What’s your favorite SEO “trick” ?

Was talking to a fellow blogger last day and this topic came up.

Bloggers and SEO – Does it really help ?

“Being a blogger, what are the things that I can do as a quick SEO tweak ? I don’t want to go digging the code and calculating the density and all that..that’s kinda.. for you geeks”

That’s a nice question I guess. I mean…yea we all know the tips…tricks and all that..but how many bloggers do actually implement them ? How many of you try the basic tweaks at least..hmm that would be interesting to know.

What SEO tweak have you done on your blog ?

What do you think is the best SEO tweak for bloggers ?

I’m all ears.

Funny Google “Mistakes” Video

I stumbled across this video on YouTube, featuring several Google “Mistakes” put to the classic Ludacris ballad “Money Maker”. It’s fun to watch, but not exactly accurate. Now I will break down exactly what these “mistakes” are.

1. Worst Band in the World search results bring up the Christian rock band Creed. This is attributed to the common SEO tactic “GoogleBombing” in which lots of incoming links are marked with the specific keyphrase in the anchor text. While I find it to be funny (and oh so very true), it isn’t a “mistake” at all. Check the Wikipedia entry for more GoogleBombs.

2. The Answer to Life The Universe and Everything brings up the Google Calculator answer as 42. This is an intentional reference to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Read more in the Wikipedia entry. Those Google folk sure do have a quirky sense of humor.

3. Heidi Klum’s Butt and Boobs St New York brings up a map of New York City with an apparent location of Heidi Klum’s special parts. The determining factor is the “St” and “New York”, which returns the result. The link to Google Maps doesn’t display an exact location of the search nor does it return a sexy photo of Heidi Klum in a bikini. (Sorry!) Rather, it returns locations that match some of the words in the search string. This technology will be tweaked with time. No rational human being would ever search for this, but apparently somebody stumbled across it by accident. I wouldn’t exactly call this Google’s mistake, but rather a mistake by the searcher.

4. French Military Victories search string and clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button returns an apparent “mistake” results page that shows no results and the “Did you mean ‘French Military Defeats?’” query correction. At first it appears Google is hatin’ on the French’s impressive military track record by deleting all results for their victories. However, that is far from the case. The “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button automatically returns the very first page in the results, which so happens to be a “fake” SERPs page hosted on the popular entertainment website Albino Blacksheep. While comical for all of us non-Frenchies, it’s definitely not a Google “mistake!”

5. Waffles brings up the homepage for Democrat Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry. This is simply Googlebombing in the political realm.

6. Miserable Failure plus the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button takes you to the White House homepage of President George W. Bush. This is perhaps the first major Googlebomb to grab the attention of the media. And that’s simply all it is, political Googlebombing at it’s finest!

7. Elgoog plus the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button takes you to the “Google Mirror Mirror” hosted at what appears to be a Belgian webhost at www.rb-hosting.de. Once again, just another clever trick down by somebody else, not a Google “mistake.”

So there you have it, all the Google “mistakes” debunked! All hail the Mighty G!

Adsense Alternatives When Google Bans Your Account

Google recently disabled the Adsense account of John Q. Public for generating invalid or fraudulent clicks.

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers. [from adsense-adclicks@google.com]

His subsequent appeals to Adsense Support were also turned down.

John Q. Public is now looking for alternate revenue streams to monetize his blog and sends us the following questions:

Q 1: Can I get back my Adsense Account ?

There are few cases when previously banned Adsense publishers managed to reinstate their Google account successfully with Google only deducting some amount related to invalid clicks.

Thank you for clarifying your situation. We have reviewed your circumstances and have reinstated your account, effective immediately. Based on the findings of our investigation, we have deducted $30.82 from your account. [from adsense-adclicks-appeal@google.com]

While it is not a bad idea to follow your case with Google, not everyone may be so lucky as Stas or Jason. Generally, the chances of resurrecting your Adsense account are less.

Q 2: If the answer is No, then what's best alternate for adsense.

While Adsense still rules in terms of Ad inventory, there are tons of other advertising programs that can you consider for your blog depending on your niche and demographics. Here are some popular alternatives:

» Yahoo YPN - If you are located in the US, this is probably the best alternative to Adsense. Yahoo Panama is launching on February 5^th.

» FeedBurner Ads - Feedburner is probably performing quite very well for a lot of publishers. The ads are CPM in nature and they have decent reporting engine.

