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		<title>The Importance Of Marketing Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website is just like a canvas &#8211; unless and until you fill it with the right colors and promote it in the right way to the right people, it will never make a successful painting! This is why a great web design or a well-planned search engine optimization strategy is so important for your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A website is just like a canvas &#8211; unless and until you fill it with the right colors and promote it in the right way to the right people, it will never make a successful painting! This is why a great <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">web design</a> or a well-planned search engine optimization strategy is so important for your website to stand apart from the host of existent online websites. It is also important to have top-quality graphic design (such as logos, etc.) to help your company climb a step higher than what your rivals, offering the same range of products, have been able to achieve. Building a great brand image through great web design and graphic design services and retaining what has been achieved through <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">SEO services</a> is what defines success online today. Lots of online portals offer these services as a one-stop store, though the quality and genuine authenticity of the services are often subjects of wary inspection by prospective clients.</p>
<p>A creative, out-of-the-box web design is what seems to be the first step towards creating a globally successful website. Without the basic design of the site being effective and influential, lead generation and sales is a distant dream. Web design should always be done with a great deal of professional help. This too, differs in quality or specific service type based on the region or company being sought for help.</p>
<p>Strategic and well-executed SEO services will not only help you gain better visibility but will also make the investment made in the designing of your website worthwhile. From basic mail marketing to long-term link exchange and content optimization techniques, the scope of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">search engine optimization</a> is vast and detailed. What you need is some professional help. Online one-stop service portals such as Dynofusion Design can help you execute precise internet marketing strategies on great lead generating web designs created only for you!</p>
<p>So before you start thinking of an online website for your business, thoroughly search for the best professional design and marketing services to hire! Without these, your website is as good as a dead duck!</p>
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		<title>The Timing of SEO and Web Design Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the web design is ready and the site is ready to be launched but there is no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">search engine optimization</a> and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">web design</a> is ready and the site is ready to be launched but there is no content yet for the site. Just before the site launches is the time to bring in an SEO consultant to provide some <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webay.com.au/">SEO services</a> . After the design of the website is done an SEO consultant can give you suggestions about what keywords and key phrases you need to add into the site HTML as Meta tags and where those tags should go. As soon as the site is tagged and the design and navigation has been tested it&#8217;s time to add in content. Having SEO content on your site from the start will give your web site a huge advantage over older websites that might already have a bit of a following but haven&#8217;t had any SEO services by a professional SEO consultant.</p>
<p>If you have an existing site that is due for an overhaul or a design revamping then you should also consult a professional SEO consultant before the site is redone to make sure you can have a good idea of what SEO services that you need. Cosmetic work on the site is so important that your site doesn&#8217;t look outdated but changing up the content on the site will be very important. Most of the traffic that websites get comes from searches done by people who use Google or another search engine to look for website dealing with a particular topic.</p>
<p>You want your site to be at the top of or at least near the top every search that is done by a search engine for the topic that your site is about. In order to achieve that you need an SEO professional to write great search engine optimized content before the site launches. If your existing site has had the same content on it for over six months you should get an SEO professional to write new content. Changing the content is a great search engine marketing strategy to gain new web site traffic and improve your search engine ranking.</p>
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		<title>Getting Free Web Traffic to Your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free traffic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Traffic To Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most splendid thing about Internet Marketing is that the most useful instruments for the formulation of web traffic are free. All it takes to attract traffic to your website is a consistent investment of a small amount of time.
Click On The Link To Get Free Traffic To Website Today!
