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Throughout my blogging career, I worked hard on my writing style. I’ve improved over time, and I am now at a point where I think I improved my ability to write articles link bait. An article is a link bait article that many readers refer to it in their articles, or linked to it as a general resource.

The only thing I like link baiting is that it allows your blog to build quality backlinks and increase your search ranking over time. It also means additional targeted traffic is attracted to your blog, which can serve more subscribers. Let’s see how you can begin to write such articles, and enhance your Internet presence.

Why go viral articles?

The main reason that the articles go viral because they offer something of value that a large proportion of the population. Usually it is something people feel they can not do without and the way it operates social media, links all automatically sharing the content that spreads like a virus, hence the name “virus “.

Think of the viral content is similar to the latest fashions in a holiday sale (eg, Tickle Me Elmo).

Two types of common link bait post

Some items are so good that they attract the reader’s attention immediately.

An example of such an article is a pole of the list. These are positions that are easy to read, and often provides solutions to problems or why things are necessary. Examples of the list for titles are the “Top 10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins” or “5 ways to increase RSS subscribers.” The titles of these articles are designed to attract the attention of the person who needs these things. When they read the article, it is divided into a list for easy consumption.

A controversial position is another example. Consider that the blogger who refused the selection process by the TSA. He recorded the entire confrontation, and published in his blog. Next thing you know, not only was in the news, but everybody was a link to your blog when talking about the negative reactions of the backscatter x-ray machine TSA and aggressive pat downs.

You make a post is

When the first guest post ProBlogger, I knew I wanted to write an article that was referred to in the future. I have written about styles of blogging, and I made sure to create a feature article. So the link bait posts should not be a list of items or articles in question. They may simply be artifacts that cover the topic thoroughly, and any other bloggers can see by their posts in the future. You see this all the time, and of bloggers and site owners who link to Wikipedia.

To make your item stand out, you should write a detailed post and cover the essential foundations of the subject. Break your article into sub-sections and lists, and other reference materials you need. The most important consideration is to be original. If you write a message for me, too, so not likely to get comments, not to speak of inbound links.

Using advantage while being original

Let me emphasize that. Get out of your way to be original. Once I created the banners for free some of my regular readers to show my appreciation for their loyalty. It took only five hours of my time designing these ads, but I knew they would appreciate the effort over a long period. I did not intend to get inbound links of the motion were an unexpected bonus.

Like when I came across an article with massive links to many useful tools. Once, I came across an article on traffic sources. This article has identified hundreds of Web sites that we can use to get traffic to our blogs. I bookmarked this bad boy and it is referenced in my article.

These articles really different to my attention, and easily turn me into a normal player. The person who prepared an article is not lazy, and it took a bit ‘to make a valuable resource for someone else. They do a quick post just to have a link to the bait. And if their goal was to get your bait, they did it right, taking the time to do valuable.

Make an effort Style

When I say style, I’m not saying go out and make sure your socks match. When I say style, I mean how to submit your articles.

* Are the images related to break with what to write?

* Do you use tags H1, H2 and H3?

* Want to change the color of the tag header to look different than the text of this article?

* Want to launch your video or audio out there appears to be in step with the Jetsons?

* Do you like the style of social media seems to share a blog?

* Are you using a random selection like this to make a point?

There are several ways to go about creating style for your brand. The lesson here is: do not be lazy. If you take your blog seriously, it presents a unique way, while they can simultaneously perform maintenance, your readers can expect.

Assembled

You may have heard this phrase from a former girlfriend, but I mean the length of the positions. There is much debate to debate in the coming years: whether or not to write long messages.

I wrote two posts short and long. Some of my items are as small as 200 words and some of them are simply update personal, while others may get up to 5000 words. The fact is that search engines love articles with more original content. So do readers. They can not read the whole thing, but this article will go tomorrow never came. If you compress a long article with many subtitles foreground, you can easily attract links to these articles.

Longer articles are likely to attract backlinks. Take the example of the post titled “7 Ways to find Blog Post Ideas”. What happens if we take the same concept, but created a piece called “100 ways to invent ideas Blog Posts? Guess which attracts more attention. 100 is the best way of 7 ways that your item is a sure sign of a book in the mail.

I’m not saying you can not have a successful blog with articles of 500 words. Many blogs I visit a lot of shipments of all the short days and short articles are easy to read. What I am saying is that they are less likely to create link bait items with short messages. It is not impossible-I did. But if you want to find a consistent solution, then the items are 1000-5000 words are best.