» Text Link Ads, Adbrite - You can sell text links on your blog pages using any of these programs. They also let you add advertising in your RSS feeds.

» Kontera, IntelliTXT - These are inline contextual advertising programs that double-underline the keywords. Some users may however find this annyoying since the ad appears in a pop-up window.

» Chitika, Amazon Affiliates - If you are writing a product blog, Chitika may result in good conversion rates - people read the product review on your website and then proceed to these sites for buying the links. Amazon is good for blog that enjoy a fan following and readers buy what you recommend.

Other popular advertising options include Tribal Fusion, Adify, Pheedo and BlogAds depending on your site traffic. [Picture from Flickr]

Q 3: Does Google block the account or the website itself ? Actually I was planning to sell my blog so can the new owner use his own Adsense Account to insert ads in my blog ?

Google generally bans the Adsense account, not the website showing the Google ads. It is however recommended that the "prospective buyer" checks this with Google Adsense Support himself before closing the deal with you. It is very likely that Google will permit him to show ads on your site using his own Adsense account.

Important: Just take care that you don't open another Adsense account with Google using different credentials (like an abbreviated name or a different address) - Google is very likely to discover this activity and they'll will probably ban you again. [Name changed to protect identity]

Google Zero Tolerance Policy Against Adsense Click Fraud

Forbes - Some critics have also accused Google of unfairly banning innocent publishers accused of click fraud. Does that happen?

Google - We do take it very seriously. We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to click fraud from publishers.

But when it comes to accounts that have been wrongly terminated or sabotaged, we’re always monitoring that too, and it generally comes to a very low number. We never hear back from the vast majority of publishers terminated. When publishers say they weren’t engaged in click fraud, we have an appeals process.

Tips to Increase Google AdSense Earnings

a. Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.

b. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code. If have trouble embedding AdSense code in your WordPress or Blogger template, take help of the AdSense support forums or send an email to your AdSense account manager.

c. Never ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads. Google takes click fraud very seriously. Do not include incentives of any kind on your site for users to click on your ads. Don't label Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements.".

d. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think and can discover invalid clicks through IP addresses, site navigation patterns, etc. If you working on a new design for your site, avoid reloading your pages (with AdSense) excessively. You can turn off AdSense temporarily and avoid invalid CPM impressions. Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords.

e. Don't place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages. Update: With the new AdSense policy change, you can probably place ads on 404 pages. Check with the AdSense support team.

f. Don't start a "adsense asbestos" or "home equity loan rates" website merely to make money from accidental clicks. You will never make money out these Made for Adsense websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don't waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists. Stay away from AdSense Adwords arbitrage.

g. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content.

h. For long articles, CTR will improve if you place ads somewhere in middle of the content or just where the article ends - when visitors are done reading the article, they may be looking for related resources.

i. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options and the payout is often higher. If you still want to display image ads (for CPM), consider ad formats like the 300x250 medium rectangle or the 160x600 wide skyscraper as they support also support rich multimedia and the new gadget ads.

j. Google Ads with no background color and no borders will always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.

k. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in your HTML source. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.

l. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray or something like #666.

m. Go Wide - The large rectangle (336x280) is the best paying Adsense format especially for text ads. Try using the 336x280 large rectangle, 300x250 medium rectangle, or 160x600 wide skyscraper.

n. Don't places images next to Google ads as that will invite a permanent ban to your AdSense account.

o. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.

p. You should try adding a unit near the comments senction of your blog. See more AdSense tweaks.

q. You can put upto 3 adsense units on a page. Try putting a large skyscraper on the right navigation sidebar of your website. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. You can also add 2 AdSense for search boxes and 3 adlink units.

r. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That's the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or &ltb> tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).

s. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won't lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target="google_window" to your form tag.

t. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.

u. Always syndicate full text RSS feeds and then monetize your feeds with a 468x60 ad in RSS feeds.

v. Monitor the AdSense performance of individual web pages with Google Analytics

w. For low CTR pages, try changing titles or adding more relevant content to get better focused ads. Alse see: Get relevant Google Ads

x. Block low paying advertisers with Filters. Why to loose a visitor for an ad that will only pay you a cent. Use Overture or Google Adwords Keywords tool to discover keywords that are less popular with advertisers.

y. Learn how to implement AdSense Revenue sharing if you run a site with multiple authors and need to pay your writers based on advertising revenue generated from their articles.

z. Experiment with color schemes and layouts using split testing. You are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats for your own website.

