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Friday, January 7, 2011
Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn
A Guest Post by www.lewishowes.com on driving traffic to your blog with LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is the most powerful, yet under-utilised social networking platform on the web.
Whether you just created your first blog, or you are considered one of the top bloggers in the world like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, or Tim Ferriss, you are always looking for ways to generate more traffic to your site. Even more so, you are looking for qualified traffic to your site, (i.e people who are interested in the content you produce).
LinkedIn is a great way to generate free, organic, traffic to your blog.
“But Lewis, isn’t LinkedIn just a site to post my resume when I am looking for a job?”
No, wake up people! Although LinkedIn has been great for job seekers during the most recent economic cycle, it is much much more than that. Individuals and companies are achieving more professional goals than imaginable on LinkedIn. For example, LinkedIn can help you:
Sell products
Find new clients or employees
Generate leads
Receive funding for your company
Obtain sponsorships
Sell hundreds of tickets to your professional event
Get national and local press coverage
And last but not least, drive massive traffic to your blog
Achieving these goals on LinkedIn don’t come naturally. You’ve gotta work the system on LinkedIn and experiment with different methods. I’ve come up with the best ways to achieve those goals. Here are my top 10 ways to drive traffic to your blog using LinkedIn:
1. Complete Your Profile:
Numerous individuals have told me LinkedIn doesn’t work for them. I always ask them how much time they have put into using LinkedIn, their response – very little. If your profile is weak people will lose interest quickly and may never click on your website links.
If you want people to read your profile and click on your websites then make your profile concise, compelling and value driven throughout. Complete your profile 100%, add a great picture of yourself, and take the entire process very seriously. The more complete and compelling your profile is, the more people will read and visit links you have posted.
This advice goes beyond driving traffic to your blog. If someone were to Google your name (which most people do when they are researching you) your LinkedIn profile is one of the first things that pop up. Personally, my LinkedIn profile is the third result, and for Darren Rowse it comes up seventh (before Facebook or Twitter). Google your own name and check out what position your LinkedIn profile shows up. You must make your profile compelling.
2. Increase Your Connections:
The more connections you have, the more people will have access to your profile. Every time you take an action on LinkedIn (i.e. update your profile, join a group, recommend someone, RSVP to an event, etc… this shows up on the home page of your 1st degree connections). If you only have 100 connections, this limits the amount of potential clicks on your profile and website links per day. Constantly be updating and adding new connections.
3. Customize Your Website Links:
When you first create your profile your website links will look like this:
However this is not a “call to action” and you are missing potential traffic because of it. No one actually cares what your blog is unless it is relevant to them or solves a problem. Instead, customize your website links to attract more clicks and drive more traffic to your blog. If I were Darren, I would insert this:
The second image is more compelling and explains exactly what the viewer will see on the next page when they click on each link. In order to change your websites with a custom headline, click on the “edit” button next to one of the websites. View the image below for further details:
4. Answer Questions:
This is a great way to drive traffic to your blog. The more questions you answer, the better the chances are of that person asking the question to click on your blog to learn more about you. Not only will that one person be more interested in learning more about you, but also others answering that question. Additionally, when someone rates your answer as “The Best” of the mix, it will improve your thought leadership status. It moves you up the rankings as a “featured expert” in the category you answered in. When you are a featured expert people become more aware of your profile, and the chance they will click on your link to learn more about what you have to offer improves.
5. Update Status:
For you Twitter lovers out there, this should be an easy step to take. LinkedIn also has a status update feature that is a lot like Twitter, only it gives you 148 characters to work with instead of 140. Why is it so important to constantly update your status? Because it is the first thing that pops up the home profile for all of your connections. Check out your home page on LinkedIn and you will see a few status updates of those your are connected to. If they are smart, they will include some compelling copy with a call to action and a link back to their blog (something I do that drives traffic to mine).
