How To: Maximize Profit using Adsense Section Targeting for Blogs

This post was written to support the ‘Adsense Target‘ WordPress Plugin
Introduction:
This article provides a very brief overview of how contextual advertising works and then illustrates how a webmaster using section targeting can have more control over the advertisements served by Google Adsense. Specific recommendations for bloggers are made on how best to use ad section targeting code to maximize profit. martle keeker cloam
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‘Targeting’ contextual advertisements refers to the ability of both website owner and advertising system (in this case Adsense) to match the best ad to the content that surrounds it. In its crudest form, think of contextual advertising as serving up ads that relate to the content of the page. So if this were a page about dog food, an Adsense ad for dog food would probably be the best contextually based ad to serve because it relates directly to the content of the page. After that, ads about dogs and dog products in general would be most relevant.As a webmaster running any contextual advertising system you need to make sure that the ads shown on your pages directly relate to the page contents. More people will be interested and click on ads about dog food on a page about dog food than ads about yarn on a page about dog food. For those that use Google Adsense to server up contextual ads, Google provides a way to emphasize parts or sections of content on a page. “Section targeting” allows individual webmasters to have finer granularity over the types of ads shown on their websites. With greater control, a webmaster can tweak pages to show the most relevant ads to the content most valued by web visitors.
Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like [Google] to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site’s content. [source]
Section targeting is pretty simple, all you do is surround the content that you’d like to emphasize with specially formatted HTML tags. Here is an example:
content goes here, content goes here, content goes here, content goes here, content goes…
You can also de-emphasize certain portions of your content using a very similar method:
content to ignore goes here, content to ignore goes here, content to ignore goes here, content to ignore goes here, content to ignore…
As a blogger using Google’s Adsense program, there are some special considerations you should take into account in order to best target ads on your pages and therefore maximize profit.
Depending on how your blog is laid out, much of the content of the page can actually be comments by other people and whatever is in your sidebar. If your Adsense ads aren’t as targeted as you would like them to be, consider the following tips on using Ad Section Targeting. The goal is to have Google serve up more contextually relevant ads that web visitors will be more likely to click on:
Use the weight=ignore targeting code to tell Google to ignore the contents of your sidebar
Use section targeting to focus Google more on the content you have actually written (your post content) than on the comments made by readers
Wherever you employ section targeting code, make sure to include a significant amount of content within the tags. Google indicates that there may be a penalty of less relevant ads or Public Service Announcements if you don’t include large chunks of text between tags
According to Google, you can use section targeting to target as many sections of a page as you like. So don’t be afraid to use multiple sets of tags
It may take up to 2 weeks before Google takes into account any changes you’ve made to your site
In the end, section targeting is merely a suggestion to Google by you. Google may or may not choose to take your advice on what you think is most and least important about your site
Target Adsense is a free plugin for WordPress (created here at MaxPower) that gives you the option to automatically target the content you have written on your blog as well as provide a way to target only specific portions of your content using the post and page editor.

The Ten Minute Optimization - A SEO Tips White Paper

1) INTRODUCTION

Many small businesses simply do not have the resources to hire a search engine optimization (SEO) company to promote their web site. There are countless resources online for do-it-yourself (DIY) optimizers where professional SEO's offer general recommendations and advice. This article is my opportunity to offer more of my SEO experience in the form of a 10-minute optimization process.

This process will be effective for any page designed in HTML with at least 1 paragraph of html text but for the purposes of this article, I will concentrate on the all-important home page.

2) Setting the Stage

Before I begin, there are a few things that you must know before proceeding and you should spend more than 10 minutes considering:

2.A) Determine Your Target(s)

99% of you know who your target market is, now you need to choose the keywords that you believe they will search for. There is no use obtaining top search engine placements under terms that are not being searched. This step, alone, requires extensive explanation but there are a few simple tips to keep in mind. For one, you will want to check your current traffic statistics and note what traffic you are already receiving and under what keywords. Now, visit the site of a competitor who you know is doing well online (through either conversation or news articles). Look at their titles on individual pages and try to determine a pattern in the keywords that they have chosen. Also look at the source of their pages (Internet Explorer: click "View" then "Source") and copy their META tags into a notepad on your computer. Between the titles and the META tags you should be able to determine with reasonable accuracy which keywords are most important for rankings.

It is important to note that professional SEO's have many more resources at hand to determine such information with higher accuracy.

2.B) Design - Is Your Page Marketable?

This topic can be touchy to bring up but the simple fact is that traffic will have less impact if your web page is unmarketable. Now this covers a lot of different aspects of design, however, a few basic rules should be followed.

i) Avoid using strange color combinations that make it hard for a viewer to read your sales copy (red text on a blue background is a perfect example of a painful design). In the same respect it is important not to use text that is too small; try to keep your font size to a minimum of size 10 or 12 (2 or 3 in Dreamweaver).

i) Unrelated advertisements on your web site provide distractions to your viewers. If you are selling BMW's then it is generally not a good idea to show an advertisement for herbal Viagra.

Every single graphical element of your home page has the potential to add or deny credibility. Using this space wisely will ultimately create happier visitors and generate more profit.

