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It’s been quite awhile that I’ve been discussing about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Now, I’ll review the steps or processes that can lead to successful SEO. One of them is good link building.

I have mentioned on my post if you can remember. (Here’s the title: Top 10 Link Building Strategies) It’s about the best strategies in link building. One of these strategies is Article Submission. To further explain (if you’re not aware with this), It is a process of submitting your original write-ups to websites that accepts articles for free. There so many kinds of Article submission websites that can be found in the Internet and two of my trusted sites are eZinArtiles, and Article Alley . I won’t mention much about the sites, I allow you to review them yourself. (Grin).

Article submission is the most time consuming strategy but the best that you could get is that it provides only one way links. To further explain what is “one way linking”. It’s the back link or the incoming link to your site that do not receive links coming from YOUR site. It’s good since it increases your link popularity. And Google love that. Well, there are some Article Submission websites that are actually paid but free service is good (I guess). If you have enough time to do SEO then start submitting your articles now.

As I have mentioned on my previous post about changing the Wordpress Theme, I forgot to mention that Wordpress is one of the Open Source Content Management System. To explain further, CMS (Content Management System) is a platform where you can manage and control all data on your website including pages, photos, posts, etc. If a blogger does not have an extensive knowledge in website building, CMS is a big help. It’s not necessary to master all advance html and css codes if you will use CMS.

There are lots of open source content management systems you could choose from. But the most recommended for beginners is Wordpress. Few examples are Joomla, Drupal, and Xoops.

Through CMS, bloggers or website owners can also control their SEO (Search Engine Optimization). You can handle the tags, the title of your site, can also create pages which is also search engine optimized and a lot lot more!

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

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.

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.