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		<title>10 Myths about Google SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/10-myths-about-google-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually find people have some kind of perception about Google Search Engine SEO and the kind of work they do. Even people say SEO for a blog or a website is useless; this is a misconception because there are large numbers of SEO myths. Regrettably, the myths are spread on the forums and blogs, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I usually find people have some kind of perception about Google Search Engine SEO and the kind of work they do. Even people say SEO for a blog or a website is useless; this is a misconception because there are large numbers of <em><strong>SEO myths</strong></em>. Regrettably, the myths are spread on the forums and blogs, which is really miserable for new blogger or for a new website. Before spreading these myths, readers don’t even try to do research on it and believe it to be true. These myths can be really harmful and thus I want to share some of the common SEO myths which you might have heard or read somewhere which are definitely not correct.</p>
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<h3>Meta Tags for High Ranking:</h3>
<p>I have seen so many good ranked sites with absolutely no <strong><em>Meta tags</em></strong>. So this is a most popular myth that words in your <em>Meta tags</em> must be used on your page. The truth is just opposite. <em>Meta tags</em> were designed to be used for keywords that were not on the page.</li>
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<h3>PPC ads will affect your Ranking:</h3>
<p>This just makes me laugh, because PPC ads don’t affect your <em><strong>Google ranking</strong></em>. Neither it lowers your ranking nor does it bring your ranking up.</li>
<li>
<h3>You need to have H1 Tag (Header Tag):</h3>
<p>Using <em><strong>H1 tags</strong></em> affect your ranking to very negligible ratio. My own test doesn’t found any drastic changed because</p>
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<p>of <em>H1 tag</em>, rather its bit difficult to find out the exact result.</li>
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<h3>No need to Update:</h3>
<p>Many people say that you <em>don’t need to update your site</em> to maintain your ranking. In fact, it is recommended that on updating your pages on regular basis helps bots to visit your site to list the changes. If updating if your site is ignored that your rank can easily slip out.</li>
<li>
<h3>Duplicate content is harmless:</h3>
<p>It is a pure myth that <em><strong>duplicate content</strong></em> doesn’t affect your page ranking. Content is the most important factor and thus it should be original and unique, otherwise you will lose your loyal readers as well as <em>search engine rank</em></li>
<li>
<h3>Follow Google guidelines:</h3>
<p>Many think that their site will be banned if they don’t follow <a title="Google webmaster Guideline" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769" target="_blank">Google webmaster guidelines</a>. Google guidelines are very easy and very common but don’t do it for search engine. Use only that guideline which you feel appropriate for yourself.</li>
<li>
<h3>Keyword stuffing will give you higher rank:</h3>
<p>This is wrong .If you are <em>stuffing keywords</em> or having <em>hidden text</em> on your site, you can get banned from <em>search engines.</em></li>
<li>
<h3>Google sitemap is compulsory:</h3>
<p><em><strong>Google sitemap</strong></em> is not at all compulsory if you have structured website. If you think that <em>Google sitemap</em> is going to raise your ranking then I would suggest better not to go for that. It’s not bad to have Google sitemap but having just for the sake of high ranking is bad. Your site just needs to be spider friendly. For <a href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/high-search-engine-ranking-and-traffic/" target="_blank">higher search engine ranking read here</a>.</li>
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<h3>Content should have more than 250 words:</h3>
<p>It’s not compulsory to have more than <em><strong>250 words content</strong></em> .There is no hard and fast rule for SEO. Important point is it should be interesting even with fewer words with uniqueness and proper keywords you can attract <em>search engines</em>. Short article do same for your rank as long articles do. <a href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/category/writing-skills/" target="_blank">For Writing Skills read here.</a></li>
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<h3>SEO is very simple to learn:</h3>
<p>This is the worst myth. SEO is not a one or two month task. Not everyone can do it. There are many activities involved in SEO job and you have to do it professionally.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Why online businesses fail?</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/why-online-businesses-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freelancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aim]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody starts business with the aim of making profits and not all of them succeed in their first endeavors, for some business may be a dream and they achieve their dreams while for some its just an idea which they try if they are successful in it. I have in my experiences noticed one aspect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody starts business with the aim of making profits and not all of them succeed in their first endeavors, for some business may be a dream and they achieve their dreams while for some its just an idea which they try if they are successful in it. I have in my experiences noticed one aspect for the people who succeed in whatever they do, is it a sheer hard work or the luck factor that works? You might well say it’s the combination of both, but I would say its 100% on the work that you put in to achieve your goals. According to me, sometimes it’s just the peer pressure that drags you in this game of online business. Your partner makes his business online so do you feel the urge to do the same although you might have nil knowledge about it but you still do it but it is not going to be successful unless you make any efforts to do SEO for your site or join some social networks or get some interaction going with people, no one is going to come to your site like that. You have to have full knowledge of the field you are entering in to, once you are starting your blogging business there are few things the <a href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/bloggers-will-be-the-king-of-business-mark-my-words/" target="_blank">bloggers</a> keep in mind like updating the page of its fresh content on a daily basis, joining social networks, commenting on the sites, replying to the comments, etc.</p>
<p>Success occurs only when a person has given 100% percent to it, if you set up everything, hold the online staff, kept the best of products in your online business store but unless you advertise your products who will come to your online store. Its fact that you can reach much wider audience through online store but its not going to make any point if you cant reach out to people. Here are few of the things or reasons that might be an add on factors which will lead to business failure:</p>
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<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Some people try <a title="Making Money Online" href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com" target="_blank">making money</a> out of something they are totally unaware about, as I mentioned earlier too, people see if someone is doing and making good money out of it then why not I also do the same even if he has no knowledge about it. When you do something without any ground knowledge or research, you are surely going to fail in your endeavor. If you are serious of making money through it then give your best attempts and make sure you know how to play the game.
