Are you one of those bloggers who cannot put HTML 5 authorship markups in their “About Me” citation because of HTML sanitizers? Since June 2011, Google bots have been reading rel=author and rel=me markups inside the link tag to improve the relevancy of search results. Since these markups are new, the HTML sanitizers of most web publishers are not yet configured to recognize these tags, leaving their contributors incapable of adding this Google-friendly attributes in their bio links.
SEO is an important part of any successful blog. And there are lots of great tools out there that can help you with different expect of SEOing your blog. But, lets face it, usually most good tools cost you some money. That can be a problem for many bloggers specially new bloggers who just started this journey and are either not comfortable with spending money on such tools or dont have the means to do so.
Thankfully, there are some very good free SEO tools out there that are amongst the best SEO tools. Some would even argue that these free SEO tools provide more value than the ones that cost you hundreds of dollars. Whether that’s true or not is for another post. Whats important and known is that these free tools are amongst the best SEO tools. Here they are:
5 Free SEO Tools Better Than Their Paid Counterparts
Ranking Checker
A great tool from SEOmoz.com that enables you to check your ranking for up to 5 keywords simultaneously (the paid version allows for more keywords). You can download the results as CSV which you can use later on to track and compare your SERP movement.
However, you have to register for a free SEOmoz account, which if you haven’t done so yet, I highly suggest you do. SEOmoz is a goldmine of SEO tools and tips.
SEO for Firefox
Its a FireFox extension tool by SEOBook.com. It provides information on so many different aspects of SEO, from PageRank, domain age and backlinks in Yahoo to WhoIs, Technorati and number of .edu and gov Link and more. This tool is a must have!
Google Analytics
In my opinion, by far the best SEO tool you could ever ask for. I mean, whats better than getting it straight from a search engines that most of your efforts evolves around optimizing your blog for. An easy to use and a powerful free tool that enables you to analyze your site’s traffic and marketing effectiveness of it.
By the way, installing Google analytics is a great way to get your site indexed fairly quickly.
Keyword Suggestion Tool
A simple and easy to use keyword tool that helps you find the best possible keywords and phrases. Simply enter a keyword and it returns lost of related keywords and combination.
Google Keyword Tool- Adwords
Another great tool (do they make anything beside great!) that I myself use every time I write a new post. Enter a keyword or a phrase and it returns all the related keywords and phrases. A great tool for finding big keywords with low competition.
I am sure there are lots of other great free SEO tools out there as well. But, I think these are the most useful and trusted free tools that every blogger should be using.
Your turn:
Do you use any of the above tools?
What other free SEO tools, if any, do you use?
Are there any free SEO tools you think are worth more than paid tools?
Often, we are too occupied focusing on link building and pinning down the offsite facets of SEO to fulfill the norms of ‘Google’ and to not pay too much heed to other on-page aspects.
If you desire a long term, continuing success in SEO, you will have to pay close attention to your on page SEO as well.
Here are 5 ‘on-page’ SEO tips that might be of some help to you;
1. Optimize your title tag
The title tag is significant in terms of SEO. Just do not type in the name of the company and leave it. Give you’re the main keyword the top priority, at the start of the title tag, and make sure that there is a natural element to its flow, and that it does not read too long, as Google might cut off your title abruptly.
2. Use your link text appropriately
The text that forms a hyperlink is the subject of your target page, according to Google. If you wish that a specific term is linked to a page, via Google, then you should use that term in the anchor text of the hyperlinks. Nevertheless, you need to ensure that the text has a natural flow to it and will not distract the reader.
3. Keep in mind, the ‘Alt’ attributes
Often people, overlook having these attributes on images. Basically, this text informs the readers’, information about the picture. It is important for the W3C validity, but the brownie point is the SEO. If the picture is linked to some other page, the alt text will be as good as the anchor text in a text based hyperlink. By using the keywords in the alt text, one can avail a little more SEO benefits out of his/her pages.
4. Make sure the coding is clean and validated
Having a code that is clean and structured and is in confirmation with the W3C standards will make sure that search engine spiders and browsers can read and navigate your website with ease, and can take out important information from your website and can decipher its motive and its connotation. Making life easier for Google can make life much easier for you, and you can observe the advantages in your search engine rankings in a relatively short amount of time.
5. Make sure the quality of the website is superlative
There is always the temptation of spamming the web pages to avail the benefits of the search engines, and make the site look beseech with keywords. You don’t want the browsers to be left with a bad taste in the mouth after encountering your website, after you’ve made him/her anticipate that yours is a top quality site.
I wanted to touch base on this topic seeing many people are becoming very excited about the most recent Google Page Rank updates.
I don’t want to talk much about who went up but rather who went down and why. When you’re out marketing and promoting blog you have to understand every link you create Google will cache and use it towards generating your Page Rank value.
You’re probably asking what does this have to do with my page rank right?
Well if the websites you’re marketing in are no longer up and running, shut down or re built you have lost all your back links. When Google runs their update your page rank will naturally drop if this is the case.
Remember all the times you guys spent at Blogger Luv and Bloggingzoom? Well guess what? It’s now considered time well wasted! This is why I wrote an article a year or so back, Determining where to market your blog.
