SEO For The Common Webmaster

I am excited to announce that my Raising Chickens Blog is holding a huge contest starting November 24th.

There are tons of cool prizes to celebrate the first Anniversary of the blog.

Here is a list of prizes being offered:

• From Me: 5000 Entrecard Credits (If support does not get back to me, I may have to send them a 1000 a week for five weeks due to their site limits on transfers.
• From Linkcero Hosting : One Year Free Hosting (Their Ultimate Plan) $240 Value
• From The Artist’s Muse : One Month Text Link $10 value
• From Blog Weekends : 500 Manual Traffic Hits $75 value and 3000 Banner Impressions $12 value (Requires 468X60 banner)
• From Deep Link Web Directory : Permanent Directory Featured Link $29.95 value
• From Affordable Web Hosting : Six Months Tiny Shared Hosting Plan including a Free .com Domain $33 value
• From MilPlace : 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value
• From Aussie Infidel : 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value
• From Lucky Webmasters : 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value
• From Ghosts and The Paranormal World : $15 Cash (Paypal)

I also have a few others who offered and I am waiting for final confirmation.

I am also doing an Entrecard credit Giveaway everyday leading up to the contest.

If you want to be part of the Giveaways or you would like to sponsor the Blog Contest, please jump over to the other blog and leave me a message of what you would like to offer for a prize.

Thanks for being loyal readers and I hope to see you all enter the Blog Contest.

A few months back I suggested a company called SubmitEdge as an alternative to doing SEO for yourself. I have recently talked to some up and coming webmasters and asked who they use when they need great services and help with their websites and one of the company names that continue to come up in conversation is SubmitEdge.

They offer an array of packages with and an unique style of Link Building that achieves results every time. They use the newest technology and they continue to improve as things change. This is not one lonely teenager working out of his basement. This is a full fledged company with a professional staff that will not only work for you; they will also work with you as part of your team.

It does matter if you a first time webmaster or have been around a long time, every one of us needs a little help promoting and building our sites. If you are like me, your websites and blogs become part of you. This is true of most webmasters. That is one reason you should not trust your SEO Services to just anybody. SubmitEdge has a proven track record and provides many testimonies to back that up.

It does not matter if you are looking to achieve top ranking in Google or you are looking for some back links for your website, they are professional and ready to handle the job. They can submit your site to top directories, write some content, prepare some great link bait articles, and even review your blog. They offer full service with a full professional staff.

Be sure to check them out if you are looking for any SEO type service and as always, please share your experience by dropping a comment here at our blog.

I see webmasters complaining that their website or blog was a failure. Either it did not make the money they wanted or it did not attract the amount of traffic they thought it should. I am here to tell you from one webmaster to another, there is no such thing as a failure when it comes to blogging or creating websites.

My first every website looked like a 4th grader created it. It was so childish that I am almost embarrassed to think about it. I could not get anyone to visit it, I made no money, and it was lonely all by itself. Did I fail? Hell no! I learned from that website and I improved on my next site.

My next site was better and I learned a few webmaster tricks to get some good traffic. Still, I made very little and the site was still unattractive but I did have some traffic. Once again, I was not a failure because I learned even more from that site. I improved on the site and worked hard and sold it for a little profit.

There are very few webmasters who have stepped into the world of the Internet and was a instant success. The key is to do your best and learn from every success and every mistake. I am still, after many years, far from an expert. I still make mistakes and I still get frustrated over not making enough money. However, I have found that each mistake (no matter how big) is a learning experience that will increase my profits in the future.

Being a webmaster is not for everyone. There is so much competition on the Internet. However, with patience and hard work, you can cut your little piece of the pie and become a winner one mistake at a time. Reading everything you can from other bloggers and webmasters will help you get there quicker by learning from their mistakes.

It is not the fear of failure but the goal of success that drives you to be the best at what you do!

I am not to promote one candidate over another. I am writing this post to encourage you to get out and vote. Do not let any media coverage convince you there is already a winner. It is your responsibility to get out and VOTE!

Be sure to consider all issue that are important to you and vote because of those not because you follow one party or another blindly. This is an important time in history and one reason to have your vote counted. I am not just referring to the Presidential race, I am also referring to all federal, state, and local races.

If you representatives are not representing you, it is time to send their asses packing. It is up to the American people to make America mean something again. Let your voice be heard loud and clear and head to the voting poll!

I am not sure if you feel the same way that I do but I am getting tired of having to update Word Press all the time. It seems that there is a new update monthly. I have the Auto update plug in but still it takes some time.

I would not mind if the changes were some really cool features but the last couple of updates did not amazing as I could see. They are normally just little tweaks that do not affect most bloggers.

How do you feel about all the updates? Seen anything awesome with any of them?