How to Organize your Real Estate Blog

November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

Bloggers like to tinker and constantly update things, which is part of what makes them so fun to watch. If you follow a blog you’ve probably noticed its look changing over time, and the writer’s voice evolving as particular stories and catchphrases shape his or her language. Real estate, in particular, is a well-blogged subject, where new sites appear and old ones change every day. If you have a real estate blog you’ll be well aware of the extra effort it takes to stay current in this industry, and ensure your posts are relevant to ever-shifting local and national markets. With so many information resources and competitive voices out there, the challenge in this endeavor is how to target the best content ideas and blog-related features for use on your site.

Since most blogs use a scrolling design dominated by text, there’s never a lot of space for third party tools, outbound links, and links to other parts of the blog. Many blogs include a large, well organized block of links at the bottom of the page, underneath the posts. The most important links can go at the top of the page and in the side-nav, but if the text and headlines are minimized too far, readers will start to disappear. Space for advertising is also important to keep in mind – ads can help a blog look more legitimate (and generate revenue), but they can quickly intrude onto the page. Most bloggers stick to just a banner ad at the top and bottom, and maybe a skyscraper next to the side-nav.

Understanding why you blog is perhaps the most important step in organizing your posts and on-page features. If you’re blogging mainly for people who have already been to your real estate site, you probably won’t need to include as many tools, like maps, market stats displays, and listings – a prominent link back to your site will almost always suffice here. It’s best to second-guess including features like these in any case. To track user traffic, and whether or not to tools like these should migrate to your blog, pay close attention to the stats provided by your hosting company, or if your blog isn’t hosted (perhaps it’s a free blog on blogger.com), you can use a free stats plugin like Google Analytics, or Firestats. More common non-native blog features like social networking links and email feed subscriptions should be always be considered, but used in moderation. For example, you should only have links to social networking sites you know and use on a regular basis.

By default, your blog will probably have links in the sidebar for things like Blogroll (links to other blogs), Categories, About, Archive, and Recent Comments. Even these should be minimized (usually easy within the blog’s control panel) to avoid redundancy, and keep the blog from looking formulaic.

As your blog design and features become more focused, you might find that your content follows suit. By this point you’ll have a better idea what your blog is for, and where each story fits in, or not. The latest real estate web application mashup might fall off your radar screen, or become the story of the day – either way, you won’t spend as much time wondering and making unnecessary posts, and your readers will appreciate it.

Jim Olenbush is an experienced Lake Travis Texas real estate professional. His website includes a comprehensive local home search, financing information, and relocation resources for anyone moving to the Lake Travis real estate area.

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How I got paid $250 for reporting an Adsense Cheater!

November 18, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

Let me tell you a story about karma and how I made $250 by
reporting an Adsense cheater!

It started when I came upon a web site where some kid was
blatantly breaking the rules by asking his buddies to click on
his Adsense ads.

This has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves! Why do people
think they can break the rules at the expense of other peoples’
AdWords budgets?

So I did what a lot of people do… I contacted Google!

I figured Google would shut this punk down immediately. Boy was
I wrong!

Every time I went back to this kid’s web site the message asking
his friends to click the ads were still there! This went on for
a few weeks and I really started to get ticked off at the lack
of response on Google’s part.

So I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I used this software I created called “Google Sponsor Lister”
(You can get it at AdsenseSchool.com) to find every sponsor who
was targeting this kid’s niche.

I contacted each sponsor directly and told them there was a
chance their ads were being displayed on a cheater’s site. I
figured if THEY complained to Google, something would happen!

Well I guess I was right! One of the sponsors emailed me back
two days later and said:

“I want to thank you for pointing out the kids clicking on my
ads. I turned it over to my Google rep, and he called today to
let me know Google is disabling their account. Also, he said
Google is crediting me a decent amount for fraudulent clicks
over the last quarter. What’s your address? I’d like to send you
a little thank you gift.”

How awesome is that? I was so excited! Not because he was going
to send me a “thank you gift”… but because I figured out how
to get that punk’s shut down!

