SEO And Affiliates

Generating an XML sitemap

XML sitemap is used by spiders to ease the tracking of content in the website. XML sitemap is an XML file that contains all the links available in a particular website and also information on the las updated date of those particular pages along with information on how often will the page be updated. The more frequent the page is updated, the more time spiders will visit that particular page to update their database.

How does XML sitemap look like

A very basic XML sitemap that contains one URL will look something (more...)

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What is PLR and where to get free PLR content?

The term PLR in internet marketing stands for Private Label Rights. It is not rare nowadays to find people using free PLR content distributed over the internet. Why does anyone want free PLR contents? There are several causes for this:

1. Not enough time to write their own articles for SEO purpose
2. Hiring a freelance is expensive
3. Cheap freelance normally does not produce good enough quality articles or e-book.

Due to those reasons, people tend to look for PLR content that are readily available. With PLR content, writers and webmasters can twist these articles, e-books and other types of PLR contents to their liking. These tweaks could be re-writing the content, claim the PLR as their own by putting in their name as author and even (more...)

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Share Your Thought Blogging

Blogging phenomena

The internet world has been swept by Web 2.0 storm. Blogs and blogging in general is one of the main contributor in the web 2.0. phenomena where social media are getting more attention. Blogging starts of only as a way to express oneself; call it an online diary if you like. After tweaking and exposures to the internet world though, blogging has shifted in direction. Nowadays, more and more blogs are going live as a way of self actualization in the internet world. People get more focused and blog in a specific direction, not as general as it originally was.

A free publishing method

Blogging could also be considered as a free publishing method. With blogs in hand, we are able to release contents without going through the hassle of contacting a publishing company, reviewers (more...)

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Get your Site Known through Article Distribution

One of the most effective link building method is Article Marketing. Article Marketing has been and still is a great addition to put your link at. Millions and millions of readers are flocking article sites every day. This happened because of the fresh unique content that is added daily; all the search engines are attracted to these kind of sites like bees to flower.

This way of marketing is considered amazing since it hardly includes any money but the return provided will be more than worth it. It involves you and your creative juices and a bit of a work. The return though will come back to you in a big amount. Send 1 or 2 articles daily, and in a month, you will see a significant increase in visitors to your site.

One of the longest standing article repository is Ezine Articles which has a strict qualification on entering. All the articles will be reviewed and hand picked by their reviewer which makes the articles featured in Ezine Articles really valuable. These article repositories serves a huge range of niches, from gardening all the way to internet marketing. Get your articles up and you will see a great ROI.

Other recommended article repositories include:

1. Go Articles
2. Idea Marketers

There are actually tons of article directories out there, if you are serious about getting yourself known in all of these article directories, you might also want to consider getting SubmitYourArticle or Isnare service. They will take your articles and pass them around to the most well-known article directories around.

Another great point about article marketing is that you do not only get your links public, but you will also expose yourself as one of the experts in your field which in turn will convince more and more visitors.

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Analytics Tools - Keep track of your website visitor

After Creating your website or even during the process, you will want to know the circulation of your web site. How many people visited your website in a given period of time. How many people were actually interested in your web pages. How many returning visitors, how many new ones, these are the statistics that you want to gather in order to determine further direction of your website(s).

There are a lot of free tools available to keep track of these visits. The most popular one at the moment is google analytics since it is free and the reporting tool provided is really great, including website optimizer, graph to analyze the origin of your visitors and many others.

Another analytics tool that has been gaining popularity recently is Crazy Egg with the concept of heat map. You can view the analysis on the most clicked areas in your web pages. This tool is not free though, the subscription starts off at 9$ per month. If you are a serious analytical geek, this tool will provide you with a great satisfaction.

Some other analytics tools worth mentioning are:

1. StatCounter - Free analytics tool, provides an invisible counter for tracking your visitor.
2. 103Bees - Provides search traffic analytics. 30 days trial available.
3. Woopra - Provides a downloadable client application for monitoring.
4. Hittail - Similar to 103 bees, providing suggestion on topic of your website based on search engine traffic.

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