The Mysteries of SEO

EO, or search engine optimization, is the most important element in building a successful website. Most people online have heard the term SEO and have some idea of what is involved yet it remains a mysterious process to many. One of the reasons SEO is so mysterious is that it can be a complicated endeavor and search engines are constantly changing the way they rank sites and the way the recognize the many tools of SEO.

At the forefront of the SEO check and balance system is the leading search engine Google. They have pretty much set the standard for technology in search engine algorithms that can track the relevancy of a website to its content and SEO efforts. Their ranking system remains one of the most popular methods of determining a web site's quality because of their diligent efforts of weeding out the bad apples that have little to offer a consumer other than skilled manipulation and the ability to 'play the system' to their advantage.

Of course taking advantage of the system makes perfect sense from a business standpoint but from the search engine outlook of wanting to provide the best quality sites on their results for the viewer it can become difficult to differentiate the site that is good quality wise from the site that is good because it has a very manipulative operator at the helm.

Because the rules for SEO evolve and change rapidly the mystique of search engine optimization continues to confuse website owners. Many people build their websites thinking the only SEO tool they need is key word density. While key words are an important aspect in SEO they are not the only means to an end, they are simply a part of the puzzle. There is another tried and true method of SEO that is as relevant today as it was at the start of the concept of web 2.0 marketing and that is back linking. While back linking remains one of the most successful ways to get your site to rank high on the search engines it also has undergone some changes making the types of links important so that search engines do not penalize a site for bad incoming links.

The term "back link" refers to an outside link on another site that points to yours. In the past any link from another site would have a positive impact on your site by the search engines. Because there were so many gimmicks developed in the last few years to garner massive back links to websites such as link farms, and irrelevant reciprocal linking Google began to develop a way to weed out links that were purchased, or had little meaning or relevancy.

Even though back linking is used to manipulate search engine popularity there are many very legitimate reasons for using the system of back linking. Finding web sites that have a common interest to your own who are willing to place your link on their site can get you extra exposure. When their visitors come to their site they will see your link and likely visit your site as well.

The fact that onsite links like that have such a perceived relevance to the visitor makes them a valuable marketing tool, but that perception of quality is also why Google works so hard to be sure they are real quality links. You will get higher ranking on a search engine for a number of truly appropriate back linking partnerships however if the sites linking to you do not share any common information or products Google will penalize you for the link. There are new programs in the works with Google where your site could even be devalued if the site that links to you is determined to be bad quality so it is important who you choose to link to, and also who links to you.

In the past many web site owners would open up multiple websites with the sole purpose of promoting one principle site. They would use the extra websites as a means of placing back links to the main site. Google now watches for sites that are created with the same IP address. Creating a large number of websites on the same IP address and putting back links on them to quickly develop a number of links is known as link bombing. That is not to say that you cannot ever link to your own website from a site you own. If there is a reason to show your visitors some additional information a few well placed back links are fine. It is when there are many links from each site all pointing to a single 'main' site that the search engines look at them suspiciously.

The system Google is working hard to put in place to discount a link from a bad site is why it is very important to know who is linking to you and if their site stacks up to your standards. It is no longer true that all inbound links to your site are good links. There are very good tools available online for free that can show you who is linking to you. If you find a site that is linking to you that you feel is questionable in terms of how they relate to your website either in information or product you should contact the webmaster of the site and demand that they remove the link to your website to avoid being penalized by the search engines.

Probably the best way to obtain a back link to your site is through anchor text. That is when you have another website with content that is relevant to your own (relevancy is ALWAYS important) including your site in the actual content of their site with a hyperlink inside the text. These back links are valued much higher than a simple sidebar link as long as they appear in the text in a way that has a fluid and meaningful association with the content of the article. There are several ways to get such back links.

Providing articles to content sites with your link built into the article is one method. If you write very compelling information on your website is another as someone else with a similar site may wish to point it out on their own. You may not even realize they are doing it unless they tell you about it. This is one of the main reasons it is important to keep an eye on who is back linking to you. While the majority of those types of links are wonderful and you should thank the site owner for their inclusion, if you feel the site that is linking to you does not meet your standards, have similar information, or the content is not relevant to your site you should definitely ask them to remove your link.

Back linking is an extremely important aspect of SEO development and it is something you need to understand well in order to implement and control it properly. There are many secrets and mysteries in the SEO world that diligent study can clear up. Keeping your website in good standing with the search engines and popular with your visitors is the best way to ensure a vital and profitable future for your business online.

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SEO Work For You

Article number:- 9

As SEO continues to be concern number one for all website owners, more and more individuals are turning to outsourcing companies to work on their website's SEO and pagerank. In dealing with these companies, many people are still confused about what it is exactly they must do. Sometimes the answers to your questions conflict with other SEO firms or what you read in an article last month, or what some friend's little brother did on his site that made him rich overnight (don't laugh, I have heard those stories many times.)

I'm here to hopefully answer SEO outsource questions and help you get your site pulling in the traffic you'd like to see. Remember, traffic is the lifeblood of your website, and SEO is one of the best traffic generation techniques you can employ. Let's get to work.

There is a study recently completed on the results of companies outsourcing SEO (Sept. 2005, Jupiter). The results may appear shocking, but it is something I see every day in this business.

The study showed that 64% of companies that chose to outsource their SEO work did NOT follow the instructions their SEO firm laid out for them! Let me repeat- they did not follow instructions! Even though this company recognized the importance of traffic (good), researched and selected an SEO firm (better), and laid down the cash (lots of it for a professional and effective outfit, even better), their not following directions let it all fall apart!