It’s funny how Google shut this kid down in TWO DAYS because a
sponsor contacted them but when I had been trying for weeks,
nothing happened. Makes you think…

Anyway… I told him he didn’t have to thank me and he
definitely didn’t need to send me a gift. I was just happy to
know I saved him a couple bucks and this punk got his account
canceled.

He replied with the following…

“Thanks again. I actually spend several hundred thousand dollars
a month on Google, so at least they responded to me quickly.
Also, the rebate they gave me was fairly substantial (several
thousand). I’d really like to buy you an Amazon gift certificate
or an iPod or something if you’d like to tell me how to send it
to you, because I don’t think I would have been proactive about
this if you hadn’t contacted me. Either way, it’s great that
you’re being a good samaritan.”

SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS? I thought I saved him a couple bucks
at most!

I was floored when I read that because I knew Adsense cheaters
hurt sponsors but I never thought it was that bad!

So I told him if he REALLY wanted to send me an iPod or an
Amazon gift certificate, I wouldn’t stop him!

He ended up sending me an Amazon.com gift certificate worth
$250!

Long story short… I am now a true believer in Karma!

I think this teaches us a couple important lessons…

First, telling Google about Adsense cheaters is fruitless… but
informing the sponsors, and asking them to contact Google, works
immediately!

And second, ripping off AdWords sponsors is big business. Don’t
think for a second it’s a victimless crime!

Oh and now I’m a true believer in Karma!

Maybe you won’t make $250… but at the very least you’ll help
get rid of another Adsense thief and save a business owner some
money

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Adsense Turnkey Websites – Are Worth Their Money ?

November 12, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

As it becomes more and more difficult to earn money with Affiliate marketing, earning money with Adsense is back. What is the most easiest way for a newbie to start an online business ?? Right: Adsense. You don’t have to deal with customers. Do you know why a lot of people are hesitant to start an online business? Yes, because they fear to handle customers complaints and refunds etc. What do you think is the second big hurdle people are having problems with making money online.
They think they need to sell and are not sure where to get inventory from. Guess what, with Adsense you don’t need to worry about inventory, storage, delivery etc. In simple words: Your write – You upload – You Earn ! You can simply start a blog, for example Blogger.com or Wordpress.com offer easy to use blogs. You can then start writing and adding content regularly. By doing this you will earn money from your Adsense ads you have incorporated into your site. Or you could start a directory, article or a big portal website. People add THEIR content to YOUR site and you are in business. But be aware that setting up those big directories is time intensive and costly. An alternative could be to purchase some Adsene-Ready Turnkey websites. You can simply modify one file with your Adsense code, and all article content pages automatically show Adsense ads with your code. You can then simply upload and advertise your article content pages. You will be surprised how easy it is to make money with Adsense.
And you don’t have to worry if you have chosen the right words, sales copy etc. If you funnel your traffic it’s almost impossible not making any money with Adsense. Some people might think that Ready-To-Go Adsense site are a problem for search engines as they could show some duplicate content. I have another opinion about duplicate content. If I look for a specific article I want to read and I search Google, do you think this article comes up only once? No way. For example: Some time ago I have written an article and submitted to huge number of article directories. If the myth of duplicate content would hold true I would only find my article on one site or directory. But this article has been distributed through more than 7,000 different sites all over the internet. So, does Google still index ‘duplicate content’. Sure Google does it – Big times. If Google would not index any duplicate content sites, thousands of article directories would be immediately out of business. And look at the trend !
Every day new article submission sites are born and all what they do is to show duplicate content. And do you think they earn with Adsense? You bet they are, otherwise they wouldn’t have started this business in the first place. So, if you use a combination of Ready-to-go Adsense Turnkey sites and an article directory, you simply can’t fail earning money with Adsense.

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Twitter Account Suspension And Why It Does Not Work

November 6, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

Hands up, everyone who has a Twitter Account!

Now, put your hand down again, if you have ever used Twitter to plug your line of work. (Be honest!)

Lastly, put your hand down if you have NOT read all the rules. (Again, be honest.)

