In the last week 2 of the new startup blogs i know got their site links so it got me thinking, why the hell don’t i have them?!

I go to google’s webmaster central..What do i see?

Sitelinks!

I think to myself Okay i just got sitelinks! Woo! lets check google..

Ah crap…celebration over…wtf though!?

Now i have absolutely no idea what’s going on, why i have sitelinks but they don’t show…what good is that now?

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After reaching a certain number of posts a blog has sufficient data to be linked internally rather then linking to other blogs on the net. Linking to inner posts within a blog is really good for SEO as well as to get some additional traffic because most of the links from within posts get the most exposure.

Searching your blog before searching a Search-Engine

Why not search your own blog for content to link before going to search engines?
It does give you alot of strength to refer to your own inner pages for a certain topic and it certainly does boost your serps.

Revive old content

After all old content is still content, linking to really old content which is buried down in pages!
Linking to those old posts can offer your readers with not only more info but also get those posts more exposure in search engines!

Feed readers to Site Visitors

Usually i don’t click a post in my feed reader unless i really really want to read a post, so if you are adding links within the posts to emphasize a point your readers will certainly click those links to go to the posts at your blog!

Good Link Flow

Linking to other sites is not the only way link flow is altered, the ratio at which you are linking to sites matters alot and if you more links to other sites then pages from your own that is a clear sign of paid links and/or low content value.

You could refer to our blogging tip on content for more info on this matter

Many bloggers simply overlook article marketing as a way to promote their sites. If you want to make money blogging, this is a good way to get you moving in the right direction.
Every blogger who wants to make money online needs to write a few good articles on their niche and submit them to the top article directories. This will not only help you with your traffic numbers, it could prove to be a good way to get quality links pointing to your blog, and lots of them, if you write an informative article. Many webmasters only use content that comes from such article directories which must be used with your biography or resource box included, giving you all those free links.

If you’re a regular reader of Blueverse.com you will already know what this can do for the SEO of your blog.

Bloggers must look at writing an article to be submitted at an article directory as a way to build many links at once and not just as a way to get a few visitors to your web site. These are the best kind of links to have, they come from many different websites and will help to push your blog to the front page of Google for your targeted keywords.

Just make sure you get the most out of your resource or biography box by linking your website to the anchor text of the keywords you are wanting to rank high for.

I’ll bet you’ve already thought of a quality informational article you could write up in just a few minutes that would keep giving you links for many months to come, so what are you waiting for? Get out there and start submitting your articles to article directories, you will find that the bloggers who currently make money online, and lots of it, are all expert authors at the top article directories.

First off, let me say if you are using WordPress, read the must have WordPress Plugins for 2008 that Gnet wrote about in an earlier post, I spent some time today working on a new WordPress Blog and I found these plugins very easy to implement, thanks Gnet for telling where to get all of them!

Okay and now on to the SEO Tips to optimize your website. I know that there are more experienced SEO people out there, but these are the tips I’ve found that are most overlooked by webmasters and bloggers today.

Link Building should be done on a regular basis. No matter how you go about getting links to point to your site, keep adding them. Regular new links will always be more appealing to Google and other Search Engines if you acquire them over time instead of all at one time. Building Links is often thought about in the beginning of websites and blogs but tends to drop off after some success has been seen. Don’t forget to keep building your links to keep your site the most optimized it can be.

Anchoring text is often done using the same word over and over again. Google likes your site better if you can link to different variations of the keyword you are using. If your linking to other pages and articles in your blog, practice anchoring to many forms of the keyword you are actually targeting. This will always help you to rank better with search engines. A good example of this was used above, where I linked up “Building Links” to a post previously written on BlueVerse instead of using “Link Building” as the anchor text.

Don’t forget to go bold! You don’t have to go crazy with it, but adding the <b></b> tags around the keywords you are trying to rank for whenever you can will play a big part in the optimization of your site.

