In previous articles we have spent significant time discussing page rank and SEO. In regard to page rank there are several things that affect your ranking. It’s possible to make improvements both internally and externally. I have found that the most important factor that affects page rank is backlinks.
The following list includes four methods you can use to obtain backlinks.
1. Reach out and try to negotiate or ask other webmasters in related fields to link to your website. This will be a difficult task but in many cases if approached the right way, site owners are sometimes willing to assist their fellow bloggers in this way.
2. Make sure to submit your site to indexes and directories. It’s very important to register with as many search directories as possible. Search engine directories provide high quality one-way backlinks that are sure to improve your page rank.
3. Register and participate in forums related to your topic of discussion. In most cases you will be able to add your backlink either in your signature or in the body of your post.
As an added bonus you will gain targeted traffic through the forums you participate in.
Keep in mind that these are people that are genuinely interested in your topic. They may become regulars and subscribe to your RSS feeds.
4. Submit your articles to free online publishers. I have discussed this in previous articles as well. There are several sites you can use to submit articles and drop your backlinks. Two of my favorite sites for this purpose include ISnare.com and GoArticles.com.
Lastly, if you use all these methods to increase your SEO and page rank, you will see results very quickly. Sometimes it may take longer than expected due to something called the Google Sandbox. I will explain the sandbox and describe its purpose in future articles so stay tuned!
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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
Thanks for taking the time to participate in this tutorial. I’m very curious to hear your feedback regarding the content of these articles. Please drop me a line with questions/comments or suggestions for improvement.
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
Thanks for taking the time to participate in this tutorial. I’m very curious to hear your feedback regarding the content of these articles. Please drop me a line with questions/comments or suggestions for improvement.
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