Imagine. If 64% of those who contracted SEO work don't get it, how easy would it be for you to get ahead and optimize your website- the more attention you pay to detail, the more SEO, the more SEO, the more traffic you get, and the more traffic, the happier you are, invariably.

The more SEO changes, the more its principles stay the same. The SEO winners are not those individuals who chase each new trend. The winners are those who commit to their SEO firm and treat their business with the seriousness success commands.

So, now that you have an SEO firm working your website into search engine page-ranking super-being, your job is to sit back, implement the pertinent adjustments, and wait for the results. Carefully shaping the firm's suggestions into the working fiber of your website is critical, as these changes are those that will drive your site up. Forget Desperate Housewives- try desperate SEO firms. With 64% of clients NOT making the moves necessary for success, no wonder there are rumors of astounding failure with SEO firms out there.

Now that you are part of the 36% that takes action, its time to treat your website with the seriousness and commitment it deserves. Then, get to work with the right SEO company to open the floodgates of traffic SEO can deliver. Internet marketing success is simple, not easy, and its your choice.

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The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising

Updated List Of The Best Credit Card Cash Back Rewards For Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter

As a personal finance blogger and a dot com mogul-super affiliate tycoon wannabe (I’m joking), I regularly spend sums of money on domain name registrations, web hosting services, and home office computer supplies. However, the bulk of my tax deductible business expenses consist of expenditures for online advertising through top search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. While compared to the big boys (and girls) my advertising budget is comparatively puny, I still seek to maximize my money however I can, whether that means utilizing free promotional coupons for extra savings and free online advertising, or taking advantage of credit card offers to earn cashback rebates on Google Adword purchases.

Online Advertising Through Pay Per Click Works, But It Can Get Expensive Depending On Subject Niche

Those who are familiar with online advertising know that there are a variety of ways and methods to get your website brand or blog name into the search engines and thus into the public eye for maximum traffic. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the methods are created equal. Currently the most popular search engine with the most capability to leverage the most search traffic by far is run by Google. But while the Google Adword program’s certainly the most dominant player in the online marketing world, there are also other lesser options worth mentioning - most notably Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft’s MSN AdCenter. Neither Yahoo Search nor MSN AdCenter are likely to topple the 800 pound gorilla of Google Adwords anytime soon, but the smaller search sites still own a small, albeit dwindling piece of the search engine pie.

For those who spend money on internet advertising through Google, Yahoo, or MSN, probably the bulk is spent on paid text link advertising or pay per click (PPC) promotional campaigns. Both paid text links and PPC advertising are used by many bloggers and website promoters to generate traffic needed to convert organic search traffic into profitable affiliate sales. Personally, I highly advise against engaging in buying or selling paid text links, and refuse to engage in paid text link buying or selling myself. The frowned upon practice is a form of marketing suicide in my opinion, and is the number one way to incur the wrath of Google, which sees the buying and selling of paid backlinks as a form of guerrilla attack on the integrity of the Google search engine algorithm.

In contrast, pay per click advertising and the purchasing of approved advertisement links through Google, Yahoo, or MSN’s network of publisher banners and ads are proven and permitted ways to drive website traffic. However, as anyone who engages in pay per click advertising or other affiliate marketing means through Google Adsense or Yahoo Ads knows, the cost to promote a successful PPC ad campaign isn’t cheap. While newbies to internet advertising are unlikely to spend much money initially (a few hundred dollars a month at most), larger scale promoters frequently spend upwards of hundreds to thousands, or even hundred thousands, of dollars on monthly pay per click advertising alone.

Use Credit Card Rewards To Save Money On Online Business and Advertising Expenses (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN AdCenter)

Smart business types should always try to find ways to minimize business expenses and utilize as many discounts and promotional offers as possible to net the greatest overall profit. One of the best ways for bloggers and affiliate marketers to save money in this area is to maximize and strategize their use of credit cards rewards. Presuming you are savvy and responsible with your usage of credit, and maintain a respectable FICO credit score to boot, reward credit cards are essential ways for online entrepreneurs and advertisers to maximize their small business spending. Surprised that there are credit card reward programs dedicated and suited for web based businesses and online marketers? Don’t be! While Yahoo and Google credit card advertising rewards are not as well known as say, credit card discount programs for groceries and gas, the area is a steadily growing (albeit not fully tapped) segment of the credit card rewards market. Currently, most of the best cash back credit card rewards for bloggers, webmasters, and internet marketers are not widely advertised, and to get the details requires some digging, which I’ve done below.

For the tax minded business folks who wonder if there is an income tax on credit card rewards or aren’t sure whether one is obligated to report all cash back rewards and point rebates earned through the use of credit cards, rest assured - there is no such tax. Credit card rewards earned by consumers and businesses are viewed as purchase incentives by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the nature of discounts and coupons, not subject to personal income tax liability. So don’t miss out on the cash back savings and discount potential of specialized credit card incentive programs designed to help you finance and pay for your online advertising and promotional efforts.

1) Google Adword and Adsense Pay Per Click Advertising - Get Up To 5% Cash Back With Reward Credit Cards

Until the day Google announces the release of its long awaited Google credit card and starts up its own Google credit card rewards program, the following card offers are your best bet when it comes to earning cashback for money spent on Google advertising. Personally, I can’t wait for Google to come out with its own Google credit card and would be the first to camp out in line for something like that - I’m quite the Google fan. Just the thought of earning Google rebate rewards on a percentage of all Adwords expenditures and the ability to redeem points for either cash or Google branded products like T shirts, mouse pads, and even portable Google fridges would be quite lovely. I used to carry around a Yahoo credit card back when Yahoo offered its own card program. When they eventually discontinued the Yahoo credit card rewards program, I was sad to see it go. It was pretty neat being able to redeem points for cool Yahoo T-shirts and other merchandise - techie stuff you couldn’t get anywhere else.

