There are a few things to you should keep in mind when creating content for your website or membership site. I've listed 7 search engine friendly tips that will help you rank well and steer clear of problems you don't need.
You've probably heard a few of them before, and I'll put them together for you to help you remember them ok?
1. First of all, we know we should use unique content wherever it's possible. You can find a great deal of content by searching and affordable PLR or low/no cost reprints too. To the search engines, unique content is at least 30% rewritten or different than any other webpage on the internet.
If you need ideas for unique content, you can get on some mailing lists, newsletters, and research topics that interest you. Compare products, ideas, and research results, review products or endorse people you like. Another casual rule is to write 70% of an article you're referring to about a particular subject.
You may want to stay with topics that are current, so it is beneficial to browse some of the bookmarking sites and social sites for new ideas. A people friendly site is not restricted to business ideas, but fresh new topics are of interest and work like "hotcakes." I like to add a little humor where its appropriate or a viewpoint that's not ordinary. Everyone has their own experiences and that's what makes them the unique person that they are, so information sharing is all the more interesting when we discuss and review them.
2. Add New Content Regularly
To maintain a high page rank with the search engines, and a quality membership site, webmasters need to regularly add new content to their websites. The freshness of a newly written blog is a desirable thing. Blogs are a great way to add content on a regular basis. Inviting comments is also a good way to increase your ranking, and at the same time may give you new ideas for follow up blog posts.
3. Keyword Use
Remember to select specific keyword phrases that are relevant to the webpage you are optimizing rather than general terms. Being more specific will get you more targeted traffic to your site, and if you're general with your terms, the competition is so great that you may not be selected in the top ranking sites for those.
Specific keyword phrases will also help you to get more targeted traffic and a higher page ranking for these phrases. Choose "long tailed" keywords or phrases so as to narrow the idea or communicate better to the reader what to grasp.
Look at what the competition is doing also. Check out at least the top ten results for your keyword phrases on various search engines. Look at the description and meta tags on your competitors pages to get some ideas.
Don't use too many keywords though. Optimal keyword density is not clear, but many recommend aiming for 3% and 7% to get the most traffic without being penalized by the search engines. You don't want to make the article look stuffed with keywords for your readers either.
Put the keywords where they will have the most notice, at the top of the page, in your first paragraph and in the title and headline tags. You'll want to keep them closer together to add search engine value, but this will not change the optimization of the webpage. Vary your keywords and don't always use the same ones so that they become very obvious or loud to the reader.
4. Create Dynamic Links
To achieve a high serach engine ranking it is important to get other sites to link to your membership site. These will be one way links, or reciprocal links, where you link to another site in return for them linking to you.
5. Easy Navigation
Don't make the readers wonder where things are or need to ask questions to get around the site. Make the information and linking structure visible and easy to find, a user friendly website. Give directions and make it easy to find a similar topic or product.
6. Attention Grabbing Headlines
Use informative headlines throughout your webpage content, including your keyword phrases where appropriate. Captivate your readers' attention and draw a picture or punctuate an idea, keeping in mind it's not too taxing to follow the flow of the article.
7. Tagging Your Webpage
Finally, remember to include descriptive tags (Alt tags) on graphics so that they make sense and explain what the graphic is, but you'll want to include your keywords if possible.
Also, use descriptive title tags on all of your web pages to show what the page is about. Limit these to 59 characters. Add descriptive description tags to all web pages, and limit them to 150 characters.
If you're blogging or article writing, you may be able to include tags at the end of your post. These tags are associated with your ID and your business or webpage and listed as searchable phrases. These are tags you won't need to advertise using PPC campaigns. They are simply posted with the article and indexed according to the post.
If writing regular content is too much of a strain for you, I've found a great way to outsource this problem. The only thing you'll need to know about this is that your own links will not be the only ones you promote. It's similar to linking though, so it can benefit the both of you to network on this. The author that writes the article gets the link and you get the content. You can get this with a free membership at MyArticleNetwork, you just put your site in and choose the topic and the remote publisher does the work for you. If you want to also submit your own blogs and articles with your own links, you can pay a small fee and they will be distributed throughout many networks.
One way backlinks is one of the best and most effective ways to get high positions in search engines and milk these positions for targeted traffic. But getting quality one way links is a big job.
Free Traffic System is a new project that helps you to get top quality one way links for free - unlimited number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, Free Traffic System has integrated a brand new concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.
Before getting to the viral part of the project, it is important to explain where exactly you are getting these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll - in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it - search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.
You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, safe and smart way to build backlinks for free. You submit one article to Free Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And - unlike traditional article marketing - no one will delete your backlinks from the article, like they do when stealing your content from article directories.
The viral part of Free Traffic System is simple - they reward people for bringing others into this free project. You are receiving a BONUS backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to Free Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all people who got into the system via the affiliate link.
As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in Free Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from Free Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside Free Traffic System yourself.
And the final perk of the viral strategy. If you add at least one WordPress blog to Free Traffic System, they instantly increase the number of bonus backlinks by 7%.
So, in Free Traffic System you get:
- free backlinks that you build yourself - viral bonus backlinks for affiliating people into the project - viral bonus backlinks for adding your blog(s) to Free Traffic System
With this free backlink building power targeted traffic from search engines becomes just a matter of time.
Do you know what article marketing can do for your business?
One of the most incredible strategies ever to be incorporated with online advertising is article marketing. It has proven to be the most cost-efficient and most effective of them.
By the term itself, you probably would know what this kind of marketing is about. By writing articles that are content-rich, you will be able to reach more people online. Not only that, you will be able to project a credible image to those who may have chanced upon your articles.
