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7 Reasons You Should be Participating in Internet Marketing Forums — A SEO-News Exclusive

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Here are 7 reasons you should consider being an active participant in Internet marketing forums. Each of the reasons is a valuable step in the entire process of becoming a successful Internet marketer. If you can master the entire process, you will have a distinct advantage over your competition in all your future ventures.

1. Copy Other Successful Marketers and Their Techniques

The number one reason is copying those that are already successful. This may sound unethical, but it’s simply researching what works. What better place to find what’s working than from those already succeeding? This doesn’t mean go to a website and download their pictures or copy their text! It means reverse engineer their strategies and then use that knowledge to form your own.

2. Ask for Tips, Advice, and Learn from Other Marketing Forum Participants

Always ask questions! You will get bad advice, advice that borders on good, and then that one hidden gem which will make you understand what your goals are just a little bit better. Be careful, there is often misleading advice mixed in with the sincere. Always remember that internet marketing forums are filled with your competition! Not everyone will be there to help you.

3. Make Friends and Form Partnerships with Marketing Forum Participants

Making friends is an ideal way to gain information on how to be a successful marketer. Through internet marketing forums you can make friendships and form partnerships. You’re many times more likely to get credible information from a friend and partner than you are a stranger or competitor. If you can’t beat them, join them!

4. Stay Current with the Latest Developments in Your Industry

Are you up-to-date with the latest trends in Internet marketing and SEO? Do you know exactly how to deal with the latest Google update? It is impossible to stay on top of trends by yourself. You need to be connected. An Internet marketing forum is an ideal venue to find out the most recent news in your industry.

5. Learn How to Start Your Own Forum

I use a web hosting company for one of my websites. I noticed that they run probably the most popular web hosting forum online. It is not obvious that they are the owners, however there are links to their service. How convenient having everybody interested in web hosting, flocking to your web hosting forum for more information. If you want to dominate your niche, it might be a good marketing strategy to start your own forum in your niche. By participating in a good marketing forum you can see how they are run and get an idea on how to run your own forum.

6. Having Fun!

Participating in online forums can be fun and even addictive! You are learning the latest news, getting questions answered, asking questions and engaging in friendly online debates. Blogs like this one are great, but they generally tend to be more one way conversations with a few comments. Forums allow you to start the conversation. You have an equal voice with the person who started the post. Forums are generally much more interactive than blogs which usually translates into more fun!

7. If for No Other Reason, Get Back Links From Your Forum Signature

The final reason and the most obvious reason is to get a few back links. Put the link to your website in your signature and make a few posts every day to keep that link out there for search engines and visitors. Building back links can be difficult, so if you can get a few for free, go for it!

Source: http://www.seo-news.com/7-reasons-you-should-be-participating-in-internet-marketing-forums-a-seo-news-exclusive/

Now It’s Even Harder To Get First-Page Google Rankings

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It seems like the chances for sites to get their content into organic Google search results is continuing to decrease. In a recent article, we looked at some of the recent changes Google has made to its algorithm, including things to make it better at natural language, give it a decreased dependence on keywords, and giving users more direct answers, and therefore not having to direct them to other sites as much.

Have Google’s results pages gotten better or worse? Let us know what you think in the comments.

This, alone, makes a lot of webmasters uneasy, and highlights the need for sites to diversify their sources of web traffic. Google only wants to get better and better at this. Google wants to deliver the best user experience possible, and users want to go on about their business as quickly as possible. This is easier to do if Google can provide the answer itself. Lost traffic, however, could be an unfortunate side effect for content providers.

Wait, didn’t there used to be more search results on this page?

Now, there’s a separate, but related topic being discussed by the webmaster community. Google appears to be showing less organic results for SERPs that contain a result with its sitelinks feature. You know, the ones that look like this:

Sitelinks

Specifically, for many SERPs that display these kinds of results, Google is now showing only a total of 7 organic search results (that’s regular results, not including any universal search results that might appear):

Seven Organic Results

There has been discussion about this in the WebmasterWorld forums over the past couple weeks. “Google wants to get people to their answer quickly, and if the query has a history of being too ambiguous, they certainly have the ability to measure that and throw a tag to change from the normal SERP. Just as there was QDF (for query deserves freshness) they might have something like “QDD” or query deserves disambiguation,” said forum admin Tedster.

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land shared a statement from Google about the matter, saying, “We’re continuing to work out the best ways to show multiple results from a single site when it’s clear users are interested in that site. Separately, we’re also experimenting with varying the number of results per page, as we do periodically. Overall our goal is to provide the most relevant results for a given query as quickly as possible, whether it’s a wide variety of sources or navigation deep into a particular source. There’s always room for improvement, so we’re going to keep working on getting the mix right.”

So this may be an experiment, but a lot of people are getting SERPs with fewer organic results, from fewer sites. It doesn’t bode well for organic SEO. It does seem to make sitellinks more important than ever.

