Simple ways to get Traffic to your blog with Twitter
I’ve been playing around with Twitter for some time and I think Twitter is the next big thing online after Facebook. There is lots of information online regarding methods to make full use of Twitter for advertising, marketing and making money. It is true that Twitter has big potential but what I’m looking for is a simple proper way to use it for a long term basis. Ways that can help promote my blog and gives quality values to my followers. Here’s what I’m going to do with my Twitter.
Provide useful tips for my followers. It’s not just about tips on money making opportunity, but I’ll be more focus on advice, Quotes, phrase and thoughts to improve our life. Topics that I feel important to our daily life for example love, work, relationship and many more. It’s going to be more a less like the book “The Secret”, giving out positive thinking as well.
Produce a good image with tweeter. I hate it when people uses twitter to spam for sales every single minute. I don’t suppose you like to see the whole page of your twitter fill with the same person tweets with different sales page. We are supposed to build good image and identity with twitter. If people hate what you tweet, I don’t suppose they will like what you blog.
Check and answer your Direct Messages. If it’s not spam, please reply to the direct messages. Twitter is considered as a social network. You just have to treat it just like Mybloglog or Facebook. You still need to interact with those that come in contact with you. People will listen to you when you listen to them.
Easy Ways to Get Traffic - Simple Ways To Get Traffic to Your Website for Free!
The Fastest Way to Build Traffic for Your New Website
Almost all the web publishers are looking for methods or tips or tricks to get traffic i.e targeted visitors for their website. Before getting the traffic, web publishers should check the website whether it's easy for navigation, etc. Check the website so that there is no 404 page not found. Now, here are my easy ways to get traffic.
1. Keep your site in Gtalk or yahoo messenger status.
2. Include your website in your mail signature and also in forums, blogs where you post regularly. (Proved way of getting traffic)
3. You can text your site to your friends if it useful. This can get lot of visitors if it really useful but do not over do it.
4. Writing a book on what you know like ways to get traffic, or some thing known to you and include your website in header and footer.
5. Here's a nice little exercise, go back over the last week, and count the number of blogs that have linked to yours. Now go back to your blog and count the number of blogs that YOU have linked to over the same time-frame. Are more bloggers linking to you, or are you linking more to others? Get in the habit of looking for outstanding content that you can bring to the attention of your readers via links. This not only means you will be creating better content on your blog, but you will be bringing your blog to the attention of other bloggers. Which means they will be more likely to link to you rblog in the future. Which of course means more traffic for you!
These are really easy ways to get traffic, apart from these simple tricks you can advertise your site for low cost too /writing in twitter/ submitting to social bookmarking sites.
Almost all the web publishers are looking for methods or tips or tricks to get traffic i.e targeted visitors for their website. Before getting the traffic, web publishers should check the website whether it's easy for navigation, etc. Check the website so that there is no 404 page not found. Now, here are my easy ways to get traffic.
1. Keep your site in Gtalk or yahoo messenger status.
2. Include your website in your mail signature and also in forums, blogs where you post regularly. (Proved way of getting traffic)
3. You can text your site to your friends if it useful. This can get lot of visitors if it really useful but do not over do it.
4. Writing a book on what you know like ways to get traffic, or some thing known to you and include your website in header and footer.
5. Here's a nice little exercise, go back over the last week, and count the number of blogs that have linked to yours. Now go back to your blog and count the number of blogs that YOU have linked to over the same time-frame. Are more bloggers linking to you, or are you linking more to others? Get in the habit of looking for outstanding content that you can bring to the attention of your readers via links. This not only means you will be creating better content on your blog, but you will be bringing your blog to the attention of other bloggers. Which means they will be more likely to link to you rblog in the future. Which of course means more traffic for you!
These are really easy ways to get traffic, apart from these simple tricks you can advertise your site for low cost too /writing in twitter/ submitting to social bookmarking sites.
Top Alternatives to Google Adsense
Best Advetisement Company for Websites - Alternatives to Google AdSense?
Many webmaster use Google adsense as prime advertisement media to show ads. There are many such publishers programs which give ads to the webpublishers and act as alternative to google adsense
http://www.ipromote.com
http://www.cubics.com (10$ paypal minimum payout)
http://www.ads.guruji.com
http://www.globaltakeoff.net
http://www.admagnet.com
http://www.zimblee.com
http://www.clicksor.com/
http://www.tyroo.com
http://www.linkpayer.com/
http://www.pubmatic.com/
http://www.speedyads.com
http://www.Lakequincy.com 10000 pageviews/month
http://www.ozonemedia.co.in 5000 unique visitors perday
http://www.affinity.com
Some people get banned by google adsense either for illegal content or invalid click activity, they may try the above said publisher programs. We don’t encourage publishers who do such things or black hat methods to improve their traffic. Do not do any things against Google TOS, they will ban you sooner or later.
Many webmaster use Google adsense as prime advertisement media to show ads. There are many such publishers programs which give ads to the webpublishers and act as alternative to google adsense
http://www.ipromote.com
http://www.cubics.com (10$ paypal minimum payout)
http://www.ads.guruji.com
http://www.globaltakeoff.net
http://www.admagnet.com
http://www.zimblee.com
http://www.clicksor.com/
http://www.tyroo.com
http://www.linkpayer.com/
http://www.pubmatic.com/
http://www.speedyads.com
http://www.Lakequincy.com 10000 pageviews/month
http://www.ozonemedia.co.in 5000 unique visitors perday
http://www.affinity.com
Some people get banned by google adsense either for illegal content or invalid click activity, they may try the above said publisher programs. We don’t encourage publishers who do such things or black hat methods to improve their traffic. Do not do any things against Google TOS, they will ban you sooner or later.
Steps to Prevent Google Account Termination
How can a Google Blogger Account get terminated without any notice.The main reason for that will be the violation of Terms of Service of Google Blogger.
There are a number of ways how you can prevent the account termination.
