<![CDATA[I know you often take a look at the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search results, and you probably wonder what it is that defines the top-ranking websites. Well almost all of those sites have this in common: Great Content. People go online for information. The websites that offer the best content, the best information, attract the greatest number of visitors and subsequently the greatest number of quality one-way backlinks. The more relevant one-way links we have pointing to our sites from other quality sites, the higher our Google PageRank. (You can find a list of sites that provide content for webmasters on http://ledbetter.freepgs.com/wordpress/?p=524 and you can find quite a few link exchanges and directories on http://ledbetter.freepgs.com/wordpress/.)

Yes, traffic is king! We want our websites to be seen. We want our paid ads clicked. We want to make money or we have something we want to show off. We set up links to our sites and those links translate into PageRank. Linking is the major component of Search Engine Optimization.

Or maybe we are thinking of buying a link on a website or we are thinking of joining a web host. Are they worth the money? Are they reliable? Will they contribute to our PageRank? A link on a high-ranking website will boost our PageRank. A web host with a low PageRank might not be reliable. We should probably check a host's Page Rank and WHOIS before signing up for service. For example, I used to run a blog on a free host that subsequently let its domain-name registration lapse. Then I found that the free host's pagerank had been only PR2. Obviously, the webmaster running that free host had not been serious about advertising his services or about setting up links to his site.

Here's a few spots that show you your Google PageRank for free. www.digpagerank.com checks over 700 datacenters,

http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php

http://www.mypagerank.net/googlecheck.html

http://rankwhere.com/google-page-rank.php

http://www.freeweb-hosting.com/google_pagerank_pr_checker/

http://www.freelance-help.com/google-ranking-report/pagerank-checker.php

http://www.netgets.com/scripts/pagerank.html

David Maxwell Blogger and Webmaster since 2000. Free Web Hosting Reviewed http://ledbetter.freepgs.com/wordpress/

by David Maxwell
A blogger and webmaster since 2000.
Free Web Hosting Reviewed
http://ledbetter.freepgs.com/wordpress/]]>

<![CDATA[Are you a website owner who has been looking for ways to increase your website’s traffic? If so, you are defiantly not alone. Each year, millions of website owners wonder why their website didn’t see more traffic. Instead of just wondering, you can take action. After all, there are a numerous ways that you can go about increasing the traffic that your website sees. The good news is that a number of these ways, which include article distribution, are relatively easy to implement. In addition to being easily implemented, the rewards may be immeasurable. Article distribution is an internet marketing technique that is used by many webmasters. Despite being a relativity popular marketing tactic, there are still many webmasters who are unfamiliar with article distribution. If you are one of those business owners, you will want to read on. Taking the time to familiarize yourself with article distribution could be your best minutes ever put to use. Article distribution involves the use of websites that are known as article directories. Article directories are websites that host a large collection of articles. To make finding and reading those articles easier, most article directories place each of their articles into categories. Popular categories include education, business, automobiles, and travel. In each article, the writer is able to create a link to one of his websites. That link is often accompanied by background information on the website in question or the webmaster. Each time one of your links is clicked, internet users will be directed to your website. This connection will increase the amount of traffic your website sees and it may also help to increase the amount of profit it generates. Although article distribution is a nice and easy way to generate website traffic, it is one that needs to be handled properly. If not handled correctly, you may essentially end up wasting your time. The first step in using article directories to your advantage is to focus on a topic that you would like to write about. For the best success, you will want to write on a topic or an issue that is, in one way or another, related to the website readers will be directed to. Any article may increase the traffic that your website sees, but if you rely on internet sales, you will need to go a step further. For instance, if you are selling a service, such as an answering service, you may want your article to focus on the benefits of using an answering service. Once you have determine what the main topic or focus of your articles will be, you will then need to examine how you will write them. If you find yourself having a difficult time figuring out what to write, you may want to think about creating yourself an outline. An outline will act as a guide for you. An outline will not only help you know what to write, but it will also help to ensure that you do not leave out any important information. Once you have created yourself an outline, you can begin to start writing. When doing so, it is important that you keep your content interesting and easy to read. Be cautious of using technical words that many internet users will not understand. Although your first thought may be to create informational articles, you want to be cautious of providing too much information. You need your readers to click on your links, to get to your website. If your article is too informative, they may already have found what they needed, thus the needed for visiting your website may have been eliminated. You will want to leave your readers wanting more information. After your article has been compiled and thoroughly proofread, you will want to submit it to the article directories of your choice. Although you might assume that your job is done after this point, it isn’t or at least it shouldn’t be. Article distribution is a great way to generate traffic, but it needs to be done on occasion. In fact, article distribution should be done on a regular basis. You may want to set a goal for yourself, like submitting at least five articles a month or even more. This will help to ensure that your readers are always given new, updated information to read and absorb. In fact, the more articles you distribute the more links you will create.

