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Blogging in today’s online marketplace can be big business, and WordPress is the leading blogging platform used. Like Blogger, WordPress blogs can be simple web logs that you can access and update through the WordPress website. This, however, is an option primarily for personal use blogs. What makes WordPress the choice blogging platform for professional and revenue based blogs is the downloadable blog creation and maintenance software.

Being open source software, WordPress’ coding and applications are very transparent and flexible, and can be used by both novice and expert alike. PHP and MySQL driven, WordPress is also compatible with most web hosting options and Content Management Software, making it ideal for use with virtually any web hosting company.

The WordPress Backlink plug-in is just one of the many plug-ins available for this open source blogging platform. Essential it works by allowing you to trade backlinks with other bloggers, and keeps track of both the number and rank of each of these backlinks. By filling out a form, bloggers can link their related blog entries to yours. There is also a feature that allows you to approve the backlinks filled in, keeping your backlinks relevant, and preventing your content from becoming part of the growing spamdexing epidemic. Google and Yahoo both are cracking down on sites that use spamdexing tactics, and this feature allows you to maintain control of your blog.

So while the WordPress Backlink plug-in can offer another great way to keep track of your backlinks, and can be a good introduction to web analytics for your blog, there are some limitations to the type of data that you will get, and little help analyzing exactly what the results mean. For this, you still will need to use a more in depth web analytics tool, such as Google Analytics, or the software that is available to you through your web hosting package.

With the ever increasing number of websites appearing online that create revenue from ad space, and the spike in software programs available that offer to track and analyze your web traffic, Google Analytics is the easy to use, and free option that is definitely worth a look. In fact, it is currently the most popular web analytics tool used according to Wikipedia, and is used by some of the most successful websites around to keep track of their online presence.

While Google Analytics has been around for a few years, its success essentially lies in its use of fairly simple technology to accomplish the task. Primarily it uses java script, time-stamped cookies, and an implementation code called ga.js. This allows the data to be collected and tracked, as well as analysed.

One of the benefits of Google Analytics is that there are multiple ways to analyze your data. It offers reports that are customizable depending on the type of data you want to know, and how you want it displayed. It is also very functional with other types of software that you may already be using, or that are part of your web host’s control panel; a feature not often found with free analytics tools. Another feature that makes this an excellent free web traffic tracking option is its ability to not only track direct web traffic, but related traffic, such as hits from social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, as well as through multimedia searches for your site’s images and videos, and even more importantly, search engine hit results.

Another great feature of Google Analytics is both the free and paid support options they offer to help maximize your web traffic. Their site has an extensive Help Centre that contains numerous articles and blogs from industry and Google experts that help you use the product. They also have an active User’s Forum where many question you may have can easily, and quickly be answered. They also offer email and telephone support if needed; a rare service in the world of free online business. If you require more professional, or intensive help in analyzing your web traffic data, or with your search engine optimization and web marketing strategies, Google Analytics also offers paid services from authorized consultants.

Google Analytics does offer a great product and service; however, there are a few limitations that should be kept in mind, especially if it will be used as your only web analytics tool. Google Analytics can often be easily blocked by privacy software that block or deletes tracking cookies. This however, is the major issue with most tracking software available, and it certainly does not affect the overall rating of this web analytics tool in general. Overall, Google Analytics is a highly useful tool that all webmasters and web marketing professionals should seriously consider.

In today’s web business industry successful Search Engine Optimization tactics are absolutely fundamental to your online business’ or blog’s success. While onsite SEO involves choosing the right keywords or phrases, and correctly embedding them in your html code, Back Linking involves getting as many quality links to your webpage as possible, and is quickly becoming the most important tool to getting top, and lasting search engine hit results.

There are generally two types of Back Links that produce desired SEO results; one-way and reciprocal. One-way links are links that appear on other sites, the higher ranking themselves the better, that lead to your website or blog. It is these types of links that are generally most effective in getting higher search engine result, though are often more difficult to maintain. It is for this reason that more and more online linking businesses, often called Link Farms have sprung up in the last few years, and they usually charge a fee to maintain the links on their page. Though effective, Link Farms are often regarded as “spamdexing”, and can sometimes be removed from search engine results. Reciprocal links are links that appear on your website which take you to another page that also contains a link back to your site. In general these are less effective as a SEO strategy.

