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Content Relevancy Is Still Key

I have three different websites now and the biggest thing I have learned to date is that the relevance of your content is still the key to high traffic. The speed of the site, links, looks and ease of use are all important but the actual content carries more weight than anything else.

To be more accurate, content relevancy as related to your site keywords is the true driving force behind your website traffic.

For example, this site has quite a few articles related to Internet marketing but the articles are all over the place. At times, I will write about article marketing, music marketing, content, affiliate marketing, motivation, internet sales and so forth.

The site is not directed to one particular market.

I still get a solid amount of traffic, however, my new sites get quite a bit more traffic when compared to the kind of traffic I received from this site when I first created it. The reason is because the new sites are focused on one subject.

In other words, the content on both new sites are extremely focused on 1 or 2 keywords as opposed to 10 to 12 keywords. This makes the content for those sites extremely relevant to the keywords thus driving more free organic search engine traffic.

I’ve also noticed the same goes with article marketing. If I keep the content that I write on ezines and other outlets fresh and focused they seem to do much better by way of traffic to the article.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is this.

When building your sites, try to pick a subject that you are deeply interested in and write about only that subject. Keep your site keywords limited and stay up to date on the subject. If you can do those things you will always enjoy a large amount of free organic search traffic.

Here’s a video of Google’s Matt Cutts talking about the weight Google carries on content relevancy as opposed to site speed.

Adding a Favicon Icon to Your Site

Many people often ask why they need a favicon icon for their website.

The answer is quite simple.

A favicon icon is a small image usually 16X16 or 32X32 pixel which shows up in the address bar of your browser immediately before the website address itself. When a visitor bookmarks your site it will also display the favicon icon in their list of bookmarks.

In simplest terms the tiny little icon serves as a means for previous visitors to easily find your website in their list of bookmarks. This is just one more small but significant tool to help generate additional website traffic.

It’s a bit of a subconscious thing but it definitely serves it’s purpose! If you ever pay attention to the address bar and the icons in your list of bookmarks you will notice that some if not many of the saved addresses do not have favicons. The only image you’ll see next to the web address is what appears to be a white sheet of paper with the right hand upper corner bent over.

If your site has a unique or bright colored favicon icon it makes your site much more memorable and easier for your visitors so they may come back to your site without having to search through all the different sites listed in their bookmarks.

People like things to be easy so make it easy on them!

Many webmasters don’t use a favicon simply because they don’t know how to create one or they believe it may be too difficult. It’s actually, however, quite easy to understand. The file has to be an actual icon file with the .ico extension at the end of the file name. An example of a properly designed icon file might read “my_site_favicon.ico” when completed.

Rather than struggle to try and build the file yourself you can easily generate a favicon icon for your website by visiting a website named Dynamic Drive.

All you need to do is upload the image for your file and click the “create icon” button. When finished just save the file to a location on your computer then upload it to your website.

Simple as that!

Now….go and add a favicon icon to your site today and make the act of re-visiting your site a little easier for your visitors.

Best Wishes!

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Check Your Yahoo Backlink Information

Want to verify the amount and quality of Yahoo backlinks to your site? Of course you do! Quality backlinks to your site bring quality targeted visitors.

It’s always good to stay on top of this kind of information particularly since Yahoo is still a major player in the search engine arena.

Try using the free Link Harvester Tool at the SEO Book Website. You won’t even need to enter your email address. It’s just a great free tool to help you out.

These guys seem to really have their act together. You can even sign up for a free SEO Course offered on their site if you choose.

I am in no way affiliated with the company but I happen to appreciate what they do.

The Link Harvester is a very simple tool to use. You just input your site address and it will analyze your site and give you all the links that Yahoo shows on file for your site. To be quite exact it will show you four very important pieces of information: amount of links to domain, amount of links to homepage, amount of pages indexed and your deep link percentage.

I will be adding this to my free online business tools page as well so you’ll be able to access it there also if need be.

Do yourself a favor and go check out the free Link Harvester tool soon and gain a competitive advantage for your website. It’s great to have Google backlinks but believe me when I say your website needs Yahoo links also.

Best Wishes!

Short Keywords and Long Tail Keywords

As if you don’t already have enough to learn, today I’m going tot talk a bit about short tail and long tail keywords.

For many years now you have been told to optimize your site with relative keywords to your content. If you want to get organic search traffic or any search engine traffic for that matter your keywords must be optimized properly.

Recently you may have noticed a new term being thrown around by the name of “long tail keywords”.

Don’t let this confuse you. The long tail keyword is just a longer form of a keyword you are already using to help narrow the niche. By using long tail keywords it is possible you could gain some additional traffic to your website by using keywords that many other sites don’t use.

