This is just a quick post to help us remind the factors that affect the ranking of our website or blog in search engines. In making a blog, always be reminded of the positive and negative factors in SEO.



Top Five Positive Factors

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag
2. Global Link Popularity of Site
3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link
4. Link Popularity within the Site
5. Age of Site

Top Five Negative Factors

1. Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots
2. Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content on the Index
3. External Links to Low Quality/Spam sites
4. Participation in Link Schemes or Actively Selling Links
5. Duplicate Title/Meta Tags on Many Pages
   

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As what I've discussed in some of my posts, getting traffic for your website or blog is one of the main goal in achieving a high revenues. You can do this by using Google Image Search, which is a tool to easily find images in the net by using phrases or keywords just like an ordinary web search.
A lot of people are using Google Image Search for a varied purposes, whether it is entertainment or pictures of cars.
Highly relevant images shows up at the top of Google Image Search which sends the owner of the site a great deal of traffic. And if you as a blogger can be on that list then it would be pretty good for you.

Google Images Search Optimization is much alike with the basic search optimization such as relevant keywords to the content and title. But Image Search Optimization has its own unique factors that affect the ranking of these images. Listed below is a list of tips on how you optimize your images for better traffic.

• Use keywords in your 'alt' text
  This is the basic of all image optimization tricks. You should always insert a phrase or a keyword in the alt text of the image. But always be sure that it is relevant to the content of the site. Example: <img src="file.jpg" alt="alt description here" >
• Use anchor text keywords in links to images
  When you have an image that has a link, let's say for example an image of harry potter which links to a full view of the picture itself that say's "click here to see full view". The phrase itself is general and doesn't help in optimization, instead use "Harry Potter in Azkaban" or "Harry Potter Photo".
• Use descriptive titles in naming images
  If you have an image of Optimus Prime dancing that has a filename of "Image0012.jpg" rename it to something like "Optimus-Prime-dancing.jpg" or "Optimus-dances.jpg". You can also rename the file that is the same with your alt text.
• Widen the categories of your images
  When you broaden the categories of your images it gives you more traffic. For example you have a blog which is all about Naruto, use other images like anime's that are alike with Naruto or any other anime that relates to Naruto. In this way the incoming traffic would probably be looking for some anime images. Remember, more traffic means more money.
• Use relevant texts or phrases around the image
  Take into consideration the texts around the image. Be sure to have a description of over 20+ characters below the image and make the text in bold.

These things are just the basic of Image Search Optimization. You can search the web for more advanced tips like putting adsense around the image, submitting your images to Google, making a page for every image in your site, etc. Don't just stop here, learn, learn, and don't forget to earn. :D

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Being a top rank in Google is always the goal for every website especially for bloggers. But why? Other than the popularity itself, more traffic means more money making opportunity for your blog. But how can someone reach the top? Are there any tricks to it? How do you get a high rank using only Blogger?

One way of ranking higher in google or any other search engine is by using your title wisely. Search engines like google reads the title from left to right to weigh its popularity. So basically, every post you make should have different titles with your blog title to the right. In this manner, when someone searches a keyword on the net and matches up with your blog post title then there is a great tendency that your blog post will be the top result.

Blogger doesn't have this kind of functionality which means you are not fully utilizing your blog to rank higher. But you can tweak your blog to do this. Follow these three easy steps and you'll be on your way to popularity and becoming rich.

1. Access your layout tab then go to Edit HTML
   
   


2. Search for the string below in the template code. (ctrl + F for windows)
   

   <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

3. Replace the code with the following code. And Save your template
   

   <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
   <title><data:blog.title/></title>
   <b:else/>
   <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
   </b:if>

That's it! Test the code by clicking every post in your blogger and you'll notice that the title is different for every page. All your posts now will be ranked higher by Google but you still need to post some kick-ass article to get you started. Don't forget to comment :D

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Surfing the net, playing online games, doing stuff in your profile in some social networking sites, etc these things usually give you entertainment across the web. But have you ever wondered where in the web can you learn and earn at the same time? There have been a lot of argument before as to how can someone earn at the web, but as the web progresses so as the techniques and ways for end-users to earn. One of which is blogging but there is a new field in the web for freelancers who want to work at their respective homes. Although Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not new at the web, the emergence of it as an internet marketing strategy has caught a lot of attention. The study of SEO began in the mid-1990s, as they were trying to record and map out the early web. If these things have been done before, then why study SEO now when there are other things more interesting? SEO is neither a subject nor a person but it is a way to increase the number of visits for a site and putting it in the first results of search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

The beauty of SEO compared to other industries is that the business comes to you and not you coming to them and most of all, it’s coming all over the world. There are two ways for you to generate income in this industry one is being hired by some company who are focusing on SEO and the other one is hiring yourself and put up your own money making blog or site. I will discuss more on putting up your own blog and make money from it. As you study SEO and learn techniques to make your site popular, you earn at the same time. Now that I’ve mentioned being popular, you can’t just be popular without your site being popular to the search engines. And according to some studies, more than 80% of the web traffic are coming from search engines. Now, that’s a good reason for you to study SEO and be popular. Let’s get back to our main topic, search engines aren’t usually manned they are actually automated or programmed which we call web crawlers or spiders. These web crawlers follow an algorithm in which they search through the net using keywords and such. And you can’t just make a site where you don’t follow the things that these web crawlers are looking for; you need guidelines to do this. Here are some basic guidelines for your site to be noticed by these web crawlers:

• Always use of <h1>. Add <h1> tags to some keywords
• Add relevant keywords and page or site description to your meta tag
• Always use the keywords mentioned in your meta tag
• Use SEO friendly URLs like
• http://google.com/about instead of
• http://google.com/index.php?page=1
• If you have a flash content on your website then make a html copy of it
• Make use of tags in images
• You should have a sitemap for your site

These are just some of the many ways you can do to be seen by a web crawler. Continue to study SEO and some of its techniques to earn. And yeah, I almost forgot one of the important things in SEO; submit your site to the search engines, it makes things easier.

Internet marketing depends on the keyword selection you make. People go to the internet like they’re going to a help desk and ask using keywords or phrases. In this manner an industry was born to optimize the results given by these search engines and at the same time people earn with it. Study SEO more and harness its full potential.

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