Article writing has become a very important piece to the overall aspect of SEO and Internet Marketing. Providing solid information and how to advice for readers can convert traffic to your website while creating an expert status about you and your business.

Keep in mind that Article Marketing is not an ad, so you can not just start writing about how great your product or service is but rather supply helpful informative content for readers.

Here is were the true importance of Article Marketing comes in to play, IT IS VIRAL! Supplying this content for other webmasters to use on their websites and visitors can create a viral marketing affect.

Here is how:

Because search engines like Google love new content and seems to award websites that constantly update their website with new fresh content. Webmasters have taken notice of this fact not only for search engines but for their visitors, giving them fresh information will give them more reason to come back to there website. This makes your articles valuable to them and other website owners are on the hunt for your articles.

How do articles placed on other websites generate traffic to me?

Traffic is generated to your website from your signature box. At the button portion of your article is an area, which you dedicate for a signature line. This is were you can place a small but powerful message about your self and your business, almost like a text ad. Your signature line will contain atleast one active text link to your website which convert traffic to your website.

How do webmasters find my articles?

Article Marketing can be done through article distribution websites. These are websites that not only list your article themselves but also are places that provide your articles to other website owners for free as long as they include your signature. There are hundreds of these article distribution sites so one article if written with powerful headline and riveting copy could truly generate high amounts of traffic for a extended amount of time.

Note: Article Marketing is a great way to build your link popularity fast as other websites list your information, your signature line contains that ever important link.

Example: If your write three articles and distribute it to 120 distribution websites and it is picked up by 4 webmasters from each distribution site and even if each website only supplies 6 hits to your site per month your article marketing could convert over 8,400 hits per month. This is very realistic. Now imagine putting out dozens of articles on a regular basis, your traffic and link popularity could be amazing

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What is Link Development?

Link Development, also known as Link Popularity, is a term used to describe getting
other web sites to link to your web site. Remember the popular kids in high school?
Well lets just say that in most cases popular kids got noticed way more, they usually
were social chair or prom queens and kings, top athletes and the list goes on. The
point is, the popular kids got noticed while the not so popular kids didn’t. This is
the same concept that search engines go on. If you are popular, then you get
noticed and how search engines decide whether you are popular or not is by how
many web sites link to you and how popular those sites are.

Hopefully that isn’t a painful analogy that brings up memories of your high school
days. So now that we know what Link Development is, lets talk about how we start
a link development campaign.

Finding Link Partners!

There are two types of link partners to go after, one is a one way link. This is a
directory, forum, or web site that links to your web site without you having to link
back to their web site. You can buy links now from web sites like:
www.textlinkbrokers.com, but I am not to sure how the search engines feel about
buying your popularity. The second type of link is a reciprocal link, which means
that if you put a link on your web page pointing to them, then they will put a link on
your web page pointing to you, the perfect “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch
yours”.

So now how do we find one way links? Well first off, the easiest way is through the
search engines. If you are doing link development for a real estate site, google: real
estate directory. There are plenty of directories out there that allow you to add your
site for free. Next you will want to look up real estate and find forums, so that you
can find posts that relate to you and add a reply giving some useful information
while providing a link to your web site. Please do not spam your link on forums,
only place a link when it makes sense to. For example if you are a Real Estate agent
in Vancouver BC, Canada and you come across a post saying, Where can I find real
estate listings in Vancouver. Then add a nice reply and your link at the bottom.
Finally, never forget about your friends and family, explain to them that by having a
one way link form their web site to yours it will help you boost your search engine
rankings.

It seems that reciprocal links do not have as much weight on the search engines as
one way links, but are much easier to get. The reason they are easier to get is
because you are helping the other web site get better rankings while they do the
same for you. So there are a few general rules you should follow while doing
reciprocal link development, first, try not to exchange with your competition as you
will just make it harder for you to come up before your competition. Second, only
exchange links with relevant sites. By relevant we mean that the site you are linking
from and to should relate to your web site, an example of this would be if you are a
real estate agent, you would want to link to mortgage brokers sites or home
renovation sites not children’s video game sites, however if the site is in your
locality you can link to them and mention in the link that they are a local business/
web site. Finally, always be honest and truthful when sharing links, do not put up a
link and then take it down a week later, if you agree to sharing links, stick to your
guns.

