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Basically, just plug in your text and translate it a few times. For example, your pattern could go something like English -&#62; Spanish -&#62; French -&#62; Russian -&#62; German -&#62; English. At the end of this chain, you’ll get a whole new article with some nice synonyms and different phrases used. Just make sure to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Basically, just plug in your text and translate it a few times. For example, your pattern could go something like English -&gt; Spanish -&gt; French -&gt; Russian -&gt; German -&gt; English. At the end of this chain, you’ll get a whole new article with some nice synonyms and different phrases used. Just make sure to proofread the article, or else “One day, Roberto the Magician decided to pull a rabbit out of his magical hat at a birthday party.” can turn into “One day, Roberto, a magician decided to send a rabbit from his hat magic child to a birthday celebration.”</p>
<p>Every new combination results in a whole new article, and it shouldn’t be too hard to whip up a script that does this automatically due to Google’s lack of a captcha, creating a simple way to spin out hundreds of different and often nonsensical articles.</p>
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		<title>11 Simple Ways to pull traffic to your website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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11 Simple Ways to pull traffic to your website. 
1. Your Content should always be unique.
3. Comment on blogs with relative content as much as you can, it build up backlinks. Make sure you don&#8217;t spam around.
4. Try to get backlinks from websites with higher PR, Trackbacks can also be extremely good for SEO.
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<p>11 Simple Ways to pull traffic to your website. </p>
<p>1. Your Content should always be unique.</p>
<p>3. Comment on blogs with relative content as much as you can, it build up backlinks. Make sure you don&#8217;t spam around.</p>
<p>4. Try to get backlinks from websites with higher PR, Trackbacks can also be extremely good for SEO.</p>
<p>5. Write quality articles and publish them on sites like ezine, Article base, Digg etc, It can help creating inbound links.</p>
<p>6. Try to get listed on web directories like yahoo, dmoz.</p>
<p>7. Add some links for RSS feeds reader and blog owners like Google Reader, BlogLines and Yahoo MyWeb.</p>
<p>8. Add social bookmarking links at the bottom of each post.</p>
<p>9. Make it easier for your blog readers to find your RSS feeds. I would Suggest to put a RSS image in a corner like here on my <a href="../">website</a>.</p>
<p>10. If your articles are really good, Try emailing them to big-name bloggers with a short message, They might like it and give you a backlink.<a href="../"><br />
</a></p>
<p>11. Submit your RSS feeds to ass many as possible RSS directories,  Blog readers may subscribe it and you can get a lot of backlinks.</p>
<p>12. Yahoo Answers is one of the best way to build backlinks, search for your niche over there and answer as many questions you can put your website link in source, this helps in gaining backlinks, Many web owners use this way to get traffic.</p>
<p>Rishabh Sood - TheSEOGalaxy.Com</p>
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		<title>The Role of Outbound Link</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outbound links play a critical role in your overall linking strategy. This runs counter to the philosophy that used be popular in the industry, that of hoarding PageRank. You do read less about the notion of hoarding PageRank these days than you used to, but I still think that many publishers do not fully understand [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outbound links play a critical role in your overall linking strategy. This runs counter to the philosophy that used be popular in the industry, that of hoarding PageRank. You do read less about the notion of hoarding PageRank these days than you used to, but I still think that many publishers do not fully understand why outbound links are important.</p>
<p><strong>Understand Your Target</strong></p>
<p>It all comes down to what you need to do to receive authoritative links. You have to get inside the head of the person who is going to make the decision about linking to you or not. If you don&#8217;t understand their mindset, your chances of success go down dramatically. Remember that these people are going to the sole judge and jury in terms of deciding whether or not to give you a link.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/judge.jpg" alt="judge The Role of Outbound Link"  title="The Role of Outbound Link" /></p>
<p>For example, someone that works at MIT lives and breathes an academic environment. Here are three quick facts about that environment:</p>
<ol>
<li>There is a lot of cutting edge research taking place there.</li>
<li>People are voraciously reading the latest research papers published by others.</li>
<li>They aggressively credit the sources they use (citation is required).</li>
</ol>
