3 Feb
2012

10 Hot Tips For Link Building The Smart Way

Google loves linkjuice – so we all have to love linkbuilding right? Well its time for you to do link building the smart way. So put the music on your iPod, grab your mug with coffee and get on the train. Ready? Take control of your link building.

I wanna show you 10 great websites where you can build backlinks to your juice loving website.

 

1) Friendfeed.com

Sign up for a free account on Friendfeed.com. Remember to register your main keyword phrase as your username.
FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates. Its a powerful feeder site where you can create back links to your homepage. If don’t have a account right now – go and do it – NOW.

On Friendfeed you can show 5 of your feeds. Just click on the add/edit and add all the URLs feeds that you own. You can use all kind of URL feeds from the web. Go and add the URL feed there to the assigned category feed or the custom feed field. When you refer back to you friendfeed account from all your other feed URLs, your profile will automatically be updated
Okay time for the next hot tip.

 

2) Flickr.com
sign up for a Flickr.com account. Again use your main keyword phrase as your username. Post some pictures on flickr and tag them all with your main keywords and also remember to include them in the short description. Remember to fill out the Tags description too at your pictures or videos.

And when its done – remember to grab your Flickr.com feed and add it to your Friendfeed account.
Remember to custom your Flickr URL to include your main keyword. You find you r RSS feed when you click to “Your Photostream”. Scroll down and copy the latest to the right of the RSS icon. Something much more easy is to go to Friendfeed – click the Flickr icon and add your username from Flickr
Awesome right? And remember we just got started. 2 down and 8 to go.

 

3) Tumblr.com
The next website we are gonna sign up for is Tubmlr.com. Again when you sign up use your main keyword phrase as your username. When you are done making your profile, make a post related to your blog, remember to use your main keyword in the title, the body text and tags.

Now click on your user URL – something like http://yourusername.tumblr.com (just write your username tumblr writes the rest) and right click on the RSS Feed and Copy Link Location. Then go back to your Friendfeed account paste your URL in the Feed category.

You get my point now right? Make some buzz around your site and copy the RSS Feed into Friendfeed.com. I know – I feel it too – we are getting closer and closer to putting the link building on autopilot right?

 

4) Zimbio.com
Okay you get my point now. Go sign up for Zimbio.com and use your main keyword as your username. Edit your profile and include your website URL in the box made for it.

You can also submit your blog, publish your existing articles and write new post – while linking back to your website – with a desire anchor text. It sounds like music in my ear.

 

5) Gather.com
Again a free account. Again use your main keyword as your username. Again create a profile and post a link back to your homepage with your desired anchor text, to your desired web pages. Gather.com has a PR6 (yes I know – Google doesn’t care much about this theses days).

 

6) About.me
Well .. I don’t really have to write what to do now … right? Okay I do it… Sign up, use your mail keywords as your usename, add your blog’s URL to your About.me profile.

Okay time for some new music. I love Paul McCartney, Sting, Beatles… yeah yeah yeah I know.. I love new music too as long as it got a groove feeling.

 

7) AboutUs.org
Same – set up your profile at AboutUs.org and do it all over…

Do you still have coffee in your mug?

 

8) Qondio.com
I only became aware of Qondio.com a few weeks ago. Qondio is an incredibly powerful resource for driving web traffic to your websites efficiently. Remember that your content on Qondio.com must be 100% unique, at least 500 words, you are allowed to include a keyword rich anchor text back to your homepage within your profile information. You must submit your blog and confirm you are the owner by Qondio’s verification process.

Qondio will ask other users to screen your article to make sure its high quality. So remember to do unique posts here. Very important..
Wow now we are almost done. I wanna do a list of 10. So here are the 2 last ones.

 

9) Flixya.com
On flixya.com you can upload videos, photos and submit unique blog post. So again don’t just copy and past a post. A least to some article spinning

 

10) OnTopList.com
Get yourself a OnTopLlist.com account. And yes its FREE. Here you can submit your blog or website to the the assigned category and write articles. Again unique and you can include up to 3 keywords. Like at the other sites use your main keyword as your username. And btw you can also add your feeds here.

I know to sign up on all theses site will take some time. I have done it. It took me 2 hours. So now I have a lot of automatic linkbuilding back to my site. You can do it too.

