20 Dec 08 All about Google – Easy, Simple and Effective Part 2
Okay, previous post was long but I am sure it would have given you insight information that you really need for brining massive traffic to your site and Google related information.
So, Here is the part 2 of All about Google, You can read the Part 1 here - Easy, Simple and Effective Part 1. Once again, I sincerely want to say “Thanks” to MGTGamer who shares this fantastic information for everyone. This article is published with the content & consent of M3rC and his original post.
All about Google – Easy, Simple and Effective Part 2
Q:Does Alexa Rank affect Google rank?
A: No, Google ranks you according to your PageRank, Keyword Competition and the quality of your SEO work. Your traffic has no impact on your rankings, but doing well in the three “factors” will obviously generate traffic one way or another.
Q: My Search results return with nothing more than spam?
A: Umm, this happens. Happened to me a couple of times too. I’m not really sure what’s going on, but reading some of the resources – I’m aware of Google testing out some new algorithm of User-Submitted data instead of the typical crawler-work!
Q: User-submitted data? So, what’s the point of SEO then?
A: SEO will always be a factor in SERPs. Just think about it, Google is just testing this – you cannot expect a group of “trusted” users rank X,XXX,XXX sites now can you? It’s near impossible. So, work on your SEO as you normally do, it will always come back with good results. Nothing can replace SEO unless Google turns into a bigger version of DMOZ… that would be really stupid on Google’s behalf! That’s another argument for another day.
Google Adsense Related
Q: I earned $X,XX today! WOOT! Am I rich?
A: Umm, No. Congratulations on your earning and it’s always a personal milestone that we all go through but DP isn’t a place for every single publisher to boast and be radical about how much they get for every click! I mean, good on you but the world doesn’t revolve around your Adsense earnings…if the community can’t benefit from it, why bother telling everyone? I’m sure a handful of us can sleep better at night knowing you got $1 for a click . I’m not trying to sound rude or anything but please do understand.
Google PageRank Related
Q: My PR is N/A. What’s that?
A: N/A means “Not Available” and it differs from a PR0. PageRank N/A is another way of saying that Google hasn’t assigned you a PR yet, or you haven’t been around long enough for the PR Update. PR0 generally means no back links that have been tracked by Google, or a very few that carry no juice. So, Link building is pretty important.
Q: What are the effects of a 301/302 Redirect?
A: Redirecting is simple what the name suggests, when you enter a specific URL it will redirect to another URL. There’s two types of URL Redirection – 301(Permanent) & 302(Temporary). Obviously they are different, the 301 tells the crawling spider that the website has shifted to a new domain name, and once it identifies the 301 redirect, it will generally pass most if not all of the link juice. A 302 differs because the crawler knows it’s temporary, whether it been a routine update or a short-term fix for an error. It is recommended that you set up a URL redirection, if you shift domains.
Google Traffic Related
Q: How can I notify the “world” that I’ve added new content to my blog/site?
A: Simple, use PingGoat. It “pings” several key engines/directories and notify them that you’ve posted new content. Once you’ve submitted your details once, you can bookmark the URL and just visit that bookmark whenever you want to ping your site!
Q: Social Bookmarking, What is it?
A: Social Bookmarking is the relatively ‘new’ hype when it comes to “spreading the world about content”. The ideology behind SB sites came, as the same time as Web 2.0 and has been a relative success on a short-term basis. Usually the content is voted by users, like your self and the more positive votes – the more exposure you get! It’s a very good SEO factor and if used wisely, you can reap the optimum benefits.
Q: Hate submitting my content, site by site! Any easy way?
A: Yes! There is. Most bloggers and content writers here at DP and many other places use a little nifty web application called SocialMarker. I won’t explain it here, but take the time to register on all the Social Bookmarking sites and after that – you’ll thank yourself!
Q: How to track my website statistics?
A: Use Google Analytics, it provides you with comprehensive data and is the best stat-tracker out there, hands down.
Tags: alexa, google, keywords, link building, pingoat, redirect, SEO, SERPs, traffic, url
20 Dec 08 All about Google – Easy, Simple and Effective Part 1
Sometimes, People wanted to know so much and can find so little information, I keep asking myself why because I have faced this kind of situation quite often. But today is a new day and I have got something to share because someone has done a great job especially to those who are new or vaguely understood about Google before.
