Learn Blog Commenting Online

In my last post, we have understood the importance of Blog commenting with respect of our website rank. We all know the benefits of blog commenting mainly in SEO. Now in this post you can learn how to do a better blog commenting so that it will take your website in high page rank.

Step by step process

Step 1:  First of all decide that your client website or the keywords falls into which category, like for example if the client business is selling clothes then it lies in fashion category. So the blogs we will search should be on fashion only.

Step 2:  We do not post the comment in irrelevant blogs. Search relevant blogs.

Step 3:  Search Google blogs, it will take you to a Google search engine where it will only display blog result, if you search something.

Step 4:  Search relevant keyword or category. Please select relevant blog from result set.

Step 5:  At end of the blog we find option to post comments, please click it.

Fill as follows:

Name: It should contain the targeted keyword, only one keyword no more than that and never enter your name or any other name by mistake.

Email: use the created email id being used for other submissions.

Website: Enter the targeted URL(Client) ex: http://www.xyz.com

Comment: Please comment briefly about the topic, at least 2-3 lines. Please avoid posting “thank you” and “Thank you for information” comments. Ex: This site gives a lot of fancy ideas to dress up for most occasions. The best read!! Gonna refer others for this.

Step 6:  In case of blogger.com if there is no option of comment directly in above the format, then choose Name/URL use the same procedure.

Step 7: Submit the comment; some sites would take time in moderating the comments. The comments would be displayed after approval.

Step 8: Copy and paste the URL being posted (which usually have a comment number in it)

DO NOTs!

Ø Post a comment on inappropriate blogs that are irrelevant

Ø Make a comment that is irrelevant to the blog

Ø Post you URL if it is not permitted.

Ø Promote your products

Blog Commenting: 100% guarantee of Rank

When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blog commenting is definitely the best and safest way to rank your website. The thing to remember is the fact that even before the introduction of Penguin, utilizing blog comments for link building only offered value if the blog/website was credible (meaning it contained unique and quality content) and if it offered true "do-follow" links (versus "no follow" links), since these are the only links that offer link juice that will get noticed by Google.

What Blog Comments Can Do For You

In SEO, there is no specific formula to succeed. You need a variety, and most importantly, you need to work with a legit and reliable method. One such method is Blog Commenting.

The secret to this is networking. With blog commenting, your website will appear to have more connections and better networking. You will be gaining more exposure and more link juices coming from various high authority blogs.

SEO and Blog Commenting

SEO has truly evolved through the years. Gone are the days when spamming your site with automated blog comments, and blasting thousands of backlinks to your site was enough to rank. Search Engines have become smarter and stricter when it comes to SEO.

These rules still apply more than ever in order to obtain any SEO benefit, but there's a handful of new best practices to abide by to avoid making these links work against you.

Always Choose Relevant Sites

Forget the days of hunting down any and every blog that accepts comments. To avoid being seen as a link pirate, stick with blogs/websites that are relevant to your business and industry, if your intention is to build a backlink. For example, your manufacturing business shouldn't be posting comments on a home cooking blog just because it gets a boatload of traffic. Besides, as I'll explain further down below, your comment needs to relevant and helpful to other readers.

Comments should be Thoughtful & Purposeful

As a admin of two Blogs Market-You and Inner Power , I can't tell you how many times per week we receive bogus, thoughtless and spammy comments from individuals looking to nab a backlink from us. These comments don't result in anything since we delete them before they ever appear on our blog page. If you want to avoid being seen as a spammer and having your comment deleted, be prepared to add to the conversation with a thoughtful and purposeful comment. This not only ensures a better chance of having the blog manager post your comment but you then look credible to others who read the blog, which can sometimes lead to referral traffic to your own site.

Limit of Your Links

The last but not least important blog commenting best practice is to limit the number of links you place in your comment. In my opinion you should keep it to one link, which on most blogs is satisfied when they ask for your URL as you enter your name and comment. In some cases if you have another valuable blog/article of your own that could add to the topic of discussion, this would be acceptable to incorporate – but refrain from throwing in a blatant keyword for your link text. Not only does this decrease your chances of having your comment approved but could also be flagged by Google.