Here are 5 great methods to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most splendid thing about Internet Marketing is that the most useful instruments for the formulation of web traffic are free. All it takes to attract traffic to your website is a consistent investment of a small amount of time.</p>
<p>Click On The Link To Get <a target="_blank" href="http://bestinternetprofitsecrets.com/free-traffic-to-website/">Free Traffic To Website</a> Today!</p>
<p>Here are 5 great methods to attract traffic to your site for free:</p>
<p><strong>1. Submit to Article Directories</strong></p>
<p>Article directories are sites that put together a significant amount of articles before placing them into classified databases and permit visitors to reprint the articles on their own websites. Any person can draft a short content in the 500 word range that is connected to the subject matter of their website and publish it to an article submission directory such as GoArticle.com or Ezine.com for free.</p>
<p>It is pretty easy to submit content. All you have to do is fill out a straightforward form and paste or upload your content to the article directory. Be careful when you are filling in the author&#8217;s resource or bio box section of the form that allows you to post at least a single link back to your website. Every time the article is published, your link will appear on the new website. Well written, articles are often reprinted hundreds of times, and every single reprint back-links readers to your web site!</p>
<p><strong>2. Joining Forums</strong></p>
<p>The greatest forums for Internet Marketing purposes are the ones that have a large population of experts and bloggers in your niche. Make use of Google Search to locate superior, high-traffic forums dealing with your topic and sign up. Present yourself, begin posting, and stay an active forum participant. Add a link to your own website in your Signature which will be embedded every time you make a comment to the forum.</p>
<p><strong>3. Using HubPages</strong></p>
<p>HubPages.com is a free of charge Internet society that you can publish one page content about your website topic onto a web page called &#8220;hub&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t cost you anything to create hubs and you can create as many as you want.</p>
<p>Hubs can increase traffic to your website in two ways. Firstly, is the inclusion of a link to your website from your hub editorial. The second way is when you comment on other members&#8217; hubs and paste a link to your own hubs as a part of your comment.</p>
<p><strong>4. Has A Twitter Account</strong></p>
<p>Twitter is a free micro-blogging and social networking platform that allows you convey and peruse very brief messages posted by users. Even though it isn’t technically a marketing tool as such, you are allowed to post a link that goes to your webpage within your Tweets.</p>
<p>After creating your Twitter profile and gathering more and more followers, you should notice an increase in the traffic you get for free to your website. You can Twitter about topics connected to your product, link to your online blog, or discuss news connected to your niche while letting the world know who you are.</p>
<p>To Get started is simple, just open a Twitter account and follow as many people as you like. The people you follow will start to follow you in response. Tweet as frequently as you can, make sure each Tweet carries your link.</p>
<p><strong>5. YouTube Videos</strong></p>
<p>YouTube is a remarkably elementary tool you can use to bring free traffic to your website. Make videos about the product you are selling on your website, upload them to YouTube, and ask people to subscribe to your channel. Have your site URL in the videos and include the link in your summery so viewers can go to your site.</p>
<p>Every single one these tools will help you attract traffic to your website and in doing so, increase your search engine ranking. While you make an effort to promote your URL, you will also be building up backlinks. Back-links on high-ranking sites such as HubPages and the most established article directories are what search engines are looking for. Your improved page rank will translate into more free traffic to your site.</p>
<p>Find Out More On How To Get <a target="_blank" href="http://bestinternetprofitsecrets.com/free-traffic-to-website/">Free Traffic To Website</a> Here!</p>
<p>Get your FREE Mini E-Course and read about <a target="_blank" href="http://bestinternetprofitsecrets.com/">Internet Affiliate Marketing</a> Here?</p>
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		<title>Maximizing SEO with Article Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[article distribution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[buy articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can effectively maximize your site&#8217;s search engine optimization (SEO) by having your article marketing outsourced when you are trying to sell a service or product through the Internet.  SEO is the process for getting the highest ranking possible in the list of URLs presented by the search engine as the results of a particular [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can effectively maximize your site&#8217;s search engine optimization (SEO) by having your <a target="_blank" href="http://articlesontap.com">article marketing outsourced</a> when you are trying to sell a service or product through the Internet.  SEO is the process for getting the highest ranking possible in the list of URLs presented by the search engine as the results of a particular keyword search.  If the URL site gets on the first page of the results, you have a good chance of being visited by the Web surfer.</p>