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<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Businesses are developed on some planning, and that <a title="Business Planning" href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/writing-a-business-plan-outline-good-business-planning/" target="_blank">planning</a> and <a href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/is-creativity-always-needed-to-excel-ahead/" target="_blank">creativity</a> needs lots of passion and interaction amongst the team players, if you lag in this than you stand nowhere in the competition. To be good and best at things you have to create that passion and money will pour in automatically.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Have a determined nature to achieve what you want to achieve in life, be confident in whatever field you may want to excel but do it whole heartedly. Stay by your decisions and don’t change them often, if you are having hard time then have patience and troubles will get solved automatically. If you want success then you will have to overcome the stepping-stone to the path of success, nothing comes easy, give your hard work and yield the fruits later.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Grab the best of knowledge you can to start with your <a title="Online Business" href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/online-business-demands-good-communication-skills/" target="_blank">online business</a>, don’t leave a stone unturned to start with your business, if you are truly determined to make it big in this niche then you will have to search the path yourself. Having base knowledge about the field you are working in is important especially when you are just starting the business, as you progress ahead you will gain more knowledge.</li>
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<p>You have to be a fighter if you truly want to achieve success in life, if you feel something is going wrong then take steady steps to improve upon it without further delays, which can worsen the situation. Believe in yourself and excel ahead.</p>
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		<title>8 SEO Blogging Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we know blogging is a big business today, optimizing your website is of utter most important things today. If you don’t do search engine optimization for your site then no matter whatever great content you might have on your site, it is of no use. Bloggers, especially need to do SEO for their blogs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we know blogging is a big business today, optimizing your website is of utter most important things today. If you don’t do search engine optimization for your site then no matter whatever great content you might have on your site, it is of no use. Bloggers, especially need to do SEO for their blogs network if they really want to get heard, let me give you brief notes on some of the basics to start with SEO:</p>
<ol>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">In the world of blogs, content is of prime importance. Whatever, content you write reflects, how popular your blog will become. As Content is the King in the world of blogs writing, you can well put all your resources and energies in to<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-548" title="SEO Blogging Tips" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/content-optimization-300x225.jpg" alt="SEO Blogging Tips" width="300" height="225" /> writing creative blog which are informative and innovative too. Its not the quantity that counts but quality of the topics you are writing on. If your content is quality contained then you are surely going to attract readers in to your blogs and it might happen they may pass on your link for other readers to read your blogs, this could be one of the best advantages for you for your SEO rankings.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Search engine optimization is all about key words, you should be able to anticipate the type of words people would be searching for, over the Net for information, once you get a hang of it you can write content based on those keywords and you can simply attract the attention of the readers.  Using words which are often searched over search engines leads to top ranking of your site.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Titles are of great importance when you are being searched over the net, make sure that you put your title in the “title tags” on the back end of the blog this is very important from SEO point of view. If you are writing your blog from an SEO point of view then try not to include the blog name with your title tags as there is every possibility of your keywords being diluted. Remember that the words you use at the start of your article carries more weight than the words mentioned later in the profile.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Once you are done identifying the important key words, try using them in your posts. If you want a good google ranking for your terms and phrases then you need to use them in your blogs. You can even use the words in sub headings by using h tags. Don’t go over bored that people will get bored reading out of the topic post, so write whatever comes naturally to your mind.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">For increasing your blog ranking you can put links from other sites, and also put links of your blog both are fruitful as interlinking will help readers to share information and it is surely going to give you a good search engine optimization ranking. You can also try linking to key posts on your blog from other places on the blog like front pages, side bar, etc.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Doing an SEO for your site is of great advantage and putting links from other sites gives you good results in SEO ranking. You can start linking to your blog from other sites which ever you are active member on, the social networking sites like twitter don’t count as much on anything as they have no follow tags so there are more chances for people to access your site and perhaps some might help you with SEO itself.
