If only there was a way that you could watch your marketing message instantly hit number one in the search results. You didn’t even have to worry about how competitive your key phrase was. All you had to do is submit it and then instantly see that you hold the top place. Well you absolutely can do this!

Alright so maybe I lied a little. I didn’t say WHAT search engine or for how long right? Twitter has a handy feature called a “hashtag” that lets you do just this. Utilizing this to promote your new product, web page or blog post can get you that coveted #1 spot (at least until someone else tweets using the same hashtag).

What is a Hashtag?

A hashtag is a short concatenated word or phrase prefixed with the hash symbol. These hashtags when used in a tweet and clicked by a user will force a twitter search for the term. The resulting search result page will be a list of all tweets that contain the hashtag listed from most recent to oldest.

A couple things happen as a result of using this hashtag:

-Anyone who reads this tweet and clicks on the now hyper linked hash tag will be re-directed to a search result page for it.

-Your tweet will be at the very top of this search result page until someone else tweets with the same hashtag.

Twitter users add hashtags to their tweets as a way to be added to a search result page that people check to see what’s new on that particular topic. Most Twitter users have a list of saved searches they use to check in on topics that interest them. People can hold open forum style conversations in this way without having to follow or be followed by the users in the conversation.

How can I use Hashtags to Market my Website Content?

This is where the real power of Twitter as a business marketing tool comes into play. Let’s say you wrote a new blog post on Widgets. You could take the following steps to make sure that your tweet promoting this new post reaches the most number of readers as well as the most relevant:

-Go to Twitter and use its handy search function to find tweets on Widgets.

-Look for authorities in the field of Widget production in the search results. Follow their tweets back to their profile and see what hashtags they commonly use.

-Click on their hashtags to see if there is an active conversation that relates to your blog post about Widgets. Do the people using that particular hashtag seem like the ideal audience for your blog post?

-If so add the hashtag to your tweet promoting your post.

When Twitter users look at the search results page it will be your tweet at number one!

This system is a perfect way to place your tweets, links and message in front of the exact type of user you would deem ideal for your content. You can also use as many hashtags as 140 characters will permit.You may find that there are a few popular tags people use when talking about your Widgets. Its possible they use #widgets to talk about Widgets in general and #acmewidgets to talk about Widgets made by the ACME corporation. Go ahead and use both if it makes sense.

Using hashtags can expand the reach of your tweets far beyond the wall of those who follow you. It is also a great way to increase the number of followers you have as it will be exposing your words to people interested in the topics that you love to write about.

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I came across an amazing site today with a great number of tips and ideas for marketing your blog.

Here is one of the lists of ideas for creating a large number of backlinks to your site. If you want to read more from this blog you can visit it here.

1. Provide more value than other blogs and sites. This is by far the most neglected area by all of us! We want to market our sites like crazy, but conveniently forget that we need to offer more to our readers. We want to have 300,000 hits a day but we only want to write five 300 word articles per month. Steve Pavlina said that it should be easy to make a million dollars if only he could figure out how to provide a million dollars worth of value. Sites that have that kind of value don’t have any problem getting the link love.

2. Add a blog to your site. Blogs are capable of getting a lot more back-link love than regular websites. There are several reasons for this:
* Blogs are tracked in real-time. Blog search engines publish the most recent blog entries they can find. This means your new entries get linked to instantly.
* Blogs are much easier to update than regular websites. You can create a lot more content in the same amount of time. There is no need to design a new page for a new article. You simply write a new article and publish. Your increase in content will increase your visibility and ability to get links.
* Blogs get links from other blogs. If you run a regular website that isn’t a blog, you will have a harder time getting links from bloggers. Bloggers mostly read and follow blogs!

If your site is or has a blog, well done. If you have no idea how to setup a blog you should visit the following entry of this site, “5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog.“

3. Post relentlessly. The more you are able to post, the more you will appear in blog search engines like Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Blog Search Engine. Note: People aren’t going to link to posts that are garbage so don’t sacrifice quality for quantity. If your site isn’t a blog, update often and then go back to #2 and add a blog.

4. Make sure that your blog is set to ping. If you’re using a WordPress blog you will find this in your admin section: Go to Options and then Writing. Make sure that you have some blog search engines in the Update Services box at the bottom. The ones I’m using are:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

5. Use Technorati tags (follow the link to the left for a lesson on what they are and how to implement them. Opens in a new window.). Getting into more categories in Technorati and other blog search engines will get you more links from them, exposing you to other bloggers and webmasters that can link to you. To easily create Technorati tags, use this simple tool: Tag Generator. All you have to do is type in the keyword, and the tool will make the code for the tag.