Even Google doesn't offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page but if you go to any search page on Google, the ads the mostly in the right.

Bonus Tip: Use the AdSense Preview tool to determine what ad campaigns are currently targeted for your site in different geographic regions of the world.

Enter any keywords or a website address (URL) and choose a geographic location of the visitors to see all the related related Google Ads.

Finding True Blogpreneur Contest

Finding True Blogpreneur is what should be done by ourselves and the answer of course is our own, actually the topic of this reading is for seo contest held by the reply that the new belajartraffic.com held on the August and ends on 30 September 2009.

The purpose of this contest I was if I win will give the prize to my friend who is none other than my friends wrote to study marketing in the online world but no capital, I coba2 with this contest in my blog dummy berumuran about 3 months and This blog has a fairly high pr3 is to enter a contest "Blogpreneur Finding True" so at least this is as an example of my sense of friendship to him and I think the prize is not too big but that is a membership benefit that will be won by the contestants in the order of two and three

Blogprenuer Is What I did not know, I know it stands for Blog and Enterprenuer which coupled with a true word is my conclusion from the True Enterprenuer A Blog in the Blogger can also say, it's just my thoughts: D, I do not want to make anyone confused by my kata2 is important now is that I can be useful for a friend, because a true friend is the thing that is compared to a much less Blogprenuer True I am not a superman and just ordinary people who are still a lot to learn and learn for myself and useful to others around me, so I'm thinking about some of the seo contest by belajartraffic but I will continue to update with more useful articles and useful for anyone who reads both for you and me alone

Finding True Blogpreneur

True Blogger is looking for a title contest is what I follow, and this contest is also useful for my friend so do loop to continue to support me because my goal is noble loh: P now to the point aja crita2na the title of this article is a blogger very happy Indonesia what? because in Indonesia akhir2 many contests that were held and this contest was a lot of bloggers followed by Indonesia and the existing master.

This means that the contest is one of about a contest that was held and sponsored by most members of the adsense-id.com loh there are a domain hosting a membership and there is little dihadiakan cash to the winners in the first place, may I just won the third or second order only and can Kalao in the first place, because I just want to give or to use science in the membership to help my friend who was this difficulty by following the contest "Blogpreneur Finding True"

And this new contest followed by a few people and some of the master, but it made me spend a little time and my pr3 blog for this contest even though I can memonetisenya to make money: P BUT I do not sacrifice this blog sia2 because at this writing has artike occupied sequence into four Blogpreneur Searching for keywords true and may contest held by belajartraffic.com can give a single good opportunity to learn to share.

At the end of this article says hopefully a bit more naek boost for those keywords so that I as a blogger Indonesia and as a true blogpreneur be proud of themselves rich while still learning and playing it so no dirty namanya.sekian not learn from my first posting to this day hopefully pleasing to the jury belajartraffic.com

Click tricks? Google 'inflation ads'

The world's most powerful Internet company, Google, has been accused of advertising client overcharging and to exaggerate the number of visits to their Web site.

Google has dominated the world of online information for nearly a decade and apart from providing limited information on any topic, but also a profitable business of digital advertising.

Professor Benjamin Edelman of the Harvard Business School in the United States said that Google's inflation rate of about 10 percent and that all important figures hit often exaggerated.

Professor Edelman said he was a big critic of Google and other search engines who exaggerate their advertising rates.

"I think for Google advertising rates can be 10 percent lower if not for the type of inflation I've been looking at lately," he said.

"Ten percent may not sound like much. Of course, when you spend big money advertisers spend big, 10 percent actually increased.

"All the more because this is only a direct fraud, charging for services not actually provided."

A Google spokesperson has denied the claims, says Professor Edelman allegedly tainted because he was a consultant for one of Google's main rival, Microsoft.

Spokesman said that Professor Edelman's visit to Australia was sponsored by Microsoft and is part of an "anti-Google" tour.

Professor Edelman said that one of the more disturbing examples of online advertising fraud is a way of displaying search engine advertising.

"Advertisers count on search engines, especially these days, Google, to provide them with a customer who will actually buy their products," he said.

"Good luck advertisers to measure the effectiveness in order to see whether they get what they pay.

"I just found a set of syndicators, Google's partners, which displays ads in ways that are very complicated. When you've been on the Dell website, they may show your ads for Dell.

"What's that? Displays a Dell ad man who was at Dell; was a fraud. It's Dell overcharging, but it is very difficult for Dell's ever to understand. So that daunting prospect for marketers who spend big money on this type search advertising. "

Professor Edelman says Google's sales based on their promise that they can measure how well the ads do.