6. Join Niche Groups:
Whatever your blog is about, there is an audience of people on LinkedIn that share interest with. To make it easy to find these people click on the “Group Search” tab and type in some key words that relate to your blog. I have a sports industry blog that focuses mostly on social media with an audience of professionals who work in the sports. I joined all of the professional sports groups I could find:
Some of these niche groups have thousands of members who are actively involved in connect with other members. If you are not in the groups where your audience for your blog is hanging out, then you are missing out on the opportunity for new readers, and organic traffic to your site. Join as many groups as you can after doing a key word search that relates to your blog.
For starters – check out the Professional Bloggers Group.
7. Post Comments In Groups:
Some larger groups are receiving hundreds of new discussion topics every few days (think of it as a forum). People are sharing points of discussion, commenting and giving further feedback and suggestions on those comments. Every time someone creates a new discussion topic, it shows up on the home profile of everyone in that group. If there are 100,000 people in the group, then you are potentially getting the attention of 100,000 other individuals for your comment.
8. Add RSS Feed to Groups:
Each group has a section that allows you to add a link to a website with the latest news you think is relevant to that group. It also allows you to add your own RSS feed or website link so it will automatically update the group every time you post a new article on your blog. This creates an automated flow of organic traffic that will show up on the home profile of everyone connected in the group. Again, this gives you more opportunities for people to view your blog.
9. Create a Group:
This may be one of the most powerful things you can do on LinkedIn. I won’t go into all of the amazing details on how this has helped me, but I will tell you that owning a group drives a lot of traffic to your site. I own several niche related groups on LinkedIn. For example, I created the Sports Industry Network group on LinkedIn and there are currently over 19,500 members. When a new person joins the group, they see a brief description of the group, my name as the owner of the group, plus my website url www.sportsnetworker.com. Since my group gets over 100 new members each week, that’s additional traffic from new members alone. That’s not even including the close to 20,000 members who are actively engaging in the group, and clicking on my blog links.
10. Add the Blog Application to Your Profile:
This might be the most obvious suggestion, but I still see some of the top pro bloggers leaving this feature out. This application posts the title and first paragraph for your most recent articles you have published on your LinkedIn profile. It is a way to give viewers of your profile a sneak peak of what they will read on your blog.
Go to “applications” and download either the WordPress or Blog Link application and add your URL for your blog.
LinkedIn continues to be one of the top sites that drives traffic to my blog, thanks to these 10 examples, but the power of LinkedIn doesn’t stop here. What other tips have you found through using LinkedIn to increase traffic to your blog?
LinkedIn is the most powerful, yet under-utilised social networking platform on the web.
Whether you just created your first blog, or you are considered one of the top bloggers in the world like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, or Tim Ferriss, you are always looking for ways to generate more traffic to your site. Even more so, you are looking for qualified traffic to your site, (i.e people who are interested in the content you produce).
LinkedIn is a great way to generate free, organic, traffic to your blog.
“But Lewis, isn’t LinkedIn just a site to post my resume when I am looking for a job?”
No, wake up people! Although LinkedIn has been great for job seekers during the most recent economic cycle, it is much much more than that. Individuals and companies are achieving more professional goals than imaginable on LinkedIn. For example, LinkedIn can help you:
Sell products
Find new clients or employees
Generate leads
Receive funding for your company
Obtain sponsorships
Sell hundreds of tickets to your professional event
Get national and local press coverage
And last but not least, drive massive traffic to your blog
Achieving these goals on LinkedIn don’t come naturally. You’ve gotta work the system on LinkedIn and experiment with different methods. I’ve come up with the best ways to achieve those goals. Here are my top 10 ways to drive traffic to your blog using LinkedIn:
1. Complete Your Profile:
Numerous individuals have told me LinkedIn doesn’t work for them. I always ask them how much time they have put into using LinkedIn, their response – very little. If your profile is weak people will lose interest quickly and may never click on your website links.
If you want people to read your profile and click on your websites then make your profile concise, compelling and value driven throughout. Complete your profile 100%, add a great picture of yourself, and take the entire process very seriously. The more complete and compelling your profile is, the more people will read and visit links you have posted.
This advice goes beyond driving traffic to your blog. If someone were to Google your name (which most people do when they are researching you) your LinkedIn profile is one of the first things that pop up. Personally, my LinkedIn profile is the third result, and for Darren Rowse it comes up seventh (before Facebook or Twitter). Google your own name and check out what position your LinkedIn profile shows up. You must make your profile compelling.
