How To Notify Search Engine Each Time You Make a Post

One of the ways to generate traffic and also make your blog or website contents appear regularly on major search engines is by pinging your website, blog or feed with ping services. A ping is a mechanism by which a blog notifies a server that its content has changed. A signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then create a list of new material. Aggregators use results from ping servers to tell subscribers which items on their subscription lists have fresh material.

Pinging also lets the search engines know that you have updated your content. Search engines such as Google and Bing like fresh updated content and will give it higher ranking in the search results.
The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources,
Simply submit your your site or feed to these ping services when you update or add new content. You can submit your site by by copying your URL (The address at the top of the page that begins http:www.mywebsite.com.) and pasting it in the box the pinging service indicates.
If you use WordPress blog you can modify your ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).
 
NOTE: In other to achieve maximum result it is highly advised you choose at least one pinging service, and be using it for all your pings, multiple submission of your blog or site URL may be seen as spamming.
List of some popular Ping Services

Ping-o-Matic!

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

Blog Ping for Squidoo Lenses

A ping tool especially optimised for Squidoo Lenses, and and is for notifying the blogosphere when a lens is updated.

My Page Rank

Submit Free lets you submit your URL to 20 popular search engines from one MyPagerank.Net Google PageRank Checker – Check Google page rank Webmasters, monitor your webpage pagerank

Pingoat

Ping over fifty blog services instantly. Pingoat also has an XML-RPC server. Ping services like Technorati, newsgator,feedster..

Pingler.com

Blog and Ping Tool – Use Pingler.com to Drive Traffic your Blogs and Websites Use Pingler.com to Ping your Blogs and Websites in the best way possible!

PingMyBlog.com

PingMyBlog.com is a service which does the hard work for you. We notify all the major blog directories in one go so that everyone knows about your latest blogs. It will not work for some reason if you use the RSS field provided. It does work just fine if you only use the Name and URL fields only.

Autopinger

Automates Ping Blog and Podcast for Free

Feed Shark

Ping your blog, feed, or podcast for free!

Pingates

Blog pinger – Blog ping service Pingates is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.

PING.IN

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Feed Ping

Free Website and Blog Multiple Submission Service – FEED PING Website and Blog Multiple Feed Service

King Ping Your Blog

Update pinging services to get the best results from all the important search engines. It is all automatic, so set it up and forget about it.

Ping 4 Free: Free Blog Ping Service

This site offers a blog ping service that pings well over 100 tested and functioning blog directories (actually 133 at last update). You must register, but registration is totally free.

Syncr Ping Service

Syncr is a Service to Update Different Search Engines That Your Blog or Web Site Has Updated.

The above ping services havee been tested by both friends and me. However, you can look up the ping service links below:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
Cheers!

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Best Ranked Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog and Feeds

I did some search on best blog directories to submit blog and RSS feed and I stumbled on some blog directories that feature in Google, with a decent PR, and on the surface, a fairly strict submission process, so I decided to share them with you. I did this search because the traffic I was receiving as at the time I made this post was not encouraging, though good any way, but I needed something bigger! The list I have below are categorized into:

1. Free Blog Submitting Directories
2. Paid Blog Submitting Directories
3. RSS Submitting Directories
4. Foreign RSS Feeds
When you are done reading the list, you might want to check out my post on “How to Notify The Search Engine Each Time You Make a New Post“, plus list of FREE Multi-Ping Websites.


