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Building Traffic

2009-11-22T03:03:00.000-08:00

Building Traffic

Author: Adel Awwad

Building traffic to a blog or website can be a slow and time-consuming process; unless you're very lucky, success doesn't strike overnight. But with a bit of patience, and by following some straightforward rules, you can see improvement in your traffic statistics over weeks and months, which will see your site grow, expand, and bring the visitors - and the revenue - in.

Here are seven simple ways to boost your website traffic.

1. Content is King

It can't be stressed enough: content is king. Search engine results and links from other sites and blogs are all very well, but if there's nothing on your site worth looking at, those visitors won't be back. The best way - the only way - to guarantee repeat business, whether you're selling widgets or blogging about cats, is to make sure that your site isn't just easy to find, but actually worth reading once they are there.

So, as well as making sure that the content on your website is relevant, interesting, and keyword optimized (see tip 4 below), ensure that it's updated regularly - if you're running a sales website, for example, make sure all your prices are up to date and be sure to update the site regularly with details of new special offers. If you have a blog, you should be putting new posts up every day if you can.

2. Building links

This is a good way of building long-term site traffic, particularly if you have a blog or website that may appeal to a wider community of like-minded people. By putting links to other sites on yours - both down the sidebar and in the body text of your blog or website - you'll encourage other bloggers and webmasters to do the same for you.

Over time, these reciprocal links become very useful - driving traffic to your site and encouraging discussion of your content on other sites and blogs. Search engines like Google tend to rate a site more highly if there are lots of incoming links, so go out and actively encourage other websites and forums to link to your own.

3. Add tags

Make sure you add tags to all your pages and blog posts. Not only do these serve an important purpose in helping search engines to pick up your website, but they also help visitors navigate around your blog or website, which in turn will help you increase your site traffic. If your page title tags are incorrect, on the other hand, that will have a corresponding negative impact on your search engine rankings.

Many blog platforms such as Blogger will automatically attach meta tags to post pages, but even then you should use category tags to improve the visibility and navigability of your site.

4. Keywords

One of the most vital aspects of traffic building is to ensure that you are using keywords properly. It's worth looking around the Internet for specialist articles on this topic, because many millions of words have been written on the subject. With good reason; if you use keywords correctly, it will help build traffic to your website or blog far more effectively than almost any other method.

The basic rules are simple enough. Select the keywords and keyword phrases of most interest to your prospective audience. It may not be enough to use simple keywords, as there are hundreds of thousands of websites selling "insurance" or blogging about "politics." So, instead, try to focus on two or three word keyword phrases that will help guide visitors to your site, like "discount home insurance" - or "keyword phrases."

For the best visibility, put keyword phrases into the titles of pages, near the top of your text, and in the meta description.

5. Be seen by search engines

This is a product of all the factors listed above, but there is one further push that you can give your website to help with building traffic, and that's to make sure that search engines and aggregators know about your blog or site. Target the big search engines, such as Google, but bear in mind that if you're operating in a particular niche market, there may be specific sites and search tools that like-minded people use.

Be sure that you are "pinging" search engines every time you have new content. (There are free services that will do this for you automatically, and many blog platforms will perform the same function.) When it comes to blogs, there are many different directories and search tools people use to find sites of interest. Submit your blog to all of them and watch the inbound links, and your search engine profile, grow.

Finally - and if you think it's worth your while - consider paying search engines for higher placement. Research shows that most people don't look beyond the top two or three search results - so make your site one of those.

6. Analyze your traffic

Traffic building is a whole lot easier, if you know why people are visiting your site in the first place, so get a stat tracking device like SiteMeter or StatCounter - basic site meters are free and help you track visitors by location, duration of visit, pages looked at, and crucially, the URL that referred them to your site. You can also sign up to paid site metering services that give you more advanced coverage - these are more appropriate if your site traffic is already quite high. Once you've established who visits you and from where, you'll be much better placed to work on increasing those visits.

7. Participate in other blogs and forums

This is particularly useful if you run a blog or a website that caters to a particular interest group or niche market. For example, if you run a website that sells tropical fish, aquariums, and accessories, become a member of a forum or newsgroup dedicated to fish. Post on relevant blogs and be sure to comment, so they'll follow your links home, building traffic for your website. You shouldn't overdo this, or "spam" other sites with your own URL, but if you establish yourself as a viable online presence, people will naturally want to visit your site to see what you have to offer them.

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Making an RSS Feed

2009-11-22T03:02:00.000-08:00

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Making an RSS Feed

Author: yasir

What Is RSS?

How does RSS syndication work? Say you publish a new web page about a particular topic. You want others interested in that topic to know about it. By listing the page as an "item" in your RSS file, you can have the page appear in front of those who read information using RSS readers or "news aggregators" (explained more in my sidebar article, RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content). RSS also allows people to easily add links to your content within their own web pages. Bloggers are a huge core audience that especially does this.

What does RSS stand for? There's a can of worms. RSS as introduced by Netscape in 1999 then later abandoned in 2001 stood for "Rich Site Summary." Another version of RSS pioneered by UserLand Software stands for "Really Simple Syndication." In yet another version, RSS stands for "RDF Site Summary."

History buffs might be interested that there's been some rivalry over who invented RSS. This is why we have both different names and indeed different "flavors" or versions of RSS. Mark Pilgrim's written an excellent article, What Is RSS, that charts the different versions with recommendations on which to use. I'll also revisit the version choice you'll need to make. But first, let's look more closely at some basics of what goes into any RSS file.

How Easy Is RSS?

I've been exploring RSS because it was time that Search Engine Watch offered its own stories in this manner. I've read several tutorials about making a feed, and they generally suggest that it is easy. They often offer code that you can "cut-and-paste" and link over to specifications that I actually don't find that clear.

For example, the RSS 2.0 specification has an "cloud" element that's optional but which a lay person might still wonder if they should use it. Meanwhile, heaven help the person who stumbles into the RSS 1.0 specification and its complicated RDF syntax.

Sure, making an RSS file IS easy for many. If you understand HTML, you'll probably understand enough to do a cut-and-paste from someone else's RSS file to make your own file. Don't know HTML? Start a blog, because several blogging tools automatically generates RSS files.

As for those non-technical people using WYSIWYG page building tools or personal home page building systems, have faith. Even you can build an RSS file from scratch, as long as you dispense with some of the extra features you probably don't need. We'll go through how to do this below. Later, I'll also mention some tools that will even do some or all of the work for you.

The RSS File

At the heart of an RSS file are "items." No matter what version of RSS you settle on, your file will have to include at least one item. Items are generally web pages that you'd like others to link to. For example, let's say you just created a web page reviewing a new cell phone that's being released. Information about that page would form an item.

To enter your item into the RSS file, you'll need three bits of information:

* Title

* Description

* Link

The title and description of your item need not match exactly the HTML title tag of the web page that the item refers to, nor the meta description tag, assuming you use these (don't know what they are? See my How To Use HTML Tags article). You can write any title and description that you think will describe the page. However, using your page's title and meta description tag certainly makes it easy to copy and paste to build your RSS feed.

In the case of our example page, let's say this is the information we settle on to define it as an item:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Now we have to surround that information with XML tags. These are similar to HTML tags, with the exception that unlike with HTML, there's no set definition of XML tags. Anyone can make up a particular XML tag. Whether it is useful depends on the program that reads the resulting XML file. In the case of RSS feeds, they have their own unique set of XML tags that are defined. Use these correctly, and then anything that reads RSS will understand your information.

Did that make your head spin? If so, don't reread -- just carry on to see how simple it is. First, open a text editor like Notepad. We're going to build our RSS file using it.

For your title, you need to start it with the tag, then follow this with the text of the title, then end with the tag. It looks like this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

For your description, you do the same, starting out with the opening tag, then following with the actual description, then "closing" with the tag. Now you have this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

Next, we add the link information, beginning with , following with the actual hyperlink, then closing with . That gives us this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Now there's one more thing we need to do. We actually have to define all this information as forming a particular "item," which we do using a special item tag.

You place the opening item tag, at the top or start of all the information we've listed. You then place the closing item tag, , at the bottom or "end" of the item information. The finished product looks like this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Congratulations! You've now made your first item. There's a bit more to do to finish our RSS file. First, what if we have other items we want to syndicate? Then we simply add more item elements, just as we did above. You can have up to 15 items. New items tend to be inserted at the top, with old items removed from the bottom, to make room for new stuff.

With our example, let's see how things look if we add two more items:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

Having defined items we want to distribute, we now have to define our site as a "channel." You'll use the same tags as with the items: title, description and link. However, this time the information will be about your entire site, rather than a particular page. That means our channel information would look like this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what's not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Now, how does something reading our RSS file know that the information above is for our "channel" when it looks just like item information? Simple. As long as we don't surround this information with an opening and closing tags, it won't be seen as item information but rather as channel information. That gives us this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what's not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

There are a few last things we need to do. First, we need to add a tag at the very top of the file saying that this is written according to the XML 1.0 specifications. Right under this, we also have to say what RSS version we are using.

So far, everything we've done is compatible with UserLand's popular RSS 0.91 version. However, it also matches UserLand's latest RSS 2.0 version, as well, so we'll define the file as meeting that specification. This will allow us to add other neat features in the future, if we want.

Finally, after the RSS tag, we need to add an opening "channel" tag. That gives us this at the top of the file:

At the bottom of the file, after all the items we want to syndicate, we have to insert a closing channel and RSS tag, in that order. Those look like this:

This means our complete file looks like this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it's a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what's not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I've been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon's MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

Mind Blowing Options

Everything shown above is the bare basics you need to create a file and start syndicating content from your web site. However, there are additional things you could do.

For example, rather than your entire web site being a "channel," you could actually have different content from within the web site be defined into separate channels. That's something I'm not going to explore in this article, but some of the resources below will guide you through this, when you feel more comfortable.

As hinted at, RSS 2.0 allows you to insert all types of additional information into your feed. It can make your head spin to look at these and decide what to use. The easy answer is, don't bother with anything you don't know. Not every aggregator supports all the options offered. As long as you provide the minimum information suggested above, you should be fine.

Did I Choose The Right RSS Version?

Earlier, I'd mentioned there are different versions of RSS. Even though we entered the bare minimum of information, it turned out that we were able to have a file that was easily considered to be RSS 2.0, the latest version promoted by UserLand and which is widely used.

Indeed, the Syndic8 site reports that the most popular format of RSS by far is RSS 0.91 -- and though we've used RSS 2.0, our file as shown is entirely compatible with RSS 0.91. In short, we're in safe company.

What about that RSS 1.0 version that I said was complicated. Well, it is complicated. However, some people might want to make use of some of the special capabilities that it offers. If you are interested in it, then check out the official specification.

Saving The File

Now that we're done adding to the file, we need to save it. But what name shall we give it? I've looked and not seen any guidance on this. I imagine that's because as long as the file is valid (more below), it probably doesn't matter what it's called.

To make my own decision for Search Engine Watch, I decided to imitate what I saw out at UserLand, which promotes the RSS 2.0 standard that we used. UserLand's example feeds all ended .xml, so let's do the same. As for the first part, that really can be whatever you like. For our example, let's say we just call it feed.xml.

Now that our file is saved, we can place it anywhere we want on our web server. Let's say we put it in the root or home directory. Then the address to our RSS file would be:

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/feed.xml

Validating The File

Now our RSS file is done, but did we do it right? To find out, we need to validate it. Use the aptly named Feed Validator service. Simply enter the address to your RSS file, and you'll be told if everything is OK -- or if there's something wrong you need to fix.

