Well, I have done this to some of my micro niche sites before, they seemed to make some profits and so I decided to do it to my forum, it works like magic. I know this method may be obvious, but some people don’t do it as I see sites all over the internet not doing this so maybe it really isn’t all that obvious. It is really simple, I use photoshop for this. So just open your site, copy your site with the ad showing (prt sc/print screen) and then paste in photoshop. Take the eye dropper and get the color around the ad. Click on the primary color palette and it should give you the color hex code (#xxxxxx) its 6 digits. Name just go and edit your Adsense Ad in the CP under Manage Ads and make the background and the border that color. This will blend in the ad making people think they are clicking to another part of your site.
Monday, January 31, 2011
SEO SCRIPT COLLECTION
Advanced PageRank
CGI Sitemap Generator
Check Backlinks in Google, MSN & Yahoo
Check Google PageRank
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank #2
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank #1
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank, MSN Results, Yahoo Results
Hub Finder
Keyword Generator
Keyword Research Tool
Link Checking
Link Harvester
Link Popularity
Link Submit
Link Suggest
Sitemap Generator
The Google Suggest Scrape
XML Sitemap Generator
CGI Sitemap Generator
Check Backlinks in Google, MSN & Yahoo
Check Google PageRank
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank #2
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank #1
Check PR, BL, Alexa Rank, MSN Results, Yahoo Results
Hub Finder
Keyword Generator
Keyword Research Tool
Link Checking
Link Harvester
Link Popularity
Link Submit
Link Suggest
Sitemap Generator
The Google Suggest Scrape
XML Sitemap Generator
Find High PR .Edu and .Gov Dofollow Blogs
If you are on mission to build backlinks for your website, try to concentrate in getting more .edu and .gov backlinks. It is simply because .edu and .gov sites have high natural backlinks gives them good page rank. It is hard to find .edu or .gov blogs that gives dofollow juice for commentators. But, if you can find, please don’t spam. You can start searching for dofollow blogs from google by searching:
site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword”
site:.gov inurl:blog “keyword”
If you are targeting for any keyword, find similar or related keyword in your search and try using keyword as commentators name. Write related comment and pray that your comment will get approved. Monitor your site’s SERP ranking in google. I’m sure you will be able to see some difference in few days time.
My sincere advice is not to comment on blog pages that have tons of comments on it with links to some “buy viagra” type of names. Find highPR pages that have lesser number of comments. It is difficult to get quality blog pages but it is worth every effort. It will give more value to your comment link and represents better in SERP ranking with potential increase page rank in next update.
Duplicate Content Myths & Facts
I see a lot of people misunderstanding the whole duplicate content thing. Some say such thing does not exists and if you start an autoblog you will get rich, others swear that Google loves unique content and you have to write everything by hand. As usual, the truth is somewhere in between.
What exactly is duplicate content
This is where most people misunderstand the whole situation. Search engines define it as two or more pages on the same site, that have identical or very similar content. Some people put identical or very similar content that exists on different sites in the same category, though. For clarity, from here on we will call duplicate content on pages of the same site “duplicate” and the duplicate content on different sites “non-original”. By “non-unique” or “unique” I will refer to any type of content that is not unique (or unique), regardless if it is on same site or on different sites.
This is where most people misunderstand the whole situation. Search engines define it as two or more pages on the same site, that have identical or very similar content. Some people put identical or very similar content that exists on different sites in the same category, though. For clarity, from here on we will call duplicate content on pages of the same site “duplicate” and the duplicate content on different sites “non-original”. By “non-unique” or “unique” I will refer to any type of content that is not unique (or unique), regardless if it is on same site or on different sites.
Quality is the reason
There is no penalty with any of the two cases. Penalty means punishment. Punishment would mean search engines see you have non-unique content so they decide you’ve been a bad boy and you have to be spanked. That is not the case. The real reason why search engines have an issue with non-unique content is that they want to offer quality in they SERPs. The purpose of the search engine is to give you answers to your search.
There is no penalty with any of the two cases. Penalty means punishment. Punishment would mean search engines see you have non-unique content so they decide you’ve been a bad boy and you have to be spanked. That is not the case. The real reason why search engines have an issue with non-unique content is that they want to offer quality in they SERPs. The purpose of the search engine is to give you answers to your search.
Let’s take an example situation where you search for “digital camera”. What are you really searching for. If you would refine the search, you could make it any of the following:
- buy digital camera
- digital camera shopping
- digital camera store
- digital camera reviews
- digital camera specs
- best digital camera
- compact digital camera
- dslr digital camera
Now, the key is to determine user intent. You may be interested in information (specs, reviews, which is the best model), or perhaps to buy one (buy, shopping), or maybe you have a specific type of camera in mind (compact, dslr). If you search for one of the variations in that list, the SE knows better what you’re looking for. If you search for “digital camera” however, SE don’t know what kind of information you want. They don’t know much about your intent, besides the fact it is related to digital cameras.
In order to make sure you get the reason you were looking for, a SE will try to include all types of results in its SERPs. You will get a few online retailers likeAmazon.com, a few review sites like reviews.cNet.com, generic sites like Wikipedia, some YouTube videos in case you prefer a video over reading, etc. Basically, the SE gives the user a comprehensive result.
