WordPress is definitely one of the most robust and flexible content management systems available today. WordPress can be used as a basic blog site that looks very similar to those that are on the net today or it can be customized to your specific look and feel. The most effective characteristic of WordPress is that it is Search Engine Optimization friendly. Here are 5 reason why WordPress is one of the best content management systems for SEO and blogging:
- SEO Friendly Permalinks– Permalinks are links or URLs that are linked to your articles. For example, when you generate a post or article in WordPress, a URL is immediately created. In essence, this means that every time you create a blog post, you are creating webpage. The more pages in turn creates more pages listed in the search engine and in turn creates more traffic to your website, which leads to more visitors and customers. It also allows search engines crawlers to rank your site for the word of your choice.
- SEO Compatible Article Titles– WordPress can be setup automatically to make article titles a permalink. Using keywords in your titles will make it simpler for you to achieve greater rankings in Google. One of the most important strategy for writing article titles is to write them the way people will search for them. Making your articles rich in keywords. Placing your keywords at the front of the title will make a huge difference.
- Allows You to Create Tags– Tags are found at the end of an article of any WordPress site. Tags or key words will let the search engines web spiders better index your blog post. When a visitor clicks on a tag within the cloud, they are brought to an archival page of related post excerpts rather than having to wade through months of post archives to find what they’re looking for.
- Lets You Cross Link Content– Adding cross-linking between your posts, pages and other websites can be a great tool for increasing Google ranking and web traffic. Cross-linking is an essential element for effective SEO.
- Effortless Install of Google Sitemaps: Google Sitemaps has two important advantages for site owners. Not only can it help site visitors see a outline of exactly what they can find on your web site, but it helps Google to further index and rank your website by letting Google know exactly which blog pages are the most important.
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Organic traffic from search engines such as google and yahoo are extremely valuable because they represent highly targeted traffic looking to buy your products. Getting the keyword targeting right is extremely important for getting part of this traffic and we’re here to help you do just that!
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Online Marketing has always been a task that most online business owners don’t want to tackle when trying to get traffic to their website. I know because I was one of those who faced this challenge when trying to keep consistent traffic to my website. Now, there are cost effective ways to get this done.
Manual directory submission and manual article submission is now considered a powerful and at the same time cheap web promotion and link building tool used by internet marketing companies and Search Engine Optimization firms or SEO experts. Even most newbie’s know that incoming links to their site can help increase traffic and help the site’s ranking.
Submitting your website url to directories along with submitting articles to article directories, social bookmarking, press releases, blogging and even posting to relevant forum topics can increase search engine visibility and high quality targeted traffic.
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For those of you who are beginners, the first question you mights want to consider is, what is SEO? According to the dictionary definition, SEO refers to “The process of maximizing the number of visitors to a Web site by ensuring that the site remains high on the list of results returned by a search engine”.
How to get your website indexed by search engines?
In other words, SEO is just a fancy word for bunch of things that can make a website more or less important in a Search Engine’s (such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) eyes and as a web master, you want your website to be the most important.
However, the first step in SEO requires you to actually get your website indexed or submitted into the search engines; because you can’t have rankings in something you are not a part of and that is what this article is going to be about.
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Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
Before submitting your website to search engines, make sure that your web site has been optimized for indexing. (If you would like to see an article on optimizing, place in the comment section below.) Submitting your website to the search can be a very simple process.
Don’t be fooled by the many services that promise to submit your site to hundreds or even thousands of search engines or guarantee placement with different search engines. These services do not necessary mean that your site will be successful; to be honest, it’s possible that your money can be spent in better ways. On the other hand, if you don’t have time to submit your site, this may be a good option for your company. Just make sure you use a reputable company.
Take preventive measures before you write the check or let someone charge your card. Companies have been charge with spamming. And once your website/domain has been labeled for spamming, this can cause your site to be blocked or banned from the search engines. This is a not a title you want, trust me!
Although there are said to be close to 4000 search engines out there, the top four or five — Google, Yahoo, Bing, and AOL — are responsible for the majority of the traffic. So, this is the obvious place to start.
In order to submit your site to Google, go here and enter your site’s URL. Search Engine such as Google has powerful spider engine that will crawl your entire website, this way you need to submit your website only once. Submitting multiple times does not get you in any faster nor does it get you listed any higher.
Yahoo submission process is simple also, visit their submission page and enter your information. Keep in mind there is no guarantee that your site will be listed after you have submitted your link. It is up to their discretion.
Click here to submit your site to Bing. AOL’s search is powered by Google, so submission to Google will be inclusive to AOL searches.
As I allude to above there are thousands of engine out there, and you are welcome to drill down to second-tier engines such as Ask, Lycos, and Excite. But, truth be told, the most effective are the major four listed above.
With the popularity of Social Networking such as FaceBook, and Twitter, and too many others to name, it is wise to get your website as much exposure as you possibly can. This can also help with search engine ranking; you see the more sites that your site is on, the higher possible ranking you will achieve in the four major search engines.
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Monitor where you stand
You won’t know if your SEO efforts are working unless you monitor your search standings. MarketingVox suggests that you keep an eye on your page rank with tools like Alexa and the Google toolbar.
It’s also important to check your referrer log regularly to track where your visitors are coming from and the search terms they’re using to find your site, according to PC World.
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Google has been indexing PDF files – a stalwart of the myriad content forms accessible on the web – since 2001, and by our very rough estimate there are over 500 million PDFs currently indexed by the search engine.
