301 Redirects and Search Engine Optimization

There are multiple reasons to redirect URLs. For one, your web pages may have moved but their old URLs may still live in users' bookmarks or in search engine indexes. Without implementing some sort or redirection, that traffic would be lost to a 404 Error Page.

On occasions, you may also want to register several extensions for your domain name: 'mydomain.com', 'mydomain.net' and 'mydomain.org', and have 'mydomain.net' and 'mydomain.org' automatically redirect visitors to your site, hosted under 'mydomain.com'.

Furthermore, if your company sells several products, you may want to give each of them an individual domain name, and have it point to a specific subdirectory of your main site. For example, if you own a site called 'businessvideos.com' that sells a product called 'Marketing Made Easy', you may want to set up a domain such as 'marketingmadeeasy.com', and redirect it to subdirectory: www.businessvideos.com/marketingmadeeasy/.

There are several ways to redirect domains, however, most of them will get you in trouble with the search engines. The search engine friendly way to redirect URLs is to use what is know as a 301 redirect (you can see how Google and Yahoo! specifically endorse this kind of redirection). Here is my take about the different redirection methods and their implications on search engine optimization:

Meta-Refresh Javascript Redirect

You can redirect visitors by placing a snippet of JavaScript code within the HTML code of the page you want to redirect. With this method, you can specify the number of seconds before the visitor is automatically redirected to the new page. Search engines don't like this method, because of the potential for abuse: you could write an optimized page for a non-competitive search term, and then automatically redirect your unsuspecting visitor to whatever URL you want. For example, it could be relatively easy to write a page about English literature, have it indexed and highly ranked by the search engines, and then redirect your visitor to a casino or Viagra site. If search engines allowed this, users would quickly stop trusting them. That is why search engines penalize this practice, and why you should avoid it.

Parked Domains

You could register an additional domain name, park it, and make it point to the DNS servers of your main site's hosting account, so that when somebody types the additional domain, they will be transported to your main site. However, this approach may lead to search engines listing the same content twice, one for your main domain, and one for your additional domain. In the past, unscrupulous webmasters would use multiple domains to spam search engines and directories, making them list the same pages hundreds of times under different domains. Even if your intentions are good, we don't recommend this approach to redirecting your additional domains, since search engines may penalize your site for duplicate content.

302 and 301 Redirects

When a request for a page or URL is made by a browser, agent or spider, the web server where the page is hosted checks a file called '.htaccess'. This file contains instructions on how to handle specific requests and also plays a key role in security. The '.htaccess' file can be modified so that it instructs browsers, agents or spiders that the page has either temporarily moved (302 redirect) or permanently moved (301 redirect). It is usually possible to implement this redirect without messing with the '.htaccess' file directly, using your web host's control panel instead.

From a search engine perspective, 301 redirects are the only acceptable way to redirect URLs. In the case of moved pages, search engines will index only the new URL, but will transfer link popularity from the old URL to the new one so that search engine rankings are not affected. The same behavior occurs when additional domains are set to point to the main domain through a 301 redirect.

The URL Forwarding Feature

Most domain registrars offer a feature called URL Forwarding. With this feature, you can register a new domain, such as 'mydomain.net', and have it point to mydomain.com (or to any other URL). The problem, however, is that registrars usually do this by implementing a 302 redirect (page moved temporarily). While Google handles 302 redirects very well, passing link popularity from the additional domain to the main one, other search engines don't do this well, diluting link popularity by splitting it between the two domains, and negatively affecting rankings. Therefore, it is better not to use this method, and implement a 301 redirect instead.

Redirecting Old URLs

To '301 redirect' an old URL to a new one, just go to your web host's control panel, and choose the "Redirects" option. You can then set up the redirect by filling the blanks. You want to chose redirect option "Permanent" to implement a 301 redirect.
Redirecting additional domains

To 301 redirect an additional domain (like in the case of the .net or the .org version of your domain name), you have to set it up as an add-on domain with your web host (some hosts offer this option for free, and some others charge a small monthly fee per domain). If the additional domain was not registered with your web host, you will first have to go to your domain registrar and change the DNS (domain name servers) to the DNS of your web host (you may have to wait a couple of days before this change becomes functional). Once you've done this, go to your web host's control panel, choose the "Add On Domains" option, and set up your add on domain as follows:

New Domain Name: additionaldomain.com (Do not put any http:// or www)
Username/directory/subdomain: additionaldomain (Enter 'additionaldomain' by itself. Do not put any '.com' or 'www')
Password: 123ABC (Enter whatever password you want).

Then, set up the redirection by filling the appropriate box with the URL of the landing page (where you want your traffic to go).

Once your additional domain is redirecting to your landing page, take this one last step to see if everything is working fine: go to a server header checking tool, type your add-on domain in the query box and hit enter. If you get a message similar to this: "Status Code HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", then your 301 redirect is working.

You can also use 301 redirection for common misspelled versions of your domain name, or for other good domain names that you don't want your competitors to get.bd14582_.gif (185 bytes)

Author:Mario Sanchez publishes The Internet Digest ( http://www.theinternetdigest.net ), an internet marketing content site packed with useful articles and resources, and SEO Tutorial ( http://www.seotutorial.info ) where you can learn the basics of search engine optimization in four easy steps.
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Top 7 SEO Tools

Search engine optimization is a complex process with many facets. Some of these include keyword research, on-page optimization, off-page optimization, acquiring inbound links, and tracking your rankings.

Fortunately, there are many tools that have been created to aid web masters in each of these tasks.

Below I have reviewed 7 of the top SEO tools so that you can quickly find out what your site needs to rise in the search engines.

First up is the "Cool SEO Tool". I'll let you decide whether or not it lives up to its name.

Cool SEO Tool

This tool allows you to compare your site against the top 10 listed sites in Google for a particular keyword or phrase. You simply enter your keyword and the system will begin comparing 9 different metrics for the top 10 rankings. This allows you to quickly compare the Yahoo rank, MSN rank, Google pages indexed, altavista pages indexed, backlinks to page, backlinks to domain, allinanchor rank, age of url, and whether or not the phrase is on the page.

This tool can unveil extremely valuable information on how you can break into the top 10 search engine positions. Try it out at http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/.

XML-Sitemaps

Google wants to make sure that webmasters have a way of communicating information that is important about their sites. To accommodate this, they created Google Sitemaps in 2005. Using this tool, you can tell Google when you have created new pages and how often your pages are updated. To get your pages indexed as quickly as possible, it is in your best interest to create a sitemap for Google as well as for Yahoo.

Unfortunately, finding a sitemap generator that is easy to use can be a frustrating task. However, after a lot of digging, I think I've found one that you will like.

At xml-sitemaps.com, they have created a sitemap generator that enables you to create a xml sitemap for Google and a text-based sitemap for Yahoo. In addition, the generator can also create an optional HTML sitemap for human visitors.

Go to XML-Sitemaps.com for step-by-step instructions on how to get started.

Ultimate Keyword Tool

Keywords are the lifeblood of any site. Choose the wrong ones and your site will quickly fizzle. Choose the right keywords and you will start to see an abundance of traffic as well as sales. The key is choosing keyword phrases that aren't viciously competitive and convert well into sales.