Terry Detty, 42 years old, finds internet marketing his passion. In addition to marketing he enjoys reading, and occasionally goes out for a short walk. Increase website traffic with email advertising ; an effective Email Marketing List tool.]]>

<![CDATA[Search engine optimisation or SEO is almost a dirty word that every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to apply to their website to make it findable to the common man. But for some of us, its not working is it? SEO is a very daunting task and it’s not easy, it’s hard, it’s boring, it takes time. You have somehow pulled together a site, slapped some ads on and you want people to go on it. Or even more, you have spent time to make a great site and no one goes on it. You will be lucky if get 20 visitors a day. In SEO terms that’s a great start. Some webmasters don’t even manage that. There are several ways to get visitors. Either some one looks up the search engines and finds the website because you happen to have your site on the first two pages of the search engine results page (SERP). Or you have your site all over the web and people are bound to bump into it. Here are 10 things you should do as an amateur search engine optimiser. 1. The number of keywords in your pages or key word density is important. This tells the search engine the relevancy of the webpage for a particular word or term. It should be around 3% appearing on a webpage; more than that it will be called keyword stuffing that could be penalised. If you know how to add Meta tags in HTML then do so as its important for search engines to accurately index and list your pages. 2. Links are the top most criteria for good search engine positions. More you have from relevant sites, the better it is. You can either ask related sites to place your link on their site or you could ask them for a link exchange. Some experts are not too keen on buying links but some say that done in the right way, can be beneficial. Best avoided. 3. Every website should have an RSS feed to keep it fresh with contents, making the site dynamic. It’s usually in the form of a link or HTML code that you need to "cut-and-paste". If not, than you could always update your pages by adding more content, as search engines love content. Apparently they cannot read images. 4. Writing articles is a great way to get one way links. Write as many articles as you can on your subject of interest and then submit to several article directories. Webmasters hungry for content will use your articles and include you link. Make sure that you use your keywords as anchor text for your URL in the resource section. Try writing between 500-1000 as reading more can be really boring. 5. Go over to other blogs in your subject and leave comments. You can often leave your name and website address. Many would come to know you gradually if you are good making sure you don’t spam them. Be good. 6. Submit your site to directories. Some would want money while some would want a link back. It’s your call. DMOZ is a must but it’s difficult. 7. Attach your site in your email signature. 8. Post your sites at classifieds sites such as Craigslist and Gumtree. But don’t spam. 9. You might want to leave your URL at yahoo answers if it’s helpful to the asker. Make a 360 page and add your links. Sometimes people like to see who the answerer is and might come across you site. 10. Join forums in your area of interest and add your website in the signature. Don’t ask people to view or review your site. People will have a look if they are interested or if your answers are good or if you establish yourself as an expert. If you follow these simple steps, you will make it. Be simple and straightforward. Don’t spam; it’s illegal and can be harmful. God bless.

Shalini thinks she’s a great self made SEO from BIHAR but her husband thinks she’s not. ]]>

<![CDATA[Michael Cheney without a doubt is our main focus these past few days. This man fascinates us to no extent. Considering the fact that one time before he was just another ordinary person made him more intriguing. He made headlines some time back through his AdSense Videos. We did not really pay much attention to him then since there were all ready too many so called AdSense gurus in the market.

Recently, he has produced a brand new product to help every internet marketers and money makers solve their single most nagging problem. Traffic! Anybody can basically design nice looking websites with fancy graphics and multimedia presentations but not everybody can really drive loads of traffic to their websites. Traffic means visitors and visitors are potential customers. The more traffic you have would usually generate higher revenues and conversions if your sales pitch delivery are up to the mark of course. This goes for everybody who is selling affiliate programs, products or services online.

