SEO, PPC, Social Media & Internet Marketing

Where is Mixx today??

kashh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:07:24 +0000

Today is 1st October 2008.

I can’t find www.mixx.com on internet.

Can anyone tell me please, where is Mixx today?

(updates after 30 minutes of posting: I have got it back.. Any clue where was it? What was wrong?)

Where is Mixx

Is it hacked?

Will I loose my Karma points?

Will I loose my Mixx followers and friends whom I am following?

Can anyone tell me here?

I am missing Mixx!

Thank You All!

Kash. ..

(updates after 30 minutes of posting: I have got it back.. Any clue where was it? What was wrong?)

Traffic Tips in Bullet Points

kashh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:27:19 +0000

• Traffic tip #1 – High quality, unique content.
• Traffic tip #2 – Keep adding content.
• Traffic tip #3 – Memorable domain name.
• Traffic tip #4 – Buy the wrong domain name.
• Traffic tip #5 – Easy to read domain name.
• Traffic tip #6 – Keywords in image files.
• Traffic tip #7 – Serious keyword research.
• Traffic tip #8 – Improve page titles.
• Traffic tip #9 – Organic SEO.
• Traffic tip #10 – Submit to directories.
• Traffic tip #11 – Submit to niche directories.
• Traffic tip #12 – Article distribution.
• Traffic tip #13 – Write articles for other sites.
• Traffic tip #14 – Submit articles to newsletters.
• Traffic tip #15 – Submit hints to blogs.
• Traffic tip #16 – Keywords in online profiles.
• Traffic tip #17 – One way links.
• Traffic tip #18 – Invite others to publish content.
• Traffic tip #19 – Newsletter publication.
• Traffic tip #20 – Newsletter directories.
• Traffic tip #21 – Publish a mini-course.
• Traffic tip #22 – Write testimonials.
• Traffic tip #23 – Be helpful in forums.
• Traffic tip #24 – Post free ads in forums.
• Traffic tip #25 – Be helpful in discussion lists.
• Traffic tip #26 – Keyword rich press releases.
• Traffic tip #27 – Create a lively blog.
• Traffic tip #28 – Blog RSS feeds.
• Traffic tip #29 – RSS to email.
• Traffic tip #30 – Remove broken links.
• Traffic tip #31 – Podcasting.
• Traffic tip #32 – Use reliable hosting.
• Traffic tip #33 – Tweak internal linking.
• Traffic tip #34 – Chase new fads and hot topics.
• Traffic tip #35 – Chase new affiliate programs.
• Traffic tip #36 – Analyze your logs.
• Traffic tip #37 – Join business associations.
• Traffic tip #38 – Add a forum to your site.
• Traffic tip #39 – Write free reports or white papers.
• Traffic tip #40 – Write brandable reports.
• Traffic tip #41 – Submit to ebook directories.
• Traffic tip #42 – Offer to be a columnist.
• Traffic tip #43 – Offer to moderate part of a forum.
• Traffic tip #44 – Do something funny.
• Traffic tip #45 – Be outrageous or controversial.
• Traffic tip #46 – Tag your blog.
• Traffic tip #47 – Newspaper websites.
• Traffic tip #48 – Upload and tag your photos.
• Traffic tip #49 – Use gimmicks.
• Traffic tip #50 – Create deliberate “link bait”.
• Traffic tip #51 – Syndicate your material.
• Traffic tip #52 – Position yourself as an expert.
• Traffic tip #53 – Create a profile on Amazon.com.
• Traffic tip #54 – Combine JV’s with email capture.
• Traffic tip #55 – Try offline advertising.
• Traffic tip #56 – Place a link in Yahoo! Answers.
• Traffic tip #57 – Get links from eBay.
• Traffic tip #58 – Get links from AdSense.
• Traffic tip #59 – Add useful comments to blogs.
• Traffic tip #60 – Add sticky content.
• Traffic tip #61 – Add classified ads to your site.
• Traffic tip #62 – Social networking.
• Traffic tip #63 – Create your own fanclub.
• Traffic tip #64 – Effective PPC advertising.
• Traffic tip #65 – Buy ads in newsletters.
• Traffic tip #66 – Buy text links – carefully!
• Traffic tip #67 – Advertise in less obvious places.
• Traffic tip #68 – Create free web-based software.
• Traffic tip #69 – Create downloadable software.
• Traffic tip #70 – Get publicity for your software.
• Traffic tip #71 – Create a funny video.
• Traffic tip #72 – Use a signature file.
• Traffic tip #73 – Think viral.
• Traffic tip #74 – Email page to a friend.
• Traffic tip #75 – Add to favorites.
• Traffic tip #76 – Start an affiliate program.
• Traffic tip #77 – About us pages.

