Millions of people visit YouTube every day. If you aren’t promoting your business on YouTube yet, what are you waiting for?
I am about to bring out some of the hottest techniques to promote a video on YouTube. We’ve used them with clients from all over the world and a lot of them have seen thousands of new visitors as a result of these powerful tactics.
Anyway, here is the list:
- Copy the Top Performers: Look for the three most popular videos with more views in your category and get ideas from them. Copy their video title, video tags and description. Don’t copy anything verbatim, change things up a little and make some difference.
- Create Your Own Channel: Create a new channel and customize to feature your best videos. This alone will drastically increase your views.
- Use the Bulletin Board: This is a great feature that allows you start a conversation around your own videos. But don’t limit yourself to your own bulletin boards, use others as well.
- Add Friends: YouTube is not just a video sharing community; YouTube is a social network. Add friends to your list and connect with them.
- Use Video Responses: Search for most popular videos related to yours and post your video as a response to them. Leverage the views that other videos get.
- Create Something Worth Spreading the Word About: If your video is boring, all these tactics will go in vain. The videos that work best on YouTube are either hilarious, controversial, unique, current trend or very useful.
- Complete Your Profile: Don’t leave your profile empty, YouTube allows you to fill out a profile do it by all means including a “link to your website here” field.
- Link the Videos to Your Profile: You can place your videos link to any page within YouTube. Set it up so when people click on your video they go to your profile directly. And from your profile they are able to click on your website link.
- Create Playlists: Create a playlist of related videos. Include much popular ones on a certain topic and, of course, your own video.
- Join Some Groups and Create Your Own: Join some groups and post both, text and video comments. You can also create your own group.
- Encourage Viewers to Subscribe: End each video asking viewers to subscribe. Many people don’t know they can subscribe or they will forget unless you remind them.
These are some of the techniques that we have used for our best clients. Most of them got more than a Million views. How would you like to get your business in front of a million potential new clients?
If you have any question in this regard, don’t hesitate to ask. You can contact me through our Contact form or just send me an email at Wahid@wahidqazi.com.
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Facebook has become an incredible online community that is a gold mine for everyone interested in advertising or creating brand awareness. Not only does Facebook have over 100 Million active users, but it has a lot of great ways for business owners to reach these users in a legit way. Below we are going to talk about the core advertising methods you can dabble in on Facebook and how you can make the most of them.
Facebook Profiles
Creating a profile is the most basic thing you can do on Facebook and it’is required if you want to do anything else such as create a group or fan page. Make sure you completely fill out your profile because a full profile looks much more interesting than an empty one. You can also add your website URL in several locations and be sure to discuss about your business/brand and plug your website URL in the appropriate spots as mentioned.
Then you have to start adding friends to your profile every day, the current limit is 5,000 friends but this may be lifted in the future. If you add 20 friends a day which would take you possibly 5 minutes, in one month you will have 600 friends! From my testing you will have to type in a CAPTCHA or anti spam code for the first 10-15 friend adds, but after that it seemed to go away and it was much quicker to add friends. I wouldn’t recommend adding to many friends each day because it will come off as spammy.
Now that you have your profile created and optimized, you are able to create a Facebook group or even better a Facebook page, both of which we will go over below.
Facebook Groups
Groups were available before pages and are more of a place for users to discuss topics such as logo design or automobiles. It’s almost like a mini forum. The benefits for group owner is that they are very viral and you can bulk invite all you friends to join your group. The problem is they are not indexable by Search Engines and not available to view unless you are a member of Facebook.
I would recommend creating a Facebook group for your business, but frankly Facebook pages are really where it’s at and you should focus your efforts on your page instead of your group.
Facebook Pages
Facebook pages are all about business and have many of the same features available in groups, but with some extra key features available. The main advantage of pages is the fact that they are indexable by Search Engines and available to view even if you are not a member so promoting the page is easy.
When creating your facebook page make sure you use your most important keyword as the page name so that it shows as the page title, making your page more SEO friendly. Like you did with your profile, fill out your Facebook page with all important information about your business, website URLS and so on.