2. Increase Your Connections:
The more connections you have, the more people will have access to your profile. Every time you take an action on LinkedIn (i.e. update your profile, join a group, recommend someone, RSVP to an event, etc… this shows up on the home page of your 1st degree connections). If you only have 100 connections, this limits the amount of potential clicks on your profile and website links per day. Constantly be updating and adding new connections.
3. Customize Your Website Links:
When you first create your profile your website links will look like this:
However this is not a “call to action” and you are missing potential traffic because of it. No one actually cares what your blog is unless it is relevant to them or solves a problem. Instead, customize your website links to attract more clicks and drive more traffic to your blog. If I were Darren, I would insert this:
The second image is more compelling and explains exactly what the viewer will see on the next page when they click on each link. In order to change your websites with a custom headline, click on the “edit” button next to one of the websites. View the image below for further details:
4. Answer Questions:
This is a great way to drive traffic to your blog. The more questions you answer, the better the chances are of that person asking the question to click on your blog to learn more about you. Not only will that one person be more interested in learning more about you, but also others answering that question. Additionally, when someone rates your answer as “The Best” of the mix, it will improve your thought leadership status. It moves you up the rankings as a “featured expert” in the category you answered in. When you are a featured expert people become more aware of your profile, and the chance they will click on your link to learn more about what you have to offer improves.
5. Update Status:
For you Twitter lovers out there, this should be an easy step to take. LinkedIn also has a status update feature that is a lot like Twitter, only it gives you 148 characters to work with instead of 140. Why is it so important to constantly update your status? Because it is the first thing that pops up the home profile for all of your connections. Check out your home page on LinkedIn and you will see a few status updates of those your are connected to. If they are smart, they will include some compelling copy with a call to action and a link back to their blog (something I do that drives traffic to mine).
6. Join Niche Groups:
Whatever your blog is about, there is an audience of people on LinkedIn that share interest with. To make it easy to find these people click on the “Group Search” tab and type in some key words that relate to your blog. I have a sports industry blog that focuses mostly on social media with an audience of professionals who work in the sports. I joined all of the professional sports groups I could find:
Some of these niche groups have thousands of members who are actively involved in connect with other members. If you are not in the groups where your audience for your blog is hanging out, then you are missing out on the opportunity for new readers, and organic traffic to your site. Join as many groups as you can after doing a key word search that relates to your blog.
For starters – check out the Professional Bloggers Group.
7. Post Comments In Groups:
Some larger groups are receiving hundreds of new discussion topics every few days (think of it as a forum). People are sharing points of discussion, commenting and giving further feedback and suggestions on those comments. Every time someone creates a new discussion topic, it shows up on the home profile of everyone in that group. If there are 100,000 people in the group, then you are potentially getting the attention of 100,000 other individuals for your comment.
8. Add RSS Feed to Groups:
Each group has a section that allows you to add a link to a website with the latest news you think is relevant to that group. It also allows you to add your own RSS feed or website link so it will automatically update the group every time you post a new article on your blog. This creates an automated flow of organic traffic that will show up on the home profile of everyone connected in the group. Again, this gives you more opportunities for people to view your blog.
9. Create a Group:
This may be one of the most powerful things you can do on LinkedIn. I won’t go into all of the amazing details on how this has helped me, but I will tell you that owning a group drives a lot of traffic to your site. I own several niche related groups on LinkedIn. For example, I created the Sports Industry Network group on LinkedIn and there are currently over 19,500 members. When a new person joins the group, they see a brief description of the group, my name as the owner of the group, plus my website url www.sportsnetworker.com. Since my group gets over 100 new members each week, that’s additional traffic from new members alone. That’s not even including the close to 20,000 members who are actively engaging in the group, and clicking on my blog links.
10. Add the Blog Application to Your Profile:
This might be the most obvious suggestion, but I still see some of the top pro bloggers leaving this feature out. This application posts the title and first paragraph for your most recent articles you have published on your LinkedIn profile. It is a way to give viewers of your profile a sneak peak of what they will read on your blog.
