29 Jan 09 Basics For Search Engine Optimization

I would have to admit basics are sometimes very important for long run. I never really believe quick fix can definitely help you out especially when you have no basics to cover with. That applies to everything in the world and I would definitely support the fact it also applies to SEO Search Engine Optimization world.

I have come across to this fabulous e-book last week and I would love to share with you all because these basics are very important to start for your website, blog, e-commerce or even personal web page.

Many people would try to find the easy way to get traffic that are not unique and targeted, but if you can truly persuade search engine bots to index your site effectively, you will be getting the traffic from free organic search. All you need is to understand the foundations of SEO and if you keep building the same way, in a couple of months, you will see noticeable improvement on your website traffic.

This e-book explains and tells in many useful categories such as

• why us SEO
• what is the basic link structure within a site
• effective use of keywords for SEO
• how to determine keywords selection for your site
• what is search engine friendly content
• back-links help with SEO

All these mentioned above are pretty much simple you may think, but actually it’s actually very important factors for your SEO work. If you haven’t done any of these methods and kept doing what unnecessary, it will just be time wasting for you. So, get started today and get indexed your website or blog immediately.

Thanks for reading.

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23 Jan 09 All about Domain Names – Free e-book

In IT world, even a little thing matters, at least that’s what I think. I was so keen with the domain names since 1997 where we can register at Internic solutions.

Vividly I remember, It was $50 per domain for a year and not many domains areregistered unless you have extra funds available for most of the webmasters until it hit 1999, Internic started selling $35 bucks. Nowadays, most of the domain names are selling averaging like $10 per year and the domain name business has been doing pretty well. Even, you can have parked.com offering just to park and generate some income.

So, I wanted to share this fantastic free e-book to all my visitors because it is a good read and will always help you to assist making decision effectively. Thanks to Joseph Naymache for creating this e-book.

Enoy your e-book “Introduction to Domain Names 101“.

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20 Dec 08 Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching!

“Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching”

Taking into account Technorati’s count on February 11, 2008 of 185,620,000 and adding a calculated 175,000 new blogs everyday – Today, as of December 20th 2008 there are a total of 217, 236, 376 blogs! You can view the running count here. (The flash counter adds 1 new blog every 2 seconds (based on the 175K new blogs daily).

That’s a lot of blogs, and even more content! According to WordPress.com, their stats stand at 5,037,838 blogs and a whopping 43,332,247 words today! The user generated content on the internet is staggering, and you would expect that.

So, in this competitive online world you cannot be soft – go hard out with what you write and write it like you mean it. You have to stand out from the crowd because your website falls into one of the following two categories;

~ Lots of Interested Users, More Competitive

~ Not many Interested Users, Less Competitive

If your blogging for any reason other than personal “writing” you are most likely to fall into the first category.

You might ask yourself, how do I make myself stand out? Well simple, do something out of the ordinary. Everyone can write, but it takes determination, perseverance and dedication to run a website that will have your visitors returning back and back again! Look around you, see what other people are doing and try to do something better, I know this is easier said than done, but nothing’s free in this world and you got to get out there and earn your respect. Don’t worry about money as you start, because with respect the $$ piggy bank is not too far behind.

Just a last pointer, is that write in topics you are personally interested in and not for the money. 95% of new bloggers fail because they try to write for high paying keywords and niches. What good is a high paying keyword if you give up in 2 months? If you don’t see yourself writing content about the topic in one year’s time, don’t even bother starting.

Firstly find out your passion and your interests and then go from there. Good luck to you, in your journeys!

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20 Dec 08 All about Google – Easy, Simple and Effective Part 3

As a member of several SEO/Wed Development Forums, I’ve seen a lot of “Google Penalized” threads appearing all over the place. In fact there’s a couple, if I’ve counted correctly that just rocked up on DP today. I want to dedicate this entire post to explain to you on what grounds Google will/can/should penalize your site.

Google Penalization
Q: What is the “Google Penalty”?
A: It’s simple. When you try to cheat the system, or do something you’re not meant to Google will “punish” you and this will effect everything from the behavior of your visitors (to a lesser extent) to your monthly earnings (to a greater extent)

Q: How can the penalty affect me?
A: Well for starters, you will be deranked. Meaning you are likely to be completely kicked of the Google Search Engine if the committed “crime” is bad, i.e. using extensive blackhat techniques. However, alot of things can happen through this penalty which isn’t limited to anything from loosing SERPs to being banished from the G-Empire. It just depends how serious your crime was.

