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Is Search Engine Optimization a Big Secret?

Most people talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in such a manner that it gives out the idea as if it was a big secret. True, there may be techniques and methods that you may not be aware of and thus, they are deemed as ‘secrets’ by some. However, upon closer inspection, most of these ‘secrets’ can be easily availed through Google’s guidelines for webmasters.

When considering to hire SEO service providers, it is advisable to take the time to read these guidelines yourself. This is to avoid any possibility of hiring unscrupulous SEO providers who would use unapproved or ‘black hat SEO’ methods. It is as important to know these guidelines as it is to obtain a good page ranking.

Am I saying then that there are absolutely no SEO secrets? No. I am merely saying that those who have researched and analyzed these techniques and guidelines would have a better understanding of the matter.

Let’s look at it from this perspective. When you watch a magician’s performance, it will only work if you do not know the trick or method involved. Once that is revealed, it is no longer a ‘secret’.

Magician’s are quite protective of their methods. In some ways, these methods and magic tricks are viewed as a ‘secret’ to the public. Search Engine Optimization is a little like that. On one hand, most of these methods and guidelines are easily availed through Google while on the other, there are some techniques that are not as easily available. People are willing to pay thousands of dollars to learn these SEO techniques. This, to some extent makes them  ‘secrets’.

Even with the proper guidelines, search engine optimization can be very tricky and frustrating. You may follow the guidelines closely but yet find yourself failing to increase your website traffic

It may take up to months for you to get noticed and listed on the search engines. Knowing that there are those who can get their websites listed in only a matter of days makes it even more frustrating as you know there are ways to do it and you are not able to access it.

Learning to gain traffic through search engines such as Google can be very time consuming and frustrating. My knowledge of SEO was built upon trial and error over the past 9 years. I’ve also spent thousands of dollars to learn many valuable techniques that save me time as well as bring me great results.

Business owners usually do not possess the time to be able to learn all these SEO techniques and neither do they have the time to conduct trial and errors through their own websites.

This site is not here to teach you to be an SEO specialists but help you understand what it takes to improve your website visibility which translates to traffic and more business. What you have to consider is your time and it’s value.

You may find that your time is better spent in what you know, leaving what you do not know about SEO up to an SEO specialist.

If you need more targeted traffic to your website or blog, click here to see the type of SEO services me and my team provide.

Let’s look at the title of this post, Engine Optimization Search and SEO Services. When considering the value of search engine traffic, it is important to understand that when people conduct their searches through search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc… they do not always know how to obtain the information they want so they may type in a variety of keywords like the title of this post.

Many people think of the search term, search engine optimization or SEO to describe their needs in this area. However, some people will type in two different types of keyword phrases such as “engine optimization search” and “SEO Services”. This indicates that they are looking to find someone who can help them with their “Engine Optimization” or search engines optimization, as well as looking to locate some type of service for SEO.

The Internet is a huge network of websites and blogs. There is some debate as to which type of property one should build, be it a blog or website. There are pros and cons for each, but the simplest way to build a site is to build a blog. The easiest type of site or property to gain traffic quickly is a blog.

So, the blog wins. However, in case you want to know how to increase traffic to your website, you’ll find solid tips inside Netwoozy for this as well.

6 Easy to Use Blog Traffic Tips

There are common ways to increase traffic to both your website and blog. For instance:

1. Writing and submitting articles

2. Creating and submitting videos

3. Creating single page sites that are referred to as Web 2.0 pages. Squidoo, Weebly and Hubpages are a few examples of these types of pages.

4. Partisipating in social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.These places offer opportunities to share your profile where you can include a backlink to your blog.

5. Locating other blogs similar to your own and providing a quality comment, in exchange you are allowed a link back to your site from your comment. This is best found in blogs with Commentluv or do-follow widgets installed.

6. Adding Commentluv, Keywordluv, or Top Commenters widget to your WordPress blog will help you keep your blog fresh, which increases the priority given to blogs by search engines.

The key is to have a variety of links leading back to your site. When I speak of variety, I am talking about backlinks that come from videos, articles, social networks and article submissions as well as blog comments.

For more details and ways to increase traffic, website traffic or blog traffic, click here.

I also offer very affordable backlinking and SEO services.

You may have seen some “Breaking News!” about Google hiring people or some type of job working for Google. One of the “claims” I read today said, “I get paid $25.00 for every link I create”.

