Showing posts with label use SEO for your BLOG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label use SEO for your BLOG. Show all posts

Advantages Of Guest Blogging Posts On Other Blogs

Writing guest post for other blogs, helps you get traffic, publishing, social sharing, getting followers and finally a quality dofollow backlinks to your blog. These are the reasons and benefits of "why guest blogging is an important part of blogging". You well know how to comment on other blogs to get approved your comments by blog author. You should also now how to write a guest post for other websites. And you know many pro blogger have previously discussed that guest posting is really a best and good way to earn backlinks, traffic and search engines visibility. That will surelyboost up your alexa ranking. Let's discuss them quickly.

Earning Backlinks

Earning backlinks is indirectly improving alexa ranking and page rank. Alexa would surely boost up your rank if you have a quality backlink from top page rank blogs. Backlinks are the keys to better ranking. So there are many online blogs that accept and give one or two dofollow backlinks for their sites like us. Which is equal to 1000 no follow links.

Traffic gaining

Traffic is the most important factors that increase or decreases your blog rank. We, especially I, trust traffic from search engines and commenting on other blogs. Getting traffic from top ranking blogsindicates you would have a quality visitors and helps to boost up in social media. So, three factors to get more traffic commenting on other blogs, writing guest posts and trusting search engines.

Increasing search engine visibility

You might have well known how this helps you. Just open google and type your blog address. You find your posts displayed and clicking on next page, next page, next page you also find your blog name from other blogs displayed. Why? Because you participated in commenting or guest writing. These two factors help your blog to get displayed in search engines and if you have a quality backlinks, indirectly more traffic and boost up in search visibility. If your website is boosted up, traffic increases, I mean you get traffic from the blog you have made your guest post and also from search engines.

Relationship building

As I have explained above you get a quality traffic, which means building relationship between new blogger and visitors. You find exchanging your thoughts to many user if you have done a guest post. Guest posting help you develop communication. If that's done. Your site is indirectly publishing with the one who had a better relationship. So, always try to have a good relationship with your visitors.

Earning money from guest posts

It is hard to spend money on everything. But guest post doesn't charge you. All you need to is to write a guest post in a way it should be. As previously said relation building is must for every blogger. If you article is well liked and loved by a owner of website, he may pay you write more for his blog. And you also get this invitation from the visitors to your article. Earning money is better than staying clam.

Developing writing skills

You know that writing a single post would surely matter a lot. Your single post is published on many social media and search engines and visited by many users all over the world. So every post is like 100 followers to your blog. Right? Yes, user quickly like or subscribe if they like your away of writing. Writing a guest post would surely improve your writing skills and subscribers So always improve your writing skills.

Advertising freely on other websites

Generation changed alot and you notice not comes free. Advertising on other blogs charges you more. But guest posting doesn't. So, use a best way to publish your site. Hope you got me.Guest blogging is also a part of marketing your blog online freely.
Finally Words : Guest posts are considered to be diamonds for backlinks, traffic, SEO and much more factors as discussed above for both author and website you write. So always accept and write a guest post. Also note getting a backlink through guest post is loved by google so pagerank↑ .  Try to attain backlink from guest posting. Keeping going and you see everything changes. Want to start changing everything right now then write for us we accept on many topics.

Posted By Waqas A.07:38

How to Make Your Blog More Professional Looking and Attractive

Provide information, get visitors 

Professional blogs are the kind of blogs that people will enjoy reading. If you have comfortable and professional design in your blog, people will be willing to spend lots of time with your blog. They will browse your blog happily and read any information that you offer to them. With a good and professional looking blog design, you can keep your readers’ satisfaction high so that they will want to visit your blog again and again. Here are 7 tips to make your blog more professional looking and attractive:

1. Make it clean and comfortable to the eye

Clean blog design will make it comfortable for your readers to read your content for a long time. Cluttered blog design will only repel your readers from reading your blog content. That’s why you need to make your design clean and comfortable for your readers. Provide lots of white spaces in your blog and adjust your blog layout for the best viewing.

2. Use premium blog template

The easiest way to have a professional looking blog is to purchase a license for premium blog template. Although the license might be a bit expensive (from $47-$97), but you can give the best for your blog in this way. Premium blog templates usually have complete SEO feature that will help your blog to rank high in the search engines quickly.

