One of the best ways to boost your search engine ranking is to ensure that you have plenty of links pointing back to your site.  In other words, you need to increase your link popularity.

Why?

Because many of the popular search engines are using a lot of off-page criteria to help decide how relevant (or popular) your site is for certain keyword searches. Let’s say you have a site about bowling and you want your site to show up in Google when people type in the search terms, “bowling balls.” 

Back in the day, you used to be able to achieve a high ranking by cramming your keywords in the body of your web pages, title, as well as your meta tags. Well this quickly grew old as people learned the techniques and started using this method to spam the search engines.  Webmasters were putting unrelated search terms into their meta tags and using hidden text to try and trick the engines into bringing their site more traffic.

As you may have guessed, engines like Google have gotten much smarter over the years and are now using the “backward link” technique to help rank web pages. Google can determine the keywords other sites are using to link to a particular site and then they use that information to help decide how a page should rank for various search words.

Going back to the bowling ball example — if you go to Google and search for “bowling balls”, you’ll notice that the sites that appear first aren’t necessarily the ones that repeat the word “bowling balls” throughout the text.  Some of them don’t even have these keywords in the title of the page.

The reason these sites show up first is because of their link popularity.  Other web sites are using “bowling balls” to describe their site and are using these keywords inside the actual hyperlinks when they link to them.

So hopefully you can see now that when you exchange links with other web sites, be sure that they include the keywords you want to rank high for in the search engines.

Based on Wikipedia source, A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web, that specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. A web directory is not a search engine and does not display lists of web pages based on keywords; instead, it lists web sites by category and subcategory. The categorization is usually based on the whole web site rather than one page or a set of keywords, and sites are often limited to inclusion in only a few categories. Web directories often allow site owners to directly submit their site for inclusion, and have editors review submissions for fitness.

One way to get the link popularity and increase page ranking in the eyes of search engines is just submitting our website to many business web directories. Once and more of our website has been approved, that will be better to our website popularity on search engines, because it could increase the traffic. In addition, with the right keyword, useful articles that “stuck” on other sites, including this business web directory, we may get free traffic too.

Generally, a business web directory have high page rank in Google, so with any of our links in signature or in articles content, we will be able to getting “share” from those levels of PR. It make senses to us, because with live link that visit to our business website, more and more links are entered, make it easy to assess its popularity ranking automatically.

Although we can practice as a good articles writer is part of the optimization SEO, this time we will discuss more on the personal side of the bloggers themselves. Say you’re blogging for 3 months or more, and you’ve established yourself to practicing SEO on your blog. The question is, how many articles you created in a month? The answer may vary. It could be 5, 10 or maybe 20 articles.

The next question is, how well you interact with potential readers of your blog. I think everybody, including myself, it is natural to feel uncomfortable when making our first blog article. Approximately the same analogy as you live in the new environment and neighbors do not know who you are, we feel do not know how to communicate with them, afraid to say strange, almost ugly fear and so on.

The only choice to get out of the problem is growing. Develop your communication technique, multiply vocabulary, deepen the idea of your blog articles, just collect various kinds of ways to greet someone, learn how to tease a little, and most of all make yourself comfortable with your writing. The last point is important, both for your readers and your blog SEO. Because when we write articles that SEO optimized and we are writing bad technique, so visitors from the Search Engine will only find what they seek in order to immediately leave your page.

This would be different if when visitors from the Search Engine to feel your herbs with writing that makes them comfortable, so they feel “Gee, this is interesting information”. And that, in my opinion (remember, I think you know, not according to SEO experts), an optimal SEO techniques for a blog. Applying the techniques and tips that SEO is not something that is difficult, but communicate with others and make it comfortable, it has a difficulty level higher.

“The goal of SEO is to create the actual conversion”

A big fans of ‘Kungfu Panda’ have said, the real purpose of SEO is to create sales conversion, and I justify it because it is the actual purpose of SEO, you can know about it from SEO books published abroad, not domestically. But do not be afraid, even if you currently do not have something to sell, SEO techniques can still serve you for the sake of others. At the end, let’s develop ourselves into a good SEO bloggers, not the SEO spammers.

