SEO is Dead – if you Want Top Rankings in the Major Search Engines the Only Way to Get Them is by Implementing What’s in This Article
November 27, 2008
Randy Zlobec asked:
1. Link Building
2. Article Writing & Distribution
3. Press Release Writing & Distribution
4. Pay Per Click Advertising
5. Social Networking
6. Blogging
SEO or Search Engine Optimization as a standalone methodology is dead as a doornail. Dead, kaput, deceased – wandering around waiting to be buried. Trying to accomplish high search engine ranking using SEO alone is a losing proposition at best and website suicide in most instances.
So, what’s a webmaster to do? The term “webmaster” means staying on top of what drives successful, targeted traffic to your website. It means staying up later than the average guy, reading, discovering and learning the cutting edge of what it takes to make your site successful.
In the beginning, you could throw up any kind of page and get people to visit. Quality webpages were few and far between, and it was just astounding that you could get type on a page that others could view. Then came the keyword, the meta tag, the phrase, the optimization, software considered downright primitive in today’s world that would tell you your page was a cut above the pack. These days are long gone.
In order to get around the dead horse of SEO standalone, you need to be ready to add links, backlinks and quality backlinks. You need to be able to do more than string three words together. Today’s readers are savvy. They want real information; don’t deliver junky, slapped together, non-researched splats of content and expect to maintain traffic and credibility. Today it is all about quality content, unique and different – that delivers a message that is both interesting and informative.
To basic optimization, you need to add things like blogging, dynamic updating, social networking that can be press release driven with a landing page that commands attention. Use the checklist below to smarten up your pages and make them more than SEO optimized. Knowing what makes them hum, what spiders love will make your pages more than just web-ready. They will become traffic magnets.
Let’s Talk Keywords
If you remember nothing else remember to put your keyword or keyword phrase in the PUT YOUR KEYWORD HERE. Many folks overlook this and just like that the spider glides on by – uninformed. If you are adding things like social bookmarking and blogging to your site and you forget this, you might as well be holding up a sign in a sandstorm.
Keywords in the URL do help. Remember if you are just redirecting a keyword URL to your website to use a 301 Redirect which is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. Anybody who tells you differently is not up on the latest trends. The search engines do take note of your keyword as part of your URL. For 8.95 or less, you can get that small edge on your keyword. Most people are using PHP or ASP these days on either an Apache or Windows server. Here’s the 301 redirect codes that will get your pages moving if you aren’t using someone like GoDaddy.com to register your domains and utilizing their convenient 301 redirect features.
Keywords in your anchor text from another side. Called an inbound link, this is like getting a vote from another site. Be sure and have your keyword or keyword phrase as part of that vote.
Keywords in your tags. Yes, it is your headline. It’s important. It’s rated by search engines and if your keyword is part of it, it’s rated higher. But be sure that it’s also part of your body text or you will probably upset the spiders. Never upset the spiders or you’ll be on page 11 million for your keyword.
Keywords in the tags. Alt tags are what your page displays when the pictures can’t be found or someone browses your page with pictures turned off. Spiders also read the tags so if you have your keyword in there then viola, more credit for your page.
Article Writing and Distribution
There are a number of article directories where you can distribute your articles with your resource box promoting you website. You will want to write relevant, short quality articles that build curiosity for your website. You do not want to write articles longer than 500-600 words for article directories.
Articles as Bait
On your website, you will want to have longer, informative articles on a specific subject related to your website’s topic. Called linkbait, these articles are designed to inform and educate your readership on relative topics. This is not what articles for article directories are all about. They are curiosity builders. You write 300-400 words on a topic to demonstrate your knowledge on that topic. You include a resource or author’s box back to your website where you can present a long, in-depth version of your material.
One important thing to remember when writing articles for directories. Each must be different and unique from each other and each one must be different than the one on your website. If you duplicate them for the various article directories and they all have inbound links to the same content on your main website, you will kill your page rank and credibility. If you can remember that article directories get you quickly indexed and offer a curiosity booster that acts as a portal to your main website, then you’ll write accordingly.