3. Adjust the font and color to make it attractive

Make sure that the font and color of your blog is beautifully adjusted for the best visual experience. For instance, you can use different font for each of your blog post title. You can also use bold, italic, or underline in different parts of your blog. With a simple modification in your blog’s font and color, you can produce the best visual experience for your readers.

4. Use professional design for your blog logo

Your blog logo is your blog brand. It means that your blog logo will be considered as a representative of your blog. In order to make your blog look more professional, you will need to use professional design for your logo. You can’t just use a plain text. If you use only plain text, it will ruin your blog credibility.

5. Keep your banners and advertisements organized

Do not clutter your blog with unnecessary pop ups and do not place banners everywhere. You need to have special spot within your blog where you put your banners and advertisements in place. It is better for you to keep your blog tidy. Remember that more ads don’t mean more earning for you.

6. Pretty up your header and footer

Your blog header and footer are two important places where people will look often. Moreover, they represent 75% of your overall blog design. So, you should make them look attractive. For instance, instead of just putting copyright text in your footer, it is better for you to include some important modules such as about us, social media plugin, recent posts, and popular posts. It will make your footer look attractive.

7. Use professional images for your content

Plain text content is not attractive to read. In your blog, you should always include images inside your content. It will make your content look more interesting to read. Also, images in your content will give positive impression for people who visit your blog for the first time.
Those are some tips to make your blog more professional looking and attractive. First impression is important in blogging. If you can’t give positive first impression to your blog visitors, they will not become your loyal readers.

Posted By Waqas A.22:35

How to Change Your Blogger Background Image and Color

Designing your blog is a crucial factor and it will helps you to impress your readers at first sight. There are many options you can follow such as using a custom templates, customizing elements, use of effects on images and more if you consider attractive designing for your blog. However design itself not enough for your blog. So you should work on content to be qualitative too. When it comes to designing, how does your blog background aids in impressing 
readers? You may not care about it, but your blog background which spread over large amount of area could be able to convey what type of blog and what kind of personality you have. Would you like to give more color to your blog with different background image and colors?

As you change templates, you might see different backgrounds native for them. It could go with your blog and content. It may be your favorite choice. If you have type of common background image, then readers may not impress with your design. Also if it doesn't work out or seems odd for you, then you might seek a way to make use of another background image or background color. So you wanna change background image with a one suitable for your theme. As another reason, sometimes they will find your background color is buggy when they reading your blog. You know, background color and content color should be matched and readers should be able to read them easily without finding any friction for them. So in such a scenario, you have to change your background color to make it more convenient with a new look to your readers. Let's take a look at customizing your blogger background.


Steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Click on your Blog Title.

3. Now navigate to Template tab.

4. Click on Customize button beneath your live blog preview.

Change Background Image

i. Click on Background on left pane.

ii. There you can find heading Background image and click on the image box below the heading.

iii. Either you can select background image provided by Blogger or use Upload image menu item to upload you own image.


Remember: Blogger allows you to upload only JPG, GIF or PNG or any Picture files and size should be equivalent or below to 300 Kilobytes. It recommends to use images with 1800 x 1600 or greater dimensions.

iv. Click Done button after the completion of upload.If you Like this Post then please must leave comment & Share with you friends.
Change Background Color

i. Navigate to Advanced menu item.

ii. Find and click Backgrounds sub menu item.

iii. Change Outer Background, Main Background or/and Header Background color as you prefer.


5. After making necessary changes, click Apply to Blog button to commit your changes.

 Hope you like this post, If you have any query in your mind you are free to leave comment.
Don't Forget to share with you friends....Thanks

Posted By Waqas A.12:31

Top 5 Web Design Mistakes Small Businesses Make


If you’re a small business owner, your website is the central hub of your company, and it’s a pivotal part of your marketing and branding.
Potential customers visit your site specifically for its content, meaning its appearance and usability are critical to its success and how those users view your company. However, getting your web design wrong can have a negative impact on your business.
Here are 5 common web design mistakes you must avoid to create a great user experience and grow your bottom line.

