There are a few ways you can get your website noticed online, and one of the best ways is to get your site linked to from other blogs. This is the most powerful way of getting backlinks and traffic, because these are recommendations made by other blog owners, to their loyal readers. Therefore the readers are much more inclined to click the links. When you see names in comment boxes, you are not as likely to click, and likewise, forum signatures that will never be used in actual posts will never be clicked. They are just SEO fodder, and of course – Google can smell this a mile off if you overdo it. A good way to get your site about in actual communities, is to use the new toolbars that are popping up all over the net. These toolbars have “gadgets” and links on them, such as checking the weather, playing games and more. Another thing you can do, is promote your website on these toolbars, which have millions of users, and appear on thousands of websites. The basic theory is this. You create you blog, and then you go to a company like Conduit who allow you to create your own gadget, which will appear on these toolbars all over the internet, on webmasters’ websites. As long as you are related to their blog or website, they will have your gadget on that toolbar. And as long as you have great content – you will get webmasters using your site as a gadget. If you are getting related traffic to your site, from possibly higher ranking websites, then this can only mean you will retain these visitors over a long period. You will also never have to pay for this traffic, and of course the traffic is viral. Other webmasters will see your link, and possibly add to their toolbar. As new webmasters sign up for the Conduit platform, your site will appear on more and more sites – this is due to your gadget having a user count. The more popular you get, the more people want you on their toolbar.

There’s a popular misconception that blogs (all blogs) do not allow comments, and they are so heavily moderated that you would never see one of your comments go live with a backlink intact. This is untrue, and you will find that it is the biggest blogs on the web that will give you the most link juice, and who actually encourage posting on their sites. This is all part and parcel of the internet revolution that is Web 2.0, where sites strive to become more collaborative with their readership.

When you are looking for blogs to post on, you will most probably be doing it wrong. You will be looking for blogs in your niche, which are relevant to your site. This way, a comment that you post on the blog will be relevant, and of course moderated accordingly. This is, to some extent, exactly what you should be doing. You post a comment, and your name becomes an anchor text. That anchor can point at your niche site. However, the way to REALLY do this properly, is to look for blogs that have Top Commentators. Well the main reason is that your anchor text will appear on every page of the blog –as well as the front page. You will get the link juice of whatever Pagerank the site is, and also even get traffic from people clicking your name/link – because you are a top commentator.

The way to find these sites is also very simple indeed. Simply go to Google, and search for the following:

allintext: “Top Commentators” “Powered by WordPress “

And that is all. Now all you need to do is check the Pagerank of each site you visit, and only comment on sites that you are knowledgeable about. You often only need around 5 – 10 comments to hit the top spot. This may run for days or weeks. Your backlinks will remain there for as long as you comment. As you build up more and more of these sites in your armoury, simply outsoruce the whole job to keep those backlinks intact.

It can be very difficult to get your SEO indexed fast, so it is beneficial to have access to websites that will publish your articles etc. and get them indexed fast. This in turn gets the site you are linking to indexed quickly too. One of the best methods, if not the best method, of backlinking and indexing is document storage and document storage.

Google has always seen sites like Scribd for example as being very authoritive, and ranks them as high as possible in a very short time. You can usually hit page one in a matter of minutes, and certainly get ranked in the top 5 pages easily. One way people use this technique is for breaking news items, as they rank extremely high very fast. If you are covering a hot topic in your niche, then the document will rank high up for the keyword, and then you can channel that traffic right at your site. This is also true of reviews on products, and other niche marketing methods.

By using sites like Scribd, DocStoc and many others, you can upload articles that are written in Word documents, Open Office documents and slideshows, and have them uploaded and indexed in a matter of minutes. The great thing about these documents, is that there is no limit to the amount of words you can use in the articles, and no limited to the amount of images & anchor texts. This means you can seriously optimise a block of content, either in slideshow or regular document format, and really get your keywords packed in there.

Once you get the hand of creating many different documents from one initial article, you can then get to the more advanced stages, such as adding meta tags to the document properties, to further enhance your SEO.

