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Setting Up WordPress Permalinks to Maximize Search Engine Rankings

2008 July 22
by gadmin

WordPress has become one of the most popular content management systems and blogging platforms for many people in today’s connected world, rivaled only by Typepad (another content management system) because of Typepad’s mobile blogging capabilities.

Among the features that make WordPress so popular are the simple interface and secure environment, but when it comes to making money with your WordPress blog you are going to want to rely on plugins and additions in order to maximize traffic, search engine rankings and revenue potential.

What you are going to learn in this article is the concept of a permalink as it relates to your WordPress blog, as well as how you can tweak this feature in order to gain more control over the way your page address is displayed, the way that a search engine spider will rank each individual page, and even how you can use keywords properly in order to serve the highest paying contextual ads (using Google’s Adsense program for example).

First, what is a permalink? Well it is just like it sounds, it is a permanent link to a post on your blog. In order to understand the concept behind permalinks it is important to understand exactly what a CMS does and why this can be so much easier than running a traditional HTML website.

In a nutshell, the purpose behind a content management system (CMS) is to completely separate the content from the page layout, as well as to provide a simple interface where it is easy to add new content. It is also important to note that the structure of a blog is different than a traditional HTML site; whereas in traditional sites new content will be added via ‘deep linking,’ new content on a blog shows up directly on the front page. This is why permalinks are important, because your post will show up on the front page of your blog only temporarily and it needs to have a permanent link as well.

There are many different criteria that you can use when setting up your permalink structure, and this is where search engine optimization and relevant high-paying Adsense ads come in to the picture. One of the biggest factors in search engine algorithms and contextual ad serving technology is filenames, and so it is important to create a permalink structure for your WordPress blog that will include relevant keywords that are prechosen for your title.

The default permalink structure (depending on your version of WordPress) will either be simply numbering each post sequentially or it will be the date of the post. This does not tell a search engine spider any relevant information about your post, and as such your pages will usually rank lower in any type of hypertext-based search engine.

What you need to do to make your WordPress posts search engine friendly is to make your permalinks display the post title and possibly category title, and then choose post and category titles that include keywords relevant to your topic. You can optimize your pages for higher paying Adsense ads by determining which keywords pay out the most per click and then using those keywords in your post and category titles.

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SEO 101: Understanding Search Engine Optimization

2008 July 22
by gadmin

For success on the web, you have to have a clear understanding of search engine optimization, or SEO, and how you can put it to work for your website. Search Engine Optimization is rather simple, and is one way to bring targeted and plentiful traffic to your website. This method does take time, but will definitely help you bring your website the traffic and success you want to see.

The first concept that must be understood is how search engines rank their pages. Pages are ranked according to their relevancy in relation to the specific keywords that are used when people search for information. The more backlinks, or links that a site has from similar sites that lead back to it, the better the site will rank. Additionally, the more relevant and useful the information on the site is, the higher it will rank for those specific keywords. The power behind SEO is in making sure your articles include the right amount of appropriate keyword usage and carefully crafted tag boxes and letting the readers do the rest, plain and simple.

When web-surfers search the Internet, they are not usually interested in those pages whose rank number is in the hundreds. In reality, they are probably not even going to make it past the first few pages, leaving those other sites in the dust. The idea behind SEO is that through search engine optimization, you can move your site up the ranks with fresh, keyword-filled content that will attract the targeted traffic pouring out of search engines. This is so powerful for your the success of your site because, in turn, the more traffic you generate, the higher you will be ranked in the listings.

Secondly, keywords that are used frequently are going to have a lot of competition. Due to the enormous number of websites on the Internet, searching bland keywords and keyword phrases, like wine or red wine, will invariably result in hundreds of thousands of results. When you are targeting your site for a keyword, you must choose a path of least resistance- something that is specific enough to encompass your article but not too complicated to lose searches. The key here is determining which keywords are popular, but not highly competitive. This allows you to find the comfortable medium between keyword phrases that are over competitive and those that are not that profitable, allowing for maximum click-through.

Finally, you will want to begin by choosing keywords or keyword phrases that are easy for you to compete for. You will then want to build pages that are based around these keywords and that will receive traffic, but have less competition. As you produce these sites, you will want to begin building up pages that reach higher, more competitive keywords. Eventually, you will be building a ladder that allows you to exchange links with relevant sites and then use their keywords as an anchor in your sites. Simple, yet effective, SEO is the best technique to generate organic search engine traffic and money in your pocket.

