Up until recently having your own article directory required having to buy or download an article directory script that would need to be installed and setup to receive and create new accounts from authors and article distribution sites around the Internet like Article Marketer and iSnare.
Now Kim Standerline and her partner James Lee have introduced Internet marketers to EasyBlogsPro which is a powerful new article directory script which harnesses the awesome power of the Wordpress blogging platform.
Wordpress is considered hands down the best publishing platform around with its ease of use and also being very search engine friendly and indexed and ranked quickly by major search engines.
This gives EasyBlogsPro a big advantage over a regular article directory script. With this software you can have all of the features of a fully functional article directory along with the publishing power of Wordpress with its automatic pinging features and add on plug-ins features which make it a very powerful combo.
It's a proven fact that when you own your own article directory, your Adsense income will explode because you will constantly be updated with fresh content for search engine spiders to feed off.
Installation of EasyBlogsPro is a breeze and the setup can be done in a matter of 10 minutes. All that is required is to upload a couple of PHP scripts into your Wordpress directory and then sign up with one of the article submission sites to start receiving articles daily on autopilot or if you choose to put them in draft mode to review.
The articles come from the three big article distribution sites right now including Article Marketer, Isnare and The Phantom Writers with more to be added in the future.
Along with the article directory scripts come a bunch of other bonuses like some custom Wordpress templates, videos to get started and a big folder of the best Wordpress plug-ins to get your new directory up and running and optimized perfectly for maximum Adsense and affiliate revenue.
You can either choose to setup a tightly themed niche article site or just a general directory with every category. Whichever you choose, EasyBlogsPro looks like a promising new piece of software for Adsense publishers and Internet marketers looking to make a nice income off of a hands free low maintenance website with constantly updated fresh content.
Click here to learn more EasyBlogsPro
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Google Adsense: 3 Ways To Increase Your Adsense Income
Today many Internet marketers and bloggers are finding much harder to earn money with the Google Adsense program. When it was first introduced, many publishers found it easy to make thousands of dollars, but now many of them are finding their income cut in half and barely making a few dollars a day.
If you plan on making serious money with Adsense, you have to either have hundreds of small niche websites that make a few dollars a day or you need a big website that gets millions of page views every month. Some webmasters find it easier to concentrate on building smaller niche websites based on high paying keywords.
Here are some ways that you can instantly increase your Google Adsense income by implementing these strategies today.
1. Google Custom Search Engines
This is one thing that very few people are utilizing. With Google custom search engines you can create your own search engine on any subject and also customize which websites to crawl to bring back relevant results.
Let's say you have a website about dog training. You can create a custom search engine and specify which dog training websites you want it to search to bring back results from these sites. When the user clicks on any of the paid sponsor ads, you will get paid by Adsense. The great thing about this is that you are earning more money then regular Adsense clicks because the results are on the regular network and not the content network where people don't bid as much for inclusion.
When you start to use Google's custom search engines you will notice a much higher CTR and also more money being made by your clicks.
2. Start Your Own Article Directory
It's a fact that owning your own article directory is a great way to increase your Adsense earnings. Article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com earn thousands of dollars from Adsense becuase they are always being updated with fresh unique content from the authors that submit to them and have hundreds of thousands of pages indexed in Google.
Having your own article directory also lifts the burden of having to generate your own content which can be very time consuming. You can just sit back and have content created for you and collect Adsense revenue for yourself.
You can easily create your own article directory by downloading a number of scripts available that will let you setup your site to receive articles automatically from article distribution websites like Article Marketer and iSnare.
3. Custom Website Parking Pages
Instead of parking your unused domains at Sedo, try making your own custom parking page with your Adsense ads and content. All you have to do is create a simple page with an article based on the subject of your domain with a couple of images and place Adsense all over the page blended into the background.
Instead of earning pennies every click for your type-in traffic domains or expired domains you can earn money from the Adsense ads which will pay you 100% instead of giving a percentage away to the parking company.