Go to “applications” and download either the WordPress or Blog Link application and add your URL for your blog.
LinkedIn continues to be one of the top sites that drives traffic to my blog, thanks to these 10 examples, but the power of LinkedIn doesn’t stop here. What other tips have you found through using LinkedIn to increase traffic to your blog?
How To Increase Traffic For Free
Do you know all the data and the advice of the new employer stating that you need traffic to your website or blog for creating an Internet presence? Without traffic, the site will be inert and your Internet business is condemned for failure. Traffic is the secret that everybody is using to succeed on the Internet. Generating a large number of quality traffic to your website is easy or not complicated as it might seem at first sight. You can greatly increase traffic free with the program to invite a friend.
Others are taking benefits of the Internet market and you have to do the same. You are worthy of having the kind of success that others have on the Internet with an increase in traffic for free. Why have you to pay monthly fees or rates for a huge number of visitors to your website when you can do it increasing traffic for free? You should not pay high prices for traffic that might not be interested in what your site has to suggest. What do you really is a real traffic with visitors who want to come to your site and to see what you have to suggest. Friend invite program works and with its help you can do exactly that. Friends are imported from many places in a very user-friendly format so that there will be an increase in traffic that comes from people who want to come to your website.
Paid traffic is one type of popular programs on the Internet. Visitors have to pat for clicking on ads that lead to your website. They pay for clicking emails that lead them to your website. These visitors are not interested in what you have to suggest. Your friends and their friends are not going to pay you when friends are invited into the program. Instead of feeling angry and spam the program to invite a friend let people who are interested in your website to be invited alone.
Instead of people coming to your website on the Internet, because they are just trying to get as many clicks as possible or because spam disturbed them, true friends come to visit and suggest support. All your visitors are already excited and have a good mood. They will have time to browse your offerings and really look through the content of your website. This in turn can greatly increase the potential for a person to buy a product or service. Others will be more inclined to join your affiliate program or read your blog posts. You have worked hard on your site and deserve to receive visitors who have time to actually go through most of the pages instead of running through them.
Nowadays Web technologies have become very popular. So no wonder that the Internet network has changed into a way of earning money. But to avoid putting your online business in danger it is very important to understand how to bulk real visitor traffic.
How to get search engines to crawl your site is one of the most significant things which should be focused on. Remember that people today use online network to find info, and buy goods. And no doubt they use search engines for it. To make an online business prosperous, one has to use every tool available. This is why if you are aware of building backlinks to your website much, you have real chances to become prosperous.
Others are taking benefits of the Internet market and you have to do the same. You are worthy of having the kind of success that others have on the Internet with an increase in traffic for free. Why have you to pay monthly fees or rates for a huge number of visitors to your website when you can do it increasing traffic for free? You should not pay high prices for traffic that might not be interested in what your site has to suggest. What do you really is a real traffic with visitors who want to come to your site and to see what you have to suggest. Friend invite program works and with its help you can do exactly that. Friends are imported from many places in a very user-friendly format so that there will be an increase in traffic that comes from people who want to come to your website.
Paid traffic is one type of popular programs on the Internet. Visitors have to pat for clicking on ads that lead to your website. They pay for clicking emails that lead them to your website. These visitors are not interested in what you have to suggest. Your friends and their friends are not going to pay you when friends are invited into the program. Instead of feeling angry and spam the program to invite a friend let people who are interested in your website to be invited alone.
Instead of people coming to your website on the Internet, because they are just trying to get as many clicks as possible or because spam disturbed them, true friends come to visit and suggest support. All your visitors are already excited and have a good mood. They will have time to browse your offerings and really look through the content of your website. This in turn can greatly increase the potential for a person to buy a product or service. Others will be more inclined to join your affiliate program or read your blog posts. You have worked hard on your site and deserve to receive visitors who have time to actually go through most of the pages instead of running through them.
Nowadays Web technologies have become very popular. So no wonder that the Internet network has changed into a way of earning money. But to avoid putting your online business in danger it is very important to understand how to bulk real visitor traffic.
