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Using Twitter For Instant Web Traffic

Today I am going to discuss a tutorial I wrote a while back about using twitter to receive traffic to your website or blog. This helps to build on ranking when you have a new site. We all know that SEO takes time and work everyday. It can take a while to actually see desired results. What you need is to start getting traffic right from the get go. What better method than using twitter?

The first step in this process is to have your website ready and published on the net. Now let’s drive some traffic.

Create a twitter account

You can easily set up a twitter account in 1 minute. Simply shoot on over to twitter.com and register for a new account. It is quick and free. I would suggest customizing your twitter with a background and site logo within the background.

Getting quick follows

Now we need to get you some followers. The most you can add is about 1500-2000 followers in a day. I would add about 1400 just to stay off of twitters radar. As more people add you back, you can add more followers. You can simply search for people that are related to your niche and manually add them or you can shoot on over to buzzom.com which let’s you easily target your audience by users who are related to your niche. Build up about 1400-2000 followers right from get go.

I want to stress the fact that you need to target followers who relate to your websites niche. You need to do so because, if you are adding people who are interested in let’s say for example “technology” and your website is about “myspace layouts”, nobody is really going to be interested in what you have to offer.

Auto-Cross Posting To Twitter

So you don’t have to spend a lot of time posting your articles and links to twitter, you need to download an auto-cross poster. If you are using wordpress there are tons of plug-ins for this. Simply just search Google for an auto-cross poster or for wordpress search “Wordpress To Twitter Plug-in”. What this does is let you configure your site to automatically post headlines of your new articles with a shortened URL/Link back to your article page. These plug-ins use a link shortening service automatically so that you can have more characters to write into your tweet.

Start Posting / Adding Content

Now all you have to do is just simply post your content and with every new article you write, it will be shown on twitter. Depending on your audience and how many twitter followers you have, this will bring you about 100 hits a day with just 2000 followers. (Not everyone will click and go to your article) So this is just my range of hits. With an old news site I was getting 400+ hits a day just from twitter alone with 2000 followers.

All in all, this will help build up your websites popularity while you focus on the SEO and maintenance of website or blog. If you have any questions or like this method, please leave some feedback below.

How To Make Money With A Blog

There are many ways to make money online. Today I will be discussing how to make money with a blog. You can also use these same standards for any kind of website. This is a basic tutorial on how to make money blogging.

Making money with a blog is one of the most easy, efficient ways of doing so. You don’t have to put any time into custom coding your website or doing any programming for dynamic content. It is all set for you and ready to go with one install. This can be done for free or with $15.00 monthly.

Where do I start a free blog?

If you don’t want to invest any money into running a blog, you can go to blogspot and create yourself a blog for a free in minutes. There are benefits to putting a few bucks into your blog though. Blogspot is just one of the free sites around. You can find many others if you search Google.

Why should I invest money?

The benefits to investing money is, you will have your own hosting and a domain name (yourname.com). This way you can brand your website or product and it also looks better to visitors. You can also focus on your niche as to what kind of website yours is and so on.

So….how do I make money?

The possibilities are endless. One of the easiest ways of doing so is through Google Adsense and let’s throw Adbrite in there also. These are two of my most profitable PPC(pay per click) programs I use. What these programs do is enable you to put their ads on your website to fit your niche and in exchange you will get paid per click and per 1000 impressions. So what this means is everytime that someone clicks on an ad you get paid for the click and every 1000 views your ad has you get paid.

Another way I am going to discuss is with Affiliate Networks. An Affiliate Network is basically the middle man between you and the large companies paying to have their ads out there. When you join one of these networks you will get a list of campaigns or products to promote. Depending on the ad, they will either pay you by lead or by sale. A lead is where you don’t have to make any sales. For example let’s say you are promoting a simple “Make Money Taking Surveys” offer. With this offer on Cxdigitalmedia, it will pay you $1.50 every time someone clicks to the ad and just simply enters their email. A sale is pretty self explanatory. Sales are harder to promote but they payout anywhere from $35.00 – $200.00 plus bucks! It all depends on what kind of site you are running.

Now this is simple but you also need to figure out a way to drive traffic to your website.

Here are a few good Affiliate Networks:

CXDigitalMedia
Maxbounty
NeverBlue
ClickBank

I am getting traffic but no ad clicks, why?

This can be a tricky situation. You want to monetize your site to make you money. Where you place your ads is crucial. With Google and Adbrite you have the option of blending the ads into sections of your site to make it look more like it is a part of your site. So if you write an article simply place an ad above it, under it or even in between a paragraph. Put one in your side bar, or even in the header of your site. It all depends on placement. Test it out in different positions and work with your results to find the best targeted area.