Spamming:
This can be the most appropriate reason that will let you loose your account.Spamming can mean anything that donot owe to the regular means.
Creating tens of posts a day may be called a spam.Posting Java Scripts at the comments section comes under spam.
If you are an Adsense Publisher,getting huge earnings and page impressions for a newly created blog is another cause of the scene.
Illegal Content:
Quite often,the Blogger team as well as the Adsense Team will be reviewing the blogs of the adsense publishers.If by any means,you are promoting illegal and pirated content and by unluck if they do notice about the thing,you are sure about getting into trouble.
There are a number of ways how you can prevent the account termination.
Spamming:
This can be the most appropriate reason that will let you loose your account.Spamming can mean anything that donot owe to the regular means.
Creating tens of posts a day may be called a spam.Posting Java Scripts at the comments section comes under spam.
If you are an Adsense Publisher,getting huge earnings and page impressions for a newly created blog is another cause of the scene.
Illegal Content:
Quite often,the Blogger team as well as the Adsense Team will be reviewing the blogs of the adsense publishers.If by any means,you are promoting illegal and pirated content and by unluck if they do notice about the thing,you are sure about getting into trouble.
Can Guruji Ads be Indian Google Adsense Advertisements ?
Well after launching Guruji Music Search Engine in August 2008, Guruji took one more step ahead and introduced Guruji Ads.
Guruji Ad network for Publishers is known as AdGuru and for Advertisers, it is called AdYantra.
Guruji Ads when compared to Google Ads are somewhat similar. The textual ads are not site targeted in many cases, while the image advertisements will give same look as Adsense.
Even one can use Google Adsense along with Guruji Ads. Guruji.com uses Google Ads + Guruji Ads on their search engines
Coming to the ads performance, the click through rate (CTR) is poor. Some times with a good ad impressions[ad views] we can get some amount without any clicks. And some times even with clicks, there is no earnings !!
I was getting around Rs.0.8 to Rs.1.5 per click withe few ad views. I got a maximum of Rs.10 in one day with 8 K ad views and just 1 click. So regarding the PPC it depends on your blog readership and its traffic stats.
Payout:
There is no indication of minimum payout at the AdGuru Publisher site. But the minimum payment is considered to be Rs 2500 /- for Indians and $250 for non-Indians and the payment method is by cheque. There is no option provided to choose the minimum payout and payment method. For Indians, you need PAN to get your payments.
So far I have made nearly Rs. 396 /- from AdGuru. And it may take some more time for me to get a pay cheque from Guruji.
One thing that needs to be pointed is that even Guruji is not promoting its Ads(AdGuru) in a full fledged manner. They are using Google Ads along with Guriji Ads as Sponsored Links. They can use Guruji Ads alone for promotion.
A Google Adsense disabled publisher will surely look for other alternatives and surely Guruji’s AdGuru is one for them.
On the whole it will take a lot of time for AdGuru to become as popular as Adsense since it is beta state. Hope Guruji will become Indian Google Adsense in the future !!
Links: Guruji Ads
Guruji Ad network for Publishers is known as AdGuru and for Advertisers, it is called AdYantra.
Guruji Ads when compared to Google Ads are somewhat similar. The textual ads are not site targeted in many cases, while the image advertisements will give same look as Adsense.
Even one can use Google Adsense along with Guruji Ads. Guruji.com uses Google Ads + Guruji Ads on their search engines
Coming to the ads performance, the click through rate (CTR) is poor. Some times with a good ad impressions[ad views] we can get some amount without any clicks. And some times even with clicks, there is no earnings !!
I was getting around Rs.0.8 to Rs.1.5 per click withe few ad views. I got a maximum of Rs.10 in one day with 8 K ad views and just 1 click. So regarding the PPC it depends on your blog readership and its traffic stats.
Payout:
There is no indication of minimum payout at the AdGuru Publisher site. But the minimum payment is considered to be Rs 2500 /- for Indians and $250 for non-Indians and the payment method is by cheque. There is no option provided to choose the minimum payout and payment method. For Indians, you need PAN to get your payments.
So far I have made nearly Rs. 396 /- from AdGuru. And it may take some more time for me to get a pay cheque from Guruji.
One thing that needs to be pointed is that even Guruji is not promoting its Ads(AdGuru) in a full fledged manner. They are using Google Ads along with Guriji Ads as Sponsored Links. They can use Guruji Ads alone for promotion.
A Google Adsense disabled publisher will surely look for other alternatives and surely Guruji’s AdGuru is one for them.
On the whole it will take a lot of time for AdGuru to become as popular as Adsense since it is beta state. Hope Guruji will become Indian Google Adsense in the future !!
Links: Guruji Ads
Fastest and Free Method to Download Music for Music lovers
Ever tried to search for your favorite song? When you search for your favorite music, it is much harder to find. Even if you find it it's much harder to find the free download link. And finally, even if you got the download link, its either broken or slow downloading link.
Today I have something handy website for you to download free music. Its much faster to search your music, shows results immediately, Gives the direct links of songs, and BEST of all, you can listen right away before you download it!
Dilandau.com is the site that takes mp3 searching to the generation next.
It makes mp3 searching extremely fast and easy.
This is a worth site to share to all music lovers.
All you have to do is to put in the song's name (it would be better if you include the artist's name also for accurate results) and hit Search Music button. And on the very next page it shows all the "Direct links" of the song you searched for.
At an amazing searching speed it shows almost all the direct links of the song from nearly all mp3 sites out there!
You not only can download the song, but listen it online while downloading or before you save it.
You can Send the link to your friends via email or even share it on social bookmarking sites. But remember, sharing doesn't allow you to share the song's direct link, instead it sends the page's link.
And one little helpful feature of this site is that, you can add dilandau.com search capabilities to your browser toolbar.
Just click the respective buttons, in the bottom of the home page (encircled in first screenshot above) for your browser.