Obviously this is a hypothetical scenario but my guess is, if you were to put these questions to a thousand Twitter users, by the time you had finished there would be very few hands remaining. Unfortunately, according to the rules of Twitter, this would mean you had a room full of spammers.

Before we go any further I should state that I did use Twitter until a few days ago when my account was suspended for spamming. I opened it to be greeted with this message;

This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity. If we have suspended your account mistakenly, please let us know. See Suspended Accounts for more information.

Assuming this to be an easily fixable error, I looked into it further until I came to this message;

Your account was suspended for cross-posting duplicate tweets across multiple accounts, a violation of our terms of service and the Twitter Rules that we take very seriously. Your account will remain suspended for a minimum of one week; you may petition for reinstatement on or after August 17, 2009.

An obvious and blatant spamming tactic on my part, you may think, but the simple truth is; I only ever had one account. As frustrating as this situation may be for me, personally, it is nothing compared to the frustrations of Twitter, itself.

I have to admit that, according to the rules of twitter (which I have now read), I was not whiter than white when using it. In my short time as an account holder I came to the conclusion that most users (the ones that I was interested in following, at least) were tweeting, either from or about their work, personally posting links and pictures on their page that they believed their followers would be interested in. I followed suit believing this to be a good use of twitter as generally speaking, our work is what people would be most interested in. If Stephen Fry, for example, were to talk about the weather or the lovely cup of tea he was drinking (being extra careful not to mention the company who manufactured it) who would be interested? We want to know about his work because that is what is interesting about him. As for the rest of us mortals, because our jobs may not be as interesting to most as Mr. Fry’s, we look for people in a similar line of work to ourselves to banter with and share information. If we are not to discuss what we do, how are we to find these people?

This could prove a difficult area for Twitter to police. Once you have read the rules on spamming, in particular, you realize that, if all of them were to be upheld to the letter, they would have very few users left indeed.

There is talk of Twitter Business, a service that will allow people to advertize what they do without fear of persecution. But will anyone use this as a social network? More likely, people will only use it if they are looking for a specific service. So, a search engine, then, which only allows the advertiser 140 characters to explain what they do in order to sell their wares. This will leave the advertiser with only one real option; to put up links to somewhere else where he can go into more detail about his product or service. The links would, more than likely, be to a website… Which has to beg the question; Why not cut out the middle man and just use a search engine instead?

This is probably the conclusion most people (and most spammers, for that matter) will come to once the hype dies down a little so lets hope that it is not the way Twitter plans to monetize itself or it will probably have a lot of disappointed paying advertisers on its hands.

So, if Twitter Business doesn’t seem likely to be viable in the long term, we are left with, plain old, Twitter; a social network where people are not allowed to publicize what they do for fear of being suspended.

It does go without saying that none of us enjoy receiving spam and that Twitter has to do something to prevent it, lest people will stop using the service. But, if it is to be trusted by its users, it cannot be suspending them for cross posting duplicate tweets across multiple accounts without first checking that these users are actually guilty of the infringement. If they continue to do so then the current suspension policy will ultimately achieve the opposite of its objective.

Though my Twitter account has now been reinstated, I now cannot escape the feeling that trying to rebuild my social network would be, at best, humiliating and at worst, just pointless, knowing, as I do, that Twitter could close it at any moment due to circumstances that are neither my fault nor within my control (if they actually exist in the first place). And so it is for these reasons, I will probably not use my account as much as used to and would certainly not have opened a new one had the original not been reinstated as I (and, I suspect, my erstwhile followers) would have seen this as an admission of guilt.

Much more importantly for Twitter, however; if I were a dyed-in-the-wool spammer, do you think the suspension of one account would offend so badly as to deter me from opening new ones? I would imagine that a real spammer would be back the very day after his first suspension with a virulent vengeance.

In short; the wrongfully convicted may never return whilst the genuine spammers will simply grow two new heads for each one that is severed.

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10 SEO Tips for Google Msn and Yahoo

November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

My guess is that if you are looking at SEO articles you are a beginner to the subject. Here I will show ten easy ways to better optimize your site for search engines. These tips are not only great for beginners but also for experienced webmasters as well. Check out these 10 Search Engine Optimization tips and apply them to your site. Remember, search engines are not a magic bullet! But they are a good way to drive extra targeted traffic to your site. Getting to the top of any search engine doesn’t happen overnight it takes time, patience and hard work.

