The Twitter Question: What Are You Doing? The Answer: Building Links and Growing My Business Of Course!

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Link Building via Twitter

Twitter is the current hot potato in the social media game at this moment in time. It has quickly and overwhelmingly become one of the most widely used micro-blogging platforms by individuals bored at home on a Friday night as well as for businesses looking to market their products and services.  Users can post information, twit pics, retweets, follow trends and DING DING DING! Ring the bells! They can post links as often as they would like, allowing their direct followers to view. So, how can you turn these posts into links back to your site, ultimately resulting in increased website traffic? In the past few weeks I’ve seen many do it and I must say…I’m impressed! Let’s discuss shall we…

Momma I’m making New Friends on Twitter!

The first thing you need to do on twitter is to build your list of followers. Start by uploading your current email contacts into the Twitter system. Then, you can either manually add followers by searching for relevant keywords, or you can use a manual programs to rapidly build your list of followers. There are many sites out there that will allow you to speed this process up- for example twellow.com.  Post a profile and watch your followers grow. Search for sites such as these online- there are many.

Post Quality Information and Material, NOT Promotional Crap!

As you build followers, you need to give them a reason to pay attention to your profile, to pass along valuable and interesting Tweets to their friends and most importantly to link to your URLs. Start by posting regular, interesting content and resources for your followers to read. Shy away from posting promotional material during the first 90 days of establishing your Twitter profile. Your ultimate goal is to build credibility with your list of followers, not to market to them. When you build credibility, people will naturally follow you and be interested in reading your links.

Your posts should include links of material you recently posted to your own website or blog, material of interest to your readers from the web in general (Use Google Alerts to find this daily), and links to interesting material you come across in your daily web browsing. Post several times per day to initially build your list of followers and to establish a point of credibility with them.

Generate Real Interest- What Did You Say About My Mom?!

Personally I start random arguments with my best friends on twitter and followers flock to the scene of the word torn bru ha. Hey people like a good fight lol. However if you don’t have a fun product or you would like to be taken a tad bit more serious – TWEET AND TWEET OFTEN! That’s the true name of the game.  What? There’s an APP for that?? YES! YES! there is. Whether you are running on a blackberry or an iPhone there are dozens of tools out there for you to drag your wonderful twitter experience with you throughout the day.  I believe I saw a random Twitter from a CEO the other day that stated he could not stop staring at the gentleman’s toupee in his meeting and he swore he was going to lose the deal because of it. Hilarious! He may have lost that deal but I sure as heck went online to check out his site chocked-full-o-milkshakes to lose weight. I wonder how many others did the same. Download an app such as Twitterfon or find a few others that may work for your phone choice and get to tweeting.

I’m Always Online and I’m Always Sharing

These are just a few twitter tips I felt like passing along and you can find a slew of 140 cool twitter tools at http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools/.  I may be back later to rant a bit more- or I may not. Continue these patterns daily over time, and not only will your list of followers grow, but so will the links to your website. Establish a presence on Twitter and Tweet away to build links- Happy Tweeting !

Increase Your Website’s Popularity by Building Valid Links

admin    Website Marketing Companies     Building, Increase, Links, Popularity, Valid, Website’s

The major search engines dominating cyberspace give considerable emphasis to the quantity and quality of inbound links that any website receives. In fact, it can be safely stated that ‘if there weren’t links, the internet would not exist’. If you thought search engines keep the internet alive, think again. They simply organize the internet while links build it. If you are willing to spend some time in building valid links for your website, you are assured online success.

Site Analysis

Before you begin to build valid links to your website, you need to do a quick analysis using an application like Google Analytics to determine why surfers visit your site. Find out what pages are most visited, keywords they use to find your site, length of stay on certain pages, etc. Once you’ve discovered this, the next step is to offer users links to related websites so visitors know that you care about their interests even as they exit your site. A well-designed and user friendly link directory will not only make your website useful, it will lend credibility and importance to your site as well. Some of the SEO techniques which you can use to get valid links include directory submissions, blogs, discussion forums, article syndication and adding social bookmarking links to your site.