"They say, they have a way to measure where the consumer comes through advertising," he said.

"But unfortunately some of the more disgusting their partners have found ways to get the system to claim credit for the work they do not really do."

Increasing Blog Traffic Without SEO

Have a busy blog bertrafik and high expectations may be the most bloggers in their blog, especially for those who want to be able to get money from the internet or blogs. This can be achieved by learning SEO and mempraktekannya in their blog. However, even though I have tried to make it easy to look through the articles to learn SEO in this blog, I found many people still consider it as an SEO that is difficult to practice. And most of the questions that go well YM or via e-mail is

"How do I create a blog without many SEO?"

or

"Does increase blog traffic without the need to learn SEO?"

I tend to say "I", but so hard I strain Reviews e-mail them to answer the question, the answer is "hard also ya?": [

Hmm .. ga would be bothered to learn SEO, but also want to try more ga to increase blog traffic .. CPD: D

So rather than my hard-Reviews email more difficult to get dijadiin posting aja: D

This may be old and you're bored already heard many times. But you know why you hear time and time again? Because it is a way that has been proven effective to increase blog traffic without SEO study.

Yuk we start;)
Periodically update the Blog

If you feel you can not crawl the visitors from Search Engine, that means you have to "spoil" your blog's visitors who have menyempatkan their time to open your blog. In the context of blogging, I memanjakannya by giving them something to read. Try to update the blog regularly and periodically, with the blog so you have the opportunity to be a "must visit blog" by visitors. Fair is to increase traffic without SEO: D
Improving the Quality of your articles

Do not be a difficult past, the quality of the article is relatively standard and do not. Do not trigger the article you are not qualified and make it a reason to stop ngeblog, learning and all need pembiasaan, keep writing, and slowly you will find the style of any posts you, so you know where that should be changed to improve it. For this I have shared my opinion and membahasnya in the article "How to Create a Blog Articles Qualified for Beginners." And I believe, elsewhere there are many more surely these tips to write a better article than I have. Living in the Google search aja: D

By increasing the quality of any posts you, the visitor will feel the benefit of finding the existence of your blog, not that it is not possible for them to give backlink from one of their articles related to your article. If you feel that there are tips on writing this blog is still too difficult for you, at least, make the text clear purpose and bahasannya .. Unless you make your blog about mystery stories hehehe .. Once again, without SEO, Keyword Optimization without: D
Giving Blogwalking and Comments

Blogwalking is fun, can provide ideas for you to create articles for our blog. I enjoyed myself and blogwalking said, there was the new blog that I read out his article and leave me a comment hehehe (nglirik one name in my blogroll). Although not yet joined the movement "U Comment I Follow," I have been applying "U Comment I Visit" since the beginning of the beginning of this blog: D

However, if you do not like so blogwalking and only want the increased traffic your blog, find blogs that active alias update regularly and have a permanent visitor. Read their articles and give comments on the topic, build or contain candaan (still on the topic). By doing so, they likely have visitors who are interested to "cock" your blog. This will also benefit from the SEO because you have to add a backlink although nofollow.

Oya, do not forget to reply to a comment on your blog. It will create a commentator blogs you really are with someone .. If you do not reply to their comments, it means that they only talk with the wordpress engine dong: D
Using Themes in Light of Your Blog

Visitors usually do not like the blog that requires time to open it. So make sure your blog's layout is not too heavy and do not install too many applications such as web tracking system, hitstat and other applications that just for the style-gayaan. Use of JavaScript that is too much will make your blog become a slow, especially if you place them-derived origin. Blog of light also benefit visitors who subscribe to an internet connection is not unlimited, there is such potential to become a permanent visitor you so esteem their bandwidth usage by reducing them to your blog.

Only 4 ways that I can share, more than this I have to touch the smelly SEO discussion. When you consider that there are four tips on the hard done, then he should ask himself, "If you want increased traffic or not?" complained before and ask again. One thing to keep in mind to succeed in blogging.

Traffic is human

esteem and so treat them with respect as you respect your friends and relatives;)

Hehehe .. 1 there is another way that has not to tell .. Follow-up program that is rich traffic exchange Entrecard, Site hopping or 23blogs. etc. .. This is too I emphasize in this article as opposed to the four tips above the drip heavy to the way we interact in the blogosphere;)

Congratulations Testing (*)