Link Building and SEO mistakes you must avoid

December 10, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Traffic Generation · 6 Comments 
Hey Readers, First of all I would like to thank you for showing this much interest in my posts. Here I am with another post as per my knowledge.
 
Many of us (including me) are sometimes doing some silly mistakes which disturbs google and it refuses some of our pages from its index.
So from my experiene here I am listing some mistakes that you should avoid.
 
Link Building Mistakes you should avoid
 
  • Avoid link exchange with bad neighbourhood. Because as per google, your PR is also depending on your link with your neighbour. So always be careful for what you are linking and where you are linked.
  • Do not waste your efforts in automated link submission. It will never work. So better put your efforts in genuine link building.
  • Always be careful when you put reciprocal link on your blog. As I described in my previous post it may harm your pages’ PR.
  • Dont ever think of spamming. I can assure you that by spamming google will kick you out soon from its index.
  • Be careful while you buy a link. Do not buy link for 1 or 2 months, buy a link atleast for 6 months or 1 year that will surely help you. Also do some analysis that is it surely going to profit your PR? If the answer is above 70% (my view) then you can surely go for that. :)
 
SEO Mistakes you should avoid
 
  • Do not waste time in researching the Meta tags. Just put few basic meta tags which indicated the interest of your blog.
  • Do not forget to put title and description for all the pages of your blog. Title is the most important element of your page as it is the first thing seen by the google when it crawls the page. Always give unique title to the page, dont just copy and paste. ;)
  • Never change the title of the pages which are already doing well in google. One time I did it for my one of the best performing page and I swear I suffered like anything to get that page back in the same position.
  • Avoid so many useless links on the page. As I have described earlier they are going to take some share from your PR.
  • Also make sure that you nofollow login, registration pages as well as header and footer links.
  • Always do proper formatting of the content. Try to use strong or italic tags as and when needed for content to look better. Search engines also consider this.
  • Try to avoid excessive use of ajax, javascript and flash for any kind of content display. Yes you can give facility to the users using these things but dont involve them with content of your blog.
 
Above are my views as per my experience. Please do not hasitate to share your views.

Save Your Google Adsense Account from Getting Banned

November 7, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, Google Adsense, Internet Marketing · 10 Comments 

When I surf through various webmaster’s forums, every day I found users who are in tension and frustrated saying “Google has banned my Adsense account”. I know most of these guys claim that they are innocent and they have never clicked on their own ads. They have no idea how the click fraud happened to their Adsense accounts. The reality is click fraud can happen in many ways and it is not necessary that it is always caused by the publisher.
 
So here I would like to share some tips to save your google adsense account from getting banned by google.
 

 

  • Never join the networks which are calling themselves “Adsense exchange networks”. Believe me here members are only join to click on each other’s adsense ads. I am sure this is the easiest way to get banned by google.
  • Try to avoid using auto surf programs to promote your website that contains google adsense. They will surely increase the traffic on your site and that way your site earnings will be increased but it will be considered as “no real” traffic so it is against Adsense TOS.
  • Also try to get rid of being part of traffic exchange networks who are also sharing the revenue of their network. This means the user of this kind of network may involved in clicking each others adsense ads which is also against Adsense TOS.
  • Read my tips how google is keeping eye on each and every click done on the adsense ads.
  • Always stick to TOS of the Google Adsense Program and check frequently whether by mistake you are not violating any of them.

I think we must keep these things in mind as google is being strict day by day.

As usual you are always welcome to share your views and subscribe to this blog. :)

October Earnings for this Blog: $133

First of all thanks to all my readers.

My blog has started growing and this is the result of that. Because of my link building strategies I have achieved this and hope to achieve this again and again.

I am planning to grow slowly and steadily. But the reason why you are not seeing updates for last couple of days is bit personal (Some family health issues). Also I am setting up my new offshore development centre in India.

I introduced kontera to this blog in middle of this month. Now let me give you some small breakup of my earnings

Google Adsense: $127
Kontera: $6

This month total: $133
Previous month total: $100

Total Earnings: $233

I know my earnings are so low than the other biggies in this niche. But sure I am trying my best to provide good content and earn more. ;)

Understanding the adsense related terms

October 27, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, Google Adsense, Traffic Generation · 10 Comments 
As I was suffering some years back some of the new users and some of my readers are suffering for the same thing. What is that?
 
What is the meaning of the terms like CPM, CPC, CPA, eCPM, eCPC, eCPA and CTR?
 
So today I have decided to explain you main terms so that you get better idea for google adsense.
 
Following are the terms which are most used in the online advertising networks.
 
What is CPM? 
 
CPM – Cost Per Thousand (Here “M” is the roman numeral for thousand)
 
This is the thing where advertiser wish to pay for per thousand impression of his ads. Let say advertiser wants to pay $100 for 1 CPM for an ad, this means that he will pay $0.10 for each time his ad is shown on any publisher. When the ad is shown thousand times, advertiser pays $100 to the ad agency.
 
What is eCPM?
 
eCPM – Effective Cost Per Thousand
 
This means what will be the publisher’s payout if the entire inventory it has is CPM. They use the eCPM value for inventory’s effectiveness.
 
 
What is CPC?
 
CPC – Cost Per Click
 
There are some advertisers who prefer to pay only when their ad is clicked by some reader on the publisher’s site. Usually they pay in the range of $0.40 to $5.00 for one click.
 
What is eCPC?
 
eCPC – Effective Cost Per Click
 
Same as the eCPM, This means what will be the publisher’s payout if the entire inventory it has is CPC.
 
What is CTR?
 
CTR – Click Through Rate
 
This value will show that what is the actual click through rate for an ad after each 100 impressions.
 
Please correct me if I am wrong somewhere. Also share with me this kind of terms as this is really helpful to my readers.

Best time to put google adsense on your blog

As I have described some basic blogging tips here and tips to do link building for blogs here, now I would like to discuss one important question for which most of the bloggers seek answer. The question is what is the best time to put Google Adsense on my blog?

Somebody will say that there is no need to check what is the best time, just put it from the first day and start earning. Other will say after one month from the day when you start your blog you should put adsense on your blog. But I would say without traffic there is no point in putting ads on your blog. Let say if your blog is 1 or 2 years old but it has only 2 or 3 unique visitors a day then there will be no income from adsense right?

So I have concluded some points depending on my experience and listed them here.

·         I will say keep your blog clean and easy to read. Don’t make the blog “Ads blog”.

·         Try to create good readership and generate more traffic.

·         As per my suggestion once you start getting around 50 unique visitors per day put first ad block to your blog.

·         Now stop and see the performance of that block. Also don’t forget to add good content and create new readers every day.

·         Now when your unique visitor count reaches in the band of 100 to 200 you can move forward and put second ad block.

·         And when you get continuously 200+ visitors every day put all the possible ad blocks you can.

·         You will need more unique visitors depending on the niche of your blog. I have just listed the basics.

 

These are my suggestions but you can apply your brain according to your needs. I would also suggest use one text link advertising network with adsense to get more profit. But the key point is to keep your blog updated and try to get more and more quality readers.

You are always welcome to give your views and correct my errors ;)

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