If you were an active member in those communities you most likely lost hundreds of backlinks that once made your blog a PR4. So remember the next time you start investing time in a social network make sure it’s going to be around for a while and the owner is dedicated towards the community.
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Don’t ever listen to anyone that says they can get you ranked high in the search engines within a month for competitive keywords. This is not true and if they are successful it will be using Black Hat SEO techniques and Google will ban you from their search results permanently.
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With most people around the world hooked onto the Internet these days, conventional marketing practices are undergoing a revamp. Most people are of the belief that the Internet has annulled their worth and cost-effectiveness as part of a marketing plan.
The Offline World: With quite a few marketing experts as well as traditional media persons, mourning the demise of newspaper readership and subscription renewals, web versions of every newspaper have risen to the occasion to support their offline counterparts. As directories are losing ground to local-based search apps, many marketers are speculating over the future of the local search industry.
However, website owners and companies should not leave the traditional marketing efforts in favor of SEO and SEM any more than they should completely neglect the altering landscape and the resultant shifting to the online world. Following either of these tunnel vision approaches will only affect the business, the brand and the company’s bottom line, negatively, in the long run.
The Online World: Having a presence on the web gives companies a chance to connect with their consumers on a different stage. Their brand can peek into the user’s lives at more points than ever, with each and every moment possessing the potential to lead that user to action.
Day by day, more and more users turn to search engines to ask questions and look for information. It does not make any sense for a company to not promote their website as an answer to the user’s query. It is particularly significant to have an online presence when users search for that particular company or one of their brands in particular.
The prevalence of social media websites and the new phenomenon of daily deal providers such as “Groupon” and “LivingSocial”, companies can push their SEO efforts and scale an even wider consumer base that, can be more targeted and specific that before.
However, none of these online endeavors are instant remedies that can make up for the scarcity in offline branding and promotion. If consumers are not aware of a company by the name or the product, it makes the discoverability of the company’s website all the more difficult. The user might only search for it by fluke, if at all. Hence, online and offline efforts need to work collectively to help the business expand their consumer base and promote their brand.
Blogging is a fantastic way of making an extra income online and if done correctly, blogging can change your life financially. Before you start to blog online, you need to identify your interest or hobby. Never try to blog in a market that you are not familiar with this is because you will end up providing unrelated content that might not resolve problems of your readers.
Blogging is not for everybody but if you plan and execute your strategy well definitely you will be successful in the blogging industry. In this article I will discuss some blogging tips that might help you in making money online.
Below are some tips that can help you in building your business blog.
1) Keyword Research
Doing keyword research is an effective way of identifying a profitable keyword that is really hungry for either information or service. To be highly successful in keyword research, I would recommend that you select a high traffic keyword with less competition. Do not go overboard when conducting keyword research.
2) Build your Blog
Once you have identified a profitable keyword, what you should do is to build your blog. When you create your, blog make sure to select the best blogging platform. In my own experience I think it’s only WordPress and Blogspot that are the best. The reason why the said blogging platforms are popular it’s because they are search engine friendly.
3) Product Selection
When you are selecting products to promote, I would encourage that you choose only three products to promote as an affiliate. The reason why I am recommending three products it’s because it will brand you as a professional blogger within your industry. Affiliate marketing is a big industry that you should not let it go just like that. The best markets to find products to promote are clickbank.com, paydotcom.com, linkshare.com and commissionjunction.com
4) Blog Promotion
Blog promotion is a powerful strategy that every savvy marketers and small business owners use. Without highly quality traffic you cannot be a successful blogger within your niche.
Below are traffic generation methods that you should use when blogging online.
a. Article Marketing
Content marketing is a powerful method that you should not miss in your marketing effort. What you should do is to write a killer article that will attract visitors. To be successful in article marketing make sure to write a pillar content that has a minimum word count of 700 or 1000, then write three original article and submit them to blog networks with the help of an automated article distribution software or service. Below are examples of article marketing tools.
b. Social Media
From my own experience I really don’t like social marketing this is because it has not worked for me but from what I here it’s a very powerful strategy in gaining quality links. The only success I had was with digg, com only.
c. Form Marketing
Marketing your blog to forums can really generate instant traffic to your site. When you are dealing with forums make sure not to spam forums as this will destroy your repetition from your initial visitors and search engines. To be successful, I would suggest that you sign-up with a few top forums that are related to your niche and put your signature with your keyword embedded on it. With forums you can get 6 to 100 visitors per day. Below are two powerful forums you can use them.
d. Email Marketing
Email marketing is one of the life line of your blog traffic this is because to convert more sales you need to build a solid relationship with your subscriber and as the term suggest it means that you market your blog with emails. To be successful in email marketing you need to know how to write a killer email that can convert visitors into a profitable subscriber. The best email marketing tools that you should use are:
e. Pay Per Click
If you want instant result then pay per click is the way to go. Pay per click is when you only pay for a click from a potential visitor. The best way to be profitable with PPC is to use long tail keywords that are cheap and high in traffic volume. The best tools that can help you generate longtail keywords are;
Once you have the above tools the next step is to select the best PPC program and from my own experience Google Adwords is the best pay per click program. Below some tool you can use for your PPC marketing;
f. Media Buy
Buying an Adspace on popular blog can really bring thousands of visitors to your blog. The best way to use media buy is to purchase Adspace on highly and related niche blogs within your market. But when you use the media buy make sure to have a minimum of $1000 this is because you can lose or make more. Media buy are very expensive but highly successful.
