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Blogging And WordPress Hosting

Tony Williams — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:01:50 +0000

Blogging is a fundamental part of today’s Internet-based businesses. Frankly, if your company makes any use of the Internet whatsoever, and there are few companies these days that don’t, then you need a blog. It doesn’t matter if you don’t consider yourself a particularly great writer or aren’t sure that your business has something special to say. You need to find a way to create a compelling, eye-catching blog and keep it filled with fresh content.

Why Blogging is Important

Blogging is what keeps a static website dynamic. You may have a great product, service or general brand to sell, but it’s hard to keep people excited about those things when you have a two-dimensional screen with content that never changes. If everyone knows what they will see on your website, then there’s less incentive to visit. When you have a constantly fresh blog, though, people will always come back to see what’s new. That’s traffic you can use. On top of that, search engines are impressed with fresh content, so a good blog can improve your search engine ratings. Finally, blogs present a good opportunity for link-building. When you visit another blog and leave a comment with a link to your own, it can direct people towards your website.

Blogging and WordPress Hosting

Of course, if you’re going to set up a blog, then you’ll need a platform and host. WordPress is a great place to start. It’s easy to set up and use, and its open source protocol means you can use the tools created by WordPress experts to constantly update and customize your blog so it’s just right for your needs. Remember, you’re going to have your WordPress blog professionally hosted. You could go to a WordPress.com free hosted blog, but this is considered less professional and won’t help your traffic as much.

For blog hosting you can find some best wordpress hosts listed in webhostingsearch.com.

Maintaining a Blog

You should always look for ways to update and improve your blog. The Internet is about keeping things fresh and keeping things moving. The more successful you are at doing that, the better you should be at generating traffic and drawing attention to your business.

Optimize Page Speeds With Google Page Speed

Tony Williams — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:49:01 +0000

Google have launched a new Firefox Addon called Page Speed that works with the Firebug extension to provide webmasters with ways to improve the page speeds. The tool is so good, that Google have been using it internally to improve their web pages. The tool is very similar to Yahoo’s YSlow.

Page Speed provides a lot of information on why your pages are loading slowing, and will even optimize images for you. It also highlights any Javascript and CSS loaded by your pages that isn’t needed, which can be removed for faster load times.

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Convert Text to Video and Gain Huge Traffic

Umar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:01:52 +0000

I have seen tens of different online applications that lets you convert your text to audio. Today, I’ve confronted one that will allow you to turn your articles to Videos. ArticleVideoRobot seems to be a very useful software that converts your text into a movie in less than 3 minutes of time.

All you have to do is copy and paste your article in the content box and leave the rest to ArticleVideoRobot. The biggest advantage of creating videos out of your article is that the video counts separately for each video website you submit it to. What this means to you that with a single click your video will be going out to 17 different video websites.

If you use the servive sensibly you can distribute these videos to top websites and top social networks to gain huge traffic. Here are the simple steps you will need to use to create your video

Paste your article in the content box
Arrange your article into paragraphs
Summarize each of the paragraph
Select your movie background
Set your background music
Fill In Author’s Information / Resource Box
Preview your newly created video and save your file in AVI or SWF format
Submit your newly created to the top 17+ video websites instantly.

You can download the trial version here or check out the official website for additional information.

Add StumbleUpon Buttons To Your Site To Increase Traffic

Tony Williams — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:32:23 +0000

Every month or so, one of my pages makes it onto StumbleUpon? Although not quite as scary as getting onto Digg in terms of the volume of traffic sent, it is still very impressive.

StumbleUpon have now made it easier for publishers to encourage readers to submit their content.? They’ve created a nice wizard that automatically generates the code for your site to get readers stumbling:

All you ave to do is pick a graphic and tell StumbleUpon what type of site you have, and the code is automatically generated.

You don’t need a StumbleUpon account to add the buttons.? If you are a member, then add me as a friend.

