Probably you have heard about making money on facebook,and you read a few scam article about this topic,i search as "make money facebook" on google and read articles about making money on facebook,all was saying same thing "the market place" and other known things like "promote your blog on your wall somebody's wall" ,and i know that "monetizing" means publishing ads on web to most people,considering this i will tell great facebook applications from where you can monetize your facebook.

• CafePress Listings : You must know about CafePress , you design cafepress's products and sell it.You can create CafePress account from Facebook and you can sell your own products to people.Remember that theres 40million facebook accounts.And start selling now.

• e3Buy Auctions : Add e3buy auctions to your facebook account profile and start making money.Also you can publish your own stuff.

• eBay Auctions : As we all know this is one of the best auction site(They bought Turkey's best auction site approximately 2 months ago) on the web,publish what you're selling on your facebook profile.

• FlameTunes : If you're making music,if you're DJ,or playing music enstrument,record your music and sell on Facebook.

• Garage Sale : Easy way to sell your old , second hand belongings to people.

• Lemonade : Add your favorite stuff to your lemonade stand and then put box to your facebook profile page,and when people purchases from your stand you get paid!

• Music Blaster : The MusicBlaster allows users to put a simple little music store of their favorite BlastMyMusic.com artists on their profile. Fans can earn 5% for each song they sale and at the same time help gain further exposure for their favorite bands.

• My Merch Store : Works like CafePress,you design and people purchase.

• Shopit : Works like garage sale , you can sell your stuff through shopit facebook application to your friends.

After these auction applications,i will share an application with you ,with this facebook application you will earn by clicking ads and referring people this facebook monetizing application.

How can you earn with Cash Cliques?

You will be given 10 ads daily and you will click these ads and you will be credited this is first way to earn money from Cash Cliques,another way is referring,referring people is really very easy on facebook,because theres 40million accounts and most probably 1000 of those will apply this monetizing tool from your referring link.If you make 1000 referrals you will earn $3003 montly! Now register today and start referring and clicking ads.






Okay! Thats all,i hope you will earn much using your creativity . Thanks!

I get suprised whenever i check my alexa rating,because my rating always increases,from millions to thousands in 88 days , i don't know my first alexa rating but my current rank is 865,770 which is quite satisfying for such a new blog.And also i achieved my aim which was to get most traffic from United States.Because advertisers look these 3 criteria ; most traffic must be from US,UK and CA and the most advertisers from these countries.But most traffic comes to my blog from these countries ;



You may shock when you see Turkey in second place and Malaysia third,since i am turkish and this blog is the best 200th blog in Turkey(rank is still increasing and do not look down on Turkey since its population is 70million and theres millions of blogs.) is the reason why i get that traffic from Turkey . And as far as i know Malaysians are really interested in blogging and internet,thats why you can see them in every blog community,even in your traffic stats.

So wondering how did i promoted my blog and got traffic from US even though i live in Turkey and my mother language is turkish?(do not worry i wont claim that my english is great.) Then Look what i made to achieve my targets ;

• Digg,Mixx,StumpleUpon and Reddit are traffic generators,i digged half of my blog posts and created a few digg accounts(3-4),i posted the article and digged with my accounts , after 1-2 days i saw my digg stories on search queries,people clicked the digg link and directed to my blog.And people meet with my blog,some of them find my blog useful and subscribed my feeds,and others viewed my page when they needs something new. Add Digg,Mixx,StumpleUpon and Reddit button to your blogger, to get more visitors espcially from US.
  

• Register webmaster forums and add your blog link as signature,instead of asking questions to people,try to answer questions and known as troubleshooter ,this will bring you more traffic than you think.Because people will try to find answer to their questions on your blog.I registered webmaster forums and gave answers to peoples questions, after a few days people start to visit my page,because it is webmaster forums and this is webmaster blog.If you have a travelling blog then register some travelling forums.

• Try to create groups on Facebook ,this is what i discovered recently,thinking that creating a group for bloggers will bring me traffic, theres 40 million facebook accounts somehow you can gather 2,000 members to your group and imagine half of this number visit each other's blog daily,this means extra 1,000 unique from facebook! Join Blog Writer's Corner and make this imagination come true.

• Join blog communities , and while registering never leave blank your rss feed url, blogcatalog.com is another traffic generator for my blog.Because people search on blogcatalog and see posts from my rss feeds,and they click the link and redirected to my blog.