Dr. Peter J. Meyers, President of User Effect, has put out some research at SEOmoz, finding that Google is showing way more SERPs with less than ten results than ever before, and for the most part, these results have 7 results a piece. Here are a couple of graphs he shared:

SERPs with less than ten results

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“SERPs with 7 results were an anomaly prior to 8/13, with the system tracking a maximum of one (0. 1%) on any given day. On 8/13, that number jumped to 10.7% and then, the following day, to 18.3%,” he writes. “Almost one-fifth of SERPs tracked by our data now have 7 results.”

You can read his article for more about the methodology, and his additional findings.

There has been some talk about this phenomenon being related to brand queries, but as Sullivan points out, there are plenty of examples of non-branded queries where this is happening, where the results contain one with sitelinks. It just so happens that a lot of brands do have sitelinks.

Taking Advantage Of Sitelinks

So, how do you get Google to display sitelinks for your site? Well, unfortunately, it’s not that simple. It’s pretty much up to Google.

“We only show sitelinks for results when we think they’ll be useful to the user,” says Google in its help center. “If the structure of your site doesn’t allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don’t think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user’s query, we won’t show them.”

“At the moment, sitelinks are automated,” Google adds. “We’re always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site’s internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that’s informative, compact, and avoids repetition.”

If Google is showing sitelinks for your site, but you don’t like certain links it’s showing, you can demote those links, telling Google not to consider it for a sitelink candidate. You can do this in Webmaster Tools. Go to the “For this search result box” in “Sitelinks” under “Site Configuration”. You can demote up to 100 URLs, but Google says it may take a while to be reflected in the search results.

But that’s about as much control as you have over it right now. At least Google is hinting that it may give webmasters more control over sitelinks in the future. If sitelinks are having such an impact on SERPs these days, perhaps sooner rather later would be a good idea.

But back to the point at hand…

Search has been moving further and further away from the classic “ten blue links” format for years, but now Google is clearly giving you fewer opportunities to just rank on the first page in organic links than it used to, at least for a growing number of queries (and who’s to say that number won’t continue to grow?).

This probably means that you’ll need to put more focus on getting into Google’s other types of results more than ever, depending on what types of results Google is showing for the queries for which you want to be found. That could mean optimizing for image search, Places, YouTube, Google News, or of course paying for AdWords ads and/or Google Shopping results.

Interestingly enough, as Google wants to get users answers more quickly (and directly in many cases), the company still faces pressure from publishers who actually don’t want Google benefiting from their content without paying them. It seems pretty backwards, when you consider all of the sites who just want to show up in the results at all.

9 Penguin Safe Ways to Dominate Search for Your Keywords A SEO-News Exclusive

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It may take some time and work to rank your new website for your desired keywords. However, by leveraging OPPR (Other People’s PR) you can actually have your website represented in multiple positions throughout the first several pages of search relatively quickly. The recent Penguin update has penalized sites which were “over-optimized.” For example, did you hire somebody to get you 4000 forum profile links which all have the exact same keywords? Then your site might have been affected negatively by Penguin. Google is looking for natural link building from quality original content. Every suggestion here involves creating original high quality content on highly ranked platforms which Google just loves.

1. Write Guest Blog Posts for Quality Blogs With Real Readers

Having a high quality, unique, article published on a first-rate relevant blog that has real readers with your links is about the best SEO there is. When you get wind of the next Google update no matter what cute animal they name it your heart will not skip a beat. You will know that your content and links are the best quality there is. Actually you should be overjoyed when Google performs its next update. It will probably eliminate the spammy competition and rank your high quality articles even better than before! You can look Google in the eye and say “make my day!” Here is a list of 9 high traffic blogs that accept guest blog posts.

2. Create Short Quality Videos With Your Keywords in the Titles and Description and Upload to the Top Video Hosting Sites

I am amazed at how well YouTube and Dailymotion videos get ranked on Google. I am not sure how much they will help the actual ranking of your main site because of all this ‘”no follow” business but people still can find your website by clicking the link in the description below the video. I suggest uploading your videos to most of the major video hosting sites. Here is a list of 35 video hosting sites with their PR ranking that I actually use. Also, make sure you have a reasonably keyword rich description and definitely put your keywords in the title. I also suggest putting a call to action in the video itself giving viewers an excellent reason to click the link in the description below. You should definitely take advantage of YouTube’s PR 9 ranking and start filling up search results for your keywords with YOUR videos.

3. Create a Facebook Fanpage With Your Keywords in the Title

I found this out by accident. I had created a Facebook fanpage for my classified ad posting serviceand when I searched my keywords it was outranking my own website. It was not really fair since my main website actually had the most relevant information for the searcher, but it seems that the domain Facebook.com has more pull than classifiedsubmissions.com. Facebook fanpages really seem to jump to the top of search results. They generally pick up the keywords in the title. So make your Facebook fanpage with your desired keywords in the title. Then put a description of your website with a link in the about section of your page. Put some good relevant content, videos and pictures on the page as well.