1. Poor Navigation

Many small businesses fail to make navigation a priority, but without careful attention to how people navigate your site, you could unintentionally be creating a frustrating experience for any potential visitor. People visit your site for specific information, and if they cannot find it they will quickly go elsewhere, leaving with the impression that your business is disorganized in more than just its website.
A good navigation structure should be seamless and will keep visitors on your site longer, which means potentially more readers, subscribers, sales or leads — whichever is your primary objective.
Website navigation affects both usability and accessibility, so it’s important to make it a primary concern. Most websites and blogs use common navigational techniques that are expected by the average visitor. The pages and sections of the site should be easy and logical for visitors to maneuver. Don’t make your visitors think about how to navigate your site; it should be effortless and natural.
There are several principles you can follow to create an effective navigation structure:
  • Use icons to aid navigation. They’re both visually appealing and easy to use and understand.
  • Create logical groups of related links, with the most important links on the top-level navigation bar and functional (dashboard, account, settings, etc.) and legal (copyright, privacy, terms) located elsewhere.
  • Provide location information so users know where they are on any given page and how to proceed to another area of the website. This can be achieved by using Breadcrumb navigation.

2. No Clear Calls To Action

The fundamental error of many small business websites is the lack of a clear call to action. We’ve all seen bland small-business brochure websites with nothing but endless descriptive paragraphs. If you aren’t leading users to commit to an action (buy a product, contact you or subscribe, for example), then you are losing them.
Driving traffic to your website is important, but that traffic is useless if your primary call to action is a plain “click here” link buried in a sea of text. Call-to-action buttons are a great way to grab the user’s attention, and these buttons can be the key to higher conversions. Investing time and consideration into creating successful calls to action can help guide users and address their needs while achieving your own business goals.
It’s important to keep the following best practices in mind when creating an optimal call to action:
  • The design of a call to action can be broken down into 4 simple elements — size, shape, color, and position. Each plays a vital part in determining how effective the call to action is in directing the user.
  • Don’t make your users work or think, or they’ll leave. It’s not that they aren’t smart, it’s that they want access to information quickly without spending unnecessary time searching for it.
  • Don’t overdo it with multiple, competing calls to action on every page. Decide what your primary target is and then define a clear objective per page. Your content should have answered, “What’s in it for me?” and your call to action should now answer, “What do I do now?”

3. Color & Contrast

Color and contrast aren’t usually high up on the list of priorities for a small business owner when it comes to creating a website. But it should be, because if your website text does not have sufficient contrast compared to its background, people will have difficulty reading your content, especially people with poor vision or color-blindness.
Aside from plain readability, color and contrast are important because they can be used to create visual interest and direct the attention of the user. It can equally be effective in organizing and defining the flow and hierarchy of a page, and it’s therefore an essential principle to pay attention to during the design process. Here are some tips:
  • Using a free a Color Contrast tool (which conforms to accepted standards) you can easily check to see how the contrast on your website measures up.
  • Research how major sites use color and contrast to improve readability and highlight specific sections, and use this knowledge to experiment with color schemes.
  • One of best ways to enhance contrast is by creating size differences between elements, making some things appear larger than others. This works especially well within a minimal color scheme, and it means you don’t have to necessarily rely on color.

4. Content, Content, Content

People visit your website for its content, and how that is structured is a huge factor in its success or failure. Unfortunately, an overwhelming number of small businesses get so caught up in overloading the user with information that they overlook how that information is presented.
Most people do not read unless it’s absolutely necessary, and they prefer to scan through information quickly to get to the points of interest. This is why it’s so important to establish a strong visual content hierarchy so users can quickly scan your site and sifting through relevant information. A logical content hierarchy also acts as a guide through each page and creates a more enjoyable user experience.
So when focusing on your content, it’s best to keep in mind these three tips:
  • White space is possibly the most important factor to consider. It will allow the user to focus on the meaningful content within each section.
  • Break up lengthy pieces of information into digestible blocks of text, utilizing headings, sub-headings, bullets, blockquotes and paragraphs.
  • Readable content is important, so use a good line height that is large enough to make content scannable. Margins and letter spacing also need to be taken into consideration.
When talking about content, spelling and grammar cannot be underestimated.