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10 htaccess Hacks To Speedup WordPress

Tony Williams — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:19:11 +0000

Today’s post may be a bit more technical than my usual posts, but these htaccess tweaks have made such a big difference to my wordpress blog, that I just had to share them.

Editing a .htacess file may seem daunting, but as long as you backup your old file using a FTP client, then you can’t go wrong. The tweaks in this great guide allow you to:

1 – Redirect WordPress RSS feeds to feedburner with htaccess
2 – Remove /category/ from your WordPress url
3 – Using browser cache
4 – Compress static data
5 – Redirect Day and name permalinks to /%postname%/
6 – How to: Deny comment posting to no referrer requests
7 – Redirect visitors to a maintenance page
8 – Protect your WordPress blog from hotlinking
9 – Allow only your IP adress on the wp-admin directory
10 – Banning a WordPress Spammer With htaccess

To read the htaccess tweaks in full click here

Matt Cutts From Google On Keywords In The Url

Tony Williams — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:41:27 +0000

One of the oldest tips for improving SEO is to add keywords to the url. This goes way back to the early search engines such as Inktomi (remember them?).

This still holds true and has been recently confirmed by Matt Cutts from Google. In the following video Matt says:

“If you’ve got an existing solution that works for you, it’s not really worth going back to change your urls. It may worth considering when you’re doing a new site.”

For more advice, check out the full video with Matt Cutts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzMhlFZz9I

Add WordPress WP CSS Plugin For Speed

Tony Williams — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:01:11 +0000

Here’s a very quick tip for all WordPress users. Adding the WP CSS Plugin can speedup your page loading times by compressing and removing the whitespace from your CSS files. May sound too simple, but this plugin definitely works!

The latest version includes:

Ability to add CSS files to specific page/post
Concatenate CSS files into a single file (comma separated)
Improved security
Reduced URL outputted

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Fix HTTP Errors With WordPress 2.5

Tony Williams — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:31:53 +0000

Ever since I updated to WordPress 2.5 I started getting HTTP errors everytime I tried to upload an image. I found a very quick fix that requires a line to be added to WordPress’ .htaccess file:

Open your WordPress 2.5 installation in an FTP client
find your .htacess file (usually in ‘www’)
add the following line:

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

then save your .htacess file and the HTTP error message should go away

WordPress SEO Tips

Tony Williams — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:22:22 +0000

Some people think Search Engine Optimization is something only the experts need to do. But, all webmasters and bloggers should be concerned about SEO, particularly as many steps that can be taken to improve traffic from search engines are easy and painless.

To show just how easy it can be for WordPress bloggers, Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling have taken the time to pull together in one place many of the steps that can be taken to improve SEO into a single document, which is free. If you are an aspiring blogger then I recommend taking the time to read their document.

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Get Site Colours With Instant EyeDropper

Tony Williams — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:30:46 +0000

If you’re a site designer and you have a terrible memory like me, then Instant EyeDropper could be for you. This great little app sits in your system tray and lets you click on any colour on your screen, and then will tell you what the color code is.

Instant EyeDropper will even copy the color to the clipboard so that you can use it elsewhere.

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101 Ways To Monetize Your Blog

Tony Williams — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:20:18 +0000

Trying to make money online seems to be the number one ‘hobby’ at the moment, and blogging is a popular method. Although, not even can be the next Darren Rowse, it is possible to generate a nice second income with a bit of effort.

For any aspiring bloggers out there looking for ways to make money from their blogs, then a good resource to check out is 101 Ways To Monetize Your Blog. This list contains many methods not usually discussed including merchandising and paid content.

Reduce Page Loading Times With PHPSpeedy

Tony Williams — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:20:35 +0000

If you run your own website or a blog then this post is for you. PHPSpeedy is a new free script that will make your pages load at blistering speeds, by making fewer HTTP requests, adding a far-future expires header, and gzipping other page elements.

Following Everton’s instructions, I added PHPSpeedy to my site in around 2 minutes, and my pages speeded up instantly. To add PHPSpeedy to your site, do the following:

(Note: backup your index.php file before attempting this. If you are unsure of what you are doing, please don’t try this!)

