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January 27th 2007

All About Off Page SEO

ta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ /> Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a science of sorts that would enable you to ensure a favorably prominent position for your website in search engine results pages (SERPs). And since 80% of your traffic would come from the search engines, SEO methods take on a critical importance in the success of your online endeavor.

There are two kinds of SEO, on page and off page. This article will tackle the latter.

Off page SEO is all about the things you could to get a high page rank (PR) for your website after it has already gone live. These are the things which you actually execute outside the pages of your website, hence the name of this type of SEO.

What are these steps?

Well, all of them are concerned with building your link popularity. Your link popularity represents the number of back links your website has. To check you website’s current link popularity, head over to www.linkpopularity.com and use the free tool that can be found there. The higher your link popularity, the higher your PR will be.

Building your link popularity involves increasing the number of websites that will link to yours. This is easier said than done. It’s not a matter of getting reciprocal links like you link to me and I’ll link to yours. Google, in particular, despise reciprocal linking. You have to get unilateral links to your website.

The best way to do this is by ensuring that you have unique, highly informative content. Really, this is the number one strategy to invite websites to link to yours. But your content in the realm of on page SEO, and it is assumed that you have made all efforts to ensure great content.

What are the other ways by which you could build your link popularity? Try the following techniques:

* Article marketing. There are thousands of article directories on the Internet. You could submit articles to these websites. For every submission, you will be allotted a resource box where you could introduce yourself and share a link to your website. Now, some of these article directories have high page ranks. If your articles are accepted, they will be included in their pages. Having a website with high PR linking to yours would go a long way in increasing your own page rank. Additionally, if you will submit just one article to a thousand directories, you’d have a thousand pages linking to your website! Sounds like a daunting task? There are article directory submission services available. Seek them out. For as low as $25, they could submit your articles to as many as 200 directories.

* Forum marketing. There are online communities dedicated to the subject that your website is serving. Seek them out, then join them. You’d be allotted a signature box, which would appear in your every post. In your signature box, you could leave a link to your website. Then post as many significant messages as you could. For every post you will make, you’d have a page linking to your website.

* Advertise at www.craigslist.com . Now here’s a novel strategy. The website www.craigslist.com is a well known classifieds website with a PR7 score. A PR7 score is rarely high! To have a link in a website like this would give a tremendous boost to your own website. Simply go to that site and choose the category that your pages belong to, then post your advertisement, with your link of course. It doesn’t matter that no one would get to read it. What matters is that the search engine spiders would find your website as they would come from a PR7 site.

* Look for partners who are willing to include your list in their pages. The easiest way to do this is to use the free tool at www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php.

* Try triangular linking. Google despises reciprocal linking, but triangular linking is one way of going around this limitation. Look for two or more webmasters who are willing to give it a shot. Webmaster A could post a link to Webmaster B’s website in his own pages. Webmaster B can post a link to Webmaster C’s website in his own pages. And webmaster C can post a link to Webmaster A’s website in his own pages. It may enforce the same principle as reciprocal linking, but the search engine spiders are not programmed to figure this out yet.

January 26th 2007

All About On Page SEO

Today’s Online Marketing Strategies, concepts, tips, techniques & insider secrets shows you All About On Page SEO!

When it comes to doing business online, you will soon discover that it’s all about the traffic. Traffic, or the number of internet users you’d be able to generate for your website, is and will always be the lifeblood of any online venture. After all, what good is a website when there’s no one there to see its pages? How successful will your digital products be if no one would be able to know about them? Who will avail of your services when no one will get exposed to their existence?

Contrary to what many people believe, generating traffic for your website does not start once you pages are published and have gone live. Traffic generation strategies start at the very moment you are conceptualizing an idea for the website itself.

This is what on page search engine optimization (SEO) is all about. It is concerned with techniques that you could implement on your web pages themselves to ensure a good volume of traffic for your website. 80% of your traffic would come from the many search engines in the World Wide Web. If each and every web page you have is optimized for these search engines, then your website would be in a good position to have a high rank for the results of every relevant query.

* Keyword selection. Choosing the right keywords is essential for the success of your website. Keywords are the popular search terms that people use to gather information from the search engines. If your web pages are populated by the right density of the correct keywords, then you’ll have better chances of winning the attention of the search engine spiders. To determine the appropriate keywords for the subject that your website will be servicing, use the free tools that can be found at www.nichebot.com .

