Since the competition is really very tough, it’s difficult to afford the high rates and here the hunt begins. You must look out for the company that really lends you helping hand by giving you affordable SEO services that are within your budget. An efficient company is the one that charges less and still gives you competitive results in search engine ranking. You won’t want to spend your hard-earned money with the company that has too many plans but no action.

Questions concerning traffic generation come up very often on this forum, so I though it would be nice to post a list of all the different methods people use to build backlinks and drive traffic to their blog/site (it is a post from my own blog). So, newbies and others can use this thread to find different methods of traffic generation without having to ask the question over and over again.

I hope this list can help you guys in driving traffic to your site. Good luck all.

Submit your site wherever you can!

1. submit your blog to directories in your niche.

2. submit your blog to all the free directory and search engines.

3. submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.

4. submit each and every post to social bookmarking sites using onlywire.

5. submit your articles to article directories like Ezine, article base and associated content.

Use web 2.0 and other resources to promote your site.

6. write related articles on WikiPedia with your blog url in it.

7. make a hubpage for your blog, with a little bit information about your blog.

8. make a wiki page for your blog.

9. make a squidoo lens or more with a link to your site.

10. sign up at 43things.com and write things related to your blog and what you want to accomplish.(you’d be surprise by the number of people, just reading other peoples list)

11. create a myspace page for your blog.

12. create a facebook page for your blog.

13. create a hi5 page for your blog.

14. join blogcatalog and do the same as with mybloglog.

15. use MyBlogLog to create a community around your blog. join other peoples community, so they do the same for you.

16. create an account with Technorati and with every new post, ping it.

17. post related how-to videos on you tube with your blog address on the bottom of the screen or at the end or beginning of the video.

18. use yahoo answers to answer questions related to your niche, leaving your link in the resource box. (believe it or not, 10% of my traffic comes from 20 minutes a week answering questions on yahoo answers)

19. create an account on stumbleupon, and stumble each and every article you write. (one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site for free)

20. join as many forums as possible, especially forums related to your niche

Take advantage of free tools and Plug-ins.

21. place a “digg it” button right after your post, to make it easy for your readers to digg your post.

22. use a comment notifying plug-in to let your readers know about new comments. believe it or not, most people read more of other peoples comment on your post, than your post itself.

23. use social bookmarking plug-ins to make it easy for your readers to submit your post to social bookmarking site

24. install “tell-a-friend” plug-in to make it easy for your readers to let others know about your post.

25. make use of “all in one SEO” plug-in to make your blog search engine friendly.

26. use a forum plug-in to create a forum for your blogs readers to talk and discuss related issues.

27. use a free keyword tool to find and use good ranking keywords in your niche.

28. use sites like vista print to make free business cards ($5 shipping for 250 free BC which is worth it) with your site url on it and pass it around.

29. make a free favicon to be easily found in your readers favorites file. (people like to find what they want fast. I myself sometimes give up finding a particular article or site in my huge favorite file, simply because i don’t want to spend 5 minuets to go through the whole list. A favicon is like big spot light focused on you between hundreds of other people!

30. use free press release services to gain visibility.

31. Use pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.

32. use free advertising sources like craigslist and backpage to post ads about your articles or blog in related categories.

Other Bloggers Can Help Too!

33. talk about or if you can interview a trusted person in your niche

34. Leave comments on blogs in related niches or any niche for that matter.(don’t spam, leave genuine comment, as you would like others to do so for you)

35. make a banner ad for your blog and exchange with other interested bloggers.

36. use blogroll to link to other bloggers in your niche in exchange for a link to your blog on their blog roll.

37. ask other bloggers to write a review of your blog in exchange for a link to their site from your site.

38. dedicate a post about a top bloggers in your niche. it will catch their attention and they may link to you

39. whenever appropriate, link to other bloggers articles in your post. they will return the favor.

40. use your best articles to post on other peoples blog as a guest writer (it’ll gain you visibility and new audience)

41. another blogger to post on your blog as guest (while he enjoys some new readers, it will brings his readers to your site as well)

Use your site as a tool to attract and keep visitors.