 

Wishing you a great day

Henrik
www.SeoCustomer.com

 

3 Jan
2012

5 Ways To Serve Your Blog Market

When someone decides to take the plunge and a create a blog invariably a market will need to be served and nourished. Think about the sites you visit for various topics, perhaps you visit Mashable for your social media fix and when you want to read up on and or see what’s new in tech – you pay a visit to Tech Crunch. Why do you think you go to these specific sites for these specific topics? Because they know and serve their market. Decide early on what your blog will be about (its niche or topic) and then aim to serve this up on a silver platter.

Don’t be shy about it, give it your all and give “them” what they want. Them being your readers. Let’s take a look below at the various ways you can do this whether on a daily, weekly or whatever schedule you decide to have for your blogs content.

1. Fresh (Relevant) Content - the number one reason anyone would visit your blog is because of your content. If your blog is about comics, odds are in your favor that those who will frequent your site will be comic book lovers and all levels of comic book lovers. From those newly interested in the topic to those who are die hard, ardent comic book loving fiends. Of course, you can specialize further and pick a sub niche within the bigger world of comics and then your readership will be even more fragmented. It doesn’t matter really who you go after, as long as you serve them and serve them well. As for fresh relevant content, this could take many different forms including lengthy tutorial type articles, mini reviews, news, how to pieces, videos, etc.

2. Community - another good reason someone would make a pit stop at your blog is because of its community. Maybe you receive a lot of comments on articles, or maybe you have an active and mouthy Twitter account. Promote this unique and coveted aspect of your blog, because popularity begets more popularity. If you have yet to create or develop a community on your blog now is a great time to do so, create a special page on your site letting your readers know they can follow you on the various social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and or Google Plus.
Make it clear that you welcome and reward comments by adding the Comment Luv plugin for WordPress powered blogs and or reward the most comments with a monthly giveaway. Get creative and see what your readers respond to the best.

3. By Listening - how will you know what to do for your market? By listening. Look at your comment area – what types of questions are you getting on a repeated basis, what content is most popular, most visited, most shared, etc. For deeper analysis you can visit your Google Analytics account (or other stat program) and see what is popular and what barely gets a visit. Take it from there and keep doing more of what is working and less of what is not working. You can also ask your readers directly via a survey or via a special “What Do You Guys Want To Read About” blog article. Just flat out ask them.

4. Adapting - having been in the blog business since early 2007, a lot has changed since then and one thing that has really changed is this thing called social media. It didn’t really exist in 2007 and has revolutionized blogging for better or worse. One thing that you will come across as you blog and become involved with online activities is that change is a constant. Everything changes and you will either learn and adapt to accommodate these changes or you will be left behind on the digital train.

5. Managing Future Growth - this piggybacks off of tip number 4 above where we mention that you’ll need to adapt to the myriad of changes that you will encounter in your blogging journey or it will be that much harder to survive and thrive. Look to see what you can add such as a forum, a social media page on your blog where your readers can engage with you and each other, a prominent comment area and so on. If after time your blog grows to the point where you can’t keep up with the comments, the guest posting, the traffic, etc then it might be time to bring in some help. Hire someone to help you once or twice a month to keep things on track and manage the growth. This is a good problem to have, but it needs to be properly managed like anything else to see it through to success.

We hope we have inspired you to at the very least think about your blog as an entity which needs to be treated as such. Serve your blog market and it will in turn serve you with traffic, readers, sales and possibly a nice passive income in the future. You never know.

By: Missy Diaz who writes for several clients including a car hire Italy service provider.

8 Dec
2011

What Bryan Clark could teach you about writing great Linkbait

Hey, thanks for the linkbait headlines, but what next???

One of the more common pieces of feedback I’ve received about LinkbaitGenerator.com is that, whilst it’s a really handy tool to brainstorm ideas for blog posts (and also adds to the ‘clicks appeal’ of a headline) it’s really hard to formulate content to match the eye-catching title.

Today I would like to run you through an excellent case study that, I hope, provides some tips as well as inspiration for that perfect viral blog post.

Enter Bryan Clark (whose name bears more than a little resemblance to that of Copyblogger) who does a spot of guestblogging over at Entrepreneurs Journey.

In his recent post ‘What Albert Einstein Can Teach You About Internet Marketing‘:

  1. Bryan starts with an attention-grabbing headline – after all, what WOULD Albert Einstein have in common with Internet Marketing?
  2. Shortlists  a number of quotes from the great man (e.g .”Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”)
  3. Crafts an argument to support the essence of the quote.  I loved how Bryan structured his essay on “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” . He proposes –  ”How about this as an idea: Instead of reading all the guru sites and then re-hashing stuff on your own blog, you spend a little time trying new ideas of your own. Yes, it is ok to think for yourself in this industry — in fact I strongly suggest you do.”
  4. Repeats the process until the reader understands that Einstein didn’t get where he was by just following the crowd. His genius was being able to break down his own personal Mount Everests into simple, digestible chunks. Gather all available and relevant facts about the problem at hand. Filter and segment them into a format that helps understanding and most importantly, effect meaningful change via innovation. Commit and work hard to see it through.
Brilliant.
19 Nov
2011

Do I Really Need To Hire A Professional Website Design Company?