For example, did you know that keyword phrases that are 3-5 words long convert into sales much more often than any other key phrase length? Not to mention, these longer keyword phrases are also usually much easier to rank for.

One of the best keyword tools is provided by SeoBook.com.

You simply enter in a keyword or phrase and hit suggest. Once you have done this, the keyword tools will return a variety of data, including:

• overture suggestions of additional keywords
• top overture bid prices
• estimated monthly search volume
• number of Google, Yahoo, and MSN search results
• Wordtracker keyword suggestions
• Google traffíc Estimates
• synonyms and....
• additional related keywords using the Adwords keyword tool

For a keyword tool that has it all, go to SeoBook.com.

Link Popularity

For many of the top search engines, link popularity is one of the top ranking factors. Because of this, there have been a large number of link popularity tools to be released. However, after trying out quite a few of them, I settled on URLTrends.com. This site enables you to find out your link popularity on 8 different search engines.

Monitor Your Search Engine Positions

Monitoring your search engine positions is crucial to any successful marketing campaign. To obtain the highest possible search engine traffic, you must be able to monitor any sudden drops in your rankings. If you don't know where you stand, there is no way you can take corrective measures.

Fortunately, there is a tool that allows you to track all of your keywords for free.

This tool allows you to track:

• numerous keyword rankings
• backlinks
• pagerank and...
• daily, weekly and monthly changes in your rankings.

Take control of your search engine rankings at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/.

Link Harvester

Are you looking to do some in-depth link analysis? If so, the Link Harvester is certainly for you. This tool is much more advanced than most link analysis software currently on the market. Link Harvester:

• quickly finds almost every single site that is linking to you
• reports how many pages of your web site are indexed
• reports how many links are pointing to any specific page
• provides links to the Wayback Machine and WhoIs source next to each domain
• reports the total number of inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio
• quickly grabs the number of .gov, .edu, and .ac.uk inbound links
• indicates if a site links to your site more than 5 times by bolding that particular link in the list of results.

If you find this tool useful, you can even add it to your own site. Link Harvester is open source, so web masters are free to share it and developers are free to improve upon it.

Do your own link analysis atLink Harvester.

Web CEO

I consider this the macdaddy of all of the seo tools. Web CEO combines many of the tools above into one solution. In one tool, you can:

• perform keyword mining
• use Web site analysis to improve your rankings
• create link popularity reports
• quickly and easily find potential link partners
• use automated, semi automated, and guided submission to search engines and directories
• manage your PPC campaigns
• analyze your search engine rankings

Take this tool for a spin at WebCEO.com.

Search engine optimization can be quite a chore, but with a few simple tools, the process is made much easier. Start putting these tools to use and see how they impact your own online business.

About The Author
Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for theSiteProNews and SEO-News newsletters. You can contact Kim at: kim @ seo-news.com This article may be freely distributed without modification and provided that the copyright notice and author information remain intact.

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Website Design Classic Mistakes

Having been involved in the internet industry for a large part of my working life, I have spent a lot of time researching and browsing the internet and reading websites, mainly for client design research, but also for occasional personal use.

The one thing that I find most disappointing, is the apparent lack of thought going into website creation and it's purpose, which in turn creates a missed opportunity for many e-businesses to become successful.

My personal perspective on e-businesses and their websites, is that if they don't take pride in their websites and show to their customers a passion for what they do, chances are, they won't take pride in their products, and the passion for providing good customer service will also be missing.

What you must remember, is that your web site is a direct reflection of you and your business. The appearance of your site is the most important factor in determining your potential success rate. In short, if your site doesn't look professional or pleasing to the eyes at first glance, the majority of people will assume your products and/or services to be of similar poor standard.

At the other end of the scale, you could fall into the trap of going overboard with the design and over complicate things with incorporating high costing flashy graphics. You may end up with a great looking and highly aesthetic web site, but the danger with this is that your site may prove unreliable and at times may take too long to load. There is nothing worse for a customer than trying to visit a slow loading site, and most will close the browser window in complete frustration. As i'm sure you will be able to work out, this will ultimately cost you business.

The other major consideration (if not the most important) when designing a website is your content. Not just links, but content with passion, relativity, and understanding to the customer. When someone is searching for something in particular and they visit your web site, they're visiting for a reason. Your site has something they want, Whether this be your product, service, and/or information. If they are unable to obtain what they're looking for, they move on to the next site and so on. To be able to get your visitors to stay and look around your website, you must give them a reason to. Providing them with quality content will achieve this goal.

There have been countless other lists and articles on the subject of website designing mistakes, but I have compiled my own list, from a designer's perspective, of some pitfalls to look out for when considering either designing a website or purchasing a template. They are:

Poor/slow load time
Not very pleasing to the eye
Poor spelling/Grammar
No contact information - particularly an address
Poorly designed navigation
Text too bunched together/hard to read
Broken links
Poor cross-browser compatibility
Over-sized, slow loading graphics
Too many graphics
Horizontal scrollbars
Long, long, long pages/too much information on one page
Overuse of flash graphics
Poor choice of colour scheme
The use of frames
Too many pop up windows
Poor content organization
Advertising banners
Too many different colours
Under construction signs

Remember that the simple, clear, informative and well designed sites are the most successful. If you are a current e-business and your sales aren't what you had hoped, consider the above and take some time to look openly and honestly at your site. Spending money on improving your website is a much better investment than throwing money away on trying to advertise and market a site that just isn't good enough to sell your product or services.

If you are looking for a template or a custom designed website, be aware of the above and be prepared to ask your chosen designer or template provider questions to ensure that your hard earned money doesn't go to waste on an inferior design, which contains any of the above.

Asking questions won't cost you a penny, and in doing so could actually save you a lot of money over the long term.

Getting your website right first time is vital in terms of saving money and time. The earlier your website is up and running properly, the quicker you will be able to reap the rewards of a successful e-business.

Author:Joe Smith is the lead website designer for www.jss-design.com
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One Page, One Subject

Every page on your website should have one topic or subject. Let’s say you have a website about clothing accessories, one page should be devoted to belts, another to buttons and maybe another page is dedicated to scarves. Each page should be optimized with its own keywords. Your pages should have a distinct subject or product.

In short, one subject per page. You may ask why? It’s because search engines read and index each and every page of your site individually, not your website as a whole. Search engine results page (SERPS) also give you a specific page that is not necessarily your home page.

Try typing a keyword in Google Search, the result will most likely be a mixture of homepages and individual pages inside subdirectories of websites that is relevant to the keyword searched. You have to optimize each of your pages for a keyword and one keyword only. So that each of your individual pages will get into the SERPS -not only your index or homepage.

Aside from focusing on the body text on your page, make sure that your Meta Tags are also individually unique. The most important of all the Meta Tags is the Title Tag. Search engines give the most weight to your title. It is also what the engines use on the SERPS. If you don’t have a Title Tag, the first line of text on your page will most likely be used by the search engines as your title. And you wouldn’t want that, do you? Second is your Keywords Tag - don’t use the same keywords in every page of your website. The same goes with the Description Tag. You may have read many times that the Meta Tags are obsolete. But the truth is many directories and search engines still use the Meta Tags and all the major search engines still use the Title Tag. It take little effort to create Meta Tags, so don't waste one of the easiest ways to optimize your website for the search engines.

