An important aspect of search engine optimization is the fact that you need to invest time and effort into your website on a regular basis in order get traffic and keep traffic continuously increasing. If you allow your website to sit and collect cobwebs it won’t do much for you.

SEO Tip #1:

There isn’t a magical formula; at least not one that’s evergreen so it’s important to stay current on SEO news. Dig deep to find information and read everything you can. You’ll find conflicting information at times but knowledge is power so absorb as much SEO news as you can.

SEO Tip # 2:

Create an easy to follow design with a standard homepage, easily viewable links and a site index. This way, people and search engines can find their way around easily and so can people.

SEO Tip # 3:

Determine what your target keywords are. There are some great tools out there that can help you both for free or for a small fee. Often it’s fairly easy to figure this out on your own.

Ask yourself:

What are the top three to five words or phrases you would use if you were use to search for the product or topic you are selling? Be sure that those words are on each page of your website, especially in titles, headings and at the beginning, middle and end of each page. It’s a good idea to use variations as well to give your site further credibility and increase the Long Tail.

SEO Tip # 4:

SEO Fact : Content is king. Always will be. Don’t assume that more is better in terms of keywords. Do not fall victim to the temptation to simply keyword stuff your site otherwise two things will happen. First, you’ll get banned by the search engines and even worse, you’ll be ignored by the humans who land on your page. Both types of visitors can see through vain SEO attempts to trick you to get onto their site.

Instead, you want to target the fine line between having enough keyword relevancy to make it impossible for the search engines to ignore you but not so much that your human visitors find your content to be poor quality. Hire a professional SEO article writer if you have to in order to come across as professional. Keep fresh content on your pages and change your content regularly. You don’t have to waste what you’ve put effort and money into, instead move your old content into archives so it continues to work for you as well.

SEO Tip # 5:

Web 2.0 is all about social networking. Social networking, social book marking, forum posting and link exchanges can be invaluable If you can get high ranking websites in your niche to exchange links with you, this can help. If you are blogging, comment on other blogs in your niche to get a link back to your site and generate interest from bloggers that frequent other sites in your niche. If you use tools like Technorati, Digg, StumbleUpon and other social book marking tools on your pages with appropriate tagging, you can bring relevant traffic fairly quickly and it’s viral so others will do the same. Social networking activities are also indexed by the search engines.

In summary, there are basic to advanced seo techniques and seo tips that you can use to get noticed by the big three search engines. Your results will depend a lot on how narrow your niche is but there are some basic things you can do to be search engine friendly from the start. It’s never too late to optimize your site though so don’t lose heart if you didn’t follow this advice on your website from the beginning. Here are some basic ideas. This is not an exhaustive list but is a great place to start.

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Ahhh… internet nowadays.

A lot of “free” stuff. Yes, with the quotes because those “free” stuff comes with its own – wait for it – catch.

You get this “free” trial of magic pills that will help you lose weight, they’ll send you more pills and charge your card.

You get this “free” DVD about internet marketing, they’ll subscribe you to their newsletter and charge your card.

They all have a catch.

Well, not all…

If you get Zac Johnson’s “Six Figure Affiliate Blogging”, there is no catch. Why?

Because Zac is making *a lot* of money with affiliate marketing that he doesn’t need to push or squeeze any dollar from you

It’s a 93-page ebook, free, no-fluff.

I personally think you’ll like it and I vouch for it.

Plus Zac is really a pretty good guy so aside from reading the ebook which is insanely informative, I suggest you contact him and try to get to know him – he’s a very kind dude  :-)

It walks you through the process of building a blog, creating a brand
that generated Zac over $xxx,xxx a year with blogs

Click here to get Zac’s Six Figure Affiliate Blogging

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1. WhosTalkin – This new baby (just launched last year) is going big sometime soon. When you do a search, you get all the related blogs basing on your keyword PLUS results from other social media and social networking sites like Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, etc. A great tool for reputation management too.