<p> More traffic to your site means that you have a better chance of selling your product or service and unique articles offer an inexpensive way to increase that traffic.  The first purpose of the articles is to allow you to place the keywords and phrases that you believe would be searched when a potential buyer of your product or service uses the Internet to look for your kind of product or service.  In this manner, your site gets indexed by the search engine spiders and will be included in the list when the specific keywords and phrases that you have included in the articles are typed in by the Internet surfer.</p>
<p> An important step to take is that you submit your <a target="_blank" href="http://articlesontap.com">unique articles</a> to the sites that collect them.  These particular websites have high rankings in the search engines and because your links are contained in the articles that you have submitted to them, their high rankings will pull up your ranking as you submit more and more articles to them and the number of backlinks to your site increases.</p>
<p> The second purpose of the articles is the natural generation of backlinks to your site.  Search engines, particularly Google, consider backlinks as an indicator of the popularity of your site.  Your ranking in the search engine results will rise as the number of backlinks from quality websites increases.  Also, you may gradually become an expert in your specific field as you get more and more articles published on those websites.  As a result, more and more people would want to create a link on their websites that is directed towards your site so that this will accelerate the growth of the the number of backlinks to you.</p>
<p> Therefore, marketing with articles on tap is very important in maximizing your SEO activities.  And if you feel that you do not have enough time to write those articles, you can always <a target="_blank" href="http://articlesontap.com/buy-articles">buy articles</a> from an article writing services.  The prices offered for the quality articles are quite affordable.</p>
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		<title>First Page on Google in 8 Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of steps I always follow when optimizing a site for SEO (note these are just the high points, there are others that I don&#8217;t mention here, but these WILL take you a long way):
 1) If it&#8217;s a new site, I will include the keywords in a non hyphenated domain name [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a number of steps I always follow when <a target="_blank" title="Toronto SEO" href="http://www.75-c.com/search-engine-ranking-improvement.html">optimizing a site for SEO</a> (note these are just the high points, there are others that I don&#8217;t mention here, but these WILL take you a long way):</p>
<p> 1) If it&#8217;s a new site, I will include the keywords in a non hyphenated domain name (if you can get a .edu or .gov TLD get all over it, otherwise a cheap .info will work just fine)</p>
<p> 2) If possible, I will rename the URL to each important page to include the main keyword for that page.</p>
<p> 3) Set up Google Analytics for the site and ensure the tracking script is added to every page.</p>
<p> 4) Go through the &#8220;money&#8221; pages and make sure that the title, descriptions and keywords meta tags are unique and optimized for the keywords on the page. In a competitive niche (over 1 million result pages in Google), I would limit the keywords to one main phrase, a couple of local modifiers and one or two more closely related terms per page.</p>
<p> 5) Comb through the non-money pages (i.e. pages that don&#8217;t matter from an SEO perspective) and ensure the title and meta description tags are not duplicates of any of the money page tags. Google Webmaster tools will identify this for you once your site has been crawled.</p>
<p> 6) I nofollow any links to overhead pages from all of the pages on the site other than the home page. I leave the home page links as follow links, since I want the SEs to index all pages on the site and having privacy, contact, disclaimer, etc pages add to Google&#8217;s view of the &#8220;trust&#8221; for the site. On all other pages I just want the link to the home page to be a follow link, so I can build up the page rank of the home page. I handle this in Dreamweaver by using two different site templates. If your main keyword page is something other than the home page, modify your approach accordingly.</p>
<p> 7) I then optimize each page&#8217;s content for it&#8217;s main keyword, etc. It&#8217;s important that each word or phrase used in the keyword META is found on the page to avoid keyword spam penalties.</p>
