August 20, 2009

Free Blog Submit.

Filed under: blogging, business, seo — Tags: blog, business, free blog submit, how to, optimization, traffic, website — admin @ 9:43 pm

How to find good directories where you can submit your blog for free?

I am amazed by the number of times I have been asked this simple question. I have answered it many times, now is the time to (finally) write it down once and for all.

IT IS EASY!

All you have to do is type in Google: Free submit blog

You will then get a list with http://www.topblogarea.com/ and http://www.dmegs.com/ on the first page of results. You can also do a similar search in Alexa.com even though it will provide you with very similar results. They are great directories with good Page Rank (PR) and Alexa rank.

Follow the guidelines, all the directories do not accept blogs which have just been set up. You may have to update your blog for a couple of months before you can submit it.

Make sure to read all. Don’t be lazy! If you are serious about your blog, and serious about the promotion of your website, then read carefully the guidelines and make sure to do as they say. If not, your blog may never be indexed. Successfully submitting your blog title and description does not guarantee inclusion.

If you do not provide a link back / reciprocal link to the directory (that’s what you see at the bottom of the present text) , then your blog will never appear in the listing.

That’s because the directory bot (some sort of robot) will get back to the directory saying it is missing after it has crawled (examined) your blog.

It is time consuming, it’s true, to fill up the forms, create a number of IDs and passwords that you will end up never using again. It may also take a little bit of organization to keep track of the directories so that you submit to each one time only.

It’s worth it. You may not get as much visitors as you wish, but if you don’t submit your blog to directories you are very likely to get almost no visit at all!

Smart Tip: Create a post on your blog or a special page on your website where you post all the reciprocal links. This way they won’t appear on your precious landing page / homepage. You want this special page to have text too, instead of only links. So, write about your experience of submiting your blog in the same time. Readers love it and search engines will give you good points for that too.

Bon courage!

ECM blog is Listed on: Dmegs Web Directory andBlogUniverse

http://globeofblogs.com/

Ping your blog with http://www.feedping.com

Related search: Submit to directories. Submit blog free. Free website submit.

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August 14, 2009

Optimize your website with a blog!

Filed under: seo — Tags: blog, business, ecm, ellen clothing manufacturer, optimization, sales, traffic, website — admin @ 8:56 am

Hi there!

This is the first post to Ellen Clothing Manufacturer blog. This blog is about made to order clothes as well as running a blog to promote a clothing brand. This article is about optimizing your business through the optimization of your website. A great way to optimize your website is by blogging around and sending readers to your website.

How to optimize your website? Article by L. Lemaire partner of ECM.

If you’re into blogging there is a good chance that you are writing on a WordPress blog or Blogger (google blogspot) to promote your products and services. I personally like both platforms with a preference for the WordpPress blog which is more user friendly to me.

So far ECM has been using both and you can discover previous posts by us on such URLs as:

http://clothing4u.wordpress.com/ (opens in a new window)

http://clothing-factory-vietnam.blogspot.com/ (opens in a new window)

Why Blogging?

Using a blog like the above mentioned is a great way to promote your brand, your company or anything related to your website. However, there is a big difference between blogging on wordpress.org VERSUS blogging on your own website.

Blogging directly on WordPress Website.

Blogging on wordpress is easy, you just create an ID and there your go! You post an interesting article and link to your website. Readers follow the link and get to your website where they might:

- Buy your products or order your services.

- Click on an advertisement (advertising revenue for you)

Popularity is Money.

Of course, the more popular your website gets, the more traffic it gets and eventually the website generates more of what you made it for. Be it contacts, sales leads, sign ups, on site sales etc..

What’s the Secret?

You might not be aware of it: There are different types of links. When you post a link on your own website to another website it is a full power link (the technical term is DOFOLLOW).

It is different when you post a link on your blog at wordpress.org or blogger or most of the platforms which allow you to run your blog. These links are NOT fully powered (the technical term is NOFOLLOW).

In both cases the reader of your blog is able to click on the link and reach the webPage that you have chosen when posting the link.

What type of Link is Best?

What’s the difference? Why does it matter to me?

The difference can not be seen by the reader. The difference is in the power of the link in the eyes of the search engines (Google, Yahoo etc..).

A nofollow link does NOT carry the pagerank carried by a dofollow link. The page rank is a measure of the importance of a webPage.

What you really want is to make your website popular. So when you post an article or a simple note or question in a blog you want:

#1 get the reader to go to your website (any link achieves this).

#2 get the search engines to notice your website (only dofollow links achieve this).

How to get the best of both worlds?

How to get readers to go where you want them to go and how to get the links to get their full value to Google and the others?

Get your blog on your website.

First, create a new page on your website and call it “blog” (example: http://www.ellen-clothing-manufacturer.com/blog/ ).

Second go to http://wordpress.org/download/ and install wordPress on your blog following their instructions.

Congratulations!

You can now easily create content on your website, get noticed by the search engines, make more traffic and make the most out of your website and your blogging.

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