Now, imagine you just searched for “digital camera” and the SE returned only stores. If you want to buy that’s perfect, but if you want to read reviews you think “WTF, I don’t want this stuff, I am not ready to buy”. That’s the mildest form of getting results that are not useful. In a way is like being served salad, then salad, then salad again instead of a stake with salad and then desert. Imagine if we take this a step further and instead of getting 10 shopping results with different information, price, etc. you get 10 sites but each of them is entirely identical to the other one. What’s the point to get 10 different results if all sites have the same price and give you the same information?!
This is exactly why a SE will do its best to give you results that are different from each other. Even if you search for a very specific long tail keyword like “Canon T2i Digital Camera Review”, you don’t want 10 results that point to different sites having the same information. You want to read more than one opinion about that particular digital camera.
Duplicate content (on the same site)
Since a SE will only include one result from each site in it’s SERPs, if you have two or more pages with the same content on your site, it has to pick one and discard the others. Of course you can get a double listing, where the SE will show a second indented URL from your site. However, the important thing to note in this case is that the SE will show a second page only if it thinks it is a good complementary result to the first one. It will never show as a secondary indented result a URL of a duplicate page because it make no sense.
Since a SE will only include one result from each site in it’s SERPs, if you have two or more pages with the same content on your site, it has to pick one and discard the others. Of course you can get a double listing, where the SE will show a second indented URL from your site. However, the important thing to note in this case is that the SE will show a second page only if it thinks it is a good complementary result to the first one. It will never show as a secondary indented result a URL of a duplicate page because it make no sense.
What you have to do in this case is make sure that the SE will show the URL you want. You may get duplicate pages on your site because of the tag listings in the case of blogs, or because of dynamic GET variables (e.g.product_listing.php?min_price=100&max_price=200) which actually return the same items as a different set of variables (e.g. product_listing.php?min_price=0&max_price=300). Those are not the only ways to end up with duplicate content on your site. There are countless ways. I won’t go into details about what you should do to avoid having duplicate content on your site.
There are many good guides about this topic, information architecture and usability. One thing I will mention because many people disregard it, is that you are very likely to be better off with the tag listings marked with “d0f0llow,n0index”. Obviously this is valid generally for blogs. Also, it helps to add a description of about 100-150 words on your category pages or any listing pages so even if you do end up with most of the posts in the listing being the same, that description will make the page be a bit different. Most importantly, have different page titles (for pagination you can add a “page 2″ after the title). As I said, I won’t go more into it here. Information architecture is however a very important aspect when it comes to both SEO and usability.
Non-original content (on different sites)
If you use non-original content on your site (e.g. you “stole” it from some other site) and you don’t rank, it means you’re penalized, right? NO! If you’ve been following through, you should already know why you don’t rank. If the source site (from where you stole the content) already ranks with that content, there is no way that you will rank for the same keywords. Since the keywords in this piece of text are one of the ranking factors, the other major factor being backlinks, if you don’t have more and/or better targeted backlinks than the source, you won’t rank for any keyword. Bottom line is that if the source ranks for a keyword, you won’t rank for it, or you will rank way below the source site (source ranks on #5, you rank on #250).
If you use non-original content on your site (e.g. you “stole” it from some other site) and you don’t rank, it means you’re penalized, right? NO! If you’ve been following through, you should already know why you don’t rank. If the source site (from where you stole the content) already ranks with that content, there is no way that you will rank for the same keywords. Since the keywords in this piece of text are one of the ranking factors, the other major factor being backlinks, if you don’t have more and/or better targeted backlinks than the source, you won’t rank for any keyword. Bottom line is that if the source ranks for a keyword, you won’t rank for it, or you will rank way below the source site (source ranks on #5, you rank on #250).
That means, in order to rank with non-original content, you have to beat all the other sites (that use the same content) with backlinks. This is a really bad idea, because unless you post this non-original content on a domain with high trust rank and authority and at the same time build strong and/or many relevant backlinks, you will never outrank the source site, or whatever site has the same content and does a better job at link building and trust rank growth.
If you have a 1 month old site with a relatively small number of backlinks and about 100 pages and Wikipedia steals all 100 pages and publishes them on wikipedia.com you can bet your right arm they will rank #1 for any keyword related to those pages and you won’t rank anywhere. They don’t even need external backlinks towards those specific pages, their trust rank and domain authority is enough.
Some content is inherently non-original
The SE engineers naturally realized that some content will get copied a lot on many sites. It is the natural life of such content. Think about product specifications, news, press releases, quotes, etc. A digital camera has certain specifications released by the manufacturer. While you can change a word here and there, most of it stays the same. News gets published on a bunch of sites, especially short news. If Barack Obama said something, you have to quote him as he said it. You can’t change his words.
The SE engineers naturally realized that some content will get copied a lot on many sites. It is the natural life of such content. Think about product specifications, news, press releases, quotes, etc. A digital camera has certain specifications released by the manufacturer. While you can change a word here and there, most of it stays the same. News gets published on a bunch of sites, especially short news. If Barack Obama said something, you have to quote him as he said it. You can’t change his words.
