We all want blog traffic; we all want more readers, comments and money. Let’s face it, these tasks are not easy and when we have no one to learn from it can become very frustrating while others around us continue to excel and succeed.

My Friend Ana, from Traffic Generation Cafe can help you meet all your online blogging goals. She knows the secrets to success and is willing to share these secrets with you.

She has a program dedicated to helping blogger generate quality traffic to their blog sites. Ana has written a Free SEO Report that will help you learn how the big bloggers generate their traffic. This report will share the 7 steps Ana had taken to have full Search engine control. (more…)

When you’re serious about blogging the first step you need to take it too look at some professional SEO and SEM Consultants. Unlike the tips and tricks you get from other bloggers these professionals know the real ways to dramatically increase your page rank and Search Engine traffic.

Many bloggers take Search Engine Optimization for granted and think installing a simple plugin will do the trick. In fact a lot of man years of work goes into optimizing a website properly for search engines and trust me it’s not something you can do on your own.

When you’re reaching out looking for professional support always ask to see references. You have to know the company you’re looking at does only white hat SEO. This is the SEO that’s legal and will remain strong for many years to come with minor SEO tweaks. (more…)

One of the most important aspects of blogging is SEO. The great thing about SEO is once you set it, you can forget it. The hard part is understanding how to set it so it benefits your blog and increases blog traffic.

When I first started blogging I was all about SEO and marketing. But in all honesty SEO was a little hard for me and I tended to cover more topics on social media marketing and not SEO.

NetLZ is who I refer to for all my SEO needs because it’s easier to follow their blog instead of trying to keep up with all the changes myself. I do basic SEO and NetLZ has helped me maximize my search engine exposure.

If you’re looking simple SEO tips or advanced professional website optimization NetLZ has many services for you. They have the knowledge and staff to meet the smallest and largest of SEO projects. Make sure to visit their main site for package details. (more…)

The MY SEO Community is hosting The Mad SEO Scientist Guest Blogging Contest. This is your chance to show off your SEO skills and engage with other bloggers. I ask again, Do you want to win $1000 USD?

The contest is being held to celebrate the new launch of My SEO Community and they are inviting all the Blog Engage SEO bloggers to stop by and try their luck in the contest. So if you know SEO and want to give it a shot make sure to go and visit the official contest article for details.

This is not only a SEO contest but a chance for you to prove you know what you’re talking about when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. Some might say this is your chance to walk the walk seeing you’re already talking the talk. Get involved and engage as this is your chance to win $1000 USD. (more…)

The one thing that most people want to do with their blogging is to become on of the famous bloggers. One of those people who just seem to generate a ton of cash every time they log into their account and upload a new post to their site. Well even if you’re not one of those famous bloggers, you can still hang out with like-minded people at FamousBloggers.net.

Many sites that center around the SEO world and making money online tend to be boring and monotoned. But at FamousBloggers.net, site owner Hesham Zebida and his team try to work toward creating a fun environment where the average blogger can rub elbows with the famous ones and everyone gets to reside on the same playing field. (more…)

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?

2011 Best Guest Blogger Contest Article Approved

Bogging is probably the easiest and one of the most common activities online. Everyone are sharing loads of information in their blog. Even big companies utilize this increasingly popular web platform for marketing and advertising their own products. So do you want to make money from your blog? If you say Yes, let me tell you one thing – you’re not alone. More and more blogger are finding that blogging is a profitable medium.

In order to make money with your blog, you need to be organized and follow the formula that works for everyone. In spite of proven results over time, individuals still have a difficult time making a go of their blogs in the revenue department. The reason for this is that frustration builds quite easily among those without a plan before they actually start their blogs. When they do not see immediate results and are not even sure what they should be blogging about, it is too easy to give up and move on to the next idea, which also fails when not hashed out correctly. Avoid the headaches and instead follow this formula for success:

Improve the content and the functionality of your blog

Each day try to improve the content and the functionality of your blog. That means making sure each of your posts is search engine optimized and that you have catchy headlines that readers and the search engines will love. Take one positive step in any area that you can think of. Sign up for services that rank your site as soon as they are “pinged”. Pings happen with each update that you make to the blogs content. The more of them that you have, the higher your rating will be, and the more likely that you will be noticed by organic traffic.

Plan your content

Plan your content well ahead of time. The only way to really have good content is to follow a clear plan for it. Your blog should follow a niche market. It should not be a random scrabbling of thoughts, diary style, depending on how you feel that day. People come to blogs because they have special interests that they feel compelled to pursue. By appealing to the reasons that an audience would visit day in and day out, you are bettering your chances of getting added to their blog-rolls. In addition to this, if you do not plan ahead, it is too easy to run out of ideas and feel overwhelmed by the constant attention that a blog needs to be successful.

Get advertisements using your traffic growth

Once your audience and content is in place, you can start using your traffic growth to charge for outside advertising. While free pay-per-click advertising may work for some, you ideally want to attract sponsors willing to give money to your cause on a monthly basis, simply because advertising to your audience is beneficial to them. In addition to this, your audience themselves can be a source of income for you. Have a product or service to sell, or at least make your content so compelling that they will wish to donate with regularity.

Following this formula ensures that you will be ahead of the game and well on your way to making money. Remember one thing -

Where there is a Will, there is a Way.

The Google +1 button could potentially turn SEO on its head, it isn’t just another button to be put on your website along with Facebook, Twitter, Linked and others: it’s going to be essential. Google’s +1 of course is very much like the Facebook like button but the big difference is that you get to see what people have liked or rather +1’ed before you have clicked a link in Google search.

People with a Google Public Profile can +1 pages and see how many people overall and which of their contacts have +1’ed sites, presumably numbers of +1s will be visible to everyone in the near future though.

The Google +1 is for Google organic search and for the paid for Google Adwords search results. The +1 button is currently available to people logging in to their Google accounts only on search results where you can +1 results before even clicking through to them, more likely though people will +1 once they have read a page. Also it is important to remember that the +1s are for individual pages rather than the site as a whole, so having the button on all of your site’s pages is vital.

With Google Adwords it may be even more important to get some +1s showing by your result as otherwise your click through rate may dip and your ads slump down a few positions from which it could be hard to get back from.

Anyone with a website with good positions on Google already needs to take action immediately with +1 to get the jump on their competitors and make sure they keep their position: as with organic results how often your result is clicked on when showing for particular keywords does have some bearing on your position in results for that keyword.

Whether the number of +1s your pages have got will ever directly influence your position in search results in the same way as Pagerank remains to be seen but for now the indirect effect of you either increasing your click through rate or losing clicks to competitors is vital.

That is assuming of course that people will pay attention to the number of +1s a page has, it may well take some time until people get used to it and understand what it means. Presumably some types of pages will be more likely to get +1s than others; insurance broker’s websites may get few +1s compared to Justin Beiber Fansites. It will also be interesting to see whether people will pay more attention to how many +1s there are or if they will go for those pages that have been +1’ed by friends.

Looking at which of your site’s pages have the most +1s will be interesting, especially for those sites with a few writers: whose articles are most popular and what kind of content is going down well? In future perhaps we will see +1 data shown in Google Analytics.

From an SEO point of view building up +1s will be important to boost positions quickly and could therefore be an affordable SEO option and help out smaller businesses compete with big budgets of larger competitors.