What You Need To Know Before You Start Your SEO Campaign

There comes a time in every webmaster and blogger’s life when they start thinking about optimizing their webpages.

Back in 2006 I started blogging. A few months later I began understand the importance of SEO and how it is crucial to help my site pages ranking well in search engines. In general, there are certain factors you must be aware before you play with your webpages:

1. Number of Backlinks – You should have a backlink campaign in mind. So the first thing is to look at the number of back link of your competitor. In particular, you should just look at the back links to the actual page you will be competing with.

2. Traffic analysis – What is the number of your pageviews? What is your bounce rate? How many time your visitors spend on a page? What is the number of your daily visitors to your home page? These are all question you need to answer when you start a traffic analysis.

I always suggest you to monitor these key data:

  1. Number of Page Views
  2. Bounce Rate
  3. Top Pages

3. Social media analysis - Social media has become an important channel for SEO work. What people say about your industry in general and your brand in particular is crucial today.

In general, the tools any SEO expert recommends are:

  • Keyword research tool - Keyword research is crucial for successful search engine website site optimization. It helps you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage’s body text.
  • Search engine submitter - This tool is used in the beginning of SEO optimization process, when no one knows your site.
  • Search engine rankings checker - It help you check your search engine positions to verify that you have reached your SEO goals.
  • Link popularity checker - How popular is your web site? How many people are linking to you. This is the purpose of this tool
  • Website uptime monitoring – This type of too let webmaster know when and for how long their web site was down.
  • Traffic analysis – Let you watch your visitors interact with your web site.

Usually, before tracking each of these above, you need to put together lots of tools to be sure that your SEO campaign works fine. Well, here’s where WebCeo comes into play:

What Is Web CEO?

WebCEO provides the functionality of 9 different SEO software tools all integrated into one package. In a nutshell, they provide two different ways to analyze your data through two products.

  • Web CEO Online – a comparatively new cloud-based SEO tool set
  • Web CEO Desktop – a desktop SEO software, known in the in the SEO desktop software market since 2001

Important: Web CEO Online and Web CEO Desktop are two different products. Your desktop account does not imply online access. So, don’t try using your Web CEO Desktop registration details to sign up to Web CEO Online.

The Modules included in WebCEO Online are the following:

  • Site Auditor
  • Rank Checker
  • Keyword Tool
  • Backlink Checker
  • Submission Tool
  • Sitemap Generator
  • Social Buzz Tracker
  • Partner Links Checker
  • Web Traffic Statistics

Once signed up, you have to add your project. Go to ‘Select project’ and in the section All, click on ‘+Add project’ button (or just click the ‘Add’ button in the right corner). At this point you have to fill the form with all data related your Project, e.g Url, Group name and optional notes if needed.

Next, you can start to choose what you want to track. Below I explain every tool in detail.

Rank Checker

Every site owner wants to know.. how their site is ranked. Web CEO Online Ranking tool checks your site’s position in search engines. You can set it to do this by schedule, say, once a week or twice a month. The second thing everybody wants to know is how your site stacks against competition – Web CEO can create this report too. The reports are run fast, you can select any local search engine needed, the reports are saved in PDF.

Web Traffic Statistics

Web Analytics tool shows the web activity of site visitors and helps measure how the traffic to the website changed after the launch of a new campaign. It uses data collected by Google Analytics, which is great since most webmasters use it today.

Site Auditor

Website auditor helps you detect broken internal and external links and anchors, images, checks slow pages. Since recently, this tool includes the SEO Analysis report which checks most important On-page SEO factors such as TITLE and description tags, H1 headings, XML sitemap and robots.txt file presence, URL structure and redirects. So, now you can check which links should be fixed and which optimization tweaks should be implemented to make your pages and site more SEO-friendly.

Keyword Tool

The keyword research module offers keywords from two sources: Google and competitors’ meta tags.This is important if you want to find the best keywords for optimization. You can categorize keywords in your keyword basket via tags. It’s really convenient, because you can easily switch between different sets of keywords in the settings of this tool. The keyword basket is shared between three tools (Keyword Tool, Rank Checker and Site Auditor), which is perfect because you don’t need to copy the data many times.