How about a quick preview of how your new feed actually looks? Then pay a visit to Wytheville Community College News Center. Again, enter your feed URL, and you'll see the clickable headlines and story descriptions nicely assembled inside a box.

The service will also generate a JavaScript code that you can post on your site. Anyone copying the JavaScript can automatically have your feed syndicated into their pages -- pretty neat!

Get Syndicated!

Now that your file is validated, you want the world to know about it! To make this happen, visit the RSS directories and search engines listed in the RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content article. They generally offer submission pages, where you can inform them of your feed.

You also want to make sure people who come to your web site see that you provide a feed. It's very common to post a link to the feed somewhere on the home page of a web site. If you have a dedicated news page, you may want to put it there, as well.

You can link to your feed with an ordinary HTML link. However, many sites use a small orange XML icon to link to the feed. I've also seen some sites use blue RSS icon. I could find no standard about using these. So, to be safe, I did all three with Search Engine Watch. Look on the home page, and you'll see how it's done (and help yourself to the icons, if you need them).

Finally, it's good to "ping" one of the major services that track when web logs and RSS content changes. By doing this, you ensure that other sites that monitor these know to check back at your site for more content.

Weblogs.com is one of these major sites. Enter your site's name and the URL of your feed into the manual Ping-Site Form, and it will know you've updated your feed. The Specs page explains how to set up automatic notification.

blo.gs is another major change monitoring site. It is supposed to receive any changes that come from Weblogs.com, so you shouldn't need to notify it separately. However, if you want to be on the safe side, it's easily done. Use the ping form, which also explains how to set up automatic pinging, as well.

Tutorials & Resources

RSS Headline Creator allows you to skip coding and manually choose the number of headlines you'd like to include in your file, up to the 15 maximum allowed. Then a form with boxes that you fill out will be made. Enter the right information, then push the "Make The Code" button. Your RSS file's code will be generated, for you to copy and paste into a text editor and save.

How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated is a Dec. 2002 tutorial by Kalena Jordan and Dan Thies from which I drew inspiration to get my own feed going.

Syndic8's How To Section lists a variety of tutorials that discuss how to build RSS files.

Content Syndication with RSS is a book by Ben Hammersley that was just released in March 2003. I haven't read it, but everything I've heard is that it should be excellent.

RSS Resources Directory from UserLand categorizes helpful information related to RSS, in different categories.

Postscript: Search Types: Blogs & Feeds and SEO: Feeds are sections of the Search Topics area available to Search Engine Watch members with lots of information on the topic of feeds since this article was originally written.

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How To Get High Rankings On Google And Yahoo Search Engines

2009-11-22T03:01:00.001-08:00

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How To Get High Rankings On Google And Yahoo Search Engines

Author: Gareth Owen

Do you ever wander how some sites get top rankings in the main search engines and others do not? Well of course you do. The reason being is that these sites adhere to a system that the search engines love and in return give these websites higher and better rankings in their listings. There are 7 key ingredients that if implemented properly will produce the desired results for you and your website marketing. They are:

Step 1: Advantages of a keyword rich domain name Does your domain name affect your search engine ranking? In my experience, the domain name has an enormous impact. However, this is certainly important if you are creating a new site and attacking a competitive market. However many of you will already have sites up and running that do not contain a keyword rich domain name so do not worry as it is more than possible to rank highly without a keyword rich domain name.

One variable that modern search engines consider when determining which of the thousands - or millions - of results should be presented in the top slots is definitely the domain name of the site. The main advantages of having keywords in your domain name are that you can legitimately include them in contact details and links to other sections of your site and the title of your site. What someone may consider a good domain name and what in reality is in most instances 2 different things. Now I will give you an example of this:

Mr. Smith is creating a site that is going to sell vacuum cleaners. His business name might be Smiths machines and logically he may have that specific domain. However it would be more advantages to have a domain name containing the term vacuum cleaners. For example vacuumcleaners4u or vacuumcleanersstore depending on what is available.

Finally I would like to add please take into consideration where you host your site. If you have a site selling predominantly to the UK or US market you should make sure that the site is hosted in that country. So if a have a site hosted in the US but you are targeting the UK it is not in your interests to have it this way as the search engines will perceive it as a US site.

Step 2: Importance of the Title & Meta Description Tags

Every page title and Meta description on your site is enormously important, from the point of view of both the search engines and your readers. Always use your top keywords in each one of your web pages - it signals to the search engines as well as your readers what that page are about.

Firstly in the title tags of your page you should use your top 2 or 3 keywords or phrases. If you are unsure what a title tag is, it is clearly visible at the top of the browser window. The title tags are incredibly important. As I said before it signals to the search engines what the page is about. In my opinion the title tags should not exceed 75-80 characters.

Secondly the Meta description tag tends to get overlooked far too much. It's one of those SEO things that usually get left to the last minute. Like the title tag a descriptive Meta tag signals to the search engines and your readers what that page is about. When someone does a search on Google they'll scan through the page titles and descriptions. Search engines, especially Google, will display the description you wrote in the Meta description if the search term being used can be found exactly in the Meta description you wrote.

If you do not do this Google will crawl your site and just take the first bit of content it finds and place it there. By thinking out the outlay and terminology you use in the Meta description tag you can boost your rankings. With regards to length I would not exceed 200 characters.

And thirdly the Meta keywords. Personally I do not believe that search engines give this area the credence it once did. In the past people would just cram this area with as many keywords that they could find related to their site but this just does not work anymore. However, this area should still not be avoided. My recommendation would be to place your keywords in this area but do not exceed 250 characters in length.

Step 3: Keyword Density, Content & Blogs

In simple words, keyword density is the ratio of the word that is being searched for against the total number of words appearing on a given web page. If your keyword occurs only 2-3 times in a page of 500 or more words, obviously it has a lower keyword density than a keyword that would occur 8-10 times in a page of similar length.

As far as search engines are concerned, if a particular keyword has a higher density on a particular web page, then the chances of that page obtaining a much better search engine ranking increases almost exponentially. Not all search engines compute or evaluate keyword density in the same way and most have their own proprietary algorithm for calculating the average density of a keyword.

The placement of keywords, in any number of locations on the page, has different results in the various search engines as well. Hence, you should try to write sentences that use your important keywords and key phrases. My recommendation if we are looking at percentages would be no more than 3% of the wording should be the same.

However in our testing this area really is not definitive as we have seen sites rank for a specific key term that only appears once on the page also sites that have a keyword far too many times on the page. What has worked for us is to keep it very much within reason and you will not go far wrong.

Secondly, Content. Content is absolutely crucial to the success of ranking and search on all search engines but especially Google. The higher quality and relevancy of the content not only will increase your rankings but also gives you a far better chance of ranking highly for what we call the "long tail search".

You may have all your main keywords and terms figured out but ultimately we have no idea what phrase someone will actually search under using these keywords. It could be for example if they are searching for "health insurance" they may well just type in "health insurance" or they may type in "health insurance in the uk for a family". If your content contains these words or phrases that are identical or related you have a much better chance of ranking highly and thus getting more qualified traffic to your site. I would say that on a new site that content should start off at no more than 10 - 20 pages and grow slowly. Google will take note of a site that appears with hundreds of pages out of nowhere and initially view at as "unnatural" so grow your content slowly and make it unique and original.

Thirdly we need to look at "blogs". This is a massively overlooked area by most people marketing on the net. The two main places you can go to set up with a blog are either at blogger or Wordpress. Personally I would recommend Wordpress. Here you can create a blog that has so much Flexibility. The choice of alternative plugins that can be placed on a wordpress blog is amazing and all designed to be SEO friendly. Also it can hosted on your own server so it becomes integrated with your own site. Search engines love blogs because of new original content being added on a regular basis. This area really is a whole topic on its own but I highly recommend that you research this and utilize it.

Step 4: Headings

The heading tags will make your headline bolder so it will stand out and will be recognized as important by the search engines. When writing your headings, include your main keywords in the headings. Be as specific as possible to increase your chances of being listed in a reasonable spot in the search engines. For Example. You have a site selling Plasma TV's. You want to explain to your reader about different brands of Plasma TV's so in the heading you could put PLASMAS TV BRANDS. This will be in bold and larger font size this signaling its importance.

Suggestions:Use keywords that relate to the page content in your heading tags Have your keywords occur early in the tags Use multiple H2 and H3 tags where appropriate

Step 5: Filenames

One of the simplest methods to improve your search engine optimization is to look at the way you name your files. Google give lots of importance to file names. You should think what are you going to put in your web page and then give it a relevant file name. How important is your filename? When you do a search in the search engines, most of them will highlight keyword(s) in your filename or your directory path. In other words Google is signaling the importance of filenames by highlighting it. For example if you have a site that sells electrical goods called electricalappliances the page that promotes washing machines should read in the file name electricalappliances/washingmachines.htm This is telling the search engine exactly what that file contains. This area is missed so many times but is a simple thing to do and helps your rankings. So please take this into serious consideration.

Step 6: Anchor text

Very simply Anchor text is the text (title) that appears within your hyperlink. Anchor text tells the search engines about the content of your web pages - what the page is about and how others perceive it. In essence, the anchor text is about the relevancy of your webpage based on a keyword. Therefore your anchor text should always be completely relevant to the landing page (destination page) and should contain your keyword or keyword phrase. For example. On a site electricalappliances the link that takes you to the washing machine page should read "washing machines". Also on the plasma TV site the link that would take you too SONY plasma TV's should have the anchor text SONY PLASMA TV.

Step 7: Quality incoming links

Inbound links are links from other web sites that point to your web site. The number and the quality of inbound links has become one of the most important ranking factors in Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. It's a simple principle: if Site a links to Site B then it is seen by the search engines as a recommendation; that Site A is 'recommending' Site B. The text that is used to link to your website is also very important (especially to Google). Try to include your keywords or phrases into the text that is linking to your site.

Now comes the most important part. Google ranks all pages on the internet by a system of page rank, commonly called PR. This ranges from 0 - 10. An incoming link from a page with higher PR counts several times more than a link from a lesser PR page. So the more links you have from higher PR pages the better is the chance of ranking highly in Google and other search engines. You build links gradually over a period of time.

This is more prevalent with a new site rather than an aged site. This is because Google prefers to see steady natural growth. Of course how quickly you can rank because of this is really down to the market and competition you are up against.

Finally SEO is crucial to the success of any business online. The great thing about the internet is that it really is a level playing field. So there is nothing stopping you from ranking highly for a given keyword or phrase against even the biggest of companies.

