Shoemoney had an interesting video a while ago, here it is (watch it before i carry on)

Paid links aren’t all bad, there are several types of paid links going around and just a few of them are:

• Sponsored reviews
• Sitewide links
• in-context links
• Sponsored wp themes
• Spam comments
• ..etc

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SEOmoz is a great resource for search engine optimization. There are two memberships that are available. One is free of charge which gives you limited access to the features. The other type of membership is a premium membership that you can get for $49.00 per month. You can get discounts if you go for the longer membership plans. This is the one that is the best since you can get unlimited access to their features.

The tools that you have access to as a premium member are extremely beneficial if you’re really serious about search engine optimization. Let’s go over some of these tools that they have available. The Term Target Tool will help you find out how targeted a specific page is for a specific keyword. This SEO tool is great for your pages, it will help you out a lot in making sure that you’re targeting the keyword good enough or if you need to put in a little more work on it. SEOmoz also has a Page Strength tool that you can use. This will help you quickly assess the value that your page has as far as SEO goes. The Juicy Link Finder will let you know where you can find authority links for your desired keyword. Have you ever wondered what keywords other websites that link to you use for your backlinks? No more wondering is necessary, the Backlink Anchor Text Analysis will show you.

As you can see from just a few of the tools that were covered in this that there is truly endless possibilities of how the tools at SEOmoz can help you succeed with Search Engine Optimization. There are many other tools that are available to use, these were just some of the best ones out of them all. Don’t get me wrong, they are all great tools to help with SEO.

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Every experienced blogger and webmaster understands that search engine optimization is what makes a blog or website successful. Search engine traffic is the most desired traffic for anyone. By effectively optimizing your blog for search engines you will notice an increase in search engine traffic.

Your blog design will determine how well search engines like your blog. If it is coded well and easy to navigate, you can rest assured that search engines will be attracted to your blog. Also, you need to make sure that your pages are conforming to the standard validation guidelines for the coding that you are using. A critical issue that relates to how well users can browse throughout your blog is whether or not it is compatible with the major browsers that people use today. This includes Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, and Opera. If your blog doesn’t load right in their browser there is more of a risk of your visitors going to another website/blog and never returning back to your blog. Search engines dislike excessive use of Frames, Flash, and Javascript. Keep your blog as simple as possible to assure that search engines continue to be attracted to it.

Image by Pink Sherbert

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The SEO Book Training Program from seobook.com is a great idea for anyone wanting to make more money with their websites. From the expert to the beginner, everyone can benefit from the knowledge found in the SEO Book Training Program.

The book is set up so that you can learn what you want to, when you want to with cross referencing to almost every subject so that you can learn SEO in the order of importance to you. It also has many great videos to help you along the way as they know that sometimes plain text doesn’t give the readers what they need to really let it sink in, but a video can be watched over and over again until you understand what they are teaching.
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Here is a breakdown of the things I’ve learned in the SEO process of most of my new sites, SERPs are a good source of traffic and authority of a certain page or site, to make sure you get the right serps and/or multiple serps you need to make sure things are properly formatted on your site and here is how i do it.

Positioning

Probably the most easit thing I figured out, google saerches for words in the same sentence not necerarily to be in the same manner as searched, what i mean is that the site with the following as its description can easily rank for “SEO Blog”

Running a Seo site is hard, learn tips and tricks at our blog

Its important that you string the words along so that you can rank for a number of things and no matter what keyword you target for link wise your site will keep up and perform much better then it would with constant changes to it’s title’s. For example the following sentence:

Bigger Blog - Better SEO, SEM tips blog

…can rank for :

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Everyone fears that one time when your site gets de-indexed by google, truth is no matter how many times it happens to people no one knows exactly what to do in those situations and they end up complaining about it in forums and such, so i thought why not line out the process of getting your site back into google index. Now, I would like to remind all of ya’ll that do not let your lively hood depend on Google!

Analyzing your mistakes and slips

You know its your fault because you either did something against Google’s tos and/or looked over something that later got you into hot water..
Here are the list of things you should start checking:

Duplicate Content

Its possible that you posted the same content over and over on multiple pages on your site and/or copied it from other websites, most of the time sites are de-indexed because they are stealing content from other sites that are already considered authoritative for that particular type of content and/or keywords A good way to find out if other sites have the same content is to run it through copyscape.

