So you are here because your are wondering what SEO is? SEO is called Search Engine Optimization. The name pretty much gives you a hint itself but, let’s take a deeper look into better understanding what Search Engine Optimization is, how it works, and how it will benefit you and your website or blog.

If you own a website or a blog, you of course want to rank(be placed higher within search engines) and target as much traffic(website visits/hits) as you can. Nothing beats Organic Traffic. Organic Traffic is natural traffic that comes from people searching for keywords and terms that relate to your website within search engines and simply going to yours.

The more traffic that your website receives,the more money that you can make off of simply managing your website about something you may or may not love to write about. With this you don’t have to put in money to make it. If you are clueless to making money online with your website, shoot on over to our “Making Money Online” category.

Now that these basics are out of the way, let’s discuss SEO. As stated above, this is a practice of optimizing your website to rank well within search engines. I will discuss a couple of the main, basic ways of doing so.

• Building Back-links
• Using Anchor Text
• Using Keywords To Target Traffic
• Optimizing Your Meta Tags
• Unique Content

The best way to rank well within Google is by building back-links. A back-link is simply a one way link back to your site. Google counts this as a vote for your website. You want to build quality back-links with sites that are relevant to your niche(what your website is about) and with high PR websites. (PR is Page Rank 1-10, 10 being the highest). You can check website page rankings by simply using the Google Page Rank Checker tool.

Within back-links you want to use anchor text. Anchor text is the text within a link. Within this text you want to use keywords that you are trying to rank for within Google. So for let’s say this site, I would link with a few sites with my site link on theirs being “SEO Tips” then on a few others “SEO Tutorials” and on others “Search Engine Optimization” and so on so forth. You don’t want to over use just one keyword. Try to rank for a few different ones that are related to your website. It’s up to you how many you want to try and rank well for.

Using keywords which are related to your website to drive traffic is of course a must. As stated above, these are terms that you want people to search for within Google and stumble upon your site by searching them. Use keywords in meta tags, page titles, article titles, categories in your navigation bar, within your articles and etc. Do not overuse keywords in articles or on pages for this is called keyword stuffing and your site may get penalized or banned.

For every web page that you have, you want to have optimized meta-tags which are in the header of your page. Use keywords within your meta-title, description, and meta-keywords. Meta-keywords really aren’t too effective on ranking anymore because of the abuse of keyword stuffing in the past. It still doesn’t hurt to use it though. In your titles of pages, use some keywords you are trying to rank for. In the description, describe what the page is about while using a few keywords within the first 150 characters or so.

Unique Content is something I have to stress. Google doesn’t like duplicate pages and plagiarized work. Always update with fresh content that hasn’t been discussed before. Even if it has, write it better than all of those others out there. I do not recommend using article re-writers. If you can’t write a decent article about something you are interested in, you don’t need to be running a website.

Remember, you don’t have to pay out thousands of dollars to have your site ranked well within Google. You can do this yourself and we give you all of the tools, tutorials, and tips needed to achieve this. We use all of these methods on this site constantly and by each day that goes by, we rank higher and higher.

If you have any further questions simply leave a comment.

–R&R Craig

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With every new release, SEO Inc strives to improve on these plug-in’s with an easier interface for user and teaches us that much more on learning SEO Techniques.

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In this article I will explain this pretty thorough and it is quite simple. I use this method whenever I kick off a new website or blog. First you will need to find an auto tweet plugin for whatever platform you may use, or maybe an auto tweet widget. Search google ..

Increase Website Traffic

If you use wordpress, get the WP to Twitter plugin and install it. This is what is called an “Twitter Auto Cross-Poster” which basically means it automatically cross posts your articles and blogs to Twitter. It will post a headline or whichever you set it to with a link on the end back to your article.

If you don’t already have a twitter and make one. Try to get as many follows as you can. I usually build it up to between 1000-2000 followers. Even a few hundred should get you started.

Setting up Twitter Auto Cross-Poster

Once you have installed it go into the options panel and you can customize it from there. Be sure to enter your login information for Twitter. This is pretty customizable and you can even choose from a couple different URL shortening sites.