You may ask: So what if individual pages get into the SERPS? It’s because the more pages of your website gets into the SERPS, the more visitors you will likely get. And that only means one thing: More income for you.

Author:
Arnold A. Alvarez

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SEO Mistake Like First Time Golfers

Written by: Kenn Schroder

When you start getting into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a website marketing strategy designed to increase your visibility in search engines, you'll learn that one of the best things that you can do is to put good key words into your content.

Because it is easy to do, however, you can easily do it wrong.

You may start jamming keywords into your pages wherever you can, thinking "the more the merrier." You want higher rankings, but what happens is the opposite - your rankings get worse.

It's like watching a first-time golfer at a driving range.

He wants to hit that ball like the pros - smack it hundreds of yards. He winds up and gives it all he's got. But because of sloppy form, he misses the ball or shanks it to the left or right.

He went gusto on the ball and made a mess.

Just the same, if you go gusto on your web pages - stuffing in too many keywords in a sloppy way, you will create a mess.

The mess is two-fold.

First, putting too many keywords in your web pages can hurt your search engine rankings - it can actually make them go down.

Search engines "know" that in well-written web pages, a keyword phrase can occur only so often, generally five percent of the page's content.

Search engines also know that any one web page usually covers a specific topic, so it can only realistically contain a few related keywords.

For example, if you create a web page on how to swing a golf club for beginners, it might contain some phrases like "golf swing", "golf swing instruction", "golf tips."

Imagine the same page had information about golf putting, getting out of sand traps, golf etiquette, the difference between clubs, teeing off, using wood, using irons, etc.

That would be way too much information on the page - an overload.

The second problem is that a page overloaded with keywords will scare away visitors.

You've probably seen this before - a website that is so loaded with keywords that it looks like someone spilled the dictionary on it.

Using our same scenario, imagine that you were learning to swing your golf club for the first time. You did a search on "golf swing tips" and hey, you saw a listing entitled "Golf Tips - How to Swing Like a Pro."

When you clicked to the page, you started reading this:

"Golf swing tips - Use these golf swing tips to help you swing your golf club like the pros. Begin your golf swing by placing your left hand on the golf club. Then, as shown in golf swing diagram 1, place your right hand over the golf club. This will stabilize your golf grip - a good golf swing tip for beginning golfers."

Yikes! You can't read that without going insane!

Don't jeopardize the readability of your pages in pursuit of high search engine rankings.

Here are some tips to help you in the swing of writing good keyword rich pages that search engines like:

* Use three to five keyword phrases on any one page. Do this for pages that have a decent amount of content, like articles and service descriptions.

* Put your keywords in your page headings, subheadings and bulleted points.

* Write a page summary at the top of the page which has important keywords in it.

* Replace generic terms with your specific keywords, but don't over do it.

As an example of the last point, if you had a sentence like:

"Classes begin at 1pm every day including Saturdays and Sundays."

You could write:

"Golf lessons begin at 1 PM every day including Saturday and Sunday.

This gets the phrase "golf lessons" into the page which is more likely to be searched on than "classes" or even "golf classes."

In conclusion, use finesse and good form when put-ting keywords into your web pages. Your readers will read more of your content and search engines will give you higher rankings.

About the Author
Kenn Schroder, helps you build a magnetic coaching web site to attract clients. Web site design, search engine optimization (SEO), FREE report and FREE newsletter to help you build a practice-growing coaching web site. http://www.CoachingSitesThatWork.com.

Know What Google Does To Index

Written by: Aaron Brooks

SEO and webmaster functions are familiar to those with training and experience. But if you are a self made website owner an understanding of how Google works will erase anxious moments of why is it taking so long! Once you submit pages for indexing Google and other search engines can take as much as a month to index.

When the word "bot" is used it refers to search engine software that reads every page you submit, categorizes it, and places it in a data base. Google’s bots are called "The Adsense bot, the Freshbot, and the DeepCrawl." Google according to statistics indexes over 8 million pages.

-The Adsense works on sites that have Adsense. When a new page is set up, the JavaScript in the Adsense sends a "calling" message to the bot. The bot then indexes the page in 15 minutes.

-Freshbot will crawl or examine all the popular pages on a site. A Freshbot for sites like BBC and CNN or eBAY will scan every 10 minutes. Other infrequently updated sites will get a Freshbot look every 1-14 days. The frequency depends on the popularity of the pages. Freshbot seeks all the deeper links on your pages and places them in a database in Google. When DeepCrawl takes place there already exists a ready reference.

-DeepCrawl follows the action taken by Freshbot. Once a month or so it will go over links indexed by Freshbot.

Google being user friendly has great information for webmasters at: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 . If you follow their instructions and guidelines then your website will get indexed faster. There are instructions for design, content, quality, submission, FAQs and more.

The way to go is to add quality content to your site regularly and tease Googlebot into crawling you pages by getting quality inbound links. More important is to create a Google Sitemap for your site. This will be the channel through which you interact with Google. You can send information on new pages, changes, and important pages on your site and Google will send information on problems created by your website pages and how to clear them.

If you have pages that you do not want Google to index then you need to use a robots.txt file. Instructions on how to create a robots.txt are available on the Google site. If you have any problems or questions the Google team will solve the problems for you.

There are advantages to view your pages through the eyes of Google and any other search engine crawler. Find out as much as you can and consider using special "SEO tools" http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/ to check the pages you create. These help you fine tune your site such that it will get indexed quickly.

Read SEO forums and chats regularly and keep updated on what is happening in the SEO word.

While you are exercising patience you should occupy your time in generating inbound links and marketing plans. Keep on your toes and there are chances your site will get the ranking you seek.

About the Author
Aaron Brooks is a freelance writer for http://www.1888seoservices.com , the premier website to find Seo consulting, link buildings and professionals seo training, online marketing tips, seo tools and more. He also freelances for the premier Search site http://www.bavoo.com

SEO Tips: Ways to Get Backlinks to Your Website

Written by: Alan Liew

Backlinks or inbound links are the key to achieving high rankings in search engines. So to get your website to the top you not only need to optimize your webpages for your targeted keywords but also have to build as many backlinks as possible. There are several ways to get backlinks to your site. Here's how......

Send Link Exchange Requests to Potential Links Partners
Before starting a link exchange campaign. You need to create a link directory that will be used to provide a link back to your potential link partners. Your website is ready to exchange link with other webmasters once the directory created.

You can find your potential link partners by searching on major search engines like Google and Yahoo for your targeted keywords and then visit each website in top 100 or top 200 listings. Make sure that the site you are requesting a link exchange related to yours. When a potential link partner has been found, you will want to go ahead and add your potential partner's link to the appropriate category in your site's link directory and then send an email to the potential link partner stating:

a) That you have linking to your potential link partner.
b) A direct link to the page where the potential link partner listing can be found.
c) How it would benefit to the potential link partner's if linking to you.
d) Your linking details.

To achieve better result, you should not get backlinks to your home page only. Try to get links pointing to your other webpages too. Also use more than one keyword anchor text.

Article Marketing
Writing several articles and submitting them to article directories for publication is a great way to build one-way links. By including a link to your website in your articles resource box, you not only gain quality one-way links but also drive free targeted traffic to your site. Your articles may drive truckloads of traffic if they are impressive. There are hundreds of article directories if not thousands. You can find them by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directories'.