Competition is not only for traffic

Have you ever held a contest on your blog? They are usually used to attract traffic because everyone who enters the contest to promote it. But disputes also generate a lot of incoming links through this promotion. Take for example a competitive position of the user. You’ll probably have many links to various articles in this competition, rather than one at the competition itself. Each poster invited to actively promote their article on as many sites as possible and social media sites and blogs that they own or with partners.

You can really enjoy the competition by soliciting sponsors. To do this, after an article on your site that invites sponsors for an upcoming competition. In addition, contact these companies directly and tell you a contest to come. Give them a significant exposure if they contribute cash, material objects, or software licenses, such as prizes. This is an excellent way to establish a plan of link bait around your competition.

It is broken? Report it!

I recently broke the story on my blog. At first I was going, so I knew what I would step up. History has launched a new web platform, which was coming out of bloggers and readers Newsgrape. I have some quick traffic estimates for breaking this story before the mainstream media got their hands on it.

Recently I started to have some more links to my story, because I was the first blogger to write Newsgrape. Another advantage is that I had a link to the page of my Newsgrape. In addition, the reverse is a PR6 site, I started getting the traffic that the site, which falls today!

If you can get your hands on a huge story before anyone else, you can create a link bait serious. Some blogs have focused on breaking news, bloggers and others who hope to find a story from time to time. But the good thing is that they have to be the first to benefit. If you can handle only one of the first bloggers to write about it, then later the public is saturated with history. His article is also likely to curry favor with Google to become one of the first report is submitted.

How do I find breaking stories to tell, “one of the original? Look at the news sites and stories, like the homepage Yahoo. Do not hesitate to write, publish soon. This would be one of the only times I really recommend the writers to take their time in history. Make sure you have the original, when you type, however: do not be so busy that the report only to the article, which is already written in the second site or news. You can refer to a phrase or two, but give your personal opinion and to ensure that your thoughts with other terms in the near future.

Art Link Baiting

Writing content is easy to link bait. It is an art form, but every blogger can not do it if only to apply the science and avoid laziness. Make sure you’re not being selfish for not looking for links. Instead, work hard to create a valuable resource that others can not resist. What are some tips you can share your experience in writing successful link bait content?

So you’re looking to increase the profitability of your blog for the Christmas period (and beyond). You’ve optimized your AdSense, Chitika and Affiliate programs, you’ve even written a little seasonal content…. but there’s one missing element…. Traffic.

Unless you actually have people viewing your blog it is very difficult to actually earn anything from it.

So how do you drive traffic to your blog?

I’ve written quite a bit of this previously in a number of posts (for example here) but want to spend a little time talking today about Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Why SEO?

When you are looking online for information on a topic where do you go first?

While I’m sure there will be a variety of answers given to that question – the majority of average web users would answer with one word – ‘Google’.

Every day Search Engines like Google send many millions of web users to websites in their index. While there are plenty of Web 2.0 web indexing services around that are increasing in popularity – the fact is that search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are still the biggest source of traffic to websites on the web.

As a result – learning how to be indexed and ranked well by them seems like a no brainer.

Writing for Search Engines and Humans

Some bloggers have a problem with the idea of optimizing a blog for search engines. They argue that rather than writing for search engines a blogger’s sole focus should be that they write quality content for humans.

I personally don’t see that writing for humans and search engines have to be mutually exclusive things – in my opinion both can be achieved without compromising either.

Some bloggers argue that if you write for humans that SEO looks after itself. To some extent I agree with that – if you do write quality content that others like you will find that they link up to your site (a key in SEO) – however I would argue that incoming links from other sites is just one part of climbing the rankings in Search Engines (an important part but not the only one).

There are other factors that come into play also and I believe that by knowing them and naturally incorporating them into your blogging you can increase your chances of being found by readers in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Of course – some people become a little obsessed with SEO and forget the human reader, don’t fall for this trap and keep a balanced approach and you’ll benefit both from traffic from the search engines as well as a loyal readership who keeps coming back for more quality content.

Basic SEO tips for Bloggers

I’ve written previously on this topic so rather than writing the same thing again in a slightly different way will republish some of my previous tips below. I hope you find them useful.