6. Create authority posts. An authority post by my definition takes at least 10 hours to write. These are posts that people are likely to be linked to. My post, “5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog” has already been linked to quite a bit. Authority posts are more thorough than most other posts. They’re usually longer than other posts. Authority posts must be easy to find (follow this link for a lesson on where you should put your authority posts) on your site, getting them more exposure than other posts.

7. Have your friends tag your best work in Digg. (Digg is a site that allows people to vote whether they like and article or not.) Your friends can get the article moving in the right direction. There are also other social bookmarking sites that are very popular. Here are a few of the biggies: Reddit, Netscape, Del.Icio.Us, and StumbleUpon. This won’t do a whole lot of good if your article isn’t good, but if it is it can bring you thousands of visitors per day, which will link to a good amount of links.

8. Encourage readers to Digg authority articles. If they like the article or post, they will vote for it for you. It only takes a few seconds.

9. Make your articles easy to Digg. If you look at the end of this article, you will find a button for Digg, Reddit, and some other imporant social bookmarking sites. These can make a huge difference and can add to a lot more exposure and links. To install those buttons I used the Sociable plugin for WordPress.

10. Creating list-posts. Examples: “Top 10 Ways To Stop Being A Lazy Pig”, “Top 5 Internet Marketing Gurus”, “Top 25 Reasons Why 99% Of Bloggers Don’t Make It”, “99 Ways To Make Your Blog Or Site A Backlink Super Power”. People love linking to that stuff. Place your list-post in a prominent location on your site (follow this link for a lesson on where you should put your authority posts) or people will never find it.

11. Recognize your field’s gurus. Link to them often. They are going to watch closely the source of their traffic and will definitely see if you’re sending some their way. If you send them traffic, they may start reading your site. If they find something they like, they might link to it. One link from a guru in your field could mean more than 100 weaker links. Gurus are usually pretty generous in spreading the link love. That’s a hint, hint to Darren Rowse, Shoemoney (Jeremy Schoemaker), John Chow, and Steve Pavlina, all of which I read daily.

12. Publish an RSS feed. An RSS feed is a news feed that people can subscribe to. They can see if you have written new entries on your site without having to go there. Many webmasters stay up to date by reading RSS feeds from the sites in their industry. If you don’t have a feed, these webmasters will never see your updates. If you have a WordPress blog, it creates an RSS feed for you. Other sites will naturally syndicate the feed. (They will post it in their site) Some of them will link to you as the source.

13. Setup your feed on feedburner. This makes your feed subscriptions easy to track and allows you to encourage users to subscribe. After you have quite a few subscribers, it makes getting additional subscriptions easy.

14. Comment on other blogs. Always fill in the URL box so that the owner can find your site. Good comments will spark more interest than dull ones. Answering other people’s questions in comments gets them excited – one of the most effective ways to spark an online rambling about you and your site.

15. Respond to comments left on your blog. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been able to get full write ups about this site just because I responded to people’s questions and comments. When people’s questions are answered, you become the authority. People can’t help but link to the authority.

16. Respond to your email. Be kind to people. Be cool to people. Help them with their questions. If it’s a hard question to answer, post the answer on your site so that you get the content. Email the person that asked and give them the URL to their answer. Being helpful to others will earn you respect and link love.

17. Link out to other blogs like crazy. If you link to interesting articles on other blogs, they will link back to interesting articles that you have. Bloggers usually check their site stats every 30 seconds, they’ll see that you have linked to them. (It’s an addiction!) Many people don’t want to link out because it spreads their pagerank thin. Would you rather have pagerank or money? I, personally would rather have money. Pagerank will come. It won’t do you any good to have high pagerank if you don’t have any traffic, and most people don’t realize that the two aren’t as tied together as it seems.

18. Offer to be a guest blogger. If you can write for someone’s site, you will certainly be able to link to related resources on your site. If you’re going to do this one, write a killer article and submit it to an A-lister (leading blogger in your field) who has a high-traffic site.

19. Timestamp your posts. (Timestamping is adjusting your post entry so that it is posted on a certain day, at a certain time. You can finish an article on Saturday and set it to post on Monday.) There are more visitors at Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Digg on weekdays. Never publish an really good article on a weekend, you’ll be off the front page of Technorati before all the visitors are there. If you’re using a WordPress blog, there is a Timestamp option on your “Write Post” page. You can set the date and time you want the article to publish, and then click publish. It won’t show up on your site until that date and time.

