Top RSS And Blog Marketing Tips

1. For fast inclusion into yahoo, get yourself a "my yahoo" page - http://my.yahoo.com/ and place your rss feed on that page.
2. Have a link which allows other people to put your rss feed on their own "my yahoo" page. See "my yahoo" for details.
3. For fast inclusion to msn, also open a "my msn" account and add your rss feed to that page.
4. Place your blog on all the major search engines.
5. Ping your blog after every post at - http://pingomatic.com/
6. Place a "blogroll" on your blog using - http://www.blogrolling.com/
7. Make a blog post at least every day or less.
8. Invite other editors/writers or webmasters to write on your blog as co-editors. Make sure you allow them to include their "resource box" at the bottom of each post and set up an "about our editors" page.
9. Place a link and description to your blog on all your websites, out going emails and any autoresponder courses you have set up.
10. Announce your blog at forums you currently use/participate in.
11. Place informative responses in the "comments" box of other highly trafficked blogs in your field of business.
12. Once you have 10 to 15 posts on your blog, announce it with a press release.
Happy blogging!

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SEO: Linking Strategies For Your Site

Linking is not such a simple process. While there are still many webmasters and SEO experts implying that the more links pointing to your site, the higher rankings in Google and other search engines, this is not entirely true. It doesn't really matter how many links you have, if they are not valuable links.

What determines the value of a link? The value of a link to your site is given by the value of the website pointing at it. For example, if you have a link on an industry-related, PR 7 or higher, website that could bring your website a boost and a higher PR (page rank) as well. Note the "industry related" aspect. You don't need to collect links and linking partners to improve search engine placements. This will come naturally after you create a network of related links that will bring valuable information for the users. A network of related links will bring you targeted traffic as well.

Stay away from link farms. Google doesn't like bulk or automated linking. However, if a link farm is linking to you that will be OK, as long as you are not linking back. Solely linking back to bad neighbors (link farms and penalized websites) could really get your site banned. You should always check back to your link partners and see whether their websites were penalized or not. A simple way to see that is to look at the Google toolbar where the Page Rank of a website is usually displayed. If that element is completely gray, you should remove the back link to the affected website from your website immediately.

You should also avoid linking to sites that don't link back to you. Unless these sites provide content that is really important for your visitors, let's say for a better understanding of the nature of your business, you should not link to them. When you link to another site, you give this site a percentage of your Page Rank.

Another very important aspect in linking strategy is writing links. Never use "click here" for your onsite links. Your visitors will mentally answer, "make me" and move on. You should write links that are meaningful, explain what the link offers and make sense even when read out of context. When you transform entire paragraphs into a link your visitors will get confused.

When you submit your link to web directories and partner sites, don't always use the same title and description. Try, as much as possible to write different titles and link descriptions for each directory and partner site. Both titles and descriptions should be keyword rich, but not stuffed with keywords. Keep the link title as short as possible – 30 to 60 characters, depending where you submit your link, and the description not more than 130 characters, including spaces. The shorter the description, the clearer your message will be. If each link that points to your site has unique content, the search engines will treat it as important and consider it for indexing. Search engines do have the tendency of excluding from their results links with similar content. You are probably familiar with the Google's follow up phrase "repeat the search with the omitted results included".

If you don't want Google and the search engines to exclude some of your links from the results, give them a reason not to. Build up a good linking strategy as part of your SEO campaign.

Using Blogs For Affilate And Adsense Profits Combined

How do you set up a blog for effective affilate and Adsense profits? Here is the low down of how it's done and some of the ins and outs of rss. For this example I will use web hosting as the affilate product we selling on the blog.
1. Rss is great for getting the robots to visit but it will not get you visitors until:
- You have quite a number of pages
- Have decent page rank.
2. Best blog platform -- http://www.wordpress.org
3. Blog page - index page.
- A two column blog I find works the best
- The sidebar should be on the right hand of the page for SEO purposes
- Heading for your affiliate reviews shouls be first... something like "In-Depth, Top 5 Cheap Hosting Reviews". Two links underneath, one going to reviews and the other to "why our reviews are more relaible than other sites".
4. Reviews of your products. 4 to 10 reviews, make them long and give info of what benefits one product has over the other and a rating for different aspects. Do not put adsense on your reviews page. This site does it really well - http://www.keywordworkshop.com/ and it's a blog to boot.
5. Next heading in the sidebar - "Articles". A link going to current articles followed by a search box for your articles. Each article page is where you Adsense sits and here are some good tips:
- All links including Adsense, one color underlined
- Research has shown the normal blue and darker blue gets the best hits
- Adsense in the middle and at the end of all your articles... you will get less click troughs with Adsense in the borders.
6. Next heading "contact Me" Blurb... A little confused with all the info, so many choices or an aspect of one of "hosting reviews" (linked to your review page... feel free drop me an email any time... blah blah Then more headings after this is you wish... "My fav top ten hosting tips articles"... "Top 5 Domain Name Website Reviews"? and so on. The way I see it, is if they are customers coming for information on a given product, service or business area, why not stick some products up and make some more money! If they are just interested in the articles monetize those with Adsense. And then if for any reason you have a bad Adsense month, the affilate income is there as a backup.
The final tip is to keep your blogs clean so people can easily find the information they are looking for whether that be a product or articles.

Make Money Writing Articles And Submitting Them

One of the best ways to drive traffic to your website is to use a method known as Article Submission. How does this work? Well just like the site you are on right now there are 100's more just like it where people can submit and read articles. When you submit your article to these Article Sites you have the ability to include a short bio at the end. In this bio you can include something about yourself and a link to your website. When people read your article some of them will go to your link.
Something that a lot of people don't know is that there are other programs that go to the article submission sites and grab the articles there to use as content on there website. Included is your link. So now you have your article all over the web driving traffic to your site.
The first thing you need to know is you don't have to know anything about the topic in order to write an article. You can get all the information you need right on the article sites, read them and put it in your own words. You can take several articles and put the peices together in your own words.
The title is very important. Using words in the title that capture the readers attention will get more people to read your article which in turn will get more people to go to your site.
In your bio use words that will spark the interest of the reader to click on the link and get people to your website.
Article submission can be done several ways. One way is to manually submit your articles to each of the hundreds of sites on the web. To do it this way will take a lot of time. The second way is to purchase article submission software like is included in The Article Money System. You put in your information including the bio and it will submit it to 100's of submission sites much quicker than you can do manually.
A quick way to get started writing your articles is to use Private Label Articles. Private Label articles are articles written by other authors that when purchase give you the right to use or resell in any way you see fit. You can use these articles and rewrite them in your own words give it a new unique title and submit them to the article sites.
You now have all the knowledge needed to start writing your own articles and submitting them to the Article Submission sites and driving massive amounts of traffic to your website at the same time. Good luck!