SEO techniques

Are you desirous of increasing your websites ranking as well as driving more traffic to your website?  If your answer is a sincere yes, then the best way to go about is search engine optimisation.  This process can be really intimidating for most because if implemented incorrectly, it can do a lot of harm to your website ranking and will present your company as unorganized, unfriendly and incapable.  The best solution will be to rely on expert SEO consultants like SEO Junkies.  They have great skill and expertise in the field of optimisation to help you garner great rankings as well as drive traffic and increase conversions.  They use two very effective processes called on page and off page optimisation.  For powerful results, both these optimisation methods should work in tandem with each other.

On page search engine optimisation technique involves designing elements of a website in such a way that it becomes eligible for high ranking when specific key terms are typed.  It also involves the process of coding or recoding (proper HTML coding) your website pages and other processes such as content optimisation, optimisation of title tags and meta tags.  Title tags communicate the theme of your website while meta tags acts as an advertisement, so both are very important and should be optimised in an effective manner.  SEO Junkies experts wisely target keywords and cleverly incorporate them into the content.  They will power up your pages with internal links that will help your search engine optimisation campaign as well as help with user navigation.

Off page SEO techniques includes link building strategies as well as use of social media sites.  Linking is the soul of off page optimisation and plays a major role in improving your website ranking.  SEO Junkies only use ethical techniques to build links.  No tactics such as link farms, garbage links, link churning, or hidden links are used.  They use techniques that will give you more number of non-reciprocal links where websites will link to you without the need of you linking in return.  The websites that link to you will be relevant and highly respected websites, so getting links from these can garner you better rankings.

Deploying social media sites is very effective as it plays a vital role within the off page search engine optimisation activity.  These channels acts as viral sources for links, mentions and signals, which help in building authority and increasing trust factor of your website.  SEO Junkies experts will help you to effectively manage your social media networks and harness its power to reap tremendous results.

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How To Set Up A Blog

If you are wondering how to set up a blog and what the best way to create a blog is-then you have come to the right document! I'll give you advice on which method(s) to use to create your blog depending on what kind of blog you want, whether you desire to make income from it, and how long you want to dedicate to setting up your blog.

Topics that I will help you with will be:

1. When to make a blog using a hosted blog site (like blogger.com or Wordpress.com) 

    or to create a blog using a blog platform (like Wordpress.org, Typepad, Blogsmith,

    Movable Type).

2. Comparing hosted blog websites--Blogger vs. Wordpress.com.

3. Comparing the Wordpress.org blog platform to additional blog platforms.

4. Whether you should learn HTML, CSS, or some Programming.

5. What's the best option to make money with your blog. 

     

So read on if you desire to learn about making a kick butt blog!

Hosted Blog vs. Host Your Own Blog

Option 1) Use a shared domain blog

A shared domain blog is a type of blog costs nothing to host. You can set these up at https://www.blogger.com/start, http://wordpress.com/, etc. If you want to use this option, you'll be creating what is called a "shared domain blog" because there will be a .blogspot or .wordpress after your blog's domain name like http://moremethods.blogspot.com/ Making a blog with a hosted blog is very simple to make and free. You can actually have a blog up and running within a couple minutes if you use blogger.com or wordpress.com!

Blogger vs. Wordpress

If you are trying to figure out which to use-- I'll tell you that both are very simple to use and set up. In my opinion, blogger is a little more user friendly while Wordpress is a little more pleasant to look at. Also, Blogger.com has nice ways to simply use Google AdSense Ads within your blog so you can earn money but Wordpress is a little more customizable.

Option 2) Use a Host (that you pay for) to Host Your Site

If you decide to use this option you would use a blog platform (like Wordpress--*from Wordpress.org and not Wordpress.com) and you pay a web host to place your blog on their servers. So then why would you want to pay and use a host you have to pay for you could use at blogger.com or worpress.com and host your blog for free? Actually, there's several reasons:

1. You have more control over how your blog is designed.

2. You can monetize your site much better (more monetization options = more money for you!)

3. You're blog will look more original-giving you more credibility.

If you are thinking about setting up a blog using this way the good news is it is pretty simple to do. Blog platforms can be uploaded to a server and created in a matter of minutes. There's instructions on how to do this at all of the blog platform's sites (ex. wordpress.org).