Free Blog Submitting Directories
Ablogin (http://www.ablogin.com/)
Allforblog (http://www.allforblog.com/)
Alltop (http://alltop.com/submission/)
Birminghambloggers (http://www.birminghambloggers.contactbox.co.uk/)
Blloggs (http://blloggs.com/submit/)
Blog.com (http://blog.com/)
Blogaz (http://www.blogaz.net/)
Blogbunch blog+Rss (http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/)
BlogCatalog (http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html)
Blog-collector blog+Rss (http://www.blog-collector.com/)
Blogs-collection (http://www.blogs-collection.com/submit/submit-blog.php)
Blogdigger (http://www.blogdigger.com/)
Blogdire (http://www.blogdire.com/)
Blogdirectory (http://www.blogdirectory.net/)
Blog-directory (http://www.blog-directory.org/add-blog.php)
Blogdirectorysubmission (http://www.blogdirectorysubmission.com/)
Blogdir (http://www.blogdir.co.uk/)
BlogDirs (http://www.blogdirs.com/)
Blogdirectory.ws (http://www.blogdirectory.ws/)
Blogexplosion (http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/)
Blogfinds (http://www.blogfinds.com/)
Blogflux (http://www.blogflux.com/add.php)
Blogfolders (http://www.blogfolders.com/)
Blogged (http://www.blogged.com/submit_your_blog.php)
Bloggapedia blog+Rss (http://www.bloggapedia.com/register.php)
Bloggerhq (http://www.bloggerhq.net/submit.php)
Bloggernity (http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/user.cgi?signup_form=1)
Bloggerschoiceawards (http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/users/signup)
Bloghub (http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi)
Blogginglist (http://www.blogginglist.com/)
Bloghints (http://www.bloghints.com/)
Blogintro (http://blogintro.com/submit/)
Bloglines blog+Rss (http://www.bloglines.com/)
Bloglisting (http://www.bloglisting.net/submit.php)
Bloggernow (http://www.bloggernow.com/cgi-bin/user.cgi?signup_form=1)
Blogoculars (http://www.blogoculars.com/)
Blogotion (http://www.freewebs.com/blogotion/addblog.html)
BlogoWogo (http://www.blogowogo.com/)
Blogpopular (http://www.blogpopular.net/)
BlogPulse blog+Rss (http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html)
Blogrankings (http://www.blogrankings.com/addblog.php)
BlogRateDirectory (http://www.blogratedirectory.com/)
BlogRollCenter blog + Rss (http://www.blogrollcenter.com/)
Blogs.com (http://www.blogs.com/submit)
Blogscanada (http://www.blogscanada.ca/user/register)
Blogsranker (http://www.blogsranker.com/)
Blogsrater (http://blogsrater.com/)
Blogsearch (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping)
Blogsearchengine (http://www.blogsearchengine.com/2006/01/26/submit-blog-to-blog-search-engine/)
Blogsitelist (http://www.blogsitelist.com/)
Blogsthatfollow (http://www.blogsthatfollow.com/)
Blogs.urlz (http://blogs.urlz.net/)
Blogtoplist (http://www.blogtoplist.com/)
Bloguniverse (http://www.bloguniverse.com/)
Blogville (http://blogville.us/)
Blogz (http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php)
Blurt It (http://www.blurtit.com/register.php)
BOTW Blog Directory (http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/freeblogsubmit.aspx)
Britblog (http://www.britblog.com/)
Buzzerhut (http://allblogspots.blogspot.com/)
Chordata Blog+Rss (http://chordata.info/suggest.php)
Christiansunite (http://www.christiansunite.com/)
Ckalari (http://blogdirectory.ckalari.com/)
Conseillemoi (http://www.conseillemoi.net/)
Crayon (http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html)
Delightfulblogs (http://www.delightfulblogs.com/)
Demand Media Studios (http://www.demandstudios.com/freelance-work/bloggers.html?utm_source=BBcom&utm_medium=BBsite&utm_campaign=blognetLP)
DirectoryBlogs (http://www.directoryblogs.com/)
Dmoz (http://dmoz.org/)
Drool.net (http://droool.net/)
EZE (http://www.ezedir.com/)
Ezilon (http://www.ezilon.com/)
Feedmap blog+Rss (http://www.feedmap.net/submit/)
Feednuts blog+Rss (http://www.feednuts.com/)
Feedplex blog+Rss (http://www.feedplex.com/add-url.php?email=)
Flookie (http://www.flookie.net/)
FuelMyBlog blog + RSS (http://fuelmyblog.com/)
FyberSearch (http://www.fybersearch.com/add-url.php)
Getblogs (http://getblogs.com/)
Globeofblogs (http://www.globeofblogs.com/register)
Goblog4i (http://www.goblog4i.com/)
Google (http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl)
Gozoof (http://www.gozoof.com/AddLink.aspx)
Grokodile (http://www.grokodile.com/)
Icerocket (http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog)
Info-listings (http://www.info-listings.com/)
Leighrss (http://www.leighrss.com/)
Liquida (http://www.liquida.com/)
Loaded Web (http://www.loadedweb.com/)
LSBlogs (http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php)
Million Blogs Online (http://www.millionblogsonline.com/)
Minnesota blog+Rss (http://www.minnesota.com/)
Mozdex (http://www.mozdex.com/support/addurl.html)
Mvblogs (http://www.mvblogs.com/)
Myblog2u (http://www.myblog2u.com/)
Myblogdirectory (http://www.myblogdirectory.net/)
Nycbloggers (http://www.nycbloggers.com/form.asp)
Ontoplist blog+Rss (http://www.ontoplist.com/)
Photarium (http://www.photarium.com/)
Photo Blog Directory (http://www.photoblogdirectory.net/)
PlanetUSA (http://www.planetusa.us/)
PuppyURL (http://puppyurl.com/blogs/)
Quickblogdirectory (http://www.quickblogdirectory.com/index.php?c=0)
Readablog (http://www.readablog.com/)
Rateitall (http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.aspx?WL=0&TopicID=20004)
Regator (http://regator.com/)
Roask (http://www.roask.com/)
SmallBusiness.com (http://www.smallbusiness.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page)
Spicypage (http://www.spicypage.com/signup.cfm?section)
Sports (http://sports.totalblogdirectory.com/add_link.html)
Sportsblogs (http://sportsblogs.org/suggestion1.php)
Submitblognow (http://www.submitblognow.info/)
Technorati (http://technorati.com/)
Theseoking (http://theseoking.com/submit.php)
TheVital (http://www.thevital.net/)
Topblogarea (http://www.topblogarea.com/add.php)
TopBlogging  blog + RSS (http://topblogging.com/)
Topsiteswebdirectory (http://www.topsiteswebdirectory.com/)
Totalblogdirectory (http://directories.totalblogdirectory.com/)
Ubdaily (http://directory.ubdaily.com/)
Weblogs.com (http://www.weblogs.com/)
Webloogle (http://www.webloogle.com/)
Websandiego (http://www.websandiego.org/business/reg.php)
Webworldindex (http://www.webworldindex.com/)
WordPress (http://www.wordpressblogdirectory.com/)
Yahoo local (http://listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php)
Yahoo.com (http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs)
Zimbo blog+rss (http://www.zimbio.com/company/bloggers)