42. provide freebies, like free ebooks, free downloads and etc, to your readers.

43. once in a while run a contest related to your niche and encourage visitors to participate for a prize, and do give a prize to the winner, no matter how small. it will help to establish your persona as a trusted blogger, and once people see you as a trustworthy person, not only they will keep coming back to you, but they will bring other visitors as well.

44. use common questions related to your niche for the title of your article.

45. use keywords in the title of your post. keywords in title is one of the easiest and most important techniques of search engine optimization.

46. use a small place on your blog to have your blogs complete url ready for those who wish to link to your blog.

47. keep your blog clean and easily navigable.(how many times you have left a site, because you weren’t able to find what you came for?)

48. use numbered list for your informative posts, like “5 ways to…”. people tend to like these kinds of post.

49. shocking and surprising articles will draw people to your site.

50. be on the look out for new developments and news related to your niche, the first person breaking a new story, gets the most traffic.

51. videos are increasingly becoming popular, use them on your blog to your advantage.

52. use tags for your post, as its becoming a very popular way of finding related content.

53. Post frequently. search engines and readers like fresh content.

54. if you have any other blog or site, place a link to your site. (you can even create a blog to talk about your journey with your blog/site).

55. read and respond to your readers comment.(if i feel that what i say is important to the writer, i am more likely to came back for more and encourage others to do the same)

Extra!

56. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.

57. use your blog name for your user name in forums and when leaving comment on other blogs.

58. ask your friends and family to Digg and stumble your posts. a post with more diggs or stumble, means more visibility.

59. put your blogs name and url on a bumper sticker or something like that, and attach it to your car. big corporations pay people to place their ads on their car, you don’t have to pay anyone, use your own car and also give some stickers to your friends and family and ask them to stick it on back bumper.

60. make flyers with your blogs name and a short captivating headline style description and pass it in the mall or parking lots. if you use a good headline, at least 60-70% of the people will visit your blog out of curiosity, and who knows how many will become your die-hard fans!(readers).

61. and last but not least, be patient and give it some time. no one goes from 20/30 visitors a day to hundreds and thousands of visitors, over night.

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What is Blog Actually?

Basically a Blog is a web page that is available on the web. Generally this is made for an individual only who have the permission to write whatever he thinks on his personal webpage. The person who keeps up all this things in known as “blogger” and the whole process is known as blogging. Hope you got what I mean.

Did you know Currently there are over 30 million blogs on the web and thousands more being created each and every day it’s a huge amount I think ok just assuming ownership of one blog per person, that’s a minimum of 30 million people on this planet who are expressing their personal opinions on all that exists under the sun this is a good thing. Here I am putting on some points that will really make you a perfect blogger. Please mind it.

1- Choose the right domain name – Always choose a domain name that represents your niche. People can assume the niche of your blog by just looking your domain name. Domain name also plays a Very important role for the visibility of your blog in search engines.

2 – Choose the best platform – Choose the best platform for your blog which you think you can manage easily, this will reduce the complexity of your blogging and you can give s some extra time to your visitors.

3 – Choose your favorite niche – Please mind it because whatever you are writing on your blog makes sure that you are completely aware about it. The readers of your blog are assuming that everything is almost true at here. So this will make a very bad impression on your visitors if they find wrong information on your blog.

4 – Be Refreshing – Change is the law of nature so keep your blog refreshing, Update your blog after a regular interval of time.

5 – Make your readers – Write something which is informative and interesting. Make your visitors compelled to bookmark your blog, just try to become a BRAND.

6 -Include user Interaction in your blog – Always welcome the news, views and opinions of your visitors. Segregate them in your perception make them feel that they are important for you.

Happy Blogging…

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I’ve been SEO’ing websites long before the 21st century began. We say on our website that it’s been officially since 1995, but I was doing SEO for my old parenting website all the way back in 1993. For me, the start of this past decade in 2000 seems like only yesterday. Sometimes I feel I’ve been touting the same SEO processes and procedures for the past 10 years.

But have I?

Or has SEO changed so much, as almost everybody else always says, and I just haven’t noticed?