If You Want To Set Up Your Blog with a Host--do this:

1. Go to the host's website and sign up for a hosting plan.

2. The majority of good hosts will place a one click installation button

    on their site for different blog platforms (like Wordpress, Typepad, 

    Blogsmith, Movable Type)-so just click that and you're ready to start 

    blogging (it's that easy)!

*If the host you choose does not let you use a one click installation option for the blog platform you want to have, just follow these instructions:

1. Download a blogging platform (like Wordpress (from Wordpress.org), 

    Typepad, Blogsmith, Movable Type, etc) from their different websites.

2. Start an account with a host.

3. Upload your blog platform to the host you choose.

4. Start blogging!

Wordpress vs. the Rest:

I have tried out many blogging platforms and Content Management Systems (CMS) over the years and I have determined that the best blog platform is Wordpress. It is very user friendly, it has a huge network of people using it (and updating it and pointing out any problems it has to developers), there are tons of helpful websites and forums to assist you if are having problems, and there are a lot of ways to easily customize your blog. Also, Wordpress is venturing out and creating more complex features that other blog platforms don't have. So, if you may want to make your blog to look more like a website that includes things like forums, shopping carts, or other advanced aspects--Wordpress is the blog platform for you. Also, Wordpress one of the most easy blog platforms to put together.

Should You Learn HTML, CSS, or Programming?

If your blog's at blogger or Wordpress you do not need to learn these skills. Learning a couple basic codes for HTML will help customize your blog sometimes but you can always look for a certain code online when you want to do something on your blog. But, Set up your blog using a blog platform (like Wordpress from Wordpress.org) teaching yourself some HTML will definitely go a long way. I wouldn't suggest spend a lot of time learning it however if you have a very basic skill set you can do a lot with your blog. *note-you can still set up a great blog without ever teaching yourself HTML, CSS, or Programming.

Make Money While Blogging?

Some bloggers can make a great living from just one blog! However, if you just want to blog about your life, a subject, or to get a reader base for an issue--than setting up a blog using a hosted blog site (like wordpess.com or blogger.com) is probably your best bet. Hosted blog sites are very easy to use and you don't have to pay for hosting. That way you can just blog and not waste time with administrative things. However, if you want to create a blog to make money than creating a blog with a blog platform (like Wordpress.org) is your best option because blog platforms give you many more ways to customize your blog, all the ways you can use ads on your blog, and what types of features you can use with the blog.

I'm hoping that this article has helped you figure out the ways to make a blog. Blogging is a very fulfilling hobby but the best thing about this hobby is that it makes me a lot of money! Surprisingly there are many easy methods to earn money with your blog that will make you income for many years. If you are interested in learning how to blog and earn money, about the five major pitfalls bloggers get themselves into, and how to decide on a niche for your blog then check out this free report at my website! This has got to be the best free report out there and it is made by Jason Gazaway- a 26 year old blogging legend who earns tens of thousands of dollars a month from blogging.

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Blogging for Beginners

Blogs now a days are becoming very popular and common for those who want there articles to be read and commented upon and primarily for those who want an easy way to earn right from the comfort of their home. But, let me make something very clear, if you are among the 2nd group (They who want to earn from a blog) success will not be a piece of cake and will not come over a night.

Having said that I still say it is easy. Working from comfort of home should increase your patience. Patience, research, lots of hard work, a little amount of intelligence and common sense are the basic ingredients for a money making blog. I recommend you to not believe on all those "overnight success stories" spread all over the page which is a result of "online earning" search on any of the search engines. These are only plots to trap you in their deals which initially say "We are 100% free with 100% earning guarantee" but in the end of signing up a deal with them comes a request of so called easy and reasonable payment. I bet that you have been a victim to such sites. Well don't worry, nothing is lost.

I will share with you in details about blogging and other ways of online earning in my articles. I don't guarantee you success and neither can any one else in the e-world but i will encourage you to put in hard work and see the results yourself. I will try to keep things as simple for you as I can so that newcomers can also understand and make the most of my articles.