Most article directories require at least 400 words on a topic which is not that easy to produce, but you want to save your main features for your own website and not the article directory.
Through these directories, you’ll receive a ton of backlinks as other websites use your content on their website. However, none of it will match what’s on your own website, so it won’t be considered duplicate content just inbound links.
Press Releases Are An Overlooked, Great Process
If you can write news copy, you can write a decent press release which will get your website a ton of exposure. You will want to put out a website for the following reasons:
- To announce your new website and what it’s all about
- New products and services that you add to your website
- Reviews of various themed parts of your website
- Expansion and additions of note.
Using press releases in this fashion will always guarantee a steady stream of visitors in that a well-written press release will usually be picked up by other sites and rewritten and added to their new repository which increases the number of incoming links you’ll receive.
Pay Per Click Advertising
Using pay-per-click advertising is another way to get almost instant traffic to your website. Utilizing PPC giants like Google and Yahoo, you can pay for visitors to your website. You list small, contextually based advertising which is published across their network of websites and interested people click on your advertising and arrive at your site. This is one of the quickest ways to get traffic to arrive, but it can be costly to get started. Pay-Per-Click lets you advertise to the whole of the online community.
There are also text link advertising, classified advertising and pay-per-post advertising where you can get other bloggers to blog for money about your product or service on your website. It is a variation of PPC in that bloggers will write and review your site or service for a small fee and list you for a set period of time on their website. It adds content to their site and gives you more than just a link back to your site.
Social Networking and Social News sites
Web 2.0 and social networking is another whole article in itself, but it is the second fastest way to get traffic rolling into your site. To get the ball rolling and to give you some ideas on where to start, let’s look at the basics of social news networking. We want to separate this from social bookmarking which is for personal use. Social news networking is for when you want to advertising you business, home business or professional site. It’s about providing news to the world about who and what you are, the benefits you offer and why they should stop by.
Some of the better news sites where you can post your short articles include: Netscape, Newsvine, StumbleUpon, Digg and OnlyWire to name a few. These sites are news-hungry just waiting for information about your website. Whatever your site is about will be quickly and effectively disseminated by posting on these websites.
Considered the second generation in online marketing, social networking is all about building communities of like minded individuals who are looking for certain things. You website is taken into a group and depending on your service or product, people arrive at your website because of the tags and text you provide to the online community. There are as many social news and networking sites as there are interests, but the main ones to start with are listed but by no means complete.
Learn Everything you need to know in order to generate top 10 positions in the major search engines as quickly as possible by purchasing my search engine marketing book Sem Gorilla. Sem Gorilla is due to be released before the end of this year however, you may sign up at the site to be notified and actually receive the book much sooner than the rest of the world giving you a head start on your competitor.
1. Link Building
2. Article Writing & Distribution
3. Press Release Writing & Distribution
4. Pay Per Click Advertising
5. Social Networking
6. Blogging
SEO or Search Engine Optimization as a standalone methodology is dead as a doornail. Dead, kaput, deceased – wandering around waiting to be buried. Trying to accomplish high search engine ranking using SEO alone is a losing proposition at best and website suicide in most instances.
So, what’s a webmaster to do? The term “webmaster” means staying on top of what drives successful, targeted traffic to your website. It means staying up later than the average guy, reading, discovering and learning the cutting edge of what it takes to make your site successful.
In the beginning, you could throw up any kind of page and get people to visit. Quality webpages were few and far between, and it was just astounding that you could get type on a page that others could view. Then came the keyword, the meta tag, the phrase, the optimization, software considered downright primitive in today’s world that would tell you your page was a cut above the pack. These days are long gone.
In order to get around the dead horse of SEO standalone, you need to be ready to add links, backlinks and quality backlinks. You need to be able to do more than string three words together. Today’s readers are savvy. They want real information; don’t deliver junky, slapped together, non-researched splats of content and expect to maintain traffic and credibility. Today it is all about quality content, unique and different – that delivers a message that is both interesting and informative.
To basic optimization, you need to add things like blogging, dynamic updating, social networking that can be press release driven with a landing page that commands attention. Use the checklist below to smarten up your pages and make them more than SEO optimized. Knowing what makes them hum, what spiders love will make your pages more than just web-ready. They will become traffic magnets.
