Basic Blog Optimization

Blogs, have more optimization opportunities compared to a regular web site. As discussed earlier I expect by now you must have chosen the keywords, you want to target. According to a research done by EntireWeb, 31% of the people search using two word phrases, 25% uses three word phrases and only 19% try it with one word. Also, keep in mind the following:

1. Popular keywords will bring you untargeted traffic.

2. Do not choose keywords that you have no chance ranking for.

3. Do not choose keywords that no one looks for.

4. Do not choose a keyword that does not relate to your content.

5. Do not use words that may get your blog filtered or banned from search engines.

6. For best results, optimize one post for one keyword.

Let’s talk about a few simple yet very effective steps you should take towards optimizing your blog.

Title Tag- Undeniably, the most important aspect of blog optimization is Title Tags.

Your blog’s title tag should carry the major keywords you are targeting and should give an idea of the subject your blog is based on. Do not make it very long. Anything more than the Google’s Limit of 63 characters is superfluous. Although Yahoo displays up to 112 and MSN up to 70 characters, 63 characters would be able to cover your major keywords, and will make sure search engines display whole of your title tag.

Do not worry while using stop words like the, a, is, an- they are generally omitted by search engines, but make the title more palatable for humans.

A trick that you can use to shorten the length- Suppose the two major keywords you want to target is Blogging Strategies and Business Blogging. You can save up to 10 characters by combining them and using Business Blogging Strategies. This will be as effective as using them separately and will give you space to include another word.

As a general rule, the closer you place your keyword to the beginning of the title tag, the better the ranking advantage. However, bear in mind that we've seen fluctuations on this element from engine to engine and even from month to month. Regardless, on the whole, you can expect better results by placing your keywords first in your title tag.

Each of the post-page should carry a title tag including keywords you want to target.

Make sure to make your title tag consumable by humans... otherwise anyone would hardly click your link!

Writing Related Content- The most important part of blogging is fresh, interesting content, for both your readers and the search engines. Blog search engines sometimes display results chronologically. If you wrote about "apple iphone" half an hour ago, but someone else wrote about "apple iphone" twenty minutes ago, they get listed first in a search for "apple iphone".

So, whatever keyword you are targeting try and write good content on that keyword and its parallel ones, often.

Optimize Categories-

When you create categories for your blog, be sure to consider keywords in the titles. This will help not only search engines but also your audience to get to relevant content. So whenever you post, be sure to default to a general category that is relevant no matter what the post is about. Choose multiple categories on each post whenever appropriate.

Getting in Blog Directories-

To get registered in any directory, you should write at least one post today, at least five posts the current week, and your blog should be at least 3 months old. If this is not suitable for you, you can still get into some search engines and directories, but not all.

Personal bloggers should try to post every day at least once. Business blogs should post slightly more often than their competitors. New posts will need to be made at least three times a week for some search engines to list a blog at all.

Posting daily or more than that may not be feasible so post as often as you and your blog's audience can comfortably handle.

Social Bookmarking-

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that registered users have created and saved. Social Bookmarking sites can be excellent sources of traffic to your blog, so be sure to make it easy for readers to bookmark your blog posts.

Here are some bookmarking sites:

1. Digg
2. Del.icio.us
3. StumbleUpon
4. Reddit
5. Squidoo
6. Furl
7. BlinkList
8. Blogmarks.net
9. Ma.gnolia
10. Simpy
11. Spurl
12. BlinkBits
13. Shadows
14. Raw Sugar
15. Yahoo MyWeb

It’s important to realize that there are other factors also that can play into how successfully your blog gets indexed and how well the search engines treat it. We will discuss them in the coming posts.

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Belajar Optimasi SEO Untuk Pemula

Belajar optimasi Seo untuk pemula bertujuan untuk memberikan sedikit petunjuk bagaimana kita menggunakan optimasi seo pada blog kita. Ada beberapa cara untuk dapat mengoptimasikan blog. Diantaranya seperti Optimasi Seo pada Judul Artikel atau Optimasi seo pada keyword density atau adapula yang menggunakan Meta Tag. Terserah anda ingin memilih cara yang mana, pada dasarnya semua tehnik Optimasi SEO adalah sama yaitu menempatkan posisi Blog atau Website kita pada urutan pertama pada mesin pencari.