I just so happen to have been writing SEO newsletters since the year 2000, which provides me with a unique opportunity to see exactly how much SEO has changed (or not) in the past 10 years. I spent the better part of this morning fishing through them all, looking for interesting nuggets that showed just how much search marketing has or hasn’t changed. As you have probably guessed, what I found was a little bit of both – sort of “the more things change, the more they stay the same” kinda thing.

Here are some random things I spotted, year by year:

2000

• I had long forgotten when the “SEO” acronym was coined, but apparently it was pre-2000 because I was using it in my articles that year.
• Search engines weren’t indexing dynamic URLs very well back then.
• The engines and directories that we were talking about: Lycos, Excite (almost dead by 2001), Snap (soon changed to NBCi), LookSmart, Go (formerly Infoseek), Hotbot, AltaVista and, yes, Google.
• All the way back in 2000 you could pay for a Yahoo directory listing ($199 one-time fee at the time).
• It seemed that many of our newsletters focused on getting listed in directories.
• Back in 2000 Google was known to spider more quickly and thoroughly than the other engines…the beginning of the end for them?
• Link popularity was already understood to be a very important element within SEO.

Best Jill quote of 2000:

“Who would believe that in the year 2000 we’d still hear of people trying to find new ways to hide text on their pages?”

2001

• Pay-for-placement in the search engines was the latest and greatest.
• Search engines were getting much better at indexing and crawling dynamic URLs. There were mod_rewrite programs available that also helped.
• Big Dogs (aka large brands) didn’t seem to have an advantage over little guys back in 2001. (They do now.)
• “GoTo,” the first major pay-per-click search engine, was around and was getting well known. (It was later renamed Overture, and then became Yahoo Search Marketing many years later.)
• Google was already totally dominating as far as the relevancy of search results went. (Which helps explain why they ultimately killed all the other search engines.)
• The meta keyword tag was already known to have little to no bearing on search engine rankings (at least by me).
• Even back in 2001, rankings were very volatile and would fluctuate from day to day. (Bet you thought that was a new phenomenon!)

Best Jill quote of 2001:

“In my opinion, buying additional domain names for the sole purpose of obtaining more search engine rankings is NOT a good idea. If you spend the time it takes to create great content, you’ll naturally be able to obtain high rankings. Instead of buying up additional domain names, keep adding worthwhile pages to your existing site.

“Never forget that, if done correctly, each and every page of your site is a gateway to the rest of the site. If everyone would spend less time trying to figure out the best way to trick the search engines and more time providing useful content, they’d not only reduce their own stress levels, but they’d end up eventually getting the high rankings they crave. Really.”

2002

• Yahoo directory submissions went up to $299 per year and people predicted the death of it. (It’s still around, but I haven’t used it in ages.)
• There were rumblings of The Death of SEO!
• Google launched AdWords, and changed the face of online advertising and search marketing for the entire decade.
• The High Rankings Advisor Newsletter was born! See the first issue here.
• Paid inclusion and directories continued to be big topics in search marketing.
• My search engine optimization process.Other than the submitting to search engines part, it’s not a whole lot different from our process today!
• Traffic from AltaVista was dwindling to just about nothing.
• Google was giving out PageRank penalties for selling PR.
• We were already talking about usability and SEO (yeah!).
• We were already talking about ways (other than rankings) to measure your SEO/SEM success (double yeah!).

Best Jill Quote of 2002:

“Years ago, when I would read about the latest and greatest techniques for ‘tricking’ the search engines, I would often wonder if I were missing the boat by not working that way. There were times when I even doubted my own tried-and-true ways of attacking SEO. But then I’d slap myself and remember that my ‘crazy’ Content Is King method seemed to be working fine, so I must be doing something right. When I hear people say that the search engines now want to see relevant content (like this is some new concept), it absolutely blows me away! Content is all they’ve ever wanted, and all they will want in the future.” - From an old RankWrite newsletter.

Nailed it!

2003

This was one of the few years I made some SEO predictions.

Here are some of the standouts:

“Google will remain the dominant player in the biz, with more and more regular people believing that Google = Search Engine. We will also see Google continue to get bashed by webmasters who can’t figure out how to get a decent listing.”

