How To Rank Your Website in the Search Engines

October 12, 2010 By 3 Comments

I get this question all the time… "How do I rank my website in the search engines?"  I even get this from current members of Niche Blitzkrieg.  That’s OK.  I know during the learning process it can be tricky to figure out.  So the idea behind this post today is to recap the key factors of getting your website ranked in the search engines.  Keep in mind every page on your website ranks individually.  So let’s say you have 40 pages – they all rank individually in the search engines for their keywords.  This the main CRITICAL formula you’ll need to get any of your pages ranked in the search engines.

#1.  On Page Optimization.  Your page title needs to contain the EXACT keyword phrase you want to rank your webpage for.  So let’s say you want to rank your webpage for the term How Can I Make Money Using The Internet?  Then you’ll want that phrase (minus the punctuation) as the title of your webpage or to at least include it.  After the title make sure the body of your content has the keyword used in it.  Don’t over-do it just use your keyword phrase 1-2 times for every 300-500 words.

Bolding or underlining doesn’t hurt.  If you have a keyword phrased used a few times in the body bold it one time.  The search engines will place more emphasis on bolded keywords.  This isn’t as relevant as it once was – but still good practice in all of my experience.  Do not do this every time you use your keyword phrase – just use it sparingly.

#2.  Content Matters. You’ve got to use content on your webpage.  I suggest at least 250+ and I’d put as many words as possible on each page.  The more content related to your subject matter on your webpage the more likely you are to be found in the search engines for terms you may not have thought of.  I can’t tell you how many millions of visitors I’ve had to my websites on terms I never even thought to rank for.  These happened naturally and by accident.  Content matters!  Don’t be in a hurry make a content rich site.  I’m not saying to have 2000 words on each page, but the more the better.

#3.  Backlinks – Backlinks – Backlinks – Backlinks.  Did I say it enough?  YOU MUST HAVE BACKLINKS!  I cannot stress that enough.  But, one of the things I see happen so often is that my students build these amazing websites filled with fantastic content.  They even have these sites optimized and monetized correctly – but – they still ask why their sites pages are not showing up in the search engines in the top 10. 

99% of the time is because of lack of backlinks.  You must work on linking other pages back to your website.  Use article marketing (NBK Articles Directory Rocks), press releases, social bookmarking, forums, classified ads, blog commenting and anywhere else you can put a link that leads back to your website.  these backlinks are critical.  The more links you have coming in the better.  You must do backlink work for every single page of your site.

Those are the 3 things that will matter the most.  Make sure you’re doing them and keep building your backlinks to your web pages until you’re ranking where you want to rank.  Once you are ranked well and established you won’t have to link build as much and often times very little ever again.

Read more about link building tactics here.

Read how to use articles to get great backlinks here.

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Disturbing Facts About Free Article Directories Most People Will Never Know

October 12, 2010 By 8 Comments

One of the things I’ve been a big supporter over the last few years is article marketing.  I use articles for traffic and to get my websites ranked in the search engines all the time.  In fact, it’s probably my favorite way to build traffic.  Link building will be the life blood of your websites getting ranked in the search engines.  The free article directories I use mainly for LINK BUILDING purposes only.

#1.  ADS – and More Ads – The free article directories have ads all over the place.  Go watch this article video I shot a few days ago about this it’s pretty bad.  So because they have so many ads you’ll get a problem that I mention as bullet number 2.

#2.  LOW CTR – Low click-through rate.  Because there is so much page leak going on on the free article directories the majority of the visitors to your article will never even visit your site.  In fact, in my experience I get under 20% of the click-throughs from traffic from the free article directories – (ouch).

#3.  Not Enough Link Building – The free article directories do not build links to all of their categories.  This often leads to few links coming into the categories at the directory.  Sure their home pages have thousands of links coming in, but the categories do not.  This means that the high page rank of just their home page won’t end up doing much for you.

#4.  Distractions – Free article directories are masters of distractions.  If you missed the video the first time let me show you how they are distracting the visitors away from your site.

 

So by watching that video you can see why I only want to use the free article directories for link building only.  They are great for that.

Over the last couple a months I decided I wanted to have an article directory built that isn’t just for link building though.  What I wanted to build was an article directory that can get you The ULTIMATE CLICK-THOUGH and provide link building at the same time.

So I got with a team of experts and created  NBK ARTICLES which is an add-free article database where you can place unlimited articles and there are NO distractions to take visitors away from your site.

And here are some other super-benefits by joining this site.

#1. Your work will benefit you and only you – When traffic comes to your article to read your article they won’t have any distractions to take them away from clicking over to your website! 

#2.  You can get Major exposure using the author resource box – Beside your article will sit and author resource box.  Inside this box you can put banner ads, links, videos, opt in forms and anything you want to draw attention to your website.  Yes, you can also have affiliate links over there!  Check out an example of how you can use your own ads on your own article here.

#3.  You can add links in the body of your article – Most free directories make you use a resource area below your article.  The way we have it setup you can get click-throughs while the reader is reading your article.

#4.  At NBK Articles we have a team of dedicated link builders getting the site mass exposure – We want our site to grow and for you to get the ultimate benefit.  To do this we do our own link building to make sure it’s a win/win all around.

Watch all of our other benefits and features here.