1.) Great Content

If you spend all your time worrying about ways to get traffic and no time spent working on content your site will never get any where. If your content is good people will voluntarily give you non-reciprocal links. SEO, traffic techniques and every thing else is secondary, your content is why people come to your site. Even if you do a great job getting people through the door, if your content is bad they wont come back.

2.) “Link to Us” and “Add a Link”

Create a “Link to Us” and “Add a Link” page and add them to your site map. This lets other webmasters who may visit your site know that your are open to link exchanges. Also, you want to make it as easy as possible for other people to link to your site. For your link to us page you should give people numerous options ranging from images to text. Give them the HTML code to copy and paste into their site. You should not iclude codes for images that are on your server, this uses up a lot of bandwidth and can even screw up your website stats by showing more unique IP’s than have actually come to your site. Instead display the image and tell people to right click, save as, then upload to their own server.

3.) Links, Links, and More Links

All search engines take into account how many links are pointing to your site on other pages. You should avoid indiscriminate linking to other sites in unrelated fields as well as linking to sites that aren’t indexed in Google, as they may have been penalized and could get your site penalized too. The best way to get back links is to visit sites with a similar topic, look for a “link to us” or similar page, then look for any contact information for that site. Place their links on your page first, then contact the webmaster of the other site telling them you would like to do a link exchange and where they can find their link on your site. Then ask for a reciprocal link and give them your link info. You should avoid sending your link info in html format because some webmasters don’t like that. Instead tell them your page TITLE, URL, and DESCRIPTION

4.) Don’t Optimize the Wrong Keywords

Your probably thinking that the more times a keyword is searched for the better it is to optimize for that keyword. WRONG! In fact its just about the opposite of that. If you are a new page with little or no page rank its going to be hard to show up for high competition keywords. The best way to decide which keywords to optimize is to divide the number of times that that phrase is searched for by the number of pages that show up for that search on Google. This gives you the search to results ratio. The higher the ratio the better off you are optimizing for that keyword or keyword phrase.

http://www.goodkeywords.com/ – a free software that tells you how often keywords are searched for.

5.) Use a different page title than your URL (homepage only!)

If your homepage URL is “All-About-Horse-Racing.com” you are almost 100% guaranteed to show up as the #1 result for the search “All About Horse Racing”. So why would you want to make that your page title too? If you make your page title “Horse Racing Strategies” you will probably show up for that search as well. Make your page title the exact search phrase you want to show up for. This only works well for your home page, for sub-domains it is a good idea to have your sub domain URL and your page title the same keyword phrase.

6.) Use description meta tags with keyword phrases you want to show up for

In your description meta tag you should use key words and key word phrases you would like to show up for. Your description meta tag and your page title is what a potential visitor sees at search engines.

7.) Use h1, h2, and h3 tags

These tags let search engines know what your most important keywords are. h1 is for your main keywords. h2 and h3 are for your secondary keywords.

8.) Keywords in Unexpected Places

Did you know that search engines don’t only look at the content of your pages for keywords. They also look at your URL, and names of files in your site. Since search engines can’t tell what’s in an image on your site they rely on its alt tag and file name. You can use ANY image for this. Also, put keywords in your URL. All words in URLs and file names should-be-separated-by-dashes.

9.) First and Last Words

Add your desired keyword phrase (only 1 per page!) to the very beginning and end of your page. You are more likely to show up for your desired search phrase if you add it to the beginning and end of your page.

example: http://www.thunderfap.com/daily-giveaways.htm

10.) Bold, Underline, Italicize

Out of all the places you can put keywords you can also make certain words or phrases stick out to search engines by emboldening, underlining or italicizing them. However, don’t overdo it. You should not ‘keyword stuff’. Way back when search engines were just starting, they used to only look at how often a keyword phrase was repeated in a page. A lot of pages climbed to the top of the search engines by just repeating the same words over and over. Search engines have long since changed their tactics, now you may even be penalized for “keyword stuffing”, so don’t overdo it.