Valid, Credible Links

Everyone who has a website and wants people to find it, should consider using these techniques. A common mistake most website marketers commit is exchanging links with clean sites even if they aren’t relevant to their site. They believe that a good link won’t hurt, even if irrelevant. So, how do you set your website apart? With links that will bring your target audience to your website. Remember that traffic which isn’t targeted to your website is waste traffic. Consider this; your website receives 250 untargeted visitors in a day and no conversion. On the other hand, you will receive 100 targeted visitors, higher page views, exploration of your site and a far better conversion rate, with targeted traffic through effective link building. Which is a better proposition? The latter, for sure. That’s because relevant traffic is valuable traffic.

Quality and Quantity of Links

It’s no secret that Google ranks its search results partly based on the analysis of quality and quantity of sites that are linked to your site. Questionable webmasters use link exchange schemes to establish cross-linking and non-valid links. They don’t consider the quality and sources of the links and thus violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and impacting their site’s ranking negatively. Some link exchange schemes which you should avoid are links that lead to web spammers, unnecessary reciprocal links and links that assure you a higher PageRank. If you are linked to a site that is spam or a link scheme your own ranking will eventually go down. Not aware if you are a part of a link scheme? Here’s how you can find out! If you are simply making a link, without providing any useful website for your visitors, you are a part of a link scheme.

Finding a Reputable SEO Company

Most online link building companies will promise complete link building solutions. Finding the best service to fit your needs and budget can be a daunting task. Ensure that you hire services of a reputable company that will effectively promote your business properly.

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Google Sees Clickbank Links in Whole New Way

admin    Google Optimization     Clickbank, google, Links, Sees, Whole

Recently I was on the look for active affiliates, and one of the best ways to find them is to look for similar products and then look for the links to site. Some very interesting things started to appear when I started doing this.

I was doing research on one of favourite authors- Jim Edwards, because he tells it like it is (no fluff!) and his book, Turn Words into Traffic, is pure gold for anybody looking for free traffic from articles.

Now Jim publishes products via Clickbank. They also mange his affiliate program for him. Clickbank takes care of all the issues with the credit card payments, affiliate tracking, paying affiliates and refunds etc.

The clickbank customer service is great and they are generally the leader when it comes to managing/selling downloadable information products.

From a linking or a search engine ranking point of view the links the affiliates don’t count in your search engine ranking because logically, they don’t go to your site- they are redirected by clickbank. Affiliate links from Clickbank look something like this: hop.clickbank.net/?XXXX

It looks like Google is getting smarter and tracking not just links provided by clickbank but also other redirected links.

Lets look closer. By using the link command in Google when can see the links that Google “sees” as the most important. That’s not to say it doesn’t recognize (or include them it its calculations) all the many other links to a site, just doesn’t show them all.

So in this case it would be:

link:[ include whole url: www.turnwordsintotraffic.com]

or use the google toolbar.

This bought some interesting links- one of them being a link from a well-known marketer and writer ‘Tim Knox (prosperityandprofits.com) Now the link from Tims blog is a redirect. (It redirects so fast I can’t tell if its an affiliate link or not!)

The link is something like this: /members/go.php?l=11 and is on the middle right

So in following logic, that the link doesn’t actually show as a link to the site, Google must be following the link, working out that it is an affiliate link using clickbank and count it towards Jims site.

Lets have a look at another link:

www.biztipsblog.com/2007/10/drive-more-traf.html (see middle right for link)

By hovering over the link- you will see in the bottom status bar of the browser that this is definitely an affiliate link, which is also being counted towards Jim Edwards site TurnWordsintoTraffic.com

So what does this mean to you? This is a good this that Google does this, however keeping in mind that probably yahoo or MSN haven’t followed Google in doing this. (yet to be checked at this time)

Be sure and plan or advise Affiliates to link to you using your keyword or a version of it

If you use clickbank and you allow clickback to manage all you affiliates, then you wont have much choice. I always recommend that you manage a list of your own affiliates using a sign up using aweber or a similar service – then send them to clickbank.