How to get search engines to crawl your site is one of the most significant things which should be focused on. Remember that people today use online network to find info, and buy goods. And no doubt they use search engines for it. To make an online business prosperous, one has to use every tool available. This is why if you are aware of building backlinks to your website much, you have real chances to become prosperous.
building Alexa rankings
building Alexa rankings why do this and how do you do it?
Most internet marketing and search engine marketing professionals have heard of Google’s PageRank system at some point or another, but not everybody has heard of the Alexa Ranking system. Alexa Internet is a web based company that is owned by the noted Amazon.com Company. They are best known for their efforts toward a website that ranks different websites.
Whether or not the Alexa Ranking system is an important one is relative.
For some websites, the Alexa ranking is vitally important. For other sites, the ranking when it comes to Alexa is relatively unimportant. The Alexa Ranking is a ranking that is based on the traffic to a website. Unlike the floating number that Google’s PageRank utilizes, the Alexa Ranking system is ranked anywhere from 1 on up. The lower the number is, the higher the Alexa Ranking is for that site. For example, Yahoo! Is rated number 1 or 2 on the Alexa Ranking system.
How is Alexa Ranking Determined?
Again, Alexa Ranking is a determination that is made based on traffic. That means that sites that see less traffic are bound to have a substantially lower ranking. There is a slant to this ranking system, though and it is that not everybody can participate. Only users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed can participate. There are some other select toolbars that can be installed through Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer that can participate, as well but the main method of tracking is through this Alexa Toolbar.
For this reason, the size of the sampling audience with this tool is relatively small. Many people do not know the Alexa toolbar even exists, and many who may fail to make use of it. The benefits of the Alexa toolbar are lost on many average Internet users, and as such many people who might visit certain sites are not being included in the tallying of the statistics. This means that those who are visiting certain sites are not being counted toward the Alexa Ranking, simply because they do not make use of the toolbar that is used to keep track.
Should I Be Concerned with Alexa Ranking?
Whether or not you should be concerned with Alexa Ranking as a webmaster is up to you. There are many people who take such things into account, and it doesn’t help to have yet another positive ranking for your site in your favor. After all, positive page rankings doesn’t take any money out of your pocket, but it does have the potential to put a few in.
Google’s PageRank is the most important and widely used page ranking system out there. Just as PageRank does, the Alexa Ranking system does have its flaws. The lack of tracking for those that don’t have a toolbar installed is just one of them. Also, the system does not keep track of sub-level domain names. Only the main pages of a website are taken into consideration with this system.
Advantages to Alexa Ranking
One of the great advantages to making use of the Alexa Ranking system is that it allows you to compare different web sites. This means that you can take a look at how your competitor sites are doing out there, quite a plus for those who are looking to keep up or exceed the performance of other websites within the same niche. It can also help potential investors or advertisers see how well your site is doing as far as traffic is concerned. The information that the tool passes on is very useful for search engine optimization and helps a lot of webmasters see when and where they might need improvement.
How to Improve Your Alexa Ranking
For those out there that are looking to improve their Alexa Ranking, here are a few tips on how to get that done.
Install the Alexa Toolbar, and tell your friends and associates to do it, too. Pass it on to as many people as you can, and have them visit your website.
Use the Alexa Redirect URL. It is: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? Followed by your website URL. This will help to boost your Alexa Rank as well.
Get listed on several sites by placing a listing on DMOZ. Remember, it can take up to five months for this to update so you will have to be patient.
Add the Alexa Widget to your web site. This counts visits from people who do not have the Alexa toolbar, and so will naturally boost your ranking.
The Alexa Ranking is not the be-all and end-all of your website’s success as some people regard Google PageRank to be. It is a very useful tool for people working on optimizing their pages, and there are some significant benefits to paying attention to the tool and what it has to offer.
Whether or not you choose to actively pursue a positive Alexa Ranking is up to you. Some sites can benefit more from it than others, and there are some great ways to improve your ranking. It never hurts to have yet another internet authority regard your website in a positive light, now does it?