2.C) Spot Check for Relevancy

It is very important for your site to be focused. For example, if your web site is supposed to be devoted to 'BMW car sales' then a page or information on real estate sales is entirely unnecessary. Keep in mind that most of the top search engines will rank your site depending upon the topic they determine you are offering. This determination is largely made based upon the text within your web site. Don't give them any reason to get 'confused'.

3) THE TEN MINUTE PROCESS

Spot Check for Spam

Before optimization begins it is crucial that your page is devoid of any 'tricks' that a search engine may construe as spam. You may not even know they are there! Some web designers with out-of-date information add hidden text because they think it will help your rankings. This is entirely untrue and can cause extreme problems for your search engine visibility. To check for hidden text just hold down the left button on your mouse at the very top of your page and drag it down to the bottom. If there is any hidden text (normally text that matches the color of your page background) it will appear as it is highlighted. Second, you will want to search for unnecessary repetition of keywords on your page. Do you see instances of 5 or 6 keywords being repeated in a row anywhere on the page? If so, remove this.

Polish & Optimize Text

The text on your home page is crucial to maintaining the attention of fresh viewers. In fact, copy is so important that many companies prefer to have a professional copy writer create the content. Since this is not an option for many, you have to keep your text engaging as well as smartly optimized to present an obvious topic to the visiting search engine spiders or visitors. To do this, keep your mind focused on the keyword(s) that you have chosen to target on the search engines while you write the content for the page. Implement the keywords within the text without sacrificing the true intent of the information - to engage and retain your viewers.

Important Note: Often the first 25-30 words of your home page are what each search engine will use for the description of your web site. Try to utilize your target keyword(s) within this area but be certain the resulting sentence is legible and descriptive.

Optimize the Title

The title of the home page can be optimized quite simply by placing the keyword or keyword phrase that you have chosen to target first and then finish with the name of your company or web site. For example:

" BMW Car Sales - MyBMW.com"

The search engines place a great deal of weight in the title of your home page and the keywords within your title will likely be chosen as the title of your listing on the search engines. The title also plays a huge role in the relevance of your site. The topic denoted within your title will be compared to the content within the body of the page, if the topic and content match, you will have a much better chance of obtaining higher targeted placements.


META Tags

The META tags located within the invisible source of your web page. They were originally designed to provide the details of your web site to visiting search engine spiders and they still do, to a degree. Since this part of your web page is invisible, META tags were increasingly used to misinform the search engines of the content of a web site - spamming. As a result, META tags play a lesser role but they should still be properly optimized so that they contribute to the topical relevance of your web site.

META tags are basically composed of the Description and Keyword tags. The Description tag should provide the same or similar 25-30 word description of your web site that you created earlier for the first text within your visible page. The description is occasionally used as your description within the search engines but it is unpredictable. The Keyword tag should include the keywords/phrases that you are targeting in order of importance. Start with the most important and then proceed to less important but still relevant keywords. It is extremely important that you do not repeat any word more than 3 times within the Keyword tag. This includes words within target sentences. Also do not place repeated keywords close together.


Navigation. Provide Clear Paths

Is the navigation within your site entirely graphical or programming oriented? In this case I recommend that you create a textual link menu at the bottom of your page. For added punch (and this is a big hit) you should make each link count by using the keyword/phrase that best describes the target page. For example:

BMW Accessories | Used BMW for Sale | More About MyBMW.com

versus these less powerful links:

Accessories | Used Cars | About Us


Test and Spell-Check

Preview the page and spell check it then once you are certain everything is properly balanced, upload it to your server.


Hurry Up and Wait

What happens now is entirely up to the history of your web site and your marketing budget. There are many search engines that offer paid submission for the regular or prompt indexing of your new page/web site. If you have paid for prompt indexing then you may see the fruits of your labor within a couple of days depending on the search engine.

In this case I am going to assume that you have a non-existent search engine budget. If your site has already been submitted to the search engines then you can simply wait until a spider returns to check for new content, at which time your new site/page will be found and processed accordingly. If you wish this process to proceed post-haste or your site has not yet been submitted, then you may submit your newly revised page to the search engines for what may be a faster response time. Be sure to read the rules that each search engine carefully defines before submitting or resubmitting your web page.

Ten Minute Optimization Complete!


The following are additional elements that will supplement your online promotions. These are all fundamental changes that have occurred in the promotion world since the 10 Minute Optimization was first published in 2003. These had to be added to ensure that this white paper was thorough.

4) Link Building - SEO Tips Added for December 2006

The most dramatic change since 2003 has been the increase of importance of link building. Just how many reputable, relevant websites link to yours? Were these links freely given or did you have to provide a reciprocal link in order to achieve them? The world of search engine optimization has seen enormous growth in the link building sector and it has become a science unto itself.

"How can I build links?"

The following methods will gain you links and they are placed in order of importance:

Have a website that is so well maintained, so informative and effective that users freely provide you with links because they like it so much. Hands down, this method will always win over your competition. Search engines such as Google will reward your site handsomely if it finds many one-way links from reputable sites.

Publish articles via a blog or an online newsletter and syndicate these articles across news websites. For example, I syndicate many of my SEO articles across reputable SEO sites such as SearchEngineGuide.com, SiteProNews.com, ISEDB.com, WebProNews.com, etc. Syndication is actually quite effortless. just write content which is good enough that your industry sites happily post your articles.

