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Mat suggest the easy way to boost your page ranks with Inter-linking.Anchor Text Link is hind of this.It’s look like the selling tactics when you say no to saleman,they offer another goods for you.This selling tactic is Cross Selling. It’s something we lookover and underestimate their effect on PR.After I read this post,I blink some idea

(1) Make the proper anchor text link on the article

(2)Choose the link that associate to your main keywords

(3)Build the link to the other page of your sites

Inter-linking your site…Mat Siltala

A great way to get the search engines to give you better rankings is by making sure you are inter-linking your website pages with anchored text.

What is anchor text? Anchor text is when you make a keyword or phrase a hyper-link (clickable) For example, in this blog if I want to refer to the main page of my website rather then saying “click here” and linking that phrase up to your homepage, you woud use a keyword or phrase that better suits the page you are sending people to. My homepage on this blog is mostly about an internet business directory so you see how I have that phrase as a hyper-link? This is anchor text and it helps the search engines get a better idea what your site is about and how to better rank you.

So when creating pages on your website think about how you will tie them all together and make sure you inter-link them with the phrases that relate to your site and each page using this anchored text.

There does become a point where you can have to much anchor text (for the search engines as well as the people viewing your site) so make sure you don’t turn your website into a spammy looking anchored text fest. I try to make sure I have no more then 20 links on really quality content pages. So if you have pages with less content reduce the amount of anchored text.

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When you build web site,what are you thinking about….Search Engine Optimization,Page Ranking,Link.Overall of your effort is how to make your website popular and a lot of visitors.The term of “Traffic” is represent to this words.We have one believe that high page ranking came with Traffic,so you are doing everything to stay on the high PR.One tactic is making Links to other websites.Linking to your specific webpage is effective way to improve page ranking because Google ranks webpage not website.This fact is on Mat’s article”Can linking to other websites improve my rankings?” I read  and summarize to 3 points to do
(1) Linking to Specific Page or Subpage
(2) Main Keywords on the pages you are trying to improve PR
(3) Make the deep link on that pages

Can linking to other websites improve my rankings?………Mat Siltala

This is a great question. Actually the best of the week! This is an area I have been running a series of case studies on. ( I will give some specifics in a later post ) For now lets talk about the bottom line and answer the question:

Can linking to other websites improve my rankings?

Yes, if done correctly. Let me explain. Lets talk about directories. We all know that we can get a ton of low level links to directories that are basically no names that carry little if no page rank. Most of the directories that are new have little links on each category or subcategory. What if we were to link to the actual page that our “anchored text” link was on?

It works really well if you have several sites with page ranks of atleast 4 or higher at your disposal. You can just link to the specific page your link is on and improve that pages rank. Remember the earlier post on how Google ranks webpages not websites.

It does not just need to be directories, you can link to blogs you have posts on, you can link to articles that have been submitted (in your favor). You can also link to just regular webpages you may have a link on to improve the ranking of that page as well.

In turn helping these pages that link to you gain better page rank and popularity your website rankings can improve. Just make sure you are getting your main keywords or phrases anchored on the pages you are trying to improve.

This is a great strategy for improving your link popularity, increasing your traffic and getting better rankings. Keep in mind that the page your link is on needs to be pointing to a subpage on your site to help improve your “deep linking”.

Test this out for a few of your pages and you may be impressed.

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I visit Mat’s web site and like to read Mat’s article because he is telling stright to point and not hide any agenda.I have same idea about Full of adsense on Directory.The directory should place the Adsense Ads in the special area on web page and if Adsense ADs place near the operation button of submitting,it’s show that you make trap on your directory….What about your credit and you play tricks.If I visit the diretories which full of Adsense and play this trick to trap me,I will leave them and announce to my friends to aware them.I love to start and play in the fair game…

Directories full of Adsense or Ads (follow-up)..Mat Siltala

This is a post to simply follow up what I ranted about yesterday in my blog. I feel that if directories (or websites for that matter) want to use Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Ads or any other ad paying program out there to make extra money on thier website then its totally fine and does not take away from the legitimacy of your site. With that said, there is an extreme level certain people can take with these ad programs. In regards to the directories, the thing I don’t like to see is when they place the ads right next to any submit buttons, or and buttons that you need to click on the navigate the site with right next to the ads. (Example would be a directory that has a submit button titled “add url” inbetween two adsense ads that both have the words “add url” in the ads…(see the trick)) It can be confusing and people can click on these ads and get taken away from the site they are on. (this is the goal of this website to strickly make money this way) I think this is breaking the TOS (terms of service) that most of these sites have. They say not to trick, manipulate or advertise to “click here” essentially thats all these type of sites are doing. They have fallen trap to “whoring” out thier sites to Ads.

