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Why is it that most webmasters ignore the most important aspects of SEO? All you hear people talk about is keywords and keywords phrases. Now keywords are very important and should be a part of your search engine optimization. But do not forget about everything else that goes into proper SEO. If you want to increase your search engine rankings and page rank you also need to follow these 5 steps.

1. Link popularity

2. Page Rank

3. Out-going links

4. Anchor text

5. Search engine penalization…

Often people ignore all of those CRITICAL elements to SEO mainly because they don’t understand them. And for good reason, SEO can get incredibly complicated.

For example, did you know you get hurt by linking to websites that have been penalized by search engines? Honestly, SEO is no joke - it’s hard stuff, so if you were to try to do this on your own - I’m not so sure you could do it. Heck, I know I couldn’t. Trying to do everything by hand will drive you crazy and you leave the door wide open for mistakes to be made. One little mistake can drop your search engine rankings or worse get you banned.

When tackling a task as important as search engine optimization, you should invest some money in software that will help you do all the needed steps to proper SEO. The right software can increase your search engine rankings, increase your sales and save you a tremendous amount of time. Remember this is an investment into your business.

A few years ago you would have had to buy a number of different software packages to do all the required tasks of proper SEO. Not anymore. There is a piece of software called SEO Elite that has combined all these tasks in one complete software package. When you are implementing your SEO strategies, use only white hat techniques. By using these techniques you will never get banned by the search engines for using black hat or dirty techniques to fool the search engines. Search engines today have very sophisticated systems of tracking web sites. If you are doing something shady, they will find you. Stick to the white hat techniques.

When you are getting links for your site, one way links are much better than reciprocal links. A good way to get one way links is to submit your site to directories and by using social networking sites like digg. Search engine optimization is a lot of hard work. Getting the right software to help you is a big deal. The software can get much needed information quickly and speed up the process to increase your rankings and page rank.

Peter O’Brien has been an internet marketer since 2006

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What is Online PR anyway? Online PR is syndicated distribution of public relations documents via web services. There are various PR syndication services from the high priced BusinessWire and PRweb to the free OpenPress. Why optimize PR for SEO? External links back to your site influence your site’s quality rating in search engines. The more high quality links leading back to your site the better your potential for higher search rank position.

“PR optimization is the only legitimate link back strategy that gives you full control.”

Optimization

PR optimization is a two fold concern. First the content should be tailored to specific keyword phrases and second these keyword phrases will be the the anchor text for the links back to relevant pages on your site.

Content Development

News wires specify that a PR post must be a newsworthy event in an announcement format. Prime subjects for PR would be Partnerships, Event Sponsorship, Product Release, Customer Wins, Executive Promotion, Service Announcements, Legal Filings, Awards, Industry Recognition ….

Format

Once you have your optimized copy with embedded keyword phrases linked back to your website you will need to put it in the standard PR format. You need a contact block at the top including Name,Title, Company, Phone , and Email. The first line of your copy should begin with the City, State, Date.

Example:

Contact:

Your Name

Your Title

Your-Website.com

Your Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX

Your Email: EEE@EEE.com

San Francisco, CA. September 24, 2050 - YOUR COMPANY the next generation of Interactive Agency announced the release of a new set of SEO tools for the Internet Marketing professional ….

Your copy will need to be at least 300 words to qualify for posting on most syndication services.

PR Management

You should strive to post at least one PR announcement per month. Many leading companies will post PR 2-3 times a week. As often as you have legitimate newsworthy announcements that you can optimize for your SEO requirements you can send out PR. You should not try to fabricate phony announcements. While it is unlikely that a syndication service would approve what appears to be a deliberate attempt to spam the news sphere doing so would generate a perception of illegitimacy that would hurt your business. So Behave yourself.

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I love RSS. It makes my webpages dynamic with ever-changing content. And that content is bang up to date. Once I create a page using RSS, I can set it and forget it, knowing that the search engines will pick up on the changes and see the page as one worthy of a frequent revisit from the search engine spiders.

