25 best SEO techniques for begineer

Hey I have come across some of the seo technique. So I want to share those with you. These are not full proof techniques but it will increase your chances of getting indexed and thus more traffic. And IF you know any other points rather than this then please share it with us.......add your points .

There are lots of advanced SEO & marketing techniques, which you will be using but before that you must use these basic SEO strategies before putting your effort on those things.

1. Get-your-domain-name-dot-com/org/net( The main TLD’s are preferred but if you are focusing on local visitors of your country, then getting a country specific extension like .us or .uk helps a lot)
2. Hosting your site/blog on a reliable hosting company.(If you are using free services like blogger or wordpress.com then sooner or latter you will need those services which they don’t provide, so rather than wasting your time in those free services, spend few bucks on hosting & domain)
3. Never put your domain name in the Meta Title > if anything your registered BUSINESS NAME should be here and the last few words of the 60 character title.
4. Never start a word pass 58 characters <>5. Use wordtracker.com to research the proper keywords for your site.
6. Add the robots tag & Place the robots.txt in your root on your server.
7. Make sure to have a site map page.
8. Make sure you have 404 page.
9. Use css instead of color, size and font tags.
10. Change the link buttons or js links in to text links.
11. Include your keywords in the alt tags of images.
12. Use the H1 tag for page headings (you can alter the way h1 displays text with CSS)
13. Get rid of the js in the code and put it in an external file.
14. At the bottom of each page use menus as text links.
15. Make sure your page code is not bigger than 100 K.
16. Submit your site to ODP(make sure to select the right category), Yahoo Dir, and other free directories like gimpsy.com and goguides.org etc.
17. Try to get as much as relevant links you can.
18. Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly.
19. Don’t spam & Don’t cloak.
20. Don’t use doorway pages.
21. Pay special attention to your content.
22. Put your competitors on your site and compare your positive points to their negative points (be truthful though).
23. Syndicate your content (if possible you can use Feedburner service which helps a lot in tracking your feed subscribers).
24. Use a good visitor tracking system like Google Analytics.
25. Write unique & interesting contents & use social bookmarking sites like digg.com & del.icio.us.

Remember SEO isn’t just about getting to #1… it’s also about selling "more" once you’re there!
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How to increase the Blog traffic with free techniques

Look here and there what you find a normal blogger asking for? It’s very easy. Every blogger want to try to increase the traffic so that his earning might increase. Well we will look into such SEO (search engine optimization)tips for increasing blog traffic. I know many points have been repeated 100 times but I have tried to present it in new and easy manner. So after you apply those techniques feel free to share your experience with us. Well I am not SEO specialist but I will be sharing the techniques which I learned for getting traffic for my site. So without wasting out time we will discuss some facts and To Do things for getting traffic.

Submit your article to different Directories

Many people feel this option useless. But as far as my opinion is concerned, I will always recommend you to go for directory submission. Generally directories have higher PR and more traffic. So if you get nice traffic from such directories. Ari Paparo has compiled a list of blog directories that you might want to start with. For some handsome collections of directories, click here.

Caution: Beware if you are submitting to unknown directories. Now spammers are creating fake directories to get more scope.

Nice Blog Design will always help you to get nice traffic

People always do this common mistake. Usually blogger is very selective about the Theme and forget about design of the Blog. So, it will look like just another Blog and you lose you reader. If you think readers point of view, nice themed Blog with necessary and easy to use navigations, will always help him to find right information and thus pleasing him. Normally, people get confused between Blog design and Blog appearance which is part of Blog design. Here, we will understand more about part of design which includes position of the various page elements such as,

Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Search, Feed Icon, About ME Page, etc.

So, with intelligent positioning of your various page elements, you can convince your reader about the quality of the content, your strength and in turn it will help you to get regular readers.

Here are some guidelines for placing various Blog elements:-

• Feed Icon, Search Icons should be kept at top of the sidebar.
• Extra Search box can be placed near your banner and at footer of the Blog
• Recent comments should be given least priority and can be placed lower level of sidebar.
• Recent post should be placed in middle of the sidebar where people come to know more about your recent post.
• Do NOT forget to add “related post” section at the end of the every post before “comments for the post” begins. This can be done by using plug-in for wordpress and for blogger you can follow PurpleMoggy's Method to show related post.

