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The items covered here are:

1) Don’t Wait before Blogging.

2) Using Blogs to get your site found quickly.

3) What have Blogs and PR got to do with Indexing.

4) How to get your large sites pages found quickly.

5) If you’re using Adsense on those Pages - learn from this.

6) If you’re selling Clickbank products - you need this.

1) Don’t Wait before Blogging.

If you’ve been looking at creating a blog but don’t know how or why to do it, stay tuned for a new product announcement that’ll help you out.

Just to show you how quick and easy it can be, I’ve created several new blogs and fed them all through ‘feedburner’ to add tracking facilities and I’ll be conducting some tests and giving you the results when I’m done.

I now use Blogger for 30 different blogs. It’s easy to use, you can include Adsense within their interface easily, you can have it ftp the files to be hosted automatically on your own website etc. etc.

If you want tracking, whether you host the blog your self or not, you can go to Feedburner and ‘burn’ the feed. This will not only giving you tracking stats but also let you tweek it to be more compatible (Bloggers default output format is .atom) and also add other revenue streams to it.

I’ve blogged an introduction to RSS which I believe is currently the best free information around Here , and the ‘burnt’ version is: Blogging

Video tutorials for setting up a blog, configuring the blog, pinging, ‘burning feeds’ etc. are available here:
http://pheedcentral.com/blogandping_offer.html

2) Using Blogs to get your site found quickly.

If you’re struggling to get new websites found by the Yahoo Search Engine, here’s a little tip you might like.

Set up a Blog with whichever service you prefer (I like Blogger.com)Go over to Yahoo.com and setup a ‘MyYahoo’ account. It’s free.

Then on your MyYahoo homepage and goto the section that says ‘choose content’ and then tick the box that says RSS Headlines (BETA).

Add your feed url(s) to this, so that they are shown on your MyYahoo page.

Yahoo will be around with 48 hours. I’ve created videos of this that I’ll release very soon.

3) What have Blogs and PR got to do with Indexing.

The reason that Blogs and PR are linked to getting indexed is this:-

A) When you setup a blog it’s not quite the same as having a new website because there’s one major difference - Even if they don’t have the facility built in, you can effectively ‘announce’ the presence of your blog (and any new content you add to it) by ‘pinging’ (sending an announcement to) several large blog directories. In effect, this is like doing the ‘add url’ on a search engine, except that blogs get visited Very quickly whereas it could take ages for your site to get indexed this way.

If you use Blogger then there’s a tickbox labelled “ping Weblogs” which if selected, will announce your new content to the Weblogs.com service whenever you post new material - this has the effect of getting the Googlebot (not mediabot) to visit your blog sometimes within minutes. Thus, if you’ve linked to some new pages on your site (some deep pages) - they usually also get a visit pretty quickly.

It’s like getting a link from somewhere you know gets spidered regularly - except you can cause it to be spidered. (which is nice).

If you want Yahoo to come and see you quickly too, whether you’re using Blogger or a different blogprogram, you can create a free MyYahoo account and add your feeds to it - that’ll have the effect of ‘announcing’ them to Yahoo.

Again, the reason for this isn’t to make your blog rank well - it’s to get the links to your actual websites new pages to get spidered quickly because you’re using the blog to call the bots for a visit and linking from the blog to your new pages.

B) The Page Rank comments - These are a reflection of the fact that in general, higher page rank sites get visited by the bots more frequently (since you can have a high PR from good internal linking and a few high PR incoming links from sites without much traffic - this is a generalisation and NOT a rule), so it’s more likely that if you’re not blogging and pinging that a few high PR links (from traffic heavy sites) will be a good alternative.

If you want even more, here’s something I wrote on another forum recently (and in my blogs) about getting a high page count site indexed quickly:

4) How to get your large sites pages found quickly.

No-one can guarantee that your site will be indexed in 24 hours since the only person with ultimate control is Google.

However, the key to getting a new site fully indexed is deep linking.

If you were to just leave the site and get links to the index page, you could end up waiting 9 months to get it all in.

Have you created a site map(s).

Depending on your site, it may pay you to create several site maps for different parts of your site.

The basic principle is this:

The Search Engine Bots will investigate pages that they find links to from pages that they’re already visiting (you know this since you mentioned blog and ping).
When they do this, the work on a portion of the pages they’ve found about about at a time, so the more pages and the deeper the links to those pages - the longer it will take and the more times the bot will need to come back to get more.

So, the most effective thing you can do is: Create several site maps which cover lots of pages that have fairly shallow linking the get to them all (normally 2 levels max).

So rather than having 1 huge site map that lists every page. Create 5 site maps of 1000 links, or even more.

Then - Get links to these separate site maps aswell as your main index page. From as many different, high quality, high traffic sources as you can.

Blogs, RSS, Forums, Directories are all good examples of these.

If you get desparate you can buy links from high PR sites, but there’s no need.

Any of the large, popular forums probably get visited by the bots every day (my own site does).