Yes,these 4 simple tricks made me rise in Alexa,and keeps bumping my alexa rating.As soon as you use these tricks you will also see the benefits of these tricks.Happy Blogging!

I have just created a group on Facebook called Blog Writer's Corner in order to be friend with other bloggers and share everything we know with each other,and of course to be more social. I'm waiting for you great bloggers to join my community.Just Log in your facebook account and paste this link to your navigation bar ; http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9563188078 .

Thanks.

From the first dates of blogger,it has been tried to improve both by blogger workers and blogger users,and there occured some cool widgets and hacks for bloggers using javascript,css html and flash.Personally,i do not prefer hacks,i like pure default blogger templates with light colors,because dark colors on screen tires your eyes and you cannot read anything long.Anyway thinking that most of bloggers like blogger hacks,tips and tricks i wanted to create a post and share a bunch of hack sites with you all.

Hackosphere : You will find a lot of blogger hack for your blog,this is among the ones i like."Click read more" text to realize what i like.

Phydeaux3 : He is famous for his blogger tag cloud hack,his recent blogger calendar hack is also pretty cool.For more great blogger hacks check his homepage.

Hoctro : Unfortunately,i have just discovered this blog,i have been looking for articles which explains how to create a blogger blogspot template and i have found what i been looking for on hoctro.Anyway hoctro is another source of great blogger hacks.

Beautifulbeta : He's been blogging for 2 years and he created useful widgets one of which is aorta.Aorta is really great widget if you have a lot of media stuff on web.For detailed information and other blogger hacks check his homepage.

Blogger-Hacked : As far as i understand from his posts he has lots of things to do and thats why he cant update his posts but anyway he still has good blogger hacks.just visit.

Stubborn-Fanatic : Another busy blogger,he has some useful articles.

BlogFresh : His last post date : Sunday, June 10, 2007 ,but you can find useful blogger hack articles.

BloggerUniversity : This is frequenly updated great blog,it has a sweet author called annie,you shoudl subscribe her feeds,really best hack blog ever.

PurpleMoggy : This is one of the best blog that gives blogger hacks tips.You will change your blog completely when you see the hacks on this blog.

Blogger Hacks WiKi : WiKipedia of blogger hacks.you will like this wiki too.

I always learn my statics from Mybloglog since i can get detailed traffic information,but today there was a contradiction between Google Adsense and Mybloglog stats , Google Adsense shows 80 pageviews and Mybloglog shows 52 pageviews,since i dont know which one is the real stats of my blog i will put a new stat counter and tell you which one is true . Most probably Adsense's counter is the real stats of my blog because adsense is google's and the world's most intelligent enginners works at googleplex.

Adsense ;


MyBlogLog ;




As a result of this article i just wanted to show dont rely on every counter you see.

Oh..Its an article about Mybloglog , do not forget to join my mybloglog community.

I do not know how many unique visitors do you get daily, from entrecard ,but there is craziness about entrecard thing,however i get only 8 unique visitors per a day from entrecard clicks,since i experinced a few things with entrecard i wanna tell you uselful entrecard tips & tricks ;


1-Drop a card to every blog you see entrecard widget to get entrecard credits,because you need entrecards to advertise on other blogs.

2-Dont advertise before checking blog,your advertising will make no sense on blogs which have wack layout.Because people closes the window when they see bad template,and they scrolls down till the footer when they come across with a great template style.

3-Check blogs rating on alexa.com and advertise on those whose rank is between 1-1,000,000,pagerank isnt criteria for advertising.

4-Put your widget to the main page where people can see entrecard widget without scrolling down,people will wait in quene to advertise on your blog and this will bring you great amount of entrecredits.

5-Put an atractive image to to your entrecard profile to get people's attention on blogs.

This five tips enough for you to boost your traffic.But entrecard doesnt bring enough traffic to change your alexa rating.It was like a fashion its come and went.Only new bloggers get busy with entrecard thing.And advertising on new bloggers for a day wont change anything.But try to get link from them since its easy to get link from new bloggers, and remember that one day they will have pagerank too and you will understand the benefits of getting link from new bloggers.