In case your not familiar with the RSS acronym, it stands for Really Simple Syndication. It was designed to disseminate information from blogs and press releases. Since those early days, tools have been created that allow RSS feeds to be added to webpages to beef up content.

I run a number of websites based on the Adsense revenue model. While I’ve been buidling websites for over 10 years, I only started monetizing them with Adsense in 2004. Like most people, my early attempts at building an income stream this way proved pretty dismal. A few cents a day was all I could muster.

So I bought a few books on Adsense and how to make it work for you. The techniques I learned practically tripled my Adsense earnings. Wow! Well, not quite. If you make 10 cents a day and triple it to 30 cents, you still ain’t getting anything significant at the end of the month (about ten bucks).

Back in 2004, I ran three websites, each making between 20 and 30 cents a day. So I’d get about $30 from Adsense each month. Nothing to write home about.

Then I discovered RSS feeds. Up to that point I’d manually update a few pages a day to let the search engines know my pages were still active. It was a lot of work for the monetary return but, hey, I liked what I was doing.

RSS feeds were great and everyone writing a blog was creating one (automatically), but you could only read them in dedicated RSS readers. Then I came across a piece of software that would change how I built my websites from then on. The software is a PHP script, so your webserver has to be able to run PHP in order for you to use it.

With this script, I could embed any RSS feed into any webpage. What’s more, I could format the output any way I wanted: making the headline into a header (to emphasise them to search engines), specifying how many characters from the associated news item to show, the color of the text, including the publication date, adding a link to the full news story, how many stories to show. You get the idea.

Then I realized you could aggregate the news from several RSS feeds and sort them in reverse chronological order (newest story appears at the top). There are RSS scripts you can use (if you know PHP) that will show stories from one RSS feed. But if everyone is using them, there’s a whole lot of sites out there showing the same news stories. Enough that the search engines (particularly Google) can pick up on them as duplicate content.

The script I use doesn’t have that problem. Since it can mix ‘n’ match content from several RSS feeds, the news displayed is always unique.

And the upshot of using this script?

I use it on every page of every website I own. I’ve set the script to check for new stories every 1 or 2 hours. The search engines now know that my pages get updated frequently which has helped improve their page rankings. That leads to higher placements in search engine results and more visitors to my sites.

Today, those three original websites earn me about $20 per day (combined) from Adsense ($600 per month). While some tweaks were applied to Adsense placement and look-and-feel on my webpages, I put the huge increase in Adsense earnings down to adding those RSS feeds to my pages and the script that made it all possible.

Gary Nugent now runs more than three websites that make money from Adsense. You can find out more about making Adsense work for you at: AdsenseClix

The script he uses to add RSS feeds to his pages can be found here. A free report, 7 Ways to Turn RSS into R$$ is available for download.

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With all of the hosting companies out there and the multitude of offerings promising 99.99% up time guarantees or my personal favorite; “no downtime” how do you choose the best provider for you? Well it’s going to depend on what kind of service you expect and what you are willing to pay for it. This article is based on a reoccurring problem I’ve been running into recently. That problem is the $99/month or less “dedicated” server.

A $99/month dedicated server? You mean I can have a complete hosting solution providing me with privileged access to dedicated resources and bandwidth? It’s going to be configured with only top notch, reliable and redundant equipment to ensure the least amount of downtime? I’ll be all by myself on the server so no one else’s activities such as spamming, video or photo hosting, or any other resource hogging application will have negative effects my website or application? That sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? You’re absolutely correct; it IS too good to be true.

With the increase in popularity and use of virtualization in hosting environments many hosting companies are misleading customers into virtual dedicated servers under the guise of a “dedicated server.” For those unfamiliar with virtualization, it can be loosely explained as the installation of software or hardware that makes one machine have the ability to have multiple operating systems or applications installed while using the same system resources and functioning completely independent of one another. In English, it’s basically tricking one machine into thinking it is multiple machines; thus allowing for multiple websites, applications, etc. to run on it.

Now there is nothing wrong with virtual servers. In fact, they are a great low cost way to get a small website or application up and running. The problem that we have been facing is that many potential customers come to us for a dedicated server quote thinking that it will be around the same pricing as what they’ve paid for a virtual server. That is simply not the case as you are getting a far more powerful and superior piece of equipment when you are looking at a true dedicated server.

