Another overloading time for Twitter today, My time 29th  April, 2010 at 10:09:42 am.

I am pretty upset with twitter lately as I don’t want to use external APIs to connect. It is because there are too many APIs connecting and looks like the site has been overloaded frequently. With the massive amount of messages flying around the net, especially evening time for US will be pretty much a lot of traffic and load balancing machines at Twitter can probably do nothing about it.

At the other hand, it’s fantastic massive traffic flowing in and out of Twitter and I think twitter can actually give you pretty much of SEO advantage over time, because the indexing method with Twitter is not so bad even though first generated TWEET is not necessarily creating massive traffic. So yea, SEO/SEM wise, it’s a great approach, and it is well-used by many others now.

Anyway, another disappointing experience with Twitter this week, AGAIN and I hope they will improve their accessibility soon.

Generally, People tend to write about great articles and fantastic posts about how to get a traffic, SEO related topics, SEM marketing hits and social networking sources.

What I like about plug-ins for wordpress is somehow not new. But if we choose correctly, definitely It is useful for many bloggers. I am sometimes skeptical about some plug-ins but some plug-ins are definitely fantastic.

I would suggest some of the killer plug-ins are not only useful but also help bloggers to gain more traffic and facilities as well as flexibilities. Speaking of killer plug-ins, if you are usual blogger in all niches and sorts, below are the ones that should not be missed for plug-ins.

• All in one SEO pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog
• CommentLuv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments
• Contextual Related Post – Show user defined number of contextually related posts
• SABRE – Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
• Sociable – Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites
• Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted

I would strongly recommend these plugins for starters, there are many useful plugins for specific niches, however, these six plugins along with Akismet are basically essential tools for wordpress fans. I happily use it for all my wordpress sites too.

So, if you haven’t tried all of the above plug-ins, now it’s time you get to use the opportunity because I will not write a single post that is not useful for my readers. Thanks for reading.

Choices of keywords

There are many techniques to plan for keywords in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world. It is critical to use all the techniques so that search engines can index your site better than others. It is actually called on-page optimization which is important part of SEO.

Typically, the choices of keywords are to target traffic to your site relevant to keywords that internet users will search. However, each page can be optimized for different keywords, but the most important thing is not to focus on search engines, but to focus on the content of your materials. So, here are details keywords that you can actually optimized on page and they should be done on each and every single page of your site. Especially when you have a blog, it is very effective to optimize as blogs are content based and pretty easy to implement your SEO.

Keywords density

Let’s say, if you are writing about SEO, you will probably write more than once on the word, SEO. But too much is never good and always follow your heart to write rather than worrying too much about search engines and how they will index. Sometimes, when you try so hard, it makes visitors not only to feel confused but also not to come back for next time.

Long tailed keywords

Long tailed keywords are usually very long keywords and sometimes it is good to implement on possible long tailed keywords on your site. For example, “how to make a good plan on summer holidays” are long tailed keywords and you can actually optimize for headers, titles and rhetorical questions. It is important to know that generally, search engines will omit more of the conjunction words, but if you include them, they can be searched and match up according to the relevancy of search as well.

Overlapping keywords

This is basically associated with long tailed keywords search, the best way to highlight your keywords are H1, H2, paragraph html, bold, underlined, and italics, but not overkill it, of course. For example, the keywords that can search well on “make money online” could also be searched well in “make money online information”.

Misspelled keywords

They are to avoid at all costs for me, I have some contradictions with some of the SEO masters that you can actually intend to use misspelling, however, I do not follow their suggestions because most of the search engines no longer use meta tags because of keywords spamming and 90% of top search engines have already filtered with spelling checker for search results especially in English language search.

Plural keywords

Some people actually use plural keywords to search. So, it’s sometimes good to construct your site with both singular and plural number for commonly used words. Therefore, you can actually cover both when search is sought.

Localizations of your targeted audience and keywords

If you actually install Google analytics, you can actually geo-target or alternatively know who are your frequent visitors. The selection of words can actually give them easier to understand meaning and more feel like to read it more. For example, use toilet, loo, bathroom, lavatory or restroom according to your visitors to get acquaintance with your site. If you are promoting for products or services focused on particular country, it is vital to use these localizations for your potential buyers/visitors.

