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Social Media and Web 2.0 – Part 4
December 20th, 2010
Web Directories
You can grab quick links by submitting your site to web directories. This can build tons and tons of links to your site at the click of a button or you can outsource this.
As I mentioned in an earlier chapter, you can also outsource this to us. We do all kinds of SEO work for building links to your site. If you’re short on time or simply don’t feel like doing the manual work this may be for you!
SEO doesn’t have to be hard.
Social Bookmarking
This is an easy way to get Backlinks to your site, it’s been around for a while and most of the buzz is dying down, but it is still effective if you choose the right sites to bookmark your site to.
It’s not a good idea to spam the social bookmarking sites but you want to create as many accounts as you can.
Create accounts and follow the instructions for each social bookmarking service. You can’t make a mistake here. All you want is to have your site “in there”. You can’t specify anchor text; so it’s strictly just your site, a description and some tags.
I list some software in a chapter below and plus I give you guys a solid action plan, so there is no worries!
Articles
We all know about submitting articles to article directories, you would simply create an informative article based around the keyword you are targeting.
You want to submit your article to the TOP 7 article directories because they have high pagerank and can build the authority of your site!
Here are the TOP 7 article directories and their pagerank!
1. EZine Articles PR6 – www.ezinearticles.com
2. Amazines PR4 – www.amazines.com
3. Article Alley PR5 – www.articlealley.com
4. Article City PR5 – www.articlecity.com
5. Article Clicl PR5 – www.articleclick.com
6. Article Rich PR2 – www.articlerich.com
7. Article Trader PR3 – www.articletrader.com
Now submitting articles to these article directories is fine and dandy but you always want to maximize your efforts and spread your content to as many sites as possible so you gain more authority on the web!
There is a new form of article marketing that just jumped on the scene last year. There are several networks these days that will take your article and post it to hundreds of blogs/websites.
The great thing about this you can spread your links and content across hundreds of related blogs, which looks good in Google’s eyes. The key here is to write quality articles so that these blog owners will approve of your content. They will most likely approve, since they need more content on their blogs.
Here are a few article syndicate networks:
• www.articlemarketingautomation.com
• www.syndicatekahuna.com/providers
• www.1waylinks.net
Yahoo Answers
This is another quick and easy way to build links to your site, I personally don’t use this method anymore because it requires more work and plus yahoo changes their terms, like every week!
Be careful with this though, Yahoo is prone to catching on to, too many posts, i.e. your questions/answers.
Squidoo
Everyone knows about Squidoo, how well their pages rank in Google, take the power of these pages to get your own site ranked in the SERPS!
Setup your profile and create Squidoo pages based around your keywords so that your pages will not only give you a link back but also rank for the keyword you are targeting.
EDU Links
.EDU and .GOV links are like gold because Google loves them! This shows that you are linking to a reputable site and therefore builds your authority
Many .edu web pages are blogs created by college students from the school. You can do a simple Google search, like so:
You can copy/paste this code into Google search and find a bunch of related .edu blogs to comment on. Be sure to make your comments informative or entertaining!
Here is an example of a college blog: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~mpill001/finance-info/2008/08/the-different-options-you-can-avail-to-learn-forex-trading/
If you visit that link you will find a nice blog setup where you can comment on that post and receive a POWERFUL .edu backlink to your site!
This is another easy way to build “do follow” links on a high page rank site! You would simply create a profile and list your sites in your profile with your keyword as the anchor text!
Flickr – The Secret Sauce!
I call this the secret sauce because not too many know that you can get high page rank, do follow links from Flickr and other photo sharing sites!
To gain a link from Flickr you would simply upload a picture and make the alt text your target keyword. That is too easy, NOT to do! If you look all the MySpace graphics sites that are making six figures with the Google Adsense, you will notice that all of their links come from photo sharing sites!
1 Way Link Networks
There’s a lot of skepticism about if 1 way link networks work or not. Some of you are probably asking…”What is a 1 way link network?”
Simply put, you will input your site into a network where other sites can link to yours and vice versa. This builds links on each other’s pages but you will never link to the same site (hope that made sense). So all the while your site is continuously building Backlinks without you lifting a finger.
The 1 way link networks that I recommend is: www.1waylinks.net
This network was built by a very good SEO expert and internet marketer named Jon Leger. I have over a dozen sites in their network, all gaining good Backlinks!
Tracking Your Results
It is very important to track your results so that you can not only gain the motivation to keep going but to see where your traffic is actually coming from!
You may be ranking for keywords and have no idea, I usually check my stats to see where most of my traffic is coming from and I will come up with ways to increase the traffic from that source. If you’re not tracking your results how will you know how to improve the SEO on your site?
To track all your traffic I recommend:
Google Analytics – www.google.com/analytics
This is hands down the BEST tracking software you will find on the net and plus it’s FREE. If you’re not using Google Analytics, there is something terribly wrong. This should be in every internet marketer’s toolbox!
You’re Action Plan!
If you didn’t get anything out of this ebook, it will be this action plan, after reviewing it you never think that SEO is hard task!
This is the same process I go through when setting up a new site! If you follow this brain dead simple process you will be ranking in the SERPS in no TIME!
1. Keyword Research
2. Check Your On-Page factors
3. Create a Linkbuilding campaign – choose from the huge list of Linkbuilding methods I outlined in this ebook!
Well there you have it! I hope you’ve enjoyed this ebook, but most importantly I hoped you learned something. I spelt the beans on all my SEO and Linkbuilding techniques.
If you follow all of these techniques to a “T” and add your own flavor to it, there isn’t any keyword that you cannot rank for!
To YOUR Success,
SEO Resources
I just wanted to list some websites and blogs you can use to increase your SEO knowledge. You will never know everything there is to know about SEO, but you can sure TRY!
It’s important to continually grow your expertise in this area!
If you want to learn more about SEO, here are a few notable sites:
http://www.seobook.com/blog
http://www.seomoz.org
http://searchengineland.com
List of Safe Automation Tools
It’s important to use as many automation tools as possible. You can only do so much and if you have software automating some of your tasks, you can get more stuff done and increase your PROFITS!
Here is a list of tools that I use and why I use them!
1. SENuke – www.senuke.com
This is my #1 recommendation! This software is heaven sent; you can submit your content to over a dozen social networking, web 2.0 sites with the click of a button.
Not only that…it will also social bookmark any content you may have and submit your videos to the major video sharing sites. If you were to buy any software for your search engine efforts it would be this!
2. Bookmarking Demon – www.bookmarkingdemon.com
This is an automated social bookmarking tool; it creates accounts and submits your sites to social bookmarking sites all on autopilot! Be careful with this though; do not abuse its power!
3. JetSubmitter – www.jetsubmitter.com
This is server based software that will submit unique articles to over 600 article directories. The great thing about this is you don’t have no interaction with the submission of each article it works on the web in the background.
One other perk is that it will submit a different version of your article to each article directory. Visit the site for a FULL video explanation!
4. CommentKahuna – www.commentkahuna.com
In the blog commenting chapter I explained how valuable commenting on other blogs can be for you SEO efforts and branding awareness. This software finds and automates most of the commenting for you, so you can get more done, FASTER!
5. Need An Article – www.need-an-article.com
Okay so this is not so much an automation tool but it’s an outsourcing resource where you can get articles written in most cases less than 24 hours! These are written by humans and not robots, so the quality is usually GREAT!
That about wraps it up. I hope by going through these last few posts you have a better understanding on what it takes to rank your site in the search engines. SEO is an ever evolving “thing” and we will constantly be on the lookout for newer and newer ways to make your site pop. Good Luck!
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