Twitter

1. Personal Branding. Twitter is a social media platform you can use to build your personal brand.It has the primary benefit of developing a casual persona and establishes you as a social personality that is connected and approachable. As Twitter adoption increases, new users will be drawn towards well established Twitter personas.
2. Get Feedback. Need an alternative perspective on how a website looks or the right course of action to take? Blast out a message asking for advice and you’ll receive replies from other users. This collective intelligence can be used as fodder for articles or projects.
3. Hire People. Need a good logo designer, marketer or programmer? Send out a message asking for recommendations. This is a very quick and easy way to hire freelancers or even companies based on familiar recommendations.
4. Direct traffic. Twitter can be used to get traffic to your websites or the sites of friends. If you ask your friends to tweet about it, the message will spread faster and further as other active users pick it up. There is a viral nature to all types of news, even on a site like Twitter.
5. Read News. Twitter users often link to useful sites or articles and can be a source of scoops and alternative news. You can also subscribe to Twitter feeds for specific websites/conferences, which allows you to receive and view content quickly. This is very useful for active social news participants.
6. Make New Friends. Like any other social network, Twitter has a built-in function for you to befriend and track the messages of other users. This is an easy way for you connect with people outside of your usual circle. Make an effort to add active users you find interesting. A Twitter acquaintance can be developed into a long lasting friendship.
7. Network for benefits. Twitter can be used as a socializing platform for you to interact with other like-minded people, especially those in the same industry. It can be used to establish consistent and deeper relationships for future benefits such as testimonials or peer recommendations.
8. Use it as a ToDo list. Use Twitter to record down what you need to do while you are away from the computer. Mark the tweet as a favorite to file it for referencing. Another alternative is to use an Online task management service that is synced with Twitter. One example is Remember The Milk.
9. Business Management. Twitter can be used as a company intranet that connects employees to one another. Workers can liaise with each other when working on group projects. Particularly useful when certain workers go out often in the field. Updates could be set to private for security reasons.

10.  Notify Your Customers. Set up a Twitter feed for the specific purpose of notifying customers when new products come in. Customers can subscribe via mobile or RSS for instant notification. Twitter can also be used to provide mini-updates for one-on-one clients.

1. Take Notes. Twitter provides you with an easy way to record important ideas or concepts you want to explore further. Include links relevant to ideas you want to explore. Note taking can also be done offline via mobile applications.
2. Event Updates. Businesses can use Twitter as a means to inform event participants and latest event happenings/changes. This is a hassle-free way of disseminating information, especially when you don’t have the means to set up a direct mobile link between you and the audience
3. Find Prospects. Twitter can be used as a means to find potential customers or clients online. Do a search for keywords related to your product on Twitter Search and then follow users. Tweet about topics parallel to your product and close prospects away from public channels by using direct messages or offline communications. Discretion and skill is needed in this area.

14.  Provide Live coverage. Twitter’s message size limit prevents detailed coverage of events but it can allow you to provide real-time commentary which may help to spark further discussion or interest on the event as other Twitter users spread the message. Very useful for citizen journalism.

1. Time Management and Analysis. Twitter can simply be used to keep a detailed record of what you are doing every daily. This might be boring for others but this type of usage is useful when you want to analyze how you spend and manage your time.
2. Set Up Meetings. Twitter can help you organize impromptu meetups. For example, you can twitter a message while at a cafe, event or art gallery and arrange to meet fellow users at a specific spot. It’s an informal and casual way of arranging a meeting.
3. Acquire Votes. Send a link to your stories you’ve submitted in other social news sites like Digg. Sometimes your followers will vote up the stories because they agree with it. This allows you to acquire more support for your efforts on other social media websites.

You can read the complete article here. The conclusion I get is the benefit of twitter as a social networking website will be very useful for us who want to build a business online through your simple blog.

If you stop and consider most popular blogs are those that update frequently with fresh and interesting content and on a consistent basis. Think about that! What goes into accomplishing those tasks? Research, diligence, and persistence!

Now let’s consider the type of planning you need to do and mindset you’ll need to acquire to make your home business blog the success YOU want.

1# List Your Goals & Objectives

Be realistic by choosing objectives that you can achieve. Keep them with you for constant reference and as a reminder.

