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		<title>Effective SEO Strategies for High Search Engine Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>The best cost effective way to <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>promote your business</a> through ads is the online marketing. High search engine ranking can be achieved only be effective strategies of SEO writing. Almost all the businesses want to get a position for their website in the some first pages of search engines. So, there is need for some effective strategies to be followed while writing SEO content. A content that is keyword rich and informative can get better ranking in the search engines.</p>
<p>Professional SEO content writer has to make and follow some effective strategies to write the content, in order to enable it to get <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/">high ranking in search engines</a>. The keyword should be used in the URLs, main headings, sub headings and title tags. Getting a professional SEO writer is not difficult. Online businesses will be no more difficult for you if you find a reliable and experienced SEO writing service provider. The efficient and professional SEO writer combines the methods of keyword analysis, usability analysis, website maintenance, sound navigation, promotion, search engine ranking report etc for optimization.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/seo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-842" title="seo" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/seo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>An effective strategy for better ranking in search engines is the identification of the keywords that are searched recently by the buyers of the product type you are going to sell online. Keyword suggestion tool are available online to help you getting the most searched keywords. Look for synonyms too while searching for the proper keyword because you have to avoid using he keyword excessively. You can do so by using synonyms of the keywords that have the probability to be used by the visitors. Online reader will not stay on your website if the content is boring.<span id="more-837"></span></p>
<p>There are a lot of things to be considered when you are building your site to get maximize search engine ranking. Best way to start is to consider yourself as reader and think what you would like to read in the relevant content and what would you type to search your desired product or service. You can also take idea by searching the websites that are ranked in the first pages of Google. Explore what keywords have they used and with what intensity and tactics. Keywords are important definitely but remember you are putting content online for the people to read it for information about your product. If they get bored and don’t like it they won’t return to it. So, remember that there is a lot f difference in what the people like to read and what is required to get maximum ranking in the search engines.</p>
<p>Your strategy for effective SEO content should be to convince your readers about the opinions and facts of the specific product. You can do that by providing them user friendly content. An original and informative content keeps users to come back to your website and the web traffic increases as a result. An effective SEO writing will than convert the readers into the buyers of your product and your profit will increase as a result.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internal Linking</a> is the internal links, which inter- link the different pages of your website. They help you to go from one topic to another easily and the most important part is that you have complete control over these links</p>
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		<title>Suggested SEO Tools and how to use them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>It is very easy to conceptualize and create your own website in any way you can imagine. But, it is equally difficult to optimize it for <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">SEO</a> and get it to the top rankings in the search engines. There are so many small things and details, which you have to consider like the structure of your website, the content, the unique and general keywords, the headings, the title tags and the Meta tags, the anchor texts and the links.</p>
<p>When you are <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/">optimizing your site for the search engines</a>, you have to do many things, which are repetitive in nature. These SEO tools make it easier for us to perform these tasks.</p>
<p>There are many other advantages of using the SEO tools like:<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-812" title="seo-tools" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools-150x150.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<ul>
<li>They save your time, as they are able to perform the      tasks within minutes.</li>
<li>They make your optimization convenient as they      automate the SEO at every step, thus making your optimization better      organized and more efficient.</li>
<li>They use proven techniques, which give good results      and hence you don’t waste time in using ineffective methods.</li>
<li>They allow you to multitask, that way you can perform various tasks simultaneously.</li>
<li>They allow you to analyze all the data.</li>
<li>They can even work automatically.</li>
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<p>Your work history is automatically saved, as the SEO tool collects and archives the information and other changes that you have made, so that you can see at a later stage, if you have made any mistakes. The most important point being that they are automatically adjusted according to the needs if the SEO environment changes.</p>
<p>Now that we are aware of the benefits of the SEO tools, lets us talk about the different types of SEO tools. Depending upon the type of work they are able to perform the SEO tools can be classified as:</p>
<p><strong>Keyword Discovery Tools</strong>, which are important to find the keywords that your site needs.</p>
<p>Some of the popular keyword discovery tools are:</p>
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<li><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">Google Adwords External Tool</a> is very relevant as it gives the actual number of the searches a keyword has generated per month.</li>
<li><a href="AdCenter Keyword Group Detection" target="_blank">AdCenter Keyword Group Detection</a>, which is a Microsoft’s tool that helps in analyzing the words or phrases.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor" target="_blank">Term Extractor</a> extracts the keywords form any given URL.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.searchmarketingmaven.com/top-seo-keyword-research-tools-part-1-keyword-volume/" target="_blank">Keyword Volume Tools</a> give you an estimate on how many clicks and search traffic has a particular keyword generated. Some of the popular keyword volume tools are:<span id="more-791"></span></li>
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<p><a href="http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/">SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool</a> uses the word tracker’s API to get an estimate on the volume generated by the keywords.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density Tools</a> help in analyzing how much the keyword is targeted in the specific webpage. The most popular keyword density tool is—</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-target" target="_blank">Term Target Tool</a>, which takes the URL and the keyword and tells you how much you have scored.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/" target="_blank">Backlink Tracker Tools</a> keep track of how many sites are linking to your site. Some of the backlink tracker tools are:</p>