Doing this will also get you organic search traffic from your content instead of having a parked page with nothing but sponsored links on it.
Discover how to create your own article directory using the power of the Wordpress blogging platform with EasyBlogsPro.
If you plan on making serious money with Adsense, you have to either have hundreds of small niche websites that make a few dollars a day or you need a big website that gets millions of page views every month. Some webmasters find it easier to concentrate on building smaller niche websites based on high paying keywords.
Here are some ways that you can instantly increase your Google Adsense income by implementing these strategies today.
1. Google Custom Search Engines
This is one thing that very few people are utilizing. With Google custom search engines you can create your own search engine on any subject and also customize which websites to crawl to bring back relevant results.
Let's say you have a website about dog training. You can create a custom search engine and specify which dog training websites you want it to search to bring back results from these sites. When the user clicks on any of the paid sponsor ads, you will get paid by Adsense. The great thing about this is that you are earning more money then regular Adsense clicks because the results are on the regular network and not the content network where people don't bid as much for inclusion.
When you start to use Google's custom search engines you will notice a much higher CTR and also more money being made by your clicks.
2. Start Your Own Article Directory
It's a fact that owning your own article directory is a great way to increase your Adsense earnings. Article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com earn thousands of dollars from Adsense becuase they are always being updated with fresh unique content from the authors that submit to them and have hundreds of thousands of pages indexed in Google.
Having your own article directory also lifts the burden of having to generate your own content which can be very time consuming. You can just sit back and have content created for you and collect Adsense revenue for yourself.
You can easily create your own article directory by downloading a number of scripts available that will let you setup your site to receive articles automatically from article distribution websites like Article Marketer and iSnare.
3. Custom Website Parking Pages
Instead of parking your unused domains at Sedo, try making your own custom parking page with your Adsense ads and content. All you have to do is create a simple page with an article based on the subject of your domain with a couple of images and place Adsense all over the page blended into the background.
Instead of earning pennies every click for your type-in traffic domains or expired domains you can earn money from the Adsense ads which will pay you 100% instead of giving a percentage away to the parking company.
Doing this will also get you organic search traffic from your content instead of having a parked page with nothing but sponsored links on it.
Discover how to create your own article directory using the power of the Wordpress blogging platform with EasyBlogsPro.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
New Licenses Available For 5 Minute Minisites
I came across this software the end of last year and purchased it when it was first released. I have to say that 5 Minute Minisites is probably one of the coolest and easiest self generating content website apps out there. It is not your usual scraped article RSS content generator, as a matter of fact it does not even use articles for it's content.
The name of it is no joke. You can literally put up a full website that is full of links and content in a matter of minutes. The 5 Minute Minisites software utilizes a technology that pulls feeds that are not used by most people to provide a self generating constantly updated website that has video feeds, photo feeds, blogs, news, related links, articles and auction feeds.
The process of creating a website is as simple as uploading a file to your server and then just inserting a keyword and the software will do the rest of the work by instantly pulling content from various sources and producing a full 8 page website translated into 8 different languages for a total of 64 pages from one keyword. You can then expand your website even more by adding more keywords and creating new pages on a subdomain or new directory.
If you have a lot of domains that are not developed yet and are just sitting around collecting pennies from being parked 5 Minute Minisites is a great way to monetize them and get some pages indexed fast. The templates are very nice and clean CSS Wordpress style templates with Adsense perfectly blended into each one. It also gives you the ability to insert your own custom banner on each page as well as a Commission Junction ID to collect commissions from eBay auction ads. You can also insert a custom message or paragraph, kind of like a blog post at the top of each page.
One of my favorite features is the site flippers license that is available right now for only a limited time. Using this you have the right to sell websites created with the software. You can very easily buy a domain for $10 and make a website with 64 pages of content instantly and turn around and flip for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
If you have a chance I would definitely check out this program before it goes off the market. I don't know if the licenses for it will be available forever. There are also some cool bonuses you can pick up like an international markets keyword research tool.