With these useful wordpress comment widgets you will have to reply so many comments that you ll have no time to write an article ,your readers will leave comments to your posts willingly :)

1. Extended Comment Options for WordPress: You wont have to edit your comments one by one,with this tool it will be easy for you to edit comments.
2. Dofollow: As you know wordpress's default setting is "no follow" for comments,it means that leaving link while commenting wont affect your pagerank and technorati value,but this add on changes "no follow" tag to "follow",and google bots will follow the links,and it will affect people's technorati and pagerank so people will comment your articles.
3. Comment Relish: This add on sends a thanks e-mail to owner of first comment of your article.Sounds cool!
4. Show Top Commentators: As you can understand from its name,this add on shows top commentators on your wordpress blog.
5. Live Comment Preview: While writing a comment your readers will have the chance to preview their comments.
6. WordPress Paged Comments Plugin: You may have so many comments that your readers may sick and tired of scrolling down the mouse,so for your readers health you had better use this wordpress add on because it divides comments into pages.
7. Get Recent Comments: Its a wordpress add on that lists recent comments on your main page,almost every wordpress users and even blogger users like meah! (but i use rss feed) use this tool.
8. WP Ajax Edit Comments: This wordpress add on lets you and your readers edit comments on comment page but the difference is this add on sets a time limit ,and your readers allowed to edit their comment within this time limit.(remember digg comment section)
9. Close Old Posts: To prevent spam bots to send comments to your old post you must use this add on to disable commenting to old posts,for example you set no commentation for 14(depends on your choice)days old posts and it disables comment feature for 14 days old post.very useful!
10. Favatars: Shows your commentators's avatar as their web site's favicon.If you do not have a favicon check my article! Favicon Generators,Designs and Making Tips

Personally i do not prefer 2 columns templates but i found some 2 columns beautiful templates for wordpress on internet.Hope you like these wordpress templates too.

1. Newday

Demo - Download

2. VC Bliss

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3. yAku sTyle

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4. Green Leaves

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5. Spiritual Release

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6. Feng Shui

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7. Glued Ideas

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8. Blue Business

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9. LoadFoO

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10. Wordpress Diary

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11. Tranquility

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12. Koyu Mavi

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13. Plain Office

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14. Road Kill

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15. Black and Red

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Analyze your blog from your desktop with the softwares i give you ;

First software is Parameter you can learn blogs/webs pageranks value from your desktop

download:http://www.cleverstat.com/cgi-bin/sw.../parameter.exe

Second software is Backlink Master ,you can see your backlinks with this tool.


download:http://www.cleverstat.com/cgi-bin/sw.../backlinks.exe

Third seo software is Site Content Analyzer ; analyze keywords and content relation of your blog/web

download:http://www.sitecontentanalyzer.com/d...scanalyzer.exe

Newest blogger blogspot templates i gathered from internet,there are really cool blogger styles , if i was a new blogger i wouldn't chose my template before checking the templates below.All blogger templates are XML templates (widget enabled) you can easily install blogspot templates and you can use them with no error thanks to designers of these templates.

This is blogbus, formerly is a wordpress template.

But now has been ported to blogger platform.

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

Introducin New WOW Smashing Xml Template!You Will Really Like And Appreciate it.It Is Designed Uniquely and Converted From Wordpress to Blogger.
Enjoy!

Always backup your current template first before installing the template!

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

This 3 column blogger template is brought to you by Blogger Templates-free online source of Blogger templates and Blogging tips.

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

Plantilla Blogy Web 2.0 Template Specially for Blogger!Look Very Cool.Please Check it Out!
I am Waiting For You Reviews!

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

New Blue PlantillaWeb 2.0 Blogger XML Template From Word Press.Looks Decsently!

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

New Plantilla Blogy Stylecious Blogger Template having 3 Columns and i Think it Will Fulfill You Needs;)

• DEMO HERE
• DOWNLOAD HERE

You can use it for personal or business with the sole condition that they respected credit, returning a link to Blogger Templates

Features:

• Two sidebars
• A label cloud in the widebar
• Styled blockquotes
• Custom favicon

Download:

• Demo
• Download

3 column blogger template optimized for adsense or other online earning programs.