Reciprocal link building is a highly popular method of building link popularity. Essentially you have to contact other industry-related websites and request a link to your website in exchange for one from your own. This type of link building is far less effective than one-way links from reputable sites but it does hold some weight.


5) The After Thoughts

Many methods of promoting a website have become available over the past few years; so many that it is a bit mind blowing. In most cases StepForth has written about each offering to provide our readers with the required knowledge to take advantage of them. Here are some places to start if you need a refresher:


6. Conclusion for the 2006 SEO Tips Redux
Do you find yourself overwhelmed? Perhaps you want to outsource your SEO? Obviously StepForth is an option that I highly recommend but there are many other firms out there whom you can contact for quotations. Here is an article by Jim Hedger on how to outsource your SEO needs and what to look for in an SEO firm. In addition, we recommend you visit www.seoconsultants.com for a list of reputable search engine optimization and placement companies.

Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly? Your Personal Checklist

When I sit down with new clients and discuss the status of their new or existing site they are often shocked when I am forced to inform them that their site is not search engine friendly. Encountered with a blank but slightly shaken look I then explain that this means their site has a particular problem that is hindering search engine rankings. Often this is represented by an inflexible design, overuse of advanced web technologies, or simply a weak navigation scheme. As a result, if they were to continue with the site as it stands they are unlikely to attain competitive search engine rankings.

The following is checklist designed to help you gauge the search engine friendliness of your website and, if you are in the midst of planning a website this checklist will help you avoid the common pitfalls of unfriendly designs.

Technologies
First consider what technologies your website is using. There are certain technologies that require a little more hand holding than others to ensure search engine compatibility.

FRAMES
Lets start with this oldie. Luckily, frames are becoming a way of the past what with the use of DIV layers and the slow onset of incredibly flexible AJAX coding. The long and the short of it is that if you have Frames on your website then you are starting off at a disadvantaged position that cannot be truly search engine friendly no matter what you do. There are, however, some remedial fixes that will tie you over until you can redesign your site; yes I said redesign. The fix that I recommend is to use a noframes tag whereby you place another version of your web page inside of your framed page. This ‘backup’ page is what the search engines will view; here you can place relevant content and navigational elements so that the search engines can at least navigate portions of your site that are (hopefully) not framed.

More info on the no frames tags.


FLASH
There was a big brouhaha that Flash had become search engine indexable and you no longer had to worry about its search engine issues. Frankly, I have not seen the fruits of this ‘improvement’ to a respectable degree yet so I still consider it a kiss of death for websites designed solely in Flash. If you have a Flash-only website then I recommend one of these two options; one is to design an html version of your website and make the home page of your website html rather than Flash where you can then allow users to choose between html or Flash. The second option is to redesign the site so that it mixes both html and flash together. For example, this might mean implementing Flash amidst content on an HTML page as you would an image. I realize there are certain limitations to this option but if you can create a slick site in this manner then you will have the best of both worlds; clean search engine friendly content along with an interactive, multimedia feel. Just remember that the majority of relevant text should be in HTML format for the search engines to index.


Search Engine ‘Unfriendly Dynamic URL’s
Unfriendly dynamic URL’s are a common side effect of using a Content Management System that is not designed with search engine rankings kept in mind. Here are some examples of some unfriendly URL’s:

Sample 1: http://www.mydomain.com/myproducts.php&354=prod333&subproduct

Sample 2: http://www.surfboardsforyou.com/boards/filename.php?
id=F98ZF4&productId=39222§ion=wicked&brand=582&template=532
These URLs are problematic because a search engine may consider these addresses too complex to spider. Why too complex? Suffice it to say that the more complex the URL, the higher the chance that a search engine robot will consider the content too dynamic to read; it changes too often to be valuable to a search engine.

The way around these types of URLs is actually not so difficult; it may only require a small investment of time and money. The ‘time’ will be required when researching which URL fix is right for your system. The money may be required to pay a programmer to implement and test the new URLs. Here are how the URLs might look once they are fixed to be search engine friendly:

Sample 1 Fixed: http://www.mydomain.com/myproducts/354/prod333/subproduct/

Sample 2 Fixed: http://www.surfboardsforyou.com/boards/wickedboards/39222/board532/

These URLs are better because they do not include the extraneous characters that are so telltale on dynamic websites. In addition, the URLs are designed to appear like normal website directories when in fact they are dynamic URLs.

Important: it is vital that you minimize the length of the URLs that you use. Search engines may stop crawling a website if there appear to be too many subdirectories. The samples above show fixed URLs that have about as many subdirectories as I would allow (4).
Design
This section focuses on the overall layout and usability of your designs from the perspective of a search engine robot. Search engine friendly design is occasionally quite complex so I have provided a list of the most common issues to consider.


Menus
Are the menus on your website spiderable? If not you may be hiding major areas of your website from search engine spiders and missing out on additional search engine rankings.

The fact is there are very few menus out there that a search engine will have a problem following, but there are definitely some worth avoiding. For instance do not use a JavaScript Jump Menu (example) as the core mode of navigation of your website; search engines cannot index this type of menu. Also be careful of Flash menus, they look slick but they will impede the progress of a search engine spider especially if they are the only means of navigation within your site.

