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Submitting Your Website to Web Directories

Submitting Your Website to Web Directories

When you first start building your blog, you come across many different opinions on how to promote it and i am sure you have heard many times that the first thing that you need to do is to submit your blog to online directories. Well in the past that was the easiest and the fastest way of promoting your site, however, things have changed as Google is slowly taking over online world. There is no … Read entire article »

Filed under: Link Building, SEO

Steps For Optimizing Your Website

Steps For Optimizing Your Website

White Hat SEO Techniques In this article I will focus on white hat search optimization techniques or SEO because it is most commonly used amongst online community and is is both useful for you site as well as important to understand when you are trying to do something that is black hat. Black hat might be more efficient but it is tightly connected to white hat, black hat only takes it to the next level. So … Read entire article »

Filed under: Link Building, SEO

Keyword Research and Mapping

There’s no ‘right way’ to do keyword research, it can involve creating then gathering scattered thoughts, using a whole host of keyword research and analysis tools, then figuring which phrases have enough traffic, and which ones you have a chance of ranking for. A linear process may constrain you, you may miss things that more fluid methods would uncover… but in an effort to tie things down a bit, we’ve put together a process that may help streamline this keyword research and mapping phase.  Which, lets be honest, is a core aspect of SEO and proper website development. Keyword Research and Mapping Process Select the pages you want to focus on Add the name and url in the correct field of the keyword mapping spreadsheet Create your seedlist with the following : Products/services Synonyms / other … Read entire article »

Filed under: Black Hat, Link Building, SEO

Top 10 White Hat Ways to Promote Your Site

I’ve compiled a little list that will help you to get your site exposed to online population and help your site index faster, get your PR higher. The list is not in any particular order, some strategies may work better for others than you so pick what you like and use it, but it would be best if you can do them all. 1. StumbleUpon and Digg – very popular sites among online community, a great place to submit your site to. 2. Propeller, OnlyWire and SocialMarker – sites whole sole purpose in my eyes is to improve indexing and ranking of websites 3. Submit articles to Ezine and Associated Content with your link attached to them. Associated content will even pay you for submitting articles to them, up to $20 per article if you know … Read entire article »

Filed under: Link Building, SEO

Build Strong Foundations for SEO Success

There are two potential scenarios when a client comes to us to talk about Search Engine Marketing. The first and most frequent scenario is the client who has a website and isn’t getting enough or any traffic at all. The second and far less frequent is a client without a website but enough foresight to understand that just having a website isn’t enough. We love the second scenario. We’ve a blank canvas to start with and an opportunity to set the client on the road to success by getting things right from the off. Whilst it’s possible to take an existing website and increase traffic and search engine placement, by far the best route is to do things right in the beginning. Building a website for Search Engine Success There really are … Read entire article »

Filed under: Black Hat, Link Building, SEO

Organic Search Versus Pay Per Click

Simon Wharton, managing director of specialist online search marketing agency PushON, explains why organic online search marketing is often overlooked although it can be more effective than pay per click and paid online advertising. Many businesses realise that they have to generate traffic to their site if they want to, at the very least, recoup the outlay invested in their Internet site.  But all too often they accept the received wisdom that pay per click and paid advertising will give the return that is so eagerly sought without really fully considering online organic search marketing properly.  Pay per click and advertising on well-visited websites certainly has its benefits, I cannot and will not deny that assertion.  Pay per click (PPC) is easy to understand and, unlike many marketing activities, the return can … Read entire article »

Filed under: Affiliate Networks, Black Hat, Money, SEO