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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Top 2 ways to improve blog traffic now!
I have spent many months trying to find out how to drive traffic to various websites. In fact, I have made it much of a study. Many of the online articles you see about driving traffic to your websites say the same things.
In fact, quite recently, I read an article on Incomediary titled The Missing Link To More Blog Traffic and I got a little pissed when after reading the whole post, he actually never talked about the missing link to more blog traffic and gave a further link to the WordPress SEO Blueprint.
I would just say: There are two key ways to get traffic to your site.
1. Content is Key!
Write good content. In fact write excellent content. This is why people will want to read more. Spend time reading and cross-checking your write-up. Ask yourself this question: If I came to this website without knowing about this topic, will I find this an interesting read?
Yes, content is key. Content is the foundation. But then just like the above website said, the foundation is not enough. Build the house. That takes us to the next important thing:
2. How to select keywords or titles
So you have your content ready? What next? FIND A GOOD TITLE!
Here is how! Go to Google.com, type in a title you feel makes a good one for your article. See the auto-suggestions. See the ones that pop in your face.
For instance, if I wrote an article that featured how to write great content, I would go and type these words in Google.
The suggestions will help me rephrase my words as I would like to put myself in the minds of those searching.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
The Death of Google Search.
Rich Skrenta, the geek who sold major shares of his own local search engine for more than $10million to a bunch of newspaper companies has finally come up with a greater idea: a search engine that would make Google shake.
Rich, a former Engineer at Sun Microsystems, attracted angels and venture capitalists who backed him with $24million for the search engine known as Blekko. Despite the rise and death of the many search engine ideas(including Yahoo), they must have been convinced that this new approach to searching for content on the web will change a lot of things. But how?
What makes Blekko different from Google? Is Blekko really a threat to Google?
The simple answer: Blekko is a system that allows users to sift through their search based on the relevance of THEIR OWN SEARCH TERMS. Google’s page ranking algorithm chose how search results were displayed on its own. This algorithm ensured that the first search results depended on how popular a topic is, how many links are attached to a search item etc. Blekko however allows you to determine relevance based on a ‘slashtag system’. This means if you want to search for hotels in Nigeria, rather than the regular google query you may have put ‘good hotels in nigeria‘, you can put ‘nigeria /hotels’. Try searching for Seye Kuyinu by searching ‘Seye Kuyinu /people’. Then try it the other way ‘Seye Kuyinu’. You will notice how refined the search is.
In essence, Blikko will be yet another tool for SEO’s to consider. Blekko offers some really great SEO metrics at the click of a mouse. For every search result there is an SEO tab that displays pie charts, metrics, and other useful information based on search results.
All good and fine, Blekko is going to change the way we search. However, I don’t believe it is a threat to Google. Neither do industry experts. The guys who should be scared are Bing. Microsoft Bing plans to introduce ‘social search’, as search results will be influenced by what your Facebook friends ‘like’,'unlike’ or …dislike. Thanks to Microsoft’s huge partnership with Facebook.
Rich Skrenta has a good track record working with Search. His Open Directory project (that site may have been fine in the 90s) competed hand in hand with Yahoo in the late 90′s and was later bought by Netscape. He recently sold out Topix, the human edited news search site.
What are we searching for anyways?
This article was written by Seye Kuyinu. My name is Seye Kuyinu. My daily job is to write and draw with languages that translate to 1010101010s. By so doing I give people a better image on the web, and also make life easier for them. You can click here for more about me.