September 2008


by Paul Forcey

You have your Wordpress blog up and running and you’re ready to start making money off of it. So how do you do that? We all know the secret to making money on any Wordpress blog comes down to getting traffic. How to get the traffic you want going to your Wordpress Blog can be challenging if you don’t know where to begin, but the Step by Step Wordpress Traffic Program will get you headed in the right direction without any hassle.

Knowing that you need traffic coming to your Wordpress Blog is the easy part. Actually getting that traffic there without knowing how can be a difficult challenge to say the least. Countless places online tell you that they know how to get you the traffic you want, but in the end you find yourself more confused then you were to begin with. “Techie” talk and dead end answers can have you going in circles. Step by Step Wordpress Traffic takes you through each step with easy to read directions, links to all the tools used and fully explained steps so you’re not left looking for more answers.

No more will you lose your place and have to spend precious time trying to remember what you did last and what you need to do. Step by Step Wordpress Traffic Program has 3 great features that will help you stay on task. One being the ability to ?hide? the steps you have already finished, so that you only see on the screen what you need to still complete. Next you can schedule a ?pop up? reminder to let you know where you have left off. Lastly you can prioritize each step (high, medium or low), which are color coded for a quick reference which one you want to do next.

As you know, not everyone prefers to work the same way. Some people prefer to work off of written or printed out instructions instead of having another screen up on their computer. The “Print” feature allows you to do just that. Just pick the steps you want printed out and hit the “print” button.

Step by Step Wordpress Traffic Program is very user friendly and flexible. On the top you will see the ?Add a Task? and ?Edit Task? buttons. As you go through the steps and want to add something, you can simply click on the ?Edit Task? adding whatever information you like. Same goes for the ?Add a Task? button, you can create an added step to your process.

A great feature that is built right into the Step by Step Wordpress Traffic Program, gives you the opportunity to take your work with you and work as you go. The ?Copy to Flash? button, located at the top of the program, allows you to copy your work over to a jump/flash/thumb drive, making the program portable and allowing you access when you want.

For both experienced and new users alike, the Step by Step Wordpress Traffic Program gives you the ability to start getting traffic and ultimately the sales you want from your Wordpress Blog.

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by Chris Channing

When a user needs to find something online, they turn to a friend for recommendations on websites. When this method does not work, they turn to internet directories for all of their information intensive activities. This offers many opportunities for webmasters to have exposure for their websites.

Internet directories can easily be used by webmasters to have their sites listed. The webmaster provides all of the necessary information to the internet directory and in time, the site will be listed. Depending on the volume of sites being added to an internet listing, it may take weeks, even months for a website to be listed within the directory.

When an internet user needs to find specific resources or services, they need more than just good domain name guessing skills for the sites they want to find. They can rely on internet directory listings to find the information they need. Internet directories can provide the users with reviews and website previews which influence the user into choosing one website over the other to view first. This can come in handy for webmasters with genuine high quality websites.

Internet directory listings can offer a higher exposure rate for webmasters. This can easily be accomplished by submitting the sites for indexing by the internet directory. Some directories function as Top Lists, where they showcase the top most popular websites. This can offer a great opportunity for webmasters that can tailor their sites to their users needs. There are also services that various companies provide to submit a website to many other internet directory listings that save the webmaster time while increasing the volume of visitors to their sites.

Having duplicate content on a webmaster’s site may cause their page ranking to drop. That is why having frequent unique content updates is essential to having a good page ranking on directory listings. The more content that a webmaster provides on their website, the higher the chance that it will be indexed within the internet directory listings and increase the page ranking for the site as a whole. If content is duplicated, it gives competitors a chance of getting the exposure that the webmaster’s site was supposed to get.

Using sponsored link spots on internet directory listings can boost the volume of visitors to a webmaster’s site. This allows for the sites to be sent to a targeted audience using search terms, often giving the sponsor the first results in a directory search. This allows for more exposure with minimal work.

Closing comments

Internet directory listings have many beneficial results for webmasters. There are new sites and new directories popping up all the time, this makes internet directories very useful. They can help save a webmaster some money on advertising costs.

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by Ghost Wryder

Article marketing is the sales technique of placing informative articles on article directory web sites so that they draw attention to the products and services offered by your business web page. The attractive thing about marketing in this way is that the cost is almost nothing.

If you are selling a product or a service online, article marketing can be one of the easiest and most cost effective ways to send traffic to your website. As well as driving people directly to your site, you will also use article marketing to boost your link popularity.

There are hundreds and hundreds of article directories out there and new ones are coming online every day. But with so many choices, where should you submit your articles? As far as I’m concerned, the choice is an easy one.