Let’s Talk Keywords
If you remember nothing else remember to put your keyword or keyword phrase in the PUT YOUR KEYWORD HERE. Many folks overlook this and just like that the spider glides on by – uninformed. If you are adding things like social bookmarking and blogging to your site and you forget this, you might as well be holding up a sign in a sandstorm.
Keywords in the URL do help. Remember if you are just redirecting a keyword URL to your website to use a 301 Redirect which is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. Anybody who tells you differently is not up on the latest trends. The search engines do take note of your keyword as part of your URL. For 8.95 or less, you can get that small edge on your keyword. Most people are using PHP or ASP these days on either an Apache or Windows server. Here’s the 301 redirect codes that will get your pages moving if you aren’t using someone like GoDaddy.com to register your domains and utilizing their convenient 301 redirect features.
Keywords in your anchor text from another side. Called an inbound link, this is like getting a vote from another site. Be sure and have your keyword or keyword phrase as part of that vote.
Keywords in your tags. Yes, it is your headline. It’s important. It’s rated by search engines and if your keyword is part of it, it’s rated higher. But be sure that it’s also part of your body text or you will probably upset the spiders. Never upset the spiders or you’ll be on page 11 million for your keyword.
Keywords in the tags. Alt tags are what your page displays when the pictures can’t be found or someone browses your page with pictures turned off. Spiders also read the tags so if you have your keyword in there then viola, more credit for your page.
Article Writing and Distribution
There are a number of article directories where you can distribute your articles with your resource box promoting you website. You will want to write relevant, short quality articles that build curiosity for your website. You do not want to write articles longer than 500-600 words for article directories.
Articles as Bait
On your website, you will want to have longer, informative articles on a specific subject related to your website’s topic. Called linkbait, these articles are designed to inform and educate your readership on relative topics. This is not what articles for article directories are all about. They are curiosity builders. You write 300-400 words on a topic to demonstrate your knowledge on that topic. You include a resource or author’s box back to your website where you can present a long, in-depth version of your material.
One important thing to remember when writing articles for directories. Each must be different and unique from each other and each one must be different than the one on your website. If you duplicate them for the various article directories and they all have inbound links to the same content on your main website, you will kill your page rank and credibility. If you can remember that article directories get you quickly indexed and offer a curiosity booster that acts as a portal to your main website, then you’ll write accordingly.
Most article directories require at least 400 words on a topic which is not that easy to produce, but you want to save your main features for your own website and not the article directory.
Through these directories, you’ll receive a ton of backlinks as other websites use your content on their website. However, none of it will match what’s on your own website, so it won’t be considered duplicate content just inbound links.
Press Releases Are An Overlooked, Great Process
If you can write news copy, you can write a decent press release which will get your website a ton of exposure. You will want to put out a website for the following reasons:
- To announce your new website and what it’s all about
- New products and services that you add to your website
- Reviews of various themed parts of your website
- Expansion and additions of note.
Using press releases in this fashion will always guarantee a steady stream of visitors in that a well-written press release will usually be picked up by other sites and rewritten and added to their new repository which increases the number of incoming links you’ll receive.
Pay Per Click Advertising
Using pay-per-click advertising is another way to get almost instant traffic to your website. Utilizing PPC giants like Google and Yahoo, you can pay for visitors to your website. You list small, contextually based advertising which is published across their network of websites and interested people click on your advertising and arrive at your site. This is one of the quickest ways to get traffic to arrive, but it can be costly to get started. Pay-Per-Click lets you advertise to the whole of the online community.
There are also text link advertising, classified advertising and pay-per-post advertising where you can get other bloggers to blog for money about your product or service on your website. It is a variation of PPC in that bloggers will write and review your site or service for a small fee and list you for a set period of time on their website. It adds content to their site and gives you more than just a link back to your site.
Social Networking and Social News sites
Web 2.0 and social networking is another whole article in itself, but it is the second fastest way to get traffic rolling into your site. To get the ball rolling and to give you some ideas on where to start, let’s look at the basics of social news networking. We want to separate this from social bookmarking which is for personal use. Social news networking is for when you want to advertising you business, home business or professional site. It’s about providing news to the world about who and what you are, the benefits you offer and why they should stop by.
