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

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.

I just really like this picture for marketing purposes.

Have you tried Google Adwords yet? If not, you can sign up and get $100 bucks in free advertising from Google and Hostgator.com. Simply go to:
www.google.com/ads/hostgator1

Adwords is one of the best ways to increase conversion of your product and service. We have seen some amazing things when our clients have utilized this! Another free tip from HitBrand!

In the last 10 years I have dealt with many different hosting providers. Both for my personal and business sites as well as many clients sites. Time and time again i have been extremely happy with HostGator. They have both phone and online chat representatives that our thourough and knowledgeable. If you are looking for a new hosting company got to HostGator with hosting deals starting at just $4.95 you cant beat their service.

As we have discussed in the past, articles are a perfect way for website owners to promote their site, products and services. We have created articles that have created thousands and thousands of views as well as click backs to our site. Not only that, we also get a nice link from the article site using a keyword that we are targeting. Use the top 5 free article sites to get unique traffic and links to your site.

What to do?

Write an article between 300-600 words long on a subject relating to your site. In the signature area explain about yourself and put a link back to your site.  If the site requires you use link html dont worry its easy. just use this format:

<a href=”url”>Link text</a>

changing the “URL” for your webpage and the “link text” for the keyword you are targeting.  Remeber most article sites only let you enter the links in the bottom of the article (signature section).

Without further delay, here is a list of our top 5 article sites!

1)EzineArticles.com

An online article publishing website where only original content is accepted. Thousands of new articles are added daily. Google Page Rank 6

2)ArtcileBase.com Google Page Rank 4

3)GoArticles.com Google Page Rank 4

4)SearchWarp.com Google Rank Rank 5

5)Isnare.com