Enter your name and email below, then click the "Yes! Give me my report" button to get the free report.
Hacked
If you're new here, you really should subscribe to my blog's Full RSS feed for FREE! You don't want to miss informative posts! Thanks!
G’dang! I was about to go to bed when I visited Dean’s blog something’s just wrong that made me write bout it.
I can’t contact him or visit any page of his blog!
Any ideas guys what’s happening?
And to my buddy Dean, hope you are reading this so you can hurry and fix everything while no damage is done.
P.S. Always back up your blog.
5 Tips To Grow Search Engine Traffic To Your Blog
This article is guest posted by Hendry Lee.
No matter what others have said about natural search engine traffic, it is a significant traffic source for many bloggers. Some blogger friends admit that search engines account for 30 – 60 percent of their entire blog traffic.
It is possible and recommended to diversify and avoid relying your business solely on one traffic source — and company, Google. However, search engine traffic converts and if you can get more of them to your site, and assuming everything is the same, you will increase the sales figures and revenue from ads.
The details about how search engine works may be beyond most of us — in search engines don’t reveal their exact algorithm — but the basic is not rocket science at all.
Here are 5 tips to help you grow search engine traffic. (If you are interested to learn more about SEO, I have a complete article series of blog SEO.
1. Know your keywords
Keywords are the building blocks of a blog and web site. Naturally, you should target just one keyword per blog post. Avoid creating content just for the sake of having the keyword on your blog. You should provide valuable content and impress the visitors. Only then will they consider subscribing to your content feed.
You should be thinking about what the visitors do on your site. Optimizing the result from the same amount of traffic is as important, if not more. But, I digress…
2. Optimize your blog design
You will be surprised that many bloggers claim their blog themes or templates as search engine friendly because the themes were advertised as such. Spend some time to check the template to make sure it has the right title tag, order of content, heading tags and so on.
Your time will be well spent. After all, it is most likely a one-time task. It may make a difference between ranking for long tail keywords and not getting found at all.
3. Restructure your site
Theming with silos is a great way to structure and divide your blog content into subtopics. Many SEO experts represent siloing as simple tiered content. They are quite similar in a few points but nevertheless you should thinking about making your content topics obvious to search engines.
Tiered content without proper linking doesn’t help build topic on your site. For instance, you should only link to a silo (or parent) instead of children cross another silo. Good practice avoids diluting the theme of your site or blog.
That can help rankings because once search engines think your blog is related to certain subtopic, you are going to get more long tail keywords for that subtopic.
4. Gain inbound links
There is more than one way to do it, from article marketing to link baiting, blog commenting, forum marketing and so on. When you are just starting out, every little tactic matters to grow your traffic level to a few hundreds a day.
Your aim is to reach more center of influence. Once you are at this level, every new post will result in a few more backlinks to your blog.
5. Patience
As the age of your domain increases, your blog will also be considered more valuable, especially if you keep it active throughout the time.
Search engine optimization doesn’t produce flood of traffic immediately but it is often worth the effort. Giving up too early in the process is one of the biggest reasons why people fail at this.
Another thing to keep in mind is that traffic from organic search grows gradually. As you target more keywords within your content and gain more authority through backlinks, you will only grow your traffic.
You may be surprised that after several years, I still notice growth in traffic to some of my blogs from search engines. It helps if you aim for the long haul and really drill deep in a niche, because that’s what a real business is.
Hendry Lee helps people overcome strategic and technical challenges in starting and growing their blog. Visit his blog to get more blog tips and strategies.
How I Doubled My Money Overnight With Forex
Before I start this article, I would like to tell ya that you need to be at least 18 to enter the foreign exchange market. What I did was I tried tinkering around using my dad’s account and played with him by my side.
In the last two days, I have big eyes open to this nifty platform by eToro. Results thus far were entertaining…
I have ZERO knowledge with Forex when I found out bout this platform – so this article should be treated as a documentary, not an expert advice. Don’t complain to me that you lost money, ya da, ya da. My dad told me this is a dangerous area to make money.
Even before I started this blog and my internet ventures, I was very curious about this stock market thing and buying currencies then selling it later on (Forex). I did a lil research bout it here and there but just this last 2 days was I able to actually, test it out hands on.
Good thing is, eToro doesn’t want ya to lose real money right away. Instead, they offer a practice account with $2,000 virtual cash. On that account, you can practice and test currencies, explore the platform or – just have fun.
You *Can* Be Richie Rich Today, Tomorrow You *Might* Be Fred Flintstones
That is definitely possible. Even if you have 20 years experience in the foreign exchange markets, your profits are not guaranteed.
So take my advice…
“Never enter the real money trading if you haven’t generated consistent profits with your practice account”
Read that 3 times everytime you open the platform on your computer – you’ll thank me for that in the future.
How I Doubled My Money Overnight With ZERO Knowledge In The Past
- Downloaded and installed the trading platform (Click here to download)
- Read the step-by-step manual provided upon sign-up
- Searched for Forex forecasts and based my trades on it and observed the trends
- After doubling my virtual cash, opened my real account and started some real trading!
Meh, that was almost as easy as 1, 2, 3! Anyhow, I suggest ya give it a try BUT don’t use the money you are not ready to lose.
Just give me a shout in the comments if you have any questions and hopefully, someone will try it out and post his results over here.
The Godfather Uses This Persuasion Tactic
Last week, our business and entrepreneurship class had an exposure trip to a new culinary arts school called Enderun.
It was inside on one of the top villages in our country. Upon arrival, we were instructed to greet everyone we see and behave in proper decorum, heh.
“Use the stairs over here.” A lady with ravishing accent loudly exclaimed.
That caught all of our attention so we dashed off and followed the lady. She then led us to a room with a “professionalish” ambiance.
“G’dang!” something caught my eye. On the table ahead lies piles of chocolate danish and pitchers of ice tea. The first thing that popped in my mind was that they’ll give it to us pronto as welcome compliments. Instead, they gave us school flyers and survey forms.
After that? Nope, they still didn’t gave the danishes – but started talking about their school and what they have to offer.
A few minutes later, the discussion ended and at last, it was danish time.
2 waiters distributed the danish around the room and another one distributed the drinks.
Suddenly, the lady started talking again “Guys, if you don’t mind, can you fill out the survey form that we gave awhile ago?”
We politely complied and all forms were properly filled up – which doesn’t happen often in our school :-D
The Ethic Of Reciprocity
Having a top notch school like that, it didn’t surprise me that they’ve “persuaded” us to fill out those forms. You see, what they did there was to leverage the human desire to reciprocate.
Admit it, we always have the urge to payback anyone – even we hate or love him. It’s the golden rule. I’m sure this was just discovered maybe a couple of decades ago but as always, it’s already written in the Bible…
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
Another story that I’ve read in Cialdini’s book called the “Psychology of Persuasion” is about a church group who gives a flower necklace to people at the airport then asks for a donation – and they almost always got it.
After awhile, people were avoiding them because they cannot fight the urge to reciprocate even with the smallest things.
Apply It On Your Business
It’s the golden rule so it can be applied on whatever stuff ya want! For example, giving a simple report before selling to your readers or list, mentioning others in a post, etc. be creative.
You can start today just by helping anyone who’s in need and worry about the exchange later. Like what Vito Corleone does – just don’t kill em’ if they don’t reciprocate ;-)
P.S. Note that proper timing also counts. Look what Enderun did. With proper timing, the unthinkable happens.
Carl Ocab is one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the net. But remarkably, Carl was just 13 years old when he rose to fame with his hugely popular “make money online” website: www.carlocab.com