If you are using Google Toolbar, then you can add dilandau search button.
Download Dilandau Search Module
Searching directly from your toolbar is more convenient, that's why this toolbar module for searching is most prefered.
Hope this post was useful for all the music lovers.
Today I have something handy website for you to download free music. Its much faster to search your music, shows results immediately, Gives the direct links of songs, and BEST of all, you can listen right away before you download it!
Dilandau.com is the site that takes mp3 searching to the generation next.
It makes mp3 searching extremely fast and easy.
This is a worth site to share to all music lovers.
All you have to do is to put in the song's name (it would be better if you include the artist's name also for accurate results) and hit Search Music button. And on the very next page it shows all the "Direct links" of the song you searched for.
At an amazing searching speed it shows almost all the direct links of the song from nearly all mp3 sites out there!
You not only can download the song, but listen it online while downloading or before you save it.
You can Send the link to your friends via email or even share it on social bookmarking sites. But remember, sharing doesn't allow you to share the song's direct link, instead it sends the page's link.
And one little helpful feature of this site is that, you can add dilandau.com search capabilities to your browser toolbar.
Just click the respective buttons, in the bottom of the home page (encircled in first screenshot above) for your browser.
If you are using Google Toolbar, then you can add dilandau search button.
Download Dilandau Search Module
Searching directly from your toolbar is more convenient, that's why this toolbar module for searching is most prefered.
Hope this post was useful for all the music lovers.
Search the profile/people using their Email Address
Ever wanted to know more about the person you are chatting with? Beware, internet is not being safe now a days. You must know the background of that person before being familiar with them. You must never share your personal information to them. Not only to them, but also to the web site forms.
Never fill up the form randomly without knowing about the website. If you want your email address to be private then you must be aware about sharing your personal information like your home address, telephone number, etc.
Why? Because, not only Google but everyone is watching you. Google is the best method to search everything about your email address and username. But If you really want to know about ther person's email address then I have a good website for you.
I am talking about, Pipl.com
The snapshot above defines it all. You can search his/her phone number, username, Email, Name, etc.
So if ever chatting or communicating with anonymous person then better use this people search engine before you get yourself in trouble.
Never fill up the form randomly without knowing about the website. If you want your email address to be private then you must be aware about sharing your personal information like your home address, telephone number, etc.
Why? Because, not only Google but everyone is watching you. Google is the best method to search everything about your email address and username. But If you really want to know about ther person's email address then I have a good website for you.
I am talking about, Pipl.com
The snapshot above defines it all. You can search his/her phone number, username, Email, Name, etc.
So if ever chatting or communicating with anonymous person then better use this people search engine before you get yourself in trouble.
Top Mistakes that Bloggers Tend to Make Over and Over Again
There are some usability mistakes that bloggers tend to make over and over again. We will list them here, so that you can use it as a checklist.
1. No search box : Internet users resort to the search box whenever they need to find something specific. Some people even use search to navigate around websites. If you don't have a (visible) search box on your site, those users will get very frustrated.
2. No archives : It is essential to have a page where the visitor can browser through all your posts. Apart from improving the user experience, this page will also be healthy for your search engine optimization, as it works as a sitemap.
3. No contact page : It is very annoying for visitors if they have something to tell you and can't find a way to get in touch. Secondly, you risk losing valuable feedback if that is the case.
4. Complex navigation : Try to make your navigation structure as simple as possible. This involves using a main navigation bar, having a link back to the homepage on all internal pages, avoiding drop-down menus and so on.
5. Bad typography : If people can't read your content comfortably they will just head somewhere else. Make sure that your font is big enough, that the letter and line spacing is adequate, that you have enough white space surrounding the content and so on.
6. Invisible links : Hyperlinks are cornerstones of web navigation, and they should always be easily recognizable. Try to make your hyperlinks underlined. If you don't like that, at least make sure that their color stands out and that users won't get confused regarding what is clickable and what is not.
7. Too many ads : Many bloggers tend to assume that in order to make money blogging they need to jam ads all over their sites. This is not true. To make money blogging you need to have quality traffic, and too many ads will reduce your quality traffic over the long term. Start with as few ads as possible, and move your way up consciously, always putting your visitors' experie nce first.
8. Badges, buttons and widgets : This is another very common mistake. Since it is so easy to add badges, buttons and widgets, many bloggers fill their sidebars completely with them. Most of those items, however, won't add much value to your visitors, while cluttering your design and possibly driving traffic away from your site.
1. No search box : Internet users resort to the search box whenever they need to find something specific. Some people even use search to navigate around websites. If you don't have a (visible) search box on your site, those users will get very frustrated.
2. No archives : It is essential to have a page where the visitor can browser through all your posts. Apart from improving the user experience, this page will also be healthy for your search engine optimization, as it works as a sitemap.
3. No contact page : It is very annoying for visitors if they have something to tell you and can't find a way to get in touch. Secondly, you risk losing valuable feedback if that is the case.
4. Complex navigation : Try to make your navigation structure as simple as possible. This involves using a main navigation bar, having a link back to the homepage on all internal pages, avoiding drop-down menus and so on.
5. Bad typography : If people can't read your content comfortably they will just head somewhere else. Make sure that your font is big enough, that the letter and line spacing is adequate, that you have enough white space surrounding the content and so on.
6. Invisible links : Hyperlinks are cornerstones of web navigation, and they should always be easily recognizable. Try to make your hyperlinks underlined. If you don't like that, at least make sure that their color stands out and that users won't get confused regarding what is clickable and what is not.
7. Too many ads : Many bloggers tend to assume that in order to make money blogging they need to jam ads all over their sites. This is not true. To make money blogging you need to have quality traffic, and too many ads will reduce your quality traffic over the long term. Start with as few ads as possible, and move your way up consciously, always putting your visitors' experie nce first.
