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How much is your blog worth? to your Legitimate Home Internet Business. I am sure all of us would like to think that our blogs are priceless. What with all the sweat and toil that goes into whipping it into a blog that you are now proud of. But have you ever wondered if there was a price tag to your blog, just how much would your blog worth?

I stumbled upon this neat little tool to compute how much your blog is worth from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. The tool computes a dollar value for your blog using the same link-to-dollar ratio as the 2005 sale of Weblogs, Inc. to America Online:

How Much Is Your Blog Worth?

Here is my result for: www.peterleehc.com/blog

My blog is worth $19,194.36.
How much is your blog worth?

When Weblogs Inc. was bought by AOL in October 2005, Tristan Louis did the math. He figured out how much each blog in the Weblogs Inc. stable was worth, based on their Technorati rank.

Inspired, Dane Carlson whipped up a handy little calculator with the Technorati API. Just enter your blog URL to see how much it’s “worth” using the Weblogs/AOL math. Give it a try!

Oh, and if your worth boils down to less than the cost of a cup of coffee, don’t feel bad. Just take it as a motivation to work harder on your link building strategy.

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Tags: Blogging Techniques, Link Management, Work From Home // 1 Comment »

Blog commenting is considered to be one of the quickest ways to get themed links to your site. All that you need to do is simply leave a comment on related blogs and include some anchored text linking back to your site. While we recognize that link building is important to your business, you will need to exercise good time management as there are also other equally important tasks demanded of you from your work at home business. Also finding related blogs to comment may be very time consuming. Unless of course if you happen to know of a smarter way of doing this.

I have discovered a good blog comment software to do this. This software will trawl through Google listings for a supplied keyword, then list out thousands of related blogs accepting comments. As there are 11 blog platforms including wordpress, blogspot, well you can imagine this potential at your finger tips.

The links are listed with PR. The software generates thousands of chosen PR value blog types within 2 minutes after you key in your keyword/nich search. Simply clicking each link takes you to the page listed. Link lists can also be exported.

The program has been setup to prevent spamming. It won’t make the comment for you. But it will lead you to all those juicy high PR pages which, with a short, intelligent comment will yield a good clean link. The training video also teaches and suggests what appropriate comments to use.

I have done a quick evaluation of this software comparing this with another and the reasons I bought this software are:

a.It’s simple, easy to use and with good presentation
b.it provides training videos on how to use, what to /how to comment on blogs, and which blogs are worth commenting.
c.it provides excellent customer service on your queries, attended by efficient support staff who provide their names (as opposed to getting a response from ’service support staff’ from others that I came across).
d.8-weeks money back guarantee.

The one improvement I would like to see is for the program to identify and separate the blogs using rel=”nofollow” from those that don’t. However, this is relatively minor and doesn’t detract from a highly focussed, simple to use, link building software.

This is an excellent tool that you can use for your Work At Home Ideas Business which comes highly recommended. The price is affordable given that you are going to be using it all the time. Soon, it’s going to be a basic need for all marketers, like your article submitter, or directory submitter tool which you are using. The link again Get 100s Free One-Way Links To Your Website

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Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Software, Traffic, Link Management, Website Promotion, Work From Home // 8 Comments »

On page search engine optimization factors like text headers, keyword density, text bolding are things you should do, but they are not as important as the off page factors. It will greatly benefit your business if you focus more on off page search engine optimization factors so that you will get your website to the top of the search engines. Here is why you should do so.

Off page search engine optimization places a great deal of importance to which other websites are linking to your website and how they’re doing it. These include:

The age of the website linking to you
The “theme” of the website your link is on
The page rank of the page your link is on
The title of the page your link is on
Links from Quality Websites
The age of the website linking to you

Good link building is an important aspect of off page optimization and you should know that it’s better having fewer quality links than a lot of unreliable and unrelated theme ones. Quality links here refer to trusted, aged websites, which have a high page rank. Google and other search engines also give much more weight to websites with .edu or .gov extensions. So if you can get one of these websites to link to your website, it will greatly help improve your ranking. I recently came across a good site that shows how you can easily find .edu and .gov sites to do blog comment. Check its link here: http://www.affiliatebestprograms.com/2007/11/01/obtaining-edu-and-gov-backlinks/. The quality of all incoming links determines your search engine placements. It is every marketer’s determination to build links to be able to rank well in search engines. There are many who resort to buying links to do this but Do You Want To get One Way Links for Free? Of course you would if you are serious enough to learn it.

Similar Theme Links

Most marketers already know how important it is to obtain links from relevant websites. For example if you were promoting health products, you would not want to request a link from a site promoting dog training. However this is not good enough if you hope to rank high in search engine optimization. To do so, you ought to do a little research on the title of the page, the page rank and the main keywords used of the website you wish to link to. There are of course other factors, but these are the main ones that you should focus on.

For New Sites

If your website is relatively new or isn’t yet ranked, it is important that you work on getting other websites to link to you. This may be from link exchanges or getting other sites to link to you without you linking back. Make this as your top priority and it will definitely help to improve your website’s page rank.

There are many people who feel that trading links no longer help you increase your rankings. I have to disagree with this statement. When you have a new website, the easiest and fastest way will always be to trade links with other websites. I think the reason why people feel the way they do is simple. It takes an awful lot of time and work to manually exchange links with other webmasters. The good news is that there are now quite a number of link exchange sites that can almost completely automate your link building efforts (a good example is LinkMetro.com).