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Why Build Relationships on Twitter?

November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

He is by no means a Social Media Purist, but still he teaches what he considers the “right way” to interact on Twitter & other Social Media platforms (hint: it ain’t by spamming people your offers). Harris has a number of years of success in the internet marketing realm and I feel very honored to have him as a guest author today.

With that … here’s Harris’ blog post entitled “Why Build Relationships on Twitter?”:

Okay, here’s the real magic of using Social Media, like Twitter, for marketing purposes…

You can build relationships with and connect to REAL PEOPLE. Oh, Big Advertising, the trade winds are a shifting. Consumers are way past the tipping point now where they tend to trust ‘Regular Joes’ now more than Big Giant Corporations.

My guess is, that if you’re reading this article, you’re probably more likely to be a Regular Joe than the CEO of a Fortune 500. (Dare I coin a new phrase? CE-Joe? Hmm, no – I’ll pass.)

So, the real glory of Twitter is not so much that you can easily build a list of followers as I discussed in my last post. It’s the fact that you can build RELATIONSHIPS with them. And this is where you, the Regular Joes, have an advantage!

What I’m going to do for you in this post is get you started creating those relationships. I’m going to give you a daily process that, if you follow it, will easily turn your Twitter account into a magnet in whatever industry or niche you may be in.

In some of my previous posts, I already got you started on the path to Twitter greatness. So, let’s recap my 4 main rules of engagement shall we?

1. Get Followers
2. Build Relationships with them
3. Get them Clicking & Retweeting and…
4. Make Money.

In my last blog post I talked about how to get tons of followers and gave you some (hopefully) compelling reasons why you should bother. If you took action as I suggested, you will have literally thousands of new followers very soon.

So, Now what?

This brings us to the next phase of this Twitter takeover. It’s time to start to really build a relationship with your followers. But first let’s talk about why it’s so important to do so.

So here’s the question:
Who do YOU trust?

Sure, you might say your Mom or Dad, but really for most things… you trust your closest friends. What we’re talking about here is who you trust for recommendations. But to put a finer point on that and put it within the framework of a business discussion:

Who do people buy from? People (and companies) they trust!

Therefore, as you’re building your relationships on Twitter or any other social networking site, that’s actually what you’re doing… building TRUST. And it’s imperative that you do.

“How?”, you may ask. It’s not that hard really.

You’re going to want to first start by engaging your followers. This can be as easy as a simple and personal welcome message when they follow you. Some people I know actually do this manually (by hand) for each and every follower that they obtain. I can see the validity of this method – but it’s awful time-consuming. Especially considering that there are a number of services out there that can help you do this.

My personal favorite is Tweetlater.com. It’s free and easy to use. Not only does it send out automatic welcome messages for you, it also allows you to schedule tweets to go out in the future among many other very powerful features. Go check it out Tweetlater, it’s an incredible free tool.

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You’ll want to be sure to create a welcome message that adds value or engages your new follower. Otherwise, you’re just creating spam straight to their direct message inbox. Stay away from even attempting to tell your new follower about any product or service that you might have. It’s a sure way to turn them off and have them unfollow you immediately.

What you want to do is get them replying back to you right away. For instance, ask a question that’s easy for them to answer – their favorite gadget, football team, or whatever’s appropriate to your interests.

There is some debate about automatic welcome messages and I’ve had several discussions (some heated) with people on Twitter about it. The bottom line is this: You must give value and further your cause in some way. It’s a delicate balance. You can’t just say “Hey look what I got, don’t you wanna buy one”. And be warned, “Hey thanks for the follow, looking forward to tweeting with you” ends up being just as useless to you in the long run as well.

Finally, what I really wanted to do was give you a quick “daily process” that you can follow to really ensure interaction on Twitter. Feel free to add in more than this if you want to, but if you do this each and every day, you can be certain you’ll have a growing base of people you’re starting to build a relationship with.

