Entries Tagged ‘SEO’

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. [Read on...]

Google Page Rank (PR) is one of the foremost indicators about the popularity of a blog, website or a single web page. In fact, many advertisers or ad networks use the PR as the primary criterion along with traffic ranks to accept or reject publisher or blogger accounts while signing up. Due to the same reason, bloggers usually go gaga over the same in an attempt to maintain or increase their blogs’ PR status.

How many backlinks will it take?

It is a known fact that more backlinks from high PR pages will eventually result in an increase of your blog’s PR. But how many backlinks will it take for a blog to receive a particular Page Rank? The following table will give you some idea. [Read on...]

For the past 10 days or so, I have been playing around with some of my old posts on this blog. As a matter of fact, some good old articles from the initial days have not been read by many. The original idea was to repackage them well there by improving the visibility. But I was taken by surprise that in addition to improved clicks from linked pages, I was getting some search engine traffic as well!

In this post, I will talk about the methods I used to market my old posts and how I improved the blog’s overall search visibility as well (See the Google Analytics screenshot below)

How did I link old posts?

Method #1: The first method of linking to older articles is from within the content of your new posts. This is by far the most popular method [Read on...]

There are a number of free sites and SEO tools to check the backlinks or inbound links to your blog or website. I had recommended a few such link popularity check tools in an earlier post. However, most of the link popularity check tools will show only the total backlink count along with some sample URLs which may not be sufficient to understand your backlinks and act.

Today we take a look at two methods of getting all your backlinks in a single page. [Read on...]

Your Wordpress blog has a great feature called Update Services that basically alert a number of blog directories, content aggregators and social media sites whenever your update your blog. This is an extremely useful stuff as your new posts will be reaching millions of web users worldwide much faster than the search engine (search engines spiders will take some more time to crawl & index) route.

By default, Wordpress provides the update service provided by Ping-O-Matic which is a very reliable service. The option to alert the Ping-O-Matic service, is available via Settings->Writing->Update Services section in your Wordpress admin panel [Read on...]