Get your Blog on Google’s First Page – 4 Simple Techniques
December 27, 2009 by The Big SEO
Filed under Google Talk
Getting your blog into Google’s top 10 results can leverage your business and increase your traffic greatly. Whatever the purpose for your blog, getting ad clicks, selling affiliate products, or generating traffic to your sales page, a blog owner’s ultimate goal is to brand himself while making a profit—easier said than done.
The good news is that getting into Google’s top spots can be accomplished with a little creativity and effort. The following are five ways you can get your blog onto Google’s first page and watch your traffic surge.
Write Original Content
Original, informative, and authentic content rules in the Web 2.0 marketing world. While you don’t have to post everyday, you need to post a minimum of three times a week. Personal studies have shown that traffic tends to drop off considerably if posting occurs less than three times a week. You also have to maintain a steady flow of content for the search engines. A steady flow of content shows that you’re interested enough in your topic to keep it alive.
The Web is moving towards authentic, two-way based conversations. Add humor to your posts. Give your content a twist and personality. One of the best ways to make your content come alive is to include a few real-life scenarios. Your readers will appreciate your honesty.
This brings up a good point about content which is “SEOed”. If you’re writing about a topic you enjoy, you’re adding a dash of your personality, and you’re not concerned about keyword density, then you’re doing it correctly. So, what does that mean? Be normal. If you’re thinking about keyword density while you’re writing, you’re going to sound like Frankenstein.
So, I’m busting the keyword density myth. Write like a human and you’ll be rewarded.
Submit Your Blog
When you’ve developed a few, high-quality posts with original content, submit your blog to several high profile blog directories. Best of the Web (BOTW) has a blog directory which will set you back $40. Blog Catalog, Blogarama, and Top Rank Blog are also top notch directories. Be sure to use proper keyword targeting and a variety of title text.
DMOZ, the daddy of all directories, also has a site dedicated to blogs only. As with the original DMOZ, make sure you follow the editorial guidelines and don’t expect a quick turnaround.
Submit Your RSS Feed
Submitting your RSS feed to several different sites can be done in just a couple of minutes using RSS Submit. For a small fee, this innovative piece of software from RSS Feeds Submit pings your feed automatically to over fifty sites.
Post Your URL Link Everywhere
From a Web 2.0 perspective, you’ll have much more flexibility in promoting a blog. Netscape, Digg and Redit are primarily geared to blogs. Other strategies include leaving comments on other blogs that focus on the same niche as yours and answering questions at answers.yahoo.com.
Free Backlink: How to Get to a PR 3 Ranking in 90 Days
May 22, 2009 by The Big SEO
Filed under Webmaster Tools
Climbing to the top of the search engines is the goal of every home base business owner that own a website. A well optimize website alone may help you achieve those goals if you are a niche market with little competition. On the other hand if your niche market is one shared by many marketers, you will have to prove to the search engines that you site has more relevance. The way to differentiate your business from the many on the internet is by creating high quality backlinks.
Many website owners are deterred from generating high quality backlinks to their website either from lack of time or lack of money. The truth is that creating thousands of backlinks does not have to be time consuming or costly. In fact there many ways to generate high Pr backlinks to you website for free. Using the methods I am about to share with you will be able to generate a PR 3 ranking in 90 days or less.
The first thing you must do to create free backlinks is to join five forums related to your niche. Once you have joined five forums, make sure you make a least 10 post per day to each forum. Forums usually have a high pr ranking and they are indexed by the search engines. Furthermore, every one of your post will equal to a high quality backlinks as long as you make sure you include you website’s url in you forum signature.
The next step you will need to take is to submit your website to as many directories you can that are relevant to your websites content. You can either submit your websites manually or you can use a submission service to speed up the process. In addition to the backlinks, you will also generate a great deal of traffic.
The third step will be to write three articles per week and submit your articles to fifty article directories every week. This method is one of the most effective, because once you submit your articles, chances are they will get picked up by other article directories creating even more backlinks to your website.
