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Before I say anything, let me remind you all that there is nothing better than “Quality Content” for any website. If you have quality content, your dependence on other sites is minimal. You will always get good reward for your hard work to publish your own content.

However, even when you have great content, you may need some additional works to make your site more visible to the world. You can do too many thing. I have tried many and in this article, I will only point to few ones that do not consume too much of time and are proved to be very useful to me.

1. Link Building : Link Building is tricky. It also takes time. If you have a low traffic site, your request for approving a link is often denied. So, start link building with sites where you many have one of your friends as admin or moderator. You can spend too much of time to find email addresses for each site owner and write emails, but I recommend that you try other methods first. Once your site is popular, you will be receiving “add link” requests very often.
2. Directory Submission: Well this one is too much discussed but probably does not really very well unless you are going for PAID listings from Yahoo or so on. There are too many directory listing site and most of them requires authentications and has some long forms to fill up. Even after working hard for numerous directory listing websites you may find that only few of them actually approve your listing. Big waste of time. In addition to that you will start getting too many emails from the directory listing websites about how a “Paid” submission might work wonderful for you! Just do one time Submission to DMOZ and forget about other directory listings.
3. RSS publishing: Now, this is something you can do to promote your site immensely. If you have some of the CMS software/Blogging software based site such as Wordpress, Drupal etc, they have RSS capability included already. Just go and submit your site to some of the major blog listing directories. They are much better than the Directory listing providers.
4. Social Network Site Submission: There are many social network type link submission sites. The best is Digg.Com. Write your articles, go to www.digg.com and submit your article - few clicks and you will see wonderful results. You can try few others such as Stumbleupon etc.
5. Engage Visitors: Have a small comment form, or a forum where your site visitors can interact with you. This is too important. If you have a quality site, your visitor will recommend to their friends and families.
6. Send Emails to subscribed users: If you have subscriptions enabled for your website, do send some emails few times a month with some of the most important articles on your site.

There are traditional ways too that you should always follow such as adding “Title” tag, “Meta” tags and “Description” tags to all of your web pages.

Hopefully you will see a rapid increase in traffic if you are doing few or all of the above suggested tricks.
Ankan Basu

Page Rank

I have a blog on Wordpress at http://calcuttaglobalchat.net. Few months back I had PR 3. Suddenly I found that my PR drop down to 0. I panicked and had long discussion on Google Adsense Support forum. They said it is OK to use text link ads as long as you have “NO Follow” attibute for the links.

The good thing is the drop of page rank did not affect me site search engine positions. It is still doing as good as it used to do.

Only thing I am not sure is the adsense income. My income has been pretty low for the site, but low for a long time now. Not sure if it has anything to do with the Text Link Ads.

If there is anybody out there with some knowledge on Text Links Vs Adsense income, please share with us.

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What is it? A FREE FLASH PHOTOGALLERY

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Features:

• Intelligent image pre-loading.
• Intuitive image navigation
• Lightweight (17k).
• Customizable interface - Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
• Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
• Cross platform - Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 7 or higher).
• Flash 7 detection. Users without Flash 7 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
• International font support.
• Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
• Mousewheel navigation
• Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.
• Free!

Downloads: Just Visit their home page to download the program.

Review:  I liked it. Very nice flash integration. Small size application and easy installation.

Well, WP 2.3 released yesterday and we have successfully upgraded our blog.

Adsense

I am not sure why but I have never seen such a huge drop in my adsense income for a long time. For last 3 days, my adsense income dropped more than 50 percent. I have been trying to figure out the resons behind it. There are few important thing to note:

1. My CTR did not change much (1-1.5%)

2. My No. Of Clicks did not change much (varies within 5%)

3. CPM dropped >70%!!!!

So, It looked like CPM plays a very important factor in your adsense income. So, I did a research over the internet and found that GOOGLE got a “Smart Pricing” technique.

Here is the article that describes the SMART pricing:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/04/19/adsense-smart-pricing-explained/

Some SEO GURU recommended to check the various adsense channels for CTR and remove the LOW CTR and low performing ads to inprove the OVERALL CTR of your website. I have some new sites which I have just started like this one and I really have very low traffic as they are brand new. So, I am going to remove my adsense codes from the brand new sites and keep my adsense running in most popular ones.

