Money through blogging

There are lot of questions asked about how to improve Google Pagerank. Most people wondering how can suddenly their pagerank drop from PR4 to PR0, and how eventually the PR0 blog jump up to PR3. One of the blogger who facing the situation is Roseate, where you can read about it here.

Its weird to see how changes on Pagerank. A lot of speculations going through, while most blog owner digg the problem to see the major course this thing happen to their blog.

Roseate also have her own conclusion on what was actually happen when her blog PR suddenly drop drastically. Here is what she has to say...


Google Is Driving Me Crazy In It’s PageRank Strategy !!!

After my PageRank went to PR0 from PR3 at this blog, I realized it was because of the sponsored posts, then I knew that google is not against paid posts, but they want us to add “re=nofollow” to them and it’s ok …. So I did so, added nofollow to all my sponsored posts, as google said that it’s ok to pay for a post to get traffic or noticed, but not to build a PageRank! ….. Then my dear Google was kind enough and gave me a PR2 !!! … I was like “TWO!!! Mmmm ok … no prob …. the next update will be better” …. But guess what, as usual and expected from google “expected by me!” that was the last PR I got, the next update and the following ones “god know how many updates they were!!” I never got anything, a PR0 my blog is now and I think it will stay that way as I can’t guess what my dear Google saw wrong at my blog to do so!!!

P.S. Although my traffic is increasing, and my blog is doing well (not that much affected by PR) … but I would prefer to get a PR, as all of the bloggers and webmasters are going crazy about it, and everyone is being “proud” by having a PR this or PR that!!!

Post source: Google PageRank Update - How To Improve It ?
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Do you know what’s your domain name Score?

At NetworkSolutions.com they offer you a service where you can check your domain name scorecard, that is a domain name analysis for your domain name. They also will provide you a solutions how to improve you domain name scorecard score.

Network Solutions’ Domain Name Scorecard is some sort of quiz that will tells you how well your domain name is helping your business succeed online for free. After entering your main domain name, 3 simple questions will be given where then you’ll receive a domain scorecard that analyzes your domain name in 6 key areas of domain name success.

First they’ll give you an Overall Score, that from 1 to 10 … Then a Summary of Extension Score, Brand Protection Score, and Descriptive Domains Score. After that according to your score result and answers, you will have some suggestions to improve your score.

There are more services available in this site beside Domain Name Scorecard. You can even register or renew your domain name. You also can sign up to their web hosting package, emails, website, do it yourself web sites, design your website, e-commmerce website and more.

Post source: Domain Name Scorecard - Domain Name Analysis

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SEO, formally known as Search Engine Optimization, is a way of developing or reconstructing the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via the usual and normal search result. It involves putting up and designing a website so that search engines will find the pages and index them in no time.

Most of the time, when someone surfs the internet and look for a certain topic on a search engine, the ones that are on the first page of the search results list are more visited. Through SEO, it will definitely target various kinds of search like image search, local search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

Do you want to put your website in the high ranking? Here are some tips you have to consider:

Website Optimization = Content + Links = High Ranking


1. How Google Measures Link Popularity

Higher link popularity scores = Higher search engine ranking
Link popularity is by far the most important factor for determining your search engine ranking. You need to know what link popularity is, why it is so important, and how Google measures your link popularity (over 50% of all search engine traffic comes from Google, and if you can get to the top of Google, you will raise to the top of the others search engines as well).

Link popularity - the number of links (votes) that SE have for your site.
Here is a link for a good tool that measures the link popularity from SE’s. It shows you the link popularity from Google Yahoo and MSN and lets you to see the history report so you to figure out the rise of your site.

2. Articles

Consistency is the key. It is a fact that as more and more articles are added to article directories, your article will go lower in the listings, but if you constantly and consistently submit new articles, then you will continue to reap the benefits. Making articles is a great way to build up the link popularity of your website. It gives you life-time links.

Always close your articles off with a link to your site which is relevant to the copy of the article. Hyperlink the keyword with your url. For example:

Author Bio:
“Johnny Brown is an expert in affiliate marketing. Visit his site for more online marketing tips.”

3. Control Your Words<

"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts".

This does not apply to our situation. In the Meta Tags, you must count every word and every keyword. Use a tool like this one to count the characters from your Meta tags.

4. Optimize the Title Tag

Include 1-2 of your most important keyword phrases in the title tag, but don’t just list keywords.

If you just list keywords, you risk being viewed as spamming the search engines which can ultimately lead to you being blacklisted and not included at all.

Your title tag should include your keyword phrases within a readable sentence to avoid this problem.

Make your title appealing to humans!

Don’t forget that even if you get that top listing in the search engines, our listing still needs to say something that makes the surfer want to click your link and visit your site.

Since the length of your title tag could cause some engines to crop it, we suggest place the keywords at the beginning of the tag when possible to decrease the risk of having them cut off.

Each page of your site should have its own title tag with its own keywords that relate to the page that it appears on.

5. Optimize the Meta Description Tag

Give appropriate descriptions (as some search engines display this description in the search result), make it more appropriate to your site. Put only targeted keywords in description. Do not stuff the description with more keywords. Restrict the number of words in this tag to 10 to 15 words.

Place the most important phrases at the start of the description, so, even if any search engine omits some part of the description, the important phrases will be displayed.

6. Optimize the Meta Keywords Tag

The importance of Meta Tags is debated these days. So this is an optional extra.

Include only the keywords that appear in the body text, and no more than 5-7 keywords. Add alternate spelling of words (including typos) and synonyms of those keywords.

Post source: SEO Guidelines - Important Search Engine Optimization Tips
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Again and again this topic been discussed in many blogs. How you can drive traffic to your site effectively? How to get 1000++ unique visitors everyday? Well from my point of view, this is how i keep on doing...

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

9. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

10. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.




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First way to make money from blogging, you have to make sure that there are visitors will visit your blog.

Today, I will show you all a new method to increase the traffic in your blog. This method is to promote your blog in “Blog Top Sites”. What is “Blog Top Sites”? “Blog Top Sites” is actually a ranking system which will rank your blog according to your blog’s traffic or by vote system.

Here are some “Blog Top Sites” you can join:
Top Sites
Blog Top Sites
Top 100 Bloggers

Do not hesitate now. Faster submit your blog to these “Blog Top Sites” to increase your traffic and this is also a very good SEO method too.

There are plenty more sites that you can find to promote your blog.

Happy blogging!
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