Paid or Link Reciprocal Blog Submitting Directories
A1Weblinks  (http://www.a1weblinks.net/submit.php) reciprocal or $$$
AddYourBlog.Com  (http://www.addyourblog.com/) reciprocal link required
Aviva (http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php) Fee
Biggerblogger (http://www.biggerblogger.com/) Fee
Blogs All Over the World  (http://www.blogsallovertheworld.com/) reciprocal link required
Blogarama (http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/) Fee
BlogDirectory.org.uk (http://www.blogdirectory.org.uk/) Fee
Bloggeries  (http://www.bloggeries.com/) Fee
Blogging Fusion (http://www.bloggingfusion.com/add.cgi) Fee
Blogsrating (http://www.blogsrating.com/submit.html) Reciprocal
BlogZoop (http://blogzoop.com/) reciprocal link required
Bulletize (http://www.romow.com/submit.php) Fee
EatonWeb (http://portal.eatonweb.com/) Fee
Everything Directory for Blogs (http://directory.everything-fine.info/index.php) reciprocal link required
IBlog Business Directory (http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html) fee
Kahuki (http://www.kahuki.com/) Fee
LazyBlogDirectory (http://lazyblogdirectory.com/) Fee
Portal.eatonweb (http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php) Fee
Search 4 Blog (http://www.search4blog.com/) Fee
Small Business Blog Dir (http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html) Fee
Society of Socialpreneurs (http://www.societyofsocialpreneurs.com/blogdirectory.html) reciprocal link required
Spillbean (http://www.spillbean.com/) Reciprocal or Fee
TopWeblogDirectory (http://topweblogdirectory.com/) reciprocal link required or Fee
Wilsdomain (http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit) Reciprocal
Wutzle (http://www.wutzle.com/) reciprocal link required
Blogsrating (http://www.blogsrating.com/submit.html) Reciprocal


