Social SEO Guide

OK, so you are wanting to get your links out there. I have set up the perfect system for you. Although, it will require just a little effort on your end.

If you have been frequenting the blog, you should have seen the “Top Commentators” in the side bar. Basically, if you comment on my blog, I run a total of your comments. I then display the top 10 in the list. These will stay there as long as no one comes along and comments more than you. If they do, you may get bumped off the list. So, it will be in you best interest to keep checking back.

The other part I have done is removed the “no follow” tags. So, these links are live links that the search engines can read and get to your site. This is another reason to get your link up there.

Now, the listing works like this. The person with the most comments will be listed in the top position. In the case of a tie for the number of comments, it will then list them in alphabetical order. Just keep that in mind when putting in your name for the link.

I thought I would put up my Top 20 free internet marketing resources. Most of these I use weekly, if not daily. And there is a trick to using them to get the maximum effect from each. But, anyway, here is my Top 20:

1. Warrior Forum
2. Digg
3. Stumbleupon
4. Onlywire
5. Dropjack
6. Sphinn
7. Ezinearticles
8. Goarticles
9. WebCEO
10. Squidoo
11. Wordtracker Keywords
12. Wordpress
13. Blogger (I prefer Wordpress, but use this in special circumstances)
14. Tubemogul
15. Any Video Converter
16. AVI to MP3 converter
17. YouTube
18. Pingoat (or Pingomatic)
19. Technorati
20. Hexatrack

There are more that I use, but these are the ones I use almost everyday.

Have any I missed?

OK, so let’s say you can only bookmark your sites at one place. What would it be?

I’ll go first: Digg

I bookmark every blog post, article, squidoo site, and anything else on Digg.

What about you?

So, here is the deal. I am looking for some comments on my blog. I want it to be more interactive and more productive for everyone. And in order to do this, I want to reward people for their time and efforts in making the blog a well know social community.

I am going to try something for 1 month. This will run from right now, until March 31st.

What am I going to try? Good question!!

I will post at least 1 article every day for the entire month. This will help get as many how to’s out there for people to start putting into place. That is what I will be doing on my end.

Now, for your end, you will need to comment on the articles/blog posts. You can agree with me, you can disagree with me (please be polite about it), you can take it in a different directions, pretty much anything goes.

OK, so I need to comment. I get that. But what is in it for me.

You may have already seen the “Top Commentators” section in the side bar. I just added this the other day specifically for this. When you login and place a comment, it will automatically keep a tab of how many comments you have made. I have it set to show the Top 10 right now. This should allow you to see how close you are to the top.

Now, for the reward. As I said, this will go all the way through March.

1. 1st Place - Free 3 month membership
2. 2nd place - Free 2 month membership
3. 3rd place - Free 1 month membership

There will be no buy it now buttons or anything like that. I will just manually create an account for you for the above times.

If you have been reading the newsletters, you know by now I have added an entire PLR section in the members area. I plan on adding at least 200 PLR articles each month, and will also be adding PLR products and softwares, amongst other things.

You will also have access to all of the videos I have put together so far.

All in all, I think it will pretty fun. We’ll see how it turns out.

Mike

If you are looking for some good ways to use social bookmarking, then I have come up with a list of 4 ways. These are proven methods, and things I personally do for my own websites and for client’s websites. I am currently doing freelance internet marketing promoting this method and have been successful with each and every project. Here is the list of 4 ways to use social bookmarking.

1. Let’s start with the obvious. It is a very good way to keep a web based bookmark list of your favorite sites. You can easily set up an account with one of the social networking sites (I can not list them all, as there are like 350 - 400). Delicious seems to be a popular one, so use that one for the sake of this conversation. Just register an account, and then when you see something you like, then bookmark it. You can now do this from any computer you may be at.
2. Another way is to use them as free one-way links. If you are an internet marketer, then you definitely know the value of one-way links to your website. You can use these sites to bookmark your own website or blog. Each and every time you add a new page to a website, or add a new blog post, then bookmark it. This will give you an outside link into your website. Google’s PR system works off of this.
3. Now that you have a bookmarked list, use their RSS feed. These sites will have an rss feed of all of your social bookmarks. You can use these in your blogs, like in the sidebar. This will give another area for links to your site. Maybe you have a Squidoo website set up. If so, then use their RSS module, and link to your rss feed on your social bookmarking site. You can also ping this rss feed, which will allow other outlets to know you have new information and links available. Many people overlook this method, and it is very easy to do.
4. The last one is to have a place for Google to find you. These social networking sites have pretty high PR because so many people are linking to them. And, with the amount of information, new information, being generated at these sites, Google will spider them very often. This is how I can write a blog post, and have it number 1 on Google in 6 hours. Google will use the social site as the entry way into your site. The best site to use for this is Digg. I personally Digg every single blog post I have. Sometimes the Digg link will rank higher than my blog, but who cares. I now have a link on the front page of Google for people to find me.

Those are 4 ways to use social bookmarking. They are pretty simple and straight forward, but you would be amazed at how many people are not even looking at this. Try some of them out and see how they work for you.

Read more about ways to use social bookmarking in The Social SEO Guide

Wordpress video tutorials

Use wordpress video tutorials to learn how to use the best bloggers application available today. If you are a new blogger then you might not be familiar with the important features of WordPress. This is a blogging tool, or software application and is probably the best you can use, but sometimes it can be difficult to use a new application. That’s why the wordpress video tutorials can be a great help.

