Adsense- United With Careful Tracking of Ad Performance
November 21, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
When you start using Word press to build your Adsense websites, you’ll soon discover what I mean. Google did go on to implement paid inclusion via Ad Words and Adsense, but basic submission to the index has always been free. I am happy to say that those days of mine are all in the past now, and I am making a good amount of money LEGALLY with Adsense and other affiliate programs.
This strategy, coupled with careful tracking of ad performance, will guarantee that you are making serious amounts of money with Google Adsense. Google supplies excellent resources on The Dos and The Don’ts of Adsense as well as very comprehensive tutorials on how to set up and use Adsense. What I love about Bolger is that once you plug in the Adsense code into your main template, a new page is created and Adsense is automatically displayed when you make a post. The first Google Adsense tool you need to check out is your Google Adsense channels.
1) Google Adsense fraud is one of the diseases that plague the Ad Words advertisers. I ran Adsense on my sites for over a year before I discovered these techniques, and like many people, I though I was doing pretty well. Keep in mind that the primary purpose of building this type of Adsense site is to have visitors’ attention on the ads, and finally click on the ads, right. For more results kindly visit us at www.instant-adsense-dollars.com. So what are the Google Adsense success secrets that other successful webmasters use to make some great money with their website?
Google Adsense – this is my personal favorite. Because the Adsense™ program displays advertisements that are so closely related to the website content, it is advantageous to webmasters because the advertisements are actually of interest to website visitors. * If or when you are removed or fined by Google for Adsense abuse, make sure you send copies of your IP address reports along with your re-inclusion request. C Ways to make money from Adsense by Using Articles and a Viral Marketing Website Any online marketing technique that involves the use of referral marketing or viral marketing automatically has a huge chance of being a success.
Not necessarily how it applies strictly to Ad Words and Adsense, but to the world in general. They can use them to promote their affiliate marketing business, or they can place Google Adsense ads right into the text. I have a high traffic web site and yet my Adsense earnings have plummeted. It may not seem like much, but all of those clicks add up – just ask someone who owns a made for Adsense site.
But if the site involves you in no work (for example if it sells an e-Book or you generate Adsense income etc from it, then why remove it
Google-adsense-is-dead
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Much has been made of the untimely death of Google Adsense but how come some folks are still generating handsome revenue from Adsense? If you didn’t attend the funeral of Google Adsense despair not, because you are not alone. Though much has been written about the untimely death of Adsense, the truth of the matter is that Google Adsense is alive and very well. If you are new to the whole Google-Adsense-Is-Dead brouhaha let’s tread back in time a little to get you up to speed. Cutting a somewhat long story short, what you need to be aware of is that in the waning months of 2005 Google made a few select tweaks to its Adsense algorithm that effectively pulled the plug on Adsense Joy riders (Adsense scammers). The Adsense Joy riders were the folks who were pulling in huge Adsense revenues by directing tons of irrelevant traffic to their Adsense-template sites (Adsense-specific optimized sites). So how were the Adsense joy riders able to corral such tremendous amounts of traffic? Simple! Just pay for thousands of visitors to their sites for a nominal fee; e.g., they could get 100,000 visitors directed to their sites for about $100 bucks! For the Adsense joy rider it mattered little whether those visitors constituted relevant traffic or not; or to put it another way, it was immaterial whether the visitor to the site was actually interested or actively looking for the subject matter of the site. The only thing that mattered to the Adsense joy rider was that the traffic came from different IP addresses such that when the Adsense ads on their sites were clicked, each click registered as originating from a different IP address. This was necessary in order to avoid accusations of click fraud (click fraud is said to have occurred when multiple clicks are registered from the same IP address. Click fraud is a really old school technique (that was quickly nullified by Google) to boost one’s own Adsense revenue. The other hurdle the Adsense joy riders had to over come was how to get traffic unconcerned about the topic of their Adsense (template) website to click on their ads. This was achieved quite easily. By having pretty much nothing else on such a webpage, the Adsense joy rider dramatically boosted the click through rate of their Adsense ads; after all, what else could the hapless visitor do other than click on a Google Adsense ad or click their back button… Most people actually tended to reflexively click on an Adsense ad with the result, ka-ching Adsense guru just got paid…and paid a lot! Anyway the advertisers started complaining to Google that their advertising money was being wasted, Google listened and tweaked a little bit more and effectively slowed the Adsense joy ride to a dead halt. It was about this time that the Adsense joy riders (Adsense sneakmeisters) began selling their products…and selling them hard! They had ample proof that there was money to be made from Google Adsense and they certainly weren’t shy about sharing that proof. But what the poor Adsense-wannabe millionaires who bought those overpriced products did not know was that the techniques outlined in those courses were defunct. They just didn’t work anymore…Google had seen to that and this was the reason the Adsense gurus were very kindly letting the rest of the world into their Adsense mega-revenue generating systems!