In the meantime, for those of you who spend a lot of money or even just a little bit on Google Adwords and Google Adsense advertising, here are the best credit cards cards to help you save money and get cash back rewards on your PPC advertising efforts. The rewards you earn can be used for whatever you wish, including plowing them back into more PPC marketing. While Google does not currently have any special deals with any particular credit card issuer to offer Google discounts, there are a few specially suited cards for such purposes.

1. Advanta Platinum BusinessCard For Online Marketers - Also known as the Advanta Platinum Business Card With Customized Cash Back Options, this card offers cardholders the ability to earn as high as 5% cash back on all online marketing expenditures. It’s probably the best overall reward credit card for new bloggers and affiliate marketers who are just getting into the PPC advertising scene. The expenditures that are covered include Google Adwords, Yahoo, MSN Search, and eBay fees. The Advanta rewards program also covers office expenses as well. The high 5% rebate rate is only provided for the first $1,500 of qualified expenditures, and after that it’s a tiered 1% cashback on everything spent.
2. Advanta Kiva Business Card - With the Kiva business credit card offer, online marketers get to earn up to 5% cashback on money spent on online advertising services like Google Adwords or Yahoo Search. There are no restrictions as to which affiliate or ad network must be used. The card also earns up to 5% cashback for business office related expenses like gas, computers, utilities, and even charitable contributions. There is also a nice 0% balance transfer offer for 15 months.
3. American Express Plum Card - With the highly advertised Plum Card from American Express Open (the Plum card yogurt commercial is everywhere on TV these days), you get an astounding 2% cashback rewards on everything purchased with the card if you pay within 10 days of your billing cycle. The catch is you’ll need to spend above $5,000 a month with your Plum credit card. Anything less and you’ll only earn 1% cashback. Of course, the card was designed for big time spenders and small businesses with high expenses. If you spend a lot of money on Google Adwords or other forms of advertising, you may want to think about the Amex Plum card. There is a hefty $185 annual fee that’s waived for the first year, but it’s easily worth it if your business spends a lot of money on online advertising or other business expenses.
4. Chase Business Cash Rewards Card - With the Chase Business Cash Rewards offer, online entrepreneurs and small business owners can earn up to a tiered 5% cashback on all purchases with no merchant or category restrictions. Your rewards earning potential is unlimited and there is no restriction as to how much you can earn. Your cash back percentage rate rises and falls depending on how much you spend per month. For online marketers who expect to spend more than $2,000 a month on Google Adwords (that’s when the high 5% kicks in), this is a nice card to have.
5. Fidelity Rewards Signature Card - While the card requires a Fidelity Investment broker account to maximize rewards earning potential, if you’ve got one or are willing to sign up for one, you can earn 1.5% cash back on all your online advertising efforts. Actually, coupled with a Fidelity account, the card allows you to earn an effective 1.5% cashback on all products and services you purchase with the card, with no category or store limitation. Most comparable card programs only offer 1% back for general purchases so if you are a major spender, this is an ideal and recommended card to get. The Fidelity Signature is one of the reward cards I use on a regular basis.

2) Yahoo Search Marketing - Get 5% or More CashBack Savings Using American Express Business Credit Cards

Currently, savvy online entrepreneurs have the ability to take advantage of American Express’ Open Network Business credit cards to net themselves more than 5% cash back rewards when they spend money on Yahoo Search Marketing services. Through a special partnership between Amex and Yahoo announced not too long ago, American Express business credit card users will now get to enjoy a 5% discount on all their Yahoo based advertising and web promotional expenditures simply by using their Amex business cards. This not only includes pay per click advertising using Yahoo’s Search Marketing, but also includes Yahoo publisher services ranging from web site hosting, e-commerce, to domain name registration.

While Yahoo is not the most popular or even a serious contender in second place, its PPC advertising fees are substantially lower than that charged by more popular services like Google Adwords where greater bidding competition among advertisers drives up promotion costs - making Yahoo a cheaper, but still viable alternative. Besides, it’s good to diversify one’s advertisement methods. One can even take credit card rewards one step further. Currently, there are certain select Amex business cards that offer even more lucrative rebate rewards on top of the existing 5% discount for Yahoo services. All of the following American Express Open business credit card offers below offer additional cumulative rewards on top of the 5% discount on Yahoo Search Marketing:

1. Blue Cash For Business Amex Card - With this high earning business credit card offer, you have the potential to earn up to a tiered 5% cash back2.5% cash back rewards rate. The special purchase categories include gas stations, drug stores, and supermarkets. In addition, Amex business cardholders also get to enjoy the usual Amex Open network savings on free hotel stays, car rentals, and airline travel. rebate on eligible special category purchases. For everything else, including PPC advertising expenses, you get a tiered
2. American Express Business Gold Rewards - This popular premium small business card with no preset spending limit can help you save up to 25% off your business expenses. There is an unlimited rewards earning potential on purchases and your Membership Rewards never expire.
3. American Express Platinum Business Card - This business card from Amex is a popular choice to earn purchase rebates redeemable for retail, entertainment, and dining rewards. There is no annual fee and there is no limit to the number of points you can earn.
4. American Express Simply Cash For Business - You can use the card to earn 5% cashback on wireless services and home office supplies (like laptops and office gadgets). You also get 3% cashback on gas and 1% for everything else. There is no annual fee and no rewards limit.

