Build Links To Your Website With Pinging Services
November 21, 2008
Kevin Sinclair asked:
One of the methods used to get more web traffic to a blog or a website is “tag and ping” or “blog and ping”. It is quite simple to do, and brings many benefits to the webmaster savvy enough to take advantage of it.
What is Pinging?
Simply put, pinging is a method of verifying the presence of a place on the internet; and getting a response from that location. Ping is a program which is built into every operating system out there; it is one of the most commonly used tools in the system or network administrator’s toolkit. It merely checks for an internet addresses existence, and then requests a response from that address (which is to make sure that the address is capable of receiving requests). As a point of information/trivia to amaze your friends: ping is an acronym for packet inter-network groper!
The Process
A ping can be used anytime someone updates their website, or more relevant for our purposes here, a blog. A blog of course has frequently updated information. More static types of websites are less frequently updated and therefore not pinged as often.
A blog may be updated as much as several times a day, and often are a venue for the author to market products or services they offer, or as part of an affiliate marketing business. The author gets commissions on sales of the product in an affiliate relationship, so it is vital for the author to make search engines aware of any new content on the blog ASAP. This way they will receive more traffic and thus, more sales.
Of course, not every blog, or every post on a blog is written with the intent of selling something. Quite often it is the case that a blog posting or an article is written just to convey information or provide entertainment to readers. No matter what the reason for new content, any site owner wants their content seen, so getting this new post indexed by search engines is key to getting more visitors to the page.
A lot of ping requests must be sent to many different servers in order to get the kind of traffic the author will want for their content. There are pinging services out there which save the author from having to go through the tedious and time consuming process of individually pinging many different servers.
Advantages
Using more than one of these pinging services is a good idea. This will mean that many more servers will be pinged and become aware of new content than if just one pinging service was used. This of course, means more traffic; and traffic is the be all and end all of having a website of any kind.
Search engines are constantly indexing websites (this is called crawling or spidering). When they visit one of the servers which have been alerted to the fact that your site has new content, the search engines will also now be aware of your new content! That is the crucial first step in getting your new blog posts indexed. The more servers you ping, the easier it will be for the search engines to locate and index your new content, making it easier for people to find.
A lot of blogging services let the author opt for extra pinging services, along with those offered by the blogging service itself. An author can find many pinging services with a simple internet search, and add any they desire to their account with the blogging service.
Disadvantages
There is one drawback to using multiple pinging services. This is that there will be some duplicate pings. This can sometimes result in a blog being considered spam by some servers. It is up to the author to make the call on how many pinging services should be used, as there is no one formula for determining how many pings it takes to be considered spam by any particular server.
Judicious usage of “blog and ping” can greatly increase web traffic. Just one of many tools out there to increase traffic, “blog and ping” nevertheless should not be overlooked as a way of attracting more visitors.
One of the methods used to get more web traffic to a blog or a website is “tag and ping” or “blog and ping”. It is quite simple to do, and brings many benefits to the webmaster savvy enough to take advantage of it.
What is Pinging?
Simply put, pinging is a method of verifying the presence of a place on the internet; and getting a response from that location. Ping is a program which is built into every operating system out there; it is one of the most commonly used tools in the system or network administrator’s toolkit. It merely checks for an internet addresses existence, and then requests a response from that address (which is to make sure that the address is capable of receiving requests). As a point of information/trivia to amaze your friends: ping is an acronym for packet inter-network groper!
The Process
A ping can be used anytime someone updates their website, or more relevant for our purposes here, a blog. A blog of course has frequently updated information. More static types of websites are less frequently updated and therefore not pinged as often.
A blog may be updated as much as several times a day, and often are a venue for the author to market products or services they offer, or as part of an affiliate marketing business. The author gets commissions on sales of the product in an affiliate relationship, so it is vital for the author to make search engines aware of any new content on the blog ASAP. This way they will receive more traffic and thus, more sales.
