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One of the effective strategies in SEO or otherwise known as Search Engine Optimization is submitting to Web Directories. A friend asked me, how am I going to start submitting to these directories? And where am I going to look for it? A SEO enthusiast can start first in choosing good quality directories. It can be a good start. Of course, you can look for these directories in Google, and Yahoo. Two of the top Web Directories I know are DMOZ and BOTW. There is also another business web directory which is also good, it’s Bussiness.com.

After searching for SEO friendly web directory the next step is to start submitting your blog or website to them. But wait! Before you submit make sure that your site is live and no errors in the pages. And also before submitting, you may try to list down all the details a directory might need from you such as Link, and Description of your site or blog. I suggest that you don’t go for a reciprocal linking. There are web directories that require reciprocal linking. In SEO, two or three way linking is bad. Go for one way linking. Good practice makes good business!

If things are ready you may now start submitting. But make sure to have a file wherein you have all the list of web directories. Tip: “Don’t forget to back up files”. Upon submission, be sure to select the relevant category to your blog. Relevant topics and relevant keywords can attract search engines especially Google and Yahoo.

In SEO, you don’t have to be expert you just have to be patient and hard working. Trends in technology nowadays, there a lot of ways and strategies to be on top of search engines, but always put in mind that whether you use black hat SEO strategy it will always safer to use good SEO practice. Web Directory submission is one of the good practice. You only have to be patient and eager to submit your blog or website to these directories. Good luck in your SEO career!

You Are a Life Blogger!

Your blog is the story of your life – a living diary.If it happens, you blog it. And you make it as entertaining as possible.You may be guilty of over-sharing a bit on your blog, but you can’t help it. Your life is truly an open book. Or in this case, an open blog!

“The best thing about blogs, they just keep going” Nice!

Do you know that having multiple accounts in Social Networks such as, Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, and Multiply can also be a good way in SEO? As I said in my earlier posts, being active in Social Network sites can also be a good strategy to gain back links. Here are the easiest ways to build bunch of back links:

• Customize your profile. Make sure that your profile is user friendly and everybody can read and understand your page. Make it simple but interesting.
• Provide essential photos. Don’t just copy and place it in your profile. Provide original and relevant photos.
• Build Friendship. Look for friends, or people who have the same niche as yours. Add them up on your list and interact.
• Provide comments in Guest books. Find for some profiles that are similar to yours and make sure you left a quality comment. It’s one way of interacting. There are other website owners/entrepreneurs/bloggers who has multiple accounts on these social sites so you might catch their attention and will visit your site. Make sure you’re not going to give out spam comments.
• Provide Updates on your profile. Write something new on your profile so that your friends will visit your profile often. If there’s a “shout out” (like in Friendster), you may place there the link of your website.
• Participate in Forums. Social Networks such as MySpace has a built in application where you can participate in forums. It has different topics to discuss. It’s also a space where you could market your website.
• Create a Snippet of your blog. Multiply and Friendster is offering blogging services which users can write blogs and post it in their profile. Highlight important issues from your site, and make a link to it.
• Make a list of useful Social Networks. Search for useful and active social sites, and create an account on it.

Terms and Definitions to help you understand more on this topic:

Back Links – Incoming links from other websites.
Social Networks – Websites which allow users to virtually interact for their friends and family.

Adwords
Advertising system provided by Google(Pay Per Click).

Backlinks
Links that came from other websites,otherwise known as Inbound Links. Coming in links.

Blog
An outcome of views, insights and opinions of a person. Oftentimes called as Web Log.

Black hat SEO
The unethical use of SEO. Wrong tactics.

Bookmark
A website/link has been bookmarked, tagged or added to favorites.

BAP
Blog and Ping. A procedure used by some bloggers to get ranked in Search Engines.

CMS
Content Management System. A tool to make a website. Premade themes and plugins.

Copyright
Legal publication. A certain person own that particular content or website.

Directory
A list of all webpages in the internet.

Feed
Tool to allow readers to subscribe to contents of a website. Such as allowing the users to be updated with the latest posts on your site.

Fuzzy Search
Mispelled search.

Google
Leading Search Engine in the world.

Keyword
A word or phrase which is used in optimizing a certain site

Keyword Stuffing
A massive production of keywords in a website

Landing Page
The first page where the visitor can see after clicking

Link Building
A process or strategy in SEO

No Follow
An html attribute which stops the bot from following a certain link

Outbound Link
A link from a certain website going out to another link. Otherwise known as external link.

Pagerank
Shows the ranking of your page or website

Quality Content
A fresh and relevant content or topic.

