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Google first page: how one blog quickly made it to Google’s first page

By on Monday, January 10th, 2011 | No Comments

I’ve written other blog posts with step by step tips on getting your website or blog onto Google’s first page search results.

(That’s important because 90% of Google searchers don’t look past the first page of results!)

One of my other sites recently made it to the first page of Google for a particular search phrase with decent traffic and mid-level competition.

Here’s what I did:

This blog’s sister site is TwitterPowerTool. After doing some research about popular search keywords regarding Twitter, I noticed that one phrase was particularly promising.

According to the FREE Google AdWords Keyword Tool, the phrase “twitter ideas” gets about 4000 global monthly searches.

Then I went to Google to see how many websites are already competing for the phrase “twitter ideas.”

To do this, first I made sure I was “signed out” of Google, by looking at the top right hand side of the Google.com homepage. My browser is Firefox, so then I went under Tools/Clear Recent History and selected that.

Finally, I refreshed the Google.com page.

Doing all that gives you a closer approximation to the results a stranger would see when searching for a particular phrase on Google. If you don’t do that before you do your research on keyword competition, the results you get will reflect only your personal searches, and those won’t give you an accurate, universal picture of what’s being prioritized by Google.

After I did all that “cache clearing,” I typed “twitter ideas” into Google.com. (Note: I used quotation marks around the phrase, just like that — that’s important.)

Looking right under the Google search field, it said “About 37,200 results.”  
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Google first page: free tips for higher ranking blogs (part 3)

By on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 | No Comments

In Part One, I told you how to use free blog and website creation services to build pages that link back to your blog. (Remember: Google loves backlinks.)

In Part Two, we looked at using Twitter and social bookmarking sites like Digg to let the world know about your blog (and get even more backlinks.)

Finally, in Part Three, let’s see the results of doing all that:

Let about 24 to 48 hours go by (if you can wait that long — I’m not very good at that).

* Go to Google.com. If you have a Google account, look at the upper right hand side of the page. If you are “Signed In,” be sure to sign out.

* Then refresh the page, and clear your browser cache. (In Firefox, this is under Tools/Clear Recent History.)

NOTE: Unless you do all this clearing and refreshing, you’ll get search results back that reflect what YOU’VE been looking for on your computer.

And you want, as much as possible, to see what a total stranger would see if they typed “discount electronic widget adaptors” (WITHOUT the quotation marks!) into Google.

Another way to replicate searching from a total stranger’s computer is to use a program like HideMyIP.

* So do just that: TYPE YOUR KEYWORD PHRASE into your Google search field and see what comes up.

It may take a few more days to see more of your sites showing up on page one, but if you have followed these instructions, you should see results.

Doing all this costs you nothing but time, energy and patience. But believe me, it is worth it.  
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How to add new blog content every day (without posting)

By on Monday, December 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Google is the king of the search engines — and Google loves fresh content.

Put simply, Google crawls the web all day and night, looking for signs that blogs and websites have added new content. When Google detects that new content, it moves those newly updated sites and blogs closer to the top of its search engine results pages (SERPs.)

PLUS the more posts a blog builds up over time, the more likely that it will be linked to from other sites — and as we know, Google loves backlinks, too.

So when it comes to blogging and getting on that precious Google page one “SERP,” newness counts — and so does volume.

That means blogging every day, to build up your volume of posts AND keep getting Google’s precious attention.

Now it is easy to update your blog every day, even if you don’t have anything vitally important to say.

To do this, you need a WordPress blog that uses a Theme that includes Widgets.

Let’s use my blog TwitterPowerTool as an example, which was created using the WordPress Socrates theme. As you can see, the Socrates theme allows for a number of customizable widgets in its right hand sidebar. You can put affiliate and Amazon banners there, other kinds of ads, your blogroll — and of course, an RSS feed display like the one we are about to create.

When you visit that blog, you’ll see a section on the upper right hand side called “Twitter in the News.” Because Twitter is, indeed, in the news a lot, that RSS widget/section of the blog is updating constantly, a little bit like a stock market tickertape. In turn, this regular churning of headlines “nudges” Google into noticing TwitterPowerTool.  
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Google first page: free tips for higher ranking blogs (part two)

By on Sunday, December 5th, 2010 | No Comments

In Part One, I explained how to use free blog and website creation sites like HubPages, Squidoo and others to build backlinks to your main blog.

