Just like you and the other bloggers out there, we need to take care of our blog and let our fresh and new contents get noticed by search engines, search sites and blog directories. I recently stumbled by this new kind of blog pinger and I thought it was just like any other pinging or pinger service website but I was really amazed on how this stuff differs from the rest.

First of all, What is BlogBuzzer.com?

Blog Buzzer is an innovated web tool that allows bloggers and blog owners to automate their submission to the top search sites as well as blog directories in just a matter of click. Just by entering the url and title of your blog at the box provided and by hitting the button, it will ping your blog to the top search sites.

BlogBuzzer currently supports five different languages including english, japanese, spanish, german, and chinese and is working to add more as well.

What does Pinging can do to my blog anyway?

According to Wikipedia: Ping/Pinging is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material.

In short, pinging is similar to updating. We ping a blog so that ping servers can get notified when we post a new content to our blog which in hand can make our new post to get indexed easily.

I currently have 4 different blogs including this blog and I find it hard to ping each of my blogs every time I create a new post. As a premium user, (for only 9 bucks a year!) what I love in this new awesome service is that I can add as many blogs as I want and BlogBuzzer will do it’s job to automatically ping them. BlogBuzzer will also monitor the blogs every time it gets updated.

But wait! There’s more!

Along with the standard blog directory sites of up to 60 search sites that are pinged by BlogBuzzer, your blogs will also be submitted to other major directories including:

Delicious, Stumble Upon , Blogopedia, BlogHub, Google Search. Yahoo Search,
and Bing Search. Now that will bring some organic traffic to your site!

What to expect more out of BlogBuzzer.com?

Blog Buzzer has already served about 94,074 blogs and counting. One of the biggest problems that other pinging sites face today is the large number of ping spammers and spam blogs. BlogBuzzer however, has made connection with the The Splog Project in order to fight and prevent the abuse of pinging service which will allow blog owners in return to get assurance for the reliability and the continuous use of the tool service.

Blog Buzzer is owned by Mr. Brandon Smith of Livermore, California. A web designer and IT director.

1. We Get Google Page Rank if we have original content!

Alright, this one could either be true or false. Adding new and original content in our web pages/blog as time goes by gets some value and the internal backlinks gets you what we call the “link juice” and eventually will get some PageRank. However from my personal experience, PageRank does not really matter at all. I have  PR 0 pages in my blog that rank high from SERPs. PR rank could be good if you are selling a domain or flipping a website. But in terms of SEO, PR value does vary at all.

2. NoFollow links could be useless

Hmm.. again, this could either be true or false especially in use of SEO. For me, nofollow links are not that useless but the value for me is much less than do-follow links. However, you can get traffic to your anchor linked texts if that page has a high traffic.

3. OMG! I think I’m sandboxed by Google!

If your site is not yet in the Google index even after some time, it’s not that kinda sandboxed at all. It’s just that Google might have not visited that site and page yet, OR — it’s because Google does not index every page it visits. It may take some time. The term “sandbox effect” is a no official term. It is just made to strain NEW websites to rank high in their keywords.

4. Oh Noooo! I’m Blacklisted – I’m DEAD

It’s not true that you can’t recover if your website is blacklisted by Google or any other search engines. You can ask to review your site again through the webmaster tools. Just make sure you will fix the issues like virus, etc. of that site before submitting again.

5. Social Bookmarking can get you a PR

Even though the Social Bookmarking site you use has a “nofollow” attribute but has a high value in Google’s eyes. You will eventually get indexed more faster and get PR at the same time.

6. Main Domain has a nice PR then inner page will be nice too

If your main domain has a nice rank and pr in Google. Your inner pages will also have a higher chances of getting a nice rank and pr in Google too. Though this isn’t 100% true. Just based on my experience.

7. Google doesn’t know all my backlinks when I’m searching for “link:yoursite.com”

I think this is completely false. It’s just that Google shows only the links which has a high value that you got from the link juice. Anyhow, I prefer to use the Yahoo!’s Site Explorer because it is more precise than using the Google’s Webmaster Tools.

8. Domain Age does not really matter at all!

Like if that domain is about 4 years old but was just indexed yesterday then it will be treated just like a new website. Though I’ve seen some new websites that are ranking high in the SERPs regardless of age.

Note: All of the things above are just based on my personal experience and I don’t guarantee that all of them are 100% true. More like it was theoretically based. So don’t fight me, Ok?

Choosing the right WordPress theme can make a huge difference in the success of your marketing. Many people just pick a theme that they think looks good, and think that the only difference between the themes is the “feel” of the theme and the way it looks. However, there should be a lot more thought put into choosing a Wordpress theme for your blog.

