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Many of us are still asking: “Does Google use the Keywords Metatag in deciding site ranking?”

At least for now, the answer is no. Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in assigning web search ranking. This video explains more, or see the questions and answers posted to Webmaster Central.

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MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate The best feature I like which is the core basis of this WordPress plugin is actually the option to automatically convert your blog keywords into links to the affiliate product of your choice; the best part is that even your old keywords can turn into money-making affiliate links.

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Needing some help in researching good keywords for your websites and blogs? I know I appreciate any tool that can help me wade through all of the options and choices! Keywords play an important role in Search Engine Ranking, which affects the web traffic to your sites. A complete freeware software program developed by Softnik Technologies, aptly titled Good Keywords, will help you find the perfect keywords for you based on the search query you enter. By using the correct keywords you’ll be able to attract unique, targeted visitors to your websites and blogs, thereby increasing your online sales effectiveness.

The main component of Good Keywords v3 is the Keyword Database Manager for the Google Keyword Tool. The Keyword Database tool in Good Keywords v3 is meant to help you get more out of your Google Keyword research! What is more, the software does not abuse Google’s resources in anyway!

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Just received this timely notice from the Video Secrets Sales Team:

Greg Grothaus,  Software Engineer in Google’s Search Quality team, has posted a video to discuss the duplicate content myth that many webmasters worry about. (The duplicate content issue is one that comes up often on the webmaster boards, usually in conjunction with the pros and cons of using RSS feeds on multiple websites. The general belief is that sites are penalized by Google for having the same exact post as another website, and penalized for having the same content within the site itself.)

What Google wants is diversity in their search results, so they will omit certain results to get the most unique results. The only penalty in place is for spam sites that do a disservice to the searcher (i.e. a site strictly to manipulate rankings). When Google talks about duplicate content as an issue, they are really referring to sites with multiple URLs to the same page, that just get repeated, such as:

site.com/
site.com/?
site.com/index.html
site.com/Home.aspx

There is no penalty for this, but you do lose your link popularity, your most popular link will show up in search results while the other versions of your URLs will not, and it also makes it less efficient to crawl your site thoroughly.

How to fix the issue -

- Reduce your canonical to the simplest form possible.
- Make a permanent (301) HTTP redirect to your preferred canonical.
- Use Google’s webmaster tools to specify your preferred canonical.
- Use the rel=canonical HTML tag, that you put in the HEAD of your site to specify your preferred link.

Taking some of these measures to optimize your links, and get better search results, will help bring in more SE traffic to your sites.

Sincerely,

Video Secrets Sales Team

More Information

Specify your canonical:  Google now supports a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that’s accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.

Read More about the video at WebProNews

Backlinks Basics: and How Good Websites Go Bad with Backlinks

Topic: Traffic

by Jean Asta from Mainstream Webmasters

If you have a website of your own, it won’t take long before you learn about backlinks. They are an incredibly important marketing tool for websites – and one that is often either underused or misused! Knowing how to get backlinks, how they work, and how building backlinks the wrong way can trash your website’s rankings are all vital topics any website owner should know. What are backlinks? They are simply links to your website from another website. A visitor on a website is looking for information, they click on a link on that website, and it is actually a ‘backlink’ to your website, bringing the visitor to view the linked page. The more quality, relevant, natural backlinks that lead to your site, the higher your site will be ranked by search engines, and the more likely you are to get the traffic you are targeting to arrive at your site.

This all sounds straightforward enough, but you have to be sure that you understand how to get backlinks that will help you – not hurt you. We said in the last paragraph that backlinks have to be quality, relevant and natural. Let’s look at these three requirements a bit more closely.

Quality backlinks are those that connect from a site of quality content. You only want backlinks from reliable, reputable sites – hopefully that also have high search rankings in the related topic area. You do not want backlinks from ‘backlink farm’ sites – automatically generated web pages that simply list link after link to other websites. This once popular ‘trick’ was used to try to fool search engines. But, as usual, the search engines eventually learned this trick too, and now they disregard these sites.

A backlink won’t be quality if it isn’t relevant. For example, if your website is about yoga for pregnant women, you would want backlinks from yoga sites, pregnancy sites, women’s health sites, or sites with other relevant topics. Search engines look to see that backlinks make sense – having a backlink from an office supply store to your yoga site wouldn’t be relevant and the search engine would either ignore the link or knock your ranking down.

Finally, backlinks should be natural. This means that they were built over time and by a process that makes sense. You do not want to suddenly create dozens of backlinks all in the same time frame – these will be flagged as suspicious. But you do want to slowly build a network of quality backlinks that will help the right visitors to get to your site.

You can start building backlinks by looking for sites that are relevant to your own website. Reciprocal links – where you agree to link to a page if they agree to link to yours – are a popular tool that used to work very well. However, search engines are getting more astute all the time, and if you reciprocally link to a site that is irrelevant or of poor quality, that will hurt you more than help you. So you can certainly establish reciprocal links, but do it selectively – only if it makes sense for the targeted audience of both sites.