Most internet marketing and search engine marketing professionals have heard of Google’s PageRank system at some point or another, but not everybody has heard of the Alexa Ranking system. Alexa Internet is a web based company that is owned by the noted Amazon.com Company. They are best known for their efforts toward a website that ranks different websites.
Whether or not the Alexa Ranking system is an important one is relative.
For some websites, the Alexa ranking is vitally important. For other sites, the ranking when it comes to Alexa is relatively unimportant. The Alexa Ranking is a ranking that is based on the traffic to a website. Unlike the floating number that Google’s PageRank utilizes, the Alexa Ranking system is ranked anywhere from 1 on up. The lower the number is, the higher the Alexa Ranking is for that site. For example, Yahoo! Is rated number 1 or 2 on the Alexa Ranking system.
How is Alexa Ranking Determined?
Again, Alexa Ranking is a determination that is made based on traffic. That means that sites that see less traffic are bound to have a substantially lower ranking. There is a slant to this ranking system, though and it is that not everybody can participate. Only users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed can participate. There are some other select toolbars that can be installed through Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer that can participate, as well but the main method of tracking is through this Alexa Toolbar.
For this reason, the size of the sampling audience with this tool is relatively small. Many people do not know the Alexa toolbar even exists, and many who may fail to make use of it. The benefits of the Alexa toolbar are lost on many average Internet users, and as such many people who might visit certain sites are not being included in the tallying of the statistics. This means that those who are visiting certain sites are not being counted toward the Alexa Ranking, simply because they do not make use of the toolbar that is used to keep track.
Should I Be Concerned with Alexa Ranking?
Whether or not you should be concerned with Alexa Ranking as a webmaster is up to you. There are many people who take such things into account, and it doesn’t help to have yet another positive ranking for your site in your favor. After all, positive page rankings doesn’t take any money out of your pocket, but it does have the potential to put a few in.
Google’s PageRank is the most important and widely used page ranking system out there. Just as PageRank does, the Alexa Ranking system does have its flaws. The lack of tracking for those that don’t have a toolbar installed is just one of them. Also, the system does not keep track of sub-level domain names. Only the main pages of a website are taken into consideration with this system.
Advantages to Alexa Ranking
One of the great advantages to making use of the Alexa Ranking system is that it allows you to compare different web sites. This means that you can take a look at how your competitor sites are doing out there, quite a plus for those who are looking to keep up or exceed the performance of other websites within the same niche. It can also help potential investors or advertisers see how well your site is doing as far as traffic is concerned. The information that the tool passes on is very useful for search engine optimization and helps a lot of webmasters see when and where they might need improvement.
How to Improve Your Alexa Ranking
For those out there that are looking to improve their Alexa Ranking, here are a few tips on how to get that done.
Install the Alexa Toolbar, and tell your friends and associates to do it, too. Pass it on to as many people as you can, and have them visit your website.
Use the Alexa Redirect URL. It is: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? Followed by your website URL. This will help to boost your Alexa Rank as well.
Get listed on several sites by placing a listing on DMOZ. Remember, it can take up to five months for this to update so you will have to be patient.
Add the Alexa Widget to your web site. This counts visits from people who do not have the Alexa toolbar, and so will naturally boost your ranking.
The Alexa Ranking is not the be-all and end-all of your website’s success as some people regard Google PageRank to be. It is a very useful tool for people working on optimizing their pages, and there are some significant benefits to paying attention to the tool and what it has to offer.
Whether or not you choose to actively pursue a positive Alexa Ranking is up to you. Some sites can benefit more from it than others, and there are some great ways to improve your ranking. It never hurts to have yet another internet authority regard your website in a positive light, now does it?
How to get search engines to crawl your site
How to get search engines to crawl your site?
How does Google find your site and list it? Merely registering your domain on the Internet isn’t enough.
As soon as your site is available on the Internet, you can submit it to Google by completing the add URL form at www.google.com/addurl.html.
