Friday, June 22, 2007

Various Exchanging Links' Tips

Exchange links with other websites is the most rational thing to consider to webmasters in order to gain websites popularity, reach more visitors, get more pagerank and having websites in search engines pages.


From budget perspective, this scheme also the cheapest thing webmaster can afford. Mostly it only need times, partners (that easily can be found via tons of webmasters forums), determination, and chances.


For years, it mostly has been a rule, that webmaster who ask other to exchange links will put links in their page(s) first before they ask to do the same thing. And this rule is a good thing to preserve, it makes the partner feels honoured and in many cases, it will threat the exchange links process in a more convenient way.


Tips for inquiring the want to be linked exchange websites:

  1. Check the page source, if it contains a nofollow code, you better stay away from it. With nofollow code, webmaster restricts robot to crawl site(s). You will not gain pagerank, and if your link on it not visible enough, you'll not get visitors either. Exchange link with this kind of website only and if only your link is visible enough to visitors (link that is located on the header page is visible enough to visitors!).
  2. Check the site's pagerank, either with a google toolbar or using a third parties websites (search using term pagerank checker .. you'll find tons of it). Some pagerank checker's websites also have an ability to check wheter the pagerank is a trus pagerank or a "forged" pagerank (a fake pagerank that is gotten from another site redirection).


But before starting to exchange links with other webmaster, below are tips that must be considered:

  1. Put the link on your web, and mail the webmaster, or via contact page on respective website.
  2. Provide the honest information regarding your web, such as amount of visitors, pagerank, where you put the links, etc. For a newly launched website, tells them frankly.
  3. Bear in minds that there's no correlation between pagerank values and amount of visitors, some websites have good pagerank but its not implies that it has a good amount of visitors too, and vice versa. So you better draw your mind first whether it will be a link exchange to gain visitors or to get pagerank.
  4. Nowadays, the most popular link exchange scheme is index page (homepage) link exchange, sitewide link exchange has been popular earlier, but some webmasters do not do this scheme anymore. Google scams issues are the main considerations. Be prepared to have this kind of link exchange scheme!


And the latter, is tips after successful link exchange:

  1. Remember to have a contact name and contact email from partner, and also the scheme of exchange link. So you can contact them for other future opportunities, or to contact them in case something went wrong.
  2. Having a good script to automatically checks links to other websites is a good option. But if you can effort it, it is okay to check it manually. It can be weekly, biweekly or monthly check. So if you found that partner website left off your link, you can ask them quickly.


That's all, it needs a time .. but indeed a is a good option to gain popularity and pagerank.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ping over 50 services in one click!

Ever wonder how to ping over 50 services in a quick way after you update your blog(s)? Pingoat.com is a free website that let us to ping over 50 services, hence our newly updated blog will be visited/crawled ASAP because they have been noticed our update.


Pingoat let you notify General Blog service such as: technorati.com, icerocket.com, weblogs.com, newsgator.com, blo.gs, feedburner.com, blogstreet.com, my.yahoo.com, moreover.com, newsisfree.com, syndic8.com, feedster.com, weblogs.se, topicexchange.com, blogdigger.com, blogmatcher.com, pubsub.com, coreblog.org, blogpeople.net, bulkfeeds.net, blogrolling.com, catapings.com, effbot.org, focuslook.com, holycowdude.com, octora.com. Non English Services such as: veneblogs.com, bitacoles.net, bitacoras.net, bitacoras.com, technorati.jp, bakeinu.jp, blogdb.jp, blog-search.net, blogmura.jp, cocolog-nifty.com, bloggers.jp, blogoon.net, blogstyle.jp amagle.com, gpost.info. And Special Services such as: longrank.com, weblogalot.com geourl.org, a2b.cc, memigo.com, 31engine.com, Weblogs.com, freshpodcasts.com, ipodder.org


To use the service, just visit pingoat.com, type your blog title, blog url and blog xml feed (optional) in apropriates fields. Select the services you want to notify, or click on the header if you wish to select all .. and the final thing is to click the "Go Pingoat" button. You will have list of service presented there.

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

5 Ways To Generate Website Traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange
This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.
This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

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