11 Mar 2010 08:58 am
A lot of people like me are very fond of chatting with each other using mIRC, Yahoo Messenger, Meebo, Xat, etc. But why won't we try using those chat portals for a quick SEO alternative, right? We'll, for both on-page and off-page optimization, we can build links by putting our URL's within the content of the website and to any external websites such as forums, blog pages, web directories, social media, etc.
If a teacher asks you if what kind of SEO is promoting links via chatting to instant messenger, we'll the answer to the question is simply off-page optimization. Why? We are not going to build links within our website, but we build links outside our website which are the external sites that our links existed.
We'll why do we need SEO in chat. It's pretty simple:
1. Promote the product
2. Introduce a good program to your customer
3. To generate revenue by means of sharing links to customers
And a whole lot more purposes on SEO chatting!
This could be a very interesting way to increase the number of customers, subscribers, daily visitors on your website and so on, and every internet marketing aspect is very potential and has lots of new ways. So there are lots of it and more to come on the next 10 years.
11 Mar 2010 12:49 am
I have been very addicted on using StumbleUpon, which I search some of the related websites on my niche and interests. I also studied on why do we need to Stumble our site? We'll, first of all StumbleUpon is a social bookmark or social media with the likes of Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook and so on. I also search some topics on "Making Money With StumbleUpon". I did search it and I got good results, and I read the whole thing step-by-step.
We'll, don't you think that is easy to make money with StumbleUpon? We'll, all of the things like affiliate marketing and eCommerce are very difficult to make money and it requires a lot of knowledge in online and affiliate marketing which you have studied and applied it on your own. For StumbleUpon, I think it requires a lot of traffic that could generate you huge money, only if you don't use it a "blackhat" way.
It's pretty challenging right? There's one thing that I know that is not allowed on StumbleUpon, and that is paid shortening links like LinkBucks, LinkBee, Jacket Link Advertising and many more. Why? It's because they don't like spam attacks from other third party sites who try to take advantage of StumbleUpon and to break it's image on their faithful members.
I suggest that you create your very own landing page like Squidoo, Weebly, Yola, Blogger or WordPress, and there you can attach your own affiliate link or paid short link for the visitors to click and you make money online. Oh, I almost forgot of what my topic is all about. Why is it that we need to stumble our own website on purpose? We'll for me, it's because we want to increase my site's popularity on StumbleUpon and to increase the number of subscribers on my account.
In that way, I may be able to automatically update them and when they do receive my e-mail, they will click on the link and to complete offers or purchase a product with my affiliate or CPA link, or paid short links. We'll, if you guys think that StumbleUpon can give you loads of traffic and money, then try it for free. No risk about it, only follow the house rules!
10 Mar 2010 10:30 pm
Twitter now has followers as well as lists. We might have came across profiles having many followers and few lists. I would measure a twitter user strength based on the list. Many lists someone is on will prove that much more useful the person's tweets are rather than looking into the follower count. The twitter lists are more influencial because the lists are places where there is active participations. A list with people would probably get more listeners than the usual followers. The follower count can be increased while the list count comes when someone adds us to his/her list of a selected list of followers.I have recently came across a structure on how twitter will weight the list.
The above structure shows that list can be as effective just like sitelinks of a website which is an authority measure of that particular website in search engine. What are you thoughts about Twitter lits ? Please share you thoughts as comments or get in touch with me through my twitter.
10 Mar 2010 05:37 am
When there's hope, there's always a chance that we can plant a healthy tree and it's on our attitude. The same thing with search engine optimization, when we do our SEO services, we must think that in order to grow our tree, high quality services must be observed. But first let's start from the bottom, shall we?
First we plant a seed that symbolizes a beginner or a newbie. In order to make the stem grow over and over again, we must learn from the basics to advanced. Don't jump till you don't know what you're doing, or else the stem will just stay as ease or will fall. We consider ourselves as the SEO tree.
As we grow our knowledge, it's just like the water flows like a rain to make the roots grow until leaves came out. We must try to see that when we are growing and growing, just keep pushing until you finish the course or the chapter of search engine optimization. The tree could take months until it bears fruit and to finish its exact form.
