The following post on how to increase website traffic was submitted by Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes.
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I started the PC Doctor blog in May of 2005 and for the first few months my traffic was really low – down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I thought about quitting. I knew that the site was in the Google ’sandbox’ and so I either had to keep on plugging at it until it was out or I had to give up.
Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting but in the interim I decided that I was also going to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site manually until Google kicked in. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with three tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.
First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier. I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!
I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog – so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.
Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!
Using these three simple techniques, I took The PC Doctor blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. This kept my interest in the site until it came out of the Google sandbox and I started to receiver some serious traffic. However, I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit my blog today.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Increase Website Traffic for FREE
There are many techniques to getting more visitors to your website or blog. Here are a few of the better ways of getting more visitors to your website. Oh, and they're all free and you should be able to implement most in just a few minutes.Firstly, some things to keep in mind as you read these tips and tricks for getting more, free, website visitors...
Google looks at your website and tries to think how a human would think.If a real person would rate your website highly, then so will Google.
Google reads the words on your website.Phrases that you want to get found with should at least appear somewhere on your website.
A real person would rank more highly a website with lots of links to it. If lots of other people link to the site then it must be popular.Google ‘thinks’ in exactly the same way using a technique called Page Rank or PR. More on this later.
Content that changes is more interesting for repeat visitors,and Google rates more highly websites that change frequently for this exact reason.OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on to sending more people to your website. Who knows, the increase in website traffic may increase inquiries, orders and profit!Change your writing styleAs an example, take the last sentence from the previous paragraph. It used to read like this...OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on...This sentence would be OK in the real world, but it contains no words of any importance or relevance to our topic. The sentence was edited to contain pertinent words relating to increasing website traffic and now reads like this...OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on to sending more people to your website. Who knows, the increase in website traffic may increase inquiries, orders and profit!Look at every sentence on your website. Does it stand up on its own? Cut out the clutter and add key words and phrases. If you sell cars, avoid impotent phrases like "Customer Service to Rely On" and use phrases such as "Discount Car Dealership, Midlands UK". Potential visitors searching on Google won't be searching for "customer service", but they will be searching for "car dealership, midlands".Another small tip relating to your writing style is to use all derivatives of words. Take for example the car dealership. Visitors searching Google might type "dealership" or they might type "dealer". Try to use both in your text to appear in as many search results as possible.Get Inbound LinksLinks to your website from others offer two great benefits.
Visitors to the other sites might see the link to your site and pay your site a visit.
Your website Page Rank will be increased as your site now looks more popular.One of my favourite websites for blagging a free link from is www.pagemost.com. Fill in the small form on the home page and they build a page for you based on your location (give a false postcode if you're not location based). This free page is built to do well on search engines and includes a link back to your website. www.pagemost.com has a Page Rank of 5 at the time of writing, which is well worth getting a link from.To get your free page found, www.pagemost.com do recommend that you link to it from your own page, otherwise the search engines won't know it exists. On this note it's worth mentioning that although you want to get as many inbound links as you can, you should also avoid adding too many outbound links.EbayHow can Ebay help increase traffic to your website? Ebay is a very popular website and links from it to your own website will make your site look more popular. By ensuring that you always have auctions on the go at Ebay, you will always have links to your own website. It doesn't matter what you are selling as long as you remember to add links to your own website from each auction.WikipediaIt's not relevant to all websites, but why not give your website a mention and a link in Wikipedia. Most pages in Wikipedia have links to external sites, so why not add yours! If you are blatantly spamming then be prepared to be removed straight away, so make sure your website is related to the topic in question.Home PageRe-write a portion of your home page every month. Adding news items is a great way to force you to do this and gives you a reason to change the page monthly. And don't forget, a website with out of date news items looks as though the company has gone bust, so once you start this technique for generating website traffic it is most definitely an on-going process.Conclusion
Re-write your website content or get somebody to do this for you. Include good words and phrases and cut out the dross!
Get links to your site from sites like www.pagemost.com
Get some auctions underway on Ebay
See if any pages in Wikipedia or similar will handle a link to your site
Google looks at your website and tries to think how a human would think.If a real person would rate your website highly, then so will Google.
Google reads the words on your website.Phrases that you want to get found with should at least appear somewhere on your website.
A real person would rank more highly a website with lots of links to it. If lots of other people link to the site then it must be popular.Google ‘thinks’ in exactly the same way using a technique called Page Rank or PR. More on this later.
Content that changes is more interesting for repeat visitors,and Google rates more highly websites that change frequently for this exact reason.OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on to sending more people to your website. Who knows, the increase in website traffic may increase inquiries, orders and profit!Change your writing styleAs an example, take the last sentence from the previous paragraph. It used to read like this...OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on...This sentence would be OK in the real world, but it contains no words of any importance or relevance to our topic. The sentence was edited to contain pertinent words relating to increasing website traffic and now reads like this...OK, with these key ideas in mind, lets move on to sending more people to your website. Who knows, the increase in website traffic may increase inquiries, orders and profit!Look at every sentence on your website. Does it stand up on its own? Cut out the clutter and add key words and phrases. If you sell cars, avoid impotent phrases like "Customer Service to Rely On" and use phrases such as "Discount Car Dealership, Midlands UK". Potential visitors searching on Google won't be searching for "customer service", but they will be searching for "car dealership, midlands".Another small tip relating to your writing style is to use all derivatives of words. Take for example the car dealership. Visitors searching Google might type "dealership" or they might type "dealer". Try to use both in your text to appear in as many search results as possible.Get Inbound LinksLinks to your website from others offer two great benefits.
Visitors to the other sites might see the link to your site and pay your site a visit.