20. Show related posts in your blog entries. A blogger might find your site via one article but find a different one that they’re really interested in. Showing your related posts can help them to be found more easily. Interest+Visibility=Links. If you’re using WordPress, you can find out why and how to use the related posts plugin here.

21. Use deep-linking. Deep-linking is when you link to older posts or pages in new posts or pages.

22. Use meme trackers to find hot topics. Meme trackers are sites that track information published on blogs and news sites, and provide information about which topics are the hottest. The big meme trackers are Memeorandum and Techmeme.com. Technorati also has a type of meme tracker. They show you the hottest tags in real time. When you find hot discussions, contribute to them. Your opinions can bring valuable visitors to your site, and will get linked to from other opinions on the topic. If you’re posts are tagged properly, people will be able to find them easily, so make sure you use tags on your articles, as you learned earlier.

23. Do blog reviews. (Follow the link to the left to find a list of blogs that do review exchanges.) Tons of webmasters will link to you in exchange for reviewing their site.

24. Do link exchanges. You never know if a sitewik or blog will exchange links with you, unless you ask. Since most bloggers won’t have traditional link pages (thank goodness), you should probably find one of their posts that is interesting, and link to it in one of your articles. Ask them to do the same.

25. Add a page that invites people to link to you. Offer to link back. Ask them to link to an interesting article on your site and tell them that you’ll link to an interesting article on their site. Create a contact form so that they can let you know quickly and easily that they have taken you up on your offer. You have to be willing to help others or this method will never work.

26. Trade blogroll links. Some bloggers will trade sitewide (this means on every page) or blogroll links. I would only do it if I felt that the site truly had something special to offer to my readers.

27. Ask me to do a link exchange. Better yet, link to me first and then ask me to linkback. I will! Even better, link to me everyday and don’t ask for me to link back.

28. Get a MyBlogLog account. MyBlogLog.com is like MySpace for bloggers. It it a place where bloggers go to meet each other and find new blogging friends. You can link to your blog(s) from your profile page, and other bloggers will have a chance to check out your work, which could lead to additional links.

29. Start a MyBlogLog.com Community. You can create your own community that members can join. Be extra social and invite members to join your community. This exposes a lot more bloggers to your site.

30. Do article exchanges with webmasters on your field.

31. Do a scheduled, recurring guest blog exchange with someone from your field. Writing for each other can give you both exposure to a new group of individuals that are interested in your field. You can link to resources on your own site each time.

32. Read your posts before publishing. Edit, edit, and edit again. Make sure they’re right before you show them to the world. Make sure your writing is easy to read and grammatically correct.

33. Run spell check. This probably sounds stupid but I’ve been called out in my comments a few times and I doubt that I’ll get any links from the people that noticed my spelling errors.

34. Learn more about your field. If you’re site doesn’t have any good material, you probably won’t have much luck getting links from other bloggers.

35. Create walk-throughs. I created a walk-through for one of my cell phone sites that teaches people how to connect their Motorola Krzr cell phone to their computer. People love me for it, and I got links from Cnet, Mobiledia, and HowardForums because of it. These are 3 of the biggest cell phone sites! You can walk people through installing ads, writing a good post, starting a blog, baking banana bread, riding a bike, or anything related to your field.

36. Use giveaways. Hold a raffle where you give away something cool. The participants have to link to you in order to get in their name into the raffle. If you gave away an Xbox 360 you would probably get a lot more links than you would if you gave away a snickers bar. (This method is only down this far because it costs money, otherwise it would be very near the top because it works like crazy)

37. Write articles tailored to beginners. Most people in your field are beginners! Most bloggers in general are beginners. You can’t connect with them by writing about PHP scripting and dynamic server protocols. You have to assume that your readers know nothing about the topic without talking down to them. They will show you their appreciation.

38. Submit articles to article sites like: Article Dashboard, GoArticles, and Article City. They will also allow you to place a link to your site at the bottom of the article. You can write an article about anything in your field. Most article sites like the articles to be about 500 words.

39. Submit stories to news sites. Even huge sites like ESPN.com accept stories from free lancers.

40. Review products on your site. Most brands are trying desperately to get more exposure. If you provide a thorough, fair review of a company’s product, it might get linked to. For best results review products from new, up-and-coming companies.

41. Review products on other sites like ePinions. You can quickly establish yourself as an expert by writing thorough reviews of products in your field. Some of the traffic that hits your review will follow the trail back to your site, leading to links.

