The power of google sitemaps

Dear fellow entrepeneur

Let me tell you. When I started with Google Adsense in 2004, I had my doubts. But today, three years later, I am convinced about Google Adsense.

Maybe you won't believe me, but I'm making almost 30% of my monthly salary with Google Adsense.
You know, you get these so-called experts telling you how you can get rich in no time with Adsense. But let me tell you; it's all a hype (not that I'm saying that it is impossible to get rich with Google Adsense.). You see, it all comes down to very hard work and experimentation. And believe me, I made a lot of mistakes! But I've learned. And I've learned a lot!. You see, when I first started my first website, I did not have any intention of making money with Google Adsense. I started a website with the pure intent to help other people. I mean, the internet is a great place and the perfect opportunity where you can help others if you like.

So many people just join the internet community to make money. It does not matter to them if you loose money or valuable time, as long as they get what they want. Not that I say you are not allowed to make an income off the internet.

Ok, enough talking. Let's get to the real topic here. What is it about Google Sitemaps? Google Sitemaps tell the Google Bot / Spider about your wesite.
You know, the layout, where all the files are, which file is more important and which file is less important. The reason for this is that the search engine knows how to arrange your files in the search results.

A google sitemap is in xml format and there is alot of free tools available which will help you to create a sitemap for your website. Online as well as offline tools. Just type (free script google sitemap creator) in the search engine and you will see exactly what I mean.

I must admit, in my own experience that the google bot visits my site more regurlarly from when I started to make use of a sitemap. Everytime you create a sitemap, it tells the googlebot which files has been changed and what new files has been added or any other changes that you may have made to your site.

If your are a serious webmaster and did not create a sitemap yet, I suggest you do so. I do not understand xml markup language, but I can at least give you an example of how an xml sitemap looks like. With this example you will be able to create your own sitemap in no time (that is to say if you do not have too much pages), otherwise it will be better to make use of one of the free sitemap creators available.

Well, here is the example:

\n");


http://www.example.com\n");
2007-08-27
weekly
0.8


http://www.example.com/directory/file.htm\n");
2007-08-27
weekly
0.5



Well I think you got the basic idea now to enable you to create your own sitemap, get more visitors, and make more money with Google Adsense.

One more thing. You are free to use this article on your website provided that it stays unaltered and the links in the resourcebox is live, search-engine friendly links.

DO NOT STEAL. IT IS NOT WORTH IT.

Linking To The Top in Google

A while back and without much experience, and too much time to kill, after a little work I achieved top ranking for six of my websites for their main keyword phrases. And you know what? Back then it was easy, the main things were your meta tags and getting some links, it really was that simple. Mostly reciprocal links and all I had to do to get in the top three of my category was put my main keyword phrase in the link text. That's all it took, it was so easy!

It had to happen eventually, the seceret got out and everyone else knew to put their best keywords in their links, and bam, page one SERP's. The reciprocal link exchange boom was on. Link exchange services and software poped up like mushrooms after the rain.

I needed another edge so I started buying links, mostly run of site links. I'd have my best keyword in the ancor text on every page of a large site. I'd do this wit a couple of websites, and bam, right back on top. This was fantastic! Think about it, $100 every 30 days to get thousands of visitors every single day. Things were going great, I had tons of traffic and most of my competitors spending a fortune with Adwords for a small percentage of the traffic I was bringing in.

Once again everyone eventually discovered the power of buying text links, the race was on once again. It doesn't take long to get the attention of the SE's when everyone is abusing something that powerful, and once the SE's put their sites on it. it's over. So I looked at top ranking site's for terms like shoes, clothes, gifts etc. Link exchange services and software poped up like mushrooms after the rain. O.K. now I'm pumped, I've just got to get one way links from relevant content pages and I'm back in the saddle again. But how am I going to get lots of people to give me a one-way link from a relevant content page?

Then it hit me, create a triangle of sites linking to each other, A would link to B, B would link to C and C would link to A, of course this will solve all my problems. How hard could it be?

I had no idea what I was getting into!

Talk about a nightmare!

After sending out hundreds of request and eventually getting two webmasters to agree the first issue I encountered was that they insisted on putting the links on spammy links pages that were almost impossible for a SE spider to find. Next big issue was webmasters that wanted two of their websites in the triangle, both of which had the same IP#, this was like putting putting up a flashing neon sign that read "Link Scheme". Then there was quite a few shady operators who were actively seeking triangle links who wanted a good link from you, but wanted to link back from a link farm. What a nightmare this was turning into, almost a month and not one decent link. Where did I go wrong? And how the heck did I end up on this path to nowhere?