Your website Page Rank will be increased as your site now looks more popular.One of my favourite websites for blagging a free link from is www.pagemost.com. Fill in the small form on the home page and they build a page for you based on your location (give a false postcode if you're not location based). This free page is built to do well on search engines and includes a link back to your website. www.pagemost.com has a Page Rank of 5 at the time of writing, which is well worth getting a link from.To get your free page found, www.pagemost.com do recommend that you link to it from your own page, otherwise the search engines won't know it exists. On this note it's worth mentioning that although you want to get as many inbound links as you can, you should also avoid adding too many outbound links.EbayHow can Ebay help increase traffic to your website? Ebay is a very popular website and links from it to your own website will make your site look more popular. By ensuring that you always have auctions on the go at Ebay, you will always have links to your own website. It doesn't matter what you are selling as long as you remember to add links to your own website from each auction.WikipediaIt's not relevant to all websites, but why not give your website a mention and a link in Wikipedia. Most pages in Wikipedia have links to external sites, so why not add yours! If you are blatantly spamming then be prepared to be removed straight away, so make sure your website is related to the topic in question.Home PageRe-write a portion of your home page every month. Adding news items is a great way to force you to do this and gives you a reason to change the page monthly. And don't forget, a website with out of date news items looks as though the company has gone bust, so once you start this technique for generating website traffic it is most definitely an on-going process.Conclusion
Re-write your website content or get somebody to do this for you. Include good words and phrases and cut out the dross!
Get links to your site from sites like www.pagemost.com
Get some auctions underway on Ebay
See if any pages in Wikipedia or similar will handle a link to your site
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Building blog traffic for newbies
Duncan Riley> was checking out a Bloggers forum which someone is currently bank rolling through Google Adsense at the moment and got sucked into joining and posting the odd thought. One thing that struck me was the lack of knowledge about promoting blogs, so this is what I posted (with a few edits). Let me know what you think.
Blog Promotion for Newbies1: Don’t use blogrolling: it may be easier to use but the javascript stuffs up search engines when they are looking for links and makes the links useless, use WordPress’s managed links feature or similar product, or even hard code it, I did for the 18 months I used MT before changing to WordPress
2. Pinging to weblogs et al is good but trackbacking to sites is better, when of course your post is in relation to that sites topic. Also legitimate commenting directly on other sites helps expose your site to others. But remember, it must be legitimate comment and not spam!
3. Offer to exchange links on your site under your links section, it lets people know that your interested in linking and will build up your site quickly in Technorati and Google.
4. Link to other small sites without exchange, either through side bar or post: linking to big sites is great in showing what your reading but does nothing to build up your readership because they nearly always never return the favour, indeed a number of them will steal your stories or ideas without any attribution at all. Smaller sites on the other hand are often stoked that you’ve linked to them and will return the favour without asking, even if they don’t, you’ve still done a good deed.
5 submit your blog to ALL the search engines, it might take some time but the spiders will start coming if….
6. The most important feature of all: post regularly and post often. It not only brings readers back regularly but it means the spiders from the search engines will return more frequently indexing your entire site, and you’ll start getting hits from the search engines. Some may argue that these aren’t that valuable but I would argue that’s rubbish. It exposes your site to a new audience for free, and even if only a few return you’ve still built up your readership for free. Take the Blog Herald for example, we get 5,000 views per month just from clickthrus in from Google and another 2,500 from other search engines (Google is the only real game in town though). Even if only 1% return to the site later, that’s 75 new regular readers per month or nearly 1000 per year, and what I also find is that this traffic also responds well to advertising on the site if they’ve stumbled in for the wrong reason.
Blog Promotion for Newbies1: Don’t use blogrolling: it may be easier to use but the javascript stuffs up search engines when they are looking for links and makes the links useless, use WordPress’s managed links feature or similar product, or even hard code it, I did for the 18 months I used MT before changing to WordPress
2. Pinging to weblogs et al is good but trackbacking to sites is better, when of course your post is in relation to that sites topic. Also legitimate commenting directly on other sites helps expose your site to others. But remember, it must be legitimate comment and not spam!
3. Offer to exchange links on your site under your links section, it lets people know that your interested in linking and will build up your site quickly in Technorati and Google.
4. Link to other small sites without exchange, either through side bar or post: linking to big sites is great in showing what your reading but does nothing to build up your readership because they nearly always never return the favour, indeed a number of them will steal your stories or ideas without any attribution at all. Smaller sites on the other hand are often stoked that you’ve linked to them and will return the favour without asking, even if they don’t, you’ve still done a good deed.
5 submit your blog to ALL the search engines, it might take some time but the spiders will start coming if….
6. The most important feature of all: post regularly and post often. It not only brings readers back regularly but it means the spiders from the search engines will return more frequently indexing your entire site, and you’ll start getting hits from the search engines. Some may argue that these aren’t that valuable but I would argue that’s rubbish. It exposes your site to a new audience for free, and even if only a few return you’ve still built up your readership for free. Take the Blog Herald for example, we get 5,000 views per month just from clickthrus in from Google and another 2,500 from other search engines (Google is the only real game in town though). Even if only 1% return to the site later, that’s 75 new regular readers per month or nearly 1000 per year, and what I also find is that this traffic also responds well to advertising on the site if they’ve stumbled in for the wrong reason.
Friday, December 4, 2009
5 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO BOOST WEBSITE TRAFFIC
Increase Traffic to your Blog with this MethodThere are so many ways to increase traffic to your blog. And in no order, they’re; Social Networks – StumbleUpon, Reddit,...
