I just typed a really cool blog. It was really good. But Wordpress lost it….in a nutshell!
just google like:http://www.websitename.com to search for sites that are linking to your competitors.

Did you know that Google is freely giving away advice to help you perform what they consider the BEST SEO PRACTICES? Are you ready for some good news? Google is freely giving away advise to help you perform what they consider to be the best SEO practices. The Google chat forums have multiple PDF’s providing information on just about everything you need to know to have a wildly succesful site.

Check out this PDF for a full SEO overview created just for you by google:

SEO pdf by Google

In this guide google goes over:

SEO Basics

Create unique, accurate page titles

Make use of the “description” meta tag

Improving Site Structure

Improve the structure of your URLs

Make your site easier to navigate

Optimizing Content

Offer quality content and services

Write better anchor text

Optimize your use of images

Use heading tags appropriately

Dealing with Crawlers

Make effective use of robots.txt

Be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links

SEO for Mobile Phones

Notify Google of mobile sites

Guide mobile users accurately

Promotions and Analysis

Promote your website in the right ways

Make use of free webmaster tools

Just Another Free SEO Tip from the guys at HitBrand Consulting!

Facebook fan pages are a great way to advertise your brand and get the word out. Checkout this link to set it up quickly an easily!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

Very few marketers actually use the information I am about to tell you. Its strange that very people dont already know what I am about to tell them, however, those who actually implment this stratagy never actually have to worry about getting others to buy your products or services online.  So here it goes, are you ready, are you sitting down? If your sitting you should stand up so you can fully take in what I am about to say.

The Secret: ITS NOT ABOUT YOU!

You found this site because you are looking for ways to improve your SEO on your site. When you first decided to build your site you made a decision. What was it? Did you want to quit your day job? Did you want to have more money? To be so wealthy that your friends and neighbors were jealous? What? Remember that answer.

Even if your reason wasnt quoted in the ones above it was still centered around what you, yourself wanted. I am sure the ultimate reason you wanted to be succsful was for you. Yourself, your family and your life. 

If am sure if this is the way you have created your current business plan you are failing.  How can I be so sure?

Becuase in Marketing, its not about you at all! It never has been and it never will be. In marketing online, or offline its ALWAYS about them!

This is the secret that can change everything.

Now let me explain…

When a person chooses to begin selling things online for others for profit, there are two ways of seeing the situation.

The first vision is called the “Me” Vision

The marketer who falls into the “Me Vision thinks like this:

I want to sell my product so I can buy dinner.

I want to sell my service so I can buy a car.

I want to sell something so I dont have to work anymore

I want to just market so I can stress less

I want to sell my product so I have more time with my family

I want….. (enter your own here)

This group of marketers falls in the “Me” Vision catagory. They think from the perspectives of themselves only. They are often suprised things dont work out the way they visioned.

The Second Vision is the “Them” Vision.

Marketers who fall into the “Them” catagory generally began their online business’ and marketing with this kind of ideology:

What problems do they need solved?

What goals are they looking to acheive?

What resources do they need?

What products do they want?

This catagory of visionarys undestands “Its All About Them”. They are finding the needs, desires and wants of potential customers that are waiting for a solution to their problem. You will not find a business or marketer that fails who understands their customer and puts their customers first.

In Marketing, its not about you, its ALWAYS about them.

Today I am going to discuss something that used to bore me terribly, but which today I find very exciting – Blog Testing, Research and Analytics.

Tracking and testing your website is one of key things you can do to increase profits and drive more traffic. Using the tools below you are able to do a lot of really cool things – from finding out where your visitor comes from, which pages your visitors spend most time on, where your visitor are looks on your web-page (eye tracking), what links they click and even which opt-in box color works best for your website.

Testing can mean HUGE money. For example is you were getting around 30,000 visitors a month to your blog and were making just $5000 there is no doubt in my opinion you can make a lot more by researching the actions / behavior of your visitors using the tools I am recommending below. You could see your earnings double, treble or even multiple 10 times plus as a result of using these tools. Indeed some testers have seen as much as a 1000% increase with millions of dollars in sales. For a business like Amazon.com it could even mean billions of extra dollars in sales.

Important Fact:

A lot of bloggers I meet find Testing and Analytic’s boring – it isn’t fun for them and generally anything that is not FUN we avoid doing. But I am going to suggest it can be a lot of FUN – indeed I like to think of Blog Testing as tweaking an already powerful engine to get even better performance. I compete with myself to find little tweaks and changes to see if I can beat my my previous best performance — a bit like athletes do I suppose.

