Saturday, 3 October 2009

SEO's biggest nightmare!

What could be the biggest nightmare of SEO? If I would be asked about it, there are some reasons. The biggest reason is the search engines. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are some of the biggest names ever seen. But there’s a catch. What if these three search engines don’t exist after 10 years? 20 years? Is there still SEO? I think not. Because without search engines, no SEO. Search engines are very important for us to search related items we need, without them……the internet life will be difficult. It may happen and you could be shocked about the fall of search engines. When you want to start a search engine, it’s not good. We already have Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, DogPile, etc. Because if we do SEO on our own search engine, and may collapse anytime….nightmare comes to our site’s performance. This is one reason that SEO doesn’t exist without search engines, and its called nightmare.

Do-follow comments on moderation

Have you ever wonder why some comments need moderation? In do-follow blogs, most web owners set their site to moderation status. It helps to prevent spammers to be auto-approved by the blog post. If we’re just spamming around, and to write comments that are irrelevant to the topic, webmasters have the power to disapprove the spammer’s content and we’re always watching ahead of the spammers. But there are some comments which are auto-approved by do-follow blog owners. Why? It is because they are lazy to read the comments and to allow spammers to destroy the image of their blog. If other readers will see such spam messages approved in any blog post, they would have negative feelings about your blog and it’s suspicious. They would recommend that this blog is a complete “waste of time” and they will not come back to subscribe. So do-follow blog owners need their site to be set in moderation mode, as they can evaluate your post whether approved or disapproved.

Gaining backlinks in article marketing

If we want to gain more backlinks in article marketing, we should always include our link in the signature area? Why? Without backlinks on the signature area, our SEO work is useless. I have posted an article last week on Ezine and putting my backlink in the signature box. In order for your backlinks to be quite attractive, we must put supporting words in the signature area and to attach the backlink within the word that was within the signature message. We can’t put backlinks in the content area, because it is strict when it comes to content. We’ll, since my article was approved yesterday by Ezine, I gained backlinks again to my site and I hope that there would be more unique visitors to check out my article. It’s about online dating, and I need something to attract them with the support of the signature backlink. I can post up to three backlinks in one article, and it must have different sites each.

New social bookmarking service order has arrived!

Two days ago, I have another customer from Russia who ordered social bookmarks to me, and she wants to submit two sites to 100 social bookmarks for $10 each. I agree on her proposal and I was paid in advance $20 to my Paypal account. She was so kind to me, that there’s no timeframe needed, and she can wait as long I will submit to her the report. Social bookmarks are very common and attractive to SEO fans and newbies. They are one huge database that will increase the SERPS of your website and the backlinks as well. Most clients are buying social bookmark services to the service providers, just to make their site gain popularity and rank. That’s what she wants me to do for her two Russian sites, as my SEO work will start soon!

Article directory job is on the way

After my article was successfully approved by Ezine, I can now start doing my own article directory job. My mission is to submit my article into 100 article directories that are guaranteed high traffic and stable approval. If I submit someone’s article to multiple directories, it can cost them as low as $10 for 100 submissions. In major companies, it will cost you $40 per 200 submissions because of their fast turnaround and professionalism. I can say that I trust the cheaper ones, because the important for my article is just to gain backlinks and traffic. Although it is allowed to be submitted into multiple directories, I can say it’s legitimate and trustworthy. Google does not really being strict on submitting duplicate articles to directories…instead they’re only strict to posting on blogs and websites.

My article was finally approved by Ezine!

After a week of waiting for my article to be approved, finally it was approved by Ezine! Woohoo! This is the first ever article I have submitted to Ezine, and it was 100% approved! I can’t imagine on how I was amazed through this because it drives traffic and unique visitors as well. Now my article can be used to submit into multiple article directories, since rewriting is just making my money wasted. In Digitalpoint forums, I have posted a thread if I can submit one article into multiple directories, and 75% of them said yes because it drives traffic and may give you backlinks in return. However, they said that duplicate articles have less chance to be included in the SERPS of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Once again, I’m proud that my article was published through Ezine!

Facebook groups are very potential

For those who recently use Facebook for making friends and play some “Farmville”, they really don’t know how Facebook can give you potential sales and traffic. For instance, one section in Facebook can give you full access to find potential customers, and the one I’m talking about is the Facebook Groups. This is one menu of Facebook which expresses yourself to let other join your group and you will be the leader or the admin of the group. You can choose any topics you want, let’s say entertainment. For those who are interested to share their thoughts related to entertainment, they can search entertainment groups in Facebook, and one could be yours. They will be a member of your group and to start sharing something. When we want to gain backlinks and traffic to our website, especially affiliate hoplinks……we can create a group related to the products we promoted and to include affiliate or hoplinks within our post and group sharing.