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We all love traffic like we love parties. Seeing people come to your site gives you a sense of confidence that people are interested in your content. It’s a great boost to anyone’s ego when the traffic comes in droves.
I have been a web developer and web surfer since 1993, and I love web analytics. There are many ways to drive traffic to your site. The most effective ways are sites like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit, but there are others ways to bring more visitors to your blog and possibly convert some fans.
Newsletters (Est. 100 to 400 visits per day) – One of the most effective ways to drive traffic is from fans who have opted in to your newsletter. There are many sites that offer this service which allow you to manage users who opt in or opt out. They also provide a nice and easy user interface to write your newsletter. I have over 400 opted in users and I usually get a 20% open rate. That’s 80 visitors of which 10% submit my blogs to social networks. This can increase your traffic by more than 400% depending how interesting your content is. You should only send out your newsletter every two weeks, avoid over communicating or your open rate will decrease.
Forums (Est. 50 – 100 visits per day depending on the popularity) – I have read about how forums can be a great source in driving traffic, but it depends on how popular the forums are and how many users are on at any given time. Most forums allow you to have a signature and this is where you would put a link to your blog. You should only choose a forum that matches your expertise, and become a fan of the forum. Avoid the hit and run concept or you will look like a spammer. You should reply to other posts and build your post count.
Craigslist (Est. 50 – 75 visits per day) – Have a fresh blog to share? Head on over to Craigslist and post your blog that fits a category in the discussion forums. You should add your blog title to the subject line, add two sentences in the message body without giving up too much information and posting your link to read more. If your blogs fit in other categories, than post at least two.
Facebook (Est. 25 – 50 visits per day) – If you are a member of Facebook, you should submit your blogs by using the Facebook widget. There are many widgets for blogs such as Wordpress that include the Facebook widget. If you are active in Facebook and have more than 100 friends like I do, you will get a nice boost in traffic.
Yahoo Answers (Est. 25 – 50 visits per day) – There are many categories in Yahoo Answers that you can choose from. You should choose a category that you usually blog about and use your blog as a reference for an answer. I reply to at least 5 questions per day and have received more than 100 visits in one day.
As you can see by using the 5 ways to bring more visitors to your site, you can potentially receive from 250 to 675 visitors per day. It may seem like a lot of work, but it’s not, once you get started it will only take you 30 minutes per day.
We hope this will be a great resource on driving visitors to your blog.
How to boost website traffic and sales
The first step to boost website traffic and sales is to get listed in the search engines. Unsurprisingly, Google dominates this field, and is likely to yield the largest amount of traffic to your site.
Google accounts for 49% of global search engine usage in April 2006 while Yahoo accounted for 22% and MSN 11%. (source: Nielsen NetRatings)
The good news is that it is still free to submit your site to Google but free submission can be very slow and even when your site is added it is unlikely to get within the top 10 or first page of search results.
Getting listed is only the first hurdle to booste website traffic and sales. Getting high rankings that can deliver relevant, appropriate prospects, which will convert into new clients should be your main website goal.
This is where Google AdWords can help. It's a way to advertise your business on Google, a site that's used over 150 million times a day.
What is Google AdWords
AdWords is a pay-per-click online advertising service that lets advertisers post text ads for their sites targeted for specific keywords. You may have seen some of these ads on the far right side of Google’s search results and also shown in the “Ads by Google” banners seen on sites all over the Internet.
Google AdWords can guarantee you a page one position and put you in front of targeted potential customers. Plus you only pay 'per click' which means you do not pay each time your ad appears on a web page, rather you pay each time a visitor actually clicks through and visits your site. So you are paying for actual real live visitors.
Once Google AdWords puts your website in front of your potential customers it is then up to you to convert them into business with smart copy and an easy to navigate website which prompts for a call to action.
How does it work?
The way this unique advertising service works is quite simple: Advertisers will type in keywords that they want their ad to appear on when searched. For example, Jim sells bed and breakfast accommodation in the Yarra Valley. In order for Jim to reach the right audience, he must use specific keywords such as “bed and breakfast, yarra valley accommodation” and words of that nature. Then, whenever regular users like you and me go to search for “yarra valley accommodation” on Google, Jim’s text box ad will magically appear on page 1.
Benefits of Using AdWords
Fast Results - AdWords can deliver quick traffic and fast feedback. You can have your ads up all over the Internet and begin testing products and marketing strategies in minutes.
Target Audience - find people who are searching for the same keywords you specify to advertise your product or service.
Budget Control - you maintain total control over ad budget. There is no monthly minimum spending limit. There is a $5 set up fee and then advertisers can choose how much they will pay per click from five cents to $50(US). Advertisers can set up a daily allowance and when the budget for the day is spent their ad will be removed, so there's no danger of overspending.
Productivity - you can benefit from the reports and statistics that help users determine which ads, keywords, and prices per click are the most productive. This helps advertisers get the best return on investment possible.
I can highly recommend Google AdWords Pay Per Click service to boost website traffic and sales. It is the ideal way to drive targeted traffic towards your website.
Melissa Norfolk is an Internet expert who speaks to business, school and community groups about online marketing, email newsletters, effective use of the Internet, finding what you need online and Internet safety.
Google accounts for 49% of global search engine usage in April 2006 while Yahoo accounted for 22% and MSN 11%. (source: Nielsen NetRatings)
The good news is that it is still free to submit your site to Google but free submission can be very slow and even when your site is added it is unlikely to get within the top 10 or first page of search results.
Getting listed is only the first hurdle to booste website traffic and sales. Getting high rankings that can deliver relevant, appropriate prospects, which will convert into new clients should be your main website goal.
This is where Google AdWords can help. It's a way to advertise your business on Google, a site that's used over 150 million times a day.