True dedicated servers are exactly what they say they are; a single server for a single customer. There is no sharing of resources such as processing power, RAM, Hard Drive space, network connection, etc. You are getting the most robust solution for your application, web site, or database.

Just remember that the age old philosophy of “You get what you pay for” still holds true here.

Brian Duke is an experienced sales professional with New England Data Services, a data center located in the Boston, MA area that offers managed services such as collocation, dedicated servers, remote data backup, and T1/T3’s.

You can find out more about NEDS by visiting http://www.neds.com or emailing Brian at bduke@neds.com

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What Is An Ad Tracker?

You place a classified ad with a link to your site in an e-zine. the ad tracker tells you the response from that ad, i.e.the number of people who clicked through your site from that ad.

Why You Need To Track Your Ad?

Businesses who track their advertising are able to tell how well a particular ad was received which can help them to maximize their profits. Expert internet marketers will tell you that it is absolutely necessary to constantly experiment, change, tweak or test your ad. An ad tracker program make all these processes extremely easy. Ad tracker program shows you how much traffic is coming from where. It also shows you IP and time logs from each source, or you can know whether or not you are being cheated on traffic.

What Are The Different Things That You Can Check With An Ad Tracker Program?

An ad tracker can effectively check and display:

1) Basic visitor stat (user browser type, operating system, ip address, referring url etc)

2) Return visitors (i.e visitors who again visit your site). This visitors have special interest in the theme of your site.

3) What action visitors are taking (like clicking on links,downloading e-books etc)

4) Remote site tracking (what are your visitors doing in your affiliate site/sites)

5) Keyword search — which keywords are people entering into engines to find your site?

and more….

How An Ad Tracker Works?

Setting up an ad tracker program is not difficult. You first need to setup an ad campaign. after that you need to go to your ad tracker control panel to view the stats. The ad tracker program will run at your own site, or if, you are using an external service it will run on a tracker site.

For setting up the ad campaign, you need to cloak your site with the ad tracker url. say your site is http://www.yoursite.com and your site code in your ad tracker program is xxxxx Then you will be given an ad tracker url like http://www.exampletrack.com/a.cgi?a476&xxxxx for your use.

If anybody clicks at your ad tracker URL, he will be redirected to your site. And as soon as he does click the ad tracker URL, his stats are automatically inserted in the control panel of your ad tracker program which you can view by logging in to your ad tracker program account.

Where You Can Place Your Ad tracking URL?

classifieds

e-books

article submission directories/e-zine directories

auctions

discussion lists and discussion boards

paid per click search engines

Pop Up Ads

Reciprocal links

signature files

etc…………

Auto Responders Have Their Own Ad Tracking Program One of the big benefits of using auto responders is that they all have their own ad tracking facilities.

What Can Be Your Next Steps After Tracking The Ads?

Since you know which sources are producing and which ones are not, it is easy to identify which ones you should drop. The truth is, you will find that there are at least a few ads that are not making the results. Drop the ones that don’t do well, and cut your ad budget but not your profits! After you have dropped the poor producers, you can spend more with those bringing in the best results. If you can spend one dollar to make three dollars, so why not increase the amount of times you do ad tracking?

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You no longer have an excuse not to develop and market content. Google has solved the problem for you with its launch of Google Sites, which provides a simple way to make information accessible to people who need quick access to current data.

According to Google, “People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it’s just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world. The Google Sites web application is accessible from any internet connected computer.”

That’s all good but here’s the best idea for using it: content marketing. If you are a non-technical person, you don’t have a website, or you don’t have control over the content on your website, Google Sites is for you. Here are the pros of this tool:

• Single-click page creation.
• No HTML required.
• Make it your own with templates.
• Upload files and attachments.
• Even embed rich content.
• Rapidly change or update files.

If you handle internal communications, this is a great way to market your employee-only content. For the PR professional, it’s a great tool for setting up an online media room or for marketing white papers. Here’s an example of a Google Sites’ company intranet, a team project site, and a student club.

