SEO For The Common Webmaster

Many webmaster go crazy trying to get their site listed in one of the biggest directories on the Internet, DMOZ. I found that it could be a benefit to be listed but nothing to obsess over.

I will normally submit my site to them when I feel it is ready to be listed and then I forget about it. Most of my sites never get listed and many sites takes over a year to get listed. I submitted this blog once I had the theme set up and some good content and basically forgot about it.

Today, I was going through my blog stats and I seen some traffic from DMOZ and thought that it was strange. I clicked on over to their directory and lo and behold, my little old SEO blog was in the listings. I can not say that it will mean a lot but I hear that many directories pick up listings from them to feel their directories which will mean a possibility of many new back links. I do not get my hope up but it would be nice to generate some new traffic to increase the earnings for this blog.

Has anyone seen any real benefit from being listed? Please share your own experience by leaving a comment here.

SEO is the number one way to get you website noticed by the rest of the Internet. We try to offer some of the top tips and ideas to help you do your own SEO work. However, there are times that you may need to hire professionals to assist you.

SubmitEdge is a SEO firm that offers several services to help you improve your rankings in the Search engines and works to get your site organic traffic. They start with full Link Building Services that gives you full exposure throughout the Internet.  Unlike many so called SEO companies, they do everything manually not through some fancy software.

SubmitEdge works everyday to monitor and verify all links in the 1400 plus directories that they use to submit client’s sites. Along with directory submissions, they offer content writing, article submissions, search engine submissions, and so much more.

This firm does all this with a well trained staff of 23 people who work hard to achieve the maximum performance for their clients. They offer several different packages that will meet the needs of anyone from the little guy wanting to improve his blog to the full time ecommerce webmaster.

Do not take a chance when it comes to Link Building and SEO work, I have provided links to check out this firm to see what they can do for you. It could be the difference between being the best or being just one of the rest.

Many webmasters crave the famous Alexa traffic ranking. I for one find it useless. Their rankings are based off of visits by users of their toolbar. Their system is very flawed and can be easily manipulated to change the outcome of the traffic rankings.

To me this is flawed in many ways.  Of course, last month Alexa announced a brand new way of calculating their stats that include many other sources. They do not disclose what the sources are but I still do not trust their system as a reliable way to measure traffic. The only true way to know your traffic is tracking the stats for yourself through either you control panel or other means.

What do you think?

I just had a header designed to give the blog a new look. I think it makes the blog look a little more professional.

How does it look?

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

One of the best means of building back-links that will also equal traffic is by joining forums related to your topic. On forums you can converse with people who share a common interest in your topic and you will have a chance to promote your website to them.

The key way to promote your website on forums is through the signature line. Some forums limit your links to a certain number of links and a certain number of characters. Others allow as many as you want. There are some forums that offer only no follow signatures. Do not overlook these! The important thing when promoting your site is to build traffic. By using both do follow and no follow links, you will be able to spread your links to places where like minded people will see them.

When using signature links from forums, be sure to read all the rules of the forum. Some forums have a certain amount of posts or time as a member before you are allowed to use the signature line. I was very active on a forum once and when I started a new site related to that topic, I added my link to my signature. I received a nasty email stating I could not add a link of a competing site. Seemed crazy since mine was a related topic but not a forum. This is why I say to read all rules carefully and try to stick with in the rules.

Most forums that offer signature links do so to provide and extra benefit to their members. It is a way to share your site and discover new sites. Please do not spam! It will ruin the benefits for everyone. Become an active member and really be a part of the community and you will gain many benefits from the forum signature.