Be a star of SEO

If you want to be the star of SEO, you must first determine the different SEO strategies and tactics. You must first learn from the very beginning which is the basic one. You must not jump one level ahead of the ladder, because if you do that you might confuse on the step-by-step procedure. This results to a broken chain, which you wanna make it straight, but you broke one piece to jump over the other. It’s important to complete the step-by-step process of SEO from beginner level to advanced level. This reminds me of my elementary and high school days, that you must not accelerate ahead which one level you accomplish is skipped. It’s the same thing in SEO, which you must think that no matter how old are you as the younger ones are already experienced; don’t say that you’re always ahead of them. Younger ones have more potential in broader learning than the older ones, even in SEO. Always start from the beginning, till you become a star of SEO.

Friday, 2 October 2009

Looking forward to the SEO opportunities

As we look forward in the search engine optimisation opportunities, we must not back down in any job that we’re about to do it. We may have our strengths and weaknesses, but fighting the weakness is one key to reach your goal. All you have to do is to be a positive individual, especially in terms of SEO opportunities. No matter if you are experienced or not in SEO, you have to try and try until you succeed. Learning SEO is one step to success, and it should be implemented in our lives once and for all. There are so many individuals who are very successful in terms of doing SEO to their site or blog by learning it from the very beginning. How about us? Do we have a chance to prove ourselves that we’re worthy to be successful in SEO?

Yes we can! Don’t just wait for tomorrow…..do it now!

Partnership with other clients

At Digitalpoint, there’s also a section called Partnerships in the Buy, Sell and Trade section. They’re mostly relying on looking for a partner to sell their sites to customers or find relevant sites that they can include their link permanently within their site, not as sponsored ads. Sponsored ads are just temporary, which advertisers may only pay depends on their monthly budget and satisfaction too. I have been involved in the Partneships section, which a client wants me to look for webmasters that are looking for sites with great backlinks and high PR. The sites he gave me are ranged from $10 to $15 for permanent backlinks, and I will gain 30% commission on every sale I have generated or any deal that is so successful. This is one way of making extra money for you and the one, who hired you as partner, will gain backlinks, traffic and sales.

Selling blog roll links?

Aside from link exchange, there is another way to boost your traffic and increase your revenue and backlinks. I have mentioned in my previous blog about link sales, which you sell your own blog roll links to the potential customers. Many customers want to occupy blog roll links at least 8-10 slots and they are paying on a monthly basis. The good thing is, most of them are improving their SERPS and getting huge traffic, revenue and sales for just buying blog roll links to high traffic and UV blogs. This is another way of doing SEO, but you must have a little budget in order to buy those spots which are not occupied and the blog must have more unique visitors and targeted traffic daily. I am planning to do it in the days to come, but not now because I’ m still maintaining my own blogs. It’s really worth to do SEO in a free and paid way, just to make your site even more popular.

Link exchange with other bloggers

At Digitalpoint, there’s a section called link exchange. In my previous blog, the Bogart’s Online World, I have been exchanging links to them by putting my link to their site, as I put their site to mine. There is no such thing that needs to be paid; only link sales transaction can be called as paid transaction. Through link exchange with other users depending on the niche of my blog, we can gain huge backlinks from them even their blog has not generated huge traffic. The important for me was the backlinks, because it may help increase my page rank in Google and a chance to increase my SERPS too. I have stopped for months now because of various huge SEO projects, and now I’m getting back again to link exchanging with other bloggers at Digitalpoint and other forums as well.

Leaderboards are more potential than footers

Most advertisers usually target the leaderboard space than footers. Why? Every time a visitor checks out the website, the leaderboard was the first to be seen rather than the footer which needs to be scrolled down once and for all. In my own forex blog, which is the Bogart’s Forex World, I have put my Clickbank ad as a leaderboard below the title of the site. I have not yet finished the contents of the site, that’s why most commentors said that there is a large portion which was not yet occupied, and the only way to do it is to add more contents until the blank portion of my blog will be filled. Going back to the leaderboard, it signifies as the leader ad of the blog or website and it’s more potential to be clicked rather than the footer ads. Believe me, I advertised with the other users of their website as leaderboard which the size is 728 x 90 or 468 x 60. It’s one way to attract the visitors to keep checking out the sites in my leaderboard while I’m doing SEO.