What is Google AdWords
AdWords is a pay-per-click online advertising service that lets advertisers post text ads for their sites targeted for specific keywords. You may have seen some of these ads on the far right side of Google’s search results and also shown in the “Ads by Google” banners seen on sites all over the Internet.
Google AdWords can guarantee you a page one position and put you in front of targeted potential customers. Plus you only pay 'per click' which means you do not pay each time your ad appears on a web page, rather you pay each time a visitor actually clicks through and visits your site. So you are paying for actual real live visitors.
Once Google AdWords puts your website in front of your potential customers it is then up to you to convert them into business with smart copy and an easy to navigate website which prompts for a call to action.
How does it work?
The way this unique advertising service works is quite simple: Advertisers will type in keywords that they want their ad to appear on when searched. For example, Jim sells bed and breakfast accommodation in the Yarra Valley. In order for Jim to reach the right audience, he must use specific keywords such as “bed and breakfast, yarra valley accommodation” and words of that nature. Then, whenever regular users like you and me go to search for “yarra valley accommodation” on Google, Jim’s text box ad will magically appear on page 1.
Benefits of Using AdWords
Fast Results - AdWords can deliver quick traffic and fast feedback. You can have your ads up all over the Internet and begin testing products and marketing strategies in minutes.
Target Audience - find people who are searching for the same keywords you specify to advertise your product or service.
Budget Control - you maintain total control over ad budget. There is no monthly minimum spending limit. There is a $5 set up fee and then advertisers can choose how much they will pay per click from five cents to $50(US). Advertisers can set up a daily allowance and when the budget for the day is spent their ad will be removed, so there's no danger of overspending.
Productivity - you can benefit from the reports and statistics that help users determine which ads, keywords, and prices per click are the most productive. This helps advertisers get the best return on investment possible.
I can highly recommend Google AdWords Pay Per Click service to boost website traffic and sales. It is the ideal way to drive targeted traffic towards your website.
Melissa Norfolk is an Internet expert who speaks to business, school and community groups about online marketing, email newsletters, effective use of the Internet, finding what you need online and Internet safety.
More Ways To Get Backlinks
Blog and Forum CommentingOne technique that webmasters use that can be a two edged sword is blog and forum commenting. The basic idea is to search on the web for blogs and/or forum websites that discuss topics relevant to your website. You can then comment on these blogs and post on these forums. This can be successful if you spend a large amount of time gaining the trust of other participants by providing only very useful and relevant comments. If you immediately go into sales mode, the other participants will avoid you like the plague and the blog owners will refuse to publish your comments. Too many webmasters fall into the trap of comment spamming, or uploading posts whose only purpose is to provide a backlink to their website Taking the blog spam approach to getting backlinks is a waste of your time.Web 2.0 Websites"Web 2.0" is the name often given to websites that have a social networking component. Sites like Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Delicious, and so on generate most of their content from the site users themselves. You can indeed get some backlinks from some of these websites, such as StumbleUpon, Delicious, and other Social Bookmarking sites. The best way to do this is to go to the DigitalPoint Forums on Marketing Services and purchase these link building services there. But, like directory links, these links will only augment more substantial and reputable links from real websites. You can't have an entire linking strategy built around social bookmarking links.The other well-known Web 2.0 websites have varying degrees of usefulness for link building. Creating a lens on Squidoo is also a good idea, although this is more for the referral traffic than for the value of the link. If you are a person in your teens or twenties, a profile on Facebook and MySpace might be useful for social networking, although probably not for outgoing links. In these and other social networking sites, the most important thing to remember is that these sites were designed to foster community and non-commercial expression, not for commercial activity. These companies have become very aggressive in shutting down anyone who tries to engage in obvious link building efforts and/or advertising efforts. So for most people, it is not useful to consider these sites for any serious backlink building effort.Purchase LinksBecause backlinks are so valuable to webmasters and their SEO efforts, many websites that already have good pagerank will sell text links on their websites. Link brokers like text-link-ads.com and tnx.net allow website link sellers to match up with websites that need links. The main problem with this approach is that the search engines (especially Google) hate it and are starting to seriously discount the practice. So it is perfectly possible for you to purchase a nice link on a pagerank 6 website (for a substantial amount of money) only to see no change at all in your pagerank or traffic because Google has paid no attention to that link. The problem is that the search engines can easily join these sites and view their link inventories to see which websites are selling individual links. They can then just discount links from these websites. Because the search engines are starting to come down on link broker sites, buying backlinks is no longer a viable strategy for the major portion of your link building efforts.Summary of the Traditional (Hard) ApproachSo as you can see, the traditional techniques for getting backlinks can take a great deal of time, effort and money to implement. Sending out hundreds or thousands of emails to other webmasters, posting on hundreds of forums, or writing article after article are all tasks that are about as tedious and time-consuming as one could imagine. Building links has become the most time consuming task that web business owners engage in. The onerous nature of the link building task is perhaps the main reason why website business owners fail to achieve their online objectives - the whole thing just becomes way too much effort. Furthermore, outsourcing the effort to someone on DigitalPoint Forums or similar places online can end up costing lots of money for only incremental returns. Do any of these traditional methods work? Yes, they do, if you put a sufficient amount of time and effort and money into them, and if you have a bit of luck. But the amount of effort required is so large that many webmasters end up saying "there has to be a better way to do this!"And now there is.