Mashups
An interesting breed of sites with non-original content are the mashup sites. They basically construct a page with content on a given topic, by combining small excerpts from multiple sites that cover that topic. This, while resulting in non-original content is actually very useful for a visitor because it gives him a collection of summaries about the topic of interest.
An interesting breed of sites with non-original content are the mashup sites. They basically construct a page with content on a given topic, by combining small excerpts from multiple sites that cover that topic. This, while resulting in non-original content is actually very useful for a visitor because it gives him a collection of summaries about the topic of interest.
Imagine you want to buy a digital camera, you could manually search for reviews on a SE, then search for specs, then search for stores and try to find the best price. It’s time consuming. Instead you could go to AlaTest.com orTestFreaks.com which are mashups of reviews and get all the info you need in one place. It’s comprehensive, you can go to the source site to read more in-depth if you wish so and you save time.
The content of mashups is not a perfect copy of some specific page of another site, but a collection of fragments of multiple sites. It is a big difference between this and how most people implement autoblogs – by copying the excerpt of one specific post only from it’s RSS feed.
What you should remember from this is that if you want to build autoblogs, you should think mashups instead. It is significantly more difficult to implement a mashup system but if you do it right, it is worth every minute.
Spun content
Spun content, if done well, can look original enough to make it in the SERPs. Of course, the “if done well” is the key. Most people don’t invest the proper time to manually write complex, multi-level seeds. They just replace words with their synonyms which means the number of good (original enough) spins is very low. Since they are eager and adepts of “get rich quick” mentality, they will generate way more spins than optimal, reducing the uniqueness of ALL spins (results). If you write a complex seed article and spin it within the optimal limits however, this technique can give you a lot of content and for a fraction of the cost of what you’d pay somebody to write it for.
Spun content, if done well, can look original enough to make it in the SERPs. Of course, the “if done well” is the key. Most people don’t invest the proper time to manually write complex, multi-level seeds. They just replace words with their synonyms which means the number of good (original enough) spins is very low. Since they are eager and adepts of “get rich quick” mentality, they will generate way more spins than optimal, reducing the uniqueness of ALL spins (results). If you write a complex seed article and spin it within the optimal limits however, this technique can give you a lot of content and for a fraction of the cost of what you’d pay somebody to write it for.
A few things to keep in mind regarding spun content:
- It is extremely difficult to develop an algorithm and software to accurately detect non-original content across the entire Web. It would require extreme processing power that not even Google has. This is because you would literally have to compare any web page to every other page on the web. However, there are shortcuts that though are not great, can be implemented using much lower processing power. They generally rely on some sort ofstatistical natural language processing (generally using N-gram patterns). Using such an approach, it is actually extremely easy and not resource intensive to detect content resulted from too many spins.
- It is relatively easy to detect incorrect grammar. Most content is not grammatically correct since not even native English writers are 100% grammatically correct on the web. However, when you detect a very large percentage of grammar mistakes in all the text on a site, it’s a high statistical chance there’s something fishy with it.
What you want from your content?
When trying to decide whether to use non-original content or write original one, you should think what you require from that content. If you need content for a high quality site with a lot of traffic (a.k.a. potential customers), you obviously want content that converts. If you want content for your link network/wheel/pyramid/spherical-cube-with-5-edges and you don’t need those sites to convert but just sit at the bottom of the “food chain”, feel free to use non-origina content. Just remember that mashups, mixed, spun or any type of “randomization” (for lack of a better term) is much better than just scraping the excerpt from a RSS feed or stealing the entire article as-is from an article directory.
When trying to decide whether to use non-original content or write original one, you should think what you require from that content. If you need content for a high quality site with a lot of traffic (a.k.a. potential customers), you obviously want content that converts. If you want content for your link network/wheel/pyramid/spherical-cube-with-5-edges and you don’t need those sites to convert but just sit at the bottom of the “food chain”, feel free to use non-origina content. Just remember that mashups, mixed, spun or any type of “randomization” (for lack of a better term) is much better than just scraping the excerpt from a RSS feed or stealing the entire article as-is from an article directory.
By the way, “spherical-cube-with-5-edges” is a new, extremely powerful linking scheme that I developed. It relies on principles of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. Yeah, I’m just messing with you, genius… I smell some melted brain there.
Going black hat
WARNING: This is ILLEGAL. It is copyright infringement. Anyway, I bet some of you already do it, so I’ll tell you how to do it properly.
WARNING: This is ILLEGAL. It is copyright infringement. Anyway, I bet some of you already do it, so I’ll tell you how to do it properly.
Have you ever stolen articles from article directories or even from the source sites? Many people do it. Funny thing is that besides from being illegal because you’re stealing somebody’s work, it doesn’t help them much either. That’s because their timing is wrong.
They go and search for “my super duper keyword” on EzineArticles or whatever, pick 20-30 articles and dump them onto their new blog. They remove any link from the article (resource box) and place their own links in the body of the article. Then they repeat the process. Maybe if they are more skilled when it comes to coding, they build an automated system to do it while they sleep. Regardless how they do it, it is not too efficient. If you’ve been paying attention you should know why. They basically copy the article as-is, the full article and as I explained way above, end up competing against the source site (e.g. EzineArticles) solely in the backlinks arena. Good luck with that, you will need it. If that article is old, a SE is pretty sure you’re not the source. If it got picked up by other sites and published on them you don’t compete just with the source site, but the others too. You’re screwed! The link you get from that page won’t be entirely useless, but not too helpful either. There is one thing you can do however: monitor new sites that pop-up in the SERPs for your keywords (note I said new sites not new pages of old sites) and also new articles on article directories (make a script to monitor them or their RSS feeds). Steal the content as usual, then throw some links to that page quickly. Don’t build crappy links though. No N0F0ll0w crap or profiles that take long to get indexed by the SE.