Wordpress has features that allow you to easily change the way your website looks, there are many different pre designed themes you can use, and the way it is designed lets most people use it easily to publish their articles quickly onto their site.

Most Wordpress video tutorials cover things like installation instructions, changing the themes of your site, inserting meta tags and their importance in your site, the correct way to write posts, how to post comments, and how to install images, Google Adsense, even how to create backups.

Getting a WordPress tutorial is really worth your time. In the long run the wordpress video tutorials will teach you how to use the application in a fraction of the time it would take you to learn it on your own.

Designing your own Squidoo page

We all know about MySpace, blogging, Craigslist, and others, but now there is a new site called Squidoo and designing your own Squidoo page will produce money for you. This site has many uses but we are going to focus on how to use Squidoo to make money, and designing your own Squidoo page. Our video will show you in a few easy steps how to make money on Squidoo.

On Squidoo you can create what are known as lenses which are a one or two page collection of relevant content, articles and products about a certain keyword or topic. You are then the owner of these lenses and you can create as many as you like.

These lenses become authorative information on these topics and you can use them to add Google Adsense, link it to other sites or blogs, link it to your own products, or to an affiliate program.

Why Use Squidoo instead of your own web site?

The answer is simple; squidoo already ranks high on the search engines so it is easier to design your own squidoo page about a certain keyword or topic and have it rank highly on Google. This means that Squidoo can help you produce money and by watching the video you will learn everything you need to be a top marketer through the use of Squidoo.

Part of your online marketing tactics should be the use of social networking sites. This is one of the best (and free) methods of getting some traffic to your website. The other benefit of using these sites is getting a one way link back to your own website. And, with a little consistency and patience, you can and up with a large amount of links and traffic from these social networking sites.

The way to use them to their fullest potential is as follows:

1. Do your keyword research - you need to find the best keyword phrase people are looking for right now that relates to your product
2. Once you find the keyword, then write an article on your blog. This article must be optimized in a certain fashion to be able to rank on Google’s front page.
3. When you are done with the article, you use the social networking sites to get your link there. This is really just a matter of establishing accounts in a few of the better sites, and then bookmarking your own blog post to this site.
4. Then, repeat.

The concept really is that simple. Now, there are specifics for each of the steps in which I cover in The Social SEO Guide, that will help you make the most out of each post. Why just write a post? It is a waste of time. You need to impactful, but targeted, headlines and keyword phrases you are going after. I can show you all of this in The Social SEO Guide.

For all of the internet marketers and webmasters looking for good traffic to your site and blog, social seo is something you should be aware of. Social SEO is sort of a generic term, and can have a few different meanings. I will try to explain what I believe this means, and how I apply it to my marketing strategies.

Social SEO, to me, means optimizing your blog for the social networks. These networks would be the blogosphere, and all of the social networks like Digg.com, Dropjack.com, Reddit, and Del.icio.us. These are places where you can get you blog picked up by others, also known as bookmarked. But how do you get your stuff bookmarked?

There are 2 ways to make this happen:

1. One of the ways is by link baiting. What this means is you write about hot topics or controversial topics, and have an eye-catching headline. You need the headline to first get them to start reading. The information will then make them want to let others know about it. You sort of bait them into linking to you.
2. The other way is through some good keyword research. Using the techniques in The Social SEO Guide,  you will know how people are looking for stuff on the internet, can then see who is the real competition, and then write an optimized article, or blog post. Using these methods, you will then get high rankings in the search engines, and people will find you this way.

Both of these methods work. I consider them both to be forms of Social SEO, of which I use to get traffic to my site. I personally prefer to get more through the search engines, but my methods in The Social SEO Guide will work for both link baiting and search engine traffic.

Check out all of the other techniques and tips you can learn by reading The Social SEO Guide.

What is social bookmarking? You may have heard this term and not known exactly what it meant. Social bookmarking is taking a favorite website of yours, and making it a bookmark. It is sort of like what you do on your personal computer. If you see a site you like, and want to remember it, then you can bookmark it, or add it to your favorites. This way you do not need to remember it again, and can easily find it. Social bookmarking works the same way.

Only this time, you bookmark it to a website. If you are wondering why one would do this, it is for many reasons.

1. One of the reasons would be so when you travel you can still find your favorite sites. People are always on the go now, and basically it is a wireless world. Having a list of your favorite sites on a website will help you easily find the sites again from any computer, not just yours.
2. Another reason is to share the links. Some of the social networks are set up for people to share links with each other. Maybe you are a member of a very targeted group of people working on a project together. This would be a good way of letting others know the sites your find relevant and important. Very good for group sharing.
3. The reason I use social bookmarking is for search engine spiders and one-way links. Everytime I post anything to my blog, I let a select list of social networks know I have new information out there. This will allow all of my sites and web pages to have a link on each of these sites. This is good for the Google PR. Also, it allows search engine spiders to naturally (also known as organically) find my websites. Another plus for the search engine rankings.

Those are 3 of the reasons to use social bookmarking, and there are probably plenty more out there. If you are trying to earn a living online, then you will definitely need to learn how to use the social networks to your advantage.

There are certain social networks, which perform much better than others. And, there is also a trick when using them to ensure you get the rankings you want. These are all explained in The Social SEO Guide in detail. It is not as simple as starting to bookmark anything you do. This is unwanted sites and links, and can be classified as SPAM. No one wants that.

Check out The Social SEO Guide to get the exact method in getting front page rankings on Google.