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Dec82009

SEO Plans For 2010

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A lot of webmasters and bloggers right now are thinking of their goals in the upcoming 2010. They always want to improve their SEO tactics for the upcoming months, and now the year 2009 has come to a close and another year will begin. 2010 should be a big year for SEO fanatics, only if they want to become successful at this point of time. What are the things we need to do in order to become successful at this point? Success is what we’re targeting here, and we have to do it as soon as possible. We don’t just wait for 2010 to come near with us, but today we can start plan for our SEO work in the upcoming year. Goals are always listed right on your notebook, and here are some of the examples that you want to list your SEO plans for 2010:

1. To get on the top of search rankings.

If you want this on the wishlist, it is more about keyword research. You have to know your SEO competitors and you must figure it out to outplay them.

2. To have more backlinks than the previous year.

If you want to include this on your wishlist, you have to double time your link building and SEO work daily. Make sure that all of the sites you are generating are do-follow. It could be forums, social bookmarks, social media, etc.

3. Improve your writing ability.

If you want to be accepted by the article and press release directories, you have to study the correct form of writing articles and press release. It also includes proper English grammar, which can be self-learned by you.

4. To increase page views and unique visitors than the previous year.

If you want this to be included in your wishlist, you have to step up building and promoting more links in do-follow and no-follow sites. Even though you are building links at no-follow mode, you can still gain traffic but not the link juice. Advertising is another option, you must prepare your budget for your website to be advertised in hundreds or thousands of hits.

5. Plan innovative ways to make customers satisfied.

You must formulate a new SEO plan for 2010, on how you want your customers satisfied with your website or blog. You can write it down, and to put it into action immediately. There are many ways like giving them freebies, review copies and free tips on anything you want to share to them. This keeps them coming back to your blog over and over again, and inviting friends to check it out and contribute some of their comments. They can even subscribe to your feed.

These are a few examples of mine, which we need to do SEO for 2010. It’s just like a New Year’s Resolution, which you want to change the way you are, and to change your lifestyle and relationship. The same thing goes to SEO, and we should apply it for our future success.

Dec82009

Out Beat High Competitive Keywords

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unique-keywordsCompetition of keywords are now at high stake. There were lots of simple keywords that are truly being used by many big SEO companies around the world feeding from Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. Simple combination of keywords are truly unique and challenging. We believe that we can create our own combination of unique keywords, but the question is….are they truly targeted by most visitors and customers worldwide. How can we outplay or outsmart those who have keywords that are truly on the top of the mountain? Are there any ways to get ourselves into the top of search engine page rankings, by simply applying our skills on SEO?

There are ways to do it but is not as easy as one would think. First try Google Keyword External Tool and type your own keyword or combination of keywords. Just wait for the results to come in less than a minute. You don’t go for one keyword actually, because it’s automatically on the top results and it’s already a high competitive one. Try to look at the average or low competitive keywords listed there, and also analyze the high ones. Notice that there’s a lot of combination’s out there which you can choose.

Here are some of the few tips to make your keyword combination more unique for SEO purposes:

1. Try to stick with three to five keyword combination’s, and add at least one word before, within or after the keyword or keyphrase.

2. If you know the alternate word for the keyword you want to generate right now, better replace it with it’s synonym.

3. Rewrite, spin or scramble them as much as you want. If you do this, it will make your keyword or keyphrase unique.

4. Make sure that you put your unique keywords or keyphrases in your content in a proper way for the reader to read your article.

5. Review and check again your unique keyword on the Google Keyword External Tool, to see if your keyword is on the top results and determine it’s competition. Analyze it well with the highly sorted ones. If you are not confident yet, go back again to the first tip.

It is based on how wise you are as a webmaster and content writer, through the combination of keywords which truly increases your chances on getting up to the top of the serps. Common sense and being wise is one way you can outplay the higher competitors who use easier keywords than you. Everything is possible but just takes more time then others based on experience and unique keyword vs competitive ones.

