Blog & Blogging Tips to attract Traffic

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Blogging Tips


Blog submission is perhaps the best part of off-page SEO – After all its’ just speaking your brain, your ideas, all your stuff. Very sassy, isn’t it?

Sites like propeller.com, digg.com, stumbleupon.com and other social networking / bookmarking websites can give you a huge traffic. How about having 30,000 or more visitors everyday?

Tips to get traffic:

Catchy Headlines – Many articles get ignored online because of their headlines. Your title should always be catchy because people first see the title of your article. If the headline or title isn’t attractive – you have already lost the game!

NOTE: Make it spicy.

A Meaningful Short Description – It always helps. The description should be intriguing to catch more attention but don't use false facts just to get the interest. People, including me, don’t like reading long length tales, you better keep it short & crisp. Also, blogging sites have character limit in description, so think a short yet meaningful description about your blog.

Outstanding First Paragraph – It’s indeed important that you have the first paragraph excellently presented. If you already have successful headlines and description to have the User's interest, don't forget to create great first paragraph for them to visit your site or else they'll not going to visit it because of your awful first paragraph.

Content is Everything – If your article is a junk, networking / bookmarking / blogging is useless. Your registration may also get banned on blogging sites if you continue to post junk.

Right Time to Submit – Most of social bookmarking sites only have 24 hours for your article to stay there in front page. So it is not advisable that you post when your target audience are still sleeping. Weekdays are a right time to post in terms of traffic because you can have more competitors on weekends.
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Right Category – Post into the right category else select general, don’t post into whatever comes first. All your effort to bring up good content is a waste if you dump it blindly. Category counts a lot!

Build a Good Profile – Present yourself beautifully, make your page appear as appealing as you can. Use your brains, include your contact details every time you make a post – you never know when you might receive a call!

Don’t submit Old Stories Old Stories are a big NO NO  - Take no chance with them unless you really have some important update related to it.

Check your Facts and Spelling – You could have negative votes if other user found that you haven't got the right facts about your story. There are some social bookmarking sites that that don't permit to edit your post after you posted it. If you misspell your keyword, title or even your URL, it will stay forever when you posted it. So before posting your story, check your facts and spelling first.

Have Related Articles – One of the technique to keep your visitor longer on your site is to have related or similar article so that they'll read more articles on your site.

Responds to Comments – Always respond to the comments on your article. It is possible that you could make more friends and have a top-profile if your story has many comments. Also post comments on other user’s blogs, they’ll surely check yours then! Be tricky!

Prepare your server for a Huge Traffic – If your articles gets the interest of many user to visit your site, thats a great news! Check if your server is prepared for it or not? Loosing traffic for stupid reasons is foolishness and I’m pretty sure you cannot afford it.

Search Engine Optimizer,

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SEO – Session Part IX

SEO – Session Part IX

V-empower IncMorning guys!

 
Been a long time, isn’t it? …not a single new post!

Well, no worries now, I’m back and we’ll start right away!

Previously, we’ve learnt how having many links is good for our website (maybe you remember – it affects our Google page rank, traffic rank, popularity, progress and almost everything) and we’ve also been through sessions showing ways to create them; we’re perfectly aware as how advantageous links are when talking in terms of ROI (Return on Investment) or popularity. Well, today we’ll be going a little more further in the linking line itself.

Fun Fact of the Day

Let me ask you a few questions…

How will you know how many links have you created in total, or if I put it this way, tell me:
How many backlinks have you created for your website? (D’you understand what backlinks are?)

How many inbound links are there in your website?

How many pages from your website are indexed? (D’you understand indexing?)

It’s really great if we are working hard towards building links being completely aware of its benefits, but how wonderful would it be if we could count the total number of links made till-date (backlinks, inbound links, index links, etc) and then compare it with our competitors! That would be real fun, won’t it? Also, you’d be able to measure your work and success!

So, today we’ll be learning how to measure our website's progress in terms of links.

Backlinks: Plainly speaking back links are the links coming from various other websites and refer to your website. Like say, if you’ve posted your website profile on a social networking website linking to your website – then it will count for one back link. That’s it – as simple as that.