At last

Relying on blog comments alone as a link building tactic won't work as well as it used to pre-Penguin but there's still some value to this approach. Depending on the blog's credibility and handout of "do-follow" links, you can pick-up some added link juice that will in return improve your SEO. Follow these guidelines outlined above and you'll make better use of your time and avoid causing harm to your site's credibility.

Learn Directory Submission Online...

In my Last post, we have understood about directory submission. What it is, why we use it in SEO, how much it’s effective to get more back links  Now in this post you will get to know, how to do Directory submission.

It’s another great tool for improving site ranking is Directory submission. It’s also a very essential tool for SEO. We all know that nowadays SEO is an emerging technique to improve website ranking and for creating back links. It’s also important for a great way of marketing.

So today we will learn how to do Directory submissions as a part of Search Engine Optimization.

Step 1: Search for directory sites with high page rank with search words like ‘Directory submission list, SEO friendly directory submission list, Directory list for 2013’ also putting queries in search box like

·         Fashion + resources  

·        Step 2: (If the site ask for registration)Register with the user name of sites- example “ABC” and email id being created for it- abc123@xyz.com with respective password- ‘abc123’

Step 3: click on ‘submit link/ Add site/Add URL’ on the site.

Step 4: Fill the following fields as below-

1. Title:  How your Title Should be. Every directory is approaching different strategy for the approval of directory submission. Your title should be unique while submitting because of duplication of title in directory.  Create an attractive title using keywords. ex: Top Restaurants, Buy travel bags online,
2. URL: http://www.abc.in

1. Category: Use the related category and popular words. ex: food, shopping, travel etc
2. Description/Meta description: Mostly sites accept 250 correctors for directory Descriptions. Your description should be descriptive not use of only keywords. You can’t use maximum keywords in descriptions.
3. Keywords/ Meta keywords: Respective keywords. ex: buy wallets,  Top restaurants etc.
4. Email: abc123@xyz.com

Step 5: Submit the URL

Step 6: Copy and paste the URL from the address bar.

DO NOTs!

Ø Choose the misappropriate category for tags.

Ø Try to repeat the site for submission( it doesn’t accept the same URL either)

Ø Description must have keywords [recommended to take it from the source of website (CRTL+U on the site and copy  the description)]

Directory submission in SEO

 Directory submission is proven to be a wonderful method for gaining quality one-way incoming back links. Even SEOs (Search Engine Optimizing people) knows how incoming links play an important role in today's search engine optimization procedure. Higher the quality of incoming links better your search engine rankings and internet visibility.

Submitting to directories is the simplest way to get quality incoming links.

First of all it’s important to know, what is directory submission in SEO.

According to Wikipedia web directories are the directory on the World Wide Web same like yellow pages. But please don't consider them as a search engines as they are not showing web pages on the basis of searched keyword but instead of it they give the list of the websites by category or sub category. The categorization is based upon whole website instead of a particular page.

In most simple words directory Submission is a practice of adding your website to web directories. If you are looking for effective referral traffic for your online business, then directory submission service is best source of it. Yes, you can rely on directory submission, as it has been proven the most to gain maximum frequency of navigation.

In this SEO strategy your business website gets submitted into different popular online directories. So when the internet user surfs those directories, they will found your website. There are around 3,000 quality web directories that offer ease of manual directory submission. In order to get attention online, all you have to do is to meet up all directory guidelines and submit your website under appropriate title and category. To do this, you will need to hire SEO professional that can offer effective directory submission at affordable prices. If you need any help regarding this, you can contact me back. 

Learn Social Bookmarking online.

We all know about Social Bookmarking, It’s a tool which comes under SEO. Today we will learn about social bookmarking. It’s a very easy process, if you will practice more than you can understand it and learn it very quickly.  I am using some simple steps to show you easily, how you can do social bookmarking for your site.