RSS Submitting Directories


4guysfromrolla (http://4guysfromrolla.aspin.com/func/addres/rss-review/userlist?rid=1427020&cob=4guysfromrolla)
5z5.com (http://www.5z5.com/Suggest-A-Feed/)
9rules.com (http://9rules.com/about/feeds/)
Allheadlinenews (http://www.allheadlinenews.com/corp/submitnews/submitnewsform.shtml)
Anatech.NET (http://anatech.net/)
Automotive-links (http://automotive-links.mustangv8.com/RSS-directory/)
Blogdigger (http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp)
Blo.gs (http://www.blo.gs/)
Chordata Blog+Rss (http://chordata.info/suggest.php)
Crayon Blog+Rss (http://crayon.net/using/suggest.html)
Educational-feeds (http://www.educational-feeds.com/submitrss.php)
Feedagg (http://www.feedagg.com/)
Feedage (http://www.feedage.com/submit.php)
Feed Burner (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home)
Feedcat (http://www.feedcat.net/)
FeedoOyoo(http://www.feedooyoo.com/) Fee
Free RSS and Link Directory (http://www.rss-directory.us/)
RSSFeeds.org (http://www.rssfeeds.org/)
Rssfeeddirectory (http://www.rssfeeddirectory.org/)
Feedest (http://www.feedest.com/)
Feedgy (http://www.feedgy.com/)
FeedListing (http://www.feedlisting.com/)
Feedmailer (http://www.feedmailer.net/feedmanager)
Feedplex (http://www.feedplex.com/add-url.php?email)
Feedsee (http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html)
Feeds4all (http://www.feeds4all.nl/)
Finance-investing (http://www.finance-investing.com/submitrss.php)
Gabbr (http://www.gabbr.com/submit/)
Goldenfeed (http://www.goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx)
Icerocket Blog+Rss (http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog)
Itsmynews (http://itsmynews.com/)
Jordomedia (http://www.jordomedia.com/RSS/l_op=Addrss.html)
Keegy (http://www.keegy.com/suggest/)
Leighrss (http://www.leighrss.com/?nbh)
Medical-feeds (http://www.medical-feeds.com/submitrss.php)
Medworm (http://www.medworm.com/rss/submit.php)
Millionrss (http://www.millionrss.com/add-my-feed.php)
Moneyhighstreet (http://www.moneyhighstreet.com/feed_directory/add_url.php/)
MyMSN RSS Directory (http://msn.com/) submi feed to ‘search’ for content
News-feeds (http://www.news-feeds.org/addfeed.php)
NGOID News Network (http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php)
Oobdoo (http://www.oobdoo.com/form.php)
Paiddirectory (http://www.paiddirectory.com/feeds/submitrss.php)
Plazoo (http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp)
Postami (http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php) Fee
Political-humor (http://www.political-humor.net/submitrss.php)
Rapidfeeds (http://rapidfeeds.com/)
RDFTicker (http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php)
ReadAblog (http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx)
Redtram (http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/)
Rssbuffet (http://www.rssbuffet.com/submit.php)
RSSChomp (http://www.rsschomp.com/)
Rssfeeds (http://www.rssfeeds.com/suggest_wizzard.php)
Rssmicro (http://www.rssmicro.com/?m=fs#theForm)
Rssmountain (http://rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php)
Rssmotron (http://www.rssmotron.com/feed_submission.php)
Rssroot (http://rssroot.com/)
Rsstop10 (http://www.rsstop10.com/directory/rss-submit.php)
Rubhub (http://rubhub.com/)
Solarwarp (http://www.solarwarp.net/submitrss.php)
Swoogle (http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php?option=com_swoogle_service&service=submit)
Topix (http://www.topix.net/member/register)
Twingly (http://www.twingly.com/ping?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toprankmarketing.com%2Fnewsroom%2Ffeed%2F)
Urlfan (http://urlfan.com/)
Wingee (http://www.wingee.com/)
Xmeta (http://www.xmeta.net/users/)
Foreign RSS Feeds Directories 
Eintragen (http://rss-eintragen.rss-nachrichten.de/)
Linkfeed (http://www.linkfeed.dk/tilmeld-link)
Rssfeeds (http://www.rssfeeds.co.il/addfeed.php)
Rssland (http://www.rssland.dk/)
Overskrift (http://overskrift.dk/submit.php)
Verzeichnis (http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/anmelden.php)
Zooka.dk (http://zooka.dk/tools.aspx)
Take your time to go through them and select the ones that interests you the most.

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10 Tips to Drive Traffic Effectively to a New Blog

It’s easy to start a blog but the hardest part of blogging is driving traffic effectively to that blog. Many new bloggers find it almost impossible to get visitors to read their stuffs, getting less than a hundred page views daily and abandoning their blog out of frustration. Without a meaningful traffic, a blog is almost as good as useless and that is this is one of the main reasons some blogs never get to see the light of the day. New bloggers are often faced with the challenge of getting traffic and increasing their blog’s daily page views. Well, if you’re a new blogger, you ought to know that all the so called “big blogs” you see today started with zero visitors but finally made it. Are you wondering how? I started this blog and somehow managed to get a fairly good traffic…if I did, you too definitely can.