Click here to learn more about 5 Minute Minisites.
The name of it is no joke. You can literally put up a full website that is full of links and content in a matter of minutes. The 5 Minute Minisites software utilizes a technology that pulls feeds that are not used by most people to provide a self generating constantly updated website that has video feeds, photo feeds, blogs, news, related links, articles and auction feeds.
The process of creating a website is as simple as uploading a file to your server and then just inserting a keyword and the software will do the rest of the work by instantly pulling content from various sources and producing a full 8 page website translated into 8 different languages for a total of 64 pages from one keyword. You can then expand your website even more by adding more keywords and creating new pages on a subdomain or new directory.
If you have a lot of domains that are not developed yet and are just sitting around collecting pennies from being parked 5 Minute Minisites is a great way to monetize them and get some pages indexed fast. The templates are very nice and clean CSS Wordpress style templates with Adsense perfectly blended into each one. It also gives you the ability to insert your own custom banner on each page as well as a Commission Junction ID to collect commissions from eBay auction ads. You can also insert a custom message or paragraph, kind of like a blog post at the top of each page.
One of my favorite features is the site flippers license that is available right now for only a limited time. Using this you have the right to sell websites created with the software. You can very easily buy a domain for $10 and make a website with 64 pages of content instantly and turn around and flip for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
If you have a chance I would definitely check out this program before it goes off the market. I don't know if the licenses for it will be available forever. There are also some cool bonuses you can pick up like an international markets keyword research tool.
Click here to learn more about 5 Minute Minisites.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate Review
I do not write a lot of reviews about ebooks, but when I do you can be sure it is something that I have actually purchased myself and have read. Now I have spent a lot of money on crap that I could recommend to you, but why would I want to do this. You will just wind up being angry at wasting your money on rehashed information that will just leave you hanging and needing more and never trust my word again.
Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate by Chris Rempel is one exception to these guru affiliate marketing manuals that don't deliver on their promise.
What I don't like about most books on internet affiliate marketing is that they have no real blueprint or step-by-step system for implementing the techniques they tell you about. This leaves most people stranded and looking for more information and not having a plan of action to build their business from.
Now one thing that I can say that is negative about Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate is that the concept of it being for lazy people could be misleading to some people, but not if you follow some of the suggestions Chris gives in his book to outsource the steps freeing up your time to be more lazy.
This book is definitely not for someone with no experience. You will need some understanding of basic internet marketing and web design concepts to understand the blueprint in full which are not explained in the book. It is designed also show you how to make money without paid advertising for the marketer on a tight budget.
What Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate gets into is first starting off by finding a market with a large demand and lots of buyers. It is the exact opposite of what most guru's will tell you about finding small niche markets based around your passions.
This book takes you step-by-step from market research, building mini websites that are built for set and forget traffic and then eventually leading into your own product creation for future expansion of your income. It also touches on some extremely powerful viral traffic generation techniques utilizing shareware and freeware to submit to software directories that generate instant viral traffic and sales for your affiliate product.
Now if you want to truly be lazy, Chris explains how you can outsource most of the work involved in building and marketing the mini sites that can cost anywhere from $500-700 dollars each, but if done properly with a great market in demand, it can bring in thousands of dollars in residual income every year on autopilot.
What I really like about Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate is that nothing is mysterious on the sales page. You get exactly what you see. There is no guesswork as to what the methods are, no secrets and no hyped up talk about you making millions of dollars from some washed up internet marketing method that has been used by a million people. You probably know many of the methods already, but might not know exactly how to put them into action and make money with them.
The book is 62 pages long and priced at a very affordable $29.95 - I would have to say that there is more value in these pages then most $47 or $97 dollar books I have purchased that only tell you about one technique. Here you are getting five proven strategies for getting free traffic and a complete blueprint for building an empire of mini websites one at a time that pull in traffic that buys in a high demand market.