Bekal kita untuk dapat belajar optimasi seo ini adalah sering berlatih dan sering experimen menggunakan keyword yang umum digunakan oleh visitor/pengunjung. Untuk dapat urutan nomor satu dalam mesin pencari tidak lah mudah, namu itu dapat dilakukan dengan tehnik atau cara-cara tertentu seperti Optimasi SEO, baik itu pada judul artikel atau pada keyword density.

Mungkin nanti akan saya bahas pada lain kesempatan mengenai optimasi seo yang saya sebutkan diatas.

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Kampanye Damai Pemilu indonesia 2009

Pemilu atau Pemilihan Umum diIndonesia dijadikan bahan kontes SEO . terhitung mulai tanggal 1 februari 2009 Banyak para blogger ikut dalam kontes SEO ini. Rata-rata semua mengambil judul 'Kampaye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009'. Sebenernya sih cuma iseng-iseng mau ikutan kontes SEO. la wong saya baru dalam dunia blogger ini kok berani-beraninya ya ikutan kontes SEO ini. Ya berani lah... kan saya sudah punya blog kalo ngak ikutan buat apa blognya ini. di Indonesia sudah terkenal apabila menyelenggarakan kampanye pasti diwarni dengan tindakan2 yang urakan atau kampungan padahal kampanye itu sendiri seharusnya dilaksanakan secara damai. Semoga dengan diadakannya kontes SEO ini dapat menyadarkan rakyat indonesia betapa berharganya arti kata Damai. Mari para blogger kita dukung pemilu indonesia 2009 dengan Berkampanye Damai .

Daftar Kampaye Damai Pemilu Indonesia disini : pagung117

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Money Management Basics for Forex Traders

Money management in the foreign exchange currency market requires educating yourself in a variety of financial areas. First, a definition of the foreign exchange currency or forex market is called for. The forex market is simply the exchange of the currency of one country for the currency of another. The relative values of various currencies in the world change on a regular basis. Factors such as the stability of the economy of a country, the gross national product, the gross domestic product, inflation, interest rates, and such obvious factors as domestic security and foreign relations come into play. For instance, if a country has an unstable government, is expecting a military takeover, or is about to become involved in a war, then the country’s currency may go down in relative value compared to the currency of other countries.

There are five major forex exchange markets in the world, New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Zurich. Forex trading occurs around the clock in various markets, Asian, European, and American. With different time zones, when Asian trading stops, European trading opens, and
conversely when European trading stops, American trading opens, and when American trading stops, then it is time for Asian trading to begin again.

Most of the trading in the world occurs in the forex markets; smaller markets for trade in individual countries. Simply put forex trading is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Over $1.4 trillion dollars, US of forex trading occurs daily and sometimes fortunes are made or lost in this market. The billionaire George Soros has made most of his money in forex trading. Successfully managing your money in forex trading requires an understanding of the bid/ask spread.

Simply put the bid ask spread is the difference between the price at which something is offered for sale and the price that it is actually purchased for. For instance, if the ask price is 100 dollars, and the bid is 102 dollars then the difference is two dollars, the spread. Many forex traders trade on margin. Trading on margin is buying and selling assets that are worth more than the money in your account. Since currency exchange rates on any given day are usually less than two percent, forex trading is done with a small margin. To use an example, with a one percent margin a trader can trade up to $250,000 even if he only has $5,000 in his account. This means the trade has leverage of 50 to one. This amount of leverage allows a trader to make good profits very quickly. Of course, with the chance of high profits also comes high risk.

People who do forex trading do so because they are attracted by 24 hour trading days, by strong liquidity unlike stocks, buying and selling is almost instantaneous and the fact that forex trading usually occurs without paying commissions.

Like many other speculative investments, a key part of money management for the forex trader is only using money that can be put at risk. It is wise to set aside a portion of your net worth and make that the only money you use in forex trading. While the chances of good profits are there, if you should have a problem and get wiped out, you’ll only have a limited amount of money placed at risk.
Also remember that the market is n constant motion. There are always trading opportunities. If a currency is becoming stronger or weaker in relation to other currencies there is always a chance for profit. For instance, if you believe that the Euro is gong to become weak compared to
the US dollar then selling Euros is a good bet. If you believe that the dollar is going to become weaker than the yen, or the pound sterling, then selling dollars is wise. Staying current on the news and current events in the countries whose currency you hold is a smart move. Many people reach points where they can predict currency changes based on political or economic news in a given country. Remember though that forex trading is speculation, so be careful when managing your funds and only invest what you can afford to risk.