Demo Here

Download template .XML

Notes: You can use your own picture as header image. Image Size: Width: 870px, Height: 180px

Note: You can use your own picture as header image. Image Size: Width: 780px, Height: 180px

i copied these templates from here since i dont know designers url i could not share it with you all

Did you know there are bloggers who earn much than 250.000 dollars ? Probably you have heard about this events,but yes the truth is people can earn much than 250,000 dollar monthly , you may ask yourself whats the secret of earning that much and the answer is original and useful content.Nobody will read your life story and nobody cares it,just write something technical,something useful,something new but original,if you know javascripting then you're rich if you know a programming language then you're rich,if you professional on Adobe's softwares then you're rich ,if you know what i listed here and you're still poor,you do not want money or you problems with your brain.So check the bloggers who generated money all the year ;

• Gothamist.com +250,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• TechCrunch.com +200,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• Mashable +166,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• PerezHilton.com +111,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• BoingBoing.net +80,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• TalkingPointsMemo.com +45,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• Shoemoney.com +12,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• OverheardInNewYork.com +8,100 dollars monthly [How?]
• Problogger.net +8,000 dollars monthly [How?]
• GoFugYourself +6,240 dollars monthly [How?]
• ICanHasCheezburger.com +5,600 dollars monthly [How?]
• Kottke.org +5,300 dollars monthly [How?]
• MichelleMalkin.com and HotAir.com [Unknown] [How?]

and :

• Webmaster-Labs +0 monthly How? ;

Because i like blogging and informing people about somethings,that does not mean i wont put ads to my blog,of course i will try to monetize my blog but before monetizing i need 250 unique visitors daily,and im not planning to put ads right now ,referring people and getting comission is the best way to monetize your blog.

People is still stupid about stealing somebody's content,they think that they are clever,somebody do i earn, i wonder their daily unique visitor quantity and what they feel as a result of seeing no visits on their blog.Anyway if you come up such occasions do you know what to do?The worst thing to do is reporting them to search engines,and probably they will be banned from engines.Here the list of report links of top search engines ;

Google Spam Report : Read what google think about this occasions ;

Yahoo! Spam Report : Report content thieves to Yahoo! You can also read Yahoo!'s copyright policy.

Report to Adsense Team : Probably the thief is created a made-for-adsense blog,so reporting him to adsense team will be a catastrophe for him.

Report to Blogger : If his blog hosted by Blogger,report him to blogger and let them delete his blog.Imagine his face when he sees his blog deleted.

Report to Wordpress : If hosted by Wordpress then report to wordpress.


You can also use the website below to reduce this visit stats ;

Report to SPLOG : Spam + Blog = SPLOG , report them splog.

Report to SPLOGSPOT : Same as splog.

After reporting thieves to top search engines,the blogosphere will be cleaner and more readable.Please report content thieves to save the future of blogs.

When copycats steal your images,and publish them on his/her blog/website,it uses your hosting bandwith to load image,so to block this occasion read this article carefully;

Copy the codes below to a notepad and give the name below to your notepad like .htaccess.txt

.htaccess

and save it,and upload the txt file to your images directory (yoursite.com/images/) and when people steal your image your blog's logo will appear and then thief will be obliged to delete image if he doesnt delete your blog will be advertised on his web site.

copy the codes below to a notepad

RewriteEngine on
#referer

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?YOURWEBSITE.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(jpg|png|gif)$ http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/images/logo.gif [R,NC]     
 

I have discovered a few tools which are both funny and useful now i want to share these tools with you all :

Learn how much is your blog worth : this funny tools tell your blog value i do not know which criteria it depends on but it said my blog worth $6,774.48 .


Learn what level of education is required to understand your blog : Another tool tells what level of education is required to understand your blog,it said that readers of my blog need to be genius to understand my blog lol.




Learn your blog statics easily : This tool shows your Google Pagerank value,Google backlinks,Alexa and technorati score,and delicious links at same time.

Pagerank Prediction tool : Get your pagerank predicted depending on your backlinks,my blog is predicted as 4 ,2008's first pagerank update was made but my pr is still 3 ,so do not rely on this tool.

Pagerank Checker : You can check your pagerank on different datacenters of google,also you can see what your pagerank will be,if your current pagerank is 3 and one of the google datacenters show your pr as 4 ,it means your pr will be 4.

Adsense Calculator : Predict what your adsense earning will be like,entering your page impressions to the blanks.

Link Price : This tool will help you calculate the approximate amount you should be paying or charging per month for a link of a specified website.My blog's estimated link price is $4.25 monthly.

SEO consists of two fundamental elements: producing search-engine-friendly content and obtaining high-quality inbound links. There is a third element that you should take seriously: staying on the right side of Google and avoiding Google penalties at all costs, since Google is the foremost search engine and getting banned is pretty much a death sentence for a website, especially if it is a young website without an established following. If you follow the SEO tips in this article your website will attract a lot of traffic from the search engines and will grow exponentially.

