These are my most visited blog posts in 2011.
I picked the top 10 which had a combination of the most views, comments and shares.
1.Website Name: How To Choose The Best One
Check out this short video to see and hear the do’s and don’ts of website names. The video shows you how to choose the best website name for your site.
Read more by clicking here: Website Name: How To Choose The Best One
2. Get Backlinks – Here are the 11 methods and backlink tools I use
In this post I share 11 methods I use but first…what is a backlink:
In this little cracker I am suggesting you create a little mini-network via the facility of hub-pages.
A hub-page is a site where you can add a one-page piece of content i.e. a blog post and include anchor text backlinks to your blog.
Examples of hub-pages include:
www.hubpages.com
www.Squidoo.com
www.wordpress.com
Hub-pages are very highly ranked by the search engines and they provide your blog with quality backlinks.
Plus>>>
Your mini hub-page network will be spread out over the web to help focus the search engines and visitors towards your blog.
It’s not money that makes the on-line world go round…it’s backlinks.
We all want more.
That is sort of true…to be more precise…
We all want more quality backlinks.
Why?
Because the more quality backlinks we have the…
…More Google loves our sites
…The higher our sites appear in the search engines.
Some methods of getting back links take a lot of work like guest posting, article directories and Hub Pages.
Don’t get me wrong I do all of these methods myself and recommend you do…they just take a little longer than this one…
Next week…the week leading up to Christmas as well as my normal schedule of blog posts I shall be sharing some “Blogging Little Crackers”.
Each “Little Cracker” blog post will be short, to the point with one actionable task you can take away and implement on your own blog to improve traffic and backlinks.
Now to manage expectations…these are not dirty little secrets or things that others DON’T mention.
They are little reminders that we often forget to do.
Simple as that.
See you next week!
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Your blog craves…
…traffic
…subscribers
…back and internal links
…daily stroking
Without the above your blog will be upset, feeling very lonely…in fact…CRYING!
Now…let’s just say you had a magic wand and you could wave it over your blog…say some magic words like…”azaam bezaam zezaam” and hey presto, suddenly your blog had:
1,000,000 visitors a day
100,000 subscribers
500,000 back and internal links
And you knew exactly what to do each day to keep your blog growing.
How would your blog feel then?
DoFollow blogs have removed the nofollow attribute that is inherent in blogs especially in wordpress blogs.
In doing so, it allows search engines to pass on ‘link juice’ back to your blog.
Here are articles explaining why it is good to build backlinks using dofollow sites. These collections of articles also contain other tips and helpful strategies on building backlinks. I hope you find this resource really helpful.
How Do I get Backlinks to my Post, making sure they will get a good page rank? by Daniel Scocco
Seven Tips to Boost your Link Popularity with High Quality Back-Links! by Benjamin Huebner
The concept of link building has more to do with the quality of links rather than quantity.
Hence, it is extremely important that you do not crowd your site with numerous irrelevant links.
Over time of course, you are going to have inbound links from irrelevant sites and that doesn’t matter. Your AIM is to have more backlinks from quality relevant sites than non-relevant sites.
Some other precautions that you should keep in mind while launching a link building campaign are:
- Generate links from both “old trusted” as well as new sites.
It can take a little while before Google comes along and starts to index your blog and add it to their search engines.
Just because we:
- Add the Google XML sitemap plugin
- Verify our blog via Google’s Webmaster tools
- Add numerous blog posts each week
- Ping numerous directories
BUT…have you ever looked at the stats to see exactly what Google has indexed on your blog?
You may be surprised with the difference.
As of today, I have 342 different URL’s in my site map.
What’s your favorite food?
Chocolate?
Chips?
McD’s?
Whatever it is, when you eat it, it gives you pleasure, right?
Now what about your blog?
What is your blog’s favorite food?
Visitors?
Backlinks?
Comments?
And one way to get your blog moaning with pleasure by providing more visitors, more backlinks and even more comments is via guest posting.
Now I’m not going to write another blog post about the benefits of guest posting.
You can find that sort of information by clicking on these links:
My blog has 7670 backlinks as stated in my blog post Blogging Guide Blog Is One Year Old and since then I’ve had a number of personal emails asking me how I get backlinks.
By the way, today the number of backlinks is 7790.
In this post I share 11 methods I use but first…what is a backlink:
Simply put, a backlink is a link on a website (including blogs) that leads back to your website / blog.
I added my first blog post on this site on 10 February 2009. I now have 205 blog posts and that tells me that I blogged on average 4.5 times every week.
These are my top ten most visited posts this year:
1. Read my story of how I became rich overnight:
The Definitive Internet Marketing Technique
2. Find out if you can make money online:
Can You Make Money On The Internet?
3. Check out this short video to see and hear the do’s and don’ts of website names:
How To Choose A Website Name
Thanks to the massive amount of traffic pushed through search engines every day, competitive and forward thinking webmasters are doing all they can to push their websites to the top of the ranks.
SEO (search engine optimization) has been a major part of internet marketing for the better part of a decade, but only recently has it truly come into its own as a true online industry.
SEOs (search engine optimizers) have started offering their professional services, both as planners and technical employees, and some webmasters are seeing great results.
But that raises a question: why can’t you just do it yourself?
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