Showing posts with label Traffic Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traffic Tips. Show all posts

Sunday, August 5, 2012

5 Best Ways Bloggers Can Do Keyword Research

5 Best Ways Bloggers Can Do Keyword Research
Your online Money Making business highly depends upon your understanding about two things in particular, first being the most productive domain to start with, and next to it is an effective Keyword research. Keywords are the most powerful ingredient of yourSearch Engine Optimization which drives traffic to your site from the search results. However, attracting a considerable traffic to your site/blog is directly related to your knowledge about the keywords utility. This means that you need to think from your potential visitor’s point of view that what he might be looking for. Effective keyword research does not only drive traffic, in fact beside increasing your followers, it helps boosting your overall site statistics, while on the other hand, generating huge revenue.

Things to Take Care of

As the competition is increasing in every domain, your potential readers/clients/ followers might not know about your existence even. This means that they might not be searching your company on the search engines, in fact, they would look for the services that the domain you own, provides. Now if you are smart enough to show your expertise on SEO, mind it that your readers are not going to anywhere else.
Before we go on with the most useful tips, you need to discover some most common keywords for your niche by answering the following questions.
1. Keywords to Describe Your Site?
2. What’s Unique about your product/services?
3. What makes you better than competitors in your domain?
Once the Idea is clear with sufficient relevant keywords in hand, Now all you need learn is how to do a unique keyword research for your articles to make them SEO friendly each time.

1. Use Google product search

The first name that clicks when you need to search anything is obviously ‘Google’, so why not to start with it? Click on Google Products and enter the major key phrase in the search box. For example, if you are writing an article on London Olympics (the most happening these days), Just like, we have been writing on our Sister Blog, and you will see a drop down with lots of relevant phrases that you can consider your keywords and use them in your post.
keyword research with Google product
Not only this, but you can also click on a particular, most suited phrase to know more about it and find out what is pre-written and what is attracting more traffic. Visitors who come to your blog with the following keywords are determined to know all about you are sharing, decreasing the bounce rate.

2. Use Shopping.com

Just following the same procedure that we shared in tip #1, go to Shopping.com and search for the same topic London Olympics. You will see new phrases appearing in the search, giving you new ideas, first of all, and secondly providing you with a list of keywords that you can include in your post and enjoy targeted visitors who want to search everything about London Olympics.
keyword research with shopping

3.Use Ebay.com

Ebay is yet another great platform when you are looking for worth adding keywords. Whether it’s a product or a service, Ebay is rich enough to hold a great variety on it. Repeat the similar activity that we did for the above two, and you will see all new keywords appearing.
keyword research with ebay

4. Try Amazon.com

Amazed with how easy it is to collect keywords for your post? If not, then try Amazontoo. Although following the same procedure, the results are somehow much satisfactory. Enter your main keyword in the search box and you will see set of phrases, that can turn out be the most successful keywords of your post.
keyword research with amazon

5. yahoo product search

Just like Google Product Search, Yahoo is playing it safe with its product search engine, though not that effective as Google, still trying to survive. You can expect some Good keywords with this method too. With the scrolling arrows, you can always explore more phrases to choose best suited keywords for your post.
keyword research with ebay

Keyword research is a highly recommended tip to search about and use in your blogging career. Hope the following tips turn out to be useful enough to give you more relevant keywords for your articles.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Why Submit Blog Posts to 10 of the Top Article Directories?


Submit blog posts to the top 10 article directories
Writing for the web is great! Good writers are always in demand, because there are lots of websites that need to update and add fresh content for their own survival. Writing online can also get you some money. But more importantly, it builds your credibility and authority. Bloggers are no strangers to online content writing. So for them, it can be far more important and useful. Submitting your articles or blog posts to article directories can be a particularly good way of boosting your stats. It can bring many benefits for bloggers. Today, we'll take a look at the top 10 article directories where you can submit your articles or blog posts and benefit from them.

Why submit your articles?

Submitting articles has lots of benefits. First of all, you can get a backlink via your author box on that particular site. Most of these article directories have a 5+ PR. And if you know anything about blogging, you'll know how important a PR 5+ backlink is. A single high quality backlink is better than multiple low quality ones. It will help increase your own PageRank.

Besides PR, these submissions will also boost your traffic. These directories are frequently visited by millions of people in search of knowledge or articles to research upon. And with your articles, you can divert some of that traffic to your own website.

Another little benefit is, you can get rid of your old, or unnecessary blog posts. A lot of bloggers post on irrelevant stuff at the start just for the sake of something to write about. Many posts end up stalling as well, with no traffic coming to them. Such posts aren't any good to anybody. So deleting them, and submitting them on article directories instead can squeeze some use out of them.

Top 10 Article Directories

Here's a list of the top 10 article directories where you can submit old or new articles of yours and get some backlinks and traffic out of it.

  1. The Free Library - PR 7
  2. EzineArticles * - PR 6
  3. ArticlesBase * - PR 6
  4. GoArticles * - PR 5
  5. Article Dashboard - PR 5
  6. Article City - PR 5
  7. Article Alley * - PR 4
  8. Article Factory * - PR 4
  9. WryteStuff * - PR 4
  10. Internet Marketing News Watch - PR 3

You can submit one article to more than one directories above. However, the directories marked with a sterick (*) are listed under the SubmitYourAccount (SYA) Account Manager. This means, that articles submitted to these directories come under the same account manager. Hence, if you signed up for these directories with your SYA account, then you can not submit the same article to more than one of these websites. All the starred websites can be considered as a single article directory. You can, however, sign up without your SYA account, or with another account you might have. That way, you can submit your articles to more than one such directories.

You can sign up for any of these directories for free. It usually is an easy sign-up process. Once signed up, you are ready to start posting articles. Before you submit articles though, make sure your author profile is properly filled, and that it is linking to your website. Most sites give you an HTML box where you can directly add your link and anchor it to some text such as your name.

You can submit a single article to many directories. But keep in mind their copyrights law before submitting. Some directories won't let you post already published content, while others might not allow you to reproduce them. Be sure to check out their ToS before submitting anything.

We'd recommend you sign up for multiple article directories, at least 5. That way, you can be sure of scoring at least backlink to your website. And if more accept your article, well and good! The whole purpose of this exercise is to build quality backlinks, which should be on any blogger's priority list.