‘More the number of back links – better the growth in all aspects’

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Today's Inspirational Quote:
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
-- Tony Robbins
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Counting backlinks:

…It’s an easy job!

Backlinks can either be counted using specified tools or (if you do not have any tool – don’t panic!) they’re easily countable through other easily available sources as well. It also depends on the browser that you are using. For Firefox & IE, we’ve got tools but I’m not sure if chrome supports any thing as such! Leme know if you’re aware, though.

Well, talking technically, you’ve got to install the ‘Quirk Tool bar for Firefox’ in your Firefox web browser to know the number of varied links of your website – You can download it online for FREE from http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ (this one toolbar is enough for counting all different kinds of links, chill, you don’t have to go looking for a new toolbar every time you wanna count a particular type of link – so chill)

Note-worthy Note: I might have missed telling this whilst explaining Google PageRank or traffic rank – but you’ll know all your ranks either from the above mentioned toolbar (if installed) or know all your websites’ statistics from http://www.alexa.com/.

You will know your website’s:
  • Google PageRank
  • Alexa Traffic rank
  • Traffic rank in your home country
  • Traffic rank in other countries
  • Keywords that drive your traffic
  • Click stream
  • Demographics
  • And many more facts!
I insist you try this now for your website – I’m sure your heart must be pumping blood double-speed for you’re just seconds away from knowing results of all your hard-work… Good Luck!

That’s all for the day, we’ll carry on with this t’rrow…….. Take care!

Important Note: Guys don't worry if you missed the sessions, by clicking the image below you can see all the training sessions from the Beginning.

Seo Online Training Sessions

That’s all for today folks!

V-Empower Inc. – SEO Training Session Part IX

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Vending Videos with Video SiteMap

Submitting Your Video Sitemap to Google
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Welcome guys! Today’s topic of SEO: Video SiteMap

Heard that anytime?

Its’ rather a new term for many of us, many who are new to SEO. It’s, however, an old thing to SEO experts at V-Empower Inc. They’ve been working on it since their start…!! Anyway, lets check how a video site map differs from normal site map, what are its’ features, uses, benefits, creation, submission, etc.

First of all, let me tell you… ‘A Video SiteMap is NOT a Video of your site map’, if you are thinking that!’ – it’s a sitemap which has your video details in it…. Got me?

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Today's Inspirational Quote

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A sitemap, if you remember from our last discussion, is nothing but a map our website, showing all the links available, arranged in chronological order for easy navigation (User friendly) and for easy indexing of all the website links by the search engines (Search engine-friendly) – that’s all, ain’t it?

Well yes! Its’ very much of a perfect definition unless you add any videos to your website; videos which you may wish to be shown in search engine results! Yes, though not a complex concept but putting plainly, ‘A sitemap will NOT display your videos unless your videos are optimized and have been included in a particular specified format in your usual textual sitemap’.

Note-worthy Notes:
  1. You must add the landing page location, exact video url, thumbnail view address, duration, title and keyword rich description and if its family friendly or not, etc.  
  2. Compatible video types include: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .ra, .ram, .rm, .flv and need to be directly available via HTTP which means no streaming media.
  3. Including proper tags will help drive decent traffic to your video and also help Google properly index it. The included video URLs will then be searchable via Google Video and may even appear in other search products offered by Google.
  4. There can be up to 50,000 video urls in a sitemap file and the file must be no larger than 10MB uncompressed.
‘Sole advantage of a ‘Video Site Map’ lies in the fact that it helps listing your website videos in search engine results, which may otherwise have been skipped’



Let us now see as how to create a video site map:

A specified set of codes are to be written for each video of your website and this is included in your textual sitemap. Lets’ have a look at a sample video sitemap:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80472

There are many tools available online for FREE video sitemap creation. Few of them are listed below… check them out!

Submitting Your Video Sitemap to Google:

This is a real important step. You only need to add it to your site in the Google Webmaster tools sitemap area. The file must be at a publicly available URL so Google can pull it into the system. Alternatively, you can tell Google where to find your video sitemap via placement within your robots.txt file.

That’s all for the day folks! Take Care!

Search Engine Optimizer,

V-Empower Inc – Empowering People. Topic Today: Video Site Maps

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