Step 1: 

 Search for bookmarking sites with high page rank with search words like ‘bookmarking list, bookmarking list with high page ranks, bookmarking list for 2012/2013’ etc

Step 2:

Register with the user name of sites- example “ABC” and email id being created for it- abc123@xyz.com with respective password- ‘abc123’

 Step 3:

Upon activation of the confirmation mail sent to your email id, click on ‘submit new story’ on the site.

Step 4:

Fill the following fields as below-

Title: Create an attractive title using keywords.
ex:  Buy Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro,

Tag: Use the related category and popular words
ex: Mobile, shopping, Business etc.

Description: Use the description of the website or product up to 200 words.

Step 5:

 Submit the story confirming the captcha code

Step 6:

Copy and paste the discuss/read URL of the story submitted that is available on upcoming news or published news section.

DO NOTs!

1.     Choose the misappropriate category for tags.

2.     Try to repeat the site for submission( it doesn’t accept the same URL either)

3.     Description must have keywords [recommended to take it from the source of website (CRTL+U on the site and copy  the description)]

Eg- http://www.easymash.com/index/story.php?title=boat-shoes-for-men

Here are some sites which will provide you free social bookmarking sites list-

1.     http://directorysubmission.sammrat.com/Social-Bookmarking-List.html

2.     http://www.freedirectory-list.com/free-social-bookmarking-site-list.php

3.     http://www.social-bookmarking-sites-list.com/

4.     http://socialbookmarkingsites.co/?pageSize=500&sortby=default

Get Traffic by Social Bookmarking..

Nowadays I am learning about SEO and other digital marketing tools as an intern in an online digital marketing company.  Basically, SEO used for so many reasons, and it’s very positive with respect to online marketing. Today I will introduce about Social Bookmarking which is very very essential tool of SEO.

First of all what is Social Bookmarking?

             Social bookmarking is a method for web users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of some specific tags or keywords on sites. This will helps you in accessing bookmarks from any computer with online access. These bookmarks can either be public or private. If public, your favorite bookmarks visible for others to view and follow as well, hence the social networking aspect.
          Social bookmarking has become a great tool in building web presence and promoting a business on the Internet.

When you take a page from your site and bookmark it on various sites. It's important so Google and other search engines will index you web page quickly. Than whenever somebody enters those keywords, your page will appear faster and you will get more traffic on your page. Social bookmarking helps Google to decide the relevance of your site, and if it sees people bookmarking your site it feels it must be important.

The web pages we bookmarked at social bookmarking sites are considered as a quality backlink in the eyes of search engines. And we all know that the quality backlinks help us to increase blog traffic and Google Page Rank. That's why SEO professionals include Social Bookmarking in their search engine optimization practices. For this post only this much in the next post I will show how you can learn social bookmarking very easily..

Social media has limited reach...

The key driver of brand growth is penetration: having as many people as possible using you at least once a year. Loyalty measures, such as frequency of purchase, are actually similar between brands in a given category. Therefore, the key to growth is reaching as many people as possible, especially light and non-users, to drive penetration. And this is where social media such as Facebook and other advertisement media has serious limitations. Our consumer research shows that over 80% of people were already using a brand before they started interacting with it on social media, with less than 20% new users. This means social media has a limited role which we have to measure for our business.

In driving penetration of your brand as you’re talking mainly to existing users. And if you think you can make them more loyal, you are fighting the facts of brand growth: loyalty levels across brands are similar in a given category. This means that trying to grow share by increasing loyalty is a losing game..

What is Social Media?

Nowadays everybody is talking about social media. I don't think there is any medium or big size company who are not using social media as a marketing tool for the company. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. are always brought up when discussing about social media. To get a crystal clear thought of what social media is, this term has to be split into two parts: social and media. Being social means requires interaction and networking and media is considered as a communication tool. Through social media we can build a relationship between our users, that will surely increase our relation with our current users and also with our potential customers. Its also helpful for the normal people to be in touch with the outer world. Because of this we all are connected to each other.
                                         Social Media has touched many aspects of life. It also changed the way we do business, especially in the marketing industry. It helped people to increase their connection with the whole world. In comparison with old media such as print and broadcast, new media allows marketers to promote products and spread messages to their customers in a very short period of time. This is the era when we have more dependency with compare to any other media. And in coming days it will increase more and more..