Adsense Illegal Traffic
November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Many people have asked me what forms of traffic are illegal in the eyes of google adsense. Some have said that they felt they were using totally legitimate methods to attract visitors to their pages only to receive the dreaded “adsense wrist slap email”. Something like “It has come to out attention that ads on your site are being clicked by visitors using non-approved techniques…If this continues we will be forced to discontinue…etc. I think you get the message.
So what exactly are legal sources of traffic in the eyes of google adsense? Well, google adsense says that clicks must come from genuine internet users. So isn’t someone who clicks on a redirect sub-domain from bought traffic a genuine internet user. Not if the link is sending bulk traffic to your site from the same IP address. So most of the traffic you can purchase is illegal by adsense standards, but not all. Finding a supplier of good traffic can be like finding a needle in a haystack and is probably not worth the effort because the chance of it being relevant is minimal. Anyway, traffic like this will increase your page clicks but not the adsense ad clicks. And this defies the purpose!
Other forms of traffic that are contrary to adsense regulations are paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, click exchange programs or any type of software that can automatically send traffic to your site. Google uses the words “Includes but are not limited to…” when stating the above so it leaves it pretty open. These prohibitions also include but are not limited to robots, automated clicking, impression generating tools or third party services that generate clicks.
So what are the legal ways of attracting traffic to your google adsense ads without being penalized? Well ironically, one can buy clicks from adwords which also belongs to google and they will send traffic to your site. Having said that, if this system is set up correctly it will bring targeted visitors to your adsense site and the ROI is quite justifiable.
One of the best ways to draw visitors is to focus on SEO techniques to improve your adsense site placement and ranking in the search engines. Relevant link partners are also a good source of targeted traffic. Signatures in forums, emails and on blogs which have the same subject matter as your pages.
Some people recommend safelist but I have never had any success with them. But I have had great success with solo ads as far as selling my products and getting clicks. But again you have to be sure you are getting targeted traffic for your dollars. Testing and tracking are also vital to attracting traffic and maximizing clicks. It is crucial to know which techniques are working and which are not in order to fine tune your adsense strategies.
So yes many forms of luring visitors to your site are illegal by google adsense law but more often than not the methods are unfruitful and a waste of time anyway. Common sense should also be a guiding factor in deciding which methods to use. Remember that you should be trying to build up a rich content blog or site and that if you consider adsense as a secondary bonus it will naturally yield fruit in the end.
Nigel Nix has been making money online for the last 3 years.
He has many websites and is currently working on a new product launch.
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Knowing Black Hat SEO
November 11, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
1. Cloaking
When website or web pages are set up to display different content for a search engine spider versus a human user. Cloaking delivers one version of a page to an Internet user and a different version to a search engine. The cloaked page is packed with keywords and phrases that the website wants to be highly rank for so.
It is done by cloaking programs that compare the IP address of the requesting party to a database of known IP addresses from specific search engine spiders. If the IP address matches one on the list, it serves a page that was specifically written for the search engines.
There are good reasons for cloaking as well, such as targeted advertising, but if you are trying to manipulate your rankings in the search engines then your site could be penalized or banned.2. Spamming (Keyword Stuffing)
“Stuffing” long lists of keywords into the content and the code on a page that makes the page unreadable.
Ever seen a web page with a very awkwardly written first paragraph where a certain word is repeated ad nauseam? Here’s an example:
“We sell the best father’s day gifts for father’s day. If you like to celebrate father’s day we can help with the best father’s day gifts for father’s day.”