<p>Imagine when that person comes to your site and sees nothing new under the sun in terms of content and no outbound links. It just does not feel or look right to them.</p>
<p>As a brief aside, earlier this week I reviewed a web site that had been heavily over-optimized. For example, it had links that had been crudely stuffed into the home page and pointed to lower level pages that added no real value. They were there purely for the purpose of linking to a page with anchor text that corresponded to a key search term.</p>
<p>When people go off the deep end with SEO, you end up with sites that don&#8217;t even read correctly. An end user who did not know about SEO who read such a site would literally be scratching their head when they see the site. This certainly lowers the ability of the site to close business. In addition, such an over-optimized site has no chance of getting links from an authoritative site. None.<br />
<strong>Your Targets</strong></p>
<p>This phenomenon is not limited to the academic world. You will encounter the same conditions at government sites, or amongst people at major media sites, such as the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">NY times</a>. The nature and depth of the types of research may be different, but the idea of citing sources and looking for high quality content to link to remains the same.</p>
<p>You can extend this notion further. Any time you look at a site and see that they have gone to the trouble of creating authoritative content (and cite other sources as well), you know you have someone that is going to expect similar behavior from any site they would consider linking to.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of a club, really. Once you become a recognized authority in a field, you are a part of the club. Along with other authoritative sources in the same and closely related fields, you will start to get links flowing without a tremendous amount of effort.</p>
<p>Publishers of authoritative sites almost always care about their users. They spend time thinking about increasing content quality and adding new content to their site. They are not afraid that when they link to someone else, they will lose traffic that will convert into business for them. They know that the links they send to others will mostly be used by people that are not finding on their site what they are looking for (so there really is very little to lose).</p>
<p><strong><br />
Picking Sites to Link To</strong></p>
<p>The first thing that needs to happen is that you have to have the authoritative mindset. As outlined above, this means that you embark on a deliberate campaign to achieve a status of being an authority in your field, and demonstrating that authority in what you publish. This includes building relationships with other authorities in the field.</p>
<p>As you are researching on the web to learn the things you need to become an expert, make note of the sites that help you the most, in particular those that are not your most direct competition. Cite these sites as sources along the way. Your visitors will appreciate your site more, and you will make a much more attractive target for other authority sites to link to.</p>
<p><a href="www.seomoz.org/blog/the-role-of-outbound-links -" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
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		<title>Part of Directories in Link Building.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directories can provide a rapid way to get new links to a site. Opinions on how to approach this range from submitting to every directory in site, to being highly selective. This post will discuss what&#8217;s happening under the covers to provide some perspective on how you might choose to approach it.
The Basics - Yahoo
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Directories can provide a rapid way to get new links to a site. Opinions on how to approach this range from submitting to every directory in site, to being highly selective. This post will discuss what&#8217;s happening under the covers to provide some perspective on how you might choose to approach it.<br />
<strong>The Basics - Yahoo</strong></p>
<p>The key things that search engines look for in determining whether a directory will pass link juice are pretty basic.  They are:</p>
<ol>
<li>A submission policy that states that you are paying for an editor to review your listing, not to get a listing. The key subtlety here is that they can review your proposed listing and decide that they don&#8217;t like it, and then keep your money without listing you. The importance of this is that it means that there is real editorial judgment implied by the policy.</li>
<li>Evidence that the policy is enforced.</li>
</ol>
<p>Ultimately, &#8220;Anything for a buck&#8221; directories do not enforce editorial judgment, and therefore the listings do not convey value to the search engines.</p>
<p>To take a closer look at this, let&#8217;s examine some of the key statements from Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/terms">directory submission terms</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>For web sites that do not feature adult content or services, the Yahoo! Directory Submit service costs US$299 (nonrefundable) for each Directory listing that is submitted.</p>