2. Google Blog Search – Hmmm nothing new here, clean interface, relevant results, just the same as how Google serves us LOL.

3. Technorati – They’ve been pretty messed up for the last months because of their weird feature tests and design changes but their big, big directory still lives up to the promise of ranking top blogs.

4. StumbleUpon – Not really of good use if you’re doing a proper research, just a nifty tool to read some cool stuff on your interests.

5. Delicious – I like using Delicious personally because you get to know what people think about the blogs and how many people REALLY liked it – compared to the other sites in this list, it’s real people voting, not just some algorithm.

6. Ask Blog Search – Well Ask’s been doing a pretty good job with their blog search, less splogs than any of the above.

7. Google Reader – After a long day hunting, subscribe to the blogs you’ve found and test out Google Reader’s new “top recommendations” and you’ll double your popular blogs list.

How About You?

It’s definitely not a complete list, how about you? If you’re using a website or a technique to find popular blogs in a specific niche, speak up and share it in the comments section below

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Just wanted to get your thoughts on article marketing. Is it a good system to get backlinks and a good position in SERPS for low to medium competitive keywords, with under 1 million results.

Article marketing is very old school, to say the least.

The technique works like this…

You write a 300 word article with an about the author blurb at the bottom slapped with your link then you submit it to hundreds of article directories. It worked like a charm then because Google won’t mind duplicate articles – but today, Google doesn’t give that much weight to links from duplicate articles.

So most people nowadays submit an article to the top article directories only, wait for it to rank in the search engine results page (SERPS) then traffic comes – but not so many backlinks and not that quality.

How Do You Gain Backlinks Through Article Marketing Today?

Imagine, you write a 300 word article, submit it to one website and the next day, your traffic jumps, your article spreads to hundreds of websites and you get quality backlinks.

Not a lot, but quality.

The New Article Marketing

The idea is simple, instead of submitting your article into article directories, you submit it to authoritative blogs in your niche.

Basically, when your article gets posted on their blog, you get a backlink just like in the about the author blurb.

But here’s 5 magical things the new article marketing has to offer…

1. You get traffic on the day your article gets posted
2. You only submit to one blog
3. You get targeted traffic
4. Your article will be talked about on the blog giving a chance for it to spread on other blogs too
5. You get quality backlinks

In My Experience

Back to Adam’s question, is it a good system to get backlinks and a good position in SERPS for low to medium competitive keywords, with under 1 million results?

It’s good.

It still works in my experience – but why not go to the best which is the new article marketing?

Less work, more results.

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If you’re starting to make blogs (like three or four) you need to pick your blogging topic that you’re comfortable with. Like me, my topic is problogging, I can post easily because I LIKE blogging. Pick topics that you like.

In my experience, my main problem is always the template. I am always having trouble changing, editing because of wrong codes and links. I learned that I was WRONG; the main thing is the content not the template and etc.

Ok, so now I will discuss to you three expert blogging tips, here they are:

1. Get a topic that you’re comfortable with. Like what I said a while ago, pick a topic that you’re comfortable with, because if you like the topic you are discussing you are gaining interest to your blog and when you gain interest you also post with interest, ending up with an interesting post.

2. Pick a theme that doesn’t cause you many problems. Before a theme for me is a very important aspect in blogs. But when I visited popular professional blogs like techcrunch and engadget, all I saw is just an ordinary plain old theme. Now it come up in my mind that themes are aren’t that important at all, all that matters for me is the content!

3. Don’t go out of topic. This is a common mistake of many bloggers. They go out of topic, that’s why they get fewer visitors. I’l give you an example, I found a magazine on a bookstore titled T3 (a magazine about technology) but on the header what I saw was “sexy pics of…” See they go out of place; they are writing articles that are not related to their topic which is WRONG. You will get fewer visitors that way. Relevance is a very important aspect in problogging.

Those are the things which I learned from my experiences in blogging. That’s all the things I can say if you want to start blogging. Just come back here for more.