If you can think of it like that then you will find these tools a remarkable addition to your blogging business.

Let me know your own thoughts on testing and recommendations for any tools I may have missed out in the comments below.

To Our Blogging Success

Michael

Top Blog Testing Tools

Google Analytics

OK I shall start with the one TOOL that I hope most of my readers are already familiar with: Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the first tool you should install on your blog. Google Analytics gives you amazing insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Very easy to use and very flexible (Just like about everything Google creates) this tool allows you to see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. Visit Site >>

CrazyEgg

Ever wondered how your visitors are using your website? CrazyEgg allows you to see a lot of really cool information about your readers, you can see where they are looking at a page, which links are being clicked the most and lot’s of other great information. Visit Site >>

Google Keyword Tool

I haven’t been using this tool much till recently when I have been working on SEO. What you do is you type your keyword of your post, for example Web Hosting and it will give you all the other search terms people will be searching for. Now I take these terms and use them as tags and meta keywords to help me rank high in Google. It also lets me know which term will get the most traffic so that I know which one to use for my post title. Visit Site >>

Yahoo Site Explorer

This tool is great, basically to rank high in search engines you need lots of great links. Find someone who is ranking higher then you in your niche, put their URL in the Yahoo Site Explorer and you can see all the sites that link to it. Now go to these sites and negotiate advertising deals, link exchanges and guest blog posts. Visit Site >>

Go Try This

One thing that is really important as an affiliate, is knowing what converts. This tool shows me where my affiliates are getting clicked, so for example, I sell HostGator on my site and I want to know which page is converting the highest, this tool will tell me which page is giving me the most clicks. Also, it will redirect your URL’s so instead of giving a long HostGator affiliate url, I can have a URL such as IncomeDiary.com/hostgator – which I have read, improves conversions. Visit Site >>

Alexa

Although not very accurate for their traffic details, it is a very useful tool. For those who don’t know how Alexa works, it basically ranks every website in the world by the amount of people who visit a site that are using the Alexa toolbar. Visit Site >>

Quantcast

Great piece of software for those though are buying advertising space, this tool allows you to see who you typically reader is, where they live, how old they are, how much they earn a year etc.. Visit Site >>

Market Samurai

Find out how to uncover “gold-nugget” keywords – each of these keywords can send hundreds, even thousands of free visitors to your site each day. Using this tool you can discover exactly how to beat the competition, and get front-page rankings in Google for high-traffic keywords in weeks or days – not months or years. Visit Site >>

Google Website Optimizer

This is one of the hottest pieces of software I’m using right now to test my site. It allows you to test different aspects of your website, for example say your not sure if your sidebar is converting well, design a second sidebar and use Google Website Optimizer to test which one pulls the most clicks. Visit Site >>

Website Grader

This tool basically allows you to learn everything about your site, how well it’s doing in the search engines, is it getting much traffic, how many social sites are linking to you.. etc. Visit Site >>

Tests You Should Try On Your Website

Increasing Affiliate Box Clicks

Go to your Google Analytics and pick one of your most visited pages, for me it was my Top 30 Earning Blogs post. I had a paragraph in it where I was promoting affiliate product, I knew it wasn’t making me much money so I decided to run CrazyEgg on this blog post. Over a couple days I saw that the affiliate links didn’t receive any clicks at all, I remember my friend told me using a stop sign really helps draw eyes to things. So using these two bits of information I tested different stops signs and ended up using a green sign to match the site. Adding this sign increased the clicks on affiliate links from 0 to 12 clicks a day. Admittedly not a lot of clicks but a lot more then what I had before, I now have rolled this out so that I use it at the bottom of every blog post because I used these tools and found it worked

More from some smart kid here:

There are few ways that can create better traffic than article marketing. I have been apart of several projects that have used writting articles as the main source for off page SEO. I will be the first to tell you that it WORKS! Goog loves the unique content that it creates as it handomsly rewards you for your efforts. Join the club of HitBrand Marketers and Gain your HitBrand Article Marketing badge after just 30 days of  articles.

What does it require?

1 article a day for 30 days from the date you notify us.

after 30 days you will succesfully achieve and receive the Master Articulist badge from HitBrand.

So what are you waiting for! got questions? Contact HitBrand for free coaching on hair styles or SEO.

Remember the easiest way to double your money in marketing is to take your money out of your pocket, fold it in half, and then put it back in your pocket. Just one more free tip from the guys at HBC!

Can you control the Cat,  If you are good you can make the cat rotate in both directions, just by telling your brain.

I just really like this picture for marketing purposes.