Article Submit Auto
June 29, 2009 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
Article Submit Auto
This is a new tool that will help anyone looking for good SEO for their site or blog. Good SEO, or better said quick SEO requires you to build up a lot of inbound links to your site or blog if you are going to demonstrate to the search engines that you are important and relevant because there are lots of links pointing to your site. Additionally, you want people to find articles written by you that they can then click and visit your site. This not only helps with your site popularity of course, but it increases your traffic and possibly your business leads as well. Traffic and increased inbound links equals an increased PR or Page Rank with the search engines. This is what is required to push that site or blog along. And that is why I recommend Article Submit Auto.
Article Submit Auto will allow you to take an article that you wrote for a topic, and submit it automatically to various article directories. The best feature of Article Submit Auto is that it takes the same article your wrote and rearranges the content of the article, giving you various versions of the article so you can still get the unique articles on your article magazine directories. You never want to submit the exact same article to more than one directory (because of the duplicate content penalty imposed by the same search engines). So it is wise to use a tool like Article Submit Auto to ensure that when you submit, it has the variety required to sit on each unique article directory.
This is not a new concept as there are other tools like CLAUTOBOTPRO that allows you to auto submit postings to Craigslist.org, BackPage.com and Kijiji.com. Likewise, Article Submit Auto allows you to do the same with articles to article directories. Please note that these tools are not endorsed for spamming purposes, they are endorsed for their ability to help you automate your legitimate marketing and business purpose. If you have good information on your service, industry or product; by all means, type away and publish as many articles as you can. A tool like Article Submit Auto just makes the job that much faster.
So how much faster could you accomplish article writing and posting with Article Submit Auto? Just imagine how long it takes to write an article and then having to submit it manually to various article directories? Yikes. If you don’t get bored quickly, you will soon see why some people give up on internet marketing. Not because it doesn’t work, but because repetitive work makes anything seem lamo.
Article Submit Auto will submit automatically to all article directories and help jump start your article submission process. One button push to market settings allow you to send your article in quickly and automatically. In the end, Article Submit Auto will help you create more articles so you can gain more inbound / backlinks to your site or blog; and, enjoy increased traffic from having more articles online than the next guy. Preview Article Submit Auto on your own and let me know what you think by submitting your comments below.
SiteMap and Robots File
October 7, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Search Engine Optimization
Sitemap and Robots
One of the best things you can do to get the search engines to notice you, is to install a sitemap and robots file on your blog or website. Now I know that may sound a bit trivial for some and all, but it is really really simple.
First of all, you can get a sitemap very easily from XML-Sitemaps.com. You simply follow four simple steps on their site and in no time at all, you will have the file you need for your site. Very simply put: upload that file to your root directory (the place that is the bottom most tier of your website – example: c:/ would be the root of a PC, and so the same would apply to a website or blog, only the root is where the website is being hosted).
Once you have done so, it is a great idea to sign up with Google Webmaster Tools so you can tell Google exactly what you want crawled on your site. You will be able to designate what to crawl and what not to. Although some crawling robots out there, ignore the request and crawl everything anyway (usually these are spam search robots).
SiteMap XML
A sitemap basically tells Google and other search engine crawling robots, what your site looks like in terms of a map. It says to the crawling spiders what is okay to index and what is not. It is important to have a sitemap on your site, because even though the internet looks for content all the time, they won’t always know you are there, unless you make an effort to tell them.
Along with a sitemap, it is a good idea to install a robots.txt file so that it can work in conjunction with the sitemap in that it will tell any other crawling search "spider", what to search and what to leave alone. And although a sitemap and robots file sound the same, they are not. The sitemap tells the search engines what the landscape looks, like and the robots file tells them what to index and crawl, and what to leave alone.
Robots.txt
You can easily get a robots.txt file the same way you got a sitemap from XML-Sitemaps. Just simply upload this .txt file to your root directory also and you are set to go. If you want to find a sample robots.txt file to upload to you site, just search robots.txt on the net and you will see a sample come up. Save it as a txt file and upload it to the root directory.
The internet is so much friendlier to your site or blog when you have these things in place. You can visit Google Webmaster Tools for more information or XML-Sitemaps too.
Generating Website Traffic and Backlinks
September 22, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
The techniques on generating website traffic
Okay, so there are a lot of techniques out there on ways to help you generate more website traffic for your website or blog. Personally, I think there is too much emphasis paid on organic search results. You know, those free results you get when you add content to your blog and therefore you save the money you would otherwise spend on marketing outlets like Pay per click. When I say that there is too much emphasis, I mean that the focus is entirely on content and submission without much personal interaction.
While it is a MUST to write things all the time for your site(s) and maybe even submit an article here and there, it is also a good idea to reach out to your local media for exposure. You’ve got dozens of radio stations, local televisions stations and newspapers whom you can contact to establish a relationship with. Don’t just send an email as I’ve seen some advisors recommend. Yes its a good first step, but take the time to write a letter! Send in a color print out of your blog with the letter or something that will make it stand out.
If you’re goal is to start generating website traffic at meaningful levels for your site, then you are going to have to invest more of your efforts on getting links (back-links) to your site through all means. With search engines now basing the results of their search queries of the level of keyword density that your site/page has, and the number of back links that are linking to your site, its even more important to step out of the norm and use new techniques to generating traffic and those crucial back-links.
Each of those links from a website or blog that has high traffic, also has what the search engines call high "authority." The more back links you can generate to that type of a site, the greater your authority on the internet. But getting those sites to link to you at some level is sometimes an uphill battle. But, it is not something that is impossible to accomplish with the right amount of effort.
Here’s a funny example. I once saw a movie where a team coach was trying to get the NCAA to approve his team of young players (that had just suffered a tragedy) to play football as freshmen. He asked the school’s Dean to make a special request for persmission. After some letters and phone calls he was unsuccessful. As the Dean said, "its the NCAA, they don’t change the rules for anybody." It was then that the coach asked him if he was married, and the Dean said "yes, why?" The coach answered as he asked the following, "Did you propose to her over the phone or in person?" The Dean got the point, and you should too!
I am not saying you should start going to their offices in person, but in the internet world, its okay to step outside of that environment for a minute, and try the brick and mortar route. A letter can change the landscape when a local newswriter gets hundreds of emails everyday, and then you’re letter is the only one that made it to their desk with little to no competition.
If you think that local exposure won’t help with your efforts, or that you have a blog or article that could reach a national audience, then get it out to those larger outlets too! Don’t limit yourself to the examples given here, and get creative. A college student, for example, can get more people to visit his blog on campus, if he simply posts a flier at his campus room, than they could by writing ten articles in one day. That is because even new content that you post, takes some time to get out there on the internet (as fast as the internet is).
In the long run those articles that you post will help with your content and organic search, but you’ll be LINKS ahead of the game because you took the time to write some letters and make some phone calls. Again, stepping out a bit can "highlight" your request and get your the extra attention needed to successfully procure a link to your site.
Now if you happen to visit one of them in person to request a link, then at least you left the house for a bit and detached from the internet just long enough to social life "offline" abit.
Generating website traffic can be the most exciting part of your blogging experience, but its got to be done with consistency.
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