Wednesday 29 June 2011
Basics of SEO
If you improve the visibility of your site, you need to consider SEO or search engine optimization. The concept of search engine optimization is very simple and can be performed by each user a basic knowledge of computers and the Internet. If you need your site for the various search engines optimization, you first the basics know.
Basics of search engine optimization
Get more tutorials on the Internet that explains clearly the process of optimizing your website for the various search engines. Before you think of optimizing your website for you, you must know what they are and how they work. It is basically a website that helps to find information from other sites. In a sense, it is linked to other websites.
Nowadays many people are using the Internet, search for objects. If you are in the online business, you must ensure that your Web site on the first page of search results is displayed. This is no easy task, and includes multiple systematic procedures. It ensures that your site is among the top search results. Although the process for the search engine optimization site is simple, you need to have the services of a professional SEO company.
Looking for a good search engine optimization company is very simple, can be a bit too difficult to find a professional company. To see the lucrative career in the domain, there are many small time businesses that claim to be the professionals. If you want to optimize your website for them, you need as owner of of a business, to make a conscious decision. Online marketing and online sales has reached its high point, and if you're not in it, you are certainly not on good opportunities.
Search engine optimization company would offer not only your SEO services, but they would you also good online marketing services. They are offered generally a complete package of SEO companies. If you live in Melbourne, we recommend that you local SEO Melbourne set services. Today are many SEO services in countries such as India and China will be outsourced. If you have all communication channels, you can certainly choose outsource the SEO services in these countries. The Internet has several thousands and thousands of Web pages.
Find information from this site has become very easy these days thanks to the search engines. More and more people use them to promotional campaigns, offers and discounts look. It is important that methods locate you the couple of spread are know. There was their buyer come closer to the power to the seller.
As a business owner, you must ensure that you missed all the buyer does not, have a need for your products or services. The Internet has opened the world of possibilities, people. We have these opportunities to make.
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3 Great strides to expand of your business through SEO
Search engine optimization or SEO, is one of the largest and most important fads to hit the twenty-first century. It is easy to take the wrong path if you try to make your website search engine friendly. Payment for a tutorial or a Webinar or VIP lessons or etc., etc., is, how many people get the wrong information and unfortunately lose much of its budget. There are many ways to SEO properly implement, but I'll cover in this article. For starters, you can rent a company optimize your Web pages for better search results. I will talk about this option, because it's pretty cut and dry, just do your homework on (insert company here) before you decide, a part with your hard-earned money.
The second method is how to do it yourself, properly, and learn how to do it properly, to lessons learning without purchase in this gehypten. Not short sell, because you don't know, how, you have the correct information, or you are afraid, or because you realize the benefits of not. Copy me on this: proper SEO is a must have for any functioning website.
Once you realize how easy this information is to learn and implement into your website, will melt your fears and frustrations like dew on a summer morning. There are three reasons that be useful, why you should learn this information itself.
1: Spend less money!
I understand that you would be willing to pay someone, the "how to do it better white", but I trust, it is something that everyone can learn. We look at the cost of hiring someone to do your SEO. From my own personal searches I've seen, packets between $159 up to and including $999. What are these packages you offer? Link building! That was it! Link is technically not even SEO building, although it plays a small part.
2: A skill learned is a skill used
Once you know the specifics of SEO, you are on your site at any time to stay. You will know, when you bring something is not so much traffic, as it could, and you will not rely on another word.
3: A skill paid for a skill is used
This last reason does not apply to all, but keep in mind, if you know how SEO implemented correctly, you may be able to your services extend support to SEO. SEO is a skill like any other. They may offer quality service, someone like you now, and leaders, which these sheep to pastures and way of the fraud wolves from the Internet back.
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Tuesday 14 June 2011
Writing to Attract, Retain and Engage
The written word is a powerful thing.
Used responsibly, it can educate people about the possibilities that they face, inspire them to improve their circumstances, and empower them to take the necessary actions.
Used irresponsibly, it can cheat and manipulate.
And used badly, it’s just dull, boring, and pedantic.
Which do you want your writing to be?
I’m going to guess that we’re on the same page about wanting our writing to be educational, inspiring and empowering—is that a fair assumption?
There are three main functions of good writing in the context of blogging and copywriting, and those are to attract a reader, to retain that reader, and most importantly, to engage that reader. Let’s explore all three.
The first thing that you need to do is grab someone’s attention, and you do that by making your writing sexy. I don’t mean sexy in the “appealing to sex” sense of the word (though that certainly works, as in the case of Stacey Herbert’s 5 Things You Should Do To Lose Your Blogging Virginity Like a Slut or Demian Farnworth’s Dirty Little Secret to Seducing Your Readers).
