How to Increase Alexa Ranking of your Blog / Website.

The Alexa Rank in its time had a good importance for the SEO, however, these days is already losing its importance due to the changes in the algorithm that Google applies from time to time.

The network displays information about visitors of a website, which in turn classifies this in a ranking, also generates an estimated statistics about visitor traffic and links pointing to the website.

In a few words, the Alexa Rank does not directly affect SEO, but rather serves as a reference for measuring the traffic type, popularity by country and other metrics, although some companies that have a ranking below 100,000, whose purpose is to make room for their business are carried away by the web site.

For others more skeptical, the Alexa Rank is an essential part for search engine optimization and I will not contradict this, since everyone has their opinion on this aspect. If you would like to enrich or have a good Alexa Rank of your website, here I present some ways to do it and with short-term results.

5 Ways to Increase the Alexa Rank

Daily Content: Try to publish at least 2 articles per day and within a month you will start to notice changes in alexa ranking, guaranteed.

Install Alexa Rank widgets: Besides notifying about the results of your alexa ranking, it also makes an estimation of the backlinks to your website. There are three types of widgets: button with ranking and links, the other one with the ranking only and finally a graph with daily records of visits. Traffic Widgets

Alexa Toolbar: From experience, I highly recommend installing the Alexa Toolbar, because when we access a website, Alexa takes it as important visit and thus, better results in the ranking. And of course, it will give you information about the links of a web site, popular pages, reviews, and more features.

Request a review: To calculate the alexa ranking of a website, besides taking the amount of daily and monthly visits, the number of reviews or opinions made with stars also play a role in the ranking. Ask your users or purchase alexa opinions about your website.

Number of backlinks: As I said earlier, the number of visits and reviews about your website used to calculate the alexa rank and the total number of quality backlinks, increase more the chances of achieving a favorable ranking for your website.

5 Easy Ways to Improve the SEO of a blog & Boost Traffic

SEO tips for a better search engine ranking

A blogger needs to know at least the minimum on SEO. For it, you don't need to be an SEO expert but you need to know the minimum so that your posts are well indexed in search engines.

The phrase "content is king" is one of the widest spread Internet memes and is used by many bloggers, with the idea that you should focus on having quality content, while the rest don't matter much. This is not true. Quality content is important, but that shouldn't be the only concern of a blogger today. In addition to producing quality content, your text needs to be optimized for search engines.

5 easy ways to improve the SEO of a blog

In this post, I will talk about of what would be the basics that any blogger needs to learn about SEO and other simple SEO knowledge. Below are 5 tips to improve the SEO of your blog:

1. Define the keyword

When you write a post, it is necessary to choose the keyword (or term) suitable for your text. What you want is that this keyword or term to be searched on Google and then get your post among the top. For this, it is necessary to use this keyword a few times in the text.

For example, here the keyword could be SEO, but this term is too generic and I could hardly get in the top for this search. Then I'll work with a term or a long tail keyword, so that this post will rank for the term "easy ways to improve the SEO of a blog". I will use this term a few times, but without exaggeration.

2. Use the keyword in the post title

Now that I have defined the keyword, I will use it in the post title. This step is very important and certainly will help you to get a better rank in search engines. As you can see, what I have in my title is the easy ways to improve the SEO of a blog keyword, along with other words to form an attractive and optimized title for SEO.

3. Use the keyword in the H2 tags

You must also use heading tags (h2, h3) in your posts. In this post, I am using the keyword "easy ways to improve the SEO of a blog" in a H2 header. Do this always, because it also helps to become well positioned in the search results. If you don't know or don't understand what are the header tags, I would suggest to do a further research on this subject.

4. Use the keyword in the text

You must use your keywords throughout the text. Especially in the first paragraph (please note that I have repeated the title in italics on the first line). But be careful when doing this, there is a maximum and minimum limit for that. Your text needs to be between 1 and 4.5% of occurrences of the keyword. Less than that will have no effect and more than that can alert the search engines and your text might be considered spam.