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Basics of SEO

Nowadays, even the smallest company uses the Internet as a main tool in building a customer base, keeping in contact with their clients and this is also their most basic means of advertising.
Designing a company web site is cheap and effective, not to mention essential because the world wide web is the only medium that offers instantaneous information access to millions of users around the globe. Any web developer worth his salt should know about search engine optimization or SEO. This is the key towards building an effective web site that would get a lot of hits and visitors. A web site that nobody visits is useless so the challenge lies in leading Internet
users to visit your web site.

Thus, your web site need to be "found" when users type in keywords in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, AOL and others. Once a keyword relating to the products or services that you offer is keyed into a search engine, a direct link to your web site should emerge on top of the list. You should employ search engine optimization techniques to lead traffic your way, and get more hits that would later on lead to more profit for your company, which is your goal in the first place.

Here are some tips on how you can make it to the top of the list of search engines, and use your SEO techniques to benefit your web site and your company:

1. If you have an existing web site and domain, just optimize the one that you currently have instead of purchasing a new domain. It will take some time before your web site will show up in a
particular search engine, like Google, so it better to use the one that you currently have instead of switching to a new one.

2. Know who your target audience is and aim for them.
If you are in the manufacturing industry and a user types in your product in a search engine, then you would immediately have your target right in front of you. As soon as the user hits the Enter button or clicks on 'Search', then the person will be lead to your web site. Make sure that your target market will get 'hooked' on your web site. Once the search engines show the link to your web site, their job is done. What you should do next is to make sure that your visitor will not leave your web site without them trying out your products or services, or at least leaving some pertinent information so that you can contact them in the future for marketing and advertising purposes. When hitting a particular target market, learn about their interests, location and age to have an idea of what you can offer them in return. Also, you can somehow link their interests to your products and services.

3. Search for the right keyword.
You should be creative, persistent and flexible when looking for the keyword or keyword phrases to use in optimizing your web site. Google and Yahoo offer some tools and tips on how you can
come up with keywords that will yield results. Do not settle for just one keyword. You can also vary the words and phrases that you use for each page on your web site so that you can have more hits.

4. Consider your target market when designing your web site.
The design itself would include the general theme of the web site. You should also pay attention to smaller details such as color and font style and size. Make sure that the web site is user-friendly and do not forget to insert helpful articles, tips, hints and related links that can be shared to other users. It is a good thing to have an option to send a link or an article to a friend, which will add more users and increase your client base. There should also be various ways to browse through your web site, to fit each user. A person might find it to difficult use the scroll down option so you should also provide hyperlinks which are accessible to them.

5. Concentrate on the web site content.
Regularly update the content of your web site so that old and new users can find something new when browsing through your site. Make the content brief and precise. Writing a content which has more than 600 words will make the users lose interest, since most of them do not actually read but just skim through the text. Strive to be the best and most comprehensive web site and
you will make your mark when it comes to information about the products and services that you offer. It helps a lot to pay attention to detail, too. Finally, keeping your web site's content updated is a must. Spread the word about your web site and use the basic search engine optimization techniques and you will surely gain positive results once users visit your web site.

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Making Bucks With Blogs

Making Bucks With Blogs Writing blogs isn’t exactly effortless, but it is something a lot of people do for fun and because they’re updated regularly, Google loves them. If you’re going to write a blog anyway, then you should certainly be making money out of it.

The biggest challenge when writing a blog is getting ads that give you good revenues. Because your entries are going to be talking about all sorts of different things, there’s a chance that you’re going to get ads on all sorts of random topics.

That’s fine, unless your ads are barely giving you enough revenue to pay for the blog.

If you find that you’re getting lots of ads related to “blogs” for example, instead of what you’re blogging about, you can try changing the meta name in your template. Delete the <$Metainfodata$> tag and replace i t with your ow n keywords and description:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow ">
<meta name="keyword s" Content="You r keyw ords ">
<meta name="description" Content= "Keyword-rich description" >

Make sure that your blog h as plenty of keywords and use lots of headlines containing key phrases, repeating them throughout the blog. Above all though, make sure that your blog has plenty of text. It might be fun to stuff your pages with pictures of friends, family and pets but Google can’t read them and you’ll end up with public service ads instead of revenue.

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Online Money Making

There are so many money making programs available in the Internet. But there also too many online scams are out there in the Internet, who steel both money and time of the people. This makes people to think that, online money making is a mere fake and it is only for persons who are scamming the web. But the real truth is one can really earn from the online resources. Here we are going to learn about some popular ways and some which is really helping people to earn money using their computer and the Internet. The following are the most popular ways for the people to earn online.