Before YouTube, can you remember how you used to search for videos online? Not many people can. They see YouTube as being the first and most popular video serving website, and it would naturally be the first place you would look, if you were looking for a video of something online. Google genuinely had to acknowledge that YouTube was becoming a superpower on the internet, and in 2006 acquired YouTube to the tune of $1.65billion. With all that said, and with the traction YouTube has now built up, you can safely say that Google, along with the other search engines, gives a lot of credence to video online.

Google is particularly interested in your website if you display multimedia, and even more interested if you have the media rich content that they own. Never more has it been more apparent that including video, images and other media on your website can actually curry favour with the search engines.

Embedding videos is a very simple task, and YouTube encourages it by giving you the opportunity to embed using different sizes and colours on every video they serve. Whatever your niche, you can simply find a video that fits the best, and then embed it on your blog. By adding some notes to the page, that accompany the video, Google sees this as highly relevant, and will strive to send visitors if the rest of your site is just as good. The trick is, do not overdo it. Far too many websites have YouTube videos being blasted to their pages using autoblogging software, and Google knows this.  If you fall into the same trap, then Google will discount this content as being very non-unique, and possibly rank you much lower. Use video as and when you need to, and observe the colour schemes that you have already to integrate the video better. With this in mind, you cannot go wrong.

Blogging can be a pain in the butt if you do not want to spend time ensuring the site is up to standrads that search engines now demand.  They require more and more from a webmaster now, than ever before. Usually, it’s content. Content can make or break a site, and the only real longevity a site ever gets is from unique regular content being added, and Google seeing this happen over a length of time.

You can argue the point that most of the autoblogs out there are spinning content to 30% unique, and they are getting away with page one rankings with Google – but for how long? You really need to add enough content to ensure Google thinks you are an authority on your niche subject, and starts pumping traffic your way, based on this trust. That word has now become a beacon for most webmasters, because Trustrank is well and truly here. Google is now ranking sites NOT just based on their inbound links, but also on their outbound links (amongst other things under the Trustrank banner). If your site has no selfless outbound links – which can link to any site – then your site has less chance of ranking higher. The best place to observe this is on website flipping sites like Flippa.com. You can check the micro-niche blogs that advertise Amazon products. These guys rank up high in the SERPs, and all include Trustrank methods. You will see few that do not have outbound links in their sidebars…

Another big deal over at Google HQ has always been backlinks. You may have seen recently that Angela and PJ’s backlinks have been penalized by Google, and their sites have received a drop in Pagerank. This is testament to the fact that all your backlinking activities should be natural and relevant. Always be wary of purchasing backlinks – it may harm your site if you do!

Search engine optimisation (SEO) plays a huge part in the life of any online business nowadays. There are many different methods that can be used in order to improve your rankings on search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing such as article submission, link wheels and press releases. Press releases are a great way to attract people to your business and give them some understanding of exactly what you do and how you can help them as a person or business. There are also many different ways in which you can do a press release for your company and ensure it achieves optimum results for you and has your website starting to rank quickly. Researching the topic and writing your own press release/releases can be quite difficult to do. There is a lot of work involved and you need to ascertain that you are using the correct techniques etc. to get the job done properly. On the other hand, you can always hire someone to do this for you and pay them a small fee.

You must choose your keywords carefully. You need keywords that people are using to search for your products, but those that have a smaller amount of competition from other businesses. You can get these keywords from most keyword tools or doing manual searches on Google yourself. Once you are settled on the keywords you are wanting to use for your press release, you must begin the writing of it. Insert your keyword to 2% keyword density and upwards for optimum results and ensure that you enter the same keyword into the required fields on the submission forms that you use. The submission of your press release is a relatively easy job once you get the hang of exactly hat it is that you need to do. However, it can be quite time consuming and may be a better option for you to simply write the release yourself and hire someone else to submit it for you. This is a job that can be done for a negligible fee and will help you manage your time much more effectively.

