Here is a quick checklist of tools I like to use in the early stages of my keyphrase research—long before I start strategizing:
KeywordDiscovery.com or the Google Term Suggestion tool These are fairly well-known tools available online that let you dig even deeper into KPR data, showing you what keywords people have used to find your site. With these, you can learn how many people are searching for a certain phrase, how many other websites are competing for that keyphrase, and you’ll also uncover word and phrase variations that you might not have thought up on your own.
Website analytic tools (like ClickTracks or Google Analytics) Data that comes directly from an existing site gives you an easy to read glimpse into how folks have been finding current pages. It gives you data to show which keywords and phrases visitors were using to find particular pages. It tells you how long visitors stayed on that page (giving you an indication on whether or not they read the page). And it also tells you which pages visitors were leaving (which can give you an idea on what pages might need more copywriting clean-up).
Sleuthing and Scoping This method is a little old-fashioned and more labor-intensive. But it works! So stick with what works, right? Scouring the Internet to see what the competition is doing (what they’re doing right and wrong) is always useful information. Keyphrase research doesn’t mean you have to reinvent the wheel. If your competition is successful, find out how they’re getting those coveted top rankings. With that information you can build your own strategy to ethically bump ‘em down, leaving room for you (or your client). KeywordDiscovery.com also has a Density tool that lets you check the keyphrase density of any site—including competitors.
Quick Insider’s Tip: When you right click on a web page and highlight "view source," a notepad file will open up showing the page's HTML code. That’s where you'll find the keywords tag, which looks like this: < "meta name="keywords" content="insert keyphrases here, and here, and here.">
Allow visitor of your site will be able to bookmark favorite posts on sites like delicious,del.icio.us, digg, furl, spurl, etc. It will make higher page rank. This is only for blogger in beta user. Go to your blogger account, click on Layout link of blog, choose Edit HTML..
Search for following codes : Once you find above code, copy the following code below and paste it: You can put your social bookmarking site below <!– Add Bookmarking Code Here–>
This are some social bookmarking site that you can add : stumbleupon digg Del.icio.us Indianpad Rojo Diigo Furl
Many sites contain a page with links to other related resources. Generally, a description of each site is not provided, unless the visitor hovers over the TITLE attribute of the ANCHOR tag. The descriptions could be shown on the page, along with the links, but that would make it too cumbersome. This script will show and hide the link's title information right on the page. It could be used in a site map or dynamic menu as well. Example :
This simple tweak can increase your traffic from search engines . Most of the templates you find will display your blog title on the browsers title bar also . This won't attract your blog visitors . So how to change your blog title to post title ? In search results if your blog is featured , still it will the results as "Blog title + Post Title " . Lets see How to make this.... For classic blogger template users :
Sign in to blogger Dashboard --> Template --> Edit HTML
Find <title> <$BlogTitle$> </title>
and replace it with
For new widget based XML template users :
Go to Blogger ---> Template --> Edit HTML
Find <title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
Replace the above with
This simple trick will help you get more visitors from search engines .Try this . It really works . [+/-] show/hide this post
A blockquote is an element which defines a block quotation within the text. They should essentially be used to show the quotations of another person which is related to your post content. Generally they are used to signify important text by drawing the viewer's eye to a separate block of text.
In the standard (Minima) blogger template a blockquote is defined by the following CSS code :
To make it look better modify the above code as below :
You can change the border color by changing this line :
In order to SEO your site, you have to know HTML, because it requires editing your meta tags. Meta tags are a useful tool but some guidelines should be adhered to before you put them on all your pages.
-Do not repeat words - some search engines treat this as spamming -Ensure you have focused your keywords to reflect your pages and try to limit your keyword to seven words -Always place your META tag above the SSI comment
Inserting META tags
The best way to insert a META tag is directly into the HTML code. The META tags should always be inserted within the <HEAD> tag. Place your cursor between the <HEAD></HEAD> tag. The most suitable place will be after the <TITLE></TITLE> tags.