General Menu Rules
The ideal menu would be text based and each text link would include the keywords you are targeting on the destination page. Setting up a menu with this much forethought requires that you determine the layout and content for your site before web design begins. Once you have a clear picture of the content for each page you can then research the keywords that are best to target per webpage. This essential keyword research can be done in house easily enough using systems like keyword research tools that provide you with a glimpse into how your customers think by showing how many searches there are per month (or year) for a particular term.

Remember, almost every page within your site has a very real opportunity to gain a top ranking; all you need to do is ensure that the design, content and site structure is optimized. Ensuring that the menu is carefully thought out and designed is a crucial step for top rankings.

Finally, if you are at all uncertain whether your menu is search engine friendly then be certain to back it up with a text menu in the footer of your page using the same keyword targeting principles noted above.

Tech Advice: a simple text menu may be less than desirable for you; in this case I recommend DHTML menus. These menus use text but in a manner that is quite appealing and very search engine friendly.


Sitemaps
Sitemaps can dramatically help the visibility of your website by allowing search engine spiders easy access to all of the pages in your site. Place a link to the sitemap on every page within your site to ensure easy access no matter where a search engine or user enters your site.

Sitemap Tips
Just having a sitemap will help but how you build your sitemap will also play a role in how well the search engines catalogue it. For example, if you have a twenty-page website it would be ideal to create a sitemap where each page is represented by a title along with a short description. Ultimately, the page may be a bit long but it will have content that the search engines like to index and it will boost the relevance of the linked pages because the titles will accurately represent the content. So in effect, you will now have more than just a sitemap; you will have a table of contents for your site that has the potential of getting a ranking and provides an extra boost to the ranking worthiness of each page.

Google Sitemap
Google Sitemap is an additional design element that you should consider adding. Here is an article Scott Van Achte wrote on how to implement your own Google Sitemap.


Layout
How you layout your page can make a significant difference in how well your site ranks and ultimately how search engine friendly it is.

Tips for Layout
Search engine robots read a webpage from the top of the source code (the programming that made your page – see “view source” in your browser) all the way to the bottom. As a result, it is important to ensure that both of the following elements are found as close to the beginning of code as possible:

A) A short sentence introducing the topic using the keyword targets you have chosen for the page.

B) Your text menu and other navigational aids, or if this is not possible it would be even more beneficial to start with a paragraph or two of relevant content followed by the navigation.

By placing this information near to the top of the page, you will promptly present the search engine robot with relevant text that backs up the page title and backlinks. You will also provide an immediate sitemap of sorts for the search engine to spider, which includes keywords relevant to each page.


Splash Pages – ACK!
With the odd exception Splash Pages are a kiss of death for a website because the home page (the first page seen when someone visits your domain), your most important page, is often converted into nothing but an excess entry point with little or no relevant content on it. Aside from reducing your chances for ranking, you are also making your visitors take another step to get to content or sales material in your site. Any additional steps you add will lessen the likelihood of a successful sale.

Please Let Me Change Your Mind
If you think you need to use a splash page then you need to talk to someone who will change your mind. No, honestly, give me a call if you want because there is nothing more painful to a SEO or search engine friendly web designer to see a Splash Page in use. If, in the unlikely scenario your splash page is required, there are ways to make it slightly more search engine friendly.

a) Add a highly relevant and well-worded paragraph to the page so that the search engines have something to index that shows them they are in the right place.

b) Either provide a link to your sitemap or implement a text menu in the footer of the page so the search engines can access the internal workings of your website without having to take an extra step.
In Summary
Creating a search engine friendly website requires a basic to advanced understanding of how a search engine works, depending on the complexity of the planned website. Complexity aside, the notes above provide a good basis for you to evaluate the friendliness of your website and make changes where necessary. If you have questions regarding your website you can email me at voravite@gmail. and I will do my best to help or I will direct you to someone who can.

“ทำอย่างไรให้ PR เราสูงขึ้น Traffics มากขึ้น Backlinks มากขึ้น “ Part 1

หลังจากที่เขียนบทความแรกเกี่ยวกับ SEM (Introduction to Search Engine Marketing) มีเพื่อนๆเข้าไปดูและให้ comments กลับมาบ้างครับ แต่วันนี้ผมจะขอเขียนถึงประสบการณ์ที่ได้เคยทดลองเองและ ทำตามคนอื่นในการทำ SEO กับ เว็บไซต์ของตัวเองนะครับ ในการสร้าง Backlinks และการเพิ่ม Link Popularity หรือ PR นั่นเองครับ เนื้อหาในหัวข้อต่างๆผมจะเขียนแบบไม่เจาะลึก(เพราะไม่มีอะไรให้เจาะ) เอาแบบเข้าใจง่ายๆครับ บทความนี้ไม่รวมในส่วนของการทำ SEO นะครับ