<p>You don’t have to be obsessed for getting the links, if at all you need to become obsessed then get obsessed about how you can write great content for your site and once you are well with writing then links will follow and if you feel that the matter you wrote is relevant to other blogging sites you can write to them and they might well link you up with their blogging network.</p>
<p>Try thinking of the posts that will attract attention, as much that you get good offers from other sites to link up your site with theirs. There are many such websites offering you information on how to generate linkable content, you can develop your own technique and excel ahead.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">Generally, while writing blogs you don’t have anything on your mind except for the keywords and that you have to write super creative, attractive, interesting blog but what grabs my attention here is that if you are using wordpress then there are good chances here, with Plug-ins you can get very close to your target, it is surely going to help you with your SEO and grabbing the readers attention.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;">This is a proven fact that magnets attract each other, similar is the case with Blogging and Readers, as you have more readers on your site there are more chances that it might attract even more readers there is some type of snowballing you can say, which happens over blogging sites, as your loyal readers like your content they may pass on the links to other readers in their network, then the new readers read your content, link to you, bookmark you, email about you to their friends, etc. so there are so many things which are not seen but are actually helping you become popular and that may indirectly help you for your SEO.</li>
</ol>
<p>I want to discuss few more things relating to SEO, perhaps that I have helped you this much I can do even more so that you become perfect.</p>
<p>You don’t necessarily have to be an <strong>SEO master</strong> to do the SEO for your site, true knowledge about <strong>google tactics</strong> and right linking will help you surely win the match. Its been now 10 years I have been in a <strong>blogging business</strong> and had a great number of ups and downs as a professional blogger, sometimes you face criticism from people and sometimes they dearly like what you write, its all about perceptions you have to get them thinking the way you want to think them and that can happen through the content you write that is the real art of <strong>writing </strong>or <strong>blogging</strong>, you can say that! Google is not just into money making, they need the best of information for their users so that it can become more popular and I know they are pretty well in their jobs. As a professional blogger your main aim should be to provide the best and latest information for the users its not the quantity but quality that counts. When you are using keywords, make proper meaningful sentences so that readers can understand what you are trying to say.</p>
<p>Google might not use the whole data for ranking the sites, but they use some information to place your sites over their network, recently they are coming with some methodology which will let search engines generate data based on the content that is being shared over the networks and book marking sites. At the end my advice to readers is to create quality content using the best information you can collect on pertaining topics and join networks that will get you interacting so that you know what people are looking for, <strong>All the Best!</strong></p>
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		<title>Feedbacks! New weapon to maximize your articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of sites are launched each day and thousands go under the hammer of Internet search engines, although for us it might be easy searching information on net and using it on our daily basis, but did you ever gave a thought of how much of efforts go into bringing you the perfect site on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of sites are launched each day and thousands go under the hammer of Internet search engines, although for us it might be easy searching information on net and using it on our daily basis, but did you ever gave a thought of how much of efforts go into bringing you the perfect site on your screens. Its all an Internet game, the more you have keywords, the more popular you become along with search engine optimization of your site. The main thing that matters to get your site on the top pages of search engines is the content, even if you are a great <a href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/do-you-consider-yourself-an-expert-in-seo-and-html/" target="_blank">SEO master</a> and expert in the field you will need quality content which is going to maintain your site on the top pages, your content should be informative, easily understandable, unique and quality perfect.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-351" title="feedback" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/feedback-300x286.jpg" alt="feedback" width="300" height="286" />Writing just doesn’t involve typing anything, you have write something which is interesting and will invite more audience to your blogging network, write the matters which are relevant to the topic and also informative things that will make people eager into reading it further. You can follow some tips which you will give your articles the impact which is needed and which will attract the readers and keep them stuck to it till the end. Many people go on <a title="Writing" href="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/persuasive-writing-is-the-key-to-successful-blogging/" target="_blank">writing</a> whatever comes to their mind, but when you start writing think of a very interesting topic and pick up an aspect to your writing, you can state your opinions, your views relating to someone or something and also you can make it more attractive by putting the details as to why you are writing this. You can also invite people to comment and open discussions relating to the matter that you write that will help people debate on the topic and also it will lead to good outcome, people will gain knowledge through your feedings. You can improve on your writing skills through the feedback given by the people on the blog that will create lots of buzz around your articles.</p>