With affiliate network ads, you always want to choose one that is related to one or more of your pages. If you have a page about video games but you’re trying to promote a dating offer, it is not going to happen. You could even do reviews on related products then tell the visitor “Hey! if you like this product you may be interested in (other product)” .

So I have a blog, where is my traffic?

This is the challenging part. There are many ways to drive traffic to your blog / website. You should start to learn SEO which is Search Engine Optimization. This is a practice in which you can optimize your blog so that you can rank high in search engines. If you need help be sure to check out our SEO Tutorials . I recently wrote another article about Increasing Traffic With Twitter so you should check this out also for instant traffic while you are studying SEO.

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Things you should always do with SEO

So what are the do’s when it comes to Search Engine Optimization? In our last discussion we talked about things that you shouldn’t do when optimizing your blog / site for search engines. To follow up please read our other topic “Things Never To Do With SEO” before you get started reading this.

Let’s get started shall we?

Don’t optimize once then quit.

When you are going to optimize for search engines, never quit after a day or two. SEO is not a one time thing. You have to stay on top of it everyday, with every new addition you make to your site, every new page. With search engines, they are always changing their algorithms so the methods and techniques that we use now might not work down the road.

When applying SEO Techniques to your site you will never see results instantly. Keep in mind that patience is the key and the seo methods that you use on your site now will benefit you down the road.

For beginners.

If you are new to SEO the few tips that you learn are not going to be enough. Always look around the net to learn new SEO techniques. Look around for new articles and tutorials that are recent also.

Using web analytics.

This is crucial when you are applying these methods to your website. This can help you see what and what isn’t working so you can switch it up. Also keep track on all of your content and see what is most popular, what the readers like to see. That way you can base new content off of those things.

Using a site map

Site Maps are crucial to getting a higher ranking in search engines. A site map helps spiders find all of the important pages or the pages that you want to be shown on search engines. With every new page you add be sure to keep your map updated. if you have navigation menu’s that are hard for spiders to crawl this will also direct them down the right path. I have explained this in other articles about using text in your navigation menu’s. If your site is fairly big, use a few different site maps.

Using SEO in your URLs

Don’t use basic names in your urls. Don’t use a bunch of numbers or letters either. You want to make your urls have keywords in them spaced out by hyphens. Don’t use underscores, hyphens mean the same thing as a space between the words as underscores do not.Don’t over do it with the hyphens though because it will make your page look like it is a spam to users. I’d say when doing this have a limit of about 3 or 4. For example yoursite.com/seo-tips-and-tricks.html

Keyword Research

When you begin a website or a project you should do this from the start. This way you can figure out what keywords you want to rank for and what not to. Look at the volume of one keyword to the next. Try opening up a PPC account also. I prefer Google Ad Words. This helps you find out the volume of your keywords.

Title and Meta Tags

Search engines don’t care much for Meta Tags anymore because of the abuse in the past but again it does not hurt to do this. Titles are one of the most important factors. With your titles simply use the keywords that you are building your page and article around. This helps your ranking. Meta keywords won’t help you rank but when you have a Meta Description it will show up on search engines under your link and explains the page a little bit. When using Meta Keywords limit it to 600-700 characters. In the Meta Keywords only put keywords in there that don’t appear on your page.

Writing

Don’t just write for search engines and stuff all of your pages. This makes them looks spammy and your readers will not stick around. Write pages for your readers, the search engines have bots but has a bot read your article and stuck around? Has a bot bought anything or even signed up for a mailing list? You need keywords and such in your articles but don’t stuff the hell out of it.

Unique Content

As I have explained in other articles, unique content is the number one thing to do. This can be hard depending on what your niche is but if you have content that isn’t anywhere else, your readers will be intrigued. Make sure your content is interesting also, just because it is unique doesn’t mean it is great. Combine intriguing with unique and you got your self something nice.

Anchor Text – Internal Linking

As I have explained in my other article “Building Page Rank“, Anchor Text is also a must. Anchor Text helps spiders know what the page you linked to is about. Using keywords in the text helps your ranking but also tells them what the page is about when listing it in the search engines. If your anchor just says “Here”, it doesn’t help much for search engine visibility.

