Know How to Submit Your Site

Web Directory Submission: The Best Steps to Guide You.

You have many ways to increase traffic to your website, one of the ways is web directory submission and I suggest you to start promoting it using this method. In the case you are going to promote your website by directory submission method, you have two major options first one is that you can go through free directory submission or you have paid directory submission option. Let us have a glimpse of free directory submission and paid directory submission: -

Free Directory Submission - Free directory submission offers you to submit your site for free, you no need to pay any amount of money. If you are going to submit your site free it takes long time for approval. Since such kind of directory contains long queue because of this it is approved by late.

Paid Directory Submission – when you go through the option of paid directory submission you need to pay particular amount of money to submit your link. One of the advantages of this type of submission is that the submission may be for life time. Also approval of such submission is very fast.

You can also meet with another option like reciprocal link submission here you need to place the link of the site on your website on which you are going to submit your site. During this process you must submit the link page address on which you are placing link of the site. Generally such kind of action is known as link exchange process.

Now you can use two kinds of processes to submit your site.

1. Manual Submission Process: – here you need to submit your site by visiting each site and browsing appropriate category and sub – category.
2. Submissions by Using Software: – you don’t need to visit each site when you use this process such kind of software submits your site automatically to an appropriate category.

Well, if have decided to submit your site then must remember the following guidelines during the process of submission:-

• Write appropriate and effective description of your site that may highlight main points and topics of your site. Prepare more than one description of different length, because some sites accept description of 500 words while others of 200 words.
• Browse appropriate category and sub- category for your site that matches with your site contents. It will help to increase traffic for your site.
• Try to submit your site on higher page rank directories first.
• Always submit you homepage to the directories.
• Prepare a detailed data of your submission for your future need. Like submitted date, submitted site etc.

For more information on Search Engine Marketing tips, please visit Top Search Engine Optimization Tips.

Deep Linking Tactics

I discuss a great deal in relation to several locations to apply backlinks, but today I would like to return to the fundamental steps of backlinks and how to use them.

Code for creating backlinks

Let’s take a look at the code you will need to use to create a backlink to your website.

<a href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>

A backlink consist of three components:

1.    The html code at the beginning and end of your link: (<a href=”“”> </a>
2.    The link: (URL = your web address)
3.    The anchor text:  (your keyword(s) )

The anchor text is what the reader will see inside your comment.
It’s the part that will be in blue text, underlined and clickable.

Let me break it down into simple steps.

Let’s use my website address for example.

http://DynastyWebMarketing.com  and I have a webpage called “Internet Marketing Services”, which would make my webpage look like this:

http://dynastywebmarketing.com/internet-marketing-services

A backlink to my Internet Marketing Services page would look like this”

<a href=”http://dynastywebmarketing.com/internet-marketing-services”>Internet marketing</a>

Create a couple of backlinks to different pages or popular posts on your website.  Now save these backlink codes to a text file on your desktop and call it “Website Backlinks”.

Deep linking tactic

I want to point out that you should aim to different web pages or posts on your website instead of only your homepage of your website.

My daily SEO marketing includes commenting on 5 blogs per day related to my keywords.

You should comment on blogs related to your topics and then post your comments with your backlinks.

Then the search engine spiders follow your links
back to your web pages, they will then index each individual page
in the search engine listings.

When someone types in your anchor text (keyword) for example
“Internet Marketing” your site will show up in the search engine results.

The Death of Article Directories

For article marketing, we welcome the death of article directories and the rise of document sharing sites.  Document sharing sites allow you to upload your articles as PDFs, Word documents and/or slide presentations. The reasons why I use document sharing sites instead of article directory sites are:

• Google rank my documents higher:  It appears that Google rank document sharing sites higher than article directories.  I would only get 10%-15% chance of any of my articles on Ezine sites to rank high on major search engines.  The same articles I submit to document sharing sites give me a 95% chance of ranking high on the search engine.
• Fast indexing: My documents are indexed in Google within a few hours and often as fast as a few minutes.
• No review process: Some sites like Ezine take days or weeks to review and approve my article.  I honestly forget sometimes that I submit certain articles to Ezine until they email me with an approval a week or so later. Please, don’t let there be an issue with your article violating any terms and conditions.  That is another week to straighten out. There is no waiting period with document sharing sites.  You just upload and you are ready to go live.
• Links: Unlike most article directories, document sharing sites don’t limit links to the bottom of your article in the resource box. You can add links anywhere and there are no limit to how many links you can have in your article.
• Images: With article directories, you are not allowed to add images to your articles, which make your article, look dead and boring.  You can add images to your articles with document sharing sites. Adding clickable images to your documents adds to the overall appearance of your articles and ultimately higher click-through rates.

