Directory Submissions – Submit to the Open Directory and other sites like JoeAnt and Gimpsy. These are all human reviewed directories, therefore search engines will consider that your site must be of pretty good quality to be listed in them. Submission to these sites is free, but there can be quite a wait to get reviewed, since editors are unpaid volunteers. In addition to a link popularity boost, a listing in Open Directory will get your site listed in the other Open Directory powered sites like Google’s web Directory, AOL’s web directory and many others.

Tips For Directory Submissions:

Editor Check – Is there an editor for your desired category? If not, consider applying. For Open Directory, this can give you the power to add your site much more quickly.

Link Title – Don’t try any tricks to get keywords in your title if they are not in your company name. This will get your listing edited if the listing is approved or rejected outright. The title must be your official website or company name.

Description – Again, don’t try to insert extra keywords here, it could backfire and…

2. Make sure your sales copy is positive and inspiring – people buy things because they require to improve their lives.

3. Identify a problem and show people how and why your product or service solves the problem.

4. Use bold headings to break up your sales copy in to short chunks of text.

5. Keep your paragraphs short – no over 2 sentences per paragraph.

6. Use a bulleted list to itemize the benefits of your product or service. Start each benefit with an action word: “turn”, “make”, “triple”, “grab”, “create”, “build”, “convert”, “start”, “change”, “drive”, “organize”, “promote”, “develop”, “learn”, “compel”, “fill”, “attract”, “get”, “earn”, “take”, “discover”, “produce”, “find”, “generate”, “acquire”. “inspire”, “send”, “blast”.

7. Give your visitors at least 3 order links (e.g. 1/3rd of the way down your page, 2/3rds the way down, and at the bottom). But don’t stop there – turn some of your key phrases in to hyperlinks that go to your order page. Here are some examples of phrases that you could link to your order page:…

1. Do a Google search on “Increase Blog Traffic”
2. Read what they offer and muse over if some of the options are available to you.
3. Follow up and actually do what they say because:
   • they have done this from experience
   • they know what they are doing, obviously since the link was found on Google’s first page search

Ok, sounds simple right? Yes and No. Beware of scamming. In other words just follow some of the steps that I did.

1. Noticed how other blogs are setup, some have rss feeds and other promoting blog websites
2. Blogtoplist sign up there and you will definitely get hits to your blog
3. Search out other blog promo sites, such as technorati, buzzerhut.com
4. Sign up with StumbleUpon, Reddit, or Digg and submit your site
5. Lastly sign up with Sitemeter, this will tell you how many people visit your blog

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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 you access to free traffic. Next, having RSS feeds can…

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 chance of getting found then just “hotels.”

Next,…

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 that are…

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…

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 in for…

As a blogger you don’t want to pay a high rate to advertise your blog and risk not getting a return on your investment; nor do you want to do an adwords campaign. You want quick, easy and free ideas for marketing your blog.

Lucky you! Here are five free ways to promote your blog.

1. Social Networking. In the web 2.0 times we currently live in, this may seem like a dead giveaway, yet many bloggers don’t take full advantage of it. Make sure you use the social networks and take advantage of the sites that are most advantageous to you. Create aFacebook fan page, develop a fan base on Twitter and promote your blog on these social outlets.

2. Article Submission. Similar to social networking, article submission is another way to get your blog in front of more eyes. Stumbleupon appears to be the best place for submitting…

Higher rankings by search engines facilitate brand awareness. The primary objective behind search engine optimization is thus, to ensure better rankings, and thus, social book marking has emerged as an effective tool for providing back links and getting higher traffic, which in turn help in securing better Search Engine Rankings. Bookmarks represent links through tagging. Unlike a hierarchical structure, tagging is done through a bottom-up method, which create many broad categories to fit in the links. As a result, the users can assert the metadata adding relevance to the links. This…