42. Write testimonials for sites whose services have helped you. The testimonials themselves will often turn into links, and the webmasters will surely check out your site.

43. Write a testimonial for me. I’ll let you link to yourself in it. You can see other testimonials that people have left here.
44. Write and submit a press release. Sites like PRWeb will publish them and link to you.

45. Alert webmasters in your field when you write solid content that will be useful for their readers. Don’t bother webmasters by updating them on every little thing you add to your site. Alert them when you have authority articles.

46. Alert friends when you create something that will help them. If you’re helping them they should definitely give you some link love.

47. If you don’t have any friends, get some fast.

48. Write to help others. If you can help other people to find more success, you deserve a link from them. You will probably get one.

49. Mentor other aspiring bloggers. I help out quite a few friends and most of them have me on their blogroll. They also link to me from time to time, and read my site often. Some of them will probably get really big eventually and those links will pay off enormously!

50. Try to meet other bloggers offline. Every city has bloggers and other internet marketers. These relationships can lead to ‘mutual plugging’ and idea swapping.

51. Create surveys. A good survey can make a person (or a group of people) feel important and could lead to some free marketing from them.

52. Poll your readers. People like to participate in polls and are super interested in the outcomes. Many times they will link to the outcome post of a poll just because they participated in the poll.

53. Comment on online newspapers. Most of the links you make won’t have direct SEO benefit thanks to the “no follow” command, but the writers will follow the trail back to your site.

54. Interview other bloggers. Many bloggers want to be famous! They will jump at the chance to be interviewed. Add a page to your blog that let’s people in your field know that you are interested in interviewing them. Tell them how to sign up and they will. I can almost guarantee that they’ll be linking back to the interview once it’s published.

55. Cite the source of your information. This good will often sparks reciprocation. Webmasters and bloggers love to be talked about.

56. Use forums and discussion boards. I sometimes try to find something that people are really confused about. If you answer their question they will automatically start to wonder who you are. Most of the time I have to research the problem myself to be able to answer them. The best way to answer their question is by creating a short walkthrough on your site that teaches them. Show them where to find it and you have yourself a link. That technique will also work on the next few suggestions.

57. Ask your local, public library to link to you with their website.

58. Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! Answers. You are able to link to resources on other websites that will help answer people’s questions. If you don’t already have a resource on your site that will help answer a question, create one. Link to from Yahoo! Answers. You have a link, and some more valuable content for your site.

59. Answer questions on Google Groups. Very similar to the one for Yahoo! Answers.

60. Submit to free web directories. The biggie is DMOZ. (Don’t even bother unless you have at least 100 posts on your blog.) Directories are lists of thousands of sites. One of them should be you!

61. Submit to blog directories like BOTW. Blog directories are thousands of blogs, listed in categories.

62. Submit to paid directories. Don’t do it unless you have to budget. The biggie is Yahoo! Directory.

63. Write controversial content. Sometimes you can really get people talking by criticizing famous people and brands.

64. Write about celebrities. People eat that stuff up and if you write something that people don’t know, you will get links from all over the place.

65. Write about the leaders in your field. Tell others why you think they’re successful.

66. Attack the leaders in your field. (This one I would never do.) Write why they should do things differently. I’m sure I could get a load of links by attacking Darren Rowse, Shoemoney (Jeremy Schoemaker), John Chow, and Steve Pavlina, but I wouldn’t do it because I have too much respect for them. That said, I have to admit that I could get some serious traffic by getting some dirt on them or attacking their business practices.

67. Write in English. English is the major language of the internet and blog written in English cater to a much larger audience.

68. Install a text translator on your site. (I haven’t done this one yet but it’s one of my ideas for the near future.) Surely people that blog in other languages would tell their readers about www.mysite.com that has a version that they can more easily read. I would love to have a version of this site in Chinese, which is the second biggest language of the internet. It will eventually be the biggest.

69. Create a contact page with a contact form. If people don’t have to open up their email to get in touch with you, it will be easier for them to ask you for a link exchange.

70. Create a testimonial page. Allow people to link to themselves in their testimonials. Add your site to our list of sites that want testimonials.

71. Create a Wikipedia page about yourself or your business. Wikipedia links don’t count due to a “no follow” command, but you will gain some exposure that will surely lead to additional links.

72. Create a Squidoo page about yourself.

73. Join the Better Business Bureau – for this one you have to have a business!

74. Join local clubs that have websites. Maybe give them a few pointers for their site and find out if they list members. Include a link on your member’s page.