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SEO TIPS

2009-11-22T03:00:00.000-08:00

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SEO TIPS

Author: D. Watts

How important is SEO ? In a nutshell it is everything. Seach Engine Optimization (SEO) as defined by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Some will disagree and suggest content is just as relevant, but without optimizing search engine performance you will never get the desired traffic to your site. Sounds like a mouthful. How is SEO done? SEO is done by several different processes. These processes identified are not all encompasing, but are a basis for starting an increase of your knowledgebase on Search Engine Optimization. 1. The first thing to talk about is Meta tags. A meta tag is a line of HTML coding that contains metadata about a webpage. To view your HTML code. Click on "View" at the top of your browser; scroll down and select "Source". The interesting thing is you can view anyones source code. The below meta tag examples are from blogspot.com, but keep in mind each sites meta tag requirements are a little different. Do some research and find the correct format for your website. This data is used by the search engines and is critical in getting visibility to your website. * A new blogspot site will not have this data (my site did not), so you will have to add it. You need to change the data between the apostrophe signs to fit your needs.* 2. The next piece of SEO you need to know is linking your site. A link building campaign is another very important piece to getting a good SEO ranking. What is a linking building campaign? A link building campaign is a tactic of emailing webmasters to exchange website links in an attempt to increase website traffic for both involved, posting comments using your url, and writing articles like this one. The key to this technique is to find who is linking your competitor's website. This information can be found relatively easy. Once again keep in mind each search engine is a little different. For this example I will use Google. Go to Goolge and type in "link:" (Without Quotations) and add your competitor's http. For example lets say your competitor is http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/. In the Google search engine type in "link: http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/". This will bring up every website that has this url linked. Take a look and see how your competitor is linking their website or websites. Use this information to set up your link building campaign. 3. Keywords in your website are essential. Keywords are those words used at the search engines to find things. Using a site like http://tools.seobook.com/ can tell you how many counts on specific keywords and phrases. Tailor your website to include some of these keywords and/or phrases. Also add these keywords to your meta tags like in #1. 4. Writing content is important, but not as important as #1, 2. and 3. Writing well keeps your readers charged, interested, and revisiting. Not all writing has to be long, but make it meaningful. Write with your audience in mind or who you are targeting. Learn from other bloggers, article writers, and experts in your niche are excellent source on improving your writing. 5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) takes Time. Moving your website up in the search engine ranking does not happen overnight. Tweaking your website content, HTML, keywords , and building a link campaign take time. Be patient. The search engine programs called crawlers, robots, or spiders are designed to search the web for these key elements. The more these programs pick up your url with relevent keywords and content the higher in the rankings you get from search engines. Increasing website traffic to your site is the ultimate goal of SEO. Paying for a SEO service is another option to choose. Chances are they will provide most of these identified tips and more. I recommend learning as much as you can about SEO.

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5 Important Trick to Optimizing Web Site or Blog

2009-11-22T02:57:00.000-08:00

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5 Important Trick to Optimizing Web Site or Blog

Author: annethforblog

It’s the SEO help for you (SEO Solution). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important trick so that our website or blog will be indexed and placed at early sequence in search engine’s list like Google and Yahoo. However, it is important to know that indexing process by search engine is not just in a short time, but occasionally in a quite long time, in several days or even many weeks. SEO (search engine optimization) is an imperative requirement for popular websites or blogs. When our website or blog is placed in early sequence of search engine’s list, hence more and more people easy to find our website or blog . It is influenced by a lot of factors such as: Keywords included in website or blog as both tag of articles and meta tag (for HTML code of website or blog). If keywords used is less appropriate with whole words of article contents, hence it will arise a matter for search engine in finding our article, even our website or blog would be thrown out of search engine index. Organize that election of keywords according to both title of articles and the most words in our article. The number of visitors. More and more visitor in our website would make greater opportunity of website or blog for taken in early sequence in the list of search engine. It is often mentioned as traffic influencing page rank for search engine. The number of articles. Some of search engines or blog directories attach string to a minimum number of both title and words in our article filled in website. For increasing of the number of articles, it’s preferred uploading articles continuously to posting a lot of articles spontaneously. Search Engine will more often ping our article if the posting is always done routinely. Quality of articles. The high quality article often adsorb many traffic. For measuring a high quality article, we could exploit high value keywords with software provided by www.nichebotclassic.com. We can have a look the value of keywords there and how many people searching search engine for the keywords. The number of incoming link or back link . Link is connection in form of letter, word, or picture in our web to access others. Exit link can be made while posting for recommending visitor to visit other webs referenced. Link placed in sidebar generally represents our favorite web and what most often we use to various need like source of inspiration and knowledge, source which we lionize. More and more links could amplify opportunity for early sequence in search engine’s list. The number of Link in other website for recommending to go into our web site or blog will improve potency of presences of visitor and increasing page rank of our website or blog. As trick of search engine optimization of website or blog for first sequence index of search engine, hence web master or blogger requires to do these (trick seo blog): Insert representative tags pursuant to article title and the most words in article. If we have owned articles in enough number (more than five), hence insert the code such this ( open this link ). Submit your website to Google (URL: www.adurl.google.com) * Submit to Yahoo (URL: www.siteexplorer.yahoo.com/submit). Go to Googlewebmasterstool (URL: www.google/webmasters/tools) and do “Sign in” * Write your website or blog (ex: www.annethforblog.blogspot.com). Click “Add site”, and click the link “Verify your site” in box in “Overview” * Chose verification method “add a meta tag” Copy the code emerge in: blogis code is ………. then click right of mouse, copy Go into the Accunt blogger, Layout or arrange the situation, Edit the HTML then Paste it after the tag and before ( this tag is placed at the top of code of HTML of blog). Click “Save Templete”, and then back to Google webmasters tools. * Do SITE MAP Optimizing bellow: Select “Choose Addsitemap” and select “add general sitemap” at choice “Choose type”. Type " rss.xml or atom.xml” at box “My site URL is…..” Click “Add General web sitemap” and wait in about 2 hours for google process. Those step is a trik for optimizing blog or optimizing website . We often mention it as seo blog or seo website . This trick focuss on both optimizing content and articles. All of meta tag , site map, article tag and quality content is needed. Posted by Anneth_Forblog at 6:48 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: trick search engine optimization, trick seo, trick seo blog, trick seo website

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Search Engine Optimization for Blogs

2009-11-22T02:38:00.000-08:00

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Search Engine Optimization for Blogs

Author: Bill Hartzer

Whether it’s a corporate blog, a news-type blog, or even a personal blog, optimizing your blog for the search engines is a must. There are some simple changes that you can make to WordPress and Moveable Type that will make your blog more search engine friendly and make the search engines beg for more (more post and content, that is!).
Optimizing a blog is just like optimizing any other website. The content and pages (posts) must be unique, they must be search engine friendly, and it needs links from other websites. If it’s a new blog, then you first need to make sure the blog software you’re using is set up so that it takes advantage of all of the possible optimization features. Then, announce it to the world, work on getting some links to it, and start making posts.
WordPress Optimization
If you’re using WordPress for your blog software, it’s important to make sure that your site is search engine friendly, meaning that it can easily be spidered by the search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it’s important to have good title tags and meta tags. Keep in mind that blog software usually uses the title of your post as the title tag, so include keywords in your titles as much as possible. It’s important to set up your blog’s software so that the URLs don’t contain a lot of variables. Instead, use URLs that include the post title or post name in them. For example, if you’re using WordPress you’ll need to set the permalinks so that it uses %postname% in the URL. You can also set up a specific category for the post archives, and you might consider using a keyword that’s related to your blog instead of the default, which is typically the word “archive”. Fintan Darragh of www.dech.co.uk has a great blog post called “Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips” (http://www.dech.co.uk/2005/11/ultimate-WordPress-seo-tips/). Mr. Darragh talks about permalink optimization and says, “The goal: stick more keywords up into the URL and remove the faff which nobody uses, to make the URL search engine and people attractive. Having keywords in your URL is an absolute must, especially when it’s as easy as WordPress makes it.” He also goes on to talk about getting rid of useless tags like the month, day, and year, as well as one important detail: whatever you do stick with the site structure you choose—otherwise you might end up with a lot of useless links to your site. Other tips that Mr. Darragh mentions are optimizing your page titles and your post titles--and installing a few plugins that are useful such as the “Related Posts Plugin” and the “Technorati Tag Generator”.
There are several other places where you can get specific tips about setting up WordPress in a search engine friendly manner, including: * SEO at Aleeya Dot Net - http://www.aleeya.net/category/WordPress/seo/ * The Best WordPress SEO Possible - http://WordPress.org/support/topic/49168 * Search Engine Optimization for WordPress - http://codex.WordPress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress * Search Engine Optimization for Blogs - http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm * DYI Search Engine Optimization - http://lorelle.WordPress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization/ One of the best tutorials out there is one called “DYI Search Engine Optimization” by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has some great tips, including how to optimize your code, develop strong intrasite links, write with strong keyword usage, use categories and tags, and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that “the goal is to help search engine crawlers move through your website collecting information to be stored in the search engine’s database. The key to your blog’s data making it successfully into a search engine’s database is to: 1) Make sure there are no road blocks in the path of a search engine crawler. 2) Make sure the crawler can move through your blog, examining all your web pages. 3) Provide adequate keywords and key phrases which clearly help categorize your content. 4) Provide clearly labeled tags and categories recognized by tagging service crawlers and many search engines today. 5) Take advantage of pinging services.” There are several WordPress Plugins available that will help you take advantage of internal linking (like the Related Posts Plugin) which will link to other posts in your blog that are on the same topic.
Other plugins that might be helpful are plugins that automatically generate a Google Sitemap file as well as plugins that help you categorize the site such as the WordPress Subdomain Plugin (http://www.webguerrilla.com/WordPress-subdomain-plugin/).
Movable Type Optimization If you’re using Movable Type for your blog software, then it’s also important to make sure that your site is search engine friendly and can be spidered by the search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it’s important to have good title tags and meta tags. Keep in mind that blog software usually uses the title of your post as the title tag, so include keywords in your titles as much as possible. Miles Evans (http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310Movable TypeSEO.html) says that “Movable Type is optimized quite well out of the box, but there are a few quick tricks to easily providing the spiders with some dynamic content.” He goes on to say that you need to optimize your template. “For my main home page and category index pages I hardcode most of my meta data. Your meta tags will be at the top of the template within the tag. You can get fancy on your index pages but I cannot really see why. Optimize these two templates by hand for whatever keywords you are targeting site wide.” Mr. Evans also has another article titled, “Best Movable Type Plugins” (http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310BestMovable TypePlugins.html) that talks about his favorite plugins that help him get great search engine rankings. His favorite Movable Type Plugins for SEO are Dashify, MTPaginate, MT Blogroll, MT InlineEditor, MT-Textile, BigPAPI, as well as Ajaxify (a set of plugins that adds several ajax/javascript widgets into the Movable Type interface), CheckLinks, FormatList v1.0, and Better File Uploader for uploading files. Nicholas Carvan (http://www.nicholascaravan.com) has a great article about Movable Type optimization called “Optimizing your Movable Type blog for Google” (http://www.nicholascarvan.com/blog/optimizing_your_Movable Type_blog_for_google.html). In it he talks about PageRank (and how it relates to your internal linking on your blog), having keywords in your URL (which is important for all blog optimization) and blogrolling. He defines the term blogrolling very well, saying, “Blogrolling: Inbound links are gold, but in Google's eyes, not all links are equal. In particular, Google isn't wild about links contained within JavaScript - apparently they can index them, but that doesn't mean they always want to.”
Once you’ve set up and configured your blog’s software, it’s important to make sure that you leave it alone—if you change your page URLs then any links that you’ve received from other bloggers may not be valid anymore. If you need to change your site’s structure (perhaps you’ve been blogging already and wish to use the tips from this article to optimize your blog), then you might want to take a look at the Objection Redirection WordPress Plugin(http://WordPress-plugins.biggnuts.com/objection-redirection-WordPress-plugin/) if you’re using WordPress. The Objection Redirection Plugin gives you a simple interface to redirect users (and search engine bots) to the proper page, especially if you’ve changed your site’s structure.
Start Blogging The best thing you can do is to start blogging. Go ahead and post to your heart’s content and write, write, write about your topic. The more content you can provide the better—and it seems as if adding content on a regular basis really helps, as well. Feel free to link out to other blog posts that are related to the topic you’re writing about. For example, before you publish a post, go on over to your favorite blog search engine and find another recent post on the same subject—and link to the post. Linking out to other bloggers will get their attention, and hopefully they’ll end up linking to you as well. If other bloggers have trackbacks turned on then their blog will link back to your post. Some trackbacks are moderated, so it might take some time before your link shows up on the other blog. And some bloggers have trackbacks turned off, so a link back to your site might take some manual intervention. Categorize your posts as much as possible, and feel free to add categories as you blog—it will help the internal linking structure of your site, and help the search engines and users find on-topic posts.
Promoting Your Blog Whenever you make a post in your blog, your blog software will attempt to ping certain sites to let them know that you just updated your blog. There are many blog ping services out there, including Ping-O-Matic and Pingoat. Your blog software can be configured to ping sites automatically, and I’ve posted a list for WordPress of ping services on by blog (http://www.corporatewebsitemarketing.info/cwm/WordPress-ping-list). If your blog is new or you would like to get some more links, you can submit your blog to blog directories as well as other sites that will list your blog (don’t forget to submit to DMOZ.org, Yahoo! Directory, and the Best of the Web Blog Directory). About.com has a great article about promoting a blog (http://weblogs.about.com/cs/blogpromotions/a/promoteblog.htm) and even Biz Stone has great tutorial about promoting your blog (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1060). Lastly, don’t forget to turn on your blog’s RSS feed. And if you’re looking to promote your RSS feed, try searching your favorite search engine for “promote rss” to find a lot of good tutorials.
Promoting your blog is just like promoting a website—you need good spiderable content, links to your content, and you need to set up your blog software to take advantage of all the great features. There are also plugins that will help make blogging easier for all of us.