<p> <img src='http://reviewsandcomments.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> At this point the <a target="_blank" title="Mississauga SEO " href="http://www.75-c.com/search-engine-optimization-info.html">on page optimization</a> is complete enough to start with link building. As you may already know, building links is not easy. I use articles, blog posts, submit forms on relevant sites, reciprocal links, etc. There are ways to shorten this process, without going black or even grey hat. Contact me at <a target="_blank" title="Mississauga SEM" href="http://www.75-c.com">Mississauga Search Engine Marketing</a> if interested.</p>
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		<title>Getting Popular Keywords For Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[keyword research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking of using Google AdWords to generate money for your website, you have to bid on the right keywords as they play a huge role in your success. Most people usually bid on the most popular keywords and therefore, most expensive keywords. You can find keywords without having to pay much and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are thinking of using Google AdWords to generate money for your website, you have to bid on the right keywords as they play a huge role in your success. Most people usually bid on the most popular keywords and therefore, most expensive keywords. You can find keywords without having to pay much and in so many creative ways too. Here are some ways for you to do so and find top keywords for your website.</p>
<p>Discover The <a target="_blank" href="http://bestinternetprofitsecrets.com/most-popular-keywords/">Keyword Search Suggestion</a> Now?</p>
<p><strong>Online Forums</strong></p>
<p>Forums related to your website are the easiest place to look for popular keyword and you can easily find them by searching online. All you need to do is to type in your topic and the word &#8220;forum&#8221; to find the relevant forums. For example, “dog forum” or “Forex forum”. Once you find forums relevant to your site&#8217;s topic, join these and go around the forum. Read through the conversations and pick out common terms, words and topics. Once start doing this, you can easily find the popular keywords to use for your website.</p>
<p><strong>Using Google AdWords Free Keyword Tool</strong></p>
<p>Making use of Google&#8217;s Keyword tool is also a good option to find popular keywords. To find this tool, just type &#8220;Google AdWords Keyword Tool&#8221; into the search engine. Once there, you can start by typing in the topic and starting your search. The site allows you to also search for synonyms. Make sure that you tick this option so that you get more keyword suggestions. The search engine will return a keyword list, as well as some suggested keywords. Included in the results are the search volume and this is very useful. Best of all, this is all free.</p>
<p><strong>Use Amazon</strong></p>
<p>Book content is often overlooked as a source of great keywords. Amazon.com provides you with a peek at tons of book content, keywords and information. You start by searching for the top 5 most popular books that are related to your topic, then you start going through the content page and pick out some initial keywords. Amazon.com allows you to go through the books&#8217; first few pages and this gives you an opportunity to search for more keywords. This method does not only provide you with keywords, but also information on what your audience looks for.</p>
<p><strong>Other Related Websites</strong></p>
<p>Other people&#8217;s websites are also excellent places to find popular keywords. Of course, the websites have the same niche as yours. Take a look at the content, topics, common phrases and keywords. These popular websites have been optimized for search engines and are ranked for certain keywords. Look at their headers, page titles, meta keywords and also descriptions. This will give you an idea for keywords that you need and what audience they are targeting.</p>
<p><strong>Internet Keyword Tools</strong></p>
<p>There are several useful keyword tools that you can use on the Internet, like WordTracker.com, KeywordSpy.com and KeyCompete.com. However, they are not free and require payment in order for you to make use them. They are perfect if you&#8217;re planning on extracting thousands of keywords because they give you thousands of keywords almost instantly. Do remember that these tools can sometimes be difficult to use.</p>
<p>The aforementioned articles are simply some of the most common methods you can use to find the top keywords for your niche. What you need to remember is that there are thousands of keywords on the internet and you can find them using different methods. What is important is not how you find them, but how related they are to your website, to your audiences and to your sales conversion.</p>
<p>Discover The <a target="_blank" href="http://bestinternetprofitsecrets.com/most-popular-keywords/">Keyword Search Suggestion</a> Now!</p>
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		<title>SEO and Website Designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the internet has become increasingly sophisticated, the various professional fields in the internet marketplace have become more and more specialized. In each area there have been massive leaps in complexity, usability, design and technology.