8. Badges, buttons and widgets : This is another very common mistake. Since it is so easy to add badges, buttons and widgets, many bloggers fill their sidebars completely with them. Most of those items, however, won't add much value to your visitors, while cluttering your design and possibly driving traffic away from your site.
Get AdSense high paying ads on your Website
In this article I will try to explain some technics how to acquire AdSense high paying ads to your website. The most important factor is obviously going to be your content. Google’s spiders will check your website about every two weeks. This time may vary as to how regularly you update your content. And try to realize that Google’s spiders can’t read images, flash or anything that is not text.
Keep the title and headlines relevant
The most important factor are your titles and URLs.
Keywords
Finding the right keywords won’t just make your ads relevant, it will also help you to get the ones that pay the most. You can find many tools on web that can help you determine how much people are prepared to pay for defined keywords. Some of them are www.overture.com, www.keywordcountry.com, www.toppayingkeywords.com.
Keywords Density
You’ll need the right amount of keywords to get the right ads. How many? You’ll have to experiment. Don’t put it to many, because Google could think you’re trying to spam it. If you find that your ads are missing the point of your website you could try to mention your keywords more often.
Keywords Placement
If you place keywords on particular place on your website you can have some effect on your ads. The best effect on your ads is if you place your keywords directly beneath the ads.
Section Targeting
One of the reasons that your website doesn’t receive relevant ads may be that navigation and other non-content words affect the way Google’s spiders gathers information. The most effective way to ensure spiders read the right keywords is to use Section Targeting. You have to insert some lines of code which will show spiders where to search for your keywords.
<-- google_ad_section_start -->
Section text
<-- google_ad_section_end -->
The section that is between this two lines of code will be more important than the rest of the content. If you want to tell spiders to ignore section of content, just put that content between these two lines.
<-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
Section text
<-- google_ad_section_end -->
You can use as many sections as you want to target your content, but you can’t use it to highlight single keywords.
Metatags
Metatags won’t have large affect on your ads. But don’t leave them out. They are use for google to index your page.
Google Ads Preview
If you don’t want to wait for spiders to research your website, which could take some time, you can preview which ads you’ll likely receive here at googleadspreview.blogspot.com. There is no guarantee you’ll receive these ads but it’s highly probable.
Conclusion
Now you know how you can affect Google’s AdSense ads. And you should use this technics because the result of bad keyword placement and density are public service ads. Google will place them instead normaly or high paying ads if he doesn’t find any relevant ads to give you. The most important thing you should know is that if user clicks on your public service ads, you won’t get paid. If you want to know how to get rid of these kind of ads stay tunned, I will describe how you can get rid of them in one of my next articles.
Keep the title and headlines relevant
The most important factor are your titles and URLs.
Keywords
Finding the right keywords won’t just make your ads relevant, it will also help you to get the ones that pay the most. You can find many tools on web that can help you determine how much people are prepared to pay for defined keywords. Some of them are www.overture.com, www.keywordcountry.com, www.toppayingkeywords.com.
Keywords Density
You’ll need the right amount of keywords to get the right ads. How many? You’ll have to experiment. Don’t put it to many, because Google could think you’re trying to spam it. If you find that your ads are missing the point of your website you could try to mention your keywords more often.
Keywords Placement
If you place keywords on particular place on your website you can have some effect on your ads. The best effect on your ads is if you place your keywords directly beneath the ads.
Section Targeting
One of the reasons that your website doesn’t receive relevant ads may be that navigation and other non-content words affect the way Google’s spiders gathers information. The most effective way to ensure spiders read the right keywords is to use Section Targeting. You have to insert some lines of code which will show spiders where to search for your keywords.
<-- google_ad_section_start -->
Section text
<-- google_ad_section_end -->
The section that is between this two lines of code will be more important than the rest of the content. If you want to tell spiders to ignore section of content, just put that content between these two lines.
<-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
Section text
<-- google_ad_section_end -->
You can use as many sections as you want to target your content, but you can’t use it to highlight single keywords.
Metatags
Metatags won’t have large affect on your ads. But don’t leave them out. They are use for google to index your page.
Google Ads Preview
If you don’t want to wait for spiders to research your website, which could take some time, you can preview which ads you’ll likely receive here at googleadspreview.blogspot.com. There is no guarantee you’ll receive these ads but it’s highly probable.
Conclusion
Now you know how you can affect Google’s AdSense ads. And you should use this technics because the result of bad keyword placement and density are public service ads. Google will place them instead normaly or high paying ads if he doesn’t find any relevant ads to give you. The most important thing you should know is that if user clicks on your public service ads, you won’t get paid. If you want to know how to get rid of these kind of ads stay tunned, I will describe how you can get rid of them in one of my next articles.
Google Blogger's new Post Published page
Blogger now gives something different link after you post a new post in your blog.
The new page update features a link direct to your new post that you've just created. Previously it offered direct link to your blog only. This one is pretty simple but useful update by google blog systems.
The new page update features a link direct to your new post that you've just created. Previously it offered direct link to your blog only. This one is pretty simple but useful update by google blog systems.
Types of Bad Link Building : Borrowing, Begging, Bartering, Bribing and Buying
Even though this information has been read by thousands of people, it still hasn't been read [or understood] by enough people.
Do you know? A week doesn't go by without someone asking me whether they should pay a company to build links the wrong way.
So, what's the wrong way?
Borrowing
I guarantee that someone will leave a comment on this post with a link to their website in the body of their comment. Here's an example.
This is borrowing links.
Many blogs allow commenters to insert links into the body of their comments. Many don't.
So, these link borrowers also resort to inserting their keywords where their name is supposed to go. I wrote a controversial post about this bad practice previously, "Why Leaving Comments is Not a Link Building Strategy."
Our blog software's spam filter catches many of these comments. Yet not every site has spam filters in place, and many people automate or just cut and paste such comments all over the web. This is borrowing and it is wrong. Doing it might get you a short-term, unsustainable burst in rankings. But these are not high quality links. And won't provide long term advantage.