Very true still today.

“If Google goes public in 2003 (and I’m not making any predictions on that), we will see it start to suck by 2004. By ‘suck,’ I mean become like all the other engines.”

Okay, so I was totally off the mark on that one!

• Also in 2003, Yahoo purchased Inktomi, AltaVista and FAST, which was basically the end of all of them.
• It was also the year Google got tough on spam.

Best Jill Quote of 2003:
After reviewing (for free) a site that turned out to be super spammy, I wrote:

“When I emailed [the site owner] to tell him that he was a very baaaaaad boy for using these techniques, his answer was simply that he had been given some bad advice. No, I’m sorry, that just doesn’t cut it. Sure, in 1995 that excuse might have worked. Maybe even in 1997. But there’s certainly enough good SEO advice in existence right now that ignorance of this magnitude is really inexcusable.”

And yet…still today…in 2010…we still see a multitude of spammy sites and silly excuses. [head bang]

2004

• All the spam chasing Google did in 2003 made 2004 the year for “professional SEO.”
• We were still talking a lot about paid inclusion, and I was still avoiding it like the plague. (I never did fall for the whole paid-inclusion thing.)
• 301-redirects were becoming all the rage.

In regards to toolbar PageRank, I wrote:

“Apparently Google just ‘updated their backlinks,’ according to forum members who study such things. Not surprisingly (to me at least), many have noticed that an increase in toolbar PageRank doesn’t seem to affect a page’s ranking in the search engine results for its keyword phrases.”

I knew this in 2004, yet just this week in 2010 people were crying about the latest toolbar PR update – go figure!

• By April 2004 it was clear that the role of SEO companies had already changed substantially since the early 2000s and before. I wrote about how we were now responsible for much more than rankings (much to my chagrin).

While I wasn’t happy about it – because it made my job harder – it also turned me into a marketer, and forced me to learn what marketing a website was all about, as opposed to what just getting rankings were all about.

• In June 2004, we had the 100th HRA with a revisit of PageRank mania.
• Google continued their banning of sites who were spamming them, with asleazy SEO company being taken to task for the bulk of it.
• By now there was already little talk of other engines besides Google.
• Black Hat / White Hat SEO discussions heated up.

Best Jill Quote from 2004:

“The important thing to note, however, is that most sites don’t need to resort to Black Hat SEO.

“It all depends on what the website owner’s goal is. Do they want quick fixes and throwaway domains for the chance of a temporary big payoff, or do they want a stable business that takes a lot of time and energy, but which pays off handsomely over time? Neither one is necessarily right or wrong – just different.”

2005

• This was the year Google introduced the “nofollow” link attribute, supposedly for unmoderated content. It later became Google’s way of forcing people to distinguish between paid links and non-paid. Looking back now, that may have been their goal all along.
• Google also introduced Google Analytics, which changed the face of how to measure SEO success for the rest of the decade, and presumably beyond.
• This was also the start of Google’s “Aging Delay” for new domains. Thank goodness that’s behind us!

At the end of 2005 I did a year-end review.

2006

• Conversions (and tools to measure them) were all the rage. (Yeah!)
• Google (allegedly) had a “minus 30 penalty” for certain sites.
• My partner in SEO crime, Pauline, and I started SEMNE, the search engine marketing organization for New England. Other groups across the nation started springing up in 2006 as well.
• Despite my attempt to bring some professionalism to SEO back in 2004, bad and/or incompetent SEO companies continued to run rampant. See my SEO Quack article.
• Buying text links was huge business, but Google started to fight back.

Best Jill SEO Quote of 2006 (from the Quack article above):

“SEO isn’t ALL about anything. It’s about lots of things all added together to make the perfect combination for your site. A linking campaign alone will never be as effective if you neglect your on-page content, and vice versa.”