Daily Process For Your Twitter Account

1. Read your @mentions and reply to all of them.
2. Post what you’re actually doing or thinking about right now.
3. Post a favorite quotation, recent news link, or just basic info (this can be from online or offline resources) HINT: Go to http://alerts.google.com and set up some alerts for your interests to be automatically sent to your inbox.
4. Scan your own timeline & look for conversations to jump into.
5. Go to http://search.twitter.com, search for topics of interest to you, and get into a few conversations there as well. While you’re there, go ahead and search for your own name and/or company name to see if anyone is talking about you
6. Check your direct messages (DMs) and reply to them as well.
7. Repeat this at at least 3 times a day.

In a future blog post, I’ll share with you some awesome secrets about how to get your Twitter friends to click on stuff you send out, and even more importantly how to get them ReTweeting like crazy as well.

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Great SEO Tips That Work

November 1, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

When it comes to Search Engine Optimization also known as SEO almost all website technicians have heard of it and wish that they could do it as well. Well guess what, SEO is possible to do to your website, you just have to keep in mind that SEO isn’t all the website is made up of. You will also have to keep up with the website in general and not focus too much on the SEO where the web page gets outdated.

First you have to focus on the keywords. A keyword is the word that you will be using a lot in the Web page text. In 250 word texts on your web page use the keyword about 5-15%, You may think that there is no such thing as using a keyword in your web page text too many times, but the truth is that you can. Using the keyword in your web page text too many time can create the negative effect from what you are wanting. You may discourage people away from your web page and they may not be able to find it if you use that keyword too many times.

When it comes to great SEO tips that work something else to concentrate on is maybe to find someone who will compose the SEO text for your website for you, you could pay a friend or family member a little bit of extra money to write the SEO text for you, make sure you tell them exactly what you want and what you are looking for and if the first time they mess up, or perhaps even the second time isn’t quit what you want, don’t discourage them away from it because at least you have the base of some type of SEO script to go by. Nothing will be the way you want it unless you do it, so of course there will be a bit of editing to do to an SEO if you have someone else do it.

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Top 3 SEO Tools to See How Well You Do in SEO

October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

SEO has proven to become a great factor in the success of a website. Have you ever wondered how successful your SEO campaign is? Well there are several tools around the web that measure that success, some are accurate enough to provide you the details that you wanted while others seem otherwise.. So let me give you the top 3 tools that we use to keep track of our progress when it comes to internet marketing campaign including SEO. Let’s start first at number 3 down to number 1.

#3 SEO Tool: SiteYogi

One of the sites we found is SiteYogi. Now don’t misunderstand the Yogi part with Yogi Bear. Yogi in Yoga means someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body. Much like it’s built for, SiteYogi determines the site’s inner cosmos or what we say its capability to become successful in internet marketing and in SEO.

Upon arriving at the site, you can already guess what the site will offer at first glance. The site’s pretty straightforward once you look at it, no sign ups, no registrations, and no payments what-so-ever. All you have to do is input the domain of the site that you want to be analyzed, sit back and watch. The wait will only take seconds, depending on the speed of your internet. Then gradually, you’ll see on the panels the fields being filled in which contain information about your site.

The first panel indicates the diagnosis of your site. The good thing about SiteYogi’s diagnosis is that it gives a score or an average grade on every detail your site has such as URL, Title, Keywords, Description, HTML Tags, HTML size, and Favicon — thumbs up means good and thumbs down means, well, not-so good. It also gives some comments and recommendations on how to make your site rank better such as working on the site’s URL or keywords or description.

SiteYogi is a great tool for SEO because it also provides other information that can be very beneficial on an SEO campaign such as the site’s ranking, syndication, social bookmarks, validations, indexed pages, and backlinks.

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#2 SEO Tool: Website Grader

Another great tool we stumbled across is the Website Grader. From the name itself, Website Grader is built to grade a website. Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. This is the information we found on their site.

Now what’s the difference between SiteYogi and Website Grader? Well both of them can provide information about a site. One good thing about Website Grader is that it can provide more comprehensive information on every detail about the site. It can give a more expounded detail with comments and recommendations.