The goal is to get that new page indexed fast and make the SE also find the links towards it pretty fast. How fast? If you can get indexed in 15min you’re game. Works up to a few days too, just not as well. If you get indexed before the source site and the SE picks up the backlinks too, you have a chance of actually ranking higher. Otherwise, you won’t rank higher than the source but you will outrank the other sites that steal the article later and are too lazy to build links to it.
Ideally, you don’t want to rank higher than the source because people might complain. Heck it doesn’t even matter if you rank in the first 200 positions. But if you do it like this, the links from that stolen article on your site is more valuable.
There are some things you have to keep in mind:
- If your entire site has content built like this, it won’t do too great. Not even when it comes to the backlink value. Google will simply see you’re “fissy” and not love you much. However, if you mix this technique with some properly spun content, some mashup-style pages, etc. Google won’t have an easy time figuring out if it’s a spam-blog or a normal site.
- It’s not really worth doing it if you do it by hand and/or with your own domains. Unless you automate the whole thing, and use junk sites (e.g. WPMU hosts, free blog platforms) is too much effort for too little gain.
That’s all folks! I hope it makes things more clear for you and helps you build better strategies. When you make your 1st million dollars don’t forget to send me a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Massive netlog hits! Get more then 15.000 visitors a day
The e-book explains a technique how to lure around 15.000 netlog users a day to your netlog where you can redirect them to your website. With only 30 minutes work.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lzotmzyot2t
BlackHat Affiliate Betting Method to Make Money
Go to twitter and follow 1500 people who follow Roger Federer.
Create another account and follow 1500 people who follow Nadal.
Hopefully around 800 will follow you back on each account. These guys will most likely be tennis fans.
Look up when the next big tennis match is. Hype it up on each of your twitter accounts and hint at inside information – don’t use exactly the same phrasing for each account. Even if people followed both accounts they shouldnt be able to tell it’s the same person.
Tell Federer followers that “Tennis Player A” will win and tell Nadal followers the opposite. After the game, tweet on the winning account reminding people you were right and that if they want info for the next game they should sign up here.
Send them to your page which is like InsideTennisSecrets.com/NadalHenmenMatch .
That page has a squeeze page – very simple page which just says, “I have some inside info and know who will win the Nadal vs. Henman match”. Let 200 people sign up to your Aweber list and as soon as 200 sign up, switch it for another aweber optin form for a different list.
Do the same as you did for Twitter. Tell the first list Nadal will win and the second Henman will win.
After the match contact the winning emails and tell them the next inside info is here:
And do the same thing again as many times as you want depending on your initial list sizes.
You’ll end up with 50 – 100 EXTREMELY qualified leads – not only have these guys won every time and believe in you greatly but they’ve also confirmed this because they’ve jumped through your hoop to OPT IN 3 or 4 times!!!!
Tell them “I learnt everything from this guy… He showed me how to successfully bet on tennis games and win every time… check him out…i haven’t got time to email you new tips for each game. I’ve made a fortune out of this…”
And send them to a tennis-betting affiliate offer…
You’ll most likely get a VERY high conversion rate if you pick a good offer.
Once again, this is just an idea. I have never tried this. It is very blackhat and I don’t recommend it
Google has released an SEO Best Practices Starter Guide
This is the offical pdf. Haven’t read it all though. You guys might already know the stuff in it but still it’s a good read for us newbies
Get it here:
Free Yahoo Answers Auto-Poster
The guy who wrote WP-Robot released a few freebie plugins along the way, and one of them was a Yahoo Answers Auto-Poster.
It stopped working recently due to a change in the Answer’s code. I fixed it for myself, and decided to upload it.
You can grab it here: http://www.multiupload.co
AdSense Tricks the unique strategies
Professionals have their own adsense tricks to success. Some of them have the same while others have unique strategies.
If you will make a research on the web about Adsense tricks, you will only be guided by the different websites with their ads and they will most likely sell the answers to you. Since you are hoping to get answers to all your questions, you will do anything just to know their secret.
You may think of buying any solution that you are presented but understand that almost all the people who want to share their adsense trick are the same.
Now before you make any move, it will be helpful if you do some research on the different search engines. There may be a hundreds of forums that will be displayed on your search. It can be a good way to get valuable information that you can use on your site.
Reading articles written by professional internet marketers are also a good source. Some of the marketers share their own experiences and adsense tricks to help the beginners who wish to succeed in the field of marketing. You can read through hundreds of articles and you can surely get something out of reading them.
Although most of the answers that you can get will ask you to do a little bit of work, it will be worth the try if you really want to succeed. Everyone in the marketing field increased their profits without trying the different strategies.
The web service is a good source for adsense tricks. You can use good keywords to find advices and tips. You can use keywords in the search engines such as: adsense tips, increase adsense income, adsense experiments and adsense adsense tricks. You will be shown with a lot of good information that you can choose from.
