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SEO Facts
November 17, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
When considering utilizing search engine optimization methods to help improve your website’s overall ranking in search engines, here are some “facts” and “myths” about SEO:
Fact: Google, Yahoo and MSN are considered the “Big 3″ when it comes to search engines.
Yes, it’s true. In fact, just over 95% of all Internet searches are conducted using either Google, Yahoo and MSN. This leaves less than 5% percent for all of the other search engines combined.
Myth: There are 1,000 search engines on the Internet.
Nope. Not true. If you see an advertisement saying “we’ll submit your site to 1,000 search engines”, then they probably also want to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn. Actually, there are only 40 or so true search engines. The rest of them are actually using search engine results from Google, Yahoo, MSN or a combination of all three.
Fact: Search Engine Optimization is not a “one-and-done” process.
Good SEO is an on-going progress. You have to do so many things – and do them right – to get ranked at the top of search engines. Then, once you have earned those high rankings, you have to work twice as hard to keep your site there. Afterall, when you moved into the top spots, you’ve bumped someone. Rest assured, they are going to start working harder to regain that spot.
Myth: You can trick search engines.
Go ahead and try. And, when you get caught, your website will be banned from search engines. There are all kinds of tricks search engine optimization consultants try and, yes, you might get ranked No. 1 in Google for your “black hat” efforts. But, when you get caught – and you will – your site will be doomed for a long time.
Fact: Search engines love fresh content.
Definitely. Just like people, search engine spiders (also called “robots”) will come back to your site often when you write and publish fresh content.
Myth: Search engines don’t look at Meta Tags anymore.
Wrong. Search engines do look at Meta Tags. Typically, they don’t put much faith in what you’ve written there as the gospel, but they’ll come back and look more at your site content to verify what keywords you’re concentrating on.
Fact: Links will help get your site ranked higher.
True. However, create “backlinks” with sites that have a Google Page Rank of 5 or better. Avoid link farms. Don’t pay for links and, if you can help it, don’t trade links with everyone on the web.
Myth: The more links you have the better.
Wrong. Be selective. Get good quality sites to publish a link to your site. Don’t pay to be listed in directories (with the exception being in Yahoo Directory). Avoid link farms (these are sites that are just a bunch of links).
Fact: A Sitemap is a good thing to have.
True. While a Sitemap, especially a Google Sitemap, will not guarantee a higher ranking in Google, it will help you make sure that all of the pages in your site are being crawled by Google.
Myth: Pay-Per-Click is not worth it.
False. If your website is not listed high in organic search engine results, then you should consider a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign. Yes, some click fraud does exist, but if you opened a retail store, you’ll probably be a victim of shoplifting at some point. Instead, create a smart campaign and stick to a budget. Then, perhaps as your organic rankings improve, you may consider backing off the PPC campaign. Or, perhaps not!
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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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The Future of SEO and Article Writing
November 12, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
As an internet searcher I thought Google was Amazing. I’ve found really interesting things that I wasn’t even looking for! Kinda like going for a Sunday drive without a destination. I’ve also found really good, specific things returned in my searches. Now as a searchee …I’m dizzy from confusion. SEO is chaos!
I have one hope that is also a prediction: The next advance in the robots is going to clean up the pollution, and end this chaos. Right now it’s about tedious link building, quantity as in lots and lots of content and of coarse keywords ad nauseum. I don’t let keyword density affect my style too much. I may use a few less pronouns and sometimes sacrifice a catchy title barely hinting at the topic for a more search friendly one that better describes the content. If my prediction is true, the art –yeah right, as if…of writing for SEO is terminally ill.
So SEO writers: Keep making hay while the sun is shining. What search engine optimization is now, it won’t be then; in the future S-E-O is going to have a plot right next to D-I-S-C-O. Did I just make a “disco is dead” reference? Yep, I must be over 40. This is how smart I think these bots are going to be in the not too distant future:
If I knew exactly how they were going to do that I wouldn’t be writing this article at 2:00 a.m. I would be getting a good night’s sleep, in preparation for a tough day in the Google think tank. I would say that it still has to start with human judgment. That is why Digg.com and Stumble.com and these sites where millions of people will rate billions of pieces of content is out there now. After a huge mass of content sets standards for the good the bad and the ugly, all the bots will have to do is layover all those 0’s and 1’s and compare and categorize, i.e. this resembles what the humans say is good so it is good or this looks like what humans call an AWSEO -Article written for Search Engine Optimization…not good.
