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Link Building Methods
Feb 10th
Link building is one example of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technique. some said that the more links a website had (an inbound link), it will make search engines like google, yahoo, and bing to index your website better. Popular techniques used for link building is making links which is a mutual link between two websites to make mutual traffic. this technique called two-way linking. This technique, however, have been widely replaced by the use of one-way linking.
One Way Linking
One-way link is a term used between webmasters as a method of link building. It is a link that points to a website without any reciprocal link, so the link goes in “one-way” direction. Some said that this type of link would be looked more natural by the search engines. One-way linking are also called Incoming Links or Inbound Links.
Now as the internet has just getting bigger, some other techniques of linking has been used by the webmasters around the world. just like link bait.
Link bait is a technique to make article that makes the reader interested to it and make direct link to your article. for example by tweeting it via twitter, or post it in their blog, or even in their facebook status. It is probably the most powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature.
Things to write if you’re running out of idea
Dec 25th
It’s common for a writer to running out of idea when they want to update their website. If you’re running out of idea to write on your website, the first thing to do is write whatever you are thinking right now. Because if you don’t update your website for a long time, your visitors that checks your website regularly will think that your website is not active, and even won’t visit your website again. And visitors is vital when you are making a website, so try to keep your visitors by updating your website regularly. These are some topics to post in your blog when you are running out of idea:
1. Movie Review
You can go to the nearest cinema and watch movie, and write the review about it in your blog. Watch a new or booming movie so that your visitors that haven’t watch it can decide whether they will or won’t watch that movie. Watching movie also can make you become relax, and even it can give you idea for your next article!
2. News
You can tell your visitors news about what happened around you, or in your country, if your visitors come from around the world. Sometimes an interesting news in your country is not exposed to another country, so you can be the first one to tell it to the world via your website.
3. Interesting things that you find on the net
When you are surfing the web, you maybe find a good article or general knowledge article, post it in your website as an interlude, so your visitors can get general knowledge too from your website.
There are some more thing to post in your website when you are running out of idea, you can search it with your own creativity. And keep in mind that a webmaster must be able to keep their visitors visiting their website. More visitors you have, more revenue you can get.
Allow Others Use Your Article
Dec 21st
You can allow other people to use your article with your byline to tell their visitors who wrote it. This will help you promote your website and bring traffic because your byline must contain link to your website and visitors can get to your website from it. It’s better if your article copied by someone who has good rank in the search engine.
The more people uses your article as content on their website, more traffic you will get. These webmaster probably use search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, banner exchange, or even pay per click program such as Google Adwords to promote their website.
This advertising method is absolutely free because you give your articles so others can use them. The problem is when many webmasters use your article, it become not unique. But it is ok as long as they put your byline under your article, so their visitors may see who was the real writer and even go to your site, and improve your traffic.
If you make articles with search engine optimization technique and share them to others, your article will raise up in the search engine, and with byline under your article, you can get tons of visitors from sites they placed your article.
How Big Will My Revenue Be?
Dec 8th
how many revenue you can get from placing advertisement in your website different for each person. How much money you can get depends on how succesful your site is. Sucessful here means have good search engine rankings, how big your site is, and how big is your readers.
Some people said that they can make $12,000 per month through sites. But most people should not expect this kind of success, especially if you are new. because that kind of success needs experience and skills. After you worked for months and gains traffic and set up nice advertisements, may be you can get around $500 a month.
Soon after you have successfull site, most people choose to build niche sites. The more sites you have, better income you can get. When you start, remember that your first site will be the hardest one, because you are just learning about it. but when you already make 2 or 3 of them, it will not as hard as the first one.
Never give up. your first site may take long time, but if you give up too early, you will never know what will you get. And maybe you are the next great website marketer!
Importance of Keywords
Dec 7th
Keyword is an important part of optimizing your articles for search engines, or Search Engine Optimization. Search engine bots or spiders scan a web page and they recognize a page by it keywords. So if you put your keyword correctly, your article will show up when someone search for that keyword in the search engines.
A keyword is a word or a phrase that is placed in your articles several times, not just once, because that would make every word as a keyword. So if search engine spiders sees that you have some words placed several time in a webpage, it will recognize that word as a keyword and will determine your web page will be useful to users that searching for that word.
But dont over do it. If you over optimizing your articles with particular words, it known as “keyword stuffing”. When you do that spider will detect that your article is a tricky article which want to be placed high in the search engine results for that keyword, and the spider will penalize your page. It event may affect your overall pages ranking, and would be blacklisted from a particular search engine if you do keyword stuffing to many times.
Most people use a percentage to determine how many time they will have the keyword in their articles. For example if you have a 400 words article and want to make it 5%, then you can write your keyword 20 times. you can choose how often you use your keyword, because each webmaster has their own style, and based on past results.as long as you dont over optimized and you make enough profit for your ranking, then you can choose how often your keyword will be.
Having the right keyword percentation will make money from your article because it will rise in the search engine results and you will get many readers from it.
Article Directory
Dec 3rd
Article directory is a website that contains free articles. There article usually written by someone who owns the web and wanted to promote their web from there. Usually each article has the writer’s name under it, and link to their website, so the readers of the article house will know who wrote it, and can visit their website.
Article Directory is a great place to put your article and promote your website. By using this method, people who is interested with the topic your article have will read your article, see that you are an expert in that subject, and will go to your website. Even sometimes the writer of articles in the article directories doesn’t really an expert, they hire writers to write articles for them. Hiring a good writer will be expensive up front, but it will be paid back when your website get visitors from it.
Since you posted your article in a free article directory, other people who makes website about your topic fill use your article for their website. Since they must attach your name under it, this will bring you more exposure from every website that repost your article. But there are some writer who re-write an idea based on your articles, and they dont put your name under it. So make sure your article directory didn’t say that your article is free to copy, and hope that the readers is a fair writer too.
Placing Banner Advertisements
Nov 29th
Selling free spots on your website for banner advertisements from another website can increase your revenue greatly. This option is better than making affiliate with several companies, because you will always get monthly (or weekly) fee no matter how many costumer clicks the banners. The main thing, that is very critical in making a good web is make informative website filled with useful articles, so you will makes visitors returns to your website.
As your site going up in the search engine rankings, the blank space in your website will begin to appeals advertisers, because having a banner placed in a good spot in the high-ranked website will make good revenue for the advertisers. Once you make a good website and advertisers come to you for advertising their products, you can rent your website’s spaces for them to put banner advertisements. Each month you will paid the same amount of money from them, no matter how many traffic you gave them.