If you’re not sure where to find directories to submit to, I’ve put together a huge list here: http://www.moneyandmotivation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=162

If you want places to submit your blog/rss feed, I’ve put together a good list here: http://pheedcentral.com/weblinks/Submit_Your_Own_RSS_Feeds/

Jason Bradley has a product called IndexTracker that you can use to track indexed pages across all of your websites. I use it a lot.

Blog and Ping tutorial videos are available here:
http://pheedcentral.com/blogandping_offer.html

5) If you’re using Adsense on those Pages - learn from this.

Improving Adsense click through rates is something that any ppc advertiser should be interested in.

Well, I’ve spent some time now looking at all the various keyword research tools for selecting the most profitable keywords to target with Adsense.

To my delight, I also stumbled upon an ebook written by a guy called Jonathan Legar that covers it all. He also provides you with a huge list of profitable keywords (including some that are as much as $100 a click - yes you heard me right)

I just had to tell you about this amazing resource.

I know you’ll just love this resource.

http://hop.clickbank.net/?techtrader.astracker

When you see that Jonathan is also going to let you reprint over 11,000 article - this is a Must Have for any website owner or PPC advertiser.

Have fun with it.

6) If you’re selling Clickbank products - you need this.

If you sell Clickbank products, you’re probably aware of the fact that the Clickbank Marketplace is updated regularly, and as an affiliate it can be difficult to remember what products you’re advertising and whether there are any more in that same category of CB yet.

Well, now you can forget about the hassles of keeping up with the product in Clickbank, or buying tools to let you search Clickbank, and then working out how to advertise those products on your web pages. You know it sounds simple, but it can be a real pain to get setup and maintain.

If you take a look here: http://www.imvisionary.com/cmd.php?af=186978

You’ll find a new tool - It’s only just being released (not yet in the open) and you’ll see that it gives you an really easy, cheap and quick way to market ClickBank products.
It’ll synchronise with Clickbank Whenever you want and you can even search for products to promote.

I’m not going to give you a sales pitch here, just go and take a look at it.

If you’re not sure how it might work and you want more - I’ve even created a 6 minute video walkthrough of using it.
(It was 1am and I was tired, but you’re worth it)

If you followed everything I wrote above - you’re in for some happy days

Your friend,
Andy Henry

Andrew Henry is an Internet Marketing consultant and online web business owner. Helping individuals and small businesses learn how to reach their goals on a daily basis.
Andrew is now educating people on the subject of RSS and Blogging via his site at http://www.pheedcentral.com which offers both free introductory advice on RSS and Blogging and supporting video tutorials.

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To be successful at Search Engine Optimization, it’s important that you continually test out new theories and ideas. Before I use new SEO techniques on a client’s website, I always test them on one of my own. In order to better understand the application of SEO to blogs, I decided to implement the following experiment:

I would create a blog for each American Idol contestant. Using a pseudonym, I would blog each candidate until they got booted off the show.
Once the final 12 candidates were decided, I would step up my posting pace. Being that this was an SEO project, I didn’t aim to provide any valuable insights into the candidatesI only planned to “blurb” news articles that mentioned each contestant.

The goal at the end of the project (besides gaining useful knowledge) was to have 1-2 “sustainable” blogs in place, while generating massive traffic the week of the final show.
Several weeks into the project, I discovered two things:

The Bo Bice Blog received considerably more traffic and better search engine rankings than the other blogs I had created.
Bo Bice was the first Idol contestant in 4 years that TOTALLY ROCKED. I very much wanted him to win.
So, while keeping my SEO experiment going, I decided to really “blog” about Bo Bice. In doing so, I learned many valuable lessons about creating a successful blog that can generate sustainable traffic, including many repeat visits.

Beginners Lessons:

Have a narrow focus: The quickest way to drive traffic to your blog is through excellent search engine rankings. If you blog about lots of unrelated topics, you won’t rank well for any of your key terms. Even if you don’t know much about SEO, you can still create a blog that will rank well in the search engines. Pick a narrow topic and keep your posts on topic. Choose a group of keywords relevant to your chosen topic and make sure you feature these terms prominently in your posts.

Build a base of content: Unless you already have a built-in audience, very few people are going to read your early blog posts because they will be extremely hard to find in either the blogosphere or the search engines. So, save your best content for when you’ve already developed a steady stream of web traffic. Blogging newspaper articles is a good way to build up relevant content quickly. All you need to do is subscribe to Google news alerts to get relevant articles featuring your top keywords. As your receive new articles, create a blog entry for each article, excerpt a relevant snippet (making sure to credit the source), and comment on the piece. This might not be interesting to your readersbut the objective here is to reach a point where you can start creating original, unique content that people will actually read because your blog can be easily found. For the more advanced beginners, adding an RSS feed that is focused on your targeted niche will also be of great value to your blog.

Try to make several posts each week. You’ll be amazed how much content you can build up in a short period of time.