5. Write posts with more than 300 words

Posts under 300 words have little chance to be among the top results in search engines. Of course, you will be able to rank for multiple keywords that are less popular with less than 300 words text, but for the most competitive keywords that have the potential to bring a greater number of visits, it will be nearly impossible.

Thus, it is recommended to write posts with more than 300 words. It's not hard when you really understand the subject you're talking about.

Conclusion

As you can see, with some simple SEO techniques you can improve traffic coming to your blog from search engines. I hope you enjoyed these 5 easy ways to improve the SEO of a blog.

How To Get Traffic To A New Blog..?

Most of the newbie bloggers quit their blogging just because they don’t see any traffic from their blog(s). Even who have started their blogging career long time ago don’t see much improvisation in their traffic.

Why?

Because they don’t follow few tips which has to be followed to Get Traffic to A New Blog .

How can any blogger Get Traffic to A New Blog?

Though there are many ways to Get Traffic to A New Blog, the most important factor is NETWORK. The more network you have the more traffic you’ll get.
The best way to build a network around your blog is: start interacting with others using

• Facebook
• Twitter

Why I’m mentioning only these two sites because, it’s easy to spread your word and follow other bloggers easily using this social media sites and  Get Traffic to A New Blog.

How to Get Traffic to A New Blog ??

Following are some EXCEPTIONAL ways to bring traffic to a new blog (0r) any blog.

1. Blog Comments:

Comment on top blogs in your niche try to be the first 5 commenters.
Tips: Subscribe to their RSS feeds.
Don’t spam their blogs by writing one liners. Add value to your comments.
If you want to get traffic daily this is the best way to go.

Type “your niche + blog” in google to know which are the top blogs in your niche.

Ex: “blogging + blog”

2. Network with others using Facebook and twitter

Facebook: Join in Groups.. Promote yourself out there.. BTW facebook alone is giving me 100+ leads daily (even without promoting everyday!). Ammar Ali is also getting huge traffic from Facebook . So don’t neglect bringing Facebook traffic to your blog.
You may find it difficult in the beginning but when you start promoting others content and when you get to know each other on Facebook, it becomes very easy!
PS: You can join our group ‘Everything About Blogging‘,  and can promote your blog there!
Twitter: Follow top bloggers in your niche and follow their followers. This is the simple yet effective way of increasing your targeted twitter followers. Once you have done this, you can tweet your new articles and ask your followers to retweet it.

3. Video Marketing:

Create a 2 min.video and add your blog link at the starting
Submit them to YouTube, metacafe etc.
Tools to use: Use Screenr to create free videos

4. Spend time on writing detailed articles.

Never assume that you can bring quality traffic without much efforts.
You need to differentiate yourself with others to become successful. It takes time to create content, I agree but you shouldn’t spend whole time creating only normal or average 600 words posts.
Spend time to create great content.
Write detailed posts with 1000 or 1500+ words once in a while. If you’re not a full time blogger like me, at least try to create detailed posts once or twice a month.
So that you can grab others attention and you can show your blogging expertise to your readers.
It’s really important for you to create killer articles regularly to survive in blogosphere. This can bring your quality traffic from other sites or search engines.

4. Don’t forget SEO

Most people say forget about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) when you’re just starting 
out.

I think that’s the dumbest suggestion!

You need to focus on what keywords to use and how much keyword density you should maintain in your content to get search engine traffic to your blog.
It’s extremely important to bring organic (search engine) traffic to your blog. Because it’s free and highly effective!
Make sure that you’re not keyword stuffing your content. It makes your readers hard to digest what you’re saying in your articles.
And do proper keyword analysis before you’re writing the articles. Then embed them into your posts. If you’re a beginner then this is enough! Don’t go beyond, you’ll better understand about SEO when you’re spending more time on blogging.