I have recently posted about the sources of knowledge and some websites I find it very interesting for webmasters, SEO and online marketing worlds. One of these sites is DigitalPoint forum, which I visit frequently past a couple of months. I have met an awesome person from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and here’s what he shares all about google. I can only say 3 words.
Easy, Simple and Effective.. I will divide into two parts because this is going to be covered in a lot of Google related topics. So, Thanks to MGTGamer whose profile is M3rC shares this fantastic information for all of you. This article is published with the content & consent of M3rC and his original post.
Google Search Engine Related
Q: My site/blog doesn’t show up on Google! Why?
A: This, I think is one of the most widely asked questions not only here at DP, but any SEO Forum for that matter. Well, let’s see the answer to this question depend on many, many variables. As you read through this thread, perhaps you might come across information that will help you understand the algorithm behind the Big G (no-one really has a 100% insight on it, but we can all try) However, for the purpose of the thread, let’s work out a few? If you type “site:[your domain here]” on Google and no results are found, you should try the following processes:
1) Write some decent UNIQUE Content
2) Fine-Tune your H1 & H1 Tags and have a well written Title, Description & Keywords.
2) Submit your articles to Social Bookmarking sites such as Facebook, Yahoo! Buzz, Stumble Upon, Google Bookmarks, Digg, Reddit & Others.
3) Submit your site to Directories (You can find heaps of recommended ones, just search the DPForums)
4) Make sure your SiteMap is up to date and in working order
5) Submit your site to the “Google URL Submitter”
6) Register a Google Webmaster’s account, and submit your site details <- IMPORTANT!
Trust me, this works all the time! I usually get indexed after 5-8 HOURS after I follow those six steps (in order)! It works. Perfectly.
Q: Should I submit to Yahoo/MSN/Google?
A: Why not all three? It wouldn’t hurt. Now it is true that the algorithms behind these big engines are different, in fact I personally conclude that they are matching opposites. I have personally experience websites moving up on the Google Results (due to WHITE hat SEO techniques) and in return the site was falling on Yahoo results. So, I guess it’s fair to come to that assumption? I recommend you submit to all engines, but select one and work on getting good results on that. Don’t try to kill all three engines with one stone, cause your stone will never be big enough.
Q: How to get #1 Position for keyword “ABCDE”
A: If the answer to this question can be answer via a thread post, Search Engines wouldn’t exist because everyone “would be #1″. To gain number one status, is hard and it’s even harder to maintain that position. In fact it’s near impossible you pick a keyword and search it once a week, You would see that there’s at least some slight change in the order of websites. It will take time, effort and perseverance to get to #1. If you stick around long enough and stay true to your ambition you will get there! Only time will tell if you do.
Google Adsense Related
Q: I’m not earning “X” amount! Why?
A: Don’t quit your day job just yet, hand on for a second buddy. Google Adsense pays you PER CLICK. That’s right you might get lucky and get $1+ for a click, but that won’t be for ever unless you done your homework, and found the ultimate niche (this is possible) anyways, most of us publishers, earn around 10-40cents a click, and those are the lucky ones. You won’t get rich overnight with a new site, so give it time. Traffic is the key, not only traffic but targeted traffic. Junk Traffic that you can buy for $1/100,000 hits is the biggest waste of a dollar! Targeted traffic means that your visitors have an interested in your topic, so if they see an advertisement that catch their attention they will hopefully click on it. Surfers that get paid 2 cents to view your page for 10seconds isn’t going to get you any clicks, guaranteed. Traffic ultimately is the key to success in Adsense, so stick around learn as much as you can – and one day you can reap the benefits.
Q: What can I legally display?
A: There’s been a few threads about warez and adult sites having Adsense on it, well to answer all those questions – get rid of it! Google cannot be cheated, we’ll you can but not for long. They will find you out and eventually destroy your ability to use their tools once and for all, let alone earn money. If your still concerned about your niche you can always try other incentive sites, or even better read theGoogle Adsense TOS first. If they don’t say you can’t do it, that means you can <- just a handy pointer.
Q: OMG! I “accidentally” clicked my ad! What now?
