Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top
Search Engine Rankings?
It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my
Inbox – in droves.
The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived – flooding ping
notification sites with update announcements, even though your...
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Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings? It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox – in droves. The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived – flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn’t been updated. The question is does this- or some variation of it work? If not, where did this idea come from? Okay, bad news first. Pinging sites like Yahoo and Syndic8 every half-hour for several days or weeks, to notify of updates when they haven’t been made, does nothing but clog up the system. It’s called spam-pinging and it has been around since 2002. If you haven’t updated your blog, or you’re pinging updates of a site that isn’t even a blog (or RSS feed, where applicable), in the long run it’s just going to make it harder to get listed at these sites. In the short run, you could get yourself banned from sites like Yahoo, though it isn’t off
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Remember, blog comments aren’t necessarily a measure of how well your blog is doing. But a responsive community can help indicate whether you’re on the right track. Here are five ways to get the commenting going.
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How a Multi-Faceted Approach to Site
Promotion Can Secure Your Search Engine
Positions
In my last article on site promotion, I talked about why using one site promotion technique
is a short-term solution.
Now I m going to illustrate why site promotion is multi-faceted, and
show an example of how these techniques can build on one...
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How a Multi-Faceted Approach to Site Promotion Can Secure Your Search Engine Positions In my last article on site promotion, I talked about why using one site promotion technique is a short-term solution. Now I m going to illustrate why site promotion is multi-faceted, and show an example of how these techniques can build on one another to help you get better search engine results from your search engine optimization efforts, as well as more traffic to your site overall. Then, in the next part, I ll tell you more about what some of the components to site promotion are, and how they can work together to help you maintain your travel levels and search engine position despite the ever-changing search engine algorithms. Truly effective site promotion lies in using a group of tools and techniques to draw traffic to your site from many sources that build on each other, rather than just one. To illustrate how some of these promotion techniques work together and build on each other, we nee
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7 Reasons Why Your Traffic Generation
Efforts Aren t Working
It might be that the traffic method you ve chosen doesn t actually work.
However, if you
researched the method before you bought into it, that may not be true.
Make sure it s not
one of the following reasons before you abandon it.
1.
Actually, it IS working -- but you...
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7 Reasons Why Your Traffic Generation Efforts Aren t Working It might be that the traffic method you ve chosen doesn t actually work. However, if you researched the method before you bought into it, that may not be true. Make sure it s not one of the following reasons before you abandon it. 1. Actually, it IS working -- but you have unrealistic expectations. Maybe you aren t going to get a million visitors a month. And that s okay, because it may not even take a million *page views* to get your traffic to yield a better income for you. It s more about increasing the percentage of visitors that make you money than it is about numbers of visitors. 2. You ve been inconsistent in executing it. Meaning, some days you re gung ho, but most of the time you re not executing your plan. It ain t magic, hon. Someone has to do some work at some point. Either you do it or pay someone else to do it for you. 3. You don t have a plan. You know what they say about a failure to plan. If
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Business Blogging - 5 Tips to Help You Barrel
Through Writer’s Block
It’s inevitable.
Everyone hits the wall.
Whether you’ve been blogging ten weeks, ten
minutes, or ten months, eventually you’ll find yourself with absolutely nothing to say.
Or so you think.
So what in the world do you do when you’re stumped?
1- Talk...
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Business Blogging - 5 Tips to Help You Barrel Through Writer’s Block It’s inevitable. Everyone hits the wall. Whether you’ve been blogging ten weeks, ten minutes, or ten months, eventually you’ll find yourself with absolutely nothing to say. Or so you think. So what in the world do you do when you’re stumped? 1- Talk about what you’ve already talked about Pick a topic you’ve gone over before and give it some spin. Try a new angle, like playing devil’s advocate. For example, if you are a search engine journalist, and last week your position was that most mainstream sites need Google traffic to survive, try proving your point from the “con” perspective, instead of the “pro” position. There are dozens of ways to write about the same thing. By putting your point another way, you might give someone in your audience what a client of mine referred to as an “Ah-ha!” moment. That s when they realize the true value of the items for sale at your site to them and their business. 2- Talk
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5 Reasons Why Your Site Needs to Publish a
News Feed
It seems like everyone is talking about RSS Feeds.
They’ve been around for years but the
buzz is up about them as the technology continues to go mainstream.
