The SEO Galaxy

Have you ask your self, How do those site earn from Passive Income ? and how do that site earn from SEO ? How do that site earn a lot from AdSense. What post is he hiding ?

Well answer to your question is here. I tried to do some spying and it seems that the site gives right result.

As a free account you could only have a maximum of up to 20 results. Well I believe it is enough, Oooppss if you tried my site it will give your results about Excel Tips and Microsoft Tips. Well it is one of my keywords. They don’t have that much of traffic but those are really targeted visitors.

BTW this is not a Paid review just helping out my readers to learn Keyword Research for SEO Purposes. So the next time you want to spy on other site keywords why don’t you try this Great SEO Tool for Free.

Site [ keywordspy.com ]

I have some changes in my site. The changes is made at Search Results and Category Pages and Tag Pages. The category pages will now only show the title of the pages and not the content. In order to check for the content you can always pick the title and it will proceed to the the post page.

This is another experiment in this blog. I know that by doing this I can direct the Search Engine Crawler directly to the post and not only part of the post. There is also a possibility of having an increase of post page views that will also increase of possibility of having Targeted Visitors. It will also prevent the issue of duplicate content since it will not show any content in Category Pages , Search Pages and Tag Pages.

I have also modified my robot.txt during implementation of this experiment and remove restriction in my Category pages and tag Pages. [ Disallow: /category/ & Disallow: /tag/ ].

I have strong feelings that this will succeed. It will increase an index page of my site without having problem with duplicate content. This will have a good effect on my SEO Campaign for this blog.

I hope this will result better navigation of my site.

I just want to share some great information from different SEO Consultants in the web. ” Search Ranking Factors ” It can be found to SEOMOZ.

Good Day and Happy SEOing.

This is not a paid reviews.. I just want to make it clear that this is not a paid review, I am just blogging about this to help my readers to gather more information resources. I have stumbled a site that gives the recent Hot Words in town. [ hotwords.com ]

The site gives the latest keyword searches. They are claiming that the have partnered to different search engines site to gather all this information. Since they are still in Beta stage everything is free. I don’t know if they will have a paid version later on.

They have the daily top 10 keywords and Monthly Top 10 keywords, and no doubt those keywords that pertains to Google Stop Words are dominating.

They have to do something about those Adult and Offensive searches since this decreases their opportunity to earn. And we all know that those kind of site cannot survive without funds.

There are also other site which can give you those kind of data but this is a new site worth checking out. So what site are you using for your keyword research. Or you do not use at all ?

Tips is for WordPress User :

Ok it seems that my topic for the week involves designing a blog , I would like to discuss today tips where you can design your blog, This will involve WordPress Tweaking and making your new blog and design . I will also mix Design Tips with an SEO tips so that those pages will be optimized.

You can check your web design if it is compliant to a well know web design standard by checking some design issues that was shown in w3.org.

Designing Your Category Pages

We know that a Category Page produces a duplicate content within our Website. And we also knew that duplicate content is not healthy in our blog. So by knowing this basic SEO idea we can design our category page in a way that We can show to our visitors our category pages in a manner that it can easily be navigated and at the same time Search Engine Crawler Friendly.

So the best way to do this is to change the way our category page shown to visitors and Search Engine crawlers. I would like to teach on how I made my category pages which only shows the Permalink of the post including the the other category where the post belong. I have leave that dates so that my readers will know when I made the post. Although in the Post Pages I have decided to remove those dates since I believe that most of my page is Time Less. ( ehem )

WordPress Codes

Below are the previous codes of my category php

<h1><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<div class=”date”>
<?php the_time(’F j, Y’); ?> &middot; Filed Under <?php the_category(’, ‘) ?> &middot; <?php comments_popup_link(’Comment’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?>&nbsp;<?php edit_post_link(’(Edit)’, ”, ”); ?>
</div>

Here is my new codes

<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”follow”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class=”date”>
<?php the_time(’F j, Y’); ?> | <?php the_category(’, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(’(Edit)’, ”, ”); ?>
</div>

You may copy my new codes if you want to copy my new category Pages Design. I am experimenting on the H Tags that is why I have replaced it with H2 rather that H1. Since I would like to optimized the category page name as H1. If this will not succeed I will replace them again with h1. I have also change rel tag from bookmark to follow . I am just testing it.

Hope you like this tips.

Rishabh Sood

If you are serious about blogging, you probably shouldn’t use Blogger to operate your MAIN blog.  Why?  Because Wordpress is better - more options, more plug ins, more control.  If you want to make your blog/site big… you need to be hosted on your own server and not use someone else’s free service.  What I recommend is to use Blogger to drive some early links to your *HOSTED ON YOUR SERVER* Wordpress blog.

Simply put - Blogger is good to throw up a bunch of content and see what sticks. (If you can automate it, even better.)