3) MSN AdCenter - Get 3% Cash Back Rewards By Using Mastercard Business Credit Cards

Currently, Microsoft’s MSN AdCenter has a partnership with Mastercard’s network of business credit cards to offer MSN AdCenter advertisers 3% cash back rewards on money spent. While American Express is the card of choice for most business owners, the MasterCard partnership with MSN AdCenter makes Mastercard sort of a must have for heavy or even mild users of MSN’s advertising network.

To be eligible for the 3% cash back savings, Mastercard business credit card holders need to register and enroll their cards into the Master Card Easy SavingsEasy Savings FAQ if you need more info about the program. Keep in mind, along with the 3% rewards you can earn on all MSN AdCenter expenditures, you still get to earn the usual credit card rewards (if offered) on top of that. This has the potential to effectively boost your total reward earning percentage way past 3%. Here’s a list of the best Mastercard business credit cards for MSN Ad Center affiliate marketers and pay per click advertisers: Network. While fairly straightforward, you can review the MasterCard

1. Advanta Platinum Business Customized Rewards Mastercard - This business credit card option by Mastercard is your best bet when it comes to maximizing your MSN AdCenter savings and online advertising spending in general. Along with the ability to earn 3% reward savings on all MSN AdCenter expenditures, you also get to earn an extra 5% cash back rate (with purchase limits) on top of the 3% for money spent on fees with online advertisers and merchant sites like Google Adwords, Yahoo, and even eBay. You also get cashback rewards for money spent on utilities and telecommunications, not to mention additional business savings for computer electronics and related office supplies as well.
2. Chase Business Rebate Mastercard - Earn up to 3% cash back on office supplies, restaurant dining, gas, hardware, and home improvement expenditures. Currently there is also a long 15 month 0% APR balance transfer promotional period as well.

-SearchSpiderZ

Make Money Online, Web Traffic, SEO Articles

The Unexpected Benefit of Taking Things Personally

I’m in the middle of a few different copywriting projects right now, and if you’ve ever juggled multiple projects (which I’m sure most of you have) you know that there is a fine line between working quickly while maintaining a standard of quality.

I was chatting with my friend Stuart Tan the other day about copywriting, marketing, and Web 2.0 (what else, right?). Stuart is a phenomenally successful business owner who runs an NLP and Success Training company out of Singapore.

Many of his friends and clients have dubbed him “Superman” because of his “go-go-go” attitude and his ability to do great amounts of work in a fraction of the time it takes most people to do it in.

I met Stuart personally at JV Alert Live in Philadelphia a few months ago, and truly, he was engaging in some Superman-ish behavior.

Never mind the jet lag from the time difference in Singapore, never mind the 14 hour plane flight, Stuart was the first one up and the last one to leave the networking functions in the wee hours of the morning.

He personally outlined an astonishingly simple but insightful business plan for me over a few glasses of wine, and I was scribbling notes the whole time on a bar napkin.

Regardless… he’s a wise dude, and when he talks, people listen.

While talking to him he asked me, “James, how long does it take you to finish a long copy sales letter?”

I asked him, “Research included?”

“Yes,” he replied.

“Mmm… if it’s in a niche I already know about, I’d say about a week or so? If I’m totally unfamiliar I’d need a few more days to crank out a 12 - 16 pager” I told him.

“I write 30 page sales letters in 4 hours,” Stuart told me.

I asked him how this was possible — and in reply, he told me one of the biggest secrets he uses to be able to finish such a large amount of work in such a short period of time.

He takes every letter ‘personally’.

Stay with me for a moment because this is interesting.

He gets all of the information he needs to write the letter, but right before he sits down at the computer, Stuart actually imagines a close friend or family member about to buy a similar product or service — but that the product is absolutely horrible.

The friend or family member would be making a terrible mistake and would be wasting a lot of money by purchasing this product.

Stuart imagines this person’s pain and anguish and he crafts his sales message around why HIS PARTICULAR product or service is going to create such a huge benefit in his friend or family member’s life.

He takes it personally.

By the time he’s done thinking about this, he’s so worked up that the words just flow from his mind and onto the screen.

And he finishes 30 page letters in 4 hours.

Not only does this get him “in state” it does the job of helping Stuart dimensionalize the prospect, and speak to this person one on one, rather than in general, muddled language.

All in all I think it’s a brilliant technique.

And it’s one I’ve started using.

I’ll report on results in a future post.

In the meantime why don’t you start ‘taking things personally’? — you might find yourself being more productive as a result.

Hope this helps.