To be honest, we were more of the old Web 1.0 generation really and we were trained to stick with our internet marketing standards since they were proven to be successful decades ago. As hard as we tried, we finally realized that this is definitely not working for us. What went wrong is what everyone was asking here in Sahabatul Ventures. We tried to seek as much information from the Web and soon we got ourselves more familiar with this new terminology, Web 2.0! Only then we found out that current internet users are a much different breed. They are hungry for information and they would go all out to seek that knowledge through interactions among themselves. Unlike Web 2.0 generations, Web 1.0 folks are more like zombies on pc! They just feed on whatever they were being fed with on web portals, directories and search engines. So, the bottom line is that Web 1.0 internet marketing techniques would no longer work at maximum effect on this new Web 2.0 generations.

Luckily for us, we stumbled upon Michael Cheney’s blogs and they were a great help. We developed our understanding on tackling internet marketing on the new Web 2.0 generations and as matter of fact, we even managed to come up with a few new tricks ourselves! Hey, we’re talking about Michael Cheney here. Ok, back to Cheney now. From his blogs we were informed that Micheal Cheney would soon come out with a new product that claims to provide ways to generate massive traffic on this new Web 2.0 generation. We were absolutely delighted to hear that and wait patiently for the official public release. You can say that we were one of his first customers!

The main product came with a couple of bonuses that are super rich with treasured information! Nice additions to the core product. Michael Cheney had thought of everything to perfection! We spent the whole night watching every single video among ourselves and you can imagine the scenario then. Lots of ‘Ooohhhhhs…’ and ‘Aaaahhhhhsss...’. In the end, we all broke into laughter and kick ourselves. How in the world didn’t we think of those simple yet fantastic ideas ourselves?

Now, we’re not going to reveal much about Michael Cheney’s secrets of course. We would have to respect that. But we can share with you that the solutions were all staring at us very much in front of our computers all the time! In general, the secrets involves in capitalizing on the followings:

Saidul A Shaari is the principal and founder of Sahabatul Ventures, specializing in helping aspiring home based entrepreneurs establish and setup their online businesses cost effectively. An enterprising business individual who turn half ideas into real money making opportunities.]]>

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How important is Link Building to optimize your website for search engines? Very very important. This technique will help you improve your website's page rank and also get free flowing traffic. It is also very important that the "quality" of incoming links to your site is good.

1> Quality Web directory submissions:

Submitting your website to quality search engine friendly web directories will significantly improve your website's page rank. More incoming links to your site, the better. Also very important is the quality of incoming links. What I mean is: Make sure you submit to good web directories which are indexed in Google(a page rank of at least one) or other major search engines. Avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web. This will adversely affect your page rank by linking to those links.

Equally important is that your website should be listed in the most appropriate category
. Eg: If your site offers help on legal advice, you can submit your site to the most appropriate category. Your site will be listed in these webdirectories along with your competitors. But this will be good, since search engines will try to match the incoming link's category with your site's service. It it matches, a better rank is given to your site.

Also important is that the link name or anchor text to your site in the web directory should be appropriate. Eg: If your site offers legal help, the link name in the webdirectory page should contain the words "Legal help". This will also help improve your site's ranking.

There are free as well as paid web directories. There are many free quality web directories like www.webdirectoryone.com or paid directories like yahoo web directory. Adding to high quality paid directories like yahoo directory is worth the price.

2> Social bookmarking

Sites such as del.icio.us, furl.net, blinklist.com can provide an excellent source of quality incoming links to your website. Social bookmarking is a way of of saving the address of a website you want to visit in the future. These social bookmark web sites let you create an online public space to add your bookmarks and also lets you share with other surfers. These social bookmark sites have high PageRank and are frequently visisted by search engine spiders. If you take a closer look:

• These bookmark links are one way links from high PR sites
• Has keywords of your choice in the anchor text or link name

These 2 factors can help your site increase it's link popularity.

Thomas George is a lead SEO
specialist of http://www.mysiteonweb.com,
an Internet company that specializes in helping small businesses create their
own websites as well offers cheap domain names. ]]>