A. Producing search engine-optimised content

1. Produce excellent copy

Your content should be written extremely well; great copywriting is the heart and soul of SEO. Firstly, excellent writing is better for your users and is more likely to attract inbound links. Secondly, Google has ways, some of them very subtle, of determining just how good and useful a piece of writing is (see latent semantic indexing). Write with your users in mind, with a view to giving them the best and most useful experience possible. With regard to Google's subtle ways of assessing the quality of a piece of writing, you should avoid using the same keywords again and again, even if it feels natural to do so. Instead, you should use of a variety of synonyms for every keyword. This makes your writing more readable and interesting, and also persuades Google that your content is not run-of-the-mill spam, but authoritative and useful.

2. Content is king

The only thing Google respects is high-quality text with some links pointing to it. Google considers websites that constantly add content much more useful than websites that add content infrequently. For this reason you should set yourself a realistic target for the production of new content and stick to it. Depending on how ambitious you are, you can aim for one new page of content per day or per week. Whatever you choose, remember that Google likes fresh content. It has an intrinsic preference for websites that focus on creating new content over websites that keep tweaking their existing content again and again. In other words, Google wants to see that you are working on producing new content, not on optimizing content that you already have on your website. The ideal word count for each page is between 500 and 1500 words.

3. Use the Google sandbox

The Google sandbox is an incredibly useful tool that suggests keywords and key phrases on the basis of what people have been searching recently. For example, you might type "SEO consultant" and the Google sandbox will tell you that, in addition to searching for "SEO consultant," other frequent searches are "SEO expert" and "SEO services." Using the Google sandbox will give you an inexhaustible supply of ideas for the creation of fresh content. Put simply, you use Google's sandbox to find out what people are searching for, and you then write content that targets those keywords. The aim is, of course, to rank highly in the search engine results pages (SERPs) for those queries.

4. Use the h1 tag

The h1 tag is one of the great secrets of SEO. The h1 tag tells search engines that this is the main title of the page ("heading #1"). The h1 tag is an incredibly powerful tool and Google takes it seriously, providing it is substantiated by the page's content. In other words, the words in the h1 title tag should also appear in the main text. Using the h1 tag is an excellent way to optimize a page for specific keywords.

Here is how you use the h1 tag:

Your keywords

The h1 tag will make the text quite large; you can have the benefit of the h1 tag without such enormous text by using CSS to format it as desired.

You should also use the h2 and h3 tags for your sub-headings, making the content of your page hierarchical.

5. Keyword density

The keywords you are targeting should appear in the main body of your text reasonably frequently, but don't overdo it: a page that is stuffed with keywords destroys the credibility of your website and is easily identified by Google as spam. Putting your keywords at the beginning of the page, in most of the paragraphs, and somewhere near the end will be quite sufficient. Do not forget the importance of using synonyms too, as mentioned above. If you want to check the keyword density for a page, you can use this keyword density tool.

6. Use bold, italics and underlining on keywords

When you bold, italicize or underline a word, Google assumes that this is one of your keywords. You should therefore bold, italicize or underline some of the keywords on your page.

Be very careful, because this can also work against you: if you use bold, italics or underlining on words that are not keywords, you will confuse Google and will weaken the effect of these tags on your real keywords.

7. Keywords in the URL

Deciding the URL of a page is an important part of SEO. The page should have a file name that contains your keywords, and the page should be in a directory that also has keywords in its name. For both the directory and the page itself, the keywords should be separated by dashes.

You should follow a sensible rationale when deciding what to call directories and files; it should reflect the hierarchical nature of your website. For example, if you are writing a page about obtaining inbound links, a good URL for it would be:

polyseo.com/seo-tips/how-to-obtain-inbound-links.html

This is a good URL for these reasons:

a) "SEO tips" and "how to obtain inbound links" are related queries and Google knows it;

b) "how to obtain inbound links" is a subset of "SEO tips." Google will give you extra respect for using hierarchical URLs. Don't forget that Google was developed by two clever mathematicians!

Depending on exactly what pages you plan to create for your website, there are several ways of naming a URL. For example, with regard to the example above, if you're going to write many different articles on the topic of "links," you could name your URLs as follows:

polyseo.com/SEO/links/how-to-obtain-inbound-links.html

polyseo.com/SEO/links/why-outbound-links-will-benefit-your-website.html

and so on. (In this example "how to obtain inbound links" is a sub-category of "links," and "links" is in turn a sub-category of "SEO." Furthermore, all three sets are related to each other: they are all about SEO.)