Download PHPSpeedy to your blog’s root directory
Change mod the PHPSpeedy config file to 777 and then go to http://www.yoursite.com/php_speedy to configure PHPSpeedy
Choose which options you want to use (I left all on as default except for ‘GZIP Page’ as it stopped my homepage loading). Once done PHPSpeedy creates a test page to check that everything is working ok
If it is, then add the following the code as instructed by PHPSpeedy at the TOP and BOTTOM of your theme’s index.php file

99 Ways To Promote Your Blog

Tony Williams — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:38:22 +0000

One of my friends contacted me today about helping his wife setup a blog as she wanted a ‘business’ she could run from home. I gave him a few urls to subscribe to like www.problogger.net, www.dailyblogtips.com and www.connectedinternet.co.uk, but I really wish I’d directed him through to the following site.

99 Ways To Promote Your Blog does exactly that, providing links to many great articles on driving traffic, using social media, link building etc. All of these are vital ways to develop a blog readership quickly, and more importantly to generate some income.

Improve Your Website’s Speed With 13 Simple Steps

Tony Williams — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:19:35 +0000

One of the important jobs of a good webmaster is to make sure that pages load as fast as possible for all visitors. It’s no good assuming that everyone has a broadband connection.

You can never do enough in this department. If you are looking for a good guide to optimising your site, then check out ‘Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps‘. The tutorial is divided into four parts:

basic optimization rules
optimizing assets (images, scripts, and styles)
optimizations specific to scripts
optimizations specific to styles

It’s quite a long read, so I’d advise bookmarking it.

Buy And Sell Text Links With TNX.net

Tony Williams — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:37:34 +0000

Many bloggers have heard of Text Link Ads, but not many have heard of TNX.net, a new network that combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. I certainly hadn’t until they approached me and asked me to write this review.

As I started to investigate how TNX works, I began to realise that TNX offers a great new way for publishers to monitize their sites and for advertisers to drive more traffic to their sites, as well as improving search engine listings.

TNX Services For Advertisers

By purchasing links on TNX.net publishers get their links displayed on relevant pages, as ads are booked at a per page level rather than at a per site level. TNX make it easy for advertisers to locate appropriate pages, as once a publisher adds a site it is indexed and automatically categorized. All an advertiser has to do is select which categories they wish to advertise in and TNX automatically places the ads. Over 30m pages are available for adverts, so the categories come in handy!

Links on sites with higher Page Ranks cost more, but all links are reasonably priced with 1,000 text links available from just over a dollar. The more links you buy the more traffic you will receive from search engines like Google, as well as directly from the links purchased.

If advertisers wish they can use the available filters to choose to advertise on only high PR sites. Other filters are also available that allow sitemasters to get exactly the type of links that they want:

Geo-targetting: Choose which language sites links should be displayed on
Yahoo Backlinks: Allows advertisers to set a min (or max) number of backlinks that a site has to have to be added to the basket
Google PageRank: Buying links on relevant sites with higher Page Ranks will have better Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) benefits

After making all your selections, all that’s left is to decide how many links you want to purchase. Each link costs a certain amount of TNX-points – more links require more TNX-points.

TNX Services For Publishers

If you want to add links to your site, then TNX offer a very generous revenue share. Only 1 link has to be displayed, but you can opt to have up to a maximum of 4 links per page being displayed. Adding the necessary code to your site is reallly quick and only took me a minute.

To be accepted into the TNX network only two requirements have to be met:

Website must be indexed by Google search engine i.e. the scheme is open to 99% of sites
It must not be using free web-hosting services that do not support PHP, Perl or asp, aspx

Because TNX actively encourage advertisers to purchase a range of links, then unlike other schemes where only the big sites attract the marketing dollars, TNX do a good job of sharing the wealth. Also, because advertisers don’t get to see the sites where they’ve purchased links, the links get shared around all matching sites, rather than just a few celebrity blogs hogging all the ads.