No, I mean sexy as in excitingly appealing; something that just grabs the reader’s attention. You do this by appealing to a core human drive, which is one of the following:
Drive to acquire: This is about wanting more money, more stuff, and more power. Some examples of content targeting this drive include 18 Months, 2 Blogs, Six Figures and The Skinny on Ways to Fatten Your Wallet Doing Business Online.Drive to bond: This is about the need to feel loved and to be connected. The Core of Self-Love and How To Refresh Your Passion For Your Online Business both appeal to the drive to bond, as do the examples about sex that I mentioned above.Drive to learn: This is about curiosity, and wanting to know how things work, and what happens next. A couple of examples of posts targeting this drive are Things You Can Learn about Marketing while Sunbathing and The Difference Between Engaged and Engaging.Drive to defend: This is about our need to feel safe, secure, and protected from risk and misfortune. Posts that target this drive include Business Failure or Strategic Relocation?: It’s Your Call and What 48 Stitches Taught Me About Change.Drive to feel: This is about wanting exciting and fulfilling experiences. Posts targeting this drive include Live Each Day Like It Is Your Last and How To Live A Lottery Lifestyle, and sex can be found here as well.You’ll notice that the sexiest part of the post is the headline—because that is the part that draws people in. You’ll also notice that it’s possible to target several drives with the same headline!
Of course, the selection of which drive to target isn’t random—it’s a function of figuring out who your audience is, and then identifying what their most burning desires and drives are.
Getting attention is great, but it’s just the beginning. Once you’ve attracted readers to your content, you’ve got to retain it. There are two ways to do this: you can be useful, or you can be entertaining. Ideally, you should do both.
You make content useful with language, because language is basically the “packaging” that you use to deliver your ideas to the reader. Putting your ideas in a simple bulleted list is one way of doing the packaging, and imparting the information as a story is quite another. One way allows the reader to skim and skip over your content, whereas the other can get them to read, think about, and engage with your information.
Don’t get me wrong—you’ve got to have useful information in there, too. If you’ve got nothing useful to offer—whether it’s an insight, a strategy, a process, or a tool – then no matter how much you “dress it up”, it still won’t have much value. But assuming you do have some good information to share, it’s often the packaging that makes it truly valuable to the reader.
Rather than speaking in generalities, here is the formula that I use to package my own information in guest posts (I try to start each section with a heading):
Start with a hook. The first thing you need to do is grab the reader’s attention. Start with a short sentence that will pique curiosity, and then build it into an opening that will make people want to keep reading. You can do this by telling a story (they keep reading to see how it ends), by painting a picture of an outcome (they keep reading to learn how you got there), or by being confrontational (they keep reading because they disagree). Keep your paragraphs short, and make sure to hook their attention before the tag.Pivot to the problem. First thing after the tag, pivot from your hook, which might only be related to your post’s core concept as an illustrative example, to the problem that lies at the heart of the matter. Explain the problem—what are the symptoms, and what are the outcomes?Explain the cause. Next, explain the underlying logic behind the problem—what is causing it, and why do people do things that way? What are the mistaken assumptions that are leading that to happen?Share the solution. Having uncovered the mistaken assumptions, and core processes that are causing the problem, you can now share the solution. By now, people should be super-eager to read it!Call to action. Don’t end the post without pivoting back to the reader, and their own situation. Ask a question about their experience as it relates to your post. Try to make it a question that is easy to answer—my first post on Copyblogger got tons of comments (208 at last count), mostly because I asked people about their favorite business books, and everyone has one to share!No joke—I follow this formula 80% of the time when I write, and it works like a charm; my guest posts are consistently commented and shared, and I’ve had repeat appearances on many of the larger blogs that I post for (this is my fourth appearance on ProBlogger).
I want this to be super-concrete, so here are five examples of guest posts that I’ve written following this formula. If you really want to get a sense of how it works, try printing them out and then noting the sections:
Desperate Housewives on Writing, Storytelling, and Selling on Big Girl BrandingSteak or Peanut Butter—How to Land Authority Blogs on E-JunkieWrite From The Heart: Does Authenticity Really Work? on Write Speak SellThe Viral Content Formula That Could Double Your Readership on Think TrafficHow to Chain an Elephant: Breaking the Shackles We’ve Placed on Ourselves on Steve Scott’s site.If you’ve attracted and retained an audience, then you’re definitely on the right track. But let’s face it: the real sign of a successful blog isn’t just traffic—it’s comments and subscribers. Both of these things require that your audience not just like what you’re doing, but engage with it.
So how do you get people to engage?