Caps and Hyphens

Usually, capital and hyphenated keywords are not mentioned much in on page SEO. But they are actually practical to use. Many people overlook SEO but build millions of web pages and they do not know what they are missing. In addition, capital keywords are not treated for special but it actually looks very professional, however, with good spelling checker website such as Yahoo! and Google actually make use of the importance of capital, because in some cases, capital plays a role, for example, internet and Internet. For hyphens, most search engines consider as a space, however, indexing with or without hyphens are different, so the best thing is to use both intentionally, so that you can cover both. Or you can do some research on what type of usage and search is used on particular keywords and examine whether e-mail or email is used more if there’s a case.

So, there you go, these are fantastic methods for on page optimizations and I am sure you do not miss these, so that you can generate more visitors than your competition. Because once you have started a website, you have millions of competition and the most important thing is to offer uniqueness and attractiveness to your potential visitors. Good Luck.

Reference: SEO Book by Aaron Wall 2006, an e-book which I really like. I am not affiliated with the author and you can actually Google to buy his materials if you want.

About Domain names

The importance of domain name is critically important. Most of the great domain names are taken and I still see them doing little use at all. Some people just bought them for ages and finally they gave up using it because they did not really have a business plan or model to implement it. On the other hand, I saw some people bought unimaginable domain names and also failed with terrible domain names. So, I will discuss a little bit about domain names that comes to my mind.

As long as it takes domain names

Try to avoid it. Some people thought it is extremely important to have keywords in the domain names. It is true in branding, for example, Zytech or Microsoft, they are not really meaningful as a matter of words, but they are meaningful to the brand name. If you are building your brand, it is good to use long domain names, but of course, up to the limit where people can accept, not like cheap-best-reasonable-online-shopping-place.com is too much to remember. The ideal selection is to have not more than 12 letters without the TLD domain names (.com, .net, .tv, .org, .us).

Shorter domains

It is actually good to have shorter domain names, because when you use email promotion or even someone has to email you, you would want comfortable and easy to remember email address. Another tip is to use short form like infomm.com which could actually mean a long meaning, but also fairly easy to remember.

Dashed domains

I do not like dashed domains, be realistic, why do you use dash? The odds are, someone has already registered the name already without dashed, therefore, you need to have to dashed, consequently, that means you will possibly lose your visitors to that domain without dash as well. For example, onebest.com versus one-best.com, the name is fantastic, easy to remember, fits most of the businesses with quality and quantity, unfortunately,  people may not type – (dashed) all the time and it might lead your potential visitors to another website.

Multiple domains

One domain costs basically less than $10, if you are going to do a reputable and good business, why not spend a little bit more for your domain related and use additional parked domain which is now very easy to do so. For example, if you have bestchef.com and someone can actually buy bestchefs.com for your possible traffic and potential income. So, never feel that is not required to spend, perhaps it will be your best $10 spent in the future. Also, if you have several domains that are not used, just parked to the domain that is in full functions, or, you can actually park and display ads with Google AdSense as well. The bottom line is, do not let your domain unused at all.

So, good luck with your domain names, I will write more about domain name and its related topics soon to give you more depth. It is best when you click and read my particular topic rather than just reading through because at the end of the each post, you may find related posts that are very useful and relevant to my main post. Thanks for reading.

Well, I just received payment from Bidvertiser.. They are pretty easy to work with. It’s not much, but it’s a start, and I actually don’t even display their ads on my site.

I just refer members who are willing to use Bidvertiser  as either publisher, advertiser or referrals. It is pretty simple and straight forward to sign up and also easy to get paid. All you need is good website traffic to convert.

So, here’s the payment proof.

Bidvertiser is very popular, because you can get paid with paypal, which is pretty easy to setup.

So, get yourself some earnings today if you haven’t signed up.
If you have blog or website and you can display your ads easily with bidvertiser as a publisher

Or if you want to promote or advertise, you get $20 FREE when you sign up advertising campaign with Bidvertiser. Both awesome deals. Not only you can advertise your website or blog, also your eBay items and many more.

Many SEO do this with short cut, fast and ineffective ways. As I have mentioned before in link building posts, it is imperative that getting quality backlinks are important.