104 Ways To Get Backlinks:

1. Create viral linkbait.
2. Write and give away a free ebook.
3. Write a pillar (authority) article.
4. Create a numbers list (10 ways to xxx, 20 different xxxx).
5. Hold a contest, and require that they link back to you for an entry.
6. Send off interview templates to big bloggers, and post up completed interviews.
7. Create a Wordpress plugin.
8. Design a hot Wordpress theme, and distribute it for free, requiring they keep your link in the footer.
9. Create controversy (be careful and don’t get into something you can’t handle)
10. Find a scammer/shady website or blogger, and make the world known about it.
11. Submit a press release about your new product or news.
12. Submit your site to free directories (careful, only SEO friendly ones)
13. Submit your site to paid directories (dmoz(kidding!), yahoo, alive)
14. Submit articles to article directories.
15. Submit posts to blog carnivals.
16. Email a webmaster, and ask for a link.
17. Offer to buy a one way link from another relevant website (keep this on the DL)
18. Send unsolicited, yet awesome articles to other bloggers to reference or post
19. Let your networked friends know that you’ll do reviews and testimonials.
20. Buy reviews on pay-per-post or a similar service.
21. Get on the Digg front page (and watch your server melt).
22. Exchange Stumbles on popular webmaster forums.
23. Submit to Del.icio.us
24. Answer a question on Yahoo Answers and reference your site.
25. Pick a hot ebook or software program and review it for free.
26. If you get paid for a review – make it a great one, and you’ll get a link back.
27. Don’t be afraid to link out – share the link love (just don’t get too spammy)
28. Be the first to report breaking news (hard, but very effective)
29. Review a semi-popular tech gadget.
30. Review stuff on Amazon, and put your link in your profile
31. Create a Linked-In page, and make sure to put your link on it.
32. Speaking of that, do the same for Facebook, Myspace, and others..
33. Hire good writers to pump out quality content.
34. Join all applicable Chamber of Commerce’s’ in your area for free links
35. Join the BBB (Better Business Bureau) for a free link.
36. Post a bulletin in your Myspace account about your new site.
37. Throw a relevant link in a Craigslist ad.
38. Create your own SEO tool.
39. Buy TV air time on a small station flashing your URL.
40. Buy Radio time for a short commercial spamming your URL.
41. Put bumper stickers on your car with your link on it.
42. Look for older, higher PR sites with Guestbooks, and sign them! Easy links.
43. Comment on Do-Follow blogs (meaning the link in your comment will be followed by a spider)
44. Post your link in forums, and your forum signature.
45. Don’t forget to link from some of your older, more established sites.
46. Buy post level links from other bloggers/webmasters. (usually cheap)
47. Don’t be afraid to ask for links, you just never know!
48. Do pro-bono work for a non-profit, and they may link to you.
49. Offer to be a guest blogger or regular contributor on a bigger blog.
50. Apply to about.com for a topic that you can write about.
51. Sell items on ebay and agree to donate proceeds to charity – they will link to you.
52. Hire someone from a webmaster forum to submit links for you.
53. Trade articles with industry related webmasters
54. Rewrite old content they may have been buried to fast…breath new life.
55. Find out about getting a link on your local libraries website.
56. Launch an affiliate program for your site, ebook, or product.
57. Technorati tag all of your posts for good Technorati exposure.
58. Take advantage of “old world media” (newspapers, magazines)
59. Rent links from Text-Link-Ads or similar service (careful with this one!)
60. If you have the ability, create a Firefox extension and release it.
61. Answer questions on Google Groups and link if necessary.
62. Call in to a radio show and shamelessly plug your site!
63. A good PPC campaign can draw exposure which could = links.
64. Head over to the slums (chat rooms) and mention your site if appropriate.
65. Create a controversial political cartoon and get it some attention.
66. Most local Fox sites have a blogging community you can tap into.
67. Hire someone to do everything in this list. Outsourcing is cheap and fun.
68. Get business cards, and distribute the hell out of them for exposure.
69. Drop your link on Xbox live.
70. Mention your link when you’re playing online PC games.
71. Donate a larger sum of money to a small charity in exchange for a link.
72. If you’re in school, put your link on your college website (even sneak it in for a free .edu backlink – lol)
73. If you have family friendly content, get a link from your Church’s website.
74. Set up a Squidoo lens with good content, and link to your site from it.
75. Sponsor an event or a big contest – trust me, lots of link love there.
76. Enter all the group writing projects you can find – good links.
77. Start a community helpful website, and get on the local news – they love it.
78. Submit to RSS feed sites – hopefully they’ll link back.
79. Make sure to take advantage of trackbacks when linking out to other blogs.
80. Set up an award system on your site, and have readers vote on best site.
81. Speaking of that, enter all the award sites you can.
82. Make a super crazy viral type video, and get it on Youtube.
83. Start a podcasting series, and build an audience, they’ll link to you.
84. Write a heavily opinionated piece to get people talking.
85. Retain a real linkbaiting service. (There are a few out there, but $$$)
86. Hire an actual real life publicist for your site (if you can justify it)
87. Help with an up and coming web 2.0 project for more exposure.
88. Start a content writing service website, and have clients link to you for a discount.
89. Crack the top 100 in Technorati, or create the largest MyBlogLog community.
90. Go old school and trade links with other relevant sites.
91. Check who links to your competitors, and get links from them!
92. Provide a sexy “link to me” button or banner, and people will use it, for real.
93. Create a good Facebook app, and if it’s really good, the links will pour in.
94. Review bands, local restaurants, and small shops and get links on their sites in return for the exposure.
95. Speaking of that, sponsor a hot local band’s show one night with big flashy banners with your link on it (in the background)
96. When Hannah Montana comes to town, buy up some tickets, offer them on your site as prizes. Local news stations and papers will eat it up alive.
97. Sue Yahoo, Google, or whoever, and you’ll get plenty of publicity – lol
98. Answer all of your emails promptly and professionally. People love that, and will link to you and let everyone know how swell you are.
99. Create a thorough walk through on a game or even an electronic device. People love that stuff!
100. Network with like-minded individuals offline. Talk to them about tossing your link up on their site.
101. Write about the hottest celebrities, and make it unique. People love Hollywood.
102. Create your own Wiki page (it’s nofollow, but could lead to natural links)
103. Create your own training program for your field of interest.
104. Offer an on-page language translator to reach out to other countries, which can lead to new links

-SearchSpiderZ

Increase Online Traffic Using The Best Techniques

Article Number:- 7

Starting a website is not the start of a business. You need to identify your clientele and welcome them to view your products and that is when you need to increase online traffic. And it is only by increasing traffic to your site that you can attract customers to buy your products.

There are many available ways to augment the traffic to your website, but I can't talk about all of them in this article. You can find more in Google Snatch, a quite interesting internet marketing book.

