Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method used by internet users to share the contents of a website. The person who doing social bookmarking submission usually asked to give a little description on the web page bookmarked. So, others get an idea of the contents of the website.

In essence, bookmarking is only done by storing a link a web page within a website that provides a bookmarking service. This data is publicly accessible, group, or personal.

Social Bookmarking Sites:

1. Digg
2. Delicious
3. Twitter
4. Facebook
5. MySpace

Social Bookmarking Tools:

1. AddThis
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Website directory submission

Web Directories are websites that have a service collecting websites or blogs into special categories in accordance with the contents of websites or blogs.

Website directory submission can be done for free or paid. verification was also different ways, there is verification automatically using scripts, there is also a process of verification are done manually by the owner of the web directory.

Website Directory List:
1. Technorati
2. Mybloglog
3. Blogcatalog
4. DMOZ
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Search Engine Friendly URLs for Blogspot

Blogspot doesn’t have permalinks feature inside, but its URL has SEF format. Look at example below:



However, blogspot only take 4 or 5 words at the front of the title of your article as a URL. So, if your title is too long, your blogspot URL will be disappointing. For example:

1. I want to make post with title “Search Engine Friendly URLs for Blogspot”



2. Look URL that I get



To resolve this problem, first you have to publish titles by selecting nice keywords from the title of your article.Here, I choose “Search Engine Optimization URLs Blogspot”



After publishing, your blogspot URL would be represent with the title that you created earlier.



Then, Please edit the title and post. Editting won’t change URL formed.


or


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Search Engine Friendly URLs for Joomla

Joomla has Search Engine Friendly URLs feature inside. To activate it is very easy. Firstly, rename file htaccess.txt in your public HTML directory to .htaccess . Then go to Global Configuration > SEO Settings. Set it as below:


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Search Engine Friendly URLs for Wordpress

To set wordpress URLs, you just go to Dashboard > Setting > Permalinks (Permanent Link). Choose Custom Sructure, then set the parameters.



Wordpress parameters that you can use are

%year% used to show year in 4 digits, eg: 2010

%monthnum% used to show month in 2 digits, eg: 01 for January

%day% used to show date

%hour% used to show hour

%minute% used to show minute

%second% used to show second

%postname% used to show article title

%post_id% used to show article number

%tag% used to show labels

%author% used to show author name

After your permalink settings finished, sometimes appears notice “You should update your .htaccess now” or “error 404 – The Webpage cannot be found”. To resolve this problem you can do steps below :

1. Enter to your Public HTML files (You can use software like filezilla, etc)
2. Find .htaccess file, then set access to 777
3. If you cannot find .htaccess file, you should make it. Use notepad, then type:



Save with name .htaccess (without .txt). Upload to your public HTML
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Search Engine Friendly URLs

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a web name that used to show a document source on the internet. All Search Engines use URLs to find a document on the internet either using the website name, category, or name of the article. For example: www.websitename.com, www.websitename.com/category or www.websitename.com/category/nameofthearticle.html .

You must make your website URLs with niche keywords, so that it can be Search Engine Friendly URLs. Below are examples of website that use SEF URLs, I try to search with keyword allinurl:travelling


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Meta Tags Optimization (Blogspot)

Meta Tags Optimization for blogspot is very simple. Just follow this step:

1. Login to your Blogspot Dashboard

2. Choose blog that will be edited



3. Choose Design > Edit HTML



4. Tick box of Expand Widget Templates before enter your keywords

5. Enter keywords after



before



for example:


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Meta Tags Optimization (Wordpress)

1. Login to your wordpress page http://yourwebsite/wp-admin



2. Select Plugins button > Add new





3. Type “all in one seo pack” in search box, then click search button



4. Install “All in One SEO Pack” Plugin, then activate Plugin





5. Configure Plugin, in this page you will find box for your website title, keywords and description.



6. Don’t forget to enable plugin
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Meta Tags Optimization (JOOMLA 1.5)

1. Login to your joomla page www.yourwebsite.com/administrator
2. Select Site > Global Configuration



3. Look for Metadata Settings, type Keywords and Website Description in the box provided.


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Meta Tags Optimization (STATIC WEBSITE)

After doing a variety of keyword analysis, on this page we begin to practice to put those keywords into the website. In a static website, you will find a html script like this:

<html>

<head>

<title>TYPE YOUR WEB TITLE HERE</title>
<meta content="TYPE YOUR KEYWORDS HERE" name="keywords">
<meta content="TYPE YOUR WEB DESCRIPTION HERE" name="description">

</head>

<body>
WEB CONTENT
</body>

</html>


Type a title, keywords and description of your website on the red text above. Perform your best analysis to choose what keywords you will type.
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Meta Tags Optimization (GOOGLE TRENDS)

Once you have a google account, then go to www.google.com/trends. This page will show you how to find a right keywords for your country that will be your market destination. We will try to make observations together. Type these keywords in Google Trends Box:

1. Online Business
2. Internet Business
3. Web Business
4. Internet Marketting

Separate each keywords with ",". Then click the Search Trends.

Search Results:






The blue color shows the search volume index for the keyword "online business ", red for "internet business", yellow for "web business", and green for "Internet marketting". You can see which are the most frequent keywords used by Internet users for search. You also know the city and regions where the people often use these keywords in every search. You also know what language they use.

Keep doing to observe the keywords and choose keywords which are most appropriate for your market.
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Meta Tags Optimization (PROLOG)

When you intend to build an online business, you should really plan who will become your market. You must know where they live and then adjust your content, so they can be easily found your website on search engines.

Pick a good, unique, specific and niche title for your website. Check how many internet users search using that keyword. Try to observe keywords that you use with some tools from google. First, create your google account. I guess you do not need a guide to practice it. Just go to www.google.com and follow the instructions.
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Meta Tags Optimization (GOOGLE ADWORDS)

You must use words that have relevance for making title of pages and articles. To find out more details of the quality of keywords, you can observe using Keyword Tool from Google Adwords.

Go to www. google.com/adwords, and then use your google account to log onto the page. Select the item of Reporting and Tools > Keyword Tool. Then enter one or more keywords in " Word and Phrase " box. For example we will use the keywords:

1. Online Business
2. Internet Business
3. Web Business
4. Internet Marketting

Click the search button. Then you will show result as below:



You can see that keyword of "Online Business" appeared 368,000 per month. Then click on that keyword, you will be get a new tab.



New tab appears the websites that provide information with that keyword are 1,240,000,000 sites. They are your competitors website. Now copy the website URL on the first position, (www.turboonlinebusiness.com) and then paste URL in the "website" box of Keyword Tool.

Now, you can analyze how many your competitors and internet users who will visit to your website. For more detail analysis, you can use the Advanced Options item.
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Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization or better known as SEO are tips and tricks are done by a webmaster for introducing their website on search engines. So their website be more friendly with search engines and easier to find, even get in on the first page of search engine.

There are many ways to do SEO, such as: Meta Tags Optimization, SEO friendly url, website directory submissions, social bookmarking submission, backlinking, SEO articles, and more.

To maximize it all, a webmaster must be master of the various SEO tools. SEO tools can be found for free or paying on the Internet.

Get all the SEO tips and tricks on http://blog-searchengineoptimization.blogspot.com/
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