Firstly insert the desrcription tag :
Then the keyword tag :
After yo've done all of that, you can check your worked at :
In order to check pagerank of a single web site, web page or a domain name, please enter the web site, web page URL or domain name in the form below and click "Check PR" button:
Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:
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For submitting your site on google, after your domain submitted through www.google.com/addurl.html, create sitemaps.xml.
How to : -Open your notepad.exe and copy from below : -Change the word "4moneyclicks.blogspot.com" with "www.yourdomain.com", then -Save it with name "sitemaps.xml "
Upload this file to server in this root directory.
Just to be cautious, we can find some website that offers us to be able to put our site at #1 ranking on google, beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through google Add URL page or through the Google Sitemaps program, and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever.
Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. Choose wisely if you want to use their programs.
Its been on the news Thursday, August 12, 2004 at seattletimes.com : "Internet Advancement told to refund clients "Internet advancement must pay penalties for failing to get its customers top placement on major search engines. [+/-] show/hide this post
Below are listed the major US search engines in no particular order. Search engines do not like automated submission, so think twice before buying search engine submission software.
Following the links below and submitting takes only a few minutes. You have peace of mind and can see the confirmation pages yourself.
Main optimization criteria : Title, link popularity, keyword density, meta description, keyword prominence, alt attribute, keyword in domain / file name.
Main optimization criteria : Title, theming, link popularity, keyword density, meta description, keyword prominence, alt attribute, keyword in domain / file name.
Main optimization criteria : Title, link popularity, keyword density, meta description, keyword prominence, alt attribute, keyword in domain / file name.
Main optimization criteria : Title, link popularity, keyword density, meta keyword, meta description, keyword prominence, alt attribute, keyword in domain / file name.
Main optimization criteria : Title, link popularity, keyword density, meta keyword, meta description, keyword prominence, alt attribute, keyword in domain / file name. [+/-] show/hide this post
Put this Javascript in the header of my template, as per the Help article
Put these two styles in stylesheet, again from the article:
Now, instead of adding the rest of it to the template, just add the rest to each post, in the HTML edit:
The disadvantage is you have to remember to add those bits to any article you want to have hidden text... the advantage is that you only have to add it to those you want to have hidden text! You also have to make up an article ID, and ensure it's different for each article you write. [+/-] show/hide this post
With this trick, you can choose to display an arbitrary amount of text from the beginning of each post, as a teaser for the whole thing. Then users who want to read the rest of the post can click a link to see the full text. This is handy if you have lots of long articles all on one page. Note that you'll need to have post pages enabled in order to make this feature work.
There are three ingredients that go into this feature: conditional CSS, a "read more" link for each post, and a modification for the posts that use this feature. So let's go through it step by step.
Conditional CSS
We're going to use conditional tags to change how posts display on different pages. Add the following code to your style sheet, depending on what kind of template you have:
(for classic templates)
(for layouts)
Your style sheet is usually near the top of your template, between the <style> and </style> tags. If you have your style sheet in a separate file, you'll still need to add these lines in your template, so the conditional tags will work. Just make sure you add in the <style> tags around them.
What we did here was to define a class called "fullpost" that will appear only on post pages (permalinks). Part of each post will use this class, as we'll see later.
"Read More" Links
Add the following code to your template, somewhere after the
<$BlogItemBody$> or <data:post.body/> tag:
(for classic templates)
(for layouts)
This link will only appear on the main page and archive pages, and it will redirect your reader to the post page containing the full text of your post. You can replace the "Read more!" text with whatever you like, of course.
Post Modifications
The final piece that we need is a little bit of code in your actual post. Each post that you want to use this feature on will need this code:
This part can actually go in the post template, if you don't want to have to type it for each post. You'll enter the summary text outside the span tags and the remainder inside, like so:
Now, when a reader visits your blog, this post will appear like this:
When they click the link, they'll go to the post page where they'll see the whole thing:
Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.
Notes:
As with any template modifications, you should be sure to save a backup copy of your template before you start. Just copy and paste all your code to a text file on your hard drive, so you'll have it there as a replacement in case anything goes wrong.