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Bill Hartzer manages the Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing team at Vizion Interactive, a leading search engine optimization company , social media marketing, and web design firm based in the Dallas, Texas area.

Seo For Bloggers

2009-11-22T02:27:00.000-08:00

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Seo For Bloggers

Author: skipratt

Search engine optimization for a blog is generally different from your normal run of the mill website but it is also very important that bloggers get the fundamentals of SEO right if they want to target free organic traffic from the search engines. Blogs are social in nature which enables them to build links more naturally than a static website. Writing one very popular post can create hundreds or even thousands of links for your site in a very short space of time, getting this kind of popularity is naturally more difficult with a static website. A large portion of people who read blogs also write them as well. If you write quality unique content on your blog and are able to generate fresh ideas related to hot topics of the moment then the links you can obtain can help boost your sites SEO by itself. But like I said it is also important to get the fundamentals right as well. If you’re on a free hosted blog with the likes of Blogger.com or WordPress.com then I highly recommend you make the small investment of establishing you own self hosted blog with its own domain. You can purchase a domain name from GoDaddy.com for less than $10 and you can get shared web hosting for your blog for less than $10 per month from the like of hostgator.com or Dreamhost.com. If you haven’t got the option of hosting your own then stick with Blogger.com, at least then you’ll be able to make some money in the future as they allow Adsense and affiliate links. The most search engine friendly blog platform to use is WordPress which you can download from WordPress.org for free. If you get web hosting through Hostgator or Dreamhost you’ll be able to install WordPress using Fantastico’s one click install meaning you’ll be ready to go in seconds. Assuming you have taken my advice and set-up a WordPress blog on your own domain you’ll also need to install some plugins and change your permalink structure to make your site more search engine friendly. Changing your permalink structure is very simple, just go to options, then permalinks. From there add /%postname%/ into the "custom structure" field and select "Update Permalink Structure". The most important plugins to install to make your WordPress blog search engine friendly are the All In One SEO Pack (Generate search engine friendly page titles, adds keyword and descr i ption meta tags), Google XML Sitemaps (Generates an XML sitemap which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo), Dagon Design Sitemap Generator (Generates a fully customizable HTML sitemap) and Similar Posts (Adds similar posts to your posts pages helping spread link popularity). Once your blog and has been set-up to be SEO friendly you’ll now be ready to start writing your posts. It’s important to decide what the main keywords are that you want to focus on targeting. Try not to focus on more than 2-3 general topics (keywords) and develop a list of more focused keywords or keyphrases related to your topics. You can use a keyword research tool such as Wordtracker to help you with this. Once you have developed a nice list of keywords that you want to target you can start writing posts incorporating these keywords, in the titles and within the posts body. Over time with more and more posts you will be building keyword authority for these keywords. It is also a good idea linking all your pages back to your home page using your blogs main keyword as the anchor text. I accomplish this by adding the link to my blogs footer. seo-for-bloggers

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BLOGGER MANUAL | SEO TIPS AND TRICKS (GUIDELINE FOR NEW BLOGGER)

2009-11-22T02:23:00.000-08:00

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SUMMARY: BLOGGER MANUAL | <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization" title="Search engine optimization" rel="wikipedia">SEO</a> TIPS AND TRICKS (GUIDELINE FOR NEW BLOGGER)

SUMMARY: BLOGGER MANUAL | SEO TIPS AND TRICKS (GUIDELINE FOR NEW BLOGGER)

Author: fritz buyung

In this blogger manual I'll show you the basic off all SEO technique. I don't like to chit-chat, so let's straigth to the point. You must know that we have two kinds of optimization that can be done by ourselves. First, is On-page Optimization, and the second is Off-page optimization....
Do you know anything about On-page optimization? It's everyting that you can do to your blog to make it suitable for the search engine. We have several things to do for our on-page optimization:
1. Choose the keywords of your new blog
Use Google External Keywords tool to choose your keywords. How to use this tool? It's quite simple. Consider that you want to use "Blogspot tutorial" as your keyword. All you need to do is to type this keyword in to the keyword box. Fill the Captcha code and click on Keyword Suggestion. You will see a list of keywords that related to your first keyword. You will see that the competition of BLOGSPOT TUTORIAL keywords is to fierce for a new blog. Try to choose other keywords with the lowest competition but still have a good enough search volume. It's better for you to start with the lowest competition level, then slowly but sure you climb up by the number of visitor. If you can take a lot of visitor to your blog, you'll see that you can aim a new keyword with higher competition level. In this tutorial, let's consider that the keyword you choose is "BLOGGER MANUAL"
2.Choose your URL address that suits with your keywords
For example...if it's possible ...why don't you use this URL ... http://blogger-manual.blogspot.com
3. Choose Blog Title that suitable for your blog
For example...use this title..."Blogger Manual for Blogspot"
4. Use title tag in your html
Use title tag that contain the combination of your keywords, if it's posibble...use 7-10 words as your title. For example .... Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie
a title tag should seen like this
Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie
you can put this tag right under the tag in your LAYOUT -- EDIT HTML page

5. Use meta tag in your HTML
meta tag is a code that contain the summary of your blog data. There are meta description, meta keywords, & meta author that you should optimize....

6. Use your keyword in your posting title
7. Use your keywords in your articles and spread those keywords at the first sentences, and the last sentences. Don't forget to add your keywords each 2-3 paragraphs.
8. It's better for you, if your main column (the place where your article displayed) float at the left side. It's because the spider will crawl your page from the top left to the botom right. If you put your main column at the right, then the spider will crawl your sidebar and each navigation links inside your sidebar, before it arrives to your article. Your competitor will left you behind. You may say like this "O yeah, than why there is a left float main column website defeated by the center or right float main column websites?" Simple,....It's because the off-page factor that we should talk later.
If it's possible...it will be better if you put your keywords at the end of your page or right in the footer of your webpage.

If you do this, then you can boost your position up to 400 positions. If you were in the 1200 , now you may hit to the 800th position..... Now, you may already bend your face and say "Yeah, and what does it use for?" I'll say "Nothing,...it still can't help you" you have to complete the OFF-PAGE optimization to be the king of the Search Engine Result Page....

Oh, and what is off-page optimization? Simple, it's all about everything that you can do to promote your blog.
1. Increase the number of your visitors. You can do blogwalking to invite people. Or do some promotion in facebook, to invite people visit your blog
2. Build links to your blog. But before you do a link building process, you should know the type of links:
a. Link from shoutbox....it has no credit for you
b. Link from Comment box... it has credit if the blog has relevant content to your blog
c. Trackback link....It's a link that appear if you review any webpage in your blog and leave your link at the comment column of the webpage. It has more credit than a common link from the comment box
d. Reciprocal link is a kind of links that appear if you do some link exchange. It has a very good credit if both of the oage has relevant content. But, has no credit at all if they don't have any relevant content
e. One way link.... If you have one way link that is directed to your blog, then it will be the most perfect link you can have

So what is the criteria of a good link?
1. It connects the relevant pages
2. It comes from a higher Pagerank page
3. It's a one way link

At this poin, is there any conclusion you get? Well, my blogger manual will continue with the biggest question mark...."HOW CAN I GET THOSE BACKLINKS?"
It's quite simple, but I tell you that it won't be easy at all. Your solution is to send a request message to every webmasters that you want to ask for a backlinks. The badnews is A high pagerank Webmaster will be very selective to accept any link exchange offer. It's because...if they make a bad decision of which page should be connected to their website. It can kill their pagerank instantly. Let's consider like this if you accept to link your blog to other website ... and you don't know that the website has been banned by google....than you will take a risk to be banned also by Google. Or at least Google will penalize your blog by reducing your pagerank 1 or 2 points.

Well, It's still the basic knowledge, but I thinks it's enough for you to develop your SEO skill by following this short blogger manual. If you have any question....feel free to visit blogger manual. And you can contact me at contact form that I have provide for you. ----THE END OF BLOGGER MANUAL - SEO SUMMARY ---

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I'm still a new blogger, But I love to share everything that I have learned from many sources. I hope this articles can help you to develop your blog

How to submite blogger site map to google

2009-11-22T01:43:00.000-08:00

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Before doing this,let me say what are sitemaps and how they will help us.The reason we use them is,they will help google bot to crawl,index pages of your site and tell you if there are any problems when they try to index it.It also helps you to know,how many pages exactly are indexed,and what people searched in the search engine
Let me explain the detailed procedure on how to submit your blogger sitemap to google.
1.First,go to google webmaster tools and sign in with your gmail account.
2.After you logged in, you will see this asking you to add a site.
to visit your site.
Add your blog url(ex:bloggernewtips.blogspot.com).Don't add with http or www.

3.Next,it asks you to verify your site.It is just to confirm whether you are the owner or not.

CLICK on the 'verify your site' link.

Next,

4.There are two ways to verify your ownership but, there is only one way for the blogger users to add a metatag.

5.Copy the metatag.

Now,sign into your blogger account>click the layout button>Edit html and paste the metatag just after the head tag and save the changes.

and click the verify button in the google webmaster tools and there will be a confirmation message saying that you have sucessfully verified.

Now,you have to submit a sitemap for google to crawl your site.Go back to the google webmaster dashboard or (home) and click the 'Add' link which is next to your blog name and in the Sitemaps column.Then,you see this,

Choose 'Add general web sitemap' from the dropdown menu and type rss.xml or atom.xml next to your blog address as shown below

and click the 'Add General Web Sitemap' button.

6.That's it.Now your sitemap is successfully submitted to google.Check 2 or 3 days after and you will see the detailed statistics of your blog(indexed pages,any errors,etc.)