Online article marketing can be done successfully by writing a lot of articles on a daily basis and by submitting these to the right article submission directories. Submission of articles to the right directories is as important as writing really good content about the topic.

Moreover, keyword optimization is also very important. You should take time to know which keywords would best promote your articles. Sprinkle them in the whole article but without overdoing it. When you include so many keywords, the search engine sites might not like your style so they might not expose it so much.

A useful tip to writing your articles quickly and effectively is to MODEL, and not to “reinvent the wheel” - there is so much information out there in the article directories and on the internet, such that you can do your research and then create your own unique article.

An Article Submission Service can be a great help when your time is limited and you want to get your articles to all the article sites and groups. However, when the service is tiered, based on what you pay and don’t pay - you have to be aware of what you are getting.

Maximizing search engine rankings: When used for an online business, the title and content used for article marketing should be able to grab sufficient web traffic. Therefore choose smart and appropriate keywords for title and content based on SEO research.

Article submission site gets heavy traffic and they continue to grow as their library of articles keeps growing. Submitting an article to these sites can get your web site the exposure it needs. You can also use these sites to directly advertise your products and services by using the resource box.

Procrastination and fear of rejection are the two most common reasons for not submitting articles. You simply must push past the procrastination and do it now. Procrastinate later, do it now.

It’s important that you don’t copy content from other articles, this will render your article submissions pretty much ineffective. If you write your articles so they are 100% unique, then you’ll see much better results.

Google is considered the be all and end all of search engines. If you satisfy the requirements of Google then you are home free, otherwise, you will need to keep working on your articles before you submit article. Moreover, Google has specific rules and regulations that need to be followed, with regards to article marketing campaigns.

When you’re short of ideas and need to find some fresh new content, look at blogs, major news sites, and article sites for your topics of interest. Bookmark these favorite resources so you can easily access them when you need to come up with some new article ideas.

Articles can be of any format including white papers, case studies, guides, tutorials, quick manuals and the like. Anything that provides valuable information to your readers can be considered an article, and should be disseminated to the public to help drive traffic to your website.

Article marketing is reputedly one of the easiest and fastest way to drive traffic to your website be it a hobbyist or business website. It does not require you to mess with search engine algorithm or html, php or any other webpage design language. In essence, as long as you can write, you will do just fine.

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by Dave Davis

Good SEO consultants are very hard to find. The industry is very new and right now there are people with little expertise that are selling themselves as industry experts. A legit consultant of SEO should be well versed in search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and other areas of internet marketing.

There is no question how valuable a talented and honest SEO consultant can be to your business. A SEO consultant will make you aware of all the details of time scales, costs and every feature of online endorsement.

Here are some of the many benefits you should be able to get by hiring a solid SEO: assistance with the selection of good keywords, restructuring existing sites for better search rankings, and the addition of proper tags.

Additionally, a good consultant should be able to assist with visitor behavior studies and web analytic development, form and manage pay-per-click campaigns for business and alleviate the site structure to guarantee excellent search engine rankings.

There are several SEO consultants around who will gladly take your money, yet not give you the results promised. So how do you determine if a firm is selling you the real thing or snake oil? It’s important to know what questions to ask a potential SEO consultant.

Ask and check out his qualifications. The time as a SEO consultant doesn’t necessarily mean a better SEO. It’s helpful to see his certifications such as a Google Advertising Professional.

Any consultant who’s running a good operation will be able to produce plenty of positive testimonials. If someone you’re considering can’t, you don’t want to consider handing him your money.

Taking the time to ask how you can communicate with your consultant will save you a lot of potential heart ache. Some consultants won’t want you to contact them by phone, and that will make things a lot more difficult.

A crucial question to ask a potential SEO is what rankings they can guarantee. A legit professional will know that it’s not possible to guarantee a ranking on an SEO campaign.

What changes will be made on your website? This is a topic you will need to discuss thoroughly with the SEO consultant if you have complex navigation, pull-down menus, hierarchical trees, spiders, etc. Changes are crucial for SEO, especially to structure.

If you have found a solid individual, talk about price and make the hire if you’re comfortable with it.

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by Surendra

SEO has worked wonders for many online business undertakings. In fact the whole process of having an online identity through a website will fall flat without a proper search engine optimization strategy. Once you have determined which keywords and keyword phrases would best be suited for you website, it’s time to determine how often you should use them on your web page.