5. Clutter

We all know at least one small business website that seems to include everything but the proverbial kitchen sink. Many small business owners tend to cram as much as they can onto a single page — the end result is a busy, cluttered and unreadable page.
The more extraneous items there are on a web page, the more unprofessional it looks, and it becomes overwhelming, confusing and distracting for the user. A cluttered website will also affect traffic because visitors won’t return if they can’t understand or follow the content, which leads to low traffic, a high bounce rate and possibly a poor Page Rank.
Clutter also applies to images. Too many can be a huge distraction and just plain annoying. Images should be used to illustrate, capture attention and guide the user where required.
Follow these guidelines for a more streamlined visitor experience:
  • Challenge every item on each page and ask, “Does it really need to be there? Does it serve a specific purpose? Can I live without it?”
  • The key is to aid the visitor in finding the information they’re looking for, so make sure to differentiate between areas of content, advertisements and promotions.
  • Prioritize your content and decide what is the most important to your visitor and potential customer — and sell it well.
Even the greatest content can become lost in a mess of words and graphics, so de-cluttering is essential.
These are just five web design mistakes that many small businesses make. What other mistakes have you noticed on small business websites?

Posted By Waqas A.12:16

Tips To Get More Comments On Your Blog


Comments are always like an award to your blog posts. Every Blogger wants to get  huge number of comments on their blog but sometimes they failed to get it. Bloggers should use few techniques in order to get huge number of valuable comments because comments brand your blog posts.
Here are Few techniques which helps in getting huge number of valuable comments:
1. Write Useful Posts: First of all I suggest to write a post which is useful to others, then only they want to read it and comment on it. If you write a post which is no of use for others then why do they waste their time in reading your blog post. So its primary to write the thing that is useful for your readers and for this you should analyse that who are your readers. Try to find out about your readers, about their needs, about their choice. Once you got to know about your readers and start writing for them then you will notice a sudden increase in the number of comments.
2. Ask Questions: Try to ask specific questions in your blog posts which relates to that post.
For example, while writing about Google + and facebook you can ask put a question at the end as “so what do you think who will be the winner?”
It just an example you can write questions that is related to that blog post.
3. Answer The Comments: Try to read every comments on your blog posts and if any comment need an answer then write answer for them, also if you want then you can thank your all commenters for commenting on your post. Atleast thank for for them who comments on your blog for the first time. This will increase the interest of the commenter to come again to your blog.
4. Use CommentLuv Plugin: Try to use comment luv plugin on your bog. I have already discussed about this plugin so I am not describing here again.
5. Top Commenter Widget: Have top commentator widget on your blog. This will increase commentator’s interest to comment on your blog because they will get traffic for their blog from here.
6. Be calm and Polite: many a time you can get comments which tells about your post’s weaknesses then Just Don’t get angry, be calm and admit if you have find the weakness and reply to the comment politely.
sometimes you can get criticism also because you are writing for the people then just don’t be angry and handle the situation politely.
7. Select Easy Comment System: Many a time I saw sites which wants login to comment. Personally I avoid those type of sites. Sometimes the post is just amazing but I don’t comment their just because of login issue. Also I suggest to use wordpress default comment system because its very simple and easy to use. Keep your comment section very simple to use.


Posted By Waqas A.08:08

Five Easy Ways to Make the Most of Your Blog Archives


Content creation doesn’t necessarily need to mean writing something completely new. Instead, how about putting your archives to work for you?
You’ve probably got lots of great content buried in your acrhives. New readers won’t often go back to old posts – so to make the most of your content, try some of these ideas:

#1: Link Back to Old Posts

Yes, this is very simple – but are you doing it? By simply linking to older posts, you help drive traffic to them. You might even write a “round-up” post to showcase some of the best pieces from the past. (Some bloggers do an annual round-up, for instance.)

#2: Republish Great Posts

Is a fantastic post gathering dust in your archives? Then pull it back into the light of day. New readers probably won’t have ever seen it; long-term readers will almost certainly have forgotten it.