Promoting products to classified ads

Another way of doing SEO to your blog or product link is the classified ads. Huge classified ad sites like the popular Craigslist and Philippines’ Sulit.com and AyosDito.Ph can be used as source for our SEO work. When we promote a product, it’s just like you advertise it for yourself or just a preview of your landing page. We must do it in a professional way in which we must include our hoplink within our advertisement. My friend from Manila said that classified ads are huge potential in terms of traffic and search results. Last year, I used classified ads to promote my own PTC and autosurf sites, even matrix programs and money cyclers, and I gain traffic there and more members joined in any of the sites that are unique. This is the same way in which viewers might take a look on your advertisement, and to contact you if he or she is interested. It could be potential that someone might buy a product from Clickbank through your hoplink attached through your site. This is one type of SEO which is huge and great potential to make your blog and product popular.

SEO on Facebook groups

If I want to do more SEO on my blogs, creating a Facebook group on my own is one thing. Millions of people right now are using Facebook and it’s a huge potential that I can get more backlinks to my blog. Why? If I create a group which is related to SEO and SEM, I can invite people to join in this group and start discussing their own thoughts and updates on SEO, and the group members will comment and reply to the blog or discussions we have posted. It’s one reason why someone from Digitalpoint wants to sell his Facebook group with hundreds of users subscribed, because to make huge money and the buyer will gain more traffic and revenue, in which products from affiliate programs like Clickbank, Commission Junction, Pepperjam Network, Amazon and Chitika can be attached with your affiliate ID as the referrer of promoting the product and gain huge sales. That’s what I also planned right now, in order to build more SEO to my site.

Gaining few followers daily on my Twitter account

Since I created my own Twitter account a few months back, I only gain a random of 5-10 followers every 1 to 3 days. Right now, I have a total of 300+ followers and my goal is t reach at least 1,000 to 3,000 followers. The reasons why I don’t generate enough followers on my Twitter account because I don’t apply my SEO tactics there. I have seen such Twitter users who promote using their URL’s, which can be shorten rather than putting up a long tail URL in the message board. Last time, I have tweeted about Michael Jackson and eventually I gained 30+ followers in just one day. But what’s the point in me, since that day SEO is not my type. But now I realize that when I do SEO here in Twitter, and PM lots of those who followed me, along with the link I promote, I could gain back something that I lost and to increase more visitors in my Twitter account.

Does Twitter e-books really work?

I have downloaded 5 e-books related to twitter a few months ago, and since Twitter does not guarantee me to earn money like this, it’s useless now. But for the other ones, who are addicted to Twitter, may have a possible chance that in this module, it may gain those thousands of followers daily and to earn huge income? What kind of strategy are they implementing to? For me, I think they’re relying on their profile page, because since they attached their homepage link in their profile, visitors and followers may click on the homepage URL of their profile and to check out on what’s inside of the site they have advertised. It is one way of doing SEO on our own, as these crazy Twitter users are buying e-books which modules are simply working for them, and I really do know that this purpose is for real, and it may have the potential of getting a huge amount of visitors back to my site.

Revtwt is not available in my country

Are you familiar with RevTwt? It is a Twitter affiliate program which you can advertise your link to your Twitter account, and if visitors and followers click your link, you get paid up to $0.50 per click. They normally pay you by Paypal, but the thing is….this program is only applicable to English speaking countries like USA, UK, Australia and Canada. I’m from the Philippines, although all of us can join but not applicable to earn. It’s so unfair. RevTwt will give you the list of ads to choose from, and every ad states something like “For USA only”, “For USA, UK, Australia and Canada only”. We’ll, I have no more time to waste here in RevTwt, because I’m not qualified to earn there, instead to invite other users to join Revtwt. What’s the point of that anyway? If I have not earned, then it only wasted my little time on RevTwt.

Twitter follower widget is so amazing!

Are you a Twitter member? Do you have many followers in your account? If you really want to increase your followers in your Twitter account, all you have to do is to add a widget of Twitter. It’s either “Follow Me on Twitter” which you can attach your Twitter profile link so that others might follow you, and also the “Twitter Follower Widget” which displays the number of followers in your account right now. They display the images of the followers who followed me. This is another way of doing SEO and good advertising, which increases the number of followers and your unique visitors daily. If we can implement it on our blog or website, more and more people who subscribed in your list will be attracted and they keep on coming back to your blog or website over and over again, through the addition of Twitter widgets.

Becoming a Facebook fan

In order to become a Facebook fan, you must be a Facebook member. If you have a site or blog which you add a widget of Facebook Fans Club, then your visitors will once again be attracted to your blog or website. Why? Millions of people right now are Facebook users, and they subscribe to their friend’s profile page and becoming a fan of theirs. It can also be applied on Facebook groups, which you can participate there and subscribe to their group. In the blogs and websites, you can also subscribe to them by means of clicking their widget and entering your details and confirmation from the owner. This is another way of building up your SEO and to ensure that you will have more visitors to your site day by day. Most blogs right now are adding widgets related to Facebook which are “Connect to Facebook” and “Become a Facebook Fan”.