When you create a new website or blog, you’re anxious to see some results and if you don’t do anything to get noticed it could take time for the search engine spiders to find you and index you. Optimising for search engines will help you get indexed faster. Here are a few tips to help you get noticed quickly.
Here are places where you can manually submit:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
Go to sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us and bookmark your site. These sites will bring traffic to your site as well. You can also get traffic and attention by trying to get noticed on places like Technorati, Twitter and Plurk. Be sure if you have other sites, you link from them to your new site thorugh blogrolls or link pages. Blog about your new site as well on your other online homes and write a few articles for article sites with links to your new site in the resource box. Spending a bit of time getting search engines to notice your website could shave days or even weeks off the process of getting organic search engine results.
If you operate a blog or website either as your primary earnings method or as an addition to your money making ventures you might consider trading links with someone in your niche that has a complimentary product or service. You can trade links and help one another with SEO. It’s a great idea to trade blog comments and even write guest posts for each other.
Getting links on other related blogs in cyberspace and related blog links on your blog as well can help you with your SEO and can contribute to increased page rank with search engines. The more you’re plugged into topics and linked, the the more relevant search engines will view your site as being.
Blog Catalog is a great place to find bloggers in your niche. Search on a tag (category) related to your own niche and you’ll find others in that category that you can visit. You can also send private messages to others to suggest that you trade blog links with them in your blogroll.
Consider visiting forums and putting up requests for trading links as well. Webmaster forums or forums in your particular niche can be a great place to get ideas and find bloggers to do blog carnivals and niches with.
Spam on your blog means a few things. On a positive note, people are finding you and that’s a good thing. It doesn’t sound like such a good thing when it becomes a pain to manage but one thing is for sure, your blog is valuable enough to make spammers want to utilise your site. They’ll post trackback spam and bogus comments filled with hyperlinks to their adult websites. You can’t let it go on but there are things you can do.
If you are using Wordpress for your blog, consider using the Askimet plug-in. This will catch a big portion of your spam and save you considerably on moderating time. You can also set your your comments as moderated only which will stop the spam before it’s published. You can quickly view the comments and manually approve the ones you want to let through. You can set up some blogs so that commenters are approved automatically after they have one approved comment but be careful about this because some crafty spammers can take advantage of this loophole and post one useful comment only to come back later and try to post spam on your site. You might need to de-approve some commenters.
All in all, you want to be choosy about who is allowed to link to your site because association with certain kinds of sites can bring your own search engine ranking down. The good news is that search engines seem to be finding your site and people think it’s valuable enough to try and capitalise on your success!
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There are loads of reasons to blog and plenty of free blog options out there. Whether you choose to do a free blog or host your own or do a combination of the two is up to you. Today’s post explores the pros and cons of each option. I choose to do a combination of these things for my own purposes mostly because in my early online days, I didn’t realise the benefits of having my own blog on my own domain and didn’t realise just how inexpensive it could be to do it on my own and be able to have just what I wanted.
The pros of free blogs include that there are no costs and that they usually have an easy interface or template for you to use so you don’t have to be at all technical to figure out how to use them.
On the con side, you have no control and they can be very simple so they may not have all the functionality you’re looking for.
With a free blog, there may be some advertising that you cannot control. With a blog on your own domain, you have much more earning potential and power over the layout of the site.
You can typically get a domain registered for $10 or less for a one year period and hosting is often less than $10 a month when you want a basic package that hosts a blog. Wordpress is the most popular and most versatile option and you can install it for free. Your own host might even have Wordpress built into your hosting control panel making it that much easier to get up and running quickly.
In terms of money making potential, blogs can definitely help you. Not only do they do great in search engines because of being continuously updated but they create viral marketing for you because people will link to you in their blogroll and on their site as well. Whether you’re planning to blog for profit or add a blog to your existing site to enhance search engine optimization, you can definitely benefit. If you’re not yet blogging or not yet using this to your full advantage, it’s definitely worth looking into.
When was the last time you did anything different in your internet marketing life?
When did you last think, ‘Hey, let’s try an experiment to see if that idea I thought of last week would actually bring in more sales.’ When was the last time you added a different way of advertising to your usual promotional mix?
We tend to get stuck in a rut so easily that we barely notice it’s happened until long after the event itself. But staying fresh is half the battle in making sure we can earn the biggest amounts from our internet marketing efforts.
The problem isn’t even so much that we get stuck in that rut, it’s that we can’t see that we’ve stopped while everything else is still moving. In short, it’s easy to get left behind… and when we finally realise we’re lingering in other people’s dust, it takes some time to even catch up again, let alone overtake them.
Some people stare themselves blind on search engines and SEO. There’s more to it than that. I make a point of spending a few moments every day or so just surfing any interesting sites that are related to my work. I’m probably not much different to you - I subscribe to a few good email newsletters that are related to the world of internet marketing, in the hope that I’ll learn a thing or two every now and again that I can apply to my own business.
Make sure you keep that fresh input of ideas and information coming in – it helps to prevent ‘rut’ syndrome and keeps your brain active. That in itself should give you some ideas to experiment with, but always make sure you continue to push the boundaries of what you are doing, and try new methods and ideas of making a little more (or a lot more) cash from your efforts.
Even if you can only come up with one new idea every day, and only one of those ideas works each week, that’s fifty-two new ideas every year that you can set to work to improve what you’re doing and earn more money from.
Experiment a bit more with internet marketing.
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007
If your website is the cart, keyword research is the horse. In other words, don’t put the website before the keyword research.
If you’re thinking about setting up a new site on a new subject, research should be your number one keyword before you do anything else. You need to keep a lid on the excitement of starting something new and realise that the stages that occur before your website goes live are just as important – if not more so – than the stages which come afterwards.
Find a good keyword selector tool and use it to figure out which keywords should get you good results on Google and other search engines. If you do this in the early stages of creating your new website – ideally before the design process starts, and especially before you pick your new domain name – you’ll be able to use the results you get to create a much stronger website from the word go.
But is it any good continuing with keyword research after you’re up and running?
In truth I believe keyword research always has a place in any strong internet marketing business. It’s a good way to check your progress and see whether you’re missing out on using any currently popular keywords that are being searched for. You wouldn’t want to be changing your domain name on a regular basis, but the articles and content you use will forever be refreshing themselves. Older material can be archived and the keywords will still remain in use, but new material should reflect the most popular search terms being used at that time.
Keyword research is the backbone of any good website and even though it can sometimes feel like you’re skiving if you kick back with a coffee and surf a few sites, it can actually be a profitable activity.
Keyword research is the key…
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007
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