If you have any questions regarding this,you can ask here via your comments

Set Up Your Blog For Fast Profit - The Little Secret to Ranking Well

2009-11-21T17:42:00.000-08:00

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Set Up Your Blog For Fast Profit - The Little Secret to Ranking Well

Author: Ian Hollander

Who else wants to know how the right way to set up their blog for maximum profit? If you are anything like the vast majority of people who are reading this right now, the simple truth is that you probably have your hand up high, right? It's true....there are certain "rules" or best practices when it comes to structuring your blog the proper way, and it's RARELY the sort of stuff that "gurus" and other self appointed experts will tell you is important. (often, because they simply don't know any better themselves) Now, listen up: I'm going to tell you how to set up your blog properly straight out of the gate, but rather than "trust" that I'm right, simply try this set up the next time you start a blog and watch how much better it performs for you, ESPECIALLY if you are doing a lot of off site marketing and promotion. Step 1 - ALWAYS set your blog up on sub domain. (like blog.yoursite.com) or (news.yousite.com) Step 2 - Protect the root level of your domain. Why? Because it gives you an amazing amount of flexibility. You can use the root for a veritable cacophony of different purposes, and you can always change it to "do" whatever you want, whenever you want. I like to create a navigational site map, AND put a big fat opt in box on the root. The site map should point to your blog category pages if at all possible, with keyword rich links. Why does this work well? Well, if you put your blog on the root, you are sort of "stuck" like chuck. If the blog becomes LESS important to your overall marketing strategy, for example, your URL will always be associated with a "stale" sort of feel. Remember, most people will remember your URL, or will visit on the root level, just because that's human nature. And if you've got no activity on your blog for a week or two (or more) people will assume your information is antiquated and getting old. Alternatively, a squeeze page on the root is static. Or.....if you ABANDON the project altogether for a month or two due to time constraints, you can always use the root to redirect to an affiliate program of your choice, ESPECIALLY if you are doing, or have done a lot of article marketing. (as article directories typically WON'T let you re-direct from your resource box links, if they are NOT on the root level) But....I'm going to give you one more good reason: Often, the search engines will "rank" your blog and root level differently. So it's not uncommon to have the blog show up really highly for a given keyword phrase...and then the OTHER pages get a second helping of "search engine love" completely separately, giving you the potential to have up to 4 separate domain results on the first page if you're smart, savvy and paying attention! (because trust me - most of your competition WON'T be!)

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Automated Blogging Basics

2009-11-21T17:38:00.000-08:00

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Automated Blogging Basics

Author: Courtney Davidson

Autoblogging is a term used to describe automated blogs and automated blogging. In most blogs the creator writes and number of blog posts a week or pastes articles from article sites into their blog but his process can be automated so that content is put on the site in a scheduled manner relieving the blog owner from having to constantly update their blog. With the correct method mindset and tools any blog can be set on autopilot. You can actually choose to have an automated process of writing the contents of your blog or pasting articles from certain websites. Through automation, linking for your blog can be an easy thing to do. In order for you to be in automated blogging business you need to have the right tools and the technical know-how on the procedures involved. One feature of autoblog is its capability of making your entries as trendy as possible and eliminates any worry you have about your articles appearing out of style. Time and effort are conserved with the help of a program that could do the posting of your blog automatically for you. It is also useful for people who go on vacation and need to keep their blogs up and running. Autoblogs can be installed with a language translator script to guarantee you a significant expansion of your blog traffic. Having a translator will instantly multiply your traffic and earnings without any extra work on your part opening up your blog to other cultures. But the fact is that an autoblog is designed to attract a couple thousand people every month and has only one or two ways of turning those visitors into customers. Blogging doesn’t need to be time and energy taxing with automated blogging. Most people would perform autoblogging with the help of RSS feeds. This isn’t as effective as we might hope, however, since everyone out there is using the same feeds. Google Blogsearch is a major source for most bloggers to search for RSS feeds. Because of its popularity RSS (Rich Site Summary) are now used by many forum websites or directories. If you figure out a good way of using these feeds you can create your autoblog. By using the RSS feeds articles, you could richly supplement the contents of your blogs. Thus, your blogging sites will also make it easy for you to post entries while you are away, which means that you do not have to visit that website everyday just to update it with the latest news every single day. Your pre-written articles can be scheduled for future release and the software will make sure that they are going to posted as plotted.

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No Cost Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

2009-11-21T17:35:00.000-08:00

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No Cost Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

Author: Forest Downs

Ways To Increase Website Traffic For Free!! You create a website in order to increase your traffic and to earn money. However, you might not have a large budget for advertising or marketing and simply don't know what to do to get your website noticed without spending a lot of money. the following points tells you how to overcome the above problem Tip #1 Submit to Directories Submitting your website to directories is generally free and all you have to do is provide your website's URL, a brief description, and then your site will be listed in the directory for people to browse. Your site will have more links that will increase the rank of your site in the search engine Find out the secrets of Increasing Website traffic here: Underground Website Traffic Secret Tip #2 Submit your Website to Search Engines The visitors should be able to find your site easily. This would help in getting your site noticed. Submit your site to the search engines to have it indexed and become available in the search results So, once your site starts appearing in the search results, it would start bringing in visitors to your website. Tip #3 Reciprocal Links Reciprocal links are another good idea if you are interested in increasing your search engine rankings. Reciprocal links strategy involves trading your website links i.e. you host the links of some others website on your site and they in turn host links of your website on these sites. This strategy is not hard to implement and once implemented, it's like having a free advertisement for your website. Tip #4 Include Your URL Everywhere Try to use your URL in all types of communication you use. For example, make sure your URL is included on your stationary, business cards, in all of your e-mails, and the like. When your URL is posted everywhere you will surely increase your site's traffic. Tip #5 Email List Try to create an email list from all the visitors that have visited your website and periodically send them updates advertising different services or specials. Make it easy to unsubscribe, too. Before you know it you will have more people visiting your site and others recommending your site as well. Additional Resources Traffic Mavericks Exposed Five No Cost Ways To Get Your Website Noticed

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Praying for Your Blog

2009-11-21T17:34:00.000-08:00

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Praying for Your Blog

Author: Courtney

Prayer is one of the most important aspects of a Christian's relationship with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 tells us that we should “pray without ceasing”. We are to pray continually. There are may benefits of prayer including a closer relationship with the Lord, less stress, answered prayers, and much more. As Christian we should incorporate prayer in every aspect of our lives including blogging. Some of the benefits of praying for you blog include a stress free blogging life. By praying for your blog you are giving your blog over the Lord for His use. You no longer have to worry or stress over your blog. It is in the hands of the Lord. Now this doesn't mean you don't have to work hard on your blog. It just means you don't sweat the big or little stuff. Some other benefits include an increase in content creation, readership, and the perceived value of your blog. Matthew 7:7 tells us, “Ask, and it shall be given you ...”. If you ask for the Lord to help in content creation or for an increase in readership, it will be given to you if it is in the Lord's will. You must remember, however, how the Lord answers your prayer may not be the way you want the prayer answered. When this happens do not be discouraged but praise the Lord for answering your prayers. He know what is best for us and for our blogs. Below are some ways you can pray for your blog: Pray about the content you write and create Pray about how you respond and react to comments left by other readers Pray before accepting advertisements or sponsorships Pray for your blog readers and those who leave comments Pray for other bloggers Praying for these simple 5 things everyday can make a huge difference in your blogging experience. Not only will you worry less over your blog but you will begin to notice a change in your blog for the better. Prayer can change lives and it can change your blog.

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Courtney Chowning is a Christian blogger who writes about blogging the Bible at her blog CourtneySpeaks.com. You can find out more tips about blogging the Bible by signing up for her newsletter, “Faith, Family, and Business” where you will also find a free report about mixing Christian virtues in your blog.

Daily Webmaster Tips- your key to success in Internet

2009-11-21T17:32:00.001-08:00

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Daily Webmaster Tips- your key to success in Internet

Author: Ravi

Hi All I am Ravi from India and working from last 5 years on Internet marketing.This blog is here to share my experience to all fellow webmaster and affiliate marketer to earn and learn from internet.I have spend almost 5 years on Affiliate marketing and finally decided to share my experience so as to help other to have good living with internet.I am going to share 1 tips per day to add value for your site.Also it is the responsiblity of every webmaster to replicate it and keep on transferring knowledge.I am working as a software Engineer as a profession and love to help webmaster in every possible way. I tried my best to include all my evergreen article to get you aware about latest tool and technique.If you want to be a better webmaster and affiliate marketer,just come to my blog and get all latest tools. some of the article are: Effective Methods For Website Promotion: Internet marketing strategies for a website promotion should have more options than one. Since there is a lot of competition on the web, you should make sure that your marketing is strong and effective enough to meet your online competitors. You should implement various methods to draw your target visitors to your website. Internet marketing of a website involves a strong strategy, patience, different kinds of advertising and applications, etc. There are various paths one could include in... a successful marketing campaign: Submit your site to major search engines - This is the first thing to do when you have finished preparing your website for marketing. You could submit your site to search engines free of cost through free services or for a fee. Before you submit your site to search engines, make sure your website pages link properly. Some of the major, popular search engines are Yahoo, Google, MSN, Alta Vista, etc. Your page rank increases with search engines upon proper use of links and keywords or key phrases. Make optimum use of keywords - When a customer looks for information on the Internet, he types in a keyword or keyword phrase in the search box of a search engine. Your keyword should coincide with this keyword if your website is providing a service or a product online. It is more like a telephone directory. How do people look for a particular business in a telephone directory? Doctors would be listed under a doctor's category, lawyers under lawyers' category, etc. In this same way, your website business should use keywords that match the category for which your target customer is searching for. The search engine could then search the web and show your website along with many others in the same category. You could use the keyword tool online. This tool contains a data on number of searches done for a particular keyword during a particular period. Based on the number of searches you could pick your keywords. Build links - Linking to other websites increases traffic that in turn floods your website. You should link your website to another one which contains same information or content. Trade links are mutually beneficial to linking websites most especially if those sites share relevant content. Use video advertising - If you are a new Internet marketer, it does not matter. You could create video advertisements for your site at a low cost and make good profits. Make sure to promote your products through video advertising on video blogs and other sites that allow you to place your videos. Unique content and useful information tend to bring in a lot of customers instantly to your website. Whichever path you take in to advertise your website for, it is important to retain your customers once they come in to see your site. Use online forms to capture their email address, follow up with emails for future promotions, offer them freebies if they sign up for a newsletter or guestbook, etc. These are the most common promotional strategies for a website. Many have treaded this path to success so you could also do the same with confidence Read vital knowledge about one way links - please read the web page. The times have come when concise info is really within one click, use this possibility. How Spammers Fool Spam Blacklists - And How To Stop Them: Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don't work anymore. Examining spam and spam-blocking technology can illuminate how this... evolution is taking place and what can be done to combat spam and reclaim e-mail as the efficient, effective communication tool it was intended to be. One method used to combat spam is blacklisting. The goal of blacklisting is to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to crack-down on customers who send spam. A blacklisted ISP is blocked from sending email to organizations. When an ISP is blacklisted, they are provided with a list of actions they must take in order to be removed from the blacklist. This controversial method blocks not just the spammers, but all of the ISP's customers. Blacklisting is generally considered an unfriendly approach to stopping spam because the users most affected by the blacklist are email users who do not send spam. Many argue blacklisting actually damages the uti lity of email more than it helps stop spam since the potential for blocking legitimate email is so high. In addition to the ethical considerations, there are other problems with blacklists. Many blacklists are not updated frequently enough to maintain effectiveness. Some blacklist administrators are irresponsible in that they immediately block suspect servers without thoroughly investigating complaints or giving the ISP time to respond. Another downside is that blacklists are not accurate enough to catch all spam. Only about half of servers used by spammers, regardless of how diligent the blacklist administrator may be, are ever cataloged in a given blacklist. Blacklists are used because they can be partially effective against spammers who repeatedly use the same ISP or email account to send spam. However, because spammers often change ISPs, re-route email and hijack legitimate servers, the spammer is a moving target. Blacklist administrators are forced to constantly revise lists, and the lag-time between when a spammer begins using a given server and when the blacklist administrator is able to identify the new spam source and add it to the blacklist allows spammers to send hundreds of millions of emails. Spammers consider this constant state of flux a part of doing business and are constantly looking for new servers to send spam messages. When used individually, each anti-spam technique has been systematically overcome by spammers. Blacklists have some utility in stopping known spammers, but they may also block valid emails. Because of their limitations, blacklist data should only be used in conjunction with other sources to determine if a given message is spam. Grandiose plans to rid the world of spam, such as charging a penny for each e-mail received or forcing servers to solve mathematical problems before delivering e-mail, have been proposed with few results. These schemes are not realistic and would require a large percentage of the population to adopt the same anti-spam method in order to be effective. The Solution Reputation systems offer a comprehensive anti spam solution by dynamically updating black and whitelists based on sender behavior. These systems also automatically update and score messages thereby removing the burden from administrators. Today's spammers are more clever than ever, so today's reputation systems must be equally sophisticated. An effective reputation system must be dynamic, comprehensive, precise, and based on actual enterprise mail traffic in order to keep the spammers from gaining any advantage. You can learn more about the fight against spam by visiting our website at www.ciphertrust.com and downloading our whitepapers. [Sponsored] Bryan Seawell is the proud owner of this article and he owns a site called: "directory submitter review ". See how he can help you with his site: "directory submitter review" and allow him to share with you his best known secrets here at his exclusive site, "directory submitter review". Thank you for your trust and belief in Bryan. Hope it will benefit you and others. Have a wonderful day ahead. [Sponsored] See you there: http://webmasterdailytips.com