It’s obvious that the page is trying to rank well for “father’s day gifts.” This is keyword spamming or stuffing but it is just the tip of the SEO iceberg; there is probably keyword stuffing happening in the code: in the meta tags, invisible text, alt tags, title tags, comment tags, etc. If the word or phrase is repeated too often Google can place a filter to reduce the site’s rankings or simply ban the site. Keyword density can be tricky but, as a general rule, Big Oak shoots for 3% to 12% of all text on a page to be our targeted keywords.3. Hidden Text
If text or links are invisible to the website visitor but can be seen by search engine spiders then they are considered hidden.In the past people would simply make the text too small to read by using a 1 point font or make it the same color as the background. Now that search engines have built in algorithms to combat that, spammers are using cascading style sheets (CSS) to hide text or using tags set to not display text on the page. It is boils down to this: it is considered hidden if the text or link is invisible to the website visitor but can be seen by search engine spiders.Search engines can easily spot this today so it is best to avoid it altogether.4. Doorway Pages
Pages that solely exist to rank well in the search engines. Sometimes these pages are ugly, containing paragraph after paragraph of meaningless text. Most the time doorway pages are orphaned pages meaning they are not part of the site’s regular navigation.
A black hat SEO firm may use software to generated doorway pages. They plug a few keywords in and the software proceeds to generate pages where much of the content is duplicated from other pages on the site except they swap out the keywords.5. Redirect Pages
Keyword-stuffed landing pages that quickly redirect to the real page. These pages don’t necessarily contain content that any human would be interested in. They are meant to show up high in search engine results pages (SERPS). When you click on one of these pages from the results, you are redirected to another page–usually a high-pressure sales page. In other words, the page you click to see is not the page you actually get to read.
Sneaky redirection pages are set up in groups. They target similar and related keywords or phrases. The only links on these pages are links to other pages in the same family creating a false sense of related linking. The redirect can be automatic, done with a meta refresh command or through other means such as mouse moving while on the redirect page.6. Duplicate Content or Websites
Setting up multiple websites with the same content or having several pages on a site with essentially the same information but different keywords inserted here and there. You see the duplicate content method a lot with travel-oriented sites. A “template script” is written then regional terms, such as state or city names, are swapped out on each page.
Of course, someone may have copied the content on your site and put it on their site. The search engines do not make any distinction on who had the content first. Make sure no other site is using your content. You can do this by performing a search using some of your text with quotation marks (”) around it. If you do find someone is using your original copy visit here to learn more about copyright infringement: http://www.google.com/dmca.html.7. Code swapping
Submitting a text-only version of a web page to the search engines in an effort to gain high rankings for that page. Once the desired positions within the search engines are achieved the search-engine friendly text page is swapped out for a content page designed for human visitors. This will only work for a limited time as the search engine spiders will eventually return to that page and find its content has changed.8. Linking to Unrelated Sites or Bad Neighborhoods
Link campaigns are good thing when done correctly; we would say they are a necessity in today’s SEO world. But linking to bad neighborhoods is a sure way to lose your ranking. If you aren’t careful about who you are linking to you can easily disappear overnight. Basically, while you may be ethical and do everything right, linking to someone who isn’t can be considered guilt by association. Always verify your links to other sites. Make sure they have page rank and are indexed by Google. Avoid linking to any sites that use spamming techniques to increase their search engine rankings. Regularly checking outbound links from your site and removing any offenders is a good idea.
A few site types to avoid:
1. Free-for-all link farms
2. Adult sites
3. Gambling sites 9. Link Farms
Typically a network of sites that are all interlinked to one another and have no other benefit but to try to boost the link popularity of the sites. Link farms are mostly used to try to increase the Google PageRank of a site.
Well after everyone saw the Black Hat techniques everyone also should see What does Google say?
“Don’t deceive your users, or present different content to search engines than you display to users,” Google says, and they list some bullet points on avoiding being banned.
1. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
2. Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
3. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
4. Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.
5. Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
6. Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
All the best,MES
Miskandar Eko Sembodo (MES) is an IT Consultant for Business Solution Consulting firm. One of his websites about SEO techniques is www.mes-seomaster.com. He likes SEO contests like Carcasherdotcom Seocontest
SEO Analytics and Google
November 11, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you want to utilize SEO to increase your website rankings within the major search engines, I must state that Google Analytics is not something you should consider utilizing for SEO. Google Analytics is flawed even with its ease of usage and tools.