Below are programs to use when buying ads;
From the above steps, you can see that blogging online is an income opportunity that you should take advantage of. From what I have explained in this article i would encourage that you take them with a positive mind. If you want to make an extra income online, then you should think of blogging for profit.
Official June 2011 Monthly Guest Blogging Contest Post #10
Contest Article
To rank #1 on major search engines it’s not a rocket science, but if you know how to play your cards right, then you can dominate the entire Google search results. In this article I will discuss how you can dominate and crush your competitors with the help of web2mayhem submission tool.
Below is a powerful blueprint that you can implement and start to receive more traffic than expected.
1) Step One: First thing first is what I call Keyword Research. What you should do is keyword research for your profitable niche. When you are evaluating your market make sure to select a less competitive keyword with high traffic volume. The tool I use is Google Keyword Tool this is because it gives me keywords that are profitable and are used by advertisers
2) Step Two: After keyword research you should write 4-6 original articles. You can outsource to seo article writing service or you can write own your own if it needs be. After you have written your original content, then rewrite your 4-6 original articles so that in total you will have 8-12 articles for marketing.
3) Step Three: At this point you should take the 4-6 original articles and post them to www.ezinearticles.com www.squidoo.com www.hubpage.com and www.wordpress.com Make sure to link to your blog or website with your primary keyword.
4) Step Four: Now its time to post the rewrites to content sites. Kindly follow the below steps in submitting the rewrites articles
a. Take your First rewritten article and submit it using an article submission tool and make sure to link back to your www.ezinearticles.com with your primary keyword.
b. Take the Second rewritten article and submit it using an article submission service or tool. For our case lets assume we are using www.web2mayhem.com . Make sure to link back to www.squidoo.com with your primary keyword.
c. Take the Third rewritten article and use www.web2mayhem.com and make sure to link back to your www.hubpage.com and this time round use a secondary keyword.
d. Take the Fourth rewrite article and submit using the said article submission tool and link back your www.wordpress.com
e. The last step, you should take your last rewritten article and use the said article submission software and link back to your www.yourwebsite.com and use your primary keyword.
From my own experience when you use the above link building process you can start to get results within 1 month. This process really works and Google can respect your site for good natural link building process. On May 2nd 2011 I implemented the above process for my forex trading blog (www.ebusinessreviews.net) and I was targeting ‘’Automatic Trading’’ and to my surprise my site ranked number 5 on page on google.com If you use the above process or you outsource your work I can assure you that your blog can rank high highly depending on your keyword.
Currently this is the process am using to rank my seo article writing service blog and for the last 1 week I have started to receive quality and highly targeted traffic. If you want to dominate the entire major search engines, then I would recommend that you use the above process.
Have a happy Link Building Process.
Building backlinks and generating traffic to your business is difficult and as a Professional Marketer with a three year Business Marketing Diploma I understand your concerns are sincere and relevant in today’s industry.
The most important aspect of marketing online with your business is building a solid foundation to your Search Engine Optimization. You don’t want to waste time building backlinks on a website that’s simply going to change or shut down. You need to build on long term SEO and Blog Engage can help you do this.
Don’t ever listen to anyone that says they can get you ranked high in the search engines within a month for competitive keywords. This is not true and if they are successful it will be using Black Hat SEO techniques and Google will ban you from their search results permanently.
You have to look at the long term in business because it takes time to build your brand and increase your Search Engine traffic. Invest today for the future of our online business with Blog Engage. Develop solid and high quality traffic. Engage with our real members and build real online traffic that converts into sales.
Blog Engage will help your online business grow by using long term business techniques that will increase your search engine ranking and build a very strong online brand. Our members will write solid reviews about your services link back to your website using unique contest and strong targeted keywords. This will in return increase your online presence and help build on long term relationships.
Blog Engage will also syndicate your business blogs content into our portfolio of social media sites. These are all DO Follow and will help your pages rank higher in the search engines. The backlinks generated from our services will rocket your company into search engine heaven.
I personally ensure all links here on Blog Engage are of high quality and this is why Google has been so good to Blog Engage and everyone we link to. Google knows we have high quality standards and our current Page Rank proves that over and over again.
Blog Engage will also syndicate your content into target categories strengthening the quality of your backlinks even more. This will allow your business to rank higher for unique targeted keywords over a long period of time.
A new feature we will be adding to our services is on site spotlight reviews of all our RSS Customers that have Business or Platinum Memberships. We will write reviews of your blogs services here on our communtiy blog for all our members to see.
This is a new service announced today and has not yet been added to the Blog Engage RSS Service and Contest Sponsorship page. Every month you remain a customer we will write a unique article/review about your business, achievements, success stories and more.
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Brian
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