A: Don’t panic, just notify Google using this and just one measly “accidental” click won’t do you harm unless someone has a repulsive disorder, repeating the same accident over and over…
Q: Google banned me, do I have hope?
A: Save your time, and don’t bother. Google has many publishers as they need, if not want too. So, if you really want to you can file a complaint and fight and near unwinnable battle. Or else you can be smarter and invest that time in working with other incentive programs like Adbrite or YahooPublisher.
Q: I’m getting “X,XXX” clicks but only “$YYYY“! What’s going on?
A: If your impressions, clicks and payout doesn’t match out then either you are overlooking something really important your Googles wrong, and the likely hood of that happening is 99% and 1% respectively! Target your keywords better, revise your traffic and visitor behave by using Google Analytics then re-revise your advert layout and colors and positions as these three are the biggest reasons why your Adsense might not be performing. If all three seems in shape, post here @ DPForums, I’m sure we can help you out!
Google PageRank/Traffic Related
Q: Whens the next PR Update?
A: Digg a hole, and bury yourself and we’ll call you up when the next updates coming. Seriously, who cares? PageRank is just a visual representation of how much GOOGLE THINKS that your site is of value to the community, you could easily have a low PR site with significant amount of visitors. PageRank is important but isn’t the only SERP factor! For crying out loud don’t worry about this, it happens every 2-4months and if you can’t stick around that long – do you really think web developments for you?
Q: Do-Follow? No-Follow? Who-Follow?
A: Your probably wondering what it is, well it’s simple. Google allows webmasters to set which sites should get the “link juice” from the originating webpage. What does that mean? Well say I have a PR4 page and I link to your page, and I set you as “Do-Follow” then when the little incy-wincy Google spider comes crawling my site and comes across your link, it will identify the Do-Follow tag and pass on some of that PR4 Link Juice on to your page! That’s why “DO-Follow Commenting” is such a good way of getting good, healthy and quick backlinks for your site! Obviously, the term “nofollow” will negate this instance.
Q: Buying links for Higher PR and better back links?
A: This gets a bit grey, let me put it this way. You can do it, but if Google finds out that you are – you will be penalized and most likely loose the effect of that bought link. In other words, if they catch you – you’ll go down the SERPs and they are likely to backlist you (this is an educated guess).
Q: I just started a website, how can I get more traffic?
A: This is one of the most frequently asked questions by new web developers, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Except maybe the fact the answer has no limits. You can generate traffic from telling your friend to visit it, to ordering a Cessna plane to leave a URL on the skies of a sunny morning and everything in between the two! There’s unlimited ways you can get traffic but here are few that’s been narrowed down to “online marketing”:
~Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites
~Participate in Forums, Online Discussions and become a niche-related community activist (other words talk to people)
~Don’t Spam! “If what you have to say, isn’t something you want to hear yourself – don’t say it”
~Write often, the more content you write the more times your visitors will come back to read it
~Perfect your theme, layout and optimize your site visually <- this has so many advantages, so just do it.
~Be creative and think outside the box, look at what others are doing and try to beat it with something out of the ordinary. People get amused by new and exciting things.
~Optimize your tags, keywords and images for Search Engines this will indirectly turn into traffic.
~Aviod keyword spamming
Google SiteMaps Related
Q: Should I have a Sitemap?
A: Do you want to be ranked high in search engines? The answer to these two questions will be the same.
Q: Google hasn’t accepted my Sitemap yet?
A: It will take a while, if you have submitted your sitemap to Google Webmasters, just give it a few days and personally visit your sitemap URL to see if it’s in working and accessible order.
Ok, pretty long enough for part 1. Part 2 can be read here.
Thanks for reading.
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Tags: adbrite, adsense, australia, blog, digg, digital point, effective online marketing, facebook, forums, google, h1, h2, melbourne, pagerank, reddit, SEO, sitemap, social bookmarking, stumble upon, tags, tools, traffic, unique content, url submitter, victoria, webmaster, yahoo buzz, yahoo publisher
07 Nov 08 Making Money With AdSense What Google Never Told You About
Google AdSense is one of the major money generating cash cow for make money online population. It is very important to get to know that whether you know all the secrets that you are supposed to know about AdSense rather than having AdSense account and not generating attractive income for quite sometimes. I have seen many people are stuck with AdSense and finally gave up on maintaining or developing their websites and blogs because they cannot create what they aimed for.