The fourth method is to post to one hundred social sites at least three times a week. There are hundreds of social networking websites like Digg, Sphinn, Stumble Upon and Mixx. These social web 2.0 sites have a high Google ranking and also can create a heap of traffic. I suggest posting to one hundred social networking and social bookmarking sites daily. To make the submission faster you should use a social bookmarking software to post to multiple sites at one time.
The final step is to submit your RSS feed to one hundred RSS directories. If you do not have an RSS feed for your website, you should look into creating one. RSS feeds are important in generating backlinks and traffic to your website. In the meantime you can substitute for not having an RSS feed by posting comments to ten do follow blogs daily.
The steps provided will take you approximate 3 hours per day to complete, while establishing a PR 3 website will bring you tons of traffic from the search engines. You may also receive offers from advertisers to display their ads on your PR 3 website thus increasing your income dramatically.try bookmarking demon
Backlinks – How To Get High Quality One Way Links To Your Websites
January 6, 2009 by The Big SEO
Filed under Backlinks
There are basically two aspects to SEO, “on page” & “off page” optimization.
“On Page” SEO is easy because it’s totally under your control. It’s simply a case of making sure you have optimized your web pages correctly.
OK, so there is a bit more to it than that, like keyword research, keyword density & frequency, which html tags to use, making sure your site/pages are W3 Compliant, using relative/absolute internal linking structures to feed the pagerank where it’s most effective, using titles and descriptions that encourage people to click through from the SERP’s etc.
But essentially, once you know how to do all that, it’s not difficult to get it right for all your pages/sites.
It’s also less important in the long run than getting sufficient links to your site/pages from other sites.
Getting links to your site is fundamental to getting visitors, and without visitors all the time, effort and money invested in getting your site up and running, and looking “nice”, is irrelevant.
No Visitors = No Point!
So links are essential to the health of your site, and indeed your business, but all links are not equal in value to your site.
Reciprocal links will help, but they are far less effective than one way backlinks, i.e. links from another site where you don’t have to link back to them. These “One Way” backlinks will give your site a far greater boost in the search engine results and bring you more traffic, providing of course that you have chosen good (relevant) keywords for your links.
There are many ways of getting these powerful one way backlinks, but most you will have no control over the anchor text used (i.e. keywords) in the link, which means their “power” in unfocused and therefore of less use to you in achieving the targeted keyword results you are looking for.
For example, submitting your site to website directories can be a very effective way of picking up some high quality one way links from high PR sites, but you will seldom be able to choose the keywords/anchor text used for the link, often ending up with the site name as the link.
This is not a waste of time, as the Pagerank passed to your site will, with the correct internal linking structure, be passed on to your sites internal pages, helping them to rank better for their targeted keywords.
So how can you get highly targeted one way links?
It’s fairly common for webmasters to now buy or “rent” links to their sites through service like http://Text-Link-Ads.com, and these services will allow you to choose the anchor text, but they are far from cheap. A link from a PR 8 site can easily cost $150+ per month. In fact there is now a business model emerging based on building sites simply to sell these kind of links (see http://www.LazyGitMarketing.com).
Google has also publicly stated that they disapprove of this practice and are actively seeking to downgrade the value of such “paid links”, although personally it seems like a valid form of advertising to me, but maybe I just don’t have Google’s wisdom in these matters. 
As always in business, there are entrepreneurs who have identified this need in the market and a whole new branch of linking services are popping up offering new solutions for one way backlinks.
I’ve been testing some of them out over the last few months and have found a couple that have had a significant positive effect on the sites I used them for.
The Backlink Solution [http://www.BacklinkSolution.com]
This first solution is a monthly subscription that provides a network of high quality blog sites for you to post comments on, including a link to your site(s) using your chosen anchor text.
Note: As you make the link yourself, you can also link to internal pages on your site to improve their rankings as well, which you can’t do with directory submissions.