So, you no longer have to rely on your IT guys nor are you able to use them as an excuse.

Harry Hoover is a partner in My Creative Team. He has 30 years of experience in crafting and delivering bottom line messages that ensure success for serious businesses like Bank of Commerce, CruisingTheICW.com, Duke Energy, Levolor, National Gypsum, North Carolina Tourism, Nucor, Premier, Rubbermaid, VELUX, and Verbatim.

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Search engine optimization is very important for all the web sites. The World Wide Web is a very crowded place now. There are millions and millions of web sites which currently exist on the web. All of these web sites need search engine optimized content. High page ranking is very important. All those web sites which have a good page ranking get lots of visitors. The increased number of visitors makes it possible for a web site to increase the volume of its business.

The chances of making lots of profit increase once the web site has attained a high page ranking. This makes search engine optimization very important. You can make lots of money through search engine optimization. Once the content of your web site is search engine optimized, you will be noticed by the search engines whenever a related search is conducted on the internet. When your web site appears on the trop of the page, the chances of getting visitors increase. Keeping this in view search engine optimization becomes very important.

If you want to search engine optimize your content, you will need to refresh it. Add some key words in it. Tags must be there at appropriate places on the web. Keeping all this in mind, once you become the search engine favorite, you can earn lots of money by helping other websites. You can place their links on your web site and get paid. Place their banner ads. That will also help. Rss feeds and pay per click advertising may also be used to get paid.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.

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Text links are one of the most valuable resources on the Internet, thanks to Google. They not only provide users with a clear idea of what the link is about, but also provide search engines with a way to categorize your website among the millions of other websites out there. Plus, the more incoming text links you have, the higher you’ll rank in a search engine for that particular keyword.

In a phrase: text links are gold.

Even though text links are gold, getting them is almost impossible unless you do a lot of work getting listed in various link exchanges. It’s tedious, boring, and sometimes your links just disappear for no reason. This is where TextLinkAds comes in: they offer advertisers plain text links — which Google and other search engines can read — for a reasonable monthly fee on a variety of websites, while offering advertisers a reasonably easy to use service to better monetize their website.

As an advertiser I’m finding it harder and harder to find websites to place my plain text links on. Often times, publishers will only work with well-established websites, or will just outright ignore your request for a link exchange (thanks to the soaring popularity of automated link exchange requests). TextLinkAds offers a niche-based list of websites, sorted by Alexa ranking and PageRank, so you can purchase a few links on some very highly ranked websites, or a lot of links of lower ranked sites. Either way, you get to choose which website displays what text. And, when the Google dance comes around, you’ll be in better shape because of all those valuable backlinks.

As a publisher, TextLinkAds offer you a unique way to monetize your website. Thanks to their system, it’s easy to integrate their code into your website: you’re not limited to their layout as you can customize their code, or write your own. TextLinkAds also offers to advertise your site listing for you, in exchange for a 50% cut — a great option of websites that just don’t generate enough traffic to sell on their own. If 50% is too steep, you can manage your own sales and keep 100% of the profit. Oh, and they also have a very lucrative affiliate program, paying $25 per unique sign up.

All in all, TextLinkAds offers a very robust service for both the advertiser and publisher. If you need to get your name out there, or just want to get a few extra dollars in your PayPal account, you should consider them to be a part of your business strategy.

Jason Pullara has run a successful sole proprietorship in New York City building, repairing, and maintaining workstations and personal computers for local businesses and consumers for 5 years, and currently runs a successful content marketing website at Geekstreak.

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The most well-known tools of the trade are usually popular for a reason: it’s because they address the needs of professionals across a broad spectrum. This is why when you hear someone recommend a particular software, you know this software is worth trying out. For resellers, the buzz around town is “WHM reseller hosting.” And for a good reason!

WHM reseller hosting offers a more simplified way of managing different hosting accounts. WHM, or Web Hosting Manager, is a tool that usually comes bundled in with cPanel, a popular hosting web panel. cPanel is a proprietary program developed and distributed by cPanel.net, which also designed and continually develops WHM.