Reciprocal Link
Some example of Link Exchange

SERP
Search Engine Results Page. Shows the ranking of a webpage in the search engines

Splog
Spam Blog

URL
Uniform Resource Locator otherwise known as Links

Whois
A certain tool used to detect the owner of a certain website or IP address

Are you thinking of having your own website, but you don’t know how to make one? Do you own a business and you want to publish your products on the web? Virtuosomaster is the answer. Hmm you might wondering what the heck it is. For just a brief description, Virtuosomaster is Web Developing company which provide users(customers) web solutions. When it comes to cost efficient and good quality services and products, Virtuomaster is really competitive. They treat their customers as friends(well of course professionaly inclined). I myself have tried on one of their services and I am really satisfied. And also, the best thing about this company is that, they provide customer support 24/7. If you have concerns and problems they will provide you a feedback right away. Of course, as a customer aside from quality, you also think if the “Price is right”. Well, yeah, Virtuosomaster isn’t that expensive, actually everybody could afford to have its services.

Internet Marketers or SEO Specialists had been using this powerful tool to rank their websites in search engines. What is Squidoo? It is a website where you can create lenses. Others use this for monetizing purposes, and some are for marketing strategy. People who create lenses are often times called “lensmasters”.
How can Squidoo be a part of SEO strategy? Well, in squidoo you can place the link of your website on your lenses. And you can write a snippet of your article and link it in your site. The advantage of using Squidoo is that, it is approved and recognized by search engines, specifically Google. The only way to be known in Squidoo, your lens must be really unique, provides helpful information to people, and it has fresh contents.Find lenses that are relevant to yours, and give out a useful comment, you may insert a link of your lens/website on the comment field. Just make sure that it is not sound like spammy. If your lens got the highest rank for a certain topic, I bet your website is also rank in Google. Gain more visits, and let other lens masters rate your lens. The good news about Squidoo is that, it pays you off. But they will only pay you if you’ve got a higher rank, bunch of visits from other lens masters, and most importantly your lens is informative and useful.

Terms and Definitions to help you understand more on this topic:

Lense – A mini website or a page that contains a person’s thoughts, ideas and topics.

1. Participate in Forums. Use your keyword as signature links in all forums that you have. Don’t over use your keyword, you may just insert it in a sentence or phrase. Be active.

2. Comment on Blogs. Try to find other blogs that relevant to yours and provide quality comments. Make sure that the blogs don’t have “no follow” attribute. It may not give you traffic. Post comments that link back to your blog.

3. Do some Link Exchange. This is one of a linking building strategy that is really effective. Look for websites or blogs and try to link with them. This won’t be a pain in the ass if you link to sites that are relevant to yours. It’s always important to link with relevant sites to avoid “spammy” back links.

4. Post new and fresh contents Write an article for your blog site or website and update it twice a week.

5. Submit articles to Article Directories. This is the most time consuming strategy that you may overcome BUT it’s one of the most effective way of gaining one way links.

6. Submit your site to Web Directories. Research for good web directories and submit your site. Make sure that the category you choose is really relevant to your site so that it may not be disapproved by the editors.

7. Submit to RSS Feed Sites. Get your RSS link and submit it to several RSS feed sites.

8. Ping your site. After updating or adding new stuff on your site, ping it immediately on pinging sites such as Pingoat. The purpose of this is to inform other sites that you have just updated your site.

9. Be active on Social Networks. Look for social networks which are really gaining high traffic such as MySpace, and Facebook. Find other bloggers, website owners, even new friends, and share your thoughts and opinion. I bet you’ll completely gain traffic.

10. Bookmark your blog. Don’t forget to Bookmark or Tag your blog. This would also be very helpful in link building.

Some people might wonder, what is SEO? What does it do for many websites? Why is it an advantage for bloggers, entrepreneurs, advertisers, marketers and website owners? SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process of giving out quality “traffic” (more visitors) to websites that came from several search engines (e.g Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves). SEO Specialists/Internet Marketers use a group of competitive keywords (e.g health, relationships, and politics) to optimize their websites. Some people use this as a marketing strategy that’s why business owners prefer to sell their products online.
Now, how does it really be beneficial to business owners? If you have your own business, and you want the world to know how good your products/services are, you probably think of designing a website and publish it in the World Wide Web. The question is how are you going to get a lot of visitors on your site? SEO can help you gain visitors! And of course gain customers. Isn’t it great? You just have to know how are you going to optimize your site through keywords, and make your website rank on search engines.