<p>I understand that there is no guarantee my site will be added to the Yahoo! Directory.</p>
<p>I understand that Yahoo! reserves the right to edit my suggestion and category placement; movement or removal of my site will be done at Yahoo!&#8217;s sole discretion.</p></blockquote>
<p>The key thing to understand here is that you pay your money, and you have no guarantee of getting a listing at all, and your listing can be changed at will by Yahoo&#8217;s editors. You can pay your $299 and receive essentially nothing in return for it. From a legal perspective, what you pay for is the review by Yahoo&#8217;s editors.</p>
<p>Now here is the key point that you won&#8217;t find in print on Yahoo&#8217;s page. Google trusts Yahoo&#8217;s editors, and Google believes that Yahoo does in fact attempt to turn away all the poor quality sites that get submitted to it.</p>
<p>Of course, mistakes do happen. Sometimes relatively poor quality sites do get in when they should not. That&#8217;s a shame when that does happen, but in general, the editorial policies are real and enforced.<br />
<strong>Other Directories</strong></p>
<p>Do search engines respect other directories? Yes, they do. Here is a small sampling of some that we believe do pass link juice, courtesy of <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/users/pro/guides/#">The Professional&#8217;s Guide to Link Building on SEOmoz</a> (within the <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/gopro">PRO Content</a> section):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/add.html" target="_blank">DMOZ</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stpt.com/directory/addsite.htm" target="_blank">Starting Point</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.business.com/info/advertisewithus.asp" target="_blank">Business.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.exactseek.com/add.html" target="_blank">ExactSeek</a></li>
<li><a href="http://botw.org/helpcenter/submitcommercial.aspx" target="_blank">Best of The Web</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lii.org/cs/lii/create/todo" target="_blank">Librarians&#8217; Internet Index</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The guide shows a much longer list of directories that SEOmoz believes have value.</p>
<p>Note that the search engines do try to use an innocent until proven guilty approach. Directory sites will most likely pass PageRank, regardless of their editorial policy until someone reports them, or a human review is initiated on the directory for some other reason.<br />
<strong>Steps for Analyzing Directory Value for Yourself</strong></p>
<p>Now you have a directory that you are interested in contacting. What do you do? You should attempt to make a determination whether or not the directory is truly serious about the quality of their listings. Directories that currently pass link juice may not later on, so you want to be careful about investing in those.</p>
<p>Of course, if you are able to get the sense that a directory currently passes link juice, but is a poor quality directory, the only real downside to buying into it now is that eventually that link will not pass value any more.</p>
<p>But, let&#8217;s press on with trying to find the higher value directories. You need to look for clues that they will stand the test of time. Here are some things that you can look for:</p>
<ol>
<li>Was it funded by a serious VC firm, or a major company in a given vertical space? If so, they are more likely to care about the quality of what they are building.</li>
<li>Has it already been around for a long time?  If so, it is more likely to be around for a while yet.</li>
<li>How are the commercializing their business? Assuming they are selling editorial reviews, is AdSense plastered all over the place too? If it is, they are most likely not a serious player.</li>
<li>Are there lots of unrelated links on pages that look like purchased text links? If so, it&#8217;s a sure clue that someone will turn them in eventually.</li>
<li>Related to the prior two points, anything that makes the site look spammy is a clue that they are not a serious player.</li>
<li>Does their backlink profile includes lots of purchased links?</li>
<li>If they publish other content on the categories they cover, is it pretty cheesy or truly authoritative?</li>
<li>Do most of the categories they offer appear to have a significant number of listings in them?</li>
<li>And, of course, do they have a clear published editorial policy that makes it clear that you are paying for a review?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong> Examples of Good Directories</strong></p>
<p>Of course, I should emphasize that based on our examination, these directories appear to be of good quality and likely to last over the long haul, but there is no guarantee.</p>
<p><strong>Example 1:</strong> <a href="http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/index.shtml">Itrain Online</a>. This has a PR 6 home page, and its topic is computer and Internet training resources for development and social change. Here are some key thing we like about this directory:</p>