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This is a guest post by Shannon Lily from Infected by Bugs.
First off I wanted to thank Ahson once again for allowing me to guest post on his great BlueVerse blog! I love BlueVerse and I read it as if it was my second home. Today I am going to uncover one of the many SEO Myths that have been around the search engine optimization forums and blogs out their.

Does The Cache Date Actually Matter?

I have seen people of all shapes and sizes tell newer seos that one key factor they can use to up their serp rankings is to get indexed by the search engines more often. These seos either don’t know the truth themselves (not a big surprise) or they are purposely misleading the newer seos to put them on a wild goose chase and never achieve seo success. Whatever the reason is the seos that endorse that method really bug me to say the least.

In my opinion seo is an art form that should be shared with the world, if you’re a better artists then me then you deserve the fame you get from your art and vice versa. You may be asking yourself how little old me knows this little tidbit of information that seems to allude most seos.

It’s really quite simple, I have done testing on the subject and after a few months time have seen the negative and positives of getting my site indexed more often. I am sure Gnet has covered how to get indexed more by the search engines, but just incase he has not all it takes is a few social bookmarks and you will be set!

So anyways, about my testing! I have sites that are anywhere from 3 to 10 years old that I have owned the whole time and used for various things. I have seen the ins and outs of seo at work and all my sites rank for decent terms throughout the search engines. This info has given me the ability to dissect each test and see what works and what does not. After all this testing I can gladly and proudly say that being indexed in the search engines is not necessary for better rankings.

Instead of focusing in on that logic, take your new found wisdom and do the other steps to seo that really do matter like link building and connecting with our bloggers of your niche.

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on this subject, I will reply to all that I can so comment away below!

After alot of changes i have what i like to think of as the perfect money blogging SEO for blogs, since i am in the business of selling sponsored reviews and banners i need to make sure my sites are up to the standard where i can charge the best price for it and my advertisers can get the most out of it as well, so here are my steps to seo your blog.

First of all, you will need a few plugins to make sure your blog is ready for the rest of the setup.

• *WP-Digg Style Paginator - Adds page numbers to the pages
• All in One SEO Pack - The simplest seo pack out there
• AutoMeta - Great meta tag generator.
• Related Posts - Relevant content for relevant articles

All of the above mentioned widgets have a one click setup but ALL in one seo pack requires some extra settings that you might want to take a look over, here is my recommended setup :

Its good to have some kind of keywords at the end of tag or category archives, it gives the blog a better look but it doesn’t matter SE wise because i’ve added a no-index tag, you should know that getting your categories and tag pages indexed is a really bad move, it creates alot of indexable pages with the same content on almost all pages so in act of good faith no-index them then your posts and pages will be the only indexed pages from your site which will eliminate any spam flags on your site.

Permalinks are always an issue with people but the way i see it, it really doesn’t matter if you have a SE friendly url with the keywords and everything or those mysql query urls with the IDs, they are both given a SERP judging by their quality and strength not url structure, but if you still want to get a good structure try one of the following but remember i am not saying that these structures will give your blog anymore value then it already has, its just fancy urls so try to make it as short as possible.

• /post-title
• /date/post-title
• /category/post-title
• /category/post-title.html
• /post-id/post-name

No-following links is a good move but make sure that the comments on every post are nofollowed not the post links, if you are in the money blogging business you can not be controlling the flow of link juice from your site, google sees this as “gaming” pr and selling links, you do not want to be caught doing that, so just take the no-follow off all the links - regular posts & sponsored reviews.

Registering your blog at technorati is a seriously good move, only the registered blogs are ranked on their authority system and it does give out alot of good links too so make sure you are registered at technorati before you start pro active blogging.

Choosing keywords is something most bloggers get stuck on so like i always suggest “don’t get star struck” if others are earning good on a particular keyword doesn’t mean anyone could conquer it with little or less work, every successful blogger knows the hardwork it takes to make a niche work for him or her. Break down your blog’s main topics and go with the most relevant keyword/title you can come up with, the more relevant the better, being an authority in the niche is done easily, I’ll make a follow up post about being an authority figure in a certain niche soon after this post subscribe to me for the upcoming updates.