Another trick website owners once used was to link to their own website from another one of their websites. The problem is that search engines now check to see if your backlinks come from the same IP address as your site. If you attempt to network all your sites together just to get backlinks, you’re going to hurt your rankings. But again, if you have one or two that are logical, that are natural, and that would make sense to your visitors, you can establish a few backlinks between your own sites.

There are a couple of programs out there designed to help webmasters quickly see their sales stats without having to log into every sponsor’s program site, or to CCBill or Epoch to get them. One that I found to be extremely easy to use is Niftystats. Basically you install the program on your computer, open it up and go down the sponsor list and fill in your user name and password for each one you use and that’s it! Every now and again you’ll get reports about sales you’ve made, but I especially like the big smile that jumps onto my face whenever the little sales bubble pops up in the corner of my computer screen letting me know recent sales activity!

What is Nifty Stats?

Nifty Stats is a desktop utility, which automatically in regular intervals downloads the stats from your affiliate programs.

Nifty Stats brings automated statistics right to your desktop for any time frame pre-defined by you – and it shows these stats in real time and on a regular basis. It is 100% safe and the entire communication runs just between your computer and the server of your affiliate program. Nifty Stats currently supports over 500 sponsor programs, including Google Adwords, Google Adsense, Yahoo and Commission Junction.

They offer a Pro Version and a FREE version! Download NiftyStats Now!

This article from Mainstream Webmasters, by Lory Sargu, will guide you through the importance of the toolbar, and its accuracy at reporting PageRank.

I will also discuss the feature about it that most people, including many SEOs are not aware of. If you have an existing site, use this as a reference to ensure that you are using the toolbar properly. I am going to review the key 5 areas.

The toolbar is not accurate, and it has limitations.
If you visit a page that is not in the index, but Google has a very similar page indexed that is very close to yours, then the toolbar will estimate its PageRank. Also, Google represents PageRank through the toolbar, but since the nature of PageRank is linear (a multiplier) and the toolbar is not, there are limitations.Note: Please read “A few more words on PageRank” in my Google Best SEO Practices- Part 4 article to find out more about this subject.

The information the toolbar displays is outdated.
There is a big difference between toolbar PageRank and actual PageRank. The data you see in the toolbar is 4 to 6 months old. Google tracks and assigns PageRank in real-time, but does not update the toolbar in the same fashion. There are multiple tools that estimate future PR, but they are just that, estimates. Keep this in mind.

Best SEO features: highlighting & backlinks.
You can highlight all instances of the search term on the page returned from your search. This helps you see how many times your competitors use these keywords on their pages, so you can adjust your SEO campaign accordingly. Also, the backlinks feature displays all the pages that link to yours, which Google counts towards your PageRank. Like I said above, remember this is outdated information.

The toolbar’s most hidden feature: indexing.
Ever wondered how can Google index pages with no links to them? Well, here is how it’s done: if you are browsing the web with the toolbar installed, (I am not saying just visible or enabled), Google is recording every page you visit and simultaneously checking to see if the address to it is in the index or not. So what if its not? It will be indexed on the next schedule. If you don’t want a page to get indexed yet, the make sure you don?t have the toolbar installed in your browser while getting it ready.

Demystifying the “pagerank dependency”.
PageRank is only one of the 100+ algo components of Google, and it is overrated. Don’t rely solely on the toolbar to determine your link partners. You want links from related pages with high traffic, not high PageRank alone. And my final advice: Make sure you have at least 2 browsers, one with the toolbar (if you need it) and one without (to visit your not-ready pages).

I’m really appreciating these bulk blog submitter sites to adult blog directories, they’re real time savers, and for the most part they do send out a fair amount of traffic. If some of these aren’t on your bookmarks and blogrolls, I’d be checking them out.

1 Blog Submitter – Auto submit to 18 Adult Blog Directories – 3 blogs per day limit

Blog Submiter – Select from 26 Adult Directories to submit to. Various rules apply to each listing, so read carefully, don’t just check mark all of them at random.

Adult Blog Resource –  Submit to 15 Adult Blog Directories with one form – 1 Blog daily limit

Gay Blog Submitter – Submit to 5 Gay Blog Directories with one form

Alternative Blog Submitter – from the AdultWebmasterGroup – 1 blog per day limit

AWM – Not a bulk submission site, but lists a number of directories with the submit link

SuperSexBlogs Submitter – 2 blogs per day limit – 10 Directories

Porn Blog Submitter – Unlimited Submissions Daily – Accepts free hosted blogs – 20 Directory Listings

BuzzBoost - Free RSS to HTML Transformation Tool

 

BuzzBoost is a simple service that allows you to cross-promote the content of your feed — be it a blog, podcast or commercial newsfeed — any place where you can display HTML. For example, you can display the latest headlines from your blog on your Web site, your forum, a podcast site, or on a friend’s site. BuzzBoost is FeedBurner’s answer to RSS-to-HTML transformation.

