I am a big fan of video optimisation, in particular Youtube optimisation. What I find is that if you can find certain keyphrases that have a good chance of being found in both Youtube and Google, then you will get a large amount of traffic come through to your site as a result.
You can do this usually by simply typing a keyphrase in Youtube search area and it will usually start coming up with suggested terms, then you just decide which title you would like to go for with your video.
The key thing here is to get good amounts of subscribers and friends to your channel, this will get you popular and have others link to your channel and give it more power in the serps. So getting backlinks to your profile an videos is one thing.
The 2nd thing is adding the right meta title and description and keywords for each video, be sure to add good titles and keywords.
And 3rd most important thing which not many people are aware of is submitting your video to niche video sites, for example if your video is about comedy, then submit it to Break.com before submitting it again to Youtube, this ensures you will get quality score to your Youtube video. If you have a video on SEO, then submit your video to GSEO.net/video-submit.php again this is an extremely score to Youtube.
You can monitor how you are doing and to some degree where your links and traffic are coming from through the insights tab. Here I have included some screenshots:
This gives demographic and regional information, very handy if your targeting a specific age group or city or country.
Here is very interesting information on the type of backlinks you are getting to your video:
The great thing about the insights tool is you can drill down even further by clicking on each area to get more information, then you can also generate a report using a csv file.
Here is some helpful information that can help you understand how to optimise a youtube video a bit better.
And lastly if your serious about ranking well then GSEO.net have an amazing video backlinking tool that can increase your video in the serps in literally minutes. By submitting your video through GSEO it will appear something like this with tags and be recognised to youtube as a quality backlink, check it out here:
I know I have been asked many times over and over, if you are so good at doing SEO, why don’t you do SEO for yourself and not for clients, just continue to build more and more sites that generate income.
Well the answer is I do this, as well as servicing clients. Servicing clients guarantees me an income. With this in mind I decided to put a list together of what the positives and negatives are.
Doing SEO for your own sites
Positives: 1. You have the skills to generate your own traffic saving you money from getting someone else to do it 2. You keep 100% profit of what you earn apart from your own expenses of course 3. You get all the fame once your site is a success, not your client or the person your doing the site for
Negatives: 1. The income you generate may not be guaranteed and all depends on the product you are selling on your website 2. If you are selling your own product, it is up to you to have an investment towards that and depending how far you want to take it could be big.
Doing SEO for Others including clients:
Positives: 1. You build up a good reputation servicing clients and they refer others to you. 2. You get paid to do the SEO work for already established businesses 3. You get paid regardless of their product sells or profits
Negatives: 1. Setting up Invoices 2. Keeping track of accounting 3. Managing your own success according to clients expectations 4. Meeting targets and time lines
If you have any experiences or can relate to this feel free to let me know about it. For those who are thinking about doing SEO yourself I encourage you to buy the Do-It-Yourself For Dummies book!
Business.com have recently been promoting there $100 free credit for PPC startup's and $50 discount for Business Directory listings.
First of all let me start off by saying that getting a directory listing with Business.com even though a bit costly proves to work very well for SEO. The links that are placed on pages tend to have very little amount of outbound links which gives your link more authority when placed with only very few other links on the one page.
Furthermore because business.com have a pagerank of 7, the inside pages tend to carry alot of weight. Inside pages where your link will be placed are generally a page rank 4 or 5.
The PPC model in the directory is certainly worth doing as Ad placements are set at the top of the page and get great exposure. Not only that Google and Facebook advertise in the directory aswell so this in itself must be worth doing to stand out with the big boys.
$50 Directory Listing Coupon To save $50 off Business.com directory listings click the following banner:
$100 in Free PPC Clicks Business.com for a limited time are offering $100 promo code for webmasters looking to buy traffic through their PPC program. You can click the banner for the promotion here:
Today I came across the new Google layout which they rolled out to all the Internet users. I hate the way the new menu feature appeared in Google new search engine layout. The factor that I hate is that the search bar is on left side. I would suggest them to put the same on the right side after Sponsored links. If they put in the right side then it is going to help Google is maintaing the clean look atleast at the top.
I am impressed by some of the new features that I saw in their menu. The features like page previews, sites with images etc as Internet surfers can easily get a feel on which website to enter and which not to enter. Is this feature going to improve search results ?. I think it will improve the search results as traffic to websites will now be based more on website layout rather than just the search engine result page rankings. The big question now is that Google is not having the preview of all the websites in the search engine result pages. So how will Google overcome this ? How often will Google update page previews.
It is now time the designers need to spend much time to the websites to improve the overall look and feel of the whole websites they work for. Now is the time for the SEO's to come up with their innovative ideas about website layout. My suggestion to all would be to focus on a clean layout which looks pretty good.