My top 5 document sharing sites are:

1. DocStoc – The cool thing about Docstoc is that it allows you to add your Adsense account to your Docstoc account and they split the profits with you 50/50.
2. Slideshare – You can upload powerpoint presentations as well as PDF and Word documents on this site.
3. Edocr – You get great exposure with Google and Bing. You can also get sales leads from your article, but this is an additional service and worth trying out.
4. Scribd – This site is an incredible source of traffic, but you have to be careful and not spam this site and have links that go back to a sales page.  They will ban your account and documents will be removed
5. Calameo – This site does better with Ms Word or Open Office documents than PDF.

Bonus Tips

• Complete the entire profile of each document sharing site.
• In the Tag Box – Include your keywords for tags.
• In the Description Box – Be descriptive as possible about your article, or use the first paragraph in your article to draw people in to read it.
• Include a small resource box at the end of each file you submit to bring viewers to your site.

How do I increase my YouTube video views?

If you perform any video marketing or decide to implement video marketing in your marketing efforts in the future, this easy technique will significantly increase your YouTube video views.

First, you need to upload your video to YouTube.com.  Then you need to find a related video with a high number of views.

As soon as you find a popular related video, you will post a video response.    Look underneath the video in the section called “Video Responses.”  If you look to your right, you will see the link “Post a Video Response.” Click on that link and the next page will have the following tabs at the top, “Record a Video”, “Choose a video”, or “Upload a video.”  Click on “Choose a Video”.  From there you will select a video from your list.

Once you have posted your video in the video response section, you can go back and see your video in the Video Responses section.

This straightforward strategy has the potential to bring thousands of people to your video.

The Best 5 Places to Position Links For Faster Google Indexing

Every so often, Google takes awhile to index our websites.  But yet, there are very highly page rank sites that Google just loves to death because they are indexed in as little as a couple of hours. I have a backlink building approach that I apply to each of the top 5 sites I place my backlinks.

Forums: For the purpose of creating backlinks, you don’t necessarily have to leave a comment; you can just copy your completed profile URL and start pinging and social bookmarking this URL. If you decide to leave a comment or join a discussion, please make the comment useful and don’t spam the forums because the forums are there to really help people learn more.  I search for forums by my keyword phrases.  This is a method that I use for searching for forums on Google:

1. Go to Google Search
2. Type your keyword phrase
3. Click on “Show Option”
4. Click on” Discussions”

If you are using Firefox, make sure you download SearchStatus – a firefox extension. It allows you to view the page rank of each forum.  To be successful at getting rank higher, choose forums with page ranks 6 or better.  Placing your url on the highly page rank forum’s profile page will get you on the 1^st or 2^nd page of Google in no time.

Document Sharing Sites – This is a great way to create backlinks in lightning speed.  Google highly rank these sites and index them within hours if not minutes. You upload your blog posts or articles, which already contain links to document sharing sites like DocStoc and you are good to go.  I will explain more on my upcoming article “The Death of Article Directories.” Make sure you sign up for my RSS feed so you won’t miss it.

Shareware and Freeware sites: These sites are another advantageous way to create backlinks.  Google index these sites super fast.  You can hire a programmer to create your own small program for you.  The links on your program comes back to your website with your specified keywords. You can submit the program to over 1000 shareware sites using PadExpress or Promosoft – software submission programs.