Some of the better news sites where you can post your short articles include: Netscape, Newsvine, StumbleUpon, Digg and OnlyWire to name a few. These sites are news-hungry just waiting for information about your website. Whatever your site is about will be quickly and effectively disseminated by posting on these websites.
Considered the second generation in online marketing, social networking is all about building communities of like minded individuals who are looking for certain things. You website is taken into a group and depending on your service or product, people arrive at your website because of the tags and text you provide to the online community. There are as many social news and networking sites as there are interests, but the main ones to start with are listed but by no means complete.
Learn Everything you need to know in order to generate top 10 positions in the major search engines as quickly as possible by purchasing my search engine marketing book Sem Gorilla. Sem Gorilla is due to be released before the end of this year however, you may sign up at the site to be notified and actually receive the book much sooner than the rest of the world giving you a head start on your competitor.
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Various Link Building Method
November 21, 2008
andy tao asked:
Once you have made your website it’s time to get it successful and making money. The only way to make money is to get people visiting it, the more people you can get – the more potential it has. There are many ways that you can boost your search engine ranking increasing your traffic. You have to build as many quality back links as possible which in turn raise your rank in the major search engines.
There are various ways of doing this, each having advantages over the other. One way is to submit your website to directories, this is where you pick a top level category and include your website and description in there. This can be very useful as a popular directory can provide you with targeted traffic. Directories often come in three forms, free non reciprocal (you can submit it for free with out needing to link back to them), free reciprocal (you can submit your link for free but you will have to have a link from your site to the directory in order to get accepted) or paid directory (self explanatory, you have to pay either per month/year/permanent in order to get your site listed).
Another way is to contact similar sites in your niche asking for a link exchange which can also provide you with targeted traffic from time to time. For example if you have a site selling baby cots, contact sites that sell baby clothes, toys etc and ask to trade links as you can also provide them with traffic. Make sure you trade with the right sites that will actually give you a benefit as too many outgoing links can have a negative effect on your site.
You can write articles based on your niche that people will find interesting and submit them to article directories, make sure you embed a link back to your site so that if people use them it will provide a back link unless they go to the trouble of taking it out.
A new method that is becoming popular is to sponsor wordpress themes, once someone has made a theme and got sponsors they will submit it to various theme sites where people can download them for free and use with their blog. If they do that they will have a link pointing to your site. Only pick ones that you think will be downloaded multiple times in order to get the best results.
Once you have made your website it’s time to get it successful and making money. The only way to make money is to get people visiting it, the more people you can get – the more potential it has. There are many ways that you can boost your search engine ranking increasing your traffic. You have to build as many quality back links as possible which in turn raise your rank in the major search engines.
There are various ways of doing this, each having advantages over the other. One way is to submit your website to directories, this is where you pick a top level category and include your website and description in there. This can be very useful as a popular directory can provide you with targeted traffic. Directories often come in three forms, free non reciprocal (you can submit it for free with out needing to link back to them), free reciprocal (you can submit your link for free but you will have to have a link from your site to the directory in order to get accepted) or paid directory (self explanatory, you have to pay either per month/year/permanent in order to get your site listed).
Another way is to contact similar sites in your niche asking for a link exchange which can also provide you with targeted traffic from time to time. For example if you have a site selling baby cots, contact sites that sell baby clothes, toys etc and ask to trade links as you can also provide them with traffic. Make sure you trade with the right sites that will actually give you a benefit as too many outgoing links can have a negative effect on your site.
You can write articles based on your niche that people will find interesting and submit them to article directories, make sure you embed a link back to your site so that if people use them it will provide a back link unless they go to the trouble of taking it out.
A new method that is becoming popular is to sponsor wordpress themes, once someone has made a theme and got sponsors they will submit it to various theme sites where people can download them for free and use with their blog. If they do that they will have a link pointing to your site. Only pick ones that you think will be downloaded multiple times in order to get the best results.