<p>As we know, its just the news that is to spread like a wild fire in jungles on blogging networks like twitter, everybody is waiting for something to come up and people are ready to jump in to it. As you acknowledge the criticisms or comments given by people you will also get good exposure to wider publicity and media and this way you can become famous in just no time. There are lots of techniques and methods that you can follow so that your readers become your loyal readers and regularly start coming on your blogs to give you good feedback, up till now people used to just leave their email ids at the end but now things have changed you can post your comment right below the article where it ends so all people can read what you have to say about it and it encourages open discussion through which people will gain some or the other knowledge.</p>
<p>If you are looking for some good response and feedback from your readers, the best way is to link your article to any online survey sites, this responses would allow the publisher to record the comments which are measurable. Online surveys are the best tool through which you can determine what readers want to read through your articles, you will come to know what all points they agree upon and on what points they disagree upon, if they disagree you will get their feedback online. There are so many sites giving you assistance for creating questionnaires online, you can use this information to get valuable feedback from your audience, this way the process would be faster and you will get clear results without any confusion. These sites also offers various other tools that will keep track of your readers when they read your articles and for how long they read, etc. they also measure the amount of feedback you get per article and whether you scored positive or negative in that.</p>
<p>You can make use of varied internet services which are the most effective means of communication with your audience which will let you know the realities of your blogs, the facts that you will hear from people regarding your stated comments on the blogs, etc. this investment yields you good returns in future without being expensive.</p>
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		<title>Sincerity In Your Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remaining sincere while working in a world full of individuals who are only concerned about self gain, are often factors that make it much harder to become a successful blogger, and remain sincere all the while. Anyone that wants to be a successful blogger must be sincere and be aware of the people’s needs and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-215" style="padding:3px;" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/blog_logo-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" />Remaining sincere while working in a world full of individuals who are only concerned about self gain, are often factors that make it much harder to become a successful blogger, and remain sincere all the while. Anyone that wants to be a successful blogger must be sincere and be aware of the people’s needs and desires. Four major points will show how powerful sincerity is.</p>
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<li style="padding-bottom:15px;"><strong>Commenting</strong> – Spam, everyone knows what it looks like. It is irritating and full of links and comments not related to your own site. Self-praising posts are signs of them not being sincere. A sincere comment will explain what they like or do not like. Some comments are only for increasing their reputation for SEO or with other backlinks. It may also include a “pay per click” link. A sincere comment takes a real effort to contribute to the article with a positive slant or a negative slant. A negative comment can contribute to the article by pointing out points that you may not have considered. It does not matter what you write as long as you care about the subject matter, are sincere, and it is written in a manner easily understood.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;"><strong>Collaborating</strong> &#8211; A lot of emails sent to me or other bloggers request that we add a link to their web site. This type of comment does not take any thought or intelligence to write. There is no personalization in this type of comment. When bloggers collaborate it is because they have something to contribute to each other’s blog. The next time you communicate with a blogger, use their name, explain what you want and the reason behind your request. The bloggers want to know how it would be beneficial to them and you. Do not use too much flattery. That sounds like you are trying to “butter them up”. Remember, your previous work will be looked at and evaluated. You want to work with someone that likes your work and believes that you have something to contribute.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;"><strong>Writing</strong> – It can be very hard to keep up with daily posts, time spent for blogging and living your life. Always remember to give your readers a sincere and true attempt at what is contained in your post. It is dishonest to cram in an article or post just to be posting. Take your time and carefully form your opinion and thoughts and then express them in an appropriate manner.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom:15px;"><strong>Designing</strong> – Your design or layout will reflect your honesty or sincerity. Do not hide your links, overload your page with advertising or disguise your affiliate products. Readers want to receive valuable information from your site and do not want to be confused with advertising or hidden links. Advertising is a way to increase revenue, just keep it to a reasonable amount so the reader does not get lost or confused. Offer a clean layout that allows readers to enjoy the work that you put into the site.</li>
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<p>Remember the things you should not do, but do not forget the things that you should do. Review your work and evaluate it for readability, honesty and sincerity. This will create a community of bloggers that will continue to return for more information. As you leave comments worth following, it will bring more traffic to the blog.</p>