Before I start – I’ll say that while I do get a lot of SE traffic that I’m not really an SEO expert (it isn’t what I devote most of my time to). If you want to read something by someone who has spent a lot more time and effort on the topic I recommend looking at an e-book by Aaron Wall – SEO Book (aff). I’ve actually been reading through it in the last few weeks (it’s been on my to do list for a long time) and have found it really helpful.

SEO experts tend to divide search engine optimization techniques into off site and on site techniques.
Off Site SEO Techniques

Off site SEO techniques are as the name suggests factors from outside the site itself (ie from other sites) that impact the blog’s ranking in search engines. Many of these factors are outside the blogger’s control – however they are useful to know. The most obvious and probably most powerful offsite factor are Inbound Links (something I’ve already referred to above).

It is generally agreed that the links that point to a website are one of the most powerful way of climbing Search Engines results pages (in fact many argue it is THE most important factor). – To put it most simply – every link to your site is seen by the search engines as being a vote of confidence in your site.

Ideally Speaking – The best inbound links have three main qualities to them:

1. they are from higher ranked sites than your own
2. they are relevant to the topic you are writing about
3. they link to you using relevant keywords to your page

Whilst you may not have complete control over who links to you these are the types of links that you should be dreaming of.

How to generate quality inbound Links?

Of course whilst most of us know this it doesn’t make getting such links any easier – its in the hands of others in many cases. So how do you get such links?

* Quality Content – There are all kinds of link generating systems out there but in my opinion the best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read. You can solicit links with others or sign up for different link building programs or even buy text links on other sites but the cheapest and probably safest approach is to build inbound links in a natural organic way as others link to your quality content.
* Notify Relevant Bloggers of your content – Whilst I don’t advocate spamming other bloggers and asking for links – I would recommend that if you write a quality post on a topic that you know will interest another blogger that it might be worth shooting them a short and polite email letting them know of your post. Don’t be offended if they don’t link up, but you might just find that they do and that in addition to the direct traffic that the link generates that it helps build your own page rank in the search engines (more on letting other bloggers know of your posts here).
* Directories – Another way to generating inbound links is to submit your links to directories. I know of webmasters who swear by the benefits of such a strategy – the first thing that they do when starting a new site is to do the rounds of directories – submitting links to key pages with appropriate keywords in the links. There are loads of directories out there – many of which offer a free submission. Ari Paparo has compiled a list of blog directories that you might want to start with.
* Inter-link your Blogs – Increasingly bloggers are starting or joining blog networks to enjoy the benefits of multiple sites and writers working together. One of the advantages of networks of sites is that they usually link to one another. In doing so you have complete control over how your sites are linked to from multiple domains. It is worth noting that you should be careful with this approach – if all your sites are hosted on the one server many think that Search Engines will work out what you’re doing and the impact will be lessened.
* Buy Links – Many professional web masters have a budget to purchase links from other highly ranked and and relevant sites. I won’t go into this too much here but you might like to read more about it in my recent post On Buying Text Links.
* Swap Links – Similarly many bloggers swap links with other bloggers. Sometimes this happens pretty naturally (you see someone linking to you so you link back) but in many cases the links are strategic ones and formally arranged between site owners. I get daily requests for such reciprocal links (I rarely act on them). Whilst there is some benefit in such link swapping I would again advise caution here as many SEO experts believe that the search engines have methods for tracking such strategies and devaluing the links. Some try to get around this by doing indirect or triangulated links. ie instead of site A and B doign a direct swap they involve other sites. So A links to C in exchange for D (also owned by C) linking to B (also owned by A) – makes your head hurt doesn’t it!?! There are also a variety of systems around that say they’ll take care of such interlinking for you – I know many who use Digital Point’s Free C0-Op Advertising system. Personally I tend to avoid such schemes and have a policy of linking to sites I think are valuable to my readers. If they link back then so be it.

If you’re looking for link exchange/buying/selling programs you might like to look at systems like:

- Link Adage
- Text Link Ads
- Link Worth

On Site SEO Techniques

Having looked at Offsite Search Engine Optimization Techniques I’ll now turn my attention to examining some of the factors you might like to keep in mind as you build your blog – (or Onsite techniques – things you do on your blog that help build a higher ranking). As with all SEO techniques there are many of these and a lot of speculation around all of them so let me touch on as many as I can:

1. Keyword Rich Content – identify a few keywords for your article that you’re hoping will get indexed highly by Google. Don’t pick too many but consider the questions

* How do I want people to find this post in Search Engines?
* What will they type into Google if they want information on the topic you’re writing?
* How would I find information on this topic in the Search Engines?
* What results come up when I do plug these keywords into Google?
* What other keywords are other sites using?

