing your website for Google entails the strategic placement of keywords in areas like meta tags, title tags, alt tags, header tags and, of course, in your content. This goes so far as to including the keywords in the domain name for your site. All of these points help to further your site in it's the Google SEO world.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Blogging for Money

Blogging is a growing trend among worldwide internet users. Blogs are a great way to attract attention to whatever you are promoting. Whether you are just blogging about your daily activities, providing information to a certain niche, or promoting a business or product, you can use a blog to make money. Blogging for money is simple, here's a few steps to get you started.

Blogging for money step 1: Start your own blog. There are many services you can use to start your own blog. The two I recommend are Wordpress and Blogger. The best way to use these free blogs is to host them right from your own website.

Blogging for money step 2: Once you have your blog setup you need to work on getting traffic to it. This step should be thought of as the post and ping process. You should post to your blog several times a week and then use a pinging service to ping each individual post. (Wordpress pings automatically every post.)

By posting and pinging on a regular basis, you will really begin to see traffic pick up. Another way to get traffic to your blog is to use social bookmarking. There are hundreds of different bookmark sites you can join and post your blog and get tons of free traffic.

Blogging for money step 3: Once you are getting good traffic to your blog, there are several ways to make money. First, if you haven't already, you should sign up for a Google Adsense account. These are ads you can place directly on your blog and get paid for every time someone clicks on their ads.

You can also sign up with some affiliate programs and promote their banners on your blog for another form of income. You will get a commission every time someone signs up for their programs from your blog.

There are also different companies that will pay you for leads that you provide them. This can be a very good form of income because your blog visitors don't have to pay for anything. A lead is simply a name and address and these companies will pay anywhere from $1 to $30 for leads you bring them.

As you can see, blogging for money is quite easy. The most difficult part of the process is just getting the blog setup. Once you are over that step, making money is as simple as posting to your blog. If you post on a consistent basis, you will get more traffic. The more traffic you get to your blog, the more money you will make. Get started today!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Internet Advertisement

Need traffic for your website? Want to generate traffic and don't know how? Need ideas on getting people to visit your website? With this article you will find most of your questions answered.

Any business requires promotion in order to flourish. This is evident from the fact that businesses depend a lot on advertising to reach the desired audience. With all the conventional media backing you, if you still feel that you are missing out the desired audience then it is the ripe time for you to consider website or Internet advertising.

Internet advertising has been very useful in generating traffic to websites and in turn helps them do more business. When the correct banners and advertisements of your product or service are placed on many websites on the internet, there are chances that many people going through those websites will visit your website.

The basics of Internet advertising is all about creating traffic flow towards your webpage. Proper efforts made towards advertising online will definitely help you in generating traffic towards your website.

One major advantage with advertising online is that it is much cheaper if compared to the conventional methods of advertising. With the growing popularity and usage of Internet, the significance of advertising on websites remains unchallenged. With the power and reach of Internet, you will have a huge target market out there that you can use by using Internet advertising techniques.

If dealing with online business, advertising online becomes really important and is also very effective. You can use a combination of online advertising methods to get the desired result. For instance, you can place all your advertisements in a website that has the maximum visitors a day. This is crucial because more visitors will ensure that you get good numbers of visitors to your webpage and business through the advertising program.

To start with advertising on the Internet, you can create an advertisement that is attractive and interesting and delivers your message clearly. Make it attractive, as the chances of people clicking are more. The best designs are the ones that use fewer words and fewer images but are simple and thus more effective.

The most common form is the banner ads for online advertising. PPC ads can also be another method of profitable advertising online. You have to use the space of the PPC ads effectively to get the maximum result. Use keywords in the ad and make the title and ads attractive.

Email marketing can be another effective online advertising method. In case of email marketing, always create the email advertisement with care not to get it labeled as Spam. You can publish a newsletter, to make online advertising for you. If you want to use a newsletter, make it interesting with good content. Send repeatedly after a fixed time with new contents. You can use blog and RSS feed, forums for online advertising. In all of them you have to provide something interesting to the readers to make it effective.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

How To Make An Income As A Freelance Blogger

Make abiding you don't do is yield on added online writing than you can do and be actual careful as to who you address for. Many able bloggers accept listings of acceptable and bad administration so be abiding to apprehend the comments that anybody has about a accurate alone or company.