2007

• By the beginning of 2007 we were still seeing aging delay effects for those websites that switched to a new domain. By the end of 2007 it was finally waning when 301-ing old URLs to new ones correctly.
• Sphinn was born.
• The phrase “targeted traffic” was heard more often as people realized it was a heck of a lot better than just any old traffic.
• Paid links got smacked down even more by Google…at least in terms of toolbar PageRank.
• People were still worried about dynamically generated websites, even though they (when designed correctly) hadn’t been a problem for many years.
• And last, but not least, despite years of trying to drum it into people’s heads that creating zillions of microsites for SEO purposes was a bad idea, it continued to be a tactic that was often asked about.

Which leads us to the best Jill Quote of 2007:

“A much smarter idea would be to fix up your current corporate site so that every page of it is optimized in such a way that each of your main categories and each individual product page would rank on its own merits. One great site is 1,000 times better than 50 small sites.”

Whoa…eerily similar to my quote from 2001…

2008

• A lot went on within High Rankings (the company) in 2008, starting with the launch of our new High Rankings website! (Seems like only yesterday!)
• We created the first HTML version of the HRA SEO newsletter.
• We started our in-person, very small, customized SEO training classes.
• I wrote a boatload of technical articles for Search Engine Land.
• I updated my Nitty-gritty Guide of Writing for Search Engines.
• LinkBait nearly ruined the Internet.
• Social Media – specifically Twitter – came into its own, and I finally started to get it.
• I continued to spread the word that rankings were a poor measure of success, while also showing how you should sometimes look past search engines.
• At end of 2008 I rewrote Setting Realistic SEO Expectations, which I had written in 2005, and had to change VERY little!

Best Jill Quote of 2008:

“A search in today’s Google index shows about 19,100,000 results for the phrase ‘social media’ and approximately 1,630,000 Google results for ‘social media marketing.’ It’s safe to conclude that social media and its use as an online marketing strategy are here to stay, and are growing by leaps and bounds. If you’re marketing websites, scary as it may sound, you need to learn about social media.” – From “Scared of Social Media?“

2009

• High Rankings introduced our “Recession Buster Website Review,” which gave 99 companies (to date) a cost-effective, experienced review of their website, and also led to the “Is Your SEO Campaign Out of Focus?” article.
• Karon Thackston and I did a podcast together. (Look for more of these in 2010!)
• Karon also talked about how guest blogging was not the new conceptsome thought it was.
• HRA got more into social media (as did everyone else), and we started the Twitter Question of the Week.
• There was more chatter than ever about baking SEO right into new websites. (Yeah!)
• Then, in December 2009, I told you about some SEO trends I had spotted via our analytics.

The Best Jill Quote of 2009 is something that you probably never thought you’d hear me say:

“I’ve got a secret for you. It’s one you won’t hear me say very often when it comes to SEO. While my mantra has always been to make your site be the best it can be, you may not actually need to bust your butt as hard as you think when it comes to your SEO goals.” – From “Is Your SEO Campaign Out of Focus,” mentioned above.

Which brings us up to date with 2010!

I can’t say for sure what will happen in search marketing this year, but I hope (as I’ve hoped every year of the past decade) that more people will continue to buy into the fact that the best way to gain more targeted search engine visitors to their websites is to make something great! While I can tell that this idea is finally starting to sink in with many, I also see new folks just getting into it who haven’t figured this out yet.

Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it takes a lot of work. But we all know that’s the only way to have long-term success.

It’s important to note that my ideal of SEO even before the year 2000 has always assumed that search engines will someday be perfect. Through the years, Google has given credence to my mantra during the times when they haven’t allowed the crap-hat SEO stuff to work. By the same token, they have also made me look silly at the times when it does still work. My hope is that Google (or any other search engine) never gives up trying to find the best, most relevant results for their users – the searchers – because my SEO methods are based on that ideal.

Happy 2010 everyone! – Jill

This being my second in-house SEO column for Search Engine Land, I wanted to continue where I left off by giving you some insight into some best practices for in-house SEO reporting. The understanding of analytics and reporting, setting up a baseline for your goals, and how to report on those goals and analytics.

If you’ve read my post about SEO and Social Media Success Metrics, you’ll know I take my data very seriously. Selling yourself and marketing your story of accomplishments is a big part of the role. In order to do that, you have to make sure that you have the right systems in place and the ability to present that data to executives.

Analytics and reporting

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