Of course, not every blog, or every post on a blog is written with the intent of selling something. Quite often it is the case that a blog posting or an article is written just to convey information or provide entertainment to readers. No matter what the reason for new content, any site owner wants their content seen, so getting this new post indexed by search engines is key to getting more visitors to the page.
A lot of ping requests must be sent to many different servers in order to get the kind of traffic the author will want for their content. There are pinging services out there which save the author from having to go through the tedious and time consuming process of individually pinging many different servers.
Advantages
Using more than one of these pinging services is a good idea. This will mean that many more servers will be pinged and become aware of new content than if just one pinging service was used. This of course, means more traffic; and traffic is the be all and end all of having a website of any kind.
Search engines are constantly indexing websites (this is called crawling or spidering). When they visit one of the servers which have been alerted to the fact that your site has new content, the search engines will also now be aware of your new content! That is the crucial first step in getting your new blog posts indexed. The more servers you ping, the easier it will be for the search engines to locate and index your new content, making it easier for people to find.
A lot of blogging services let the author opt for extra pinging services, along with those offered by the blogging service itself. An author can find many pinging services with a simple internet search, and add any they desire to their account with the blogging service.
Disadvantages
There is one drawback to using multiple pinging services. This is that there will be some duplicate pings. This can sometimes result in a blog being considered spam by some servers. It is up to the author to make the call on how many pinging services should be used, as there is no one formula for determining how many pings it takes to be considered spam by any particular server.
Judicious usage of “blog and ping” can greatly increase web traffic. Just one of many tools out there to increase traffic, “blog and ping” nevertheless should not be overlooked as a way of attracting more visitors.
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3 Essential Tactics For An Mlm Blog Link Building Plan
November 21, 2008
Jon Roussel asked:
There are two ways in which you can build links to your MLM blog: By following a plan or haphazardly. Your plan can be as simple as deciding just how much time you are going to spend on link building, then making the most out of that time by being organized. This is the first of four articles on a link building plan for an MLM blog. This article discusses four tactics as part of an MLM blog link building plan.
1) Forum Posts
With a little bit of practice, forum posting is easy to do.
Most forums are seriously handicapped when it comes to SEO. This is because there are often many similar threads, centered around the same core keywords, Many people use long and ugly URL’s, There are very few if any links pointing to threads, most just go to the main page. Duplicate content issues exist.
Improve your chances by posting in threads that make it to the front page of Digg or other social media sites.
Look for posts with high linkability value. For network marketing, you will find such posts and threads in forums like Conquer Your Niche and The Warrior Forum.
2) Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is easy to do and takes little time. You can post links to deli-icio-us quickly.
Many social bookmarking sites, however, give your links very little juice. But even if they do, the tags on the from pages are the most popular ones, so there is a lot of competition to rank high.. Your link will be slipping to the back pages and moving its position all the time, from the first page of that tag to the 5th, 10th, 20th page and so on.
Improve your chances by building your own tag . On less used sites, your tag could end up being linked from the front page all the time, if you save enough links in that tag, your links would be just 1 link away from the front page.
Add as many tags you can to every link you submit, as long as they are pertinent to the subject of the article.
3) Social Media
Social media linking can be very effective when done correctly and consistently and should always be part of your link building plan.
This strategy is not easy and requires consistent effort. Building up your profile, becoming a top user, making friends and writing good link bait are challenging and time consuming activities.
The payoff, however, can be significant. If you get to the front page you get a large number of links usually, depending on your subject. The page where your link is listed can become a PR4-5 on Digg.
Build a strong profile on a niche social media site that is closely or exactly related to your blog’s subject. Your readers from these sites will be highly targeted and thus more likely to subscribe or be interested in the rest of your articles.
Good sites to begin with include Digg, Newsvine, PlugIM and Shoutwire.
Network with other bloggers, and once in a while, ask them to vote your story, A story with a number of initial votes and a few comments is much more likely to be voted by other users of that social media site.
When you’re a beginner and you’re not yet quite so known, the best thing you can do is to combine great content with a good link building plan Start off with these methods and you will be well on your way toward building a large opt in list and hundreds of enrollments in your home based business.