Blogs can be categorized in altered ways. A blog column could abide of 300 words on your thoughts and opinions on a accurate accountable or it could be a 300 chat account article. Several companies are now calling online writing blogs.

Whatever you are blogging on, you will charge to body up a ability of the subject. Of course, it is best to aim for capacity that you are already accustomed with. If not, you will accept to absorb some time on researching what the accurate commodity is about.

You charge to be abiding that you address alone facts about that accurate accountable and not apocryphal statements. Even added important is to abstain plagiarism. Copying added people's plan will ruin your acceptability and could cause all kinds of agitation for your employer.

In a lot of cases if accomplishing analysis you can just do a Google seek on the exact affair and a lot of acceptable it will affectation added online writing for use as information. You can apprehend a few of the added online writing and afore you apperceive it, you will accept a lot of account in your arch as to what to write.

While there is affluence of blogging plan out there, it will yield some time and accomplishment to body up a appropriate income. However, already you authorize a name for yourself you should be in a position to ask for a reasonable bulk per commodity or post.

It can be a acceptable abstraction to yield on baby projects initially so you can feel them out to see if they are accepted and are traveling to pay. Already you authorize a acceptable accord with a applicant or clients, you will be accessible to yield on bigger projects for them.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

5 Secret Keys To Building Website Traffic

You do not have to do this even if the money is available. There are many overlooked ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you cannot afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their wallets over it. This is a list of five simple ways to get quality website traffic.

1) Exchange links with other high ranking websites:- This is a highly proven method. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they can produce more public awareness about their sites. You will soon see the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other websites.Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines rank high sites that have inbound and outbound theme related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs of paid marketing.

2) Join a traffic exchange network:-This is similar to exchanging links but on a much higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can also use those credits when viewing other websites within the network.Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another website in the same network. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your website is quickly increased.

3) Submit articles to high ranking directories:-There are many directories and online encyclopedias on the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save money, you can do the articles yourself.Make sure to write articles that are within your website’s theme. Write something that you have expertise on so that when publishers read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and eagerly visit your site.

4) Create a free newsletter:- This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but it is not so bad. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

5) Join online communities and forums related to your website:-This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities within your theme. You can also get free advertising due to the forum’s traffic.

Share your thoughts and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, it makes it makes your website look like an honest business that could be trusted by many people.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Past of Blogging

Blogging for profits usually involve a blogging tool or platform. Blogger .com and Wordpress are two of the most popular ones. This article focus on using the former and why I do not think it is an ideal tool to use if you plan to make money blogging for the long term.

No doubt Blogger.com is a popular blogging platform which attracts thousands of people who want to start making blogs and post them on the net. However, for business savvy people, blogger may prove to be a liability instead of a tool for making money. For one, if you apply for a blogger account and use it to post affiliate links, sometimes blogger will detect these links as malicious, spam, or porn links and will automatically shut down your account. Blogger also posts your blogs to certain blog directories such as blogspot, where you cannot sell your blog or receive any earnings easily.

Google bought Blogger.com in 2003 in an anticipation of the rush of bloggers and blog posts and creation of new content. As such, Google created a different search tool called blog search. This search tool screens all blogs to its search domain, leaving other non-blog sites to be picked up by the normal Google search. In short, this means that you cannot create good back links and have a high ranking for your blogs in Google. Ultimately, blogger is not a reliable tool for search engine optimization.

Aside from these, blogger has limited plug-ins, themes, and add-ons compared to the likes of Wordpress. These perks improve your blogging experience and sometimes come in handy when posting blogs depending on your preference. Blogger may be free, but there are cases where Wordpress seems to surpass Blogger.com when you really want to earn money. Most blogging veterans do not recommend Blogger.com if earning money is the concern and would rather endorse Wordpress.

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