Make Social Media and SEO Exposure Beneficial

May 7, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under SEO

social-media-marketing

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?

Are Title Tags Really That Important?

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.

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.

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.

The Answer…

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.

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.

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.

What Does This Tactic Achieve?

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.

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April 28, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Leadership Skills, Writing skills

Writing on blogs can ever be so daunting task, but you go on stressing yourself deeper into it to get that final paycheck at the end of the month but how many of us really enjoy what we are doing? Let’s make our task more interesting without ever sacrificing on other commitments of life like socializing, parties, parenthood, etc.

writing_blogThere are so many variables which needs to be kept in mind before you sit writing on blogging items, you have to get straight to the point attracting interests of your readers till the end of the articles, although the work of writing might seem to be monotonous you can still spice it up with your creativity and talent. Firstly, you need to stop sleeping while writing, concentration is the key, secondly giving up on family and friends for some time, dedicating a few hours completely at work helps, thirdly you can write faster and learn new things too.

The main key in blogging is to hold the interests of your readers till the end, but how we achieve that target? Writing under deadlines can even be a very challenging task I remember the times when I used to have very little time writing big articles for websites and sometimes for newspaper ads, there are varied other blogging site where I pass on my articles weekly.

Writing every weeks get me in average of 5,000 to 10,000 words per week, it still not that much of a boring task like it seems although you can make it more interesting each passing day. You can have loads of time at your hands even by writing 100s of articles per week, given below are some few simple steps you can follow to write faster and even:

    1. You need to know what you are going to write, keeping thinking of the items you can to state in your next blog, once you are decided with one thing you will have clear mind in stating what you want in writing. Consume your time in thinking, even while you watch TV your subconscious mind can think and you can come out with some brilliant ideas. Even while washing your dishes you can start thinking creatively to get the hang of it, once you create an art by itself to start with creative headliners it goes on till the end.
    2. Interestingly, even when you write creatively you can set a proper sequence to all of your blogs yet make it look so different and unique. You can start your blog in a Q & A sequence, these are the most common communication starters. Starting with small paragraphs is a good idea as they state briefly what will follow. You can start with your own experiences and interesting stories you came across. You can list some of the sites with your work involved to get the confidence of your readers. You can quiz your readers about something and then state the answer in the following paragraphs that will keep them interested in your blog.
    3. Just start with your natural ideas as soon as you sit on your computer, don’t stop until you are blank on head with no words to type. At least when ideas strikes you, you shouldn’t stop yourself for correcting on grammar and typing mistakes, that can be corrected later let the natural words flow. You can make use of quick notes so that will remind you later for your corrections that are to be made later.
    4. After completing on your statements, go through your blog properly from beginning till the end. You can correct your grammar, fill in the empty place, replacements, etc.
    5. You can read your blog loudly, so that will give you an idea whether if it is really going to make an impact on your readers.
    6. Did the final touch up, its ready to be posted.

      Follow the step given above and in some days you will see yourself writing almost double the blogs you have been writing and see the speed at which you type, you might really be surprised!!!

      Once you get the hang of writing or stating your ideas forward, you might well know how to start with creative stuff.

      You can give your advice or comments over the stated article.

      Sick of no page ranks?

      April 22, 2009 by Chris  
      Filed under SEO

      We all know that blogging is among the most advancing activity of today on the internet. Search engines are looking forward to blogging sites which is one of the reasons that now everyone is stepping on to making blogs. Now a question arises that if everyone is advancing on the idea of creating blogs how are they going to achieve their target. There is a simple answer to it that is you just need to fill your blog site with good content. It does not matter if your on-site optimization is not up to the mark as you can still come on first page if you have done adequate amount of off-site optimization. The back links that you gather on your blog can prove advantageous to you as your blog will get on to the first page faster.

      Follow the below simple steps to get on to the first page:

      • Detailed Composition of Your Content: A very effective way of coming on the first page is that post detailed content on your blog. This helps you to register with the SERPS faster even if your post is few hours old. The reason being that the more content you post more the search engines crawl on your page and if the content is fair enough, no one can stop your blog on ranking first. You have to go along with adequate amount of on-site optimization because this does help when you want to come on the first page. On-site optimization tools include content writings with killing titles, attractive headers and use of illustration which act as a key for blog writings.
        To know more about Blog writing read my article – Basic rules for blog writing
      • Use relevant title for your Writing: Mark one thing in your mind that you have to always give a relevant title to your writing or a story or whatever you are posting on your blog. Now you may wonder why? The reason is using relevant titles get hold of your readers as they exactly get what they are looking for. Now you may think that how can the use of relevant titles give you a high ranking? Well make one thing clear that using relevant titles do prove beneficial to you but if your relevant titles or heading contains keywords relating to your writing, its obvious that your blog is going to rank high. So make it a rule and follow it adequately.
      • Try and have media back links for your blog: It isn’t necessary to have back links on your new writings or stuff like that but it would be a great help to you if you manage to get some good amount of back links. This comes under off-site optimization. When i am talking about getting back links does not mean grabbing the links from the normal sites. They are not going to help you on a large scale. You have to try and get the back links from social media sites with high-traffic. More will be the traffic more will be the enlistment of your blog. You will only be able to get such back links of your content is upto the mark. So do follow this instruction wisely.
      • Go along with SERPS: Going along with SERPS does not mean that you have to look what search engines are looking for, what i am trying to convey is that you should post the content on your blog which is in competition with the SERPS. You have to make an effort and search with the web regarding the same and get your loop holes out. If the competition on SERPS for a particular topic is high but the results on Google are less in number then you have higher chances to have a highest rating for your blog. This will be a sharp move if you get to find one such topic or as many as you probably can.
      • Be Sharp On Giving Titles and Headers: You have to be wise enough to use your titles in context with your content. This helps in better understanding and also gives an effective impact to your blog. Make sure that the headers you use should have keywords in it. I won’t stress on it but if you could manage to add some keywords to your headings it’s going to help you greatly but at the same time it does not mean that your heading should be stuffed with the keywords, you just have to make it look natural and attractive enough for the readers to get hold of it and for the search engines to make your blog ranking high.

      These steps are not difficult if you get the clarity and feeling of it. We all know that hard work is the key to success. So don’t be a work-shirker and try to follow these steps in a systematic way and wisely then see how things are going to change for you.