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Daily Webmaster Tips- your key to success in Internet

2009-11-21T17:32:00.000-08:00

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Money Blogs - How to Structure Your Ads

2009-11-21T17:29:00.000-08:00

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Money Blogs - How to Structure Your Ads

Author: cpu fixerr

Many things have been authored about the best way to create the ideal blog that makes the most money . Everybody knows that content is king and that for the content to actually make cash, you have got to put adverts on your page where folks can click and presumably make a purchase. Any guru's manual on the easy way to start a blog will always make mention of one of the most popular ad-generating programs for your blog - Google AdSense. While this works by having folk click on advertisements and earning you an amount for each click, it does not mean that their mere presence in your blog will basically have people clicking on them. When talking about these adverts, most often forget about a basic part that might make or break their probabilities of being clicked. What you need is a good way to structure those adverts on your page so they tend to be more interesting to readers. You simply make options that indicate what sort of products you want advertised and the program will look for such advertisements and paste them on your page. The difficulty is, putting those advertisements on any portion of your page doesn't necessarily bring the same result. A better place for them would most likely be the base of your page where readers will ultimately get to if they are major enough about reading your posts. If they find anything fascinating, they'll much more likely click it because they've had the satisfaction of reading a good post. Clicking on that ad will not be a chore. When you make a decision to have those advertisements on your page, you really also have the choice to select which font colours to use. This is critical because a loud color combo can be extraordinarily stressing to the eyes and whether readers are mindful of it, they're certain to reply the same way - click out. Make sure that when visitors come to read your blog, it is going to be an at first pleasant experience. Don't make them have to criticise a page that's poor in color coordination. Whether you love it or not, visual appeal accounts for a major portion of why people will stay, read your blog and click your ads. Money machine blogs or Making money on Blogs .

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5 Rules for Blog Posting

2009-11-21T17:27:00.000-08:00

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5 Rules for Blog Posting

Author: TJ Philpott

Blog posting serves two very important roles insofar as it is not only expected to attract new site visitors but also keep them continually returning. All popular blogs have one thing in common and that is they keep the blog reader happy with fresh and frequent updates. This may seem like trying to be on the 'top of your game' 24/7 but there really is a way to handily keep your blog entries interesting and fresh! Nobody said having a successful blog was easy but it is also not as overwhelming as it may seem. Here are 5 simple rules to follow to maintain a steady stream of popular posts to your blog. Keep it Short and Sweet Unless you have got a blockbuster post chock full of so much information that the post needs to be article length or longer keep your post short. Most popular posts are of 300 words or less. The blog reader by nature is like a hummingbird in that they want to quickly drift in read what you got to say they dart off. By keeping your post short they will be able to accomplish this and you also won't have to labor over a 500 plus word post. Learn to say more with fewer words! Supply Content That 'Serves' What I mean here is that your content needs to appeal to the reader for some reason or the other. Your content can be of useful information or perhaps something insightful or thought provoking. Even the use of humor is a good idea since everybody ( I hope) enjoys a good laugh! The point is you always want your reader coming away with something after they have read one of your posts. Visual Aids The use of pictures of graphics helps to break up the page somewhat allowing eyes a little less strain. Continuous reading of tightly packed words puts a tremendous strain on the eyes. By 'inserting' a picture or possibly even a short video that may help get your point across you are 'killing two birds with one stone.' Guest Blogger If you experience an occasional brain freeze fear not. You can always 'enlist' the aid of a guest blogger who will lend a new perspective to your site. This will also be a fresh experience for your readers and we all know they love fresh! Down the road you can return the favor and fill in at their site. Use Links If you happen across interesting content on another blog do not be afraid to link to it by referring your readers to the material over there. Your readers will appreciate it as will the site owner of the blog you have referred them to. In the future that blogger could very well return the favor bringing you a new stream of traffic. Your blog posting is a key factor in attracting both the new blog reader while maintaining the loyalty of the old ones. Site visitors want content that is of interest to them and they want it often. Most of the popular blogs have realized this and are able to appease their followers with frequent blog entries that serve readers in some way. Whether your post are thought provoking, useful, humorous, or maybe even shocking it doesn't matter. You just want to be sure they serve some sort of purpose and that your readers know they won't have to wait long for a new post. By combining the 5 rules above with just a little effort you should be able to easily maintain a steady flow of content to keep your blog alive and flourishing.

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TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
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Searching for the Perfectly Designed Free Blog Templates

2009-11-21T17:25:00.000-08:00

Searching for the Perfectly Designed Free Blog Templates

Author: Mark Ferrer

For the experienced webmaster, nothing beats a website stocked with well-written content coupled with eye-catching design. But for the regular blogger, it’s hard to look for a good free blog templates design considering the number of styles available online. Aside from that, downloading just any can run the risk of being typical. Fortunately, there are certainly ways on how to look for the right blog design you want. Host Library After setting up your free blog , you are automatically given a default blog template. You have the option of sticking with it or swapping it with a well-designed one. But where should you look? Surprisingly, there you don’t have to look any further than your own host’s library of template design. Bloggers of the same host you’re subscribed with often submit their own creations to the website. This is the best chance in finding good free blog templates. You might even stumble upon a design that will perfectly fit your blog’s message. If you’re worried about the price, well, they would certainly not cost you any penny because they’re most likely to be offered for free. And since they are submitted to you’re host blog site, they’ll be easy to use and configure. These types of templates are already optimized for use. Installing them will only take a few clicks. Other Blogs Other users like to post their personally designed templates on their own blogs. Looking for these designs is as simple as doing a simple query at the search engines. From there, you just have to look for the best blog site, which for you carries the well-designed templates that will surely fit your style. Furthermore, professional web designers also put up their own blogs. Oftentimes, they post designs of their own for everyone. This is the best opportunity for you to grab a professionally designed template. Although the design will probably be nothing compared to paid designs, you can expect to get top-notch styles. Designers If you’re an experienced blogger or website owner, you can opt to hire a professional designer to provide you a specially designed template. While they will certainly cost a lot more than free blog templates, you can expect your blog to be unique. These types of designs typically run from a mere hundreds to a few thousands. What you must remember, though, is to choose a designer who has an extensive portfolio and experience in the business. Don’t forget that you are paying a fortune for the design and must imperatively get your money’s worth. Mark Michael Ferrer Free Blog Templates

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The Secrets of Blogging for Profit

2009-11-21T17:24:00.000-08:00

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The Secrets of Blogging for Profit

Author: Andre Davidson

The Secrets of Blogging for Profit Writing weblogs(blogs) or blogging is becoming increasingly popular with budding entrepreneurs as a way to earn a living online while, at the same time, doing something they really enjoy. In a lot of cases bloggers can profit with very little continuing effort. However, there may be a fair bit of work involved in the beginning. This is usually because of designing a method of gaining revenue and promoting the website but once this is established simply maintaining the blog with regular postings may be enough to keep the revenue rolling in. But lets not gloss over one of the words in that last sentence. Promoting. You see, you have to make your site known to the world; Obvious, yes, easy, not quite, but do-able, yes. And thats because there are a lot of programs and utilities out there, free and ones you have to buy. that can help you. Now two of the most popular methods for creating a profit from blogging include advertising methods. This includes advertising with AdSense and securing independent advertisers. This article will discuss these two methods of advertising on a blog. Using AdSense to Generate Revenue Using AdSense is one of the most popular ways for bloggers to generate revenue from their blog. This method is so popular because it is also very simple. AdSense is a program offered by Google where bloggers agree to have advertisements on their website and are paid when users click on these advertisements. Bloggers simply have to create a blog and submit the website address of the blog as well as some other information to apply for participation in AdSense. Once a blog is approved the owner is given code they can simply copy and paste to have advertisements displayed on their blog. Google then sends appropriate advertisements each time the blog is visited by someone. Whenever possible, the advertisements sent to the blog are closely related to the content of the blog. Google knows what type of adverts to send because it crawls the website ahead of time to see which ads are relevant to the blog content. Blog owners do have some ability to place restrictions on the types of advertisements which may appear on the blog. For example the blog owner can specify that adult advertisements are not to appear on the blog and Google will filter these out. This sounds simple and it is, but be prepared that it may not always be plain sailing to register for Adsense. Sometimes your request may be delayed because your site just is not old enough or does not have enough posts yet. How Advertisements on a Blog Generate Revenue Many bloggers use advertisements on their blogs to generate a profit. This method of advertising is more difficult than using AdSense but it can be significantly more financially rewarding to the blogger. This method of advertising is similar to the type of targeted advertising often seen in magazines. For example magazines for parents often feature advertisements which will appeal to parents such as advertisements for toys, children's clothing or foods popular with children. Similarly a magazine for canoeists may feature advertisements for life jackets, waterproof clothing, races or equipment. In these cases the advertisers pay for advertising space in the magazine in the hopes that the magazine's audience will be enticed to buy products or services after seeing these ads. Blog owners can use this type of advertising, but it can be hard to find willing advertisers. However, there are some factors which may make an advertiser more willing to have an advertisement appear on a blog. One of the most important factors for advertisers is the amount of traffic the blog receives. Traffic and niche - the keys to success These are important because advertisers who are paying for ad space are more likely to invest in a blog with high traffic than one with very little traffic. Another important factor for advertisers is the focus of the blog. Advertisers are more likely to purchase advertising space from a blog with a specific focus of interest, or niche, to the advertiser's target audience. Like the examples listed above of magazines for parents and canoeists, advertisers want to advertise on a blog which is already reaching the same target audience. Selecting a niche is relatively easy - you may already have an interest in a certain area for instance. Getting traffic will require some initial work, which is why you have to actively promote your site. How to get paid by advertising There are a number of different ways in which bloggers who make use of advertising on their website can be paid. For instance, a set fee may be paid by advertisers for the ad to run on the website for either a set amount of time or for a set number of page views. This means the advertiser may buy space for a set number of days, weeks or months or may purchase space for a set number of times the advertisement is revealed to your blog visitors. Or the advertiser may choose to pay the blogger according to the number of times something specific happens. This may include users clicking through the advertisement or users buying something after clicking through the advertisement. You will have to work out the type of compensation with the advertiser beforehand to agree a fair method of payment.