Like I said, these are just the tips on what I think is most often overlooked as you get more involved with your website or blog. For a more in depth look at SEO and strategies you can use to optimize your site, download the Free SEO Book.

I’ve been subscribed to Matt’s blog for a week now i wanted him to take another shot at explaining just why it is that he doesn’t like paid links besides the fact that they game/manipulate serps, its pretty obvious what you tell the newbie webmasters is:

If you don’t have links - You WON’T get a pr!

If you don’t have “keyworded” links - You WON’T get into serps!

For all my customers i tend to promote relevancy  at first then anything else, but the thing is that people ask for PR and good SERPs not just authority and a good reader-base now-adays so the only way that can be done is link bait ( i like it better because thats cheaper ) all you need is a good idea and you get tons of natural “keyworded” links to your inner or homepage - good thing huh? well apparently not, with all the paid links flying around here some natural links might even get the hit, and thats where all the good hard work goes down the drain…

The only reason they hate paid links is there is a definite 60%+ chance that the reviewer or the seller is probably being so irrelevant and misguiding to the whole topic that it may spread bad/wrong info and that would ruin google’s credibility as a search engine and producing useful results.

Matt pointed out a link building guide of a sort.. as it notes out “Bad neighborhoods” i think every new blog or just a blog with alot of blogroll links are considered bad here as well, and that gets on my nerves because the only reason Google is being manipulated by paid links is because its letting that happen and everyone right this instant is making a ton of money doing that, in my opinion Google took the cheaper way out of the whole “Gaming SERPs” issue to keep its authority..

This was an idea for an e-book something like mubin’s imagehosting ebook maybe?

But i thought “what the hell..lets post it up..” , these are really some simple tricks and tips you can do to have a good proxy network up and running…

First of all you need domains, new ones, if you buy pr domains that would just screw you over since they might be de-indexed already or might have a niche history (which ends up in less indexed pages for you) a new domain means a new start a new history for google to archive..

Now, proxies do-not get de-indexed easily i know that for a fact i have proxies with 30k+ pages indexed at google for over 3 months now and they are still doing their job like they are supposed to..

I am gonna go ahead and use one of my proxies as an example..

I have Myspace Temp as a proxy and it has 30,000+ indexed pages:

If you look closely at the screenshot below you will see that the links at the top are linked to proxified pages of those sites, this maybe considered blackhat but it sure as hell beats the 4hr/day job of getting traffic to your proxies..

If you leave those links up there, google will pickup the pages from it as you get more links to the home page. The more indexed pages you have the better and as you get more authority or strength your pages will rank better which means more traffic!

And the bottom part is something i called “network wide port” i add a php function to the front page that fetches info/content from a file hosted remotely so that i can add/sell/trade links as well as try out new adnetworks whenever i want without going through the incredibly annoying task of editting the proxies one by one, its perfect if you want to run a proxy network.

I was just throwing a few queries at Yahoo’s directory, this was a fun one, i know i may be completely wrong but it sure is worth blogging since people keep wondering what sites shoemoney owns, so here it is..

run query…

Frankly, I’m thinking of listing around 5 of my sites at yahoo myself, since for those sites i need pr and authority, my mfas do great without that much authority.

I already know it as a fact that Links to a homepage of a site gets you more indexed pages, but what about pr passed on to the pages below it?

Its always interesting to see webmasters buying “deep links” on forums and directories, i consider this as an unwritten rule that i follow while link building for a site, unless you know that your site will never get deep links on its own you should only do linkbuilding for the homepage, and have all the links that ARE available on the site “site pages..etc” on the front page, so that whatever link love you get for the front page eventually passes on to inner pages and links as well, the more pr/strong pages you have the better your site will be structured.

You can usually check the pr of each link on a page using iwebtool’s visual page rank, here is mine:

As you can see that the most inner pages on my blog have low or no pr at all, thats because all the links are leading to the homepage and they are yet to be passed down to the innerpages, getting a pr on your inner pages can be quite difficult its like a sign of mid-high authority (having pr on inner pages) so as far as i can see i’ll have a healthy number of inner pages with pr on the next update not to mention my pr5 homepage.