I actually discovered this method when I started using Twitter last year and noticed a significant change in my uniques and hits. Make sure you update a couple times a day and add a few new articles daily. If you write articles that are unique and intriguing, your visitors will stick around. Try to urge your visitors to discuss the topic. If you keep your site/blog updated with fresh content everyday, you will notice with every day that goes by, your hits will increase. Depending on your content, you may see a huge increase. For example, when I started an old blog using this technique, I was getting 300+ hits a day after less than a week of doing so. As your site gets more popular, you will move up in ranking and well, you can guess what happens from there.

Another technique to double or triple the hits is use a couple different Twitter accounts with a seperate plugin for each one, or find one that posts to multiple accounts. Make sure you have a different follower base with each different account.

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If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment.

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So, why do you want a high page rank?What does a page rank do for you?

You want a high page rank because it gets you noticed in search engines, popularity, and around the net. Also as your rank goes up with your popularity, so does your hits a visitors. This has a greater possibility of happening when your page is ranked high within Google and other search engines. There is a ranking mechanism that ranges from P1 through to P10. Your goal is to be at P10. So, how do you get to one up into one of these spots? How can and what will give you a P10 ranking within the search community? There are many ways. You can do it by having text links to other pages. This put’s up your ranking, also when you are ranking for certain keywords, you want to use an anchor in your text links.

What is Anchor Text?

Anchor text is your basic href link with text in it. for example:
<a href=”http://www.seotipsandtricksforyou.com”>Seo Tips And Tricks</a>

Now your link text will come up as “Seo Tips And Tricks” .

Now when you link to a lot of pages, this will bring up your ranking but you must look into the quality of the pages you are linking to. So you want to have text links from your pages that go to pages already high in the Google ranking system. Stay away from link farms and spammy sites. Doing this will get you ranked higher.

Now this is a pretty long process, you should find some other ways to do this. You objective is to Build Page Rank higher. Here are some other ways to do so.

Blogging – If you are a blogger this is a good way. Link up with other Bloggers, do guest posts on other related blogs using Anchor Text and links in your articles.

Page content – So what is in your pages, how unique is your content? Do not use duplicate content for Google does not like this, do not steal other sites content either. Make your page interesting, to the mind and to the eye. If you site is unique other sites will come to you more often.

Social Networks – There has been a huge debate on this but Social Networking is great for a website. Build a page for your website, give information, add friends and reach out to people. Interact with others, don’t just spam or people will disown your site. Post links around in comments urging others to come to your site. Post when you have new content, try to get users active in discussion.

These are just a few ways that you can increase your ranking with. Focus on your content, make your content interesting that will keep readers around waiting for more. Get your readers into the discussion. Have a site that people want to link to, and you will achieve getting a higher ranking.

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So here is what I pretty much do and what I use to do so.

First off I use Wordpress. I use the All In One Seo Plugin, Wordtwit(to automatically cross post my stories to my twitter), Sociable plugin, Related posts plugin, Subscribe & share plugins(for sharing on social networking sites), XML Site map plugin, Socialize it pro(to cross post to other social networking sites) and of course Permalinks.

I have found permalinks to really help a lot. In the permalinks I always list the keywords and keep it short. The keywords I use for it are based off of google trends.

Now I use Google trends everyday to get content for the top used keywords and write based off of it. I also use the keywords listed from 1 or more related top searched keywords.

Now in the title of my posts I always try to use the keywords and try to keep it short.

For example I did a story on Kal Penn when he died on that tv show.

In the title I Had it say “Kal Penn Death”
In the body I had the story, I made every keyword bold.
Now at the bottom of every post I list keywords and bold them also.

Like for example:

Keywords:
kal penn, kal penn death, kal penn death house, etc..
You will want to put anchor links in your post also. I didn’t but it always helps.
Now of course I list the keywords in the tags and in the all in one seo pack tags for each post which you can find at the bottom of the post page when writing an article.