So churn out the SEO content one every fifty minutes and collect $1.80 per month on it for the next two years or spend two hours on a piece that you can be proud to say you created that will make you $3.00 per month for the five to ten years. Hmmm, or maybe a little of both, after all I’m not Nostra Damus.
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New Trends In Traffic Generation
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Worried about the next Google slap? Do you only rely on Search Engine traffic? Don’t know where to start when you need to drive traffic to your site? If yes, this article is for YOU! Whatever you do on the net, you will always deal with Traffic Generation…the holly grail.
To make it short, you have 2 main types of traffic :
1) Search Engine traffic
What is it? : organic traffic coming from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN
Pros :
- This traffic is free
- Traffic is highly targeted
- Volume of traffic can be very high
Cons :
- you don’t control it
- you rely on robots to analyze your site and deliver some traffic
- you need to get indexed…without being de-indexed (once again, you rely on search engines policy and algorithms)
- short term
2) Referred Traffic (I know Search engine traffic is also a sort of referred traffic, but let’s put SE traffic apart from this category)
What is it? Traffic coming from third party sites (other than search engines) and is a result of a “manual / human” action.
Examples : article directories, social bookmarking services, forums, partners, text link ads, banners, directories, rss…
Pro :
- you control it
- you have a lot of means to develop it (almost unlimited ; a lot are free)
- it’s highly targeted
- You can pay to get better targeting and control over your referred traffic
- Long term
Cons :
- Time & resources consuming
- Repetitive tasks
Now, through my membership, my forum, my readings of other forums, I know that most webmasters mainly rely on search engines traffic, our first category.
The aim of the present article is to throw the light on a different angle of the Traffic Generation big box!
Summary : the right way to get into traffic generation is to forget about search engines.
Focusing on search engine traffic gives a too narrow vision of traffic generation. It does not reveal all the opportunities existing outside of the search engines (understand all the way to generate Referred Traffic).
In addition, as you’ve seen from the cons above, you accept to rely on something you never control, and this is a HUGE risk in your marketing strategy.
Warning : I do not say, you should not care about search engine traffic. I say that it should not be your priority, and the first door you try to open when dealing with traffic generation. It’s a question of point of view.
Now, on the other hand, focusing on developing what we called Referred Traffic is a more positive, constructive and profitable attitude and marketing strategy.
Not only will you build traffic for the long term, but you will also “manually” control your traffic, either by submitting your content, your sites, your feeds, or by exchanging links, content, traffic with partners, being active on forums, blogs…
Doing it this way will give you a lot of power and effectiveness. Those sources of Referred Traffic only vanish…if you decide to let them vanish. Once again, you control everything.
Now, you have some positive side effects :
- By building Referred Traffic, you give a lot of food to search engines to index your site, understand them, and rank them well…
- …thus developing naturally your Search Engine Traffic!
Try to develop Referred Traffic by submitting your sitemap to Google, and you will understand the difference between the 2 approaches 
Google and other search engines tend to change their algorithms quite often to produce more relevant content for users of their engines. Sometimes, your site is getting de-indexed in a day just because of this.
Are you lost, is your site dead? It could if you only relied on Search Engine traffic. It has no impact if you focused on building Referred Traffic.
In one case, you feel bad and like if you had wasted your time. In the other case, you don’t even notice it (on the long run ; of course, you can see a fall in traffic coming from a given search engine)
But even then, your site has a lot of chances of being re-indexed when you’ve build Referred Traffic, simply because the search engines food is still there! And this is a HUGE difference and one of the most valuable asset you can develop.
If you’re still with me, you should now understand my point : when dealing with bots, you need to act as a human…which means you should not try to talk to them Give them some “bot food” that you build naturally by developing a Referred Traffic Generation Strategy.
Here are 10 easy “pieces” to do what we described above :
Once you have a site…
1) Find some related blogs, read them, identify trends, and post comments (no stupid comments, no spam of course) with a link back to your site where you’re also discussing the topic
2) Do the same with related forums. Use search engines (!) to find relevant forums. Register and start being active on these forums. Use your signature to put a link back to your site
3) Create a blog (if you don’t have one) and post on a regular basis on it. Use a service like feedburner to syndicate your content with other webmasters.