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Using Link Building to Increase Your Website Popularity
November 21, 2008
Aidan Doran asked:
Do you want to improve your search engine rankings through search engine optimization methods?
Then link building can be used as an effective strategy that can help in providing high quality links from popular websites.
Advantages of link building methods
The success of your website is measured through high quality links that point towards your website. In other words, it is one of the most important factors while judging link popularity for different websites. Many popular search engines use this factor to determine the website ranking and quality of websites. You need to incorporate various link building methods that can help in improving the link popularity of your websites.
The following are the advantages that you can get through link building for your business:
-Link building methods assist in improving the quality of your websites and attract higher number of visitors to your site.
-They can help in establishing new business contacts, getting acquaintances and acquiring new customers by directing traffic to your website through inbound links.
-In using link building strategies, you can create a brand name and identity for your products.
-It is one of the effective ways for website promotion for achieving high search engine rankings.
Using link building strategies for your business
Link building plays a vital role in offering your websites a higher search engine ranking for which you need to have relevant and quality links directed towards your website.
These are the following factors that you can consider as part of your website link building efforts:
-Writing articles and submitting to directories
You can create good links pointing towards your website by using articles on specific subjects that is relevant to your website and submit them to top article directories.
This is one way of generating good links to your website which can get you a lot of good quality traffic from visitors searching for different topics.
- Provide relevant and quality information
You are likely to attract more visitors if your website is well designed and has high quality content that provides useful information to the visitors. Besides, it gives a chance for many popular websites to get associated with your website if they find it to be useful and interesting.
-Submitting for Press release
One of the best ways of link building is to submit press release about your website or product. This gives more exposure for your site or for your products or services among the media sites and your website gains more popularity. With the publicity that it created, press releases help in creating goodwill and bring good quality links to your site.
-Blogging and online forums
Blogging is the most popular form of social communication these days which can assist you in providing more relevant information to the visitors. You can even start your own blog or an online forum where you can advertise your product by posting information about your products and services.
You can get into conversations and discussions with different people and use your links for giving your site reference. Thus, link building can be a very profitable to your business if used in a productive manner.
Do you want to improve your search engine rankings through search engine optimization methods?
Then link building can be used as an effective strategy that can help in providing high quality links from popular websites.
Advantages of link building methods
The success of your website is measured through high quality links that point towards your website. In other words, it is one of the most important factors while judging link popularity for different websites. Many popular search engines use this factor to determine the website ranking and quality of websites. You need to incorporate various link building methods that can help in improving the link popularity of your websites.
The following are the advantages that you can get through link building for your business:
-Link building methods assist in improving the quality of your websites and attract higher number of visitors to your site.
-They can help in establishing new business contacts, getting acquaintances and acquiring new customers by directing traffic to your website through inbound links.
-In using link building strategies, you can create a brand name and identity for your products.
-It is one of the effective ways for website promotion for achieving high search engine rankings.
Using link building strategies for your business
Link building plays a vital role in offering your websites a higher search engine ranking for which you need to have relevant and quality links directed towards your website.
These are the following factors that you can consider as part of your website link building efforts:
-Writing articles and submitting to directories
You can create good links pointing towards your website by using articles on specific subjects that is relevant to your website and submit them to top article directories.
This is one way of generating good links to your website which can get you a lot of good quality traffic from visitors searching for different topics.
- Provide relevant and quality information
You are likely to attract more visitors if your website is well designed and has high quality content that provides useful information to the visitors. Besides, it gives a chance for many popular websites to get associated with your website if they find it to be useful and interesting.
-Submitting for Press release
One of the best ways of link building is to submit press release about your website or product. This gives more exposure for your site or for your products or services among the media sites and your website gains more popularity. With the publicity that it created, press releases help in creating goodwill and bring good quality links to your site.
-Blogging and online forums
Blogging is the most popular form of social communication these days which can assist you in providing more relevant information to the visitors. You can even start your own blog or an online forum where you can advertise your product by posting information about your products and services.
You can get into conversations and discussions with different people and use your links for giving your site reference. Thus, link building can be a very profitable to your business if used in a productive manner.
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