For those who are making good money with AdSense then again hardly share the secrets because of a few things, firstly, you may not be putting enough efforts as they are, you may not understand how affiliate programs work, you may not have unique contents, you may not work hard for search engines to love your website/blog, or you may not plan and implement nicely and effectively for long run.
So, Once you feel that you have all the requirements to earn money online, then you definitely need to know a few things about AdSense. Most importantly, you have to learn how to not get banned from AdSense by doing common mistakes or violating their TOS.
This FREE e-book is written by Joel Comm who has great writing and fantastic solutions regarding AdSense. You may also distribute freely if you want to. The book is actually divided in some topics. They are
- Secrets of AdSense Revenue
- Things you should know about Adsense
- Adlinks Units
- Must know Google’s Terms of Service
- Adsense STATS
- Three Kinds of Sites That You Can Make Fortune
- Tweaking AdSense Ads
- Is Someone Messing Up Your AdSense?
- The Biggest Mistake Peopel Make With AdSense
- Making Public AdSense Serve You
Tags: adsense, ebook, free, stats, traffic
01 Nov 08 5 Things You Should Know About AdSense
Nowadays, every website turns to AdSense and they all have been earning pennies a month and never ever reached for the first $100 cheque, being on the long way, some people screw their websites with duplicate contents, unworthy information and boring content and some even violated Google’s TOS, consequently resulting bans before the first pay cheque.
So, here are the 5 important facts you need to know about Google AdSense.
- AdSense can make a lot of money, so do not underestimate it. There are individuals who are making $300,000 a month with AdSense. So, plan and implement very well.
- Content is MOST important thing to earn $$$ from AdSense, not keywords, if you try to trick it, you will not even make it to your first pay check. You can review how Google works here.
- Define your niche and category to monetize in. Research a bit about AdWords and bidding for certain keywords before you decide to make money online. You love having a website about real estate, then you focus on real estate niche to get more consistent and relevant ads on your site. (Some niches will even create better rate for your ads)
- Rely, review and research on your traffic. The people who made money are the people who use “triple R”. If you rely on your traffic, you will know the nature of your traffic. If you review your traffic, you will know which pages and which articles are drawing attention to which countries or what type of persons. Of course, research your stats and come up with the better Ads placement ideas always help you earn more than usual AdSense members is the key of all “triple R”.Always have two or more traffic monitoring service. Most of the hosting offer free web stats. You can also use Google Analytics to monitor your web traffic. (Here is how to add google analytics to wordpress blog.)
- You can partially control about your Ads placement in order to tweak the ads content with your content. It is neither cheating or keywords spamming, however, it will improve your Ads Placement.
Tags: adsense, google, Google Analytics
15 Oct 08 Learn How Not to Get Banned from Google AdSense
Well, this is probably not very new topic for you. However, I still would like to discuss from my point of view and a few solutions that you can prevent from getting banned from Google AdSense Online Advertising and Publishing Program.
Okay, I am a member at Digital Point Forums, the place is like a gateway to the Webmaster A-to-Z knowledge, I have seen brilliant guys and ladies helping each other over there. I learned a lot of things I have never ever known of. And to the irony, I notice something everyday, It’s like “My site got banned from Google” or “My site is no longer indexed in Google”, It is like having a breakfast every morning for me, Because when I login to digital point, that’s what i see every morning.
I know we loving reading, but not really what it comes to reading things like terms & conditions and TOS and disclaimers and copyright and oh, the list goes on and on. Absolutely, you don’t need to read all those boring things but all you need is just follow these proper procedures & you will never need to read boring stuff.
- Use Unique content (I have mentioned of this several times already LOL)
- Must have at least 20 unique content pages of your site (This is more about getting approval instead of ban, but unique content pages are always a plus)
- Don’t use Hidden Texts or change the codes given (Using small display texts and load with rich keywords)
- Do not use bots or click frauds (Do not cheat, because all the potential fraud clicks and counts will be refunded back to original Advertiser, Think of yourself as an advertiser, you will love to have targeted audience with true human visitors, so As a publisher, treat the same as how you would like to be treated)
- Use the AdSense approved formats only (You have several formats to display, more than enough, but don’t be super-smart, you will be banned)
- Don’t click on your own ads (everyone needs to know, that’s very important and tempting sometimes when you see the ads, of course you can click other ads when you really are surfing, but keep in mind, no clicking on your ads, not even ONCE, period), It has been well documented one person was banned having click twice his ads within 24 hours, so keep your hands away from your own ADS.