#3: Promote Old Posts Too

You probably do a great job of promoting your new posts: you might tweet about them, share them on your Facebook page, ask other bloggers to help promote them, and so on. But how often do you promote your old posts? It takes just seconds throw out a quick tweet linking to a past post – but those sections can bring in a lot of new traffic.

#4: Publish an Ebook

Perhaps you’d love to write an ebook — as a freebie for your newsletter list, or as a low-priced product – but you just don’t have the time. How about pullling together some of your old posts? You’ll want to add some introductory material and you may need to do a bit of editing … but 90% of your ebook will be ready-made.

#5: Record Audio Versions

Not everyone likes to consume content in written form. Your readers might be keen on a podcast or audio product, but that could be a lot of work for you. Instead of coming up with all-new material, how about making audio recordings of some of your best posts?
If you’ve come up with any other creative ways to make great use of your blog archives, let us know in the comments!

Posted By Waqas A.19:32

4 Tips That Will Help Make Your Blog SEO Friendly


It all starts with Keywords: Research and Optimize your keywords:
Everything starts with relevant keywords, since keywords themselves are the backbone/premise of the entire search engine system. It is through keywords that search engines pull up your website/blog for display when a visitor types in his keywords. So, to make your blog SEO friendly, make sure that your keywords are used effectively. It is great idea to use your target keywords in the name of your blog. Although you cannot do much if your blog is already registered, you can still use keywords in the text to make it easier for search engine spiders to find them. Further, when you post new blog posts, make sure that each of them has the right ratio of keyword usage. Ideally, 2% to 3% keyword usage is accepted as the best practice. It is also important that the keyword should not be used in excess since this will backfire, and begin to actually penalize your blog (natural writing should be fine, it’s just overstuffing the words that causes problems).
Friendly Templates with built in support:
Another way of optimizing your blog with regard to search engine optimization is to select a blog template that is simple and makes easy navigation for search engine spiders. Clarity of blog design makes for good SEO practices. There are thousands of themes and readymade templates in platforms such as WordPress and Blogger that you can choose from. Also, be sure to select custom urls, to make your post titles using the name of post, rather than nonsensical numbers. This is not only good for SEO, but also end users, as they can clearly understand what the post is all about before clicking.
Regular updates, and maintenance go a long way:
The most important aspect of search engine optimization is maintenance and updating of the blog – spiders simply love fresh unique content. The content provided has to be regularly added for optimal results. More importantly, every blog post that you update should be of high quality, since visitor time spent on page and bounce rate are becoming part of ranking factors. The contents have to be error free and if there are links to other blogs or pages, they need to be well connected (unrelated links still work, but for the best contextual links and authority, relevancy is king). Broken links are not appreciated by search engines; make sure to have a proper 404 page, as well as redirect strategy for changed pages (htaccess or plugins can simplify this). You can enrich your site by including audio and embedding video links. When partaking in link building, make sure that the links are all related and that there is no spam links directly to your blog. Quality of links is of prime importance. You need to pay proper attention to the blog to make sure that it is well kept. Also, posting links to your blog in various places such as article directories, comments in other blogs, forums and social book marking sites will help build brand awareness and notify the spiders that your site is important, talked about, and worth indexing often.
No need to reinvent the wheel: Plugins to expedite the optimization process:
Plugins are a boon to blog owners since they offer a lot of opportunities to manage your blogs in an efficient manner. One of the best plugins that you can use is All-in-one SEO. This plugin helps in optimizing keywords, checking whether there are copied contents in the blog and even in choosing the best content. Other very effective plugins that can help are Automatic SEO links that helps in choosing phrases or words for linking, No Follow Case by Case that helps in keeping away from no follow sites, SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin and Sitemap Generator. There are numerous other plugins that can be used to great effect. Trial and error will always play a role in creating a more optimized blog, but if you research keywords, create good content, and effectively use tools such as plugins and ready-made templates, then you make becoming a success that much easier.