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In order for a “system” that you’ve design to be profitable and easy to manage, it has to have two desirable features. a) it needs to be automated and b) it needs to convert visitors into buyers. This married to another very important aspect of Internet Marketing; the source of your traffic. Your traffic will determine how much success you have online.

There’s only one problem with descent traffic and that’s cost. The saturated arena of PPC is hardly a place to start. You’ll spend more than you make (without a doubt) and the truth is, you don’t need it. Sure it’s a good way of targeting your traffic, but there are much more cost effective ways of doing this and having the same results.

Did you know that only 5% of traffic on the internet is generated through search engines? This is a bold statement, but it’s true!  85% of ALL traffic online, comes from display marketing. You know, those irritating teeth whitening offers you see on almost every single page on the internet? That’s display marketing (also known as banner marketing or buying media).

So now you know where all of the traffic online comes from, are you sick of competing with 99% of other marketers out there for only 5% of the potential traffic out there? You don’t need to answer that because I already know the answer.

Buying media is a really good way of generating traffic and this is how it works.

Step 1 – Testing

Firstly, you’ll need to make sure that your landing page (if you have one – not required if your direct linking) is all set up and ready for testing. You can use Google Website Optimizer to do this, as well as StatCounter. This will give you a good idea of how much traffic you’re generating and how well each of your landing pages are doing (Website Optimizer is used to split test your offer).

Once you’ve done that, you may also another really valuable tool; ClickTale. ClickTale allows you to set up “recordings” of your visitors. You can watch (in real time) what they do on your site and evaluate the effectiveness of the various different aspects of your landing page, such as the copy or images etc. Once all of this is in place, you’re then ready to “flood” your offer.

Step 2 – Demographics

This is an often overlooked part of the average newbie’s marketing drills. You need to know who your offer appeals to (you’ll be surprised). Once you know who you’re targeting, you can then start to look for sites that relate to your market, product or service.

Finding out demographic data is really easy to do. You’ve got Compete.com, Quantcast.com, Google AdPlanner and Alexa.com. All of these sites allow you a small amount of demographical data, but it’s enough for a simple campaign. I would recommend getting the free SEO Tools Firefox plug-in by SEO Book.

Once you have found the sites you’re looking for, you can then start comparing the demographic data. Choose the site that has the nearest match and go with that one.

Step 3 – The maths

It’s important that you are aware of the potential earnings of your offer before you begin any sort of display campaign. You could work out (by looking at the traffic data in Compete.com) how many unique visitors a site has. From there you can work out how much money you can spend and still manage to be in profit.

You’re looking for at least a 200% ROI (return on investment) and initially, you’re going to use the most conservative figures to work out how much you can spend.

Let’s say that a site has 10,000 visitors a month. You should be able to convert 1% of this traffic to click on your offer. That leaves us with 100 people who see our ad.

If we, again using extremely conservative estimations, manage to convert 1% of that 100 into a buyers, that means you will make one sale. Now, you know, that if you sold X ebook for $20, that you can afford to spend $10 on advertising it (giving you the 200% ROI). That means that you can (in this example) spend $10 on 10,000 views.

Would you get excited now if I told you, you could get 1,000 views for as little as 5c? (No need to answer that one).

Step 4 - Approaching the sites with an offer

Now that you’ve done your homework, you know who and where you’re going to be sourcing your traffic from, and you also know how much you are willing to pay per 1,000 impressions. It’s now time to start approaching websites with offers for advertising.

This can be done in a number of different methods. You can either look for an “advertise here” link and follow the instructions, or you can contact the site owner directly with an offer. NOTE: some websites have 3^rd party advertising networks that manage the advertising on their sites for them, all you have to do if this is the case, is look near the advertisements on the page and find a text link that says advertise.

If you’re just starting out, it is advisable that you avoid the bigger sites as again saturation will kill your business, there are loads of websites out there that don’t make enough money and are always looking for other sources of income.