I use some Auto Blogger Poster software thingy and it works great. I build a Blogger blog or 2 or 3 or 4 and link it to my MAIN site or blog (same difference). That little baby takes an RSS feed and automatically updates my Blogger blogs with a little content 3 or so times a day depending on the niche. They don’t get a ton of traffic, but each little RSS blurb does get some.  Plus I just installed the thing a couple months ago and starting to see a little more traffic roll in every day from my efforts… (not to mention the backlinks)

Link popularity has been the main technique for search engine marketers for at least the last few years. Some marketers have become so obsessed with link popularity that they have resorted to automated techniques to help them acquire one-way links. Some examples of link spam methods that are still being exploited are:

Guest books - In a woebegone era people placed simple scripts on their websites, with the hopes of getting feedback from their visitors. A great number of these scripts are still in existence. A web spammer will identify a guest book because of its’ footprint. Millions of these guest books have been abandoned and are not monitored by their owners. For this reason, automated guest book spamming has been rampant. An interesting thing about Guest book spam: some of them can even be spammed too death. Since many of these are old CGI scripts, they can’t handle the volume of spam messages, and end up crashing. At that point the Guest book will live on until the domain owner removes it.

Blogs - blogs became even more popular than guest books. they’ve been installed by the millions and abandoned at 90% rate. Blog software prior to 2005 had a default setting which allowed comments to be published without prior approval. It also allowed live html, so these blogs are out there still begging to be spammed and many are each day. What ends up happening is they get so many outgoing links that the page becomes a massive size, and at some point the page may even have trouble loading.

Forums - a frequent victim of web spam. Since almost all forums allow users to submit material without pre-moderation, web-spammers will attempt to post to them. The good news about Forums is that are usually not abandoned like Blogs or Guest books, and usually someone will come along and clean up the mess. This isn’t always true, but it does happen quite a bit.

Any form on the internet that allows html is vulnerable to web spam attack. Without some sort of moderation it’s impossible to ensure that malevolent html will not be inserted. if you don’t pre-moderate the form, make sure you receive email notifications whenever the form is submitted. If you don’t at least check the form often, it’s inevitable that you’ll be spammed by one of the numerous bots on spam duty.

Search engines introduced the rel no follow tag in order to deal with the rising tide of link spam. All popular blog software comes with the no follow in place, so the main risk of Web spam is to legacy blogs installed prior to 2005. No follow essentially tells the search engine that the link is untrusted. In essence it says this link was entered by a person other than the website owner, so treat it with a grain of salt. Forum software makers have also been quick to add no follow to their core technology. The fact of the introduction of nofollow gives great insight into how much trouble search engines were having with the enormous load of link spam. Basically they threw their hands up and admitted defeat. Nofollow has had an enormous impact on Web spam, but there are still an awful lot of blogs and forums out there that haven’t been patched.

Link spam appeals to certain web marketers for obvious reasons. It’s a scalable and free solution to building link popularity. Web marketers who automate the process can quickly vary their anchor text between ‘runs’. This will give them a wide variety of links from a broad spectrum of websites located on diverse IP addresses. This is normally a sure-fire recipe for success for virtually any website. By simulating the link popularity of a popular website, the link spammer is able to fool the search engines into assigning it higher rankings. The manipulation of link popularity has become a major issue to all of the search engines. Each will offer more and more attempts at reducing this threat, but unless search engine rankings are based only on on-page variables, it will always exist.

Rishabh Sood

Have you been reading about link building but don’t know where to start? Are you an experienced SEO specialist using the same methods you’ve always used? Read on to find out how new linking rules will affect the future of your website.

One way links work for search positioning. There’s no doubt about it. But, have you considered that what works today may not work in the future? One exciting aspect about search engines is that nobody really knows everything. That leaves room for webmasters who are willing to research, test, and put into practice the best search engine optimization techniques.

These are New five rules for one way linking can help steer you in the right direction.

Rule #1: You have to be proactive. Google considers a high quality link something you have to earn. You earn these links by partnering with sites. In order for a partnership to work, you have to develop a relationship. I think more webmasters are open to establishing vital community relationships. It takes trust and a lot of patience for these relationships builds. Focus on what you can do for someone else.

Rule #2: Keep an open mind. High PageRank still lingers in most webmasters’ minds. But, by concentrating on high PageRank sites, we miss out on other linking opportunites. Most of us understand that PageRank doesn’t happen overnight. That’s why it’s important to seek out lower PR, high quality sites. The advantage is that these webmasters are more open to establishing partnerships.

Rule #3: Site age is a big factor. I’ve put together my owning ranking system for evaluating a site’s link “worthiness”. One big factor is site age. Any site that has been around since the late 1990s is going to have a higher “score”. These sites have weathered search engine updates, bad economies, and bad press. All else being equal, I tend to lean towards site age as the determining factor for a potential link partner.

Rule #4: Stop worrying about what you can’t contol. I get questions all the time from people wanting to know if they can re-design their sites, or link to other sites, or change hosting companies. They want to know if these activities will ruin their search engine rankings. My response is always the same: do what’s best for you and your customers. Don’t NOT do something because you’re worried it will ruin your SEO work. If you have a solid customer base, your search engine rankings won’t be as crucial. The viral aspect of the web is extremely underestimated. Search traffic is only one source of traffic.