Till a website is well recognized my major search engines there is absolutely no chance that a site can become popular among visitors that are regular on the web. Search engine optimization is a process of optimizing your website on the way to rank high in the search engine. In the present times one can accomplish all type of task by sitting at home and working on an internet enabled computer. Content matters the most to have professional search engine placement. You can obtain links from other website and could link others as well from your website. So one thing that online business owners must take care of is to implement effective search engine optimization strategies for their business. After all this is the door to success on the web.

For Search engine optimization your web page must be information and keyword rich that must accurately describes your content. This will make the content of the site all the more effective. The basic idea behind search engine optimization is to alter the site in such a way so that search engine spiders see and receive the site differently.

It is through In order to make your visitor attempt a purchase; you need to entail influential and compelling content. Directory submission must be given utmost importance in Search Engine Optimization. Incorporating these elements that effective search engine optimization can be utilized for a site. Make sure that you study carefully what your competitor is doing and try to see what you can do to prove on this and make your site more popular.

Link building is one of the most effective ways for a site to increase its popularity quickly and continuously. Appropriate selection of the keywords in a search engine marketing process can create a lot of difference in the campaign of search engine optimization.

Manual link submissions with other sites that are relevant to your site can be easily done if you know the right way of doing this. While SEO is the best way to increase the amount of traffic to your website, it can also be a little bit difficult to figure out and use properly. One the link of your site is present at many places on the World Wide Web, search engines provide rankings easily. A high search engine ranking is one of the most efficient ways to get quality targeted traffic to your websites. Having an increased number of links also ensures that the popularity of the increases and an increased number of visitors come to the site.

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by Jack Sinclair

You can increase your sales website’s rate of website conversion with the following 3 simple-to-apply methods.

1. Your website should load in under 10 seconds.

Connect to your website with a dial-up account and count how long it takes for the site to load, or check the speed of your website with the tool available at http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test. The Website Speed Test connects to your website with a US-based broadband connection and displays how long it took to see all the data.

If the speed of your site needs to be improved, take a look at your graphics. This is often the one aspect that causes slow loading. This will help reduce the size of your graphic files without sacrificing quality. Another problem may be the wrong usage of tables.

You might have noticed yourself that websites which are slow to load can materialize suddenly as a whole following a 20-second period where you didn’t see anything at all. The reason for this phenomenon is usually because all of a site’s sales pitch is housed in just a single table on the site.

A better way is to use the new ‘cascading style sheets’ (otherwise known as CSS). Keep your material in smaller areas of at least 2-3, so that the upper page loads instantly, giving the visitor something to read while the rest of the page is loading in the background.

2. Your website should make a good appearance on all monitor sizes and resolutions.

It is important to remember that there are some online shoppers who may not have one of the newer, larger and high-resolution (e.g. 19 or more inches; 1280×1024 res) computer monitors. Your site should be viewable to all internet users, including those using older, smaller, lower-resolution monitors (e.g. 15 inches; 800×600 resolution).

Internet shoppers using smaller and low-resolution computer screens will be unable to view across your entire web page if you use fixed pixels in your website design. Understandably, having to scroll horizontally just to see the whole page while browsing might irritate the shopper, and that really is not conducive to your making a sale!

3. The reader should not have to strain to view your website.

Material on computer screens is harder on the eyes than traditional printed information. For this reason, it is important to design your website with more commonly-used and clear sizes and types of fonts.

Those that do direct marketing by mail know to use an easy-to-read font. They frequently use 12-point Courier font because it is so easy to read. Additionally, fonts must be standard or readily-available. If the font is not on the visitor’s hard drive, the displayed font may be replaced with a default font, which will not look as you expect.

For signatures, you should use a scanned image of your actual signature. Although many website designers use a script font, a website visitor may not have the script font installed.

Use smaller paragraphs and sentences to break up the text on your website and increase the ‘white space’ to make your website easier to read. Avoid using fine print except for in less pleasant material, such as legal content.

Tweak your website using these three methods described, and both your customers visit times and your website sales will increase.

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by Amy Nutt

What is Nofollow?

Nofollow is an html attribute first introduced in 2005 by Google. Originally, the rel=”nofollow” attribute was added to discourage comment spam in blogs. Links with nofollow should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine.

From the Google Blog:

From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.

From Google Answers:

“Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”

So the rel=”nofollow” attribute is a tool that can help define your most important links to the search engines.

Search Engines that support nofollow: Google, MSN Search and Yahoo!

History of Nofollow

Originally, the nofollow attribute was used on the page-level with a meta tag. It instructed search engines not to follow (crawl) outgoing links on a page. Example: see code example on main site

Another way to tell search engines not to follow (crawl) pages was to include them in a robots.txt file. But it was more difficult to prevent robots from following individual links on a link by link basis. The rel=”nofollow” attribute allows webmasters to easily instruct the search engine robot to not crawl a link.