The best way to promote your page is to offer some sort of discount offers, coupon codes etc, if you are not a major brand. This way you give people a reason to become a fan of your page. Once they become a fan you can send updates which is the best part of having a Facebook page for your business.
Facebook groups may work well virally, but so do Facebook fan pages. Whenever someone becomes a fan of your page it shows up in their profile and looks something like this: Person’s Name, Became a fan of Your Business/Brand/Company Name.
So if you give your fan page a good jump start it could really take off. The number of fans you can have has no limit and some pages have anywhere from several thousand fans to over 5 million fans!
So if you want to focus on one thing I would highly recommend you to create a Facebook fan page, instead of a group and putting all your advertising efforts towards the Facebook page.
Facebook Applications
The introduction of Facebook Applications is most likely the most popular move made by Facebook to date. They released their API so developers and business owners could cooperate to create fun and cool applications that engage users. The applications created so far vary in purpose; some are cool games, some are useful and some are directly related and tied into businesses.
Many popular applications have thousands of monthly active users and that information speaks for itself, so if you want to read and learn more about how to create a Facebook application, I highly recommend you to check out the Facebook Developers page. Once you have created an application, be sure to add it to your profile and to your Facebook group and page!
Facebook Ads
Facebook ads are a great way to really boost your exposure using highly targeted CPC and CPM Advertising. You can target users by age, gender, regional, interests, and even attach friend-to-friend interactions about your business to your ads.
The best part is you can also advertise an external website or a Facebook page. So if you created a fan page earlier for your business and you are looking to build up your facebook fan page you can do so easily by driving the traffic from your advertisements directly to your page.
So join Facebook today and start working on your Facebook promotions, because if your competition is not on Facebook already, they will be soon!
If you have any question in this regard, don’t hesitate to ask. You can contact me through our Contact form or just send me an email at Wahid@wahidqazi.com.
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It would be difficult not to notice the astonishing growth of Facebook over the last few months. Facebook now has 31 million members across the world and its growth has been so large that several people are talking of it as the new Microsoft.
Where there are members there is the potential to get customers, promote your business and drive traffic to your site or eBay listings. After playing around with Facebook over the last few months, I have come up with a list of ways in which it can be used to your business.
Connect with your business contacts
It is possible that your colleagues and business contacts are on Facebook already. Invite them to become your friends and join your company’s professional network (if you have one – see below). Facebook is a lot more friendly and interactive environment than other social networks like Linkedin and can be used to form closer bonds with your contacts.
Build a profile for your company
To create a grip on Facebook, create a profile for your company and a company network. This will let you to do the following things:
- Ask your business colleagues, and customers to become your friends, creating a facebook network around your business.
- Make postings which will appear in your facebook friend’s newsfeeds. These can be about special offers and company news such as job postings.
- List your items in the facebook marketplace (see below)
Promote your Blog
If you have a company or personal blog, this can be imported into your facebook notes. Your posting will then appear in your newsfeed and that of your friends.
Facebooks notes settings can be accessed from the applications menu in the LHS of your profile page.
List your items in the marketplace
Facebook has a marketplace where items can be listed for sale. This is free and could be used promote items for sale on your website or eBay. Products such as Ztail, make listing items on facebook marketplace easy.
Write an Facebook application
Finally, if you think that there is a real opportunity for your business on Facebook, you should look into developing an application. Applications can help you develop friends and drive traffic to your website. Last.fm were one of the first companies to boost their business through a facebook application.
The sign the Facebook is a force to be reckoned with is that there are facebook only businesses developing. An example of a business which uses facebook is Social flowers, which enables facebook members to send each other flowers.
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We have been deeply documenting the rise of Bing, and there’s no denying it has unquestionably improved Microsoft’s position in terms of search market share.
So now the issue for website owners and Search Engine Optimizers remains – “How do I rank top in Bing and drive more visitors to my website?”