Finding reciprocal link partners is actually easier than you think. One of the best
things to do is find out who is linking to your competition and ask them if they
would also like to trade links. To do this, in google type:
link:www.competitionswebsite.com. This will bring up a list of all the web sites that
have linked to that site, then just find the web masters e-mail and send him/her a
polite e-mail asking if they would like to exchange links. Do this for every major
competitors web site and you will have links coming at you left and right. Another
great resource is a free web site called sitesell. What this site does is lets you enter
your information into their database, including your e-mail, web site and what
keywords best describe your site, then it finds you people with the same keywords
and sends them an e-mail asking if they would like to exchange links. I have
received hundreds of links this way. I suggest you sign your self up right away at:
http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/.

Now that you know how to find link partners lets look at what your links should look
like. Now this is only what I do and it seems to work very well, some may disagree
and I can understand not everyone wants to exchange links this way. Personally I
think Google has become to smart to just accept links that follow this general
concept: Anchor Text – Description of link. How I exchange links is within a
paragraph. For example:

Real Estate in Vancouver is a booming industry. With the 2010 winter olympics
happening in Vancouver people are very interested in Vancouver Real Estate. Joel Carcone is an experienced realtor ready to help you make the
right investment in Vancouver.

By having it in a small paragraph that gives the web site that is linking to you more
text that is relevant to your site, it is going to make the link weigh more when the
search engines count it as a vote. Lots of software out there will not let you do this
and require a strict: link – Description, formation. Do not skip over these, they just
won’t count for as much.

Finally, Google ranks sites based on their algorithm and gives them a rank between
0 and 10. The higher the PR the more important Google believes the web site is,
thus giving more weight to sites that link to you with a high PR.

The Power Of Link Development!

Link Development should have a Cape and a big “S” on its spandex suit as it has so
much power it is unbelievable. The following examples are not intended to offend
rather show you that link development can make a huge difference without even
having the site optimised for the keyword.

To prove the power of link development we are going to use president Bush as an
example. If you look up the following words in google, George Bush’s White house
Biography are the first to show up. I urge you to try this, read over the biography
and notice that the words “failure”, “worst president”, and “worst president ever” do
not show up in the biography at all, but if you look those same words up in google,
you will see that his biography comes up first for all 3 of those words. Now this is
an extreme case and is known as googlebombing, but this does show the true
power of link development.

If Link Development can make a site that is totally unoptimized for those keywords
come up first in a search that has about 213,000,000 sites competing for the word
failure, imagine what a good link development campaign could do for your site that
is optimised and ready to be found on the internet.

If you are thinking of getting SEO done to your web site, look into companies that
do Link Development as this is a powerful way to gain rankings for your web site as
shown with the example in “The Power of Link Development”. Make sure that when
asking about link campaigns that SEO companies follow an ethical approach to Link
development, you would not want to wake up one morning to find your site dropped
off the rankings because of unethical link development practices.

Daniel Cedar is a Web Strategist for Elite Beat Enterprises. He is an expert in SEO and
Link Development Campaigns that follow strict ethical codes based on Google’s
guidelines of Search Engine Optimization. To learn more about link development visit
Elite Beat Enterprises’ web site for more information at http://www.elitebeat.net.

What is White hat? White hat SEO is a good guy technique. It consists of techniques used to get higher search rankings that are legal and ethical. It generally consist of

1. Writing good and unique content Content is king, infact, the best way to keep your reader is to have good content in your website and keep updating it frequently, well, this is what I do with this site, using pure white hat strategy. Google love content

2. Link exchange In order to have high page rank, link exchange is very important. But this doesnt mean to link exchange with crappy junk site but to get link exchange from related, high ranking website.

