Increase Your Search Engine Ranking (part 1)

The methods employed to increase your search engine
rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have
probably avoided dealing with this issue. I am here to tell
you - the time has come to face your website! A high search
engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you
have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your
business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this
issue.

At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on
the Internet find websites through search engines such as
Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages
for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted
customers to your site who will be more than likely to make
a purchase. The higher your page comes up in search engine
results, the greater the traffic that is directed to your
website. That's what search engine optimization is about.

You can immerse yourself in all the technical information
available online to figure out how to optimize your web
pages to achieve higher rankings. Or you can look at a few
simple items on your pages, make some small adjustments,
and most likely see improved rankings quite rapidly. The
first item you should examine is the title bar on your
homepage.

The title bar is the colored bar at the top of the page.
Look at the words that appear there when you access your
home page ( mine is for ex. "work from home" ) To increase search engine rankings, the words on your homepage's title bar should include the most important
keywords or phrases, one of which would include your
company name.

Then click on all your links and examine the title bars on
the pages you access. Each title bar on every single page
of your site should contain the most important keywords and
phrases taken from the page itself. However, avoid very
long strings of keywords, keeping them to six words or
less. Avoid repeating keywords more than once in the title
bars, and make sure that identical words are not next to
each other.

The next item to put under your microscope is your website
content. Search engines generally list sites that contain
quality content rather than scintillating graphics. The
text on your site must contain the most important keywords
- the words that potential customers will be typing into
search engines to find your site.

Aim to have around 250-600 words on each page, but if this is
not desirable due to your design, aim for at least 100
carefully chosen words. If you want to achieve a high
ranking on search engines, this text is essential. However,
the search engines must be able to read the text, meaning
that the text must be in HTML and not graphic format.

To find out if your text is in HTML format, take your
cursor and try to highlight a word or two. If you are able
to do this, the text is HTML. If the text will not
highlight, it is probably in graphic form. In this case,
ask your webmaster to change the text into HTML format in
order to increase your search engine rankings.

Here is a tool that might help you "Keyword Ninja" a very unique tool that can uncover 1,000's of little known keywords from the most popular search sites like: Google.com, Yahoo.com, Bing.com, YouTube.com, and Amazon.com. If you need help its worth checking out.

Spam From Craigslist

Hi, today I decided to warn you about the potential of receiving spam after posting your classified ad on "Craigslist". This morning I was checking my E-mail when I found the following:

--- On Mon, 12/6/10, Marvin Rizzo <BaggottDyke@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Marvin Rizzo
Subject: Re: Re: cell phone tracking software - $59 (marion)
To: "pat simpson"
Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 2:09 PM

Recently my work associate sent you an e mail to see if you were still an active Clist member, thanks for responding.

My name is Marvin Rizzo, Chief executive officer of Craigslist. We have recently partnered up with Apple company for a one-time promotional event today, we are giving away free Apple iPads to randomly selected people who have posted an advert on C-list. You have been chosen as one of our newest winners for today. We randomly select numbers to match up with ads on Craig's list and your ad matched with our latest drawing.

We have partnered up with Apple to advertise their most popular product yet, the Apple iPad. Once yet again, we are operating this promotion for one-day only. All you need to do is CLICK HERE http://url040.com/yKijlfGV0D to check out our web site made for this promotion and type in your email to recieve yours for free. Just make sure you enter your email so we may locate our records to guarantee that we have reserved one for you. That's it!

Congrats on winning a free Apple iPad (valued at $800). In case you have any query or concerns, feel free to email me back. However, you need to claim your free iPad first to ensure one will be set-aside for you before the deadline ends. We do understand that you may possibly not receive this e-mail until after the deadline, but, we suggest you check out the website and enter your email to see if we still have yours on hold, which we often-times do because others have not claimed theirs in time.

Marvin Rizzo
CEO, Craigslist

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--- On Mon, 12/6/10, Higuchi0906@hotmail.com wrote:

From: Higuchi0906@hotmail.com
Subject: cell phone tracking software - $59 (marion)
To: sale-jzfqf-2097298345@craigslist.org
Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 9:22 AM

** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html


write back if your absolutely not f.ake

---

this message was remailed to you via: sale-jzfqf-2097298345@craigslist.org

Sir I will be glad to help you in any way that I, If your are concerned about sending your payment, Please don't worry your payment methods are secure.
If you have any more questions, Please feel free to contact me through e-mail.

Thank you

Patrick Simspon
My Phone :765-573-4146
My Email is : ziggy2get69@yahoo.com

Now this is very upsetting to me, because I thought that I had a potential customer with concerns about making a purchase. As you can see I did what I believe any business owner should do. I sent a timely reply to let them know that I was real and I would be happy to help them in any way possible. About an hour or two later I checked my E-mail again and I found yet another reply to the reply that I took my time to reply to in the first place. It was spam from the CEO of Craigslist.

I can not speak for anyone else but myself, this is unacceptable. It wasted my valuable time I need in order to build my business, it was a disapointment as I thought that I may have potentially sold a product and had a chance to create some repeat business.

I have decided to not use "craigslist" any more!!!! I need to place ads to get my products and business out in front of the masses, but not at the expense of being spammed and wasting my time.


This is not what I had planned to write about today, but the good lord gave me this E-mail to stu over today. I decided to let others know and hopefully others will not have to be surprised by such spam tactics. I am not sure if I am alone, but I feel better now that I have shared this with the blosophere!!

And has always grab your free copy of “ The Secret Lives of Internet Marketers Revealed”.
I have included a permanent link over on the side. Good luck in all your home business adventures.

