Go Natural
Trainings are hard. As any athlete knows, the demands before getting that much coveted gold medal can be painful. An athlete has to suffer muscle pains, getting up in the wee hours of the morning, having a limited diet and wearing skin tight skimpy clothing. But after sweating through it all, if you are great enough, you get the prize at the end of the race. It’s a natural process. One all, beginner athletes (or those who have rested a long time) has to go through. It’s the same with SEO of course. All high ranking websites started out as beginner athletes. They had to sweat through making quality articles everyday. Stretched their muscles in making good links. Spent long sleepless nights monitoring the traffic. But at the end of the day, they know it’s worth it. But just as all athletes know, they do not rest on their laurels (unless they plan to retire of course). Instead, they consistently undergo the same things, at a greater intensity, with the goal of maintaining their position. It’s a NATURAL process. And natural processes always churn out great results. It’s the same with link building. You have to be natural about it. Natural does not include getting 43,398 links on your first day. A gradual build up of links everyday is more like it. Here are 3 check lists you can use to build links naturally: (more…)
Its Not About Glitz and Glamour
They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But as we all can see, it’s the first thing that you see. Personally, I don’t pass judgments by the cover but I express appreciation for creative, neat and nice looking covers.
We’ve talked about the effectiveness of quality articles. We’ve talked about making good links. We’ve also talked about social bookmarking tools. But we shouldn’t forget to talk about the basics. While everyone agrees that design doesn’t matter as crawlers and bots go through your page, your potential clients think differently. More often than not, they will make assess you not just based on the content but also on how your site looks. (more…)
How To Be A Positive Virus
Viruses have been considered a curse to the digital age since the beginning of time. From personal experience I lost 2 gigs of important data on my USB, had a cell phone gone haywire and a friend gone crazy (for a brief period of time) because of its destructive effects. Taken from the medical jargon and defined as a microscopic agent which has the ability to infect almost anything it can come in contact with (think the I Love You Virus almost hacking into Pentagon), it is truly a bane for most. But believe it or not, it can be a boon to your site. If you can infect anything you come in contact with, in a positive manner of course, even a just begun site (after the Sandbox experience of course) can shoot up the search engine ranking. It’s a fairly simple concept, with fairly simple means of doing it.
My Bestselling Book and Social Bookmarking
I once wanted to be a bestselling author. I would dreamily write away during class. I wasn’t in the classroom anymore, I was in a different world, transported by a play of words flowing freely from my ballpoint pen. That was way back in my elementary and high school years. I have a stash of stories handwritten in ring bound notebooks somewhere in my room. As you know, computers weren’t that compact those days so I prefer the old fashioned way. When I decided to get rid of some stuff, I found those notebooks. Some of the pages are yellow, some have smudged areas, no doubt caused by some kind of dampness after being stored away for such a long time. (more…)
A Quick Sandbox Experience
I find sandboxes a work of art. It may seem boring and totally uninspiring for some, but its ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. The fact that such a plain box, containing something that is not really a rarity, can hold the attention of a toddler while her mother is watching from a distance is something else.
New website owners are wary of the Google sandbox. Some dislike it. While some go as far as hating the thought of it. Much has been written about Google’s sandbox. But no one from the inside has been able to confirm it yet. Its existence has been implied however. No matter the name it goes by, the idea of it, it’s effects and what it does, has been studied by SEO gurus and has been confirmed. (more…)
Link building: No Spamming Please
I get frustrated by irrelevant and/or curt replies. One time, I gave a very long and detailed message to an employee outlining the tasks I had in mind for him, for the week. There were a lot of questions interspersed in that message for me to check if he really did get what I asked him to do. And voila, a day late later, he replied “Ok.” I didn’t blow a fuse but it was enough for me to know that he really wasn’t serious with what he was doing.
The same thing goes for blogs, forums, etc that you hope to get your links to. All clean, decent websites truly, deeply hate spam. It wastes space, gives junk information, may contain malicious backlinks that may not just harm you but even your visitors and makes the website look unattractive. (more…)