Struggling with Traffic? Then This Is The Most Important Post You’ll Ever Read
If you’re not getting enough traffic to your site, then in 99% of cases, you’re missing the key factor in getting better search engine rankings – LINKS!
I visit the SBI forums daily and every day there is someone asking for a site review and complaining about low traffic.
And EVERY time I check their sites, I see the same thing; almost 0 incoming links or having some links but they’re coming from low quality sites.
Somehow, somewhere the most important information on how to get lots of free search engine traffic got lost.
So here it is: In order to rank high for a certain keyword in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live, your keyword most have good demand, not too much competition and LINKS pointing to it.
Ideally, the link’s anchor text includes your keyword or a slight variation of it. These links should come from quality websites (and pages!) where the quality can be determined by high pagerank and high Alexa rating.
This is it. This is the most important information about getting free traffic. EVERYTHING else is less important. Read more
How To Check Reciprocal And Outgoing Links From A Website
If you ever exchanged links with another website and later want to check if the site links back, it could be very time consuming to check all their pages for your link.
One way is to keep track of all link exchanges in an Excel file where you’d note the exact page from which the other site links back.
If you are that disciplined to do that for every link exchange across all your sites, then skip this post. 
If on the other hand you’re a little bit lazy or you completely forgot to record pages with reciprocal links, then here are two simple ways of checking whether the partner site links back: Read more
Understanding the Site concept, Tier 1, and Seed Words
There is quite a lot of confusion regarding the site concept, seed words, Tier 1, Tier 2, what the right demand and supply is, and other related keyword research topics.
I’ve shared my ideas in the SBI forums not long ago about keyword research and did my best to simplify things, but that thread is now on page 11 and I am still getting questions.
All of these, of course, are well explained in the SBI Action Guide (if you are an SBI user), but perhaps you need a different perspective to understand them. So let’s tackle these terms and ideas one by one…
1. What is a Site Concept?
A Site Concept is an idea. It can exist only in your head.
a) The Site Concept of my tennis website is the mental game of tennis, which I am trying to convey to visitors with the domain name – tennismindgame.com. The key is that a visitor will »get it« immediately – what your site subject matter is – just by seeing your domain name. Read more
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.