Getting Links The Easy Way: NeuroLinker
Intelligent Relevant Backlink Selection
NeuroLinker is a revolutionary software system that was designed to automate the process of getting relevant, one way backlinks to your website. I developed NeuroLinker over a period of about a year after I came across the backlink problem as a new webmaster myself. I realized that my strong technology background (PhD in Aerospace Engineering) and experience (25 years of experience in developing advanced algorithms and software systems) provided me with the knowledge and tools I needed to solve this huge problem. As part of my professional career, I spent about 8 years doing information retrieval research for a major software company in San Diego, and much of what I learned from this experience was directly applicable to solving this problem.So how does NeuroLinker solve the backlink problem? The NeuroLinker service allows a large number of webmasters to sign up and submit their websites to the system. NeuroLinker will then use advanced algorithms to examine all the websites of all the users in the system and match up websites that have similar content. For example, websites about cell phones will be matched up with other websites about cellphones and similar technologies, websites about doll clothes will be matched up with websites about doll houses, etc. NeuroLinker will then use additional algorithms to interlink these websites using all one way links, i.e., no two websites will have a reciprocal link to each other. The end result is that webmasters get an ever-growing set of relevant, one way backlinks to their websites.So how much effort does NeuroLinker require? Not much. When a website owner joins the system, all he must do is login to his NeuroLinker account on the web and enter some information about each of his websites. This information includes a brief description, up to 20 different sets of anchor text, and a title and header for the outgoing links page. Then he must create a link on his homepage to his new outgoing links page (not necessary if the outgoing links page already exists and already has a link from the homepage). Finally he must copy some simple code that the NeuroLinker system provides into the newly created link page. Once this is finished, the webmaster submits the website to NeuroLinker (just by pressing a Submit" button). As long as the website meets NeuroLinker's quality standards (must be a reasonable quality site, no gambling or hate or porn or spam, etc.) then NeuroLinker will approve the site (usually within a day or two). Once the site is approved, the links start building automatically with no additional effort required of the webmaster. That's right - once you submit your website and get it approved, you'll see your backlinks start to grow automatically with no additional effort.This is a true "fire-and-forget" solution to the backlink problem. It saves you a ton of time and money by making your biggest headache as a webmaster go away. Using NeuroLinker allows you to focus your energies on building your business and doing what you love rather than on the tedious task of building backlinks. The decision to use NeuroLinker is about as close to a "no brainer" as you'll find in running an online business.Check out the Neurolinker website to start getting Relevant Backlinks and to solve your website marketing problems.
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Getting free website traffic from building backlinks is imperative to increase rankings and make your blog or site more visible.
Getting Links The Easy Way: NeuroLinker
Intelligent Relevant Backlink Selection
NeuroLinker is a revolutionary software system that was designed to automate the process of getting relevant, one way backlinks to your website. I developed NeuroLinker over a period of about a year after I came across the backlink problem as a new webmaster myself. I realized that my strong technology background (PhD in Aerospace Engineering) and experience (25 years of experience in developing advanced algorithms and software systems) provided me with the knowledge and tools I needed to solve this huge problem. As part of my professional career, I spent about 8 years doing information retrieval research for a major software company in San Diego, and much of what I learned from this experience was directly applicable to solving this problem.So how does NeuroLinker solve the backlink problem? The NeuroLinker service allows a large number of webmasters to sign up and submit their websites to the system. NeuroLinker will then use advanced algorithms to examine all the websites of all the users in the system and match up websites that have similar content. For example, websites about cell phones will be matched up with other websites about cellphones and similar technologies, websites about doll clothes will be matched up with websites about doll houses, etc. NeuroLinker will then use additional algorithms to interlink these websites using all one way links, i.e., no two websites will have a reciprocal link to each other. The end result is that webmasters get an ever-growing set of relevant, one way backlinks to their websites.So how much effort does NeuroLinker require? Not much. When a website owner joins the system, all he must do is login to his NeuroLinker account on the web and enter some information about each of his websites. This information includes a brief description, up to 20 different sets of anchor text, and a title and header for the outgoing links page. Then he must create a link on his homepage to his new outgoing links page (not necessary if the outgoing links page already exists and already has a link from the homepage). Finally he must copy some simple code that the NeuroLinker system provides into the newly created link page. Once this is finished, the webmaster submits the website to NeuroLinker (just by pressing a Submit" button). As long as the website meets NeuroLinker's quality standards (must be a reasonable quality site, no gambling or hate or porn or spam, etc.) then NeuroLinker will approve the site (usually within a day or two). Once the site is approved, the links start building automatically with no additional effort required of the webmaster. That's right - once you submit your website and get it approved, you'll see your backlinks start to grow automatically with no additional effort.This is a true "fire-and-forget" solution to the backlink problem. It saves you a ton of time and money by making your biggest headache as a webmaster go away. Using NeuroLinker allows you to focus your energies on building your business and doing what you love rather than on the tedious task of building backlinks. The decision to use NeuroLinker is about as close to a "no brainer" as you'll find in running an online business.Check out the Neurolinker website to start getting Relevant Backlinks and to solve your website marketing problems.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
How You Can Double Your Link Building Efforts
Blog commenting is becoming more and more popular as one of link building tactics. The comment author receives an extra link to his website or blog that favours the website exposure. And the blog owners are always happy to receive good comments – it’s important for them to keep a lively interest to their posts.
Of course, a "DoFollow" backlink is a great reward for a valuable comment because it helps improve the search engine position. But the comment allows a reader have only one backlink and this link may have the commentator’s name or nickname as the anchor text that doesn’t mean much for search engines.
So why not to reward the comment author with an extra link with more relevant keywords in the anchor text? This is an excellent way to promote the readers’ websites and this can be done automatically with the use of a particular plug-in!