BuzzBoost is really ideal for anyone who wants to use their feed content to gain exposure on the net. As you know, more exposure can often lead to more subscribers. So if you have several blogs or other sites that have their own feeds, BuzzBoost provides a simple way for you to cross-promote them to your non blog websites. Today, if you want people to see the latest entries from your blog, they need to actually read your blog or be subscribed to your feed. BuzzBoost provides other means of communicating and promoting content to your target audience and helps your content go further.

What are the technical requirements to use BuzzBoost?

BuzzBoost’s job is to redisplay your feed content anywhere you can copy and paste a short snippet of HTML code. The actual BuzzBoost code is just a short line of JavaScript that displays content items and information from a FeedBurner feed according to settings you provide. You get to control how BuzzBoost displays the following elements:

• Feed Title
• Item publication date
• Individual item headlines, headlines and plain text, or headlines and original HTML
• Plain text item excerpt length
• Your original site’s favicon, if it has one
• Link to download podcast or videoblog enclosures (if available)

To get started simply sign in to (or create) your FeedBurner account, select the feed you wish to “boost” from My Feeds and then configure the BuzzBoost service from the “Publicize” tab. The service is completely free.

As bloggers, we all want to know where we rank in the blogosphere and in search engines. Is your blog growing? Are people reading your content? Are you getting natural backlinks? About once a week you should do a little research to find out, because there’s nothing worse than working hard on a blog or web site without knowing you’re consistently making progress. To help you get into a routine on what and how to go about tracking your blog’s progress, I’m recommending that you head over to JT Pratt’s site and read the indepth articles he provides. While he discusses some mainstream techniques that we can’t use in Adult, the basis of what he shares is still relevant for the Adult webmaster.

5 Key Google Analytics to Watch for Blog Progress

Here’s installment #1 in the Tracking Your Blog’s Progress series. He will show you five specific things that you should be watching for in your google analytics web site statistics over the long haul. Tracking these items will help you follow blog growth in the best (and worst) areas.

AddThis has Bookmark Analytics

In Installment #2 of Tracking Your Blog’s Progress he’ll talk about how to figure out how many people are bookmarking your site using the AddThis service.

Tracking Sitemap Changes for SERP Pages

For installment #3 he is going to talk about your blog XML Sitemap, including why you should have one, what they do, how to read yours, and making sure that your sitemap contains everything necessary to get your pages indexed right in search. If you’re not doing the right things your entire blog could be sent to google’s “supplemental index hell” without you even knowing about it. This installment is an essential regular part of “tracking your blog’s progress”!

Increase Traffic with MSN, Yahoo!, and Google!

In installment #4 you’ll learn what to do with your XML sitemap now that you have it ready to go, and we’re going to make sure that you are getting indexed in google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search every time you post or update your blog. Each of the the 3 major search engines has a “webmaster console” for you to register your url and xml sitemap with – make sure that your blog is setup for maximum indexing and traffic!

Show off your live traffic with Feedjit widgets. The widgets are all free and you don’t need to register to get them for your blog or website. You’ll find that the widgets are also extremely lightweight and won’t slow your site down.

If you’re a Blogger or Typepad user you can install any of the widgets with one click. If you use a different platform or if you’re installing Feedjit in a website, then simply cut and paste the script they provide into your blog template or website HTML. Feedjit will appear in the position you paste the script.

Feedjit’s mission is to provide high performance real-time widgets for the blogging community that are free and easy to use. FEEDJIT is founded by two serial entrepreneurs whose previous businesses include a search engine and a blogging platform.

Four types of FEEDJIT widgets are currently available for immediate download.

1.  Feedjit’s live traffic feed shows statistics on your website in real-time. It shows:

• Which city and country your visitors are in
• Which website they arrived from, if any
• Which page they visited on your website
• Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any

2.  Feedjit’s live traffic map shows the geographic locations of the last 100 visitors to your blog or website on a small map. If you move your mouse over any point on the map the city and country for that visitor will be displayed.

3.  Feedjit’s Recommended Reading Widget suggests other pages on your Blog or Website that may interest your readers. It does this using a sophisticated algorithm called Collaborative Filtering.

For example, a visitor to your blog may view one of your blog entries about coral reefs. Feedjit knows that 10 other visitors to your blog who liked this blog entry visited 2 other entries you wrote about coral reefs. So it suggests these 2 pages to your new visitor.

4.  Page Popularity. This widget shows the most popular pages on your blog or website by analyzing your recent traffic patterns. It constantly updates as new visitors arrive on your website and maintains an up to date list of popular pages. This widget does not require a minimum amount of traffic for you to use it. Simply install it and you’re all set.

This widget draws new visitors into your blog or website by showing off your best content. If you have pages with a high bounce rate, displaying your most popular content in a prominent position can help draw new visitors into your website and grow your regular reader base.

Click HERE for downloads and more information on where these FEEDJIT widgets will and will not work.