Dec62009

Soaring From Zero To Success

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I believe that every successful entrepreneur that ever lived is a fighter. If we lose the fight, it does not mean that we’re giving up on it, because if we are just giving up on it, we are a sore loser. The biggest test in all time to be successful is getting to the top in good times or bad. Being thick skinned is something you gain over time through lessons you have learn’t in life.

If you look at all the successful millionaires like founders of Google Larry Page, and Sergey Brin or even Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg they are all university drop-outs. Not to say you need to drop out to make it big, but you already have a big vision something that is inside, a feeling a passion, a soul that is much higher then any education.

You and your teachers are no longer connecting, so you take a risk and do what you do best. Risk taking also plays a crucial role. If you compare how many kids go to university cause they either were pushed to by their parents or wanted to just because they wanted a good career, not because they were passionate, and compare this with someone who has a driving hungry soul for what they believe in all their life you will notice that passionate people achieve long term success.

I started computers at the age of 15 because I had a passion. Where I was from, there were no real Graphic Design colleges at that age, so I thrived to teach myself from day until night.

If you want to start your SEO career, you have to start from scratch or shall we say, “Start From Zero”. SEO career is more challenging and difficult that what you have spent more than 15 years as a student who learn lessons from the bottom to the top. There were lots of things to learn here in SEO which includes link building and getting your page on the top of search results through keyword analysis.

We start things off by creating our own website or blog at WordPress or Blogger. Choose the template that fits for your niche and if you have some budget on your own, purchase a cheap web hosting program . Then if your site is already indexed with Google at least, you can start perform SEO without investing your money. If you want to make money as early as possible, join freelance programs such as oDesk and apply for some tasks and join affiliate marketing programs too. If you want to spend your money to invest for your own website or blog, you can try it through advertising.

You can buy as many ad spaces as you can, in order to earn traffic and unique visitors. Speaking of starting from zero, if we do this manually by ourselves, we can save money. But since we are using the internet in our home plus electricity, we have to pay or contribute for the expenses. You continue to do that for months until you show some signs of progress. It requires patience, because affiliate marketers are very successful through their months of patience. It’s truly possible that everyone of us will be successful starting from zero when we perform SEO at it’s best.

Dec42009

How We Feel When We Are On The First Page?

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All of the webmasters and bloggers right now are competing with each other to get their site on the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing. The question is, are you ready to take the challenge? Getting your site on the first page is not easy, and as a beginner it will take you months to a year of hard work in getting your site on top of search engine rankings in the internet. Keyword research and analysis are definitely recommended for you, in order to  know which one has a higher competition and which one has the lower competition. But if you have your own unique keyword or niche it’s truly a good potential that you will have a much easier time getting there.

You need to be patient until you ranked your site on the first page. Keyword combination is relatively important, you have to be wise in mixing keywords or keyphrases. It relies on your intelligence when using the Google Keyword External Tool for determining keywords with low, average and high competition. Definitely, it all starts with a website.

Creating a website is truly potential which more webmasters are successful with it. Without your own website, it’s impossible for you to be on the first page right? You are not indexed without your own website unless you verify it using Google Webmaster Tools and other indexing tools of Yahoo and Bing. If your site was finally indexed, you can now perform your search engine optimization (SEO), and search engine marketing (SEM)  skills.

The sites must be do-follow, so that you can provide your own link juice. You can determine it using Firefox’s NoDoFollow plugin or toolbar, which can be installed easily. You have to find do-follow forums, social bookmarks, blogs and other links. No-follow sites are also potential but they cannot help you in page rankings but only traffic.

You can also perform online marketing strategies by promoting your website into hundreds of social media sites like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. Advertising is another option, only if you have your own customized banner depends on the dimension of it.  You just keep doing all of them until you get to the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing.