Directories
Submitting your website's link to directories is another way of getting backlinks. Directories normally offer 3 types of listings:

1) Paid listing
2) Free listing
3) Free listing but require a link back from you.

If you choose the first or third option and your website meets the submission guidelines and rules of the directories, your link will usually be listed within days. If you select the second option, you have to wait longer and your website's listings aren't guaranteed.

Getting listed in quality directories with Google page rank 7 or higher such as DMOZ and Yahoo directory can be more beneficial for increasing your rankings than a lot of links from smaller and newer directories. But it is not easy to be accepted by these quality directories.

Press Release
Press release is simply an announcement of an important event for your business. Just like article marketing, you can gain one-way links by writing a press release with a link pointing to your site and submitting it to other websites. To find websites that accept press release, you can go to Google and enter the search term 'submit press release'.

Affiliate Program
If you are selling a product or a membership service, launching an affiliate program is a good idea to increase both your inbound links and online sales. Webmasters that are interested to market your product will place your link on their websites and you get free one-way links.

About the Author
Alan Liew is the webmaster of online4income.com which provides information, tips and ideas of how to make money online. You can also visit his blog to find out more ways to make money online.

Understand Backlinks from Search Engines

From USESEO.com

Most Search Engine Optimizers understand the importance of the backlinks in order for a website to succeed. Most search engines take into account of the backlinks quality for their ranking algorithm. We will cover the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) here and discuss how they treat backlinks from their point of view.

The most popular search engine, Google, places great emphasis on backlinks. In fact, relevant backlinks is all a website needs to achieve a high ranking in Google result page. Google, however, does not shows all the indexed backlinks when user queries with the link: operator. In addition, Google does not update their backlink index as frequent as their search results.

It is believed that multiple backlinks from a same domain does not have the stack effect in Google. For example, links from forum signatures and directories will have minimum weigh in Google's ranking algorithm.

Yahoo, on the other hand, chooses to display all the backlinks to the users. A search with the link: operator often reveals most of a page's backlinks to screen. Although they display most of the backlinks, it does not mean that they value them as much as in Google. Unfortunately, backlinks are not as important as they are in Yahoo than in Google.

Yahoo has introduced a site explorer interface to aid the webmasters in locating the backlinks and other useful information. Yahoo also provides one of the best API for the web masters' usage.

MSN also offers to display all the backlinks to the user with the link: operator query. The backlinks update in MSN also seems to be the most updated among all the three search engines. It may seems that MSN focus a lot on backlinks but this is usually not the case. Backlinks are not as important as keyword domain in MSN's point of view.

In conclusion, Google is the only search engine that put a lot of focus on backlinks in their ranking formula and since they are the most popular search engine, backlinks are important for every website. It is recommended to use Yahoo or MSN to check for backlinks because they show a more complete listing.

5 Steps to increase Website Ranking

5 Steps to increase Website Ranking

If you need to improve your internet home based business website ranking, have a look at your web pages.
By doing basic SEO work you will be able to improve the way the major SE see your internet home based business WebPages.Because you have no control over your competitors sites you have only two ways of influencing your rankings, and they are:
Your Content
Website Links
Use these 5 steps to Improve the content.

Step 1- Keyword Phrases.
Rather than focusing on a single word, try adding a few words to make a keyword phrase.
If you were searching for your own internet home based business website, what keyword phrase would you type into Google for each page?
Would you look for “home based business” or would you look for “home based internet business ideas” .
Stick to one subject per page, if you have multiple pages , try to stick to one keyword phrase per page.

Step 2 - Keyword Density.
One of the things Google looks for when it catalogs your internet home based business web pages is the density of the keyword usage.
In other words, how often the keyword occurs.
Always use natural phrasing.
Give a strong opening paragraph to your internet home based business web page.
Google may or may not search beyond the first 200 words or so of your web site, but it definitely looks at the first paragraph for keyword density.
It is generally regarded that 5 to 10 keywords per 100 words is acceptable. If you repeat it too often then the search engines might think you are spamming and your page is downgraded or even banned.
So start low and you can always tweak it upwards later.

Step 3 - Heading Tags
Text within the heading tags H1-H6 are given extra weighing by search engines. Therefore it is important to use this tags and not simply use a larger font size.
The headline tags function just like headlines in newspapers and they draw the reader and the search engines.
The Opening HeadlineThe opening headline should sum up the contents of the web page.
It should be designed to attract both the reader and the search engines and consist of your keywords/keyword phrases.
The Headline tag should ideally be less than 40 characters (64 max).
Short punchy headlines are generally better.The H2 tag is commonly used because most people find the H1 tag too large. The opening headline tag is followed by some body text which should contain your keywords/keyword phrases. Your keyword should be in the opening sentence and once more in the first 500 characters (roughly 6 lines) or opening paragraph.Other headline Tags H3-H6These tags are used for emphasis and again should contain your keywords or some variation of it. These are ideally used for secondary keywords. Again the body text following the headline should contain your keyword at least once.

Step 4 - Name Your Pages.
It is vital to give your pages a descriptive name with the title tag.
Google displays search results as a link using the web page’s title. When appropriate, use the page’s keyword phrase in the title.

Step 5 - Improve your Your Graphics.
If your menus are in Flash, they might as well be invisible,search engines tend to skip right over it.
Consider making plain text links in addition to or instead of Flash.
Give your images alt tags. Not only does it make your website more accessible to the visually impaired, it also gives you another chance to place your keywords where Google can see them.

Conclusion
So as you can see, by doing slight tweaking to the content to your web page, this will improve how the SE see your internet home based business web page.
In the end, strong, well organized pages are pages that Google tends to rank higher.
They're also pages that tend to become more popular, which means Google will rank them even higher.

By Alan Scholtz
About the Author: Alan Scholtz is the owner of Home Based Business Opportunities. If you want to start your own Internet Business, then start here first. Website: http://www.how-2b-debtfree.com

Improve Your Blogs SEO and Traffic in 8 Steps

Never make me down for David article, It's very useful to get more traffic and best SEO result to my blogs or website and maybe my Store also.
It's very easy to follow but I quite sure that so many webmasters or bloggers are over look its.
Thanks David for your good article.
SPS...
Improve Your Blogs SEO and Traffic in 8 Steps
One of the most important things when it comes to blogging is search engine optimization. Without it your blog is not going to go very far in the search engines which means your traffic is going to be drastically reduced because of it.

The following 8 SEO suggestions can and will help you place better in the search engines and as a result will bring you that extra traffic you are craving.

1) Your Main Keywords in The Posts Title.
This is a must in SEO and already setup with most blogging platforms. As you can see in the browser this post is titled `Improve Your Blogs SEO in 8 Steps - General Marketing Blog`

2) SEO Blog Categories.
It is important that you put your keywords in your categories Title.
If your post is relevant to more than one category on your blog then post it to multiple categories this will increase your search rankings with more keywords.

3) RSS Feed Your Blog.
Sign up to FeedBurner and place a link on your blog for people to receive your RSS feeds..

4) RSS to email.
Be sure to offer an email subscription service as well 40% of RSS subscribers prefer the email version.

