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What is the benefit of submitting every blog post to the Search Engines?

Most major search engines will tell you only to submit your main (index/home) page, their spiders follow all the links from that page and index them. However I my experience, the only follow and index the links from the main page and no others. This means that there are loads of blog posts that never get indexed.
By submitting your posts as you publish them, you will get more of your pages indexed, and increase you home pages PR by doing so.
I have been submitting all my blog posts individually for the last year, and I found that my individual page visits have increased dramatically since I started doing this.

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WordPress is quickly becoming the must have tool for just about any web site these days, so much so that for a web developer and Internet marketing professional such as myself, it is an essential tool that can change a web sites’ traffic pattern completely.

First off, this post is mainly focusing on a NEW install of WordPress 2.. the most recent version of the software.. but the ideas and methods could be applied to earlier versions and other like software applications.

WordPress out of the box enables the user to have a complete weblog, or ‘blog’ in less than 3 minutes with no editing or tech know-how. For this story, I would like to point out there is really no difference in a blog, weblog, or web site to me. A blog is really just a web site, set up to display the most current postings in order and by category.

I have made several company and corporate web sites from WordPress and other blog software, with a little more coding done to WordPress, these sites look like regular corporate websites and function as such. No difference can be found to the end user, and the client gets a full featured web site with many editing features.

With this out of the way, WordPress doesn’t come SEO friendly from the get go, and many users that do get a WordPress install going full steam fail to realize that they need to do some work upfront to get the best SEO benefits possible. As of this writing for WordPress 2, I highly suggest downloading the following plugins:

1. Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.

2. Google Sitemaps.

3. Related Posts.

4. WordPress SEO plugin from Marketingop.us

Each of these plugins need to be downloaded, uploaded to your server in the plugins folder, and activated in WordPress. Depending on your template, you will have to edit the files in your themes folder as well to make these plugins work. Instructions on how to install and use these plugins can be found at their respected sites.

With or without the plugins, you will need to set up the foundation for your blog. Starting in the admin, your navigation bar should have an ‘Options’ link. Clicking on this link will bring up a second ’sub menu’ of links. We will want to go to the ‘General’ link.

This section relates to information about the name, description, and other general info about the site you are setting up. Make sure your ‘Title’ and ‘Tagline’ has relevant, keyword rich entries.

Along the ’sub menu’ should be a link to ‘Writing’, clicking on this link will bring up the writing options in WordPress. I always make sure I check that WordPress should correct invalid XHTML and update the ping services to include these entries:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

Following the ’sub menu’ still, click on the ‘Reading’ link and set WordPress to gzip content if asked, this will help speed up the delivery of your pages. Also set the character encoding to UTF-8, unless you have to use another character set for your language.

In your ’sub menu’ should be a ‘Discussion’ link. Inside this link I make sure I check that WordPress should:

1. ‘Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.) ‘

2. ‘Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) ‘

3. ‘Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than
links. (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)’. I only use 1 because I don’t want a bunch of spam comments on my blog and the search engines pick this up before I have a chance to remove it myself

‘Permalinks’ is the last link in the ’sub menu’ we will be looking at. Do not use the default option. Instead pick the date and name based, or better yet, make a custom link using just the postname only. Why? If you don’t you will miss on all the opportunities to get keywords into your URLs, and you really don’t need the date in the URL either, but I still use it sometimes.

It may be a good idea to set up an optional category base folder as well, one more way to get keywords into your URL structure.

Make sure you leave your .htaccess file writable by the server so that the permalink changes can take effect.

On your main menu should be a link labeled ‘Users’, make sure every user has their ‘About yourself’ info filled in with relevant phrases and keywords.

Disable all your blogroll links in the ‘Links’ section. The ones by default most likely have no importance to what you will make your site about, you can leave them, but I ‘Toggle’ them off or remove them.

Find the ‘Manage’ link in your main menu and make sure every category you make contains keywords you are focusing on.. also fill in each category description with related keywords and phrases.