Figuring out whether you should work with a professional website design company or not isn’t difficult. You do. You especially need to have a website design professional if you have a business. Why? The answer is based on the following questions. Consider these questions. If you do not know the answer to these questions, then without a doubt, you require a website designer.

Question #1. What exactly is SEO and just how can it help my company?

Question #2. Just what is a meta tag?

Question #3. What the heck is graphics optimization?

Question #4. What on earth is script and code development?

How did you do? Did you know the answers? Although you may have, have you any idea the best way to implement them into your website? An expert web design service does.

SEO, or search engine optimization, basically means that the website developer will integrate items like text in the website which will be found by the various search engines. So, when a web user look ups a particular keyword and key phrase they’ll be led to your site.

Meta tags are behind the scenes information that a great many non-professionals have no idea about. They function in the background in order that search engines like Google can discover your internet site.

Graphics optimization and script/code development are crucial in making your website get noticed not only to web users but additionally to the various search engines.

Regardless of how wonderful you might think your website seems to be; it’s not sufficient if Yahoo or Google are not showing your internet site within the results page. A great website design with all of the above qualities will rank your website higher on the major search engines results page and produce a boost in traffic to your website and potentially boost your profits.
Focused Idea – San Antonio website design and development company

8 Nov
2011

Bloggers guide to practical link building

Are you ready for some practical link building? Grab your cup of coffee – put some music on (Earth Wind and Fire is always great by the way) and lets do some practical link builiding. We all know we have to do link building – but where do we start? Well here are 4 easy steps you can take.

First things first

Check out your own site. Why would somebody want to link to your site? If you don’t know that, you will get into trouble very soon. You will need to understand why people want to link to your site. Is it interesting? Controversial? Funny? Educational? You have to write an interesting post with a catchy title. So start by going to www.linkbaitgenerator.com and get yourself a catchy title for your post.

Now why do people link to your site? Start checking it out with Google and type in your URL, say “link:linkbaitgenerator.com”

Write down on some paper (yes, I said paper lol) – What kind of sites are linking to you? Why do they like you? What are they saying about you and your posts? Check out the anchor text they use. Do they link to other sites too (these are your competitors).

Now its time for your strategy

It is important to understand who is linking to your competitors. Who are your main competitors? Who are creating back links to them? Identify their anchor texts and compare it to yours. There are many free websites on the web that can help you. You can try www.backlinkwatch.com.

Begin identifying the websites that are linking to both you and your competitor – that will make your list a little shorter and more manageable. So now we know about our own site and about our competitors sites. Do you still have some coffee left in your cup? Music still on? Ready for more?

Time to get the links NOW

Now go through your lists. Your competitors, your link opportunities, who is already linking to websites like yours, who else are they linking to. Make a top 10 list or top 20. Write them down on a piece of paper. Not in a Word file or Excel file. I want you to see them on your desk. Now its time to do some keyword search. So if you are selling used cars – to get high ranking you need to get links for websites with high page rank, high traffic sites, I would do a search in Google and write down which sites you want links from. You will have to put yourself in your customer’s shoes. If you are selling used cars – what is the customer really searching for? What would they type into their search engine of choice? I would think – used cars – max 3 years old cars – Ford – Toyota – blue cars – cheap cars – quality cars. These different keyword phrases are your target opportunities. To get ideas for keywords you can use Google Adwords Keyword Tool (great tool and free) or maybe Wordtracker.

Time for building

Okay now you know your own site, you have to catchy titles, you know your competitors, you know your link opportunities. I would spend 1 hour a day link building. So every day from 9 to 10 am (yes everyday!) you take out your piece of paper. Go to the website you want links from. Get in contact with them and make it impossible for them not to link to you. You can be sending them an article, writing on their blog, let the webmaster know about something you can offer to the sites customers etc.. And you will see in a month’s time your work will pay off. This is tomorrow’s marketing, guys. Spend your time linkbuilding – not ‘working….’ on Facebook. Now how’s that coffee going?

Best regards Henrik www.SeoCustomer.com