Rule #5: Can you be trusted?. Having a solid client list, establishing relationships with other webmasters, provding great customer service. These activites are all based on trust. Can you be trusted to follow through? If you are trustworthy, your link building will be trustworthy. If you’re in it for the short term, like all spammers, then you can’t be trusted.

The web is wide open for those webmasters who are willing to develop relationships for the long run. In the future, one way links will be graded on trust. So, you need to ask yourself, am I trustworthy? It’s give and take. Are you willing to give before you can take?

Rishabh Sood

The aim of a reciprocal linking strategy is usually twofold: First to attract visitors from the linking partner to your own site and, secondly, to improve your page ranking with the search engines. A higher page ranking, especially with Google, indicates more relevance when inquiries are made on a given keyword. Relevance encourages the search engines to send free, targeted traffic to your website.

Important Considerations

1. Build online relationships. Exchanging links with other relevant websites is a great way to start building partnerships with other website owners and may open the door for future joint venture requests.

2. Build your link popularity. Most search engines view sites that have many links to them as being important. So, the more sites that link to your site, the higher your site might rank. But again, make sure that all reciprocal links are relevant to your site or the search engines will penalize you.

3. Avoid exchanging links with sites that have a huge link directory. If your site is listed on page 43 in your category of another site’s link directory, few people will ever see your link. Although a link will be generated to your site for the search engines, you will not receive much traffic from the link exchange. Try to exchange links with sites where your link will be displayed on the first, or at the most, the second page of another site’s link directory.

4. Don’t exchange links with everybody that asks. What advantage is there in exchanging links with a site that sells wedding favors when your site is about dog training? Anyone that visits the wedding favor site will be looking for information concerning weddings, not dog training, and very few will click on your link regardless of how high the page rank is for the wedding site. The key here is to exchange links only with sites that are relevant to your site or to your keywords.

5. The main goal of any linking strategy is to get more traffic to a website. Reciprocal linking can work for or against you in this matter depending on the site that you exchange links with. If you exchange links with sites that receive a lot of traffic, some of that traffic may be diverted to your site. On the other hand, if you exchange links with a low traffic site, you may divert some of your traffic to the other site without seeing a similar return. The solution is to exchange reciprocal links with a site with a page rank no lower than one level below yours and to try to exchange links with many sites with a higher page rank. Ideally, you would seek to exchange links with sites that have at least a PR 4.

How To Set Up A Link Page

The optimum way to set up a link page is to enter all links manually. Yes, it is time consuming but when you are starting out, this is the best way to do it.

You would first need to set up a page on your website just for your link categories. You can call this page anything you like such as Links, My Partners, Link Partners, My Link Partners, etc. Set up this page with the major categories and subcategories that are relevant to your site. Then, set up a page for each subcategory that will contain the actual links. Test to be sure that whenever anyone clicks on a subcategory that they are taken to the appropriate link page.

Prepare a short 3 - 5 line ad about your website or your product and include the URL to your website. This should be in HTML code for easy uploading. Each linking company has their own procedure, but generally, each time you ask to exchange links, you’ll need to copy and paste the other website’s HTML code onto your link page under the correct category and subcategory. You will then need to upload the updated page to your website.

Once this is done, let the other website know on which of your pages they can find their link. If the other website owner approves the link exchange, they should add your link to their link page and inform you on exactly what page you can find it.

Check to make sure that your link has been added to their site. If they have not added your link, you have the option of contacting the website owner as to why or of removing their link from your site.

Mention reciprocal linking on any internet marketing forum and you will be sure to get a barrage of heated replies. There is a continual debate about the advantages and disadvantages involved in reciprocal linking and both sides make convincing statements.

If you do decide to get involved in reciprocal linking, join only well established link exchanges that allow you to approve or disapprove the link. Avoid link farms or link exchanges that will automatically exchange your link with their entire database regardless of the relevancy to your website.

The internet is abuzz with the Yahoo-Google deal. With all the news you can read instead of writing up a long post about it I will just provide links to some really good articles that pretty much sums up the different views regarding the deal. Before I do that though let me just point out some of the developments in Yahoo leading up to the Yahoo-Google deal.

• Microsoft offers Yahoo $35 per share.
• Yahoo declines.
• An ultimatum is given by Miscrosoft.
• Yahoo’s revenue increases by 9% giving Yahoo the ability to rebuff Microsoft even more.
• Things get quiet for a little bit.
• Yahoo announced that Microsoft was no longer interested in buying Yahoo.
• Yahoo announced a non-exclusive partnership with Google. The deal will make Google an ad (search ads of course) supplier for Yahoo. Google can cancel the deal if it doesn’t reach the revenue target of about $83million.
• The deal instantly gets attention and is being scrutinised for antitrust issues.
• Yahoo’s market value goes down.

More Yahoo-Google articles for those interested:

• Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo! by Omid Kordestani (Google Blog)
• Yahoo + Google - Microsoft: The Morning After by Miguel Helft (New York Times -BITS)
• Google-Yahoo Poses Ad-Rate Worries by Jessica Vascellaro and Emily Steel (Wall Street Journal)
• TIMELINE: Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo (Reuters)