4) Submit your feeds, blogs, and site to niche directories
5) Find “authority” sites in your niche, analyze them and contact the webmasters to :
a) propose a link exchange (you should first put a link to their site),
b) if you’re selling a report or an ebook, propose them to become an affiliate (give them a fre.e copy of your ebook first), and make it easy for them to manage their promotion
c) if they have a newsletter, read it, understand it, and then ask the webmaster if you can have a sponsored ad into it, or even better a solo ad where you could advertise your site, newsletter, ebook…
d) propose content exchange with link back to each other’s website
e) build a relation with them
6) The most effective : write articles and submit them to article directories (some with big traffic, and some niche related ones)
7) Social bookmarking and social networking :
a) build a Squidoo lens (see Squidoo Profits for more details: http://www.squidoo-profits.com). You can find many sites like Squidoo and build pages about your niche on these ones too. You can link them to your main niche sites, you can link back to your blogs, or even to your other “squidoo” like pages, thus creating a “niche social net” all relevant to your niche.
b) build a myspace account and create a profile around your niche, then build your “list” of friends around this profile
c) submit your site to social bookmarking services (digg, technorati, del.icio.us …)
d) You can also comment on the most popular entries with a link back to your site, blog, or squidoo lens. 
Use videos and sites like youtube.com (and similar) to drive traffic to your niche site. Produce a short video (2-3 minutes) around your site, your niche and you. Link to your Videos from your “niche social net” (see 7) ) Also, ask webmasters to put a link to this video (once you have build a relation with them) – Or they can upload it to their server and brand it with their affiliate ID, if you have an affiliate program
9) Make it viral : your best source of (new) traffic…is your (current) traffic!
Use some “Tell a friend” features on your site to have them promote your site. You can provide incentives (such as a free report, a coupon for your ebook…)
10) Paid Traffic : yes…all the above techniques do not cost a penny…(unless you pay for advertising on a partner’s site)
You can pay to get targeted traffic : you can advertise through text link ads, banners, that will appear on high traffic sites.
You should seriously consider paid traffic. Do not see it as a cost, but rather as an initial investment to boost your site. Also, if your site is correctly monetized, then paid traffic is the easiest way to get some quick metrics about this, and to make it profitable quickly.
As you see we could easily expand this list. But, those are, in my opinion, the most important sources of Referred Traffic.
Now, compare the above list with Search Engine traffic, and you will see why your approach should focus on generating Referred Traffic and not Search Engine Traffic. This type of traffic will come naturally anyway…
JP Schoeffel is a full time Internet Marketer specialized in Site monetization and Traffic generation. He operates a monthly membership (http://www.Niches-In-A-Box.com) where he provides a complete business to his members, month after month, as well as comprehensive training center.
New Trends In Traffic Generation
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Worried about the next Google slap? Do you only rely on Search Engine traffic? Don’t know where to start when you need to drive traffic to your site? If yes, this article is for YOU! Whatever you do on the net, you will always deal with Traffic Generation…the holly grail.
To make it short, you have 2 main types of traffic :
1) Search Engine traffic
What is it? : organic traffic coming from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN
Pros :
- This traffic is free
- Traffic is highly targeted
- Volume of traffic can be very high
Cons :
- you don’t control it
- you rely on robots to analyze your site and deliver some traffic
- you need to get indexed…without being de-indexed (once again, you rely on search engines policy and algorithms)
- short term
2) Referred Traffic (I know Search engine traffic is also a sort of referred traffic, but let’s put SE traffic apart from this category)
What is it? Traffic coming from third party sites (other than search engines) and is a result of a “manual / human” action.
Examples : article directories, social bookmarking services, forums, partners, text link ads, banners, directories, rss…
Pro :
- you control it
- you have a lot of means to develop it (almost unlimited ; a lot are free)
- it’s highly targeted
- You can pay to get better targeting and control over your referred traffic
- Long term
Cons :
- Time & resources consuming
- Repetitive tasks
Now, through my membership, my forum, my readings of other forums, I know that most webmasters mainly rely on search engines traffic, our first category.
The aim of the present article is to throw the light on a different angle of the Traffic Generation big box!
Summary : the right way to get into traffic generation is to forget about search engines.
Focusing on search engine traffic gives a too narrow vision of traffic generation. It does not reveal all the opportunities existing outside of the search engines (understand all the way to generate Referred Traffic).
In addition, as you’ve seen from the cons above, you accept to rely on something you never control, and this is a HUGE risk in your marketing strategy.
Warning : I do not say, you should not care about search engine traffic. I say that it should not be your priority, and the first door you try to open when dealing with traffic generation. It’s a question of point of view.
Now, on the other hand, focusing on developing what we called Referred Traffic is a more positive, constructive and profitable attitude and marketing strategy.