Building Links

Submit your site to directories that are popular, high ranked and trusted. Try and get links from popular sites in your niche and category. If you are running a site that is for your local area you can try to find trusted sites that are in your area geographically. Analyze your inbound links also to find what you may be looking for when linking and back linking. You can read more on back linking in our previous article “SEO Techniques all websites should use” along with many other techniques.

Social Media & Networks

Using social media websites like digg.com , propeller.com and many others gets your articles and sites exposed better. Also using social networks like twitter also can do the same thing. This helps you connect with many others directly to better promote your website. You can also use twitter to post new updates to your followers automatically. For more information, read the latest article I wrote for “Increasing site traffic with twitter on auto-pilot“.

And there you have it. These are some of the main things you should always do and use when optimizing your website or blog for search engines. If you have any questions please comment below or ask and discuss it in there forum. If you would like one on one training feel free to contact me.

craigygee@therantandrave.net

Twitter Auto-Follow Program – free

This is our new release on our software that we are calling Twit Auto-Follow for now.. Until we think of a better name for it. This software/script is free and it is open source. So we urge you to have fun with it and updates us about any changes you make to it that make it better because we would like to see what you can do with it =)

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Myspace Underground Review-Free Friend Adder? No way!

Myspace Underground Review

I figured I would do a review on a site that I host for a friend, try to get it out there a bit. This is one of the only websites on the net that offers Free Friend Adding Software . Inside they offer a bunch of goodies for myspace promotion and SEO. When you enter the front page, at the bottom you have to complete 2 free offers that will take you a minute to complete and then you can register and log in to the site. I have been using this software myself and it has done me wonders on top of my twitter method that helps me Increase Traffic Using Twitter On Auto-pilot .

Myspace Underground is not just for the software though, there are tons of myspace scripts, layouts, codes, cms systems for starting myspace resource websites inside also. A lot of underground goods that you won’t find anywhere else hence the name “Myspace Underground”. I am thinking about starting one because with proper SEO and updated content, those sites get huge and bring in a lot of revenue. There was a girl from my city a few years back who owns whateverlife.com who got rich at age 15 from just starting a layout website back in the day and she noticed she started making a lot of money with Google AdSense and took it from there.

Here are some of the features of the program.

• Auto Friend Adding
• Auto Friend Grabber
• You can target certain groups of people that might be interested in your niche of a website/blog.
• Auto Comment
• Auto Message
• Auto Bulletin posting and I like this because you can even set timed posts to get a bulletin out how ever often you’d like.
• You can load in text files with friend id’s, doesn’t matter how big the file size is.(You can Add millions, heh.)

The software is also kept up to date.

So if you are trying to make money online, or even just increase traffic to your site, this method is excellent. I also use this to actually promote my solo music career and I target people who are interested in the genre of music that I play and I get thousands of friends and hits. I never bothered with those friend trains because they are just pure garbage and the people that you add just consider you as a number, which is the problem with myspace. Never add myspace whores when trying to promote and market something.

So let’s support this site and spread the word. If you’d like to promote you may use the banner above for promotion, and after you register and get inside, you can sign up for the affiliate program so you can get paid for promotion also.

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SEO Techniques all websites should use

In this article I am going to discuss ten SEO Techniques that all websites should use. These are the basic fundamentals to successful website Search Engine Optimization.

1. Title Tag

Near the very top of a web site’s source code you’ll find various meta tags — the standard ones being the Title, Description and Keyword tags. The title tag is technically not a meta tag, though it is commonly associated with them. The title tag plays such a large role in the indexing of your web site, that it is considered the most important of the three.

A page title is the first thing a search engine will look at when determining just what the particular page is about. It is also the first thing potential visitors will see when looking at your search engine listing.

It’s important to include a keyword or two in the title tag — but don’t go overboard – you don’t want to do what’s known as “keyword stuffing” which does nothing but make your web site look like spam. Most people will include either the company name, or title of the particular page here, as well.

2. Meta Tags

There are two primary meta tags in terms of SEO — the description and the keyword tag. It’s debatable whether the search engines use the description tag as far as ranking your results. However it is one of the more important tags because it is listed in your search result — it is what users read when your link comes up and what makes them decide whether or not to click on your link.

Be sure to include a few relevant keywords in this tag, but don’t stuff it with keywords either. The description tag should read like a sentence — not a keyword list.

Due to “keyword stuffing” many search engines now completely disregard the keyword tag. It is no longer nearly as important as it was years ago, however it doesn’t hurt to include them in your source code.

When creating your keyword list, you’ll want to think of the specific terms people will type in when searching for a site like yours. Just don’t go overboard — too many duplicates are not a good thing (as in “web designer” “web designers” “custom web designer” “html web designer” “your state here web designer” – you get the idea). Those are all basically the same, so pick one or two variations at the most and move onto the next keyword.