As you guys know very well that Bing is a smart search engine because if you are an SEO and optimizing a website for a keyword, example: “SEO Consultant” then if you’re optimizing your main page and let suppose your main page doesn’t contain the keyword OR text SEO Consultant then Bing will automatically find the text from your subpages.
While the jury is still out on definitive strategies for higher ranking success in Bing, there seems to be a rising chorus of support for certain tactics, which I have detailed below:
- Backlinks: While backlinks are still used in the bing algorithm, it seems not to the similar level as Google. Backlink counts for top 10 websites in Bing are much lower as compared to Google, suggesting less importance.
- Anchor Text: It seems that Bing focuses more deeply on links with relevant anchor text, so that should influence your linking strategy – get your text anchor text right.
- On-Page Optimization: One of the more contentious factors, but many SEO experts believes Bing is weighting more deeply towards On-Page Optimization, not sure this will remain the case, if in fact it is the case.
- Keywords in URLs add essential ranking benefits
- Title Tags are as important as all the time.
- Internal link anchor text seems to add major weight to content relevance
- Age and Authority: It appears that Bing places a higher weighting on site/domain age and authority as compared to Google. Once more a factor that is surely not sustainable given the importance of social media and blogs in terms of relevant results.
Below is a chart that ABC News Alerts produced based some analysis. We compared the top 2 results for the search “Latest News” in Bing and Google to determine what factors matter most for the two respective websites.
As you can see from the general consensus and ABCNewsAlerts’s research, the higher ranking factors for Google and Bing do differ.
The important thing to note is that no one of them competes, so to get higher rankings in Bing and Google won’t compromise each other. Smart site owners should be covering off the factors of each search engine to maximize their website visitors.
If you’ve done your own experiment into what works and doesn’t work for Bing SEO – we’d love to hear what you’ve learnt.
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I could have sworn that someone has already a great post or forum thread on this topic, but I can’t seem to find it (no matter how advanced my operators). I’m sure Mr. Malicoat has it in his bookmarks, but since blog posts are one of my personal systems for public bookmarking, here goes.
Eleven Guidelines to Successful URLs
- Describe Your Content
An obvious URL is a great URL. If a user can look at the Address bar (or a pasted link) and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before ever reaching it, you’ve done your job. These URLs get pasted, shared, emailed, written down, and yes, even recognized by the engines.
- Keep it Short
Remember always; brevity is a virtue. The shorter the URL, the easier to copy & paste, read over the phone, write on a business card, or use in a hundred other unorthodox fashions, all of which spell better usability & increased branding.
- Static is the Way & the Light
Not to bring religion into this, but I can tell you with certainty that some of the engines absolutely DO treat static URLs differently than dynamic ones. And no human likes a URL where the big players are “?,” “&,” and “=.”
- Descriptives are Better than Numbers
If you’re thinking of using 114/cat223/, go with /brand/adidas/ instead. Even if the descriptive isn’t a keyword or particularly informative to an uninitiated user, it’s far better to use words when possible. If nothing else, your team members will thank you for making it that much easier to ID problems in development and testing.
- Keywords Never Hurt
If you know that you’re going to be targeting a lot of competitive keyword phrases on your website for search traffic, you’ll want every advantage you can get. Keywords are certainly one element of that strategy, so take the list from marketing, map it to the proper pages, and get to work. For dynamically created pages through a CMS, create the option of including keywords in the URL.
- Subdomains Aren’t the Answer
First off, never use multiple subdomains (e.g., siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com) – it’s unnecessarily complex and lengthy. Secondly, consider that subdomains have the potential to be treated separately from the primary domain when it comes to passing link and trust value. In most cases where just a few subdomains are used and there’s good interlinking, it won’t hurt, but I wouldn’t take the chance. To me, the benefits derived from reputation management (by flooding the SERPs with your subdomains) are minimal compared to the potential loss of link/trust juice. I also think that subdomain takeovers of SERPs is not something the search engines see as beneficial to their users and may shut down at any point. Luckily, if you’re doing it now, you can always 301 to the main domain.