It is a manual process, but is easy enough that it can be outsourced fairly cheaply.
The Pagerank of these blogs varies, but the links provided are very “natural” in appearance to the search engines, and as you can post unique relevant content on market related blogs, the links are highly relevant. You are also limited as to how many blogs you can post to each month, to ensure that the links grow naturally over time, rather than all in one go.
Three Way Links [http://www.3WayBackLinks.com]
The internet marketing market is highly competitive, so it’s hardly surprising that another service with a different twist has popped up from this market.
This is an automated “three way links” system, where you link to site A, which then links to site B, which then links back to you. Whilst this is arguably not as powerful as true “one way backlinks”, it’s still a significant step above one way “reciprocal” linking that is the more traditional method used by the majority of webmasters.
The process is also automated for you, making it very hands off. You can submit up to 20 sites with just one account and you can specify three different anchor texts to be used as the links for each site’s, making sure you don’t incur any penalties for over use of just one text link keyword or phrase.
It is also set up to gradually build up the links over time to make it all appear very natural to the search engines.
Your Own Authority Blog [http://www.BetterThanLinks.com]
There is one final service that I’ve found to be very useful, although it is more ideal for people with multiple sites to promote.
The service gives you your own blog on an existing high PR authority site. The site has 833,039 backlinks listed in Yahoo and gets spidered several times a day by all of the major search engines. For example in June 2007 Googlebot visited it 14,470 times and Yahoo Slurp 52,436 times, so you can see why it’s an regarded as an “authority” site.
I have used this to link to brand new sites and had them indexed by Google within 24 hours, so it’s a great way of getting a new site in to the SE’s quickly, and the link weight will obviously also help any site linked to.
As a side note, I’ve also found that my blog on this site can get fairly significant traffic itself when I take the time to keyword optimize the posts, which is always a nice added benefit.
I haven’t traded reciprocal links for any of my sites in almost two years, you can probably see why I don’t need to. Using powerful new linking tools and services like these means I am able to take total control over the “off page” SEO linking strategies for my sites in the same way as I do for the “on page” SEO factors.
Wouldn’t you like to do have the same level of control over your sites search engine rankings?
5 Ways To Create Backlinks To Your Website
October 6, 2008 by The Big SEO
Filed under Backlinks
Getting your website ranked high up in search engines like Yahoo and Google can be a very hard and long task. It can even cost a significant amount of money if you hire a professional to do it for you. However there are easier, and cheaper methods to do this yourself. One of those methods is getting backlinks to your website.
Building backlinks will play and important role in how well your site gets ranked in the search engines for the keywords you are targeting. Most people will not even take the time to get links back to their site, but those who do take the time and effort will see the bigger reward in the end.
Now below I have listed 5 quick and easy ways you can go about getting backlinks to your website. These are proven ways that work time after time. So use them for all your sites you own.
1. Create some kind of link bait. Link bait is something that draws people in to link to your site. This could be a free tool that you have on your site for people to use. People will then link to this page so they can share it with others, and use it themselves.
2. Make your own software program and submit it to all the free download sites. There are thousands of sites that allow you to download programs. These sites are highly trusted sites, and they will link to your page where people can download your program you created giving you high quality backlinks.
3. Email other websites and ask to do a simple link exchange. If your page is relevant to theirs they are more likely to do a link exchange. It is important though that you only seek out other sites that are related to yours as its key to link to relevant sites.
4. Write and submit articles to article directories. After each article you submit leave a small link back to your website. Doing this once after each article you write will quickly add up to a number of different backlinks going to your website. This method may not be good as the others, but it is still highly recommended.
5. Try doing a simple Google search for free link directories. You should get hundreds of results back of places you can submit your site to. Just make sure you submit your site to the category that best fits your site.
Follow the above steps and within a few days or week you will start to see your site climb the ranks of Yahoo and Google.