SEO Tips / High-Pagerank Web Directories

Here's a note on just which sites to get links from.
Google ranks pages by the quality of the sites which link to yours,
by the quality of the sites you link to, and the PageRank of the two types of sites above.

By this, I mean that if you get a link from, say, Yahoo!, your PR will leap up, because Yahoo! has a PR of 9.

So, the conclusion is??

Submit your site to high PageRank directories, and never, never,
link to websites of bad quality. By bad quality, I mean sites with no real content (Just ads), and banned sites.

You can tell which are high PR and which are banned by looking in the Google Toolbar. White means PR 0, while all green means PR 10,
the best. Grey means that the site is banned.

The Google Toolbar can be downloaded with Firefox to the right or on the bottom of this page.

On to something else----
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Here are examples of good directories:

• www.maxlinks.org
• www.urlz.net
• www.botw.org

Getting a link from these directories like these not only sends more
visitors to your site, but also increases your PageRank.

SEO Basics--How to rank highly in search engines

This question is simple enough: how do I get free visitors?
The answer is also simple enough: Search Engines.

Q: How do I get into the SE's?
A: Get a blog, write a post (w/ a link to your site), and submit
it to Yahoo! (see related post Blog and Ping)

Q: How do I get higher in the search results (rank higher)?
A: Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.

Alright, so here are the "secrets" of how to rank highly (forget
those SEO softwares, "courses," and e-books)--what almost
every White Hat SEO expert will tell you, what nearly every SEO
e-book mentions, what the SEO courses teach: 1) put the right keywords in your site, and 2) get people to link to your site.

Stop here, let me tell you what you're thinking:
Sure, I can do 1), but 2)?? It's easy enough for you to say-

Before you start buying links on high-traffic, super-ranked website, or banging your head in despair, let me tell you the number one source for obtaining 100% free, legal, links to your site.

Do a quick search on Google for "Web Directory."
Web directories plead with you, 'please, please, add your link here.'
Get it? Look for the directories which are listed on the top 20 to 30 in the results. Submit to them for free.

One directory that stands out from the gazillions is DMOZ, the Open Directory. Google, MSN, Netscape, and other search engines include sites from DMOZ into their index, and seem to rank sites that are in DMOZ higher. Go to DMOZ now>>

Thats basically the basics to ranking highly. More SEO tips will follow.

Important tips for email marketers

I'm not an email marketer. In fact, I'm far from one.

Needless to say, if you've clicked on the TrafficSwarm or InstantBuzz ads
and have signed up for the average 'free offer,' your email is sure to be barraged with-

"How this guy made 291239.23 in one month from Adsense alone" or
"Mr X will be making a secret call exposing the secrets of Internet Marketing."

-and the like.

When you sign up, they say they "will not rent sell, give way, exchange your email address",
which is good of course, but the emails from them alone are already cluttering every nook of
my inbox. I unsubscribe quickly.

Although I myself am not a email marketer, I do have a few suggestions:

1. Keep the email short.
Most people are BUSY. They will delete your email.
(or worse, unsubscribe)

2. Try very, very hard not to
send emails every day. It kills the effect.
Try to remember: It is annoying.
Instead, try to send emails, every three or four days,
with some free stuff occasionally.

3. Don't stuff your email with affiliate links,
or "recommends" time, after time, after time.
I've subscribed to a list that send me about ten
"recommends" every day; the list was called
"The Best Ezine." (name changed slightly)

4. Make it useful. Think as if you were the average person
reading your email.

The bottom line, and Golden Rule of Email Marketing:
Email unto others what you would have them email unto you.

Forums--Powerful source of free traffic

What's the best source of targeted visitors?
It's not Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, link exchanges, or even Trafficswarm.
It's the forum--and it's free.

You've probably heard time and again that forums can be a great way of bringing traffic to your website; but have you implemented it?
Yesterday, I went to a high traffic forum and did a simple post telling people to go to my website and boom, my number of visitors shot up.