The answer to these questions will give you a hint as to what words you’ll want to see repeated throughout your article a number of times.

These keywords will need to be the most common words used in your article. Use them in some or all of the following ways:

* Keywords in post and page titles (read my post on using keywords in titles)
* Keywords in URL of page (blog herald wrote on this a while back)
* Keywords in outbound links. Of course you should always link to sources of content as an ethical consideration but the bonus of this is that many SEO experts think that linking to relevant and quality sites on the same topic of your post with good keywords can also add credibility to YOUR post also.
* Keywords in bold tags (try do it at least once)
* Keywords in heading tags (there is debate over exactly how to use them but it’s generally accepted that h1 tags are important and that h2, h3, h4 etc tags also have an impact. Having said that I’ve seen some pages rank very well in search engines without using heading tags. There are many tutorials online about heading tags – here’s one.)
* Keywords in image alt tags (here’s how)
* Keywords in the general throughout the text of your post – but especially early on in the first few sentences
* Keywords in meta tags (they seem to be less valuable these days but many still believe they are useful with some search engines – here’s a Guide to meta tags)

Of course you can go over the top with keywords in posts and let it destroy your content – but if it fits with what you’ve written tweak it to include the words you are targeting a couple of extra times. Most SEO experts recommend getting your keyword density up to between 5-20% – I think 20% is probably bordering on massacring your content.

One last word of warning and disclaimer on keyword rich content (because I can just hear the comments on this post already) – don’t sacrifice your readers experience of your site just for the sake of SEO. Yes keyword density can be important in climbing the search engine rankings – but more important is that your content and design are user friendly and helpful to readers. There is nothing worse than a site that is stuffed with keywords – these sites come off as cheap, nasty and spammy – don’t fall for the temptation.

Keep in mind keywords that might be specific to the season we are approaching. While during the year there might be less people searching for posts relating to Christmas, gifts, presents, new year sales etc – this time of year will see an increase in these types of searches.

2. Themed sites – One of the growing theories of SEO is that you are more likely to rank well if you have a substantial amount of pages on a similar theme. ie a niche topic blog will probably rank higher than a general one that covers many topics. Build a blog with over 200 pages of content on the same theme and you’ll increase your chances of ranking well as SEs will see you as an authority on the topic. The take home advice here is to keep to some kind of a topic/niche/theme for your blog. It is also probably another argument for categories and tagging posts that relate together strongly.

3. Site Design – Search Engines like well laid out, well coded and easily to navigate sites. Make sure your pages validate (I need to work more on this) and that they are viewable on all major browsers. Search Engines don’t tend to like too much Flash, Frames or Java Script in your site – keep it simple and clean and their robots will index your site a lot faster and more accurately. Also try to keep your blog free from dead links (a challenge for those of us with older blogs with big archives).

4. Interlink your Site – The way Search Engines index your blog is to send little robot crawlers to your site to track what you’ve written and follow the links. Make it easier for them to get around your blog by using internal linking wisely. Most SEO experts recommend that you provide some sort of Site Map that means every page on your blog is just a link or two away from every other one. One way to do this for bloggers is to make sure that your category pages are in your sidebars as I do in this blog. Also make sure every page links back to your main page and any other important pages on your site. If you’re writing on a topic you’ve previously written about consider linking to what you’ve written before or use a ‘other relevant posts’ feature at the base of your article. You’ll see in my menus at the top of the page a number of my key categories and articles. One of the impacts of having them highlighted in this way is that they have become some of the most highly ranked pages on ProBlogger simply because they are linked to from every page of this blog. This is a key point in the lead up to Christmas – if you have a few seasonal posts that you particularly want to do well in the SE’s make sure they are linked to from every page on your blog.

5. Update regularly – The more you update your blog the more often Search Engines will send their crawlers to your site to index it. This will mean your new articles could appear in the index within days or even hours rather than weeks. This is a natural benefit of blogging – make the most of it!