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		<title>Are You An Expert In SEO and HTML?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an endless amount of factors that are involved when an individual in the process that ends up determining an individual as a professional SEO advisor. Many of these professionals are responsible for creating effective SEO business websites that prove to be sites that land a large amount of profitable leads, as well as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an endless amount of factors that are involved when an individual in the process that ends up determining an individual as a professional SEO advisor. Many of these professionals are responsible for creating effective SEO business websites that prove to be sites that land a large amount of profitable leads, as well as success with long-term business relationship that many of these leads evolve into. Because there can be so many elements that are involved, there are many individuals who often wonder if there are a select few of these factors that they can focus on, or if they must educate themselves on every single one of them to successfully achieve the status of being considered as an expert in professional SEO.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-202" title="seo_expert" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/seo_expert.jpeg" alt="seo_expert" width="240" height="276" />Effective HTML tags are vital in the world of search engine optimization. It often requires knowledge in coding and scripting languages, CSS, and other important factors. An SEO professional, who does not have expert knowledge in HTML, is comparable to many other professionals who do not know the basic aspects of their business. If an individual were to go to a family physician for a medical problem and the doctor had absolutely no knowledge pertaining to human anatomy, the results could literally be disastrous. The same fact also holds true when it comes to SEO. In browsing through cyberspace, it is easy to find an endless amount of individuals on the Internet that consider themselves to be knowledgeable professionals of SEO and HTML, when the in fact they only have a small amount of knowledge in blogging and creating personal websites.</p>
<p>If you are contemplating the idea of learning search engine optimization, or if you plan to hire a professional to build your business website, extensive knowledge in all aspects of SEO and HTML tags are extremely important. The techniques and various methods that are used will ultimately determine the amount of success your business will enjoy. This is true for the amount of leads you receive, the number of long-term clients you obtain, and the amount in revenue that your business will bring in.</p>
<p>Not so long ago it may have been possible for some individuals to get away with having very limited knowledge, however, this is a thing of the past. The extremely competitive world of the Internet has made it very important for individuals to educate themselves in learning much more advanced knowledge in SEO, HTML, and CSS, that will open up the doors of limitless possibilities.</p>
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		<title>Make Social Media and SEO Exposure Beneficial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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In taking advantage of using various networks for profitable Internet marketing such as StumbleUpon, Digg, and Facebook, you may begin to wonder where effective SEO enters into these areas of strategy. In doing so, you are not only able to benefit from a positive impact on these networks, but the areas of social media can [...]]]></description>
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<p>In taking advantage of using various networks for profitable Internet marketing such as StumbleUpon, Digg, and Facebook, you may begin to wonder where effective SEO enters into these areas of strategy. In doing so, you are not only able to benefit from a positive impact on these networks, but the areas of social media can also be very beneficial in giving the effort you have put into SEO a solid ground to build upon. How can the specific areas you target for SEO exposure and social media be brought to their fullest potential?</p>
<h3>Are Title Tags Really That Important?</h3>
<p>As the title tags and the header tags are the first impression that many users read about your site, you will want to provide optimized tags that are compelling and interesting so they are effective for reeling the reader in. As you use numbers, specifics, and names make sure you use powerful words that are descriptive. After all, grabbing a reader’s undivided attention is what you are aiming for with strategic social media titles.</p>
<p>Titles tags that are effective in gaining SEO exposure among search engines should include keywords that are popular and relevant to your specific site. It is also important to carefully consider the strategies you use in seeing that the keywords appear in the beginning of title tags.</p>
<p>Some individuals are faced with a dilemma of not knowing how to use tags that will achieve both of these tasks successfully – effective exposure in both the SEO and social media arena at the same time.</p>
<h3>The Answer…</h3>
<p>However impossible it may seem to some individuals, it is very possible to successfully achieve both and it is simply by performing two simple steps.</p>
<p>When you are writing content that you plan to place on networks such as Reddit, Twitter, Digg, or StumbleUpon, create a title that reaches out and grabs the attention of readers, even if it means a title that may be controversial or shocking. After you have accomplished a snazzy title you can then use the social media sites to promote your articles. Generally this results in a large amount of traffic, but almost always the popularity will begin to lessen over time.</p>
<p>This is your opportunity to change the article’s title tag into one that focuses on SEO using relevant and popular keywords. You will however want to leave the social media directed header tag alone so it can continue to snag search visitors who will want to read the content you have provided.</p>
<h3>What Does This Tactic Achieve?</h3>
<p>Once you have obtained traffic by creating enticing titles that are shared on the social media platform that do not always offer the most detailed and search friendly, you are able to maximize your efforts by performing the next step. Title tags that are changed can benefit in even more search traffic by making the addition of popular and descriptive keywords, which will also increase your rank with search engines. Do not make the mistake of shorting yourself on visitors you could benefit from in using this effective technique.</p>
