Doesn't matter what niche your website / blog is about, there is always need to promote it to get more traffic and readers. Building quality content is great but you need to promote your website / blog as you go. While you can submit your website into thousands of search engines and directories but there are still some really useful options for increasing website traffic towards your website by other organic means. I have been going through several resources to find a way to promote TechMynd. I have been successful. TechMynd's readership has increased past few months a lot. I want to share with you one of the easiest method I did with TechMynd to get it promoted in few weeks.
Google Toolbar for Firefox and IE provides many SEO benefits as well as some useful information for website opened in browser. For Google Chrome we haven't Toolbar but we can add all functionality in it very easily. With single click, you can find backlinks from different websites, indexed pages by Yahoo, Google and Bing, Google and Alexa Pagerank, translate any webpage into English from Chrome, find related sites, URL mentioned in Digg, domain lookup and tools, validate pages and css, highlight nofollow links, number of links on a page and lot more...all with single click right from Chrome browser. All you have to do is copy particular javascript code, create a new bookmark in Chrome and paste it there.
Free Reciprocal Link Checker – Auto Check Your Link Exchange Partner Still Links to You or Not
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Set it and forget it. Its this much simple. If you have got a website of blog, you might get many offers for link exchange. While relevant link exchanging is a good practice for SEO of a website but you might not have a proper setup or time to validate your link exchange partner that he still links to you or not. In this case you will have to go your self and check his website that your link is still there or not. What if you have many link exchange partners and you can not check them regularly. Here is a tool which will enable you to be informed automatically about your link status at other link exchange partner websites. You will get an email notification whenever your link will be removed from their websites. Reciprocal Link Checker (inbound links checker) is totally free service which checks partners once in a week and informs you.
Suppose you have got a list of links to do something with. You are a search engine marketing expert or you are running your brand new link building campaign and you have got a whole list of websites and relevant URLs. SEO expert's or SEE's first task is to find out Page Rank of every link or website he has got. Infact SEO thing starts with the Page Rank. After all Page rank indicates popularity and authority of a website. All you have to do now is to open every single URL in your browser with Google toolbar to find out page rank of hundreds of URLs you possess. Duoh!!! You can save your huge time if you have got some tool with multiple URLs Page Rank checking functionality.
You can easily check backlinks for your website or blog. Backlinks cast a vote to your website. Page rank is the popularity or authority of any specific page over internet. If you do search engine optimization or you are a webmaster and want to know how powerful your backlinks or inbound links are then this tool is designed for this task. It will display your backlinks and their page rank strength. This is how you can calculate real worth of your website.
WordPress Plugins Bugs
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Plugins are cool. Every WordPress powered blog uses different plugins. They give your blog wings. There are few things you must be aware of before using plugins. What I do, I just test the plugin before I actually use it. All the plugins out there are not trustworthy. Even if any plugin comes by a trusted source, it can have bugs which will make your blogging life a bit complicated. I regularly check plugins, update plugins whenever any update is available and remove the plugin which contain any bug. Here are few popular WPplugins I noticed some bugs in them recently.
Ever Witnessed 3 Hours Old Content At Front Page of Google? I Did Just Now.
You can reach at the front page of Google in hours time, may be in minutes (Update: Yes 15 minutes, if using a WordPress blog). I will tell you how!!!
Have a look at the image below. It is said by SEO guys that it takes 3 months at least for SEO of any new content and to bring it at the front page of Google. Google is sharp and can distinguish between popular and simple content. Last evening (23 Nov 2008) was Lahore Bloggers Meetup in LUMS. We attended that and in the morning today (24 Nov 2008) I posted the event review. By chance after 4 hours, I hit search button to find some new information about the event by any other blogger but Guess What?
I recently setup again some of my websites and I needed to have some check whether any link is broken or not. After a little search I found two useful online tools and one is from W3C which analyze your website and after crawling they provide you a report and list of broken links found at website or blog and a plugin for your blog which will notify you if someone lands at 404 at your blog.
First let's see, What is RSS? Why Use RSS? RSS is an acronym for "Really Simple Syndication". Its syndication format for web content and a new way of getting fresh content update for your web pages and search engines. Many websites online and almost every blog, offer a feed of their content in RSS format. As RSS grows in popularity more publishers are likely to join in and offer their own RSS feeds. i would say that its important for SEO and users point of view. Now every dynamic website now a days has RSS feed but what about static pages. What if you have a static simple website. How will you offer update in the form of RSS feed for your static website? Here is a clean and simple solution.
Are you happy with your current search engine placement? Are people able to find your site among the millions of sites on the Internet? Does your Web site deliver the amount of traffic you had hoped for? A search engine placement survey conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that about 85-% of people looking for goods or services on the Internet start by using one of the major search engines. If your Web site doesn't have a high search engine placement, those seeking to buy your products will simply not find it.
