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Increase link popularity - Travel to 7 continents 2008-06-27 07:08:00 Increase your Blog or website link popularity by joining the continent challenge @ My Imaginary travels in this ride.I am tagging:Mellanie @ See it. Darw it. Share it &Michelle @ Artscapes~Begin Copy~Rules :1. Start Copy from "Begin Copy" until "End Copy".2. Put your blog's name and url write in which continent you live, add the country you live in. Example : My Imaginary Travels (Netherlands)3. Leave your url post in here and I'll add you to the Master List.4. Please help spread this tag by tagging your friends as much as you can.5. Don't play unfair! If you have more than 1 blog, you can participate all your blogs for this tag. BUT you will have to post this tag to all your blogs as well. So, please. Don't cheat!6. Please come back again to copy the update of the master list, often. This process will help new participants to get the same gains as the first participants.7. Don't forget to use the banner at your post, you can save as or you can just copy the code in here.Maste ...

Social Bookmarking sites – Blog SEO technique? 2008-06-22 13:07:00 Social Bookmarking sites subscription is becoming a very effective SEO technique especially for Blogs to improve linkbaiting and develop inboud links, it can be a part of an effective link building process where users store, fave, share, blog, Digg, etc.. lots of links, articles, photos, reviews, Blog posts, etc..All these materials are accessible to friends, contacts, surfers, bloggers and in the majority of cases the public. Some SEO Experts say that Social Media traffic is not a plus for link building, but I personnally think they are. I could be wrong of course, but getting on the front page of Del.icio.us or DIGG is quite a traffic boost No??Here is a list of Social bookmarking sites that I know:http://del.icio.us/http://linkatopia.com/http://netscape.com/http://reddit.com/http://www.blinklist.com/http://www.bookmark.it/http://www.chaamp.com/http://www.clipmarks.com/http://www.complore.com/http://www.digg.com/http://www.diigo.com/http://www.dzone.com/http://www.fark.com/http://www ...

Google Ranking Factors 2008-06-21 10:36:00 A Great post about the positive and Negative factors that affect Google Ranking :Alleged positive and negative on- & off-Page SEO Google Ranking Factors onVaughn's Summaries (One-Pagers).read more digg story ...

Building Blog Links: Submitting to Blog Directories 2008-06-17 06:35:00 Submitting to Blog Directories is by far the most important step as far as for improving the link popularity of your blog is concerned.In order to optimise your Blog visibility, you must build a large circle of readers and gain exposure, so besides doing basic search engine optimisation (SEO) steps using title, keywords and description meta tags in your Blog template, and other related SEO steps, you must also start Link Building for your Blog, and this step begins by submitting and linking your Blog in blog directories.Below is a list of Blog Directories where you can submit your Blog or RSS feed to (the majority of them are free). This list is by far not complete so I will try to update it frequently so please if you have updates and other directories you want me to add up, leave them in the comments, I will appreciate it very much.Technorati => URL: http://www.technorati.com/Blogcatalog => URL: http://www.blogcatalog.com/MyBlogLog => URL: http://www.mybloglog.com/Bloghop => URL: htt ...

Adding meta tags on Blogger template 2008-06-10 08:38:00 So In order to recap on the On-page search engine optimization actions or areas, we could summarize them into 4 items:1- Title tag is very important.2- First few lines of the post of the html code.3- The main body4- Finally the meta tagsAnother very good post on how to insert meta tags in Blogger posted by sksee82 @ BloggerFocus :" Adding meta tag requires some HTML editing on your blog template. Fear not as the steps are simple and easy to understand. I've always mentioned in my past posts that you should always backup your blog template before making changes on the HTML codes. God knows if you accidentally delete a whole chunk of your HTML code while attempting to add the meta tag codes. Your backup blog template might be your only saviour then. " ...

How to insert Meta tags on blogger part II 2008-06-03 06:03:00 Log-in to your Blogger account, and once you are on the Dashboard of your Blog, click on layout, then on Edit html then you can insert your meta tags just below the tag as shown below, then once you are finished don’t forget to save the modifications you have made to your template. XHTML tags have to be in lower case alphabets. See the last sentence at Common HTML Validation Problems. Also, HTML tags normally comes in pairs, opening and closing tags. A few tags like the HTML for displaying images (img) and (meta) doesn't need a closing tag. This was a post by Peter Chen on Blogger Tips and Tricks, please check it out, it gives very interseting details on the forms and positions of meta tags, and how to insert them in Blogger. ...

The Big Bang 2008-06-03 01:17:00 Remember that Technorati Authority only looks at links posted over the past 180 days, therefore, by moving the Big Bang to your front page it will keep it alive and maintain most of the authority for the participants.*Start Copy Here*You do not have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post the "Big Bang" at each site you add.3. Tag or don’t tag, your choice, however, the more tags you create the longer the list will grow.4. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list. (If you would like a scroll box code, leave me your email address and I will email it to you.) Scroll Box Example. (I decided not to use the box for the Big Bang for ease of copying.)5. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones i ...

How to insert Meta tags on blogger partI 2008-06-02 03:24:00 On my art blog the average visits per day passed lately from 15 to 21 visits per day, I think, and this is just an observation, that this is because I’ve added meta tags in my blog template (Blogger template), thanks to these meta tags my rankings in Google are better, well I am talking only about google because I am not a professional SEO specialist (Search engine Optimisation specialist) so I am just tracking the referrals page on my sitemeter account.For those who are interested I’ll explain later how I searched for my most effective keywords that people typed in search engines and ended up on my blog, using sitemeter.So before adding the meta tags in your blogger template you must prepare the following:1- Keywords : you must use the most targeted keywords you can come up with in your keyword tag, for example if you are blogging about or selling paintings in oil, then your keyword should be “Oil paintings” rather than just “paintings”, the more your keywords are targeted ...

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What is Search engine optimization part I 2008-05-31 09:07:00 Hello,and welcome to my first post, well but not in my first Blog, actually I have 2 other Blogs DouDy Sketche and Painting artworks about watercolors and how I learn to paint with its different techniques. Until now I've enjoyed every minute of Blogging about my paintings and sketchs. And I 've met some extraordinary artists in the world of Blogging that made my experience unique.Well after a while when we get stronger in writing and blogging we develop a desire to have more trafic coming to our website or Blog, so I started to surf the Internet, or maybe the word searching is more appropriate, I started searching for ways to increase my trafic, and one of the tools that I have encountered on various or lets say on the majority of the times was SEO - Search Engine Optimization.Well as I am new to this tool I'll start from a beginner approach which is the definition from Wikipedia :Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a we ...