In order to start with a blog you need to keep in mind following steps. By one by one reading following steps and acting upon them you will be soon owning your very own blog and then comes the hard work part that you will have to put in: giving your time to it and keeping it active.

• Selecting a topic for your blog
• Selecting a blog service provider
• Creating a blog
• Selecting affiliate programes
• Increasing traffic
• Keeping your blog active

Selecting a topic for your blog

Selecting a topic for your blog is just like selecting a business in which you will earn. This is the very first step towards your success and if taken lightly will surely not let you achieve what you desire. People who are in a hurry to start with a blog don't think about what topic they are selecting and come to a decision. This way they may select something that they are not very good at and end up calling this program a scam.

As I told you earlier that patience is the basic ingredient for successful earning online. Don't hurry while choosing a topic. You should always choose a topic which you are good at. We cant expect a farmer to write blogs about rocket science. If you write a blog on a topic which you are good at you will definitely add in it better matter which will subsequently increase your readers and traffic.

Don't forget to ask your family and friends suggestions about what you are good at because I also didn't know that I am good enough at this topic(earning online) to start a blog on it. Think a normal internet user, what people search on internet mostly an

Select a blog provider service

Once you are done with selecting a good topic of which you have detailed knowledge and on which you can write a lot of stuff the next step comes in. Now you will have to choose a blog provider and almost all are free of cost. There are a lot of blog service providers available on internet you just have to choose one.

While choosing a blog provider you must keep in mind that you will be using that to create your own blog. If you are a newcomer or even if you are not you will like things to be easy and flexible for you. Thats what you need to keep in mind while selecting a blog service provider. Some providers give their users quite difficult tools to create a blog and they are quite inflexible which results in a bad looking blog which instead of attracting users repels them while some are very easy to use, user friendly and provide their users with very flexible tools to create blogs. Keep in mind that good looks also make your visitors want to come again and tell others about your blog.

Following are some user friendly services that you can use to create your very own blog:


Blogger.com
Sixapart.com

wordpress.com

You can find alot more such sites if you search but blogger is the number 1

Creating a blog

Once you have selected a blog provider service open its site. You will be asked to sign up in order to create your own blog. After signing up comes the creative part. Dont forget that your every action is directly responsible to draw traffic to your blog and while I say about creation of blog it is damn serious.

You will find a "create a blog" or a similar link after signing up procedure.Click it and after that select the looks of your blog, colors, fonts, templates, gadgets and other functionality for your blog. While doing so be very simple and think from a visitors mind. Choosing of better colors, templates, fonts and gadgets should be for making the visitor say that your blog is simply beautiful and different from other blogs.

Dont make your blog look so redundant, complex or superfluous try to keep it simple. When you see a very complex website you tend to find an alternate for that and of course you would not want that to happen to your blog

Directing trafic to your blog

Creating a blog after filling up long time consuming forms and placing ads after joining an affiliate program is not enough to get you a decent cash while you sit back on your comfortable chair. I told you that you generate a small revenue when a visitor of your site clicks on the ads you placed there. In order to have your site visited you will have to spend sometime each day to direct targeted visitors on your blog.

Q: What is a targeted visitor?
A: All those visitors who visit a site related to the topic they were searching are called targeted visitors.

They who accidentally come across your blog are not targeted visitors and their probability of clicking on any of the ads placed by you is almost zero. But the targeted traffic's probability of hitting the ads is very high because they were looking for the topic of your blog and the ads placed on your blog are also relevant to the topic.

All the affiliate programs share a very little amount with you lets say they give you 0.1$ for every clicks your visitors do on the ads of your blog. So, in order to make your "online earning" dream come true you will have to direct a huge amount of traffic to your blog keeping in mind that all visitors dont click on the ads. The grater the traffic higher the earnings.

Here I will tell you a few effective ways of directing traffic to your blog. Going through all the following ways will drastically increase the traffic of your blog.