So, from this we can conclude that having nice Blog design with nice theme is very important. I also want to add small information, that blogger tend to choose top 10 Blog themes and even after his hard work on design do not help him to get more traffic because it will look similar. So for getting nice traffic and building nice traffic, your Blog should be unique in terms of Blog design & Blog theme. So try to choose some off topic theme which will attract your reader.

Listing down all your popular post under 2-3 categories

This is one of the most important things for novice blogger for retaining your organic traffic (traffic from Search engine) and converting them to regular readers. For getting more idea what I am saying about refer to following picture.

This example illustrates us about importance of main listing categories. This is simple theory, suppose reader comes to your Blog and after reading the content if he finds some meaningful information about hot topics, then only reader will build faith on you. In this way, you can succeed in getting another regular reader.

Guidelines on using this technique:

1. As you are making these places permanent, it is absolutely necessary to have some popular Tutorial content as they are not time dependent.
2. Select such quality content which define your Blog and raises your Blog from others.
3. Make two to three columns and then assign categories to them and place your popular topics there.

Pen Note: I have seen some blogs using this technique in different manner, they categorizes the columns and place latest hot topics there using plug-ins. I think this is also great idea if your posting rate is high.

Burn Your Feed

By using my previous tips, you will definitely get nice traffic. But now it’s very important to make your reader come again. For this Feed comes handy. Every novice blogger must know about these Feed services and it’s importance. By having powerful feed option, you can build your readership and keep them increasing. There are different types of feed burning services available at this time. Out of these, Feedburner come handy and serves our purpose as it is easy to use and allowing to earn extra income through your feeds.

Feedburner allows you to track your feed readers and makes it easier for people to subscribe to your feeds.

Select your feed-count tab suitable for your Blog theme and keep them at suitable position where your readers can quickly find it out. It’s very important for keep your feed count increasing.

Give your readers different feed options

When reader likes your content, then surely he will search for feed option. Many blogger provide only general feed option containing all the categories. So if you are posting rate is more then it’s advisable to differentiate your feed options.

Example: Suppose I have 10 categories, from which 5 categories are occasional and other 5 are your prime categories. Now for example your prime categories are

1. Money making
2. Adsense Tips
3. Wordpress Tips
4. Increase Blog traffic
5. blogging

So if readers only like your Adsense tips content and other categories are not useful to him, then he will surely develop tendency to ignore other content, this can be harmful if readers try to avoid all the content including his favorite Adsense tips.

Setup your Feed on My Yahoo

Many of us don’t know about site submit service for yahoo. Well My Yahoo is not similar to SiteSubmit from Google, but it act as SiteSubmit service. So, setup your feed on MyYahoo will help you to get indexed in yahoo search engine.

Bookmark Your Blog

You can bookmark your posts on social bookmarking sites. After writing a good article submit it to Digg and it will automatically be picked up by other social bookmarking sites.

Write a ‘how to’ post that walk your readers through a process that teaches them how to achieve a goal they might have (similar to this post) and they are more likely to want to bookmark it. These types of posts are often listed in del.icio.us Popular Page.

You will get huge amounts of traffic if your posts come up in Digg’s Frontpage or del.icio.us Popular Page.

Link to the source

If you post about some interesting news that you just read on your favorite News site, link to it (the source). Chances are readers from that news Blog will visit your Blog from the pingback on the site. Also, it helps make your content look informative.

Answer Your Comments

It’s very common that every Blog site do have a comment section for every post. So whenever your readers comment on you Blog, answer it as early as possible. Follow some guideline to Answer comments from readers

• Answer your reader’s comments as early as possible.
• Start with thanking word for first 5-6 comments for particular posts.
• This will help to build relationship with your reader and in turn getting more traffic out of it.
• If your reader makes some interesting valuable comment (generally related to review of post with some outstanding suggestions) then personally mail him for valuable comment.
• This will encourage him to give more valuable comments on your site, turning your site into quality.
• If you are novice blogger then be careful while answering to first time commentators. Do not fill your comments with only thanking & greeting words. But do make some technical comments.
• If you are novice blogger, then emailing your first time commentators and thanksgiving him will definitely help.

Always try to give relevant links while commenting outside:

It’s not always hard and fast rule that you have to always link to your site while commenting outside. Of course if you find another relevant article or relevant source for particular topic you can always link to that source.

How it will help me to gain readers?