An alternative to creating post excerpts like this is to use the show/hide method on entire posts. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages to this method: Customizable summaries, rather than titles only. Can be applied to some posts and not others (for instance, you might only want this for your longer posts).
Disadvantages: Requires changes to the posts themselves, rather than to the template only. However, the "read more" link is in the template, so it will appear regardless of whether a post has been truncated or not. (Modifying this feature is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Post templates help users save time by pre-formatting the post editor. Some users like their posts to be formatted in a certain way; here's an example where the user links to an article on the first line, then quotes it below:
The Minima template is the easiest Blogger template to customise, as this is the simplest two column template, and has few parameters regarding margins, padding and the like. Once you have developed the third column, it will then be easier to alter font-size, colours and such so leave this until later on. We're going to concentrate on the actual layout first.
First of all, set your template to Minima (not the stretch template, but any colour will do!), then follow these instructions:
Go to Template>Edit HTML, leaving the "Expand widget templates" box unchecked.
Now, find this section in the HTML code:
#sidebar-wrapper { width: 220px; float: right; word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */ overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */ }
Copy this entire section, and paste it directly below. We're going to change the elements I've highlighted in red to the following:
#left-sidebar-wrapper (this makes the css for this section unique) float: left (this will make the new sidebar float to the left of the main column)
This will provide the styling for the new sidebar element which we will create next.
Now, you need to find this section further down the page:
Immedietly before this section, you should paste the following piece of code:
Let me explain the elements of this code to help you understand what we've just done:
This section tells the browser that the left-sidebar element exists here, and to look in the css for the appropriate styling for this element.
This tells the browser the class of the sidebar element and all other elements (widgets) which may be included in this section. The ID of this element must be "left-sidebar" in order to make it unique, otherwie this would cause problems when viewing. It is preferred so that it will feature in the layout, even if no widgets are placed within it.
If you preview your template, you will notice that the right sidebar will be beneath the main section at the moment. This is because the outer-wrapper is still only wide enough to accomodate one sidebar. So now we need to expand the oputer wrapper to accomodate this new sidebar. Find this section in the HTML code:
We need to increase the width of the wrapper by the width of the left-sidebar-wrapper, in this case 220px. So, change the value in red to 880px.
You may also want to change the width of the header-wrapper to 880px so that it spans the new width of your blog:
#header-wrapper { width:880px; margin:0 auto 10px; border:1px solid $bordercolor; }
At this point, you should save your template. At present, your new sidebar will not be seen as there are no widgets contained within it, though it will still be present in the markup of the page. Once you have saved your template, go to Template>Page elements in your Blogger dashboard.
Your layouts section should now look something like this: You can now add a page element (or two) to your new left sidebar.
But we aren't quite finished yet! If you add anything to this left sidebar, you will probably notice that it jams right up to the main section, like this: This is because there is no space defined between the left-sidebar and the main section. We need to create this space in the template's HTML. To do this, we will add a margin to the left hand side of the main posts section. Find the following code in your template's HTML and add the code defined in red:
#main-wrapper { width: 410px; float: left; margin-left: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */ overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */ }
This defines a margin space of 20px between the left-sidebar and the main column. You should also ensure you adjust thw width of the outer-wrapper from 880px to 900px to ensure the width of your blog is enough to accomodate this margin too. Either that, or you could reduce the width of your main column/a sidebar by 20px to serve the same purpose. Now, your previewed template should look more like this:
Finally, save your template and enjoy your new sidebar!
The same principles described here can help you create a three column template from any Blogger template, though you may find that you'll need to adjust the width, margins and padding for your new sidebar in order for it to look the way you would like.
Also, you can configure your new sidebar to float to the right, and have two sidebars on the right of the main column if you prefer. Simply set the CSS of your new sidebar to float: right; instead.
Written by bloggerbuster on Jul-17-07 4:01am/16/2007 21:01 GMT
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It could be useless if you make a site or blog with a great AdSense format but you have just a few people to look at it. Make an online promotion, you can find it here at :Search engine : my advices is dont use software that can make a submit to thousand of search engines, submit manually your Adsense URL to :
Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic.