Click Here For Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate
Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate by Chris Rempel is one exception to these guru affiliate marketing manuals that don't deliver on their promise.
What I don't like about most books on internet affiliate marketing is that they have no real blueprint or step-by-step system for implementing the techniques they tell you about. This leaves most people stranded and looking for more information and not having a plan of action to build their business from.
Now one thing that I can say that is negative about Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate is that the concept of it being for lazy people could be misleading to some people, but not if you follow some of the suggestions Chris gives in his book to outsource the steps freeing up your time to be more lazy.
This book is definitely not for someone with no experience. You will need some understanding of basic internet marketing and web design concepts to understand the blueprint in full which are not explained in the book. It is designed also show you how to make money without paid advertising for the marketer on a tight budget.
What Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate gets into is first starting off by finding a market with a large demand and lots of buyers. It is the exact opposite of what most guru's will tell you about finding small niche markets based around your passions.
This book takes you step-by-step from market research, building mini websites that are built for set and forget traffic and then eventually leading into your own product creation for future expansion of your income. It also touches on some extremely powerful viral traffic generation techniques utilizing shareware and freeware to submit to software directories that generate instant viral traffic and sales for your affiliate product.
Now if you want to truly be lazy, Chris explains how you can outsource most of the work involved in building and marketing the mini sites that can cost anywhere from $500-700 dollars each, but if done properly with a great market in demand, it can bring in thousands of dollars in residual income every year on autopilot.
What I really like about Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate is that nothing is mysterious on the sales page. You get exactly what you see. There is no guesswork as to what the methods are, no secrets and no hyped up talk about you making millions of dollars from some washed up internet marketing method that has been used by a million people. You probably know many of the methods already, but might not know exactly how to put them into action and make money with them.
The book is 62 pages long and priced at a very affordable $29.95 - I would have to say that there is more value in these pages then most $47 or $97 dollar books I have purchased that only tell you about one technique. Here you are getting five proven strategies for getting free traffic and a complete blueprint for building an empire of mini websites one at a time that pull in traffic that buys in a high demand market.
Click Here For Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate
Saturday, February 9, 2008
3 Different Ways To Get High Quality Unique Content For Your Website Or Blog
One of the major challenges many marketers face when trying to build websites or establish a presence online if finding unique content for their websites or blog. Some of the downsides of using other authors articles are that you have to provide a link back to their websites which draw attention away from your site and many other people could be using the same article decreasing the chances of it getting a good position in the search engines.
This leaves us with the only option of creating our own unique content. We are going to discuss three different ways that you can get unique content for your website or blog and establish yourself as an authority in your niche over time.
1. Write It Yourself Or Hire A Ghostwriter
This is the way that most people do it and is the most time consuming depending on your writing skills. I have gotten to the point where I can write a 400-500 word article in as little as fifteen minutes.
If you decide to write it yourself to make the process go a lot smoother I would suggest you do some research at first so when it comes down to the actual writing process you will know exactly what to write about and not get stumped.
A simple way to do this is to do some basic keyword research and find the topic you are going to write on. After you have found your keyword you are going to need to search for the keyword in Google and find four to five related articles from different websites which you can use as a reference for what to write about. You want to make each paragraph revolve around one point and then add a introduction telling the readers what it is about and a conclusion summing it up. After you do this for awhile it becomes easier and you should be banging out articles like there is no tomorrow.
If you don't have the time or not confident enough to do this, there is always the option of hiring a ghostwriter. You can simply go to a website like elance.com or rentacoder.com and start looking for writers. You can writers that will make a 400-500 word article from anywhere from $3 - $15 an article.
You can also look around in online forums. There are always people advertising article writing services for cheap. Just make sure you always get a sample of someones work to make sure you are getting your moneys worth.
2. Private Label Rights Articles
The next option would be to buy or download free private label rights articles. This is kind of like hiring a ghostwriter, only the articles you have could also be owned by hundreds of other people also. With PLR articles you have the right to change the content in any way you want to.