Anchor Text

This is the text being used to link to your site and you should try to get other marketers to link to you using anchor text which forms most of your main keywords. It is for this reason that in reciprocal link exchange you dictate what text should be used before approving the link exchange. Unfortunately circumstances may not always allow you the luxury of this influence. You would probably have better control over the anchor text when you write comments on other people’s blog. So do make blog commenting a daily routine work to gain this advantage over others in search ranking.

Page Rank

I have heard many people say that page ranks are not important as long as everything else remains good like your volume of sales and the money that your business brings in. However, page rank is still being used by many to rate your credibility with your customers and website visitors. It also determines how frequently Google and other search engines visit your website.

I hope that this article gives you some idea on how off page search engine optimization if used correctly can be highly effective in giving a real boost to your search engine ranking. You can also read my previous post titled The Basics of Good Link Management

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Tags: Search Engine Optimization // 5 Comments »

Every marketer knows that generally getting other websites to link to yours, commonly known as back linking, is an important part of website development. It is also good for search engine optimization which also helps to improve the volume and quality of natural or organic traffic to your website from search engines. This article provides some basics of good link management and an introduction to link building strategy.

While you are in the process of adding back links to your website do take note of a few important things. It’s all about quality, not just quantity that matters. Randomly selecting thousands of websites pointing a link to you may seem to be the right thing to do at first but it might not necessarily benefit your business significantly. Be careful of and avoid link farms as they will only hurt you in some cases. The search engines are pretty smart enough to detect this if it sees one and take serious actions against you.

It is worth some time and effort to research the search engines to find out which websites and pages are ranking well with them before embarking on your quest for their back links. However try doing so from several different servers, not all from the same website. The most common ways of getting back links are through directory submissions, social book marking, submissions to press release sites and forum signatures.

What’s important from an SEO point of view is getting relevant (same niche) and quality (organic/natural) back links. For instance, if you have a website that mainly promotes health products, you do not want to have a link from a website about photography in the Amazon. Also having back links sites with a high page rank helps your site achieve better page rank too.

Avoid any black-hat techniques that could have you linked to sites that send spam or scams or the search engines will deal with this severely. So the message is that you must know exactly who you are linked to. You should at least check out your link partners’ site and obtain a certain degree of comfort with their business, although at times, this may prove quite a challenge. One suggestion would be to obtain as much information including any bad publicity through what else - your reliable search engines.

It takes some time to find the right strategies for good link management which will work really well for your business. In this context, it is important to build steady and strategic back links to your website. Once you have achieved this, your website will get indexed and crawled by many search engines. This increases your overall search engine position for keywords or phrases due to your higher page rank and translates to increased visitors to your website. When this happens, it hopefully gives you the edge and opportunity to really promote your business brand name or products and able to feed and sustain this hungry crowd.

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You may have spent a great deal of effort and money in creating an awesome looking website for your Internet Home Business. You would also have submitted this beautiful website of yours to your favourite search engines and prayed and hoped that people would mysteriously show up at your side and buy whatever it is you were selling.

Well this may well be what many marketers did 10 years ago, but not anymore as you’ve probably found out by now, hopefully not through the hard way. This is the reality today and you might even know that to optimize your website around your main keywords helps you to rank well in thousands of search engines.

There is just too much to cover in seo optimization for your Internet Home Business. For interest of space and your time in deciphering what I have to impart to you, I will share with you some good seo tips and focus only on some important aspects of on-page optimization and off-page optimization, which are essentially the two types of search engine optimization, that you can immediately practiced and benefit.

On-page refers to things you can do to your own website. Off-page refers to the things that happen to your website from other sites (usually referring to incoming links from other sites), and therefore you may not have much control over this if you don’t have good knowledge or strategy.

On page seo optimization essentially refers to:

Header tags – use and placing specific keywords within those tags

Title tag – your title tag, should contain your main keyword in the title tags

Bolding, italicizing, underlining your keywords that are found anywhere in the body of the webpage

One misconception people sometimes have is putting too many keywords in the Meta Tags. This may not help in seo optimization at all. In fact it might even hurt you. Many people do not know that ideally the title tag should contain fewer than 100 characters while the keyword and description tags should contain fewer than 256 characters each. Most search engines will only consider data within these character ranges when indexing a web page.

On the contrary, some seo experts even suggest combining your keywords in the page title. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword. This will greatly have an immediate impact on your seo ranking.

Having said all the good things about on-page optimization, and I agree that it is something every marketer really ought to do, you may still not see dramatic changes in the seo ranking. It’s the off page optimization factors that will drive this eventual result.

It’s for this reason that you should focus more on off-page optimization. While this is far more important of the two types of SEO optimization, it is also the harder of the two. Off page optimization basically consists of all off page ranking factors like:

Which websites and how many of them link to you

The Google page rank of the website linking to you

The page title of the website linking to you

The anchor text used in the link linking to you

The number and type of links linking to the website that’s linking to you.

The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to you

The total number of links on the website that is linking to you

Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as an authority website.

Link popularity and link development are related to off page optimization and there is just too much to go over in this article. What I can share with you here and it comes from many seo experts too, is that getting links from webpages that contain your main keyword in the page title is extremely powerful and is something many people often overlook.

I hope that I have given you some good seo tips which you can immediately use, and be convinced that seo optimization, link development and keyword optimization are key factors in bringing you free, natural and organic traffic to your Internet Home Business website.

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Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Website Promotion // 2 Comments »