75. Check for local government directories – it should be easy to get into local, online listings.

76. Donate to an online charity. They usually list contributors. Make sure you donate using the name of your site.

77. Place an ad in Craigslist. (Craigslist is a very large, online classified site)

78. Market your site as a free resource for local businesses. I told an attorney friend of mine about this site so that he could get some promotional ideas for his company’s site. Sure enough he linked to me.

79. Better yet, hire a publicist. They can probably get you on the news so that lots of people and businesses can use you as a resource.

80. Hire a link building consultant. Andy Hagans is a great one. This one is down this far on the list because it costs $ and isn’t guaranteed.

81. Hire a starving student and pay them $8 an hour to do everything on this list for 8 hours a day.

82. Get some interns that you can teach to build links. Create an LLC called MyCompany Marketing, LLC. Set up an internship program with the marketing department at the local university or college. Get 2 students to work 4 hours a day doing everything on this list for free.

83. Get some interns to write for you. Start a second LLC called MyCompany Publishing, LLC. Set up an intership with the journalism department at the local college and get a few free interns (writers) for your blogs. That way you can start a few new blogs that you can use as valuable resources to get links from.

84. Start a few more blogs. You can create free blogs on Blogspot if you want. Give your main blog a link once in a while. There isn’t any reason to make 1,000 links with it, just link once in a while. Maybe you could even update the blogs once a week. Who knows, you might make some money with those as well.

85. Encourage your friends to start blogs. Some of my friends have started blogs and I have links from all of them. I actually didn’t really encourage them, but they asked me and it has worked out great for my blog.

86. Create images and tools that people can use on MySpace, FaceBook, and other social networking sites.

87. Link to your blog from your MySpace page. If you don’t have one, set one up. Try to get a lot of friends in there, because the more friends you have in MySpace, the more traffic your space will get.

88. Ask your friends to link to you from their MySpace pages. These links won’t be majorly valuable from an SEO standpoint, but could bring some extra visitors, which lead to additional links.

89. Create a new MySpace page for your site. Become friends with other pages like yours.

90. Create a WordPress template. I’m not a designer, but if I was I would create hundreds of these. If a person uses your template they will be linking to you with every page of their site. There are millions of pages in the world running WordPress.

91. Create a Mambo template. Mambo is a content management system like WordPress that allows users to create websites.

92. Hold and sponser a writing contest in your field with a giveaway to the winner. Make the contestants publish the article on their sites while linking to yours.

93. Create a certification program for sites in your field. Design a trophy that people can use to display on their sites if they pass the certification. Host the image. (This means that you will not allow them to download the trophy picture. They will just install a peice of code that you will give them that will reference the trophy picture from your site.) You need to save the image on your site and them use this code to give them:

Insert the URL where your image is saved where it says, “yourimageurl”.

94. Buy links. You can email webmasters asking them to link to you in exchange for hard green. You can also use a service like Text Link Ads to purchase and rent links.

95. Rent links. Same as buying links except the links won’t be permanent. Usually you pay monthly for this type. Check out Text Link Ads for details.

96. Buy posts from other bloggers. You can offer to pay them directly to post about your site, or you can buy posts through services like Pay Per Post and ReviewMe.

97. Start a design company. Add the design service to your site. You can create small sites for individuals and people, adding designed-by links at the bottom of their pages.

98. Donate sites to non-profit organizations. Non-profits usually get a lot of links from government sites, and so they would be ideal to design for. Make sure to include a “design donated by MySite.com” at the bottom.

99. Setup blogs for other people. Make sure you include, “Designed by MySite.com” or “Inspired by MySite.com.” Help them to achieve success and their links will become a lot more valuable.

100. Help students that are taking HTML classes in college. Your help can probably be traded for ridiculously valuable .edu links on their student accounts. Make sure you link to their little student sites so they get indexed. You may want to link to them from another site you have, or from a forum. I’ve missed the boat on that one a few times with friends that I actually helped. Oops!

101. Donate some time every week to hold Q and A sessions for beginners in your area. They’ll link to you naturally, or you can ask them to.

102. Encourage friends to bring friends to Q and A sessions. Help them all out. You may get some good ideas yourself and some links from your group.

Back links are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in search engine listing results you have to have a good page ranking. If you want a higher page ranking you’re going to need to create lots and lots of back links.It takes time and talent to do this but it will be worth it. Google receives 3,000 search inquiries a second. That’s 180,000 per minute. If you want your share of this avalanche of free business, you will need to work hard and work smart.  Back links are simply a link from somewhere else to your site. It sounds easy to create them and it is easy, but you will need thousands of these links and you will need new ones every month. They may only take a minute to create but to create hundreds or thousands take lots of time and talent.