Even just a few years back, there were relatively few separate specialties for people who work within the arena of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the internet has become increasingly sophisticated, the various professional fields in the internet marketplace have become more and more specialized. In each area there have been massive leaps in complexity, usability, design and technology.</p>
<p>Even just a few years back, there were relatively few separate specialties for people who work within the arena of the internet. These days there is a vast multitude of ways in which people can specialize online. These professionals include:</p>
<p>Web designers,Information architects,Google Adwords campaign managers, various types of program and software developers and last but not least, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linxhurricane.com">Search engine Optimization</a>.</p>
<p>In my experience, most web designers these days don&#8217;t even know how to include <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linxhurricane.com/services.html">search engine optimization</a> in the sites that they design and build. There is ample proof of this; it is visible easily every day by just taking a look at what is out there. Websites that have either no or empty Meta tags no headline tags and in some cases no title tags! What is frustrating about this is that all of these are extremely easy to include.</p>
<p>So where does that leave the buyer? It leaves them with a website that will no doubt look fantastic; however the chances are that few will ever see it. Let alone become customers of whatever service or product the site is offering. This seems to be particularly true in the case of websites that contain a lot of flash, it looks great, but it is heavy in the browser and as it is purely images, the search engines cannot read it, even if there are words as the words themselves are rendered as images not text.</p>
<p>Therefore, when shopping for a website designer, be aware that though most will have the words &#8216;SEO&#8217; or &#8216;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.linxhurricane.com">Search Engine Optimisation</a>&#8216; somewhere within their marketing or sales material. It is a good idea to check that that they really do know what that means, many of them do not. The way to check it out is to look at sites they have already completed &#8211; particularly their own. Check to see if it has Meta tags such as the keyword and description meta tag, check to see if their title tags actually have something useful in them not just &#8216;welcome to company XYZ website&#8217;.</p>
<p>These things are simple for anybody to check out. The title tag contents are readily visible when you open any webpage in your browser, you will see it on the very top of your screen. To check the other parts you will need to look at the source code, you can do this in Firefox by clicking on &#8216;View&#8217; then on &#8216;Page Source&#8217;. This will show you all the code of the site, the meta tags should be near the top just after the the title tags.</p>
<p>The last thing to check for is to see if the headline is within headline tags. Between them should be the main title of the page, including the keywords that you want people to find your site with.</p>
<p>Article by Johnathon Black</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial gain from a position in the top 5 search results for a major keyword can be very substantial, one example is a keyword that went from the bottom of the second page to the 4th position on Google.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The financial gain from a position in the top 5 search results for a major keyword can be very substantial, one example is a keyword that went from the bottom of the second page to the 4th position on Google.</p>
<p>A client’s website had a ranking of 18 for their primary target keywords on the second page of Google’s natural search engine results. Considering how many marketers are competing for the top positions for this keyword, appearing on the second page of search results seemed a like an accomplishment, but we thought that it could be better.</p>
<p><strong>SEO Works<br /></strong></p>
<p>We focused our optimization efforts on improving the natural keyword ranking for this one target keyword. Eventually, the ranking for the keyword first moved to the number 9 position, and then to the number 4 position of the first page search engine results. The improved search engine ranking for this single keyword generated an increase in sales leads far more than expected, which subsequently converted to an increase in sales revenue amounting to over $1,000,000.</p>
<p><strong>Tracking the Moves</strong></p>
<p>The list below shows the search engine ranking relative to the number of sales leads that were generated from the company’s primary target keyword:</p>
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<li>Nov 08 &#8211; position 18 = 6 leads</li>
<li>Dec 08 &#8211; position 9 = 31 leads</li>
<li>Jan 09 &#8211; position 9 = 126 leads</li>
<li>Feb 09 &#8211; position 4 = 102 leads</li>
<li>Mar 09 &#8211; position 4 = 207 leads</li>
<li>Apr 09 &#8211; position 4= 221 leads</li>
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<p><strong>Summary of Results<br /></strong></p>