3. Proper Use of Heading Tags

This is a very important element to consider when writing out your site copy. Use of heading tags helps users, web browsers and search engines alike know where the major key points of your copy are.

Your main page title should use the <h1> tag — this shows what your page is about. Use of additional tags, such as <h2> and <h3> are equally important by helping to break down your copy. For one, you’ll see a visual break in the text. But as far as the search engines are concerned, it will automatically know what your topics are on a page. The various heading tags give a priority to the content and help index your site properly.

4. Alt Attributes on Images

Putting alt attributes on your images actually serves two purposes. In terms of SEO, putting a brief yet descriptive alt attribute along with your image, places additional relevant text to your source code that the search engines can see when indexing your site. The more relevant text on your page the better chance you have of achieving higher search engine rankings.

In addition, including image alt attributes help the visually impaired who access web sites using a screen reader. They can’t see the image, but with a descriptive alt attribute, they will be able to know what your image is.

5. Title Attributes on Links

Including title attributes on links is another important step that any good web site will have. That’s the little “tool tip” that pops up when you place your mouse over a link. These are especially important for image links, but equally useful for text links.

As a note, you should use descriptive text for your links. “Click here” doesn’t really tell a person – or more importantly, the search engines — what the link is. At the very least put a title tag that will explain that “Click Here” really means “Web Design Portfolio” for example. Better yet – make the main link text something like “View my web design portfolio” — this will give some value to the link showing that the resulting page is relevant to searches for portfolio’s.

6. XML Sitemap

XML sitemaps are used by the search engines in order to index through your site, as well.

This list of ALL pages / posts / etc. of your site also includes information such as the date the page was last modified, as well as a priority number of what you feel the most important pages of your sites are. All elements that help the search engines properly find and link to all content of your site.

7. Relevant Content

Having content relevant to your main page or site topic is perhaps the most important SEO aspect of a page. You can put all the keywords you want in the meta tags and alt image tags, etc — but if the actual readable text on the page is not relevant to the target keywords, it ends up basically being a futile attempt.

While it is important to include as many keywords in your page copy as possible, it is equally as important for it to read well and make sense. I’m sure we’ve all seen keyword stuffed pages written by SEO companies that honestly don’t make much sense from the reader’s point of view.

When creating your site copy, just write naturally, explaining whatever information you’re discussing. The key is to make it relevant, and to have it make sense to the reader. Even if you trick the search engines into thinking your page is great — when a potential customer arrives at the site and can’t make heads or tails of your information and it just feels spammy to them — you can bet they’ll be clicking on the next web site within a matter of seconds.

8. Link Building

We’ve probably all heard of Google Page Rank — it seems to be every web site owner’s dream to have as high a page rank as possible. While the algorithm for determining page rank encompasses many elements, and is constantly changing, one item is the number of links pointing to your web site.

Now, you’ll want to steer clear of link farms and other spammy attempts at getting links to your site. However there are many reputable and niche directory sites that you can use to submit your web site, or specific blog articles to.

With genuine content — especially if you have a blog — you’ll be able to generate links with other web sites and blogs, as well. It’s somewhat of a give and take, in that if you link out to other sites, you’ll find sites linking back to you — and hopefully see your page rank going up, as well!

9. Social Media

Although technically not SEO, Social Media is such a growing factor in getting your web site noticed, that it’s an important element to include in your plan.

Social media ranges from social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn — to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and many more. There is a lot of relationship building involved, but as you build your own networks and build quality content on your web site or blog, you’ll see traffic to your web site increasing, as well.

As with any relationship, it is a give and take. Don’t just expect to join a site like Twitter for the pure sake of pushing your content. That just won’t fly — your true intentions will stick out like a sore thumb and do nothing but turn people off.

Even if you are on the site purely for networking reasons, the key is to make friends. Help out members of your network if they ask for a “retweet” or Digg, give helpful advice if asked, etc. You’ll see the same in return.

If you write a great post and have built meaningful relationships with peers in your niche, you’ll often find that friends will submit your posts and give you votes on the social bookmarking sites. The more votes you receive, the more likely your post is to be noticed by others and shared around, often resulting in additional link backs from other blogs, etc.

10. A Few SEO Don’ts — Flash and Splash

Along with any list of Do’s come the Don’ts. As far as SEO is concerned, two of these items are splash pages (often consisting of a flash animation) and all flash web sites.