8. Use a high content-to-code ratio

Search engines will give your page a higher ranking if it has a lot of text relative to the amount of code. You should aim for a high signal-to-noise ratio on your page, which means that there should be more content than code. Open any page on the Internet, righ-click on it and select "view source" (or its equivalent). If there is a lot more code than text, search engines are not going to love it.

If you are serious about SEO you will produce pages with good, clean HTML and will avoid anything that requires a lot of code. A small amount of HTML code and a lot of quality text is what search engines (and users) really love.

9. Split substantial articles into several pages

If you write an article about a big topic, it is inevitable that the article will in fact deal with a number of sub-topics. In these cases you should split the article into several pages: one page for each subtopic. This has the following advantages:

a) you will be able to have highly focused search-engine optimisation that targets each specific page, instead of trying to optimize one enormous page for keywords that are relevant to only 10% of it. Remember that Google decides what content is about on a page-by-page basis: this means that every page should focus on one topic - only one;

b) users prefer to read articles that are split over several pages rather than articles that have the "toilet roll" format. The links that take you from one page to the next should have the target page's title as the anchor text (more about this later).

The page you are reading is an exception; pages with a list of tips generally work better as a single page, even if very long.

10. Avoid frames like the plague

From the point of view of SEO, frames must rank amongst the most disastrous thing you can do. Users hate them, and search engines hate them even more. Put simply, search engines are not able to index websites that use frames; the most they can do is index your homepage. For all intents and purposes you will simply not be present in search engine indexes if your website uses frames. The brilliant Jakob Nielsen has more to say about why frames suck.

11. Avoid Flash like the plague

After frames, Flash is the biggest enemy of SEO and usability. Search engines are not able to read Flash files. Therefore any text displayed on the Flash page will not be read by the search engines and will not give you any SEO benefit. As importantly, Flash is an enormous barrier between your website and its users. I have always found Flash-based websites extremely frustrating and very often leave before the homepage has even finished loading. In the rare occasions in which I waited for the home page to load, the website invariably turned out not to be worth the wait. Truly useful websites have indexable content, preferably in the HTML format. Good, clean, minimalist HTML code is the true friend of SEO. Do not use Flash if you are serious about SEO and getting real traffic from the search engines.

12. Interlink your pages

Every page on your website should have at least a couple of contextual links that point to other pages on your website. These links should follow naturally from the content of your page. For example, if your page mentions an SEO consultant, you can use those words to link to a page that is relevant to them. That's a contextual link.

This will ensure that Google PageRank will be shared among your pages, and is an additional way of telling Google what your pages are about.

13. Put high-quality outbound links on every page

Every page of the content on your website should also have at least one contextual link that points to a high-quality external website. It has been shown experimentally that Google gives a higher ranking to pages that link to a high-quality external websites. In other words, other things being equal, a page with good outbound links will be placed higher in the search engine results pages than a page with no outbound links.

Deciding who to link to is relatively simple. Choose a word or group of words in your text and do a search on Google. Look at the top 3 or 4 websites and choose one that does not compete with you. Go back to your page and make those keywords the anchor text for an outbound link that points to that high-ranking external website. Google will love you for linking to a website that it deems to be of a high quality, especially if the link's anchor text has words for which that website ranks very high on Google. Doing this on every page in your website will have the following major advantages:

a) as mentioned above, Google will give you a higher placing in its results pages;

b) it shows your users that you are in good faith and not a sleazy spammer. Remember that the traffic you get from the higher Google ranking will massively outweigh the traffic you will lose through the outbound links, and in any case people will only leave your website if they have not found what they are looking for, in which case they would have left anyway. Outbound links will have the net effect of increasing your website traffic.

14. Produce an HTML sitemap

By "sitemap" I do not mean those special files that tell search engines about the structure and your website, although that kind of sitemap is a good idea too. In this instance I am referring to an HTML page that contains links to every single page on your website, just like a directory. There are two reasons that make such a page essential:

a) f or the purposes of SEO, no page should be more than two clicks away from your homepage. Search engines do not like pages that need a lot of clicks to be found. Furthermore, it makes every page on your website receive some of the Google PageRank of your homepage (the homepage will inevitably have a higher PageRank than any other page on the website);

b) it is extremely useful for users to be able to access any page on your website from a single page of links. In this way they can access a page very quickly, even if it is the last page of multi-page article.