5) Pinging Blog Services.
Each time you post on your blog be sure to Ping the many blog search engines and Feed syndicate’s. Most blogging platforms will offer you the option to do this automatically.

6) Commenting On Other Blogs.
Posting comments on other blogs will increase your search engine rankings as well. Post under your own name or your blogs name, Do Not use keywords and do not leave spammy comments as these will just be deleted.

7) Submit to Web Directories.
Submitting your blog to web directories is another way of increasing your ranking. Their are hundreds of free and paid web directories you can use. Here is one to get you started the Seo Web Directory.

Use of track backs
When ever you get the opportunity to mention another blog post that some one has written be sure to link to it. This will leave the blog owner a track back and also a link from that blog back to your own. This will help with search engines and will also get you some traffic direct from their blog.

9) Quality Content.
My final suggestion is no matter how well you optimize your blog and no matter how many back links you get their is no substitute for Quality Content so try to post every day with great content and the search engine spiders will come.

By David

10 Hot Tips To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

Very good list to increase traffic to my site or my blogs and many my Store.
All of them is very easy to follow I will do it now.
Thanks David.
SPS..

10 Hot Tips To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
So your blog is ready and you’re posting regularly but no one is coming to your site let alone commenting on your posts.
So what do you do to attract more visitors?

Promoting your blog is a must if you want a steady flow of traffic.
Here I have listed 10 tips that will get you on the road to regular traffic.

1. Set up a newsletter subscription form on your blog give away a free product to entice subscribers. Here is a good Wordpress plug-in for list building

2. Set your feed up on your My.Yahoo.com.

3. Use an automatic ping service. Better still use this Wordpress RSS plug-in

4. Comment on other blogs. Write useful comments not just spammy replies.

5. Submit to blog directories starting with the Blurb Blog Directory.

6. Add your blog URL to everything you send including letters by snail mail.

7. Get some business cards with your blog address on them. This site gives you 250 free www.vistaprint.com

8. Add an RSS feed to your blog so that people can subscribe. This is very popular at the moment I myself am subscribed to over 150 blogs.

7. Put your blog URL in your email siggy.

8. Post often at least once a day. 10 mins is not a lot of time out of your day plus search engines love content.

9. Use Trackbacks when posting something from other blogs this will give you a link back from their blog.

10. Re-write your posts and submit them to article directories such as www.trumparticles.com include a link back to your blog in your author bio box.

Use a good stats counter to keep track of your visitors. Wordpress users I recommend the wordpress.com stats plug-in. if you don’t use Wordpress then just search Google there are hundreds of free stat counters available.

By David

How To Generate More Web Income By Using Easy SEO Strategies Ideal For Newbies

Great advice..
Everybody feel like this when start to write website or blogs.
I still not have my own Host and Domain due to I think that I have know nothing about HTML and SEO Strategies.
I now trying to get and read more and more knowledge about SEO and blogs then compile it into this free blog.
After read below article there was something cross to my head. Yes..it's about incredible e-book entitled Search
Engine Optimization Made Easy, I've found it and download from some Website but still not read it only 4-5 pages that I already read.
I will back to read whole e-book now.

Thanks Cynthia Minnaar for your triggering.

How To Generate More Web Income By Using Easy SEO Strategies Ideal For Newbies

If you are just starting out with your own website or you have had it for a while and have been scared to touch your source code, perhaps you will gain some inspiration from my experience.

I was so excited when I got my own domain and I knew that in order for my web site to appear on the first page of the search results in the major search engines I would have to optimize my site.

I had no knowledge of html or Search Engine Optimization strategies, yet in three months I managed to get my site to a Google Page Rank of 4 as well as achieve top positions in the search results for a number of my keywords.

When I first looked at my source code it was like trying to read a foreign language. You can view your source code by opening your site in your browser, right click on the actual web site and from the menu that appears click on View Source. A Notepad window will open showing you the source code that miraculously transforms into your website when viewed in IE (Internet Explorer) or other browser.

This fascinated me and to try and figure out how all this worked I would have my site open in my browser and the source code open in Notepad and select to study, for example, the first paragraph, then I would locate that paragraph in the source code to find out how this was written. Then I would do the same for an image to see how that was written. Gradually I was able to translate the source code into an understandable language.

Obviously to make actual changes to your site, you do need to access your web space in your hosting account and I would strongly advise you to make a backup of your site before you make any changes, as this will allow you to go back to your original site if you make a mistake. Believe me when I say it is extremely easy to make a mistake with html, just leave out an inverted comma or a greater than sign and your site can go haywire or a link will simply just not work!! I would also advise you not to work on your html if you are tired, as it does require concentration.

I spent some time viewing videos that taught me basic html and I then felt I knew enough to be able to start making changes to my site as well as optimizing it for the search engines. As long as you have a backup of your site prior to making any changes, you will not break out in a cold sweat when your site opens up looking like somebody has scrambled the source code! This has happened to me and it only takes a couple of very minor errors to throw the site into total disarray.

The way I was working of course was not the ideal route to take and it was incredibly time consuming, but being a newbie I knew no better but I was determined to learn. This all changed when I came across an incredible e-book entitled Search Engine Optimization Made Easy. I followed this easy step-by-step guide and I put literally everything in the e-book into practice and at the next Google PR update my site was rewarded with a PR4. Optimizing my site is now ongoing as I am continually fine tuning and adding more content to my site to increase my rank in the search engine results and by doing this my knowledge and confidence grow and the errors decrease!

I certainly am no html expert and tend to work with the copy and paste method. I do not use an html editor I work with the html in Notebook. So my next step is to learn how to use an editor as I am sure it will speed things up even further and make it much easier to correct errors.

Being able to optimize your site does not require that you be a SEO expert, I have proven that newbies can do it too! I think a lot of people tend to avoid it due to fear of messing up their site, but as long as you have a backup there is nothing to fear.

There are great advantages to optimizing your web site as you will hugely increase your presence on the internet, attract organic traffic, which is targeted and free, and ultimately generate more web income.

By Cynthia Minnaar
About the Author: Cynthia Minnaar is the owner and webmaster of www.cyns-home-biz.com, where you can learn how to start an online home based business as well as receive internet income and internet marketing training. You can start your own online home business today with a Plug-in Profit Site set up free within 24 hours. You may publish my article if you include the bio.

SEO and Positioning Your Website For Top Search Engine Rankings

Hi...

So many method and technique to grab top position in Search engine and these method below are really important things that we can't overlook.

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SEO and Positioning Your Website For Top Search Engine Rankings
SEO and positioning your website to grab top positions in search engines for targeted keywords require both good on-page and off-page optimization.
On-page optimization refers to how you tweak the webpage itself, ie the meta-tags, webpage title, content, navigation sitemap, etc. It has everything to do with the web architecture.
Off-page optimization is more of a technique applied beyond your website, without involving any change to your website.
Let’s take a look at some important elements of SEO and positioning that would boost the ranking of your website.

First of all,
we need to understand a bit more about the role of on-page optimization in SEO and positioning.
In summary, on-page optimization requires you to craft the web page structure such that it is optimized for a particular keyword that you are targeting. Never build a site first before knowing what you hope to achieve, ie whether your aim is to drive maximum traffic and sell more products or just as a hobby.