Conclusion:

Always try to retweet and promote your fellow bloggers before asking them to promote your content. This can make others to promote your content sooner or later and you will have high chances of getting their attention if they find it useful. 
I dint recommend guest blogging here in this post. Major reason is without having any online reputation you can’t cope up with other bloggers to get accepted your guest posts. When they reject you, you’ll feel down to submit another guest post to them.
So, focus on building a network by blog commenting, writing great stuff and social media networking using above tips.
Have I missed any other way to  Get Traffic to A New Blog? Take your action by commenting below

10 Common Reasons You Will Keep Failing as A Blogger

I have been blogging for around 6 months now, and each day presents me with someone who has some kind of blogging failure traits. I notice this easily because I once saw those traits in myself at the early days of my blogging.
I never realized until after a prolonged period. Luckily, you can make your own learning curve shorter by taking advantage of the powerful tips from my experience and association with other pro bloggers.
Here are top reasons why people encounter failure in blogging

1. You Don’t Believe Anything

The first obstacle is your mind. Talking from experience, your success or failure depends on the disposition of your mind. The perception of your class teacher about you, your poor grades and seemingly poor memory are not the determiners of your success or failure, your mind is.
How far you would go in life is not a function of your brain; otherwise, the so called ‘geniuses’ would have been the most successful. Instead, haven’t you wondered that most of the successful people all of the world are school dropouts?
Recently, someone who read about my incredible how I achieved Google pagerank 3 & DA 40 in just 3 months commented so negatively on the grounds that I couldn’t have achieved so much over the short period of time I’ve been a blogger.
Obviously, his negative mindset is at work, forcing him not to believe that such achievement is possible regardless of my blogging duration.
Here’s the lesson; if your mind can picture it, then you can capture it!

2. You Don’t Disbelieve Anything

Doubting everything is also as bad as believing everything, especially when it comes to making money online. In as much as your belief is an essential ingredient to your success, you should also ‘sample’ what to believe as this would help you to be a successful blogger.
A friend of mine was already internet-savvy long before I knew what a computer is. He kept date with all the money making seminars and talks. He will come back lecturing me and would often boast of his wealth of information about internet-based opportunities and best techniques.
Yet, I’ve made decent dollars via internet-based opportunities in a short time, while this good friend of mine is still struggling to make just few dollars a month.
The point is; don’t confuse yourself with all the bulk of information going on over the internet. Filter what you should read and believe.

3. You are Looking for a Get-Rich-Quick Strategy

I came to learn in a hard way in the early days of my blogging and internet marketing, that there’s nothing like a get-rich-quick or overnight technique.
When I first started out online, I wanted to achieve success fast. Well, you don’t have to blame me because I’m naturally a fast person in virtually everything I do – fast in acquiring my Msc Applied Mathematical Modeling and Computer Science compared to all my mates, fast in talking, fast in walking…just fast in so many areas. So, in my bid of trying to also get it fast in the online arena, I was scammed several times…I simply learnt in a hard way.
Here’s the lesson I’m driving at; there is no such thing as overnight success. It’s simple; since you can’t even get rich quick with a conventional business, the same principle applies to blogging or any form of internet marketing.
So, you may be asking, what’s the average time required to build a successful blog? Well, from my experience, the more work you put the more you get out of it. And a lot of hard work is required in the aspect of creating informative and appealing fresh contents, plus SEO techniques.

4. You are Only Focusing on the Short-Term

If you are only concerned with short term benefit, you will quit too soon from blogging. The most successful bloggers today are those who have patiently groomed their blog with their mind set on the future benefits. So, it took some them an average of five years to start reaping meaningful benefits from their blog. So, if you put in your best now in view of the harvest of the future, you will become a renowned and successful blogger eventually.

5. You are Not Focused

This is possibly the common problem for those who come to the cyberspace to look for income earning opportunities. Of course, I was a victim of this in my early blogging days. If you are not focused on a particular niche and dedicate all your efforts towards it, you will end up being ‘Jack of all trade and master of none!”
Becoming a successful blogger requires carefully choosing something you are passionate about and would not quit even if it seems you are not getting result at the onset. So, in the blogging world, the rule of thumb is to start with just one blog in your specialized area and grow the blog to success before thinking of a second niche and blog.

