Friday, August 27, 2010

New word press blog – How I achieved the mark 1000 impressions a day in 3 days!

[You visited this page as I followed all the techniques described in this post! You follow me and I will be one of your visitors some day!]

I find thousands of people who start blogs to make some revenue but end up either deleting their accounts or making their blog as a dead site in the internet world. Reason is obvious – no traffic despite interesting content.  Again the reason behind getting less traffic is “ineffective ways of promotion! "


Promotion Techniques:
The world doesn’t recognize your blog as soon as you write an interesting article. You need to promote it in several social networking sites and forums.  First of all, you need to have a good number of followers in these social networking sites and you must have a good reputation in the forum sites. It makes sense because the size of your network is directly linked to the number of visitors you get. You tend to receive some traffic from forums only when the people there trust you. I don’t mean you need to have thousands of friends and you must have made hundreds of posts when I said I am getting 1000 impressions a day. An average figure- say 200 friends and about 50 posts should do. Don’t just register in forums and start promoting – it only results in the termination of your account. Build trust, make friends and then you can start your promotion.


Number of Posts on a page:
Don’t show all your valuable content in a single page. Limit the number of posts shown per page to 1 or 2.  Use a program like Link Within to add a script that finds related posts and adds only the titles at the end of your post.  This is a sure way to increase the number of impressions as the visitor needs to go to a different page if he/she wants to read your other articles. Even if the visitor doesn’t visit your other pages, he/she may find links to them some other time at some other site and visit your blog again to read the article. If you are displaying everything in a single page, he may not visit again to read the same content. This makes sense right? Moreover, if you are displaying 7 or 8 posts at a time, it takes hell of time to load the entire page and may result in the visitor getting frustrated and he may never visit your site again.


Commenting:
Try to look for similar content or pictures or videos. If there is an option to provide comments, write something interesting and put a link to your post at the end. Just adding the link would lead to the deletion of your comment. Let me cite an interesting example
Ex: You have written a post on “how to add adsense content inside a post”.  You just scanned Google and found several other posts.  You commented on one of the posts as follows
“That is interesting – I have written a similar post here - <your link>”
You may write it in a different way
“Nice but I guess adding the adsense code just after the title and wrapping it will fetch better results as explained here <your link>”
Now you can guess which comment can get more visitors!


Content:
I don’t need to say that content is king! Always stick to unique content. Don’t lose your patience if you haven’t received good impressions the first few days. If it is really interesting, there will be a day where you find the number of impressions increasing in an exponential way!  This is the main reason why people are losing interest in blogging.

You don’t need to have so much of SEO knowledge to get good number of impressions. It is only the quality and uniqueness of content that is going to fetch you traffic. Interestingly, Google doesn’t like too much SEO and is now realizing that the results must be focused on quality content rather than the inbound links to a particular page. Anyways, you don’t need to worry about all this if you have something unique in your mind and if you have the writing skills. Just promote your page though social networking, forums and blog comments and have some patience. I can guarantee you that you will be reaching the 1000 impression mark in few days. 

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Link Building FAQ

What is Link Building?
Building Links to your website or creating links to your site on other sites, often referred to as backlinks.
Is it? How is it going to work?
As an internet user, you must have head of Google. Several search engines like Google make use of number of links to a site to determine its position in the search results.
Sounds Easy!  I am going to put innumerable number of links on my other sites! Is it going to work?
Oh Yeah! You can put but it is no way going to work.   Links are associated with an attribute called quality and it must be high to make things happen.
Ok!  There is a famous site that I know. Shall I create many links from that site to mine?
This is again not going to work. In fact, this may reduce the quality of your link.  So the number of sites that link to you has to be more and number of links on each site must be less.
I often listen to this term “one way links”. What does that mean?
Well, a link is referred to as “one way link” if there is a link from a site to your site but there is no link to that site from your site.
So “Link Building” is easy! Can I do it myself?
You can! If you are beginner, you need to learn all the link building techniques first. Even if you are aware of all these techniques, link building is a process that consumes huge amounts of your valuable resources (time and energy). Fortunately, there are many service providers who does  the work for you.
Why Unique Link Building?
As the name indicates, we explain everything in a unique way that even beginners can understand. 