The same thing with us, if we're able to act as a SEO tree, we will always continue to grow and at the same time, our own tree could be more meaningful than ever. For all newbies and professionals, bearing our fruits to our branches will make us very successful, just like the successful websites of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.
10 Mar 2010 12:58 am
Hello everyone!
It's been a long time since I posted here few months ago because I am a very busy man right now. So I'm going to discuss on how internet is for better or worse? What comes into our mind when we are using the internet. There are basic things that we look forward to when we use the internet:
* For researching purposes
* For SEO (search engine optimization)
* To make money online
* For business purposes
* To make new friends online
* To play games
* To accept payments online
But what about those things that are worse in the internet?
* To spam
* Using blackhat SEO method
* To hack other's identity (passwords, full information, bank account)
* To spread malware and other forms of viruses
* To plagiarize other's eBook and articles
If you have the opportunity to choose which among them is truly legitimate and very useful in the internet right now. Even grade school children can understand when they read this article of mine. So is the internet for better or for worse? Definitely it's both, because it can be used for good and bad purposes, but when you are bad like a thief or a devil, don't ever use the internet or even stop playing around the computer itself, or else your computer might get destroyed as well.
So please use the internet in a better way, not on the worse way. :)
09 Mar 2010 01:49 am
We'll I'm not really good in creating a landing page, but I know why is it important? Why do we need a landing page? Why is it that every webmaster and SEO guru like me have to create our own landing page? Landing pages are a great preview of what are you offering to your customers and visitors before they will click on to the main page of the product or offer. It can be done through any affiliate hoplink or CPA offer. It's a brief introduction like no other.
So how do we create a simple landing page? Simple!
Choose from either of these blogging platforms:
1. WordPress (my favorite)
2. Blogger
3. Yola
4. Weebly
5. Squidoo
After which, you choose an affiliate product or a CPA offer that you would like to promote. We'll, if this product feel that you have passion like weight loss for example, then choose that product and get it's affiliate link for your landing pages. Now this is the most difficult part, which is the keyword research.
Of course, you want to be on the top of Google rankings? We'll you must go to Google Keyword Analyzer tool and to search keywords for your niche on who has low competition but average search numbers monthly (not too low, not too high), only average. After choosing the right keyword, name your blog with that keyword.
This is an example of a landing page which the keyword is used on the Blogger domain:
http://howtogetlusciouslips.blogspot.com/
This is so simple, as you can see there is only one blog post. You can also see the image being posted on the blog post, but where's the affiliate link? Simple guys! It's on the image itself, which is attached as hyperlink that points to the affiliate link on your landing pages.
Your final step is the promotion using your own SEO and link building tactics and promote the landing page to Facebook, Twitter, high PR forums, social media and bookmarks, web directories, etc. This is how important is a landing page, and it's one of the reasons why affiliate marketers are earning lots of leads and sales on their respective affiliate links. We can do it, as long we're smart and have knowledge on promotions and affiliate marketing.
09 Mar 2010 01:10 am
If I suck on affiliate marketing in an old way, what about trying to do affiliate marketing using a social networking platform called Facebook? We'll, I am about to have almost 200 friends on Facebook now, because I know this thing can make me money, through what? Promoting affiliate links? Of course I could promote, but in order to be safe, we must be aware that Facebook has banned lots of accounts for just promoting affiliate links and CPA (cost-per-action) offers.
Some of them are just joining groups base on their niche and to promote their products through posting their direct affiliate hoplink like Clickbank, Amazon, CPALead, etc., it's not going to work at all because Facebook is really smart at it when notified by their own system. Of course we can still make money on affiliate programs using Facebook, but how?
Here are some of my ideas:
1. When you attach a link, don't post your direct affiliate or CPA link to your friends' wall, groups or fan pages.
2. Create your own basic landing page using WordPress, Blogger, Weebly, Yola, etc., on whatever product you may promote. I suggest you include an image or banner of your product and attach a hyperlink which directs to your affiliate hoplink. Make sure that your content could be easily understood by the visitors.
3. Instead of direct affiliate or CPA links to be posted on Facebook, your landing page could be a good strategy on which your hyperlink was attached on the image of your post.