TOP TIP: If you find a site that only has AdSense on it, then you are going to want to promote on there. Here’s a simply formula to work out how much money a site makes using adsense.

For every 100 visitors to an adsense site, the site owner will make $1. All you’ve got to do is work out your potential profit, and try to beat the amount of money made by the webmaster of the site.

Step 5 – The Creative’s

This is the daunting part, finding the right banners to put onto the site. Luckily, you can outsource banners for a relatively small amount of money, either using the Warrior Forum (warriors for hire) or some similar service like elance.com or oDesk.com.

Make sure your banner has contextual relevance for your users (doesn’t promise more than the site can deliver or isn’t misinforming them) in relation to your offer.

Make sure your banner sticks out and ALWAYS make sure that you use different creative’s and test which one works best. Doing this will allow you (further on down the line) to have a fully automated proven money printing machine!

That’s it…

Now that you know about this secret method of pulling in traffic, it’s time you stepped out from the crowd of dazed newbie’s, stop paying extortionate prices for PPC, and start growing your internet marketing skills.

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There are some sites however, that are very useful to have your blog submitted to. Your PageRank, Alexa Rank, SERP, and as a result the flow of traffic to your site will grow after the quality submission.

Of course for a successful and effective SEO submission by itself is not enough. You will need a list of methods and tactics that we have, are, and will discuss in this blog. Site submission is a very important step that needs a careful attention. A quality site submission allows you to get your site free links that will be permanent and you will not have to pay for them monthly (this is when you buy links, I don’t recommend it, since it’s for the weak). Keep in mind, you need the link mass to grow, the more quality links the better (the word quality is the most important one here).

Using automated program to submit your site or blog to catalogs and directories will get you low quality submissions and same quality results. Manual submission is what will guarantee the information has been entered properly and submitted with the right keywords and tags into the right category.

Below is the hand picked selection of resources where you can submit your blog. I gathered this list when advancing sites in the past. This is a fresh list, clean from paid catalogs, and free from the ones that require a link back from you. This list is like that tiramisu on the plate, waiting for you to taste it

To make it look pretty – catalogs are organized in order by PageRank.

PR 8
http://dmoz.org
http://lii.org
http://scirus.com
http://vlib.org
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com

PR 7
http://boingboing.net
http://bubl.ac.uk
http://dir.yahoo.com
http://femina.com
http://intute.ac.uk
http://lanic.utexas.edu
http://musicmoz.org
http://open-site.org
http://poland.pl/directory
http://portal.eatonweb.com
http://topica.com
http://unixl.com
http://worldweb.com

PR 6
http://123india.com
http://aardvark.co.za
http://accoona.com
http://artchain.com
http://attorneypages.com
http://christiansunite.com
http://cybersleuth-kids.com
http://dart.fine-art.com
http://edezines.com
http://esyndicat.com/dir
http://glossarist.com
http://gogreece.com
http://iozoo.com
http://killersites.com/directory
http://londovor.com
http://mavensearch.com
http://miriblack.com
http://myrealtyguide.net
http://niche-listings.com
http://polishworld.com
http://ppl.com
http://sacentral.sa.gov.au
http://scrubtheweb.com
http://seocourt.com
http://theshoppings.com
http://vos.ucsb.edu
http://web-design-directory-uk.co.uk