For one thing, you should be choosing a WordPress blog that is search engine friendly. This means that just picking a random WordPress theme may not be easy for the search engines to spider and may actually HURT YOUR RANKINGS! If the search engines have trouble indexing your site, and find the site confusing, then you will not rank well in the search engines.

These themes are generally not all that easy to find. I have seen some companies charge $200 or MORE for these optimized themes that allow you rank better in the search engines without doing as much work. I have seen people charge less for these types of themes, but they are often not even created by people who know anything about SEO, or who have gained their false SEO knowledge from forums (Err..I’m not pointing out any forum name ).

However, no one wants to spend lots of money on WordPress themes so they can rank well in the search engines. I mean, the whole point of free traffic is that you don’t want to pay for traffic, and paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars to get the rankings is worse than paying for traffic through PPC or banner advertising.

Besides looking for blogs that are search engine friendly, you also want blogs that are easy for people to navigate and are easily readable. I have seen some blogs where the colors were just so insane that it gave me an almost instant headache trying to read them. These blogs are TERRIBLE, no matter how well they rank. If you get 5,000 unique visitors a day but they can’t even read your content, then you are going to lose all 5,000 of those visitors and you will have completely wasted your time.

If you have trouble reading your blog, then don’t use that theme. If you are not sure whether or not it will be difficult for other people to read, then you need to scrap that theme and find a new one. Don’t just hope it will be ok. If you do, you will be losing potential buyers, just because you were too lazy to find a good theme or because you were too attached to a certain theme to let it go. Make sure that whatever theme you pick is easy to read and easy to navigate, so people can easily find their way around your blog.

So the two things you need to remember when choosing a WordPress theme, is that it should be search engine friendly and they should be easy to read and navigate. Now there is one last thing that I have not seen many people discuss, but something that I think is incredibly important when determining which WordPress theme you should be using for your market.

This last thing that you need to remember is to pick a theme that fits with your target market. When you pick a market, you should know as much about your target market as possible and pick a theme that works well with them.

For instance, if you are targeting seniors, then you are going to want a theme that has larger font so that it is easy to read and you are going to want a fairly basic theme without a lot of colors and graphics. You obviously want to make it really easy to read the blog because your target audience is most likely losing their eyesight and will have trouble reading your blog unless you specifically pick a theme that is REALLY easy to read.

If you are in the romance niche, then you are going to want to use a red or pink theme, most likely with hearts on it, maybe even silhouettes of people kissing in the background, maybe even with cupid on it. You are not going to want to choose a black theme when you are discussing romance, because it is more depressing and it really just doesn’t fit with the mood.

I am sure you get the idea. You need to pick a theme that really just fits well with your target audience, and will make it more comfortable for them so that your conversions will be higher and people will keep coming back to you. You know your target market (if you don’t, then go do your research right now and figure out who you’re targeting or you won’t make any money), so pick a theme that will convert with them.

So the three things you need to remember when picking a Wordpress theme is to pick a Wordpress theme that is search engine optimized and search engine friendly, is easy for the user to read and to navigate, and a theme that fits well with your target audience. If you remember these three things when you choose a Wordpress theme you will be much more successful in your marketing efforts.

You can also apply these strategies to a normal website as well, as these strategies help a regular website as well, only you are generally creating your own graphics, rather than choosing a theme.

These are not difficult strategies to implement, but it will take a little bit of searching to find the right WordPress them for the niche that you enter. However, the effort put into finding the right theme is easily worth the amount of money you will make if you do the proper research and spend the time looking for a good theme to use.

*BONUS TIP* If you are not sure what color is a good color for your target market, it has been found that blue converts well, and is easier on the eyes than other colors. If you are unsure, go with a blue theme.

Getting traffic and back links to your blog is something that everyone never
gives up trying to do. Below is a list of  50 simple ways that will not only get you
back links to your blog but will also bring in a nice steady flow of traffic.

1. Submit your blog to Blogged and get rated.

2. Register your blog with MyBlogLog and interact with other bloggers try and
do 10 friend requests a day this will help increase the awareness of your blog.

3. Register with BlogCatalog This site is pretty much the same as the above but
just as popular again do at least 10 friend requests a day.

4. Register with Digg and submit your posts there. Try to Digg other stories and
build up your friends list before submitting.

5. Submit your pages to StumbleUpon. It is important that when submitting to
StumbleUpon you don’t only add your own website as this will lead to your
URL being banned. For every 1 page of your website you submit try to at least stumble 7-8 others. Our blog averages over 7000 hits a month from stumble
alone.

6. Submit your posts to Blog Engage and allow other bloggers to vote for your
posts. You only need 6 engages to make it onto the home page of this website.

7. Submit your posts to Sphinn and like the above other members will vote if
they find your information interesting. The only downside to this website is the
info submitted has to be internet related.

