Learn SEO in 10 Seconds
The key to online success when you’re building a content site for the web — regardless of whether that website is a blog or has static content — is the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site.
But, when it comes to SEO, you can spend many hours browsing blogs from so-called SEO experts which have many – often conflicting — ideas.
Therefore, before I show you how to optimize your page, a process which will take you approximately 10 seconds to learn, let’s examine why the SEO experts cannot agree on an optimization approach.
One of the primary reasons for the experts’ disagreements is that they don’t approach the SEO problem from a scientific point of view: in other words, they rely on their own experience and interpretation of their results. Read more
2 Ways to Exchange Links With Other Websites
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Link exchanges are very most popular and effective link building strategies that will improve your website’s rankings in the search engines, especially Google.
But how do you exchange links in a way that will be the most effective and not trigger any penalties with search engines?
There are two common ways to do that so let’s start with the one that I believe will in the long term work better…
1. In-Content Relevant Link Exchanges
When you receive a link exchange request or you contact some for exchanging relevant links, your best solution is to find a relevant page on your site and link from within the article to your partner’s website – with the anchor text that they requested. Read more
Don’t Miss Google’s SEO Guide
Google has just released a SEO guide in .pdf that you can download and learn more about search engine optimization of your site.
What I and probably Google too hope is that you won’t just learn more but also un-learn some of the super duper complicated SEO stuff that you can find on the net.
So what does the Google SEO Guide talk about? I covered most of the on-site SEO in one of my previous articles so here are just a few interesting ideas that I found in this SEO Guide:
1. Google does not talk about keyword density. This tells me that the title tag and the anchor text (which the SEO Guide mentions quite a few times!) linking to that page are the most important for rankings. Read more
How to Get PR Links From Blogs
This is a guest post by Mirsad from Soccer Training Guide. Thanks for sharing, Mirsad!
There are many strategies on building valuable links by finding relevant blogs. In this article I will show you how to build relevant, quality links by using an old but well-proven method. Let’s begin…
The first thing you need to do is find relevant blogs. However, you should remember that you are looking for relevant and quality blogs with high PR. To find these blogs, you need to develop your searching strategy.
The first place to search is popular blog directories. One of the most popular is the BOTW blog directory. Blogs included in BOTW’s (Best Of The Web) listings are of high quality and have been reviewed manually by an actual person. BOTW is also one of the oldest and most respected directories on the net, which tells you that you should be able to find some juicy links for your site here.
Want More Traffic? Get More Quality Links!
Here’s another Q&A that answers the key question about traffic:
Q: Hi Tomaz,
After 9 months of working at my 4 x niche site. I am reaching about 50 to 100 unique visitors per day (traffic fluctuate daily). All stats are from captured from statcounter. As it has been already close to 1 year since I started my sites, I was wondering if you can be kind enough to share any comments and whether I and heading in the right direction:
Site A (Non Site Build It) – Started in 29 Dec ‘07
Traffic : About 8 to 10 uniques per day.
Content : Add 2 articles per week.
Links building: Submit to 5 free directories daily.
Has not done any other links building activities at all.
Monetization: Nil Read more
The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part III – Final Rankings
It’s been now 2 months since I’ve posted the articles on 4 different sites. You can check how the link experiment began in part I and what happened in part II.
Remember; all those pages also got another link from my previous post so that should have helped them somewhat to rank better.
The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part II – Ranking Results
It’s been now almost 1 month since the first part of the link experiment and I can show you some interesting results.
One reason why I had to wait so long was that buzzle.com takes sometimes 2 weeks to publish the article and then it can take a few days for Google to index it. This eventually happened with the article on ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com and buzzle.com but NOT on squidoo.com.
I cannot find the article on Google even if I search for the title of the article in quotes. Squidoo stats also tell me that there has been no traffic to that page which is live now for almost a month.
I’ve used googlerankings.com to check where each site ranks for the keyword best central vacuum. I’ve had 2 articles written and then rewritten so I got 4 versions of articles which I believe don’t trigger the duplicate content penalty in Google.
Google Adwords Reveals Real Number of Searches Instead of The Green Bar
I was doing some keyword research with the Google Adwords tool when I saw that Google returned number of searches for a specific keyword instead of the familiar green bar.
The green bar before gave just some idea of the traffic but you couldn’t really tell whether that was 50 or 500 searches per day.
The Most Powerful Link Experiment – Part I
One of the best ways of building links is submitting them to article directories which allow you to include links back to your site in the resource boxes or even in the body of the article.
Some of these sites are authority sites which means that Google trusts them a lot and will rank keyword optimized articles very high in its own search results.
But the problem we all face is how can we make the best of our time and money and not waste time submitting articles to sites that won’t send us any traffic and won’t improve the pagerank of our site.
That’s why you need to find the best site – or at least a few best ones – which will give you the best results for your invested energy, time and money.
I’ve submitted my share of articles to various sites and have narrowed the best ones to 4 main sites that send me traffic and sometimes even show pagerank above 0 on the page of my article.
Why SEO Will Soon Become A Waste Of Time And Money
Google has recently written a post Why Data Matters where they explain how their algorithm has changed over the years.
Here’s the first main point of that story:
On the academic side, the National Science Foundation started a “Digital Library Project” which made grants to several universities. Two Stanford grad students in computer science named Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on this project. Their insight was to recognize that existing search algorithms could be dramatically improved by using the special linking structure of web documents. Thus PageRank was born.
Where we are now with SEO
a) ON-page SEO: Pagerank + keyword in title
From my own experiments and experience, I know that pagerank is still a very healthy factor in rankings.
Actually pagerank + keyword in title are the most effective things you can do on-page (of course if you have some pagerank regardless of the anchor text of the incoming links) to rank for a certain keyword.
Here’s an experiment I did on my tennis blog www.tennisthoughts.com:
