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Backlink Quality; How Much are you Getting?

manchingjp — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:34:47 +0000

Apologies for being too late with my new update, I have been very busy with my job as a part of an SEO group doing new extensive projects that requires a hell lot of work!

For today, I want to discuss about the quality of links that we are getting and are about to get. Backlink building doesn’t end up in just getting a backlink from the site. We should also look at the quality of the links that we are getting. If you notice, there are websites that rarely updates, and too few backlinks yet they get a good PR and traffic. This is because the quality of the backlinks that they are getting is high.

I will share this lesson that I heard from as SEO webinar that I attended which targeted the quality of links.

Content Inlinks – HIGH quality – Articles/contents that attracts links from other site or referring the article. Anchor or mentions from other articles.

Link Trades – MODERATE – Partnerships, Link Exchanges (blogroll to blogroll)

Paid Links – LOW – Links on the sidebars or blogrolls. This can be high if related to site but can be devalued or penalized if not.

Link Reclamation – HIGH – If link source finds broken links, it re-points to active and valuable pages.

If you have something to add or questions to ask, feel free to put it in the comment section below. Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more

Branding Effectively (an Update of my Previous Post)

manchingjp — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:16:09 +0000

In my previous post “A Simple Tip for Choosing a Domain Name“, I mentioned ways on how to choose a domain name. I actually forgot to mention Branding, in which this tip is not applicable in some ways.

A comment from Lee Ka Hoong of MyBlog2Day opened this topic which I am really thankful because it’s an additional helpful information that I should mention on that post. Well, it’s not too late for an update right? (lol)

Here is goes…

Using a keyword on your domain is good if you want to target specific audience or a larger traffic from people with the interest of the niche that you are blogging about.

But if you want to brand your blog, like what Lee said, it’s better to use unique domain names. Branding, simply making you popular from that word. Example, you are popular when it comes to health tips from a domain name www.dailyfreshies.com. You are not using the keyword that relates to the health niche but you are popular when it comes to health or any related topics when it comes to health.

There are popular bloggers who use the “Branding” strategy like Yaro Starak and John Chow.

When it comes to traffic and SEO, you don’t have to worry that you will not get the amount of traffic that you’ve been wanting. Like what every bloggers say, patience, eventually you’ll get known with that niche and you’ll get the traffic maybe doubled from a keyword domain name

And don’t forget to check out Lee’s article of “5 Ways To Build Your Brand Effectively”

Here’s a glimpse of his article: Blogging becomes very famous and popular on the web, number of blog used to be increased everyday and there is thousands or million blogs on the blogopshere.

A Simple Tip for Choosing a Domain Name

manchingjp — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:45:57 +0000

I remember last year when I was planning for my blog, choosing a domain name really sucks up time that you have to spend a day or two to think whats the best for my blog. It’s not easy to choose and think a domain name, almost all of the words that you can think of is already been used.

Follow these simple tips that will help you choose the right word/s for your domain:

Like what Alan Mater told me before, when you choose a domain name it’s better to include the keyword that you want to be ranking for. The reason for this is that this is SEO friendly, and being SEO friendly blog or website is what every blogger wants.

Example: www.resortspasalon.com – people who will search resort, spa or salon will find your site easily since the domain name that you are using is the keyword that you want to be ranking for.

Be general when choosing the domain name. It’s better not be particular with the domain as this will also affect the articles and topics that you are going to write.

Example: your domain name is www.abcdefg-phones.com – your audience will be limited with the fans of that phone only, in other words, limited traffic. So why not use www.phoneaddictcentral.com – this will help you not to get stuck when you ran out of phones to write a review since you are not talking about 1 brand of phone only, meaning, larger traffic.

Read this article for more information: Think Before You Stuck-Up

So do you have anything to add to help other readers understand or learn more? Feel free to share and comment below.

Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more

Make Money Online Tips from the Best Sources

manchingjp — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:16:30 +0000

Making money online is getting popular nowadays. It plays around the ears of many when they know they can make even more money while staying at home, but it doesn’t mean making money online is easy knowing that you are staying at home only.

Blogging, online jobs, Internet Marketing, those are the most popular online money maker but it’s not blogging alone, or online jobs alone and limiting yourself with it will help you make money online. There are some things that needs to be done first before you can make money with it.

Check out these sources, they can help you make even more money online.

Things You MUST Do To Make Money Online – by Alan Mater. Read this article before starting off on making money online.

Here’s a glimpse of his article: “Going off from what I wrote yesterday about why you will never make money online, I thought I’d provide some advice on what you can do to ensure that you DO make money online.“

5 Ways to Make Money through Online Jobs – by Toan Nguyen Minh. A young blogger who makes good money online.

Here’s a glimpse of his article: “Technological advancements and plenty of opportunities lurking around on the internet for grabs have made out a rush of people who are willing to sit at their systems and try their hand in making money online.“

So what do you think? Do you have more sources to add? feel free to comment and put some links of important sources.

Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more

How to be a Helpful Commentator

manchingjp — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:08:38 +0000

Commenting is not just leaving a simple statement saying “Hi” or “Nice article, thanks”. To tell you that’s not a comment and it’s not helping at all, you are a spammer (lol). From the word itself “Comment” – A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.

There are lots of ways on how to be a good commentator and earn that respect from blogs that you are commenting, and in return you might be linked by the author or mention you in one of his articles. These tips are common but in case you forgot, it’ll remind you

1.) Watch out the end part of the article, there might be a question of what type of comment the author wants – maybe a statement telling them they have potential, or grammar, and or maybe advices.

2.) Do not criticize the writer if you found faulty statements or grammars, instead, give them advices and tips on how to correct and make it right to perfection . Give suggestion that you think might help the writer improve the writing skill.

3.) Suggest links of references that can help them or can give both additional and new information for his article. And make sure to be relevant as I always say.

4.) Don’t be too boastful because you once suck too, we all sucked too. Do not think that your comment is needed by that blogger unless the writers asked you to, there are more than perfect commentators out there and you better watch out or else you’ll get bombed.

Comments are very important in this kind of business, criticisms are the most source of perfected mistakes but it doesn’t have to be rude sometimes being polite gives more help.

Anything to add? please feel free to comment and give me more suggestions and advices.

Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more

Work at Home Limits and Boundaries

manchingjp — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:55:11 +0000

There are too many challenges when working at home. Maybe others can say working outside home has more advantage but to tell you it’s just a little, just a slight advantage.

Working outside home can be more productive – Yes it’s true, but do you think working at home can’t be productive as that? or maybe more productive than working outside? That’s why descipline existed in this world.

Setup

Having limits and boundaries can lead to more productivity and happy lifestyle . If you talk to people online while working there is a small chance that you can finish the article that you are working on. You have to put limits on it no matter how hurting it is not to talk to people online (lol), work is work.

The Time Frame

No matter how good you setup your limitations are boundaries if you don’t stick with it, it’ll never be effective.

No work related stuff on personal time. Set aside you work emails, IM’s or phone calls, or whatever that has nothing to do with your personal life. And, No personal stuff on working time. Turn off personal networks, games, and chores when it’s time to work.

So what do you think? Is there anything that you want to add? I would love to hear them.

Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more

Long-term Keywords and Short-Term Keywords

manchingjp — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:59:39 +0000

Choosing the right keyword for a blog is one of the most crucial part. Keywords target audience and in order to get more traffic we should use the keyword that people are going to search in the search engines, or in other words a shortcut of invitation to our blog.

Now, lets focus on these two types of keywords. Either of these keywords are good to use if you handle them right and you have the priority for each.

Long-term Keywords

“Long-term” – from the word itself, this type of keyword can be used for a long time, to the extent that they don’t expire. Keywords like this is popular in business websites or marketing as it focuses on one subject.

Let’s say “make money online” or “work from home”, this kind of keywords never gets popular for a day only, it’s an ever growing popular keyword that is running the internet today and in the future. And as it grows even more popular day by day, traffic of blogs with this focus increases gradually.

Short-term Keywords

“Short-term” – as it implies, this keywords only gets popular for a short period of time, and it only gets popular of you have the priority depending on how long Google indexes your new updates. Most blogs and websites that use short-term keywords are entertainment and personal.

Example: A popular singer and celebrity has a new concert, you used the keyword “xxx concert live”, during the period of time before the concert begins this keyword will take it’s spot on the search engine result pages but when the concert ends, the hotness of this keyword also declines because the trend of focus has gone.

So, do you have something to add up or maybe correct me if I’m wrong? Everything is appreciated, just put a comment below

Thanks for reading and keep coming back for more.