15. Put the menu on the right

To make your website even more search engine- friendly, consider putting the menu on the right, as with this website. This will ensure that the first thing Google sees after the section is your content. This is because search engines read pages from top to bottom and from left to right. Putting the menu on the right-hand side ensures that search engines will come to it after your main content. This is related to having a high signal-to-noise ratio.

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17. Produce META tags with great care

There are three META tags of interest in SEO: ROBOTS, CONTENT and KEYWORDS. The first two are vital; the third no longer plays a big role.

The robots tag should be as follows:

The contents tag should be identical or similar to the title tag - it has been found that Google loves this. The content tag for this page is as follows:

In the dark ages of the pre-Google anarchy the keywords meta-tag was taken very seriously by the primordial search engines. Accordingly, the SERPs were dominated by spam websites that stuffed their meta-tags with keywords. Nowadays the keyword tag is almost irrelevant. By all means include it, but make absolutely sure that no keyword appears in the tag more than once. Do not put more than 20 words in the meta-tag. The keywords meta tag for this page is as follows:

18. Remember that search engines cannot read pictures

The essence of SEO is putting high-quality content on a page, and making sure that search engines can fully read and understand the content. This means that the heart of SEO is quality text. Any text that is displayed as a JPEG file or other graphics cannot be read by the search engines. Look at the source code of a webpage: that's what search engine can see. If you can't read it in the source code, search engines will not be able to read it either, and you will therefore get no search-engine credit for it. I have seen entire articles displayed as a JPEG file. The author is probably despairing over why Google won't show it in its search results at all.

Therefore, do not use graphics to display content. This does not mean that you should not use pictures; when used appropriately, pictures enhance your users' experience and make your content more useful.

You can tell search engines what a picture is about by using the ALT tag. Make sure that the description in the ALT tag faithfully describes the content of the picture; stuffing athe ALT tag with keywords that are not relevant to the picture is considered spam.

19. Make sure you have "index, follow" in the ROBOTS tag

Every single page on your website should have this tag. It tells search engine spiders to index the page, and it also tells them to follow all links to their respective target pages. This is useful in making sure that all the pages on your website are indexed.

Spiders are programs that search engines use to analyze pages on the Internet; they go from page to page, following links and reading every page, making decisions on their quality and keeping a copy in order to show them on the search results pages for relevant queries. SEO is essentially about convincing these automated programs that a given page deserves to rank highly for a specific search query.

20. When you produce a new page of content, link to it from the homepage

Once your homepage has a few quality inbound links, Google will regularly spider your homepage. Therefore, a good way to make sure that Google spiders and indexes a new page as soon as possible is to link to it from the homepage. Search engines will follow the link and index the target page within a few days.

21. Use a unique IP address for your website

It is very important that your website be associated with a single, unequivocal IP address. There are two reasons for this:

a) if you use a shared IP address and another website with that IP address gets a Google penalty, your website will also suffer;

b) Google will take your website a lot more seriously if it has a unique IP address.

Having a unique IP address for your website will cost you a few extra dollars a month but it is undoubtedly worth it.

22. Use a quality web host

You cannot develop a successful website without using a reputable, high-quality web host. You should also make sure that you have a top-notch traffic statistics program that will display detailed data regarding your traffic and search engine referrals.

B. Links

23. Get inbound links

Inbound links are the kingpin of the Google algorithm. Google revolutionized online search by introducing a simple but very effective answer to a complicated question: "If a user performs a search for widgets, and there are one million web pages about widgets, how do we decide the order in which these web pages should be presented in the search results? In other words, how do we rank them?"

The answer provided by Larry Page and Sergey Brin was simple: pages that have more links pointing to them are more likely to be useful than pages with fewer links pointing to them. Google considers inbound links as votes in favor of a particular webpage.

It is therefore absolutely imperative to obtain inbound links that point to your website and to content pages within your website. The links that are most beneficial are one-way inbound links: links that point to your website without your website linking back. Google considers these the most genuine endorsements and therefore the most reliable indicator of a page's objective usefulness. Buying links is a great way to obtain high-quality links quickly. Text Link Ads is the most reputable link broker and offers a wopping $100 in FREE Links to new advertisers.

How much weight Google will give to a link depends on the page's PageRank and on whether the link's target page is related to the content on the linking page. In other words, a link pointing to a page about SEO is worth more if is in a page about SEO; if the link is on a page about cars, it will be less beneficial.

