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Search Engine Ranking Factors

Aileen was telling me and Marc that her old and widely linked personal blog had a PR3 while her newer less linked work blog had a PR4. I tried explaining that it’s not the volume of links but the quality and (topical) relevance. Marc counters that relevance may not be part of the algorithmic factor in determining Page Rank. He had some real-life examples to show it. I have mine that proves the contrary.

Anyway, thanks to Eric Salas for emailing me this link from SEOMoz (didn’t have much time to check my feeds):

Top 10 Positive Factors

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag
2. Global Link Popularity of Site
3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link
4. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure
5. Age of Site
6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site
7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community
8. Keyword Use in Body Text
9. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site
10. Rate of New Inbound Links to Site

The survey represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. You can read details and the comments here.

Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is the one tool that I have purchased to date to enhance the SEO of my Blog.

There are two forms of download for Traffic Travis:

1. Free Download
2. Pro Download

I personally started with the free version but found that although it was very useful to find out lots of information regarding Keywords, it didn't allow me to do the competition analysis.

There are a few reasons that I have found Traffic Travis a very useful tool. I must admit that I hate parting with money but once I had the free version and had reached my limits with it, I really wanted to expand and continue to progress.

As a novice to Blogging I love the fact that every time you click on one of the Traffic Travis categories you can watch a clear instructional video explaining the step in detail. These short videos can be viewed every time if you so wish (especially if you are like me and forget what you did the last time).

Traffic Travis Pro (which is the one that I am looking at on my computer as a reference while I write this post) has six main categories with a number of sub-categories when you open it up.

These are:

1. Keyword Tools with Keyword finder and Keyword Sorter as sub-categories.
2. Search engine tools with Position/Ranking, Top sites for keywords, Backlinks to site and Project report as the sub-categories.
3. PPC Analysis with Keywords/Details, Top Sites for Keywords, Most Popular Keywords and Website Keyword list as the sub-categories.
4. Page Analysis which analyses your Website.
5. Settings - General and Internet connection.
6. Useful Resource - These are resources that they guys at Traffic Travis recommend such as Matt Cutt's Blog, SEO Book etc.

As I said earlier in this post, I have found Traffic Travis really useful and therefore purchased the pro version. The best thing about this SEO tool is that you can simply download the free version and then upgrade to the Pro version if you like it and need it.

Ways to Generate Traffic and Make Money Online

If I or anyone else for that matter, is going to make money online then we are going to have to generate traffic to our sites or Blogs.

The other point is that small amounts of traffic won't suffice either; to make lot's of money we will need to generate massive amounts of through traffic.

I have been reading many blogs on the subject and come up with some sort of a plan to begin my traffic generation to this blog.

1. Directory Submission

By submitting this Blog to various directory's I will be able to generate lot's of one way links, which in turn should significantly improve the Blog's Search Engine rankings.

I am going to use a tool to submit my blog to the different directories, it still takes time to do but should be worth it once I see the site being recognised. The tool is called Directory Submitter and can be downloaded for free.

I will add more method's to my list once I have submitted Blog Addick to all of the sites featured in Directory Submitter (350 I think).

I'm back from submitting this Blog to the 350 sites, some worked and were for free, others required a fee to submit. The submissions did prove to be rather time consuming but should help to push the blog up the rankings (fingers crossed).

2. RSS Feed

The next thing I have done is create an RSS feed. I have done this using feedburner, it is very easy to do you can visit the feedburner site here.

The idea behind an RSS Feed is to allow visitors to sign up and be notified of any updates or new posts to your blog.

As with submitting your blog with directroy submitter it is also an idea to submit your feed to various feed directories and aggregators.

The other thing that feedburner does is a PingShot; automatically notifying various directories and aggregators when you publish new material to your blog/feed.

There is a great list of RSS feeds and pings at Tips for New Bloggers; you can visit the relevant page here: RSS feeds and Pings. This is the next thing that I am going to do, I am going to trawl through the list and submit my RSS feed to the various directories.

When you have registered your feed with feedburner, make sure that you add feedburner on your blogger settings.

You can do this by:

* Clicking settings for the relevant blog.
* Selecting site feed from the menu.
* Where it says Post Feed Redirect URL you have to enter your feedburner feed address. E.g. the feed address for this site is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BloggersTribe

In addition to submitting my feed to all of the sites listed on Tips for New Bloggers I have also downloaded a RSS Submit Software called Allscoop RSS Submit Pro you can download it for free. Just follow the instructions to submit your blog to a few more search engines.

3. Bookmark

Give your visitors the option to bookmark your site or each individual post. Social Networking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter as well as many others have become very important in driving huge amounts of traffic through the most successful site.

A great site that you can use to bookmark each individual post yourself (as the webmaster) is Onlywire it's a free service, all you need to do is promote the the onlywire site by displaying a bookmark and share button on your site.

I have read a free ebook that is recommended as an essential read on a number of highly regarded sites including Carl Ocab who tips it as a vital part of social networking to drive traffic to your site. I found the book very informative and have used it to get a better understanding of Web 2.0 which has become an integral part of owning a successful Blog/site. Click the book title to download your Free copy of the Authority Black Book.

Search Engine Optimization - Introduction

For all of you fellow bloggers beginning a journey out there here is a brief description of SEO or Search Engine Optimization and why it is so important.

Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN provide Blogs with a great source to generate huge volumes of traffic. There is enormous amounts of traffic to be sourced from search engines.

SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website or in this case a Blog from Search Engines via organic search results. This allows readers to find high quality websites that are discussing products, topics, events etc that the reader wishes to find out about.

SEO is so important because the higher a website ranks, the more visitors it will generate from the Search Engine.

So if you are trying to make money from a blog via adsense or affiliate programmes you really need to nail the SEO side of things. Equally imprtant if you are trying to discuss a topic that you are passionate about, you want and need visitors to your blog so SEO is no less important.

Blogs suit Search Engines and can rank very nicely due to the fact that they are usually updated frequently, targeting "niche" topics, have a interlinking structure and the ability to generate links from other blogs and bloggers etc. There are many ways that blogs can be enhanced effecting where the blog ends up indexed and ranked. These techniques are referred to as Search Engine Optimization (or SEO).

Now I just need to discover how to optimize this Blog for the search engines initially.

What seems to be highlighted over and over again by everyone is that keywords are no longer the be-all and end-all of SEO; nowadays content also plays a crucial role.

I read a post on Problogger by Darren Rowse who recommended Aaron Wall's SEO book as a valuable resource. My aim is to emulate what the successful bloggers out there have done!

I have found that Traffic Travis is a very useful free tool (I personally upgraded to the pro version after trying the free version). You can read about Traffic Travis here.

I will write a number of articles on various forms of SEO as I go along, I will then add a list at the bottom of this page to be easily directed to relevant pages:

SEO Tool pages on this blog:

* Traffic Travis