I’m talking about CommentLuv. The CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress that will visit the RSS feed of the blog address the reader provided in the URL field, attempt to find the last post the reader made and display it under the comment giving the reader a great internal backlink to his/her website!
Example:
Now many WordPress blogs are applying the CommentLuv plugin. The bloggers understand that it gives the readers an extra incentive to leave a comment, encourages people to add to the conversation by giving something back right away.
For the reader commenting on a blog that uses the CommentLuv plugin is great for the following reasons:
Second link to the website/blog. CommentLuv gives you an additional link, which is more advantageous than the link provided in the URL field because it has the post title as the anchor text. If you use your keywords in the post title, it will help you to rank well in the search engine results for those keywords.
More traffic and readership. When people look through the comments, they can see the titles of other commenters’ latest posts. If the title looks interesting, there’s a good chance they will visit your site and read the post. Some of those readers can become your subscribers or buyers.
Help with PageRank and search engine results ranking. If the blog using the CommentLuv plugin is a "DoFollow blog", the link to your last post provided by CommentLuv will also be "DoFollow". So, not only will it send the readers to your website or blog, it will also pass you some PageRank.
These advantages are really extra incentives to leave a comment, aren’t they?
How to search for blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin
You may be wondering how to find relevant blogs with the CommentLuv plugin enabled on which to comment on. The answer is simple – use Fast Blog Finder or Google and type the search query like below replacing "your keywords" with your real keywords:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"your keywords"
By adding your keywords at the end of the search query, you will reduce the large quantity of blogs to blogs relevant to your niche. You can also use some of these search options to narrow and refine your search results.
For example, if I want to find the blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are relevant to the "Internet marketing" keywords, I type in the Blog Finder Gold Edition:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"Internet marketing"
By the time of writing this article I found 127 blogs with CommentLuv enabled for the "Internet marketing" keywords. 39 from these blogs were "DoFollow" and 74 "NoFollow".
Well, I get at least 39 blogs where I can comment on. It’s assumed that my comments are not spam, so I can hope to get 78 "DoFollow" links to my blog (because one comment will have two links: one for the anchor text in the Name field and the second one – a deep link to the latest post on my blog)! And we all know how valuable "DoFollow" links are. Just a couple of them can considerably improve your website ranking in search engines.
Of course, I gave a single niche example but you got the idea. Now you can change your primary keywords to your secondary keyword set and find one more hundred or two of blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are worth to comment on.
Few tips from me:
If you are going to comment on blogs with CommentLuv, make sure your blog posts have appealing titles including your target keywords. Not only will good titles attract the readers prompting them to click on your link, they will also help you rank well for your keywords.
If you use Feedburner on your blog, you’ll get a redirection link to your last post instead of the direct link to the article on your blog. You can read here how to disable the redirect.
Of course, a "DoFollow" backlink is a great reward for a valuable comment because it helps improve the search engine position. But the comment allows a reader have only one backlink and this link may have the commentator’s name or nickname as the anchor text that doesn’t mean much for search engines.
So why not to reward the comment author with an extra link with more relevant keywords in the anchor text? This is an excellent way to promote the readers’ websites and this can be done automatically with the use of a particular plug-in!
I’m talking about CommentLuv. The CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress that will visit the RSS feed of the blog address the reader provided in the URL field, attempt to find the last post the reader made and display it under the comment giving the reader a great internal backlink to his/her website!
Example:
Now many WordPress blogs are applying the CommentLuv plugin. The bloggers understand that it gives the readers an extra incentive to leave a comment, encourages people to add to the conversation by giving something back right away.
For the reader commenting on a blog that uses the CommentLuv plugin is great for the following reasons:
Second link to the website/blog. CommentLuv gives you an additional link, which is more advantageous than the link provided in the URL field because it has the post title as the anchor text. If you use your keywords in the post title, it will help you to rank well in the search engine results for those keywords.
More traffic and readership. When people look through the comments, they can see the titles of other commenters’ latest posts. If the title looks interesting, there’s a good chance they will visit your site and read the post. Some of those readers can become your subscribers or buyers.
Help with PageRank and search engine results ranking. If the blog using the CommentLuv plugin is a "DoFollow blog", the link to your last post provided by CommentLuv will also be "DoFollow". So, not only will it send the readers to your website or blog, it will also pass you some PageRank.
These advantages are really extra incentives to leave a comment, aren’t they?
How to search for blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin
You may be wondering how to find relevant blogs with the CommentLuv plugin enabled on which to comment on. The answer is simple – use Fast Blog Finder or Google and type the search query like below replacing "your keywords" with your real keywords:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"your keywords"
By adding your keywords at the end of the search query, you will reduce the large quantity of blogs to blogs relevant to your niche. You can also use some of these search options to narrow and refine your search results.
For example, if I want to find the blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are relevant to the "Internet marketing" keywords, I type in the Blog Finder Gold Edition:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"Internet marketing"
By the time of writing this article I found 127 blogs with CommentLuv enabled for the "Internet marketing" keywords. 39 from these blogs were "DoFollow" and 74 "NoFollow".
Well, I get at least 39 blogs where I can comment on. It’s assumed that my comments are not spam, so I can hope to get 78 "DoFollow" links to my blog (because one comment will have two links: one for the anchor text in the Name field and the second one – a deep link to the latest post on my blog)! And we all know how valuable "DoFollow" links are. Just a couple of them can considerably improve your website ranking in search engines.
Of course, I gave a single niche example but you got the idea. Now you can change your primary keywords to your secondary keyword set and find one more hundred or two of blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are worth to comment on.
Few tips from me:
If you are going to comment on blogs with CommentLuv, make sure your blog posts have appealing titles including your target keywords. Not only will good titles attract the readers prompting them to click on your link, they will also help you rank well for your keywords.