- Don’t do overkill Ads placement on a single page, 3 Ad Links or 3 Ad Units. Besides, it will decrease your conversion rate and 90% of visitors hate full of ads page. (Simply follow Goggle’s rules)
- Don’t display similar Ads as Google (Keep in mind that you have to satisfy the big guy Google, don’t mess up with similar ads such as Adbrite text ads on the left and Adsense on the right)
- Never tell/write in your contents anyone to encourage, persuade, push or trick to click your ads, you will get banned. (Google use several variations and conditions to check your page content and relevancy, check out my article about Google and its technology, you will be amazed how smart their search engines and hypertext analysis methods are)
- Use single Google account to maintain several websites/AdSense Channels. It is a must, if you have 100 websites, you can still use your singleaccount@gmail.com, don’t do multiple accounts for multiple sites. (This is also help you to protect identify theft and will save a lot of time for Google to make a quick payment, meaning, we all get money faster)
- If you want to label them, use “sponsored links” or “advertisements”, other keywords are not allowed. (Don’t make labels like NGO supported, donation welcome or me love you long time, in this case, you will be banned and your arse will be burned)
- Never launch a new page in new windows if you are linking inbound links. (That is multiple pages pressuring visitors to click your ads, and that is wrong, all inbound links, do not open in a new window)
- Use Ads on content pages (don’t create blank page with ads, you will be banned, don’t create copy/paste materials all the time, you will be banned, don’t use terrible design & layout, you won’t be banned, but many people hate them
) - Do not try to cover ads elements, you see like “google ads” >> << things like that, don’t try to hide them under something and don’t try to trick Google. (You will be banned. Google nicely allows you to use different background color to fit in with your content pages. Yes, use Blend, it will fit in nicely most of the times)
- Check your contents all the time. Don’t just throw cheap contents just to make your site stuff. Always aware of your contents. That’s very important. (Of course, your contents should be free of pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content)
- Don’t over advertise your ads. (Google allows you to enter relevant keywords, but don’t over do with rich keywords again)
- Do not trick with images and texts of ads. (Trying to portray like images and texts are related in order to make visitors to click, you will be banned)
- My Site PR7 PageRank for sale (Don’t try to sell pagerank, it is not a right, it’s a privilege, so don’t screw yourself, since your site has good PageRank, it’s even better for Google to trace your activities, oops, you have done a lot of great SEO works and everything you write, Google will find out faster than the potential buyers)
- Don’t do link farms with Adsense. (Search engine crawlers hate link farms, so make sure who you are connected to, be relevant with your discussion as well, experts said if you have more than 100 links in a page, that is very likely your site creditability will be low and maybe exclude or discount you from page ranking system, heard the stories of PR5 to PR2 in 2 days?)
- Make sure there is NO pop-up ads or pop-under ads on your site (that’s another “How to Get banned from Google AdSense in a 24 hours guide book”, just kidding)
- Provide a good environment for advertisers (They are paying money to you, so be nice, be informative when you give out facts, be true to visitors, so Google can assign related ads to your sites, don’t worry about the keywords rate, once you are true to your visitors, you always get rewarded).
- Be Alerted and Active (Always update your current emails if Google sent u important emails, some people got banned because they don’t response on time and not follow the Google guidelines within given period)
- Don’t use black hat SEO and Pay-To-Click services around your site. Be square and Be Fair to honest people who uses SEO methods honestly and advertisers who want to get their products or services known.
Well, I don’t so smartly come up with all these great suggestions all by myself even though I read whatever it is necessary to create this post.
So, Thanks to these people, not in order, but equally grateful to have read your articles in the past. All the credits go to these fabulous people who also inspired me to write about this article.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome, Thanks for reading my longest post on my site. And Happy Earning Google AdSense in the future.
Tags: adsense, adwords, ban, blog, Blog-HowTo, bloggers, cheat, google, Making Money, support, tricks, wordpress
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