From simple contacting webmasters of sites that may attract your potential customers or readers and asking for a link, to paying companies that specialize in one-way Back Linking, there are a number of ways to use this SEO tactic to get online traffic to your site. All methods, however, are not created equal. Avoiding Link Farms, and hiring expert companies or individuals can keep your website active, and produce the revenue you are looking for.

Lastly, an important part of Back Linking is knowing how to keep track of how this strategy is working. The most effective, and ultimately the only way to truly evaluate the success of your Back Linking strategy is implementing software. This type of program can keep track of the live links that Back Link to your site, and the number or percentage of traffic that each brings. Most CMS, or Content Management Software includes these types of programs.

Why Search Engine Optimization is the way to make money online

Given the growing number of money making opportunities that can be found online, from ad-based blogging to specialized web stores, making your website a top hit on search engines is absolutely crucial to its success. So how do you convince Google to make you a top three hit on searches for your product or service? The answer is Search Engine Optimization, or as it is more popularly referred to, SEO. SEO is essentially a web-based marketing strategy used to increase web traffic to a website through the inclusion of specific keywords in the html code, and the creation and maintenance of links from other sites that lead to yours.

The recent explosion of freelance consultants and professional SEO companies means getting your website or blog noticed is as simple as hiring an expert. But knowing how people search for information online, and how search engines produce search results is essentially the only things you need to know to get top results.

Finding the right Keywords

Usually the best place to put your keywords in the html code of your webpage is in the Meta tags. Keeping your keywords simple and relevant, but unique enough that they won’t get lost with the thousands of other sites that used those keywords is important to remember. In general short phrases work better than single words, and making sure that you have multiple keywords, but aren’t “keyword stuffing” is the best approach.

How will people search for what you have to offer?

While most know that SEO involves selecting the right keywords to include in your html code meta tags, often getting top results for tags on image or business searches can be just as critical, and sometimes more effective. This is especially true if you are creating a website for a business such as a hair salon, or bakery; or an image rich blog.

Back Linking: The New SEO

Back Linking is the other way that search engines organically find and rate your website, and its relevance is determined simple by the number of pages that link back to your site. While the number of ways that you can get your website Back Linked is ever increasing, it is important to ensure that the sites linking yours are topic relevant, and the more popular the better. Search engines like Yahoo and Google are taking active measures to reduce the number of top search result hits that are simple there due to aggressive “black hat” SEO tactics being used by an ever growing number of websites. While it is possible to create revenue based blog or website, keeping your content quality up and topic relevant will prevent your site from being removed, and ultimately produce more revenue in the long-term.

BackLinkFast is now offering link building services.

Look for the addition of many more new SEO and link building packages coming soon.

Packages Include:

• Social Bookmarking Services
• Directory Submission
• Comprehensive SEO Packages
• Local Search Optimization
• Pay-Per-Link
• Press Release Distribution
• Niche Directory Submission
• Article Submission
• and much more….

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Here are a few tools I regularly use to speed up my blog commenting for link building campaigns.

easyComment

easyComment is a lightweight FireFox plugin that makes blog commenting fast, and easy to maintain. Simply install the plugin, restart firefox, and right click on “easyComment” in the bottom right hand corner of your browser window, then click Manage Profiles. Create as many profiles for as many sites as you want. After you’ve setup a profile, follow our blog commenting tutorial and you’re on your way to building quality back links.

SEOquake

SEOquake is a firefox plugin that every webmaster should be using. I won’t get into all of the details of this extension since it is so powerful, but I will explain how to properly use it in order to maximize your blog commenting campaign.

1. Install the SEOquake Firefox Plugin
2. Restart Firefox
3. Go to Google.com
4. Type yourkeyphrase “remember my information” “notify me of follow up comments”
5. Click “Advanced Search”
6. Click “Results Per Page” and change it to 100
7. Click the “Advanced Search” button
8. Click “Request Parameters”



9. Sort Page Rank by descending order (see screenshot below)



10. Now you have a list of relevant blogs that allow comments, sorted from the highest page rank (top) to the lowest page rank (bottom)
11. You can even export this list for future use by clicking the “Save to File” button, (next to request parameters)

More Uses for SEOquake…

So there is one, fantastic use for SEO quake. But, I’m not done yet! There’s yet another great feature that will help your blog commenting for link building campaign. What you ask? Do you see that little, tiny, square icon in the bottom right corner of your browser? It should say “SQ”. Right click that icon, and click “line through no-follow and no-index”. Now, on every page you visit, there will be a line through any link that is marked as no-follow. Extremely useful if you’re blog commenting only to increase your page rank.