3. Submitting URL to major search engine

4. Posting good comment and opinion with your website on your signature on other good popular website

5. Optimize your site for your target audience, not for the search engines In other word, try to optimize yoursite to give your target audience what they really want, not optimize only for search engine bot

6. Program your site to be crawler-friendly Use wordpress if you dont know how

7. Submit press release If you got really good and unique news or article, you should submit your article to the public

8. Create RSS feeds for your website Pros and Cons for White hat technique?

Pros: You only need to focus on the content instead of technique that attack search engine weakness. In the long runs, it will have long term values. And you never need to have any fear that google will banning your site if you follow their rule and regulation.

cons: You will get traffic very slow, and you need to update frequently and consistenly for a very long period of time

What is Black hat? Black hat is bad guy technique. It consists of techniques used to get higher search rankings that are illegal, unethical, or annoying . It generally attack the weakness of search engine. Below is some of the technique used

1. keyword stuffing packing long list of keyword that have no meaning in the website in order to get high ranking in search engine

2. Invisible text packing long list of invisible keyword in the website that fool the search engine spider thinking that it is keyword rich.

3. doorway pages buiding a fake page purely for search engine spider where user can never see

4.link farm building website with no content and full with affiliate link

5. Article miner building website that fetch article from article directory automatically without any original content

6. spamming comment on other people blog Spamming advertisement on other people blog

7. spamming email

8. cloaking A website that showing content from different URL in a frame. The search engine spider one webpage, the visitor see another.

9. tricky redirect Redirect visitor to unwanted site. For example, you go to google and search for “basketball″, you click on one of the search result, and you been redirect to a porn site

10. force click website with sneaky pop up that force you to click on its advertisement

11. internal domain linking Create hundred of domain that linking to each other

Pros and Cons for black hat technique?

Pro: yeah, if do it correctly you can get your site in high ranking and gain many visitors within weeks, and can earn some quick cash fast. I have personally seen some crappy website with only picture and no other things to click except the ad, so i clicked the ad…..Blackhat technique such as article miner can even create website and updating it with new article automatically for you. In other word, you can save a lot of time.

cons: you need to update and upgrade your technique frequently or your site will get banned sooner or later. In other word, using blackhat technique is only short term wise.

About the author:

For more information, please visit my blog at www.phupang.com/blog

Long-term SEO maintenance requires dedication to your website. There are people who think that they can throw up a web page and that people will find them, and good luck too them – but it won’t happen. Any website that wants to make money needs to get optimized, and stay that way. Running and SEO campaign once or twice isn’t enough in this market: you need to consider long-term maintenance of your SEO.

For long term SEO maintenance to be effective, you need to constantly monitor the search engines algorithms, which can change very frequently. You also need to keep track of your competitors’ optimizations and adapt your strategy accordingly.

Always consider your website as an investment – you’ve put time, money and effort into it. Your investment needs to be protected, and the way to do that is SEO maintenance. This makes sure that your website is ranked high enough to bring you the traffic you need, and keeps the sales coming.?

We’ve compiled a list of tips to help you with your SEO maintenance. To keep good rankings, you need to pay attention to how your site is doing. A few things to remember are:

1. Check on your pages regularly and make sure they’re still listed. Your listings are the most important part of your SEO work. Whether the page is listed or not is vastly more important than what key words you have etc. After all, if you aren’t listed at all what good is it to optimize?

2. Monitor the listings every week or two to make sure your pages are displaying correctly and that there are no problems with your site. While your at it see whether you′ve risen, dropped, or remained constant as far as listings go. Odds are that you will not remain constant, if you do remain constant you should consider this a small success as you have probably risen above other pages that were formerly above you while others from below you have surpassed you.

3. Watch for trouble, and fix it quickly. Don’t think it will correct itself – it won’t. Any missing pages should be checked out thoroughly. Chances are that the system has run into a problem, but if you don’t check it out you may very easily be wrong. Always correct any of your mistakes as your mistakes can be very costly if they are not dealt with in a timely fashion.

4. Resubmit your site if you make major changes, but not for anything smaller. The most important time to resubmit your site is if you have recently changed your titles. Titles are very important in SEO and can deliver you with a completely new set of quality key words.

5. Create monthly ranking reports on your site, to see if any changes need to be made.?

So far, we’ve uncovered some interesting facts about SEO. You may decide that the following information is even more interesting.