Firstly, Google Analytics utilizes “page tagging technology” and this particular program can only record information on browsers which execute JavaScript. These types of browsers will never execute JavaScript in your source code. Google Analytics is wonderful at tracking visitors but Google Analytics is flawed when it comes to reporting spider behavior.
If you want to make the most of your SEO techniques, you need to understand when a spider comes into the picture, what pages the spiders are asking for and when they will come back. This information is very much needed so you can launch new pages as well as set up great internal links while prioritizing your changes with your source code. You must keep in mind that tracking spiders are as important as tracking your visitors to your website.
Google Analytics is very much relied on by numerous SEOs. I would recommend utilizing log file analyzers as compared to Google Analytics. Log file analyzers oppose page tagging with technologies directly behind web analytics. Particular tools do indeed rely on log files which are using coded server logs to mine the information. The requests for files on your site are recorded with the IP address, referral sting and user agents. This is of course more work however; the data you will get back makes it worth the effort.
Log analysis allows you to build filters. Google Analytics does attempt to address this however; Google Analytics lacks the control which you have. You are not allowed to upload log files with Google Analytics as with other applications.
You will need to check reports as well as access then online. Google Analytics does not make this accessible and offers no way of archiving your data. Google has full control over your particular data period. If Google changes the style of reporting or the interface, you will then be stuck with whatever Google gives you. If you think about it, do you want Google to have control over your website as well as your visitors? Of course you don’t therefore, do not give Google that particular power which you should retain in the first place.
It sounds as if I’m on a rampage about Google, I’m here to state I am not however if you are looking to make the most with analytics, you should utilize multiple tools. Where I’m stating that Google contains many flaws, I will also state that Google Analytics is not overall a useless tool but if you want a tool which addresses the serious needs of your business marketing needs, Google Analytical is not for you.
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Free SEO Course To Show How To Leverage web 2.0
November 6, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you are looking for lots of free traffic to your affiliate sites, then don’t worry. You got a CPU and know english, well then your perfect. What I will teach youtoday is how to automated your online business growth. This is precisely how I get vast amounts of traffic to my website and the essence of Rich Alchemist. Get ready to see systems in action. Since you are a corporate company, you will want to be able to grow the business without being tied to the mundane tasks of doing all the work. This is the true spirit of an entrepreneur. So to get you started here is the flow of developing and creating your articles so you too can create a monopoly right online. Your first step is to make sure you write 5 unique articles. Then in each article you will submit this article to a specific website. Remember, these articles are in fact optimizing the same keywords in the content and the title. Take your first article and submit this one to your money site or some site which you will be selling your stuff. Then your second article you will submit to a blog, either wordpress.com type blog or a blog on another domain with a separate IP address. This will allow you to rank on the 1 first page, by having that separate IP address. In this article, you link will point back to your money site with the optimized keyword as the link. Now, your third article will be submitted to a article directory. This then will have a link which points to that blog post in step 2 you just did. The fourth article, you will be submitted to Hub Pages a web 2.0 site. Then the links in this article will be submitted to all the previous posted articles and one link will point to relative articles in hub pages. Finally the last article will be posted to Squidoo and the links will point to all the previous article locations you just published. The money page, blog, article directory, hub page, and of course similar lenses in Squidoo. You do this and before you know it, you will have these different articles ranking for your specific keyword.
If you want more free traffic to your website, then have no fear. You got a CPU and know english, well then your perfect. What you will learntoday is how to systemize it and leverage other websites. This is precisely how you will get vast amounts of sales to your site and the essence of Rich Alchemist.
You will learn to systems to automate seo tactics. Since you are a corporate company, you will want to be able to grow the business without being tied to the mundane tasks of doing all the work. This is the true spirit of an entrepreneur. So to get you started here is the flow of developing and creating your articles so you too can create a monopoly right online.
Your first step is to make sure you write 5 unique articles. Then in each article you will submit this article to a specific website. Remember, these articles are in fact optimizing the same keywords in the content and the title.
Take your first article and submit this one to your money site or some site which you will be selling your stuff.
Then your second article you will submit to a blog, either wordpress.com type blog or a blog on another domain with a separate IP address. This will allow you to rank on the 1 first page, by having that separate IP address. In this article, you link will point back to your money site with the optimized keyword as the link.
Now, your third article will be submitted to a article directory. This then will have a link which points to that blog post in step 2 you just did.