There are legit sites and directories that use ads to make more money and do not take away from the integrity of the site. You can tell if a directory does not have Ads all over it, then they are making money in other ways and are satisfied, and do not have to turn to these ad paying programs.

So my final thought on this subject is if you have a site that is legit, (and you want it to stay legit and credible) You place the ads where it will not trick me to click on. I have clients that make a good living on these ad paying programs, but every one of these clients are keeping the integrity of thier site, and have not fallen to the dark side of Ad-spamming thier site.

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Former Article….
*Beaware of this directory
*Good Directories and Good Traffic

From the former article,the good quality directories is essential for quality traffic.The quality traffic is value for your website or blog,high conversion rate is expected.Some directories are spamsense and spamAds(Full of Adsense Ads and Running Pop Up) Some are the directories for Adult content search….Don’t doubt which visitor come to your sites.In this Mat’s Article,you will get some list for directories.

SpamSense, Scraper Sites, and Directories NOT to submit to: Mat Siltala

I still can’t get over how much I have been thinking of directories since ZEAL decided to close down shop. I have been asked so many directory related questions in the last two weeks its not funny anymore. These questions have not drove me mad, but they have made me consider a few things when it comes to directories.. To answer (again) the biggest question: NO DIRECTORIES are not dying!!! With that said you can be more careful about the ones you decide to submit to. Things to consider:

• Is it a SpamSense Directory?
• Is it a scrapper site clearly a part of the black hat seo world?
• Does it have casino/gambling related ads all over it?
• Do they allow porn related sites?
• Is the directory banned by Google? (I will answer how you check in a minute)

What is a SpamSense directory? Its a directory that is full of Google Adsense Ads in the most “spam-erific” places such as right next to the “submit button” or “add url” button. They are almost tricking you to click on the ads to make them money. My feelings is that this is a breaker of the Terms of Service with most of these kind of programs and you start to get involved in click fraud and that is NO GOOD. ( I know you have seen this and know exactly what I am talking about.)

You can go to Google.com and type in the URL of the directory in the search and if they are not listed, or do not show up as a result it means one of two things:

1. They are such a new site that they have no credibility in Google
2. They have been blacklisted.

(Either of which submitting to will do you no good) Think about the big picture with directories, they help you build credibility, improve rankings and increase traffic. If you go to a directory and there is no way they can do any of that then stay away. Remember you don’t want your site showing up next to the Porn site for credibility!

Former post “Good Directories and Good Traffic“

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Randfish’s idea on Headsmacking Tips is something we look over and get headsmacking when look back carefully.The name on navigator Menu is on that way.We are not design the profitable keyword on Menu bar naming and push some words with ignorant the power of wording.If we are web visitor ,the first we’re look is the menu bars or the sitemaps page…..The #2 is Designing Your website Menu Bar with Niche Keywords( and relevant to your website too).This is randfish’s article#2

Tonight I’m continuing with our headsmacking tips theme (see #1 from June) with a piece of SEO advice that’s been around the industry for longer than Google but still doesn’t get the traction it deserves.

When it comes to top-level menu navigation, most of us are thinking about which broad subject areas best encompass the content we have to share with users. We’re considering usability and user experience and ease-of-navigation, all of which are excellent. But sometimes, in this process, we forget about SEO and how perfectly it can tie in with these other goals.

Just think - if you have broad subject areas under which many niche topics, products, articles, etc. fall, chances are there are some fairly competitive, high search-volume keyword terms and phrases you could target with those top-level navigation pages. Here’s an example:

British Petrol’s got this nice micro-site on their alternative energy program, and in it they have a number of top-level navigation links like “Who we are,” “What we do,” “Where we are,” etc. The sad part is, while many visitors might want to learn about “who they are,” not very many are performing searches around those topics. Instead, they might be looking for things like “renewable energy,” “climate change,” “low-emission fuel,” “fuel alternatives,” etc., many of which BP could be targeting in their top-level menu.