This also allows me to provide specific training for affiliates to help them make more sales – a win-win for all

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How To Make Links To Your Articles Or Website, Increasing Your Google Rating

admin    Google Optimization     Articles, google, Increasing, Links, Rating, website

SEO (Search engine optimization), is determined by many things. The amount of relevant keywords, (you must have the first two tagged keywords in each paragraph, and as about 5% of the whole text), the amount of links to the site from other relevant sites (determined by their keywords and google rating), the amount of links from your site to other relevant sites as references, and also the amount of activity published by that author, and good photos.

You must make multiple links from many different sites to your own, from blogs, free article writing sites like this one, paid article sites, whatever you can find. But, make sure you are not making links that a search engine like google would recognize as a spam link, and also try to encourage other people to make links to your articles as a reference, or for further information on their own websites, blogs, or articles.

There are many places to make links from, to increase your google rating, here are a few examples: Wordpress, Typepad, Associated Content, Bukisa, Blogger, Goarticles, Ezines, etc. etc. If you want more, simply do a google search on free blogs, free writing sites, paid writing sites, and so on. You must however make sure that you are not making an obvious advertisement if it goes against their rules and regulations. Find one that serves your purposes, and be cautious, because if they terminate your account for excessive self promotion, you will lose all the good work you created. A good google rating is not an easy thing to achieve, and takes a lot of knowledge of the right techniques for SEO. Here are a few good articles that will explain all you need to know about which sites to make links from, and how to do it.

Why writers for Associated Content should link to other Associated Content writers

Can I submit multiple articles to the one directory?

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Why You Must Have Links For Your SEO To Work With Google

admin    Google Optimization     google, Links, Must, Work

Have you ever wondered why certain websites come up on page 1 of a Google search and some are on page 1,000? The answer is complicated and different for each website. However having strong, relevant outside links is a key factor.      What are links? Links are quite simply a “mention” of a web address on someone’s website. Google sees these “mentions” as “votes” for your website- the more “votes”, the more Google will see you as important. Rules have changed concerning linking. Google only wants to “see” one-way links coming into your website- meaning- no reciprocal linking anymore. The days of having someone put a link on their site and you do the same for them are over- they count each other out now. (Just a quick mention- links are VERY important with Google, a bit less but still important with Yahoo and not so important with BING (MSN) ).      To give a great example of the power of one-way links, after reading this post, google the term ” click here”. Type that into Google and Adobe comes up first. Why? Think of all of the web pages on the Internet worldwide which have a link to Adobe when you need to download a document from them: there is always a place saying “to download Adobe Reader, click here” along with their link.       So, how do YOU know how to create these links? Quite simply, start with your industry. Links which are relevant to what you do or the theme of the page of your targeted website will give you the best return with Google. For example, if you are selling office supplies, you will want your website’s address listed with an office supply directory. If then you want to target selling HP printers, you will have the HP page of your website linked to an outside website which shows people where to buy HP printers- get it? Social Media and other outside strategies like press releases and article writing are a great way to develop these links as well.

      How many links do you need and how often to create them? As many as you can and as often as possible are the answers. Be careful though- they must be created NATURALLY- meaning you can’t have 0 links, then the next day have 5,000. Google wants a consistent and natural effort for link building.      Lastly- can you do this yourself? Yes- for a time. However, you will run out of resources and time to stay consistent with the link building. That is when to hire a professional Internet Marketing company to help.      Hopefully you now understand the importance of a strategic and professional link building campaign if you want to increase your search engine rankings.

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Using 3way Links to Get Your Business Ranked 1st in Google

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As most business owners know, to get a lot of sales and traffic from Google you have to be ranked pretty high up and by high I mean in the top 3 pages because not many people will flick through all the pages, most people just look on the first few pages and find the information there. What is the solution I hear you ask? Well the answer is back links. These are links that go back to your site. You can obtain these by writing articles and putting your site link in them and the same with blogs. As some of you know this can take ages if you are trying to get high search engine rankings. Another way of getting your site higher up is content, Google loves content, and if you keep your site updated then your rank will get higher.

However, today I want to show you a way that will generate so many back links to your site that your site will charge straight through the ranking to the top and will also double your site traffic in one month, automatically.