4. Create a WordPress.com Blog and Fill It With Unique Keyword Rich Relevant Content

I am not talking about downloading the famous WordPress software and starting your own blog on your own domain (this is good too.) I am talking about going to WordPress.com and creating a blog based on your keywords to be hosted on the domain WordPress.com. WordPress.com has a whopping PR9 ranking. It is almost impossible to create a PR9 domain with your own domain name. So from a PR standpoint it is probably better to run a blog on WordPress.com than even on your own domain.

There is a reason WordPress.com is such a highly ranked platform. They do not accept junk content. Your content should be unique, relevant, informative and not just a sales pitch. Do not do what I did at first and hire somebody from Fiverr.com to create 20 WordPress.com blogs and populate them with different versions of a spun article. Most of the blogs were deleted so it was a complete waste of time. I picked one that stuck and started developing real, well-written, original content about my subject with my keywords. Just manually set up one WordPress.com blog and add unique quality content bit by bit.

The result for me has been that my WordPress.com blog posts bounce around between the first and third pages of Google for variations of my keywords. Up until very recently they have been outranking my main site. Hint: make sure you include your well researched keywords in the name of your blog and in the title of your blog posts.

5. Create a Blogger.com Blog and Fill It With Unique Compelling Content

Blogger.com also has a PR9 ranking with Google. Try doing the same exercise you did with WordPress.com. But remember, do not just copy and paste content from your WordPress.com blog onto your Blogger.com blog. You need original content on both platforms. You can, however, have both blogs linking to each other and of course to your main website. One advantage of Blogger.com is that you can embed your autoresponder subscription forms in Blogger.com posts. WordPress.com does not allow you to do this. In addition Blogger.com accepts adult content with some caveats.

6. Create A Squidoo Lens

Squidoo is a place where you can create content rich websites called lenses. Unlike Blogger.com and WordPress.com these are not blogs. You create your content pages using modules. They have text modules, video modules, Amazon modules and more. Squidoo lenses can take a little more time to create than a blog post, but they get highly ranked in search and they also receive traffic by other members searching Squidoo itself. Squidoo has a ranking of PR7. Again you must use quality original content or your lens will not even get published. Because of these high standards Squidoo lenses generally rank very well in search. It is free to create a Squidoo page and you should use your keywords in the title and throughout the body of your lens. Do not keyword stuff just use your keywords naturally and relevantly throughout your lens.

7. Create a Hubpage

Hubpages are a similar concept to Squidoo. Hubpages have a PR ranking of 6. I have had a harder time creating Hubpages. Despite some of my best efforts to create quality content I have had some of my Hubpages deleted and even one of my URLs banned. Hubpages thought my site was too commercial. However, if you succeed in publishing your Hubpages, they can serve as yet another way searchers can find your website through searching your targeted keywords.

8. Upload Your Content to Content Sharing Sites

Sites such as Scribd and Mediafire are some of the highest traffic sites in the world. You can upload your PDF documents to document sharing sites and benefit from having your documents with your keywords and links on ultra high traffic sites. Not only do you get traffic from people directly searching these sites, but these sites actually get highly ranked in Google search since they have very high PR. Here is a list of 25 content sharing sites ranked by Alexa and Page Rank.

9. Answer Questions on Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers may not give you do follow links, but real people look for real answers to questions on this site. Search for questions related to your industry and give thoughtful relevant answers. Leave links back to your website incorporated in the responses. When people are searching for answers related to your industry they will find your answers and links to your website. The goal is that every time somebody uses search for your keywords, that all roads will lead to your website.

My next step would be to promote all these properties which feature your original articles and links. Of course submit them all to your various social media outlets. In addition you can cross promote. Take your videos and put them on your WordPress.com and Blogger.com blogs. Put links to your Blogger.com and WordPress.com articles in the descriptions of your videos. Put links to all articles and upload all videos to your keyword targeted Facebook page. Of course, all properties should have relevant links back to your main website. You get the idea. The results will be that you should have multiple listings on the first several pages of search for your keywords on various high PR properties. Nobody can guarantee you a first place permanent listing but, if you have multiple, unique high PR quality properties all leading to your website, you are multiplying your chances of success.

The rankings change everyday. However, if you have a number of high PR, high quality properties all competing for your keywords you could have your Squidoo page in first place one day, then your WordPress.com blog, then your YouTube video on top the next day. Having multiple links coming from relevant high PR sites going to your main website can only help increase the rankings for your main website as well.

Here is a case study applying these techniques to my website classifiedsubmissions.com. The keywords I am going for are “classified ad submission service.” Here is a screenshot from the first page of Google. Keep in mind these rankings change every day but I still see the same sites bouncing back and forth in the top positions.