1. Search Engine Submission (SES)
ถือเป็นสิ่งแรกเลยนะครับหลังจากที่เว็บไซต์ของเราเสร็จสมบูรณ์ พร้อมที่จะโลดแล่นอยู่ในโลก Internet การทำการ submit เพื่อให้ Search Engines ต่างๆรู้จักกับเว็บไซต์ของเรา สำหรับบรรดา Search Engines หลักๆก็คือ Google, Msn, Yahoo, และ Search Engines อื่นๆเช่น โดยเฉพาะเจ้าพ่อแห่งวงการ อย่าง Google อย่าลืมที่จะ Submit นะครับ ซึ่งหลังจาก Submit ที่ google แล้ว เว็บของคุณอาจจะติดเจ้า Sandbox ก่อน (เป็น algorithm ชนิดหนึ่งที่ทาง Google สร้างขึ้นเพื่อเป็นการป้องกันการ Spam ครับ) ข้อดีของการ ทำ SES ก็คือท่าเว็บเราอยู่ในระบบ รับรองได้เลยว่ามีแต่ได้กับได้ครับ

2. Major Directory Submission
พวก Web Directory ก็มีมากมายหลายแบบหลายชนิด Directory ยอดนิยมที่ผู้คนให้ความสนใจที่สุดก็คงไม่พ้น พี่ DMOZ ซึ่งไม่รู้เป็นอะไร Submit ง่าย แต่อยู่ในระบบยาก แต่อย่าท้อครับ พยายามทำให้เว็บของคุณอยู่ในระบบ DMOZ ให้ได้ เพราะ เจ้าพ่อ SE อย่าง Google ก็ใช้ฐาณข้อมูลของทาง DMOZ ด้วย เหตุผลก็คือ พี่ DMOZ เขาเป็น Human Edit Directory หรือใช้แรงงานคนในการตรวจสอบนั่นเอง ซึ่งก็คือ Google Directory ส่วนอีก Directory ยอดนิยมของคนมีตังก็คือ Yahoo Web Directory ครับ แต่การที่เราจะเพิ่มชื่อเข้าไปในระบบจะมีค่าใช้จ่ายด้วย แต่เขาก็ไม่รับรองนะครับว่าจะผ่านการตรวจสอบ 100% แต่เท่าตรวจสอบมา เว็บไซต์ที่มี อยู่ในระบบของ DMOZ และ Yahoo Web Directory มักอยู่ในตำแหน่งที่ดีใน SERP (Search Engine Result Page)

3. Paid & Free Directories Submission
ของฟรีไม่มีในโลก อาจใช้ไม่ได้กับหัวข้อนี้ ผมจะบอกว่ายังมี Directories มากมายที่ให้เราได้ Submit Free และแบบเสียเงิน ซึ่งสามารถที่จะแยกออกตามหัวข้อต่างๆดังนี้

Regular Link ฟรีไม่ ชัวร์ว่าจะได้อยู่ในระบบไหม
Regular Link with Reciprocal อันก็ฟรีแต่ต้องลิงค์กลับให้เขาด้วย แต่มีแนวโน้มจะได้อยู่ในระบบสูง!
Featured Link ได้แน่นอนครับ เร็ว และได้อยู่ในอันดับต้นๆเลย แต่เสียเงิน!

พูดกันตรงๆเลยว่า พวก Directories เหล่านี้สามารถที่จะสร้าง Backlinks มาให้กับเว็บเรามากแค่ไหน ผมก็ขอตอบในส่วนของผมว่า หากเว็บเพจ ใน Directory มีค่า PR ซึ่งก็จะส่งผลดีให้กับเราอยู่แล้วยิ่งเป็นของฟรีแล้วยิ่งคุ้มครับ แต่การที่เราจะได้อยู่ในหน้าแรกๆในหัวข้อเช่น Travel ได้นั้นก็ยากพอสมควรครับ ขอให้เรามีความอดทนในการ Submit นะครับ( ตอนนี้ผมเองก็ทำทุกวัน เฮ้อ สู้ๆ)

4. Signature ลายเซ็นพิฆาต
หลายๆคนคงรู้จักทิปนี้แน่นอน(โดยเฉพาะตัวผมเองชอบมาก) ขอให้เป็นลายเซ็นที่ไม่เป็นในลักษณะการ Spam หรือขายโฆษณานะครับ (อาจโดนแบนได้จากเว็บบอร์ดนั้นๆ) เอาแบบเนียนและสวยงามครับ ผมจะบอกถึงผลดีที่เราได้รับตรงๆก็คือ Traffic จากจำนวนผู้คนที่จะเข้ามาในเว็บของส่วนผลพลอยได้แบบดับเบิ้ล ก็คือหากเว็บบอร์ดนั้นๆมีเนื้อหาสาระในหมวดเดียวกับเรา ละมีค่า PR ด้วย รับรองได้เลยว่าจะเป็น One way Link ที่มีคุณภาพคับแก้วแน่นอน

5. Link Exchange แลกลิงค์กระจาย
หัวข้อนี้ไม่มีอะไรมากครับ แลกลิงค์อย่างเดียวครับ ผมขอแนะนำให้เพื่อนๆสร้างหน้าแลกลิงค์มาโดยเฉพาะเลยนะครับ เช่น Link.html เป็นต้น เพราะว่าลิงค์ที่เราจะทำกลับไปให้ Partner ของเราจะได้ไม่ต้องทำจากหน้า Home หรือ index ของเราครับ ยังมีเว็บไซต์เช่น linkmetro.com Linkmarket.net ให้บริการโปรแกรมแลกลิงค์ ด้วยซึ่งก็มีประโยชน์กับเราตรงๆเลยครับ