Is Google's new search engine layout similar to Bing? What is your suggestion about Google new search engine layout ?Do you really feel that Google has made a wrong move ?
Will Google change the layout back to the previous clean layout ?
Please post your comments about Google's new layout.
If you are looking ways to use the old Google layout you can use the below URL
Developing an appropriate internet media marketing campaign is getting even more challenging with every passing day. Internet media marketing requires many components like a good mix of online media marketing tools, appropriate content and Search Engine Optimization.
Although Search Engine optimization (SEO) is a small part of a digital media marketing campaign, but it is a prominent part for making an online media campaign successful. Therefore, it is very important for an internet media marketer to decide whether he wants to outsource the SEO job to any Search Engine Optimization company or he wants to do it in-house.
Outsourcing of SEO, that is hiring a good Search Engine Optimization Company can prove to be a great way to kick-start the process of preparing an appropriate internet media marketing campaign. It is believed that by selecting a good SEO company, the internet marketer can ensure half of the success of his online media marketing campaign.
Search Engine Optimization means that the internet media marketing campaign is presented with appropriate keywords so that the given website appears in the top listings of a popular search engine like Google.
Hiring a good SEO company to provide the content with appropriate keywords can cost heavily on the pockets of the advertiser, but yes, it ensures the results (most of the time). On the other hand, the internet media marketer can prepare his content appropriate enough o suit the needs of a search engine in-house.
Developing content keeping in mind the listings of top search engines is a meticulous task but it can be successfully accomplished with extensive research and thorough knowledge of internet. This process can be tedious but it definitely saves the excess burden on the advertising budget of an internet media marketing company.
Web Developer’s Virtual Library is one place which helps in initiating the process of Search Engine Optimization. Extensive research on the latest happenings on the internet and understanding the requirement of the prospective lead can serve the purpose of an internet media marketer to a great extent.
It is entirely the prerogative of the online media marketer, whether he chooses the outsourcing of SEO process or does it in-house, his main aim should be to offer long term commitment to the customers.
There goes our main target! Now it's just a numbers game. The most dominant players are the ones that are using all types of illegal methods such as black hat methods including spam email using gmail to send out to potential clients and telesales techniques.
A lot of start-ups right now are trying to compete with players who have been offering SEO services for years.
But it's tough out there to dominate the market, particularly with players who have been in the field either short or long term! This is why the internet competition heats up on Google, the big boys that have been in the game for years already try to rank themselves as one of the top SEO providers in the world, and they don't want the new competitors to surpass them.
But hey, who says you can't surpass the old ones? It doesn't happen over night but it does happen, perhaps for one keyword phrases such as SEO, could take around 1-3 years to achieve. But if this is not achieved they will use all they can to get the clients they need in the meantime with other possible strategies whether right or wrong everyones got to eat.
So for the big SEO players who are quitely making the money in the background and the new who are working day and night to catch up, either way they must always keep their head over their shoulder and be on the ball. If you want to stay no.1 you will need to employ an army or just work overtime to catch up or stay ahead!
Everyone is trying to take advantage of the industry and as a result it is carrying more weight then it can handle.
There are a load of sites or companies out there who say they can do SEO. The fact is that they usually outsource to other SEO companies and use their site as a front door. There is still really only a hand full of professional SEO experts that SEO companies are outsourcing to.
When a website say they offer SEO it really doesn't mean they do it. It's a bit like graphic designers saying that they do printing but really they don't.
SEO takes a certain skill and what gets me is designers or people who are new in the inductry all of a sudden wanting to get a piece of it. By profession I am a Graphic Designer and Web Designer aswell but over the course of 5 years I applied and did better then ever with SEO. But there is a reason why I stick to what I do. I find if your really good at something stick to it. Don't get me wrong I encourage entusiasts to learn, this is why I have SEO Workshops.
But the bottom line is after the workshop if you are still technically or creatively not handling it, then perhaps it is not for you and you can stick to what you are best at or you can give the job to a professional. But overall the great thing about doing a half day course is to know if this is what you want to do for the rest of your life or it's something you want to do just as a one-off for some small web project.
Getting into the market now particularly when the market is oversaturated is not easy, so I encourage people who want to learn to apply their knowledge to their own one or two websites they own. I don't encourage you to go out and start your own SEO company as it is really difficult to break into the market for new SEO's who are trying to get a name for themself.
Be aware when your looking out for a SEO company to take care of your sites needs. Be sure to check out testimonials and other examples of their work before going ahead, and make sure they have been around for a while or the CEO of the company is well known in the industry.
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.
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:
* 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. :)
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:
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.