Let me monitor my income for a week or two and I will let you all know if removal of the “low performing” ads made any difference or not.

As an alternative, I am going to use “ads for Indians” ad network for the pages which are low performing. You can use any other ad agency for the pages you think google ads are not performing very well. You may not earn as good as google adsense but I hope that you will still see a major jump in your adsense income.

I also reduced the no. of ad units from my sites.

if you ever faced such a problem with huge drop in adsense income, please share your story with us.

Well, this is my simple tip to all beginners! Do not trust any SEO company if they say you can achieve no. 1 search ranking in google!! SEO companies are numerous. They also make good amount of money. Many do help you a lot to improve your site ranks and visibility to great extent. But, before you spend any money to any SEO company why not do some simple SEO application yourself?

SEO applications are not extremely difficult. There are many small things you can do to improve your search ranking. 1000s of free tools are available online. Use them wisely and monitor your traffic, key words etc. In my later articles, I will give you some quick and easy guide to optimize your site. Again, there is no end of learning. So, read the article first. The article I am recommending is from Google Webmaster Help center. They have discussed various things about SEO and possible frauds in SEO companies. A great article and must read for all who are trying to improve site traffic via SEO companies.

Here is the LINK. Enjoy reading.

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Hello All,

I am again guessing that you are beginner. If you are an expert you can ignore my posts and articles and so on. Here is my simple tips for your first website.

I was talking to my friend in some other forum about the best way to make CV. There are many great ways and tools. In addition to CV, if you have a website of your own, just think how great would that be. In a website you have broader space to talk about yourself, your likings, interests, detailed educational skills and so on. For me and for many of my friends, the first web page is a “personal” web page. Even 5 years back I was not that much familiar with “blogs”. Many free site builders like Tripod, Yahoo etc etc were doing great business providing all you need. They usually give you lots of pre installed scripts, designs, blocks, widgets and so on. You do not need any html code to build your site when you are using their service.

Later, “Blog” became extremely popular. Blog added supreme “interactivity” between user and publishers. Blog is easy to set up. Easy to write, easy to customize and again, you do not need nay “codes/Mysql/CGI..etc etc”. I do not know anything about coding. This post, the site is using a blog software “wordpress”. Well lets get back to the point.

So, if you are a beginner, don’t BUY your first domain. Use as many free servers as possible. Get some basic knowledge  in html. Get free blogs from bloggers or wordpress and build some site just for fun. Always remember, “FUN” part is most important. If you do not like what you are doing, you will never be able to accomplish what you want. It will be boring for you and that’s not something we want.

There are too many cool things out there. It is good and bad at the same time. It is good that you have several options. Bad because you don’t know which one is best so you waste too much of your time in investigation!! So, I will give you my recommendation to get you started.

Things to do to get your first website:

1. Get a FREE domain name : This site will give you a profesional looking website name for free. Example: yourself.tk

2. Get NVU for free: NVU is FREE and EASY html editor. You will need it in many places. Great tool and should have in your collection all the time.

3. Get a FREE server from:

a) Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/home

b) Wordpress Blog: http://wordpress.com/ 

c) Tripod Site: http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

If you are trying to build a site for the first time, register in 3 of them. check them out and which one did you like. Tripod will show ADS and sometimes annoying. Blogger and wordpress free bloads are ADS free and you can easily create a dynamic site in few minutes.

Hope my basic guide will help you. I know I may not be the best. But you at least have a starting point. I wish you good luck with your first website. In later post I will elaborate how can you earn some mone even from your FREEly hosted BLOG or WEBSITE.

Stay tuned.

My next post will be on your first website. Specially if you have limited knowledge about site building but you still wish to get a website and earn some money. Stay tuned and wait for my next post.

Welcome all. This is going to be my latest venture in SEO world. I am not a computer expert. I am not a coder. Truly I have no big knowledge to give SEO experts any tips. However, I am in www world for last two years. I have several websites and recently I am making enough money from various ads that I thought I can share some my experience with you. As I am not an expert, I used many tools that are already available over the internet and very useful for improvement of your website. I would like to see as much comments as possible from your part. I am hoping this will be an extremely good learning experince for me and hopefully it will benefit some of the beginners who are just starting their first website and do not have a great knowledge about websites, SEO, keywords, meta tags etc.

Stay with me!