Not only will you build traffic for the long term, but you will also “manually” control your traffic, either by submitting your content, your sites, your feeds, or by exchanging links, content, traffic with partners, being active on forums, blogs…
Doing it this way will give you a lot of power and effectiveness. Those sources of Referred Traffic only vanish…if you decide to let them vanish. Once again, you control everything.
Now, you have some positive side effects :
- By building Referred Traffic, you give a lot of food to search engines to index your site, understand them, and rank them well…
- …thus developing naturally your Search Engine Traffic!
Try to develop Referred Traffic by submitting your sitemap to Google, and you will understand the difference between the 2 approaches
Google and other search engines tend to change their algorithms quite often to produce more relevant content for users of their engines. Sometimes, your site is getting de-indexed in a day just because of this.
Are you lost, is your site dead? It could if you only relied on Search Engine traffic. It has no impact if you focused on building Referred Traffic.
In one case, you feel bad and like if you had wasted your time. In the other case, you don’t even notice it (on the long run ; of course, you can see a fall in traffic coming from a given search engine)
But even then, your site has a lot of chances of being re-indexed when you’ve build Referred Traffic, simply because the search engines food is still there! And this is a HUGE difference and one of the most valuable asset you can develop.
If you’re still with me, you should now understand my point : when dealing with bots, you need to act as a human…which means you should not try to talk to them Give them some “bot food” that you build naturally by developing a Referred Traffic Generation Strategy.
Here are 10 easy “pieces” to do what we described above :
Once you have a site…
1) Find some related blogs, read them, identify trends, and post comments (no stupid comments, no spam of course) with a link back to your site where you’re also discussing the topic
2) Do the same with related forums. Use search engines (!) to find relevant forums. Register and start being active on these forums. Use your signature to put a link back to your site
3) Create a blog (if you don’t have one) and post on a regular basis on it. Use a service like feedburner to syndicate your content with other webmasters.
4) Submit your feeds, blogs, and site to niche directories
5) Find “authority” sites in your niche, analyze them and contact the webmasters to :
a) propose a link exchange (you should first put a link to their site),
b) if you’re selling a report or an ebook, propose them to become an affiliate (give them a fre.e copy of your ebook first), and make it easy for them to manage their promotion
c) if they have a newsletter, read it, understand it, and then ask the webmaster if you can have a sponsored ad into it, or even better a solo ad where you could advertise your site, newsletter, ebook…
d) propose content exchange with link back to each other’s website
e) build a relation with them
6) The most effective : write articles and submit them to article directories (some with big traffic, and some niche related ones)
7) Social bookmarking and social networking :
a) build a Squidoo lens (see Squidoo Profits for more details: http://www.squidoo-profits.com). You can find many sites like Squidoo and build pages about your niche on these ones too. You can link them to your main niche sites, you can link back to your blogs, or even to your other “squidoo” like pages, thus creating a “niche social net” all relevant to your niche.
b) build a myspace account and create a profile around your niche, then build your “list” of friends around this profile
c) submit your site to social bookmarking services (digg, technorati, del.icio.us …)
d) You can also comment on the most popular entries with a link back to your site, blog, or squidoo lens. Use videos and sites like youtube.com (and similar) to drive traffic to your niche site. Produce a short video (2-3 minutes) around your site, your niche and you. Link to your Videos from your “niche social net” (see 7) ) Also, ask webmasters to put a link to this video (once you have build a relation with them) – Or they can upload it to their server and brand it with their affiliate ID, if you have an affiliate program
9) Make it viral : your best source of (new) traffic…is your (current) traffic!
Use some “Tell a friend” features on your site to have them promote your site. You can provide incentives (such as a free report, a coupon for your ebook…)
10) Paid Traffic : yes…all the above techniques do not cost a penny…(unless you pay for advertising on a partner’s site)
You can pay to get targeted traffic : you can advertise through text link ads, banners, that will appear on high traffic sites.
You should seriously consider paid traffic. Do not see it as a cost, but rather as an initial investment to boost your site. Also, if your site is correctly monetized, then paid traffic is the easiest way to get some quick metrics about this, and to make it profitable quickly.
As you see we could easily expand this list. But, those are, in my opinion, the most important sources of Referred Traffic.
Now, compare the above list with Search Engine traffic, and you will see why your approach should focus on generating Referred Traffic and not Search Engine Traffic. This type of traffic will come naturally anyway…
JP Schoeffel is a full time Internet Marketer specialized in Site monetization and Traffic generation. He operates a monthly membership (http://www.Niches-In-A-Box.com) where he provides a complete business to his members, month after month, as well as comprehensive training center.
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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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