The only downside to this is that you have to rewrite the articles if you are going to submit them to article directories. This is because all directories ban any uploading of PLR, so you have to make you version unique. You can do this by simply changing the title and rewriting the body of the article in your own words.
Alternatively you can also hire a freelancer to rewrite them for you or buy a article content spinner to come up with unique versions of them. Personally I find it faster to rewrite them myself then to use a content spinner. Most of them require a lot of setup and some don't work that good and only spit out stuff that does not make sense only to have you rewriting it in the end anyway.
3. Public Domain Works
The public domain is a huge source of untapped content that can be used in any way you want because there is no copyrights on the material. There are thousands and thousands of works in the public domain that can be picked up and repackaged under your name and sold or submitted as your work.
If you decide to go this route, you really need to do the proper copyright research and totally make sure that you are able to use the material. You can not only use it for articles and content, but you can also make reports and brand them with your affiliate links to distribute all over.
That's about it really for your options of getting quality unique content for your website or blog. If you are interested in my favorite article research tool check out Instant Article Wizard. This neat little program takes a lot of time out of article research and writing. It's about the closest thing you will ever own to a program that writes an article for you with the push of a button. Click here for more information on Instant Article Wizard.
This leaves us with the only option of creating our own unique content. We are going to discuss three different ways that you can get unique content for your website or blog and establish yourself as an authority in your niche over time.
1. Write It Yourself Or Hire A Ghostwriter
This is the way that most people do it and is the most time consuming depending on your writing skills. I have gotten to the point where I can write a 400-500 word article in as little as fifteen minutes.
If you decide to write it yourself to make the process go a lot smoother I would suggest you do some research at first so when it comes down to the actual writing process you will know exactly what to write about and not get stumped.
A simple way to do this is to do some basic keyword research and find the topic you are going to write on. After you have found your keyword you are going to need to search for the keyword in Google and find four to five related articles from different websites which you can use as a reference for what to write about. You want to make each paragraph revolve around one point and then add a introduction telling the readers what it is about and a conclusion summing it up. After you do this for awhile it becomes easier and you should be banging out articles like there is no tomorrow.
If you don't have the time or not confident enough to do this, there is always the option of hiring a ghostwriter. You can simply go to a website like elance.com or rentacoder.com and start looking for writers. You can writers that will make a 400-500 word article from anywhere from $3 - $15 an article.
You can also look around in online forums. There are always people advertising article writing services for cheap. Just make sure you always get a sample of someones work to make sure you are getting your moneys worth.
2. Private Label Rights Articles
The next option would be to buy or download free private label rights articles. This is kind of like hiring a ghostwriter, only the articles you have could also be owned by hundreds of other people also. With PLR articles you have the right to change the content in any way you want to.
The only downside to this is that you have to rewrite the articles if you are going to submit them to article directories. This is because all directories ban any uploading of PLR, so you have to make you version unique. You can do this by simply changing the title and rewriting the body of the article in your own words.
Alternatively you can also hire a freelancer to rewrite them for you or buy a article content spinner to come up with unique versions of them. Personally I find it faster to rewrite them myself then to use a content spinner. Most of them require a lot of setup and some don't work that good and only spit out stuff that does not make sense only to have you rewriting it in the end anyway.
3. Public Domain Works
The public domain is a huge source of untapped content that can be used in any way you want because there is no copyrights on the material. There are thousands and thousands of works in the public domain that can be picked up and repackaged under your name and sold or submitted as your work.
If you decide to go this route, you really need to do the proper copyright research and totally make sure that you are able to use the material. You can not only use it for articles and content, but you can also make reports and brand them with your affiliate links to distribute all over.
