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A great way to increase your rankings is to get links from trusted sites such .edu and .gov sites. Here are some basic tips to help you get links from these sites:
Finding the links
Although there an tons of educational and government sites, a lot don’t link out. The key to getting these links is to find sites that link to your competitors because they will probably be willing to link to you. You can do this by using Yahoo.
linkdomain:linkbuildingblog.com site:.edu
linkdomain:seomoz.org site:.gov
Getting the links
Once you create a list of .edu and .gov sites that you want links from, the next step would be to email them.
Hi,
My name is John Doe and I am the webmaster of XYZ.com. I notice that your site links to websites that provide information on web design. XYZ.com is also a great resource that is about web design and your readers may find it to be very useful, if it was on your list. I appreciate your consideration.
Thanks
John Doe
Now all you have to do is email out as many .edu and .gov as you can find and hopefully some of them will link back. Just make sure you don’t spam any of them.
14 CommentsI see a lot of talk about writing sure-fire titles for social media marketing but lets not forget SEO either (or even paid search marketing for that matter). Writing sure-fire titles for those are just as important. It’s something that takes both creativity and a little technical know how. You still have to entice click-throughs, convert well, create mindshare, but at the same time you also have to please algorithms.
So while there are top 10 ways to write good titles for social media marketing, there are also other things like putting keywords closer to the beginning of your title tags so they rank well. And yes that really does make a noticeable difference, but keep the titles user friendly too.
One of the best examples I can think of are WordPress blogs; we optimize a lot of WordPress blogs and one of the first things to do is tweak the title tags.
Example:
GigaOM << India’s Consumer Internet Space â Too Crowded?
To:
India’s Consumer Internet Space â Too Crowded? >> GigaOM
The first thing this does is it moves the brand to the end and all the important keywords closer to the front. I know there are people that disagree with this and think it’s better to have the brand first, especially if you’re reputable, but I think the opposite. I think it’s better to have the keywordscloser the front not only for SEO reasons but also for branding reasons as well. Take this screenshot for example.
They all stand out better to me than the Apple title does. So while it’s also more search friendly by theory, it is also more brandable too. Which do you prefer?
So next time you have you’re thinking of clever titles that will get you on Digg also think of clever titles that will get you on Google too. They both play a big importance in their respective disciplines and I find that very cool.
Just don’t stuff keywords as that’s annoying and doesn’t work.
7 CommentsEveryday people launch new websites and blogs thinking that they are going to be flooded with traffic without doing anything. The truth is, it is a difficult task to make a website or a blog popular and it takes a lot of work. So if you are looking to increase your traffic there are a number of ways that this can be accomplished. Here are the resources I use on a regular basis.
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Basic solid tips on how to get your blog climbing the Search Engines.
How To Generate Targeted Site Traffic Without Search Engines – If search engines were never invented or they ceased to exist tomorrow, how would you build traffic to your website in a searchless world?
How to get traffic for your blog – Seth Godin breaks down 56 ways to increase your blog traffic.
10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page – 10 funny ways you can get on the Digg homepage.
Building Traffic to Build Your Fan Club – This is a great way to build evangelists.
How To Drive Traffic to Your Blog – The Advice of a 12 Year Old – Can’t get traffic to your blog? A 12 year will show you how!
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic – 21 best practices that bloggers should follow to increase their traffic.
How To Build Traffic To Your Blog – With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.
Building blog traffic for newbies – Blog promotion 101 for newbies.
3 Ways to Immediately Increase Search Engine Traffic – Amongst the commercial blogosphere there is huge interest in the dark, and mysterious art of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. There shouldn’t be. Not because paying attention to Search traffic is bad, or that wanting to rank higher in Google is evil, simply because it’s not rocket science, and anyone can do it. Even you.
How to get StumbledUpon – StumbleUpon is a popular social site that over 1 million people use. It is not as popular as digg or del.icio.us, but it drove 17,209 visitors in the last 25 days to this blog. That makes it a valuable traffic source, so lets see how StumbleUpon works and how you can use it to get traffic to your website.
HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Traffic – Many first time bloggers automatically assume that once their blog is setup and they put a few posts on it, they will get some hits and regular readers. This is quite untrue. You wonât get any traffic if no one knows about your website. This article tackles these problems and discuss some of the common ways bloggers and webmasters drive more traffic to their site by understanding the user.
10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic – Ten strategies that will help you gain attention.
How Great Headlines Score Traffic – Overview on how headlines can affect your traffic.
Making your content Del.icio.us – Del.icio.us is the most popular bookmarking service on the web. By getting on the Del.icio.us popular or hotlist page you could get thousands of visitors coming to your website within minutes. Here are some ways that I have found that can help your content get on these pages.
10 CommentsLoren Baker from Search Engine Journal wrote a great guide to buying links, directory listings, and paid reviews for blogs. Loren does a great job of breaking down all the different vendors that sell links, paid reviews, and directory listings. Loren also covers tips for purchasing links from these sources.
Here is what he had to say about Text Link Ads and ReviewMeâ
3 CommentsText Link Ads is probably the most popular of the link ad companies, with over 10,000 publishers in their network and a lot of promotions and advertising on SEO and publisher industry blogs and sites. Link prices are based upon the authority of each site and charged per month.
ReviewMe is a more targeted approach to paid blogger reviews. Advertisers are given access to ReviewMeâs lists of niche publishers, and can request reviews on specific blogs (and only those blogs), instead of using the mass review approach. The end result is more thoughtful content and reviews of your products, for a higher price. Pricing is set per blog and based upon that blogâs popularity, readership and incoming links.