After months or years of hard work, your site could potentially rank first on the search results, depends on the keyword and keyphrase you used in the internet. How would you feel if you are in the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing? You could jump into your bed and celebrate with your friends for your ultimate success, or anything you want to. It’s a great blessing if you ranked on the first page, and just continue on what you’re doing. :)

Dec32009

Boost Your Visitors Through Facebook Fan Promotion

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A lot of guys and girls out there are addicted to a social networking program called Facebook. Today, it has reached about 350 million members on the internet and is still growing over and over again. Not only do the members want to join just for fun they also want to be part of a group or community which they can also  promote their business by posting on walls and fan pages. But how do we increase our number of fans and friends in our account? We will do this in a manual way, not in an automatic form like some software. We know that promoting our website in Facebook is truly a big potential, because you will gain lots of visitors here as there are lots of visitors to attract.

Boosting your visitors is quite challenging though, and can take you up to months to work it out manually. But if you want to get faster results on your traffic, you better buy some advertising space either banner or links to a website with thousands of page impressions and unique visitors daily.

The best technique is to invite friends based on groups that interest you, so this way you have an instant connection and similar interest. You just simply request them to be your friend along with a little message until you gain friends. Once they confirm your friend request, you may be able to invite them to your group and to your fan page.

Patience is a virtue, because this is a slow process. If you’re doing this for the first time by just sending invitations to your confirmed friends, you will experience that 1 or 2 friends will join your group and fan page every 4 days to 1 week, depends on how active they are in checking notifications. Do not stop inviting them, and if they want to exchange with you, this is also a good idea.

In a month, your Facebook fans and group members will increase gradually, slowly but surely until more and more are being invited to join the discussion. If your friends in the first degree, check their friends in the second degree, third degree and so on and keep inviting, you will have more fans and groups in the near future. But it’s also useless if your group and fan page is inactive with no topics at all, so you must keep updating it by putting a share button in every blog post you have.

The more friends, fans and group members, the more you will gain potential visitors back to your website and earn lots of impressions daily. You could even gain lots of referrals there, if you have programs with referral links too. It’s a good way to perform viral marketing, and Facebook is one source. Affiliate marketers and SEO fanatics are successful in building their traffic through Facebook, because it is a more personal way of marketing. This is a place where you gain lots of traffic and visitors without investing on advertising, unless of course you’re interested on Facebook ad campaigns. That is also worth to try.

Dec22009

On-Page Vs Off-Page SEO And What Works Best

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Really there is no easy answer to this, on-page is just as important as off-page. When doing on-page optimization I generally start off with keyword research of course and start then by going through meta tags and start implementing the right keyphrases from title, description and keywords, then I move up towards adding valuable content on the home page of the site including meta images and text. (There was a day that you could stuff words in your meta and hope for the best, those days are long gone, and Google and other engines are a lot smarter then that.)

You want to have your h1 introductory text on the main page and keep that similar to the title tag. With the text on the home page you want to  also make sure the text has a couple of links pointing to inside pages. For example if I have a treadmill page from my site that is called exerciseequipment dot com, you would want to have an inside page like exerciseequipment dot com / treadmill then a link pointing to the inside page from the home page.

You can add a sitemap on the site which will also get your site crawled better and index better, also concentrate on internal link structure and content. But although this is a good starting point there is much more to do on-page also which you can keep on improving and tweaking as you get better.

With Off-page I focus alot on link building, business directory submissions, article submissions, press release submissions and social media marketing. It takes alot of hard work in getting relevant sources to want to link to your site, and this includes natural links mostly in which are from high page rank sites and have authority.

As we all know having an .edu and .gov backlinks help, but put it this way, these will come over time. If your site is new and you all of a sudden obtain a backlink from an .edu or .gov site this will send off alarm bells to google.

With off-page it requires a certain skill, and requires creativity in knowing how to approach or gain your backlink in a smart way. Some of the best ways of gaining a backlink is from just being you and doing what you do best and over time sites will just link because they like what you have to offer. Most of all just by concentrating on both on-page and off-page simultaneously is key to gaining your highest level of success. To continually tweak, research and compete and stay ahead of the game!