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SEO Techniques For Outside Your Site.
It’s great to know you have made a fantastic start in terms of SEO by optimizing the content in all of the pages of your site. This can actually take a while depending on how your site is structured. You may need to create a sitemap which search engine bots like along with a cleaner layout where the headers and subheaders clearly show and have the necessary keywords. Optimizing the content and sprinkling keywords is one of the more important SEO techniques to get familiar with. But once you are confident with your site’s optimization, don’t stop there. Take your knowledge of SEO techniques outside your site so your website has even more exposure. Don’t forget that having lots of inbound links is important for your site to successfully take in SEO traffic. If you do not know where or how to get started, just visit these good offsite areas for executing your SEO techniques.
Article Directories If you want the quickest possible start, article directories should be your first stop. There are so many article directories in the net and the most popular ones are extremely easy to find. Just type “articles” in Google and visit the sites that you see on the first page. Submitting an article is not very difficult as long as you read the rules. If your site has a blog that is filled with interesting content, you should be able to copy the content and paste it as an article submission for a particular site. Then, you can add a link after the article so readers to visit your website. If the article is already optimized, search engines should be able to index the article very quickly especially if the article directory has a high page ranking. Even if links are not allowed in articles, you can always create an account and edit your profile where you can add the site you want to advertise as your homepage just in case people decide to view your profile just because your article is well-written.
Video Sharing Sites SEO techniques are all about good use of words. Video sharing sounds like it has nothing to do with words but do not forget that video sharing sites not only allow you to upload videos but also allow you to tag and describe them. Use your SEO techniques to make optimized descriptions. Just pretend you are posting an ad in an advertisement directory because that kind of text should be enough to fit in a video description. When adding tags, simply put the keyword phrases that you frequently use for your onsite optimization.
Blogs Having a blog is great for making your site optimized and easy to update but that still counts as onsite optimization. However, there are so many other blogs where you can add content to. Just because you do not have admin access to the blog doesn’t mean that it isn’t impossible to add optimized content or an inbound link to the blog. Many blogs allow others to comment which can serve as a nice entry point for unleashing your SEO techniques. Blogs are not as flexible as article directories since some bloggers may just delete your post for spamming but if you make quality posts that will appeal both the blogger and his or her readers, your post should stand and the search engine should index it.
How To Submit Rss Feed For Your Website
One of the best ways to keep users of your website is to have them coming back for more. You can accomplish this by providing RSS feeds. RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is a coded method of informing website users of new news, activities happening, contests you are running, anything you really want to know. The process of RSS Feeds is relatively easy, when you know how to do it. But for the beginner, it may be a little intimidating to learn how to submit an RSS feed for your website.
One way to submit an RSS feed for your website is to put up a blog or “weB LOG” Blogging software usually contains built in code that will submit your feed to RSS directories every time you make a new post. For some people, however, this can be tricky. Blogging software out of the box can be a little intimidating, and they usually provide very little to no documentation. Hosted blogs like WordPress and Blogger usually contain those built in codes, but customizing your blog to your liking can be difficult.
Another, less used but highly popular, method is to create the RSS Feed yourself. This is done through eXtended Markup Language, or XML. XML is almost like HTML in its design, except for the fact that RSS XML Files contain usually only three or four items. These items are the title, description and link. You can embed multiple items into one XML file, which creates your feed.
An RSS feed is a grouping of items chained together. This is called a “channel” and is referenced by the “channel” and “/channel” tags at the beginning and end, respectively, of your XML file. The last thing you need to do at the top of your file is indicate it is an XML file by using the XML and RSS tags. See your favorite web design book or website on how to do this.
So, you’ve spent all this time creating your XML file, it works, and all is well, now what do you do with it? Well, you need to submit it of course. The best way to submit an RSS Feed is to use one of the multitude of RSS Directories out there. I won’t list any, just google it. Once you’ve found one, submit your XML file like you would a web page, and within minutes, your newly acquired RSS Feed will be screaming across the internet at the speed of light, both to your current users, and also attracting new users at an alarming rate.
The benefits of RSS are great. You can keep your users informed of happenings on your site, you can attract new users, and you can ensure that your news will get out to the world with ease.
3 Ways Link Building Firms Cheat You
“Permanent One Way links with a high PR for USD 1 only”.
A very common ad, which most of us would have seen a million times. This also has the dubious distinction of being the biggest lie in the link building world. We will see how.
We know this blog will stir up a hornet nest and may even result in a few assassination attempt on our lives!! However this will not deter us from writing about the popular fibs. These misrepresentations are used by a lot of link building firms all over the world, while selling their services.
The first one is a high PageRank. This green bar is often used as the most important parameter to judge the value of the page. The importance that this parameter has is naturally out of the context of this blog. The firms claim that the links will have a high PR whereas in reality the page which features the link often has no or low PR (not the PR that was committed). The high PR is usually of the home page. At the end, you do not benefit too much.
The second one is a Permanent link. This one always baffles me. Why will a webmaster with a legitimate business, which is thematically relevant to yours, ever oblige to put your link? No one will, unless there is some consideration involved. Even if a webmaster were to put up your link, because they have friendly relation with the link building firm, it still cannot guarantee that the link will not be removed. Every webmaster carries out regular audit in the link scape and all redundant or old links tend to get removed. It is natural. They would keep your links longer only if you offer to pay the webmaster a certain amount of money. And if this would be the case, the links are likely to be frowned upon by Google.
Permanent links can only be sourced from directories (articles, blogs, classified). In which case, the links should be sold at a much cheaper price, as the effort required to develop links from directories is far less than the effort required to obtain links from websites.
The third fib is about the price. A low priced link may not always be bad and quality links has nothing much to do with high price. One has to really evaluate whether the money (even if it is low) he is paying is going to yield results or not. But if the price is absurdly low, it should set the alarm bells ringing. Quality commands a premium.