Improving Your Site's SEO with a List of Related Articles

To improve the visibility and access of your content is to add a list of related articles at the end of each of all your blog posts. Not only does this create more page views with your readers, this practice also helps flow link equity towards your deeper content and improves the circulation of PR Juice across your blog.
Finally, given there are keywords in the anchor text, related posts are an internal linking mechanism that reinforce the semantic relevance of a document they're linking to.

Why SEO Is Important

Why SEO Is Important

A Picture speaks a thousand words.

When a Consumer searches... This is their habitual habits online.

So... If you're working towards a Natural SEO marketing.....

Get it towards the 'Legitimate' zone for best results.

3 Important Points to Know For A Successful Adsense Campaign

It's been........ less than 10 minutes since I last posted.

Hi again.

Now I'm going to touch on one of the favorites of most internet marketers. Adsense.(A.S)

How to keep the $ rolling in with A.S.

Here's a 3 important points you MUST keep in mind if you wanna go for A.S marketing.

• Ads Placement
• Target Niche
• Cost Per Click

I'm going to make this VERY brief... So if you don't understand, just re-read and pray hard you would understand or (you could drop a comment and I'll try my best to make you understand.)

The 3 points that I've listed are VERY important to get you A.S working.

Ads Placement

You might have heard this, or read this dozens of times and you're gonna read it here again.

Over the years Readers / Viewers / Consumers / Audiences / have created an immune system towards Ads.

The normal banner / leaderboard / footer / sky scraper... just doesn't cut it anymore. Cause People know they are Ads.... 

Now here's the tricky part.. "But we have to let them know they are ads right? If not Google would be banning us."

Yes we do. But we just can't place them at the normal places... By stating 'normal' 

I meant at the corner of the blog, or by the side... Just doing the 'normal' routine ads always do... Something like a pimp at the corner of the street... that sounds so wrong...

Try to imagine this... in a mall people are avoiding the you know, "Survey counters" Cause they are taking up too much time and provide you with nothing. So what do you do?

You make your "Survey Agents" run around... Place them at places where the shoppers are moving around most of the time. In aisle.

I'm not asking you to do tricks or what sort... I'm advising you to place the ads at where the "eyes of the readers" are most frequently moving.

Target Niche

Same story: Mall. Survey Counters.

If aisle 7 is the baby products department, don't go putting a liquor survey counter over there.

I know that might sound extreme... And you might be shouting now "We don't control the ads Google Place!!!"

Unless you're running a specialty shop, putting a survey counter directly at the entrance just doesn't work.

Try this, put tracking codes on your ad. Different tracking codes for your home page and your post page.

And trust me, post page would get more clicks than the home page. (UNLESS YOU'RE RUNNING A SPECIALTY SHOP) that means your WHOLE site is a micro niche site.

Now this theory would totally trash the old online advertising methods into the bin... Why?

Old advertising campaign: Home page placement = Best slot.

(Not true now) 

Readers that go to your post page are more likely to click on the ad thats... Let's say 80% - 100% related to the content.

But if your home page is let's say 70% relevance content.... Google might just place a 30% related ad there....

There won't be clicks there.

So this means... "If possible"... making that post page fully optimize to a targeted micro niche for Google to place at least a 80% related ad there...

Remember... Everything you're doing is to keep the readers interested.... 

If the ads is not interesting 1 thumb down... If the ads is not related ... 2 thumbs down... And it will just end up as a spot that looks good but doesn't bring in the $$.

Here's something I did. 

Local Market + Targeted niche. So my keywords would be a "Local" + "Niche" (and I optimized it that way)

Here's what Google did.

Placing all "Local" Ads.... totally unrelated to my niche... Well not actually all... They do place on certain occasions, ads that are related to my niche. That's where I notice an increase in clicks.

Now you might be asking... Aren't we providing leads to our competitors? 

Now I'm asking.... We want readers to click.... It doesn't matter whether it's a competitor's site or who's site... All matters is that we're earning the $$.. that's why it's called a A.S site.... 

(Well if you don't want your competitors getting the traffic, you could block them in your A.S Account)

Cost Per Click / C.P.C

Here's something that most newbies tend to forget... If you're going for the A.S marketing.. CPC is a must for research...

Why I place this as a last point, it's cause..... I'm thinking how to explain this... 

Let's put it this way... You work hard.... you get clicks on your site, let's say 10 clicks... each click earns you $0.50.

This other guy, works slightly smarter. He gets 10 clicks too... but his each click earns him $2.00.

Now both of you might be doing the same work, same niche.. BUT targeted on a different keyword and it produces different results.... Sad case huh?

So.... I'm emphasizing on that.... Don't do double the work to reap the same amount of fruits... 

just do a 0.5 smarter work.

Oh... To research on CPC just use the Google adwords: Keyword tool.. And enable the CPC column. 

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I know the survey counter example sucks...........

Sure is Dusty Here

Sweet! Been a year since I've posted here. Maybe less than a year. But it sure did felt long...

The First marketing tip I'm gonna give since a long while is this...

Don't keep your readers hanging... hahaha

(I didn't really meant to 'abandon' this site for a whole year, just to prove that point)

Well I've been busy locally, learning, experimenting and such... What I've been experimenting? 

Hmmm Mostly on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) And affiliate marketing... And!

Been trying out a way to do SEO without using any $$ Ka-Ching... Well basically I'm trying to do everything without a capital.... 

Using free sources all over the web!

Don't rush me, I'm not gonna start a E-book on that anytime soon... I notice there's one thing that I sucks at.... And that is selling marketing..