<ol>
<li>The site has a <a href="http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/criteria.shtml">strong editorial policy</a>.</li>
<li>There is no fee, so money does not bias the acceptance of listings.</li>
<li>Advertising on the site is minimal, and the advertising is clearly labeled.</li>
</ol>
<p>Even though the depth of listings is not always that deep, the overall design and structure of the directory is so clean that it seems likely to be OK. Here is a quick look at the home page of the site:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/itrain-online.gif" alt="itrain-online Part of Directories in Link Building." width="530" height="306" title="Part of Directories in Link Building." /><br />
<strong>Example 2:</strong> <a href="http://www.tourism.net.nz/">New Zealand Tourism Online</a>.  The home page is a PR 6, and the listing pages are PR 4.  Here are some key observations about the directory:</p>
<ol>
<li>The site is advertising supported</li>
<li>Listings are not paid for, but are editorially selected</li>
<li>Listing quantity per category is high</li>
</ol>
<p>The ad revenue for the site depends on the quality of their listings, which creates a big disincentive to let any bad sites in. Here is a quick screen shot of the site:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/new-zealand-tourism-online.gif" alt="new-zealand-tourism-online Part of Directories in Link Building." width="530" height="367" title="Part of Directories in Link Building." /><br />
<strong>Example 3: </strong><a href="http://iteslj.org/">The Internet TESL Journal</a>. This site has a PR7 home page. The content is highly academic in nature, and features the best new educational ideas direct from practitioners. The home page looks like this:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/the-internet-tesl-journal.gif" alt="the-internet-tesl-journal Part of Directories in Link Building." width="530" height="367" title="Part of Directories in Link Building." /></p>
<p>Here are a few key points about the site:</p>
<ol>
<li>There is no overt link back to the author&#8217;s site.  This site does not pass PageRank, but read on.</li>
<li>Articles do contain the author&#8217;s email address.</li>
<li>You can cite references in your articles.</li>
</ol>
<p>Getting on this site is about reaching influencers. You can gain exposure to an audience of educators. You will only value this if you are in the education business in some fashion, but if you are, you may attract the attention of some interesting people by getting your article posted here. You can also leverage getting posted here in marketing the value of your site to others (it&#8217;s an endorsement).<br />
<strong>Bad Directory Examples</strong></p>
<p>I am not going to list URLs for the risky directories, as the purpose of this post is not to out anybody in particular.</p>
<p><strong>Example 1:</strong> It&#8217;s a PR7 site with a PR7 directory home page. The overall content is authoritative in nature, so this is good. The PageRank is also great. However, there is no clearly published editorial policy on the site. A deeper look at the site, and it looks a lot like the policy really is pay your money, and you are in.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s quite possible that this site currently does pass link juice. However, over the longer term it seems likely that the ability of this directory to pass link juice will get pulled.</p>
<p><strong>Example 2: </strong>This one is a PR4 site that has PR4 links pages. There is a little bit of AdSense advertising up top, but not in an overwhelming fashion. Unfortunately, the links go through a redirect, so they may not pass PageRank. However, there are lots of unrelated links on pages at the bottom, which clearly are ads. Those ads do pass link juice.<br />
<strong>Pay Per Post</strong></p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t these links count? The short answer is that it has already been proven guilty. Pay per post services were marketed as a way to get link juice, which did not help. But the bigger issue is that the basic test of paying money to get an editorial review, which might not result in a link, is not met by these types of services.</p>
<p>Pay per post services pay you for providing the link, and as a result, the link is treated like any other purchased link.</p>
<p>Source : SEOmoz</p>
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		<title>Creative RSS Button - Could it Work?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of subscribers is the main metric of a blog&#8217;s popularity (I am pretty sure everyone knows that but I needed an introductory sentence   ). Recently, I&#8217;ve been exploring and experimenting with some creative looking blog RSS buttons and came to an interesting conclusion: no matter how unique and prominent it looks, people still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The number of subscribers is the main metric of a blog&#8217;s popularity (<em>I am pretty sure everyone knows that but I needed an introductory sentence </em> <img src='http://www.theseogalaxy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Creative RSS Button - Could it Work?" /> ). Recently, I&#8217;ve been exploring and experimenting with some creative looking blog RSS buttons and came to an interesting conclusion: no matter how unique and prominent it looks, people still tend to prefer that standard little Feedburner button that humbly asks to subscribe.</p>
