SEO part 2

Make Money Online

If you read my last my post I mentioned a few things you can do to optimize your blog, such as :

• Include your keywords in your page title
• Use italics, underlines and bold keywords, but only do one of each per post
• Use your keyword at the beginning and at the end of your post
• Use the symbol instead of filler words such as and is if etc.

These are all referred to as onpage optimization, which is important, but if you want to race your way up the ranks, then you also need to more importantly concentrate on offpage optimization as well.

For offpage optimization in this post, we will concentrate on getting links to your site.

It is important that you get links to your site that is related to your site, as you don't want to have started a site about dog grooming, and you have a link from a make money on the internet site do you? So don't go linking your site to anyone and everyone as this won't help you race up the ranks of google.

A good trick is to type your main keyword into google, see what the number one site is for this phrase is, then do a link search on the number one url. If you don't know how to do this simply type the following into google search - link:domain.com domain.com being the number one url that ranked for you chosen word.

This also may be an opportunity to re-examine if you have chosen the right phrases to optimize, as if you do something like "make money online" or "how to make money on the internet" then you will realise how much competition there is out there, including me! (yes an obvious money on the internet keyword add in from me there!!)

The list that you get is all the links that is pointing to this url. Depending on how much work the site owner has done, there could be thousands, meaning you've got a lot of work to do, or does it?

Look at the URLs some of them might actually be links from inside the url that youre actually checking the links for, and some of them might be low PR sites, meaning good news for you.

So to start though we can try and copy the number one ranked site, trying to get the same sites linking to you. You could email each one of the sites letting them know that you like their site that much that you have linked them on your site, then follow it up by asking them to link to your site. This may or may not work, depending on the quality of your site, it's worth a shot.

Other ways to get links is to leave comments on peoples sites leaving your url, you may get contacted by random browsers of the sites, or the sites owners. This may or may not work either, but it should get you some traffic to your site.

A good way to get links that I like is writing articles. Make them around 400 words long if you can, and get keyword in there at least 5 or 6 times per 100 words. Just base them on your posts but change the wording around a little, as you want to go for unique articles, you dont want it just to be copied straight from your site to the article.

Articles are great as you can leave a blurb at the end with your url, and not only will you get traffic, but if someone uses your article on their site, you will get a one way link from their site to yours from writing an article!

So there are a couple of ways to get links to your site, will go into some other ways in future posts on make money on the Internet. Once again if one person gets something out of these posts then thats more than worth it!

Cheers.