6. Outbound Links – There is debate over how SEs treat outbound links from your blog. I’m in the camp who believe that relevant outbound links enhance your site’s ranking in search engines. I always link out to quality relevant sites that I think my readers will find useful and have a little anecdotal evidence that seems to support the theory that this is healthy for the way SEs index you (check out Waynes article on the topic for more info). Linking to sites outside your own blog does mean you end up sending traffic away from your blog so you need to count the cost of such a strategy. Note that you should always try to link to reputable and relevant sites to your own page. Also keep in mind that too many outbound could have detrimental impact upon your blog. Like in most things in SEO – moderation is the key.

7. Choose your domain name wisely – there are numerous factors to keep in mind when selecting a domain name. For one you might like to include your keyword in it if possible. Secondly you should do a little research to see if someone else has previously used the domain. This could have both positive and negative impact. If it was a quality site with inbound links you might reap some benefits but if it was a banned spam site you could still be banned from Google for a long time. One service you might want to use to check expired domains is Way Back Machine at Archive.org.

8. Register your Domain for a Lengthy Period – a recent patent by Google indicates that it now looks at the length of your domain’s registration in ranking it. It does this because many spam sites have short registrations and a longer one indicates that you’re building a site with substance and are in it for the long haul.

9. One topic per post – the more tightly focused the theme of a page the better when Search Engines come to rank it. Sometimes you might find yourself writing long posts that end up covering a number of different topics. They might relate loosely but if search engine ranking is what you’re after it could be better to break up your post into smaller more focused pieces.

10. Write optimal length posts – there is some thought going around the Search Engine Optimization community that pages that are too short can get passed over for high rankings. I try to keep posts at least 250 words. Of course there are some posts on my blogs that are shorter, but if I’m writing a post that I want to rank well I try to give it some meatiness in terms of length. On the other hand don’t make it too long either – because in doing so you make it difficult to keep your keyword density up and could end up with a less tightly focused page. Research also shows that longer articles can have a pretty steep drop off rate in readers after the text gets below the ‘fold’ or to the end of the first screen of article (looks like this post is in trouble – is anyone still reading?).

11. Avoid Duplicate content – Google warns publishers in its guidelines about having the same content on multiple pages. This goes for both multiple pages that you own but also pages that others own. This is because a tactic of spammers is often to reproduce content on many pages and/or to steel content from other sites. There is some debate over what duplicate content does and doesn’t include (for instance many bloggers use ‘free articles’ as content on their blogs – these articles often appear on hundreds and even thousands of other sites around the web and to me could be seen as duplicate content) – my advice is to be very careful about how many places your content appears. I do republish occasional posts (or parts of them) but try not to do this too much and attempt to add elements that are unique on each occasion that the posts are republished).

12. Ping – services like Pingomatic (there are numerous others too) will ping a variety of websites for you to notify them that you’ve updated. In doing so you’ll also be letting search engines know that you’ve updated which will trigger their robots to come visit your blog. I’d also suggest pinging Google’s blog search tool.

13. Submit your RSS to MyYahoo – submitting your RSS feed to MyYahoo seems to help with getting indexed on Yahoo. Read more about this at Getting Yahoo Traffic for your Blog. Some also think that doing the same thing to Google’s Personalised pages could have a similar impact.

14. Quantities of Content – I always get into trouble when I write about having lots of content – but I think its true that bigger sites tend to rank better than smaller sites – whilst it is possible to rank highly with a small site – it’s probably not the norm.. Search Engines will see your site as more comprehensive the more content you have. You also better your odds of being found in Search Engines if you have more pages. By no means am I saying just to put up random junk content – be careful about this – rather work at building a comprehensive and large site over time.

15. Submit to Search Engines – You can do all the best onsite SEO strategies in the world and still get no where because the Search Engines have not found you to start with. Each search engine has a way of letting it know about your site – submit your URL to be included in the index. Please note that this takes time and perhaps a quicker and more effective way is to get linked to by a site already indexed by the search engine. I’ve written a post about his previously here.

You might also like to tryout some of the services around that offer to submit your sites to search engines for you – I’d be wary of paying for this sort of service though. I never have and seem to do ok.

The Time Factor

One more element that I think is often overlooked in SEO tips posts is that of ‘Time’.

My own experience of blogging is that you can do all of the above things and still not be ranked well in the Search Engines for months and months. Here at ProBlogger it actually took around a year before I started to get significant search engine traffic – despite me doing all the ‘right things’.

This might not be particularly good news for those of you wanting to optimize your site for Christmas this year – but it is yet another reminder that blogging is a long term thing and that it takes considerable time for a blog to become established.