However, many SEO people use massive submissions instantly and now many search engines discount and devalue several types of backlinks for Page Rank system. However, it is not the end of the world, you still get some quality traffic if you build gradually and right ways. Do not just alarm search engines with thousands of inbound links in a single month just to get traffic, build slowly and build properly. So, following are off-page optimization methods that you can implement.

• Inbound link anchor text, the text in the paragraph neighboring that anchor text
• On page relevancies that link to the page
• Appropriate directory listing and categories your site is listed in
• Titles of the pages linking to your particular page

Make sure you read guidelines from Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, Ask.com and DMOZ before you submit your site too.:)

Happy Link Building

Many MMO and SEO guys talk about PR every now and then, Recently, new PR from Google has been updated. Does it do any good for you or bad? For me, I never care about PR much because it’s just a measurement of Google. I understand higher PR, we can sell links and etc, but I care more about unique and repeated traffic which will eventually bring success to you in the long run.

The funny thing is Google has been kind to me. I use do-follow enabled plugin which is actually a good one for WordPress bloggers, many actually said that once you have do-follow, you actually got hurt in PR, however, I believe that comment URLs are actually artificial link building and so that it doesn’t really matter about back links, maybe you generate some more traffic.

pagerank

I allowed do-follow commenting on 25th Feb 2009 with this entry named “Advantages of do-follow Plugin for WordPress“. At the beginning of the April, I have my first PR update. This site went PR0 to PR1 and another music video site of mine got went PR0 to PR2, they are relatively very young sites, both not older than 6 months. However, I have done link building carefully and slowly. So, in a couple of months, I am sure I will have something else to write about this again. Bottom line, don’t worry about giving do-follow enabled comments, because many sites are now exclusively collecting do-follow sites just for link building purpose.

So, my conclusion, I am stoked about getting my PR raised, but does it really matter? Not really. But this is a good example of doing things accordingly. So, check out my Massive Traffic and AtoZ SEO categories for more techniques and tips about getting good clean organic and natural traffic. My link building system is slow, because I am personally experimenting it, you get to do it faster because I have documented it every time I experience new techniques.

Comments and suggestions welcome. If you like my posts, you can either subscribe via email or feed/RSS reader.

I have been reviewing, reading, learning and sharing all the fantastic free e-books for a while now. This one as well come in handy for many bloggers, even the newbies or old ones.

Because this particular e-book will explain you more techniques about blogging from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspectives that are really interesting.

This book will show you how to boost your blog traffic as well as cash flow as you go by. No tricks or affiliate links included as well. All you need is to get the idea of effective blogging tips and that’s it.

So, you can download here and enjoy your free e-book, credit goes to the original author (Karina Wright) of course. I am just happy to share with you all, because Internet is all about sharing our knowledge to each other, so that we can earn extra money on what we love to do.

Thanks for reading.

Recently, I have installed do-follow enabled comment plugin on my sites and It works like a charm. As you may all have known wordpress and most of the blogs have disabled in default, however, if you can control your spam, there’s actually better way you can take control of do-follow links.

So, i installed this fantastic do-follow plugin for my wordpress and I have actually received more comments than before just in a few couple of days. That is awesome, isn’t it?

do-follow

What are the advantages of do-follow?

Of course, there are bunch of advantages for do-follow sites, I will summarize for both myself and the rest of my visitors.

1. Default settings are always on a safe side. Once you enabled do-follow link there’s imminent threat of spamming. LOL, all you need to have a a couple of top rated spam filters such as Akismet and so on. On the bright side, it’s massive traffic. There’s always an opportunity cost for higher traffic, that comes with higher spams.

2. Repeating comments, there are two ways to follow up repeating comments, one to reply each visitor comment, and another one from visitor’s reply. Confused? Bottom line, your blog post may earn more than 2 comments from each entry because many people will comment you genuinely, on the other hand, if your visitors are clever enough, they make sure they write more than 1 comment at your blog, or reply to the same comment so that the search engine bots will read them more than once.