(You want to do this because you want your blog to show up on the first page of Google when somebody searches for the subject of your blog. And Google favors blogs that are linked to by other high page rank sites; the likes of Google-favorites such as Squidoo confer lots of “authority” back to your own blog.)

Now, in Part Two, we’ll look at a few other things you can do to help get your blog a higher placement in those all important search engine page results (SERPs).

* Twitter tells the world (and Google) that you’ve got a new web site
To show up in Google, your new sites need to be “spidered” by Google’s “bots.” One way to let Google know that these sites have been created is to use Twitter. Google and Twitter are closely linked and that relationship shows no signs of waning.

So send out a tweet like this one:

“Check out my new site about discount electronic widget adaptors at http://www.squidoo.com/discount-electronic-widget-adapters”

Obviously, use an url shortener like TinyUrl or Is.gd to stay under Twitter’s 140 character limit.

Do this for every single new page you just created: the one at HubPages, the one at Xanga, and so on.

You don’t want to spam or annoy your Twitter followers, so use a FREE Twitter message timer like Twuffer.com so that all these tweets to go out at different times. (I use the “Schedule” function in MarketMeSuite. I also use MarketMeSuite to get backlinks to my blog…)  
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Google first page: free tips for higher ranking blogs (part one)

By on Sunday, December 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Unless your web site shows up on Google’s first page, the chances of your site being found by customers and clients is close to zero. Nine out of ten people searching for something on Google don’t look page the first page of search engine results that come up (SERPs).

Here are techniques I’ve used to get my sites and my clients’ on Google’s first page.

NOTE: This article is designed for people who already have a main company website, but it isn’t getting lots of traffic. You already have a “tree” — now we have to create some “branches”. In other words: You need other web sites to link back to yours

Remember: your customers and clients are searching for your product or service using certain keywords.

Let’s say people looking for what you sell are searching Google using the phrase:

“discount electronic widget adaptors”

Now, because Google looks at how many other sites link to yours, you must create “backlinks” to your web site.

You can start creating backlinks easily, using free web site and blog creation tools.

Sign up for free accounts at:

  • HubPages
  • Squidoo
  • DevHub
  • WetPaint
  • Tumblr
  • Xanga
  • MyBlogLog
  • Xomba
  • LiveJournal

* SET UP A FREE SITE, page or blog at ALL of these sites, using their simple templates.

When the set up wizard asks your for the title of your new site, type in: Discount Electronic Widget Adaptors

* MAKE SURE you create sites and pages that someone would learn something from. In this case, share some of your expert advice about buying discount electronic widget adaptors — after all, you sell them, right?

(Here’s an example of a HubPage dedicated to one very specific topic and set of keywords. Here’s a similar article page at Xomba.)  
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Affiliate marketing strategy: SEO for affiliate marketers

By on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Search engines aims to provide their users with the most relevant and up-to-date information to match the search term they typed in.  Search engines are sophisticated pieces of technology which allow users to quickly find relevant websites by searching for a word or a phrase.

Search engine results are useless to users if the information doesn’t relate to the search term, or if the results are old. People expect the most up-to-date and fresh information.

Updating your website every day will help you get noticed by the search engines. So, if you are going to sell any type of product or service online, you have to optimize your website for the search engines, in order to boost traffic and sales.

It is because over 90% of your business will likely come directly from search engine results. And for that reason, it is absolutely important to optimize your site for search engines for you to have the greatest deals in the entire world.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to augment their website’s status. It is certain that the internet has grown so fast over the years and the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market.

Therefore, better understanding the fundamental elements of Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business success.

Making use of effective search engine optimization techniques will improve the page rank of your website. There are many tricks that can be used to increase page rank; the most effective method is to provide high quality content consistently.  
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Affiliate marketing strategy: 7 tips on article marketing

By on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | No Comments

In today’s highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of e-commerce.

Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult.

Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.

However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic?

Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.

1.Reach more people
When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. The best sites to submit your articles to are EzineArticles, Bukisa, IdeaMarketers, ArticleRanks, BusinessKnowHow, Articlealley, Buzzle, ArticlesBase, GoArticles and Xomba.

By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box — that’s the little “About the Author” bit that appears at the very bottom of every article. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well.  Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you.  
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