If you use Feedburner on your blog, you’ll get a redirection link to your last post instead of the direct link to the article on your blog. You can read here how to disable the redirect.
How to Build Backlinks to Your Site Using Free Techniques
When you submit a comment on other people’s blog, you are usually asked to provide your name, email address, URL and comment text itself. You can use your keyword anchor text as your name. When your comment is posted, your URL becomes attached to your keywords.
Be sure to write something useful in the comment section, so it doesn’t look like 100% spam. Don’t post 2 word crap like "great post", rather try to contribute to what the initial post was about. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment.
After the comment is submitted, add a short user note for the blog something like "Posted" or "Awaiting moderation". You will want to return to the blogs where your comment was pending for approval later and check the comment status.
If you liked the blog you commented on, do not forget to submit it to social media sites using Share It button. This will give more exposure to the blog posts that you have commented on and increase traffic to them. Some of the traffic will trickle down to you, making your comment more impactful.
Be sure to write something useful in the comment section, so it doesn’t look like 100% spam. Don’t post 2 word crap like "great post", rather try to contribute to what the initial post was about. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment.
After the comment is submitted, add a short user note for the blog something like "Posted" or "Awaiting moderation". You will want to return to the blogs where your comment was pending for approval later and check the comment status.
If you liked the blog you commented on, do not forget to submit it to social media sites using Share It button. This will give more exposure to the blog posts that you have commented on and increase traffic to them. Some of the traffic will trickle down to you, making your comment more impactful.
Monday, November 16, 2009
How To Use Directories To Build Back Links Fast
It is a well known fact that building back links to your website is one of the most important elements of modern search engine optimization (SEO) of a website. a back link is a link from another website to yours.
Acquiring back links is one of the most painstaking jobs you can do online. It takes up a lot of your time. Many online businesses have been built on this aspect of SEO alone.
There are many submission services springing up daily. Whether it is article submission or director submission. There are also link exchange services of all kinds, free and paid. There is even the occasional article exchange program between webmasters. All to the objective of building back links. That is to tell you how important back links are to your effort at ranking well in the search engines. In fact, the number one search engine Google.com's algorithm is built around back links.
Back links are of many types.
1. There is the back link that is one way. That is, you get a link to your website without having to link back to the site that linked to you. These are the types you get from doing directory or article submission. Or if your website content is good enough other webmasters will freely link to your content or resource. Or you can just buy your back links from websites selling space on their sites.
2. There is the link exchange. This gives you a back link only if you link back. This is called a reciprocal link. you get these kinds from link exchanges. Either from free or paid ones.
So, how do you build back links to your website using directories. Directories are websites that list other websites according to categories and sub categories. Websites are listed under different topics. Some of the most popular directories are the Yahoo, Google and DMOZ directories.
You can build back links using directories in three ways. Through;
1. Free directories
2. Paid directories
3. Reciprocal directories.
You can get a comprehensive lists of these directories and their page rank at rel=nofollow http://www.directorycritic.com To build these back links fast your can either use a directory submission software or you give it to a submission service. Hiring a submission service gives you more time to concentrate on other marketing aspect of your website. But if you think you have the time (it is time consuming), you can purchase a good submission software like submiteaze to do your submission your self.
Using free directories to build back links.
Beware, that using this type of directory to build back link may not produce much. The quality of back links you get is not much. Most free directories are new directories. Their goal is to get other websites to list in their directories so that their directories will be filled up fast with content. Once they get to some certain stage, after two or three months when they have acquired some page rank, they start to charge for listing in their directories.
However, you can get a very good free back link, if you get your site listed in the dmoz.org directory. This is a human reviewed general web directory. There are other quality free directories. You may have to wait a long time to get listed. And even when you are listed, the web page where your site is listed may be buried so deep in the site that it is of no value what so ever.
Using reciprocal directories to build back links.
Reciprocal directories are a little better than free directories. Your site submission is more readily accepted because of the reciprocal link you are offering to the directory. So your waiting time for acceptance is shorter than for the free directories. However, just like for the free directories, the webmaster is at liberty to list your site anywhere in the directory. This, most of the time, means being buried so deep in the directory structure that you do not get any value for listing.
Using paid directories.
Using paid directories to build back links is the best way to build quality back links to your site. Before we get into how to build quality back links using this type of directory, lets look at the advantages in being listed in them.
a. Before a directory will even think of charging for listing it must have acquired some quality. Either through page rank, which is the most obvious due to the page rank bar, or through acceptance in the webmaster community. And most of these paid directories are being spidered (crawled) by the search engines regularly. Sometimes on a daily basis. So if you have a new site your chances of being picked up and indexed quickly by the search engines are very high indeed.
b. You can get to choose where your site is listed. Most of the time the webmaster will not change the page your site is listed in.
c. Your site could be picked up for listing in other new directories.
d. You can get some decent amount of traffic since you will have a featured or sponsored listing in the directory. This means your website will be at the top of the page where it is listed.
e. Your site will get page rank passed to it from the listing page if it has good page rank.
Okay lets build these back links. Firstly bear in mind that there are thousands of directories on the web. They are also of different kinds, There are niche and general directories. So if any one directory doesn’t satisfy you search out another.
1. Search out the directories with the least price and highest page rank at that price.
2. Browse to the page (category or sub category) you want to submit your site to and make sure it has a good page rank. For a page rank 6 directory, you could typically find a page rank 4 page to list your site in. If no page or category exist for a good page rank, move to another directory.