There remains quite a bit of confusion surrounding the use of PDFs in the relation to ranking on search engines, but Google has showed a quick glance at its cards, clearing up at least some confusion today in a post about the format in search results. If you’re responsible for website promotion and driving traffic to its pages, pay close attention:
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Because there are fewer competitors, local search engine optimization is not nearly as challenging as broader categories — but it still has its challenges. Many of the same core SEO rules still apply, but thanks in part to improvements on the part of search engines and the intersection of search and social, it is far simpler than at any time in the Web’s short but rich history to optimize for local search.
Be Everywhere That Matters: From Google Places to local directories, local links and user citations are the primary influencers of high rankings for geo-specific terms. Local users go deep for information, so even small, seemingly low-volume destinations can result in quality links. They may not receive a lot of traffic individually, but a few links from relevant blogs can go a long way – on the search result pages and even in your local community.
Ask for Reviews: If you’re a local business and are not collecting reviews, you won’t be in business long. Search engines rely on content, and in the eyes of search engines today there is no more reliable signal of businesses’ authority and relevance to an individual query than the presence of reviews. You don’t just need to ask for reviews here and there, you should consider making it part of either your business processes or marketing campaigns. If you run a dry cleaning business, what’s 25 percent off your patron’s next visit for a review? You don’t need hundreds, but in order to remain fresh and relevant, your review assets do need to be constantly appended.
Set Up a Schedule: It sounds basic (perhaps overly so), but ask the next local business owner you encounter when was the last time they checked their position on the search results pages for keywords and phrases relevant to their business. The answer will likely be “it’s been a while”. Setting up a schedule to monitor position and the impact of individual promotions, just like spending time delivering paychecks to your employees, is a neccessary function of business.
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This is Part 1 of a two-part series. In Part 2, we put Yahoo Contributor Network through its paces – a two-week trial in which seven articles were published, the results presented and analyzed in “Does it Work? Yahoo! Contributor Network“. If you are a YCN user, please share your experiences by leaving a comment!
In May 2010, Yahoo purchased Associated Content for $100 million. Not long after, it was rebranded as Yahoo Contributor Network (YCN). Now, Yahoo is one of the biggest content producers on the Web. Using YCN, anyone can publish just about anything with the push of a button — articles, videos and photos included — to Associated Content and Yahoo partner sites, and get paid for it.
YCN opens new opportunities for freelancers and businesses alike to find new audiences, earn revenue and promote their brands. Let’s take a closer look.
Getting Started
Assuming that most Web professionals can follow a simple registration process, I will skip the step-by-step instructions. However, do not overlook steps in the process that ask for details in your profile. Be sure to include any and all of your websites, Facebook and Twitter profiles (and any other relevant networks), and be very detailed about personal information and areas of expertise. YCN will use this information to determine what contributors get which assignments, including localized assignments such as community reports and business reviews. Linking to websites, blogs and online profiles helps extend your network both in and outside the YCN community — and this is vital to your success.
Submitting Content
After completing the registration process,content may be submitted immediately. During the submission process you will create a title and description, choose tags, select photos and provide other supporting information to the article including links and citations. Essentially, you are determining how the search engines will index and display your content. As such, these are some of the most important steps in the process.
To ensure that your content has the best chance of success — defined by page views and earnings — choose the best possible keywords and phrases to use in titles and descriptions, tags and in the body of the content itself. Use a keyword tool (Google’s External Keyword Tool or another of your choosing) to select those keywords with the highest search volume.
At this time, images can also be included. Frankly, I have found this to be one of the more difficult and time-consuming parts of the entire process. YCN is very specific in its guidelines for image use. Yahoo’s public gallery can be used, but outside of that the options are limited unless using your own images. Time is money on YCN, so if images are not essential to the article, consider skipping them.
Editors at YCN will manually review your first three submissions for publication. Depending on the type of payment options selected, this process will take one to two weeks. After the first three articles have been published, content can then be published immediately — again, depending on the payment options selected.
Getting Paid
Earning with YCN comes in two basic forms; up-front payments and performance payments. All payments are made via PayPal.
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Cheow Yu Yuan – March 27, 2009
If your website is not indexed by search engines, it will not appear on the search engine listings. Therefore, when your website is live, the first thing you must do is to let the search engines notice your website and index it. In this article, let me share with you 5 ways to get your site indexed by today:
1. Submitting a XML sitemap to search engines. The xml sitemap includes links to every page of your website. It is a file that you can submit to search engines to get your pages indexed. By submitting your xml sitemap, you will notify the search engines about your website and index every page of it. You can upload your sitemap to Google by creating a free Google Webmaster account.
2. Create a HTML sitemap page on your website. A HTML sitemap is very different from a xml sitemap file. A HTML sitemap is a page on your website that is visible to your visitors. It will list down all the links to every page of your site. This allows visitors to navigate your site easily and allow search engine spiders to follow the links and discover all pages.
3. Place HTML text links on your website. Search engine spiders follow HTML text links to discover other pages of your website. Therefore, you must ensure that you use HTML text links for simple navigation menu so that search engine spiders can follow. Also, you should hyperlink keywords within your content and point them to other pages of your site. This is a good way to tell search engines what pages are important.
4. Directory submission. Submit your website URL to a list of SEO-friendly directories. DMOZ, Yahoo Directory and BOTW are important directories that you must submit your website to. It is, however, not all directory submission is free. Some may require you to pay a small fee for your website submission.
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