Making Pages With Good SEO

Making Pages With Good Search Engine Optimization

The number one most important thing in SEO is making pages with a title that people will search for, but don't have too much competition. 

When I first made this blog, I called it SEO Articles, and I couldn't have picked a worse title to try to compete for. 

I'm not sure that Article Invention is much better, but I'm gonna try that one out for a while, and see if it works well enough to bother getting a custom domain name here on Blogger. 

People think that SEO is hard, but all it really comes down to is picking the right title, and making a nice, long, high quality page with a few keywords scattered through it, (about 3%), some photos, subheadings, and a few back links to it. 

You could build hundreds of back links to a site, and try to compete for a keyword phrase with a high search volume, but it may not work, so the best way is to pick a title that most people wouldn't think of, and then do that a thousand times. 

For example, the title of this blog post is making pages with good SEO, and while that may be a phrase used a lot by SEO experts, there are probably not any website home pages that have that exact title. 

I'm pretty sure I can compete for that title, at least on the first page of a Google search locally, and therefore I will pick up a small amount of traffic each year. 

It's when you do that over and over again that it really adds up. Why bother spending all of your time trying to build up the home page of your website, when you could send them there from thousands of different articles and blog posts with specific titles? 

How do I Know About Making Pages With Good SEO?

I learned everything I know about SEO from writing on article writing sites like Factoidz, and that's pretty much it. If I was going to try to sell something, like an iPad, I wouldn't try to compete for any keyword phrase that had iPad in it, I would think of something the iPad can do that solves a problem that people have, try to think of the phrase they might enter if they had that problem, and then make a page with that title. 

For example, I might write an article or blog post entitled: I got a stiff neck from sitting at the computer all day. Then I show them the iPad 2, which they can use to do most of the same things in bed.

Is SEO Easier Than it Seems?

 Is SEO Easier Than it Seems?

For many years people have been told that SEO is all about making thousands of back links, from pages that are keyword relevant, and have a high page rank, from relevant link text, and that have authority or expert status, etc, etc, but from what I know, SEO can be a lot easier than that.

This page is a test, to see if I can get this blog post on my free blog on the first page of a Google search simply by choosing a fairly specific title, and making a few back links from sites like Digg, Delicious, Bebo, Google Buzz, Linked In and Twitter.

I have a feeling that SEO is easier than it seems, and all I have to do is write a fairly long page with fairly relevant keywords in it, mix up the words a little, like I could say that it seems to be easier to do SEO these days since the latest Google algorithm updates, and that's about it.

Subtitles Make for Good SEO

It's a good idea to include subtitles that have some of the keywords in your title, as they split the page up, and make it easier to read. 

What you also have to remember is that the bounce rate is very important these days, so you are not writing for a Google bot, you are writing for people, so they stay on the page long enough to perhaps click on an ad. 

Google will like your page even more if people tend to click on a Google Adsense ad every now and then, but be careful not to do that yourself, or you won't have a Google Adsense account.

Generally these days, it's more about quality than it is about SEO, and the only back links that really count are from sites with a huge amount of authority like a government or university site. 

That's not to say that all of the SEO techniques that have existed for years are not still valid, they are just less important these days, and probably the most important thing you can focus on is title choice, and quality content. 

SEO Versus pay per Click Advertising

Pay Per Click Advertising Versus SEO

There are benefits of both types of promotion, but on the one hand, you have to pay for clicks on your website, and you may not even sell enough product to make your money back, and on the other, you get paid by many sites to make back links which drive traffic and improve your placing in the organic search results.

How do you know when your situation demands a focus on pay per click advertising or SEO, and what do you do to maximize the benefits you get from both types of promotion? This article explains how to get cheap clicks on an advertising campaign, and how to get on the first page of a Google search for hundreds of different titles.

Can You Make Good Money Writing Articles Online?

Can You Make Good Money Writing Articles Online? 

The truth about writing articles is it is not easy to make good money, but then compared to all of the other ways to make money online, it is perhaps the best low risk option, and it is a learning experience which can teach you SEO.