Here are the things that the Website Grader would usually check about the site:

On-Page SEO
- Metadata
- Heading Summary
- Image Summary
- Interior Page Analysis
- Readability Level

Off-Page SEO
- Domain Info
- Google PageRank
- Google Indexed Pages
- Last Google Crawl Date
- Traffic Rank
- Inbound Links
- DMOZ Directory
- Yahoo! Directory
- ZoomInfo

Blogosphere
- Blog Analysis
- Blog Ranking
- Recent Blog Articles

Social Mediasphere
- Del.icio.us bookmarks
- Digg.com Submission Summary

Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads
- RSS Feeds
- Conversion Form

Competitive Intelligence
- Keyword Grader
- Competing Websites
- Historical Data Available

Now isn’t that comprehensive enough? The cool thing about this site is that aside from giving out good comments and recommendations, it also explains the importance of every detail shown above such as what metadatas are for or what is the relevance of checking interior pages rather than the homepage alone, or why it is important to check the readability level of the site. Checking these things are important for the success of a website.

Another great thing about this site is that it analyzes how well a site fare’s with its competition. It shows an organized and complete detail about the site and its competitor (remember to indicate your competitor’s domain before you ran the test/analysis) such as the keywords they are competing for, grade (Website Grader’s grade), Google PageRank, Google Indexed Pages, Traffic Rank, Blog Rank, Inbound Links, and Del.icio.us Bookmarks.

Website Grader is a tool that can be used to analyze the site’s effectiveness in internet marketing. Though there are some similarities with SiteYogi, Website Grader is much adequately used with internet marketing campaigns. As Website Grader also gives out recommendations on how to make a site more successful in some parts of SEO, it is much more focused on grading a website based on its internet marketing campaign which also includes SEO.

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#1 SEO Tool: Trifecta

Now here is our number one favorite, SEOmoz’s Trifecta. Trifecta is almost synonymous to Website Grader in terms of giving an overall grade; the only difference is that Trifecta focuses more on SEO. Trifecta is a tool used to measure how important and popular a website is in the web from its domain and through its pages.

Every factor that may affect the success of a website is included in Trifecta, factors which are used to determine the strength of a domain such as:

PageRank of Homepage

Average PageRank of Top 10 Pages On Site

DMOZ Links

Median PageRanks of Top 10 Pages On Site

Google News Mentions

Google Blog Search Links

Google Domain Mentions

Compete Rank

Alexa Rank

Yahoo! Site Explorer Links to Domain

Quantcast Rank

Wikipedia Links

Technorati Blog Reactions

Age in Days

And factors which are used to determine the strength of a page in the web such as:

Ranking At Google For 1st 4 Words In Title Tag

Pagerank Of Homepage

Google Blog Search Links To Page

Yahoo Internal Links Percentage

Yahoo Site Explorer Links To Page

Pagerank Of Page

Yahoo Site Explorer Links To Domain

Google Url Mentions

Through the results of these factors, Trifecta can calculate and measure the popularity and importance of a website in the World Wide Web.

And much like Website Grader, Trifecta can also provide a comprehensive detail about every factor that affects the success of a website. Trifecta can also offer a detailed outlook on the competitiveness of a website not only on its competitors, but to all industry such as in business, technology, health, science and many more. Through this, one can compare how valuable or important a website is in the whole web. The more important and popular it is in the web, the more successful it is in all types of industry.

Another thing about Trifecta is that it can also provide comments and recommendations on how to make your website more successful. But unlike the two that I’ve discussed earlier, Trifecta can provide some learning materials coming from its own creator, SEOmoz. As one of the most popular provider of SEO tools and guidelines, SEOmoz can offer a wide range of utilities, including Trifecta, and popular tutorials for SEO campaigns, thus using Trifecta can offer a more accurate and precise reading on how popular it is on the web and how well it fares in SEO.

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Wendy Ang is the president of Optimind Web Design and SEO, a web design and seo company in the Philippines. Optimind specializes in building and promoting websites that are designed for conversion.

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Are You a Victim of Twitter Squatting?