Another way to be listed — and to raise your PageRank too — is by getting other websites to link to yours. After that, when Google’s robots or spiders, known as Googlebot, crawl the web, they should run across your site within a month or so. As we mentioned in the page How Google Works, there are two types of crawls, fresh crawls and deep crawls. Your site most likely will first get a fresh crawl in which only pages Google deems most important are crawled. After Google runs a deep crawl of your site, most, if not all of the pages on your website that contain links from other pages will be crawled and subsequently listed on Google — except pages that are included in the file robots.txt, which lists pages that you don’t want Google to crawl and pages containing code that Google is unable to parse. (Other search engines — though not all of them — also obey your instructions in robots.txt.)
Recently Google developed Google Base, a service, like a bulletin board, for posting all types of content, e.g., coupons, reviews, jobs, housing, events, tickets, merchandise. Things for sale may get cross posted on Google’s Product Search and locations may get cross posted from Google Base to Google Maps.
For more about how to get your site listed on Google, visit www.google.com/webmasters/1.html.
How can you remove websites, individual pages, cached pages, and outdated or dead links from Google’s index? Visit www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html.
For Google tips, tricks, & how Google works, visit Google Guide at www.GoogleGuide.com. Google Guide is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Google.
How does Google find your site and list it? Merely registering your domain on the Internet isn’t enough.
As soon as your site is available on the Internet, you can submit it to Google by completing the add URL form at www.google.com/addurl.html.
Another way to be listed — and to raise your PageRank too — is by getting other websites to link to yours. After that, when Google’s robots or spiders, known as Googlebot, crawl the web, they should run across your site within a month or so. As we mentioned in the page How Google Works, there are two types of crawls, fresh crawls and deep crawls. Your site most likely will first get a fresh crawl in which only pages Google deems most important are crawled. After Google runs a deep crawl of your site, most, if not all of the pages on your website that contain links from other pages will be crawled and subsequently listed on Google — except pages that are included in the file robots.txt, which lists pages that you don’t want Google to crawl and pages containing code that Google is unable to parse. (Other search engines — though not all of them — also obey your instructions in robots.txt.)
Recently Google developed Google Base, a service, like a bulletin board, for posting all types of content, e.g., coupons, reviews, jobs, housing, events, tickets, merchandise. Things for sale may get cross posted on Google’s Product Search and locations may get cross posted from Google Base to Google Maps.
For more about how to get your site listed on Google, visit www.google.com/webmasters/1.html.
How can you remove websites, individual pages, cached pages, and outdated or dead links from Google’s index? Visit www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html.
For Google tips, tricks, & how Google works, visit Google Guide at www.GoogleGuide.com. Google Guide is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Google.
Building search rankings what is this and how to do it.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.
The acronym “SEO” can refer to “search engine optimizers,” a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term “search engine friendly” may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.
Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or spamdexing, uses methods such as link farms, keyword stuffing and article spinning that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.
Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all webmasters needed to do was submit the address of a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a “spider” to “crawl” that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed.[1] The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine’s own server, where a second program, known as an indexer, extracts various information about the page, such as the words it contains and where these are located, as well as any weight for specific words, and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.
The acronym “SEO” can refer to “search engine optimizers,” a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term “search engine friendly” may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.
Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or spamdexing, uses methods such as link farms, keyword stuffing and article spinning that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.
Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all webmasters needed to do was submit the address of a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a “spider” to “crawl” that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed.[1] The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine’s own server, where a second program, known as an indexer, extracts various information about the page, such as the words it contains and where these are located, as well as any weight for specific words, and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.
Redirect expired domain traffic.
Redirected expired domain traffic as well as autosurf and manual surf programs and exit exchanges for our Real Visitor traffic. Traffic is simply redirect from them to your website providing you with visitors. It’s akin to owning a retail store on a side street and then having the ability to detour traffic from the main highway right by your front door in an instant.
Real Visitor traffic comes from a verifiable IP (Internet Protocol) address that is time stamped with Date/Time of the visit as well as logging the agent used. Usually you easily view the these statistics and running logs of these visitors within the account set up for you using the companies customized reporting.
Buying Redirect expired domain traffic is ususlly quite affordable and is great for building Alexa rankings and providing visibility to search engines as they crawl your site. It is untargeted so therefore will yield smaller conversion ratios for sales than targeted traffic but people love it for the price and buy it most frequently, for search rankings and some possible sales.