Search for same niche blogs to comment.  First I want to say, please don’t spam someone blog, that is the most annoying thing in the world to a blogger.  Leave a useful comment if you use this method and provide a link at the bottom of your comment like a signature. The reason you should comment on the same niche blog is because your keywords are both similar and when someone searches Google and their blog post comes up, they are most likely to read the comments and Google will index and rank that page higher, therefore giving you more link juice if it Is a “dofollow” blog. If it is a “nofollow” blog then Google won’t index your link because the blog owner is letting Google know not to follow any links on the comment page.

Squidoo – This high page rank site is designed for people to create a web page called a lens to create useful information.  The great thing about Squidoo is that you can create a new lens everyday on an article or blog post you have and it allows you to make money on the lens, while creating backlinks.

Always remember to do 2 important things after you place your link

• Ping where ever you place your link (use pingomatic)
• Social bookmark where ever you place your link (Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious,  and Reddit)

20 Ways To Track Traffic and Build Backlinks

One of the top reasons of having an online business is to reach new customers on the internet. You like to see how many visitors are reaching your website each month and how to improve those numbers.

I collected the top 20 tracking websites and listed them below.  Several of those websites will provide you with an insight on improvements you can achieve on your website. Also, every site below assists you with creating backlinks to your website.  Just replace yourdomain.com with the name of your website, then copy and paste each link in your browser. This process below should take no longer than 15 minutes or so.

1. http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.yourdomain.com
2. http://www.statbrain.com/www.yourdomain.com
3. http://www.builtwith.com/?yourdomain.com
4. http://snapshot.compete.com/yourdomain.com
5. http://www.aboutus.org/yourdomain.com
6. http://www.quantcast.com/yourdomain.com
7. http://www.cubestat.com/www.yourdomain.com
8. http://whois.tools4noobs.com/info/yourdomain.com
9. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yourdomain.com
10. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=yourdomain.com
11. http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/yourdomain.com/summary/
12. http://whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com
13. http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/yourdomain.com/
14. http://www.whoisya.com/yourdomain.com
15. http://www.who.is/whois-com/yourdomain.com
16. http://www.robtex.com/dns/yourdomain.com.html
17. http://www.statsaholic.com/yourdomain.com
18. http://www.quarkbase.com/yourdomain.com
19. http://popuri.us/?u=http://yourdomain.com
20. http://websitegrader.com/site/yourdomain.com

Grow Your Site With Traffic and Friends

A fantastic group created by Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips called the ReTweet Club was a remarkable idea to begin.  It unifies bloggers to spread the love through Twitter and beyond. I want to share the benefits of being with such a group.

Main Purpose of this Group

More traffic, of course!

Once a blogger retweet your blog to their followers, there is a chance some of their followers will click on the link to read your blog post. Or even better, retweet it themselves and the series continue.

On the other hand when I retweet someone else’s blog post…

First, I make sure I read the article, to see to it that it is a good article to retweet to my followers.

Second, I make a comment and give my two cents on the subject. On an MS Excel spreadsheet, I type the blog link of the post, blog title, and give a short description.  The reason I do this is to check back the next day to see if my comment was approved.  If so, I social bookmark the post using Only Wire.

I social bookmark the article because it is a great article to bookmark of course and for backlinks to my site.

Third, I retweet it.

The most valuable benefits to being in this group for me are:

• I learn something new regarding a diversity of topics.
• It helps me gather ideas for some of my blog posts
• I  found some great blogs I subscribed through RSS feed, PrimerMagazine.com (even though it’s for guys, I still find it very funny and clever what men talk about), EverythingIsHistory.com (I am a history junkie,  I learn something new from each blog post Tamahome writes, FreeNuts.com of course, and too many others to name on this blog.
• Last, but not least, I network with some awesome people.

It’s all about unity and this is the perfect group to help you grow your site with traffic and friends.

Need Help with Backlinks – Blog Traffic Exchange To The Rescue!

While researching online more ways of increasing traffic to my site to share with my readers, I came across a site that offered a Word Press plug-in that offered a community of bloggers to exchange related links under each post. It’s like having the Related Posts plug-in for the entire blogosphere.

What are backlinks and why are they so important

Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

When search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a keyword, they consider the number of QUALITY inbound links to that site. So we should not be satisfied with merely getting inbound links, it is the quality of the inbound link that matters.

A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the QUALITY of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant.  The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater their quality.