For example, if one of your site’s primary keywords is “coffee cups” you may also want to use the keyword “white porcelain coffee cups”. People who surf on the Internet are getting smarter about their searches. They want to narrow the search down as quickly as possible to find what they are looking for. The major search engines understand this as well and are happy to oblige.

The longer keyword or long tail keyword won’t get as much search traffic but it also won’t have as much competition. Basically you are just narrowing the keyword down to gain higher page position on the search engine ranking. Obviously it’s better to have your keyword on the first page that pops up as opposed to the second page.

More than likely you will still gain most of your traffic from the short tail popular keywords but if you don’t incorporate the long tails you are essentially leaving traffic on the table for somebody else to get.

If you’re wise you should be using both to gain as much traffic as possible.

Best Wishes!

Drinking and Sharing The Link Juice

By now most of you are probably sick of seeing the term “link juice” and some of you may not even truly understand it.

This is nothing to be ashamed of. It takes some time to learn all this good information. Let’s start by defining the term “link Juice”.

Link juice is just another way for people to say they need to soak in some links. They want to add more quality backlinks to their site. Rightfully so! More quality links will definitely get you more organic traffic to your site.

I do think it’s a good idea, however to not only drink the link juice but also share the link juice. Here’s what I mean by this.

If you’re going to build as many great links to your site as possible you should also consider sharing some of that link juice with people or businesses who regularly interact and comment on your site. This enables you to not only build solid future PageRank but also establish trusted relationships and networks with your visitors and readers.

If you have a WordPress blog and you aren’t already using these you should look into downloading and activating the All In One SEO Plugin from your WordPress Administration Plugins Page as well as the Link Juice Keeper Plugin.

The All In One SEO plugin will do many things to help your blog. It will also help you optimize your site by installing a nofollow policy for archives, tags and less important links while still allowing you to pass some link juice to your core visitors.

The link Juice Keeper plugin will basically send all 404 bounces from your site back to your blog’s front page allowing you to keep the link juice that may have been lost.

Other than that just keep doing your normal link building practices and you should see traffic start to pick up if you’re really writing useful content.

Keep an eye on the incoming links. You will get tons of spam. Most of it will be different people and businesses trying to advertise on your site for free via the comment section. I guess in the end you will have to decide who you want to let in and who you don’t.

My practice is simple.  If the comment is helpful and advantageous to the site and it’s visitors then I approve the comment. If it’s just a blatant advertisement I usually just delete it. Individuals or businesses wishing to advertise on this site should contact me by email at one of the email addresses located through out the site.

To sum things up…Build your links and share your links as the Internet was originally intended. If you practice drinking and sharing some valuable link juice you will one day find your website or blog being read and used by many.

Best Wishes!

Free One Way Backlinks=Serious Targeted Website Traffic

by: Dan Waggoner

I’ve recently found the most innovative way of building an incredible amount of Google safe yet free one way backlinks while at the same time driving serious amounts of targeted traffic to your website. Generally speaking, when I find a new program I will usually just put a link on my site and let everybody check it out but ever so often I come across a true gem that I really need to elaborate on.

If you visit a site by the name of FreeTrafficSystem.com you can read and learn more about it but I will try to give you the basics. The word “free” really stood out to me. Who doesn’t like free?

Basically all you need to do is register at their website, set up your keywords and enter your website or blog address. Then write some articles for other bloggers to use on their site. You can pick the niche and keywords that you want to target and get up to 120 one way backlinks to your site for each article. They have thousands of bloggers waiting for new articles with valuable content.

Get enough targeted backlinks and it will drive your own site to the top of the page for Google, Yahoo and Bing. The top of the page is where you want to be to get the most visitors and in return earn more money.

What’s more is they have a two tier affiliate program you can sign up for to earn money and get even more backlinks when you send people to the site with your affiliate link.

You would only get paid if the visitor signs up for the PRO Membership account but you will continue to get free backlinks from any member you refer who actively participates and writes articles for the network to use. The PRO members can get up to 720 targeted backlinks per article and also enjoys quite a few more benefits like priority support and moderation, access to exclusive SEO info, discounts on special services and so forth.

For those of you with business websites or blogs who are lacking in the targeted traffic and backlink department, I highly recommend checking into this as soon as you can. This company has impressed me enough to join and even write a blog post about them. They have a huge network, very informative “how to videos” and seem to really have their act together.

Best Wishes!