You need to pay attention to the keywords you are targeting first, and do detailed researches before you start building your webpage and optimizing it for the keywords. A lot of webmasters fail to realize the importance of keyword research in SEO and positioning for top search engine ranking. They often do it the other way round, targeting popular and extremely competitive keywords and keyword phrases. You may have realized that competitive keywords like “search engine optimization” or “web traffic” are simply out of reach for a new or amateurish website. SEO and positioning your website for such keywords would only bring you disappointment as you realize that even with a fully optimized page, you are still on page 1000 of the search engine results.

One hint for you is to go for any keyword phrase with less than 1 – 2 million search results and fewer than 1000 competing websites in Google. How do you check the number of competing websites? Simply type in “Allintitle: Target Keyword Phrase” into Google search box and all the websites containing the specific keyword phrase would be displayed. It is common sense that any website targeting a keyword phrase would include it in the webpage title, isn’t it? Looking at the search results alone is vague and difficult to determine the level of competition. Once you have found the keywords for optimization, remember to include them in your page title, sub-headers, and meta-tags.

Off-page optimization looks more at the popularity of your website. The search engines are constantly changing the landscape of the internet but one principle stays constant, that is to give users relevant results. Other than meddling with the on-page factors, you need to be aware of how search engines measure your website popularity and keyword relevance. One major yardstick of SEO and positioning is using link popularity. Search engine spiders are not humans and can only understand web content to a certain logical extent. A human may see a web page as rich in content but a search engine spider may deem it as spam.

The unbiased and more accurate way of judging the importance of a web page in terms of keyword relevance is to leave the decision to fellow webmasters and search engine users, or in short, votes of confidence. A link to your web page is a vote declaring that your web page is worth mentioning for that specific topic. But I must emphasize that not all links are equal. Find out why at my blog and also learn basic and advanced tips and tricks about SEO and positioning your website for top rankings either manually or using tools that would conveniently and quickly rank your website.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author's name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

By Davion Wong
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Social Networking to Boost Website Traffic

Hi..
This is not new for SEO and Backlinks getting but it's never get old fashioned.
Social Networking is getting more and more important for websites or blogs to get high rank in Google or other main Search Engine.
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Social Networking to Boost Website Traffic

Building backlinks is one of the best way to increase traffic to your website and social networking is one method that leads to high quality backlinks. While backlinks have always been an important factor in traffic generation they have gained a new importance since the growth of social networking. Search engines have become very strict about the quality of backlinks and page rank depends as much on the quality of backlinks as their volume.

Given below is some useful information on backlinks and how you can use social networking to get more traffic and improve your page rank. A “backlink” is simply a link that leads from someone else’s website to your own. They are sometimes also called “inbound links”. Backlinks are used by search engines while rating a website.

Social networking websites are regular websites that allow people and organizations that have something in common to stay in touch over a shared platform.
They are places where you can meet others and make them part of your social network. You can make friends, build relationships, and you can also promote your product or service.

Once you have created your own website or blog you will be working hard to give it visibility by attracting increasing amount of traffic. Social networking is a good way to achieve this. In order to get backlinks from other websites you can do some simple things.

Leaving comments on blogs is one such activity. You must leave a relevant comment along with your URL. The important thing is that your comment should be related to the blog post and not appear as if you only left the comment to leave your link there.

You can also find some good topic related to your main website and write an interesting article on it. This is among the most effective internet marketing techniques that you can use. Write a good, intelligent, and useful article and then post it on the various article directories. Include your URL at the bottom of the article. Article directories are excellent resources for backlinks.

You should make sure that your article is also published on a web 2.0 website. Go and list your website on social book marking websites as well. Make sure that you keep submitting articles regularly. You can do this yourself or you can hire a freelance copywriter to develop the content for you. Outsourcing of course means you will be paying for it.

If you have some skills in this direction then try creating clipart and screensavers. Offering these for free is also a good way to get more traffic.

Finally, make sure that you are part of a few of the more popular social networking websites. These memberships will be only meant to build your own network and not of overt marketing. As your social network grows you can invite your contacts to join you on the social networking website. This should start a chain reaction that will get them inviting their own contacts and so on. Eventually your network will grow to a point where it becomes truly beneficial.

By David

Two Powerful SEO Techniques

Hi...
Back to basic and most of webmaster already known about these but I am quite sure that more than 70% of them are not follow these two things.
I will try to apply both of them to my blogs and Stores.
Let's see the results.
Thanks Waiman Yau for you triggering.

The Two Most Important SEO Techniques

Marketing your website and business on the Internet can be a chore and a really difficult task! The organic search results in search engines like Google are the golden egg of marketing. Getting listed high in Google guarantees lots of website visitors and that means lots of business!

Of course the story is not so easy, and everyone is vying for top spot.
Search engine optimization or SEO is the practice of optimizing your website to help it rank better.
In actual fact there are onsite and offsite factors that play a part in this.
Here I will reveal two of the most important things that you can do to help your website rankings.
There are HTML tags that you can use on your webpages that can really help with ranking.
If you do two of these then you could be well ahead of the competition.

The first one is the title tag.
It is really important that you use the title tag and place the keywords that you are optimizing for here.
Ensure that you do not just string a load of keywords together but make sure that it reads well. You don’t want to keyword spam! There is another reason for this.
The title often displays as the heading of your webpage in the search results!

The next most important HTML tag is the heading tag, or more specifically, the h1 tag.
This is also somewhere that you should place your keywords that you are targeting.
The h1 tag is basically the Heading of your page.

Search engines like Google places good emphasis on this tag.
In summary, you should ensure that your keywords are placed into the h1 tags.
If you just do these two simple things, then you will be halfway there to finishing your onsite SEO work! There are other stuff that you can do but these two are the most important.

Now, did you know that not all of your competitors are doing this? You can use special software to literally spy on your top competitors to see how they are optimizing their websites.
With this knowledge, you can literally do what they do! If there are areas that they have neglected, like using the h1 tag, then you can add that to your site and have one up on them! Powerful stuff! Visit my website at www.seofactory.co.uk and you can find out the one that I use to do this very sneaky trick! A hint, it is the number one software reviewed!

By Waiman Yau
About the Author: Waiman has reviewed many of the best SEO software on the market. Go and read the reviews now at http:// www.seofactory.co.uk.

6 Ways to Building One Way Back Links

Hi..
Very easy and short ways but can help us a lot to get more backlinks.
I like it so much and wanna keep it in my blog and stores even I still don't know how to apply these method to my Stores? if can't do that, just only apply to my blogs it should be OK for me.
And you?
This is the best SEO and backlinks getting.
Thanks David for you fantastic article.
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6 Ways to Building One Way Back Links
Everybody knows that to start getting traffic from search engines you need a lot of good quality back links.
So just how do you go about getting the back links you need.
In this article I will tell you the top 6 ways that I use to build quality back links to my websites and if you use them then you can also build your links.

1.Directory Submissions:
A good place to start is submitting your website to quality web directories such as Poll Get, Inside Hits and Blog Directory.
Their are thousands of free directories around but i would also consider submitting to some quality paid directories as well.

2.Submit Articles:
Probably one of the most popular ways of building one way back links to your website. Most article directories such as Trump Articles will allow you to leave a link back to your website in the resource box.