PR 5
http://aigam.com
http://artmam.net
http://artschools.com
http://bluewine.com
http://britisharts.co.uk
http://britishsports.com
http://buzzle.com
http://christianwebsite.com
http://clickey.com
http://directory.bizhat.com
http://directory.cipinet.com
http://directory.classifieds1000.com
http://directory.ldmstudio.com
http://elib.org
http://eliteweb.cc
http://explorewisconsin.com
http://finditireland.com
http://gandalfdir.com
http://geniusfind.com
http://info-listings.com
http://information.com
http://infotiger.com
http://infovisual.info/directory/index.php
http://internet-web-directory.com
http://island-search.com
http://ismb02.org
http://jamjaa.com
http://l10s.com
http://liquidn.com
http://mostpopularsites.net
http://nzs.com
http://odp.in
http://onlinerecruitersdirectory.com
http://payvand.com
http://platinax.co.uk/directory
http://prolinkdirectory.com
http://rakcha.com
http://re-quest.net
http://searchsight.com
http://searchwiz.com
http://squidlink.com
http://strictlycss.com
http://surfsafely.com
http://toponlineshopping.com
http://travel-directory.org
http://typicallyspanish.com
http://uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk
http://webdesigners-directory.com
http://webdesignstuff.com
http://webmasterengine.com
http://worldhot.com
http://worldsiteindex.com
http://zensearch.com

PR 4
http://4ppl.com
http://aardvarkbusiness.net
http://abacho.co.uk
http://ablazedirectory.com
http://allfreethings.com
http://allshops.com
http://amray.com
http://annasinkovska.com
http://batteryweb.com
http://bloggernity.com
http://blogrankings.com
http://bloguniverse.com
http://bluedir.com
http://burf.com
http://burtonian.com
http://businessweek.directorym.com
http://busybits.com
http://canadianeh.com
http://canadopedia.com
http://christianlinks.com
http://clasione.com
http://data-spain.com
http://directorylist.org
http://downunderindex.com
http://dxpnet.com
http://en.wedoo.com
http://englandsportal.com
http://findingblog.com
http://forage.in
http://friendlycanadian.com
http://global-weblinks.com
http://goolinx.com
http://hedir.com
http://illumirate.com
http://imegamall.com
http://indiabook.com
http://internetmarketingwebsites.com
http://invo.info
http://jayde.com
http://josh.nu
http://linketeria.com
http://link-pimp.com
http://linksmatch.com
http://linkspub.com
http://localsites.ca
http://massivelinks.com
http://mavicanet.com
http://my-india.net
http://netinsert.com
http://nicksyear.com
http://openhere.com
http://pedsters-planet.co.uk
http://resourcehelp.com
http://search.able2know.com
http://searchtheweb.com
http://seekzap.com
http://sgtsearch.com
http://sitesondisplay.com
http://sitetutor.us
http://slsites.com
http://spheri.com
http://spotjockey.co.uk
http://stpt.com
http://thelocalweb.net
http://top5jamaica.com
http://toronto1.biz
http://trycanada.com
http://turnpike.net
http://urlshack.com
http://vxbox.com
http://wahlinks.com
http://web-central.info
http://websavvy.cc
http://wikidweb.com
http://worthwhilelink.com
http://wura.co.uk
http://yeandi.com
http://zunchdirectory.com

If you know of other high quality SEO submission sites, please share them in the comments area.

Enjoy !

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You are not the only one if you answered any of the above questions in “Yes”. Blogging can be a de-motivator many a times, especially if you do not have enough traffic or, you have just started out on your blogging journey.

A study says that 98% of people, who were successful in what they did, succeeded just because they were persistent. 95% of the people who failed in their objective were much qualified and skilled that their counterparts who succeeded. So what is the mantra to success – It is ‘Persistence’.

I can hear you groan and can also see that sarcastic look of yours. You are feeling as if I am preaching like one of those positive thinking motivational speakers. I might be, but the fact is that it is persistence that will help you in your objective. When it comes to “making money online”, it is nothing different. Making money online is something that is going to give you a lifestyle that you would never have imagined and so it is the never-say-die attitude that will help you achieve it.

How can you overcome the let-me-quit situation? It would require some conscious and deliberate effort from you if you are to do it. Follow these simple tips and you would be able to achieve everything that you have always wanted from your online business.