IF you are doing link building, make sure you stay on your niche with it, either let it be the title of the page, the name of your site or the keyword you are aiming for. You have 3 choices to make. Do-not go off topic.

Well, after my recent post on the traffic splurge from simple seo, people started asking me about how to do basic seo and how to promote their blogs that were being overlooked by google, so here i go.

First and foremost thing that i would enforce is relevancy, nothing else, if you are relevant to your niche, you’ll be just fine.

Now here are some steps you can take to have a bit more interactivity going on your site which leads to “returning traffic” that keeps coming back for more.

• This one is terribly simple, blog directories and communities such as mybloglog and blogcatalog they both are very powerful blog communities, blogcatalog is a blog-directory as well (where i have listed my blog too), it provides carefully reviewed submissions to their directory, which by the way is FREE, so go for it!The more interactivity you have on your site such as those oh-so-cool recent readers widgets that both of those blog communities provide.

  

  One more directory that you might want to submit your blog to would be the BlogFlux Directory, you could do this on a later note too because its not that important to have your blog in there, but an extra link never hurts and blogflux gets tons of traffic! (yep, i have my blog there too)

• Now the second step if you wish to, you could take SMM as a promotional strategy for this, make sure your tags for each post have something to do with the original niche that you are trying to base the blog on, and to make this easier i’d recommend using
  OnlyWire , its an all-in-one kinda social bookmarking site, you can just use one interface in order to bookmark tons of posts/pages on your site/blog.
• Link Building : This is the easiest and most fun part of making and promoting a blog, you don’t have to buy links for every site, its better if you link exchange with relevant blogs on the same niche, make sure they don’t contain any off topic rants or anything, while launching a blog you need to be zero-tolerant on getting links from in-active blogs/sites, usually those sites get de-indexed to the bare minimum amount of pages at google and it stays that way, although some links are better then none links so you should get those too but try to make them your last priority.
  

  If you are worried about what keyword you should try to target then try out my strategy for keyword research…

  If you can’t convince yourself you are basically screwed from the very start, so don’t care what other people say is a high paying keyword, do your own research and then you’ll have proof that what you are doing actually DOES work!

  On an almost daily basis i use Google Trends you can compare products and search phrases on there to get a more accurate view of the whole situation this is something alot of people skip doing and rather pay marketers and seos to do, Its just one simple query and it can get you a ton of good info.

  For example, look at the stats below.

  

  You can see clearly that free games has the highest frequency of searches and activity, so targeting for that keyword would be a bad bad move unless you have a good advertising budget and one kick ass site, so this way you get the full stats of whats the highest used keyword and what keywords you should be using for your sites, in this case id suggest free online games since its easier to land compared to the rest and once you have that you can get free games easily as well because you are on the much relevant, same niche based and less used keyword already, that gives you leverage at serps!

I don’t take advice from anyone on a regular basis, its a 24/7 job and its exhausting (lol).

If you can’t convince yourself you are basically screwed from the very start, so don’t care what other people say is a high paying keyword, do your own research and then you’ll have proof that what you are doing actually DOES work!

On an almost daily basis i use Google Trends you can compare products and search phrases on there to get a more accurate view of the whole situation this is something alot of people skip doing and rather pay marketers and seos to do, Its just one simple query and it can get you a ton of good info.

For example, look at the stats below.

You can see clearly that free games has the highest frequency of searches and activity, so targeting for that keyword would be a bad bad move unless you have a good advertising budget and one kick ass site, so this way you get the full stats of whats the highest used keyword and what keywords you should be using for your sites, in this case id suggest free online games since its easier to land compared to the rest and once you have that you can get free games easily as well because you are on the much relevant, same niche based and less used keyword already, that gives you leverage at serps!