Montag, 23. April 2007

The Traffic Blazer SEO Tool

The purpose of Traffic Blazer SEO Tool is to promote an online business, increase online visibility and, thus, make more money.

Pros: There is a Traffic Blazer help system available that provides tips, guidance and detailed instructional tutorials on search engine optimization and the search engine industry that is a big help to new Internet marketers. Questions are answered that some new marketers don’t even know to ask.

The keyword and site optimization sections show new marketers the words and phrases that search engines search for. There is also a Robots.txt/Robots Meta tag generator that prevents incomplete or unwanted pages from being crawled and indexed by search engine spiders.

There is a website analysis tool that can help new Internet marketers discover their site’s strengths and weaknesses. Webpages can be analyzed for different sets of key words.

Submitting websites to search engines has been simplified. Websites can be submitted to up to 200 different search engines world wide.

Traffic blazer provides many reports that are more than helpful. Reports include link popularity, list checking, and keyword ranking.

Cons: There are no cons for this product and the price is very competitive with similar products that are available.

Guarantee: There is no guarantee specified but the service can be discontinued at any time. In addition there is an offer for a domain name registration for only $1.99 when this service is taken.

Value for money: Excellent value for the money. It would probably be advisable for new marketers to start with the regular Traffic Blazer service.

Sonntag, 15. April 2007

Step 5: Creating a Test Post

In order for the rest of the steps to work properly, you will need to have some content on your blog. Adding content will allow you to create a Yahoo RSS feed.

The content does not have to be relevant and is easy to add.

• Under “Title” add the word Test.
• There is no need to add anything to the “Link” field.
• In the body of the post, once again, add the word Test.

Then you click on the orange “Publish Post” button.

In the example above, if you clicked on “View Blog” you would see that you now have a blog with the URL http://kidney-stones.blogspot.com, a title of Kidney Stones, and one post titled “test.” That is all there is to creating your blog – so let’s move on to the important settings you must know to make this system work in the next post...

until then!

Samstag, 7. April 2007

Choosing a Template for Blogger Blogs

Blogger currently has 12 ready-made templates to choose from. It really does not matter which template you choose. Each one will allow you to blog and ping. In the following screen shot, “Son of Moto” has been picked.

After choosing your template, click on the orange “Continue” arrow. As long as you have followed these steps correctly, you will be taken to a screen that let’s you know that your blog has been created. Simply click on the orange “Start Posting” arrow.

Freitag, 6. April 2007

Your Business Blog’s Name and URL Matter

If you are blogging and pinging to get a website spidered, the name and address you choose for your blog is not terribly important. However, if you are using your blog as your main site, the name definitely matters – A LOT!

You will want to use keywords for both your title and your address. In fact, here is a little tip: you may eventually want to add Google AdSense to your site so it is better to pick a name that will place the right ads on your site.

Finding the Right Key Words
In order to use keywords for your title and URL, you have to know what they are. Effective keyword research for blogs requires knowing your audience.

Before starting to develop the blog, you need to ask yourself the following questions:

• Who do I expect to read my blog?
• What do I expect them to get from it?
• What are myr audience's "hot-button" keywords?

Answering these questions will help you create your keyword list. In fact, the answer to the last question will certainly provide a few keywords. Finding others is easier than you think. We will discuss two different tools in this section.

The first is Results Generator. Results Generator lets you know what words are being searched for on Overture.com. Start by going to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/overture/.

Next, put your main topic in the GO field and click on GO. In the example, I am looking for key words that have to do with the kidney stone blog.

The left column will show you how much people are paying for different words on Overture.com. Although interesting, this is not as important as what you will find in the right hand column. Here you will see all the related searches done in the past month and the exact words used for that search.