6 EASY STEPS FOR FREE SEO
August 8, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
So, in an effort to keep you from spending a dime on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I have found two really cool websites that offer you more in SEO than any expert can, and its for free too. One of the biggest questions that new website owners say is “I just don’t know where my website is or what it looks like on the internet.” And they don’t mean, what it looks like. They are more curious as to how it is looked at by the search engines and whether its even displaying properly etc. Since a lot of websites today are hosted and run by plug and play website companies that have made it very easy for anyone to launch a website, its also presented a new problem because a lot of the search engine optimization tools are left for the user to vaguely understand OR they charge you a premium to do it for you or “enable” their features.
Save yourself that money and go visit Submit Express and,
1) Let them submit your website to over 20 of the top search engines for free by going to:
http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html
2) Did you ever want to snoop and see what someone else’s website or blog is running on?
This link will not only show you the Meta data of that site but every single script and plug-in that is running on it too.
http://www.submitexpress.com/snooper/
3) How do you determine just how popular your website is?
This allows you to input your URLs and find out exactly how many websites are linking to you across the internet:
http://www.submitexpress.com/linkpop/
4) Do you need to generate Meta tags for your site?
Easy to do especially if you want to modify what you already have and don’t know exactly where to copy and paste:
http://www.submitexpress.com/metatags.html
5) If you are trying to generate traffic from your keywords through search engine results, then first find out just how popular your keywords are by using this:
http://www.submitexpress.com/keytracker.php
It will not only tell you how popular your keywords are, but it will bring them up for both KeyTracker and KeywordDiscovery and all other relevant keywords you can use. And it’s all for free too! You can sign up with them if you really like what they offer, but it’s great to receive all of this access for free for you to preview and improve your site.
6) Now, type in the name of your website’s URL or blog, and let them analyze the hell out of it!
Everything you ever wanted to know about your site including search engine friendliness.
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
And finally, when you are done studying your information (and that of others, including your keywords) go to http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker and plugin your website address to find out your Google page rank. You will receive a score of 0 through 10 with 10 being the highest of course. But don’t let it get you down if you get a pagerank of 0, it just means that not that many websites are linking to your site to make it viable for Google to give you a higher page rank. So start adding valueable content to your site or blog so that other sites do link to your site!
I hope this information helps all you work from home entrepreneurs you save money on SEO. Let me know what you think.
The Argument for Blogs
August 7, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Search Engine Optimization
I’m sure that if you watch cable TV enough you learn to put the news on screen in “background mode” because beside making stories bigger than they are, they have to fill 24 hours a day of it. But even so, it’s funny to see the networks doing everything possible to say that they are honest, transparent, fair, balanced etc. Now Fox is identified as having received information from the White House scripting for them what they should say and do.
You as any other viewer of cable news should exercise caution when viewing because these cable news outlets are not at all what they are sold to you as. Do you remember when news were about telling you and not about blatantly opinioning you? I see them do this over and over again on every single segment they broadcast. “Here is the news pitch, and here is X commentator from Y and A commentator from B to tell us more…” And before long you find yourself watching hours of opinions being bludgeoned into your head as if they were facts. I remember that around 9/11, I watched the news almost religiously but ever since then I have become less and less content with their delivery and annoyed at their assumptions about where we are and what we feel about things in the country.
Which is why I support and continue to prefer the blog as the ultimate source of communication with the real people in the country and throughout the world for that matter. Even though some blogs are used for professional propaganda like any other communication median, its easy to separate those that do with those that don’t if you just read into the comments area far enough. The fact that media is cheaper to produce is a blessing for all of us, the individuals, and a handicap for the complex-media outlets.
Support your blogs by subscribing to their feeds regularly and placing your opinion on the comments area to continue the communication and to strengthen these tools for us. This blog in particular is about living, entertainment, technology and work at home opportunities and it is running on a bilingual English Spanish platform, but you can find many more blogs to read and get information from by visiting places like Technorati or Digg. You can even take it a step further by signing up with services like Google Reader and hand picking which blogs, subjects and categories you like and have those feeds sent directly to you either by email or to your browser for direct viewing.
You don’t have to sit and watch puppet cable news that doesn’t let you interact and provide your individual opinion or manipulate their perspective and opinion on their “predetermined” subjects.
Say “no” to their delivery system by hitting the OFF button.
Linking all bilingual blogs
August 4, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
I wanted to let everyone know that I will be uploading my new blog theme in the next few days and I hope to receive feedback from you as to its layout and design. I will soon tell you who designed it for me but I am leaving that as a surprise for now.
In the meantime know that I will be including a free copy of my eBook for you to download and enjoy at your convenience! I thought about marketing at first as a pay per download product, but in the end I thought it was more important to keep showing the bilingual community what works on the internet and what doesn’t. I have a lot of friends and colleagues that are regular bloggers but there is a scarcity in the latino community of bloggers that do this for a living. If you are out there, write to me, let me know where you are.
With technology and marketing techniques changing almost every week, it is important to know what is going on at all times when it deals with the internet and work at home opportunities. We have all seen hypes like Pop-up Ads and Banner Ads go the way of the dinosaur and its ironic how many people still use those tried and failed techniques.
The bottom line is that if you are trying to find information here for the purposes of improving your life, finding avenues of entertainment, trends in technology or work at home opportunities –then Laberinto Social is the right place for you! And for that reason I will be giving away free downloads of my book which is over 50 pages of information on all things like where to go to sign up and start blogging for FREE to where to go for information on advertisers and marketing strategies. The idea is to let you decide: do I want to subscribe to Laberinto Social for regular information feeds only, OR do I want to join forces with Ari and make our bilingual efforts even stronger.
I post regularly and usually in both languages (english and spanish) so it shouldn’t be a problem communicating with me through this blog. You decide and then let me know. While you are at it, let me know what ideas are running through your head too. As I said, I see a shortage of latino blogs so I was thinking about setting up a blogroll of just bilingual blogs so that we can continue to spread the information train. Linking ideas?
I found trazos-web.com today and I am linking to them so that we can strengthen the communication accord. Diego wrote an article on how to increase subscriptions to his blog and ironically he talks about providing a book or information too. He wrote:
"El método más utilizado que yo he visto, es regalarles un ebook o curso al suscribirse. Me he dado cuenta que normalmente los ebooks que regalan las páginas al suscribirnos son de dominio público o ebooks de otro autor que no es el webmaster que lo regala. Estoy convencido que es mejor regalar algo de nuestra propia autoría. Yo he utilizado ese método en mi blog y me ha dado buenos resultados. Con esa estrategia ganamos todos. Los suscritos ganan su regalo y nuestro blog gana un lector más.”
http://www.trazos-web.com/2008/08/01/un-metodo-para-aumentar-las-suscripciones-a-tu-blog/
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