3. Don’t worry about PR/Alexa, they are alternative ways to benchmark your site, especially I don’t believe in Alexa ranking. I would trade more traffic than getting better PR/Alexa ranking. That’s the truth. Do-follow blogs are actually giving legit backlinks to your commentors, but don’t worry, you get heaps of traffic and your ranking will grow because It just does it.

4. Encouraging your readers to comment is best thing for bloggers. You allow backlinks, you encourage your readers that you are giving something back , rather than expecting something, that builds a great relationship to your readers as well.

5. By sharing about do-follow to those who do not know, you take control of knowledge that your visitors/readers do not know yet. It is a good opportunity your readers are bloggers and this will also help them to get backlinks which bloggers indeed love.  The more you can help a hand, the smarter you sound, don’t you?

6. Since I have carefully built my site around big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN , ask.com , etc etc. I have very confident that every single page of mine is properly pinged and quickly indexed. Make sure you use sitemap xml and site verifications with Google, Yahoo! and MSN to get faster search engine updates. Easy Breezy method for organic search.

7. It creates a larger community. Why? Because you have no-follow blog before, now you enabled do-follow site, that’s where you have massive members and visitors to make a geniune comments and in return they get backlinks for their PR or more traffic, it’s a win-win situation and you also get to know your readers. Spam filters will actually differentiate your readers and just those people who want backlinks and etc.

8. The quality backlinks are important and half the time, many people do not understand what they mean. It depends on the place where you put your comments as well as your niche. If you are car-sales category and make a comment on this infomm.com website, you are not getting quality backlinks, that’s for 100% sure. Maybe, a legit backlinks. You need to find similar niche for your site, so that you leave comment accordingly.

9. Okay, #9 is NONE , just start doing what I have mentioned above. You will see the difference. Now, start getting quality backlinks by leaving comment on this post.

Thanks for reading

Well, here it is another technique that I am very happy to share. I am big Yahoo! Answers fan. Before, I didn’t really put my website link in Yahoo! answers, but after a while, I tried to put once or twice in a while. And yes, it gives me good traffic, at least, 10-15 unique hits from one answer.

Of course, your answer should be unique, informative and helpful. That’s the most important thing, once they love your answer, they will definitely try to click your website which should be the source of the answer. When I answered about sports, I never put this website as a reference, it will be spamming to the audience and also to Yahoo! and i saw many people got banned for that.

SEO point of view, you will not gain anything as Yahoo! answers is no-follow link, but you get the traffic and mostly targeted traffic, that means, your true audience will read more about your site.

Nowadays, many people abuse and use yahoo answers as a tool and the bans are more frequent, so make sure you do the reference in proper way and relevant niche. Here is my Yahoo Answers account you can view. Remember, do not put too many of your links in your answers especially it’s not relevant to your website and the particular answer. And make sure you get good percentage of BEST Answer. So that people believe and trust in what you explain more. That will also help your traffic as well.

So, here is a good e-book how to get traffic, affiliate sales, or direct sales that depend on your business on Yahoo! Answers. But I definitely tried and got noticeable amount of traffic.

Thanks for reading

Google has introduced KNOL for sometimes, now they are promoting it. I definitely think KNOL will help all the information seekers better than ever. This is probably another technique of Google’s collection of knowledge base search engine, we could presume.

What is KNOL?

It’s basically units of knowledge written about various subjects. However, as like many google applications, knol is current at a beta stage.

Why should we participate at KNOL?

Many advantages, make yourself exposed to the knowledge based world, information sharing site. You can take credit for writing, provide credentials, reviews and comments. Users can provide comments, review and related information.

What subjects we can write on KNOL?

Well, pretty much everything. LOL

What are common advantages using KNOL?

You can get good back links to your website, that’s pretty good for SEO, but it’s very important you don’t spam the links. You can get credited and for me, the best thing is collaboration mode that many people can work together on a same project/subject which is pretty awesome. I think that idea is derived from online project collaboration sites as Google has capabilities for doing it so such as Google Docs.

What do I think about this?

KNOL for me is basically a combination of blog/search engine/multimedia gateway to all the information retrievers. Being a active participant on google’s main site, you will not only create traffic for your website on your niche, but also will create exposure to your materials. All you need to do is to be original, informative and unique with your content.

So, happy KNOLing.

Have a great weekend.

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.