There are certain ways to drive visitors to that new blog of yours and I’m going to try to list here how I started. All the tips here definitely worked for me and they should work for you too if properly implemented.
1. Social Networking
This really helped me a great deal in the early days of my blog and I must tell you, the first handful of visitors I got was from Facebook. I use twitter a lot less though but it can also be a great source of traffic if properly used. You can’t separate blog traffic from social networking and I think you need to add people with similar interests as friends who would read and appreciate your ideas each time you share link to your new blog post. Also you should have a fully function fan page. You can get free facebook fans in several ways – inviting your friends, showing the badge on your blog and so on.
2. Web Forums
This is used less by bloggers but if you’re new to blogging, you definitely need it. Using popular web forums is one of the quickest and most effective ways to drive traffic to your blog. You should register in two or three popular web forums and be active there. Post interesting topics in those forums and use your blog as reference once in a while but do not spam. Imagine the traffic you’ll be driving to your blog with a topic that gets up to 1,000 page views in just a day. You should also include your site link in your forum signature as people will definitely check your site when they find your forum post interesting. I got quite some traffic from Nairaland forum and some other international forums when I started out.
3. Blogging Communities
Blogcatalog was the bomb back in 2009, it was a major source of traffic for me back then because I was very active there. I’m not sure it still works like it used to  but there are other blogging communites you can join to drive traffic to your blog. You can join linkreferral, yousaytoo, technorati and some other blogging communities. I used them a lot less these days but you can google out the best of them or ask around.
4. Guest Blogging
You’re a new blogger so don’t expect your guest post to be accepted on problogger.net but you can still find a popular blog to write for. Writing for a well known blog is a way of exposing your blog which stands to get lots of real traffic if your guest post suddenly goes viral. I normally check out guest authors’ sites each time I read  piece of their writing on other blogs.
5. Blog Directories
I don’t believe in directories that much but you can still drive a handful of traffic to your blog from there. Submitting your blog to directories doesn’t only get you some traffic, it’s also a way of building your backlinks which is pertinent to search engine ranking.
6. Commenting on Popular Blogs
Being a regular commentator on popular blogs can drive one or two people to your blog daily and increase your popularity in the process but this is not the major reason I included it, I included it because it’s a way of building your backlinks also just like the blog directory thing I mentioned earlier.
7. Submitting Articles to Directories
Trust me, you can get thousands of people trooping in to your site by just writing a couple of articles and submitting them to ezine, scribd and the rest of them. More often than not, articles from these directories do come up in search results when properly written. Including your site in the byline and referring to one or two of your blog posts is an ideal way to drive traffic to your blog and some people might even be kind enough to include those backlinks when they use your articles on their blogs.
8. Social Bookmarking
I haven’t been using them much lately but a fellow blogger I know personally wrote a post on the power of stumbleupon and digg, making me realize I’ve been missing out alternative ways to increase my blog’s traffic.
9. Optimize your Blog for Google Search
This is probably the most important of all. Google is the biggest source of traffic in the world for any site and this is a fact. Submit your site to major search engines including google, bing, yahoo and the rest of them. Also, be sure your link building and other search engine optimization techniques are properly implemented. You will even find other sources of traffic negligible when google finally starts driving real visitors to your blog. Optimizing your site for search engine is a long time process though, but it definitely pays at the long run as you will be increasing your alexa traffic rank and google page rank at the same time.
10. Read Like Crazy
Yes, you heard me right, read like crazy. I know you’re probably a good reader by reading through this boring piece right till the end but you need to read more like it. Get different ideas from probloggers, read every ebook on blogging you can lay your hands on, subscribe to newsletters based on blogging tips, driving traffic effectively to your blog and SEO.

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How To Increase Your Blog’s Google Page Rank And Alexa Global Rank

These are the three most important things to put in mind when thinking of increasing your blog’s google page rank and alexa global traffic rank but for the purpose of clarification, I’ll explain each of these one after the other.