* Keyword placement in content. Content is the king of the internet. But even royalty needs support. Populate your content with the proper amount of keywords. A density level of at least 2% should be sought. This means that the right keywords should be mentioned at least twice for every 100 words of text.

* META tags. META tags are HTML codes that do not have a bearing on the physical appearance of your web pages, but they do inform the search engine spiders that such web pages are appropriate for a particular query. Always include the following META tags on the top portion of your source code. You could copy-paste them from the list below, but do change the indicated fields. Also, make sure that you include your keywords as much as you could on your META tags.

* ALT tags. ALT tags refer to the text that would appear every time the mouse cursor would pass through an image. Your ALT tags should include your keywords.

* Page titles. Page titles are the captions that appear at the very top of your web page. Make sure that each web page in your website would have a different title that will include the appropriate keywords.

* Focus. Remember, search engines will crawl through your website per page. Each page is a different project altogether. Focus is the key. Ensure that each web page of yours would focus on a particular keyword or key phrase. If there is an article in that page, make sure that the article will only discuss and include one keyword or key phrase from the list you have made. Also, it would greatly help if you would name the page file in a manner that would include the keyword or key phrase it is focused on. For example, www.thisisyourwebsite.com/thisisyourkeyword.html is a good page filename that would help boost your SEO efforts.

Following these guidelines would help you a lot in securing a favorable position in search engine results pages. This in turn would guarantee for you a sustainable and sufficient volume of traffic that would make your website a genuine success.

January 21st 2007

Holly Mann’s Honest Riches

When I first got started in Online Marketing, I was looking for some inexpensive assistance. Everywhere I looked, most of the information books teaching Online Marketing were $200 and up. I heard about a book called Honest Riches written by a young lady named Holly Mann. I bought the book and as I began to read it, I was pleasantly surprised with the valuable content. Here was a book that covered all the basics with nothing held back.

In her ebook she teaches you exactly what the steps she performed to get started, and shows you all her techniques.

Also, Holly’s techniques are completely ethical. Holly gives a lot of information about techniques that can be used when you are first starting out with little to no money. For those willing to spend the money on a domain name and rent some server space, she covers website design and Search Engine Optimization. She speak about email lists, advertising, press releases, wholesaling and dropshipping. In all this she is very specific with the steps she used. I was very impressed.

I highly recommend Honest Riches to anyone who wishes to get started in Online Marketing .

You can buy her book by clicking on the following link:
Honest Riches

January 13th 2007

The Internet Marketing Inner Circle

I have been active on the Internet for about 10 years now. I have built a few successful web sites and moderated a number of forums of over the years.

My interest in Internet Market began, like many others, buying and selling on eBay. After a number of successful and lucrative eBay transactions, I began expanding my horizons toward Internet Marketing outside of eBay.

I began spending all my free time exploring the various programs available on the Internet offered by different marketers. I found quite a bit of the “same-old, same-old” floating around in Cyberspace but also discovered a few gems.

One of these gems is the The Internet Marketing Inner Circle forum sponsored by none other than Willie Crawford. If you haven’t heard of Willie Crawford, he is known for his vast Internet Marketing skills along with a big dose of honesty and integrity. Willie’s reputation for honesty and integrity is what inspired me to “seek him out.”

I joined the The Internet Marketing Inner Circle forum on December 17, 2006. Since that time, I have learned more about Internet Marketing than I could have learned in a year on my own. The forum is a place for like-minded people to discuss Joint Ventures, Product Launches, share ideas and generally help each other grow their businesses. It’s a membership forum which ensures that all involved are sincere.

On this forum, Willie interviews some of the most successful Internet Marketers such as Marlon Sanders, Mike Filsaime, Frank Garon, Frank Sousa, Paul Myers, Yanik Silver and many more. The theme of the interviews is, “Is there an Inner Circle of Internet Marketers and, if so, how does the new person break into this Inner Circle?” Each interviewee gives a unique perspective on Internet Marketing and all have something very special to teach. Quite interesting is that there are a few common threads on Internet Marketing with each of these people.

I highly encourage anyone interested in learning the “secrets” to Internet Marketing to join Willie’s forum and get the insight of some of the most experienced Internet Marketers anywhere.

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