1. Write down your dream – You had a dream in mind when you first decided to start your online business. Howsoever small or, big the dream is, write it down on a chart-paper. Write it big enough for you to see it from the door of your room if you stick it on the opposite wall. Then stick it somewhere near your computer so that it is always visible. Whenever you feel de-motivated and down, just look at it and read it aloud.
   Also make small stickys with the same dream written on it and stick it at places where you normally go to when you don’t feel like working.
2. Get the picture of the most valuable person in your life – Most of the time we do things for our loved ones. Keep a picture of the most valuable person in your life on your table. Just look at the picture when you don’t feel like working on your blog and think about the things that you have promised them, when you become successful.
3. Write down you goal – You can only succeed if you have clear and legible goals in life. So write down the goal that you want to achieve from your online business or, your blog. Once again follow the same process as earlier and stick it near you computer. Break it into small objectives and stick it at anything and everything that you come in contact with.

When I started blogging my objective was not make a million dollar in the first month. Instead I had an objective of earning $1500 in a month because that was what I wanted as an additional income. I broke it down into day-wise goals and I knew that I had to earn $50 everyday. The initial 7-8 days saw me getting frustrated because I was not achieving my goal. But the first 2 steps above kept me going and to my surprise when I finished the month I had earned $1610 which was more that what I had set as a goal. Such is the power of goals that are written down.

There is no surefire means to success. Success in anything that might improve your lifestyle needs an extra 10% than what is required in other things. At the same time you need to bear in mind that success in anything that you do will surely bring about a change in lifestyle.

Decide that you will write a post for you blog every day, irrespective of if you are going to publish it or, not. Write out a time-table for an entire week and strictly follow the routine. There would be some days when you will not feel like doing anything. Push yourself to do something on these days and you will see your objectives being achieved.

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Right of the bat I would like to say that I don’t recommend using this black hat seo method of getting links and traffic to anyone.  This post as well as all others in the Black Hat SEO category in this blog are only for observational purposes.

In this post I will talk about a black hat SEO approach that has worked for the past 5 years and it’s working and more alive than ever today. This is mostly due to increase in various social networking sites which made the information spread much faster than 5 years ago (it’s insane). This is not a quick black hat SEO fix that gets a site banned after some short sparks of traffic. This is a time and effort consuming approach that requires some creativity to get links and traffic. The result is what every bad boy wants – money.

Ok, let’s grab our snuggies and get to it.

Once upon a time there was a boy living in a big city. He was going to school, playing ball with his friends, chasing skirts here and there. All in all he was being a good boy, eating cereal in the morning and brushing teeth too. Our boy liked browsing Internet and since his creative inner world, his head was full of ideas. Some of those ideas were good, about video games, water parks, skateboards, and what toy is best for the dog named Sparky. Some of the other ideas were better, and they mostly had to do with making some extra money online. One idea captured his mind like that “how we do” song he liked to listen to before the ball game.

He decided to skip on his basketball and lady-friend conversations for a few month while working on his master-plan of that one money making idea. When browsing he saw that there is a lot of people talking how to do this and that to make money selling pharmaceutical products (drugs). After some further research our boy found out this to be one of the most competitive markets online. He liked competition very much, so the choice was made on Viagra pills. After some thought he registered a domain name that included the keyword Viagra in it.

He quickly put up a WordPress blog on there. He knew he needed links to gain PageTrust, PageRank and most importantly traffic from Google and other engines. He also knew nobody would link to his new blog, especially with Viagra pills shop set up on it.

After thinking about this for a while he made his blog about side effects of Viagra and other related pills. He went to PubMed website to read some information about Viagra pills and its side effects. He started gathering videos, cartoons, podcast, press releases and any content that would potentially get back links. He even paid some of the low-cost artist to draw some funny cartoons about Viagra adverse effects. He used all of this content to populate his site. Then he started promoting his site as much as he could. Everyday he would submit his link everywhere he could – all buzz sites, social networking sites, article submission sites, participated in hundreds of blogs and so on. To get the cash to buy the domain name, pay for the artist cartoons and some soda-pop, he had to pawn his 2 skateboards, his bike, Nike shoes, and then some more.