Automated Submission

This tool has a few submission categories – automatic submission to major search engines, blog submission, submissions of local businesses to places, article submission.

Sitemap Generator

A Sitemap is a way to tell Google about pages on your site they might not otherwise discover.
Web CEO Online sitemap tool can automatically generate a sitemap for your site, submit it to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask, and check if it was indexed.

Buzz Tracker

WebCEO provides a social tracking called Buzz which lets you ensure you’re analyzing social media and shows you what people say about your industry in general and your brand in particular.

Partner Links Checker

Partner Links Checker can verify if your partner uses particular black-hat techniques to hide backlinks from search engines as whether the link text contains your keywords, whether the linking page is ranked by Google or whether the number of outbound links from that page exceeds a certain limit.

To Do List

Every tool has a sort of recommendation list or how they call it ‘SEO Roadmap’ – they not only give you the tools, but also tell you how to use them.

Reporting and other good things

The reports can be saved to PDF and CSV, run and emailed by schedule. I think this feature makes the software a good help, because you don’t need to do everything by hand. Also, a few people can work on projects together thanks to the ‘Collaboration’ feature.

Price

WebCEO Online is offered in 4 pricing plans starting from $49, and the Free plan is also available. They currently run the promo campaign, so everyone can get a twice longer subscription for the same price.

How SEO Helped Make My Medifast Diet Blog a Success

I can remember clearly how things were when I just started my medifast and nutrisystem diet blog a few years ago.

I was a little confused and frustrated after investing a lot of time and effort into marketing my blog without getting the desired results. I didn’t know what I was doing, and I had to learn a lot in the process to help generate traffic to my blog.

I came to realize this the hard way, but in case you haven’t, traffic is the most important element as far as the success of any blog is concerned, which is exactly why it is very important for you to start focusing your efforts on getting more quality traffic that converts as a blogger.

For me, SEO was the saving grace, and I’m so excited to see where my blog has gotten to today just because I embraced SEO and leveraged its power for my blog. At the moment, I get thousands of visitors to my blog from the search engines daily, and I also make a lot of income from my blog as a result. In this article, I will be sharing a few tips with you on how SEO helped make my blog a success.

It Led to Quality Traffic without Need to Market Often

Like I said earlier on, the different between a successful blog and a failed blog is the amount of traffic it has and the quality of that traffic. As a new blogger, traffic was a challenge for me also, but effective SEO helped me alleviate this problem once and for all. I now get enough traffic from various search engines every day, and I’m so excited I utilized SEO for my blog.

It Results in More Targeted Traffic

While it is often great to have a lot of people visit your blog, one thing that is more important is the quality of traffic to your blog. I know a lot of people who get thousands of visitors to their blog every day but could hardly convert a single one of it, and I also know people who get only a few hundred visitors a day from the search engines but are converting tens of it.

Ultimately, it is all about you realizing what exactly you need traffic for, and how best to get that traffic. As long as you can effectively optimize your blog for it, traffic from the search engines is currently one of the best and most targeted kinds of traffic.

It Leads to More Money and Subscribers

We all know that, for bloggers, a million visitors without a cent are completely useless. In other words, if you get a lot of traffic to your blog but can’t convert them to what you want they are of no importance. Another great way SEO helped make my medifast blog a success is that it led to more money and subscribers. In other words, I made enough money to be able to feed myself, and I’m also able to keep subscribers who will end up paying me again in the future.

Bio

John is a blogger effectively leveraging SEO to grow his diet blog. He also gives discount coupons for products like Medifast and Nutrisystem. You can read about nutrisystem coupon codes and medifast discounts on his blog.

Image Credit: Matti Mattila

Ultimate MiniGuide To Get Backlinks To Your WebSite

I can’t emphasize enough how link building is still considered important by search engines like Google.

If on one hand we see as blogger or webmaster are trying to fake the results by building either manually or automatically tons of backlink to their site, on the other hand, after the new Google Panda upgrades to 2.5, the quality of backlink is become very important for any website that want to rank well in any search engines. If backlinks are relevant you have no problem with Google Panda/Farmer Update.