Once ads start displaying on your site, then you start to accumulate TNX-points. These can be converted into cash at any time. Or, you can of course use them to buy links yourself. As a launch offer, TNX are giving 2,000 free points to every person that registers, and another 5,000 points for every website added to the network.

Bonus Lifetime Referral Scheme

Even more points can be earned via TNX’s referral scheme. For every site that you refer, TNX will pay you over 13% of every point that they earn – FOREVER! So, if you’ve got any friends with popular websites then email them ASAP to make sure that you get to them before anybody else does!

If I haven’t convinced you to join TNX.net yet then I’d advise popping over to their website, where there is a lot more information available.

Give Your Blog A Checkup

Tony Williams — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:49:28 +0000

The problem with popular blogging platforms like WordPress is that over time your blog can get a bit grotty around the edges, due to the all the widgets and plugins that get installed and uninstalled. It’s good to set some time aside every now and then to clean up all the crap in your blog, to keep it running nice and smoothly.

DailyBlogTips have put together a nice list of housekeeping actions you can do to keep your blog running nice and smoothly:

Test Load Time
Check for Dead Links
Validate HTML and CSS
Optimize Your CSS
Test in Multiple Browsers
Run a Spider Simulator
Delete Unused Files, Pages, and Images
Clean Up Comment Spam

To read how to carry out each step, then click here.

Speed Up WordPress – 17 Acceleration Tweaks

Tony Williams — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:57:53 +0000

After learning the hard way about traffic spikes the first time I got on Digg, I’m very lucky now that my mate Everton is hosting One Tip A Day for me on his server, so I don’t have to worry about my site being up.

If you do host your own WordPress blog, then you really should check out this great post containing 17 Tweaks To Accelerate WordPress.

The tweaks range from simple ones like removing unnecessary plugins especially comment reporting plugins, but advice is given on various caching solutions. For the more technically minded users out there, various php and mysql tweaks are included.

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Useful Firefox Extensions For Website Owners

Tony Williams — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:12:17 +0000

I know that I keep going on about Firefox, but it is truly the king of internet browsers. To prove my point, here’s a list of 10 Firefox Extensions For Website Owners.

Although you may say ‘oh no, not another list of Firefox extensions’, in my view because there are so many lists like this are the only way to stay on top of all the amazing Firefox Extensions out there.

Take for instance LinkChecker:

If you run a dynamic site, or built a site from scratch, its very possible you have some dead links after moving things around. This simple extension lets you know if your links on a page are good or bad without having to click around. There are some other better tools out there for checking your entire site for dead links (search for xenu link sleuth), but this allows you to see them at quick glance.

I’ve just installed this extension, and I was stunned to see how many dead links there were on this site. Vital information if you want to hold onto as many potential readers as possible.

Get $100 In Free Links

Tony Williams — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:28:57 +0000

I’ve just taken advantage of a great offer from Text Link Ads that I wanted to share. They are running a promotion that gives $100 in FREE Links where all you have to do to get qualify is spend $25 i.e. you get $125 worth of links for only $25.

I couldn’t resist an offer that good. Even if I don’t get a lot of traffic, I’ve only spent $25 which is the price of a decent meal!

Better Alexa Redirect Plugin

Tony Williams — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:33:51 +0000

Although Alexa Rankings have some fundamental flaws in terms of accuracy, getting a higher ranking generally is a good thing as it can help attract advertisers and give you blogging ‘bragging rights’. If you are a WordPress user, one way to try and increase your Alexa Ranking is to install the Better ‘Alexa Redirect’ Plugin.

The particular plugin scans the entire set of links on any page of your blog while someone is watching it and it adds a JavaScritp event to each of them, which upon clicking on the link (no matter is it a Left Click or a Right Click) will prefix it with the Alexa Redirect URL: in this way the person visiting your blog will visit the desired URL by forwarding the URL to Alexa.