- Fewer Folders
A URL should contain no unnecessary folders (or words or characters for that matter), for the same reason that a man’s pants should contain no unnecessary pleats. The extra fabric is useless and will reduce his likelihood of impressing potential mates.
- Hyphens Separate Best
When creating URLs with multiple words in the format of a phrase, hyphens are best to separate the terms (e.g. /brands/dolce-and-gabbana/), followed (in order) by, underscores (_), pluses (+) and nothing.
- Stick with Conventions
If your site uses a single format throughout, don’t consider making one section unique. Stick to your URL guidelines once established, so users (and future developers) will have a clear idea of how content is organized into folders and pages. This can apply globally as well for sites that share platforms, brands, etc. Re-inventing the wheel in situations where reliance on convention makes everyone’s tasks easier is folly.
- Don’t be Case Sensitive
Since URLs can accept both uppercase and lowercase characters, don’t ever, ever allow any uppercase letters in your structure. If you have them now, 301 them to all-lowercase versions to help avoid confusion. If you have a lot of type-in traffic, you might even consider a 301 rule that sends any incorrect capitalization permutation to its rightful home.
- Don’t Append Extraneous Data
There’s no point to having a URL exist in which removing characters generates the same content. You can be virtually assured that people on the web will figure it out, link to you in different fashions, confuse themselves, their readers and the search engines (with duplicate content issues), and then complain about it.
Example Time
The following are some grievously heinous violators of the guidelines above:
- http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-9912342-3046240?_encoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000FN0KWA
Target (who’s powered by Amazon) doesn’t describe their content, use keywords, or keep it short. That and the horrifyingly useless data that can be removed from the URL without changing the content make this URL downright ugly.
- http://etsy.com/view_item.php?listing_id=477443&pic_id=2
Despite being one of my favorite sites, Etsy’s URLs provide no descriptive information, use multiple dynamic parameters and separate breaks with underscores.
- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=98115&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1&iwloc=A
Google should be ashamed – their guidelines for URLs practically set the town for the recommendations, but their maps feature is almost unusable due to inefficient, bloated URLs (when they must know that millions want to copy those URLs into emails)
These few below are doing a considerably better job, but could still go the extra mile:
- http://men.style.com/news/gadgets/092006
It’s almost there, and one could almost argue that the subdomain use here is justified for branding purposes. It is too bad they gave us so much data, but then cut out keywords and descriptives right at the end
- http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1
Nasa has uselessly appended dynamic parameters onto the page, and added /home/index.html for no logical reason
- http://www.newyorkmetro.com/fashion/fashionshows/2007/spring/ main/newyork/womenrunway/marcjacobs/
They’re trying to be descriptive, which is great, but not separating words and going 7 folders deep is really pushing it.
These last examples have done nearly everything right:
- http://www.wahidqazi.com/seo-help/
Brilliant – it’s short, descriptive, static and obvious.
- http://blog.wahidqazi.com/11-best-practices-for-urls/
Despite the subdomain, everything else is near perfect.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
I’m letting the White House off the hook for not using “john-kennedy” as the page title, because they’ve wisely also provided his number (the US’ 35th President).
URLs seem like one of the most simplistic parts of SEO, but I find myself returning to this issue with nearly every client. Hopefully these guidelines can help a few folks make use of best practices before it becomes an issue down the road.
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Three Pronged Google’s Jaggar Update was the scariest of all Google Updates so far, it’s the longest period update and affected almost all websites specially those on competitive keyword or phrase. Majority of SEOs and Website Owners dislike this update, since they had to change their strategies.
I personally like google not only because of its volume and popularity but for its continual efforts to improve and maintain search engine quality of results. In search, google always comes with new and innovative ideas. Here is a latest updates that google does recently, it’s another step toward better results.
