Page Rank - 10 Links for Search Engine Optimization

In previous articles, I have discussed the importance of page rank and SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization.

Obviously, SEO is very important to your page rank, the better your site is organized and indexed, the better the chances of you getting a high page rank. If you can't find yourself in the search engines, you don't have much of a chance to get a high ranking do you?

Keep in mind, you will only want to submit your site once to each search engine, if you submit more than once, there is a high probability it will penalize your SEO and page rank.

After your site becomes indexed, spiders will crawl it regularly looking for new content and updates. Try to keep your site fresh, add a few things every week if possible.

The following section will provide links to various search engines for submission.

I've provided two ways to submit your site to the search engines.

My new favorite option is DreamSubmit. They have a way to automatically submit your website to several search engines all at the same time. Their free choice is an excellent to get a ton of submissions in a manner of minutes! Please review the auto-submit options and use at your own discression :

Auto Submission :

DreamSubmit
AddMe.com
FreeWebSubmission
Submit Express

Manual Submission :

Submit URL to Google
Submit URL to MSN Search
Submit URL to Yahoo Search
Submit URL to ExactSeek
Submit URL to Acoona
Submit URL to Scrub The Web

Several sites require you to manually submit, one of the most notable that requires manual submission is Yahoo Search. Make sure to manually submit to Yahoo Search because it is one of the top three indexes you will want to register with for optimum SEO and page rank.

Please let me know if you found this article helpful. If I forgot anything, please drop a comment and I will add it to the list.

Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online With Blogs – Step 5

Great, you’re back for more huh? Ok, let’s recap the last episode before moving forward… The most important considerations in regard to page rank are:

1.) Article Content
2.) Article Length
3.) Keywords
4.) Volume
5.) Backlinks
6.) Age of Content

Alright, now on to the good stuff… I assume by now you have created a blog and tried your best to optimize it for search. Hopefully you have also created a few “anchor articles” i.e. long articles with in-depth analysis of your subject.

If it’s our goal to generate natural Google search traffic we will need to find a way to make our site more important than sites that are above us in the search results.

Google looks at each “backlink” and shares merit and strength between your page the one you linked to. So it is logical to assume that we need to place links on sites that have a higher page rank and have subject matter that is relevant to ours.

The following is a list of places you may want to try to place content/backlinks:

1.) Forums and Guestbooks – These sites won’t get you too much of a boost but they definitely will not hurt. Make sure the forum or guestbook is on a site with higher page rank in one of your target keywords and also try your best not to leave a spam comment. Look at the topic of the forum and contribute something relevant. This way you will not only have an opportunity to leave a backlink but you may also make some friends and generate some subscribers in the process.

2.) Blogs and Related websites – Try your best to find blogs with the same keywords as your own, read their content and provide insightful feedback on the comments section of your favorite articles. You will find that most bloggers are very open and willing to help you in your quest if you approach them the right way. Encourage them to visit your site and request feedback and suggestions for improvement. Not only will you be gaining excellent backlinks but you will also be creating allies that may very well help to catapult you to success in the future.

3.) Social Networks – Sites like BuzzFeed, Delicious, Technorati, Digg, Zimbio are great places to claim your blogs, attach your sites and create profiles. These sites have huge amounts of traffic, and even better, its traffic that is actually looking for the content that you provide. Getting a good reputation with these sites will not only increase your traffic but will also most likely assist your page rank in some way or another.

4.) Publication Websites – There are several sites that let you publish articles free of charge. The articles are then featured in their community and sometimes they are syndicated outside the community to interested parties. If someone publishes your work verbatim, google will find out when its bot crawls the page and guess what… your page rank will go up! This is why I previously emphasized original content so much, if it’s not original, it’s not going to help. Anyways, the key to gaining page rank from these publication websites is original content.

Recommendation : Re-write your favorite articles and submit them to GoArticles.com. This way you will have your original content and you will have a re-write posted with their site. Google will check out their page, identify the article as original content and give your backlink credit! There you go, that’s an instant boost in credibility!

The following is a list of other places you will be able to e-publish articles:

http://article-niche.com/
http://articles4content.com/
http://blogtelecast.com
http://dir.salon.com/
http://news.collectors.org/
http://superpublisher.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.article-buzz.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articlecube.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.article-directory.net/
http://www.article-emporium.com
http://www.articlefever.com/
http://www.article-hangout.com/
http://www.articletogo.com/
http://www.articleworld.net/
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
http://www.content-articles.com/
http://www.directorygold.com/
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.impactarticles.com/
http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm
http://www.magportal.com/
http://www.newarticlesonline.com/
http://www.niche-article-directory.com/
http://www.site-reference.com
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/marketing-article-directory.html
http://www.stickysauce.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/
http://www.webarticles.com/

This concludes the series - Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online with Blogs

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Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online With Blogs – Step 1

Almost everyone has asked themselves this question at some point in their life, “how do I make money online?”

There are literally a million ways to make money online but this site is dedicated to just one topic. It is all centered on the following theme, how to make money online by blogging about something you like.

If you’re like me, you’ve been to a million websites and blogs with promises to make you rich if you just buy their “wonder” product or sign up to their email list for their “special report.”

I’m not going to lie; making money online with your blog is hard work… It takes time, dedication and lot of planning and footwork. The rewards far outweigh the costs because once your blog is up and running, you are towards the top of Google’s search with your particular keyword niche and you have a very substantial subscriber base, the passive income you will make from your ventures will be more than enough to support yourself and offer you more time in life to do what you want to do, no longer at the mercy of an employer.

There are millions of online advertisers out there and only a tenth as many online marketers, the odds are on your side, so if you want to start blogging about something you like and start cashing in on the lucrative opportunity to be rewarded for your efforts, follow me….

The first topic of conversation is something called “Google Adsense.”

This is by far the easiest service to become affiliated with if you want to place ads on your blog. Each time someone clicks on one of the ads you will receive a contribution depending on how much value is placed on the particular ad. After utilizing this service you may also want to diversify your advertising with Affiliate partners.

Adsense can become very profitable once your site has a high quantity of web traffic flowing through. Google offers another program called Adwords, a program in which you pay them to place links to your own site. Some people make money using Adwords to get traffic and then having that traffic flow thru their Adsense links generating them revenue.

I have found that the best traffic is the traffic you obtain for free through multiple links, high search ranking etc...

Chances are you will not make a lot of money through Adsense when you first set up your blog. It takes time and effort to build web traffic but it is manageable. When you hear stories of people making tons of money via Adsense and you know they haven’t been running their site for long, what they are probably doing is running multiple blogs and websites with multiple niches, each generating a small amount of revenue... Of coarse they wouldn’t want to tell you that because they’d like to stay ahead of the game and keep their competitors in the dark…

So, it may be time to make a choice… Do you want to make money blogging? Would you rather have one blog and spend years of hard work and dedication to make that money? Or would you rather create many blogs and spend substantially less time and effort to reach the same result?

That’s what I thought… Please check out the following article when you’re ready to get started: Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online with Blogs – Step 2

Written by Locke D.