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Improve your Google rankings With Wikihow

The-Web-Tycoon — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:59:43 +0000

To improve the rankings of a website, is a good idea to have an article in the Wikipedia linking to it.

Another alternative is WikiHow, a wiki-based community focused on the creation of how-to guides/manuals on just about anything.

In Wikihow anyone can write and edit how-to guides that are licensed under “Creative Commons”, this means that if someone redistributes any of wikiHow’s content, he/she must attribute the work to wikiHow and provide a link back to wikiHow’s site. Also, he/she must not use the content for commercial purposes. Furthermore, any work derived from (i.e., altered, remixed, transformed, or built upon) any wikiHow content may and should only be distributed under the same licenses as that of the original wikiHow content.

The idea of wikiHow is to provide people with free and useful information/instructions to help them solve the problems of everyday life. The site covers a wide range of subjects/categories including arts & entertainment, computers & electronics, family life, pets, health, relationships, travel, and many others.

The Wikihow is more than a typical junk directory

The Wikihow receives a hugue traffic, in just one month can have 20 millions of unique visits as this screenshot shows:

The first steep in Wikihow is creating a profile, by just going to http://www.wikihow.com you can create a profile with the URL like if it was Twitter, and will have a new backlink.

But the Wikihow Isn’t just creating a profile, after logging in, you can go to articles and write some useful guide about your products, with a link pointing to your website.

The links from the wikihow will not just bring traffic to your website, but also trustrank from a reputable site, that will surely improve your rankings in Google.

Get a Keywords List with the Google Adwords Keywords Tool

The-Web-Tycoon — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:40:23 +0000

Many people forgets to generate a keywords list with the keywords tool of Google Adwords before writing something , this is a mistake because without having a keywords list to use when you write something, you do not know how to optimize the text to have a good presence in the search engines.

When you generate a keywords list with the Google Adwords tool, you can know according the keywords tool which are the most visited queries, and then, use them to write a good post or article to receive a lot of traffic from the search engines.

The keywords tool of Google Adwords, is completely free and can generate a keywords list from a subject you choose, to let you know how many people asks for that keyword in Google each month, this keywords tool was invented to help people to bid in Google Adwords.

As many people knows the keywords tool of Google Adwords, the best queries of the list are wanted by too many people, and the problem here is not just to find the most popular of the keywords list, you also have to be able to appear in Google for these queries.

You can see how many competence is present in the keywords list by the green bars provided by the keywords tool of Google Adwords. If the bar is completely green, the competence is too high, and the keyword is very difficult to bid in. The system of the keywords tool was invented for Google Adwords, but when you are thinking on an organic search, this keywords tool is also useful.

If the whole keywords list is full of competence, you can try to use one of the frequent queries and process it with the keywords tool, this will give you a keywords list with the related queries, and you can choose 5 of them, to compete around the keyword you wanted in the beginning.

You can also obtain a keywords list where all the queries obtain 100 or 200 visitors a month from Google Adwords, and normally, in that cases, there isn’t competence because the benefits would be too low. The number of visitors given with the keywords tool of Google Adwords is calculated in a monthly basis, but when you are the first you do not obtain the 100% of those visits (just an average of 40%), so,with a keyword having a 200 you could receive 80 visitors a month.

When choosing from the keywords list, you must remember that not just the numbers make your sales, the keywords tool will give you relevant queries because it is better to obtain some visitors wanting what you sell, than aiming to monopolize the whole keywords list, this is a good tip both for Google Adwords and for the organic queries.

Link building strategy Increase your Pagerank without hurting rankings

The-Web-Tycoon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:59:15 +0000

As There wasn’t any post about SEO in my blog I decidided to start with some basics, If you want more info you can also visit my search engine optimization tutorial, this domain is a static website with a blog, and I can combine the accessibility of a blog with the information of a static website.

I’ll begin with the pagerank and some principles of link-building strategy:

Nowadays, the Pagerank Isn’t as important as it was before, backlink spammers made Google give less importance on it, but increase your Pagerank, can still be a good thing.

The Pagerank continues having some importance in the Google Rankings, if you increase your Pagerank, your website will be listed in upper positions and you will receive more traffic. But this does not mean that a PR=6 will always rank better than a PR=1.The Google algorithm uses a lot of factors, and PR is just one.

You can also trade with your Pagerank, but you must be careful, if Google catch you selling links,will set your PR to 0. Google can change PR at will, however, the public PR of a website, isn’t exactly your Pagerank. Google has his own scale which is calculated daily, and sometimes decides to make a photograph yo show you in the next dance. The photograph is your public pagerank.

The Pagerank is traditionally obtained from links, but your must give priority to link Quality. Since spammers began cheating Google with the Autosubmiters, Google hates websites with 500.000 links and a PR=7 in just a month. This is possible, but rather than a good thing, is pure SPAM. If Google believes that you are spamming links, you will be Sandboxed, this means that nobody will find you in a lot of months.

You must be careful with your link-building strategy, don’t submit too much links at a time, just by submitting your link to 5-6 sites a week should be enough, but you must be progressive. The quality of a good link is not only measured by the Pagerank, Google has also the Trustrank and some links with high Pagerank can hurt your rankings.

The link building strategy is a very important part in SEO, not only to increase your Pagerank, but also to tell Google which keywords you are relevant with. A good link is the one containing your keywords and coming to a relevant site to these keywords. This is logical, if authorities of a subject are linking you, this would mean that you are useful for people interested in that subject.