6. BackLink for Sell ถึงเวลาต้องซื้อลิงค์
มีเว็บไซต์ทุนหนามากมาย ที่ต้องการให้เว็บไซต์ของตัวเองได้อยู่หน้าแรก อันดับแรกๆใน SERP ใน Keyword นั้นๆ การซื้อ Oneway Link จากเว็บไซต์ที่มีค่า PR สูงๆ ก็เป็นปัจจัยหลักๆในการสร้าง Link Popularity ครับ แต่หากเราจำเป็นต้องทำ ผมขอบอกเลยว่าทำให้เนียนนะครับ ผมขอยกตัวอย่างการซื้อ Oneway links ที่มีคุณภาพไม่ใช่ PR สูงอย่างเดียวและอย่าลืมดูว่าเนื้อหาต้องมีความ สัมพันธ์ กับเว็บไซต์ของเราด้วย โปรดอย่า!ซื้อลิงค์จำพวก 50$ for 10,000 oneway links เป็นต้น ตอนนี้เราคงต้องกลับมาถามตัวเองดูครับ ว่าถึงเวลาที่ต้องเสียเงินหรือยัง (ผมทุนน้อยชอบของฟรี)

7. Content is Everything เนื้อหาดี สาระดี ชีวิตก็ดีขึ้น
พวกเราคงเคยได้อ่าน Content is the King ใช่แล้วครับ ถ้าเว็บไซต์ของเราเนื้อหาดีมีข่าวสารน่าติดตาม
ข้อมมูลที่ดีและมีประโยชน์ต่อผู้เยี่ยมชม รับรองว่ารุ่งครับ ตัวอย่างง่ายๆก็คือหากเว็บของคุณเขียนบทความเกี่ยวกับ
Google Adsense ซึ่งเป็นบทความที่มีให้ประโยชน์กับผู้อ่านมากๆ อาจจะมีเว็บไซต์อื่นนำบทความของท่านไป ลงในเว็บของเขาและทำ ลิงค์กลับมาที่เว็บเจ้าของบทความซึ่งก็คือเว็บคุณ สิ่งที่คุณได้รับ Oneway Link ชื่อเสียง(สำคัญมาก) ไม่แปลกเลยที่หลายๆคน เขียนบทความและ Submit ไปที่ Articleห Directory (หัวข้อต่อไปครับ) อย่าลืมครับว่าไม่ใช่แค่ บทความยังมีสิ่งๆอื่นมากมากมายที่สามารถสร้าง Backlinks กัลมาได้อีกครับ

8. Articles Submission บทความ เสริมสร้างบารมี
หัวข้อภาษาไทยอาจจะดูอลังการ (นิดนึง) แต่ของอย่างนี้ไม่เจอกับตัวคงไม่เชื่อแน่ๆ บทความดีๆ บางทีสามารถที่จะทำให้จำนวนผู้เยี่ยมชมสู่เว็บคุณมีมากมายถล่มถลายจน Bandwidth –v’คุณหมดได้ครับ (ระวังไว้จะเจอกับตัว) แต่ก็อย่างว่าครับ มันขึ้นอยู่กับคุณภาพของบทความและคุณค่าที่มีให้กับผู้อ่านและ เว็บไซต์ที่ดึงไปลงในเว็บเขาครับ เพิ่มเติมอีกนิดนะครับว่า พวก Free Articles เว็บไซต์ที่ได้รับความนิยมมีเยอะครับ เช่น www.digg.com

9. PPC Pay Per Click คลิกแล้วจ่าย(ได้คุ้มเสีย)
เจ้า PPC หรือ Pay Per Click เป็นวิธีการหนึ่งที่ใช้ใน SEM (บทความแรกเลยนะครับที่ผมเขียน) ข้อดีของมันก็คือเราสามารถเจาะจงกลุ่มเป้าหมาย ที่เราต้องการให้เข้าชมเว็บของเราครับ จุดสำคัญจริงๆแล้วไม่ได้อยู่ที่จะนำคนเข้ามาตามคลิกที่เกิดขึ้นครับ แต่อยู่ที่ทำยังไงจะให้คนที่เข้ามา กลับเข้ามาอีกเรื่อยๆครับ(ย้อนไปที่หัวข้อ Content is Everything) หากเราต้องมาเสียเงินเรื่อยๆแต่สิ่งที่ตอบกลับมาคงไม่มีอะไรเลย หากมีแต่ลูกค้าหน้าใหม่ๆ เพราะเราคงไม่โปรโมทเว็บไซต์ของเราทั้งปีแน่ๆ สำหรับ PPC ก็มีหลายเจ้าที่ให้บริการอยู่นะครับ หลักๆก็ Google Adwords, Yahoo Sponsored Search, Overture อื่นๆอีกมากมายครับ