With the internet now reaching world-wide market, there is a higher possibility of you getting the attention and interest of potential customers. This is what article marketing can do. If you have not been using this in your business, you are missing more than you know.
How does article marketing work?
Here is a guided tour on the step-by-step process of article marketing that will guide you on your way to achieving the kind of articles needed for your kind of business.
To start with, you need to premium a quality, informative and 300 minimum word article about a certain topic related to your business.
For example, if your business is about family living, you can write an article that delves on how to spend more quality time with families. Never write about something that is not even closely related to your niche.
After you have the content written, you can now include a resource box at the end of the article. The resource box is basically a brief summary about you, your business and with a link that goes right to your website.
Putting a link to your site in the resource box would is making it possible for many people who would get to read your article. This could essentially result to a large amount of new traffic to your site.
Then it is time to submit your articles to as many article directories you can find. Over the Internet, you can find various article directory sites. There are paid and free sites.
If you are on a budget, you may opt for the free submissions being offered. But if you have money set aside for your article marketing, paying for the submission sites is also a wise move.
Whenever somebody reads your article displayed on directories, the link that leads to your site is prominent enough for the readers to be able to check them out once they find your article interesting. This way, there is a big probability of you gaining more customers whenever find what they are looking for in your site.
There is also a chance that your article would get picked up by a printed publication, and the readership of the same would get to know the products or services which your business offers.
You should know that article directories are being displayed on various websites. They are seen by millions of people all over the world. This apparent visibility also makes it easier for search engines to index them.
The technique behind article marketing is back linking. Back links are links to your websites that you have somehow displayed on sites with higher page ranks. To put it simply, your site is basically sharing instant success with the sites you are linking to.
Getting indeed by search engines can be a long and trying process. Oftentimes, the result takes days or months before being acknowledged. There are even cases where, after waiting for a long time, the result you will be getting is not the one you expected. This is the main reason why Internet marketers have resorted to back linking. You cannot get this instant online recognition in the shortest of time and without too much effort anywhere else.
You can always hire a ghostwriter to write your articles for you if you cannot write your own articles or do not have the time for them. The price rate for writing articles is from 3 to 10 dollars.
With all the advantages being presented by article writing, there is no doubt why this has become one of the most often used Internet marketing strategy.
Try to do some article marketing for your site and see the positive results it will bring to your site.
I know this is short lived and hopefully it is still valid when you read this post, but I have to share this with you. You hear me talking about SEO every so often and most of the time I tell you that you probably waste your time trying to reach #1 on Google.
Well, this morning I discovered that I actually reached #1 for a search term that is very familiar to all of you "plugin profit website". While checking Wordtracker I discovered that this search term is heavily used.
Please click here to see the Google result. Hopefully it is still there. My website is called http://www.mypluginhomebiz.com . Please scroll down on this page and you will see my name and references to the Power Blog. It is a variation of Stone's original PIPS site.
The reason why I'm telling you this is that I attest my success solely to the Power Blog and its broad reach to millions of visitors. You too can become successful with the Power Blog if you use all the tools that the Power Blog provides.
I challenge you to ditch any program that you're paying $19.95 or more without making any money to upgrade to the Power Blog PRO membership. I guarantee you will get at least members in your downlines, if not making some back end commissions. Everything is possible. Also, don't forget to download all the tools that you are allowd to download.
To proof my point I will create a new program that's called "The 30 Day Power Blog Challenge". This means that I guarantee that you will be successful with the Power Blog. The new step-bystep Power Blog guide is in the works and will be released soon to all the Power Blog members.
That's it for today.
Take care, Peter
PS: Don't forget to participate in the new weekly surf competition at the Power Hits Exchange. Every Sunday the most active 4 surfers will win web hits packages.
There is no better method of improving search engine ratings, than with the use of great keyword articles. This is something that all good web site owners know, and strive for. This is said to be the best way to optimize you pages of your site. Content that is focused on keywords generates a great amount of traffic to your site. Why this fact goes so completely unnoticed by site owners is still a mystery. One would figure people would understand that traffic is not solely reserved for the front and primary page of your site. Your site can be accessed from many pages on your site, provided you have many. If you only have one page, obviously this whole topic is moot.
If you have a site that is related to music, and you are speaking about perhaps 3 different articles the best way to generate more traffic to your site is to place keywords for all three articles. This in turn will make the likelihood of a sale more probable. The biggest problem with no cost, or free content is that it is generally not set up for keyword rich content. The general premise of free articles is basically author's self-promotion. This is a basic service and along with it unfortunately there are still rules to follow. For example, you cannot in any way change the article content, as you did not pay for it, you cannot remove or alter the bio box for the author again as you did not pay for the article. So in terms of this you may have an article picked up from one of these sites and find that it is good, however not great or just what you were looking for. Either way it cannot be adjusted.
It is also important to remember, that if you have picked up this particular article from one of those sites, so too could have 200 other people. This will do nothing in the way of staying on top of your competition in the field. The possibility of a web site having duplicate content as someone else leads to the search engine penalizing the site found to have the copy. Is it really worth it to you to get caught? There are many sites that have a membership base, where the content is keyword rich and the articles are great however; you are not the only one promoting the article. There could be as much as 1,500-2,000 members doing the very same thing, how are you separating yourself from the crowd.
It is important to remember either way, the objective is to gain valuable information or content for your site, this is not a situation where you are to share with your neighbor, as they are your direct competition. In doing this you are providing them the tools to put you out of business.
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