What is SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) ?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can be defined as the process of enhancing or increasing your website's or blog's ranking folks !.

Okay, If you want to know what's the rank of your blog, then go to www.alexa.com and insert a widget into your blog.

SEO is a simple strategy, the higher your website ranks when a surfer searches for a certain keyword, the more traffic you are going to recieve. Thus the keywords in your websites always matters a lot. So you need to choose targeted keywords or phrases to form the contents to your site ensuring that these words will match with the search keywords that the surfer enters. Its all like matching game, to make it simple I am giving an example, Suppose a surfer searches for the term " Blogging " in Google search, these are the websites which google gives after searching the internet in rankwise

1. wikipedia
2. blogger.com
3. problogger.com
4. codex.wordpress.org
5. clubblogger.com

And here is the secret, your blog or website may be all about blogging or anything related to it. But unless and otherwise your blog's SEO process is good such that it ranks in top 5 or top 10 of the search results of any search engines like Google,Yahoo, Live search or Ask for a particular keyword or phrase, You may not recieve heavy traffic. Thus the secret to heavy traffic is always SEO.

Make Money From Your Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites like facebook, orkut, sqidoo & hi5 are always a massive hit among the people and these social networking sites can be very effectively & smartly used to bring a whole lot of traffic or even regular visitors to your blogs or sites.

What are these Social Networking Sites actually ?

Social networking sites provide a kind of online platform in which a group or circle of people usually friends share their interests, thoughts and friendship with each other. For this they are fully optimised with various options like Instant Messaging, Online Chat, e-mails, scraps, bookmarking & a lot more. Further more, people can also form communities ,fan clubs like (Jolie fans, Beckham fans, I love Black Nail polish etc) on their interests, likings, dislikings or views to comment on these various aspects.

Let me first start with facebook. facebook is massive, because it's a site which almost recieves around 10% of the everyday internet traffic into it. We all know that a crowd of people is always gonna be a good advertising medium. Thus we must learn to promote our blog or website via one such social network. For this, all we need to do the most is drive out the traffic from facebook and to drive it into our blog or website. Thus Social Networking Sites can help us to bring in a lot of free traffic !!

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Sign Up with hi5 Here

Sign Up with Squidoo Here

Sign Up with Myspace Here