If there are different strategies shown, you can choose one which you think will best work for you. But if you can use two or more at the same time, chances are you will be getting good results in a few days. However, these strategies need dedication and perseverance. You also need to have your own sense of style to be applied on the adsense tricks.
The internet will be the best resource and its all in just one click and you are in for success. You just have to be patient in making your search.
If you want to increase the traffic of your site, you will obviously increase your income. The real adsense trick is to be on top of the search engines or have more and more visitors on your site.
In order to increase traffic to your site, you can have a fresh content into your site. It is necessary to post different articles every other time so that the visitors and readers will visit your site more often. Just make sure that the articles are relevant to the theme of your site.
You can find a lot of good authors who will offer services at a low cost provided that their names will be displayed in the author resource box.
The real adsense trick is to have a good site that your readers can benefit a lot while doing the same for you. It is important that you know your customers and you know what they exactly need.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Make 120$ a day – Not another easy crappy method
First, You need MNF – Micro niche finder. If you are serious about IM you must know this tool. If you want and prefer you can use Market Samurai – It’s more complicated then MNF but it’s good as well.
If you can, Use MNF.
You need to find a good niche or Trend.
You can go to http://www.trendhunter.com/ and you will find the best hot trends and topics there.
When you think you got a good idea, grab the title keyword and put it in MNF. MNF will give you a green light if the niche is good enough (Not much competition) . Any way, If you have MNF you can use the MNF territorial and know everything about how to use it and how to find hot niches. (it can even do the brainstorm for a niche for you). The most important parameter is to have at least 3000 searches for that KW.
Then, build a blog (you can do it with wordpress on your own blog or on free web 2.0 sites like blogger) with at least 3X400 words posts with the KW inside.
Make the keywords to be at the blog title and on the post (around 5%- to be safe from google).
Write and send an article to Ezinarticles or Articlebase and use the resource box to link to your “money site” (the blog) with the keyword in anchor text.
Now the powerfull stuff:
Use TheBestSpinner (if you don’t know this tool google it), And it will automatically create more then 100 new unique articles from the one you already wrote .
Use Senuke and build web 2.0 sites network (around 20 sites). Make them link to each other randomly (Like Vita Vee – If you know his course “from zero to profit”)- Randomly is the key here, And put the spun articles in those web 2.0 sites. With Senuke this will take you 20 minutes.
If you’ll use those tools it will take you only few minutes for the whole process.
You will also need to put a link to your article (at ezin or articlebase) in those sites.
Then, use Scrapebox, and link to those web 2.0 sites like hell!!!
All the link juice then will go from your web 2.0 to your article, and from the article to your money-site.
In the moneysite promote stuff like CPA offers ( IMO Email submit work the best), affiliate product like clickbank and even adsense,
Because you’ll always use KW that is HOT at the moment you will have a lot of traffic with almost zero competition and lots of fast cash.
Now, I know this is sound a lot of work, But, each site will get you at least 20$ a day, and if you will build one a day, you will make big money in no time.
And If you use the tools I recommended and you will follow this guide you will be able to do all this in less then 2 hours. I pay next to nothing for updated cracks for all of these tools so the investment is very small and can be made back in a few days at the most.
I know it’s not simple guide, But, it’s not some crap that promise you thousands of dollars a day… It’s small amounts, everyday, but steady, and with few sites like that, you will have steady income in less then 2 weeks. (70-120 a day in 2 weeks from my experience is easily doable)
Feel free to ask me more questions about the system or the tools I use.
(I use few more tools, but these are the main ones that you can find on the net).
You can go and try all the other methods, but this way is slow and steady, and the tools I recommended automate most of it.
AdSense going to change Ads Designs
I think some of you may have already knew about this
Now I’m just wondering how to color-code, and place the ads to maximize the CTR
| We’re excited to announce a revamped design of three of our AdSense for content ad units! After analyzing publisher site layouts and reviewing requests around the world, we decided to make our formats more space-efficient and visually pleasing by changing the layout of the text. We spent a lot of time experimenting with different possibilities, and we’re starting with changes to the following ad units: Leaderboard (728×90): the title, description, and URL are now arranged in rows instead of columns (except in the case when only one ad is showing) Medium and large rectangles (300×250, 336×280): the URL is now in the same line as the title In certain cases, you’ll also see a few minor adjustments to the font size. For example, the font size for the leaderboard with four ads is much more readable. Please note that these changes will roll out over the next few weeks. |
5 SEO Tips – Get BackLinks For Free
The following Tips will help you get more search engine results for your website. They will also teach you how to get backlinks to your site. In other words get other websites linking to yours. These will raise your search engine ranking, and bring you lots of good traffic also. Here are the tips:
- Submit Your Site to Google. Visit google webmaster tools, login with your google account, add your site and verify it. After verifying site, it will usually take a week for google to crawl your site. Check the diagnostics section for google’s crawling results.
- Submit Your Site to Yahoo. Visit Yahoo to Submit Your Site. Add Your Site. Authenticate Your Site. It takes Yahoo a little longer than google to verify that you own the site, usually a day or two. After authentication it takes Yahoo another 7 days to start crawling your website.