Begging
Then, there's the beggars. They send emails to people they don't know asking for links.
I recently received a really creative e-mail. The person inroduced himself as a big fan of my writing and suggested that "based on reading what I write" I should check out this new social networking site. He wrote about how awesome the site was (without any explanation why). He suggested that I should write about it because everyone else who did it received floods of traffic. He got very offended when I responded that I wasn't interested and that he should be more upfront about his link begging intentions.
Of course, begging comes in many forms. Not all are as creative as this guy. Most people just send emails to webmasters asking them to link to them. While begging is one way to build links, it is ineffective and the fastest way to annoy a webmaster.
Bartering
I'll link to you, if you link to me. I'll buy your services, if you buy mine. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.
Aah. How adolescent does that sound? And how much easier do you think you can make it for Google to detect that you didn't earn that link? Google's power is that it detects patterns. This is a pretty easy pattern to detect: "Site B links to Site A. Site A links to Site B."
Of course, bartering or trading links gets more creative by saying, "I'll link to you, if you link to him and I'll link to this other guy if he links to you, etc." There are even networks you can join to facilitate this process.
Participating in these "link building rings" is even riskier than regular bartering. It's believed that Google labels websites into "neighborhoods." There are "bad neighborhoods" that you don't want to live in. By interlinking with websites in a bad neighborhood, Google will think you too are bad.
Bribing
Many companies try to bribe webmasters and bloggers for links. We'll send you stuff if you link to us. Although harder for Google to detect, this isn't a great practice. In fact, the FTC frowns upon this. I'm not sure whose wrath I'd fear more--the FTC's or Google's. Either way, it is best to not disobey the government.
Buying
Several sites and services help you buy text links on other sites that pass SEO credit. There is also a black market in link buying that is much less formal, more secretive and not necessarily that organized. I wouldn't recommend either one.
If you're not too averse to risk taking, this is probably the most effective link building strategy of the Bad B's, because you can control what sites you are getting links from, and analyze these sites to ensure that you are not placing links in bad neighborhoods. You can also place links within relevant content and use anchor text for the keywords you are trying to rank for. But, and it's a big but, it's still risky. Google explicitly states:
However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.
Therefore, although it might work, I do not advocate buying links.
In fact, as you might have guessed, we do not advocate borrowing, begging, bartering, bribing or buying links.
If I had to pick a winner in the fight between a surreptitious link builder or Google's algorithms, I'd pick the algorithms. In other words, Google will eventually perfect their detection of who is B'ing links and who is earning them.
I personally know entrepreneurs with websites that were generating tens of thousands of dollars one month and zero the next because of practicing the Bad B's of link building.
Don't do it. The risk isn't worth it. Learn to build links the right way.
Do you know? A week doesn't go by without someone asking me whether they should pay a company to build links the wrong way.
So, what's the wrong way?
Borrowing
I guarantee that someone will leave a comment on this post with a link to their website in the body of their comment. Here's an example.
This is borrowing links.
Many blogs allow commenters to insert links into the body of their comments. Many don't.
So, these link borrowers also resort to inserting their keywords where their name is supposed to go. I wrote a controversial post about this bad practice previously, "Why Leaving Comments is Not a Link Building Strategy."
Our blog software's spam filter catches many of these comments. Yet not every site has spam filters in place, and many people automate or just cut and paste such comments all over the web. This is borrowing and it is wrong. Doing it might get you a short-term, unsustainable burst in rankings. But these are not high quality links. And won't provide long term advantage.
Begging
Then, there's the beggars. They send emails to people they don't know asking for links.
I recently received a really creative e-mail. The person inroduced himself as a big fan of my writing and suggested that "based on reading what I write" I should check out this new social networking site. He wrote about how awesome the site was (without any explanation why). He suggested that I should write about it because everyone else who did it received floods of traffic. He got very offended when I responded that I wasn't interested and that he should be more upfront about his link begging intentions.
Of course, begging comes in many forms. Not all are as creative as this guy. Most people just send emails to webmasters asking them to link to them. While begging is one way to build links, it is ineffective and the fastest way to annoy a webmaster.
Bartering
I'll link to you, if you link to me. I'll buy your services, if you buy mine. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.
Aah. How adolescent does that sound? And how much easier do you think you can make it for Google to detect that you didn't earn that link? Google's power is that it detects patterns. This is a pretty easy pattern to detect: "Site B links to Site A. Site A links to Site B."
Of course, bartering or trading links gets more creative by saying, "I'll link to you, if you link to him and I'll link to this other guy if he links to you, etc." There are even networks you can join to facilitate this process.
Participating in these "link building rings" is even riskier than regular bartering. It's believed that Google labels websites into "neighborhoods." There are "bad neighborhoods" that you don't want to live in. By interlinking with websites in a bad neighborhood, Google will think you too are bad.
Bribing
Many companies try to bribe webmasters and bloggers for links. We'll send you stuff if you link to us. Although harder for Google to detect, this isn't a great practice. In fact, the FTC frowns upon this. I'm not sure whose wrath I'd fear more--the FTC's or Google's. Either way, it is best to not disobey the government.
Buying
Several sites and services help you buy text links on other sites that pass SEO credit. There is also a black market in link buying that is much less formal, more secretive and not necessarily that organized. I wouldn't recommend either one.
If you're not too averse to risk taking, this is probably the most effective link building strategy of the Bad B's, because you can control what sites you are getting links from, and analyze these sites to ensure that you are not placing links in bad neighborhoods. You can also place links within relevant content and use anchor text for the keywords you are trying to rank for. But, and it's a big but, it's still risky. Google explicitly states:
However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.
Therefore, although it might work, I do not advocate buying links.
In fact, as you might have guessed, we do not advocate borrowing, begging, bartering, bribing or buying links.