If you’re not ranking well in the search engines – hang in there. Keep posting, keep working on quality content and keep the above factors in mind – as you do this you’ll find that in time your SE traffic will gradually increase.

I had emails from a number of ImpulseBlogger readers last week, everyone told me that at some point in recent months have seen a drastic drop in their Google search results pages, and because reference of their traffic from Google. In each case, their page rank has remained at this level, but they have declined from placing in the top 10 of their keywords to almost disappear (or is it 320: th site). In every email there is a slight panic, desperation and the question “what should I do?” This message is an attempt to give some advice on this subject.

What’s happening?

Without going into all the technical aspects (something I’m not really able to anyway) Google has just finished (or near completion) the third phase of its latest round of updates. This latest round of updates has been unofficially named “Jagger” by the SEO experts.

Google employee, Matt Cutts, was written by Jagger on his blog (you can see in your Google / SEO category).

A large part of how Google determines which ranks as their index is kept secret, but Google is updated from time to time so that some sites provide a real earthquake – which will lead to some radical improvements where they are, and unfortunately for others, apparently sees them fall in the rankings altogether.

This happened to me a week before Christmas last year when I lost two thirds of my site traffic (and income per day) for my digital camera blog during the hour or two. Ouch.

What should you do when you lose your ranking on Google?

The following tips are not official Google advice – that I think I gained more experienced entrepreneurs online when it happened to me last year and I went into panic mode and started emailing people. Do not take it as gospel – I do not pretend to understand how it works or Google (I know people that work there say they do not even understand) – it’s really just what I did and learned.

1. Do not panic – even though I fully understand this reaction, does not help anyone, you may panic and depression. One of the first things I realized when I started asking around about this last year is that there is always online entrepreneur at some point or another. Almost everyone I’ve talked to people who have been in this game more than a year or two had a story to tell when it is dropped from Google. Reassuring was the fact that in most cases, they also had the story, when Google re-graded so that it was above (or almost).

2. Wait – the most important advice that I got to my senior colleagues was a deep breath and wait. Google strives to make updates every few months (more or less a month), and many people with whom I spoke said that they returned to their previous rankings updated after landing very close, when Google made changes to previous changes.

3. Do not give up – a couple of bloggers who have emailed me about to throw in the towel. My advice is to take a day or two to think about it before you delete their posts and disconnect your broadband. Give yourself time to put things in perspective.

4. Do not make big changes – the temptation of the bill is wrong with Google ranking is to completely rework the site. A lot of theories flying around the forums and blogs, Google updates the means and ways to “fix” your site. Some of these theories could be a title, some do not. Thing to remember is that no one outside of Google (and many inside it) to “know” what changes were made to upgrade and how to “fix” your site. I would recommend to leave without making major changes to your blog to see what happens after the update of Google. If at this stage still low rank, it would be appropriate to consider some changes.

The only exception to this advice not to make big changes is that if you know something you do spam or without Google’s rules or regulations. If you do something suspicious, then you probably deserve to lose their ranking on Google and I suggest that his act together and develop a decent and honest.

5. Work to improve your site – Probably the best advice I received from some friends experienced were wise to take this opportunity to work hard to raise my blogs to the next level. In fact, I took six weeks, my blogs have abandoned the Google ranking to a number of things in my blog. I decided I wanted to come out the other side of the experience to rank in Google with a blog better. The things I did not understand:

* Set design – although I have not made major changes in the design, I did a spring cleaning of my blogs and a bit refreshed, both in terms of how they looked and what like their backend code. Over time, it is easy to add many little features to your blog (buttons, images, etc.) – these can clutter the look of your site and slow it down a bit. From time to time is worth it to get rid of some of the damage.

* Write a series of charges and items worth link – I confess I wallowed in a shallow depression for a few days, but once I threw together, have some perspective and decided to go through it, I decided to address and write quality content. As I write I’m a few other key sites in my place I know what I had written in the hope that some connect (remember the incoming links to your site are very powerful in terms of positioning in the search engines for research).

* Develop relationships with other relevant sites – in addition to other sites, some of my positions, I decided to meet some other bloggers and webmasters in my place. This brought important opportunities for collaboration and some more inbound links would not hurt for SEO.

* SEO work – again, I do not make big changes, but there were some things that do not meet the basic search engine optimization – which can be found on my SEO blogger series.