In this quick guide I would to give an overview of the main techniques that could help you in the process of increasing linkback to your site. I’m just sharing my experience.

In general, there are two ways you can build link to your site. The first one is do things manually by yourself and the second one by using the  SEO service online that make the job for you.

Say Goodbye To Low-Quality Link Building

The first important question is: How to determine whether a site you’re trying to gain a link from is valuable? Below I just shared somthing you should check before to take your choice:

1. The site is full of advertisements – Check up if they’ re using too much ads e.g. Adsense, Infolinks, Buysellads and other similar programs to monetize your blog, well it’s time clean up your theme.

2. Lack of quality content – Many sites suffer from a severe lack of quality content. There are many factor that let you determine if the site is poor of quality content or does not, like grammatical errors, number of quality comments, and so on.

3. The number of links coming from authority sites – These link should be related to their niche. Also check up the number of times users share it on social media as bookmark it as well(despite the latest one can be faked too).

4. High Page Rank doesn’t means high traffic – The first thing people do is to add a comment in those sites with Google PageRank of 6. In certain case this might be a bad move.Often these sites doesn’t have good authority in terms of traffic, then it may be put on the list of sites to be penalized in the future by search engines.

In my experience the best ways to increasing backlink are the following:

1. Guest posting – I think this is the first thing comes to any mind. There are tons of sites with a page rank  more high than yours and with thousand of daily visitors. This is an opportunity for anyone. Make sure to read their guidelines before to send the review.

2. Video content – Video content is more eye catching than video. It’s a fact. A viral video on Youtube can quickly reach thousand if not milions visitors in just a few weeks. That’s an opportunity for you to increasing visibility.

3. Audio content - Frankly, I never tried podcasting due I don’t talk english properly yet. But if you have not this problem, probably you are able to drive a lot of listeners to your site.

4. Focus on Just Pages with High PageRank – Often sites don’t have oodles of PageRank.  Be sure to check up if backlinks from pages are of good quality and indexed.They’re not a waste of time if they’re helping to balance out your link profile.

5. Comment – Is the most common ways to get back link and drive traffic to your site, but in my view not effective as the ones above.

If You No Time To DO The Job Manually

One of the barriers companies may have when it comes to build linkback to their site is that they often have not enough time to spend for. As result they are specifically looking for time-saving SEO service.

Recently I came across to Sorezki. I gave a quick look to their site and they provides several services like SEO blog commentsPaid Search Marketing PPC and so on.

It’s a service that help anyone to simplify the entire process on building linkback to your site. They provides a service that let you order as many links as you wish through various technique, from blog comments,  bookmarks, which I already mentioned above, but even more like forum posts, press release, Q&A, to article and directory submissios, and so on.

One thing I really appreciate about this service it that they do not use robots, trained animals and sweatshops. Their team is composed of SEO lovin’ link builders, who build smart links on highly relevant pages of high TR. Search engines get grumpy when there are duplicates, so we make sure all our content is original.

Another addition to your SEO arsenal might be the Sorezki Chrome extension for SEO. In a nutshel, this a free helpful tool that most SEOs and SEMs will have a good use for. You can install the Sorezki SEO Plus Chrome Extension from the Chrome Web Store by here.

It grabs data from multiple reliable services like Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Bing, Yahoo Site Explorer, and many other popular SEO data services.

Here’s an excellent overview video:

Note: that it is strongly recommended that do the following if you are using this extension:

  • First, switch Google Instant Search off.
  • Check the cached SERPs for a much better Yahoo Site Explorer results
  • Try accessing data for a single page under the Content section (this will give you enhanced Google Analytics)
  • Remember that this tool is safe to use as it does not view, save, and/or copy any of your browsing history.

Have you changed your link building strategy? Please share your thoughts in the comments!

Image Credit: Matti Mattila

New Upgrades From SEO PowerSuite: 4 Power Pieces Of SEO Software Programs

If you want to come to any sort of success online, you need to have the numbers in front of you.

A webmaster/blogger knows that getting website/blog ranking on page 1 on an internet site like Google are very important for any particular online business.