Using Google’s Keyword Tool

Hello,

I started out the day today they wanting to write about Google Adsense, decided to talk about searching for keywords, and why I am doing so.

First thing I did was logged into my Google Adwords account,( If you don’t have one it is easy to set one up, activation cost a one time fee of $5. ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO PAUSE YOUR AD CAMPAIGNE UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO START POSTING) once logged in I went to a tab marked “ Reporting and Tools”. When you click on it a drop down menu appears, go down to “Keyword Tool”, Click on it and you are taken to a page that will allow you to search for keywords or keyword phrases.


On this page look for these words:
Find keywords
Based on one or both of the following:
Word or phrase (one per line)

This will be where you enter your search words or phrases. Now I decided to search for keyword searches and keyword search tools. A list comes up and the course instructed me to look for 2 things:

1) which keywords have high pay-per-click values, and high bidder densities.
2) very few competing sites for non-sponsored results.

In a nut shell this means find keywords that have few competitors and high keyword bids. Then you want to develop your site, or in this case my article around my keyword search results, doing so will optimize my article and help me attract the Adsense ads that will pay me the most, and in theory help drive traffic to my blog.

How to determine which keywords have high pay-per-click values: on the right side of the page you will see 2 tabs, 1) relevance, 2) columns. Now I selected columns, on the drop down menu I selected competition, global monthly searches, local monthly searches, estimated avg. cpc. Now I can see how much competition there is for “keyword search”. I can see how many searches are being done using this particular keyword and all phrases, related to this keyword, both globally and locally. Lastly I can see which keywords or phrases have a high pay-per-click price.

With that done I have decided to optimize my article for “keyword search”. Now this work at home instructs me to use the keywords I am wanting to optimize for 6 times for about every 300 words, which should come out to 1.5% keyword usage.

Now from what I understand, all I have to do is repeat this process every time that I am planning out my next post. The keyword search helps you to optimize the search engine so that you become more visible to searches related to your product or blog, as well doing so should help you to have the best Google Adsense ads for your blog be displayed.

This is only one means of SEO and overtime should drive traffic to you, at least thats what I am being taught.

Before I say bye I want to give you a web site that you can get a FREE copy of “ The Secret Lives of Internet Marketers Revealed”. PLease go to http://www.easyebookrights.com/secretlives/

I hope that my post helps me help others, and may I find some help from the blogesphere on the importance of keyword searchs and SEO.

Starting a work at home business

In the previous post I wrote a article promoting a digital product called "Your Cheating Spouse". Why? Well lets go back to 2007.

In 2007 around October I had started to research work at home businesses and jobs, I was sick and tired of busting my but everyday for someone else and living pay check to pay check. In my research I found an opportunity for a work at home business, it was only $ 30 or so, it involved no face to face selling, no huge startup cost, or so it seemed. The course was called “Typing For Cash”. The course basically taught me how to sign up for a google account, paypal account, clickbank account, and a blog.

In 2007 the 1st thing that I did was sign up for a google email address from gmail, which made since because next I signed up for google adsense. The sign up process’s are pretty straight forward, if I had any problems their is plenty of help topics for solutions, although finding the solutions can be pretty time consuming.

Next I signed up for a blog on zoofer.com, a must for my work at home venture. I also signed up for blogger.com, for a blog here on blogger.Then finally I signed up at clickbank.com to become an affiliate marketer.

I was about to find out how working at home was alot of work with no success, to speak of, I had made $26.26 in 3 years, with typing for cash. I was very frustrated with the results I was getting with my new work at home business, and eventually gave up until recently, when I started looking for a way to own my own work at home business that was legit!! Again!!

In 2007 I started blogging and posting classified ads promoting products for my work at home business, which I got from click bank. For the 1st month I posted new articles daily, trying to understand and use key words to optimize my search engine results, to get a higher page rank.

After a few months of working hard and being frustrated I gave up. I continued to keep check on my accounts and since then have sold a couple products, but didn’t get paid for some reason. Altogether I had earned around $60. Thats both the products and adsense ads combined.

So here I am in November of 2010 and again I am trying to start a work at home business. The difference this time is that this particular work at home course I came across as a result of doing research on working at home and found an investigative report on my local news stations web site. The news interviewed a women that they found when doing their research on legitimate work at home opportunities, she lives right here in my home town and since 2009 has been earning at least $5,000 a month since 4 weeks after she started!!!!!

I bought the course and not surprising to me it is exactly what I got into 3yrs. ago.

Ok, I know what you may be thinking, why try the same type of work at home business again? Right?

Well, this time around, 1) I know that someone local is earning a decent amount of $$$$ working at home, 2) After looking over all the material that came with the course, knowing from my work at home adventure in 2007,I know that everything I need as far as info to succeed, seems to be here.

Now with that being said, the company that I bought the course from offers 1 on 1 coaching, for which I can not afford right.

But I am convinced that anyone can start a work at home business like this and succeed, with a coach would be the best but as I said I will be building my work at home business without that luxury.

This course starts out in the same manner as typing for cash, but I had to sign up for a domain and hosting with hostgator.com. I had to start blogging again, create my own site, located at www.getziggys.com. And of course start promoting my product using classifieds, blogging, and soon google ad words campaignes.

So now you know why I am writing this blog, my hope is that through my sucesses and failures that I may learn while I help others avoid costly mistakes with starting their work at home adventures.

I hope that any one whom as advice will feel welcome to share by linking to me and leaving comments.

I will be updating my post at least 3-4 times a week with articles outlining the steps I am taking to build this work at home business. Until next time may you succeed in your adventures!!