Formulating your site is probably the first thing that needs to be done. It has to be attractive, precise and credible. Words and beautiful graphics are indispensable. When you have a product you have to sell it. You cannot be waiting for potential customers to knock at your door. Select some prominent and catchy keywords or more appropriately small phrases to let your potential clients know about the specialty of your site. Using your keyword or phrase again and again in your site will increase the chance of gaining popularity in the web world.

Once your website is functional, it needs to be checked for its potentiality. Check how many clicks it takes to reach the site. Ideally it should not take more than three clicks. Your website must be designed in such a way, that both an experienced web traveler and even a novice web user must feel comfortable to navigate with ease within the site and use it.

Another solution to increase online traffic is to 'buy' traffic. The site can be registered with the popular search engines that direct traffic to the sites. Also the site can be linked to similar and popular well charted sites which can increase online traffic. Internet traffic can also be bought through pay-per-click search engines, however the down side is payment.

These search engines allow you to select the keywords and bid for the top position. When you bid on targeted keywords, you get instant traffic with pay-per-click search engines. If possible, bid to appear on the top three listings. This will reach eighty per cent of the online users.

Web users are usually very pressed for time and that factor has to be taken into consideration. When there is a dense population it is the well seen, prominent ones that catch the eye. And so with the online web traffic too, with thousands of competitive sites vying for attention, the top ones get the chunk of attention. For this the first few sites of the popular search engines carry away the most and score over others.

Professional agencies are available that give tips to make the site look smart. Including interactive materials with rewards and competitions are likely to gain an upper hand.

In addition to increasing the friendliness of your site, in this competitive world advertising is another important investment that could be done. In this fast changing time keeping the site updated needs to be taken care of regularly. A little look into these details and you are sure to increase online traffic.

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The Best Traffic Generation

Although search engines have been around since the beginning of the Web, many businesses (large and small) are just now waking up to the gigantic benefit search engines provide. What other medium gives you - at absolutely no cost whatsoever - a way to drive unlimited traffic to your site? None. Thats why, once people understand search engine optimization (SEO), they get hooked!

I want to give you some basics to follow in order to help get your site ranked at the top of popular search engines like Yahoo! and Google. I also want to provide you with some exceptional resources so you can further your SEO education in the future.

What Is Search Engine Optimization?

SEO is the process of creating a Web site that fosters the design, coding, copy, and link-building elements search engines most like to see. Through the process of SEO, you can develop a site (or alter an existing site) so that the engines will move you up to the top of the search results. That means people who are actually looking to find what you have to sell will click to your site before your competitions.

How Does SEO Work?

There are three fundamental parts to the SEO equation: coding, copywriting, and link popularity.

Coding is the manipulation of your HTML code so that it is clean, uncluttered, positioned correctly, and easily accessible to the search engine spiders and bots. You want to be sure the most important information to the spiders is located up top where they can quickly and easily find it. You also want to ensure that java scripts and other such coding are moved out of the spiders way.

Copywriting relates to the text on your site. Search engine copywriting pertains to being able to write in such a way that you include your primary keyphrases in strategic places so that you get the most "points" from the engines.

Link popularity deals with how many sites have links that point back to your site (and vice versa). The theory is, that if others think highly enough of your site to link to it, your site must be of good quality.

When you have a good combination of all three primary elements, you stand a much better chance of ranking high with the engines.

Doesnt SEO Depend On META Tags?

It used to... a long, LONG time ago. When the Net was first founded, just about all you had to do to get high rankings was to shove a bunch of keyphrases into your keyword tag. Now, however, the engines are smarter. They pay no attention to the keyword tags and very little attention to the description tag. The only tag that carries much weight anymore is the title tag. It is extremely important.

Isnt SEO Copywriting Just Using Keyphrases As Many Times As You Can?

No! Not only does that put you at risk of spamming the search engines, it makes your copy sound horrible to your human site visitors. What good are high search engine rankings if your copy doesnt convert those visitors into paying customers?

You need to find creative and strategic places to use keyphrases so that you maintain the balance between natural language and keyphrase use.

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An experienced Internet Marketer

Article Number:-5

If you are an experienced Internet Marketer, chances are that you would have used or heard about Brad Callen's SEO Elite software. It's an excellent SEO link building tool to boost your home business ideas to help you achieve high search engine ranking quickly and easily. I have yet to buy this product mainly because it's pretty expensive and I wanted to look for an alternative software which is equally good but more affordable. I came across a free SEO tool, which does almost everything that SEO Elite does and the best part of it is that it is free! The software is called Webceo (www.webceo dot com)

This SEO tool helps you find keywords, find your link partners, optimize your pages, manage PPC campaigns, shows your link popularity and gets you informative traffic reports. That's quite a lot for something that you get free, don't you think?

I found this free SEO tool easy to install even with my old computer and I was able to start using the seo software after about 30 minutes as the software download does take a bit of time. The first thing that quite impressed me was the voice-simulated tutorials made available to you in learning the various topics provided as training. I did find myself replaying some parts of them until I really understood each topic. (thanks to the sweet sounding female voice doing the on-screen training)

Although I don't own SEO Elite, I have read from people who have used it for link building that it actually does everything SEO Elite does and a couple more and it doesn't cost a thing. One criticism some of them have is that it is not as user friendly as Brad's software. Unfortunately I am not able to make this comparison and to me this free SEO tool is simply amazing. I would think that a little unfriendliness in the product is acceptable to me since it is free and serves my basic SEO requirements for my home business ideas anyway. I believe that products given away free are not necessarily bad or of lower quality. Giving away something free is often the way that people sell a product with an upgradeable program as in this case. The business owner or product creator uses this free SEO tool as a marketing investment to generate more sales on other core products and services.