This is where the science becomes more of an art, and sometimes the best art is created by breaking the rules. I was recently berated about a grammatical error by a commenter who argued that “grammatical accuracy is a prime need when we claim to be authentic writers”.
I disagreed—the line in question, while technically grammatically incorrect, mirrored normal conversational speech patterns, and I don’t think there would have been any confusion in the mind of my readers.
And that is my advice to you: to engage your readers, write as though you were talking.
Here’s how to do it. When you sit down to write, imagine your target reader sitting across the table from you, in rapt attention. Then write exactly what you would say to them. Edit out the “ums” and “aahs”, and make yourself just a little more eloquent than you might otherwise be, but other than that your writing should read like a conversation.
Since I’m a big fan of examples, let’s start with some of my favorite authors: pick up books by Malcolm Gladwell, A.J. Jacobs, and Patrick Lencioni—these are authors whose writing carries you through, even if it’s a whole book about reading the encyclopedia!
Read and enjoy their books, but pay attention to their styles.
Another great place to look for inspiration and lessons is the dialogue of your favorite TV shows. I particularly like the West Wing and Gilmore Girls for this – the dialogue is witty and clever, and does a great job of simplifying and communicating complex ideas. Watch the shows, pick your favorite characters, and try to imagine how they would explain whatever it is that you want to write about.
Okay, I think that about covers it—we’ve talked about how to attract the attention of your audience, how to retain them as loyal readers, and how to engage them in a conversation that will grow your audience in size and profitability.
So, what do you think? What part of the attraction, retention, and engagement triad do you find most challenging? Do you have a favorite trick for doing them?
Danny Iny is an author, strategist, serial entrepreneur, and proud co-founder of Firepole Marketing, the definitive marketing training program for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-marketers. Visit his site today for a free cheat sheet about Why Guru Strategies for Blog Growth DON’T WORK… and What Does!, or follow him on Twitter @DannyIny.
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Blogging at Home? Fight Lethargy With a Solid Morning Routine
This guest post is by Chris Martucci of WhatBlag.com.
For those of you who work from home, lethargy can be your greatest adversary. It’s not always easy to get your head in the game when you’re sitting on your couch in your tighty-whities eating a bowl of Fruity Pebbles. But don’t be so quick to blame the Fruity Pebbles—Fruity Pebbles are delicious. The problem is something psychologists call Languid Attire Syndrome.
Copyright Andres Rodriguez - Fotolia.comAll right, I made that up. Jokes aside, the truth is that I can’t find any good research on the positive effects of wearing business attire (please let me know in the comments if you can hunt down some relevant studies). What I can give you is my own personal experience.
I recently graduated from college where I studied, among other things, pre-law. I currently spend most of my time writing for my blog and preparing for my Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). As you may have guessed, and you would be correct, I do all of this from the comfort of my home.
Sometimes, a little too comfortably.
I found that it was difficult to roll out of bed, flip on the tube, and hammer out some advanced linear logic games. So here’s my new and improved morning routine:
Get up around 9am, grab my Macbook and scan RSS feeds. Send intriguing articles to Instapaper for later reading.Brew my morning coffee. Start making breakfast.Hit the gym for at least one hourShower around noon and get dressed—that means button-up shirt, tucked in to jeans, sleeves rolled up, optional tie (half-Windsor).Sit at my enormous desk, and turn on some classical music: it’s business time.Now of course, you must find a morning routine that works for you. What’s important is that you develop a routine and make it a habit. The same way that hitting the pillow signals to your brain that it’s time to go to sleep, making a habit of getting dressed in the morning, even when you’ve got no where to go, signals to your brain that it’s time to get serious.
I heard a story of a man who would get up every morning, put on a suit and tie, leave the house, get in his car, drive around the block, and come back home to “work.” When his day’s work was completed, he would pack up his things, get back in his car, drive around the block once again, and return “home.” Perhaps this is an extreme example of breaking up the day between work and play, however, it is not entirely absurd. Assuming that this man actually exists, he has found a routine that works well for his needs.
So try this. Get out a pad and paper and dash off a morning routine for yourself. Specify times for each task and stick to them as best you can.
Don’t overburden yourself—start small, otherwise you may never make a habit of such a daunting schedule. My routine consists merely of waking up, eating breakfast, going to the gym, and taking a shower. Easy stuff, but it makes all the difference. Oh, and it’s marvelously rewarding by the end of the day when I get to loosen my tie, unbutton my collar, kick back, and relax.
Fruity Pebbles, here I come.
Chris Martucci is the creator of WhatBlag.com, a weblog dedicated to the liberal arts, technology, and organization. He currently lives in Saint Augustine, Florida, where he recently graduated from college.
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Sunday 22 May 2011
Tips On How To Make Atleast $80 Blogging Daily
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