<p>Is that because it looks so <strong>familiar</strong> that it catches a reader&#8217;s attention and clearly denotes the action? I tend to believe that&#8217;s actually the answer. Does it mean standing out does not necessarily mean encouraging action  (people obviously see it but they just <em>don&#8217;t feel like</em> subscribing)? Is there still a creative solution?</p>
<p>Anyway, I did to little testing to make any statements. Webmasters still use different creative ways to encourage people to subscribe, and when done wisely, that might work. Some essential rules I tried to sort out are:</p>
<ul>
<li>a non-traditional RSS button should be preferably orange, as that&#8217;s the standard color for it</li>
<li>a creative RSS button should resemble a traditional-looking one in form and feel</li>
<li>a creative RSS button might be supported by the call to action</li>
</ul>
<p>Here are a few examples:</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.seosmarty.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/creative-rss-football.jpg" alt="Creative RSS - Football" title="Creative RSS Button - Could it Work?" /></p>
<ul>
<li>
<div><em>Type</em>: thematic</div>
</li>
<li><em>Source</em>: The Soccer <em></em></li>
<li><em>Features</em>: highly relevant to the blog content (=&gt; associative); orange (=&gt; makes it clear what action it calls to)</li>
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		<title>Top 5 Tips for Choosing the Best Keywords For your blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably heard of people claiming significant traffic to their site after achieving a top ranking on Google or Yahoo. But sometimes you hear from someone else who also achieved a similar top ranking but they were disappointed when no one arrived at their site. How can two people achieve a top ranking and have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You’ve probably heard of people claiming significant traffic to their site after achieving a top ranking on Google or Yahoo. But sometimes you hear from someone else who also achieved a similar top ranking but they were disappointed when no one arrived at their site. How can two people achieve a top ranking and have such markedly different outcomes? Simple. The person in the first example selected a keyword or phrase that many people are searching on, and the second did not.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to brainstorm your own list of keywords, only to find out later that they are not as popular as you first thought. Keyword popularity is essential to success in search engine marketing.</p>
<p>The question to ask yourself is how do you really know if you’re optimizing your pages for keywords that Web surfers are looking for? There are several good techniques you can apply:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Put yourself in the shoes of your target audience.</strong>For example, you may have a “clothing business” where you “sell clothing.” While those phrases describe what you do, they are not necessarily the words that your audience would enter into a search engine to find you. How many times have you went to Google and typed in “sell clothing” in order to find a particular shirt or hat?
<p>Therefore, you must change your point of view from the person selling the product to the person that wants to buy your product. For example, popular phrases to target in the clothing category would be “plus size clothing,” “mens clothing,” or “womens clothing.” How do I know this? I used the new WordTracker Keywords module found in <a href="http://www.webposition.com/">WebPosition</a>. When I typed in the word “clothing,” it instantly pulled up a wide range of related keywords from which to choose, all ranked by popularity.</p>
<p>I must admit, I was rather surprised to see such unusual terms like “medieval clothing” and “gothic clothing” was ranked high. However, that’s the thing with keywords. It’s next to impossible to simply guess what the most popular phrases will be today.</li>
<li><strong>Target Niches.</strong>While “mens clothing” in the previous example may be one of the most popular clothing related searches, it unfortunately has a lot of competition. If you do a search on Google, you’ll find it returns over 1 million results for that phrase. While this type of phrase may gain you a lot of traffic, achieving a top ranking may prove difficult and time-consuming.In addition, you will normally find visitors who search on very broad keyword categories purchasing less often than someone who knows exactly what they want. A good example of such a niche phrase would be “custom baseball hats.” The benefit of “custom baseball hats” is that it’s both a popular search phrase and it only has about 2000 pages on Google competing against it. That’s much less competitive than the 1 million results returned for “mens clothing.”