The way that I am talking about is a system called ‘3way links’. This system works automatically so all you need to do is set it up. What you do is choose three keywords that describe your site and that’s it. The system does the rest for you and the best thing is you can add up to 50 sites. That’s 50 of your sites ranked high in Google.

When I first heard about this I was rather sceptical, Google can easily detect ‘3 way links’ networks and treats them the same as one way links. This made me think why should I use your system? The answer was this actually worked. I tried it out and my traffic started to rise slowly but surely.

This method of getting ranked high in Google is very easy yet effective. It only takes 5 minutes to set up and you can just leave it for a month and when you come back to check your sites it would have doubled in website traffic from Google. This works a lot more quickly than just submitting articles and waiting for a few days for them to be approved when this system starts straight away.

So if you’re interested in getting your business ranked higher in Google fast then I recommend that you use the ‘3way links’ system you will see results!

For more information go to:http://pswarai.blogspot.com/2008/10/double-your-trafiic-in-month-with-3-way.html

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Ranking Well In Google: How critical Are Back links to Your Site?

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When building your site for Search Engine Optimization on Google there are a lot of aspects you have to view in order to obtain a good value on search engine robots. Of course the articles and meta tags need to be inline with positive density percentage and reciprocal links. Google then takes the web site and fulfills a mathematic equation and places a rank on your webpage counting on one of the most crucial things, reciprocal or back links.

A back link and reciprocal link are identical. They both are saying the same fact to the Google search engine; that your webpages should be ranked higher, due to the fact that consumers find quality in what the web site has to offer, they provide a link to your website, accordingly setting up a great network connection. Google loves to see interconnectivity and will reward your web pages well for planning it like this.

There is one more important thing to consider. As soon as the Google engine goes through your site and discovers a dead link it shows that you aren’t taking good care of your webpages and subsequently decreases your webrank by reducing its point value.

If you would love to find out what your site’s current numberic value is download The Google Toolbar and type your website address www.yourwebsitename.com in the box and perform a web search. Upon reading the full site address, Google will go exactly to your website first thus pulling up your homepage. There on the toolbar will be a page ranking for your site between 1 and 10. 1 is a significantly less visited and a site with pagerank 10 is a web site that generates traffic 24/7.

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Google SEO and PageRank – All Links Aren’t Created Equal

admin    Google Optimization     Aren't, Created, Equal, google, Links, Pagerank

With Google’s increased popularity and gain in Organic Search market share, it is increasingly more important for web site owners to become better familiarized with the way Google works and how they gauge certain elements to determine a website’s ranking. In the initial Google PageRank patent submission, there was a heavy emphasis on links; this has since changed drastically from the initial PageRank algorithm. Many expert Google SEO professionals have concluded that it no longer is useful to create links to a site, if that link doesn’t have a title related to the destination site. Let us explain further.

Initially, the web was a web of links tying everything together. With this quickly came Black Hat SEO practices that took advantage of certain sites and their easily fooled submission pages to create mass link campaigns that created duplicate links on different web sites. Initially a web site gauged by the original Google PageRank algorithm, would have ranked a page very highly.

It is estimated that Google now calculates the following about every link back to a site:

1. Originating website topic – refers to a link that for example, links to your site about computers, but originates on a completely unrelated website whose topic is about cooking.

2. Originating website link title content – refers to the general topic of the originating site in relationship to the site where the link is pointing. Again, keeping links to your site, in similar topic sites is very important.

3. Originating website ranking – the originating PageRank must be higher that the receiving website in order to maximize the value of the link.

4. Originating website status – refers to whether or not the site were the link originates has been tagged as black-hat or otherwise penalized for pursuing non-standard methods by Google.

If you create lots of links from bad sites to your web site, it will actually cause a devaluation of your website rankings. Do NOT be fooled by companies who claim to provide high PR links for pennies, the truth is, that by everyone’s estimation in the SEO arena, Google has already or is building a provision in their PageRank to account for this type of practices.

Keep your links clean, from clean sources, and you will get great results.

This guide should give you a good starting point to help with your Google SEO efforts. Keep an eye of the next guide, which will help expand on the topic of Search Engine Optimization.

Take a look at our site which contains detailed information on Google SEO topics to help you get your site’s ranking in the top 10 Google Search Engine Results.