How to Spot Nofollow Links?

You can install browser plugins, or edits to Chrome to show a highlighted color over nofollow links. You can also install a plugin to your blogging software.

Nofollow Implications

Links are now either dofollow or nofollow. From the perspective of building links to your site or blog, dofollow links will always give you more link juice. While nofollow links won’t either harm or help your link building. With that said, how you decide to build links with respect to the nofollow attribute (whether you want to get ONLY dofollow links or both to create a more natural array of links) will be an individual choice. How to use nofollow in link building strategy is a discussion for my next post!

Nofollow FAQs

How Do I Remove Nofollow?

1. Browser Plugins - highlights all links which are nofollow

- Chrome extension - add text to ChromEdit and follow directions - FireFox has a version of the ChromEdit called ChromeEdit Plus - Firefox plugin - SEO for Firefox

2. Blog Plugins

Wordpress Nofollow Plugins:

- Lucia’s Linky Love - Rewards frequent commenters, you can set how many comments must have been made to be awarded a dofollow link. - Nofollow Reciprocity - Detects nofollow links, if you link to a site and it is nofollow, your link to them also becomes nofollow. - NoFollow Free - removes the nofollow attribute from blog comments and inserts an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NoFollow Free” (optional). - Dofollow - Simply install and activate, all nofollows are removed from comments and trackbacks. - Dofollow (WP Plugin) - allows nofollows to be removed from comments, pingbacks and trackbacks but you can also set a comment age limit as well as have nofollow removed left by user type.

Andy Beard has a list of more nofollow plugins; including those for Blogger, TypePad and Moveable Type.

How Do I Add Nofollow?

For more control of your inbound and outbound links, you can add tag rel=”nofollow” within any html tag. Example: see code example on main site

Does a link with nofollow count as a backlink?

Opinions vary on whether the nofollow attribute is completely discounted, or just given less relevance to the search engines. Keep in mind that how the search engines view nofollow may also vary. However, according to Google, that answer is no.

Why would I want to use nofollow on a link?

You might want to use nofollow on a link you don’t endorse, but has information you want to point to. On blog sites, you may want to give a nofollow link to spam comments and give credit to comments that are well thought out or contribute to your post.

For the full version of this article, see the SearchEnginePeople.com blog.

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by Jack Sinclair

As search engines have become a more and more integral part of our business life, their inter workings are exposed and techniques one can promote their rank in a search have developed. These techniques, known as search engine optimization techniques or SEO, are used by businesses and private websites to promote their sites on search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc. to place their site higher in a search for given key words.

Search engines are extremely popular, because they allow users to quickly find highly relevant information in the fastest known way. They use millions of rules to determine what users really are looking for among the millions of websites online.

One piece of information that search engines look at when determining rank is the age of the information. Some information is fast changing, and only the latest news will be relevant to searchers, while other information is timeless, and it is the well respected sites that get the higher rankings for this type of information.

Search engine optimization, also referred to as SEO, is where a webmaster or an online business owner implement strategic copy to augment their site’s ranking. We all know how much the Internet has grown over the last several years and because of that growth, competition for the highest search engine ranking has opened up a huge market. In order for an online business owner to get that top ranking it is crucial for them to understand the basic elements of Search Engine Optimization.

Improving things both on your web site, and on pages that link to your site will make a definite impact on the ways the search engines index your site and list them in search results. Couple this with valuable content for website visitors, and clean easy to follow layouts and navigation, and you might get yourself a website that becomes extremely popular.

The next most important thing you can do to improve your site is to understand words and phrases that people search for online. By making your site fit the lingo of your visitors, you will get a better website to visitor match, and also have a chance at getting listed when people search for these popular terms.

As part of your search engine optimization you will want to come up with a linking strategy. Doing so will give your site free advertising and also make your site appear more important because of its affiliated links. Anytime you have links that lead back to your page, it’s another opportunity for a potential customer to discover you. Another advantage is that the more inbound links you have to your site, the higher your ranking will be on search engines.

The Internet is an “information super highway”, to quote one vice-president, and nothing gets you listed better or faster, than quality information - valuable content that people seek out, and appreciate, is a sure-fire way to improve your chances of search engine listings and website visitors. By becoming a producer of website content, you will ensure your website’s popularity for the long term.

Do not forget that these search engine optimization methods are completely endorsed by all website authorities - in fact, the search engines thirst for signs of relevancy and links to new valuable content, and by providing these things in your website, you will be ideally situated for the search engine rankings and web site visitors that a quality site deserves.

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