Here is a list of elements in Jaggar Update:
- Reciprocal Link Exchange (RLE) Abuse
- CSS SPAM
- Blog SPAM
- Redirect Domains or Pages
- Pirate Sites or Matter
- Inbound Links (IBL) Repetition
- Outbound Link (OBL) Irrelevancy
- Top Domain PR Weight
- Keyword Stuffing in Alt Tags
- Hidden Text
Reciprocal Link Exchange (RLE) Abuse: is cross linking between two or more websites for building link popularity, it doesn’t matter the websites are relevant or not, they are cross linked just to improve their PG. NO more cross linking now, jaggar update has really treated RLE website badly. Bulk link renting, link farming, FFA linking and irrelevant linking are also the type of RLE abuse.
Solution: Stop RLE link building strategy. Build one way linking through partnership programs, directories relevant category listings and relevant industry portal registrations.
CSS SPAM: is that CSS, which is created for misleading search bots and visitors, playing with CSS and deceiving search engine bots is NO more worth at least with google bot, webmaster use CSS to invisible text with website visitors, invisible text or near to invisible text by any mean is SPAM.
Solution: Use CSS for better formatting not to deceive search engine bots.
Blog SPAM: is that blog which is not updated and created specially to promote website.
Solution: Make blogs and maintain them regularly, try to use your blogs as guideline or help to your business rather just promotions.
Redirect Domains or Pages: are those domains or pages which are used to forward visitors somewhere else it could be in same domain or different domain.
Solution: Don’t redirect your domain or pages unless you have restructured or updated your website. Use 301 a permanent director, if you have restructured or updated your website.
Pirate Sites or Matter: are copied sites or matter from somewhere without permission, it could be from same domain as well then it will be mirror copy that’s also SPAM.
Solution: If you can’t manage to keep fresh content then there are free content distribution websites available which provide fresh content free of cost, use content from there.
Inbound Links (IBL) Repetition: IB links are links pointing the same domain pages. If one page is linked with too many times by different positions and with different or multiple keyword or phrase, it’s considered to be SPAM practice.
Solution: One or two multiple links (one could be text based and another could be image based link) are OK to same page, don’t go beyond the limit.
Outbound Links (OBL) Irrelevancy: is linking with irrelevant websites or categories, it’s wastage of time and money to be linked with irrelevant websites.
Solution: Find relevant category related to your website and ask for placements both paid and free directories and portals available with plenty of categories.
Top Domain PR Weight: is the index or default page exists in root directory, when you type www.mydomain.com this page comes to show its content, google has started considering this page’s PR only, rest of the pages got very less consideration to google now.
Solution: Register your top domain in directories, portals to get maximum incoming links to your top domain and keep fresh content at top domain as well.
Keyword Stuffing in Alt Tags: is considered SPAM, this is a technique in which keyword or phrases are put in atl tags without considering that they are relevant or not.
Solution: Put relevant keyword or phrase in alt tags if keyword or phrase doesn’t suite then don’t try to put it forcefully.
Hidden Text: is invisible text that is kept to feed search engine rather to show website visitors. In this technique text color is kept same as back ground color, as a result text cannot be seen by human visitors.
Solution: Don’t use this technique, if you have applied it, remove it as soon as possible. Instead of keeping your text hidden, make everything visible to visitor and try to use keyword or phrase in caption, heading, sub-heading, bold or linked.
About The Author
Wahid Qazi is a Researcher, SEO, Trainer, Speaker and Author, specializes in google optimization and promotion.
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Who doesn’t want to get Top Ranking Positions in Google? 1st Page Placement in Google is NOT difficult, you need to follow Google Optimization Guidelines, and this Article has Summary of the Seven Fundamentals for Google Optimization.