Keyword Research

Keyword Research is the most important thing that has to be done before you start promoting your site? Reason?



Keyword research, as many people believe is not just one of the important factors that results in the success of a website, it is in fact the most important starting step. We did notice that many of the small companies are not even aware of keyword selection.

 Search engines have become a part of our life. Even if we know the url of the website, we tend to use search engines.  Most of the visitors to a website come from search engines. We often browse through several websites everyday that we have never heard of. We get these links through search engines. This made things easy for getting page hits to a website.

Your position in search engine results is linked to several factors and keyword selection is the most important of them.  Keyword research is not about using some tools to find keywords corresponding to your niche. It is about targeting your audience. You need to think like a user. Words used by common people are different from those associated with an organization. Concentrate on the former. Think of the phrases that consumers use to search for your product.

For example, if you are selling xxx mobile phones, you need to choose keywords phrases like “how to use xxx mobile phones”, “xxx mobile phone reviews”, “xxx mobile phone problems” etc . Since, this is your own company, you can dominate the market if your site is listed in the top results  of a search engine for any of the above phrases.

The amount of keyword research to be done cannot be estimated and is niche dependent. It includes analysis as well as elimination of keywords and keyword phrases. 

These are some of the tips that may help you in making out your keyword research effectively and dominate in your niche.

Search Engine Optimization is a must to make your site a part of the internet world

Search Engine Optimization? What is it? How is it going to benefit my site?

In today’s world, more than half of the traffic that a website gets is through search engines. If you want your website to appear in one of the top positions in the results of a search engine for a particular keyword, you need to optimize your site and the entire process is referred to as “Search Engine Optimization”. 

SEO is especially important for a starter website as it is one of the best way s to introduce your website to the outside world. It is again the selection of keywords that determines your position on the results. In the beginning stages, one cannot use common keywords as there are already hundreds of sites that are already indexed corresponding to that keyword.  A good way is to select phrases. For example, if your site is related to hotel booking, instead of using the keyword “hotel booking”, you can use the phrase “hotel booking in Germany”. Now you are targeting Germany’s traffic. Automatically, visitors to the other pages get increased in the process. Similarly, you need to frame keyword phrases for each page of your site and start building links.

One must understand that text inside a video or flash can no way be recognized by a search engine. If a video is being used, it can be made visible by using Meta tags. You need to tag each and every picture and video of your site to gain more visibility.

SEO is an endless process and keeps changing. Search engines are now making use of Meta tags. Initially, it was the description that played a vital role in the placement. These algorithms may be changed again at any time and one has to modify the entire site according to the new algorithms framed.

A strategic approach is the only way to make a website search engine optimized. Many companies spend hundreds of dollars for optimization but they fail in their strategy. Hence the success ratio in SEO is drastically less making SEO tougher than development!

Learn all the link building techniques to get website traffic!

Link Building Techniques
You have come here as I used one of the techniques listed below . You must be wondering how your website link can be put on a site. There are many techniques that can serve the purpose. Let us list and explain the greatest of these techniques that can work wonders.
Article Submission:
We often see people buying quality articles in large quantities. But we don’t find them on their websites. These articles are meant for submission. There are some sites referred to as article directories where you can submit an article and put a link to your site at the bottom of the page in a section called as “resource box”. If the article is attractive, there are chances that the reader may visit your site to read more quality content.
A quality article is one that
-         Is free of Grammatical errors
-         Is readable
-         Is not plagiarized (Copied)
-         Is proofread
-         Is rich in content
So, if there is a writer in you, getting quality hits to your site is a piece of cake provided you have the patience to submit your article to these directories.  If not, you can hire an article writer in any of the webmaster forums.
Examples of article directories include ezinearticles, articlebase, articler etc
Profile Link Building:
Webmasters use the term “Angelas Link Building Technique” in place of “Profile Link Building”. Here accounts are created in famous sites that are known to many. When you create an account, you will have your own profile and can put links to your site on your public profile.  Forum signature is an example of profile link building where your signature contains your keyword hyperlinked to your website.
Examples of sites where you can create profile links include deadspin, vetvoice, roundcube forums etc.


