Not only can you save your favorite websites and send them to your friends, but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc.
You can even search through what people have bookmarked by typing in what you are looking for in the search tool. In fact, social bookmarking sites are being used as intelligent search engines.
What is Social News? Is Social News the Same as Social Bookmarking?:
Websites like Digg, Reddit and Propeller focus on social bookmarking of news-related items such as politics, sports, technology, etc. These websites will often feature breaking headlines and bloggers discussing the current news items.
Social news sites are different from standard social bookmarking sites by focusing on specific articles and blog posts rather than websites. Because of this, they can be a great source of news, and they also offer the ability to participate in the discussion by leaving comments on popular news items.
How Can I Benefit From Social Bookmarking?:
Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what you want to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing something in, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are looking for.
Because many social bookmarking sites display recently added lists and popular links, you can both stay current and see relevant information. For example, let's say you are interested in learning more about social shopping. You might search for social shopping on one of these sites and come up with two articles: one with a hundred votes and one with two votes.
It's pretty easy to tell that the article with a hundred votes might be your best choice. And this is a lot easier than putting "social shopping" into a search engine and seeing page after page after page of links that may or may not be useful.
So, what started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really grown into social search engines. You no longer need to page through thousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you can simply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag that matches your interest, and find the most popular websites.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009
How Google crawler crawl the web pages
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and ranking your site. Even if you choose not to execute any of this suggestion, Google strongly support you to pay very close notice to the "Quality Guidelines" which outline some of the illegal practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.
Design and content guidelines Learn more...
Technical guidelines Learn more...
Quality guidelines Learn more...
When your site is ready: Submit your site to Google at : http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Submit a Sitemap with the help of Google Webmaster Tools. Google crawl your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site. Increase your site ranking and increase Google coverage of your WebPages.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
How to Improve Your Blog Ranking
Improve your blog ranking is no longer kids stuff. It is beyond the silly diary entries and angst fueled rants. It is serious business, especially if your goal is to make money for your business. Blog marketing is more powerful than static site marketing mainly because of all the options Web 2.0 offers. Below are some equipment you can do to take .
If you are not tagging your posts, start now. Tags make it easier for people to find your blog post, and video and photos that are related. You can write the most useful blog in your niche but if it can not be found it can not get read. Tag your posts.
1. Get exposed
Do you wonder how some large news and content sites deliver their headlines? Group with RSS. While using the feed that comes with your blog may look like an ok option, using a custom feed, that specifically separate keyword groups for content you develop regularly, is a far better option. Syndicating with RSS increases your exposure. Pheedpress, available from Content Desk is a great tool for this.
2. Forget me not
Social Book marking allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.
Book marking is an easy way to improve blog ranking and get traffic, the more you do it the more you will be noticed. preferably, your site should be bookmarked somewhere in all the major book marking engines. But having your entire site booked in just a few can really increase blog traffic.
3. Get involved
Much like the tip above, adding comments is a great way to shower your links around. Note however, your comment must be useful and relate to the original post. Bolger’s will grant your track backs when your comments are on topic and useful.
4. Digging for riches
Digg.com and Digg-like sites take story from users and post them on the site. Users then vote on them and decide which get Dugg and which are buried. If you are Dugg it can result in a overflow of traffic.
5. Get associated
Social networks like Myspace can be found in nearly everywhere area of the web. They are great places to meet like minded people and above all receive important links from.
Article marketing is still one of the most popular ways to get links. Well-written content that serves the reader first then your business will receive rewards. This is the type of content that is read, passed on, and linked to. Writing content gives you links as well as branding you as a right figure in your niche.
Publishing on a blog platform gives you the opening to reach a greater quantity of people faster than a static site. Use the above tips to take full benefit of all the rewards blogging can have on your business and to be able to make money blogging.
If you are not tagging your posts, start now. Tags make it easier for people to find your blog post, and video and photos that are related. You can write the most useful blog in your niche but if it can not be found it can not get read. Tag your posts.
1. Get exposed
Do you wonder how some large news and content sites deliver their headlines? Group with RSS. While using the feed that comes with your blog may look like an ok option, using a custom feed, that specifically separate keyword groups for content you develop regularly, is a far better option. Syndicating with RSS increases your exposure. Pheedpress, available from Content Desk is a great tool for this.
2. Forget me not
Social Book marking allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.
Book marking is an easy way to improve blog ranking and get traffic, the more you do it the more you will be noticed. preferably, your site should be bookmarked somewhere in all the major book marking engines. But having your entire site booked in just a few can really increase blog traffic.
3. Get involved
Much like the tip above, adding comments is a great way to shower your links around. Note however, your comment must be useful and relate to the original post. Bolger’s will grant your track backs when your comments are on topic and useful.
4. Digging for riches
Digg.com and Digg-like sites take story from users and post them on the site. Users then vote on them and decide which get Dugg and which are buried. If you are Dugg it can result in a overflow of traffic.
5. Get associated
Social networks like Myspace can be found in nearly everywhere area of the web. They are great places to meet like minded people and above all receive important links from.
Article marketing is still one of the most popular ways to get links. Well-written content that serves the reader first then your business will receive rewards. This is the type of content that is read, passed on, and linked to. Writing content gives you links as well as branding you as a right figure in your niche.
Publishing on a blog platform gives you the opening to reach a greater quantity of people faster than a static site. Use the above tips to take full benefit of all the rewards blogging can have on your business and to be able to make money blogging.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Apply essential URL and coding tweaks
The most useful method is discussed are follows:
1. Use robot.txt to block parts of the site you don't longing the engines to index
2. Offer an HTML site map which is auto updated based on the XML site map and connects with your site.
3. For sites running on PHP use an .htaccess file to avoid content repetition and for permanent / temporal redirection.
4. Use breadcrumbs navigation across the site for improved user knowledge and SEO respect.
5. From time to time, analysis your site using a text browser such as SEO Browser to "observe" how spiders are likely to find your on page content .
6. If your site structural design has more than three levels, reorganize it so to make the information more reachable to both users and spiders.
7. Remain URLs short for improved SEO and to create a better viral result as short URLs are more impressive.
8. Include your key phases such as a product title with the URL
Monday, November 2, 2009
image optimization - and traffic from Google image search
Ensure image optimization across the site to enjoy traffic from Google image search
1. > Keep images on a folder level somewhat than a sub domain so sitename.com/images/ is improved than images.sitename.com
2. > Use a descriptive name for the image, such as the product name
3. > Use alt tag for all your images and use a descriptive name again for the image alt text name
4. > Use header by placing a small description in a straight line under, on top or on the side of your image
5. > When possible save the image as .jpg format
6. > Use a free tool find images with no alt text at page.
Ensure metadata optimization to get high level of qualified traffic
1. > Ensure that every page has unique metadata in terms of page title and page description.
2. > Limited page title should be 70 characters and page description to 150 to 170 characters.
3. > Do not bother too much keywords, do something else for pages.
4. > Optimize each page around 3 to 4 key phases.
5. > Place the main term first, followed by a non spammy call to action and brand by Google.
6. > For product pages, opt for an auto generate metadata clarification based on
7. Use AdWords ads to test the best text for better CTR by creating a few ad variations in AdWords which include your key term
Content is truly king
8. Every page should have unique content which reads well for users (and therefore for the search engine spiders as well)
9. Don't repeat the key term 2 to 3 times so to avoid keyword stuffing
10. Place the key term in the page H1 tag title, image alt text and once in bold
11. Use "recommended products" to link between similar products to increase their relevancy.
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