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15 SEO Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts

Tony Williams — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:07:17 +0000

At the recent WordCamp 2007 conference, Google’s Matt Cutts gave a presentation on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Given that Matt Cutts seems to have taken up the mantle as Google’s unofficial/official spokesperson, paying attention to these tips should increase your changes of getting Google link juice.

Some of the tips seem straight forward and sensible, although i have to admit I don’t know why #1 and #12 are important.

Don’t put your blog at the root of your domain.
Name your directory ‘blog’ instead of ‘wordpress’.
In URLs, no spaces are worst, underscore are better, dashes or hyphens are best.
Use alt tags on images: not only is it good accessibility, it’s good SEO.
Include keywords naturally in your posts.
Make your post dates easy to find.
Check your blog on a cell phone and/or iPhone.
Use partial-text feeds if you want more page views; use full-text feeds if you want more loyal readers.
Blogs should do standard pings.
Standardize backlinks (don’t mix and match www with non-www).
Use a permanent redirect (301) when moving to a new host.
Don’t include the post date in your URL.
When moving between hosts, wait until Googlebot and traffic begin to visit the new host before taking down the old one.
If using AdSense, use sectioning.
Use FeedBurner’s (now) free MyBrand feature to take control of your feeds (i.e., feed.bloggingpro.com instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggingpro/PfjF.

15 SEO Tips From Google

Tony Williams — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:07:50 +0000

Below are fifteen Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips from Google’s Matt Cutts. Definitely worth reading if you want to increase your changes of getting Google love for your site:

Don’t put your blog at the root of your domain.
Name your directory ‘blog’ instead of ‘wordpress’.
In URLs, no spaces are worst, underscore are better, dashes or hyphens are best.
Use alt tags on images: not only is it good accessibility, it’s good SEO.
Include keywords naturally in your posts.
Make your post dates easy to find.
Check your blog on a cell phone.
Use partial-text feeds if you want more page views; use full-text feeds if you want more loyal readers.
Blogs should do standard pings.
Standardize backlinks (don’t mix www with non-www).
Use a permanent redirect (301) when moving to a new host.
Don’t include the post date in your URL.
When moving between hosts, wait until Googlebot and traffic begin to visit the new host before taking down the old one.
If using AdSense, use section targeting.
Use FeedBurner’s MyBrand feature to take control of your feeds (i.e., feed.domain.com instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/domain).

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)

Tony Williams — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:36:00 +0000

One Tip A Day is nearly a year old now and is starting to get some nice traffic, so I’ve been on the lookout for ideas to make it even better. A post by Ryan Caldwell from Performancing entitled ‘10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)’, popped up in my feedreader today which seemed like perfect timing.

I’ve had a quick skim of some of the posts and they are definitely a good selection of posts that all bloggers should read:

1. How to Write Magnetic Headlines

2. How Can 10 Simple Articles Change Your Life?

3. Scannable Content

4. 10 Killer Post Ideas

5. 7 Steps to Being Recognized as an Expert

6. Converting One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers

7. 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang

8. The Art of Linkbaiting

9. Before You Begin Blogging: A few things you should know

10. 5 Surefire Steps To Increase Readership 300% (or more)

10 Tips To Improve Google Adsense Earnings

Tony Williams — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:20:35 +0000

My friend Everton has written a great post with lists 10 ways he has increased his Google Adsense income from a few hundred dollars a month to over $4K/pm in just 8 months.

The post is definitely worth setting aside 10 minutes to read. I can personally testify to the benefits of using a optimized WordPress theme and removing adsense units that are getting few clicks to improve Adsense earnings i.e. less is better.

To read the full list of tips then click here.

Where To Find Images For Your Blog

Tony Williams — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:22:39 +0000

Finding images for a blog post can be quite hard. First of all you need to know where to look, and secondly you really should try and make sure you are only using images you have the right to use.

Daily Blog Tips (not a sister blog!) has pulled together a good list of sources you could try all of which are loyalty free. Some charge a small fee of around a $1, which is fine I think as paying a dollar for the perfect image is worth it as the alternative could be spending a lot of time, which is valuable to me, looking for the perfect image.