To give you a better understanding of what you can expect from this free SEO tool, here is a short summary of some of the main features of this SEO software:

1. Find Your Niche

Find Keywords: It helps you do niche keyword research and you can build a list of the most relevant and effective keywords in order to optimize your home business site.

Optimize pages: Tells you the changes you should make to your pages to help your home business site rank among the top 10 listings in the search engines.

2. Promote Your Site:

Submit URL Get registered with the best search engines and directories. But my advice and that of many other SEO experts on this is it is not recommended to submit your URL to search engines. Instead, since your site is new, it is recommended to obtain some back links from relevant theme sites and do lots of blog comments. This should help to get your new site indexed much faster by the search engines.

Find Link Partners Find your potential link partners. This free SEO tool has a feature, which allows you to select your targeted keywords that you are presently ranking. Evaluate those websites with similar theme with their page ranks listed for you. You can now start to manage correspondence with the site owners to obtain their links. A suggested text is also provided for your email communication with your future partners.

Manage PPC Campaigns Lets you take full control of your paid search engines. New account registration with the search engines. Add datasets for your accounts and lets you manage your PPC accounts very easily.

3. Analyze Your Home Business Ideas Website

Check Ranking Show your current search result positions of your website for the targeted keywords in the search engines. You can use this feature to monitor how your Home Business Ideas site progresses over time.

Analyze Link Popularity Tells you the number of links to your Home Business Ideas site found by the search engines. The free SEO tool shows you who link to you but more importantly who your competitors are. Take full advantage of this important information on hand to increase your link popularity.

Traffic Reports Provides information about your visitors and shows you how profitable your site is. Discover which ad campaigns are doing well.

4. Maintain Your Site

Control Site Quality

Check your Home Business Ideas website for all types of errors and correct them - missing ALT attributes, broken links etc

5. Get This Free SEO Tool Although I have just started using this software and therefore not used all the features the results look real promising and I found it easy to use too. I think it's a great link building tool to have if you want an excellent free SEO tool for link management for your home business. As for me I can say I have found an alternative to SEO Elite, to boost my home business ideas. And it's free!

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You should Clear Your Doubt About Search Engine Optimization

Most of the people are unaware of the fact what does Search Engine Optimization means? Search Engine Optimization is not so popular like any other Computer software or hardware related subjects or servicesSo what does search engine optimization or better know as SEO means? SEO or search engine optimization is the technique by which it guides the development and redevelopment of a website.

It also help you in getting large number of visitors by getting good search engine rank on the top search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN for targeted keywords or key phrases. More you improve search engine rank better is the chance of getting large number of visitors. Basically Search Engine optimization is required for making people who are using internet aware of your website. In short you can say that search engine optimization shows the way for better exposure of your site in the internet.

Naturally large number of visitors will visit your site and thus you can gain money from your site. In search engine point of view this visitors are known as traffics. So we can say that every site needs optimization for better traffic. After on page optimization the website take some time to get into top 10 in the search engine ranking by the targeted keywords through off page optimization.

Time varies from 1 month to 6 months. It depend on how competitive the keyword is and how much effort you are putting on optimizing the site. Since Google is the most popular search engine so it takes more time to spider up the websites. However no SEO companies will guarantee you that your site will rank in Top 10 by such and such months. Because the ranking totally depends on the competitive keywords and also the algorithm of the search engines. This algorithm changes every now and then so naturally sometimes it takes time to get rank in different search engines.

Basically the ranking of the keyword for a site depends on the following factors: -

1. Competitive keywords. If the keywords are competitive then it takes sometime to get good ranking in the search engines.

2. Quality of the content of the site and how tactfully the keywords are used in the content.

3. Website design should be as simple possible. It will help the search engine to crawl easily.

4. The presence if the site on the web.

5. Number of inbound links of the site.

6. Local Directory submission.

This will help you to catch local visitors and will also make one type of advertisement. Now many people ask whether local companies are good for SEO. According to me you should always choose local companies than outsourcing your work to some other companies of different states or countries. Local SEO companies can be easily deal with than the other state companies.

This is because local companies are cheap and more important is you can vigilance your work progress by going to their company physically. So for example if your company is located in Florida then for optimizing your company website always choose Florida SEO companies.

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-SearchSpiderZ

Search Engine Optimization is solution

Article Number :- 4

Are you wondering why your website is not attracting the abundance of new customers you expect? Looking at your current positioning in Search Engine results and your current SEO, Search Engine Optimization may provide you with the answer. Most people searching on the internet will use one of the major Search Engines with most not looking past the first couple of pages for information on a product or service they are looking for. So ensuring your website has a good search engine listing will increase the amount of traffic to your site increasing your customer base.

Having a beautifully designed website is not enough in today's highly competitive market of Website Marketing and SEO, Search Engine Optimizations is crucial for ensuring that your website is highly ranked in relevant search results. Optimising your site around relevant key phrases will help your site's organic Search Engine listings.

They are two ways in which you can increase your search engine listings the most familiar of the two is pay per click these are the sponsored links that appear at the top and to the right of the Search Engine results. Pay per click advertising is set up with the Search Engine providers where you only pay when a user clicks on your sponsored link to visit your site. As an advertiser you bid on the key phrase you have decided to market, the amount you bid can vary considerable depending on the popularity of the key phrase costing as much as £25 per click, so managing these campaigns needs careful planning. Then when a user types in a matched phrase your ad will be displayed in the position depending on the relevance of your ad and the amount you have bid.