Monetize your blog (if appropriate): I placed a combination of contextual and affiliate advertising on my blog. The advertising revenue on my blog was poor given the amount of traffic I generatedhowever, if you are blogging successfully in areas of business and technology, you could make a good deal of money from such advertising. Google AdSense is a ubiquitous way for bloggers to earn money from blogging. Once you’ve placed the AdSense javascript snippet in your blog source code, Google’s contextual ad technology will automatically choose ads relevant to your blog content and when someone clicks on the ad, you get paid.

Advanced Techniques:

“Blog and Ping”: There is a reason why news spreads so rapidly through the blogosphere. When you update your blog, depending on your blog host, a “ping” might be sent to one or more blog search engines that track the blogosphere, showing that you’ve made a new post to your blog. People who have subscribed to your blog, or people interested in your blogging topic, can be notified about your post and read it / link to it. An active course of “blogging and pinging” will help greatly in building links to your blog and generating more traffic.

Websites and software exist that will allow you to manually send pings to dozens of known blog search engines. Ping-o-matic is a website that allows you to ping 18 different blog search engines on demand. I’ve been using RSSSubmit from Dummy Software to submit all feeds to over 70 such services at the push of a button.

“Conventional” Link-Building: To maximize your blog search engine rankings, I strongly recommend building links for your blog just as if it were a website. I did not do this for the Bice blog and that oversight (probably) came back to bite me.

Google’s “Bourbon” update hit several days before the American Idol final and this blog was the only “Bourbon” casualty in my entire portfoliovanishing from Google the Saturday before the final. My intuition (plus other anecdotal evidence) tells me that had I built a foundation of links outside the blogosphere prior to Bourbon, the blog would not have been hitof course, I’ll never know. The blog reappeared in Google with its excellent search engine ranking 10 days after the Idol final, depriving me of a tremendous volume of Bo Bice web traffic for the time surrounding the finalThanks, Google:.)

Linkmarket.net is by far the best link-trading site on the Internet. They now have more than 20,000 sites that are potential link partners. For $24.85 per year, you have unlimited ability to trade links with any site on the network. No matter what your site niche is, you should be able to find hundreds of potential trading partners and generate large numbers of inbound links quickly.

Press Releases: Online press releases are an excellent way to generate notice for your blog. I created a press release announcing the launch of the blog, and once I decided to “actively” blog Bo, I wrote a release each week recapping the show and featuring highlights from the blog. Online press releases can get thousands or even tens of thousands of readsespecially if you are writing on a “hot topic”. Many of the press release readers will become blog visitors.

PRWEB and PRLeap are the two most prominent online press release bureaus. Both allow free submission of releases and both allow you to pay for better “placement”. Your press releases will also get spidered into the search engines and (sometimes) will end up in Google or Yahoo News as well. I’ve seen my Bo Bice press releases as high as #3 in Google News for a “Bo Bice” search.

Best Idea Yet

When my blog reached a consistent 500 visitors a day, I decided to actively solicit posts from Bo’s fans. Sure, most blogs give readers the ability to post commentsbut I thought that if I ran the comments as actual posts, I could create a “buzz” about the blog and generate large numbers of repeat visits. I ended up getting 5-15 e-mails every day from Bo’s fans wanting their information to be posted on the blog. So long as the post met my minimum blogging criteria, I ran the submission. Traffic spiked immediately and the quality of the submissions was generally excellent.

My idea worked strategically because the readers unknowingly submitted content that was SEO’ed for the keywords that were the focus of my blog “Bo Bice”. By running reader posts, I generated large amounts of SEO’ed content that helped generate and maintain my top search engine rankings. And, my “Blog and Ping” strategy ensured that each and every new post (several per day) was broadcast all over the Internet.

Top Search Engine Rankings Confer “Authority Status”

For most of the duration of American Idol 4, I ranked #2 -4 in Google, and #6-15 in Yahoo for “Bo Bice” and I learned such rankings conferred an enormous amount of “authority” in my chosen subject. A sampling of my e-mails I received included:

After Bo performed “Vehicle” by “The Ides of March” (the first time), an original member of the band e-mailed a message to Bo’s fans through the blog. He even asked me if I knew how to reach Bowhich I didn’t.

A CBS Early Show Producer contacted my blog to promote Bo’s appearance on the showasking his fans to show up at their New York studios.

What’s more, I received multiple messages from the person running the AOL American Idol fan poll soliciting votes for Bo.

Results:

Currently, my Bo Bice blog is generating sustainable traffic with very little work on my part (barring any unforeseen search engine calamity). As the American Idol Concert tour rolls this summer and as Bo gets to work on his first post-Idol album, I expect the traffic to increase.

One doesn’t need to be a SEO ace to be able to create a blog that can generate a large number of visitors. Whether you wish to blog for business lead generation, ad revenue, or personal reasons, if you follow the techniques described above, you can create and sustain a well-trafficked blog by following the techniques listed above.

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