There are two ways in which you can build links to your MLM blog: By following a plan or haphazardly. Your plan can be as simple as deciding just how much time you are going to spend on link building, then making the most out of that time by being organized. This is the first of four articles on a link building plan for an MLM blog. This article discusses four tactics as part of an MLM blog link building plan.
1) Forum Posts
With a little bit of practice, forum posting is easy to do.
Most forums are seriously handicapped when it comes to SEO. This is because there are often many similar threads, centered around the same core keywords, Many people use long and ugly URL’s, There are very few if any links pointing to threads, most just go to the main page. Duplicate content issues exist.
Improve your chances by posting in threads that make it to the front page of Digg or other social media sites.
Look for posts with high linkability value. For network marketing, you will find such posts and threads in forums like Conquer Your Niche and The Warrior Forum.
2) Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is easy to do and takes little time. You can post links to deli-icio-us quickly.
Many social bookmarking sites, however, give your links very little juice. But even if they do, the tags on the from pages are the most popular ones, so there is a lot of competition to rank high.. Your link will be slipping to the back pages and moving its position all the time, from the first page of that tag to the 5th, 10th, 20th page and so on.
Improve your chances by building your own tag . On less used sites, your tag could end up being linked from the front page all the time, if you save enough links in that tag, your links would be just 1 link away from the front page.
Add as many tags you can to every link you submit, as long as they are pertinent to the subject of the article.
3) Social Media
Social media linking can be very effective when done correctly and consistently and should always be part of your link building plan.
This strategy is not easy and requires consistent effort. Building up your profile, becoming a top user, making friends and writing good link bait are challenging and time consuming activities.
The payoff, however, can be significant. If you get to the front page you get a large number of links usually, depending on your subject. The page where your link is listed can become a PR4-5 on Digg.
Build a strong profile on a niche social media site that is closely or exactly related to your blog’s subject. Your readers from these sites will be highly targeted and thus more likely to subscribe or be interested in the rest of your articles.
Good sites to begin with include Digg, Newsvine, PlugIM and Shoutwire.
Network with other bloggers, and once in a while, ask them to vote your story, A story with a number of initial votes and a few comments is much more likely to be voted by other users of that social media site.
When you’re a beginner and you’re not yet quite so known, the best thing you can do is to combine great content with a good link building plan Start off with these methods and you will be well on your way toward building a large opt in list and hundreds of enrollments in your home based business.
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The Social Networks and Blog Overload Madness
March 7, 2008
Richard asked:
No doubt you already belong to one of the social network sites the likes such as Myspace, Yuwie, Facebook, Direct Matches, or one of the dozen others that have sprung up like mushrooms. You will probably have received some sort of e-mail from a buddy or someone telling you to join one right away because it is the next big thing in marketing. Some savvy webmasters are also jumping on the bandwagon and starting new social networks and it can be rather disconcerting to be told to join a new one almost every day by some well meaning friend because they promise you it is going to be the next best thing. The every same people tell you that as a marketing tactic social networking is going to be huge and you believe them.
Social network and blogging overload is coming.
You will discover that almost all these social network sites have a blog that you can keep up as well. The majority of people only have enough time to efficiently manage two or maybe three social networking sites. This is even truer if they all have blogs that should be kept updated to some sort of regularity. From a marketing point of view, if you have any experience in internet marketing then you will know that the only real advantage a blog has as a marketing tool is when you keep it updated with fresh content all the time. If you are trying to manage 4 or 5 of these blogs or social network sites it is going to become more of a chore than a pleasure which is what these social network sites were originally all about.
The fine line between being a social networking site and a marketing tool
Already the well known social network sites are starting to restrict the amount of promotion and linking you can do on your blog or website. This is sensible otherwise a social network site will become no more than a classified advertising site and which was not the original plan. The most effective way of marketing your business is certainly through networking on social network sites but if you have joined one to tell your life story or for fun to share your thoughts with the World Wide Web, then you may want to be choosy to find one that is right for you. Otherwise your opinions will be lost amongst a bunch of adverts.
