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Proper Steps in Blog Commenting

July 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

A different medium on writing that is current and trending these days is blogging. It updates any Internet user in the latest news happening in the industry. Blogging inspires others to blog as well and it may even become viral because of the number of readers every day.

Readers can comment on different blogs they follow or search in the Internet. It allows readers to express their opinions, ask questions or give testimonials to any topics under the sun. These comments help blogs improve their contents.

Way to comment properly on blogs

  • Read the post thoroughly rather than skimming through it. Most people sometimes don’t read everything and give comment on the content without really knowing what it is about. Assuming about the topic and giving their opinion without being sure about it is pretty careless. If the commenter missed the point of the post then it may give a bad light to the blog itself. Intelligently and accurately comment on blogs so that it doesn’t give a harmful effect to the blogger.
  • Don’t post as if you are writing a novel. Keep it at three sentences minimum. Others don’t have the time and patience to read a long comment from readers. Be direct to the point and don’t go around the bushes. Quality is better than quantity. It is also on way of keeping the other readers engaged.
  • Use your real name instead of using a company name or a pseudonym. Let it be someone from the company for a long time. It helps build the authority of the person.
  • Links are important for a blog. It enables the blog to gain more readers because of different links provided in the blog or other websites connected to it. It adds more potential for people to find your page especially when searching Yahoo, Google, Facebook and other social networking sites. You can also gain fans and followers because of different links.
  • However, don’t put links in the comment itself. It may appear as spam to the blog owner and thus can block you from commenting further more in their blogs. It is not a vehicle for advertising.
  • Know your target market then search for blogs that are relatable to them. Don’t limit yourself to just one topic because there may be other branches the readers like to read. Leave comments to relevant blogs that you read.
  • Consistency is important so it is advisable to have one person commenting on a particular blog. You don’t want two people from the same company commenting on the same thing. It may appear as if you are spamming the blog. Also it may be bad if you disagree with the coworker’s comment on the same post and you definitely would want to avoid that.
  • Make a list of blogs that have high traffic of visitors everyday.  Write comments on them daily.. Be updated on news in the industry and expose your own brand out there.

Blog commenting is a new way also for SEO online marketing and it costs less. The target market is vital to the success of a brand and this is great way of putting your brand out there for the industry to feel its presence. Know the right way of commenting for it to be effective.

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Focus on Content, not on Backlinks

May 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

We all know that linkbuilding is important for your online business because it will also determines the page and domain authority of your websites. But with the most recent Google update called Penguin 1.1., SEO strategies are about to change. The emphasis here is more on content, not backlinks.

Backlinking is for marketing purposes most of the time. But working on quality content is for human. It is for your readers. That’s why it is important to know what you really want to write and go for it. If you need to insert keywords, so be it. Just make sure that it’s not off topic and it is inserted naturally.

Sure you want to make money from the internet but you don’t have to sacrifice your passion. If you love writing, pick a niche that you are interested and talented with so that you won’t run out of ideas. You can work for your website for the rest of your life while enjoying and earning at the same times.

So for all the aspiring internet marketers out there, it is not just about making full time income with long tail authority keywords and sites. Here are the few tips from WarriorForum posted by FrazerC:

SEO Content TipsNow this makes sense and you can apply these tips the next time you try to build an authority site. Of course you still need to build links from time to time but it should not outweigh quality content.

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Limiting Keywords for Your Content for Maximum Rankings

April 26, 2012 by 2 Comments

Writing great content for users can really bring traffic to your website and this traffic is convertible to sales. When you publish quality content, you see to it that you have the important keywords in the article. You are writing for your readers and for the search engine at the same time. But don’t you know that each time you do this, you have the tendency to overstuff your post with keywords?

Whether you are writing for a finance site about credit cards or dating site about Middlesbrough dating, it is important to know that keywords should be used sparingly. In fact, when you start unoptimizing your article for a popular keyword, you increase your chance of maximizing your ranking for other relevant keywords or search terms. The key here is to make a list of keywords or list of topics you have in mind. Then take note of the frequency of keywords as you write an article. Keyword density plays a vital role in optimizing your page but sometimes, the lesser is better as long as there is a decent number.