If you were a webmaster before you gained an interest in breaking into the reseller business, you may have heard of cPanel before WHM. The popularity of the cPanel web panel simply cannot be denied: many web hosts choose to make cPanel available to all their resellers and end users because of the software’s many virtues. Ease of use is perhaps the biggest reason why this particular web panel software is so popular, but security and user-friendliness are others.

And because WHM comes bundled up with the cPanel program, WHM also becomes a popular choice by association. Just as cPanel is easy to use for resellers and end users alike, when they have to change the settings of the web space that has been assigned to them, WHM proves to be easy to use in managing user accounts. WHM is only available to resellers; if you have purchased web space that comes with a WHM functionality, chances are you have purchased a reseller hosting account.

Other web panels come with their own versions of user management software. WHM is unique to cPanel. You can expect the same security and ease of use from WHM as you can from cPanel, which is to say a lot of it! Security cannot be underplayed when you’re selling web space. If you wish for people to appreciate the features you have installed into your reseller accounts, one of the things you have to emphasize in your marketing pitches is security.

Choosing a WHM reseller hosting account would make it much easier for you as the vendor to market your web space primarily on the “ease of use” platform. If you should happen to be a reseller who wants to market for other resellers - and this could happen, because the need for smaller and cheaper web space just doesn’t end! - make sure that you are also able to furnish your sub-resellers with WHM functionalities.

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Google is the leading search engine but not the only search engine. Search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Ask and so on are also important. Although Google, followed by Yahoo!, is the global player on the search engine scene, MSN, owned by the giant Microsoft Corporation has a small role in the search engine market. However, MSN could become serious competition. Microsoft is a power. MSN search is already built into the home version of Windows XP and many users search with it. Who knows what Microsoft will decide to do next to gain popularity. Professional SEOs will not ignore this fact and optimize websites for all search engines.

The good news is that optimizing your website for Google will definitely help with the other search engines. To index a website and position it high on its results, Google requires valuable content, good linking strategies, ethical SEO and so on. MSN wants the same. The differences are in the search algorithms. These algorithms could change overnight. There was a time when Netscape ruled the Web. The switch to Google took place almost in a flash. You never know what will happen next: thatâ??s the beauty of SEO. SEO is always challenging, changing, stimulating. When you optimize your web pages for one search engine only you are doomed.

Google ranks a website mainly for its incoming links, especially when these have good link anchor texts. MSN places more importance on keywords and content, especially on page content, but doesnâ??t ignore incoming links either. To rank well in both search engines you should concentrate your efforts on both site optimization and linking.

SEO with Equilibrium

SEO is a tool. Like any tool it has to be used and handled with care. For example Google and MSN value links, but if you have too many links and poor content, that will not help. You need to maintain an equilibrium between content and links. Google paces importance on linking power while MSN is more concerned about the content of the links. As a matter of fact Google states the same: quality, industry related links but so far content links weigh heavier on MSN.

External links are important for both MSN and Google. However, donâ??t ignore internal linking. Your web pages have to be properly interlinked. This is not only good for Google and MSN, but it will provide for your visitors as well.

Google doesnâ??t have the same keyword density tolerance as MSN. As a matter of fact itâ??s lower. So if you place too many keywords in your text to rank high in MSN youâ??ll probably not see the same results in Google, as Google might consider your keyword rich content as spam. So once again: handle SEO with care.

Both Google and MSN like fresh content. The best way to use this SEO tool is to host a blog on your domain.

Directory Listings Boost Your Websiteâ??s Rankings in All the Search Engines

It is good to have your website listed in all the major industry relevant directories. MSN has its own directory: Microsoft Business Central. Inclusion is not free, but affordable. If you respect their guidelines, inclusion is guaranteed. DMOZ, Googleâ??s directory, is free. But inclusion is rather hard. Being a human edited directory youâ??ll have to wait months to be included if at all. Other important directories you might want to consider are Yahoo! Directory, Best of Web and Looksmart/Zeal. Donâ??t ignore smaller directories either.

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