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Parts of a Search Engine and Your Internet Marketing Company

2008 July 22
by gadmin

One of the first things that you should do if you are thinking about launching an internet marketing company is research. Researching the field you are going into is the most crucial part of building a successful business. Developing a successful and profitable internet marketing company can be difficult, but if you take the necessary steps it is definitely something that you can do.

The thing that will be your best friend in building an internet marketing company is a search engine, which is why it is so important to understand the different parts of it. There are many different ways to organize content on the web, but every search engine has the same basic parts: a crawler, and index, and a search interface. A crawler or a spider is exactly what its name implies; it scours the web by following links, updating pages, and even adding new pages when it sees them or comes across them.

You will learn that every search engine has certain periods for deep crawling and other periods for shallow crawling. Each engine has an internal mechanism that works like a scheduler by preventing a spider from overloading servers and it tells them which documents to crawl next and how often to do it. You can compare this to an assistant or a daily planner because ultimately, it has the same basic functions; it tells you what to do and when to do it.

Any documents that change quickly or ones that are very important are the ones that are most likely to get crawled very often. How often something is crawled does not have too much to do with the search relevancy, but it does help to keep only fresh content in the index of search engines.

The index of s search engine is where all the data is stored that the spider collects. For instance, when you type in something and click search in the engine, you are not actually searching the web, but rather the cache of the web that is provided by the index of that particular search engine. Almost all search engines organize their content is something that is called a reverse index. The job of the reverse index is to sort all of the documents by words. So, this means that when you search something on Yahoo or Google and it returns 154,000 results, that means that is the approximate number of pages on the web that contain the words you searched for or have inbound links containing the words.

This is just a brief introduction into the parts of the search engine, but it is definitely a step in the right direction in preparation for building a successful internet marketing company.

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Google AdSense: Where to Place Ads on Your Web Pages and a Profile of Bloggerparty

2008 July 22
by gadmin

Deciding where to place your Google ads on your web pages so that they will be most profitable, this is one of the best parts of the whole Google AdSense experience. No one else gets to make this decision except you. It’s your page. You get to decide how many (up to 3 ads per page), what colours and shapes you will use and on what part of the page the ad will be placed. Should you place your ads at the top or bottom, in the middle of the text, to the left or right?

The most important decision should be based on the needs of the visitors to your site? What are they looking for? Are they there to read or merely to browse? If they are there to read an entire article, say, you might try placing your ads at the bottom of the page so they will have something to do next. Some publishers swear by placing the ads at the top left of the page because they think customers look there first.

The fun thing is experimenting with all the possibilities. Try different ad locations and different colours for a week and note the differences in your reports. When you hit on something successful, you’ll see the difference.

Profile of bloggerparty for those who may want to use it for Google ads

Blogger party is another blog hosting website where you can make money with Google AdSense. You create an account and use the publisher id you got when you created your account. If you have not done that yet, that is the first step to making money with your blogs.

At bloggerparty, targeted Google ads will be displayed on your blog pages. Fifty percent of that time, the ads will have your Google publishers ID and the other fifty percent of the time they will have blogger party’s AdSense ID or split between them and the person who referred you. That’s right; referrals get 25% of the ad time, which comes out of blogger party’s share and not the original blogger’s or the referrals.

Blogger party promises ‘party points’ any time you write something or comment on someone else’s blog. They don’t do anything as yet, but later you will be able to trade them in for prizes according to blogger party’s admin.

Why do I need Google AdSense?

Because it’s there, it’s fun and it’s free. If you’re reading this, you obviously have some interest in the internet. You don’t even have to have your own site, although the more sites you use ads on, the more money you will make. For example, anyone can write a blog even if it’s just your own opinion on something.

You can also make money referring other people. By placing a referral button on your site you increase your earnings potential. When a publisher that you referred makes their initial $100.00 within 90 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, your account will also be credited $100.00. Additionally, they must never have registered for an AdSense account before.

Don’t be intimidated by the html code. It’s already formatted. All you have to do is choose the language and kind of button you would like, and copy and paste the html code to your site. Look for the referral code and more information under support.

Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Free Affiliate Programs

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The Importance Of Time In Search Engine Optimisation

2008 July 22
by gadmin

Undoubtedly if you are in business you will have heard the term search engine optimisation being bandied around. For those embarking on an online business strategy the optimisation of your website is a vital constituent to achieving success. For the uneducated it is important to recognise that SEO and search engine optimisation are one in the same. Understanding this however does not make you an expert, while you may know that optimisation will eventually lead to success, understanding the process is a different matter all together. Ultimately you want to use SEO to improve your natural search engine rankings.

Fundamentally search engine optimisation will include using keywords in your website that the search engines will like. Your keywords let the search engine know what your website is about and hence should be relevant to the information contained on your page. It is not just the on page information however that needs attention when optimising. Another vital part of the process is to build links to your website, this will improve the natural rankings as search engines place emphasis on the number of links that a site has.

These two elements; on and off page are the two used in the world of optimisation. Understanding them can be difficult, but with basic knowledge it is possible to apply yourself and improve your rankings. Generally more rankings means more traffic to your site and hence, greater business as more people are visiting your site.

On page optimisation involves using the keywords you have selected in your content. It is important to construct your content in a way that it is quality; illegible content simply packed full of keywords will look spammy to search engines. This process is however ongoing, content should be updated regularly, always including your keywords. Natural listings will take time to arise, but by following this advice and being patient you should be able to achieve them eventually; the time it will take however is dependent upon the competition for your keywords. Naturally a word like insurance will have more competition than a key term such as tan leather chairs.

The general rule of thumb is that the fresher your content, the faster you will achieve good listings. It is important to realise that you can overdo the process of refreshing content. Ideally you want to change your content fortnightly or weekly, any more than this and you will be changing too much and will not be seen as stable by search engines. Ultimately you do not want to rush the optimisation process, those in the know realise that this simply is not possible, you need to be patient and keep the efforts up, and listings will follow eventually.

As previously stated building links is the second facet to the optimisation process. Search engines have a preference for websites with many links. These links do however have to be relevant, having thousands of links pointing back to your site that have no relevance are not held in the highest regard by search engine algorithms. By building as many links as possible and constantly pursuing this tactic listings will once again become apparent.

In the same way as refreshing you content you do not want to do this too fast. If you build the links back to your site too quickly search engines may notice your efforts and penalise you for this. Penalties can include removal from listings so it is vitally important to undergo this process slowly.

By following this advice you should be able to achieve the listings that will bring your business success. This is in no way a comprehensive list however of the tactics employed by SEO specialists, there are other methods, both on and off page that can achieve great rankings. Most important is to realise the time it will take to achieve natural rankings, optimisation is not a fast process, patience and adherence to your efforts are both vital elements in SEO success.

Internet marketing expert Thomas Pretty looks into the importance of patience when pursuing a search engine optimisation strategy.

Why It Is So Important To Learn About Keyword Research Software

2008 July 21
by gadmin

In order to pull free traffic into your website, you need to use the proper keyword research software and then make the most of the keywords that you find. Unfortunately, it’s not just as simple as looking for what people are typing into the search engines, it goes much deeper than that. Although that certainly is the first step in any good search engine optimization campaign, there are several other steps that need to be put into place. Understanding the basics of search engine optimization is going to go a long way in helping you through the process but it is often necessary for you to employ some keyword research software to speed up the process and to make sure that you are not skipping anything important along the way.

This is where using the keyword research software is going to come in handy. Not only will it help you with the initial step of finding the keywords, it will do such things as making sure that the keyword phrase is going to be easy to rank for, identifying the competition and seeing what methods they are using in their search engine optimization and bringing you up to speed on anything that is necessary to make you come out on top. Any good keyword research software is going to walk you through this, step by step on each project that you decide to run. It is going to take a lot of the guesswork out of the equation and help to make sure that each of your projects is successful from beginning to end.

Whenever some people look for keyword research software to take care of these things, they end up with a bunch of little tools that only do one or two jobs each. Although it certainly is possible for you to complete every step of the project, one at a time, most people find this to be cumbersome at best. There are some tools that are available which will take care of every step of the process which can help you to get your SEO campaign up and running in the shortest amount of time possible. By having an all-in-one system, it will interact internally and make sure that everything works in conjunction with the other. All that is really necessary for you to do at that point, is to put the keywords to use and then to watch the traffic come in.

