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Get High Search Engine Ranking with More Backlinks

Suzanne Wells — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:02:01 +0000

In order to get organic traffic to your blog, which results in more ad and affiliate revenue, your blog must place high enough in the search engine ranking to be found. One way to achieve a high search engine ranking is with quality backlinks – links that are directed towards your website. Backlinks are very important for search engine optimization because search engines, namely Google, gives more credit to websites that have a high number of quality backlinks. A “quality backlink” is one that comes from a site with relevant content.

Here are some easy ways to build quality backinks to your blog or website to achieve a high search engine ranking:

Visit eZine Articles and search for articles within your niche – leave comments. You can enter your URL in the comment section. To leave a comment, click on the COMMENTS link in blue just under the title.

Look on the front page of DIGG and visit the top stories. Do any of the stories relate to your blog’s content? If so, visit the sites and leave comments on the articles.

Watch your Facebook news feed for people posting links to their blogs. Look for blogs that are in your same niche or relate to your blog’s topic. Visit those blog and leave a comment with a clickable link.

Visit Squidoo and search for your niche keywords. When you find relevant Squidoo lenses, leave comments on those articles with a link back to your site.

Building backlinks to your blog is a job that must be done on a regular, consistent basis. Remember, backlinks are permanent. These links will start to accumulate over time and start working for you, but it takes patience and persistence to achieve a high search engine ranking. Click here for more tips on how to make (more) money blogging.

Blogger Reviews – Free Promotion for Your Product

Suzanne Wells — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:39:16 +0000

Do you have a product or service you want to promote, but can’t afford expensive advertising? Are you interested in getting the word out on the internet but don’t have time to sit on Facebook and Twitter networking all day? Try this technique -blogger outreach. You are going to leverage the blogosphere to market and promote your product.

You have probably seen blogs with product reviews. When a blogger reviews your product, she is exposing you and your product or service to her readers. The trick is to choose blogs that are already talking to your audience.

1) Visit Google Blogsearch, Blog Catalog, Techorati, and Twitter and search for blogs that talk about your topic. Let’s say your product is natural homemade soap. You won’t want to target other soap makers, because those are your competitors. You want to target blogs that discuss natural health and beauty products, non-toxic beauty products, chemical-free skin care, sensitive skin care, or environmentally conscious products.

2) Look for blogs with lots of traffic. To determine how much traffic a blog gets, look for the SiteMeter widget and click on it. Or, look for the Feedburner widget that says how many readers the blog has. You also want to look for blogs with lots of comments on the posts, which is an indicator of the blog’s popularity with its readers.

3) Contact the blogger and ask if she will do a product review. If she agrees, you will need to send her the actual product so she can use it and form her opinion.

4) Understand that she doesn’t have to like your product. She is going to give it an honest review.

5) When the blogger reviews your product, she should provide a link back to your site so that customers can buy it.

Easy Traffic Generating Tip Using Facebook

Suzanne Wells — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:03:40 +0000

This may be a no brainer, but I guarantee somebody reading this hasn’t done it. If you are on Facebook (and if you aren’t you better get there), make sure you have all of your blog and website addresses on your info page. It only takes a few seconds to add them. They will be clickable and direct the reader to your site. You never know when somebody is going to click on your info page and check you out.

I do this all the time, but not in a stalker-ish way. I am just curious about what kinds of sites people have. You can add links to your ecommerce sites, article writing profiles, and any other URL that you want to promote.

If you aren’t on Facebook already, or you have signed up but have no idea what to do, click here for an article about how to use Facebook for business. And be sure to add me as a friend! As my daughter says, “Mom, everyone is your friend on Facebook.”