Now besides the headaches involved in trying to trick the search engines with schemes and black hat seo, there is a very real risk of having your site banned. It took me several years to figure out, but sometimes its easier to go with the flow and give the search engines what they want, like real and valuable content. It may seem like the slow hard way, but in the end you’ll see it’s the only way to succeed long term.

Next week we’ll exam ways to get quality one way links to your site.

Keywords & Search Engine Optimization

Internet users know that the online world is growing and expanding on a daily basis. Many entrepreneurs are using their web sites to make money. Online business is thriving, Internet buying and selling is more popular than ever, and everyone is cashing in. But to make money from your web site, and make your Internet dreams a success, you must have customers.

Sounds simple enough, right? As easy as it sounds, there’s more to it than that. The Internet is a thriving, fast-paced, high-tech world where everything has to be bigger and better than what came before. Thousands upon thousands of web sites are out there, many of them probably very much like yours. How do you make your web site stand out above the competition? How do you make sure that customers come to your site first, buy from you?

Search engines. Everyone who has used the Internet has used a search engine at one time or another. The process is quite simple and usually quick. You know you’re looking for heated socks. So, you go to the search engine of your choice and type in “heated socks.” Voila! Web sites that sell heated socks.

So, what do you do? You click on the very first web site that’s on the list that the search engine returns. That’s what everyone does! The web sites that appear on page thirteen of the listing aren’t going to get any visitors. Obviously, you want your site to appear right up there near the top of the list.

And that’s where search engine optimization comes in. Search engines look, primarily at one thing: keywords. Choosing good keywords for your site is incredibly important, because keywords are what your potential visitors are going to use to find you. First, you have to decide what keywords you’re going to display on your site, what keywords you think visitors will use to find your site.

What sort of site is it? Are you running funny a site with lots of political jokes? You’ll want keywords like “politics” “Washington, D.C.” “Funny” “humor,” etc. Choosing good keywords is very important. You want simple, straightforward keywords. Some words are very commonly misspelled – include the common misspellings if your keywords are easy to misspell. Simplify your keywords as much as possible, include as many as you can, and you’ve taken your first steps to search engine optimization.

But, even that isn’t enough. Knowing that your keywords are “computers, Internet, and mouse pads” is great, but you still need to do more. Those keywords, all the keywords that you want connected to your site, have to appear on the site. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it is pretty simple, but you have to know what search engines are looking for. Search engines are very, very smart, and look for very specific things.

Your keywords must appear within content on the site. You can’t just repeat the same keywords over and over “computers, Internet, mouse pads. Computers, the Internet, mousepads.” Search engines will discount your site, because they’ll know what you’re trying to do, and you won’t get a high listing. To get a high listing, you have to have lots of content. Here’s the secret: it doesn’t have to be great content. As a matter of fact, most Internet users don’t read the text of web site that carefully in the first place. Just have lots of contents on the site, with your specific keywords repeated 4-6 times on the page, and you’ll have optimized your keywords.

Search engine optimization isn’t hard, as long as you know how search engines work. By using good keywords, you can get the most out of your site and out of search engines.

Keywords & Search Engine Optimization

Internet users know that the online world is growing and expanding on a daily basis. Many entrepreneurs are using their web sites to make money. Online business is thriving, Internet buying and selling is more popular than ever, and everyone is cashing in. But to make money from your web site, and make your Internet dreams a success, you must have customers.

Sounds simple enough, right? As easy as it sounds, there’s more to it than that. The Internet is a thriving, fast-paced, high-tech world where everything has to be bigger and better than what came before. Thousands upon thousands of web sites are out there, many of them probably very much like yours. How do you make your web site stand out above the competition? How do you make sure that customers come to your site first, buy from you?

Search engines. Everyone who has used the Internet has used a search engine at one time or another. The process is quite simple and usually quick. You know you’re looking for heated socks. So, you go to the search engine of your choice and type in “heated socks.” Voila! Web sites that sell heated socks.

So, what do you do? You click on the very first web site that’s on the list that the search engine returns. That’s what everyone does! The web sites that appear on page thirteen of the listing aren’t going to get any visitors. Obviously, you want your site to appear right up there near the top of the list.