Now for my permalinks I have it set like so for example:
http://www.therantandrave.net/wp/2009/08/08/seo-plugins-for-wordpress/

You always want to use keywords in your posts and in your categories so this post was in Search Engine Optimization Tips now heres how you want to list it:

http://www.therantandrave.net/wp/category/search-engine-optimization-tips/

And this is a keyword I am trying to rank for. Make sense?
Right after I posted a particular article I happenned to get 15,000 unique visits(the story must of beenpopular on digg or hit the front page) I am still unsure where all of the traffic was directed from to be honest.

In my all in one seo pack plugin, I go into it and add keywords from every post also every time I make a new post into the meta tags and what not.

I do about 3+ posts a day, I have found that doing 5 posts based on google trends top searched keywords works best. But don’t just do em based on that, try to write a couple that interests you or that you might think might interest others too on top of it.

Make sure to keep your xml site map updated after any update to the site, this helps also.

So all in all, I use these plugins, I write 5 or so stories based off of googles top searched trends, I make sure titles are short and have the main keywords in them and the permalinks also, I make sure to include keywords in tags, meta, in the post itself and at the bottom of the post itself and I bold all of them in my posts and I write 1 or 2 articles not related to google trends on top of it. I let my auto cross posters submit em to social networking sites, twitter works wonders if you have a lot of followers in which I have about 1400 followers that I added within an hour of setting my twitter up and I use ping backs(pingomatic.com) also. I get spam from it though but I do get traffic from it.

I did not use any backlinks at the time. So I did this without using any backlinks.

I’ve noticed the top trends are also keywords that aren’t competitive either for instance I posted a story tonight about the boston marathon 09 and typed it in google and was listed in the 1st search for that keyword and for boston marathon 09 video keyword which got me a bunch of traffic from the search engine for a few hours before it was knocked out of place by more popular sites that ended up doing the same articles. But I have noticed that I am getting more and more search engine traffic every day which is what we aim for.

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First, you need to know what is CPA. CPA stands for Cost Per Action or Cost Per Acquisition. In simple language, CPA means you get paid when someone visits your site and takes some action. The action can be a purchase or submission of some information like an email address, zip code or credit card information. Such information is collected by companies for marketing purposes. In return, you get some free samples, prizes or products.

A CPA network has all these offers from various advertisers. The CPA network acts as the agent between us publishers and the advertisers. By becoming a publisher for a CPA network, we get a permission to promote offers and make money. This means the first and most important thing to make money with CPA networks is to get approved by the CPA network. Lot of people treat these application forms like free email service sign up forms and end up getting disapproved. One should take a good look at the application form and fill it with proper care and understanding. Here are some points that you need to understand before applying for a CPA network.

1. Most of the CPA offers are limited to US, UK and Canada. While applying, make sure that you provide the URL of your website which has a maximum of visitors from any of these countries.
2. A website like celebrity news has a lesser chance of getting approved compared to a site built around a product. So try and submit a website which has more information on a particular product or products.
3. While applying, use your domain specific email address. Something like yourname@yourbusiness.com sounds good and looks genuine.
4. Try and use reference of some person/blog/site you have been following. This helps because the affiliate network knows what you are trying to do and where do you come from.
5. If you don’t look for promoting offers through emails, then don’t check the option that says promotion by email. Affiliate Networks are strict on email marketing and will have a close check on you. I have seen people get in trouble with email marketing. Don’t do it if you don’t know the legal aspects of email marketing. You might get disapproved, if youa re not able to answer questions on email marketing.
6. Most Important – You will always find a section (text box) where you can add comments or more info while submitting your form. Make use of this box, do not ever leave it blank. This is very important for someone who is not in the United States or Canada as publishers outside these countries don’t get approved so easily. This box can be used to explain on what do you know about Internet Marketing, mention about your experience with PPC, SEO etc. Most importantly, mention about other networks who have approved you. This will help you get approved for sure.

Most of you will still get disapproved due to various reasons. Don’t just cry over it. Most of the affiliate networks want to talk to you over the phone. Once you get the not approved email, just pick up the phone and speak to someone in their office. Explain them what you are planning to do and how are you going to do it. Every person needs a start and if this is your start then tell them so. Be honest with whatever you say and you will be approved. Once approved, do let me know if any of my points above helped you.

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