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Easy way give Share toolbar for all your page

2009-11-21T17:23:00.000-08:00

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Easy way give Share toolbar for all your page

Author: foreverjantan

Fond pour your idea or ideas to share with the public. Generally distributed online can be done via a variety of ways, publicize the service through a particular site as the fabric of friendship that you follow, or sending messages to friends or the privacy of relatives. But if you find that your data will share the many, of course you need a large enough space to store them online. By creating a web of course, would be enough room for you to put ideas to the public divided, but also create a web course also cost money to create and publish, unless you can make your own website. Many ways that can be obtained as a substitute for web, ie blog (blogspot, wordpress or other) that do not require users have a special skill to create and care for her. One such example I use is blogspot service. There are many facilities free widgets or tools that can be used to enhance the display. Not affected by the cost to create a private blog, register at www.blogger.com and set up an article / data / your idea to read / used by the public. If you do not know how to make it, please search on google about how to create a personal BLOG on blogspot. Noteworthy is the SEO for your blog search engine easily recognized, and always update the data / files on your personal blog. Create or change your Blog template as you liked, easy and not have to cost to get / download it (please search with the help of google search or other). With a beautiful view blog will certainly make visitors feel at home to read and want to visit again. But what if the guests liked it one of the articles you publish? and visitors are interested to share with friends or other relatives? should be done with manual copy-paste ..? Certainly not look professional..? Share this article with other visitors also help increase traffic to your blog, so why not try to give an easy way for visitors to do the sharing? How? Register / register for free on www.addthis.com, select from the service what you (blogspot, wordpress or other), select the button style, click "Get Your Button" to verify your code, copy the code, login to your blogger account, select "Layout", "Edit HTML", check "Expand Widget Templates", search code "

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Adding Sizzle to Your Blog Entries

2009-11-21T17:21:00.000-08:00

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Adding Sizzle to Your Blog Entries

Author: TJ Philpott

Blog entries not only attract new readers but they also keep them coming back. A popular blog is normally judged to be so by the number of subscribers it has and you can thank the content of the site for that. The blog reader is initially attracted to the site because the theme of the content is something that holds an interest for them. The ability to 'spice up' the content is what brings them back. Therefore no matter how mundane the 'chore' of blog posting may seem to you it is important to maintain a certain 'appeal' to retain your readers. The key here will be to engage the blog reader right away in order to encourage them to read through the entire post. Although your 'opening' is somewhat critical to keep the readers' interest there is still no substitute for quality throughout the body of the content. Let's review 5 different 'angles' you can approach your blog posting with to help immediately captivate or involve your audience. Direct Questions at Them By directly asking your reader a question you can immediately 'involved' them in what it is you are talking about. This method of 'talking to them' as opposed to 'talking at them' has a stimulating reaction that further encourages their 'participation' in your post. Your delivery is on a more personal level which tends to more readily engage the reader. Use a Folksy Comparison The use of a short story or anecdote to help establish your point tends to engage people more fully in what it is you are saying. When used at the beginning of your post this can be very effective at maintaining their attention throughout the balance of your entry. Paint a Mental Image Painting an image for your reader helps to draw upon their sense of imagination thereby drawing them deeper the 'conversation' of your post. In essence you are flipping a switch to stimulate them thereby increasing their involvement. Analogies This approach is widely use and very successful since it has the ability to appeal to many different people on different levels. Analogies are especially effective for making a point that may be otherwise difficult to make. We are creating a 'common ground' where it is easier for many to relate to how a particular point may affect them personally. Shock Nothing gets someone's attention better then to shock them with facts, statistics, or deductive assumptions. Here we are using an emotion to capture the attention of the reader. The shock value of our delivery has more impact when the reader can relate to what it is being said to them. Your blog entries are what fuel the growth, strength, and popularity of your blog. Subscribers are initially attracted to the 'theme' of the content but often return because of the way in which it was delivered. A popular blog recognizes the need to deliver its content in a way that can captivate the blog reader. By doing so the reader is further compelled to complete the entire entry. By adopting some of the suggestions we reviewed above you will be able to add a little 'sizzle' to your blog posting. By doing so you will be keeping your readers informed, entertained and most importantly…loyal!

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Do You Want to Make Money On The Internet?

2009-11-21T17:17:00.000-08:00

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Do You Want to Make Money On The Internet?

Author: donkeymailer

If you want to make money on the Internet, you can find themselves suddenly filled with tons of ideas, but none of the methods as they do. For example, you may have heard about creating a site, but you do not know exactly how to do it! Or you may have heard about blogs people online or write articles, but you don't know where you can leave them to earn money. All of these issues can be easily answered here: register online forums-there are many marketing forums online, you can enter (free), and you will find many professionals who can direct you to the answers to your questions. Many of these forums for many blogs and useful posts that can show you the answers to most of your problems, for example, where submit articles as begin writing that is a child. This can save you a lot of grief to do so as soon as you will also know that fraud and what legitimate Web sites, as well as through members there. This will help you in such a huge path, so you will always do what you will actually make money on the internet, rather than be your hard earned money on a scam programs. Local marketing team-a lot of online marketers originator groups that they will meet with the local brainstorming, exchange of information, ask questions, get mentoring, and joint ventures. If you live in the big city, you will not be really difficult to find these groups and to join them. Don't be afraid to meet with Internet marketing, or afraid to ask your questions, because even in my experience, they are often extremely useful, and not deliberate on what you are. We all know that we start something, and this is the Next Best thing, coming to the forums, and often works particularly well, if you are looking for be offline business goes online business. (Such as the creation of Web sites for clients and their business forum). Know the conditions-in addition to the above, if you really know the conditions that you want to do, and begin to learn as much as you can in your spare time about things, you will be easier to adapt to earn money online with programs you will find. You also need to obtain a better understanding of things when you are on the forums and meetings with Internet marketing, when they speak in real, and they can show you that each term actually means. It really makes things easier and it is best to do to receive information in advance.

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On Page Search Engine Optimization

2009-11-21T17:15:00.000-08:00

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On Page Search Engine Optimization

Author: Money 24 Seven

Submitting your internet site to Search Engines If you have got a web-based business or if a serious portion of your business is done on the web thru your website, then the best advertising and selling is done by submitting to a search website. No sort of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam e-mail or newsletter will achieve the same results, though, perhaps useful in a small proportion. watch out for firms that guarantee automatic submission of your web site to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search site ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it by hand by establishing contact with the search site companies and directories. Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are comprehensively built to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and photographs and the important content. Don't submit internet sites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your internet site, keywords and any other info that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business. Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new internet sites coming up each day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your site which makes the crawling straightforward for the web robots. Search engines like 'Google.com' hardly considers submissions without sitemaps. There are many online corporations that accept search site submission services. You can choose to do it yourself with a software package and service like this one : Webposition.com/order/trial Or if you would like pro help try the following sites : addpro.com/professional_submission submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html Do not use the automated submission services. Here's a list of the most well liked Search Engines and catalog firms : Search Engines Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista Google, HotBot Excite/Webcrawler Directories AOL Search Inktomi Lycos Open Directory MSN, Yahoo! LookSmart Snap Aside from the above there are thousands of search engines and catalog firms, where you can submit your internet site to as many companies as possible. The following links gives information on other search engines and directories : websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/ hwebsearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Pick Up a free gift as a thankyou for visiting!

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How to Sell Ad Space on Your Blog

2009-11-21T17:13:00.000-08:00

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How to Sell Ad Space on Your Blog

Author: Luke Bryant

After investing hours of work into your blog, it’s time to reap the rewards. Advertisers love blogs since the content is keyword rich and the general online population trusts bloggers more than ecommerce sites. Why Sell Advertising Space Direct? There are several reasons why selling Advertising Space for Banner Ads is a better alternative to Adsense and ad networks. Here are a few: You don’t lose a chunk of your profits to commissions. Ad networks charge anywhere from 20-50% for placing ads automatically on your web page/s. Since Ad Networks have an oversupply of inventory (Ad Space) to sell, they discount your space to advertisers up to 90% according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. That means less revenue in your pocket. You have complete control over who advertises on your site and when. You can sell your Ad Space based on time and not rely on clicks or impressions to get paid. How do I find Advertisers? Advertisers have learnt that it’s better to place their Banner Ad on a directly relevant website or blog which appeals to their target market. Find websites which come up for keywords your blog ranks highly for. Contact the non-competing websites which you believe would be interested in advertising on your blog. Send them a polite email stating why you believe their advertising on your blog would be beneficial to them. Give them some pricing options together with your website analytics or statistics. You can link to your “advertise here” page if you have one. If not, you should create one. Personalise each email by using the contact’s name or the site’s name. Keep a record of who you’ve contacted in a spreadsheet together with their responses. Should I use an Ad Space Auction? Ad Space Auctions (also known as a Banner Auction) provide an additional means of showcasing the Advertising Space you have up for sale. It’s like selling items on a normal auction website, only you sell Ad Space . You normally have a couple of options for creating the listing including the standard auction, buy-out for a specific price and allowing potential advertisers to make you their best offer. A link to your website on your auction page allows buyers to browse and see what’s on offer. You can also capture a screenshot, upload your site statistics and specify your terms and conditions. The benefit of using an Ad Space Auction is you get additional exposure without giving up direct sales you find yourself. If you have multiple spots to sell, you can either sell your quantities at a specified amount or use the Dutch auction feature to list a series of static banners or multiple rotating spots. How much should I charge for Banner Advertising? Many bloggers and content site owners remain unsure of how much to charge for Ad Space. Overcharging will turn advertisers away whilst undercharging means cutting yourself short. Compare what other blogs are charging in your niche. Take into account their page rank and unique visitor count. You can find this information in on their “advertise” page or request a media kit. You can test the waters by putting your Ad Space up for auction. Of course, you can set a reserve price so your space doesn’t sell for less than you’re willing to accept. Ad Space Pricing Indicators There are a few things to look for when costing your advertising space: Positions above the fold (visible without scrolling) are worth more; Horizontal banners cost more since they’re more readable; Less advertiser competition means more value; Niche content is more valuable to certain advertisers than a general topic website; Traffic levels, particularly unique visitor count. However, this isn’t everything. If your blog is niche, it’s more likely to get the targeted visitors advertisers are looking for. And the most obvious: the bigger the Banner Ad, the more it should cost. Costing Methods for Advertising Space Before placing your available space for sale, consider how you’re going to charge advertisers: Cost Per Click (CPC) – you get paid each time a site visitor clicks on the Banner Ad; Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) – means you sell bundles of 1000 Banner Impressions. This means you must deliver the amount of impressions. Cost Per Action (CPA) – you get paid a commission or flat fee each time your visitors clicks on a Banner Ad and perform some sort of action (like making a purchase, subscribing or registering). This is basically an affiliate program. Cost Per Time – this involves selling Banner Space for a number of days, a week, a month or whatever period you propose. If you’re accepting payment via any method other than time placements, you will need to keep thorough records and provide reporting to your advertisers. Software is available to assist you. Most bloggers don’t offer direct advertising based on some action or event taking place. It makes their income is too dependent on the quality of the advertisement. Many just look to sell time-based advertising. What Conditions Should I Impose? Remember to always specify your requirements and creative specifications, such as: Ad dimensions; Format; Flash requirements; Maximum file size; Animation restrictions (eg: maximum animation time, loop maximum) Appropriateness (eg: no adult content) Selling advertising space yourself is definitely more time consuming. The process has been made simple with the help of Ad Space Auction websites. However, it’s still not a passive option. Just like any other business model, the more work you put in, the higher the rewards are.

