Blogging Tips : Why you fail to get traffic and how to get traffic

January 24th, 2010 by ytechcity

Many of us have a blog and wrote great content but sometimes, it’s not reachable to targeted audiences. Search engines like Google loves unique content but sometimes, unique content is just not enough. There are other reasons why your blog is not getting traffic from search engines or people just can’t seem to find your blog or your post especially when you’re writing something that is too common or something that people hardly search for.

A few reasons why people fail to get traffic from search engines are:
•Poor link building for the blog
•Blog not indexed properly in the search engines
•Blog is not search engine optimized
•Wrong keywords or highly competitive keywords

I just want to talk about link building as people tend to ignore this fact. Two main reasons for link building are to get traffic and for SEO purposes, which is to get higher ranking on search engine for certain keywords. By placing your link on other sites, you will get clicks from the visitors on the site to your site or blogs, which is the traffic link building. Also, by placing links with specific anchor text on other sites, it will also boost your search engine rankings for the keyword. In simple words, the more links you have from specific text, the more search engine thinks it’s relevant to your site!

So how do we start building links for our site? There are a few ways and I’m going to list out some of them.•Link exchange
•Article writing
•Buying text links
•Directory submission
•Leave comments on other people’s blog
•Social bookmarking

There are other ways to build links to your blog and I’ll let you read more on them.

Blogging Tips : Check your SEO status via SEO Toolkit

January 24th, 2010 by ytechcity

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If you are trying to optimize your website to search engines you should check the SEO Toolkit from Webconfs.com. The tools cover almost all SEO aspects, from keywords to domain names, from backlinks to redirects. Below you find some of the services that I use often:

1. Keyword Density Checker
Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.

2. Backlink Anchor Text Analysis
It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines. This tools help you determine the backlinks of your website and the link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite.

3. Search Engine Spider Simulation
This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the specified webpage.

4. Backlink Builder
This tools help you build a LOT of quality backlinks, it searches for websites of the theme you specify that contain keyphrases like “Add link”, “Add site”, “Add URL”, “Add URL”, “Submit URL” etc. Most of the results could be potential backlinks. Text links are important for ranking well in search engines.

5. Domain Stats Tool
This tool helps you get all kinds of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Yahoo WebRank, Pages Indexed by various Searcb Engines, Backlink count, Alexa Taffic Rank, and Age of the domains.

and a lot of useful tool, all provided free by webconfs.com

WordPress Plugin-10 best Plugin for Twitter (Part 2)

January 9th, 2010 by ytechcity

In previous post, i already post best 5 plugin for Twitter, which is Tweetmeme Retweet Button, Twitter Feed, WP to Twitter, Twitter Counter, and TweetSuite. in this post, i will share with you another 5 best plugin for Twitter.

6. Twitt-Twoo
Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
TwittTwoo

7. Twitter Widget Pro
Twitter Widget Pro is a sidebar widget designed to manage twitter feeds including @username, #hashtags, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images and even allows you to control the display time and date of tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). . It requires PHP5.
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WordPress Plugin-10 best Plugin for Twitter (Part 1)

January 9th, 2010 by ytechcity

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Twitter started getting the attention of bloggers in Malaysia, most of the blogger from Malaysia already install Twitter plugin on his blog in order to get more extra traffic. Twitter is fast growing into one of the most popular social networks. Just as with Facebook which has been booming in advance, Twitter could increase your web ranking and generate more visitors.

If you have a blog and want to post your blog posts directly on Twitter, you can use one of Twitter plugin below. If you do not already have an account on Twitter, you can register yourself here.

Below is the 10 best plugins for wordpress that integrate twitter with your blog.

1. Tweetmeme Retweet Button
This WordPress Twitter plugin is for website or blog publishers that want to encourage their reader to retweet their content on Twitter. With Tweetmeme button plugin you can easily integrate the TweetMeme button into your WordPress blog. The plugin will embeds the “Retweet” button into your blog content as well as your feed.
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2. Twitter Feed
Posts from your blog will updates to twitter via your RSS feed and any changes in your active Twitter account are displayed by this WordPress plugin. You can easily login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed.
Twitter_feed

3. WP to Twitter
This WordPress plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using the Cli.gs URL shortening service. It provides link back to your post from Twitter. The plugin can send default message for updating or editing posts or pages. Further it also allows you to write a custom Tweet for your post.
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Web Tips : How to use search engine friendly pages to obtain more visitors

December 28th, 2009 by ytechcity

There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.

Use meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using meta tags, you are making the search engine robot’s job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.

Stop using wrong HTML tags like to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load.