When you are generating interest in your blog, the first thing you should consider are social communities like Yahoo! Answers, and Wiki Answers. Whilst these do not let you post your links right away, you can contribute to them, and eventually your links will take hold. The very best method I have seen with this technique, is outsourcing to a team who will post relevant answers, which link to your site, but only on the very latest posted questions. You can just pay for each time they post an answer, which means you will not need to pay hourly. This will create an initial buzz and generate traffic to your site, being one of the first replies.

The way to ensure you get on the most recent questions, is to do a Google search. You can of course teach this to your outsourcer. Go to Google.com main search page, and search for your one of your main keywords, such as “dog grooming”. You also need to search within the Yahoo! Answers site, so your search would read as follows:

site:http://answers.yahoo.com dog grooming

In the results, you will notice a left sidebar, which asks you how you want to retrieve the search results. You can select from a date range of Past 24hrs, Past Week and so on. If you click past 24hrs, you will see results from just the past day, enabling you to target the most recent questions… and be one of the first answers, thus creating initial traffic. As the answer gathers popularity, more traffic will be sent there from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, because the answer style sites like Yahoo! Answers and Wikianswers are held in high regard by the search engines.

Remember, you only get your answers published if they are not in any way spammy. So either you, or your outsourcers, must make sure that the content you publish is both respectful, and is a valid contribution.

Blogging is the best way to make money online.  WordPress blogs are the best type of websites to have as they rank extremly well on Google due to how well optimised they are for search engines and easy navigation.

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Once you have decided what niche you are going to dominate, you need a solid and workable method of picking the keywords and putting together the content for your site. People’s common misconceptions are that keywords are pretty easy to find, because all they need to do is find a keyword that has tons of traffic, and then fill their blog with content about that keyword. Wrong. They are also under the impression that content can be automatically generated from other websites, and never be penalized by The Big G. Wrong.

The two most crucial aspects of blog design and developing are keywords and content. You can find keywords that have loads of searches – but what if 100 million other sites are using the same keywords? You can also buy an autoblogging plugin which add articles to your blog every hour, that other people have written. But what about Google’s policy on using unique content? The best way to get ahead, is to use a niche keyword tool and an article spinner.

Niche Keyword Tools

To find your keywords, it would be better to use a piece of software like Micro Niche Finder or even an online solution like Wordstream. These will deliver hundreds of keywords based on the niche you are interested in. For example, once you enter a niche like “dog grooming” the software will toddle off and dig up any related keywords to that niche. You then take these keywords and put them into a competition analysis tool.

Competition Analysis Tools

Market Samurai is a superb tool, and comes with free keyword research tools built-in, and you need never upgrade to the paid version. You will be able to find out the competition levels for your keywords very easily with this tool. Traffic Travis is very handy for finding out the competition for your keywords. It is also free.

In Part 3 : Content is King! Learn about Article Spinners and Content…

Before we get into the details of Adsense blogging – what exactly IS blogging?

The term ‘blogging’ was coined in the late 90′s, and evolved from bulletin boards where people could discuss topics not totally dissimilar to forums. You could say these were the first generation of Web 2.0 sites, being updated daily with unique content, and being totally collaborative content. Personal homepages became increasingly popular on the internet, and some of the first web logs, online diaries, and journals began to gather steam, such as Blogger and Open Diary. From here, the blogs began to evolve into huge Multi User or personal CMS websites.

Two Common Pitfalls

The most popular form of blogging nowadays is Adsense blogging, using WordPress sites to host your content, which is based on a keyword that has a high Adsense value. You then build an SEO campaign around this keyword, and send as much traffic to the blog as possible, and of course the relative traffic will click ads that are relevant to them.

As easy as this may sound to people wishing to make a living online, there can be pitfalls. The biggest pitfall of all is picking the wrong keywords to target, thus ensuring you are never ranked on Google or Bing etc., or getting traffic. The next pitfall, once you climb out of the niche selection hole, is content. It can be very difficult to structure content around a keyword if you have no experience, because a piece of content should be designed in such a way that Google sees not only your main keyword, but also related words and phrases – which are called LSI keywords. LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing, and is now crucial in any content production, because Google relies heavily on its inclusion on your website.

Tomorrow we will look at tools that can help you with the above aspects of blog design.