6. You are Afraid of Criticism

Come to think of it, who among the so-called ‘best men’ or renowned personalities have not been criticized? Is it Bill Gates, Obama, or Nelson Mandela of South Africa…
who?
Simply put, criticism is part of life, especially a life that is prone to success. Don’t quit or feel dejected because someone criticized your blog post or try to put a question mark on your blogging achievement. I was also a victim of criticism when I first started blogging – the criticism sucked and infuriated me. But now, if I don’t get some criticisms, it feels like I am about to fail! Concentrate on doing what is best instead of fizzling out as a result criticism.

7. You are Scared of Monetizing your Blog

It is not a crime to monetize your blog, you deserve some rewards for the quality free values you add to your readers. So, don‘t be scared of monetizing your blog!
Don’t just stop at creating quality contents and generating terrific traffic, take it a step further by generating reasonable profit from your blogging effort.

8. You are Not Marketing Your Blog Sufficiently

You may create the best content, but if you lack marketing expertise your blog would not go far. Excellent marketing strategy is what would place value on your contents and bring the needed reward. So, start thinking more like a marketer in order to succeed in blogging.

9. You Pay Less Attention to Your Content

This is because you are always concerned about generating traffic and achieving high conversion rates. As good as these efforts are, paying more attention to your content is probably the most important. When you offer valuable and relevant content, traffic will naturally flow and higher conversion rate will follow.

10. You are Stagnant with Your Knowledge

If you are still running your blog with yesterday’s blogging tips and knowledge, you will end up delivering ‘half-baked’ value to your readers. And of course, most of them would look elsewhere. Don’t be a ‘one man’s island’.
Relate with other bloggers, visit blogging forums to learn new things and read the blogs of the pros in your niche. It will help to keep your blogging knowledge up to date and add value to your blog.
Digest these truths about blogging success and start implementing them to see result in your blogging career.

3 Most Idiotic Ways To Promote Your Blog Online

We already have number of smart tips to improve our blog ranking, and its traffic from all over the world. Recently, I have shared both online and offline ways to bring traffic to blog or a website, and while collecting those tips from my research I have found some tips that should make you laugh at your own self while doing them in the real life. I have named those tips as most idiotic ways to promote the blog or an online business.  You must be thinking what will be tips that highlighted here as most idiotic ways to promote the business.
Many of you may have never tried any of the below mentioned tip in his life, but now I am expecting that I will start seeing many bloggers doing the activities that am going to share with you guys here.  In recent forum talks, I have noticed many bloggers and SEO experts believe blog commenting with do-follow links are the best way to increase the traffic, and somehow now they are totally depending on the single way to promote their blogs and website.
However, after today, I believe some of them will surely give a try to the below mentioned tips.  Personally, I have tried one of the tip, and got some remarks from my friends and that were “Idiot, what are you doing? ” so, after receiving such remarks, I decided to name these tips as idiotic ways to promote the business. Actually, not only the online, you can also promote offline business.
So here are the ways to promote your business…

3 Most Idiotic Ways To Promote Your Blog Online!

College Benches

Yes, you can use them, not only for sitting with your friends, or to wait for someone you can actually make them use for your marketing and free of cost promotion of your business and online blog. You can write your brand name there, or your website URL with interesting offers.

Public Toilets

Public toilets are one of the most freaker choices to go with. The public fills mostly public toilets with some random crap, and you will see lot of 3^rd grade jokes, and quotes, even you will find some person’s numbers too. So don’t hesitate to use them for your marketing, and advertising of your blog and business.

Dusty Car Windows

Get yourself to some open-parking lot, you will find number of non-cleaned cars with windows full of dust. The window full of dust is like an empty whiteboard to write anything on it. Use to write your blog name or your brand name. It will do a free and wider advertising for you.

Over to you!

I hope these activities will make you laugh at loud at yourself, and as well as will bring number of remarks to your marketing approaches for your online / offline business. Do let me what is your most idiotic way to promote your blog?