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Increase Your Targeted Twitter Following

2009-11-21T17:12:00.000-08:00

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Increase Your Targeted Twitter Following

Author: Terry Green

Increasing your targeted following on Twitter requires a bit of patience and a well thought-out strategy. Twitter, a micro-blogging social networking site, is popular for businesses because of the no-cost, no-frills way the site is set up. Twitter is used by small companies, as well as larger companies like Starbucks, Dell and JetBlue to connect with their customers and clients, advertise new products, monitor their online brands and in general, monetize their businesses. There are four steps to increasing your targeted Twitter following. First, follow people on Twitter who you consider to be your target audience. Second, post relevant information about your brand and news that is related to your brand. Third, never spam your followers with auto-tweets, or post the same URL over and over. Finally, follow smart people who are online marketers or who are leaders in your industry. How to Follow the Right People on Twitter: Before you start following people, make sure your Twitter feed has at least a few interesting posts. Most people on Twitter will not follow you back if your Twitter feed is blank. After you’ve started your micro-blog feed, start following your target audience. There are two ways you can do this. Go to Search.Twitter.com and type in keywords related to your target audience. Let’s say you are selling an iPhone application. Type in keywords like “iPhone,” “bought an iPhone,” “iPhone app,” and other related keywords. Follow these people. If you post interesting, relevant things, there is a good chance they will follow you back. You can also find your target Twitter following by going to Twitter and clicking on the “Find People” option. Type in keywords and any relevant industries and locations to find your followers. Start following these people. Give Your Target Audience Relevant Information: Post interesting news and reviews about your product, but don’t forget to also post related industry news. For instance, if you sell a particular gadget, you can post news about other gadgets. One of the most important thing about gaining a targeted following is to retweet well and retweet often. If you see a relevant post by another Twitterer, retweet them. Many times, these Twitterers will see that you have retweeted them, and will follow you. This gives you access to their followers—just click on the “Followers” tab under these people, and start following. Be generous with your retweets—it’s one of the few tried-and-true ways of gaining a following. Check Search.Twitter.com often. Search for your brand name, for example. Are there happy customers? Follow them and thank them. Do you find angry, disgruntled customers? Follow them, retweet them, and ask them how you can fix the situation. There have been countless examples of people reaching customer service reps on Twitter, and then telling the Internet all about the great service that came from a company they had just recently been bad-mouthing. Never Spam Your Twitter Followers: If you spam your followers, they will unfollow you quickly. Spammy posts include: Posting the same URLs over and over again; only posting product descriptions of your own products; having a Twitter handle that looks like this: MyAwesomeProduct1000 instead of something like this: NameofMyProduct; and asking insincere questions. For example, if you sell cars, it would be insincere to post a question like: What is the best car on the road? Twitter users are very savvy and jaded consumers. They know when a brand is being disingenuous. Follow Smart People to Gain a Smart Following: There are a lot of online marketers who have used Twitter to help their clients monetize their businesses. Twitter marketing gurus like Guy Kawasaki, Dave Peck and Chris Brogan should be on your Twitter list. You might also want to do a search for corporations who are on Twitter because they are the trailblazers and may offer you a great deal of advice in getting a targeted following. Consider following your competition to see what kind of tactics they are using to increase their own targeted Twitter following. Smart online marketers monitor their competition on social networks to see what they’re doing right and doing it better. It’s also easier to see when your competition has failed and how you can avoid that. If your competition rarely posts to Twitter and never responds to negative posts, you can quickly fill the gap for your audience. Patience is Required When Using Twitter to Monetize: Businesses who take to Twitter to market their brand or products should be aware that using Twitter is a long-term strategy. Gaining access to your targeted following will not happen overnight, but if you use the proper Twitter strategies, it will happen. Be very careful with your Twitter following. Don’t sell to them like you would sell to the Average Joe online. Twitterers can sniff out a sales pitch and unfollow the guilty party in the blink of an eye. When you have gained your targeted Twitter followers, market to them gently. Instead of sending out tweets that say, “Buy this cool product now,” consider writing a more subtle tweet like this: “Do you need a product that does XYX? This one does.” Instead of posting “New product has just launched,” consider starting a corporate blog, and then post something like this to Twitter: “New blog post: Why we’re so excited” and then end the Twitter post with the URL to your blog. Always reply to any tweets that people send you. Don’t ignore your Twitter following. If your Twitter following gets too large for you to handle, consider outsourcing some of the work or having your Virtual Assistant take on some of the hours needed to tweet or retweet. However, never have someone tweet for you as if they are you. Twitter is a relationship-building tool, and YOU need to be the one building that relationship. You can always have someone tweet questions to start a conversation, share links to articles or other interesting information, or finding new people to follow, but you should be the one responding and interacting in discussions … not delegating it out to someone else. Be authentic! Twitter is not a one-way marketing tool. It’s an integrated, holistic approach to marketing. That means staying transparent, interacting with the Twitter community and staying interesting. The quickest way to kill off your Twitter following is to be boring.

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In business since 1991, owner, Terry L. Green is a Certified Master Virtual Assistant with more than 30 years of combined administrative support experience in both the corporate world and as the owner of a successful Virtual Assistance practice. Originally an office-based secretarial and resume business serving local clients only in a small, rural village in Central Ohio, Fastype is now a multi-VA practice with a team of qualified associates specializing in supporting professional speakers, consultants, info-marketers and coaches worldwide. Our clients span the globe from across the United States to as far away as New Zealand, Antigua, Singapore and now Sweden! For more information, visit Terry's website at http://www.myfastype.com Subscribe to Speak Up and Make Money and receive 13 speaking tips from the "Best of the Best!"

Wordpress Latest Version 2.9 Features and Release date

2009-11-21T17:10:00.000-08:00

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Wordpress Latest Version 2.9 Features and Release date

Author: Techno Ali

Wordpress Latest Version 2.9 Review Wordpress the Best Content Management System they are going to release the latest version of Wordpress 2.9 Really soon at the end of November. In this Article i will show you describe some Advanced features of Wordpress Latest Version 2.9. 1: Thumbnail images on posts. (No need of any plugin) 3: Wordpress developers are now raising the version of MySQL supported from 4.0 to 4.1.2 in Wordpress 2.9 (some of us are using the latest versions: D) 4: Trash section (A Trash section will be added so your deleted posts and pages will now go into the trash) Cool feature that helps plugin to choose popular comments) 6: Wordpress developers fully focused on the Advance Security Measures in this release. On Macs, it's the Trash. In both cases, the feature exists to help people recover from accidental deletions. We have all had those moments where we nuked something we had no intention of nuking. In WordPress 2.9, everything is recoverable now with a new Trash feature. When you delete a post, page, category, comment, or any bit of content, it is moved to the Trash where you can decide whether to pull it back at a later date. Trash collection is done every 30 days by default, but it is possible to change this by editing your wp-config.php file. Add the following to your config file to change trash collection to every 7 days. There has been a variety of meta tables in WordPress. Meta tables, like usermeta or postmeta, are database tables that contain information about the type of data that is stored in WordPress. Now, there is a comment meta table as well. Though it is unclear how plugin authors will seek to use this table, the fact that it is available is a major deal as it essentially provides meta tables for every piece of content in WordPress now. I am sure that The Latest Version of Wordpress Will Make Wordpress Much Easier and Advance with These Features.

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Make Money Bloging Quickly

2009-11-21T17:07:00.000-08:00

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Make Money Bloging Quickly

Author: donkeymailer

There are essentially two types of business models that entrepreneurs use to make blogging money. This article is to discuss what are the business models in detail. The first and most common way a blog in a non-profit machine is advertising for various companies and brands that want to reach readers on this blog sell to make. Blog deserve the second type of money one that helps improve a single brand image is by them positive associations between the blog and the product in the minds of consumers. Both types of blogs can to earn a lot of money, especially if the creator has a sharp mind for marketing. When blogging advertising is with the aim of selling two basic ways, in recruiting sponsors, the ads on your website want to go there, can do someone else all Beinarbeit or can the work and considers all revenue or visit www.ihre-eigene-blog.com between the first group, many people make blogging money by selling space by Google AdSense program. This program benefits are numerous, because it to begin very little effort on the blogger or Web master pages scheffelt profits ask. However, most people discover that she had hoped less money this method as they would deserve their blog. Selling advertising directly to companies that the banner made or sponsored links on your blog can take quite much time to but it is often quite lucrative. If to many contacts in the industry, which stand on the subject of blogs in connection attempting to go down that route. People who proposals can a strong background in sales and pitching learn a whole lot of money, by you blog for interested companies. The biggest problem with this model is that you build often quite respectable readership before you can attract with advertisers what means to have several months working before you earn can start blogging money. As blogging a lucrative business, many established companies is increasingly consider how they can get into the program. You can a way that companies build on blog movement is with blogs that type a friendly face to their businesses on www.blog log-and-ping.com. Often a company will use an established bloggers a weblog specifically for the customer companies the attractiveness and positive associations create to create brand in the minds of consumers. More than a writer not even of them dreamed of that he or she make money blogging was an enterprise farther and offered a very nice little money for this kind of gig.

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The Man Who Sold His Blog For US $15 Million

2009-11-21T17:03:00.000-08:00

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The Man Who Sold His Blog For US $15 Million

Author: Mujibur Rahman

Johns Wu, a 22 year old entrepreneur from San Marino, CA, USA has created blogging history. He has managed to sell his blog, which he worked on for only two year for a staggering US$ 15 Million . His blog was powered by WordPress, which has become the blogging software choice for many new bloggers. Wu’s blog was a financial blog located at the domain: www.Bankaholic.com . He blogged related to personal finance: credit cards, bank rates, loans… Google trends showed that he was getting approx. 8000 unique visitors to his blog daily. His blog Bankaholics had an Alexa Ranking of 41,904. The Bankaholics blog was managed as a one man operation by Jons Wu. The man revenue stream were from Google Adsense and other finance related affiliate programs. A financial information site called BankRate purchased his blog for a massive US$ 15 Million. BankRate negotiated to pay $12.4 million up front, with the remaining sum to be paid over the next 12 months, based on performance. Johns was offered to stay on and assist with the transition for an unspecified time. This goes to show that finance is a really popular blogging topic. With hardwork and determination most bloggers can start to earn a full-time income from their blogging. You will need to spend time one producing blogs that are of the highest quality. The income generated from your blog will be determined by the quality of traffic to your blog, the number of posts, and subject of the blogs. The other crucial element is the interaction between your visitors. If the visitors to your blog like the content, they will keep on coming back and also bring their friends. As your blog starts to grow it will attract more and more visitors and create a buzz on the internet, this can lead to exponential growth in traffic and revenue for you.

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Mujibur Rahman has created the website: www.EvergrowingIncome.com as a resource for everyone that is interested in creating financial abundance using the internet.