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		<title>Using Search Engine Referrals to Jumpstart Topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Aarons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re anything like me, you probably check your blog&#8217;s stats regularly. I often spend half an hour every day reviewing daily stats for the numerous blogs I write for. I&#8217;m not normally interested in the pageviews and referral sources only. What I&#8217;m really intrigued with is the keywords that users have used to arrived [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-397" style="padding:3px;" title="Using Search Engine Referrals to Jumpstart Topics" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/seocols.jpg" alt="Using Search Engine Referrals to Jumpstart Topics" width="280" height="210" />If you&#8217;re anything like me, you probably check your blog&#8217;s stats regularly. I often spend half an hour every day reviewing daily stats for the numerous blogs I write for. I&#8217;m not normally interested in the pageviews and referral sources only. What I&#8217;m really intrigued with is the keywords that users have used to arrived at my blog.</p>
<p>Most analytics packages like <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics">Google Analytics</a>, <a href="http://haveamint.com">Mint</a> and <a href="http://pmetrics.performancing.com">pMetrics</a> track search engine referrals, and could tell you the top keywords that people use when they get to your blog. For example, for one particular science blog I contribute to, people referred by Google seem to be searching for the H1N1 virus, using various keywords like Swine Flu and the like. This would prompt me to write more about the topic, knowing it&#8217;s something that people like reading about. Of course, this is a popular topic today, and I&#8217;d be riding the trend if I wrote about H1N1.</p>
<p>However, even better for me is finding novel and unique keywords that people use on their searches. For example, I would never know how someone landed on my tech blog using keywords related to nudity and adult websites. Or perhaps it&#8217;s because I wrote about the adult website industry some time back, in the context of blogs and social networking. It&#8217;s not what I expected, but it&#8217;s intriguing. It made me realize how relevant that site could be in different niches.</p>
<p>Reading up on your referral stats could help you better focus the content on your site. If you find that your readers land on your blog or any specific posts within using the keywords that you are actually optimizing for, then congratulations! But you shouldn&#8217;t stop there. If you see some interesting keywords popping up, then you can also optimize for these keywords. Your site has already popped up as a relevant match. You can now follow through with this relevancy.</p>
<p>What best way to focus on these keywords than to use these to jumpstart new categories or topics. For instance, in my mention of referrals from adult-related searches, I could have probably written more about the dynamics between social networks and the adult industry. That would definitely be keyword rich, and would push up my site further in the search engine results. Then again, it was my choice not to, because I thought it would be too controversial. But my point remains. If you find an interesting and intriguing referral, try to do a follow-up. It might be a good way to jumpstart new topics that are interesting to new, prospective readers.</p>
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		<title>Struggling with SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling with SEO? No need! Peak through this article and start making money faster than ever.
You all know that how difficult it has become to make money with your websites today, reason being there are so many web sites one of a kind and only best get the chance to make money.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Struggling with SEO? No need! Peak through this article and start making money faster than ever.</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-70" style="padding:5px;" title="are-you-successful" src="http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/are-you-successful-300x225.jpg" alt="are-you-successful" width="300" height="225" />You all know that how difficult it has become to make money with your websites today, reason being there are so many web sites one of a kind and only best get the chance to make money.<br />
Do you agree with that? It&#8217;s Bogus!</p>
<p>Making money is not that difficult now if you follow the right steps. Now you must be thinking that its going to be the same old story of getting more traffic to your site but wait its not the same. We all know that web pages are the source of getting traffic. The more will be the content more will be the demand but look content does not mean that you can add anything and everything which is of no use. The question is how you can make your web pages different and unique from others. It&#8217;s simple you just have to add keyword rich content and modify your web page in a way which is easily approachable with systematic layout making the job easier for your visitors to access them. Your main agenda should be making your visitors your customers.</p>
<p>Before thinking of increasing traffic make your web pages terrific.<br />
Read below for the same:</p>
<p><strong>Placement of Ads:</strong><br />
Once the ranking increases we start putting ads in our sites but how to place them is a question.<br />
You have to be clever on this. The ads should be placed in such a way that your visitors click them unknowingly. This could be done by adding your ads all over and specifically within the content you are posting on your web page. The benefit of placing your ads within your content is that visitors unknowingly click them and who is at benefit? You. This increases your revenue and that&#8217;s your aim.</p>
<p><strong>Component of Revenue Generation (Holding Leads):</strong><br />
Your web page should contain subscriber feeds for your visitors i.e., register for your website, feeds, mailing list etc. The motive of this is to get hold of your visitors when they leave your page. This practice will increase your site&#8217;s traffic. This again is going to increase revenue of your site.</p>
