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Creating good unique content will obviously drive visitors to your site from search engines. But, you need to optimize your website/blog in such a way that search engine spiders do not have any problems crawling to your site. As discussed earlier, to get your website on top of search engines, you have to follow search engine optimization procedure like link building and so. Your blog/website needs to be optimized internally also, that is, it should be search engine friendly.

I’ve used a plug-in called All In One SEO Pack which works great for SEOing. To download it, CLICK HERE. This plugin will automatically generate META tags for each of your posts. META tags on a web page are specially used for the purpose of search engines. Most of the search engines, even Google, first reads your META tags(META description atleast) . It also optimizes titles, avoids duplicate content, and much more. It does everything right to make your blog search engine friendly. And you will notice that your pages will be indexed in Google faster.

If you want, you will be able to put custom page title, keywords, description for every post you make as this feature will be provided by the plugin.

The customization options will look like:

Alexa rank can speak for your website. A good Alexa rank is a definite plus. It is normally referred to as traffic rank. Some of the webmasters have scrapped it because it does not include all. Alexa logs visitor information about a website of only those visitors using the Alexa toolbar. The Alexa toolbar is available to most of the widely used browsers. Whenever a website is visited through a browser containing an Alexa toolbar, it displays traffic information about the website and also sends information to Alexa about the site and the visitor.

Your Alexa rank will come into picture when you are selling links or ad positions or reviews. Advertisers will prefer only those websites with a good Alexa rank.

There are two main ways of improving your Alexa rank:

• Encourage your users to download and install the Alexa Toolbar. Use Alexa redirecting URL instead of your main URL.

• The Alexa redirection URL looks like this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?YOURSITE.COM

A certain amount of traffic does not mean all. You must constantly monitor the traffic to your site. You must be always interested in where are the visitors coming from? how long are they staying on your and so on…… With these statistics, you can always improve your website traffic.

To analyze your traffic, you will require some tools. These kind of tools are available in abundance. These will be Java scripts, you will be required to past a code on your site. Every time your site is visited, this code will be triggered and the information about the visitor will be logged.

The following tools I felt are the best for monitoring and analyzing your stats:

Sitemeter

Mywebstats

Google Analytics

Driving traffic to blogs has been the biggest concern of new bloggers. Although content is the king, search engines really need some time to index your pages. Earlier, people used to use free traffic exchanges which would drive free traffic to websites instantly. But since the introduction of Google Adsense, the traffic exchanges have lost their demand as Google does not endorse any means of generating traffic artificially.

Blogrush is a sought of traffic exchange. Not exactly by the definition, but the functionality is similar. Once you sign up to an account, you need to put a small widget on your blog. This widget will syndicate the latest posts of other blogs through a selected category. Everytime the widget is displayed, you earn credits. These credits are then used to syndicate your posts on other blogs belonging to the same category. Also, you earn 100% of the credits of your referral’s traffic. I’ve been using blogrush for quite some time and have got good results from it.

To join, Click Here.

Traffic, traffic and more traffic! If you have traffic to your site, you can sit back and relax. If you are trying to make money through your site, and if you have high amount of traffic, your earnings will grow exponentially. New bloggers will have a hard time driving traffic to their blog. Don’t worry….. This is perfectly NORMAL. Search engines really need some time to index your pages.

Basic promotion techniques are discussed in the Promotion section, but there are a few more ways of driving traffic. One of them is Social Bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service’s features, may be saved privately, shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.

Some of the top social bookmarking sites are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, del.icio.us, etc.
These are very easy to use and can potentially drive a lot of traffic to your site. When you bookmark your site/post to a certain social bookmarking site, people around you will notice that you have bookmarked and eventually visit your site. If they like it, even they will bookmark, and this will result in more visitors. So, join these sites, create some good quality unique content, and submit it to as many social bookmarking sites as possible. Submitting an article to StumbleUpon will result in atleast 50-100 pageviews. Apart from traffic, these sites will provide you quality backlinks which is a definite plus for SEO.

Use ready made some social bookmarking widgets/plugins/scripts like Addthis, Share This, etc. on your site for the convenience of your visitors to bookmark your site. Just search for social bookmarking tools in any search engine, you’ll find tons of free tools.

If you own a new blog, which is started recently, you probably won’t receive expected number of visitors. Submitting to directories, classified ads, search engines would do the job; but still it will take quite some time to get in to the market.

There are some online blog community sites, which will give a kickstart  to your blog’s traffic.  These  sites  have many users  owning different  blogs. The best part is, you can interact with these users. Some of them are newbies, while some are veterans. You will learn a lot of things about blogging. Below are the widely used blog communities:

MyBlogLog

BlogCatalog

BumpZee 

If you own a blog, then pinging your blog means a lot! Pinging notifies the directories and portals that your blog is updated.

You must post regularly and ping as soon as you post. This will help you in getting high amount of traffic. Below are the most used ping sites.:

http://pingoat.com/
>>>Pingoat offer pinging to plenty of server. Using pingoat can help you ping a lot of server in a few seconds only. The disadvantage is that you are allow to ping the same address only once per day.

http://www.pingomatic.com/
>>>Ping-o-matic offer good pinging service. You can Bookmark the result page of the ping and when you want to ping when you update your site. Just click the Bookmark address and it will ping automatically. No Need to re-type yur site address and site name again.

http://kping.com/pings/ping.php
>>>King Ping is another good pinging service. It also ping a lot of server at just a few second.

http://www.ipings.com
>>>iPING is very easy to use and fast.

http://ping.feedburner.com/
>>>Ping Feedburner can notify Feedburner about your updated feed.

JAPANESE SITE
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/xmlrpc

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

Allow French Blog Pinging only
http://www.weblogues.com/

Others pinging services:
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php?url=http://www.yourblog.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

If you have read about SEO techniques, it must be clear by now that if you want to perform well in search engine marketing, you need quality backlinks from quality sites. A backlink from a high PR site would be great.

Now, Contextual Backlinks will help you in two ways: One is SEO, plus you will be getting quality visitors to your site as the site linking to you, would have a content related to you.

To know more, log on to: LinkWords