• S.E.O (Search engine optimization)
• Joining communities that discuss about blogging
• Joining programs that offer traffic to your blog
• Telling your own friends, relatives and family about your blog

Selecting affiliate program

What are Affiliate Programs?

An affiliate program is an excellent way of getting other websites to sell or promote your product or service for a commission. Affiliate programs are arrangements between an online merchant website and an affiliate website—the affiliate posts a link to the merchant site and is paid a commission for any traffic or sold items. Posting links with affiliates is an excellent way to sell products online, and it is an inexpensive and effective marketing strategy.

The two hottest techniques for generating a profit from blogging, involve marketing with AdSense and marketing affiliate programs and or products. I recommend begginers to use google adsense affiliate programe but I will explain both to you.

Using Affiliate Opportunities in Your Blogs

Starting blogs to recommend and promote particular affiliate products is very popular and easy to do. There are a quantity of internet sites that only deal with the offered affiliate items.  You just sign up at these sites and when a member, you have access to any and all of their listing to promote and make money.  How these work is after you are registered with them you will have your own personal ID, and that ID along with the vendors id numbers, you will be tracked with any clicks and business that come from that link.  Your one website that you can start with is clickbank.com, however if you go and google affiliate programs, you will find several more.  You can even go to certain business or product internet websites to check if they offer affiliate programs.  As a rule business sites that offer an associate program generally has a 'affiliate' link towards the bottom of their web page.  The best ones to look for are the ones that require the prospect to sign up for a membership.  If anyone signs up for those by way of your affiliate link, your profit will not only be that one time, but every month that they stay with that program.  Of course, any affiliate sales are good sales, membership or not, they all count up to revenue in your paypal account.

Using google AdSense to Create Revenue

Using AdSense is probably the most well-liked methods for bloggers to get revenue from their blog. Using this method is so popular since it can also be incredibly simple. AdSense is a program offered by Google where bloggers agree to have advertising on their blogs or website and are compensated after users click on these ads.  Bloggers merely have to design a blog and submit the website address of your blog as well as some added information to apply for involvement in AdSense. After a blog is approved the owner is assigned a code they can easily copy and paste to exhibit ads displayed on their blog. Google then serves correct advertising every time the blog is accessed. Whenever doable, the advertisings served on the blog are closely associated to the content of the blog, because Google crawls the website ahead of time to find out which advertisements are appropriate to your contents.

Having a Google adsense account is the first proper step to make living online using ads by Google. To this goal, it is wise to ensure that your website is in proper working condition before you apply for an account.

What would be the next step then?

Later on, Google will use its scripts to go through your website in order to evaluate it. Then, it will follow up with you using your email address in 2 to 3 days. In case your application is not denied, you will be able to use your account instantly.

Then, it is your duty to place the advertisements on your website. In this manner, the optimal position for your ads depends on the pages' layout and the content of your site.

Keeping your blog active

Keeping your blog alive is no doubt an important factor if you want to continue making money. To keep the blogs alive, bloggers have to put in a lot of effort to effect continual blog maintenance to their blogs. Technology supports this move. Blog-publishing tools are helping to automate blog maintenance.

Certain factors that will have a bearing on the results of blog maintenance include the following:

Quality of Content and Extent of Time Commitment
What your blog needs is content. It should be fresh and of quality. The reason for this is because you need to entice readers to return to your blog for more refreshing information. It needs traffic to keep it alive and grow. Content for your blog should be updated actively. It can be scheduled to be on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. You have the prerogative to determine this schedule according to time availability.

Management of your Time Commitment

Posts can be written at any time of the day and at any place. When you have an inspiration or when an interesting topic strikes up in your mind, jot it down first. You should do the same even if many inspirations come to mind at the same time. There will be no scarcity of ideas to write your posts when you need them urgently. It would be good to fix a certain time of the day to compile your posts onto your blog.

Simple and Fast posting

Different types of posts can be written in many styles that suit your writing mood. Posts may vary in length. They may be easy or slightly more difficult. Posts can be written in a simple and fast manner. Be straight to the point in sentence construction. You can include a little personalization and emotion. Things that you can write about include a topic about your favorite memory, your ideal wish, what have you heard on the news today, or even what thing you have done lately that makes you feel proud to share. You can show your passionate feelings on such topics, and this makes writing so easy, because these are things you are familiar with. Reading will be so much more fun and pleasurable.