Building Your Backlinks

If you have been following this blog you know by now how important building quality backlinks are to your website or blog. Backlinks will be one of the main determining factors of how much traffic your online business gets and how fast it gets PageRank. Another determining factor for Google PageRank is the niche (type of product) your business is in and how competitive that niche is. I am mentioning Google because they are the largest search engine for sending traffic. However, do not underestimate Yahoo and Bing. You can’t ignore those two either because they are pretty big players in the search engine arena. It’s important to submit your content to all three. Anyway, I’m getting side tracked here. Let’s get back to discussing building your backlinks.

There are lots of different ways to go about it. You are going to need tons of them if you are in a highly competitive niche and maybe not so many if your niche isn’t that competitive. Most of the websites and blogs that I see generally have between 1,000 and 5,000. I have seen them as high as a million. Sometimes the quality of the link is more important than the quantity. It really just depends on your competition.

If your site is fairly new the first thing you can and should do is submit your site to different directories. There are thousands of them on the Internet. Just try to make sure that you submit it to directories that are relevant to your site’s content. You should also submit your blog to some high level blog directories such as blogged.com, Technorati.com and my personal favorite which I have had very good results with is MyBlogLog. Each of those will give you a quality backlink.

Next, start making some really good and powerful comments on some other blogs that are in the same niche as yours or at least relative. You can use a free service called Comment Kahuna to search for multiple blogs based on the keywords that you input. It will also list the current Google PageRank of those blogs. You need to make sure that you are commenting on higher PageRanked sites to get the biggest bang. In addition, by commenting on sites with a higher PageRank you can get your site ranked quicker. But more important than any of that should be the caliber of the comment you are leaving. Visitors to blogs read comments. I read them when I’m visiting other blogs. You want to add a great comment for two reasons. The first is that if it’s not valuable to the site the webmaster may just delete it. The second reason is that if you are giving out valuable information, the readers of that blog may see your comment and come and visit your site. And before I forget, make sure whenever you leave a comment that you always place your website address in the box where it ask for it. This will serve as the link back to your site. Without it you are wasting your time and efforts for nothing.

Later on when you get things a little more organized you can start guest blogging for other blogs, always leaving a backlink to your site. You could also write articles that you think will help a blog or website in your niche and present it to the webmaster. If the owner of that site thinks it’s valuable he may place it on his site with your site signature on the article serving as yet another backlink.

Try to make sure that you always write high quality content on your site. This always attracts search engines and other blogs. If it’s really valuable information those sites will start linking to yours. If enough higher quality sites link to your site it will serve to tell the search engines that you must know what you’re talking about.

You will learn many different methods as time goes on. If you’re serious you will get more involved and learn more. Quality backlinks are very important if you want to constantly increase your visitors and without visitors your site is nothing more than dead weight sitting in the middle of the Internet Ocean. The process of building your backlinks can be tedious but is a necessary evil.

Best Wishes!

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What is Website Content? Why is It Still King?

Website content is any means of information that is uploaded to a certain domain or website. It doesn’t matter if we’re referring to images, text, audio, links, logos, buttons, charts, etc. The very first time you publish to your website you have content.

Most of you are probably saying I already knew that, however, I’m willing to bet many people who read this article now and in the future will not know what the term “website content” means. We can’t always assume that everybody knows what we know. This is why content is still king with the major search engines and always will be. The big players such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN and all the rest understand that their job is to get their customer an answer. Not only just an answer but the best answer. Their customer’s are all of us typing words and phrases into search boxes on the Internet when we want to find something. I’m not saying that the search engines won’t throw you a curve from time to time but the fundamental principle of searching won’t. When you type a word or phrase in that search box you are expecting to be taken to a page that has multiple listings of quality information that you can use. This is why Google is the biggest most powerful search engine on the planet. It’s because when you tell them you want to find something on the Internet they go and get exactly what you want. Don’t get me wrong. To truly reap the benefits of highly target organic traffic as well as pay per click you still have to do the other necessary evils depending on which nitche your website category is in. Yes I am again discussing one way back links, on page SEO and alt text and such.

Many webmasters have argued different points over the years as far as what really brings in the traffic. Is it back links or is it great content? The true answers are hidden by the likes of Google, Yahoo and the rest. If they let the world know their exact algorithm it would be duplicated quickly and would hurt their positions as the world’s premier search engines.

So the bottom line is this. If you want a website that will break through to the other side of high flowing dedicated traffic then you need to make sure you comply fully. Do the SEO work, use the proper key wording and tags, create plenty of good strong back links and above all make sure you always have viable and usable content. Know that if you are missing any of those items it will not help your website but instead will hinder it.

Hopefully this will help answer some real questions about website content. Think about what your keyword is and tell your user everything they could possibly need to know about that keyword. The search engines will then reward you well for helping them out by sending you more and more visitors.

Understand this article and you will understand why you always hear the term “Content is Still King.”

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