Search engine optimization is the only real way to get paid well for your articles, although you can sometimes get paid in up front payments, such as on a site like Factoidz. I did a projection of my earnings based on writing one article a day for ten years, and worked out I make as much per hour as a regular nine to five job.

Following People on Social Sites

Following People on Social Networking and Social Bookmarking Sites


There are many benefits to having a lot of followers and friends on lots of different social networking and social bookmarking sites, but should you spend hours following people on these sites, and which ones should you concentrate on?


In this article, I talk about the SEO benefits of getting do follow links from social bookmarking sites, plus ways you can get thousands of page views if you do the right things on certain sites like Stumble Upon, and I also discuss whether Facebook and Twitter friends and followers are really as valuable as they seem.

MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE FOR FREE

MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE FOR FREE 

I have only just started using this blog regularly, but it does seem to work as a good back link, if I make tons of back links to it, and this one is a link to my bookmark on She Told Me, which itself leads to my article on Factoidz called how do you get more traffic to your site for free?

I may have picked a really hard title to compete for, because so far, I am on the twelth page, but I see it as good practice, in trying to compete for a search with a lot of competition. I am not even halfway through my link building yet, and if I've learned anything about SEO, it is to be persistent, because an extra few hours can push you up to the first page of a really popular search, at least locally.

I do believe that I will get on the first page of a search on how do you drive more traffic to your site for free, because the first page of results for that search do not have titles which specifically mention get more traffic to your site for free.

How Do You Use the Hilltop Algorithm to get a Good Google Rating?

How Do You Use the Hilltop Algorithm?

I just learned about the hilltop algorithm last night, which is strange, as I have been trying to teach myself SEO for the past two years.

Basically this algorithm is what Google uses to determine the authority of a site, based on the amount of relevant expert pages which have consistently linked to it over many years.

An expert page is defined as one that links out to many different authority pages, and consistently writes about relevant content. It also helps if it's on a site that has authority.

An authority page is one that has incoming links from experts, and relevant links from anywhere basically. The hilltop algorithm is just one of many different overlapping algorithms, so all the old things you've heard about keywords and back links still apply, but you need to take into account this new information.

When I say new, it's new to me, but Google has been using this algorithm since 2003. It was invented by a guy called Krishna Bharat from Toronto University. See the article for more information.

Top Ten SEO Mistakes to Avoid

Top Ten SEO Mistakes

This article is an informative list of the worst SEO mistakes that I see people making again and again. People need to learn from their mistakes, and take search engine optimization seriously, or they will never get anywhere.

One mistake that I made myself with this article was that it was too long, and I made too many bookmarks with lots of links to them, because at the moment, one of my She Told Me links is beating this one in a Google search.

What I am doing with this post is making another back link to it, and that should push it back up to the first page again. I don't really like Blogger that much, because my post here don't seem to get on the first page of Google easily, perhaps because it always has the blog title in the title of the post.

For example, this post will be titled SEO Articles| Top Ten SEO Mistakes to Avoid. This seems to cause some problems, because nobody would type in that exact phrase, but at least I can use this blog to make an extra back link every now and then.

What are the Most Common Mistakes in SEO?

I recently wrote an article called top ten SEO mistakes, and it goes through the many things that people do wrong such as picking the wrong title, not making enough back links, and not having a good page design.

The article is already on the first page of a Google search in Australia, and I wonder if you might do me the favor of doing a search to find it, maybe by entering top ten SEO mistakes Factoidz.

Why aren't I including the link in this post? Well, I'm not very confident of the page rank of this blog, and I'm mainly writing this post to maintain this blog, and I'm writing it on my iPad, which means I can't enter links.

Article Writing Sites

Article Writing Sites

This article on Factoidz will tell you everything I've learned about the best sites, their methods of pay, the editorial guidelines, etc.

I have tried so many different article writing sites, and I think I have finally found the ones that work the best for me. These are the ones that either pay the most per page view, or allow you the most options for publishing self-promotional material, such as adding banner ads, and referral links.

I have made a lot of money simply by referring people to other places from my articles, and if you have a good knowledge of SEO, and choose the right title, that will catch someone who is already interested in what you have to tell them, you can make a lot of money.