How Many Links Do You Need?

Lots and lots. You need more than the competitor that is ranked number one with Google. If you do that, you will be number one. Let’s take a look at a few areas and see how many we would need to dominate that field. – Top company in “search engine optimization” had 52,100 links – Top company in “web site design” had 54,200 links – Top Company in “custom T-shirts” had 72,000 links – Top Company in “Tiffany Lamps” had 825

As you can see, the more competitive the area, the more links it takes to be number one. Plan to add as many links as you can every month for as long as you stay in business. Remember that your competitors are adding new links every month too, so the number of links you need keeps growing.

Beware Of Short Cuts To Success

As you surf the web, you will see sites that advertise short cuts to link creation. They offer to sell you hundreds of links. As you evaluate these services, realize that the quality of your links is important to your success. The sites you link to must concern themselves with similar topics to your site or they may be disregarded by the search engines. Also, the quality of the linking site is important. If the site is known for spam or porn, you may be seriously penalized search engine rankings just for being associated with it. Buying back links is fraught with danger. Choosing the site you link and actually creating the link to is a much better alternative.

Using Articles To Create Links

Writing informative articles is a great way to create back links. You can use the articles on your site and publish them to article directory sites. Every site that publishes your article will create a back link to your site. Other sites may pick up your article and publish it creating “viral” publishing and more links. You should assign someone to write one or two articles every month without fail or hire an outside source to do this for you.

Using Video To Create Links

Another great way to create links and sell as well is to create video clips that tell your story or sell your product in an interesting way. You can use these clips to sell on your site and you can publish them to video sites like youtube.com, metacafe.com, viddler.com and many others. These get great rankings in the search engines. You should assign someone to write one or two articles every month without fail or hire an outside source to do this for you.

Using Social Networks To Create Links

Social networks like myspace.com are great ways to create quality links. Myspace is one of the most visited sites on the web, so links from it make your site rank as very popular. To create links from social sites, open an account , link to others with similar interests, and make comments that include a link to your site.

Using Blogs To Create Links Blogs want comments from readers. Visit blogs on similar topics to yours and on any popular blogs, leave a comment on a posting. Your comment can contain a link to your site. This should not be just self serving but should continue the dialog. For example, if your site deals with web marketing and you see a blog article on meta tags, you might make a comment like, “excellent article with good points. I also found good meta tag tools at www.yoursite.com” One great way to find good blogs is to set up a Google alert for all keywords you use and you will be notified anytime a post is made with those key words. Then, you simply visit the blog and make a comment.

That Sounds Like A Lot Of Work

It is a huge amount of work but just keep remembering those 180,000 inquiries per second. If you do not have the time to do this kind of work, there are micro ad agencies on the web who can do it for you. Outsourcing this work is very cost effective as it allows you to keep selling and managing while someone else creates the links that drive your site to the top of the inquiry list.

There is nothing like having an 800 Pound Gorilla perched at the top of the most competitive key phrases in your industry (staring your down) every time you even THINK about optimizing a new search term.

Despite why they are there (usually as a result of patience, planning and persistence) what may be more disturbing is how 9 out of 10 searches for keywords in your niche include a page (or two) of your competitors as consistent, relevant search results. Before you scratch your head in frustration or disbelief, understand there is a light at the end of the tunnel and a way to throw in a banana peel of your own and enter the ranking game with verve.To the untrained eye, this is an intimidating experience, however to an SEO (who understands the amount of work required to acquire and maintain multiple rankings) it is nothing more than SEO basics and an exercise in tactful site promotion. SEO intrinsically by nature is basic, basic, yet extremely time consuming to manage.

Search engine rankings are based on the a multitude of aggregate criteria from various overlapping algorithms. These algorithms in turn administer the quality and roster of the search engine index. Each algorithm executes a specific battery of litmus tests that conduct evaluations on each page either discovered during pre-indexing, on existing pages (for relevance and reordering) or evaluates which aged pages gain immunity from less stringent algorithms and advance to authority status through TrustRank, Phrase Rank and Search Engine Trust.

SEO Basics: Getting your Foot in the Door

Once a page makes it into a search engine’s index, it is constantly guaged for relevance and elevated or demoted to based upon the search query initiated from search engines using an array of calculations. Despite the complexity of the advanced SEO principles outlined above, the simple fact is, as long as you provide a sufficient quantity of the criteria those algorithms are looking for in the appropriate quantity search engines use to assess relevance, your pages will fare well as search engine result pages.