Yes, flash is pretty! Full flash web sites can actually be amazing to look at — their own bit of interactive artwork. But unfortunately the search engines don’t get along well with Flash. Although there is talk of possible advancement in this area, for the most part the search engines cannot read Flash.

All that great content that you wrote for your site will not be seen by the search engines if it’s embedded into a Flash web site. As far as the search engines are concerned, your all flash web site might as well be invisible. And if the search engines can’t see your site content, a good chunk of potential customers will miss out on what you have to offer, too.

Equally as “pointless” are splash pages. Once very popular, the splash page should no longer be an important feature of any site. While splash pages used to serve as an introduction into a web site (often with a flash animation), it is no longer seen as helpful, and often times might actually annoy visitors.

For one — it’s an extra click to get into your content. Worse is when you don’t give a “skip intro” option or set of links into your main site content — because you’re essentially forcing your visitors to sit through the full animation. If you’re lucky, this will only annoy them… if not — they’ll just leave without giving your main web site a shot. And without an html link pointing into your site, the search engines have no way to continue either (unless you made use of a sitemap.xml file — but still…)

A good alternative to both issues is to make use of a flash header. There’s no problem to include a flash animation at the top of your main site, or as a feature within the content area, etc. Because this is an addition to your web site, as opposed to a full separate element.

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8 Steps To Increase Traffic For Your Blog

So you are expecting traffic huh? You only get as much as you put in. Keeping your blog or website updated with fresh content the key factor. Put your self in the readers position, what are you searching for? You are looking for the right answer or maybe a justified opinion on a certain topic.

Many people always ask “Where can I find Article Rewriting software?“. I usually tell them that you can find them all over the net for free but really, it just takes other authors content and rearranges words around. that is not original nor unique. You are just giving the same info that many others have given. A method I use to kick off any website or blog is using my unique content and crossposting it to social media / networking websites. Visit my article “Increasing site hits with Twitter on autopilot” if you would like to know more.

Blog Networks

Even if your blog is still semi under construction you can still get involved in the blogging community. It is best to build relationships with other bloggers. You can join other blogging communities and search through blogs that interest you. Post comments and guest post if necessary.

Commenting

Most of the time when you comment a blog, you have an option to put in your url of your blog / website that will be displayed with your comment. You want to find blogs that relate and interest you, once you do this make sure you leave meaningful comments. Never spam on blogs. If you look like you know what your are talking about on the subject most of the time others will click that link back to your website to see who you are and what you are about. Now doing this on blogs also forms relationships between you and the owners of those blogs that you visit often.

Chatrooms

This is some of the oldest way of promotion. Find chatrooms that relate to your blog. Let the people you chat with in on your blog and what it is about. If you build relationships in chatrooms that you visit frequently, these people will support you and your website. This is actually how I got into web design way back in the day when I used to visit a chatroom everyday. I built a relationship, started learning web design and getting help through other members showing off their websites and I took it from there. The next thing you know everyone in the chat was supporting me and visiting my website and forum multiple times a day.

Blog Reviews

You can contact other blog owners asking them to write a review of your blog. Now in return you would want to write a review of their blog and usually you will end up exchanging links. Make sure you don’t make the review sound too cheesed up and don’t post them on the same days.

Forums

Join forums related to your website. Put your website links in your sig with maybe a banned picture. You can also visit webmaster forums and ask for a review on your website. I use Digital Point daily for everything I do. forums.digitalpoint.com . You can also set up your profile on there to show your latest blog posts in your profile and in your posts. Do not ever spam a forum.

Link Directories

There are tons of these out there. Be sure to submit your site around to multiple ones. Just do some research on them first and make sure they aren’t link farms or have a bunch of spam sites listed within them. This is not good on your websites behalf.

Freebies

If you are trying to increase traffic, you can always offer advertising space, guest posting space, hosting, or whatever you can think of to other blogs that aren’t huge. You can ask them to just mention you in a post, let you guest blog, exchange advertising space, and lots more.

Link Exchange

Try to find other blogs / websites that have a similar amount of traffic to yours, or try to get in good with someone who runs a popular blog / site and ask to exchange links.

Increase site hits with Twitter on autopilot

How to use Twitter on auto-pilot to increase hits?

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 ..

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.

Wordpress Media Site Technique

Here is a technique I tried back in April of 2009 with my old news / media website. This got me a steady stream off traffic and in no time I was getting 500+ hits a day within a month or so of getting my new website off of the ground. I got results within the week of doing this method.

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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