24. Link anchor text is important

The anchor text of links is extremely important, because it answers Google's all-important question: what do users think this page is about? The more relevant the the inbound link's anchor text is to the target page, the more the page will benefit. The most beneficial links for SEO purposes are one-way inbound links with relevant anchor text. If you manage to get a one-way inbound link with a anchor text that contains the words in the target page's h1 tag, to Google this is an independent third party confirming the topic and usefulness of your page, and your ranking will go through the roof. Such links are worth pursuing.

This is not to say that other links are useless. Getting inbound links from pages with a high PageRank, even if the links are reciprocated, will still be beneficial. Links with "click here" as the anchor text should be avoided as they do not tell Google what the linker thinks the target page is about.

Probably the only way to start out with links is to start e-mailing webmasters, once you have produced some quality content, and ask to trade links. Most will decline, but some will say yes, and this will get you started. Remember that no decent website will link to you unless it has free useful content. Part of the point of writing excellent content is to obtain natural, unsolicited one-way inbound links. For this reason, such content is sometimes referred to as link bait.

25. Use advertising to generate some traffic

A website's traffic should grow exponentially once a certain critical level of traffic is reached, because the more people visit your website, the more incoming links you will get, the higher your ranking will be, which in turn will bring in more traffic - assuming, of course, that your website offers value to its visitors. If you follow the SEO tips in this article your website will get good search engine traffic from the get-go.

Precisely because traffic breeds more traffic, you might want to consider spending a small amount of money on advertising at the beginning. Although advertising does not have a search engine benefit, the extra visitors it brings might link to your useful content, which will have an SEO benefit. Google's Adsense is a cool program for this sort of thing.

26. Post in forums

An excellent way of getting one-way inbound links is to post in forums and place contextual links pointing to pages on your website, in addition to a link to your homepage in your signature. Of course this is only acceptable (and beneficial) if the forum's topic is the same as your website's.

Make sure all such links have anchor text that is a highly focused on the target page's content. Not all forums make this possible, but I have seen several that publish posts as HTML pages and that allow links. The most beneficial forums are those that allow you to post a link without the rel=nofollow tag. Of course, make sure that you write quality posts that add value to the forum, or your posts will be considered spam. Also, the outbound links will be worth more if they are embedded within a good chunk of quality text.

27. Use press releases to obtain backlinks

A great way to obtain one-way inbound links is to broadcast a press release through an online service. By all accounts PRWeb is the best facility for this sort of thing. Make sure that your press release is well-written and interesting, and of course make sure that it has a link to your website.

28. Do not link to bad websites

If you link to a website that Google has penalized or that for some other reason Google considers to be a bad website, your website will be penalized. Google will not penalize you if a bad website links to you, but it will penalize you if you link to a bad website. For this reason you should only link to the best websites, and you should check those links frequently to ensure that the website does not have a new, spammy owner (it can happen).

You should avoid so-called bad neighborhoods. Bad neighborhoods are clusters of interlinked websites that are suffering a Google penalty (maybe without even realizing it). If you link to a website which in turn links to a penalized website, you are part of a bad neighborhood. Avoid this like the plague.

29. Produce link bait

One-way inbound links are essential to SEO. The only reason anyone will ever link to you is if you have something useful or interesting on your website. I have already stressed the importance of writing great content. Other examples of link bait include:

* free resources, such as my free SEO tools;

* offering a free e-book for download (make it a PDF file with at least one link to your website).

30. Staying on the right side of Google

The third vital element in search engine optimisation is avoiding anything that is even remotely spammy or unethical. You should follow Google's Webmaster Guidelines scrupulously. If you do any of the things banned by the Google Webmaster Guidelines, sooner or later Google will find out and penalize your website. The following tricks are expressly prohibited by Google:

* Cloaking: this means displaying a different version of your website depending on the IP address of those accessing it

* Redirecting your homepage to another page

* Using text that is the same color as the background

* Hidden links

* Registering many domains and interlinking them all

The Google algorithm has become very sophisticated and if you breach any of the Google Webmaster Guidelines sooner or later your infractions will be detected and you will be subjected to a penalty. An irritated user might also file a Google spam report.

Conclusion

SEO really works. If you write high-quality content that is search-engine-friendly and get some quality inbound links, Google will give you a goop placing in its search results pages and your website's traffic will increase exponentially. It's incredibly satisfying to see a page you created on the first page of search engine results! With some hard work, it will allow you to build a useful website that gets a lot of ref