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The Best Incantations For Google

by Norhafidz on September 28, 2008

This post is about search engine optimization or its abbrv. SEO. It is not about black magic or anything else related to it ;)

It is anyone’s dream to be on top of Google SERP for any keywords exists, I am one of them and I admitted that on my about page. Google contribute a lot in terms of traffic, but I’m not saying that they are the only hope. The ’science’ of getting traffics from Google or other SE is called Search engine optimization. SEO is simple (though I know a lot will criticize me about this statement), but it consumes a lot of time and energy (that is what I’m lacking of). It involves a lot of analyzing, from your target keywords to your competitors’ strategies analyzing.

We certainly don’t know about their algorithm (how they ranked website) precisely. What we can do is actually copy our competitors’ strategies and eventually make it to the top. I did exactly the same on my experimental blog: http://maricari-duit.blogspot.com and it is now ranked 1st on Google.com for terms: cari duit.

The fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization are:

  • On Page Optimization
  • Off Page Optimization

We just have to make sure that our website have both of these fundamentals strong. On Page Optimization involves optimizing our website with our target keywords. Remember to put our target keyword on thee title, post and footer. Just don’t overdo it or we’ll get penalize by Google. I’m not Google’s employees but I still believe this techniques help in SERP, based on experiments.

Whereas Off page optimization involves getting as many as quality links pointing back to your website with your target keyword being the anchor text. It looks simple but yet huge time needed to make it happen.

Where to get links?

This is where analyzing take place. I used this free tool: Online-utility to analyze my competitors’ off page optimization strategy. The tool will list the websites that pointing links to my competitors’ site, most of them are comments that my competitors left on blogs. What left for me to do is just copy the strategy by leaving a comment in the same site.

Technically, I will get the same juice as my competitors enjoyed. To beat our competitors, we just have to do slightly better than them. That’s the idea. If you don’t have time to do this on your own, you can always wend to SEO firm like SEO Toronto and let them do the job.

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Semi Automatic Submission Tool

by Norhafidz on August 5, 2008

I wander on a webmaster forum today hoping to disclose some ads deals. I got a couple of deals and also offering some jobs to coders and designers for my new projects. At the end of the day, I ended up discovering and landed on a new semi automatic directory submission tool website. Submitting your blog to web directories is important, I did mention it on many of my posts on how important this actions were, especially on SEO off page optimization. In fact, It was one of the contributing factors which lead to the increment of my PageRank. But doing it manually is a great pain, That’s why a semi automic submission tool is a healer. Back to the tool, it is called SubmitterBot - “semi automatic directory submission tool.”

How Semi Automatic Directory Submission Tool Works?

They work similar to how you submit your blog manually, a slight different is that you don’t have to type in the informations about your blog repeatedly. You just need to type in the informations once and they will remain on your profile unless you change it. The list of web directories are also provided by the website. All you need to do is choose which category suit your blog and entering captcha.

They have a wonderful website, I don’t have any comments on the way they look. They look smooth and sleek. Well, this isn’t a free tool though, you are require to pay for your site to be accepted. And the payment process involves points. The points determine the total number of your websites. It is used to purchase spots. The more points you have, the more spots available for your site.

The rate is $1.99 per credit. It is still way cheaper than most of similar services provider. Take note, the only thing involve credit is when you need to add a website/blog not the submission to directories process.

What a Sweet SubmitterBot

Though their services are not entirely free, they are giving you a point after registration process is completed, which enable you to add a website or a blog to submit to their huge list of directories. So, they are giving you a chance to try out their tool so that you can have the real experience before deciding to buy credits.

I personally have tried their tool and were happy with the outcomes. Time is an important factor, by using this tool, I managed to cut a lot of times and use it for other purposes. Since submitting your blog manually to these directories is quite a tiring job, I would suggest you to take this tool into consideration in promoting your blogs and yourselves.

Should you have any questions about this tool, there’s a lot of questions and answers to read at their FAQ page.

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