And that’s where search engine optimization comes in. Search engines look, primarily at one thing: keywords. Choosing good keywords for your site is incredibly important, because keywords are what your potential visitors are going to use to find you. First, you have to decide what keywords you’re going to display on your site, what keywords you think visitors will use to find your site.

What sort of site is it? Are you running funny a site with lots of political jokes? You’ll want keywords like “politics” “Washington, D.C.” “Funny” “humor,” etc. Choosing good keywords is very important. You want simple, straightforward keywords. Some words are very commonly misspelled – include the common misspellings if your keywords are easy to misspell. Simplify your keywords as much as possible, include as many as you can, and you’ve taken your first steps to search engine optimization.

But, even that isn’t enough. Knowing that your keywords are “computers, Internet, and mouse pads” is great, but you still need to do more. Those keywords, all the keywords that you want connected to your site, have to appear on the site. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it is pretty simple, but you have to know what search engines are looking for. Search engines are very, very smart, and look for very specific things.

Your keywords must appear within content on the site. You can’t just repeat the same keywords over and over “computers, Internet, mouse pads. Computers, the Internet, mousepads.” Search engines will discount your site, because they’ll know what you’re trying to do, and you won’t get a high listing. To get a high listing, you have to have lots of content. Here’s the secret: it doesn’t have to be great content. As a matter of fact, most Internet users don’t read the text of web site that carefully in the first place. Just have lots of contents on the site, with your specific keywords repeated 4-6 times on the page, and you’ll have optimized your keywords.

Search engine optimization isn’t hard, as long as you know how search engines work. By using good keywords, you can get the most out of your site and out of search engines.

How to Rank Better In Search Engines..

[1]. Your Web pages with content should be interested in reading.

As content is king for search engines content in your site should be both unique and interesting. This can improve your impression.

[2]. Content should be highly focused with keyword phrases.

Rather than phrases that are too general and competitive
specially when there is more competition.

[3]. Optimize your Web pages for at least three to five keywords at a time.

You should optimize your page for minimum three keywords-for three keywords your page should be highly relevant. for that you need to choose better keywords, choosing keywords is not a game of guessing. it is one science. Write your site's content using the keywords for which users search and you'll literally be speaking the same language as your visitors.

Useful sites:-Nichebot.com and Wordtracker.com

[4]. Use regionally specific keywords, when applicable.

If your target is regional than try to choose keywords that are regional.
Example:-you can choose 'loans in new York' rather than just 'loan in USA' that's why you will get highly targeted visitors and improve your visitor to sales ratio

[5]. Use the most commonly used variations of your keywords, with keyword research

Don't choose keywords that are highly competitive (specially when your page rank is low.) You can choose their synonyms etc.as per I said you need to do some research work for that. also consider some variation that can occur due to typing mistake etc..

[6]. each optimized page should contain a unique title.

It will some time meaningless if you will choose same title pages more than one. title tags are very important and perhaps you know that search engine give lots of weight to title if title of your page will different. Than you can get more traffic for more keywords. this is important.

[7].Use multiple keywords in your title tags when appropriate.

Choose better title for every page using synonyms etc..That you will probably also get traffic for that keywords too. but don't go overboard.

[8].Most important keywords appearing above the fold and throughout each optimized page.

First few lines are very important for search engine page relevancy. so write that with special care and using your all main keywords. also include your keywords in other part of page too.

[9]. Using keywords in hypertext links, whenever possible.

If you will use keywords in hypertext links than your page which you link will improve its page relevancy automatically

[10]. Each optimized page contains a unique meta-tag description.

Some search engines still give more weight to Meta tags so like title Meta tag should be different for each page if possible.

[11]. each optimized page contains a unique meta-tag keyword list.

Like Meta tags you should also change Meta tags wherever possible. and that keywords should also include in page body.

[12]. Place common misspellings of your keywords within your meta-tag keywords.

Many people using this system to get traffic you can use misspellings in your meta details and can drive traffic. due to typing mistakes of searchers

[13].your graphic images should contain descriptive keywords within the alternative text attribute, when appropriate.

Google also decide relevancy through name of icons, images etc..so try to include your keywords in it.

[14]. If you are submitting pages to non-U.S. search engines. write your pages in the appropriate language

if you will not do it. it may possible that in international search engines your rank will down.