Fortunately for us, the fabric of the internet is links, attention / engagement and popularity. At least those fundamental aspects are the primary considerations and serve as the building blocks of a solid optimization campaign.

SEO Basics: Adding the Right Ingredients

Rather than thinking of organic search engine optimization it as one practice alone, more specifically, it is a series of events produced in tandem that produce the phenomenon of creating consistent top 10 placement. Therefore, employing “Basic SEO” for your site (through and through) can provide more than just rankings. Over time, the streamlined use of SEO can provide your pages with an added advantage over less refined content. That advantage is the acquisition of authority status due to the quality of the content, accessibility from interested searchers and visibility through repeated exposure.

Aside from getting a page or site to occupy high ranking search results, those pages that weight the anchor and remain in the top 10 or top 5 results respectively are due to calculations of user engagement (how long people stay on the site), link popularity (how many sites that are trusted link to theirs) and the merit and relevance of the content (the content must be enticing and appealing).

It doesn’t matter if you are a fortune 500, fortune 100 or mom and pop shop, the results are the same if you apply the fundamentals of Basic SEO to garner the interest of search engine spiders for your content. Granted the resources are in favor of the company with deep pockets (as they can dedicate more man or woman power to the promotion process), but the underlying message is, not to be discouraged by those who may have got the jump on you and started months or years in advance. It is possible to catch up or surpass those who rest on their laurels in the search engine index, it is just a matter of content quality, the frequency of adding new content or resources and traffic.

How to turn your Chimp of a Site into an 800 Pound Gorilla:

Start from the bottom up, laying the groundwork is the key. The foundation supports the growth or stemming of continuity that resonates throughout the site. If you have your site established on the premise of a specific niche of information and continually add to that systematically, then chances are you are going to appeal to search engines as a resource for that category.

One example is, making daily blog posts, adding articles or products to your e-commerce site, then the links per page ratio comes into play. Based on the keywords you are targeting, the less competitive the keyword the easier it is to acquire a ranking for. Granted getting in the top 10 for a term like “purple toenail clippers” may not draw traffic, the idea behind this is a page mentioning the subject in the titles, tags and content and a few links from a few pages and there is your top 10 ranking for the phrase.

For more competitive terms, you will require (1) more content about the subject matter or (2) more links to the target site or page to increase relevance, how complicated is that? Yet each phrase has a threshold based on the activity in search engines for those terms. Call it the side effects of supply and demand or just plain competition, the more sites targeting a term the more difficult is will be to acquire it.

This is why foresight in forecasting trends for root phrases or a entire series of keywords can start with purchasing a domain with those keywords and populating the site with related / themed content over time to produce the right signals that your site, pages and tags are 100% relevant to those phrases, once again SEO Basics in action.

If terms are extremely competitive, then your pages will have to pass a higher degree of scrutiny from the various algorithms. It is important to note that each algorithm has a reward and penalty based mathematical trigger, so it is not just about adding 1000 pages or adding 1000 links it is about developing each area of the base phrases, the keywords and the content equivocally to produce a natural progression of the ranking factors that contribute to a high ranking position. That is the art and science of SEO, knowing when, where and how to perform each stage and more importantly why. With the right focus, the right content and the right volume of internal and external links, you can essentially elevate dozens of keywords simultaneously for your pages through a delicate optimization / balancing act to systematically increase search engine relevance.

SEO Basics: Increasing Relevance through Consistent Updates

Rather than leaving it to chance, it is better to give search engines what they want and have a content development strategy to add consistent content on a regular basis for 2 reasons (1) it gives people a reason to come back and (2) search engines reward fresh content. Oftentimes for the sake of branding a company has their hands tied regarding the amount of content that add to the site. If it is painfully obvious that the red tape is just too think (speaking of large corporation here) then creating a content rich site for the sake of lead generation may be an option you wish to consider. With so many ways to rank using various tactics, none are more powerful than solid content. One strategy is, to add 3-5 blog posts per week, write niche articles or content that pertains to the the phrases you want to rank for then inter-link your content and build quality external links from trusted sources. Aside from that, let trust and authority develop over time.

After the on page factors are well established (which can be done through creating an optimized website template and tagging your pages appropriately) you are ready to embark on the true journey which is populating your pages with (a) useful posts, articles, statistics and (b) links to other resources. Why, because these are the trappings of creating website authority which is the goal of organic SEO. The human visitors provide traffic, search engines (if appeased) will add your pages to their index to provide even more pre-qualified traffic, it is a pure win/win situation.

