SEO Tip 5: Build A Link Network
July 1, 2008 by Jason · 2 Comments
Everyone knows that with good SEO you’ll have links coming in. What most people don’t know is that great SEO has links going out as well! Getting as many links coming in is good, but you’ll also want to show that you aren’t only getting in links, and you’re giving a little link love out yourself.
Building a good linking network can be beneficial for all the sites involved. Most the time you’ll exchange link A for Link B. This is fine and dandy but if you can make it more then that and get a little linking party going on you’re going to win. Give up a link or two on your site to link A and in return Link A links to link C and then link C returns your links back to you. This is known as a 3 way link trade and it works wonders for your link building networks.
SEO Tip 4: Content Is King
June 30, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
This tip, may not really be a tip at all. It may be more of general advice for your site, but it’s also a huge part of your sucess. Get used to hearing this if you’re serious about SEO, you may even want to get it tattooed to your forehead. Content Is King!
Yes its true, Content is what makes the spiders love your site! If you have a empty site/incomplete site thats lacking relevant quality, unique content then the spiders won’t even wont to return. You may have to make your own content when your starting out, but its worth every extra second.
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I suggest creating some extra pages that will contain relevant content for your site. Making good use of the FAQ section for vBulletin forums and starting your own keyword rich threads/posts are all useful methods for making that first bit of content for the spiders to fall in love with your site and keep returning.
SEO Tip 3: Optimize Your 404 Page
June 29, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Every site should have a custom 404 page, it doesn’t need to be anything fancy, or filled with catchy sayings. The standard 404 error is pretty annoying for humans, and the spiders hate it just as much. You can find some tutorials on the forums for setting up your custom 404 Error page.
You’ll want to optimize the 404 Error page so when a spider finds it (and trust me the spider will find tons of 404 content over time) the spider will just eat it up, and find content from it. Some useful tips to optimize your 404 page are:
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- Using your main keyword in the title followed by a pipe (|) in the title. Example:Custom 404 Page SEO Tip| vBulletinSetup
- Add some keyword rich content that is relevant to your sites niche. Try to keep it to under 250 words for the page, and try not to reach over a 3% keyword density mix. Be sure to follow some other SEO tips such as putting h1 tags and <strong> tags around the keywords. Maybe put a link to your sitemap on this page.
- Add your standard navigation to the page. This is not only helpful for when a human visits the 404 page to keep them on the site. The spider will also follow these links.
- Make the 404 page, powered by your sites templates. If using vBulletin you can create a custom 404 error page using the template system. Or if not, just try to match the look and feel of your site as closely as possible. Whatever you do, do not make a forum thread, call it 404 error and direct bots to that.
Website SEO Tip #1: Deep Linking
June 28, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
I’m going to start to write a week long series of SEO tips for your website. Try to implement on of these tips and tricks once a day, and see if it improves the traffic generated from Google over a one to three month period.
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The first SEO tip is to begin a Deep Linking campaign. Most of us simply submit/trade our links for the top level domain and call it a day. While this is good, and gets the links and traffic flowing, you can build upon that sucess and start to get inner pages traffic, and increase your SERPS.
Deep linking is a simple step, find a page on your site, with worth while content, such as a nice blog post, or since many of us here are forum owners. A forum thread you know a member won’t be able to edit or delete. Then take the title of that content page, and start submitting that to your link trades, or directories. This helps tell the search engines that you have a deep site, with lots of good content.
Website Search Engine Optimization Tip 2: Interlinking
This is our second website search engine optimization tip. When building your site and content, interlink your relevant pages. Sort of like having a related threads featured (which is built in vBulletin) or a related blog posts feature can increase your pages popularity, and increase the pages serps.
You’re all already interlinking some parts of your sites, such as the links in the navigation bars, or footer area, and links to the latest posts. The problem is that most these interlinks are temporary or constantly changing.
To solve this, I suggest creating a second navbar, or some linking area of sorts, and then finding and linking to important content on the site. This will also help waterfall your PR if you’re a page rank freak like some people are.
Increase Adsense Earnings Tip #1
June 26, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Have you ever had a day where you get 6 clicks and $6 and the next day you’ve got 15 clicks and $.082? I’m almost positive everyone has had these days from time to time, and they just absolutely kill me!
The only thing different I noticed on these days were the eCPM amounts. On good days this amount is some where between $2.00 and $8.00 on my good days, and on the bad days its down below $1.00 always. So I wondered to myself how could i fix such a thing?
After some research, I came to two conclusions. I could show less advertisements per page, or I could attempt to filter out low paying advertisements. Both methods have some benefits and drawbacks. Less advertisements mean the ads you do show should get better, but this always isn’t the case. You could still get the crappy low paying advertisements. The next option is to filter the MFA (made for adsense) sites out. Or the sites you visit and are low quality. Its important you dont click your advertisements to try to figure out who pays what. Instead take the URL that appears in the ad, and type it to the address bar.
Backing up and restoring your MySQL Database
If you’ve been using MySQL database to store your important data, it is imperative that you make a backup of your data to prevent any loss of data. This article shows you how to backup and restore data in your MySQL database. This process can also be used if you have to move your data to a new server.
Backing up your database
The quickest and easiest way to backup and restore your database would be to use MySQLDump. If you’ve got shell or telnet access to your server, you can backup MySQL data by issuing the mysqldump command. The syntax for the command is as follows.