Q: What reasons can Google use to penalize me?
A: The answer to this question is mainly common sense. Much like this thread itself. Google will punish you if do the “wrong thing” but it seems that most of us, have trouble figuring out between wrong and right at times. So, let’s clear some things out! Below is a list of the most commonly used reasons behind the Google Penalization… it’s not surprising to see most of them in the list, like I said it’s just common sense.

~ Usage of BlackHat Techniques – Search the forums, and you’ll know what I’m talking about. BlackHat SEO Techniques involve “cheating” the system or finding loopholes and exploiting them. This will allow you to get great SERP boost but won’t last for long, they will find you out!

~Usage of GreyHat Techniques – Similar to BlackHat but the damage isn’t as bad. It’s like a less “bad” version of the BlackHat technique but you can still be penalized. Google will only accept WhiteHat SEO Techniques and you should stick to it too!

~ Content Duplication – This not only applies to Google and other search engines, but to us in general life too. If you copy/rip-off other peoples work, work they’ve spent time and effort to create you will be punished. It’s a form of stealing; you wouldn’t steal now would you?

~ Purchasing Links from other Sites – One of the most discussed “link building” techniques is this. People all around the internet purchase links from higher PR and niche-related sites to gain quick authority. However, the unspoken truth is that it’s against the Google TOS, so if they catch you – you will have to face the music.

~ Invalid URL Redirection – I talked about 301/302 URL Forwarding in the earlier FAQ and how important it was, well this is why. If you shift sites and don’t set up the redirection properly – when the incy-wincy Google spider comes along, it won’t realize the shift – resulting in your “new URL” to be treated as a new website al-together, loosing it’s backlinks, PR and authority!

~ Keyword Stuffing – Its name speaks for itself, if you stuff your website with keywords to please the crawlers, it will look bad to real human visitors, and eventually to Google as well. You should “sprinkle” your page with targeted keywords not flood it! Keywords are important, it helps direct the “right” visitors to your site and helps “target” your Adsense adverts. The more targeted the ads, the more clicks you will get.

~ Un-natural Link Building – This is the least of your worries, It’s true that there are penalties for websites building a lot of links in an “unnatural” way in a short time, but I don’t think it will effect normal and legitimate webmasters like ourselves . If you site contains real, unique content and a legitimate product, and should be able to build links naturally without any problems on the search engines. This “reason” mainly focuses on spammers, scrapers, or people who own a lot of domains and start “inter-linking”

Q: I just got penalized! Now what?
A: Well you can’t do much, just spend the time rebuilding and regaining the “mutual trust” between you and Google, which you once had. You can contact them, but unless your sites extremely popular, I wouldn’t bother cause neither would they.

Q: Can Google penalize me for using Auto-Surfers?
A: Obviously, it can’t be good. I’ve researched this question extensively but couldn’t find an exact answer. Then again, common sense will tell us it cannot do anything but harm. Surely “fake” views of Google Ads won’t be something to be proud of. Avoid them as much as possible, frankly you shouldn’t even be using them for anything – imitating “person’s” surfing can’t be for a good cause.

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24 Nov 08 10 Phases that Successful Bloggers Habituate

Presently, over 100 million blogs are available online. Why you are reading here? That’s because you have searched the correct keywords (organic traffic), visited high page rank site (PR techniques) or you visited the relevant sites (SEO techniques).

What makes you stand out from over 100 million blogs is not easy, but it is not tough as well. If you follow these 10 processes over a certain period of time, you will definitely achieve what you expected. That being said, it’s not an easy task to follow and usually you would have to satisfy yourself in every single phase.

1. Develop a valuable information, product or service.
2. Develop your own website in the niche that you know and love to do in the long run.
3. Develop your content with valuable resources and unique materials
4. Develop a real traffic to your website/blog.
5. Utilize your content to attract your traffic.
6. Build Trust and Credibility with your visitors.
7. Use your site to pre-sell your visitors.
8. Convert your target visitors to create sales.
9. Expand your revenue by effectively monetization of your site.
10. Continuously improve step 1 through 9.

There, you have it all. If you fulfill your website one by one, you can start having ads and affiliations at step 6. Step 7-9 will involve you to sign up with effective advertisers such as AdSense and Bidvertiser.

Happy making money. Thanks for reading.

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