6. Keep building your link popularity.

7. Keep submitting your site to the big directories, as spiders use these as a starting point.

8. Watch your competitors and the methods they use. If they start trying to cheat, report them straightaway – it gets them out of your way.

9. Set goals for yourself. Write out an SEO maintenance plan, and if things change then make sure to set new goals and stick with them.

10. Stay up to date on the latest SEO information.

11. Check your site’s performance – if you’re not monitoring your traffic, find a tool to do it now.

12. Maintain a solid plan for dealing with your site’s growth. Don’t panic if you see a blip.

This might seem like a lot of work for a small website or company, but you need to do it to help your website grow. If you don’t have growth, you have nothing. No business wants to stay where it is forever, and SEO is a good way to get more business and stay in the race.

Do you remember why you started a website to begin with? The chances are you wanted to make money. Your website is a business, and you need to run it like one. Don’t stress too much over the work involved: it’s only a few hours each week in total, and you can do it whenever you want.

That’s the latest from the SEO authorities. Once you’re familiar with these ideas, you’ll be ready to move to the next level.

SEO Tips All About Domain Names Articles for Website Content

About the author:

James Mahony is the founder of Search Engine Optimization Tips – A site dedicated to Search Engine Optimization

SEO Tips All About Domain Names Articles for Website Content

Xenophobia – a phobic attitude toward strangers – comes from
the Greek words xenos, meaning “foreigner”, “stranger”.

Trolling through the “referrers″ section in my web site
traffic logs routinely shows hundreds of Google foreign
language searches. Those foreign language search referrals
usually total just slightly more than the combined total of
Yahoo and MSN English language search referrals. So doesn’t
it make sense to pay more attention to foreign language
search in SEO than to fiddle with Yahoo and MSN optimization?
My traffic logs routinely show hundreds of translation tool
referrals.

Those referrals come from foreign language searchers that
REALLY want to read the pages. Foreign language visitors
who don’t know about online translation tools (like Google’s)
will leave the search result pages without visiting your site.
Why not provide your pages in the most common European
and Asian languages with your text in their native language
already? Look in your logs for the following referrer URL:

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c with URL’s of your own
site appended. This query at “Google English” is a request by
a foreign language user for a translation of that page on your
site. The most common of them are from Google.es (Spain) and
Google.de (Germany) and Google.pt (Portugal). Last month
there were nearly 1,000 of these queries from Google
translation tools in my logs. Check that tool out here:

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

This translation – or “Language Tools” page at Google is
helpful in escaping our insular attitudes about English
language search by showing us that Google currently supports
34 languages and hosts servers in 141 countries – literally
from A to Z. http://www.Google.ae (United Arab Emirates) to
http://www.Google.co.zm (Zambia)

Google has 117 languages listed on that page, but they’ve
buried a few ringers in there with “Elmer Fudd”, “Klingon″,
and “Pig Latin″ to throw linguists for a loop. While it’s
interesting to use those funny options, clicking the “I’m
Feewing Wucky” on the “Elmer Fudd” language produces the same
results as does the English language search, it’s just cuter
with the letters “L” and “R” replaced with “W’s″ on the
search page.

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/

But we need to look at the fundamental reason that Google
offers this “Language Tools” page and the machine translation
there. It is because web site owners in the U.S. don′t offer
multiple languages on their own sites.

While it is not uncommon to see a row of four to six flags
representing the top few languages on many European based
sites (especially Italy, Spain and France based companies) -
it is actually rare to see multiple language options on U.S.
based business sites.

There are manifold reasons for this lack of communication by
English speaking countries with the rest of the world. The
top reason is that we simply don′t need to know other
languages to live our daily lives in this country, so we
rarely think of using other languages online. While English
is a primary language spoken around the world, including
Canada, Australia, India, Britain and is a second language
spoken by millions of primarily foreign language speakers.

While it is common to visit major cities in Japan, Italy,
Mexico and dozens of metropolitan cities around the planet
without fear that we’ll be unable to find English speaking
hoteliers, restaurateurs, and even cabbies – it is an
arrogant expectation. I’ve been to each of those countries
and didn’t need any Japanese, Italian or Spanish language
skills while on either business or pleasure.