That's about it really for your options of getting quality unique content for your website or blog. If you are interested in my favorite article research tool check out Instant Article Wizard. This neat little program takes a lot of time out of article research and writing. It's about the closest thing you will ever own to a program that writes an article for you with the push of a button. Click here for more information on Instant Article Wizard.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Lower Your Taxes To The Legal Minimum With Home Business Tax Deductions
The tax season is coming up soon and if you own a home business or do Internet marketing, you may be unaware of the many tax deductions that are available to you when you operate a small business out of your home.
It is vital that you keep excellent records of all your activity if you plan on using your home business as a tax write off. Make sure to save all of your receipts for software, ISP charges, cell phone, marketing expenses, Adwords and other related expenses that your business costs.
Owning a home business can give you much more in tax savings compared to just having a regular job where there are only very few things you can do to save.
For instance you can use your car and track the mileage traveling back and forth between your home office and work and use that as a tax deduction. It is also possible to use a part of your home and deduct a percentage of your utilities that you use for your home office. You can even write off travel and dining expenses used for talking to clients and new prospects if you are involved with network marketing or Internet marketing.
The list is absolutely huge of all the things you can deduct from web hosting costs to outsourcing work for your business online.
There is even a way that you can take home more money from your regular job every week by doing a little trick that is totally legal and only works for people that own a home business. This one trick alone can show you a way to find extra money to operate your home business or Internet marketing business.
Click here for a complete guide to learning how to lower your taxes to the legal minimum with a home business and find that extra cash that you need desperately!
It is vital that you keep excellent records of all your activity if you plan on using your home business as a tax write off. Make sure to save all of your receipts for software, ISP charges, cell phone, marketing expenses, Adwords and other related expenses that your business costs.
Owning a home business can give you much more in tax savings compared to just having a regular job where there are only very few things you can do to save.
For instance you can use your car and track the mileage traveling back and forth between your home office and work and use that as a tax deduction. It is also possible to use a part of your home and deduct a percentage of your utilities that you use for your home office. You can even write off travel and dining expenses used for talking to clients and new prospects if you are involved with network marketing or Internet marketing.
The list is absolutely huge of all the things you can deduct from web hosting costs to outsourcing work for your business online.
There is even a way that you can take home more money from your regular job every week by doing a little trick that is totally legal and only works for people that own a home business. This one trick alone can show you a way to find extra money to operate your home business or Internet marketing business.
Click here for a complete guide to learning how to lower your taxes to the legal minimum with a home business and find that extra cash that you need desperately!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Planning Out Your Basic SEO Strategy With Keyword Research, Content And Links
Search Engine Optimization is one of the most talked about topics online these days. Every webmaster is looking to crack the secret code that will land their website in Google top 10. It seems like there exist many experts who know some kind of secret seo strategy, but does one really exist?
Back in the day it was really simple to rank for competitive keywords when black hat and spam techniques still work like stuffing tags and keywords into web pages and feeding spiders cloaked pages with junk content only to push the real page to the visitor the way you wanted them to see it.
Planning your seo strategy is not as hard as you may think.
It is really not necessary to hire someone to do it for you. Many of these simple techniques can be done in a couple of minutes and will have you getting organic search traffic in a couple of months or even weeks.
Here is a list of some basic things you can do to start optimizing your website or blog for the search engines.
1. Keyword Research
This is where you begin your journey. Every search engine needs to find relevant content on web pages and you will begin by deciding which word is going to be used to base the content of the page around.
It is best to try and target three to four phrase keywords at first. They are easier to rank for and have less competition. They also tend to be people who are looking more to buy and not doing research with a one or two word phrase.
Here is a really cool free keyword research tool that I use daily at SEO Book:
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php
Play around with it a little bit and see how many times people are searching for something. Find a keyword in your niche that gets a couple of hundred hits a day.
2. Content Building
When you have found the keyword you want to rank for it's now ready to build your web page. Don't worry about having to write a page for every keyword. Just one keyword optimized page can bring in traffic from different variations of the original keyword also.
The only meta tags that you need to worry about in your page is the title, keywords and description tags. I think sometimes that all search engines care about is the title of the page and description since these are what shows up in the results.