- Submit Your Site to MSN. Go to MSN Webmaster. Sign in with Your MSN account. Add Your site. Upload XML file provided to you by MSN to verify your site.
- Add Your Website to Web Directories. This will help you get lots of backlinks. Backlinks increase your search engine ranking. Visit The Strongest Links which lists lots of web directories you can submit your site to. Read these common web directory submission mistakes. With many of the directories you have to dig down into their categories before you’ll see a “Submit URL” or “Submit Your Site” link.
- Get Backlinks from Similar Sites
Step 1 – Build List of a few keywords that you think users will search for to access your site.Step 2 – Also think of related terms and keywords that users might alternatively use when searching for your site.Step 3 – Search google for your terms or keywords. Note url’s of those sites. Visit each one of those sites. Use Firefox SEO plugin to learn more about each site. Find contact information for each site owner. You can usually find this in the contact page. If you can’t find the contact information on the pageenter the website’s url in a whois site. If you can find a phone number in the whois site, it’s best to call rather than email. Calling is much more dependable.Step 4 – To get site to link to you it’s better to get a one-way link: A link from their site to yours without your site linking back to theirs. Sometimes the only way to get a link is to pay for it. If that’s the case then try to pay for a permanent link and have them sign a contract. Most websites will give you a permanent link for $50. If you don’t or cant pay for a one-way link, then do a link exchange where both your site and theirs link to each other.If you want to get a one way link for free from another site, here is how to do it. You must create a friendship with the webmaster. Write an introductory email, build a friendship before asking for link. Another way to do it is to contact webmaster in a very honest direct way including your link in your email. The best way is to call webmaster and talk to them in person. It’s much harder for people to say no on the phone. Let them know that you enjoy their site, value it, tell them about yourself, how you can help their site, maybe by writing content (that their site is currently missing and would be helpful).When getting a back link, try to get a deep back link. Instead of just linking to your homepage, try to get links to deep portions of your website. This helps the search engine make other sections of your website more popular and give them a higher rank.Also when getting a back link, try to get the webmaster to put a phrase or keyword that you want to rank for in your anchor text. Make sure to change the anchor text for different backlinks. If you don’t and Google sees that you got a 1000 backlinks with the same anchor text they might think you are spamming.
How to Speed Up WordPress
How to Speed Up WordPress
1. Caching
1. Caching
Utilize WordPress Object Cache
By inserting this simple code into your wp-config.php file, you can set WordPress to begin caching database queries rather than initiating new server requests on each load. You don’t have to understand why this works, it just will.
By inserting this simple code into your wp-config.php file, you can set WordPress to begin caching database queries rather than initiating new server requests on each load. You don’t have to understand why this works, it just will.
1. // Enable the WordPress Object Cache:
2. define(ENABLE_CACHE, true);
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2. define(ENABLE_CACHE, true);
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By reducing the number of queries, you’ll both increase the speed of your site, and reduce the server resources that are consumed each time you receive a visitor. As a result, you’ll find that it will make your web host much happier in the event of a huge traffic spike.
Utilize a caching plugin
The main plugin that meets this need is the WP Super Cache, which does exactly what it says. It caches posts and stores them as files on the server so that repeated requests are dealt with faster and with fewer resources. The plugin will automatically update as comments are added so the dynamic nature of the blog isn’t lost.
Another option, which is used right here on Mashable, is W3 Total Cache. It’s a plugin that promises 10 times the speed of your site without it.
Utilize a caching plugin
The main plugin that meets this need is the WP Super Cache, which does exactly what it says. It caches posts and stores them as files on the server so that repeated requests are dealt with faster and with fewer resources. The plugin will automatically update as comments are added so the dynamic nature of the blog isn’t lost.
Another option, which is used right here on Mashable, is W3 Total Cache. It’s a plugin that promises 10 times the speed of your site without it.
2. Choose the Right Host
There are several web hosts that are optimized to run WordPress. And while WordPress is not that picky, it does have a set of ideal server settings. Most web hosts meet the basic requirements, but you can find more information about what’s necessary here.
Choosing the right host means more that just buying storage space. Many discount hosts will try to fool you with promises of massive server space at a cheap price because they know you will likely never use the promised enormous allotment. You should really be aware of:
Choosing the right host means more that just buying storage space. Many discount hosts will try to fool you with promises of massive server space at a cheap price because they know you will likely never use the promised enormous allotment. You should really be aware of:
- Bandwidth
- Processor speed/type
- Databases allowed
- Domains allowed
- Which versions of PHP, MySQL, etc. are installed
Look for hosts that have more of a commitment to WordPress as a CMS and blogging platform and not just a mention at the bottom of their features list. Another solid resource is the WordPress hosting page.
Also, though most shared hosts will likely be running Apache, keep in mind that WordPress can also run on NGINX, which can increase your server’s speed by changing the structure of the server requests. NGINX powers massive websites like Hulu, SourceForge and WordPress itself.
If these big boys choose NGINX, you know it delivers.
Also, though most shared hosts will likely be running Apache, keep in mind that WordPress can also run on NGINX, which can increase your server’s speed by changing the structure of the server requests. NGINX powers massive websites like Hulu, SourceForge and WordPress itself.
If these big boys choose NGINX, you know it delivers.