Okay, first off, COME ON People! There are many different tactics to get people to look hard enough to click on a link to do more investigating into the claim. THIS claim has one purpose – to get you to buy a product. That product teaches you how to create awebsite or blog that you can sell advertising spots on.

This is the “PAID” by Google project. You are not getting paid to work for Google. You can earn money by doing what Google does -  Selling Ads like the Google Adwords ads. It’s called may different things and there are several different ways that people use to try and coerce you into buying their program, but the fact is, this has nothing to do with working at home directly for Google.

You can make money with blogs and your website by adding Adsense ads on it. You can also sell little ads on your site or blog. What some people do is they drive traffic to their websites/blogs from other sources, then they themselves sell advertising space on their websites. It’s not a complex way to generate income, but it is a way that is very misleading to the buyers of these programs that are making money by using Googles name.

So, buyer beware. Don’t fall for the “Breaking News” and all those little images that look like they came from CNN or AOL or Google. This is a very smart way of making you believe it’s some type of official site but it’s not.

If you want to make money by selling advertising space on your website or blog, you need to do a few simple things.

1. Drive lots of traffic to it.

2. Select a niche that people will want to advertise on. Okay, this is sort of the first things you need to do.

It’s hard work to make money online. It’s possible, but it does take some study and it does take trial and error.

Till next time…

Enjoy your Internet journey!

Chrisi

Everyone that has a website wants visitors to come to their website. Many people want to generate more income through website traffic. This is the greatest challenge to website and blog owners.

The questions that are most often asked are, “How do I get backlinks” and “Should I or where can I buy backlinks?”.

Let’s first consider how to get backlinks. A backlink is a link that points to any page on your site. These can be internal or external backlinks. They are more valuable then links that are exchanged.

How to Get Backlinks for FREE to Your Site

1. Write articles and submit them to article directories or directly to website/blog owners.

2. Create and submit videos adding your URL in the description of the video.

3. Write articles and create Web 2.0 pages that contain anchor texts with URL’s leading back to your site. Squidoo and Hugpages are excellent places to start.

4. Join social networks and add your URL to your profile or public favorite sites.

5. Bookmark your URL’s in social bookmarking sites.

6. Join forums and add your URL to your signature file.

7. Offer quality comments to blogs that offer do-follow links in exchange for your quality comments.

8. Join networks like Myspace and Facebook where you can add your URL for public exposure.

9. Join Twitter and as long as you are not twittering just for the purposed of ,spamming URL’s you can announce new pages within your websites. The key is to offer up 4 or 5 twitters of quality comments per every 1 announcement twitter.

Should I Buy Backlinks?

There are several ways to buy backlinks to your site. Advertising your site on other websites or blogs is an acceptable way of obtaining backlinks. Google offers pay per click advertising that includes a link to your website. This is not the type of link that adds value to your site, but it is acceptable.

Locating websites that are highly relavant to your niche website/blog is one way to buy a backlink. This would be one way that I would feel comfortable recommending. As long as you reap good quality traffic from your purchase, it is an acceptable way to achieve backlinks.

Backlinking Services

Ugly Hostage Style Backlinking Services – Not Recommended

Monthly Backlinking Services

If you are going to buy backlinks to your site, you have to ask yourself the question, “What happens to my links once I quit paying?”

There are companies that charge a monthly fee for “x” amount of backlinks to your site. Once you stop paying all of your links are removed. This is the same as holding your site hostage. Why? Because you know that once you stop paying all of those links disappear.

The reason why people go for this type of service is the idea that they will gain a first page position in Google rather quickly for a very small fee. One site charges $20.00 a month for 1000 backlinks. However, those links disappear the instant you no longer pay your monthly fee.

Personally this feels like blackmail and black hat SEO. Your money is better spent building links that will stick . Every dollar spent is spent wisely.

Backlinking Services that Increase Your Sites Value Over Time

In the section where I describe how you can get FREE backlinks to your site is where you can actually look for backlinking services. This is where you can in a sense buy backlinks.

You can pay for people to write articles, create videos as well as submit articles and videos for you. You can pay someone to bookmark your URL’s, leave quality comments for you and participate in forums on your behalf.

This is where your money would be spent wisely. It is difficult to do all of these backlinking chores on your own. Why not hire someone to give you a hand with these chores?

What Type of Backlinking Services Should I Start With?

This will depend a great deal on your budget and what you may want to do on your own. With a small budget of just $50.00 a month you could hire my team to work with you in obtaining 50 quality backlinks per month.