October 26, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

Are you a victim of Twitter Squatting? If you’re not careful, you will be. Twitter is one of the fastest growing social sites on the planet, and usernames are disappearing fast. Even if you’re not a “guru”, another person with your name or favorite username can easily beat you to the punch and deny your twitter position.

According to PC World, “Is there evidence of Twitter squatting (squitting?) Let’s check. Yup, every single-letter TwitID is taken. Some are legitimate (Check out “S” for instance, that is a cool personal email assistant service) but X, Y, and Z are place holders. How about common words? Garage, wow, war, warcraft, Crisco, Coke, Pepsi, Nike, and Chevrolet are all taken. My guess is that Twitter squatters have grabbed all of these in the hopes that they will be worth selling in the not too distant future. Of course the legitimate holders of brands can sue for them and Twitter can just turn them over if asked. But, because the investment and risk for the squatter is zero, you are going to see the rapid evaporation of available Twitter IDs.”

The solution, you ask? Back to PC World: “How to protect your own brand? Immediately go to Twitter.com and determine if your name is available. Get it while you can.”

Even if you have no idea what Twitter is, or how you would use it, there’s no reason to not go there and simply set up a free account, just to lock up your name. Don’t you wish you registered your name or brand back in the 90’s, when domain names were free and easy to get? The same thing is happening with Twitter right now.

Not convinced that Twitter is for real? According to Compete.com, twitter traffic is up an astounding 752% in 2008, from 500,000 unique visitors in January to 4.43 million in December.

Whether you love it, hate it, or don’t even know about it, twitter is a powerful social force, so you might as well grab your “real estate” there now, and ask questions later!

Dave Sherwin is an online marketing expert and co-founder of the Lighthouse Marketing System.

Learn some of the coolest, free social marketing tactics by following him at:

http://twitter.com/escapethematrix

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Wordpress Goldmine For Blog Cash Results

October 26, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment

The majority of internet marketers who are failing to succeed or giving up too soon, are doing so, because they are lacking the knowledge they need to have in order to set their online business to a good start.

The kind of help you need to get your online business rolling, starts with an understanding of online promotion and taking the daily steps you need to take to get recurring positive results for your online business.

The one thing that can help you with your online business, without you going broke in the process, is a step by step tutorial that will show you exactly what to do without you trying to guess for weeks, months or even years, before you start getting any results.

I have wasted hours upon hours of my time in the past, trying to figure out how to optimize my marketing campaigns for better cash results, when I heard about Wordpress Goldmine. Now, let me tell you that I hate those guru’s books that promise a lot, but never deliver on their promises. So, when I first heard of Wordpress Goldmine, I just dismissed it. However, what changed my mine later on was that I heard of the value of this great tutorial from someone in the network marketing business that I knew and trusted.

So what is exactly this Wordpress Goldmine? Put it simply, it’s a tutorial that will help you create full blown campaigns using free avenues. The good news is that using free avenues will give you the same results you would achieve with paid ones. The difference is, you don’t have to spend any money in order to get the cash results. What do I mean by same cash results? I mean that you could find your product or products on the first page of a Google or Yahoo search as much as you would with a paid method.

Wordpress Goldmine is a tutorial that will teach you everything from setting a professional looking blog with all the optimization settings on your blog to how to promote your blog far and wide using one hundred percent free avenues, and monetize it in the process.

Wordpress Goldmine is also more than just a e-Book tutorial since when you sign up you have access to the WP forum where you can interact with all the network marketers there and of course Mark Thompson, the author of the book himself. Furthermore, Mark Thompson has created a collection of videos to show you the whole process. If you are a visual person, more than you are a reader this will help you tremendously.

If you are still struggling with your Wordpress blogs and with your overall network marketing campaigns, you need a tutorial that will show you how to stop wasting your time and money and get your product out there for best cash results.

If you have not tried WordPress blogging for profit yet, you are missing out on cash results. If you are serious about making money online you can read more information at http://www.squidoo.com/WordpressGoldmineClickbankCashResults or listen to what Mark Thompson, author of WordPress Goldmine as to say here at http://www.wordpressblogbuilder.info

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