Take advantage of this "offer" and go post on forums.
They are TARGETED; meaning the people that go to your website will be interested in what is there.

How to use Yahoo Search's Site Explorer

Yahoo! Search has a tool which allows you to authenticate you ownership of a site.
Authenticated sites seem to be indexed faster. Feeds can also be submitted.

It's called Site Explorer (Google has a similar tool which I will talk about in a later post).
Just go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and log in to you Yahoo! account.
Add you sites manually, then authenticate them. This is done by adding a line of code,
namely a meta tag, or a file with a specific name and text string, to your website.

That's it! You site "will be authenticated within 24 Hours."

Free Automatic Pinging Software

Blog and Ping might really be a great thing, but, of course, you use some help.
Pingomatic.com lets you ping over 20 different site to let them know you've
updated your blog--for free!

Click here--Blog and ping tool

Free Advertising for Surfing = InstantBuzz

If you are looking for a great way to get some
free traffic to your website, look no further.

Instant Buzz allows you to drive free targeted
traffic to your website just by doing what you do
anyway-- surfing the web. You can download it below:

Click here for free traffic

Within minutes, this "breakthrough patent pending"
technology will be sending quality visitors to your
site just because you installed the software onto
your computer.

You can install Instant Buzz in
seconds, never do anything different ever again,
and still earn traffic credits every time you surf.

Visit the site below to get started now:
http://www.InstantBuzz.com

Firefox 2.0 vs. Internet Explorer 7

Everyone's talking about Firefox 2. Microsoft has released its newest version of Internet explorer -- IE 7. What's the difference? Both have tabs, integrated search boxes and streamlined appearances.

If you haven't updated Windows yet, make sure you don't include IE7 in your update (you could if want to test it). It takes forever to install and after you restart your computer, you have to wait twenty minutes to half an hour for it to install.

• IE 7 has improved support for CSS, which is relief for some, but others will see their pages broken. (You can use IE 7 conditional comments, for those of you with broken pages.)
  

• Tabs are the most useful new feature in IE7, and integrated search is just one of the other features that Microsoft had to implement in order to keep up with the features Mozilla packaged with Firefox long ago. However, Microsoft and Mozilla do the same things differently. Take tabs for example--with Firefox, tabs take only a split second to open; sadly, IE7's tabs take an entire second to load. For most of us, that's a Long, Long, Time.

• Firefox's add-ons are numerous--simply because Firefox has supported add-ons for a longer period of time. IE7 will take quite a while to catch up with FF's number of extensions.

• IE7 crashes more often than Firefox and this is the greatest reason for using Firefox.

Bottom line: Firefox wins.

Don't believe me? Download IE7 and compare it with FF2.
Don't tell me I didn't warn you.

Blog and Ping--get your blog and RSS feed indexed!

Blogging can be a great way of attracting search engines to index your site. This can be done by linking to your website from your blog. However, many blogs aren't even indexed by the search engines, let alone utilizing them to get your sites spidered.

A technique becoming increasingly popular is called blog and ping. Blog means, well, blogging, as normal. Ping means to let the search engines know that you've made a new post and that they should check it out to be updated.

Why do they want to know if there's a new post? Yahoo, for example, needs to know in order to keep the My Yahoo page updated with fresh posts.

1) To get Yahoo to include your RSS feed, first submit it by clicking 'Submit your site' at the bottom of search.yahoo.com. After you get there, click 'submit your media content for free.' Complete the process.

2) Then go to My Yahoo, click 'add content,' and then click 'Add RSS by url' (beside the search box). Enter your feed address and click add.

3) Then, if it's a blog, after you have made a post, or if it's some thing else, after you've refreshed the RSS feed, ping Yahoo. Here's how:

Just enter this address into you browser, changing the last part to your feed's address.
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://anglebracket.blogspot.com

This is the basic process of blogging and pinging.
This procedure can help you get indexed in Yahoo, and in turn, get you indexed in the other big SE's.