I am happy to get this out and think you’ll be really impressed with what you’ll be able to do as a member of this site to not just build links but to get traffic from our site.  As this article directory grows you’ll get mass exposure, great backlinks and a high % of the click-throughs will go to you and not us.  That’s why we are 100% ad-free.  Check it out at http://www.nbkarticles.com

If you have any questions ask below :)

 

A few hours ago I also released another helpful post that might be beneficial to you.  Check it out here.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Increasing Traffic, Internet marketing, Link Building

Fast Way to Rank Your Web Site and Make More Money.

February 15, 2010 By 37 Comments

Watch the video below and then follow the links right below the video for the things you need to make this work and for the free manual that I put together that will help you even more.  This is an easy technique you can use to get a brand new web site ranked fast and in the process make a  lot more money.  While the technique isn’t new at all it’s something I’ve been writing about for the last 2 years – because it works!  The new part is being able to plug a website easily into a network that helps basically get you auto ranked.

These are the tools you need.

#1. Get Your 1 Way Links Program.

#2.  If you need a domain get a domain from Angry Chihuahua Domains.

#3.  Download the additional PDF that will help walk you through exactly how to use 1 way links.  (FREE).  This will show you exactly how to enter your articles and how your links should be constructed.

If you need additional keyword research help check out some of my older posts.  This will help teach you how to do keyword research and some tips that will save you a TON of research time.  Watch my Keyword Research Video Here.  Also I have an additional video here on keyword research.

A small note about the video.  In the video I do not mention that you should add additional pages to your website.  You should add as many as you want to help rank yourself for additional keywords related to your niche.  5-10 extra pages will do it.  I am also using specifically, blogs for this technique.  If you’re already in the Niche Blitzkrieg Training Program you already understand keyword research and all the basics you need to build a blog.

Hope you enjoyed the video!  Looking forward to your feedback and results from using this!

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Finding Your Traffic With Articles

September 7, 2009 By 18 Comments

One of the biggest keys to success for your online business, products or affiliate sites is finding your traffic.  The reason I say finding your traffic is because often times people think that doing nothing will bring great results.

While there are many ways to gain traffic I want to share some easy to use tips today for using articles to find traffic sources.  While this technique isn’t new or some earth shattering revelation…. many people are not using this technique.

For this example we are going to assume you’re in the dog drooming niche.

OK, the idea we are going to use here is to get your article viewed by more people.  First, if you’re unsure what to write about in your niche you’ll want to do some research.

FIRST:  Go to www.ezinearticles.com

#1.  Type your keywords in the search bar.

#2.  Browse the articles in the database.

 

Simply click on one of the articles that comes up (or all of them if you’d like) to see how many searches they are getting.  If you can find several articles getting a decent amount of article views chances you’ll want to look at what keyword phrases they are using.  For instance if your main keywords are Dog Grooming but you see an article for Dog Grooming Kits Online you might want to figure out if they are getting traffic for Dog Grooming Kits instead.

So how do you do that?

Simple.  Open up your browser to www.google.com and check.  Most of the traffic to articles comes from natural search engine rankings (usually).

Inside Google simply type in "dog grooming".  If that doesn’t return any results for an Ezine Article then type in Dog Grooming Kits.  If that brings up the keyword results then you know that they are ranking for those keywords.

Next, simply write a similar article (do not copy them or write anything too similar but use similar keywords).  I like to write most of my articles at 500 words or more but I’ve found hundreds of barely over 300 words ranking well (like top 5) on Google.

Make sure your resource box has links going back to your site where you want people to either click you affiliate links or adsense banners.

That’s it!  Pretty simple and easy.

Let’s look at a couple other things though.  I like to give my articles a boost by writing an additional article and pointing it from other article directories to article I want to rank high in Google.  I simply write another similar article that and add it to a few other top directories (www.goarticles.com , www.articlealley.com, www.buzzle.com – will do).  Inside the resource box from that article I put a link with slightly varied anchor text pointing back to that original ezine article I wrote.  This will give you some extra juice in Google.

What I like tyo do is fire up my copy of Niche Research Commando and check that original article I want to compete with (the article we originally found in the search engine "dog grooming kits")

Inside Niche research Commando I just type in the keywords  (dog grooming kits) and then start and within as few seconds I’ll be able to see all the backlinks going into that article.  This will allow me to decide if I need to promote more links pointing into my article or just a few.  If they have no backlinks I’ll usually just put only one article into 3-4 other article directories with a link going back to my article I want to rank for.

It typically doesn’t take long for Google to pick up my article and for it to start climbing the ranks in the search engine.

I’ll probably do a follow up to this post later this week as this is just the surface.  in fact, there is so much more you can do here.  But, for most people reading this, this is a great start to getting more results from your articles.

Let’s recap what to do.

#1.  Search ezinearticles.com for you niche keywords.

#2.  Look to see if the articles are getting views.

#3.  Find a few getting the most views.

#4.  Determine if that article is ranking for the main keywords or some other keywords.

#5.  Search Google to determine.

#6.  Write a similar article.  (includes links to your site in the resource box).

#7.  If you own Niche Research Commando fire it up and check for backlinks. (optional)

#8.  If article has low backlinks you’ll only need 1-2 articles written.

#9.  Write the additional articles and upload them to some high PR article sites (shown above.)

#10. Make sure the article points back to your article that you want to rank.  (Vary the anchor text – don’t just use one phrase).

#11. Repeat if you want to do more.  (  You should want more  :)   )

This works great for users of www.nicheblitzkrieg.com and www.megaclassifiedmillions.com as well.

You can do this in any niche and it’s an easy way to generate some more traffic to your site or affiliate sites.  Leave you comments, questions or any further ideas below.  Already using this technique?  Tell us your results.

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