Posted By Waqas A.12:16

32 Tips to Make Blogging Easier


  1. Set limits on the time allowed for writing.
  2. Always have a large backlog of content.
  3. Follow a lower frequency of posts.
  4. Capture interesting tid bits you find with Evernote.
  5. Be passionate.
  6. Write about a broader niche.
  7. Take extended breaks.
  8. Don’t write till you drop – stop writing when you’re on a roll.
  9. Follow clear structures in your content (headings, sub-headings, bullet points etc).
  10. Pick a predominant medium.
  11. Ask visitors what they want.
  12. Make every piece of content count.
  13. Never stop reading and learning.
  14. Set higher standards for yourself as motivation.
  15. Forget word count – say more with less.
  16. Identify the time when brainstorming for you is most effective and stick with that.
  17. The moment it’s not fun: STOP! (and come back to it later)
  18. Experiment with different mediums.
  19. Clear your head with exercise, good food and a glass of water.
  20. Write down EVERY idea, no matter how silly it may seem.
  21. Clear off other items from your to-do list.
  22. Ask visitors to help with research – have them send in quotes etc.
  23. Believe in what you’re saying.
  24. Be both topical and non-topical.
  25. Don’t overthink it – your content is not set in stone.
  26. Think in lists.
  27. Always be creating content (if only in your mind).
  28. Trust that what you have to say is important.
  29. Plug your niche(s) into the Adwords keyword tool.
  30. Monitor what related blogs are saying.
  31. Add variety to your workflow.
  32. Be ruthless. If you’re not feeling an article, delete it.

Posted By Waqas A.08:33

20 SEO Terms You Should Know


If you have a website or blog, or if you work with anything related to the Internet, you’ll certainly need to know a bit about search engine optimization (SEO). A good way to get started is to familiarize yourself with the most common terms of the trade, and below you’ll find 20 of them. (For those who already know SEO, consider this post as a refresher!).
1. SEM: Stands for Search Engine Marketing, and as the name implies it involves marketing services or products via search engines. SEM is divided into two main pillars: SEO and PPC. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and it is the practice of optimizing websites to make their pages appear in the organic search results. PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click, and it is the practice of purchasing clicks from search engines. The clicks come from sponsored listings in the search results.
2. Backlink: Also called inlink or simply link, it is an hyperlink on another website pointing back to your own website. Backlinks are important for SEO because they affect directly the PageRank of any web page, influencing its search rankings.
3. PageRank: PageRank is an algorithm that Google uses to estimate the relative important of pages around the web. The basic idea behind the algorithm is the fact that a link from page A to page B can be seen as a vote of trust from page A to page B. The higher the number of links (weighted to their value) to a page, therefore, the higher the probability that such page is important.
4. Linkbait: A linkbait is a piece of web content published on a website or blog with the goal of attracting as many backlinks as possible (in order to improve one’s search rankings). Usually it’s a written piece, but it can also be a video, a picture, a quiz or anything else. A classic example of linkbait are the “Top 10″ lists that tend to become popular on social bookmarking sites.
5. Link farm. A link farm is a group of websites where every website links to every other website, with the purpose of artificially increasing the PageRank of all the sites in the farm. This practice was effective in the early days of search engines, but today they are seeing as a spamming technique (and thus can get you penalized).
6. Anchor text: The anchor text of a backlink is the text that is clickable on the web page. Having keyword rich anchor texts help with SEO because Google will associate these keywords with the content of your website. If you have a weight loss blog, for instance, it would help your search rankings if some of your backlinks had “weight loss” as their anchor texts.
7. NoFollow: The nofollow is a link attribute used by website owners to signal to Google that they don’t endorse the website they are linking to. This can happen either when the link is created by the users themselves (e.g., blog comments), or when the link was paid for (e.g., sponsors and advertisers). When Google sees the nofollow attribute it will basically not count that link for the PageRank and search algorithms.
8. Link Sculpting: By using the nofollow attribute strategically webmasters were able to channel the flow of PageRank within their websites, thus increasing the search rankings of desired pages. This practice is no longer effective as Google recently change how it handles the nofollow attribute.
9. Title Tag: The title tag is literally the title of a web page, and it’s one of the most important factors inside Google’s search algorithm. Ideally your title tag should be unique and contain the main keywords of your page. You can see the title tag of any web page on top of the browser while navigating it.
10. Meta Tags: Like the title tag, meta tags are used to give search engines more information regarding the content of your pages. The meta tags are placed inside the HEAD section of your HTML code, and thus are not visible to human visitors.
11. Search Algorithm: Google’s search algorithm is used to find the most relevant web pages for any search query. The algorithm considers over 200 factors (according to Google itself), including the PageRank value, the title tag, the meta tags, the content of the website, the age of the domain and so on.
12. SERP: Stands for Search Engine Results Page. It’s basically the page you’ll get when you search for a specific keyword on Google or on other search engines. The amount of search traffic your website will receive depends on the rankings it will have inside the SERPs.
13. Sandbox: Google basically has a separate index, the sandbox, where it places all newly discovered websites. When websites are on the sandbox, they won’t appear in the search results for normal search queries. Once Google verifies that the website is legitimate, it will move it out of the sandbox and into the main index.
14. Keyword Density: To find the keyword density of any particular page you just need to divide the number of times that keyword is used by the total number of words in the page. Keyword density used to be an important SEO factor, as the early algorithms placed a heavy emphasis on it. This is not the case anymore.
15. Keyword Stuffing: Since keyword density was an important factor on the early search algorithms, webmasters started to game the system by artificially inflating the keyword density inside their websites. This is called keyword stuffing. These days this practice won’t help you, and it can also get you penalized.
16. Cloaking. This technique involves making the same web page show different content to search engines and to human visitors. The purpose is to get the page ranked for specific keywords, and then use the incoming traffic to promote unrelated products or services. This practice is considering spamming and can get you penalized (if not banned) on most search engines.
17. Web Crawler: Also called search bot or spider, it’s a computer program that browses the web on behalf of search engines, trying to discover new links and new pages. This is the first step on the indexation process.
18. Duplicate Content: Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. You should avoid having duplicate content on your website because it can get you penalized.
19. Canonical URL: Canonicalization is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a “standard” canonical representation. A canonical URL, therefore, is the standard URL for accessing a specific page within your website. For instance, the canonical version of your domain might be http://www.domain.com instead of http://domain.com.
20. Robots.txt: This is nothing more than a file, placed in the root of the domain, that is used to inform search bots about the structure of the website. For instance, via the robots.txt file it’s possible to block specific search robots and to restrict the access to specific folders of section inside the website.