Visit my seo resources at> http://seo-resources.inetzeal.com/ that will help you in pormoting your website..

Link "Quality" for Link Building Explained

This article will explain the importance of link quality, and its application to link building. Everyone may have a different understanding of what “quality” is on terms of links, but essentially that is your decision entirely. If you have an existing site, that you need to build links for, use this as a reference check list to ensure that you are link building properly. I am going to review the key 6 areas.

Is the page linking to you indexed in Google and is the cache version fresh?
Why is this essential? Google has a cached page of any indexed page on their index. So basically, this should be your starting point for any link partnership decision. You need to verify that the page the link partner is proposing for exchange, is actually indexed and that the cached version is of the page is fresh in their records, within 20 days old as a benchmark. This will show that the page in question gets crawled often. PageRank of the page is secondary, and comes normally afterwards in comparison to this primary check.


Is the page linking to you on topic? Is this a themed link?
There is a big difference between the types of links you can get. These type of link are very targeted and carry a lot more weight over generic or unrelated links. This is part of what explains why some sites with much less links that their direct competitors are able to outrank them for particular terms. Quality links from themed sources is the short answer. Focusing on just "popularity" and inadvertently ignoring "reputation" is a mistake a lot of online marketers make. Keep this in mind.

Is the Title tag of the page linking to you on-topic? What about the text?
The title tag of the page linking to you is of great importance. When that is combined with text that is on topic with the page which is being link from, and other factors, the link value is increased greatly for the link. So as you can understand from this, is all about the co-relation of these factors that makes one link better than another.

Where is your link on the page located? Navigation, gutter, footer, body?
Location of your link is another strong factor to consider. The most beneficial location is considered to be within the body area of content. Any repetitive areas like navigation, gutter, footer, etc would normally not carry as much weight as the main body area. “Run-of-site” links fall into this group. There is a preference for the first paragraph, but the middle or bottom within the body content are good areas as well.

How many other links are on the page? Home Page vs. Link Page PR gap?
PageRank gets automatically diluted in relation to the amount of links on the page.
Google guidelines currently suggest a maximum of 100 links per page. So here you
want to make sure the number is as small as possible. I recommend targeting 20 links per page maximum on average to have room to allow those pages link growth. Also, what is the difference between the main page PR and the subpage were you are getting the link from? In the best cases, your link will be one point under the home page value. If it isn’t, you can consider other options with your link partner.

By Jose NUnez - Dedivated SEO Consultant

Search Engine Optimization (Seo)

Search Engine Optimimization (Seo)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), considered by many to be a subset of Search Engine marketing, is a term used to describe a process of improving the volume of traffic to a web site from Search Engines, usually in "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Those efforts may also be seen in more narrow vertical Search Engines involving areas such as local search. Many site owners and consultants engaging in SEO attempt to pursue qualified visitors to a site, and the quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword phrase leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase, viewing or downloading a certain page, requesting further information, signing up for a newsletter, or taking some other specific action.

In a broad sense, SEO is marketing by understanding how search algorithms work and what human visitors might search for, to help match those visitors with sites offering what they are interested in finding. Creating web pages with SEO in mind does not necessarily mean creating content more favorable to to algorithms than human visitors. Some SEO efforts may involve optimizing a site's coding, presentation, and structure, without making very noticeable changes to human visitors, such as incorporating a clear hierarchical structure to a site, and avoiding or fixing problems that might keep search Engine indexing programs from fully spidering a site. Other, more noticeable efforts, involve including unique content on pages that can be easily indexed and extracted from those pages by Search Engines while also appealing to human visitors.

The term SEO can also refer to "Search Engine Optimization", a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out Optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees of site owners who may perform SEO services in-house.

Search Engine Optimization often offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a larger marketing campaign. Because effective SEO can require making changes to the source code of a site, it is often very helpful when incorporated into the initial development and design of a site, leading to the use of the term "Search Engine" Friendly" to describe designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts that can be optimized easily and effectively.
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Aditya infotech believes the term Search Engine Optimization means a continuous and ongoing process where the architecture of the website and the website itself remains updated with the objective to return a particular search term on a particular search engine with the correct search result. Here the content and structure of the website's copy and page layout, the meta-tags, and the submission process make sure the required takes place. No horror stories of searching a mole and finding a mouse.
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