The second option is to improve your organic listing through SEO, Search Engine Optimization and there are now companies that specialize in this service. These companies have the relevant background and knowledge to optimize your site to enable the search engine spiders to read and index your site more effectively. An experience company implementing SEO will first research your market area and current marketing strategy to decide in the best key phrases to use and will then apply changes to your website content that will increase your search engine positioning. Other more advanced online and off line techniques can be applied and your SEO provider should be able to recommend these to you if they are necessary.

There are no guarantees that any of the techniques used will get you a page 1 positioning as the search engines can change their algorithms and the more competitive the arena is for the phrase being marketed the harder it is to get a high ranking. Beware of companies that offer this to you as they are either making false promises or implementing black hat techniques.

With most people now using the internet when purchasing goods or services having good SEO, Search Engine Optimization implemented on your site can be one of your most cost effective valuable marketing tools. Careful consideration should be taken when choosing an SEO company that can implement good onsite changes supported with relevant off site work. This will remove from your from the bottom of the marketing pile to the top were targeted customers can view your products and services, increasing your sales potential

Search Engines Secrets Exposed

Article number :-3

Anyone who is serious about building wealth on the Internet MUST master the search engines. Therefore, learning how the search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search, is key to anyone optimizing their website for search engine indexing.

The most common methods the search engines use to index a site is by using content scanning robots called "Web Crawlers" or "Spiders".

Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A "spider" is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, reads the content on the actual site, reads the site's Meta tags, and also follows the site's outbound links. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don't create a site with 500 pages!

The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine, although there is a metatag within many websites' header that contains instructions for the crawlers to return in a specified number of days.

A spider creates a file almost like a book; it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day!

Example: Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Google.

When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indices.

One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.

These algorithms are largely a mystery; a deep secret known only to the search engine staff. Huge amounts of money are paid to SEO (search engine optimization) experts (as well as some who claim to be experts) to optimize pages for the highest possible search engine rankings. Top rankings on engines like Google mean market domination for the well optimized site, and that top rank is highly contested, as you can guess!

How important is domain name in SEO?

i will answer your question in a different way ... do not mix themes at your site ... mixing themes is a big no-no

this means that if your site has nothing to do with baseball and you add a baseball folder + content, then your rankings will suffer

if on the other hand, your site is about baseball, i would opt for the first one with a link to that folder on your home page ... my understanding is that the second one may be considered as a separated domain name which would mean having to promote it separately

perhaps others have something to add

-SearchSpiderz

Link Building and SEO: Using Sitemaps and Tags

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This is second one....comment if you like it...bye...

Based on your sites architecture, internal and external links, search engines create a profile of how each correlates and interacts with the other to map out which pages have the highest significance to their index.

This principle is known as link equity and fortunately for webmasters, link weight and link equity can be sculpted to benefit sub directories, individual pages or sub domains for enhanced visibility in search engines.

We will in theory be covering a less publicized SEO technique for SEO through building links to tags and sitemaps to shift link weight throughout your site. Particularly when you are dealing with a series of strong inbound links such as site-wide links (links from every page in another site or a blog roll).

Tags are implemented to create categorization of consolidated information which serves to create a common theme for posts and pages in your site. In addition to tags, sitemaps are also implemented frequently to consolidate vast sites with depth to a manageable means. In this post, we will discuss how you can use both to make your website more robust in search engines “specifically for long tail or broad match phrases”.

Naturally things like using the “no-follow” tag, using embedding links in java script so they are user-friendly for humans but unavailable for search engines (to add significance to) is one way to sculpt the way link juice moves around your pages, but what about using external links strategically to add the perfect icing on the cake?

Which page will rank higher, a page with 100 inbound links from within your site or a page with no internal or external links? Inbound links (IBL) are a metric that create a signature and an accommodating effect for where they congregate. This facet of link popularity is what distinguishes your lackluster from blockbuster pages that really stand out to funnel relevant traffic to your site.

What if you opened the funnel even more by adding more traffic-bearing pages to your sites profile systemically? If the concept is appealing, then use the simple tip of building links to your sitemaps or tags (if you utilize a content management system) to strengthen any affiliated pages joined by them.

It is not uncommon for each subfolder to implement xml sitemaps for the sake of cataloging the contents of that folder. So why not take it one step further and use it as a spine which can dispense the full power of an inbound links potential by giving it multiple target pages to saturate.

It is also important to note that by using this technique, you may wish to set your meta tags to no index, follow (which means you do not want your sitemaps outranking key pages in the index, but you are indicating that the links should be followed).

One obvious benefit is pages that barely made the grade (as far as link popularity) now gain expression and are able to rank on their title tag alone, or the combination of a description tag and a few keywords from the content in the body of the page are now enough to produce a top 10 ranking for a long tail search. Get enough top 10 results for any given query and search engines will promote your website as an authority.

So, just because reaping the reward of plucking the low hanging fruit as far as keywords go, may not have been your original intention, why waste latent potential from lack of expression. So, what is the technique?

Simply link to your tag pages index.php?tagname or rename your sitemap to something else other than sitemap such as keyword-resource.html or keyword-resource.xml and then use that as the target page to build links to equivocally ramp up every page that is linked using the tags or the sitemap.

This simple but effective method can bring languishing pages to the forefront to test their mettle for keyword worthiness. If you find some pages have a great hook and get more traffic than others, then you know which new keywords to develop more content for as well as build strong internal link silos to gain even more relevant traffic to your pages.

Jeffrey Smith is an active internet marketing optimization strategist, consultant and the founder of Seo Design Solutions Seo Company http://www.seodesignsolutions.com. He has actively been involved in internet marketing since 1995 and brings a wealth of collective experiences and fresh marketing strategies to individuals involved in online business.

-SearchSpiderz

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