As we all know, blogging is one of the best ways to earn money online because they ranked faster than a regular websites and allow you to profit from free targeted traffic quickly. OK! Here are simple things to consider on how to Make Money Online With blogs: First, Find a Profitable Niche and make sure that people are interested in buying the products or services you want to promote and there is money to be made. Next, Optimize Your Domain and Title Tag by finding popular keywords that fit your product or service and check for volume and keyword Competition. Choose a Long Tail Keyword (3-5 words) that you can dominate quickly and has good traffic to become your Domain Name. Use them in your title tag to boost your rankings. Next, use deep link keywords from one post to other posts, product information or sales pages within your blog. This simple strategy will help boost your rankings and can lead consumers to related products to purchase. Now, create one-way links from other highly ranked websites to boost your rankings and also give…

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If you’re reading this then it means you probably have at least a base understanding of what social media and social networking is. You probably at least have a Facebook profile. If you’re more learned in social networking, some of your day’s activities may have consisted of stumbling one of your blog posts, digging a couple articles, posting a bulletin, changing your status update and retweeting a Guy Kawasaki article. However, did you know that no matter what your social media experience, that you can optimize your social networking profiles so that more people can find you? Just as if you were doing search engine optimization for your website, the first thing you must do to optimize your social media networks is to research. You have to find a niche and decide what keywords you want to use. Try to use as specific as keywords as possible and narrow in on these. The longer the keyword you can focus in on, the more likely you’re going to be found. For example, “discounted hotels in Midtown Atlanta” is going to offer you a much better…

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In my last post, Follow Through on Your Web Design Media with Search Engine Optimization, I repeatedly mentioned keyword placement in your multimedia filenames, Alt tages and why certain kinds of formatting helps boost search-engine visibility. I didn’t delve into many specifics of why you would want to use keywords beyond your design elements because it would have taken too much time. I figured that I’d circle back today and get into keywords a bit more. It’s such an important topic, I’ll be writing about keywords and keyphrases again (and maybe again). When I think about search-engine optimization, I think about it from two perspectives: The first is the front of the page — the copy the reader sees — and the second is the back of the page — the HTML the searchbot sees. Here are a few things about search-engine optimizing copy to keep in mind: 1. When people talk about keywords, what they’re really talking about are keyword phrases. 2. Stuffing the front of your pages with your keywords willy-nilly isn’t going to work. Searchbots look at keyphrases and sequences of keywords, the proximity of keywords to each other, where they appear on the page and at synonyms…

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You don’t have to be an athlete to appreciate a pro golfer’s drive off a tee, a designated baseball hitter’s swing or an Olympic gymnast’s agility on the high bar. Whether it’s distance, power or grace, it all comes from properly following through. Web designers also need to follow through textually on their designs–whether they’re simple photographs or sophisticated Flash animations. It’s those final steps in the design process that ensure your design is found by searchbots and people alike. Here’s the big idea: Searchbots feed on keywords. Although they’re tuned to go after formatted text, filenames, HTML tags,  captions, multimedia and so on, its all about the keywords you use. Keep that in mind as you read further. A Quick Word about Formatting Searchbots give more weight to formatting such as bold face, italics, lists, bullets, anchor text links and foreign language characters. Decisions about formatting usually begin with the copywriter, but you shouldn’t assume Web writers know more about formatting or SEO than you do. The size of a headline is often as much as a design decision and a copywriting one. It helps you and the copywriter to know that, for example, big headlines are more appetizing…

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One of the nice things about WordPress is that it’s as friendly to search engine optimization as a beagle is to a bowl of ice cream–even before you start tweaking it. Long ago, I settled on WP because I was more interested in using it as a simple content management system than an actual blog. All I really wanted to do is build a no-fuss place–comprising four or five pages–where I could showcase my work and experience to promote my Web writing business. I don’t really know how WP compares to other blogging platforms because I haven’t used any of the others. In recent years, I’ve been paying more and more attention to SEO best practices. I quickly learned a while ago that Web writing and SEO were immutably tied and there’s really no way to separate the two skills. You need to be on your game with both skills or you’re never going to get the ball from the business players. Anyone who tells you differently  probably sells replica watches from the trunk of his car on the side. Optimizing WordPress for Search Engines with plugins I’ve had a chance to try out several SEO plugs…

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