If I had to pick a winner in the fight between a surreptitious link builder or Google's algorithms, I'd pick the algorithms. In other words, Google will eventually perfect their detection of who is B'ing links and who is earning them.
I personally know entrepreneurs with websites that were generating tens of thousands of dollars one month and zero the next because of practicing the Bad B's of link building.
Don't do it. The risk isn't worth it. Learn to build links the right way.
Firefox will move to Mobile Cell Phones
Most tech enthusiasts have wondered why web browsers on mobile phones suck so much. Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker has been thinking about it too, and looking at how Firefox can be ported to mobile platforms.
Most tech enthusiasts have wondered why web browsers on mobile phones suck so much. Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker has been thinking about it too, and looking at how Firefox can be ported to mobile platforms.
Dan Warne (APC): Something I wanted to ask about is one area that Firefox hasn't seemed to have delved into much is putting Firefox on mobile devices and Opera obviously has a pretty good spot in that space and even Microsoft to an extent. Is there any move in that direction?
Mitchell Baker: Yes it is a long‑term move though -- it is not in the next weeks or months. The Mozilla Foundation's mission in life is to improve Internet experience and that is increasingly on devices other than PCs. If we're not there then we won't be able to live the kind of vision that we helped grow.
So that needs to happen. We had a small project looking at it but we decided that the right thing to do is to look first at the technology and look at our core technology and really tune it so that it's best suited for that. We are at work on that now, however it will take a while.
We are also looking at how to reflect the richness of the entire web on a small device with the current constraints and that one we don't know. There is no easy answer for that because the web is growing and the functionalities of the web are growing. We're looking closely at that one.
We have an experiment underway which is clearly a PC-centric experiment related to mobiles (so this is not a pure mobile strategy), but we are experimenting with the relationship between Firefox users and their mobile devices. We know people like Firefox because of the add-ons and the customisation and the ability to get particular information that you want through Firefox and extensions.
So the experiment that's underway is called Joey - we are looking at how you can take information that people like to access and deliver it to a mobile device. Clearly you can go to the web and you can SMS yourself various things ... but what else could be done? If you have Firefox, you already have the ability to customise it and gather certain kinds of information, so what could you do with that so that being a Firefox user makes your mobile experience better.
Dan Warne (APC): So are you talking about a kind of a back end service solution that helps pre-format content for mobiles etc?
Mitchell Baker: It's got a couple of pieces, it's got a server piece, it's got a little client piece that sort of thing and that one we'll launch in labs pretty soon. I think there's information up there about it now so that will launch as an experiment, not necessarily as a product plan, but as a way to start to get information because right now in many countries the user of a mobile device interacts with a carrier and not directly with the software vendor.
So even if we had a great product to do what we do best which is to touch human beings there's no current way to get that on most devices. Another thing that we're trying to sort through and maybe if that doesn't change then maybe this ability to get different kinds of information would make sense, we're not sure.
Opera is probably better suited to us as a supplier to carriers because our DNA is really very consumer and individual-focused. So all of those things have led us to try this experiment whilst we tweak our technology and see what things look like.
Dan Warne (APC): Firefox has a bit of a reputation - I'm not sure whether it's right or wrong - of having a hefty code‑base as a renderer and I think that largely might have come about when Apple chose the KHTML rendering core used in the Linux Konqueror browser. They said at the time reason they chose KHTML over Gecko [Firefox's rendering core] was because it was very lightweight. So is it true that Firefox internally is quite hefty and might be a bit difficult to shoehorn onto a mobile device?
Mitchell Baker: Oh well all of them are difficult to shoehorn onto a mobile device, so we should be clear about that. Opera has done a pretty good job of getting something useful on to a mobile device, but it's not a full fledged and doesn't have the capabilities of Firefox. That's hard to get on any mobile device so that's a separate question.
But yes I think it's fair to say that the actual and better piece - it's called WebKit by Apple - that particular piece is easier to work with currently than our analogous technology.
Now some of that is that when you get our analogous technology you get a whole bunch of other things that allow the creation of the communities that we do. So for extensions and the language of XUL and a whole range of other things come with our technology.
So some of that is just more capability but some of it is that it is a smaller piece and probably more approachable and that's part of what we're looking at when we say before we really launch into a better space we know we have these advantages that I think are probably unmatchable - building that kind of community that we talked about - it's probably unmatchable.
But even given that we should really work harder and smarter to make the core as approachable and easy so that it's easy to develop and you get all the other benefits that come with Firefox and Mozilla technology.
How to Check if Your Images Appear on Google Image Search
Bloggers and webmasters know that every single visitor helps to build up traffic, right? If that is the case, you should make sure that Google is correctly indexing your images, and that people searching for related image terms will have a chance to visit your blog.
Here is a quick check that you can perform to find that out. Just head to Google, and click on the “Images” link on the top left corner. That will take you to the Image Search. Now you just need to type on the search bar “site:yourdomain.com“. This quiery will filter only the results coming from your site.
If your images are getting indexed correctly by Google you should be able to see a whole bunch of them on the search results.
If, on the other hand, your images are not getting indexed by Google you will just see a “Your search did not match any documents” message.
The most common cause for this problem is a flawed robots.txt file (read “Create a robots.txt file” for an introduction to it).
For example, I used to have a “Disallow: /wp-content/” line on my robots.txt file, with the purpose of blocking some internal WordPress files from search bots. It worked, but as a result it also blocked all my images that were located in /wp-content/uploads/. The solution was simple: I just added the following line after that one: “Allow: /wp-content/uploads/”.
So if your images are not getting indexed, check your robots.txt file to make sure it is not blocking the access to them.
There are other causes that might make Google not list your images on its search results, including a low Pagerank, non relevant tags, poor permalink structure, bad image attributes and so on. If you are sure that your images are accessible to search bots, therefore, it could be a good idea to work on their tags and attributes. Here are two articles that you guide you through the steps required:
19 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Site Using Google Images
Using Google Image Search to Drive Traffic to Your Site
Even if your images are already indexed, the tips and tricks described in those articles will help you to maximize the incoming traffic from image searches.