But we’ve got to be realistic if we are to take part in the
global medium of the web. Those web pages are viewable by an
estimated 700 million people around the world and millions
of those would happily visit and read your web site if it
were available in the world’s top languages and indexed in
foreign search engines. So why not provide that option?

Major corporate web sites in the U.S. will inevitably require
polished human translation of their major web pages, with
variations for international tastes and preferences – most
small and medium business sites cannot afford that option.

This leaves machine translation as the best remaining option.
While it is possible for any site visitor to use translation
tools online to convert your English language text into
foreign tongues, it sends the visitor away from your site to
the translation service. Not ideal.

The best option is to use translation software to put those
foreign language variations on your own site and host them
from your own server in the languages you offer. The reason
to host them is, very simply, that if you provide machine
translated foreign variants of all your pages, they will be
crawled by foreign search engines and indexed and ranked on
European and Asian search engines.

The web audience in China was roughly estimated at just over
100 million in 2005 and is expected to balloon in the near
future. Simply being indexed for Chinese language searches
and reasonably ranked could increase traffic for U.S. sites
dramatically. The European audience is fragmented with many
more language options – the main representative languages on
the web are Spanish, French, Portugese, German & Italian,
while Chinese, Korean and Japanese make up the bulk of the
remaining web audience. Those eight languages are offered in
popular machine translation software packages.

If a site has already been optimized for English language
search, the SEO will have included the most important
keywords. While machine translation is not entirely reliable
for proper sentence structure and grammar once translated, it
at least gets most words and many word combinations correct.
Content sites, who often rely on advertising for income,
would love to see the extra pageviews and ad clicks coming
from foreign visitors reading their pages in their native
language.

Once a content site owner sees their largest foreign audience
trends (through web traffic analytics statistics), they can
fine-tune their SEO for individual languages and actually pay
for professional translation and foreign language SEO of the
most profitable pages. But simply getting a content site
indexed by search engines in more than eight new countries
will bring waves of new visitors and increase advertising
income substantially.

Copyright July 12, 2006 by Mike Banks Valentine

About the Author: Mike Banks Valentine is a Search Engine
Optimization Specialist offering affordable Foreign SEO at
http://seoptimism.com/SEO_Foreign_Search_Engines.htm

For more about Foreign Search Engine Success, visit

http://website101.com/arch/archive73.html

This article is available online with working translation to
eight languages at:
http://website101.com/Search_Engine_Positioning/foreign_SEO_ranking.html

About The Author

Dana Goldberg is the owner of Easy Web Development. A Collection of articles, tips, guidelines and resources on how to increase web site traffic. http://www.easywebdevelopment.info

There are many ways to get great rankings in the search engines, and many people think they’re a secret – but that’s just not true. Once, top 10 spots were very easy to obtain, but getting multiple top spots is now a thing of the past. Some people say that top 10 spots are very hard to get these days, but we have managed it on many occasions recently. Here are some of our success stories.

Every SEO company should strive to get your website listed in at least the top 20 – although there are no guarantees, they shouldn′t have much difficulty in achieving this if they use proper keyword placement. If a company can′t get you ranked within the top 20 on some of your keywords then it’s time to look for another SEO company.

SEO success relies on inside knowledge of search engine algorithms and ranking techniques. This, combined with testing websites before submission, will give you good results, as long as you keep it ethical.

SEO Success Stories from Clients.

R. Nishimoto (Desert Hot Sauce): “Search engine optimization took our company from a few sales a week to more than 60 sales per week. We could no longer run this business with only two people. I am convinced that without this we would still be back at a few sales or even be under by now. ”

Truthfully, the only difference between you and SEO experts is time. If you′ll invest a little more time in reading, you′ll be that much nearer to expert status when it comes to SEO.

AL (DVI Video Walls): “We are pleased with our web presence, many new customers, I will tally the sales increase at year-end. I know that the web page has now paid for itself at least once! More later, we are very busy – a couple competitors are going out of business so we are getting many panic calls.”

Jenny (Music Asylum): “Your search engine techniques have produced the best return on our advertising dollars which was even better than any promotion we have done in the past. I am talking about quantifiable results the company can attribute directly to our website. At first, I couldn′t see how your search engine work would make any difference based on the poor results from our old website. I have to give you credit though you got our site found on top of the major engines resulting in many calls, e-mails and eventual sales. Thanks.”