It is important here from a personal development standpoint to set goals that match up well with your talents and ambition. Targeting objectives that do not challenge you however, will therefore not motivate you and as a result bringing out your best is not likely to happen.

Continually challenge yourself, overcome these challenges and move on to even more challenging goals. This is how you’ll build a bigger and better business.

Think big and you’ll accomplish big but if you think small …nothing will happen!

2# Dispel Negative Thinking

Blogging results do not occur over night but instead take time to develop before you’re able to see the fruits of your labor. It is during these times on ‘non-visual’ results that the evil demons on negative thinking can plant their seeds and side track or derail our actions.

This type of thinking will only clutter your mind, fog your thinking, and dampen your spirit. Winners think positively and move forward while ‘others’ think of why they can’t succeed and ultimately find that negative thinking is usually the reason why.

Always think positively but remember to add just a dash of realism! If mistakes occur learn from them but don’t dwell on them!

3# Make Your Own Luck

I regard the word ‘luck’ as often times meaning what happens when careful preparation and the proper mindset meets skillful execution. You sight your objectives, you plan how to meet those objectives and then you implement your plan and bingo objectives met! Now where’s the luck in that?

Achieving success with a home business blog is not the result of learning an art or being technologically savvy. No, blogging to make money is more about persistence. If you got the resolve then you possess the key to success in making yours the best blog site in your niche. Once you’ve achieved that you’ve achieved the independence you no doubt were seeking! Congratulations!

1. Content – We can’t stress the importance of content enough. Keep the content up to date, and ‘time sensitive’. Remove out of date content so that it doesn’t affect the credibility of your site.

2. Give your site a personality – There is a huge amount of information on the internet, and you can be sure your members could find what you are providing elsewhere. What your members are really paying for is the way you present that information.

3. Remain focused on your niche – Don’t forget that your members joined your site because they had an interest in your niche. While it is fine to include content on a slightly different subject if you are sure it will be relevant and interesting. Never lose sight of your original subject. Wander too far off the subject and your may find your customers wandering off your member list.

4. Make information easy to find – Ensure the content on your membership site is organized in such a way that your members will find what they want easily. If your members view your site as a valuable information resource rather than just another website, they will want to us it again and again.

5. Provide what your customers want – Encourage your customers to ask for an article or information on a certain subject if they can’t find it. Writing an article specifically for one customer may seem like a lot of work, but if you think long term, that customer may then stay with you for the lifetime of your membership site.

6. Keep in touch with your members – Contacting your members via e-mail is essential to keep them engaged with your site. Send your members updates, informative newsletters, and reminders, and ask them for their feedback.

7. Ask them to take part in surveys – Ask your members to complete a survey about your membership site and then make sure you act on their feedback and let them know you have done so. Send out a special edition of your newsletter showing some of the results of your survey and detailing how you have responded and any changes you have made. Feeling that they have had a hand in shaping your site will really make your members feel engaged in your online community.

8. Allow customization of your homepage – Having some functions that your members personalize on your site will really make them feel involved. Even a simple message at the top of the home page saying ‘Welcome back [member name]’ will have a huge impact on making your members feel valued.

9. Build a sense of community – Being part of an online community is one of the main reasons your members will renew their membership. Here are a few additional tips on creating that sense of community.

10. Promote an active forum – This provides a place for your members to get to know each other and begin to care about each other. Stopping their membership once they have become involved in your forum would be like losing a whole group of friends. Provide a function that allows your members to send private messages between each other. If you run competitions, or encourage your members to submit content, make sure you acknowledge the winners or contributors. Nothing makes a member feel a part of your site like seeing their name in the latest newsletter.

1. Time

Professional bloggers must to take most of their time to manage their blogs. Not only is it important to make a good post, time is also important to interact with other bloggers, gather information, conduct online research, blog walking, and so on.
How can Shoemoney blogging just 1 hour less each day, while the income of hundreds of thousands of dollars per month? In my opinion, this is because ‘the flight hours’, their experience. I believe when first starting his career he spent a lot of time to manage their blogs.

2. Expertise

Professional bloggers should have the expertise on the chosen topic. For example, if he choose the topic affiliation, then he must be expert in that field. In addition to his readers to believe, he also has authority in the field. That it should be noted, these skills are the result of continuous learning.