Linking to authority sites from relevant articles is a tactic most SEOs use to get higher rankings, I personally don’t really support this because you are getting leverage from someone else’s content and sending most of your traffic to them, that might get you a good SERP but it will drain a good amount of visitors from your blog, If you are just starting out make sure to not link to any bigger blogs or sites rather just send them a trackback if you have used their content and/or your content is relevant to their’s that way you get a free link! and its relevant as ever!

Selling traffic/exposure and not SEO value is my aim, who ever aims to sell links in order to give their advertisers better SERPs and such is going to get penalized one day or the other the better approach to money blogging is to get a really good reader base and giving them info that they want to know, in other words relevant ads , doesn’t matter if its a review or a banner if its irrelevant to your site, your advertisers won’t get any exposure.

Deep links can help you in so many ways, specially if you have the right title structure on your inner posts and pages that helps alot in getting a decent serp, for example i removed the blogname from all posts and pages to make my posts that much more relevant and its fairly easier to rank for a serp then before!

For example; Make Money Online Wallpapers (run query) :

Although there isn’t that much competition on that keyword but still i wanted to show you just how much better SERPs look without the blogname in them. There are more follow up posts that discuss this matter further/deeper so subscribe to me to stay updated on this

Wordze is a keyword research tool with some really great features, if you are starting a website or thinking about starting a website then wordze is the the tool where you need to spend your money.

Wordze collects its data from databases from ISPs and google serps and offers some top of the line keyword research features, while using wordze i noticed that there while manually researching keywords i missed 3 out of 7 potential keywords that could have earned me alot.

One of the things that i like the most at wordze is the levels of keywords if you search for seo then you get a list of keywords that are related to seo after that if you want to drill down your keywords more, just click on a keyword and you’ll get a new list of keywords related to that keyword, for example i wanted more keywords on seo services

Now if you are not sure which keyword you should target for you can just search for the main (parent) keyword to find similar keywords just use the main feature again and get several different keywords for the same keyword

Now, it doesn’t just stop at keyword research but it helps you know which sites you should target in order to get a top 10 ranking - in other words - your competition for a certain keyword, look at the screen shot below, this report kinda shocked me, i didn’t knew bidvertiser was doing that heavy link building

Wordze has proved itself to be a complete first stop for webmasters on their way to make a website, and here i have drilled down some of its key features:

• Geological data - shows you where the traffic originates from on keywords
• Percentage break down per country/state
• Provides archive history of keyword trends
• Helps you rank better (top 10)
• Offers features to make your own keyword list
• Filters to improve your keyword list
• Review your competition
• Misspelled keyword search (just like domain typos)
• API for the keyword research tool
• And best of all - it has an affiliate program!

You can learn more about Wordze here and if you like what you see here you can Sign up to wordze here.

I wouldn’t blog about it if i hadn’t tried it myself, in the last few days i was experimenting alot with nofollow on links and my post/page titles and i wanted to see for real if i had got any positive response from google, and i finally got enough facts to prove that this does help!

No extra chunks in titles

If your page is about “Free SEO Templates” then let it stay just that do not end it with your site’s name like “Free SEO TEmplates - Site Name” that not only spams your own serps but would jeopardize your ranking on “free seo templates“. NOTHING more then what is relevant.

Nofollow 90% of the site

I don’t believe in “selling seo” but i do believe in product integration and relevant products for the targeted traffic, so thats why the main objective you should have while selling/buying links on your site should be purely traffic, the more you buy/sell links to manipulate search engines the more they will pick on you.

Continuance of topics

Every niche has several number of topics involved so don’t stop at just one, make more content on the neighboring topics, if you have the following pages on your site interlinked between each other then they will boost each others rankings no backlinks needed.

1. Basic SEO
2. Intermediate SEO
3. Pro SEO
4. SEO Book
5. Learning SEO
6. SEO in 5 steps

Constantly update your content

Let me make it bold so that its very very clear even if its a static page or a post on your blog if you want to mantain a serp ranking - constantly update the information on the post if there is some more info out there. SERP rankings are determined by the end user’s satisfaction count as well if people just go to your site then google it again and select a different serp then you stand to lose a ranking!

Using the H1,H2 and H3 tags

The header tags carry alot of importance as well think of it like categories then sub categories in your blog

H1

- H2

- - H3

So think of it like this, break your page into 3 headings within the content :

1. H1 - Learning SEO
2. H2 - SERPs and basics
3. H3 - Further into serps

You get the idea