Social Bookmarking:
Social Bookmarking sites are sites where you can save your bookmarks. You can indeed customize them with your keywords. You can share your pages, blogs or any other links here. This technique is a must to follow for newbie’s as it is one of the ways you can make search engines detect your site. There is  also a voting system associated with the sites and the quality of your bookmark is determined by the number of votes you get. So bookmark pages that are interesting to read and write description in an appealing way to get votes and hence quality traffic.
Examples of social bookmarking sites include blinklist, bluedot, Digg, FolkD etc

Link building tips and tricks that can boost your traffic !

Being webmasters, we understood the way search engines work and the way pages are ranked. We are here to share with you the most important tips that will definitely result in the success of your website. These are the tips shared by successful webmasters who earn 100 to 500$ a day through adsense.
-          Don’t focus only on the high paying keywords. The most obvious reason is the competition. Select a niche with average traffic. Though the click rate is low, the number of clicks would be high and hence, the revenue.
-          Games and wallpapers are  the categories associated with the least ctr. So better stay off !
-          If your site is big enough, hire quality content writers rather than writing everything yourself. This not only saves time, it gets you traffic as we all know that content is king.
-          Have goals! Monitor your traffic and earnings regularly. Try to change attributes like placement of ads and note down the differences in your earnings. Make reports and act accordingly.
-          Most importantly, never try fraudulent ways. It may fetch you money now, but you may end up losing your publisher account very soon. Never try to cheat your advertisers.

Got a website? Want to promote it? These are the do's and dont's!

Do’s and don’ts of Link Building:
Do’s
-            See that your link is in the right page- a page that is related to your    domain
-            Find the appropriate keywords corresponding to your domain and Create anchor texts using those keywords if you were to place your anchor links
-            Try to use keyword phrases that users generally type in search engines
-            Target each page of your website with a particular keyword.
 
 
Don’ts
-             Buying huge amounts of links at a time.
-            Creating hundreds of links on a single page. (Should not be more  than 20/page)
-             Targeting irrelevant traffic
-             Creating temporary links
-             Creating links on the same IP address
-             Creating links on tropically irrelevant sites
-             Submitting your articles to thousands of directories

Google Adsense! What is it? How do I start with it? Do i need to own a site?

We know that the entire world is in running after Google. What’s the major source of income of Google? It is adsense. It is a program where advertisers advertise their websites and publishers promote them. If you are looking forward to make some money using adsense, you need to sign up as a publisher
Prerequisites:
You need to own a website first. If you are a business firm, it is recommended to purchase a domain name and a hosting service. The usual price of a domain is 10$/year and the price of hosting varies from 3$ to 10$/month. If it is for personal use, you may opt for a free lan. Some of the companies that offer free domaining and hosting include blogspot, yolasite, weebly, multiply etc. The only disadvantage is you won’t get a top level domain if you sign up in any of these free sites. Once the site is ready, you need to fill it with content that is unique and informative. Adsense doesn’t approve pornographic or copied content. Once the content is ready, you can apply for the post of a publisher using your website. In some Asian countries,  a site will not be approved if it is less than 6 months old regardless of the content and number of pages
Filling up the application:
You need to visit the adsense website and fill up the application. See that the personal details you supply match with those associated with your domain. Adsense makes payment using cheques. .  Enter the payee name carefully as there is no option to change the payee name later in certain countries.
Placing ads on your website:
Adsense team evaluates your website and if it adheres to the terms and policies, you will receive a mail stating that your account has been approved. You can login to your account, select the size of the adsense module according to your convenience and paste it in your code. You will be able to see google ads within minutes.
Now, you are an adsense publisher and the amount of money you get depends on the number of visitors you get.