Chris (Legacy Golf): “We are very impressed with the short period of time that it took to get our website listed in the search engines, we hoped it would place high but never expect to be one of the top 3.”

(3rd Rock Internet Services): “Our Internet services company would not have any business if it were not for the efforts made to increase sales, being listed in the top 20 of the search engines was a great accomplishment that we were hoping would come true and now it has.”

Scott (XTS.NET) “The company was struggling before we had the site optimized and now we are able to stay in business and keep up with the demands of our clients.”

Companies like these are finding it ever more important to be placed where they can be found on the web – if you think that search engine placement isn′t necessary then think again. With the Internet business marketplace continuing to grow, you′ll have more competition to deal with every day.

When customers can′t find a company, the business goes bankrupt. You need to get ahead of your competition, and stay ahead. Now is the time to prepare for the future, before it’s too late.?

Now might be a good time to write down the main points covered above. The act of putting it down on paper will help you remember what’s important about SEO.

SEO Tips All About Domain Names Articles for Website Content

About the author:

James Mahony is the founder of Search Engine Optimization Tips – A site dedicated to Search Engine Optimization

SEO Tips All About Domain Names Articles for Website Content

About The Author

Sunny Hoggard – Seo consultant provide Seo Services to the websites by empoying various seo techniques to improve the ranking in search engines which in turn result in higher traffic results.
developer@kvcindia.com

I have high respect for all the people who have achieved success using in-house/personal SEO and still are able to maintain there top spot for highly competitive keywords like digital camera software or photo software. The world of SEO has changed rapidly and so have the techniques. Now lets start with main subject that is “Making money online with SEO″.

The first well-known fact:
Higher the traffic better the sales

It is a proven fact that among the billions of pages that are searched by search engines only a few make it to the top and these top 30 websites make the most business. Type in digital camera software for instance and you will understand what I mean. Do you remember how many times have you gone beyond the 3-4th page of your search page results? I would expect the same behavior from 99.9% of the Internet surfers as no one has the time to go beyond the top 30 listed pages. I am exaggerating when I say top 30 because mostly the top 10 get 75% of the hits. So if you are not at the top you are losing on a huge chunk of sales, unless you are advertising locally and are limited to a local business.

Google adwords is worth a mention at this point as millions use them and know their importance. The users of google adwords know that they will get listed at the top page (sponsored listing) for the specified keywords. However, they do not estimate the sales that they will make. They can easily do it in a month and then change their bid amount to be paying less in advertising on google. Being listed in the top page does not mean that you will end up with guaranteed sales. You need to have a real good sales page that will make the “buyer” feel the need to buy it. Remember it is all about making him feel that he needs it.

Search engine optimization will propel your page to the top 10 without having to pay for the adwords campaign that is a pay per click campaign and you might end up paying far more than your sales. Having said this if you choose the niche keywords for your campaign and have a good sales copy you are bound to make a lot out of the campaign. Out of thousands who click to your page at least 50 should buy your product.

The million-dollar question

How will you benefit from SEO? How much should you spend?

If you have a good product and at a reasonable price compared to competition and feel that you can garner enough sales once your website receives traffic SEO will benefit you by providing you with exposure for the chosen keywords ( a proper keyword analysis for searches per month for that chosen keyword) will be conducted by the SEO expert. Depending on the competition you have for those keywords the plan will be chalked out by him. Sometimes only on-page SEO may take you to the top however, nowadays SEO has become a popular career with many top websites spending huge amounts on SEO to be listed in the top.

Your expense should depend on how much sale you are bound to make. A proper estimation of this can be drawn after the first month that you are listed in the top 10. Your expense can range from any where between $250-$2500 depending on the competition you face.

Be careful while choosing an SEO firm or person as they can use spammed techniques that can get you banned from search engines.

Mahesh Mhatre is a SEO pioneer in India. Its a Googl using google services.
Transfer Money Overseas to more than 100 countries.
The best photo software photolightning – the digital camera software.