Here is a quick check that you can perform to find that out. Just head to Google, and click on the “Images” link on the top left corner. That will take you to the Image Search. Now you just need to type on the search bar “site:yourdomain.com“. This quiery will filter only the results coming from your site.
If your images are getting indexed correctly by Google you should be able to see a whole bunch of them on the search results.
If, on the other hand, your images are not getting indexed by Google you will just see a “Your search did not match any documents” message.
The most common cause for this problem is a flawed robots.txt file (read “Create a robots.txt file” for an introduction to it).
For example, I used to have a “Disallow: /wp-content/” line on my robots.txt file, with the purpose of blocking some internal WordPress files from search bots. It worked, but as a result it also blocked all my images that were located in /wp-content/uploads/. The solution was simple: I just added the following line after that one: “Allow: /wp-content/uploads/”.
So if your images are not getting indexed, check your robots.txt file to make sure it is not blocking the access to them.
There are other causes that might make Google not list your images on its search results, including a low Pagerank, non relevant tags, poor permalink structure, bad image attributes and so on. If you are sure that your images are accessible to search bots, therefore, it could be a good idea to work on their tags and attributes. Here are two articles that you guide you through the steps required:
19 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Site Using Google Images
Using Google Image Search to Drive Traffic to Your Site
Even if your images are already indexed, the tips and tricks described in those articles will help you to maximize the incoming traffic from image searches.
How Google Ranks Blogs
Google Blog Search is a new tool that is gaining popularity on the Internet lately. The Blog Search might also be a good source of visitors if your blog rank on the first positions for specific keywords, but what factors does Google take into account to elaborate the search results?
The “Seo by the Sea” blog has an interesting article analyzing a new patent from Google that contains some indicators about the positive and negative factors affecting blog ranking, check it out:
Positive Factors:
Popularity of the blog (RSS subscriptions)
Implied popularity (how many clicks search results get)
Inclusion in blogrolls
Inclusion in “high quality” blogrolls
Tagging of posts (also from users)
References to the blog by sources other than blogs
Pagerank
Negative Factors:
Predictable frequency of posts (short bursts of posts might indicate spam)
Content of the blog does not match content of the feed
Content includes spam keywords
Duplicated content
Posts have all the same size
Link distribution of the blog
Posts primarily link to one page or site
The “Seo by the Sea” blog has an interesting article analyzing a new patent from Google that contains some indicators about the positive and negative factors affecting blog ranking, check it out:
Positive Factors:
Popularity of the blog (RSS subscriptions)
Implied popularity (how many clicks search results get)
Inclusion in blogrolls
Inclusion in “high quality” blogrolls
Tagging of posts (also from users)
References to the blog by sources other than blogs
Pagerank
Negative Factors:
Predictable frequency of posts (short bursts of posts might indicate spam)
Content of the blog does not match content of the feed
Content includes spam keywords
Duplicated content
Posts have all the same size
Link distribution of the blog
Posts primarily link to one page or site
Twitter Search to Become Real Search like Google?
Tweefind Applies Google Magic to Twitter Search
Remember how GoogleGoogle reviews conquered the world of search? They figured out a way to tell which web sites are more important than others, by judging how many links are pointing to them, and called it Google PageRank (it’s a bit more complex than that, but it was one of the key parts of Google’s search algorithm).
Now, Tweefind is doing something similar for TwitterTwitter reviews. It’s a Twitter search engine which returns results based on rank, hopefully returning more relevant results and users on top.
Rank is calculated through several parameters. Creator of Tweefind, luca Filigheddu, lists them:
# followers
# following
# of tweets
# of RT he/she receives
# of replies
# of distinct users who reply
# of distinct users who retweet
# of RT he/she makes
# of links the user shares
This approach raises some interesting questions. Are Twitter users with more followers, tweets, replies or retweets more relevant in the context of real time one-to-many conversations? Is there really a “rank” on Twitter that can be calculated and be useful in real world usage? Could an approach similar to Google’s PR algorithm do for Twitter search what it did for Google?
These questions are definitely worth answering. Yes, if there’s something important happening right now, a quick Twitter search will return a lot of tiny tidbits of info on the subject. But I often feel overwhelmed with the abundance (and similarity) of the results, and I wish there was a way to sift them and find the really relevant tweets.
At the moment, Tweefind does not seem to calculate rank for enough users to answer this question, but in time its results, when compared with standard Twitter search, might prove to be very interesting. Tweefind is also one of those Twitter-related services who are having a go at monetization; in this case it’s a couple of Google ads on top of the page, which luckily aren’t too big of a distraction from the site’s content. If it goes in the right direction, it’ll definitely be a service to watch in the future.
Remember how GoogleGoogle reviews conquered the world of search? They figured out a way to tell which web sites are more important than others, by judging how many links are pointing to them, and called it Google PageRank (it’s a bit more complex than that, but it was one of the key parts of Google’s search algorithm).
Now, Tweefind is doing something similar for TwitterTwitter reviews. It’s a Twitter search engine which returns results based on rank, hopefully returning more relevant results and users on top.
Rank is calculated through several parameters. Creator of Tweefind, luca Filigheddu, lists them:
# followers
# following
# of tweets
# of RT he/she receives
# of replies
# of distinct users who reply
# of distinct users who retweet
# of RT he/she makes
# of links the user shares
This approach raises some interesting questions. Are Twitter users with more followers, tweets, replies or retweets more relevant in the context of real time one-to-many conversations? Is there really a “rank” on Twitter that can be calculated and be useful in real world usage? Could an approach similar to Google’s PR algorithm do for Twitter search what it did for Google?
