Belong to more than one social media? Short on time?

If you have multiple blogs and/or multiple social media accounts, check out http://ping.fm. They allow you to register all of your social media accounts and just have one place to post from. You can post to them to all at once, just a few, or just one at a time. It is absolutely free, too!

Enjoy your time!

The First Step in Blogging is Choosing a Blog Company

Before you just go ahead and choose a blogging company know that many blogging companies do not have the abilities that WordPress has in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  SEO is what causes your rankings to be high on the Search Engines, like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

One blogging company is Blogger, owned by Google.  The tags (related words and terms to your article that you post) you create in a blog are not recognized by Google Robots that search everyone’s Blogger blog.  So you will have less traffic from Blogger.  It is believed to be unintentional, but that engineers that created Blogger do not have the SEO knowledge to have even considered this.  WordPress is set up for SEO.

It sure is!  I was just amazed.  My articles/posts are on google usually within 24 hours.  Then you have all of those tags that you created which bring in more people from each of the tags (these are posted on Google as well, which is what I was talking about above).

For those of you that have all the lingo down, please be patient, as my readers are mostly beginners.

So come aboard and join WordPress!

Leave any question you have below in the comments section please.

Free Dead Link Checker

Do you have dead links on your website or blog?

With the this free dead link checker it will tell which links on your site are found out NOT found.  It’s free therefore you have nothing to lose.

What is FEEDJIT?!

FEEDJIT appears more than 700,000,000 times a month in over 150 countries.

FEEDJIT is completely free and you don’t even have to register.

What is FEEDJIT?

If you want more visitors for your blog and want to watch them arrive in real-time, then FEEDJIT is for you!  FEEDJIT makes the Live Traffic Feed and other real-time widgets used by hundreds of thousands of blogs and websites world-wide.

Blogging to Increase Traffic

How does blogging increasing traffic? 

Some of you know that individuals blog about their daily lives, their thougths and feelings, but you do not know how it would help your website or business. 

Attract Attention and Keep their Interest

Do you want higher website rankings or higher blog rankings?  You do not have to hire an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert.  But doing so is a faster way of getting to the top.

You just need to learn a few key rules that you can find on this blog and learn to attarct attentin and keep them coming back.  I am not asking you to be interesting, as is suggested by others.  I am asking you to attract attention and once accomplished keep their interest.

Keywords and Tags

Website authors use keywords and bloggers use tags.

Some bloggers do not use tags.  This is a grave error.  Use them!  Ensure that you use them more than once in an article.  Twice might be sufficient, but more is better.  Example:  You sell mattresses.  On one of your pages you list an air bed mattress.  If you only use the term “air bed” once in the title, yet list this as a keyword/tag then you are losing potential customers.  You need to use the term “air bed” throughout your page.  The Google Robots will look for relevancy in your page compared to the keywords.  These robots are smart.  They know that the term “pillow-top” is relevant to mattresses.  They know that memory foam is relevant to mattresses.  So use your relevant terms, too.  Keywords and tags are the key to traffic building.

Free Google Ad for 30 Days!

There is a great free service I have used in the past.  It is http://www.isubmit.com/.  They are a great group.  You have 30 days to have them advertise for you free.  If you decide to quit you just send them an email through your web account and they stop the ads.  I can recall obtaining my first sale through them, all for free.  They do not promise to advertise on Google for you, but they have for my 2 sites.  The second time they didn’t place the ad I wanted because of silly new Google rules.  But the first time it worked great when I was selling water softeners and iron filters.

The first time I cancelled my subscription I contacted them through their website and it was cancelled without a problem.  The next time I cancelled by sending them an email that was returned to me at a later time.  I then used their cancel button on their website.  It didn’t work either.  I finally used their website once I was logged into my account and they responded back stating that they would give me a refund.

I love freebies!  Enjoy!

What is Quality Content?

Per Google’s reputation, quality content is not just interesting content that cause people to come to your site. It is NEW content. Google loves new and RELEVANT content.

If you notice that Oprah’s last show about vitamins is the hottest thing today, you cannot place an article about Oprah and/or vitamins on your site in which you sell fishing equipment.

Increase Website Rankings with Incoming Links – Free Software

Quality Incoming links are the key, right after quality content.  How do you increase those quality links?  See the list below:

1.  Get your site submitted to www.dmoz.org.  This takes a long time and you might even be rejected.  Do not give up.  Keep trying.