Social network blogs
As previously mentioned the majority of social network sites have blogs where you can add occasional but more preferable regular posts. These blogs may be monetized in such a way that 50% of the takings go to the webmaster/owner. I have noticed that this type of social network site is one of the better ones for personal pages because you will see that terms and conditions allow minimal promotion of websites. One such example is hub-pages and Squidoo. For people that prefer getting their business into the market place then blogs like Blogger from Google is perhaps a better choice; and social networks like Adlander Pro and Direct Matches which have become extremely commercialized are also more sensible options.
Advertising your business with social networks.
You can definitely get good exposure from social network sites and there are even paid options of increasing this advertising exposure. Problem is that many other members may be looking at doing the same and once again your marketing may not be as efficient as you would have liked for the investment. At the end of the day it would be better to leave advertising and marketing to the classifieds sites and search engines rather than what is happening with social network sites that are not really as social as what they are labeled. When you want to read something interesting and social no doubt you are going to hate having a ton of ads in your face. Rather look for top advertising packages on the internet or make use of PPc sites like Google and yahoo which are the two main ones
Always Look for the best Advertising Package for ROI
No doubt you already belong to one of the social network sites the likes such as Myspace, Yuwie, Facebook, Direct Matches, or one of the dozen others that have sprung up like mushrooms. You will probably have received some sort of e-mail from a buddy or someone telling you to join one right away because it is the next big thing in marketing. Some savvy webmasters are also jumping on the bandwagon and starting new social networks and it can be rather disconcerting to be told to join a new one almost every day by some well meaning friend because they promise you it is going to be the next best thing. The every same people tell you that as a marketing tactic social networking is going to be huge and you believe them.
Social network and blogging overload is coming.
You will discover that almost all these social network sites have a blog that you can keep up as well. The majority of people only have enough time to efficiently manage two or maybe three social networking sites. This is even truer if they all have blogs that should be kept updated to some sort of regularity. From a marketing point of view, if you have any experience in internet marketing then you will know that the only real advantage a blog has as a marketing tool is when you keep it updated with fresh content all the time. If you are trying to manage 4 or 5 of these blogs or social network sites it is going to become more of a chore than a pleasure which is what these social network sites were originally all about.
The fine line between being a social networking site and a marketing tool
Already the well known social network sites are starting to restrict the amount of promotion and linking you can do on your blog or website. This is sensible otherwise a social network site will become no more than a classified advertising site and which was not the original plan. The most effective way of marketing your business is certainly through networking on social network sites but if you have joined one to tell your life story or for fun to share your thoughts with the World Wide Web, then you may want to be choosy to find one that is right for you. Otherwise your opinions will be lost amongst a bunch of adverts.
Social network blogs
As previously mentioned the majority of social network sites have blogs where you can add occasional but more preferable regular posts. These blogs may be monetized in such a way that 50% of the takings go to the webmaster/owner. I have noticed that this type of social network site is one of the better ones for personal pages because you will see that terms and conditions allow minimal promotion of websites. One such example is hub-pages and Squidoo. For people that prefer getting their business into the market place then blogs like Blogger from Google is perhaps a better choice; and social networks like Adlander Pro and Direct Matches which have become extremely commercialized are also more sensible options.
Advertising your business with social networks.
You can definitely get good exposure from social network sites and there are even paid options of increasing this advertising exposure. Problem is that many other members may be looking at doing the same and once again your marketing may not be as efficient as you would have liked for the investment. At the end of the day it would be better to leave advertising and marketing to the classifieds sites and search engines rather than what is happening with social network sites that are not really as social as what they are labeled. When you want to read something interesting and social no doubt you are going to hate having a ton of ads in your face. Rather look for top advertising packages on the internet or make use of PPc sites like Google and yahoo which are the two main ones
Always Look for the best Advertising Package for ROI
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