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Google SEO and PageRank – All Links Aren’t Created Equal

admin    Google Optimization     Aren't, Created, Equal, google, Links, Pagerank

With Google’s increased popularity and gain in Organic Search market share, it is increasingly more important for web site owners to become better familiarized with the way Google works and how they gauge certain elements to determine a website’s ranking. In the initial Google PageRank patent submission, there was a heavy emphasis on links; this has since changed drastically from the initial PageRank algorithm. Many expert Google SEO professionals have concluded that it no longer is useful to create links to a site, if that link doesn’t have a title related to the destination site. Let us explain further.

Initially, the web was a web of links tying everything together. With this quickly came Black Hat SEO practices that took advantage of certain sites and their easily fooled submission pages to create mass link campaigns that created duplicate links on different web sites. Initially a web site gauged by the original Google PageRank algorithm, would have ranked a page very highly.

It is estimated that Google now calculates the following about every link back to a site:

1. Originating website topic – refers to a link that for example, links to your site about computers, but originates on a completely unrelated website whose topic is about cooking.

2. Originating website link title content – refers to the general topic of the originating site in relationship to the site where the link is pointing. Again, keeping links to your site, in similar topic sites is very important.

3. Originating website ranking – the originating PageRank must be higher that the receiving website in order to maximize the value of the link.

4. Originating website status – refers to whether or not the site were the link originates has been tagged as black-hat or otherwise penalized for pursuing non-standard methods by Google.

If you create lots of links from bad sites to your web site, it will actually cause a devaluation of your website rankings. Do NOT be fooled by companies who claim to provide high PR links for pennies, the truth is, that by everyone’s estimation in the SEO arena, Google has already or is building a provision in their PageRank to account for this type of practices.

Keep your links clean, from clean sources, and you will get great results.

This guide should give you a good starting point to help with your Google SEO efforts. Keep an eye of the next guide, which will help expand on the topic of Search Engine Optimization.

Take a look at our site which contains detailed information on Google SEO topics to help you get your site’s ranking in the top 10 Google Search Engine Results.

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Google SEO and PageRank – All Links Aren’t Created Equal

admin    Google Optimization     Aren't, Created, Equal, google, Links, Pagerank

With Google’s increased popularity and gain in Organic Search market share, it is increasingly more important for web site owners to become better familiarized with the way Google works and how they gauge certain elements to determine a website’s ranking. In the initial Google PageRank patent submission, there was a heavy emphasis on links; this has since changed drastically from the initial PageRank algorithm. Many expert Google SEO professionals have concluded that it no longer is useful to create links to a site, if that link doesn’t have a title related to the destination site. Let us explain further.

Initially, the web was a web of links tying everything together. With this quickly came Black Hat SEO practices that took advantage of certain sites and their easily fooled submission pages to create mass link campaigns that created duplicate links on different web sites. Initially a web site gauged by the original Google PageRank algorithm, would have ranked a page very highly.

It is estimated that Google now calculates the following about every link back to a site:

1. Originating website topic – refers to a link that for example, links to your site about computers, but originates on a completely unrelated website whose topic is about cooking.

2. Originating website link title content – refers to the general topic of the originating site in relationship to the site where the link is pointing. Again, keeping links to your site, in similar topic sites is very important.

3. Originating website ranking – the originating PageRank must be higher that the receiving website in order to maximize the value of the link.

4. Originating website status – refers to whether or not the site were the link originates has been tagged as black-hat or otherwise penalized for pursuing non-standard methods by Google.

If you create lots of links from bad sites to your web site, it will actually cause a devaluation of your website rankings. Do NOT be fooled by companies who claim to provide high PR links for pennies, the truth is, that by everyone’s estimation in the SEO arena, Google has already or is building a provision in their PageRank to account for this type of practices.

Keep your links clean, from clean sources, and you will get great results.

This guide should give you a good starting point to help with your Google SEO efforts. Keep an eye of the next guide, which will help expand on the topic of Search Engine Optimization.

Take a look at our site which contains detailed information on Google SEO topics to help you get your site’s ranking in the top 10 Google Search Engine Results.

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