<p>The increase in the number of monthly sales leads can be seen as the target keyword ranking moved up over the six month time period. The full benefit of the keyword moving from the 18<sup>th</sup> to the 9<sup>th</sup> position is reflected in the January total because the change occurred later in the month of December. The same applies to the move from position 9 to position 4 because the change occurred later in February.</p>
<p>For marketing managers and business owners who are wondering about the difference between having a major keyword listing on the first page of search results compared to the second page of results, this case study should provide some insight based on our experience.</p>
<p>It also shows an example of the potential benefit from having keyword search results listed above the fold of a web page as opposed to below the fold where viewers must scroll down to see more search listings.</p>
<p>There was clear evidence that a higher organic search engine ranking can dramatically affect sales lead generation and company revenue, in this case over $1,000,000.</p>
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<p>Wriiten by Rick Smith at 10thDegree.com, contributing to the application of measureable data for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.10thdegree.com">internet marketing agency</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.10thdegree.com">online advertising agency</a> &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jazelauto.com">automotive seo websites</a>.</p>
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		<title>Simple Tips For Optimizing Your Blog For Search Engine Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many bloggers believe they don&#8217;t need to SEO optimize their blog because they have been told it&#8217;s more important to get Social traffic rather than Search Engine traffic. Failing to bring in targeted traffic is one reason many bloggers stop trying to make money with affiliate programs and find the next scheme to jump into.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many bloggers believe they don&#8217;t need to SEO optimize their blog because they have been told it&#8217;s more important to get Social traffic rather than Search Engine traffic. Failing to bring in targeted traffic is one reason many bloggers stop trying to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affiliatewatcher.com">make money with affiliate programs</a> and find the next scheme to jump into.</p>
<p>Making your blog post search engine friendly is very easy and I&#8217;ll show you how to do it. All it takes is just three simple steps. By doing these three steps all the time, you can increase visitors which may be the difference in a blog that makes the blogger little if any income or one that produces a full time income for the Owner.</p>
<p>Here are a few simple tips to SEO optimize every post you write and start reaping the rewards of free Internet search engine traffic.</p>
<p>To start with, you should make sure your post url&#8217;s are optimized for the search engines. If you use a free blog service like BlogSpot, this is already done. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then you&#8217;ll want to change your permalinks so that the code produces SEO optimized url&#8217;s when you write a post.</p>
<p>All you have to do in WordPress is to click on the Permalinks tab, and click the radio button next to the Custom field. Next you&#8217;ll put a percentage sign followed by the words Postname. {Immediately after the words postname, Now} put another percentage sign. Now all your blog post will have SEO optimized addresses.</p>
<p>Next, your main keyword should be in the Title of the blog. If you&#8217;re blogging about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affiliatewatcher.com/need-to-make-money-fast-10-quick-and-easy-ways-to-earn-extra-money-online/">earn money easy</a>, then make sure these keywords are in the Title of your blog. If your blog is about Dogs, then don&#8217;t use something unrelated like your name in the title unless you also have the word Dog in there also. Using the keywords in the Title, then you&#8217;ll rank higher than if you name the blog something that does not tell the search engine what your blogs about.</p>
<p>Your next step is to write the keywords in your Post&#8217;s title. If you&#8217;re trying to lure blog readers to click on your post about using Ebay to make money at home, then your post title should have those keywords in it. Not something like How I Make Money With Auctions. If you do this, the search engines will have trouble determining what your post is about and you won&#8217;t attract the right kind of traffic. This is the secret to also earning high paying clicks with Adsese.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ll use these 3 easy to follow tips, you will be helping the Search Engines determine what subject your blog post is about. When you make it easy for the search engines to understand what your post and blog are about, they&#8217;ll rank your blog higher in the Search Engine ranking pages.</p>
<p>Now to fully take advantage of all this optimizing, you&#8217;ll need to build links to each post. But I&#8217;ll have to save that for another post. First, get acquainted optimizing your own blog and blog post.</p>