Blog Traffic Exchange (BTE)

BTE publishes a series of highly relevant content, generated to increase the quality of your blog.  The Blog Traffic Exchange offers the organic method for building traffic.

You can download the plug-in, but to gain full access of, all blogs must be approved.  Once they are approved, you will receive a BTE API key to input for your plug-in.  Only quality sites are eligible.

Once you have the BTE API key, you can design the plug-in how you want the related websites to appear under your post.  You can determine the number of post you want to appear and if you want thumbnail pictures to show.

Please visit Blog Traffic Exchange for more information.

How do I get my videos to get traffic from the search engine?

Creating videos to promote your business is one of the great strategies you could ever use.  Can you believe that twice as many people search YouTube versus Google search engine?  Google wins either way.

Today, internet user average attention span is measured in seconds. Once your visitor comes to you from a major search engine search query, or by a recommendation link on a review blog, the new web visitor applies only a very limited effort and time to see whether she can make sense of what you are communicating/selling/proposing and to decide whether your content, style, look and approach are a good fit for what they was actually looking for. If you can engage their interest right there and then, and offer a fast, highly visual way to let them discover what your “message” is, then your video marketing was successful.

Here are a couple of ways to get your video more traffic from the search engine.

• Upload your video to Tube Mogul.  – Tube Mogul the ultimate online video analytics and distribution company to over 25 video networking sites with only one click
• Social bookmark your video using Only Wire. Only Wire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click.
• Submit it to video search engines:
  • http://www.blinkx.com/
  • http://www.casttv.com/
  • http://clipta.com/
  • http://www.munax.com/index.htm
  • http://about.picsearch.com/
  • http://www.truveo.com/
  • http://www.yovisto.com/

Follow these steps to have a successful video marketing campaign get traffic from the search engine.

Where do I find my readers?

There are many options to explore to bring readers to your blog, but I want to lean over to the social side of getting readers.

You want to be a sociable person, thus people can feel close and connect to you.  It won’t hurt to develop a couple of online friendships.  Social media is the biggest phenomenon that’s taking over the world right now.  Here, my friend is where you will find your readers.

Here are a couple of places I find incredibly resourceful:

Twitter/FaceBook- Of course

Social media is an instant way to socialize with people and find your readers for your blog.

• Begin a conversation with some of your friends/followers about a general issue.
• Perform a search on Twitter on individuals tweeting about their concerns or problems and reply your answer.  If you have a weight loss product, search tweets containing the phrase “I need to lose weight”.  Reply back on the subject of your product and create a conversation.
• Retweet a comment that you enjoy and bring about a comment.  This should keep the conversation going.

Blog communities

Blog communities allow you to share your online activity, like your recent blog posts.  You can join blogs and begin a discussion with several of the members.  I listed a few below to get you started:

• Blog Catalog
• FuelMyBlog
• MyBlogLog
• SpicyPage
• Xanga

Yahoo and Google Group

Find a group where your blog can assist the members of the group.  Answer questions and acquire connections on a daily basis. Sign up with Yahoo Groups and Google Groups today.

Forums

This is a terrific way to find readers.  Forum questions are indexed by Google and can bring traffic to your site. As you leave answer to participant’s problems, new people will see your response on the search engine on their same questions months and years from now. When you create your profile on the forum, as you create your signature link, make certain you include a link to your blog.

Yahoo Answers- Social question and answer site

On a daily basis, people are asking questions in your area.  You can answer a question and your answer will be indexed on Google search engine and bring more traffic to your site as well.

Comments on other blogs

If you don’t so now, please make a practice of commenting on other blogs.  You can develop relations with other bloggers. If your comment is informative, other commenters may want to know more about what you do.  Remember to put a link of your blog at the end of your comment.  This create back links as well.

Meet Ups

Meet with people face to face and tell them about yourself and your blog.  I pretty much drag my feet and give myself one million and one reasons not to attend my meet ups.   After all is said and done, I am 100% totally happy with myself for attending the meet up. Not only do I meet really cool and neat people, but each person has something to share that can benefit everyone.  I can continue on about the benefits of meet ups, but for the most part this is how you find your most loyal readers.