3. Prune Your Plugins
Take a look at your plugin list and remove the inactive ones. Then remove the any actives ones that you don’t actually use; they are likely to place a strain on your serve resources because WordPress loads all plugins when a page loads.
Make sure you’re always running the latest stable release of both WordPressand your plugins. Many older WordPress plugins are not efficient and will weigh your blog down.
WordPress 3.0 comes with a revamped plugin update feature, allowing you to update plugins faster, smoother and easier. It also offers a bulk update feature that is completely new to WordPress, so there’s no excuse for letting your plugin versions expire.
Make sure you’re always running the latest stable release of both WordPressand your plugins. Many older WordPress plugins are not efficient and will weigh your blog down.
WordPress 3.0 comes with a revamped plugin update feature, allowing you to update plugins faster, smoother and easier. It also offers a bulk update feature that is completely new to WordPress, so there’s no excuse for letting your plugin versions expire.
4. Choose the Right Theme
Themes can make or break a WordPress installation. Go for something stylish but simple. It’s important to understand that fewer images will equals less loading time, which means a speedier site. Choose themes with the fewest possible images and a CSS-based design. Themes with tables, frames and static HTML will be slower than those based on the latest technologies. You might want to choose a minimalist theme and modify it to suit your needs.
There are many resources for minimalist themes, including this one Six Revisions and this one at Tripwire Magazine. Don’t just take the theme’s simplicity as a sign of load speed, though; check the actual speed using something like YSlow or Pingdom’s Page Test.
There are many resources for minimalist themes, including this one Six Revisions and this one at Tripwire Magazine. Don’t just take the theme’s simplicity as a sign of load speed, though; check the actual speed using something like YSlow or Pingdom’s Page Test.
5. Compress Images
While a clean page means speed, you have to balance that with the fact that strong supporting images are key to a successful blog. But there is no reason to sacrifice speed for quality. By ensuring your images are appropriately formatted and compressed, you can help increase your blog’s speed.
The easiest way to remember formatting is like this:
Images that use only a few colors should be saved as .GIF or .PNG files, and images that use a full spectrum of colors (like true photographs) should be saved as .JPG files. If you use photo editing software, like Photoshop, you can “save for the web,” which will find the best format to save, while still maintaining quality.
Next you should resize images to the smallest possible size to get the job done. When doing so, the color format should be RGB, as indexed images don’t scale well.
When saving, set the total color amount to the smallest value possible without sacrificing quality. A combination of these steps will greatly decrease your image size and therefore your server response time. You should play around a bit to find the right format and experiment when uploading to determine which settings produce the smallest, high-quality image.
The easiest way to remember formatting is like this:
Images that use only a few colors should be saved as .GIF or .PNG files, and images that use a full spectrum of colors (like true photographs) should be saved as .JPG files. If you use photo editing software, like Photoshop, you can “save for the web,” which will find the best format to save, while still maintaining quality.
Next you should resize images to the smallest possible size to get the job done. When doing so, the color format should be RGB, as indexed images don’t scale well.
When saving, set the total color amount to the smallest value possible without sacrificing quality. A combination of these steps will greatly decrease your image size and therefore your server response time. You should play around a bit to find the right format and experiment when uploading to determine which settings produce the smallest, high-quality image.
6. Compress Your Code
Stylesheets
Stylesheets are easy to compress, just use your favorite text editor to delete comments and unnecessary spaces and line breaks. Although you won’t see a drastic difference unless your style sheets involve tens of thousands of lines.
JavaScript
Compressing JavaScript isn’t as simple, but it is still relatively easy. There are a number of tools available, such as this one, which is free, that will compress your JavaScript code for you. Better yet, don’t rely on much JavaScript at all if you can help it. If your site has lots of interactivity, moving parts and fancy features, there is a good chance it is running a lot of JavaScript and that could slow things down.
Additionally, you may use the Yahoo! YUI compressor tool or the Google equivalent compression tool. Either one will tighten up your code to make it run more efficiently. Coder Journal has a nice comparison of the various tools for JavaScript compression.
Use CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites allow designers to create interactive images, or multiple images using CSS instead of bulky and slow loading JavaScript. Sprites are an advanced technique, but here is a great tutorial at A List Apart. There is even aplugin developed specifically for WordPress that helps with the use of CSS Sprites.
7. Keep It Local
Stylesheets are easy to compress, just use your favorite text editor to delete comments and unnecessary spaces and line breaks. Although you won’t see a drastic difference unless your style sheets involve tens of thousands of lines.
JavaScript
Compressing JavaScript isn’t as simple, but it is still relatively easy. There are a number of tools available, such as this one, which is free, that will compress your JavaScript code for you. Better yet, don’t rely on much JavaScript at all if you can help it. If your site has lots of interactivity, moving parts and fancy features, there is a good chance it is running a lot of JavaScript and that could slow things down.
Additionally, you may use the Yahoo! YUI compressor tool or the Google equivalent compression tool. Either one will tighten up your code to make it run more efficiently. Coder Journal has a nice comparison of the various tools for JavaScript compression.
Use CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites allow designers to create interactive images, or multiple images using CSS instead of bulky and slow loading JavaScript. Sprites are an advanced technique, but here is a great tutorial at A List Apart. There is even aplugin developed specifically for WordPress that helps with the use of CSS Sprites.
