Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Blog

Over time popular bloggers build up hundreds or thousands of subscribers. These subscribers are people interested in the field or topics that blogger writes about. Each time those bloggers write a new post those readers get notified of the new content in their RSS readers.

Imagine that"¦

• everytime you had an idea to share, that 5,000 people who trust your opinions see it.
• most of those 5,000 also write blogs in your field or related fields.
• some of those bloggers frequently mention your site
• some of those bloggers also have thousands of subscribers.

Blogs are all about spreading ideas (via in content links) and accumulating attention. Where people go search engines follow. If many people link to your blog posts that also boosts your search engine rankings for the other parts of your site.

If you write a frequently updated blog the media is more likely to believe you are a topical expert than if you are just a merchant selling goods in your industry.

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Traffic is one of the most important factor to determine a certain site's successfulness. In my opinion these are the Top 10 Best Source of Traffic:

1. Search Engines Results Page (commonly known as SERP)
2. Forums – Posting useful info on forums that caters your niche will definitely bring a lot of good targeted traffic
3. Pay Per Click Campaigns – Google Adwords, Yahoo! Publishers Network, MSN adCenter and etc.
4. Paid to surf or autosurf programs – a very tedious task unless you use bots
5. Direct Email Marketing (Not SPAM!) – Getting yor site featured or advertised on an opt-in-email list drive massive amount of traffic (for example: WebProNews Newsletter)
6. Extensive Blog Promotion
7. Emailing a Safe list
8. Viral Marketing (Gobala Krishnan may help you in this field)
9. Traffic Programs Based on Credits – TrafficSwarm, Ad Gizmo, World Wide Promoter and etc.
10. Offline promotions such as newspaper, magazine, sms advertisements – maybe a little off the hook for beginners but as your site and business expands…who knows!?

What are yo waiting for? Get your butt moving and bring some traffic to your site!

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Recently a new site called BlogRush was launched and I decided to try 'em out. Everything is working pretty great. I've got several traffic from the BlogRush widget and I'm quite happy

After a few days signing up with BlogRush, they sent a newsletter about their new changes.

The statistics page at BlogRush is currently disabled…temporarily. Here are the changes that BlogRush will implement:

• 100% manual blog review: Might be a little unrealistic but BlogRush says this will keep spam sites from messing and poisoning the BlogRush network.
• More categories: This is to improve relevancy of links in the widget.
• Improved reporting: Low traffic members may get more bonus credits.
• Improved network distribution: balance between building and using credit points.

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Over the past few months it's likely that you have read about terms such as Squidoo, Squidoo Lens, Bum Marketing and may be wondering what is this all about, how does it all tie in and how can it help me move my business forward?

I came across one resource that covers all these topics in detail. The e-book was written by Liz Tomey who is one of the nets top marketers and has mastered Squidoo & Bum Marketing.

http://www.seotier.com/get/underground-squidoo-profit-tactics

You will be learning all these underground tactics and tricks (more…)

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Stumble upon is a very well known social website that has the combined idea of Digg.com and MySpace.com. Users are given the freedom to customize their own spot and the most interesting and mind-blowing feature to "stumble" has really made a big buzz amongst webmasters.
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Some of you might be considering to spend $299/year so that your site is reviewed and listed in Yahoo! Directory. But is will it be really worth it?

Nonetheless, lets look at the pros and cons
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If you are wondering which is the best way or even how you reach number one or the top ten in the search engines, then this is the article for you.

In my opinion it is not rocket science. As long as you have a well designed and optimized website the most important thing you need is backward links and lots of them. These links should have different link texts which even though different will always include your keyword. For example if the keyword is stuttering the link text could be, stuttering therapy, stuttering information, stuttering treatment, stuttering help or stuttering advice.
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Creativity
This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn't matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don't know that you exist, it doesn't matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing. (more…)

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Submitting to Online Directories

If you are reading this article, more likely than not you own a website that you would like to see be a success. To achieve that level, you need traffic to your site. But where does traffic come from?

One of the better ways to get traffic for your site is to submit your site to the many directoriesthat exist online. Online directories are similar to your phone book yellow pages: These directories are categorized (education, entertainment, health, etc.), and when you submit your website, you suggest a category for your website. Often, you will even be able to submit to a sub-category within a major category. For example, suppose your website is about aromatherapy.

In your submission request, you would suggest "Health" as your main category, "Alternative Medicine" as your sub-category, and "Aromatherapy" as a further sub-category.

Some of the leading online directories are Yahoo!, MSN Small Business, and the DMOZ directory. Unlike search engines, however, listings in online directories are usually not free. As of this writing, you can submit for free to the Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com), but there is not guarantee on how quickly your website will be reviewed for listing. If you need your site reviewed faster, you can pay Yahoo! $299 US for "expedited" service and they will review your site within seven days. However, this fee is a yearly recurring fee. Your website is subject to a yearly review, and is guaranteed neither initial inclusion or to remain listed year after year.
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