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Haven’t gotten enough of SEO jargon from the previous post? Well here are some words that you will probably encounter as you embark on your SEO journey. Again, thanks to SEOmoz for the list.
back link (inlink, incoming link) Any link into a page or site from any other page or site.
bot (robot, spider, crawler) A program which performs a task more or less autonomously. Search engines use bots to find and add web pages to their search indexes. Spammers often use bots to “scrape” content for the purpose of plagiarizing it ...
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One of the things that Bloglines likes to boast about is the easy sharing of your subscriptions to your friends and just about everyone else who uses Bloglines. There are actually two ways you can share your subscription to everyone - though your blogroll and through the Bloglines website itself.
Blogger's, even non-Bloglines bloggers, use blogrolls, which are simply lists that link to other blogs. Bloglines makes it very easy to add links to your blogroll by providing a wizard that generates a small piece of HTML that you can add to your blog that ...
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Like in most sites that offer good services nowadays, it is very easy to join Bloglines. All you need to do to create your account is click on the Register link found at the top right portion of the page or the big Sign Up link on the middle of the page, fill in the required information, make sure you've read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and click on the register button. Of course you'll need to confirm your registration by clicking on the link they send you at your email but other ...
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Joining the SEOmoz community is a breeze. You don't have to be a paying client to join and you don't need to give away any of your personal information. Just click on register type in your email address (used only for confirmation and never for spamming), your desired display name, and your password - and you're done. Absolutely no fuss. Of course you need to confirm your registration by clicking on the link they send you via email. After that you'll be free to access parts of SEOmoz and do some stuff non-members can't.
For those not ...
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So now that you are part of the Technorati community you want to make sure that your having joined actually benefits you traffic-wise. To increase your rank in Technorati the number of URL's linking back to you will be counted by them. So again this bring you back to a basic SEO technique - link building.
As always we've said that the first thing you really need to do to increase links is give good solid linkable content so that your number of links will grow organically.
You of course do that by:
- keep updated ...
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So you want to have a popular blog and you know that Technorati is the key. Joining Technorati is really easy all you need to do is follow the steps below and keep on blogging like crazy. Have fun!
To join technorati, you have to undergo their signup process which is actually very quick. The signup page can be found at this link. You have to provide your name (first and last) as well as your desired username, which should be at least four characters in length. Your email, desired password and your Country ...
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I have mentioned the importance of Technorati as a traffic determinant. I realize, however, that I haven't really discussed much about it. So for the my next several posts we'll be focusing on Technorati.
Technorati is a blog search engine - that is, an Internet Search engine that specializes in searching blog contents. It started with a very simple blogsearch but has since grown into one giant blog site that features an RSS/Reader (Technorati Favorites), Blog trends watcher (Technorati WTF - "Where's the Fire"), and a has paved way to web-content annotation through the famous ...
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Other elements that you should keep track of.
4. Visitor Demographics - A good businessman knows his client. In the internet though visitor demographics doesn't necessarily mean your visitors age, sex, status, and stuff like that. Though it is good if you find that out what you can actually keep track of are pages they came from, their actual geographic location, the kind of browser they use, and the time drop by to visit.
5. First time and Return Visitors - Though you might have a lot of visitors it is important to know whether you get a lot ...
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If you are doing SEO but have no way to track how successful your campaign is then I suggest you start getting some statistics to know if the campaign is doing any good. Without having any metrics to gauge the success of your website you can't be sure just how effective your SEO is. You of course want to know this especially if you are simply hiring an SEO firm to do things for you.
To be able to measure your website's success all you need to have is access to statistics that a good analytics program ...
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When choosing a page name some people think that the length of the page name can help their SEO efforts. This thinking has no basis at all and isn't true. In fact when coming up with a page name it is really better to come up with a concise one. I'm not saying that you should make it short. But the best page names are descriptive but not wordy.
What SEO experts recommend is that you simply use a keyword or keyphrase as your page name so that it will be easy for users to be able to ...
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