What Are the Most Searched Things on Google?

What Are the Most Searched Things on Google?

How does a person like me come up with a list of the most searched things on Google, when Google themselves does not publicly make available such a list? I used the Google Adwords keyword tool, which I also use for doing SEO keyword research for my articles, and I made comparisons of the search volumes of different keywords with each other. In this way I was able to compile this set of words, which are mostly sites, but some are also general terms such as sex.

I have written many articles on this subject, because once I had the information, I thought it was a shame to only do one, so I recycled it with many different titles, and almost all of them have been successful to some degree. That's one of the things about SEO for your articles. It's not always about getting one site to rank well, but getting dozens of different sites to do well in different searches, then linking them to each other.

How to build social bookmarking back links

By using Add This, I have been able to work out a way to make some fairly good back links, that usually push my articles up to the first page of Google.

My favorite social bookmarking sites are She Told Me, Blurpalicios, RedGage and Digg, among many others, but the reason why I mention those, is I can make back links to the URL of the links I make from these sites.

for example, I'll make a She Told Me link, then make a Blurpalicious link to that, then make back links to the Blurpalicious link.

In this way, I transfer page rank to my primary back links, which in turn boosts the page rank of my article.

I haven't done enough of it to raise the page rank of one of my articles past PR 1, but as long as you have the right title, and keyword content, and choose a title without too much competition for your article, you can get to the top of the first page most of the time.

SEO is about back links as much as anything else, once you have the on-page optimization right, and you need to start somewhere, and social bookmarking links are the place to start.

Writing Articles as Back Links for Other Articles

I have figured out from a lot of trial and error, that if you can't get a back link from the home page of a big website that is relevant to your site, you need to make lots of back links from articles, and boost their page rank with social bookmarking links, and links from yet more articles.

You may be able to hire a cheap article writing service through an SEO company, or on a site like Freelancer, or you might like to hire me through Fiverr, but I charge about five dollars per article, because I make dozens of back links to them, because I want them to be on the first page in Australia, as I make money from that also.

I write on sites like Triond, Factoidz, Squidoo, HubPages etc, and I make back links from sites like Digg, Delicious, Linked In, and about twenty other social bookmarking sites. I make back links to my back links to create a high page rank back link for my articles.

Sites like She Told Me, Redgage, etc. I make a link from them, and then boost the page rank with back links from sites like Bentio, Bebo, Google Buzz, Netvibes etc. There may be a simple way to make quality back links, but so far, I haven't learned it, and I just try to make back links from writing articles.

I am doing alright at it, like I am on the first page of a Google search in Australia on: How to make a million dollars. This is an article on Bukisa advertising my Sidetick referral link. It's free to join, with seven levels of referral. Only pays people in countries that speak English as a first language.

Can you get a Free Blog to Have a High Page Rank

I don't know how some free blogs from Blogspot get a high page rank, I guess that people must have to maintain them, and regularly update them with relevant content, or otherwise it just drops to zero.

I made a ton of back links to this blog, and so far I succeeded in getting a page rank of 0. I saw another free blog on Blogger with a page rank of n/a.

This blog on SEO articles was an experiment, to see if I could use the SEO techniques I learned from writing articles to boost a free blog to a high level on the search engines, and so far it has been a huge failure.

I would suggest you join an article writing site like Factoidz or Triond if you want a way to blog about things, and have pages that can get a good page rank easily. Either that, or pay for a domain name, hosting, and an SEO company to build high page rank back links.

SEO for Your Articles

To have good SEO for your articles, you need to have a good page rank, which is mostly about having back links from many sites with good page ranks, and also a combination of different page ranked back links, and different link text. It can't look to forced, or too unprofessional.

Don't spend too much time trying to make links to your website, blog, or articles, as you need to keep writing more, but back links from other articles are a good way to increase the traffic to your articles, in that sometimes people click on the links, and they give the site you are linking to link weight.

Search engine optimization is all about telling Google that you are the main page, and the most relevant page. You don't want to seem like a spammer, so don't throw in too many keywords, and one of the biggest Google algorithms that people often forget, is you have to update your site regularly with new content. That is especially important for a blog like this one.

