5 Important Forums for SEOs / Webmasters

Forums are learning centers for any professional and are usually open discussion platforms where we can discuss anything about our niche. SEO forums are the real coaching centers for SEO professionals where they can discuss and share information which are useful to them. Forums are used as a medium for clearing doubts and learning new tricks of the trade.

Presently there are a large number of SEO forums available, but it is not possible to participate in all of them. People only participate in the most popular forums and depends on several other factors. I have handpicked and listed 5 of the most important SEO forums, which are useful for all SEOs / Webmasters.
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The 4 Keyword Match Types in Google Adwords

This post is mainly for those who are new to Google Adwords and those who would like to know more about the different search types used in Adwords campaigns. As we all know that Google Adwords is a paid tool is mainly used for running pay per click (PPC) advertising campaign to drive more relevant traffic to a website. Google Adwords are helpful for those who want instant flow of traffic and cannot wait for the site to get organic traffic.

Extensive and clever keyword research is necessary for getting better results from your Adwords campaign. While selecting keywords for your PPC campaign, there are mainly 4 types of keyword categories that you would come upon. These different keyword types are mainly based on the requirement of the site, the keywords competitiveness etc. Here i would like to shed some brief intro on the 4 keyword types that you would be using while managing your Google Adwords campaign.
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Article Marketing – Tips and Advantages

Articles submissions are one of the best and most ethical part of offpage optimization. It strengthens your website and also sends good traffic to your website. The strengthening of websites is made by generating quality back links to your site and is considered as one of the best off page optimization techniques. Such article marketing stuffs are one of the most cheapest way to advertise your website, if done in the proper way.

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Tips for Blog Content Syndication

Content syndication is the process of publishing the content of your website on other websites( partially or fully). Content syndication can be automated syndication as well as manual. A best example for automated syndication is the syndication of content or snippets through RSS feeds or similar application. In manual syndication you place the content of your website / blog on other websites manually. [Read more…]

Paid links and their Disadvantages

Back links are the links from other site that point to a particular website and are one of the most essential factors of a good website and most of the webmasters try to get more back links for their sites. The links which one acquires by paying for it is known as paid links. Many of the webmasters considers this method as a good method to increase the website’s link popularity, but often they land in trouble.

Search engine giant Google hates paid links and they have mentioned it clearly before. They even has an official form which enables webmasters to report paid links to Google. Even though the back links determines the reputation of the website, it is purely based on the quality of those links. Google does not like links from bad or irrelevant sites and does not encourage them at all. If the links are from quality and relevant sites, Google makes sure that it gives enough point to those back links. [Read more…]

Prevent Search Engines from Using Information from Open Directory Project (DMOZ)

The well known Open Directory project,  DMOZ is an open content directory of world wide web links. DMOZ is owned by Netscape and have a large community of volunteer editors who takes care and manage DMOZ. While displaying the snippets by Google, while performing a search, the content is taken either from the Meta description tag of the web page or from the description that is provided in the DMOZ. If Google doesn’t find the entry of that website in DMOZ, it also takes relevant content from the page content.

There are certain instances when a particular page on the website and the DMOZ description for that website does not match. i.e the DMOZ content is not relevant to a particular page on the website. In this case if the DMOZ description is provided for that particular page on Google search, the click through ratio may decrease due to the irrelevancy in the snippets provided. Here as a website owner, one has to make sure that for that particular page, the search engine does not display the snippets from DMOZ entry. So here one must make necessary steps to prevent the search engine from taking the description from DMOZ.

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Link Exchange and Things to Take Care

Reciprocal linking is practiced by a vast number of SEO / webmasters around the globe for a  long time.  This helped to get better ranking and backlinks for the websites in the initial stages, but as time progress  reciprocal linking was started being used in the most unethical way and gradually search engine (especially Google) started cutting down on many sites which offered reciprocal linking services in an aggressive way. Many of the link exchange sites got penalized by Google in a really bad way. As per my experience, since then the link exchange stuff does not seem to work and many webmasters stopped wasting their valuable time on link exchange. But that doesn’t mean that reciprocal links have lost all its value. [Read more…]

Importance of Article Submissions and Things to Take Care

Articles submissions are an integral part of an SEO program, and are mainly focused on getting quality backlinks and driving traffic to websites. In my earlier post, I have mentioned about the top 10 free article directories, where you can submit your sites for free. Apart from that there are many other free article sites where you can submit your articles for getting backlinks and traffic to your site. The free article submission directories accept your submissions and approve your articles after a certain period of time. There are also chances for your articles being rejected due to some other reasons. The free article directories approve the articles through manual process and hence it  may take some time for approval. [Read more…]

Top 10 Free Article Directories That I Use

Articles submission is one of the best ways to get inbound links and thereby increasing the search engine visibility and traffic to your site. There are a lot of free article directories which helps you to submit your article and also allows you to link back to your website, which helps in getting backlinks. But in order to get quality backlinks through article submission, you need to submit in the right article directories which have good reputation and good page rank. Submitting articles in low quality article directories may not do good to your site. Here I would like to list the top 10 free article submission directories that I rate ahead of others, based on certain parameters even though not in the order of its importance.

1) EzineArticles.com
This site tops my list of free article directories with a Google page rank of 6 and Alexa ranking of 186, which is a good indication of the amount of traffic it receives. Need to get registered with the site, before you start with your article submission.

2) GoArticles.com
Another really good article directory which has a Google page rank of 6 and Alexa ranking of 2807. This also needs a free registration process before starting to submit articles.

3) ArticleDashboard.com
Another important article directory with a vide range of categories, ArticlesDashboard has been there for a few years and is really climbing its way up. It has a Google Page Rank of 5 and Alexa rank of 5127, and requires free registration.

4 ) SearchWarp.com
SearchWarp is another directory where I would prefer to submit articles and is well known for its quick approval of the submissions. SearchWarp enjoys a Google page rank of 5 and Alexa ranking of 5521. Registration is required and is free to register. Also have a good and user friendly dashboard to view, edit/delete your submitted articles.

5) ArticlesBase.com
ArticlesBase also gives you fast approval of submitted articles and have Google page rank of 5 and an Alexa rank of 863. Has a good Dashboard feature which allows you to manage your submissions along with important statistics of the traffic to your article. The articles submitted in Articlesbase are also easily indexed by Google and Registration is required.

6) iSnare.com
Another cool article directory with Google Page rank of 5 and Alexa rank of 11,833. This site also requires free registration and has a wider range of categories.

7) ArticleCity.com
Another simple and free article directory which requires registration to submit articles. Has a Google Page Rank of 5 and Alexa rank of 13,587.

8 ) ArticleAlley.com
This is another article directory, that I cannot avoid submitting my articles to. Simple layout, easy to use, Google Page rank of 5 and Alexa ranking of 5174 makes it a must to submit directory for article writers. Needs registration to submit articles and does not take too much time to get approved.

9) Amazines.com
Another popular free article submission directory, which has a Google Page Rank of 5 and Alexa ranking of 6292. Needs to register in order to submit articles and has the facility to rate articles.

10) ArticlesFactory.com
This is another article submission directory that I love to submit my articles to. It has a slight lower Google Page Rank of 4 and Alexa ranking of 23,777. But this is an upcoming directory and would soon top the charts in the time to come. This also needs to register for article submission and offers a good user dashboard.

There are more other free directories available, but here I am wrapping it out with only 10. Hope it would be useful to everyone.