In Google’s guide to SEO, there is an interesting quote, that’s what is not recommended to do on social media web-sites:
involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the top of these services.
Well, Google’s loosing their theory of what’s appreciated by the crowd should be genuine? Because there are now plenty of paid and exchange-based digg (just example!) voting programs, and they are getting smarter and smarter. Read more »
Although SEO is primarily done to help boost rankings in SERPs and we can practice it by merely trying to (intelligently?) guess the search engines algorithms, this shortsighted approach to SEO is one of the reasons why many do not see that much effect with their SEO campaign. It is always important to factor in every possible aspect that you practically can when it comes to your SEO strategy, and that includes the daily happenings in search engine users’ lives. That may sound a little crazy since it is impossible to know everything that goes on with one persons life let alone all your target audience, the majority of whom you don’t even know personally. Well it is if you look at it that way but if you only look at it in terms of the general events that you know will be impacting or are currently affecting them then it makes more sense. Read more »
Some webmasters are strong proponents of non-content SEO strategies. These technical experts rely very heavily on meta-title and other html or code-based SEO strategies for sites that are less content oriented.
Purists on both sides of the argument will say their approach is far superior to the other. For the content sites they can judge their success through keyword strategies that are observable in long-term site rankings. For the non-content sites they can observe keywords or phrases being used to determine site rankings from a more technical source in behind-the-scenes code.
So, which is the better approach?
Both.
This really is a matter of being able to have your cake and eat it too. You can maximize SEO strategies in the coding on your site while infusing your website with knowledge based original content. The combination of these two strategies can work with greater efficiency than either strategy alone.
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Here is a very nice article, suitable more for beginners and less competitive niches, or websites that run without (or with blog CMS), and mostly make money from contextual advertising.
After making your Website human friendly, you have to make it search engine friendly so that human searchers can easily find your site in the search engine result pages. By following the steps described below, you can optimize your Website for search engines.
1. Use a keyword research tool for mining keywords related to your site’s offerings. One of the most effective and free keyword research tool is Google Adwords Keyword tool, register on AdWords to get the better one.
Right now, Social Media is what some people may call a “hot product”, in the sense that a lot of people are making new marketing products to teach people how to do marketing with Social media, but in fact, it is no better than search. Except for some practices. Growth of YouTube, Facebook caused this big explosion in internet’s social media attention, but in fact, there is something more to it that just 4-5 major social media sites. EBay, Craigslist, Twitter and all the forums of the Internet are social media . The reason to worry about is that all businesses and marketers are going crazy over social media right now simply because it’s hot. This is not always a good idea – go after a new channel because there’s value, a path to revenue and a solid set of tactics that fit with your overall strategy, not just because it’s under exposure all the time.
Social media is great for:
So I am ready to start with Affiliate Marketing. Odds are you are as newbie as me in this industry, so I will clear that up. Here is the image of how it works, and a quick quote from wiki:
Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.
Most famous and most comprehensive way of doing it is promoting the products using PPC (Pay Per Click) campaigns on Google Search and Content Network (AdWords), Yahoo! (Yahoo Search Marketing), Live.com search, and so on. Actually any using any methods to get visitors to your product (they should be interested in it, otherwise it’s just waste of time and money).
Some blogs I read (you can find them to the right > ), suggest to take first steps using Facebook Ads. The point is that if you will find a product that interests users, and make a good ad campaign, with targeting, people will click the ad, facebook will lower the cost of the clicks (if the CTR is high). And most important you can get some sales/leads, earn some money and stay in profit. Okay, there is a belief that this business is not for everyone. So Me and You want to figure out whether we are suitable for it. What’s good is that Facebook, like all other companies has coupons. And I will give you one right now, it’s $100 coupon by Visa. You just have to complete this offer, and attach your business profile on your facebook profile page, and you will get $100 voucher and instructions on how to activate it in email. Here’s the link: http://apps.facebook.com/visabusiness
P.S. There are more vouchers available every time, just use google search to find some. Most won’t work! Here is the link, I found 2 x $50 coupons there that work http://www.retailmenot.com/view/facebook.com
P.P.S. ALL Coupon credits have expiry date, be sure to use them or you will lose that free credit, and read 5 Killer Tips for Facebook Ad Ownage by nickycakes.
This is my new blog, created especially to post here my experience in SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Arbitrage. And everything else that relevant to making money online. Today, affiliate marketing is the most famous money-maker scheme. I am experienced in SEO, and made some money online already, with websites that were visited from search engines. But I’d like to expand my knowledge and skill. I have basic knowledge of Affiliate Marketing and how it works. But this is the whole different story… Hello world!