Some niches are highly competitive and $50.00 a month may only cover one or two keyword phrases to work on. Until I do the research on your site I can’t actually offer a specific quote regarding obtaining a first page ranking.

I can offer fixed prices for specific backlinking services.

What Type of Fixed Services Do You Offer?

I offer a variety of backlinking services. Please visit my SEO Services page for details.

What is the KEY to Successfully making money online? I tell you at the end of this post. It is the best kept secret of the wealthy guru’s of Internet profits. Try not to skip to the end.

Because of our poor economy many more people are seeking ways to make money at home online.  Today I thought I’d go over a list of things you can do to make money online. I’d also like to point out that although making money at home may appear to be a fantastic opportunity, it is not for everyone and most people fail.

Why do most people fail to profit from their efforts online? Because they do not realize it’s not easy, it’s not simple, and it’s not free.

Before I go deeper into the subject, let’s just consider what it takes to make money online from the perspective of what type of person you will need to be.

1. To work online you will need to be very focused. Nobody is going to poke at you when you are not working. Therefore you have to be able to keep yourself focused day after day.

2. You need to have discipline. It takes discipline to work hour after hour, day after day all by yourself. If you don’t have the discipline to focus on your work the days you set aside to work, then you’re going to fail. No one else will do this work for you.

3. You need daily and weekly goals as well as long term goals. Goals help to keep your in progress. Progress is important for success when it comes to building an income generating business online.

4. Money. While it is true that you can invest very little money to make money online, it is not easy to do. The almost free route will cost you a full time commitment of your time. Plus, if you don’t really know a lot about websites, blogs, hosting, affiliate programs and so forth, you will have to pay to learn what you don’t know. This costs money.

5. You will have to pick a program and master that program before moving on to the next program or “making money” thing.

Still here? Great. Okay, next…

If you can handle the above, then you’re ready to move forward. Let’s talk about what you can do to make money from the Internet.

A. Google Adsense. This is VERY difficult to master. The fact is you have to work very hard to build websites that will earn a lot of money with Adsense. Of course there are lots of people who sell ebooks on how to make money with Adsense fast and easy. However, they are leaving out the one thing that you will need for it to be “easy”. Money.

I’ll talk more about Adsense in another post. Let’s move on…

B. Affiliate programs. You can make money selling other peoples products. This is really one of the best ways to make money online because you don’t need to provide any type of customer service. All you have to do is promote someone elses product. This is not easy, but it is less involved then trying to sell your own product.

Where do you find affiliate programs to promote? Clickbank is probably the easiest place for this.

C. Sell your own product. This is really a pain. Too much to go into, but I have done this successfully and I can tell you it is a pain unless you have the money to pay other people to do the work for you.

How do you sell your products. Whew! Too much to cover here but if it’s digital, you can sell it on Clickbank.

D. Providing a service. This is time consuming of course, but if you are willing to do things like write articles, submit articles, post comments and a vast array of other types of chores, you can also make money online. People with websites and blogs need people who can build websites and blogs or create graphics and do other types of things associated with design skills.

Elance.com, Scriptlance.com, Getafreelancer.com and Rentacoder.com are places you can look to find people looking for jobs you’re willing to do.

You can also post your online skills and services on craigslist.

You may be wondering what I recommend. What I recommend is that you do NOT buy everything that screams – make money online easy as eating pie!

I recommend learning how to promote affiliate programs. The easiest way is to set up a blog. WordPress blogs are highly favored by Google and with WordPress you can add a lot of excellent addon widgets that will help make things a lot easier for you.

Next, I recommend you learn how to promote your blog. You can hire me to help you do this. Check out my SEO Services.

Lastly, I highly recommend you spend your time where it counts the most. Then outsource the rest. This is honestly the MISSING LINK, the BIG SECRET that people who earn huge profits never really talk about.

The Internet Guru’s out there do not tell you this HUGE secret of making money online. That secret is outsourcing. I personally hire people to do a variety of chores for me. I can’t possible do everything myself. Netwoozy is my “baby” and I do write all the articles on this site myself. However, I have many blogs and many websites and I can’t possible keep up with all of them myself.

I have a person who does my graphics, someone who writes and posts articles for me, someone who works with scripts and design, and I have another person who I have trained to do many other chores. It all takes time and my time is best spent in SEO. Where is your time best spent?

Working online is not easy. It gets easier once you know what you’re doing and it’s far easier if you can hire other people to help you get the work done. In fact, without outsourcing you will probably have a very difficult time making a living online.

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