Here’s why you might want to be interested in the software I mentioned in this article today.

Maybe you might have already heard about Website Auditor tool. SEOPowerSuite contains that tool as well as 3 other power tools that are designed to assist you in your daily SEO works.

It’s a very complete set of instrument that helps anyone( SEO expert or does not) to know a whole lot by what goes on together with their competition.

Compared the latest release, they’ve developed some new search engine optimization features. These allows to track a whole slew of useful data that you can use to improve your business site.

Let Me Show You What SEOPowerSuite Package Put Into Table

The first program really impressed me is Website Auditor utility. This is an important tool when it comes to analyze your own website, to check that it functions faultlessly. People can perform complete audit of their own websites too.

The intere process will take some time but you will be able to know how you can improve your website and be among the top competitors within a short duration. Hence, with time you will be able to even beat the top ranking sites. Through this power feature, you will get exceptional guidelines which you cannot get from any other provider.

As shown in the screenshot below(the windows at the top-right). I just used audit on my site http://natural-supplements-tips.com. It’s a new site with only a few pages, but this tool let me check many data as the meta description, meta keywords, PageRank of each page, the HTTP status, charset-type, the content type, total link, external links, nofollow links, css validator errors, tags, and so on.

The screenshot below show the result I got:

There’s more. The SEO PowerSuite contains other three power tools: Rank TrackerSEO SpyGlass, as LinkAssistant as well. The best part is that all these tools can be purchased separately, but I wanted to buy the entire package. That’s probably the better route to take if you want a comprehensive approach to your SEO efforts.

Here’s I will tell  more about any single tool:

The Second tool is Rank TrackerIt provides a number of detailed analyses on how your site is doing through search engines. You can display as your business site is ranked among other competitors and especially through the chosen keyword and phrases.

Once open you can choose the search engines you wish to check with Rank Tracker and see whether your website has improved or deteriorated in the search engine results. (It supports 633 different search engines).

You can even specify the keyword or keyphrase you wish to monitor. So you will know the best keywords which you can use to improve your content.

If you want to get the best rank in the internet and make more money in the process you can go for this feature.

The Third tool is LinkAssistant - Through this tool you can locate the valuable link partners and getting their contact information in order to maintain a good relationship with them.

You are also able to monitor if your site is popular enough to bring in good profits, and if it can be received by potential clients. A LinkAssistant will also generate your link directory, categories every link and improve it for better competition.

The Forth tool is SEO SpyGlass - SEO  SpyGlass  is  a  backlink  checker. It is used for competition analysis – users check backlinks of their competitors, get a variety of data about backlinks. Thus they get to know what links in particular make their competitors strong and get the same ones.

The Sample Keyword Report

This page give you an idea of what you can get using SEOPowerSuite and its four tools. You can find a small collection of sample reports.

E.g. Here you can see the report for Keyword ranking, which show how the site ranks for the various target keywords. As you can notice part of the report are displayed visually in the form of graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs.

The main features that make SEOPowerSuite so interesting ae the following:

  • Reliable – They have Fortune 500 companies on the list of their users, as others little companies, and it was tested by SEO experts which confermed that this software helped them get top 10 Google rankings.
  • Complete. You won’t ever need to go searching for any other tools — right now you can get your hands on the most complete set of effective SEO software that is absolutely enough to achieve and maintain top traffic–generating positions in any search engine.
  • Frequently updated – They keep software as Google upgrades its algorithmic in order any single change in search engines goes noticed and add new features to help you get top rankings within shortest time.
  • Compatible with all type of computers – SEO Power suite work well with WinPCs or Macintosh computers and even for Linux fans.
  • Easy and fast – Personally I found this SEO software very esasy to use, and I think you will remain impressed on how it will guides you in quickly doing every search engine optimization task necessary to get the #1 position in any search engine.

Price

The cost of entire SEO PowerSuite family is €399 €249, for website owners and webmasters. I know is not cheap, but believe me you get four very robust SEO tools and a plethora of informative reports.

Alternatively, you can upgrade to the €599 Enterprise license that is designed for professional SEOs and SEO companies. The best part is that If you’re not satisfied, you can return it within the first 30 days for a full refund.