The fourth article, you will be submitted to Hub Pages a web 2.0 site. Then the links in this article will be submitted to all the previous posted articles and one link will point to relative articles in hub pages.
Finally the last article will be posted to Squidoo and the links will point to all the previous article locations you just published. The money page, blog, article directory, hub page, and of course similar lenses in Squidoo.
You do this and before you know it, you will have these different articles ranking for your specific keyword.
Learn the secrets to bring vast amounts of traffic to your website from this free seo video training course of the Rich Alchemist.
Good Reasons for Hosting Your Own Blog
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
A: Better SEO, total control, more traffic and more sales – although those reasons won’t apply if you’re not blogging for business!
When I started out blogging I opened a blogger.com account. That worked fine for me at the time because I was new to blogging. I was such a newbie that I didn’t even realise it was possible to host my own blog.
Even if I had realised that, it’s not something I would have given a moment’s thought to. I was too new to working online. I was (still am) totally non-techie and it would have been too daunting a task.
So I happily blogged away on my blogger account until I logged on one day to find that Google had translated all the admin pages into Chinese. I live in Hong Kong so Google, thinking they were being smart, used my IP address as the basis on which to make the decision to translate it.
Not being able to find the help link (because I can’t read Chinese) I logged into my Google account (Adwords, Gmail, etc,) to raise a request for them to translate my blog back to English.
After a week nothing had happened. I hadn’t received a reply, I still couldn’t read my admin screens, and I was seriously frustrated that Google should unilaterally decide to translate my blog, so I kissed the big G goodbye and shifted my blog over to Wordpress.com.
By this time I had learned enough about blogging to have heard that Wordpress was the place to be. So with some anticipation of great things to come, I imported all my blogger posts and set about learning the new admin screens.
One thing I noticed immediately was that my posts were suddenly figuring much more quickly in the natural search results, so it looked as though at least some of what I’d heard was correct.
And I happily blogged away until…
…one day I tried to log on to be met with a notice telling me my blog had been suspended for infringing Wordpress’ terms and conditions.
DAMN..!! Twice inside a month I’d been blind-sided by my blogging platform and the second occasion was even more damaging than the first. (It doesn’t look too professional when your visitors are told that your blog’s been suspended for infringing terms and conditions).
So, finally, I was pushed into the realisation that I had no option but to set up my own blog and host it myself.
So off I clicked to Wordpress.org to see what I could find out. And I was pleasantly surprised.
Firstly – they’ve made the process as easy as possible by setting out extremely clear, easy-to-follow instructions.
There are a few minimum requirements set out, which pretty much every hosting provider meets. You can always check with your provider if you’re not sure. Mine does, so I printed off the instructions and got going.
First step is to set up the database. Easy to do – the instructions are very clear, include screen shots for every step of the way and are written in simple, non-techie language.
I then downloaded and unzipped the blog files, entered my newly created database details into the config file, (just followed the instructions), uploaded the files and accessed the installation screen via my browser (the URL is provided in the instructions). That kicked off the installation script and I was all done.
It was, literally, a 5-minute exercise.
However, the majority of hosting providers now give you an even easier method than that:
One click installation.
I’ve never done a 1-click installation so I can’t confirm whether it really is one click or whether a few more are involved – but it’s definitely very easy and it doesn’t involve any downloading, unzipping and uploading of files.
So what are some of the benefits of hosting your own blog?
You have total control. You can write what you like, you can drive traffic to affiliate programs, no one is going to translate it into Chinese, and no one is going to lose your database.
You can customise it as much as you like. Customisation is done through plug-ins, and there are plug-ins for just about anything you can think of. You decide what you want to do with your blog, then you can either go to the Wordpress plug-in directory or do a Google search for a plug-in for the function you want.
Download the plug-in, unzip it, upload it and activate it through the blog admin screens. It’s that simple. Really.
But of all the sexy things you can do with your self-hosted blog, probably the biggest benefit of all comes from the SEO elements.
This really turns your blog into an incredibly effective way of figuring strongly in the natural search results.
Optimising your blog for the search engines is simply a question of installing and activating the appropriate SEO related plug-ins. And you can find probably the best list of these in Jack Humphrey’s Authority Blackbook.
If you’ve gone to the trouble of setting up your own, self-hosted blog then you should absolutely download this book and follow the guidelines in there for optimising it properly for the search engines.