8 SEO Strategies For Online Business Success

kashh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:48:04 +0000

The world of search engine optimization (SEO) can be a big scary place for newbies. Most SEO professional companies charge astronomical prices that may or may not guarantee success.

The search engines are forever changing the way they rank websites and what is important to achieve a higher ranking. Even with these everchanging factors, there are 8 important points that you must use with your website that are not likely to change any time soon.

1. Domain Name
It is better to register a domain with a keyword in it, unless you are trying to brand yourself (think Coca Cola or Ebay). For instance, if your name is Ketty Woods and you sell football items you would be better off by registering a name like www.footballproducts.com instead of www.kettywoods.com.

Unfortunately with millions of website domain names being purchased all the time, finding a related domain name not already taken can be a daunting task. Still it is worth it in the end because it will carry more significance with the search engines.

2. Title Tag
This is an often overlooked place to input keywords. Have you ever been to a website and the bar at the top of the page just said ‘untitled’ or ‘homepage’? That reflects how little the site designer knew about SEO. Always put a descriptive title on EVERY page of your website. Put something like ‘Find football clubs, football clothes and the latest pro football tips’, instead of ‘Ketty’s football shop’.

Make sure not to go overboard and just list 10 or more keywords or long sentences in a row or the search engines will think you are trying to spam them. Think quality over quantity. The title tag should contain one keyword rich descriptive sentence.

3. Meta Tags
The importance of meta tags in today’s SEO world is still being debated. It is still advisable to include a meta tag keywords and meta tag description in your code. A lot of times the search engines will pull your description tag to show in your websites search result. If nothing is there it may not show anything at all or it may pull the first sentence off of your page which might be completely irrelevent to your intended audience.

Do not, I repeat do not list 100 or more keywords in the keyword tag. This technique used to work years ago, but the search engines recognize this technique and will consider it spam. Place no more than 10 keywords in the meta keywords tag.

4. Link Strategies
Another important tip is to include keywords when linking to other websites or pages within your own site. For example it is better to have a sentence like this ‘Find out the latest professional football tips.’ then to say ‘click here for the latest professional football tips.’ This also applies to any outbound links to other related websites. Include keywords on the part you want the visitors to click on.

Same goes for incoming links to your site. If someone wants to link to your site give them the code to paste in their website instead of leaving them to do it on their own. Have something like ‘Check out Ketty’s Football shop for the best football clubs, football info and football tips.” This is much better than ‘Click here for Ketty’s Football Shop’. Search engines also like longer more descriptive links than just one or two words.

5. Relevant Content
Make sure that you provide only relevant information to what your actually offering or selling. If you have a bunch of unrelated info on a wide range of topics than the search engines will have a harder time pinpointing exactly what it is your site is about. So if your selling football stuff stick to football content, don’t throw in articles or links about horse racing or rugby.

6. PageRank
This is still a relatively new term and applies to an algorithm that google’s search engine uses. Other search engines use similar strategies to google’s PageRank also.

Basically PageRank is used to define how popular your website is. The more relevant inbound links you have coming into your website the higher your PageRank will be. Google also has a toolbar that you can download for free that will show you a site’s PageRank. The best way to go about getting inbound links is to find related websites with a PageRank of 5 or higher. Then asking them to include a link to your site (giving them the proper code to paste in).

Another way you can receive a higher PageRank is to have a ton of content on many different pages and then linking all the pages together in a way that will raise your PageRank. With that said this type of strategy will not boost your PageRank tremendously, so if your site doesn’t contain thousands of pages don’t stress over it. It is important though to link strategically with keywords between the pages of your site.

You can download google’s toolbar at http://toolbar.google.com/

7. HTML Basics
This is an HTML header tag used to define size of text within the tag. Search engines place more importance on text that is placed within the H1 tag. It’s like telling the search engines that ‘hey this text is important to my site’. The problem is that it can look unsightly. There are ways around this if you know about CSS styles, but for this basic intro article just know that in the end most people won’t be bothered by how the heading looks, and it will make the search engines like you more.

8. Creating Credibility
An often overlooked part of free publicity for your website is writing free articles like this one that relates to your intended audience. There are many websites on the internet where you can submit your articles for other people to place on their websites. I even employ this same strategy for my website. It’s really a win win situation. They win because they get quality relevant content for their site and you win because your name and website info is included at the bottom of the article, driving traffic to your site.

You increase your inbound links (PageRank) and provide free publicity for your website. It gets your name out there branding you an expert in your field of expertise and provides free web traffic to your site.