Final Consideration

No matter what SEO knowledges you have, if you’re an expert or does not, SEO Powersuite give you 4 power tools to help you in your SEO endeavois and you will definitely surpass your competitors and improve your traffic and your website. So, if you want to accumulate details about your actual competitor, this a great tool to your needs.

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How To Use Black Hat SEO As White Hat SEO

This is a guest post by Crystal j briscoe. If you would like to write for the3dtechnologies, check our guest posting guidelines.

Search engine optimization deals with increasing the page rank or visibility of any web page by applying different techniques. With growth of internet, site owners started to realize that it is extremely profitable to be ranked higher in search engine page results consequently giving birth to SEO techniques. Now, SEO has evolved into an internet marketing strategy that works on exploring the trends in search engines and implementing techniques for website optimization.

Depending on the way SEO techniques are implemented, following are the SEO techniques:

White Hat SEO: All SEO activities performed without violating search engines policies are included in this category. It can also be called as ethical SEO and is favored by the search engines for website optimization. These techniques usually do not show results rapidly; rather improved results are steadily obtained which are long lasting.

Black Hat SEO: Those SEO activities which try to deceive search engine indexing algorithms for increasing the visibility of websites in search results come under the category of Black Hat SEO. Violating the norms of search engines, these practices usually boost website ranking in a short period of time due to which Black Hat strategy is normally employed. On the other hand, if search engines figure out that these techniques have been used for any web page, they penalize such pages by either temporary or permanent blockage.

Ways to Implement Black Hat SEO as White Hat SEO

The techniques mentioned above differ at the implementation level and work at the back hand in order to optimize any website. Black hat ha the benefit that a rapid boost can be achieved with a short span of time as compared to white hat but are liable to be penalized. Another terminology is out there in the market nowadays known as Gary Hat SEO. It can be though of as a blend of white and black hat SEO with benefits lying in between. A few tips are listed in this regard which will provide guideline in making use of Black Hat SEO as White Hat SEO.

Keyword Stuffing: One practice of Black Hat is to perform keyword spamming or stuffing. For this, Meta tags, comments tags and alt tags are stuffed with desired keywords and are invisible. Too much overloading of tags can result in page being flagged. One can make use of moderate or slight keyword stuffing.

Hidden Text: Another technique in Black Hat is to make use of hidden text for improved page rank. Normally keyword is used in the hidden text with font color matching the background. Search engines are thus deceived by the keyword density. Same in this case also, avoiding too much hidden text, a pinch of hidden text in addition to keyword rich site content will generate good results.

Gateway Pages: In this Black Hat trick, extremely stuffed fake pages are created and are linked to the target page. Due to keyword density, these are ranked higher and when accessed redirect to target site. Search engines now have become very intelligent and detect such activities if overloaded. Try to be on the safe side.

In simple words, limited search engine rules violations normally do not come under Black Hat SEO.

About The Author

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How To Become Seo Content Writer? Tips And Suggestions For The Amateurs

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Do you want to earn money online? If you are looking for ways and methods to earn money online then you should find out opportunities by estimating your skills and qualifications. Earning money online is not a difficult task if you know little about article writing. Article writing is a profession in which you write descriptive or informative essays for different people.

To be a good Seo content writer you should learn about SEO. It is an abbreviation of search engine optimization and it is very important for the online article writing jobs. The people who want to become a SEO content writer should focus on the features of the search engine optimization. In order to learn about SEO you should get information about following things.

Search For The Online Platforms

It is the first step to become a SEO content writer. You should search on internet to find the website that offer these types of jobs. After finding some related websites you should get the registration or membership. Just fill out the simple application form, supply your information and click on register button to become an active member of content writing websites.

There are thousands of websites that offer these jobs but you should select the websites that offer membership free of costs. There will be many websites that don’t charge anything for registration.

Article Title, Summary And Body

These are some of the most important features that combine to make a SEO rich content or article. These three things are basic requirements of any content so good SEO content writers should have information and knowledge about these things. If you are an active member of any freelancing website then you should read different SEO content writing jobs and posts.