Firstly, it’s free and secondly, if you don’t set up your blog properly you’re wasting an enormous portion of its SEO potential.
It would be like buying a Ferrari but never taking it out of the city centre.
I’m now using my blog as my primary means of drawing in traffic. I haven’t spend a dime on promoting it – and I don’t have any intention of doing so going forwards.
And yet my blog is now attracting a little over 50% of the total traffic I’m getting on a weekly basis – that’s traffic to my blog plus traffic to all my other sites – and that’s almost totally due to the SEO effectiveness of my plugin-rich, self-hosted blog.
Within the next year I’m aiming for that to be well over 80%.
Martin Malden writes a blog covering tips, techniques and resources for small- or home-business owners. For more information check out his blog here:
http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/
Blogging: Three Ways of Creating a Blog to Get Traffic to Your Website
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Blogging is a great way to get traffic to your website, and if you create a blog for no other reason than that, you are practically certain to get positive results. Blogging and traffic are made for each other for can visit to www.feed-reader-links.com, and there are several ways of using blogs to promote products on your site.
The first question is what kind of blog? Although there are alternatives, the most popular blogging software packages are Google’s Blogger and Wordpress. This offers you four blogging options, and three ways of creating a blog to get traffic to your website.
Why four from just two blogging packages? Here is the answer to that question, and how if you create a blog using each, you will maximize your earning potential from your products:
Blogger
Blogger is blogging software owned by Google. Most people run their blog from BlogSpot, Bloggers blogging host. When you do that you have less control over your blog than if you operate it from your own IP address. Blogger is very easy to use, and very easy to get started with, and is popular with those who don’t want to worry about templates, plugins and designing their own blogs.
Wordpress
Wordpress can also be run from the Wordpress hosting site. However, where Wordpress scores over Blogger is in the fact that the software can be uploaded to your website, and can be run from there for the help www.rss-announcers.com. This enables you to use any of the thousands of Wordpress plugins and templates that provide an almost unlimited degree of functionality in your blogging that will help to drive traffic to your website.
When you create a blog with any of these two different packages, whether run from your own computer or from the blog host, you are able to provide fresh content daily to your virtual website. Because that is what a blog is: it is in effect a web page, in the same way that a Squidoo lens and a page on a website is a web page.
Bogging and Search Engines
Blogging allows you a presence on search engines such as Google and Yahoo, and allows those with little idea of SEO or even of web design, to sell products online. There was a time when blogs were a rarity and something new, but blogging is now a way for anybody that knows how to create a blog can drive traffic to their website or to their blog page and help they make money through free advertising.
However, even a blog has to be advertised. Blogging in itself is not an advertising technique, but one of displaying your thoughts, idea, products or advertising your products. Now, you might think I am being a bit duplicitous here, stating that blogging is not a means of advertising yet can be used to advertise! Yet both statements are true. Let me explain why.
Is Blogging an Advertising Technique?
Yes and no. You can create a blog in order to get traffic to your website, and in that respect you are using your blog for advertising. You can place a link to your website: your squeeze page, sales page or just a content page. The question is, how do you get people to read your blog, and then click on one of these links? The link could be placed at the bottom of every post, and on a permanent page on your blog, but how do yet get traffic to your blog: you have the same problem now as getting traffic to your website!
What you have here is that blogging can be use to promote another site, whether it be a website, another blog or a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace or YouTube. You can use all of these to promote and sell products. However, how do you get people, to find your blog? Creating a blog is fine, but that is only the start.
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Ways of Creating a Blog to Get Traffic to Your Website
The first question is what kind of blog? Although there are alternatives, the most popular blogging software packages are Google’s Blogger and Wordpress. This offers you four blogging options, and three ways of creating a blog to get traffic to your website.
Blogging is a great way to get traffic to your website, and if you create a blog for no other reason than that, you are practically certain to get positive results. Blogging and traffic are made for each other for can visit to www.feed-reader-links.com, and there are several ways of using blogs to promote products on your site.
Why four from just two blogging packages? Here is the answer to that question, and how if you create a blog using each, you will maximize your earning potential from your products:
Blogger
Blogger is blogging software owned by Google. Most people run their blog from BlogSpot, Bloggers blogging host. When you do that you have less control over your blog than if you operate it from your own IP address. Blogger is very easy to use, and very easy to get started with, and is popular with those who don’t want to worry about templates, plugins and designing their own blogs.