10. Email Marketing โปรโมต เว็บผ่านอีเมลย์
อันนี้เป็นวิธีเก่าเอามาทำใหม่ อย่าลืมเติมน้ำจิ้มและอุ่นก่อนทานนะครับ จริงๆแล้วเป็นวิธีที่ได้ผลพอสมควรถ้าให้ดีควรทำแบบที่ไม่เข้า ข่าย Spam นะครับ เช่นเมลย์ไปแนะนำเว็บไซต์ใหม่ที่เราทำกับ Contact List เพื่อนๆหรือคนรู้จักของเราเท่านั้นครับ ไม่ใช่เชิงพานิชย์ขายสินค้านะครับ สำคัญที่สุดก็คือ เว็บไซต์ที่ติด Adsense โปรดระวังอาจโดนแบนได้นะครับ แนะว่าไม่น่าใช้ถึงไม่น่าใช้ที่สุดครับ

Tips to get blog traffic with blog directories

There are hundreds and hundreds of blog directories out there for people to get their blogs listed. But apart from being included so that your blog can gain more exposure to the Internet users around the world, what else can a blog directory help to drive more and more traffic to your blog? Here's the answer!

With all the submitted blogs classified into various categories, bloggers can easily find blogs that are related or similar to your own blog. With this, you can start your own free advertising campaign by promoting in these related blogs. One of the easiest (and of course cheapest) way to achieve this is to leave a comment in the latest post. By leaving a comment, not only will the owner take notice of your blog but most importantly the visitors. Most visitors (me included) like to read comments very much and makes the so-called "comment advertising" so powerful.

Here are some tips you should bear in mind about leaving comments:

1. Never leave short, useless or canned comments
Comments like "Nice!", "Cool!", "Great Blog!", etc will not get you any attention from smart bloggers who would delete spam comments promptly. Take some time and read some of the content and give some solid suggestions for improvements or tell the owner why you love his/her blog. Afterall, everything is free so it takes you some time to do this. (But actually, I got a really nice tip for those who really don't have the mood to go over some tedious blogs out there. Try to give suggestions based on the layout of the blog. In this way, you only have to glance through the blog without bothering to read the content and it's always easier to criticise one's layout. You can try this: "It would be better, in my opinion, if you blend the advertisements in to your blog by setting the background colour of the ad units." By using this technique, you can give long but useful comments and gives the owner a feeling that you are here to help rather than to advertise.

2. Never be rude or too "hard-sell".
Try to be humble as you won't want others to leave comments such as "I GOT A REALLY REALLY GREAT BLOG ABOUT ENGINEERING!!!! VISIT PLEASEEEEE!!!", would you? So try to keep your tone nice and kind. Use sentences like "I also got a blog about engineering, you might want to take a look at it, here's the link." or "Can you give me some advice about my engineering blog?" Your commentwill always appear to be acceptable and pleasing if you don't sound like a salesperson.

3. Visit the blogs you have left comments on frequently and keep an eye on any replies to your post.
Only if you follow up on your comment will you gain a positive impression from thr blogmaster. Always be responsive if the owner or visitors reply to you.

4. Leave comments again when you have written a new post or changed the layout.
This keeps reminding the blogmaster of your blog as they tend to forget things after they find the first one not interesting. Keep on trying and you need some time to build up a large audience. But remember, never over do it or you sense that the owner dislike your doing so.

Starting from today, don't just use blog directories as a listing place only, use them thoroughly by discovering blogs that are of the same category as yours. And drive traffic to your blog by commenting on them. Try it yourself and see how powerful this "comment advertising" is!

25 Simple Blog SEO and Traffic Tips

This is a nice concise list of 25 ways to greatly increase your blog’s traffic and search rankings.

1) Content is king!

2) Submit your site to as many search engines as possible. After the initial indexing I would recommend resubmitting every 6 months.

3) Comment on as many blogs as possible. Make your comments thoughtful and not spammy.

4) Link up with popular blogs - trackbacks can be good for SEO as well as your traffic.

5) Write a good article and post it on a site like http://www.digg.com, although this won’t help as far as traffic goes (you will get a HUGE boost for a few hours, then it will tone back down, you probably won’t get any permanent readers from Digg) and it sure doesn’t help with your relationship with your web host, it can create some new inbound links.

6) Use http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ . Instead of the GoogleBot searching for your pages you can tell it where your pages are. This is a great way to get your whole site indexed.

7) Content is king!

Get listed on web directories like http://www.dmoz.com/. Although many SEO “experts” think it is overrated no one disagrees that it can help boost your site’s rankings.

9) Add some links for feed readers and blog aggregators like http://www.bloglines.com/, http://www.google.com/reader/, and http://myweb.yahoo.com/.

10) Add some social bookmarking links at the bottom of each post

11) Make it easy for your users to find your RSS feed

12) Add a “E-mail This!” link either on the header or the footer of each post

13) Content is king! (see a pattern?)

14) If you write a really good post try e-mailing the URL to some big-name bloggers with a short personalized message. You never know, they might like it and link to it.

15) Try asking some big sites who are in your niche if they would like to trade links. More often than not they will say “no”, but at least give it a try.

16) Don’t obsess over “get rich quick” schemes.

17) Don’t obsess over “get lots of traffic really quick” schemes.

18) Submit your RSS feed to a bunch of RSS directories, http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-directory.htm has a large list of popular directories.

19) Use http://pingomatic.com/ to notify a ton of aggregators that your site has been updated.

