How to SEO Your Blog

When you create a blog or building your website online, you might have these two to three goals in your mind generally. The first goal is typically to get visitors and the second is to make money online and the third goal might be sharing though and info across the internet.

Getting more visitors and obtain sales is the basic thing in order to earn money online..to be successful with either one, potential customers have to be able to find you and this is where search engine rankings come in.

If your website is on the first page of search engine results aka SERP, ranked one through ten, you will have a higher probability of receiving traffic. Now, if you are placed higher one through three in the rankings your traffic probability increases ten folds.

Link popularity of your site is one of the way to tell Search engine that your site should be ranked on top of search ranking results page.There are many factors effect the ranking of a website.one of the method of achieving the rank you desire is link building.Below are some things you should do to help you in getting good ranking.

How to Rank Higher in Search Engines  First, your website should have targeted keyword and a theme for others to link to your site. This section should be dedicated to and only to the keyword that been carefully research and will be use in the link exchanges process, nothing else.
You should also make sure this page is listed in the parent directory. In other words, you want it upfront and not hidden.

Then you should make sure to build a sitemap for your website. Search engines love sitemaps and you will have a much easier time of increasing your rank. Also, make sure, even if you have a graphical navigation system, that you also provide the same links in text format, which is generally properly placed near the bottom of the website.

Other things to think about are the sites you exchange links with and their page ranking (PR) levels. As a rule of thumb, you should only exchange links with sites that are relevant to your blog topic. Search engines put more weight on a link that is within the same category than of those that are not.That's the reason why building Dofollow Comment Link is useless.

If you own a cat related website, exchange links with other cat related websites and so forth. The page ranking of the site will also hold great weight with the search engines.

Make sure  you only link to legitimate sites,try to avoid linking to the site that has too many sensitive keywords.You should exchange links with website that have a RELEVANT contents to your blog ,backlink from the website that contains too many duplicate contents is useless .

How to choice the right "link partner".
Generally the higher the PR that link to you,the better the results you will get,
but the tricks is you shouldn't just look for the PR when building links,look for the relevancy and the most important thing is the be honest and consistent,provide good info on your site,people will love to link to a site that has good contents.

Update: Google's New Search Engines algorithm now consider the"loading speed "for a website as one of the ranking factor.So don't forget to optimize your site after adding those

Coming Up:
SEO Strategies - Getting At The Top
Make Money Online - The Importance Of Search Engines
One Way Links: The Key To High Ranking Search Engine Placement


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What is Link Exchange?Good Or Crap

If you are a blogger,webmaster who try to optimizing your blog or website for the search engines;SEO, then you have probably heard of a thing called "Link Exchange", you also might hear things like "Get you site ranking #1 spot on Google in just xx days" These are the promises that many SEO companies claim (some dare to give money back guarantee)to get you to the top of the search results.

You know what?That's fine,you pay them and they do all the work for you .But how about if they tell you how good and important link exchange is?They will always try to sell you some kind of link exchange tools/softwares.Yeah they might be right but you just need to know the pros and cons of link exchange .

So,what is link exchange?Why blogger rushing for link exchange?Can link exchange really help in ranking? And how Google treat Link exchange?

  Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth, as I and many other blogs or website owners have already found out.

"Link Exchange" is supposed to help you achieve a higher ranking in the search engines by adding your site link and description to other websites.The bad news is that although a link exchange system is very easy to setup, the results are often completely overstated and don't really make much of difference at all.

Like many website owners, who think every day and night to rank high in the search engines, I too joined the crowd for a few years, but then I realized that it was just a joke.

The truth is Link exchange only works in a very rare cases, in order to help you understand the problems with this whole nonsense called "Link Exchange", let me share some pointers with you and you can verify the information for yourself.

Why do SEO companies push link exchange as part of a SEO strategy?
Money ! It simply because it makes them money!Search engines like Google make it a point to say that Link schemes is not good.

The problem is that the SEO companies have figured out that they can reword that thinking and make some easy money in the process.  There are a ton of SEO companies, SEO software company/devolopers,and link trader groups, that are more than happy to take your hard earned money and pretend to offer you a "successful SEO strategy" in return.You got to beware of those promises.

Why is directory link exchange a waste of time and money?
I hate PHP directory .I mean i will not stop at those link directory farm that vertually has no contents but link,link link...What value does this site bring to their visitors?

If i am one of those automatic link exchange directory site.If you and I exchange links, I will add your link to the hundreds of others that I already have and I promise you, the search engines couldn't care less.

The truth is You have exchanged links with hundreds of those directory websites, but simple links just don't work. Why? It doesn't matter how many websites you exchange links with, until you get linkback from the site related to your topic,1000 links just won't make a damn difference.
        
When does link exchange work?
I am not saying Link exchange is not gonna work.It will work only if you have already optimized your website WITH USEFUL CONTENTS and even then it will not make much of a difference to you ranking, unless you know who to link with.

Some of my blogs gets requests on a daily basis and I don't even bother any more.  The key is the site i linking to is legimate and relevent to my blog at the same time benifit to my visitors.I am not just exchange link for the search engines anymore!
      
Are there any good link exchanges that you should consider?
Yes, relevant ones!!

How Relevant is that?
I used to exchange links with just about anyone,I mean ANY website but then I learned that this was truly a waste of time.Your PR can br PR3 this month but PR 0 on next updated.You don't have any idea what when wrong.

If I sell mobile phone online and exchange links with a flower website, what you think SE thinks?do you think the search engines are going to care?

Obviously, you only need to exchange links with websites that are similar to yours, but then you worry,would it be helping out your competition?so there goes that theory.My suggestion would be that you exchange links with websites that are related to you, but are not direct competitors.
      
If plain old link exchanges don't work, then what does?
Write useful contents.This is one of the rare instances where even a very badly designed website can rank in the top of the search results.If you can get other websites to mention your site in a more prominent position and add your website link to a place like a homepage, that will be much more useful and the search engines will give it much more weight.

I personally think you would be much better off with something more in depth than just a simple link exchange.you can have 3 ways ,4 way link exchange instead but like i said earlier,just relevant link that benefit to your visitors only.

Lastly,a good and the reputation of a website is not only dependent on what the website says about itself(contents), but what other say about it(links pointed to the website).if you like this post and would like to exchange link with me.Write to me.;) And BTW check out My Requirements of quality Link.







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