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Submit Your Site or Blog To Yahoo News

Tony Williams — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:46:15 +0000

Although Google rules the roost in terms of online search, Yahoo is still holding onto its crown as the most popular online news aggregator. ( Source: Comscore)

Sites that are featured in Yahoo News can get thousands of new visitors per day, and joining their ranks is easier than you think. All you have to do is submit your site using the Yahoo News source submission form, and if your site is accepted then let the good times role!

50 Web Usability Tips

Tony Williams — Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:17 +0000

Web usability is something that many site owners don’t pay enough attention to, even though it can be the key factor that will make your users come back over and over again.

Maki over at DoshDosh has spent a considerable amount of time compiling a list of 50 web usability tips, which he’s even taken the time to categorize. The post also has a list of additional references so that readers can really through themselves into the topic.

Some of the tips I found most interesting were:

Remove the ‘homepage‘ link on the homepage because it can increase navigational confusion. This will make the user doubt that the homepage is indeed the actual homepage.
Follow conventions for web design (”blue for hypertext links“) This will allow site visitors to mainly focus on your content instead of using their mental power to learn how to use your website.
Simplicity is Rule #1 for usability. The less features there are available in a design, the less there will be to compete for the user’s attention.
Try to mainly rely on typography instead of bloated designs and graphics. The goal is to enhance appearance without delaying the response time. The blandest sites can get the most page views and users.
Change the color of visited links. This will allow users to decide where to go next on your website. Links that don’t change color can cause navigational disorientation in users.

To read the full list click here

Check Your Page Rank With The Alexa Toolbar

Tony Williams — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:58:38 +0000

I must have been having a psychic moment with my tip yesterday about Google Page Ranks, as Google has been updating Page Ranks this weekend. I’ve been lucky enough to be bumped up from a Page Rank 1 to Page Rank 4, which I think is a pretty impressive increase and should hopefully mean I will get even more visitors.

If you want to see if your Page Rank has been increased then the best way to do this is to install the Alexa Toolbar. Not only does the Alexa Toolbar display your Page Rank, but it can also help to improve your Alexa Rank.

Once the toolbar is installed, then everytime you visit your site that will count as a visit when Alexa compiles its data. Many advertising services like Text-Link Ads and ReviewMe, as well as potential advertisers use these stats to gauge the value of advertising on a site, so trying to increase your Alexa Rank can be important.

If you use IE then install the Alexa toolbar . Firefox users should install Firefox’s SearchStatus extension. If you are looking for other ways to increase your Alexa Rank then check out this post from Connected Internet.

List Of Search Engine Ranking Factors

Tony Williams — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:35:16 +0000

Carsten from Search Engine Journal has pulled together a summary of the monster Search Engine Ranking Factors document, which contained the opinions of 37 SEO experts.

If you’re pressed for time, then this is the quickest way to learn about Search Engine Factors or a quick reference guide to remind you of all the little things you should be including in every post in order to get more traffic for your site.