These posts will be helpful for you to find out ways to become a good content writer. Learn how to make an attractive and unique title to the article. Remember, title is the most important things because people decide to read the article after finding the title informative and attractive. If you want to summarize your article then write a summary. It will force the people to read rest of the information present in the body of article.

Use Your Writing Skills And Experiences

If you want to be a good SEO content writer then you should use your writing skills and experiences. Content writing is a difficult job but if you have great treasure of information and knowledge in your hand then you can write a good article about the given topics and keywords. Always use the keywords in proper density or as per directions of the employers.

You can make your writing more attractive by giving subtitles in the article. Remember, good generation of new words and sentences is important for the content writers. These words and sentences should be SEO friendly. If you are writing content about products and services then use the keywords that can increase the chances of article to get top position on different search engines.

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Optimize Your Website For Search Engines With Seopressor

When I first started promoting my business online, I realized rather quickly that I had been terribly short sighted on the importance of seo for a blog.

Google contains more than 100 algorithms that make the world’s most popular search engine.

To better optimizing my web pages, all these years I tried several SEO plugins, someone who worked well, other does not. Three week ago, just because I  could get a 60 day free trial, I decided to try a new wordpress seo plugin called Seopressor. You can grab a copy here.

My friend Daniel Tan is an seo expert and developer of Seopressor, and created this powerful yet easy to use WordPress Plugin for SEO that suggest the easy steps you should take to score 100% for the search engine optimization of your content.

As I said above I’ve been using Seopressor for three weeks until now, so today I’ve enough knowledge and I’ll tell you what this plugin is all about and what I think of it.

What Does Seopressor Do?

The core of Seopressor is Seopressor scoreboard(look the image below), which you’ll see on the right of your Wp Dashboard when you start a new post or page.

Until you don’t tell to Seopressor which keyword you’re trying to optimize, it can’t compute any sort of score. Once you start writing the post and enter a keyword, then Seopressor do the rest of job.

If you want rank 1 for specific keyword term Seopressor can help you in these two ways:

Keywords – As you know, Keyword density is crucial on seo optimization and has  effect on serps. Both relevant keywords and key phrases have significant effect on serps when placed in the correct postion with the correct markup. Well, this plugin help you do that.

In this case Seopressor come into play because suggest you on the correct keyword placement and keyword density but does not advise you on which keywords to use.

Links – While Seopressor does not help you increase backlinks, it does help suggest you on your internal linking which is very important for your search engine results(SERPS).

Let’s Start Using The Plugin

Once upload all files, go on plugin from your WP dashboard, then activate it. On activation settings, you have to enter your name and email. You will receive an email asking you to verify your activation. Once clicked, the activation is complete!

NOTE: If you are using SEOPressor Unlimited, you do not need to activate your license

Here’s how it works:

1. First at all, in the left sidebar of your WordPress dashboard do click on “Add New”. Here you can enter your main keywords on the section above the content called “SeoPressor Keyword”(Image above).

2. Next, write your post and once done, click on “save draft”. Now on your wp dashboard you should see your seo scores.  Once you enter your main keyword and click on ‘update’ button, the Seopressor scores will be updated automatically. The “SeoPressor Score” that tell you how to optimize your content for search engine. Take a look at the pic below:

You will see your scores, your keywords, the keyword density and thing you should do to optimize your content. The red crosses are things you have to change, the green checks are things in order.

Next, on your left panel, you will see a menu like the image below. Settings is where you can setup most of the options of the plugin and POSTs Score and PAGEs Score is the place you will see your SEO scores. POSTs Score and PAGEs Score is where you can edit eny single post you’ve previously created.

The following video will go into detail, so you can see exactly what it looks like.

What Does It Cost To Use This Plugin?

Seopressor come through two version: Seopressor single site at $47 with a single site license, free life-time updates, and Seopressor UNLIMITED which is $7 for 7-day trial, then $97 one time after trial periods ends.

In my view it worth a try if you’re considering to optimizing your seo pages quickly, or if you are already doing so but with mediocre results. Remeber get a 60 day free trial, so try doesn’t cost you a cent.

To Your Success,

Author:

July 28, 2011

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