Deep Arora is an Internet marketer with over 7 years of experience and he teaches internet marketing from his blog at http://www.HowIDid.com. Check his favorite marketing tool that covers all points discussed in the article above at http://howidid.com/f/keywordelite.htm

Keyword Marketing Research Made Easy

2008 July 21
by gadmin

In order to truly make your website successful, you need to not only understand how to get people to it, you need to understand your competition. This is really the basis of any keyword marketing research that needs to be done and unless you’re doing it properly, you are simply leaving money on the table.

The entire process is commonly known as search engine optimization, often shortened to the letters SEO. Many people consider search engine optimization to be an art form but the simple fact of the matter is, it can be broken down into rather simplistic terms. Understanding the basics of SEO is extremely important if you’re going to be successful at it. Fortunately, it really only takes a little bit of time to understand the basics and to be perfectly honest, a lot of it has to do with research.

The first step in the process is doing the keyword marketing research and looking for keyword phrases that you can rank well for in the search engines. There are several different tools that are available to help you do this keyword marketing research, WordTracker and the Google keyword tool being told the most popular. You should make sure that you are using one of these tools because they will help you to identify what is actually being searched for and take all of the guesswork out of the equation.

After identifying the keywords that match your market, you need to do some competition research in order to find out if those keyword phrases have relatively low competition in the search engines. There are several tools that are available to help you do this automatically, as typing each one of them into Google can be quite monotonous and time-consuming.

When you have identified the keyword phrases that you plan on using, it’s time to check out the competition in the search engines to see what they are doing to rank well for those phrases. Checking things such as backlinks, on page optimization and the age of the website are all things that will help you to identify how easy it will be to outrank them.

Although keyword marketing research can take a good bit of time, by using the tools that are available you can keep this time to a minimum. This will help you to be able to pull in this traffic in the shortest amount of time possible. After all, that is what is going to make your business successful.

Deep Arora is an Internet marketer with over 7 years of experience and he teaches internet marketing from his blog at http://www.HowIDid.com. Check his favorite marketing tool that covers all points discussed in the article above at http://howidid.com/f/keywordelite.htm

How To Find The Right Keyword OptimizationTool For Fast Profits

2008 July 21
by gadmin

Choosing the right keywords to pull traffic into your website is one thing but making sure that you are successful in ranking well for these keywords is quite another. After all, you can have as many pages as you want on the Internet but unless you’re ranking well in the search engines with those pages, you are simply not going to be successful. You also need to make sure that the phrases for which you are ranking are actually being looked for by real people. That is why it is important to use a keyword optimization tool in all of your search engine optimization efforts.

Unfortunately, keyword research is an area of search engine optimization that many webmasters tend to overlook. The simple fact of the matter is, unless you are targeting specific keywords you are not going to be as successful with your online business. After all, it would do little good for us to try to pull in traffic and if nobody was searching for what we were offering. Always make sure that you are targeting something specific and you will be happier with the results. The best way for you to be able to do this, of course, is by using the proper keyword optimization tool. Make sure that you always have one of these in your marketing tool belt and you would be surprised with how quickly your business will grow as a result.

There are several different things that a keyword optimization tool is going to do for you. First of all, it is going to help you to analyze your competition and to make sure that you’re going to be able to outrank those that are leading the list in the search engines without too much difficulty. After all, the last thing that we want to do is to waste unnecessary time trying to rank for impossible keywords and then not spending any of it on converting our traffic over to sales.

By helping you to have the proper on page optimization factors as well as any off page factors that are necessary for you to rank well, the keyword optimization tool is going to cut out any unnecessary steps that you might be taking along the way. The best part about it is that anything that is possible to automate will be automated and this can go a long way in helping your business to thrive for the long term.

Deep Arora is an Internet marketer with over 7 years of experience and he teaches internet marketing from his blog at http://www.howidid.com. Check his favorite marketing tool that covers all points discussed in the article above at http://howidid.com/f/keywordelite.htm

SEO Methods – Get More Traffic

2008 July 21
by gadmin

Ever wondered why your website hasn’t been getting much traffic to it? If the answer is yes then maybe you need to take a closer look at the SEO methods that you are using to get traffic to your website. SEO or search engine optimisation is the term given for methods of optimising your website in order for it to rank highly on search engine results pages, and without good SEO a website can be poorly ranked and never get any visitors.