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<p>Blogging can be a fantastic way to get more traffic charging full speed to your website.</p>
<p>The good news is that setting up a Blog for your website is surprisingly easy but there are a few caveats and things you need to change to ensure your blog is setup correctly to get maximum exposure in the search engines.</p>
<p>Before we start discussing what you should and shouldn’t do with Blogs, let’s take a step back and define what a Blog actually is.</p>
<p>A Blog can be thought of as a simple, public online diary where you can write entries (posts) into the diary.</p>
<p>Being public, the posts can be viewed by anyone who happens to surf by your site, and hopefully you have lots and lots of people reading every post you make, and contributing to your Blog in the form of adding comments, looking at relevant links you add to your blog, watching audio and video, and hopefully linking to your blog from their website, if they happen to have one.</p>
<p>What is particularly attractive about Blogs, is that the entire process of Blogging is very simple to do, mainly due to the great quality of Blog software available that you can install on your website.</p>
<p>Decent Blogging software provides all the functionality you need, the management of posts by yourself (and others), the categorization of posts (something that is essential) and even the process of telling other blogging websites every time you make a new post automatically.</p>
<p>Automatically telling other sites about your posts is a huge plus since it’s getting known on the Internet, without the need for you to be having to manually “submit” your blog in order for people to find out about it.</p>
<p>Now in my opinion, one of the most important things to ensure is that you don’t just use the Blog as a sales page (I recommend you leave the selling of your products and services to your actual sales page on your website).</p>
<p>Obviously you will want to talk about your products and services, and the benefits visitors will get in using them, but I believe it’s important not to have an all out sales pitch, as that will tend to turn off visitors who may be seeing your message for the first time. I also recommend you talk about non-business stuff, information about you, the person, some of your interests, things you have found of interest on the Internet, etc.</p>
<p>When considering finding out more about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.takeoverpageone.com/">search engine marketing</a>; it pays to visit professionals to help you achieve the best and most rapid results.</p>
<p>When people read these personal posts, they get to know the real you, and form a relationship with a “real person” and not a nameless website, and this can only assist you in future sales with these people.</p>
<p>A Blog also allows (and in fact encourages) participation by visitors, who can post responses to your entries, and this is often a great way to stimulate interesting conversations. Good Blogging software will allow you to remove spam responses (where visitors or programs “write” messages directing people to their site) as well as to moderate conversations that are in appropriate or off-topic.One of the best reasons to use Blogs is to help you rank highly in the search engines. The search engines love Blogs, provided they are providing relevant and quality content.</p>
<p>To give you an idea of how important search engines see Blogs, Google bought one of the largest Blogging sites out there (blogger.com). Having a focused relevant site with interesting and useful content can only help you in your journey to find true search engine love.</p>
<p>If you have read any of the other articles on this website, you’ve probably gathered that I preach relevant useful content. Blogs are no different than other web traffic techniques, you need to ensure it’s relevant, and ensure your separate your posts into logical categories.</p>
<p>For example if you have a website about software development, you may make posts discussing programming generally, other posts about training for software developers, and more posts about a specific computer language like Java.</p>
<p>It’s vitally important that you don’t just lump all posts together for a number of reasons. Firstly, people coming to your Blog may have a specific interest in some of your posts (training for example) and may find it hard and frustrating to easily find all posts you have written on training if you have not clearly defined categories (and allowed posts to be searched/sorted by these categories).</p>
<p>Likewise the search engines may decide your Blog as less relevant if you lump all your posts together than another Blog elsewhere that has posts clearly defined in categories. Search engines definitely prefer categorization of information and reward websites that categorise correctly with high search engine rankings.</p>
<p>The most popular open source blogging package is wordpress. Check that out online.</p>
<p>Wordpress is a free blogging package (yes nothing to pay!), and is extremely flexible and easy to use without sacrificing anything in power or flexibility. I use this package and recommend you do as well.</p>
<p>Because of its popularity many Web host’s have it available for installation on their websites for you with “one-click” installs.</p>
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