So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful internet based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company's internal organization well taken core of, it would be time to get to the nitty gritty of things, generating traffic.
If you already have a site and you want think that you're not getting the traffic that you're supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are contending in these very competitive business, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.
Timing is essential, that's an old adage known to everyone. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for making your site traffic laden, it should always have been yesterday.
To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are some seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting from yesterday.
1) Invest in good advertising with search engines. Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic would cost some money. While some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so because Adwords and Overture is the top surefire way to increase your traffic.
You could see for yourself the success this search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of site feature these advertising system and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo's advertising.
2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites. With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.
3) Use Viral Marketing. Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company's name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.
4) Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content. Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.
5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site. Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link.
6) Join forums and form online communities. Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass on to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.
7) Lastly, Offer newsletters. If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you with your traffic.
About the Author : Nick Angeli is a professional internet marketer who specializes in teaching others how to be successful with internet marketing. If you want to get in touch with Nick or learn more about network marketing success please visit: MyHomeBizLife.com [+/-] show/hide this post
Choosing the right domain name for your company is extremely important, regardless of how you drive traffic to your website (ex. Adwords, SEO, article marketing, etc.).
Many people settle with just one domain name, without realizing that your domain is one of the few things that your competitors can't copy from you. This is why I always recommend to buy multiple domain names, so that they are no longer available on the market. Buying a domain used to be expensive, but nowadays you can get a .com domain for a few bucks a year.
Before you buy a domain, consider how you customers will search for you on the internet. Unless they already know you, they won't search for your company name. They are going to look for the solution to a problem they have. If they are afraid of speaking in public, they could search for "speaking in public", "learn how to speak in public", etc. Why not buying a domain such as speakinginpublic.com or learntospeakinpublic.com?
Having your main keywords (those that people use when searching for your products or services) in your domain is important if you use Adwords but also if you rely on free traffic from the natural search results. And here is why...
Buying and using a keyword-rich domain name in Adwords is a great strategy for three main reasons. First of all, the domain name is the only part of your ad that your competitors can't copy. Secondly, if the user searched for any of the keywords contained in your domain name, those are going to be displayed in bold: this makes your ad stand out from the crowd.
And last but not least, having a keyword-rich domain usually increases your Click-Through Rate: you are going to get more traffic to your website and be charged less for each click, because Google rewards you for having achieved a higher CTR.
If you are doing Search Engine Optimization, you must buy a domain that contains your main keyword. This is in fact one of the various factors that can influence your ranking in the natural search results.
Since domains are so cheap, you can even decide to buy one when you are advertising in any kind of media, both online and offline. Why? Because by using a unique domain name that redirects to your main site, you can track exactly how much traffic was generated by that ad. And you can tailor that domain name to the main topic of your advertisement.
If you have an online store and you want to promote LED lamps, you can buy ledlamps.com and use that domain in your ads.
So how do you know if the domain you want is still available? You go to http://www.namecheap.com, type your domain name, make sure ".com" is selected and click on Search.
Do you need to buy your domain from your hosting company? No, you can buy it at namecheap.com and then modify the DNS settings to point it to your hosting company servers. Does this sound too technical for you? Don't worry, I recorded a step-by-step video tutorial that teaches you how to do just that. Click on the link you see at the end of this article.
What if the domain you want is not available? In that case, the first thing I would do is to look for the singular/plural alternative. If bluewidgets.com is taken, maybe bluewidget.com is still available. Another strategy is to separate the words in your domain with a dash: blue-widgets.com. Still no luck? Try using extra words in front of or at the end of your main keywords: cheap-blue-widgets.com, blue-widgets-direct.com.
Even though I recommend you to always get the .com extension, if all the strategies above produce no results, you can still go for a .net or .biz domain.
Now that you know how easy it is to buy a new domain but also how important it is to have the right domain for your market, you have no excuse for not starting your domains portfolio today!
There are several facets that are crucial to having success with internet marketing, but generating web site traffic is among the top. Without traffic coming to your web site or program, it is virtually impossible to have success. It is traffic that leads to sales and sales lead to income. Here are 5 tips to generating free web site traffic.