<p>WordTracker calls the popularity and competition ratio the “KEI” or Keyword Effectiveness Index. The higher the KEI, the more effective the keyword will be for you.</p>
<p>Therefore, targeting relatively popular niche keywords has the following four advantages:</p>
<ol>
<li>Niche keywords still produce a nice flow of traffic if you’re careful to pick ones that still have good popularity.</li>
<li>Niche keywords will significantly increase your chance of success. Achieving a top ranking will be much easier with a niche keyword phrase versus a very broad, highly popular phrase. No top ranking can be guaranteed in an organic search engine like Google. There are simply too many variables. Therefore, you’ll greatly increase your chances of success by choosing less competitive keyword phrases. Work smarter, not harder as I like to say.</li>
<li>Niche keywords will save you time. While you could use various tools and research to achieve a top ranking for “mens clothing,” the time required to do so may not be worthwhile. Let your competitor waste their efforts on the ultra-competitive phrases. In the same amount of time they spend trying to achieve a single top ranking for your industry’s most popular phrase, you could achieve top rankings on twenty other phrases.</li>
<li>Niche keywords yield more sales per visitor. That’s because these keywords are more targeted. Therefore, these prospects have a better idea of what they want. If they find it on your site at the right price, then your chances for a sale are much greater.</li>
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<li><strong>Brainstorm for keywords in your category</strong>There are many ways to brainstorm new keyword phrases. You can examine the content and the meta tags on your competition’s Web site to see what phrases they consider important. While this is a good place to start looking for ideas, there’s no guarantee they are targeting the best keywords. You must check these keywords against the corresponding popularity and competition factors. You could also consult with your thesaurus for synonyms and related phrases and correlate these to popularity and competition. Fortunately, WordTracker will do this for you within seconds. Simply type in the word “clothing” and it will return dozens of the most popular keywords, with the ability to drill down to hundreds more. In fact, the phrases you find here may trigger many new ideas to expand or grow your company’s business into areas you had not previously considered.</li>
<li><strong>Choose only relevant keywords</strong>Just because a keyword is popular with a low competition factor, doesn’t mean you should target that keyword or phrase. You may be tempted to optimize for phrases that are only loosely related to your site’s content — but DON’T.The phrases you target must be relevant to what you have to sell. It must also be applicable to what you have to offer on the specific Web page you are optimizing. How many times have you searched Google, landed on a page, and then backed out within 5 seconds of arriving? That page had a top ranking, but it did not have what you were looking for.
<p>Perhaps the Web site did have what you wanted, but the product resided elsewhere on the site. Unfortunately, your visitor may never know this. If you target a keyword or phrase, then the page they land on must offer the products, services or content that they expect, or you’ll be wasting your time and your visitor’s time. At the very least, the page should offer direct links to the potential products and services they may expect to find there.</p>
<p>How do you know what people are looking for on your pages? Simply check your Top Search Phrases report in <a href="http://www.webtrends7.com/">WebTrends</a> for a list of the keywords people searched on to find each page of your site. You may be surprised to learn that pages are ranking well on phrases that you had never considered. You can also see which keywords and phrases are driving the highest conversion and revenue, to ensure you maximize the return from your SEO effort. Once you identify these pages and search phrases, make sure you are giving the visitor exactly what they expect to find based on the phrases used to find the page.</li>
<li><strong>Understand that keywords can have multiple meanings</strong>If you have a travel business, then your first thought might be to target the word travel. However, if someone is searching on just plain old “travel” are they:
<ul>
<li>Helping their child with a paper on some aspect of “travel?”</li>
<li>Looking for the “travel channel?”</li>
<li>Looking to plan a vacation cruise?</li>
<li>Preparing to take a business trip?</li>
<li>Day dreaming about time travel?</li>
<li>Looking for driving directions for their travel across the country?</li>
<li>Looking for a travel club such as AAA?</li>
<li>Looking for the perfect backpack or hiking supplies for a travel expedition?</li>