SEO Basics: Basic SEO Factors involve facets such as:

1. Forward linking – This implies who you link to, if your site has limited information on a topic and you link to another source which has a more thorough grasp of the subject, you get a gold star and can give your site a sliver of promotion when it comes to building search engine trust.

2. Acquiring Targeted Back Links – Acquiring back links implies that other sites have found something you said useful and are endorsing your content to their readers, visitors, clients, etc. Acquiring a back link for a newer site implies that based on the reputation of the site offering it, you are a trusted resource worthy of passing the word on (so to speak). By acquiring the right type of back links for your site from trusted sources, your site takes on the characteristic of an authority site, which once again, ultimately is the premise of organic optimization.

3. Tagging your content for the most relevance – Simply put, if your pages is about green widgets, then make sure the tags and title of the page is about green widgets and try to mention the “exact match” phrases than one may type in search engines to find it, in the body text 2-6 times.

4. Letting time work for you not against you – If your content is optimized (meaning linked appropriately internally and externally) then it will have the right trappings to gain authority in search engines. Roughly translated, if your content is indexed (because you optimized it, or managed to toggle the phenomenon of getting a quality link, etc.) then that link can age in the search engine index.

Depending on how frequently this page is called from the bin (the jar where all of the information about your site is stored, based on search engines crawling your pages) those pages then gain a degree of link juice or link weight in the index. Every 3-4 months, your pages can graduate to higher degrees of trust and the pages that had links pointing to and from your site, now have the ability to affect search results on their own vs. just trying to play catch up using external factors alone.

For example, a link from a page in your site that links back to another page in your site (this is called a deep link) can now provide more than enough link weight to provide the target page with it’s own top 10 placement. So, the value of tending and pruning your pages from the perspective of the long-term SEO value they possess becomes more apparent as you realize that a site can sustain itself from it’s own internal linking if constructed properly.

That may very well signify the conclusion of this article as the last principle is most assuredly bordering on Advanced SEO. Through understanding the basics, it provides you with less refinement down the line and since it is a competitive marketplace out there for millions of keywords that bear traffic, adhering to fundamentals that when matured are well worth the investment can be your best bet for advertising in the long run.

Who would have thought that great content, website structure and popularity could be broken into so many facets. This is another testament to the fact, that keeping things simple and focusing on Basic SEO structure is all it takes when combined with timing, exposure and relevance to manage your very own 800 pound gorilla in the SERPs (search engine result pages).

Jeffrey Smith is an active internet marketing optimization strategist, consultant and the founder of Seo Design Solutions Seo Company http://www.seodesignsolutions.com. He has actively been involved in internet marketing since 1995 and brings a wealth of collective experiences and fresh marketing strategies to individuals involved in online business.

I ran across these yesterday on digital point forum – very easy

“You all know Aboutus.com, now when someone types a domain after the slash/ it will generate auto article.

So what do you need?

You need a proper website running with a proper meta title, description and keywords.

You need to type on the address line:
www.aboutus.org/www.domain.com

Don’t forget, www.domain.com should be your domain, replace it with yours.

You will notice a page that will announce a “building article” note.

In 5 seconds you will have a whole page for your website and SE’s will crawl that fast.

Another one is domain tools, you probably all know it, just one trick:
Over the address bar click:
www.whois.domaintools.com/www.domain.com

Don’t forget, www.domain.com should be your domain!, replace it with yours.

It will do the same thing, 1 page for your website and many other pages will link to this, again fast crawl from SE’s.

There are few more similar websites that no one really took into account, don’t wait others will do it for you, you make it first and get index first.

Another trick is cubestat which means your domain page will have many other pages that will link each other = fast crawl from SE’s.
Over the address bar click:
www.cubestat.com/www.domain.com

Don’t forget, www.domain.com should be your domain!, replace it with yours.

Again,
It will generate your domain page with full info.

Similar thing happen on Alexa.com, but if you don’t do it Alexa bot might do it alone, but slowly else go to Alexa and type your URL (let them know about your new website)”

As you might know, I am working on building backlinks to my site. I have been researching and researching trying to find the very best info I can. I have come across some of the greatest articles with lists of techniques to help anyone improve the quality and quantity of links to their site.

Here is a FANTASTIC Article I found to help build links to your website: 

102-ways-to-make-your-blog-or-site-a-back-link-superstar(A MUST READ!)

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