Some people are
reportedly abandoning their browsers and viewing the web through their readers - but they
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5 Reasons Why Your Site Needs to Publish a News Feed It seems like everyone is talking about RSS Feeds. They’ve been around for years but the buzz is up about them as the technology continues to go mainstream. Some people are reportedly abandoning their browsers and viewing the web through their readers - but they hardly represent the general public yet. So does your site need one? This question is somewhat like asking if your site needs a newsletter. Sure, the sky won’t fall tomorrow if you don’t get one today, but once you realize the benefits of having a news feed for your site, and try it for yourself, you may become an addict like the rest of us. Reason #1: More free traffic to your site I’m not exaggerating when I say that a frequently updated feed can bring you massive amounts of traffic in a short time period. This won’t be true forever. Here’s a snapshot in PDF format, of just the feed-originating traffic to a new page of my site for the first 24 hours it opened. http:
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How A Change in Perspective Can Help You
Make More Holiday Season Sales: Pt.
One
Some sites are perfect for the Christmas season - their products fit easily into the idea of
gift-giving.
But what if the products and services you offer are for small business owners?
Or, as many of my clients ask, how do I survive the holiday season if...
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How A Change in Perspective Can Help You Make More Holiday Season Sales: Pt. One Some sites are perfect for the Christmas season - their products fit easily into the idea of gift-giving. But what if the products and services you offer are for small business owners? Or, as many of my clients ask, how do I survive the holiday season if I sell intangibles? When a couple of people brought this question up to me in early fall, my answer was that I d probably make enough money in October not to have to worry about November and December at all. Prevention made sense to me at the time as being the best cure, but it also doesn t mean that I ve resigned myself to slow sales during the holidays. On the contrary, I think that most people who have businesses that offer intangibles such as ebooks, downloadable software, or marketing services can just as much, or more money as the rest of the year by changing tactics slightly. In other words, just because much of the world is more focused elsewh
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6 Ways to More Sales During A Slow Season
Unbeknownst to me, it’s a slow summer for business this year.
Here I’ve been panicking
when I see a sales dip over 48 hours, and some folks are complaining of not seeing Any
sales for a whole week!
So, upon feeding myself a healthy slice of “I need to stop whining - there are people...
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6 Ways to More Sales During A Slow Season Unbeknownst to me, it’s a slow summer for business this year. Here I’ve been panicking when I see a sales dip over 48 hours, and some folks are complaining of not seeing Any sales for a whole week! So, upon feeding myself a healthy slice of “I need to stop whining - there are people with real problems”, I’m departing from my regular Yahoo and Google love affair to share what I’ve been doing that has me earning a steady income. (If you miss my Google chatter, come by on Google Tuesdays to read my blog - see the link at the end of the article. ) Please keep in mind, I’m no millionaire, so don’t expect some miraculous windfall of cash. Many of these tips steadied my income, as I now work completely from home and make about the same as I used to make before taxes back when I worked as a IT Consultant. Space permits only my top six, but you can stop by the site on Fridays for more. #1 - Take advantage of super-cheap ezine advertising. The pric
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Building An Algorithm-Proof Site Part Three
What is an algorithm-proof site? Technically, there’s no such thing.
Since we don’t know
exactly what the search engine formulas for ranking are, from that standpoint we can’t
really be sure that our site won’t drop out of the search engines with every update.
For our purposes, an...
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Building An Algorithm-Proof Site Part Three What is an algorithm-proof site? Technically, there’s no such thing. Since we don’t know exactly what the search engine formulas for ranking are, from that standpoint we can’t really be sure that our site won’t drop out of the search engines with every update. For our purposes, an algorithm-proof site is one that seems to stay in the top five rankings for a desired keyword term through each search engine update. These sites never seem to lose their rankings no matter what happens. And if you’ve recently lost your search engine positions, or are starting a new site, this is the type of site you will want to have. So since we know that some sites are standing the test of time in the search engines, we can study those sites to see what their secrets are - what are those sites doing that yours isn’t? In short : Is there a secret to building an algorithm-proof site? Yes. Will I tell you what it is now? Yes. Will you like the answer? Maybe.
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5 Fun and Free Ways to Get Leads to Find You
in Facebook
I m so livid that I can still hear his voice in my head.
Does that ever happen to you?
"You re completely f—ing nuts," he said.
"You can t get anything from Facebook but a sheep
thrown at you.
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5 Fun and Free Ways to Get Leads to Find You in Facebook I m so livid that I can still hear his voice in my head. Does that ever happen to you? "You re completely f—ing nuts," he said. "You can t get anything from Facebook but a sheep thrown at you. " "No. YOU can t get anything out of Facebook because you have a time management problem. " I hung up the phone, furious. I mean, how can you call yourself a marketer if you can t manage to gain from a site where the leads come to you? Since he obviously won t listen , I d like to tell you for free what I wouldn t tell him if he paid me. (No, he ll never read this - don t get me started on That. ) What follows are Five Fun and Free Ways to Benefit from Having a Facebook Profile. 1- Import Your Blog Posts, or Social Feeds Make sure you already have asserted your own copyright and that you read their T s and C s before proceeding. Another thing Jeff Pulver mentioned to me in Facebook is that your audience in Facebook and in the Blogosp
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