I am trying to build up the page rank of this site, by writing a lot of posts about SEO, and articles, and then I have to make back links to each post, and the home page, from about a dozen different social bookmarking sites, and even articles.

How to get Traffic to Your Articles

Let's say you typed in: how to get the most traffic to your articles. The articles that appeared on the first page of that Google search would be the ones with titles, and keyword content that had the most relevant, related keywords. Then it's about page rank, which is mostly to do with back links.

Keywords, particularly in the title, are the first factor Google looks at when deciding which article to place highest in a search, (you should have the first two tagged keywords in every paragraph, (for me it is traffic and articles) as around 3% of the overall text, but there are so many different algorithms written into Google, I could not possibly explain everything about SEO in this post.

There is an algorithm for latent semantic indexing, which means using your keywords in different orders, like article traffic. There is an algorithm for the photos and videos, and the amount of time it takes the page to load.

There are so many different algorithms, but I just try to pick a good title, include a reasonable amount of keywords, and complimentary keywords. Maybe some long tail keyword phrases in the last tags, and then I make back links from many social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, Google Buzz, Google Reader, Bentio, She Told Me, RedGage, Linked In etc, and if I have the time, I make back links from different relevant articles.

This is the way you get a good page rank, and if you have your on-page optimization sorted, and you know enough about SEO, and make good back links, then you should get a lot of traffic to your articles, or in this case, my blog, SEO Articles.

Inexpensive SEO Content Writer

I have learned so much about writing good SEO Content from my time being an article writer over the last few years.

I am looking for a regular job submitting content for a website or blog that has something to do with SEO, or writing, or something I know a bit about.

I know about using the right percentage of keywords on the page, and I have a basic understanding about latent semantics, such as writing content with good SEO.

I want to work from home, and even though I am not in a third world country, I would accept a low rate of pay to start off with, until I learned the ropes, and showed that I could do my job very effectively to get search engine traffic.

Contact me at rowancasey@bigpond.com

SEO Content Written Cheaply

I have learned a lot about SEO in the last two years as an online article writer. I have sometimes been payed only a dollar or so for one of my articles, due to changes in the sites I was writing for.

for example, I wrote at Associated Content, and then they cancelled payment to international contributors. Then I wrote for Bukisa, and they switched payment from views on the page to Adsense or Chitika, and I am not making much from them, as Bukisa takes the best advertising positions on the page for themselves.

I am writing on Factoidz now, where I make an activity bonus, as well as a residual income, so I make a couple of dollars a day there in my first month so far.

I would like to find someone who recognizes my talent for SEO articles, my understanding of the percentage of keywords needed in the text, latent semantic indexing, and how to make good back links, and hires me to write cheap SEO content for their website.

I could write for about a dollar or two per hundred words, depending on how seriously you wanted me to check the keyword percentages, and the quality you expected.

If you are interested, I have a gig on Fiverr.com, and my username is rowanman28, or you can message me at rowancasey@big pond.com

Do you Have to Write Articles to Make Good Back Links?

As far as I can tell, a proper relevant article is the best way to make a good back link, if you can't make one from the home page of a large relevant website with a good page rank.

You can give articles on many sites a good page rank by making social bookmarking back links to it, and then make back links to your website from relevant link text.

Even the social bookmarking links should have back link from each other, in order to get the best SEO results.

That way you build up levels of page ranks that boost your website up to the highest possible Google rating.

Rowan Casey's Google Profile About SEO

I was told that to give my public Google profile a better SEO rank, I should link to it on my blog, or from other places, and I think that I will do that, because it has a ton of do follow links to my articles on it.

I was kind of assuming that it would already have a good SEO rank, because it was on Google, but maybe that was stupid.

Yes, it was stupid, because even Google sites have to follow the same rules in their search engine as everyone else, so here is a link to my Google profile: Rowan Casey.

You can find all of my buzzes, and my RSS feeds on Google Reader here on my Google profile page. It has all of my articles, and a lot of helpful information about SEO.