7. Keep It Local
Don’t rely on other people’s servers to be fast, so minimize any widgets, badges or applications that run off other locations. If possible, try to self-host all images and code, such as your analytics. That said, if you’re posting videos use a service that is built for such a load, like YouTube or Vimeo.
But if you are expecting (or receiving) lots of traffic, you may want to look at paying for a dedicated server and not trying to host all your projects in that one place alone. A lot of people don’t realize that the geographical distance from a server actually matters. If the vast majority of your traffic comes from a specific country or region, consider locating your hosting close by.
8. Reduce PHP and HTTP Calls
But if you are expecting (or receiving) lots of traffic, you may want to look at paying for a dedicated server and not trying to host all your projects in that one place alone. A lot of people don’t realize that the geographical distance from a server actually matters. If the vast majority of your traffic comes from a specific country or region, consider locating your hosting close by.
8. Reduce PHP and HTTP Calls
Websites were once built statically, meaning that each page was hand-coded and built from the bottom up. Now, most websites are generated dynamically each time a visitor loads the page, which allows for each experience to be custom designed for each person, making for a richer browsing experience.
In order to accomplish this, many websites use PHP, a scripting language that allows you to reference remote content based on criteria set by the developer. For example, a site might use PHP to determine that this is a first-time visit, and the site may then use this information to generate a welcome message.
Each time one of these PHP “calls” is made, a request is made to the server hosting the website, which takes time (usually milliseconds). This time is called “latency,” and some websites have thousands of calls each time the site is loaded, which can translate to millions per day depending on traffic.
Wherever possible, scan your site for PHP requests and replace with static HTML. By doing this, the browser will simply read the HTML as opposed to asking the server what it should display. Here is an example of a slow and fast way to produce the same result:
In order to accomplish this, many websites use PHP, a scripting language that allows you to reference remote content based on criteria set by the developer. For example, a site might use PHP to determine that this is a first-time visit, and the site may then use this information to generate a welcome message.
Each time one of these PHP “calls” is made, a request is made to the server hosting the website, which takes time (usually milliseconds). This time is called “latency,” and some websites have thousands of calls each time the site is loaded, which can translate to millions per day depending on traffic.
Wherever possible, scan your site for PHP requests and replace with static HTML. By doing this, the browser will simply read the HTML as opposed to asking the server what it should display. Here is an example of a slow and fast way to produce the same result:
Slow:
<?php bloginfo(name); ?><?php bloginfo(description); ?>
Fast:
<title>Mashable – The Social Media Guide</title>
<?php bloginfo(name); ?><?php bloginfo(description); ?>
Fast:
<title>Mashable – The Social Media Guide</title>
There’s more you can do to minimize PHP calls. This tutorial will help you cut down the PHP calls that occur in the typical WordPress header. You can also reduce PHP calls by eliminating any logging that might be happening; some advanced plugins offer an option to track plugin activity with a log, which can significantly slow down your WordPress site.
9. Keep Your Code Clean
9. Keep Your Code Clean
You can validate your code using the W3C Validator. It might seem snobby to have “standards” on the web, but the truth is, there are standards for a reason. If everyone met the standards, browsers would always know how to display the information they’re given. Use the tool at W3C to validate your code and fix any errors. This can be a painstakingly long process but it’s well worth the end result.
Coding errors will slow your load time, especially if images that are referenced but don’t exist. Use a bug tool like Firebug to identify coding errors and fix them.
10. Database optimization
Coding errors will slow your load time, especially if images that are referenced but don’t exist. Use a bug tool like Firebug to identify coding errors and fix them.
10. Database optimization
Using a database administration interface like phpMyAdmin, you can select all tables and click “Repair” and “Optimize,” and scan for outdated tables that weren’t deleted when you removed old plugins.
This plugin will take care of the database optimization while letting you stay out of the database itself. While this other plugin offers automatic optimization which may be better for the hands-off blog author.
This plugin will take care of the database optimization while letting you stay out of the database itself. While this other plugin offers automatic optimization which may be better for the hands-off blog author.
11. Adjust Your WordPress Settings
Go easy on the front page
There’s no reason to show 100 posts on the front page, and really, you don’t even need to display the full post content on the front page. You can adjust this setting in the WordPress Dashboard under the Settings > Reading panel.
Turn off inter-blog communication
By default, WordPress interacts with other blogs that are equipped with pingbacks and trackbacks. Every time another blog mentions you, it notifies your site, which in turn updates data on the post. Turning this off will not destroy links to your site, just the setting that generates a lot of work for your site. For more detail, read this explanation of WordPress Pingbacks, Trackbacks and Linkbacks.
There’s no reason to show 100 posts on the front page, and really, you don’t even need to display the full post content on the front page. You can adjust this setting in the WordPress Dashboard under the Settings > Reading panel.
Turn off inter-blog communication
By default, WordPress interacts with other blogs that are equipped with pingbacks and trackbacks. Every time another blog mentions you, it notifies your site, which in turn updates data on the post. Turning this off will not destroy links to your site, just the setting that generates a lot of work for your site. For more detail, read this explanation of WordPress Pingbacks, Trackbacks and Linkbacks.
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