1. Be where the people are
In order to get traffic you have to go out and find them. Although it may come as a surprise, just because you have a web site does not mean anybody knows about it. Therefore, take the time to market your web site extensively through writing articles, posting in forums, and creating an autoresponder.
2. Optimize your target market
When it comes to getting traffic from search engines, search engines are looking for pages that suit your audience's needs and answers their questions. As soon as you find out who your target market is, you will have people coming to your site that are actually interested. This will make it easier to turn the traffic into business as well.
3. Create a blog
Having a blog that is connected with your web site is a great way to generate free web site traffic. It allows you to be more personal and interactive with people while also allowing you to promote your business and various products. By connecting with people and building relationships you will quickly become respected. This makes it much easier to get traffic to your site as well as generate income.
4. Link trading
Although this method has been around for quite some time, link trading remains a great way to get traffic to your site. Link trading involves you exchanging your web site link for someone else's. By putting their link on your site, they are agreeing to put your link on their site. Then when people go to their site and see your link, you have an opportunity of getting visitors to your site.
5. Back links
Link trading is one way you can get back links to your site. The more back links you have pointing to your site, the better chance people have of getting to your site and the better your search engine rankings will be. Other methods of getting back links include writing articles, creating your own blog, or giving out free e-books for people to promote.
Web site traffic is an essential piece to having success with internet marketing. The more methods you use to create traffic the better chance you have of actually increasing your traffic volume. These are just a few of the many ways you can get free web site traffic.
About Daniel Trainor Dr. Daniel Trainor is an established internet marketer and mentor who has helped many people learn to make money online. To find out how he can help you, go to Liberty League International [+/-] show/hide this post
1. Make your own web site. -Focus the Website with Relevant Content. -Use a small but descriptive title tag -Use the heading tags to define your paragraph in page -Avoid using Scripting techniques to define your content -Keep your backlink ratio high. 2. Tips to give name for blog posts titles -Make sure all keywords comes earlier! -Try to minimize use of junk words like of, are, hurry, surprise, important, read-this, etc atleast in first 30-40 characters. -Enable Post Pages which give each of your posts their own unique web page, in addition to appearing on your blog’s front page. (For Blogspot Blogger, Go to Settings >> Archiving >> Enable Post Pages and select “YES”) -Try to use maximum available length of blogs posts titles (normally upto 100 characters) 3. Marketing the Website Submitting to search engines is only the first step toward a strong Internet Marketing campaign – it should never be the full focus. There are several ways to market a website. - search engine optimization - Pay Per Click - Search Engine Submission - Generating Inbound Links and increasing Page Rank - Building Content - Adding Social Networking Tools such as forums
4. Make your site more optimizied in search engines, with the help of keywords. Analyze your site and think of a generic word that best fits for your web site. Choosing the right keywords is a strategy for better search engine positioning http://www.searchengines.com/placement.html. There are lots of keyword tools like http://inventory.overture.com.
5. Submit your website in most popular search engines, like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista and Ask.com. Search engines take some time to index your website. Especially google take a little bit extra time.
6. Put your site in Web Directories. Try to find those directories that have good PR( Pagerank from 0-10) like PR 3+ and if your site is indexed in that directory, your PR will increase.
7. Build a sitemap for your website and submit it to google sitemaps. You can search on google for sitemap tools and you will get a lot of free online tools, which can create xml sitemap of your website.
8. Exchange your website link to other website owners. They will have yours and you will have theirs. This will also give you some traffic.
9. Keep your website up to date.
10. Add social bookmarks submission links on your articles pages and let your visitors to bookmark this article on their favorite social bookmarking site. here are a lot of social bookmarking websites on the net, but the most important are below : Del.icio.us : This is the most popular social bookmarking website. Usually it contains the latest news pages links published from different peoples. Digg.com : this come popular after del.icio.us, a huge number of people daily browse this website for latest stories. If you publish your story here, you can have visitors for your story page. Blinklist Rededit