Archival of your posts

The archives that are part of your blog will support the function of archival for your posts. This is extremely effective as your readers will be able to retrieve them easily. You can decide on how the archival system should be constructed. Archives can be done on daily, weekly, or monthly basis. For instance, monthly archiving will show the link indicating a single month Jan 2008, Feb 2008 and so on. Archives can also be categorized according to different topics.

 

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Tips for Your Guest Blogging Campaign

Guest blogging isn't just about submitting guest posts to as many blogs as you can. If you want a successful campaign that will get you valuable backlinks, some planning and strategy is called for.

Keep a list of guest blogging sites

At first, it's easy to remember every single blog you submit articles to. But that changes when you have been going at it for months and written possibly dozens or even hundreds of posts. Don't rely too much on your memory. It'll get fuzzy. Instead, keep a list of these guest blogging sites. Make a note of those blogs that have accepted articles from you, those that rejected them, those that never responded, and so on. This will help remind you where you've been and where you have yet to look. It will also save you time choosing which sites to submit additional posts to and which you don't want to bother with.

Save all your articles                                       

Save copies of your guest posts on your computer, in your word processor format or even plain text or HTML. It doesn't matter. What does matter is you have copies of every article you have submitted for guest blogging. Note which site you sent each article to, and the URL for the published piece if it was accepted. Why do this? So you can remember what article titles and ideas you have used and where. Trust me, after so many articles on Facebook or SEO or Gmail, it will all seem like a blur. Besides, keeping copies will help you quickly grab a rejected article and submit it elsewhere.

Reuse rejected articles

Wasted effort is a sin. Besides, one blog's kryptonite could be the elixir for another. If a blog snobs your guest post, take it somewhere else. But first, verify the first site really did reject your article. Sometimes they just take a while to get back with you. When you do reuse an article, make sure it follows the submission guidelines for the new site. Each blog may have different word count, markup and backlink requirements. You may need to edit it a bit. Once you've resubmitted it, update your original document accordingly.

 

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Tips To Optimize Your Blog For The Search Engines

Optimizing your blog for the search engines is crucial and very important! There are so many different blogs out there on the net that you'll quickly sink to the bottom if you don't optimize. Follow these seven tips below and you'll be well on your way to high rankings.

Create the Right Permalink Structure
The permalinks Wordpress uses by default are not search engine friendly. You can make this simple change by inserting %postname% instead of the default that is already there. This will successfully create URL's that include your post name which should include your targeted keywords.

Install All in One SEO Plugin
This is a must-have plugin which allows you to specify a title, description, and the keywords for the search engines. It can really help you boost up and reach the top of the listings, whereas the standard WP installation can fall short.

Install Related Posts Plugin
Search engines love it when they get content pages that are interlinked. It also works very well for the search engines. It will automatically include links to other posts that are similar. Very convenient!

Research your Keywords
When people search, they search by keyword. It is vital that you know what these keywords are if you want to rank at the top of the search engines. Your posts should be centered around these keywords.

Include Your Keywords in the Title
In the title of your blog you need to include your main keyword. Also, include your main keyword and select others in the titles of your posts and sprinkle throughout your pages.

Make Your Blog Easy to Navigate
Easy navigation is essential for your guests and the search engines as it makes it easier for the guests. That means including your blog's categories, recent posts (to make sure they get indexed) and pages. Easy navigation is also part of choosing a good design. 

Expand the Ping List
When you make a new blog post Wordpress will "ping" the blog search engines. This alerts them that content on your site has changed and ready for guests to view. This can help you get indexed fast so you can start making money even faster. Do a Google search to find an expanded ping list you can include in your wp-admin so you make sure you get as many of these sites to update you as possible.
Using these seven plugins will make your job of ranking highly in the search engines easier than ever. If you're new to blogging with Wordpress then these terms may seem incredibly strange to you right now. As you study them and go over them a couple times, put them into action and it will start to feel like second nature!

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