SEO can make all the difference if you are looking to get your website a first page ranking and increase the amount of traffic that it receives on a daily basis. But what is SEO and is it difficult to achieve? Here are a few things that you should know about good search engine optimising and getting it right for your website.

* Know your keywords and key phrases and make sure that you have a good knowledge of the keywords that relate to your website. You can find these out by using one of the many online tools for this. Some search engines have their own that you can use. Once you have your keywords and phrases you can put them into the text on your website. This is by simply inserting them in a natural way into your content. Be aware however that too many keywords is seen as stuffing and can have a negative affect on your websites ranking.

* Have quality reciprocal links; by using links to and from good websites you will increase your traffic and ensure quality visitors. Do not be tempted to link to and from just any old site however as this will reduce the quality of your site and too many poor quality links can result in your site being suspended or even banned from some search engines.

* Submit your website to search engines and when you do this the search engines spiders will crawl through your website looking at the links and keywords and this will then be indexed. When a person uses the search engine and enters any of these keywords in it sites that contain relevant keywords and links will be returned in the results pages. In order for a site to be ranked highly it must be highly relevant to the search that has been conducted. Some search engines will allow paid inclusion onto their index and this is a perfectly ethical way of getting a high ranking on a results page, however as this ranking is often purely economically based high ranking websites are not always the most relevant to a particular search. Google does not allow paid inclusions.

* Do not use black hat SEO methods – black hat SEO methods are doing things such as keyword stuffing or putting keywords in the background of web pages but in the same colour as the background. These keywords cannot be seen by a visitor but they can be seen by spiders and are frowned upon. Black hat SEO methods more often than not result in a website from being banned from search engines or suspended for a certain period of time.

So if you want to have the best SEO for your website you need to take a look at it and make sure that you are following the guidelines that are set out above. If you can afford it you might want to think about paid inclusion or employing someone to write the content for your website to optimise it effectively. Which ever SEO methods you choose one thing is for sure – you will be getting more traffic.

Adrian McLean is Head of SEO and SEM at Search Engine Optimising Ltd. Put your website first with search engine optimisation services from the leading uk seo.

VIP Marketing Tips: Making SEO Work for Google

2008 July 19
by gadmin

If you own a website, you probably have one thing on the top of your “to do” list- make sure that your website ranks well on the google organics listings for the specific keywords or the phrases of keywords which are most pertinent to your products or services. Making your website appear as the first result to search of those keywords is possible and, as long as you choose the best and most appropriate keywords for the SEO search plan you have in mind.

Here are useful tips in making your site SEO for Google.

1. The first is the most basic, yet most important to Google SEO- making sure the right keywords are chosen. Choosing the correct keywords is the first factor, which contributes to Google page rank success. Try to avoid the use of one-word keywords like pants or bowls. This is important for two reasons; first, it would be impossible to rank well with such obscure terms due to competitiveness and; second, using generic keywords generates generic traffic; undermining the very optimization you are trying to create. Remember- the rule of thumb with keywords and keyword phrases is is succinct while also encompassing at the same time.

2. The second tip is ensuring the overall good optimization of your website. This is yet another basic principle of case studies conducted on those sites which are the most successfully optimized. Optimizing your website for Google entails the strategic placement of keywords in areas like meta tags, title tags, alt tags, header tags and, of course, in your content. This goes so far as to including the keywords in the domain name for your site. All of these points help to further your site in it’s the Google SEO world.

3. The third most critical strategy in optimizing your website is making sure all of the content you put into your website is both original and of good quality. Remember, Google dislikes content, which is either unoriginal or duplicated in its nature. This tactic is so important that even the implementation of numerous other methods could be trumped by failure to comply with this cardinal rule of original content. Having original content is ensured by constantly refreshing your site with new, original, and unique content.

4. The fourth tip today is to generate numerous backlinks. For SEO, Google also considers the amount of pinks that point back to your website. The more you have, the more of an indication that your website is popular and important, which Google assumes means higher quality of content, etc. However, one must make sure the relevancy of the links that are out there are relevant to what is actually being offered on the website. To achieve successful search engine optimization for your website, being relevant plays an enormous role. You can do this by creating unique articles and then submitting them to various article directories as well as submitting your own website to such website directories online.

Applying such practices appropriately can help boost your website’s Google SEO page ranking success and deliver the vital traffic that your website needs.

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