The thing is - top level menus exist throughout a site, and when you name a section of your website something, that’s how it get referred to across the web in link anchor text and blog mentions and directory listings. All that external reference, combined with your internal focus, can produce some pretty terrific results.  Not convinced? Go check out a few of the sites you work on or their competitors and see how well they rank for the names of their top-level menu items. It’s uncanny, right? If your domain is generally strong, those top-level pages are almost always in the top 20 for the names you’ve given them.

Here’s an example of a site generally sticking to this advice:

 

Their reward? Try searches for car reviews, car buying guides, road tests, even the incredibly competitive used cars. They’re in the top 10 across the board. That’s not to say they’re doing everything perfectly, but they are a testament to the power of top-level nav menu naming.

So, next time you’ve got an opportunity to re-design the top level menu or launch a new site, consider the searcher. They’re telling you what they want through keywords, both broad and specific. If you can find ways to get creative with your naming while remaining usable and user-friendly, you’ve got a big win.

p.s. Notice how SEOmoz names our SEO Tools section and our SEO Services Marketplace (just moved into position. Imagine if we had been really smart and called one of our top level tabs “Buy Viagra… AKA How Blackhat SEO Works.”

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From the previous article,Submitting A Good Directory…Good Non-SEM Tactic,The checklist from Mat Siltala On “10 most important things to look for when submitting to a directory ” is a effective reason to choose or not for one directory to submitting your blog or website.Mat is talking search engine ranking after submit your web to directories and How about the traffic to your website or blog.The traffic and the high search engine ranking is not constant straight relationship.You guess that the good directories submitting come with the increasing your web traffic.Mat suggest the question list about the good directories and his favorite directories on”Directories are not going anywhere!”…04-02-06.Two years ago…but it’s real good article

Directories are not going anywhere!

With all the recent postsabout ZEAL closing up shop (which I think is a stupid move for a good directory) and all the talk about the future of directories I have to include my thoughts about it.  (mostly for all the people that have asked me this last week-no kidding about 30 different clients have asked me.)

ZEAL closing shop is really not that big of a deal.  Here is why.  Other then the fact it was a really good directory (that many complained about being hard to get into) there are many better directories out there.  Take for example DMOZ and the Yahoo Directory.  A link with one of these guys can be worth more then 50 links on other directories.  Also a factor that Google takes into high consideration is that Yahoo directory is not a guranteed listing.  You have to pay them $299 just for review and consideration.  So if you get listed it carries alot of weight for that simple fact (atleast on Google).

Gaining popularity on the search engines directory submissions should only be ONE method you use.  By no means can you expect to achieve all the rankings you want to simply by submitting to a directory.  You should take into consideration if the directory will get you traffic or not.  If it will not get you traffic you might as well just not waste your time.  A directory that is not getting you any traffic is probably not very popular with Google so again its not really worth the effort or money.   On the other hand take a business directory like USCity.net who offers NO anchored text in its listing to keep its directory pure does get its users alot of traffic (but it will do nothing for your SERP).  I have a site listed in this directory and about 10 percent of my traffic comes from this directory alone.

Things to consider:

• How long has the directory been in business.
• What is thier page rank?
• How long have they registered thier domain name for?
• Do they have any SERP? ON Any engines?
• Are you using them simply for an anchor text link?
• Do you think you will actually get traffic from the directory itself?
• What kind of traffic is the directory getting?
• What is their Alexa ranking?
• What kind of integrity does the directory have?
• Does the directory have Google Adsense all over it, or other ads?

These are a few things that I heavily take into consideration when submitting to directories.  Alot of posts recently that I have been reading are talking about directories that have Google Adsense over them.  You can’t blame these guys for wanting to make more money on thier website so I unlike some others out there do not have a problem with directories having Adsense all over them.  BUT, what I do have a problem with is the directories that are tyring to include these ads right where the submit button is…trying to trick you into clicking…in my opinion this is a terms of service breaker as bad as telling people to click on the ads…I really think if you have the ads on the page where it does not get in the way of the directory and the listings and its clearly seperated then I have no problem with it whatsoever!  With that said, let me give you a list of my top 10 (for now).  These are directories that will get you traffic as well as help your search engine rankings:

1. http://sbd.bcentral.com
2. http://dir.yahoo.com
3. http://www.dmoz.org
4. http://www.abilogic.com
5. http://www.greenstalk.com
6. http://www.business.com
7. http://www.uscity.net
8. http://www.octopedia.com
9. http://www.eplanit.biz
10. http://www.gimpsy.com

I have many others on my list that I use for both reasons.  An internet directory can help you with rankings on MSN or Yahoo and some help you on Google.  Some just get you traffic right from thier site.  Bottom line before submitting to any directory or trying to build links, just ask yourself if it can get you traffic?  So with all this said,  I will continue to use directories and I personally don’t think they are going anywhere!