Now let me try to do a re-introduction...

Marketing 2 EZ....  

is like..... You can call a Tiger a Cat... But you can't call a Cat a Tiger.... And THAT doesn't make this any simpler....

Ok, more about me.... I prefer bringing the term "informal" into teaching... Cause that way we absorb at a much better rate.. So if my jokes are lame, bear with me...

Here's a brief summary of where the direction this site / blog is heading.

Most of my works are done / base on blogspot. So I'll be teaching on a blogspot platform... or should I say I'll only be teaching on blogspot platform... So if you're a wordpress lover just like most of the internet marketers out there.... You might not gain much from .. here..

I'm not a guru, just a learner like you. I teach you, you teach me. That's the way things go around here..... Hey it's my playground! hehehe.

We'll be exploring, (Yes you and me) on Google software (Cause they are free).

And they do provide a whole lot of stuff for us to play with.... But we just need to be careful on where we step...

I'll be guiding through the codings, (html) to make your blogspot looks ... more 'static' or more like a site..

Well that information could be easily gathered on the web... But I'll be putting it together here to save you time... And (Nope I'm not starting a E-book anytime soon. So you have to visit me here frequently.)

Next advice, if you're learning article SEO... Don't copy what I'm writing here or don't even learn what I'm writing here... Cause these articles ARE NOT SEO friendly.

Here's a phrase I'll like to share before I end this post.

The beauty of words is to bend the rules of writing and to achieve the flow of reading.

-amenwolf

Keep this in mind whenever you're writing. You're writing for the readers NOT the search engines.
You might rank first, but if readers are only coming for the first visit and totally put you on their black list, it totally defeats the purpose of coming in first.

And that phrase also means..... Write for who's reading. Don't go all technical terms for someone who doesn't understand geek language.

With this! I shall end here.

Happy New Year 2011

It's a New Year. Let's get started on a fresh page shall we?

Free Software to Improve Your SEO & PPC Research

I couldn't really express how I felt in love with this free software.

Yeah you didn't hear me wrong, it's free.

http://tinyurl.com/seotravis  <-- here's the link
And yes, it's free.

So, what does it do?

Imagine a free SEO consultant there with you, right there beside you giving tips and pointers on how to improve the SEO of your site.

It's called Traffic Travis http://tinyurl.com/seotravis <--- here's the link


What is Traffic Travis?

Traffic Travis provides a huge complement of SEO research and page analysis tools, as well as a powerful host of PPC research and monitoring tools. Regardless of whether you're building a website for search engine optimization or pay-per-click, Traffic Travis is an indispensable research tool: tracking your own site's performance, and peeking under the hood of your competitors' sites as well.

Great tool, to do your research and tracking site performance,

I truly recommend it.

http://tinyurl.com/seotravis <--- click here to download

How To Avoid That Affiliate Marketing Scam

How To Avoid That Affiliate Marketing Scam

You have finally decided that the 9-5 day job isn’t for you. You're tired of your work being undervalues and underappreciated. You would like to work when you feel you are most productive, not when some boss or manager feels it is so. You are also tired of working hard with no incentive or reward scheme in place.

The internet has helped up change so many aspects of our lives. We can study and work from home with the help of a computer and high speed internet access. However, there are unfortunately lots of scammers out there ready to take either your money or your work to use for their benefit. Many of these email scam programs and work at home schemes have little hope of amounting to any kind of living.


Unfortunately, these scammers have made their way into the world of affiliate marketing as well. There are some excellent affiliate marketing programs to get involved with; the trick is how to spot the scammers.

Affiliate marketing is a great opportunity for those who want to venture out on their own. The minimal risk and zero start up costs make it an attractive option to many. Affiliate marketing programs are perfect for those people who are motivated and self starters. They are also great for those who want to set their own working hours.

The face and manner of the internet and affiliate marketing is constantly changing. This makes it very difficult to produce a definitive list of do’s and don’ts. However, there are some signs that one can look for. If your company displays any of these signs it does not mean for sure that they are con artists. However, it should warrant further investigation.

An affiliate marketing program should always provide you with some support. This can include an agent that you can contact with questions or problems. A legitimate company should want you to do well. The better you do the better they do. It should at very least contain a toll free phone number, email address and fixed street address. If your company is an online affiliate marketing program, the lack of an email or web page should definitely raise some red flags. Other things such as no phone or address do not mean necessarily that they are trying to scam you. However, you need to investigate them with a fine tooth comb.

A good test is to send the company an email with some basic questions. If it takes them weeks to get back to you then you need to give this venture careful consideration. Again, they may not be out to con you but if they are poor at communication, this could be a sign of other internal problems.

If the company has no website then you should consider something else. Legitimate affiliate marketing programs generally have a detailed website with all the information you need. One should be suspicious of companies that operate only by email. A website is fairly easy to create so why hasn’t this company invested the time to do so? Also, a website leaves a bit more of a trail to a company. If they do end up scamming you, the chances of tracing the people via a website are much better then tracing them through masses of email addresses.

Many of us would love the opportunity to work for ourselves. We would love to chuck in the day job and start our own businesses. However, the costs of starting a business combined with the risk involved stop most of us before we even get started. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make some money by working for yourself. The costs are none and the risk minimal. One needs to use some caution when signing onto a program. Make sure there is adequate support available to you. Make sure the company is contactable and that they answer queries in a timely fashion. Be incredibly cautious of companies that have no website. These factors do not always mean that the company is out to scam you; however they should be looked at carefully.