Posted By Waqas A.23:00

30 Essential SEO Resources for Beginners


For many bloggers, SEO seems like some kind of black magic that only super technical people can ever get the hang of.
I’ll admit, starting out with SEO can be very intimidating.
The massive amounts of information (and misinformation) is enough to send any blogger into a state I like to call “information paralysis”, where they are unable to act.
I’d like to alleviate some of that today.
Below I’ve outlined some of the most essential and trusted SEO resources, from blogs, to tools, to guides, to forums and conferences: it’s all here.
Dive in below, and don’t let the fear of learning something new stop you from utilizing this great inbound marketing aspect.

SEO Blogs

It’s always good practice to keep updated on the world of SEO with the top SEO blogs.
Below I’ve outlined a few of my personal favorites, covering search engine news, tips, and algorithm changes.
  • Search Engine Land – One of the biggest blogs on search engine news and information.
  • SEOmoz – One of my favorite SEO blogs, I’m also a contributor, split between the main blog and the YouMoz blog, filled with good SEO articles.
  • SEO Book – Aaron Wall creates some truly great articles, love him or hate him, you should be reading his blog.
  • Matt Cutts – Head of Google’s webpam team, you should probably listen to him or something.
  • Search Engine Journal – Great blog for link building, PPC, and optimization information.
  • Google’s Blog – Google’s main blog, not much on SEO specifically, but it’s good to know what Big G is up to.

SEO Guides

Blogs can be an incredible source of information.
Unfortunately, for the newbie, they are too split up: info is spread throughout hundreds (or thousands) of posts.
These complete guides offer a more thorough offering on learning SEO.