3. Choose featured listing without additional listings. Offer for featured listings with additional pages are normal higher in price than for directories without. The additional listings will not add any value in terms of page rank to your additional listed pages because most of the time the pages where you are allowed to list additional pages have zero page rank. Since you aim to build many back links through paid directories you do not want to waste your money.
4. Some directories offer permanent listing and yearly listing. Choose permanent listing so your credit card is not charged every year. Both provide same value.
5. Make sure there are not more than 20 to 30 other outgoing links on the page you will listed in. Having many outgoing links on the page dilutes the page rank passed to your site.
To conclude, bear in mind that the acquisition of quality back links to your website is a long time process. List which directories to submit to if you are doing the submission yourself or hire it out so that you can quickly build up the back links fast.
The Author, Salihu brahim, is the owner of [http://www.1st-general.com]1st-general.com. A [http://www.1st-general.com]free general web directory listing quality websites.
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Acquiring back links is one of the most painstaking jobs you can do online. It takes up a lot of your time. Many online businesses have been built on this aspect of SEO alone.
There are many submission services springing up daily. Whether it is article submission or director submission. There are also link exchange services of all kinds, free and paid. There is even the occasional article exchange program between webmasters. All to the objective of building back links. That is to tell you how important back links are to your effort at ranking well in the search engines. In fact, the number one search engine Google.com's algorithm is built around back links.
Back links are of many types.
1. There is the back link that is one way. That is, you get a link to your website without having to link back to the site that linked to you. These are the types you get from doing directory or article submission. Or if your website content is good enough other webmasters will freely link to your content or resource. Or you can just buy your back links from websites selling space on their sites.
2. There is the link exchange. This gives you a back link only if you link back. This is called a reciprocal link. you get these kinds from link exchanges. Either from free or paid ones.
So, how do you build back links to your website using directories. Directories are websites that list other websites according to categories and sub categories. Websites are listed under different topics. Some of the most popular directories are the Yahoo, Google and DMOZ directories.
You can build back links using directories in three ways. Through;
1. Free directories
2. Paid directories
3. Reciprocal directories.
You can get a comprehensive lists of these directories and their page rank at rel=nofollow http://www.directorycritic.com To build these back links fast your can either use a directory submission software or you give it to a submission service. Hiring a submission service gives you more time to concentrate on other marketing aspect of your website. But if you think you have the time (it is time consuming), you can purchase a good submission software like submiteaze to do your submission your self.
Using free directories to build back links.
Beware, that using this type of directory to build back link may not produce much. The quality of back links you get is not much. Most free directories are new directories. Their goal is to get other websites to list in their directories so that their directories will be filled up fast with content. Once they get to some certain stage, after two or three months when they have acquired some page rank, they start to charge for listing in their directories.
However, you can get a very good free back link, if you get your site listed in the dmoz.org directory. This is a human reviewed general web directory. There are other quality free directories. You may have to wait a long time to get listed. And even when you are listed, the web page where your site is listed may be buried so deep in the site that it is of no value what so ever.
Using reciprocal directories to build back links.
Reciprocal directories are a little better than free directories. Your site submission is more readily accepted because of the reciprocal link you are offering to the directory. So your waiting time for acceptance is shorter than for the free directories. However, just like for the free directories, the webmaster is at liberty to list your site anywhere in the directory. This, most of the time, means being buried so deep in the directory structure that you do not get any value for listing.
Using paid directories.
Using paid directories to build back links is the best way to build quality back links to your site. Before we get into how to build quality back links using this type of directory, lets look at the advantages in being listed in them.
a. Before a directory will even think of charging for listing it must have acquired some quality. Either through page rank, which is the most obvious due to the page rank bar, or through acceptance in the webmaster community. And most of these paid directories are being spidered (crawled) by the search engines regularly. Sometimes on a daily basis. So if you have a new site your chances of being picked up and indexed quickly by the search engines are very high indeed.
b. You can get to choose where your site is listed. Most of the time the webmaster will not change the page your site is listed in.
c. Your site could be picked up for listing in other new directories.
d. You can get some decent amount of traffic since you will have a featured or sponsored listing in the directory. This means your website will be at the top of the page where it is listed.
e. Your site will get page rank passed to it from the listing page if it has good page rank.
Okay lets build these back links. Firstly bear in mind that there are thousands of directories on the web. They are also of different kinds, There are niche and general directories. So if any one directory doesn’t satisfy you search out another.
1. Search out the directories with the least price and highest page rank at that price.
2. Browse to the page (category or sub category) you want to submit your site to and make sure it has a good page rank. For a page rank 6 directory, you could typically find a page rank 4 page to list your site in. If no page or category exist for a good page rank, move to another directory.
3. Choose featured listing without additional listings. Offer for featured listings with additional pages are normal higher in price than for directories without. The additional listings will not add any value in terms of page rank to your additional listed pages because most of the time the pages where you are allowed to list additional pages have zero page rank. Since you aim to build many back links through paid directories you do not want to waste your money.
4. Some directories offer permanent listing and yearly listing. Choose permanent listing so your credit card is not charged every year. Both provide same value.
5. Make sure there are not more than 20 to 30 other outgoing links on the page you will listed in. Having many outgoing links on the page dilutes the page rank passed to your site.
To conclude, bear in mind that the acquisition of quality back links to your website is a long time process. List which directories to submit to if you are doing the submission yourself or hire it out so that you can quickly build up the back links fast.
The Author, Salihu brahim, is the owner of [http://www.1st-general.com]1st-general.com. A [http://www.1st-general.com]free general web directory listing quality websites.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Salihu_Ibrahim http://EzineArticles.com/?How-To-Use-Directories-To-Build-Back-Links-Fast&id=605443
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