Google optimization is about following Google guidelines, Google likes ethical SEO practices, those SEO practices which are to help website owners as well as Google and it has published guidelines for SEOs here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/seo.html
Top 7 Fundamentals for Google Optimization
- Fresh and Original Content
- Clean and Validated Code
- Easy and Accessible Navigation
- Good Interlinking of Web pages
- Healthy and Relevant Incoming Links
- Domain Age and Registered Period For
- Same Contacts at Site and Domain Registration
Fresh and Original Content
Google love fresh and original content on web page, selectable content/text copy of your web page, google can’t read content on images or at pics but if your website is completely based on images so there’s a solution for you, you can use your slogan on ALT tags.
e.g.; “<img src=”image source” alt=”Search Engine Submission | Submit Your Website on 100 Search Engines With a Single Click. “>
Clean and Validated Code
Clean and validate code helps google to crawl deeply, try to put content at the beginning of your web page, ignore nesting, javascript or comments, in fact try to shorten the text format with the help of external CSS.
Easy and Accessible Navigation
Text or image base navigation helps google to read, google bot can’t read javascript, dhtml, flash base navigation, try to avoid using these practices which google doesn’t like. Keep your navigation at top or left side of the web pages, make sure to add a sitemap page which will guide web surfers and web bots to read each and every page of your website, if you have huge website then make sure to add at least all main categories’ links at sitemap page.
Good Interlinking of Web pages
Web links are like roads and streets at website, make sure all website’s internal links are text base or image base, with relevant content.
Healthy and Relevant Incoming Links
Google likes referred websites, specially referred from quality and relevant resources. The more referrer links the more top rankings. Here one thing should be remembered that one relevant incoming links is better than hundred irrelevant links.
Domain Age and Registered Period For
Google started keeping new registered domains in sandbox since April 2004, in sandbox almost all new domains kept on probationary period for 6 to 8 months, in some cases for longer period, Sandbox domains don’t get good rankings.
Google also likes to rank better to those domains which are registered for longer period like for 5 or 10 years, because whoever registered domains for longer period shows how much s/he is serious with her/his business and most probably won’t do SPAM with those domains.
Same Contacts at Site and Domain Registration
Google likes true businessmen and a true businessman doesn’t misguide his website visitors, google likes those websites which have physical mailing address to their contact pages and google compares it with that physical mailing address which is used in domain registering.
About The Author
Wahid Qazi is a Researcher, SEO, Trainer, Speaker and Author, specializes in google optimization and promotion.
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Interesting comparisons between Organic and PPC listings, everybody wants to know which is of more worth and value, I would say that both have different preposition and benefits. Here is list of elements between both organic and PPC with their pros and corns.
Organic Listings
- Long Lasting Effect
- Slow Results
- Low Cost
- Less Control Over Ranking
- More Clicks Than PPC
- No Management
- No Monitoring
- Assumption
- Gigantic Exposure
- More Text Space
- Uncontrolled Title And Description
PPC Listings
- Effect Depends On Budget
- Quick Results
- Expensive
- Complete Control Over Ranking
- Less Clicks Than Organic
- Complete Management
- Complete Campaign Monitoring
- Authentic
- Limited Exposure
- Less Text Limitation
- Controlled Title And Description
I’m sure, this comparison will help you take better decision and best use of your hard earned money, both these marketing are very effective in different scenarios, if you have big budget you must go for PPC first and also keep organic as secondary marketing for long term. If you have small budget then organic would be an excellent choice with some paid listings in directories and industry related portals.
About The Author
Wahid Qazi is a Researcher, SEO, Trainer, Speaker and Author, specializes in google optimization and promotion.
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Search engines don’t talk with websites directly, they use bots to communicate with websites, their bots come to websites and start reading the websites, whatever they read at websites they go back to search engines carrying the messages and store those messages in search engine’s database.
Search Engines are NOT Human Beings!
Search engines view websites with different prospects. They don’t have eyes to analyze beautiful colors and animations, don’t have ears to listen music and don’t have feelings to fall in love with your catchy slogans. Apart of all these disabilities they can evaluate your website better than a human being.
When you develop or going to get your website developed, what things you should keep in mind? Being website Owner you might think of website design and content, being Webmaster you might think of easy navigation and flexibility of website. You might be missing one very important aspects of search engine positioning, and that is how search engine is viewing your website?
What Things Search Engines Like at Your Website?