<p><strong>Relevancy:</strong><br />
Relevancy is a most important asset in a way on increasing revenue. Your site should have relevant posts and content. The web pages should have up do date information in order to meet up the requirements of your visitors. This help in gaining trust of your visitors which start opting for your site first and therefore increase revenue. The interest of your visitors should be your priority.</p>
<p><strong>Making Ranking better:</strong><br />
To make ranking of your web site you not only have to focus on on-site optimization but also off-site optimization. Now many of us don&#8217;t exactly know what’s this is all about, well there is nothing to worry about. Read the following to get the better understanding of the concept:</p>
<p><strong>On-site optimization:</strong><br />
It means what type of content is on your sites, how much rich is your content in keywords and what is the layout of your web page. All these things come under on-site optimization. The best keyword rich content you are going to add with easier approach for the visitors your web pages get registered with the search engines faster.</p>
<p><strong>Off-site optimization:</strong><br />
It means links you add on your website. Many of us mostly fear of exchanging links, that&#8217;s what you loose on. The number of links you exchange with other sites it increase your visitors percentage on your web site. When a visitor from your site clicks on your shared links your sites percentage of the visitor coming back to you increases. So it benefits you too as the visitors visiting on the other sites may click on your site too. You may call this a give and take relationship. This again helps in registering some of your web pages with the search engines.</p>
<p><strong>On-site and Off-site optimization is must as it increases revenue for your site.</strong><br />
The above were the basic rules or steps to make your web pages easily accessible by your visitors so that your page views can increase. This will help in registering your sites with the search engines, automatically increasing traffic on your web sites&#8230;Weren&#8217;t these steps easy?</p>
<p>Once your Web Pages are ready in this way you have to follow just 6 Steps to increase the traffic on your web site.<br />
<strong><br />
Have a cup of coffee and in a relaxing mood go through these simple 6 Steps:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Search Your Top Ten web Pages with Maximum page views:</strong><br />
Your first step is going to be to search for you web pages where there is maximum visit by the visitors. If you have many web pages with maximum page views where traffic is high that’s good but its kind of tough to manage them all. I prefer to manage limited number of web pages because you can pay adequate attention to them. You have to make one thing in your mind clear that optimize only those pages which have maximum traffic because that&#8217;s the demand of your public and therefore this practice is going to give you acceptable returns on your investment. You can set up Google Analytics for the same. To make your work simpler access those web pages which have minimum 200 page views. This should be your priority.</p>
<p><strong>Relevancy with the content:</strong><br />
The most important thing is what people are looking for on your site. The maximum page views will reveal you what people are demanding for. This wise step to increase traffic on your web site. By doing this you will come to know what people are looking for and therefore you can add relevant content for the same increasing your page views therefore the traffic.</p>
<p>Many sites have web bugs installed. These are hidden scripts which let you know what people are searching for most on your site. Once you know what the demand is for you can increase the relevant content and increase your traffic.</p>
<p>You have to edit your page to cut off the useless information as it will increase the credibility of your site. You have to keep on updating your pages in order to keep your web site on top. This much effort is required as little bit of hard work is required in what so ever one does. By increasing relevancy of your site you are in a way increasing likability of your site too. This is going to help you to link with other sites again increasing your sites percentage of the probable visitors.</p>
<p><strong>Monetization of your Web page:</strong><br />
This is very important in order to increase your revenue. You can monetize and get hold of the leads at he same time thereby increasing your income. Monetizing is the placing up of advertisements on your site and capture leads are the feed backs of your visitors.</p>
<p>There are more benefits if you fully monetize your site or make people subscribe to your site. If you have relevant and good ads on your site your visitors will choose to click on them rather then subscribing your site, either of the ways are as good as any other. You can let them subscribe or you can put good advertisements for the visitors to click or you can balance both.<br />
All this will definitely increase your income. So pull your socks and start heading towards for the same.</p>
<p>There are few web pages which are different from the others. These increase traffic on your web pages. Now you need to be clever on this. You have to treat these web pages in such a way that these increase your income. This you can do by removing the default adds and adding profitability of certain ad schemes, clicks on these schemes can earn you more than $15 per day. Isn&#8217;t this a wise move?</p>
<p>Other ways of monetizing your sites are use of affiliated programs which are commission based which establish e-commerce retailers. You can also opt for networks like the CPA for pay-per-lead or pay-per-sale programs with relativity with your sites. By this you can start the sale business with your visitors by making them subscribe to your site.</p>
<p><strong>Use of Capture Leads:</strong><br />
This is very important to understand. Your aim is to connect with your visitors by subscribing to your RSS feed. You not only want them to subscribe to your site but also want them to let you send the emails describing your products and know how’s which may encourage them to participate in your site. For response to your visitors you can add free email software or plugins or you can even hire email marketing providers.</p>
