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The importance of search engine optimization

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

I read a lot of forums, blogs and websites and one thing that strikes me time and time again is how little most people know about natural search engine optimization. The real shocker for me is that it’s not always those who are new to being a website owner that seem to not know what SEO is, but people who have been blogging or maintaining sites for years.

I believe that search engine optimization begins with the purchase of your domain name. If you are writing a site about bikes it’s important to have the word bike in your domain name. The search engines will like that and might give your site a higher standing on search engine results. After all the whole point of optimizing our sites for search engines is so that people doing searches can find us easily.

If your your site comes up on page 10 of a Google search results page it’s unlikely that you’ll have many visitors. However if you consistently pick appropriate keywords for your sites articles, article titles, page titles, site titles and even domain names you’ll have a good chance that your site will be found on the first page of search engine results.

My sites tend to do well in search engine rankings because I try to use keywords in my articles that describe the topic I’m writing about and I also try to use a descriptive title for my posts.

I shake my head when I visit a blog and see a great article about a specific topic yet the title is some off the wall line like “Yaba daba do what a day!”.

If you really aren’t sure how to optimize your site for search engines you might want to hire a search engine optimization company to help you. They can take a look at your site and do a consultation. Perhaps they’ll give you a price quote that contains a list of what they’d do to optimize your site.

Many search engine optimization services such as the one I’ve linked to above, submitawebsite.com, have information about SEO techniques that you can begin to use on your own to better your standings on search engines.

As I said earlier a SEO company will also offer a number of SEO services that you might want to use to promote your site just as text link ads, optimizing your site for search engine placement, pay per click services and management and many other services that could help your site reach number one on in the search engine results.

If you don’t have time to optimize your site for search engines on your own do look into the services of a SEO company. It’s worth it if you want to boost your traffic.





Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Sales and Marketing, SEO, Services, Shopping, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: article titles, articles, blog, Blogging, blogs, company, domain names, forum, google, information, keywords, my sites, post titles, posts, promote, search engine, Search engine optimization, search engine ranking, SEO, Tech, visitors, website, websites

Monetize using Kontera and keep kontera out of your paid posts

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

As I mentioned in one of my recent posts Kontera was interested in partnering with me. They contacted me a month and a half ago greatly interested in helping me monetize my sites using their program of content links.

I’d been interested in the program for a while, but considering that I write articles for companies I didn’t want to have Kontera bubble ads in those posts. In fact in many cases I’d be breaking my agreement or the Terms of Service with the companies that had provided the opportunity to write those articles. I also didn’t really want to have any ads in my recent posts because I’m not sure how my regular readers would react to that. I know that some people wouldn’t care, but others would just hate it.

Luckily, while I was taking my time deciding whether I’d use the Kontera ads on my sites my blogging friend Lucia from Big Bucks Blogger was listening to my concerns and the concerns of others, and she got busy creating two fantastic plugins that those who do pa1d p0sts and want to use Kontera will not be able to live without! Well if they are wordpress bloggers anyway.

Lucia has created the Kontera Control plugin which lets you control exactly where and when Kontera ads show up in your wordpress blog. I haven’t added Kontera to this site yet, but when I do ads will show up in comments after two days, and in new posts after 3 days. They will not show up in permanently compensated posts at all, and posts that only require a post to be permanent and unchanged for a specific period of time, most often 30 days, will possibly have kontera ads after 60 days. Complete instructions on how to set up the Kontera Control plugin have also been written by Lucia.

Now, to exclude Kontera from certain posts you need to put all of them in a particular category. You can name the category anything you want.

Here comes Lucia again with another fantastic plugin.

She’s created the Hide Sponsored Categories plugin. She made the plugin for those that do compensated postings, but anyone could use it to hide any category. Simply activated it and check off which categories you don’t want to show up in your tags, category list, and or archives. If you are like me you don’t just choose one category for a post so no post will every be completely hidden.

It took me a while to set it all up because I had to rework some categories, but I’m now using both of Lucia’s plugins on all of the blogs except the photoblog.

I’ve been using the plugins for about a week and a half and so far the plugins are working quite well.

Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Internet, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Website Promotion, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: affiliate, Big Bucks Blogger, blog, blogger, Blogging, blogs, comments, company, kontera, Kontera Control Plugin, Lucia, Money, my sites, plugins, program, Wordpress, wordpress plugs

A hot sticky car

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

Speaking of heat waves and humidity! If this heat wave keeps up were going to have to look into getting Auto air conditioning. The air conditioning in our car died about three years ago. When it’s not too hot it’s not really a problem. We don’t mind driving with the windows down.

It’s just when it’s this hot that the idea of getting into the car and driving around is almost unbearable.

We’re supposed to go out of town to Chris’ parents this weekend. If it’s still this hot it’s not going to be a pleasant drive.

We should get the air conditioning repaired, but we have to replace the whole system since there’s some kind of leak that couldn’t be fixed last time. It’s pretty expensive to get a whole new air conditioning system for a car and that’s not something we can afford right now either.

Nope, we’ll have to suffer.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: air conditioning, auto air conditioning, car, Chris, driving, heat, heat wave, hot, humid, humidity, suffer, system, Windows

Aches and pains

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

I mentioned yesterday that we’re having a heat wave here. I’m still up at 4 a.m and the temp outside is 30 Celsius with the humidity! You’d think it would have cooled a bit more by this time but it hasn’t. Soon it will begin to warm up even more!

I think the humidity is taking it’s toll on me.

We have air-conditioning and it’s doing it’s job, but my knees and feet have started to ache. It’s normal enough for my knees to ache but my feet don’t usually hurt.

I’m not that surprised that they are hurting though, I’ve certainly injured them enough in the past! I think I’ve broken bones in both feet and I’ve done some major tendon damage to one of them too.

Do certain weather conditions make your old injuries ache?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: aching joints, cool, damage, heat, heat wave, humid, humidity, hurting, injured, sore feet, sore knee, weather

The guessing game

August 2, 2007 by Tricia

I just wrote about a fun site on my Celebrity blog called Guess Now. It’s a site where you can try your hand at predicting future events like which celebrity will be the next to end up getting some kind of addiction treatment, or what will be the outcome of an election or what big news event will happen next.

It looks like an interesting site. I might try my hand at it. You can cash in the points you earn when your prediction comes true for cash. Sounds good to me!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Games, Great Sites, Recreation Tagged With: addiction, big news, celebrity, celebrity blog, earn points, events, fun, interest, points to cash

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