Your title should be clever and have a call to action in it. It is important because this is what visitors will see when they search for your keyword. If you just name it a boring keyword it will not get as many click throughs as a call to action headline. The same applies to writing the description. Remember your keyword will show up bold in the result pages, so try to use it more then once for extra attention.
Finish building your web page or blog post now by adding the content and placing your keyword naturally in the body copy, but don't over use it.
3. Link Building
This is the final phase of your basic seo strategy. In this part you just want to build links back to your web page or blog post using the keyword and variations of it in the anchor text.
There are many places where you can get free back links to your page like Digg, Craigslist, MySpace, Facebook, directories, forums and blogs. Start off by writing an article and blasting it out to a couple of article directories like ezinearticles.com which has a high page rank and will get you indexed quickly.
Content and links bring natural search engine traffic it is that simple. Sometimes you do not even need links and can make a blog post and have it start to rank in a couple of weeks.
Good keyword research combined with content and links is your basic seo strategy that you can start today and get results with.
If you want to learn more about seo I highly suggest you check out SEO Book. Buy it once and get free updates for life every time there are major changes in the seo world. It's recommended and used by college professors in MBA level courses around the world. Click here for the #1 ranked SEO Book and the only current SEO book in the world.
Back in the day it was really simple to rank for competitive keywords when black hat and spam techniques still work like stuffing tags and keywords into web pages and feeding spiders cloaked pages with junk content only to push the real page to the visitor the way you wanted them to see it.
Planning your seo strategy is not as hard as you may think.
It is really not necessary to hire someone to do it for you. Many of these simple techniques can be done in a couple of minutes and will have you getting organic search traffic in a couple of months or even weeks.
Here is a list of some basic things you can do to start optimizing your website or blog for the search engines.
1. Keyword Research
This is where you begin your journey. Every search engine needs to find relevant content on web pages and you will begin by deciding which word is going to be used to base the content of the page around.
It is best to try and target three to four phrase keywords at first. They are easier to rank for and have less competition. They also tend to be people who are looking more to buy and not doing research with a one or two word phrase.
Here is a really cool free keyword research tool that I use daily at SEO Book:
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php
Play around with it a little bit and see how many times people are searching for something. Find a keyword in your niche that gets a couple of hundred hits a day.
2. Content Building
When you have found the keyword you want to rank for it's now ready to build your web page. Don't worry about having to write a page for every keyword. Just one keyword optimized page can bring in traffic from different variations of the original keyword also.
The only meta tags that you need to worry about in your page is the title, keywords and description tags. I think sometimes that all search engines care about is the title of the page and description since these are what shows up in the results.
Your title should be clever and have a call to action in it. It is important because this is what visitors will see when they search for your keyword. If you just name it a boring keyword it will not get as many click throughs as a call to action headline. The same applies to writing the description. Remember your keyword will show up bold in the result pages, so try to use it more then once for extra attention.
Finish building your web page or blog post now by adding the content and placing your keyword naturally in the body copy, but don't over use it.
3. Link Building
This is the final phase of your basic seo strategy. In this part you just want to build links back to your web page or blog post using the keyword and variations of it in the anchor text.
There are many places where you can get free back links to your page like Digg, Craigslist, MySpace, Facebook, directories, forums and blogs. Start off by writing an article and blasting it out to a couple of article directories like ezinearticles.com which has a high page rank and will get you indexed quickly.
Content and links bring natural search engine traffic it is that simple. Sometimes you do not even need links and can make a blog post and have it start to rank in a couple of weeks.
Good keyword research combined with content and links is your basic seo strategy that you can start today and get results with.
If you want to learn more about seo I highly suggest you check out SEO Book. Buy it once and get free updates for life every time there are major changes in the seo world. It's recommended and used by college professors in MBA level courses around the world. Click here for the #1 ranked SEO Book and the only current SEO book in the world.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