• Online Surveys
• Data Entry programs
• Undertaking online projects
• Medical Transcription Online
• Form Filling
• Forex Trading
• Website Content Writing
• Few good programs paying for clicking ads and surfing websites
• Online Photo Editing
• Product Reselling
• Advertising Revenue
• Selling on Ebay

Learn further how to use these programs for your prospective earnings.

Online Surveys :
Being a potential consumer or a person interested in a particular field of expertise, Companies producing consumer products and services respects your opinion and are willing to pay you for the time you are spending in answering their questions about the things you know and you are familiar with the product or services they are offering. It takes only a few moments for one to answer those surveys and as a result they will earn a considerable amount for taking part by providing useful feedback or thoughts.

Data Entry Programs :
There are some Data Entry Programs Which are in need of well versed professional typists and data processors. The jobs may be to convert data in the form of image files into documents, writing ad formats, etc. What you need is a more than decent typing speed, errorless typing and creative data presenting techniques. You should be person who is willing to hard work to undertake such a kind of a job. But it can provide you a decent income.

Undertaking online projects :
You may also join a program for online freelancers where the employers or job buyers providing the job with its unique specification, and normally as a job seller or freelancer you have to bid along with others for the projects which are related to your field of expertise. Most probably the availability of the projects is depending upon the reasonable or for the lower bid amount and the previous project handling record of a freelancer. The websites who are being the mediator between the job buyer and the seller will transfer money and the projects safely with a certain percentage of fee.

Medical Transcription :
Medical Transcription is also a genuine and legitimate program for a person to work from home online. But you need training to learn medical transcription. There are some websites offering programs for Medical Transcription along with training. The nature of the job is to convert medical prescription or Billing or case study reports in the form of audio to written or typed statements. For which you need a high or adequate speed Internet connection and Tons of concentration and willingness to work for hours and hours. Like Online Data Entry, this is also a hardworking field.

Online Form Filling :
There are in certain fields of work such as insurance, people need to fill up long registration or application forms. For persons who are not having the time to fill up data into various fields of forms, one can assist and such jobs are available online through a mediator network. The job is very simple, but your earnings differ from network to network depending upon the nature of the forms.

Forex Trading :
Foreign Exchange Trading popularly known as Forex Trading is mostly an investment scheme rather than an online job. This is a process of bidding your money over a foreign currency's economical increase in value against another one. You need to consistently monitor the growth in economical prospect of currencies of different countries to do forex trading successfully. But your returns are great.

Website Content Writing :
For a person who has excellent grammatical skills and who can write keyword rich high content articles to be republished in web pages, there are so many good opportunities in the Internet to earn. That is, here your thoughts and your knowledge will be converted into money. There are so many websites available there to buy your content.

Get paid to Click and Surf :
There are some programs available which provides you money to click ads and to surf(view) web pages. Most of the programs are hardly paying, but there are some legitimate ones too. Webmasters around the world are looking to drive traffic to their sites. Potential customers for their products are available through bringing visitors to their websites. Thus they pay to view their websites.

Online Photo Editing :
If you are expertise in photo editing, image designing, adding graphics, and other multimedia designing, then you can look for Photo editing jobs. Creative presentation, and huge knowledge over images, files types and colour combination is required to achieve success.

Product Reselling :
You can resell free and bought products in online malls and shopping centers to earn a considerable monthly income every month. You can also buy Emini malls from various shopping websites to sell their products with your traffic and can earn a percentage of commission for each sale.

Advertising revenue :
You need a website to do this. There are so many free hosting companies affording hosting for your websites you may use them. You need to buy a domain name for your web site and to provide REAL USEFUL CONTENT in your web pages and then you can earn by placing context-sensitive advertisements in your web site Of coarse, it requires a lot of skill in web-designing, code editing, and web promoting. But this will give you a stable and long going earning from your web site

Selling on Ebay :
Ebay is an online market place which has millions and millions of visitors everyday. Number of people selling and buying things every day. The things which you think useless for you might be precious for somebody out there. According to the ebay users, there was a buyer for every thing there. Collecting things at a cheap rate and selling or selling your own ebooks, free give-aways will make you earn a brilliant amount every month.

One should also have to use common sense and should be aware of online scams to succeed online.

* Good Luck *

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