1. Original, Quality and Well Researched Contents
I’m sure you might have heard this before but do you actually know what it means? I’ve seen a lot of new bloggers use articles on other blogs word for word, thinking its a cheap way to get traffic but hurting their very own pagerank in the process. Google has a way of differentiating between original content from copied one and you’ll definitely sink lower in search engine result page if you’re the type that relies on contents from other blogs. The last Google panda update 2.5 focused heavily on plagiarism, poor contents, black hat SEO and lots of big sites with high page rank sank.
A friend using autoblogging software disappeared from SERP and so many others got affected. There was some kind of general fluctuation in traffic but I’ve noticed an increase in traffic since. When google realizes your site content is copied from somewhere else, you lose relevance in search engine result page and start missing out on search engine traffic. So, the bottom line is writing original and well research content that gives you not only a higher page rank, but also gains you credibility with your readers.
I should also add this: you don’t expect to come up in google search result with a blog post of just one hundred words. Your post must be long enough to be called a real article. Writing short contents won’t increase your page rank or drive in any meaningful traffic form search engines.

2. Choice of Keywords and Moderate Use
Apart from writing original contents, it’s also important to know the right keywords to use that’s going to drive in traffic from search engines. Like I said earlier, if you’re going to write a blog post on how to rob a bank, you must be sure to include that phrase in your article and similar ones such as ‘how to steal in a bank’ and so on. You should let this appear in your article as many times as possible but it seems google now has a way of punishing excessive use of keywords. You must be moderate about it but you also must be sure you pick the right keywords to use in each article.
A few weeks back, I took a post from one of my partners that went viral and drove in lots of traffic, with almost 600 facebook likes in just a couple of weeks, and I took time to study how I wrote that blog post and realized what made it go viral was the proper use of keywords that drove in mad search engine traffic which will definitely have a huge impact on my alexa global ranking in about a month or so. The phrases used in that blog post was exactly what people were searching for on google.
Using Google analytics will give you a better insight on keywords and I suggest you start using this if you haven’t.

3. Building Quality Backlinks
I won’t talk much about this because I have an article that already covers it. Building quality backlinks is an efficient search engine optimization method that’s definitely fool proof. It’s an important way to increase your page rank and one of the algorithms google considers in SERP. For more info on this, please read this post.
One important this you must know in order to increase your traffic, google page rank and alexa traffic rank is that although these things are different from one another, they are still interrelated one way or the other. Focus on improving your blog by writing quality and original content with good choice of keywords and you’ll realize your google page rank drives more search engine traffic which in turn increases your alexa traffic rank. Happy blogging!

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Link Building, Traffic and SEO

If you are new in this blogging business, you probably won’t know what link building is all about and what it means to a site. You will probably be too concerned about your google adsense earnings and neglect the most effective way to increase it. Apart from being a source of traffic, quality links from sites with high pagerank pointing to your blog always go a long way in boosting your ranking in search engine results.
Aside from writing quality contents, building quality links pointing to your blog should be your target especially if you desire a huge traffic from google search results. Have you ever wondered how google sorts out search results, placing some sites before others? Are you worried because your site or blog never comes up even when you search for a phrase or keywords specific to your site?

Like they always say, content is king but having quality backlinks is the most effective way to make google notice your content. When search results are displayed, google takes a lot into consideration before ranking some sites high above another. Google uses a mathematical formula called an Algorithm to display search results in order of preference and this involves up to 200 components. Some of these include
1. Use of keywords
2. Pagerank (which is directly proportional to your baclinks)
3. Quality content
4. Traffic
5. How old the domain is
Pagerank is one of the most important. Having sites relating to your blog category linking to your site is a major way to boost your pagerank. This does not imply that you must find links to your site even from sites with low reputation. Backlinks from sites with very low reputation or sites with no relevance to keywords appearing on your site will only hurt your google pagerank and thereby making your site have a lower pagerank.
Google remains the largest source of traffic for your blog and appearing on the first ten results is the only way because nobody will go through millions of search results just to find your blog!
How to Get Quality Backlinks
Now there are two types of backlinks:
1. One way backlink – this kind of backlink is considered the most important as only the site points to your blog without any link to the site appearing on your site.
2. Two way backlink – this too is has it’s own importance but not as effective as the first. This is the case with most directory listing and partnership, you have to link back to sites that link yo you.
i. commenting on blog posts across the internet
ii. partnership (a mutual agreement between site owners to link to eachother)
iii. directory listing
111. paid SEO (paying someone to do all the dirty job)
iv. Encouraging your readers to link your contents
v. posting in forums
vi. guest blogging
These are only some of the various ways to get those precious backlinks, not all. Improving your ranking in search results depend largely on your backlinks, so get as many as you can BUT DO NOT SPAM.

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