#	Type	Factor	Importance	Consensus
1	Keyword	Keyword Use in Title Tag	High	Yes
2	Site	Global Link Popularity of Site	High	Yes
3	In-Link	Anchor Text of Inbound Link	High	Yes
4	Page	Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure	High	Yes
5	Site	Age of Site	High	Somewhat
6	Site	Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site	High	Somewhat
7	Site	Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community	High	Somewhat
8	Negative	Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots	High	No
9	Keyword	Keyword Use in Body Text	High	Somewhat
10	In-Link	Global Link Popularity of Linking Site	High	No
11	Negative	Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content in the Index	High	Somewhat
12	Page	Quality/Relevance of Links to External Sites/Pages	High	Somewhat
13	Site	Rate of New Inbound Links to Site	High	Somewhat
14	In-Link	Topical Relationship of Linking Page	High	Somewhat
15	In-Link	Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community	High	Somewhat
16	Negative	External Links to Low Quality/Spam Sites	High	Somewhat
17	Keyword	Relationship of Body Text Content to Keywords (Topic Analysis)	High	Somewhat
18	Keyword	Keyword Use in H1 Tag	High	Somewhat
19	Page	Age of Document	High	Somewhat
20	Negative	Duplicate Title/Meta Tags on Many Pages	High	No
21	Negative	Participation in Link Schemes or Actively Selling Links	High	No
22	Negative	Overuse of Targeted Keywords (Stuffing/Spamming)	High	Somewhat
23	Page	Amount of Indexable Text Content	High	Somewhat
24	Site	Relevance of Site’s Primary Subject Matter to Query	High	No
25	In-Link	Topical Relationship of Linking Site	High	Somewhat
26	In-Link	Age of Link	High	Somewhat
27	In-Link	Text Surrounding the Link	High	Yes
28	Keyword	Keyword Use in Domain Name	Medium	Somewhat
29	Page	Quality of the Document Content (as measured algorithmically)	Medium	No
30	In-Link	Internal Link Popularity of Linking Page within Host Site/Domain	Medium	Somewhat
31	Keyword	Keyword Use in Page URL	Medium	Somewhat
32	Keyword	Keyword Use in H2, H3, H(x) Tags	Medium	Somewhat
33	Page	Organization/Hierarchy of Document Flow (i.e. broad > narrow)	Medium	Somewhat
34	Negative	Very Slow Server Response Times	Medium	Somewhat
35	Site	Historical Performance of Site as Measured by Time Spent on Page, Clickthroughs from SERPs, Direct Visits, Bookmarks, etc.	Medium	Somewhat
36	Site	Manual Authority/Weight Given to Site by Google	Medium	No
37	Keyword	Keyword Use in Alt Tags and Image Titles	Medium	Yes
38	Site	TLD Extension of Site (edu, gov, us, ca, com, etc)	Medium	Somewhat
39	Site	Rate of New Pages Added to Site	Medium	Somewhat
40	In-Link	Domain Extension of Linking Site (edu, gov, com, ca, co.uk, etc)	Medium	Somewhat
41	In-Link	PageRank (as measured by the GG Toolbar) of Linking Page	Medium	Somewhat
42	In-Link	Temporal Link Attributes (when in time the link was created/updated)	Medium	Somewhat
43	Keyword	Keyword Use in Bold/Strong Tags	Medium	Somewhat
44	Page	Frequency of Updates to Page	Medium	Somewhat
45	Negative	Inbound Links from Spam Sites	Medium	Somewhat
46	Keyword	Keyword Use in Meta Description Tag	Medium	Somewhat
47	Negative	Low Levels of Visitors to the Site (Measured via Toolbar, Clicks in SERPs, etc.)	Medium	Somewhat
48	Site	Number of Queries for Site/Domain over Time	Low	Somewhat
49	Page	Number of Trailing Slashes (/) in URL	Low	Somewhat
50	Page	Accuracy of Spelling & Grammar	Low	Somewhat
51	Page	HTML Validation of Document (to W3C Standards)	Low	Yes
52	Site	Verification of Site with Google Webmaster Central	Low	Yes
53	Keyword	Keyword Use in Meta Keywords Tag	Low	Yes

Donate Money To Charity To Generate Backlinks

Tony Williams — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:40:48 +0000

Following Everton’s lead, I checked out my future PageRank. According to this tool the Page Rank of One Tip A Day will be increased from a measly 1 to a respectable 5!

I’ll be chuffed if this proves to be correct as I’ve only just started focusing on generating links to this site. I haven’t purchased any links yet for this site, but I have listed One Tip A Day in a few directories. One thing I plan to do next month to generate backlinks is to donate money to charities.

How is this generating backlinks I hear you ask? Well, many charity sites list the names and websites of donors. So, not only will I be able to buy cost-effective links on high ranking sites, I’ll hopefully be giving my money to good causes!

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