Measure the effects of social media in business..

In my one of the post I talked about the “Effectiveness of social media in business” that how is much your business ROI by using social media marketing. For every business the term ROI is very important because everybody wants a good return on investment. Here are some important questions that you have to ask yourself for the good outcome.

1.       Way of measuring ROI-

The one of the best question you can ask yourself while talking about ROI that how you will measure the ROI.?? Which is the best way to measure your return on investment with respect to social media marketing.?

2.       Performance tracking-

The second most probable important question you can ask that how do you want to track your performance.? In every strategy you must have to examine the outcome and for the good outcome you must have to track your social media performance so that you can make good business decisions.

3.       Best measurement tools-

If we talked about the measurement of the performance than we must have the knowledge about the best performance measurement tools so that your outcome of the performance become more accurate.  You must have to know about the best measurement tools to measure your social media marketing performance.

Facebook Vs Other advertisement media.!!!

Today I will talk about in favor of Facebook. The reason is not any personal thing but if we see in a positive way than we can find it far better than some other advertisement Medias. Absolutely nobody is 100% positive they always have some negative point also, but today I will talk about the different advertisement media which most of the people use for their business. I have selected some points for the differentiation of Facebook with other advertising Medias.

Recurring Cost:

                       If we talked about print media than to reach out to the same readers they reached earlier through print, they will need to pay for every new advertisement. But In case of Facebook, it doesn’t cost them any money for a new message. We don’t have recurring cost in Facebook.

Engagement Level:

                      The quality and quantity of engagement on Facebook far superior to the potential engagement opportunity with compare to print media. According to a survey report most of the business can expect 0.5% to 1.5% of fans to engage with their message on Facebook. But in the case of print media, if they present an opportunity for readers to respond through an SMS or call, they can only expect 0.2% as the response rate.

Visibility:

                 In the case of Facebook, they have complete visibility of their audience’s

Profiles, their like-dislike, what they are talking about but in case of any other media they can’t get this much of visibility of their potential customers.

Virility:

             The most important things of today’s advertisement trends are “words of Mouth” in which people can bring most of new people to bye. The opportunity of their existing Facebook fans bringing new fans or influencing other people’s decisions toward their brand almost doesn’t exist in the case of print media but is exponential on Facebook.

So if your company page is not in Facebook than you are losing all these positive effects on your business. :)

Which social media platform?

Most of the people who are using Social Media as an advertisement or marketing platforms to their business, are very confused by choosing the correct social media platform. They are always in doubt while approaching any social media platform. There, confusion is also right because we have so many areas where we can invest our money with respect to social media marketing. But the problem is how to choose the correct and perfect area with a better understanding of what consumers want from social media. Where should you focus your limited time and money? After all, whichever platform we chose we have to pay a high amount of money. Than we have to think about our return on investment.

In the web we have so many social media platforms which are used by all people, but mainly if we see than we have three main social media platforms which are giving high rate of interest of people.

1.     Facebook:

If we talked about Facebook than it has the biggest audience and it give more ability for brands to create and show interesting content. The key challenge on Facebook is creating bite-sized bits of compelling content, given that 90% of people consume brand content as part of their ‘news feed’, not on the brand’s Facebook page as you might expect. You have to stand out amongst the news from a person’s c.200 friends to be seen.

2.     Twitter:

Has a much smaller role to play, given its even more limited reach. It has fewer members. Twitter is a new-age helpline, most relevant for complex service brands, and following celebrity CEOs. For example, some of the CEO of the company has more followers with compare to their company.

3.     YouTube:

While every marketing people thinks of a YouTube sensation that ‘goes viral’,

Then I suggest that viral success should be seen as a bonus to your conventional media plan, not the main objective. First of all three main features go viral on the YouTube comedy, sex and humor and these are not fit with your brand. And more importantly, YouTube success is a lottery. We can count the success story in the YouTube, but also we have so many failures that we can’t count.

So I will suggest that focus your effort on the platform that has the biggest reach with your “Target consumers”.