3.Use Forums:
Forums are another way of building your back links as most will allow you to have a signature link. Join forums related to your niche but do not spam them. A good up and coming blog forum is Blogging Hop.

4.Social Bookmarkeing:
Submitting your website to social bookmarking websites will get you some free one way back links. Sites such as Del.icio.us, Digg.com, faves.com, backflip.com, linkroll.com, spurl.net, bibsonomy.org.

5.Yahoo Answer:
You can search Yahoo Answers for questions related to your niche and answer them leaving a link to your website in the source box. Read our series on Yahoo Answers.

6.Blog Commenting:
Search for blogs within your niche and post comments on their posts but do not spam them. Leave excellent well though out replies or your comments will be rejected.
Most blogs will use No Follow on comment links but don’t let this put you off as they still count as back links.

Using the 6 tips i have just given you will put you well on the road to building some excellent one way links to your website.

By David

Site Indexing - Great Eight Tips

Best Steps to get Indexing, especially DMOZ submission and Sumtit to major of Search Engine.
Thanks Prashant K Shukla

Site Indexing - Great Eight Tips
The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.

1. Just design you website structure, create your content pages (don't worry if they are not completed yet) and publish them swiftly. Because, the process of indexing, new websites takes about two months. So, this technique helps you saving time.

2. Since, you have already designed your web site structure and contents (may be incomplete or with minimal info) as I said earlier. Now, create a sitemap for the site and submit this to Google Sitemap Service. Yahoo has lately created a similar service to Google Sitemap and so also submits your website to it. There are lots of online free site map generation services available.

Here are few of them, you may use.

* Create your Google Sitemap Online By: XML Sitemaps
* ROR Sitemap Generator By: ROR Web
* Site Map Builder By: sitemapbuilder

3. Third step is to submit your website to some Open Directory Project; DMOZ is good and is used as basis by many search engines like Google, MSN and Alexa. This process again takes several months. So, the first step plays a good here too.

4. There are three major search engines namely Google, Yahoo and MSN. Submit all your pages for inclusion in these three major search engines and keep submitting your site pages to other search engines on a regular basis. Do it manually or you may use some search engine submission software or service which may help you by automatic submission.

5. There are lot of SEO Friendly Directories on the web. Some are paid services and some allows free submissions of URL. Submit your website to these SEO Friendly Directories. All major search engines crawls these Directories frequently. This will help you both a catalyst for the indexing of the web pages and also move a step forward in Page rank Building.

6. You may start Building links using Reciprocal Link exchange programs. The text links should not only point to your website homepage but also to other pages down in the website page structure.

7. Posting on Google Groups advertising for your website is something very helpful in building good Page Rank. The posts should include at least two links to your website.

8. Participate in topic discussion on other sites is also a great technique to make your existence strong and do include your site URL in the reference section.

By Prashant K Shukla
About the Author: Prashant K Shukla is a successful webmaster and author. Visit his website http://www.mysmartseo.com to read more articles on SEO. Know about lot of free tools to help link building, get back links, boost traffic and ranking of your website.

SEO and Positioning Your Website For Top Search Engine Rankings

Hi...
Not only niche keyword is important for SEO to grab top position in main Search Engine. It's shows that all of them is really important and have some related to each other.

SEO and Positioning Your Website For Top Search Engine Rankings

SEO and positioning your website to grab top positions in search engines for targeted keywords require both good on-page and off-page optimization. On-page optimization refers to how you tweak the webpage itself, ie the meta-tags, webpage title, content, navigation sitemap, etc. It has everything to do with the web architecture.
Off-page optimization is more of a technique applied beyond your website, without involving any change to your website.
Let’s take a look at some important elements of SEO and positioning that would boost the ranking of your website.

First of all, we need to understand a bit more about the role of on-page optimization in SEO and positioning. In summary, on-page optimization requires you to craft the web page structure such that it is optimized for a particular keyword that you are targeting. Never build a site first before knowing what you hope to achieve, ie whether your aim is to drive maximum traffic and sell more products or just as a hobby.

You need to pay attention to the keywords you are targeting first, and do detailed researches before you start building your webpage and optimizing it for the keywords. A lot of webmasters fail to realize the importance of keyword research in SEO and positioning for top search engine ranking. They often do it the other way round, targeting popular and extremely competitive keywords and keyword phrases. You may have realized that competitive keywords like “search engine optimization” or “web traffic” are simply out of reach for a new or amateurish website. SEO and positioning your website for such keywords would only bring you disappointment as you realize that even with a fully optimized page, you are still on page 1000 of the search engine results.

One hint for you is to go for any keyword phrase with less than 1 – 2 million search results and fewer than 1000 competing websites in Google.
How do you check the number of competing websites? Simply type in “Allintitle: Target Keyword Phrase” into Google search box and all the websites containing the specific keyword phrase would be displayed.
It is common sense that any website targeting a keyword phrase would include it in the webpage title, isn’t it? Looking at the search results alone is vague and difficult to determine the level of competition. Once you have found the keywords for optimization, remember to include them in your page title, sub-headers, and meta-tags.

Off-page optimization looks more at the popularity of your website. The search engines are constantly changing the landscape of the internet but one principle stays constant, that is to give users relevant results. Other than meddling with the on-page factors, you need to be aware of how search engines measure your website popularity and keyword relevance. One major yardstick of SEO and positioning is using link popularity. Search engine spiders are not humans and can only understand web content to a certain logical extent. A human may see a web page as rich in content but a search engine spider may deem it as spam.

By Davion Wong

About the Author: Davion is an ardent lover of techno gizmos. He runs a hugely popular iPhone review blog where he reveals where you can find unlimited iPhone downloads for pennies.

Solutions for 50 Backlinks with PageRank greater than 2

Good advice from Tanny.

Follow them at least first method if you no need to spend money.
Thanks Mike Pham.

Solutions for 50 Backlinks with PageRank greater than 2

Today, no one can deny the importance of backlinks in Search Engine Optimization, especially in Google Optimization. In this article, you can find some solutions for the goal of 50 backlinks with PageRank greater than 2 for new websites. When this goal is archived, I'm totally sure that the pagerank of your website will be boosted to at least 3 in the next update of Google.

There are two main solutions for this goal:
- Finding links on our own, not spending money.
- Buying text links (backlinks).

1. Finding links on our own, not spending money

*Methods in this solution include:
- Find relevant, quality websites and request for link exchanges.
- Submit to quality directories.
- Submit testimonials on websites where you have purchased any services or products.
- Write articles or posts to submit to other websites, blogs, press and forums.

*Pros in this solution:
- No money.
- Robust, stationary links.
- Accepted by search engines.

*Cons in this solution:
- More time and efforts.
- Two-way links (reciprocal links).
- Difficult to determine the time to achieve goal.

*References for this solution:
- Link Exchange programs: linkalizer.com, linkmarket.net, freelinkcentral.com
- Automatic link exchange programs: belinked.info, onewaytextlinks.com, build-reciprocal-links.com, linkdash.com
- Quality Directories: businesspages.org, a2z-free.com, alphabiz.org
- Article Directories: goarticles.com, articlealley.com, article99.com, ezinearticles.com

*Tips:
- You can find more sites for link exchange from studying your competitors' link popularity. Use search engines to perform this check, the keyword in many cases is: link:your_competitor_url.
- When visiting some directories, pay attention to Directory category. You may find the others directories there. For example, in Directory category of businesspages.org, you can find some other good Australian directories.