20) Don’t obsess over the numbers - it takes time to build up a good reader base.

21) Make your posts as keyword rich as possible. Whenever you can use a word that has to do with your niche, use it!

22) Use lists, especially if your site is targeted towards more tech-savvy users

23) If you have a MySpace page or a home page on a similar service put up a link to your blog.

24) Tag important keywords, using this site ( http://www.richardrodger.com/tags.htm ) you can tag keywords.

25) Last but not least, offer free stuff. Everyone loves free stuff!

The really important thing you have to remember is, just have fun. If your blog is causing you to become stressed out then it probably is not a good idea to continue blogging.

If your readers can tell you are having fun while providing good content they will become permanent readers.

by: Jeremy Steele

8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine

Over the past year, I’ve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites.
I picked apart the search and result designs from sites like Apple.com, NASA.gov, SchwabFoundation.org, and a variety of others. We focused on content sites, rather than e-commerce or Web applications, and we avoided general Web search engines entirely.

Our finding, not surprisingly, is that almost every site’s search engine could use improvement. We also found that most organizations’ Web teams couldn’t really affect the quality of their search results — they were stuck tweaking search technologies that had already been purchased and installed. Often, the most dramatic change they could make was in the design of the search and results interfaces. In some cases, as the old saying goes, this was like putting lipstick on a pig. But cleaning things up does help users find answers to their queries.
Through our research, we discovered eight quick fixes that will improve your site’s search experience:

1. Question search engine defaults.
Before turning on your search software, evaluate every option the software provides in terms of user needs. For example, do they really need to hide or show the result summaries? Take away as much as you can; it will simplify your results page.

2. Relevance is relative.
Ranking results based on their relevance is a subjective practice at best. Every piece of search software has its own algorithm for determining which documents best match which queries. Make sure the default ranking you select matches your user needs.

3. Help users avoid mistakes.
Check your search logs. One of the top queries will inevitably be an empty submission. While we’re not sure why this happens so frequently, users often accidently submit forms before filling them out. One of the simplest usability enhancements you can make to your site’s search experience is a single line of JavaScript. Make sure the search field has something in it before allowing the form to be submitted.

4. Roll your own results.
Even if you can’t change your search engine’s algorithm to be more relevant for your users, don’t give up hope. Frankly, one of the best ways to improve your results is to do them by hand. Get a report of the top search queries on your site. Take the top ten and find three to five pages that satisfy those queries. Then, create a simple script to match them up on your results page. When you have time, do the next 20 most popular. Stop when you get to 50. That will likely cover the majority of your users’ queries. Check the report once a month and adjust the canned results as necessary.

5. Simplify your page layout.
Almost every search engine can be more effective with a simple layout.
Include a wide text box with the user’s search query and a submit button labeled “Search again.”
Use a header that displays the total number of results and a control for displaying the next 10 (preferably an arrow pointing to the right).
List 10 results with ranking numbers hanging in the column.
Repeat the navigation controls at the bottom of the results.

6. Offer help for zero results.
If a query doesn’t find any matches, display the following:

• A text box showing the user’s query that allows them to edit it.
• Possible spelling alternatives, presented with the phrase, “Did you mean [alternative]?”
• A couple of other tips as a bulleted list. “Try a broader search term.” or “Try using a synonym.”
• Include a link to search help, a site map, and contact page.

7. Use categories if you’ve got them.
If your search software offers different search categories (often called catalogs or indices), use them to organize your results in a similar structure to your site’s architecture. Then include links at the top of the results page that show how many results match each category. This will help users narrow their search to a more manageable list.

8. Advanced search and help should be the same thing.
If you link to a page that offers usage instructions for the many features of your search engine, include interfaces for those features so they can be used without switching back and forth. See the advanced search page at HotBot for an example.

Jeffrey Veen is the Director of Product Design and a founding partner of Adaptive Path. In conjunction with author Darcy DiNucci, Jeff has just released our latest report: “Site Content Search : User Experience Analysis.” Full of real-world examples, this report provides a feature-by-feature best-practices guide to use as a design reference when developing the search experience on your site. When implementing a feature, you can easily reference how others have used it across a range of sites.
Jeff will also be speaking on this and related topics at our User Experience Week in Washington, D.C. from August 16-19, as well as our “Beyond Usability” workshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 28 and 29.

Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs - Site Themes and Design

Time for a couple more tips for the Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs Series:
Themed sites - One of the growing theories of SEO that I’ve been reading about recently is that you are more likely to rank well if you have a substantial amount of pages on a similar theme. ie a niche topic blog will probably rank higher than a general one that covers many topics. Build a blog with over 200 pages of content on the same theme and you’ll increase your chances of ranking well as SEs will see you as an authority on the topic. The take home advice here is to keep to some kind of a topic/niche/theme for your blog. Of course not doing so doesn’t mean you’ll never rank well - it’s just another factor to consider.
Site Design - Search Engines like well laid out, well coded and easily to navigate sites. Make sure your pages validate (I need to work more on this) and that they are viewable on all major browsers. Search Engines don’t tend to like too much Flash, Frames or Java Script in your site - keep it simple and clean and their robots will index your site a lot faster and more accurately. If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to the Free ProBlogger Newsletter
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