It’s very easy theory. If you are commenting on some medium level site with any out bound links then other regular readers are likely to be more curious about you when you inform them about your article. More people are expected to visit your site for getting quality information.

Ping your articles regularly:

Pinging your articles is very important, for getting handsome amount of traffic. Pining is service that notifies all other search engines about your latest post. It helps a lot when it comes to hot and cracking post. Pining can be done effectively with the help of Pinomatic services. Personally I found it very useful.

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5 unique ways to increase your traffic

It’s always difficult for every novice blogger when it comes to getting unique blog traffic in very short period of time. In this article we will cover some of the methods to increase blog traffic in unique without spending a single penny. So as we are not going to spend any money, so it’s obvious that we will have to spend time to achive our goal. So without wasting a time we will come to the point

Your technical comments at Forums will fetch you nice traffic

This is very true in my case. I used this technique quite an often when I started blogging and found it useful. Believe me it would fetch your more than artificial traffic (read traffic from your promotion ads). All you have to just follow simple thing while commenting at different Forums.

1. Choose your carefully, see that it has got handsome PR, which often suite your traffic.
2. Its simple theory if you are commenting in wise manner, people gets curious to know more about you.
3. If you get interesting cracking news, then always share with the forum members and ask them to link back to your post.
4. Many forums provide you with signature facility, which you must use to notify about your latest quality post.

Note: Many forums are now strict about spamming so avoid it and take care while linking to your post. You should always see to it, that you are linking relevant posts.

Write Tutorials

Write tutorials that walk your readers through a process that teaches them how to achieve a goal they might have. Tutorials are very important factor increasing tour traffic as they are not time dependant. Tutorials have more chance of getting bookmarked in Social Bookmarking sites which will get you plenty of readers and links from many blogs.

Give an Author Contact Option

This is another common Blog designing mistake. Well, its very important to have contact option in your Blog design. Reader always wants to know more about the Author when he likes your post. So not having Contact option will definitely annoy him and you loose your another reader. You may follow some guideline for having different options for your site. But remember it s better to have just one or two contact option rather than messing your Blog with hundreds of contact option.

• Create your contact form if you own a site and hosting it privately.
• Place your Contact option in main menu bar and in various spot where your reader may find it easily.
• If you don’t have your own web hosting for one or some other reason, then don’t worry. Just create another service email account on your favorite site and add link to your email account.
• As far as my opinion is concerned, I will recommend having another service gmail account. Because it provides you Mail Trackback services as you can recall your replies for individuals.

Pen Note: Having another service account is very important as you can differentiate your personal emails and professional emails. Here you can create nice email icon for Contact Options for your site.

Notify Other Related bloggers of your content

Well, informing your other relevant bloggers with email about your quality post is also nice idea. If you think you have some quality posts, then email your other friends in this field. If they could find any interest in them, he will surely write and note about you. So in turn, you will get nice traffic from him. Follow some guidelines while notifying other bloggers of your content.

• Write a polite email with relevant subject that suggest about something related to your post.
• Directly come to point if you are notifying him about cracking news or so.
• Do provide summary of the complete post by picking up important points.
• At the end add a sweet note about him and also do not forget to mention him, about the quality of his articles.
• If you have written and article inspired by him or you are linking to any of his article then do not forget to mention it at the end.

Pen note: IF you are regular reader and commentator of that website, you are likely to get additional advantage. So commenting on some of his popular content might help you to shoot your traffic.

Offline Promotion

Blog promotion can be done offline also. It need not be online. Offline blog promotions include placing your site name on business card, mouth publicity, may be giving advertisement in local news with your type of work

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Show latest comments on your sidebar

It’s another beautiful feature that Ramani provided this time. Well, I had thought of trying it out, but was unsuccessful due to lack of Knowledge. This article explains why you must show the latest 5 comment in your sidebar and how to use it effectively.

How can I show the latest comment in blogger beta sidebar?

The atom comment feed is itself solution for this query. Just follow the simple steps to show latest comment on your blogger beta Sidebar.

1. Just logon to blogger account and navigate to layouts
2. Select the add page element option from sidebar menu.
3. Select allow feed option
4. Select your Blog feed URL in your sidebar.
5. For Example: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full
6. Just save it and you are done!

How it will help me?
Well comments are the most common way to increase your blog popularity and with this move you can encourage your readers to comment. Readers do make comment to keep their name at top, so that they may get traffic out of it.

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