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Today I am surfing on Blog SEO and visit the seomoz.org.I take my glance around the author and stop at Headsmacking Tip…..Oh it’s a cool idea.Randfish is writting this series and give the good idea for building the link.I have heard some saying about SEO…”The content is the King and the link is the Queen”…but i don’t know where is Jack..

Headsmacking Tip #1: Link Requests in Order Confirmation Emails

Tonight I made an online purchase at a store called Widgetco.com (no, I’m not kidding, and I’m not using “widget” as an example, the site is actually www.widgetco.com). Sixty seconds later, this email shows up in my inbox:

When I read the second-to-last line of the message, I realized that SEOmoz needs a “headsmacking tips” series on the blog, and that this was a perfect candidate. It’s unreal that in all the link building tips, all the blog posts and Whiteboard Fridays, not once have I brought up what a terrific idea it is to leverage your customers for link building.

Why Should I Have My Customers Build Links For Me?

• They already like you
• They have a relationship with you, so the link request is more like “If you liked our barbershop, please refer your friend.”
• Google loves these kinds of links - in their greatest dreams, the Internet, through links, is a realistic model of the relationships between people, companies and organizations. Links like these get them one step closer to that fantasy.
• Your customers are usually relevant to you, and it’s likely that if they link, the post they use or the content they link from will have the right kind of relationship with your niche.
• It’s scalable - the more customers you get, the more you can ping them with link requests and the more links you’ll receive (again, bolstering Google’s desire to show the most popular and successful businesses on top of the results).

When we’re talking about how incresing blog traffic without Steeling Traffic from Search Engine,the interesting recommends is Submitting your blog to Blog Directory.Do you know how many blog directory in this world?
Let’s start with Google,push “blog directory” in search box and see the result.We have million Blog Directories and the next question is”How many days you finishing submit all of them?”…..one week or two week….and after finishing the submit,there are the effective way to push up your traffic….anyone garuntee this tactic.You may be waste your time on the small and abandoned blog directory.The submitting tactics is effective when you select the good blog directory.I’m coming to One webboard about SEO and SEM and they’re distributing the php program to member.This program is easy to install in web server and build the web directory in minutes.It’s means that we will find the large number of junk directory that waste your time and If we think all over the world build this directory ,I can’t count this number.So the good saying”Put the right man to the right job” for the best working may be state as”Put the right blog to the right blog directory”……Mat Siltala write the list of good directory on his article “10 most important things to look for when submitting to a directory “.This is a good article and you may be checked the directory before submitting

10 most important things to look for in a directory (when it comes to Google)

When starting a directory submission campaign, just don’t assume all directories are created equal. For those that are new to dir submissions, or (good reminders for you) old timers, I have compiled a list of what I believe are the 10 most important things to look for when submitting to a directory (at least as far as Google is concerned)

1. What is the age of the directory?
2. Is the page you are submitting to indexed?
3. Is the indexed result supplemental?
4. How many outbound links does the page you are submitting to have on it? (It is ideal with less then 20)
5. Is the link a “nofollow” link? (in other words can it help by not passing rank)
6. Is there a ton of pharmacy or casino sites in the listings? (If yes, stay away)
7. Does the directory really have a relevant cat/sub-category? (or option to create new sub-cat)
8. Does the submission have a review process? (or can anyone get in)
9. Does the site allow anchor text to deep pages (sub pages)?
10. Can you actually get traffic from the site?

If you can take your focus away from trying to build up “as many” links as you can through directory submission, and focus more on the quality of the directory you are getting in, and what that listing can do for your website, then you have won the battle. There are some people that cringe at the thought of paying 299$/year for a listing in the Yahoo! Directory, yet a listing in that directory can take your site to a whole new level that you never knew.

For 2007 make it your directory submission goal to focus on “quality of directories” rather then ‘quantity of directories”.