8. Add your posts to Pliggdirectory. Works in the same way as the above
website.

9. Submit to Blogging zoom again as above.

10. Sign up with Entrecard. This is a very good website for bloggers. Place a
small widget on your blog that allows other members to drop their card on you
and you on them. Points are awarded for receiving and dropping cards which
can then be used to advertise on other blogs.

11. Sign up with Bumpzee is another blogging network website like number 2.

12. Join Twitter and post your posts to it and try to add at least 10 friends a
day.

13. Submit your blog to Blurb blog directory. Directories are a great way to gain
back links to your blog this one also allows you to add your RSS feed to your
submissions and shows your latest posts on your detail page.

14. Submit to Bloggapedia

15. Submit to Blurb directory

16. Submit to Business URL

17. Submit your feed to RSS directories here is some to get you started

18. Create a profile on Facebook and start interacting with other members
Face book if used correctly is a great marketing tool.

18. Create a MySpace profile and grow your friends list MySpace has many
great features you can use to promote your blog.

19. Claim your blog on Technorati and exchange fav`s with other blogs

20. Use post Toaster or OnlyWire to submit your website to multiple social bookmarking
websites with different titles and descriptions

21. Submit your RSS feed to Feed Shot

22. Use FeedBurner to promote your feeds

23. Ping your blog with Pingler

24. Use a feed button tool

25. Comment on other blogs in your niche with informative responses

26. Join Blog Linker and exchange with other blogs

27. Join Blog Explosion

28. Re-write your posts and submit them to Ezine Articles

29. Re-write your posts and submit to Go Articles

30. Re-write your posts and submit to Trump Articles

31. Join Diigo

32. Join the Blog Top Sites

33. Join Blog Top List

34. Join Blog Rolling

35. Participate on Yahoo answers

36. Create a lens on Squidoo

37. Join and create Yahoo groups

38. Submit watermarked videos to YouTube

39. Join the blog network 9 Rules

40. Join the network B5 Media

41. Create yourself a Blog Carnival

42. Join blog forums like Blog Chews and other webmaster forums

43. Sign up to Blog Burst

44. Join Connectedy

45. Submit to Insidehits

46. Add you’re feed to My Yahoo

47. Submit to Reddit

48. Link to other blog posts – this will get you a link on their website

49. Review blogs at Blog Critic

50. Submit link  to BlogPoint

You can rinse and repeat the steps above to achieve more better results.

RSS Feed Submissions:

RSS feed submissions are fairly basic. You should submit all of your RSS feeds to the major directories, but the major thing is to not always submit them to all the directories. Again, if you are using software and it fails, leave it alone. It looks more natural that way.

Also, change up the tags a little bit. If you use all the exact same tags, it is pretty obvious that all the pages are from the same person and it doesn’t look natural.

Video Submissions:

Video submissions are a different style of marketing, but they are quite important for making it natural. With the video sites you can’t use anchor text on your links, so it is all just a basic link. Google likes to see these, and the video sites can have a lot of ranking power so they are a good place to get these links from.

With the video submissions you want to submit your video to many different directories, and you want to submit multiple videos. Make sure you use many of the same tags, but not all of the same tags in your videos.

If you are like me, and you are not good with videos and do not like doing video submissions, you need to do at least one, in order to have links from different types of sites. Google likes to see links not only from different sites but different types of sites, so make sure you submit at least one video.

Blog Commenting:

Commenting on blogs can be very powerful, but many marketers claim that it no longer works. However, I have found that it does work very well, and it also makes your linking look much more natural, especially if you comment on blogs not related to your website and blogs related to your website.

You can do searches for high PR do-follow blogs and make comments on them in order to gain more backlinks and more link juice. I personally do not like using auto-blogging software. This type of software just posts comments that aren’t relevant and that will get deleted.

There is software you can use to find do-follow blogs, and this type of software is ok, but you need to actually make good posts (or hire someone to make the posts for you).

The way I do my blog commenting is this: I first find a do-follow blog to post on. The higher the PR of the blog, the more worth your time it is. Then I read through a post on the blog. Yes, I read the ENTIRE post because then I can make a better comment, not sound like an idiot, and not get my comments deleted by the moderator.

Once I have read the post, I read a few of the comments that other people have left so that I can see what kind of comments the moderator is allowing people to post on the blog. Then I post an INTELLIGENT comment on the article/blog post.

I also check the names of the people commenting. If people use keywords as their name, then I use keywords as my name. If everyone is using their real name, then I use my real name (or pen name, depending on what niche I am in). I also check to see if people are using signatures on their posts. If they are using signatures with links in them, then I will write a signature with an extra link in it.

Also, make sure you fill in the website box with your URL so that you get a backlink from each post!