4. Create your own Facebook group and it should match to the niche of your product or offer, and invite targeted friends to join your group. If your offers are from targeted countries only, then you should invite only people who are within that targeted country.
5. Promote your landing pages on Twitter and social media sites, high traffic forums, social bookmarks or you can do some video marketing on Youtube or even create a simple eBook with your affiliate and CPA links and upload it to some free file sharing sites.
These are some of my own ideas and it can guarantee you success only if you are really smart to know what you're doing. This is where an affiliate marketer like me has to do simple but challenging things when it comes to affiliate marketing using Facebook as a huge source.
07 Mar 2010 04:53 pm
Most of the webmasters do not do proper redirection of old pages when the website is redesigned/revamped into an entire new one. The effect is that there will lot of broken links and you will also lose alot of inbound links. Here is a way to check the issue and if you do have old broken URL's you can turn them into effective link resources.
Go to Google Webmaster tools dashboard -- Your Website URL -- Diagnostics -- Crawl Errors -- Web Crawls -- Not Found.
You will now get a list of not found URL’s on your website . There will be a "Linked From" towards the right which shows the pages which are linking to not found pages. You can see the step by step guide about this on Google webmaster central blog.
We have now found the inbound links which are linked to old URL's. Now we need to ensure that this pages are linking to the new pages on our website. If they are not then we can send them a request to link to the new pages on our website. Meanwhile we can also redirect the old pages to the new pages on our website.
06 Mar 2010 05:50 pm
Doing SEO takes a lot of technical skill, knowing and understanding how basic html is applied and how meta tags work along with knowledge of site structure and how it all is put together either dynamically or statically are all essential requirements to get a site up to speed in the search engines.
You can jump right into learning SEO if you know the fundementals. It can be easier for programmers or web developers to understand how to do on-page optimization for example.
The off-page optimisation techniques rely on creative approaches in order to get maximum results. If you have a creative marketing mind you can apply this knowledge online and really brand yourself out from press coverage all the way to corporate identity. It's all a matter of having the contacts though. You need to know where to go and what to get and how to get it!
What I love most of all is when it comes to SEO and Internet marketing the sky is your limit. There is an endless approach to marketing on the internet and getting the best results through search engine optimisation usually by thinking smart and applying your strategies creatively.
If you have a mix of knowlege on the technical and creative side you will do well with SEO. This is why there are only very few good SEO experts out there as either they are only good at one or the other. It is very hard to find a creative technical person these days, but when you apply both skills this is when you get maximum benefit.
For example you can get very bored of doing what you do if you are not using creative approaches to keep yourself enthusiastic you must think and do internet marketing with a twist. Earlier I spoke about creative link building techniques . Even now with search engine changes including Spatial and Vertical there is lots to keep us thinking for the future and different approaches we need to take to prepare ourselves for.
I always am appreciative of my graphic design and web design background. I was very creative as a kid growing up, I loved art, and followed the footsteps of my father who was and still is a very talented artist both, painter and graphic designer. I then took my skills further and learnt programming and business. I loved the technical aspect for coding up bits and pieces to make something active on the internet, before that I was also very good with Flash and used to love to animate.
Now I also enjoy to teach through SEO courses that I am regularly holding. All the skills that I can pass onto with my students is very rewarding and to watch someone else have the knowledge that they can apply is also a great inspiration.
01 Mar 2010 01:17 pm
There had been lot of buzz in the internet world as Google started their new Google Buzz service. There was lot of negativity spread regarding the new Google service. Gmail Buzz privacy was one among then. The latest news is that Google started to index real time updates from myspace as well as Google Buzz.
Twitter has recently started to use no follow attribute to links that are being tweeted. Many famous twitter users including Andy Beard has joined Google Buzz. This is a quick change fromTwitter and it seems to be a bad decision as well. The no follow will make the tweets hard to get indexed and the tweets which get indexed will be lost very soon.Andy Beard has written a post on Twitter Alzheimers.I have also started my own Google Buzz as I feel that this is the right time to join Google Buzz.You can now follow me on my Google Buzz account along with my twitter account. Hope this will help my real time updates get saved in such a way that I can refer them back whenever I need them.