Google does not directly check the keyword frequency of your post but it makes use of the technology TF-IDF or “Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency”. It is the statistical approach to know where your article is all about. There’s a way to calculate it manually but it would be something like math. If you can’t do your own TF-IDF Analysis, you can trust the expert with this and just do your part by continuously writing articles without overoptimizing it.

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Over-Optimization Can Damage Your SEO Campaign

April 20, 2012 by 2 Comments

We all know that everything excessive is too much. The same things apply to search engine optimization. Your SEO practices should be in accordance to Google’s algorithm or else, your site will get penalized.

The first thing that you have to review is the site title. It must be something real and makes sense and not something that catch nothing but the big machine. Right now, the right approach is to show your brand name and not some generic keywords. Too much keyword repetition is also a no-no. It would be treated as spammy and can hurt your current ranking.

You also have to be wary of the onsite optimization. Use internal links sparingly. Too much links on your sidebar and within your content should be minimized. You should also try playing around the anchor text when linking to the same links. Modifying your anchor text from time to time on different pages can add better value to the linked site.

In terms of outgoing links, you have to be wary of the footer. Find natural ways to insert link, something that will encourage click-through and not just sitting links for the search engine. The same time applies to your content. Duplicate copies is not good for the search engine. Atleast rewrite or rephrase them before posting on other pages.

Those who are fond of link building should also reconsider reciprocal lists and article directories.

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SEO Strategies For Different Keywords

January 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment

When it comes to search engine optimization, knowing which keywords that people use everyday in search engines is not enough. You should know different strategies work depending on the particular keyword in question. Utilizing long keywords with little competition provides a greater impact when it comes to on-page optimization.

If you target keywords with a greater competition then you should have more back links to off-set the difficulty of the competition. This does not mean that you should not improve your on-page content. By optimizing your web page through a particular key phrase or keyword, it will reflect the fact that the keyword is relevant to the webpage itself. Doing this with each page can increase the chances of search engines indexing your website more than other websites.

Keep in mind that other websites may be using the same keywords. So in order for you to outclass their keyword’s effectiveness, you should also work on the backlinks pointing to the keyword optimized page. Also, optimizing more pages will help generate more traffic however, make sure that each page is optimized with a different keyword. You cannot risk your webpages to be cluttered with the same keyphrase or word unless you want the search engines to consider it as spam. It also does not mean that having more pages with keywords will give you great results. When it comes to search engine optimization, you should remember that the quality of the content is paramount. If your web page provides relevant and informative content and at the same time, includes effective backlinks then you can expect traffic to increase towards your website.

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Do You Need Fresh Keyword to Deal with Google Freshness Update?

November 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment

With the official release of latest Google update, should you go to square one and define new targeted keywords? Will the Google Freshness Update affect your current SEO project? Will it have major impact on your SERP position?

Lots of questions and speculations but here is something certain, the latest update will affect 35% of searches since “freshness” becomes part of the improved algorithm.

While webmasters regard it as a major change, for the backend users or customers, it simply look like this:

Google Freshness Update

Google Freshness Update with time stamp

The search result are being displayed with time stamp to show how old the content is.

What you need is not new keywords but fresh content. Utilize the same keywords on your new posts so that your site can cope up with the changes. Creating posts under same categories can improve your rankings because your site content is like a TV series being aired every day. The more relevant content you produce for your readers, the better.

Dealing with Google Freshness Update is just a matter of thinking about your customers, on how they would like to see and get the updated information.

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SEO Benefits of Do Follow Comments

October 27, 2011 by 2 Comments

In blogging, there are different things that you can do to attract more readers and keep them engaged. Setting your comments to do-follow could be the best and rewarding strategy you can do for your readers. In Blogger and WordPress blog platform, the comments are set to “nofollow” tag by default. This means that for every comment left by your readers, there will be no link juice to pass.