*Estimated time: 2 months

2. Buying text links

*Methods in this solution include:
- Buy text links (backlinks) directly from sites (in case they don't accept link exchanges)
- Buy text links from text link brokers.
- Buy text links from link auction sites.
- Pay fee to be included in big, quality directories (Yahoo, Overture, LookSmart...)

*Pros in this solution:
- Less time and efforts to get links.
- One-way links (better than reciprocal links)

*Cons in this solution
- Money. We must pay fee every month (or year) for some links.
- Buying text links (many in the same time) from text link brokers isn't encouraged by search engines. They can penalize us.
- Some links are volatile (not permanent).

*References for this solution:
- Advertising on sites: iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker (PR5 - $10.00 per month)
- Text link brokers: textlinkbrokers.com (5 Permanent Links PR0 � PR4: $175 /month), textlinkpopularity.com (10 Links from PR 3 Pages: $150 - Pay only once for permanent links - no recurring charges)
- Link auction sites: linkadage.com
- Big, quality directories: Yahoo! Directory (1 link - $299/year - your site will be reviewed first)

*Tips:
- When buying links from brokers, be sure that you can preview the pages in which your link will be included. Besides the PageRank, there are other factors to take into consideration such as: relevant links in this page, how many links in that page, whether your link is static, ...

*Estimated time: 1 week (some directories need more time to review our request)

3. Conclusion:
It seems that the goal of 50 back links with PageRank greater than 2 for new websites is not an easy one. Improving link popularity is a long, patient but obligatory process. It's up to you to decide which solution is better or the combination of these two ones.

By Mike Pham.
About the Author: Article by Mike Pham of http://www.TopTrafficWholesaler.com . Internet advertising agency provides services that improve targeted traffic for clients' sites. Specializes in search engine submission and optimization as well as tools and resources useful for better ranking / positioning in search engines. Website: http://www.toptrafficwholesaler.com

Easy But Very Useful To Get Traffics

Hi..
Take a look on this below steps. It's so easy step but you will get huge results if you follow all of useful steps below. just d it.
I will apply all of steps to my blogs and also link to my aStores.

Thanks David for your Good article.

Improve Your Blogs SEO and Traffic in 8 StepsOne of the most important things when it comes to blogging is search engine optimization. Without it your blog is not going to go very far in the search engines which means your traffic is going to be drastically reduced because of it.

The following 8 SEO suggestions can and will help you place better in the search engines and as a result will bring you that extra traffic you are craving.

1) Your Main Keywords in The Posts Title.

This is a must in SEO and already setup with most blogging platforms. As you can see in the browser this post is titled `Improve Your Blogs SEO in 8 Steps - General Marketing Blog`

2) SEO Blog Categories.

It is important that you put your keywords in your categories Title. If your post is relevant to more than one category on your blog then post it to multiple categories this will increase your search rankings with more keywords.

3) RSS Feed Your Blog.

Sign up to FeedBurner and place a link on your blog for people to receive your RSS feeds..

4) RSS to email.

Be sure to offer an email subscription service as well 40% of RSS subscribers prefer the email version.

5) Pinging Blog Services.

Each time you post on your blog be sure to Ping the many blog search engines and Feed syndicate’s. Most blogging platforms will offer you the option to do this automatically.

6) Commenting On Other Blogs.

Posting comments on other blogs will increase your search engine rankings as well. Post under your own name or your blogs name, Do Not use keywords and do not leave spammy comments as these will just be deleted.

7) Submit to Web Directories.

Submitting your blog to web directories is another way of increasing your ranking. Their are hundreds of free and paid web directories you can use. Here is one to get you started the Seo Web Directory.

8) Use of track backs

When ever you get the opportunity to mention another blog post that some one has written be sure to link to it. This will leave the blog owner a track back and also a link from that blog back to your own. This will help with search engines and will also get you some traffic direct from their blog.

9) Quality Content.

My final suggestion is no matter how well you optimize your blog and no matter how many back links you get their is no substitute for Quality Content so try to post every day with great content and the search engine spiders will come.

By David.

From http://www.generalmarketingblog.com

Best Ways To Get Quality Backlinks

Hi..
Very Good ways to get backlinks to your websites.
Each way is own special useful to get quality backlinks.sound like basic methods but it's really important if you are serious in backlinks getting. Follow these ways and always do it you will get more and more quality backlinks. More do more gain.

Thanks Tanny for your good article.

Use Backlinks To Improve Your Internet Home Business Which Affiliate Networks To Avoid In Your Home Business

The definition of a backlink is :
A link from one website pointing back to your site, so use backlinks to improve your internet home business.
You need a lot of them, and the more backlinks you have the better.
This article will give you an idea about how to use backlinks to improve your internet home business.

Creating a backlink to your website will help you drive more traffic to your website, those backlinks are pointing back to your website, telling potential costumers that your website has valuable information to offer.

The backlinks to your internet business also inform the search engines that your website is vital,
it is important because other sites are linking back to it.
The search engines will look for backlinks for your website, and the more backlinks they come across the higher score you will get and as a result you will rank higher, the higher your rank is, you will get more traffic to your website, and any internet marketer knows, you need traffic to improve your internet home business, without it, you get nothing.

So how do you get those backlinks up, here are some ways.

1 - The easy way is to submit your website to link directories. Some link directories are free, some will charge you for submitting your link and some will ask for a link back from your website to theirs.
The greatest links are the one way link from high rank websites, the higher the PR (Page Rank) of the website is, the significance of the backlink is higher.
Unfortunately most high PR websites won't link back to low PR websites, because it goes either way, they may pull you up, but if your PR is low, you may pull them down. So pay attention to their submission guides and maybe you will get a link back from them too.

2 - Another way to get quality backlinks to your internet home based business is to write articles. Articles, just like this one can get you a lot of backlinks if you use an article submitter program, and some quality backlinks if you submit your article manually to some of the best article directories, those directories have high PR, and they are ranked higher in the search engines, getting a link back from those directories will absolutely boost your traffic.

3 - One more way to get free and quick backlinks are forums, most of the forums today have the option of creating a signature, in the signature you can create a link to your website, blog or whatever link you want to promote. Posting in forums demands some of your time, reading the forum threads, and posting some valuable content. To get targeted traffic from forums you better post on related forums to your internet home based business.

4 - You can also get backlinks from blog, and that can be done in two different ways.

The first one is -
From your own blog, post regularly on your own blog and create a backlink to your website, you can also create links inside your own website from one page to another.

The second way to gain backlinks from blogs is -
To post comments on other people blogs. Read their blog and posts, and comment, make sure your comment is valuable, and adding some interest to the other readers, when asked for name use your own or better, use your keywords as anchor text, and when asked for a link use your website or an internal page from your website you want the readers to go to.

To sum it up, use backlinks to improve your internet home business, rank higher in the search engines and to drive more traffic to your site. So, get busy, get out and show yourself, no matter what you do use backlinks to improve your internet home business and it will do the job, join all the methods together and your backlinks will get higher and so is your traffic.

By Tanny
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