Wordpress
Wordpress can also be run from the Wordpress hosting site. However, where Wordpress scores over Blogger is in the fact that the software can be uploaded to your website, and can be run from there for the help www.rss-announcers.com. This enables you to use any of the thousands of Wordpress plugins and templates that provide an almost unlimited degree of functionality in your blogging that will help to drive traffic to your website.
When you create a blog with any of these two different packages, whether run from your own computer or from the blog host, you are able to provide fresh content daily to your virtual website. Because that is what a blog is: it is in effect a web page, in the same way that a Squidoo lens and a page on a website is a web page.
Bogging and Search Engines
Blogging allows you a presence on search engines such as Google and Yahoo, and allows those with little idea of SEO or even of web design, to sell products online. There was a time when blogs were a rarity and something new, but blogging is now a way for anybody that knows how to create a blog can drive traffic to their website or to their blog page and help they make money through free advertising.
However, even a blog has to be advertised. Blogging in itself is not an advertising technique, but one of displaying your thoughts, idea, products or advertising your products. Now, you might think I am being a bit duplicitous here, stating that blogging is not a means of advertising yet can be used to advertise! Yet both statements are true. Let me explain why.
Is Blogging an Advertising Technique?
Yes and no. You can create a blog in order to get traffic to your website, and in that respect you are using your blog for advertising. You can place a link to your website: your squeeze page, sales page or just a content page. The question is, how do you get people to read your blog, and then click on one of these links? The link could be placed at the bottom of every post, and on a permanent page on your blog, but how do yet get traffic to your blog: you have the same problem now as getting traffic to your website!
What you have here is that blogging can be use to promote another site, whether it be a website, another blog or a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace or YouTube. You can use all of these to promote and sell products. However, how do you get people, to find your blog? Creating a blog is fine, but that is only the start.
sandeep bishnoiwww.instant-blog-and-ping.com
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Strategies for Preventing Comment Spam
November 17, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Bloggers are painfully aware of website owners who try to improve their websites rank by adding links to blogs. There are several strategies for combating this problem. The first and most obvious method is to avoid free blogger sites. These are favorite targets for comment spam.
Bloggers who own their own software can add a no-follow tag. The rel=nofollow tag does not stop the spam, but it does stop robots from following the link. Blogger, owned by Google, implements these tags already. Wordpress has anti-comment spam plug-ins to help bloggers stop comment spam.
Do not bother banning the IP address – unplugging a computer for one hour can change the IP address, and changing a servers IP address is relatively easy. Some companies buy IP addresses in blocks of a hundred or more, and spammers also use open proxies. These are IP addresses that allow anyone access.
Configuring a blog to prevent javascript and HTML code in replies is a solid and easy to implement method of attacking comment spam. It is possible to configure some blog software programs to automatically convert any string that starts with http:// into a url. This will not stop manual comment spams, but it will stop the crawlers.
The spam crawlers search the web looking for descriptive form names. Field names like comment or reply make it too easy for comment spam crawlers to find a potential victim.
Many blogs are using CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). This new tool requires the user to post a text and number combination before their post is published. However, a simple trip to the freelance bidding forums already indicates that countries (Ukraine and India are the most obvious) are hiring people to do nothing but post comments all day. This undermines CAPTCHA tools anyway!
If you are able to configure your blogs software, then there is a very simple trick for stop automated comment spam software. The form submit HTML is:
form method=”post” action=”http://www.example.com/bin/comment”
The action specifies the web address (URL) of the executable used to publish the form results. Simply remove it and add an onsubmit attribute:
form method=”post”
onsubmit=”this.action=http://www.example.com/+bin/post-a-comment”
This is not 100% effective, but it will stop most spam crawlers.
There are two other methods that are available to most bloggers. The first is user authentication – this requires the person to sign up for a user name and password before publishing a post. This slows down comment spammers in two ways: (1) they must take an extra step before publishing, and (2) most authentication programs are configured to accept an email address once.
The second method is to moderate every post before it is published, but the sheer time involved can be daunting. However, the advantages of having 100% control over your blogs content can tip the scales in the favor of moderating. Many posts do not use relative keywords, or post irrelevant comments based on an emotional reaction to the information. Moderating the blog allows the blog owner total control over the information on their page.
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