His site did not have any advertisement in it at all – it was all full of information about Viagra side effects and funny cartoons, videos, and podcast to add some coolness effect. This blog had 100% information only, no advertisement, nothing offered for sale – completely harmless.

Since our boy’s blog was harmless without any advertisement, it gained a large amount of back links in a short time. Now, after gaining this large amount of back links, our boy went crazy. He modified and deleted articles, removed videos, removed cartoons, and so on. He completely transformed this blog into a site that sells Viagra pills. He added some additional black hat SEO (filler) articles with long-tail keywords, that he learned by doing some previous keyword research online. With the juice (trust) from all the back links, these extra black hat SEO filler posts ranked very well in the search engines and brought many Internet travelers (traffic) looking for information on Viagra side effects (target traffic) to his transformed Viagra pill site. Soon our boy finally got to see his favorite NBA team play from the front row court-side seat.

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So everyone has been advising you to switch over to WordPress pronto because if Google would have a mistress … then WordPress would definitely be #1

So you’ve installed WordPress (the best decision you could ever make).

Now what?

Well.

The next step is to get the following WordPress plugins installed and activated to help you start on the right track straight off the bat.

I’ve listed the following 8 plugins I use (via priority as I see it), which you can also use as a checklist, the next time you set up your blog.

Plugin #1: Cbnet Ping Optimizer

Advantage: The last thing you want, is for your blog to be listed in the spammer twilight zone.
Well guess what? Every time you update your posts there’s a very good chance your (new)blog is already sending out pings WITHOUT you even knowing it  and the last thing you want is all your SEO efforts going down the toilet drain right?

With the Cbnet Ping Optimizer plugin , you’ll be able to make sure your blog ONLY chatters with the rest of the blogosphere when YOU want it to.
After all.  A well behaved blog is a good blog

Plugin #2: Broken Link Checker

Advantage: From an SEO perspective broken links on your blog is a BIG NO-NO and you can be dead sure that your blog will be penalized if your blog is crowded with broken links.
With Broken link checker, you will be notified of broken links via the WordPress dashboard (=cool cockpit view once you’ve logged in) and link nirvana will be a thing of the past.

Plugin #3: WordPress Database Backup

Advantage: Creates simple backups of your blog which is a must if you don’t want to lose all your hard work in the event of gremlin infestation or worse.

Plugin #4: WP Super Cache

Advantage: What do you think a Google bot would say if it (re)visited your website and found a slow churning machine? Most probably: “Slow blog. No time to index it. NEXT !!!”.
With this plugin you’ll be able to speed up the loading of your websites and the Google bots will thank you for it big time the next time they come round for a tea party at your blog.

Plugin #5:  Google XML Sitemaps (Search engine Sitemaps)

Advantage: Creates a sitemap which is a layout of your website for smooth web crawlers. Make the bots’ lives easier and they will thank you for it. Big time.

Plugin #6:  All in one SEO

Advantage: From a search engine perspective this is a must have and gives you the power of page titles, meta tags, keywords and descriptions. You’ll even be able to configure them on a post by post basis.

Plugin #7:  All In One Webmaster

Advantage: As a webmaster there’s a good chance you’ve come across the Google webmaster tool. Yahoo has its equivalent the Yahoo site explorer and Bing the webmaster central.
This All In One Webmaster helps integrate the power of these tools from within your blog.

Plugin #8: Chennai  Central

Advantage: There’s a good chance you are hosting several blogs on several domains either  for yourself or family and the last thing you need is bandwidth problems.
Chances are you’ve come across sites with the following message : “User has exceed bandwidth for this month”.

Don’t let it happen to you. With Chennai central you’ll be able to control your bandwidth.

And that concludes my comprehensive 8  for WordPress plugins to install on your niche blog(s), so that the search engines will worship em.

Now get cracking

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