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<p>If you own a travel agency that specializes in vacation cruises and optimized your site for the single keyword “travel,” only a limited number of the people identified in the example above would be qualified prospects. This of course assumes that travel was not too competitive to begin with.</p>
<p>While a top ranking on travel would yield a great deal of visitors to your site, many of them would select the “Back” button in their browsers, turn around and effectively walk out of your store! That’s not the outcome you’re looking for. When you select more targeted keyword phrases such as “Alaskan Cruise,” there is a much higher likelihood that you have focused in on exactly the right audience. It’s the difference between attracting actual buyers versus tire kickers.</p>
<p>Doing a quick search in WordTracker is a great way to get a feel for all the keyword variations that your audience may be searching on. You’ll also discover which are the most popular, and least competitive. This is not only invaluable in regard to search engine marketing, but for your marketing efforts in general. If you haven’t tried WordTracker yet, simply <a href="http://www.webposition.com/order/trial.asp">download the free trial of WebPosition</a> and click on the WordTracker Keywords icon.</li>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;!&#8211; 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	&#8211;&#62;Establishing quality backlinks to your site is an very important part of SEO. In other terms when a site links to yours the software at the Googleplex thinks your site must be important, and this improves your site’s ranking. Yes, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;!&#8211; 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	&#8211;&gt;Establishing quality backlinks to your site is an very important part of SEO. In other terms when a site links to yours the software at the Googleplex thinks your site must be important, and this improves your site’s ranking. Yes, I know its complicated but reading my blog you can have an idea on how to build your links..</p>
<p>Chasing one way links is time-consuming and really hard work. Think about it, other site owners are all busy trying to get one way links to their own sites, why would they link to you?</p>
<p>The answer is to create content on your site others will want to link to. Easier said than done I agree but get it right and the links will come and if you are lucky from some decent sites too. Think about what you can offer that others can’t.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ow a days i had seen many webmasters getting slapped by Google for Paid Links, Paid Post, Buying Links and Exchanging Links to increase there PageRank (PR).The point must be clear that best links are not paid, or exchanged.
Well here I’m telling you some simple points which might be helpful in getting good PR… so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ow a days i had seen many webmasters getting slapped by Google for Paid Links, Paid Post, Buying Links and Exchanging Links to increase there PageRank (PR).The point must be clear that <strong>best links are not paid, or exchanged.</strong></p>
<p>Well here I’m telling you some simple points which might be helpful in getting good PR… so here are the points below:</p>
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<li><strong>Don’t buy or sell sitewide links</strong> for serps.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t look for high PR links from the beginning</strong> - I will recommend to start your new site link building with PR 0-1 and slowly move up according to increase in your rankings.</li>
<li><strong>Control your link building speed</strong>. Building 5-10 links a day is fine.</li>
<li><strong>Avoid link-farms, links to gambling, pills, etc.</strong></li>
<li>Link from a relevant website is fantastic<strong>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Make links look natural. </strong></li>
<li>Different <strong>anchor text</strong>, while building links will be useful.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t do reciprocal link exchange.</strong></li>
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<p><strong>Important:</strong> Lol … have a look at the below reply …. i saw at one of the webmasters forum when a guy asked similar question <strong>How to get good PageRank ?</strong> … the guy replied:</p>
<p><code>Ok. Here you go. Its a secret. never tell anyone!<br />
Search and find Good PR site which has the "Top Commentator" plugin enabled.<br />
Make it a habit to post comments there regularly. Once you enter their Top Commentator list, You get their PR Juice Transfered to your domain.<br />
Another secret,<br />
Search and Find Good PR sites which has "You comment, I follow" / DoFollow feature enabled. Make it a habit again to comment there.</code></p>
<p>Always remember this will be considered SPAM !! Instead of getting good PR you will loose your PR… .</p>
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