Once this is done, you will most likely spend the rest of your days writing ‘posts’ or ‘pages’ in WordPress. This is important to remember because you need to make sure to include keywords and phrases in all posts or pages for the:

1. Title.

2. Content or Discussion of the post/page.

3. Excerpt on posts.

4. Post slug.

5. Pick the correct category related to the topic or make a new one.

Make sure you download the plugins I mentioned above and use them the way shown on the owners site. Including tags on posts and your sidebar are great ways to get keywords and phrases directly on your related site materials. Also make room for a related post entry, so surfers can find related content and search engines can as well. The sitemaps plugin will handle pinging Google will all your links to your site when you update or write new content, and the SEO plugin will take care of all the HTML meta information you need so that your site is SEO friendly.

When I first got started online, I found it very difficult to master search engine techniques, pay-per-click and many of the other traffic strategies that I was presented with. So one day I got an email from someone that was promoting an e-book about Article Marketing, something that I had never heard of before. So I purchased the e-book, applied what I learned and never looked back.

Many people seem to think that Article Marketing is dead, but in my opinion, Article Marketing is still one of the best free ways to get free traffic to your website.

There is always a need for fresh new content online, so why not be the person that provides it.

Writing articles is also a good way to get one way links back to your website. Your articles will rank higher in Search engines than ones with fewer links back to them, therefore making it lot easier for people to find you. This is great advertising for your website allowing you to gain credibility in your area of expertise if you write good articles.

Contrary to popular belief, most people can write an article. The first thing you should do is to start off with a headline that stands out. You want to grab your readers’ attention. Then list the key points you want to include in your article. If you feel you do not know enough about the topic, you can always do some research. Your goal is to sound like an expert in you niche.

Make sure you spell check your work, because there is nothing worse for the readers than an article with lots of misspellings.

Once you complete your article there are many ways to get it published, such as submission to article directories. There are also lots of websites that accept and publish articles. You could create a newsletter with your articles or start a blog. Make a list of all the places you can find to publish your articles. The possibilities are endless.

Set a goal to write at least two articles a week and get them published. Over time, the better you will become and with better quality come more free traffic. And in no time, you will have more traffic than you thought possible.

At the end of your article write something about yourself; (About the Author) and include your name, email address, website and any other information you want to advertise. The end result is ‘payment’ for your work - Free Traffic and Free Advertising.

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Does this story sound familiar? You purchase book after book on how to build a Blog, or how to pursue the interests you are most passionate about, only to be left frustrated and broke.

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Choosing a good niche subject to base your website around is one of the most important aspects of making money off of your articles. This will give you a foundation to build from and you can target one general audience with a pack of keywords that they are most likely to be searching for. You should take each one of these keywords and use it for the basis of one article on each page. This way, even though you are targeting one specific subject, you will be sure to interest a wide variety of people in that one niche. They may also find other pages that interest them, which will keep them returning to your site to learn new information about the niche subject.

The best way to find keywords for your niche subject is to use a keyword software program and type in the word that is the subject of your niche. This will generate a list of keywords or phrases that contain your niche and will also show you approximately how many people search for each word or phrase. Some software programs may also tell you how many sites are out there to compete with for each word or phrase (this will help you know if those sites are worth competing with for the number of searches out there). You then deicide which of these would be most profitable by determining which have the least amount of competitors, so that you have a chance at making it to the first or second page of search engine results, but that also have a decent amount of people looking for that keyword or phrase each month. These will be the keywords or phrases that you will base the pages of your niche site on.

If there are a number of topics that you like, pick the one that you feel would be easiest to start with and then, once that site is built and generating some revenue, you can start another site. The most profitable website marketers, who use their talent of finding niches and combining that with good site content and a handful of affiliate links, have a good amount and variety of niche sites that they have started. You are never limited in what you can do with niche website marketing, unless you find out that you do not have the marketing skills or the needed funding to make it happen. Otherwise, the sky is the limit!
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When you are trying to make money through promoting articles and affiliate links, you will need a good, simple, and easy to navigate website to put them on. There are two ways that you can accomplish this: you can try to do it yourself if you have any web design skills or you can hire someone.

Doing it yourself, unless you were a pro to begin with, can be difficult for some. You will need to read many tutorials and it may take some time to get going. You could also risk having a site that looks very badly made and thrown together. It is also important (for visitors and search engines) that your site is easy to navigate, which may be a problem if you do not know what you are doing.

Making a Do It Yourself website can be hard, but if you accomplish your goal, maybe you will learn so much that you can write a few articles on it to add to a new DIY niche site!