Entries Tagged ‘search engine optimization’

In Feb 2006, BMW’s official site was blacklisted by Google for indulging in unethical SEO activities that manipulated the page ranking system. Getting blacklisted by Google would mean that your site’s PR suddenly drops to zero and no more pages from your site will be indexed by Google basically denying your site’s search visibility.

Black hat SEO (spamdexing) is the collective term to describe such bad SEO activities. These methods, for sure, bring in immediate visibility to your website or blog but are almost certain to be banned by Google sooner or later. In this post, I shall try to explain the SEO activities that are considered wrong by the search engines and in particular Google.
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Any website receives human visits from three major traffic categories – direct visits, referral visits and search engine visits. While you, as a webmaster or blogger do not have much control over direct and referral categories, the search traffic can be improved drastically via simple Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tricks and some discipline.

Assuming that you (1) have submitted your blog to search engines (2) search engine spiders actually crawl your site frequently (3) your blog theme is SEO optimized and (4) you have the All-in-one SEO plugin (or similar) installed on your blog, the following ten-minute touch up for your blog posts will give you more search visitors (Blogger blogs may do only permalink, keyword stuffing and linking part)
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Google Webmaster Tools is one of the very first services that every blogger and webmaster should sign up for, as soon as the blog is launched! However, most people do not give enough importance to the webmaster tools once the sitemap is submitted and robot.txt verified.

Let me explain here a couple of important pages in the Google Webmaster Tools that provide insights into the popularity and visibility of your content (blog posts, pages, other services etc). Then we will quickly cover a few tips to improve the situation. Please note that I will not be talking too much about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or where to find hot keywords etc.
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Earlier last month, I had posted an article titled 10 High-PR High-Traffic FREE article submission sites which was highly appreciated by a lot of readers. While article submission is a great way to improve traffic as well as backlinks, having active presence in certain forums guarantee all these benefits plus a lot more. In this post, I would like to pick top 10 forums that have high Google page ranks, active subscriber base and relevant topics to help boost your blog’s visibility.

How can forums help your blog?

As you all know most forums have sections and discussion threads that talk about a certain domain and related topics. By signing up and leading a reasonably active life in these forums, you can avail the following benefits for your blog or website.

• Backlink building: A huge number of backlinks can be built in very few days depending on how active you are. This will eventually result in better page ranking of your blog in mid term and hence more organic visitors as well
• Increased Traffic: Posting your queries or answers on forums can result in an increased traffic to your blog in short term or instantly
• Long term readership: Many of your forum friends may become regular readers of your blog in the long term. Forums could also act as socializing places
• Brand building: Forums can be excellent places to consistently accentuate your brand

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