3. Interest in the topic selected

With interest, all activities will be fun.

4. The ability to write

Professional blogger must have good writing skills seen from the grammar, writing the story line, and the ease of the reader to understand his writings. This capability is not necessarily the best writer or poet, at least the reader to understand his writings.

5. Technical knowledge of blogging

Like or not, the blog is based content management software. Professional bloggers should have the basic ability of the database, domain transfers, scripts, plugins, and others.
6. Blogging knowledge

Blogger profesioanal should know the basics of blogging such as how to use trackback, ping, SEO, social bookmarking, twitter, RSS feeds, face book, a podcast, you tube, and autoresponder.

7. The ability to design blogs

Blog design is very important to the success of blogs. Course content is king. However, a unique blog design, fast access, and informative navigation system, will make an intriguing first impression for visitors. Therefore, a professional blogger is supposed to know the basics of HTML, CSS, and optimization blog.

8. Knowledge of business / marketing

Professional bloggers should have the business skills and how to market it. The better market their blogs or products, the greater the chance of getting traffic and money. Simply put, a professional blogger must have a business mindset.

9. Creative and Innovative

Creative means to have creativity, while innovative is to find something new. Creative and innovative professionals will make bloggers can make high-quality writing, finding new ways to promote your blog or product, and find new ways of monetization.
10. Having a network

Simple principle, a professional blogger has a good relationship with other bloggers. Particularly good relationships with top bloggers. Obviously, this relationship is a win-win solutions (there are no losers).

11. The ability to communicate

Professional blogger at least understand English because of the bloggers posting top quality written in English or may interact with foreign bloggers.
Well, it turns too many of the requirements to be a professional blogger, isn’t it? If possible, within the next 5 years I also wanted to be a professional blogger. Because, as a proffesional blogger, we can work independently and absolutely get income from the job. So, what about you?

Know What ‘Keyword’ Is
Here we will learn to better understand more what is meant by ‘keywords’. In this context, what keywords are entered by a person in on Google to find a specific information.
Usually people put between 2 to 5 words, usually referred to as phrases or commonly known as search phrases, keyword phrases, the query phrases, or just keywords alone, all contain the same meaning.
Keywords are very important to us is the best and most relevant search phrases, you want your site will be found on the pages of Google search results when someone uses those keywords or words in the query.
A good keyword should be specific and clear. Better to get 100 visitors a high quality of the 1000 visitors who visit your site listed in the search for a common phrase, which then was not interested in what we offer.
Our primary mission is not only a lot of visitors, but how to enhance the marketing value of the products or services that we wish to offer on the site. Being 1st rank in Google does not mean anything except to increase sales of products or services on offer.
The clearer, more specific, the more unique keywords you select, the greater the opportunity to get visitors who are looking for what to offer.
If you want the maximum results, then we must think as costumers or potential visitors. Think about what they need, what problems they face and what solutions can you offer to help.

Learn how to find keywords
How do we choose keywords which are most appropriate and most relevant to the site? There are 2 main methods that can be used :

• By using the online tool called Word Tracker at http://www.wordtracker.com or something similar, take some time to find the right keywords.
• Analyzing site visitor statistics. Do this after doing the first, to assess the results of the first method.

Wordtracker is the online tool that will find a suitable variation of the search phrases, including synonyms and spelling errors committed by ordinary people. It will show you how many people are using the word in time period of 60 days and 24 hours.
There are no other programs that offer similar information. There were other tools, such as Overture’s or AdWords’s Keywords, but not quite accurate. For this reason why Wordtracker chosen by many Search Engine Optimizers (SEO) and Internet Marketers.
Routinely, we must study and analyze statistical data from your site visit, to find which keywords people use to search our site. This will be undertaken after the site walk for some time.

Learning Using Wordtracker
Before using Wordtracker, we must first take the time to make a list of words that may be used by prospective buyers to find products, services or information that we wish to offer. Think as a buyer, it is important to remember.
Wordtracker offers 2 kinds of services, ie free trial version and the paid (full) version. You have to register before you can use the full version. Free Trial Version hanay allow you to find what keywords are searched by people on the AltaVista search engine.
Wordtracker is quite expensive to use, but there’s no better way to find the most appropriate keywords for your site.