<p>For the optimization of your web page you have to customize relevant products of what you are asking your visitors to subscribe for. To know what people demands for that you can know from the search engines.<br />
There is one more technique to make the people subscribe to your site that is by allowing only limited viewing of the content on your site. Once your visitor subscribes this restriction will be removed for the particular subscriber. These are called as teasers and such are used mostly in paid memberships or forums etc.</p>
<p><strong>Interlinkage:</strong><br />
Now that your money pages are customized and are up to the mark you can even let the internal traffic enter your other customized web pages if they consist of little or more of the relevant content present on your web pages with maximum page views. This a fast and wise move to increase the bounce rate of your site as increasing of bounce rate means increasing ranking of your site and therefore search engines will register your site faster.</p>
<p>Other method of increasing traffic to other pages is by adding keywords or phrases that you can do by entering scripts on specific web pages by Internal Link Building plug-in or the SEO Smart Links plug-in if you are working with Word Press.</p>
<p>If you are blogging regularly on daily bases alternate your links on your site so that your visitors always find something knew, this is going to fascinate them each time they visit your web page.</p>
<p><strong>Search Engine Ranking:</strong><br />
This is an optional step and should only be performed when you have customized your web pages as per the visitors interest keeping their priority first. You need not do this if your ranking is already good. If your site is ranking blowing 3 than you need to bump and enhance your site&#8217;s ranking that you can do by taking the list of top web pages and then check out for their ranking. For checking their ranking you can see it by stats trackers or by using  Google Webmaster Central  which is free and shows you with top 20 queries that visitors search for.</p>
<p>Now that you have done everything including customization of your web pages, layout of your web sites, performing all the necessary steps, no one can stop you from making money. Aren&#8217;t these steps easy? All you have to do is find the web page with maximum page views, customize and monetize them, add capture leads and then attract traffic from it to whole of your site. These steps if followed are going to earn you a lot of revenue thereby increasing your income.</p>
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		<title>Headers to Enhance Searchability &amp; Scannability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Aarons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many bloggers make the mistake of writing posts that are too short. The popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, and Internet users&#8217; short attention spans have made us hungry for information, and yet unable to stick to reading one page for more than 30 seconds.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many bloggers make the mistake of writing posts that are too short. The popularity of microblogging services like <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a>, and Internet users&#8217; short attention spans have made us hungry for information, and yet unable to stick to reading one page for more than 30 seconds.</p>
<p>However, still a lot of other bloggers make the mistake of writing posts that are too long. Sure, long posts may contain a lot of useful information. But who really reads posts that look like term papers? Personally, my attention span can only stand about three paragraphs or so. Then, I usually just skip to the end, or scan for keywords.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s something that can help: headers. They&#8217;re friendly to both people and search engines. Headers can be used to make important points on your post stand out. Enclosing text in <code>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;</code> highlights your text in bigger, bolder letters.</p>
<h2>Headers help readers scan for important points</h2>
<p>Human eyes have a knack for sighting text that stands out. Hence, you should take the opportunity to organize your blog posts according to the important points. This way, readers who have short attention spans (meaning most of us) can more easily scan through your content. Now they won&#8217;t get lost in the maze of words. If they see a word or phrase that catches their attention, then they can just head on to that particular heading and paragraph.</p>
<h2>Headers help you organize your thoughts</h2>
<p>Another mistake of bloggers is to ramble on and on about all sorts of stuff that are mostly unassociated. And so readers get lost in your train of thought. Smart bloggers organize their articles, and one way you can do this is by using headers. This helps you keep your paragraphs cohesive and coherent, as each main idea is organized under its own header.</p>
<h2>Headers help search engines scan for important keywords</h2>
<p>Headers also increase your blog&#8217;s search engine optimization by helping search bots identify the important keywords and key phrases on your posts. Crawlers sent by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines usually get relevant keywords from a webpage&#8217;s title, meta data, and headers.</p>
<p>Also, importance of keywords are ranked according to hierarchy. So headers under <code>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;</code> are more important than those under <code>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;</code>, and so forth. On most blog design templates, the post title is enclosed in <code>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;</code> tags. And so designers usually use either the H2 or H3 tag to identify important points in the body text.</p>
<p>In conclusion, a lot of bloggers are overly concerned about optimizing their blogs for search engines. However, one of the best ways to do SEO is to give more importance to human readers rather than the machine. This means using relevant headlines, and using headers to organize according to important points. Try spicing up your posts with headers, and see how your readers will appreciate it.</p>
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