Comment on blogs related to yours and blogs that aren’t related to yours. Blogs that are related to yours will do more for your rankings, but blogs that aren’t related make it appear much more natural to Google and do a lot for your rankings.

Forum Posting:

Forum posting is a good way to get more backlinks and to make your linking strategies appear natural. Forums allow you to include links in your signature, so every time you post you get a backlink to your website.

Some forums are no-follow for the signatures, which means you do not receive link juice from your backlinks, but you can still use these forums for traffic to your website, and you can use them to get backlinks if you play it right.

Start off by posting helpful comments on a forum and ask a few questions. Make yourself known, and after a week of posting one or two posts per day in that forum, you can post often post a new topic asking people what they think of your website. Ask if they can suggest improvements and just get people’s comments on your website.

This will get you a backlink from the post, and you may even get some good suggestions on how to improve your website so you can make more money!

Web Directories:

Web directories used to be all you needed to get good rankings in Google. Although this is no longer the case, they are still very valuable as part of your diversification strategy and there are many high PR web directories that will give you a lot of link juice.

Submitting to web directories is a lot like bookmarking a site. You must include a keyword rich title and description of the site. It is easy to submit to web directories. Two of the best are Dmoz and Jayde. If you want to find directories that are directly related to your niche, then simply do a Google search for these terms:

“Keyword” Directory

“Keyword” Resources

“Keyword” Submit Your Site

“Keyword” Add URL

“Keyword” Links

You can do these searches for multiple keywords to get as many results as possible and find many directories that are related to your topic, and therefore have more power.

These directories that are niche specific, and therefore have less outgoing links and are topically relevant so they carry more link juice than many generally directories. The larger directories such as Dmoz and Jayde carry more weight, as they are much larger directories that carry much weight in Google.

By submitting to directories you can gain easy backlinks that will give you a lot of link juice and make your linking appear natural, as you are gaining links from other directories.

Blog Directories:

Blog directories are basically the same idea as web directories. If your main website is a blog, then you can submit it to blog directories as well as web directories. If your main site is not a blog, then you can do what many websites do and create a blog for your website and submit it to the blog directories.

Blog directory listings can rank quite highly in the search engines for low competition keywords. They follow the same format as web directories, so they are easy to submit to.

There are not nearly as many blog directories as there are web directories, so you do not have to do keywords searches to find them. You only have to submit to the major blog directories. All other ones will give you little to no results.

These are the blog directories you should submit to: http://www.blogcatalog.com, http://www.bloghub.com, http://www.blogarama.com, http://www.weblogalot.com, http://dir.blogflux.com, http://blogs.botw.org & http://portal.eatonweb.com

As far as I know, there are no other blog directories worth submitting to, but this list will get you some good results. Some of them will show up in the search engine rankings if your title and description are keyword rich, but the ones that don’t still give you link juice and traffic to your blog.

Press Releases:

Press releases are quickly becoming a powerful method of obtaining search engine rankings and traffic. If you write a good press release and submit it to the right places, you can get top Google rankings with your press release, and you will get link juice back to your main page, and you will get traffic from the press releases as well.

When you write a press release, you write it like a news report. Pretend you are writing a column for a newspaper. It has to be interesting, and it has to be something people want to know about. If it is good enough, you can even get into Google News, which can get you first page rankings for incredibly high competition keywords. I don’t know if you know this, but Google loves Google News. (I wonder why that is?J)

You want to have one link in the press release linking back to your main site. Use anchor text whenever possible. If you really cannot write a press release, then hire an outsourcer to do it for you.

Podcasts:

Alright, I don’t know much about podcasts, and to be honest I haven’t really used them. However, I know that they can be powerful, especially because you have almost no competition whatsoever. Because I do not know anything really about podcasts, I will not lie and make up something I don’t really know about.

I know you can submit your podcasts to different podcast directories, and even get your podcasts into iTunes, which can work great for your marketing, but I do not know how to get the best results out of them. The key is, you need to diversify as much as possible, so podcasts are something you should look into.

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Before you watch this video guide, have in mind that:

• Facebook is the largest social network in the world, with over 175 million active users.

• Facebook has more viral channels than any other social network/similar website.

• Facebook allows regular users to access it’s API with applications for further integration with the platform.

• Facebook is a billion-dollar industry that you want to be a part of.

Facebook has significantly more viral integration than any other existing social networking sites today, making it the current venue of choice. What this means is that you’ll receive more exposure with much less work. This obviously equivalent to gain more money and less time spent earning it. This is a very beneficial thing.

Read this guide thoroughly and this might help you to boost your search engine rankings.
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If you are looking for an alternate to blog commenting with your links+keywords, try to use Profile-Styles sites where HTML/BB Code can all be instantly copied in the About Me Page or Bio box. Most of these sites are DO-FOLLOW and can drastically boost your SERPs rank.
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