In My opinion,I agree with this last word…Good Quality directory is rather than Large amount of directories
Following this conclusion,I see the business model ,Why we don’t build the good directory and collect the fee for submitting

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Today I put this words on Google”Increase Blog traffic”,we have 76,000 article that state this words.I am focusing on the first 100 results ,stop my glance on “Can You Increase Blog Traffic Without Posting?” and interesting on WITHOUT POSTING….and guess it may be the cool idea.

During The last few weeks,I have been doing some very interesting experiments here onCourt’s Internet Marketing School. The question in my mind is whether it’s the actual ‘posting’ on a blog that results in traffic and RSS subscribers. Most people out there are going to believe that posting more will result in more traffic to a blog, which will result in more RSS subscriptions.

I have the luxury of having quite a few of my own sites and also having clients whose sites I watch on a weekly basis. What has this led me to discover? In most cases, ‘posting’ on a blog actually has very little to do with the traffic that reaches the blog.

Why? Well, think about it. How many of your old blog posts actually bring residual traffic? Do they bring search traffic? When you get linked to from other sites, do those links produce continuous traffic or do they simply give you a short-lived burst?

I have had the luxury of being linked to by some of the most popular blogs on the web. I’ve been linked to multiple times by Problogger, John Chow, and most of the other big names in this industry.

If I look at yesterday’s stats, how much referral traffic did I get from those links? I got 2 visitors that came from ProBlogger.net, and 0 visitors from JohnChow.com. That honestly doesn’t compare well at all with the residual search traffic that I get from Google every day.

As you might have noticed, it’s been two weeks since I last posted on this site. What have I been up to? I’ve been creating some keyword-rich landing pages (as opposed to posts) and building links (among other things that you’ll find out about very soon…). What are the results? A healthy increase in daily search traffic and more than 200 new RSS subscribers.

Interesting, isn’t it?
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Since this blog is all about giving writing tips for bloggers, I thought I would take a different angle and look at blogging from a perspective of those who don’t want to / can’t write.

Quite often we hear the mantra that a successful blogger needs to write good unique content. But, Is it possible to blog and develop a successful website without doing any writing?

Picture / Video Blog

If you are able to take interesting, unique pictures this can make a very attractive blog. I think to stand out, though your pictures would have to be of a particularly high standard, or offer something not found elsewhere. You will face alot of competition and it may not be so easy to monetize. However building a successful picture blog, gives you an opportunity to sell your own pictures.

See: Ursi’ blog for good example of photo / link blog

Cartoon / Comedy blog

This is a successful blog which offers humorous cartoons. By enabling others to use and embed the cartoon enables the blog to get lots of backlinks. I think this is an interesting point: offering free content is a good way to success on the internet. It is part of Wikipedia’s success, because people can freely copy the content, the site receives many link backs.

Use Material in the Public Domain.

There is an increasing amount of writen material which is free to copy under certain conditions. Sources of material to copy can be found at Wikipedia and ezine article sites. At Wikipedia the material is available under a GNU license, all you have to do is to acknowledge the source. This can be useful for building up pages. However, if you make a site out of duplicate material, you have to ask the question; Is this site offering anything new and useful? If it isn’t then it’s going to be difficult to make it a success. Also an additional factor to bear in mind is that Google and other search engines are discriminating against sites which are primarily duplicated content. Having said that I have pages on one site, from Wikipedia, which rank reasonably well. Yet, if the site was just duplication I doubt it would get any rankings.

Quotes / Poems

Quotes are a very popular internet search. Quotes about people, topics and subjects get a lot of hits. With regard to quotes and poems there is nothing you can do to make it unique (unless you comment on all the quotes). You can probably find some subject related to your blog. I have a short collection of quotes on writing. These quotes are actually quite useful for writing articles.

Links

Offering links to other sites and to the breaking news can be a helpful resource. Some sites have developed a reputation for being a very good link resource. However, to have a site solely dedicated to linking, would have to do it very well, or specilise in a certain niche. In a way links is the primary function of sites like Digg and Slashdot.

Get other people to write for you.

Successful sites are often able to attract guest bloggers or even regular contributors. This means you can spend alot of time doing other things and leave other writers to produce the content. Examples include lifehack and Blogging Tips. This option can be very good so long as:

1. you can get good writers.
2. To attract writers you will need to have a well established blog, with decent readership and page rank.