These questions are definitely worth answering. Yes, if there’s something important happening right now, a quick Twitter search will return a lot of tiny tidbits of info on the subject. But I often feel overwhelmed with the abundance (and similarity) of the results, and I wish there was a way to sift them and find the really relevant tweets.
At the moment, Tweefind does not seem to calculate rank for enough users to answer this question, but in time its results, when compared with standard Twitter search, might prove to be very interesting. Tweefind is also one of those Twitter-related services who are having a go at monetization; in this case it’s a couple of Google ads on top of the page, which luckily aren’t too big of a distraction from the site’s content. If it goes in the right direction, it’ll definitely be a service to watch in the future.
Why does Google Ranking Results keep changing?
Why does Google keep changing what websites have to do to be ranked #1?
If you think about it, the answer is obvious. In olden times (a few months ago) what you had to do to be ranked near the top of Google for a keyword phrase was getting to be pretty well know.
Just follow a few basic rules about keyword density, put keywords in headlines and in bold text and get a few friends to link to you and your site could show up near the top.
As more and more people learned to do this, Google found that the "most optimized" and NOT the "most relevant" websites were showing up at the top.
If Google couldn't deliver "relevant" information, soon no one would be using them for searches. So Google changed many of the rules.
Google will continue to change the rules to keep people from learning how to make their non-relevant websites show up high in the rankings.
The trick is to learn what works before the masses learn it and then be ready to change first when a technique stops working.
You can never master Google's ranking technique. Forget about it. All you can hope for is to be a little ahead of your competition.
Cheers,
If you think about it, the answer is obvious. In olden times (a few months ago) what you had to do to be ranked near the top of Google for a keyword phrase was getting to be pretty well know.
Just follow a few basic rules about keyword density, put keywords in headlines and in bold text and get a few friends to link to you and your site could show up near the top.
As more and more people learned to do this, Google found that the "most optimized" and NOT the "most relevant" websites were showing up at the top.
If Google couldn't deliver "relevant" information, soon no one would be using them for searches. So Google changed many of the rules.
Google will continue to change the rules to keep people from learning how to make their non-relevant websites show up high in the rankings.
The trick is to learn what works before the masses learn it and then be ready to change first when a technique stops working.
You can never master Google's ranking technique. Forget about it. All you can hope for is to be a little ahead of your competition.
Cheers,
SEO Websites That Should Blatantly Have Higher PageRank Scores
1/ In my honest opinion SEOmoz.org should have a PageRank score of at least 7/10 on its homepage. There are 156,000 organic links pointing to it and the SEOmoz.org domain has 1.8 million links in total including link from places like the New York Times and the BBC – the kind of links you drool over. SEOmoz haven’t cheated the system, they got those links because they are incredible at what they do, so why are they not getting the PageRank they deserve?
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2/ Next up is SEO Book, another website that should have a PageRank 7/10 on its homepage, but it doesn’t because someone at Google thinks we need to be kept in check. The site has a similar link profile to SEOmoz with 176,000 links pointing at its homepage and there are about half a million links pointing to the SEOBook.com domain in total including dream links from places like The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.
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3/ Jim Boykin’s site We Build Pages has attracted organic links from places like Search Engine Land and Labnol.org thanks to it having kick ass articles published on its blog. Plus the free SEO tools that it offers have gained the site loads. The WeBuildPages.com domain has around 32,000 links pointing to its homepage and about 48,000 links in total. Currently the We Build Pages homepage only has a PageRank score of 5/10, the amount of quality links it has should easily make it a 6.
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4/ The BigMouthMedia website has been around for years and it has some amazing links from places like Wired and W3 thanks to it having white papers published on it and about 5 years worth of industry news. According to siteexplorer there are about 26,000 links pointing to the BigMouthMedia homepage and there about 38,000 links pointing to the site as a whole. The BigMouthMedia homepage only has a PR score of 5/10.
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2/ Next up is SEO Book, another website that should have a PageRank 7/10 on its homepage, but it doesn’t because someone at Google thinks we need to be kept in check. The site has a similar link profile to SEOmoz with 176,000 links pointing at its homepage and there are about half a million links pointing to the SEOBook.com domain in total including dream links from places like The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.
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3/ Jim Boykin’s site We Build Pages has attracted organic links from places like Search Engine Land and Labnol.org thanks to it having kick ass articles published on its blog. Plus the free SEO tools that it offers have gained the site loads. The WeBuildPages.com domain has around 32,000 links pointing to its homepage and about 48,000 links in total. Currently the We Build Pages homepage only has a PageRank score of 5/10, the amount of quality links it has should easily make it a 6.
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4/ The BigMouthMedia website has been around for years and it has some amazing links from places like Wired and W3 thanks to it having white papers published on it and about 5 years worth of industry news. According to siteexplorer there are about 26,000 links pointing to the BigMouthMedia homepage and there about 38,000 links pointing to the site as a whole. The BigMouthMedia homepage only has a PR score of 5/10.
How to Get Free Backlink from Google Profiles
I am in a hurry today, but I will leave you guys with a quick and juicy tip. As far as linkbuilding goes, every small bit helps, right? If that is the case, there is one Google service that you can use to grab an easy backlink: Google Profiles
You just need to fill the information that they ask about yourself, include the URL of your website, add some pictures and bingo, one more backlink. As long as you add enough information, your profile will be displayed in Google’s search results, and it should count as a normal backlink because Google does not use the nofollow attribute on the website links. This service is also useful if you are not worried with building links, because it gives you an opportunity to create a profile page and possibly to get it ranked for your name on the first page of results. So what are you waiting for?
You just need to fill the information that they ask about yourself, include the URL of your website, add some pictures and bingo, one more backlink. As long as you add enough information, your profile will be displayed in Google’s search results, and it should count as a normal backlink because Google does not use the nofollow attribute on the website links. This service is also useful if you are not worried with building links, because it gives you an opportunity to create a profile page and possibly to get it ranked for your name on the first page of results. So what are you waiting for?
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