Good communication can increase the performance, it applies the same to search engines, if your website can communicate well enough to create good impression to search engines, your website will be facilitating with high rankings then, here is a list of elements search engines like.
- Validated and Optimize Code
- Rich Content
- Unique URL of Each Webpage
- Plain URLs
- Proper Internal Linking
- Healthy Incoming Links
- Text Based Navigation
- Neat Table Structure
- Good Directory and File Structure
- Proper Headings, Subheadings, Captions
- Title, Meta Tags and Alt Tags
- Robots.txt
What Things Search Engines Dislike at Your Website?
Take care of the elements which can hurt your view to search engines, thought each search engine has its own criteria of viewing websites but all major search engines dislike these mentioned elements.
- Broken Links
- Invalid Code
- JavaScript
- Orphan Links, Images and Files
- Under-construction Page/es
- Pop ups
- Redirectors
- IP Tracking
- Dynamically Generated Pages
- Frames
- Same Background and Font Colors
- Multi Nested Table Structure
Search engine bots crawl website with different time frame period, it depends upon how frequently your website updates? Each search engine has its own time frequency to crawl websites, now you know what things do matter to search engines, take care of them so that your website can delivery its message well enough to get top rankings.
Best of luck
About The Author
Wahid Qazi is a Researcher, SEO, Trainer, Speaker and Author, specializes in google optimization and promotion.
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We all know how important link popularity is for better rankings in top search engine like google, yahoo and msn! In this article you’ll come to know the linking types and brief comparisons of manual submission and automated submissions.
Comparisons of Automated and Manual Submissions:
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Automated Submissions
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Manual Submissions
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Can’t recognize PR of the Search Engine / Direct-ories/ Sites
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Manually You can observe real PR of the Search Engine/Directories/Sites
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Can’t recognize Type of the links
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Links Type is easily recognizable
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Will leave few input fields empty or wrong filled
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Will never leave any required field empty
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Will fail to recognize necessaries fields
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Will easily recognize necessaries fields
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Can’t recognize Title, Description Limits
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Manually Title and Description Limits can be seen and can be utilized those limits very well
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Can’t recognize which format keywords should be supplied, either with commas or with spaces
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Can easily read either in which format keywords are required to supply
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It’s Fast
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It’s slow but very correct
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Unreliable
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It’s 99.99% reliable
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Can’t make multiple compositions according to situations
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Manually you can compose multiple titles and descriptions to maximize the benefits of submissions
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Can’t read text over images, these days search engine and directories have started putting a image with text to filter automated and manual submissions
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Text over images at the time of submission can be easily seen in manual submission and successfully proceeded to submission
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Majority of the search engines and directories in their database is not validated and checked
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Manually you can update the search engines and directories and can have record as well
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They are limit to their database, they normally don’t have search criteria defined to update their database
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Manually you have no limit, the more you search the more you’ll come know about search engines
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They can’t reply to the validated mail and can’t validate the submissions
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Manually you can validate your mail sent at the time of submission from search engine or directories
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Wrong data input to fields, sometimes company names or contact person are supplied to title
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Manually you have very less chances of wrongly filled data in required fields at the time of submissions
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After looking at the comparisons, you can easily know why manual submissions are considered to be good and recommended by professional SEOs. Don’t look at the shortcomings and a little ease in automated submission, these shortcomings and little comfort can be a nightmare. Submissions are a very important part of link building campaigns, and if your submissions are made correctly they can play huge rule in link building. Try to submit manually so that you can get the maximum benefits out of it.
More links VS More Valuable Links?
Effective manual submissions can be very useful increasing link value, automated submission can create only more incoming links but effective manual submissions can give those links more value.
A professional submitter should always take care of few things, which can give his/her submissions more value.
Take Care of These Elements When Submitting…
- Should know the type of the link, going to be visible after submission
- Should know the limits of title and description
- Should create multiple titles and descriptions according to limits
- Should check and re-check those submitted links periodically
- Always keep passwords and ids save for future updates
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