Combinding this stratagy with good on page content and suffecient backling and bookmarking will help overall search for you websites.
Real Visitor traffic comes from a verifiable IP (Internet Protocol) address that is time stamped with Date/Time of the visit as well as logging the agent used. Usually you easily view the these statistics and running logs of these visitors within the account set up for you using the companies customized reporting.
Buying Redirect expired domain traffic is ususlly quite affordable and is great for building Alexa rankings and providing visibility to search engines as they crawl your site. It is untargeted so therefore will yield smaller conversion ratios for sales than targeted traffic but people love it for the price and buy it most frequently, for search rankings and some possible sales.
Combinding this stratagy with good on page content and suffecient backling and bookmarking will help overall search for you websites.
Building backlinks to your website
Backlinks are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in google search results you have to have a good page rank. If you want a higher page rank you’re going to need some backlinks.
Backlinks are simply a link from somewhere else to your site.
It’s a really easy concept, in fact, it’s really easy to do. Making a backlink only takes a minute or two. That’s not too bad. However, when you are talking about having thousands of backlinks to your site, you start talking in the thousands of minutes and that IS a long time.
Creating backlinks can be time consuming and seriously tedious and boring, but you have to do it! This lens is going to discuss different ways you can get quality, high page ranked, backlinks, and more importantly, ways you can automate the process and make it go FAST!
What is a backlink?
Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else’s site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.
Where do I put backlinks?
You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs.
You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter)
How do I make a backlink?
To make a backlink it takes a couple steps. (they’re real easy don’t worry)
1. Know your url. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific url for that. For example it might be the difference between www.itsawahmlife.com which is the main page of my personal blog or this: http://itsawahmlife.com/pb-j-chicken-stew.html which is a specific post.
2. Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:
3. You will need a keyword for your link. Don’t use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.
Let’s use the example from my blog and I’ll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.
Here’s what it will look like in my comment:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew
Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche.
Backlinks are simply a link from somewhere else to your site.
It’s a really easy concept, in fact, it’s really easy to do. Making a backlink only takes a minute or two. That’s not too bad. However, when you are talking about having thousands of backlinks to your site, you start talking in the thousands of minutes and that IS a long time.
Creating backlinks can be time consuming and seriously tedious and boring, but you have to do it! This lens is going to discuss different ways you can get quality, high page ranked, backlinks, and more importantly, ways you can automate the process and make it go FAST!
What is a backlink?
Backlinks are a link to your website from another website. The search engines love these. When they see the link on someone else’s site it sends the spiders over to your site and they index your site getting it placed on a search engine organically instead of you going over and entering it. This way is preferred by the search engines.
Where do I put backlinks?
You can put backlinks in any number of locations. You can use them in signatures in forums, you can pay for them, but today we are talking about putting them in blogs.
You find a blog that is about a similar topic as what you will be linking to. You read the blog and then you make an insightful and meaningful comment to the post. When you are finished with your post you also put a link to the site you want the search engines to go look at. (and the other people reading the blog for that matter)
How do I make a backlink?
To make a backlink it takes a couple steps. (they’re real easy don’t worry)
1. Know your url. If you want your link to send people to the front page, or to a specific article or blog post, make sure you have the specific url for that. For example it might be the difference between www.itsawahmlife.com which is the main page of my personal blog or this: http://itsawahmlife.com/pb-j-chicken-stew.html which is a specific post.
2. Now you need a little html magic. You will need to use this html code to make a link:
3. You will need a keyword for your link. Don’t use a keyword that is in the title of your blog/article/website, because the search engines will already see it in your url. Choose something else that is relevant to where you are sending people. For example, using the above post I might use the key word Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew.
Let’s use the example from my blog and I’ll show you what it looks like, in code and then the way it appears in code.
Here’s what it will look like in my comment:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Chicken Stew
Backlinks from blogs are great and you need to think about the page rank of the blog before you leave the backlink. You should be backlinking from a blog with a higher page rank. I would choose at least a 4 or 5. It may have to be lower depending on your niche.
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