The thing is, when you set the comment to do-follow, it will motivate readers to leave a comment because they will get something from it. However, your blog may also be the target of spam. Spam comments can fill your blogs knowing that there’s PR juice. Also, even real people who are leaving comments may leave senseless post just for the sake of leaving comment and having a link back from you.

SEO experts confirmed that leaving comments on do-follow blogs is a great way to gain backlinks and improve Page Rank. There are even blogs with different dofollow plugins such as CommentLuv which allows target keyword in the name field. This is more beneficial because you can optimize your target keyword in blog commenting.

There are plenty of list that you can find online about dofollow sites or blogs. But if you want to make sure, it is better to install SEO plugins that highlights nofollow links. This way, you can dedicate your time on dofollow blogs. There are some sites with huge list of do follow blogs but turns out to be nofollow at all. Stay away from false claims.

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Profitable Niche Keywords

October 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Profitable Niche Keywords

Get profit from your keywords...

Search Engine Optimization is about effectively utilizing various keywords by including them in your website’s content. These keywords are usually words entered in the search engine by people using search engines like Google. By doing so, this will increase the chances of your website in making it to the first top search results of the search engine. This will eventually lead traffic back into your site which is good business for you.

The important things that you have to know are the words that are currently in demand. Once you are aware of these words, you can tailor-fit your website and incorporate the words that are in demand. You can find out what these words are by using various online tools like Google’s free AdWords keyword tool. You can even search it in Google’s search engine itself.

You will know if a word does not have much competition against you if you try searching for it and adding quotes to it. If you see the results to be more than fifteen thousand for that particular keyword then it is not good since competition is very high. Profitable keywords come in less than that number and have more chance of being on the top.

The next thing that you have to do is to find a unique niche for your website where you can incorporate profitable keywords. This will effectively increase your business sales. Creating relevant content for your site and submitting them in article directories is also another strategy. This will generate backlinks to your site which is a vital factor in ranking first in Google’s search results page.

Regardless of what you want to attain through your website or business, effectively utilizing profitable keywords is very important.

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Keyword Search in the Eyes of Internet Marketers

October 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment

 

Keyword Search in the Eyes of Internet Marketers

Keyword Search in the Eyes of Internet Marketers

Keyword has been giving consistent importance by SEO webmasters. But for internet marketers, the objective is not to find the most searched keywords but to look for the most searched long tailed keywords in a specific niche. There has been a lot of change with Google Panda and it needs to be address. Since we are aware that the main criteria inn Google indexing are keyword rich content and keyword links, we must not forget that unrelated keywords no matter how popular they are will not do your site any good.

If you would like to focus on a specific niche, you must know the the most searched keyword by identifying the popular long tail niche. It shoule be atleast 1000 exact phrase local results. Then you must see to it that the competiion is below 100, 000. Use Google websmaster tools to see the details and check the comparison.

Once you have a target keyword, utilize it on different marketing activity. Incorporate them in domain names, sales pages, contextual links, forum signatures and emails. Build links consistently but slowly and you see an increase in your SERP positioning.

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Strong Keywords: Suggested Terms for SEO Campaign

September 26, 2011 by 1 Comment

In connection with the last post – Optimizing the Most Searched Keywords, let’s cite some good targeted keywords these days when doing search engine optimization campaign…

Some strong keywords would be women’s shoes, men’s shoes and women sneakers; two containing women and two consisting of the word Shoes but should not all be in one place. Furthermore, your web content should be interesting. This means that your website should have useful information and not dull. Your market should be able to benefit whenever they visit your site. In addition, you should strategically lay out your web’s content by placing the most up to date articles above the page and your front line products. This is just similar in newspapers. The headlines tend to be read first because they are written in bold and are placed in front of the page and at the same time, at the upper portion of the main body. You can also use teaser phrases which leads the reader to another part of your web page.

Once everything is finished, you can check your keyword density to make sure that you are inserting the right amount of keywords. Inserting too much keywords can cause search engines to see your work as spam and you may risk your site being blocked by search engines. Keep in mind that effective keyword density should be around two percent in articles and three to five percent in a given web page. This tactic may take you long but then again, the results of your hard work will be fruitful.

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