* Develop loyal readers – while losing a significant level of traffic from Google also realized that there were some regular readers who came to my blog favorites, RSS feeds and other sites. I realized that perhaps I had been taking for granted that traffic before and that I should put a little effort. I have increased the number of newsletters that I sent to subscribed readers and makes a number of things the same man who helped build the community in this group.

6. Diversify – Another great lesson from the experience was that I had too many eggs in one basket. From this moment I promised myself that if I’ve never been in the Google rankings again I would have other revenue streams that support me in moments of weakness. I started a diversification process that included:

* New blog in various fields – until now I had just never been a very small number of blogs, all sharing a domain. Google updates its impact on the entire domain, and I realized that in future it would be either feast or famine for me. As a result, because this time I have started several new blogs in various fields.

* New partnerships – to establish relationships with other bloggers and webmasters have a number of opportunities to launch new projects and work together on existing initiatives. b5media is probably an example of this – a brand new collection of blogs that was born from the collaboration.

* New revenue streams – so far I tried the experience way too many other current revenue, like AdSense. While AdSense is a wonderful system – I decided to branch and find out what else I could find.

* Other search engine optimization – I never thought much about how to optimize my blog that is not Google before – last year, I look at MSN and Yahoo a few traffic sources. Similarly, I struggled to find the traffic from other sources such as feeds from other sites and faithful readers.

* Income is not blogging – I took this “real work” part-time for six months to a year as a backup plan simple to carry us through lower income in the short term. I also developed the figure of six courses of blogs as an income that is not directly in my blog and took a consulting job.

I hope that helps those who have been affected by the latest update of Google. I’m sorry about this, and I hope that something in my experience listed above give comfort and help things on track.

There are many articles out there on how to optimize your blog for search engines – Google in particular – but it has some handy tips on SEO and promoting your blog. The plant is really finding ways to get others to link to your website – with the keywords you are targeting in your search engine.

Of course, this is not always easy – every day I get emails from people asking me to join them, sometimes reciprocal links, but 99% of the time they go straight to the trash. People link to you if you write quality content and treat them with respect and authenticity. We also have to think a little creativity to it too – if you can provide other sites and blogs with a service that will benefit your blog, while giving you a link (with the language of your target) you can do so. That’s why our “mini medals table” in our recent Summer Olympic Games a success blog provide bloggers with a medal that was updated online for free with medals -. But the table in about 12 links to our site using key words were selected as “medal table,” who has linked to our range of medals.

This page has been a big success during the game – has been ranked # 1 in google, and it was one of those conditions applied during a week hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Anyway – this article first tips:

“So you have a product, service or web Want to find a way to search engine optimization site If you have not already done so, I suggest you do the following (or hire someone that you trust to do it for you)?:

Write to the active blog writers. Tell them about your product in a personal way – to do so, you spent about 5 minutes per Blogmaster dial a standard e-mail address. Do not mail, because it will turn against.

Refer to the newsgroups and answer questions about the area in which the product can help. Do not just advertise the product of a new chain, but the reuse of existing problems. Someone asks: “How can I see where my visitors come from?” It offers a statistical software, the answer.

The site (landing page) to be simple and honest about your product. Be honest about the price, unless they offer their service for free. Use the inverted pyramid style of writing: the most important things first, details later. Prepare a page where you can read for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, depending on the level of detail. The links lead to a deep structure are useful. But be sure to keep your main navigation elements 10 or less important. (Have you ever been in a product site and clicks more than a few links?) If necessary links between clusters, and are divided into two or three sections. “

Earlier this week, Google web spam head, Matt Cutts, posted on his blog that they will implement the modified algorithm, the effects of publishing content on the web.

The changes are all classifies the original sources of content is greater than so-so / publish / copy it. This has always been the intention of Google, but still experienced some scraped content level higher than that of the original sources.

Matt says:

“The net effect is that researchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copy content from the original site.”

This is a couple of bloggers in a variety of effects.

For those with blogs that produce original content, this means I do not expect to be more valued by other farms for the content of your site (with or without permission). As someone who finds his own content appearing on other sites several times a day (several times with no credit from the source), I find it a welcome change.

For those scratching using (or syndication) Strategies that foster a new revision of this approach. I know there are times and places syndication (especially if you do it with permission), but it helps to remember that in most cases, if you want to create a blog of prominent and successful you need to produce something not only relevant and useful, but is also unique.