SEO Tools

SEO can be an immense time sink if you aren’t careful.
Definitely check out a few of the SEO tools below that can save you countless hours and a ton of frustration.
Just be sure not to spend too much time playing around with the tools instead of actually using them!
  • Google Keyword Tool – If there is one “getting started” tool that you must learn about, it’s this one. Know it well, you’ll use it forever (or at least as long as Google is around).
  • SEOmoz’s Tools – A comprehensive suite of tools that I’ve started to fall in love with. It’s paid (and a premium price), but very useful.
  • Google Webmaster Tools – If you are going to play Big G’s game (whitehat style), you need to use their tools.
  • Open Site Explorer – A individual SEOmoz tool that’s perfect for checking competitor’s backlinks, as well as other metrics. More comprehensive if you’re a pro user.
  • Serp IQ – One of my recent favorite tools to emerge on the market, tons of great uses from competition analysis to keyword discovery, this tool is insanely fast and has a ton of great features.
  • Scribe SEO – A super useful tool (especially if you are focusing on WordPress SEO) because it breaks down keyword density to perfection.
  • SpyFu – Great for spying on your competitors, specifically their advertising.
  • Wordtracker Keyword Tool – A classic, must use for keyword research.
  • Market Samurai – Still one of the best keyword analysis tools on the market, perfect for checking SEO competition, although it runs somewhat slowly (Adobe Air).

SEO Forums

Although guides and blogs can offer a ton of essential information, sometimes you are going to have questions.
Forums are a great spot to get these questions answered.

Conferences

A bit advanced for most, but a great way to really dive into SEO is to know about (and go to) the many search engine related conferences.
  • SES Conference – SES is the leading global event series about search and social marketing, with a focus on tactics and best practices.
  • Blueglass – BlueGlass’ Internet Marketing Conferences have quickly become known in the web marketing circles as being premier events for learning the latest strategies, interacting with the speakers and networking
  • Search Marketing Expo – Another leading search engine conference.

Posted By Waqas A.22:58

5 SEO Principles I Learned Over The Years


I don’t consider myself an SEO expert, but I have been in the trenches for many years already, and managed to build some fairly successful websites when it comes to search engine traffic, with a couple of them breaking the one million monthly visitors mark.
Over this time I came across many SEO tips and tricks, but those come and go. On the other hand there are some basic principles that never change, and I want to talk about some of them.
1. Clichê as it may sound, content is still king.
You probably already know this, so I won’t waste too many words on this point. But yeah having unique and useful content is still the cornerstone of any SEO strategy. Without it no sophisticated SEO tactics will be able to drive a lot of organic traffic to your website.
2. You have to partner with Google, and not compete against it.
When trying to optimize your website for Google you have basically two approaches to follow: you either co-operate with it or you try to out-smart it.
Out-smarting it involves trying to find loopholes in the algorithm, ways to trick the search bots, methods to artificially increase your rankings and so on. The so-called blackhat SEO. In my opinion this is the worst approach you can follow, as it might work in the short term, but in the long run you’ll probably have a lot of headaches.
If instead you play along with Google you’ll be building a more solid asset out of your websites, and in the long term you’ll receive a lot more traffic from it. 
3. Understand Google’s business model
In the previous point I talk about partnering with Google, but what does that mean in practice? It means that you should understand Google’s business model and support it with your websites.
Essentially Google makes money by serving search results that match exactly what people are looking for, and by serving ads both on those search result pages and on partner websites that have content matching the search queries.
In other words, if you want to rank high in search results you need to make sure that your content will match and satisfy the needs of whatever your visitors might be searching for on Google. If you get this part right half the battle is already won.
4. Unique and useful content is not enough
As I mentioned in the first point, having unique and useful content should always be the first part of your SEO strategy. Even if you have buttloads of high quality content, though, this alone will not be enough to drive organic traffic to your website.
Why not? Because simply writing and publishing that content on your website doesn’t mean that Google will know about it, let alone trust it. You can achieve this will the point below.
5. Get people talking about your content/website
The second half of the SEO equation (the first one being having unique and useful content) is to get Google to know and trust your content. Without getting technical, you can achieve this by getting other people to talk about your content and website.
For example, if you write a highly articulated post explaining what caused the latest financial crisis it’s likely that many financial bloggers will link to your post, people interested in finance will share and like your post on Facebook, others will retweet it, so on and so forth. Google tracks all those mentions, and it will figure that your content is probably top notch. The result is that your post will rank high when people search on Google for related terms.

Posted By Waqas A.22:15