<p>Yahoo “<a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://brandonsheley.org&amp;y=Explore+URL&amp;fr=sfp" target="_blank">linkdomain:</a>” query prepend, where by typing the link and the domain name, you are able to get the number of links that domain has.</p>
<p>Sign up for <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, You&#8217;ll be able to see every backlink to your site if you submit a sitemap.</p>
<p><a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Site Explorer Tool</a> is the Yahoo’s backlink tracker tool, which keeps and eye on both the inbound links and the outbound links.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>When a new online business is starting up, their main issue usually falls at marketing, the problem that is usually faced with both new and existing business marketing is the fact that they are not getting the number of sales or online traffic that they desire, a solution to this problem may include consulting with a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> company.</p>
<p>What the these business owners need to know is that marketing is not just putting out a few ads and hoping for the best, but rather a process that involves <strong>lots of strategies and planning</strong>. Although marketing is a process, it does not have to be complicated; you would simply have to set a goal and then make a plan with strategies on how to achieve them, if you have a website, this can be done with the aid of a search engine optimization consultant.<a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-708" title="seo_services" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo_services.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" /></a></p>
<p>Depending on the type of product and / or service that you offer, you may want to get the services of a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> company who will help you to select the correct keywords and implement them in the correct places on your webpage. The aim of this will be to increase traffic to your website and in turn increase your sales and revenue.  If you are not clear as to what a search engine optimization service can do for you, simply ask your search engine optimization consultant to give you an overview, but all you need to know is that persons search for products on services on the web by entering certain words that they think will give them a list of websites that offer the type of product or service that they are looking for.<span id="more-705"></span></p>
<p>These are called keywords or key phrases; this is what leads a prospective customer to a website, as the search engine will return a result page with a list of websites that matches the keywords that were entered for the search. It is therefore imperative that your website has the correct keywords necessary to ensure that your webpage is among the results lists. Any professional search engine company that you choose to hire will already know how to perform a search engine optimization on your web pages to get more traffic to your website, and not just random traffic, but traffic that will lead to optimized sales and a better ROI.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/search-engines.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-709" title="search-engines" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/search-engines.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="275" /></a></p>
<p>Another simple and inexpensive way to get your business out there is to utilise the many <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/" target="_blank">social networks</a> on the web, you can start by creating your own blog or <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forum</a> which will talk about your company’s products or services, customers can leave comments and prospective customers can ask questions.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>While advertising is always a good strategy, try to add other forms of promotion in the mix and if you company is an online company, get yourself a search engine optimisation package  from a search engine optimization company, all these put together will promote customer growth and sales.</p>
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		<title>Search engine optimization services for your online business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>When an online company makes the decision to get a <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>professional SEO service</a>, the aim is to have more traffic coming to their website from the implementation of a good search engine optimization service. Not only will they have a higher traffic rate, but they will also have that traffic being converted into customers and thus increasing revenue. Search engine optimization services and the use of search engine optimization company can significantly aid a business that is looking to <a title="Marketing" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">market their online company</a>. As a matter of fact search engine optimization is become essential as most business owners for these online companies do not know how to make there web pages keyword and content friendly so that they have a good ranking in search engines and generate traffic.</p>
<p>There are many companies that extend a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> service and are on high demand by online companies who wish to make there website and company do better. There will be lots of people who claim that they can help to optimize a web-page, but as a online company owner, you must be wary and vigilant in your search for a search engine optimization company, because some of them will try to incorporate some forms of black hat methods that may work for a brief period and then result in your website being penalized or worse; banned. You must therefore ensure that you select a professional SEO company that offers good search engine optimization services.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-676" title="Search-Engine-Marketing" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing-293x300.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="300" /></a><br />
Once you understand that search engine promotion is not a short term deal, you should set about finding a search engine optimization specialist who understands the terms and conditions ser forth by the search engine companies, but also the strategies and methods that will result in your business being more popular and result in a higher ROI. SEO services are not just limited to keyword optimisation but also incorporate an overall revamp of your website. A <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">good search engine optimisation consultant</a> will know if the content on your webpage needs to be more user friendly, if your web page design needs to be altered to be more eye catching, they will be efficient in link building and the management of par per click programs (PPC).<span id="more-673"></span></p>
<p>The major benefit of hiring professional SEO services is that your site will have the vital tools and these experts know precisely what needs to be done in order to ensure positive results. In addition to all the various SEO techniques, the company which you hire will also help you generate a significant <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">social media</a> presence. Enlisting for professional SEO services is very affordable and just by getting onto the internet and with a few clicks of the mouse; a website owner can find all sorts of relevant information that is connected with companies that offer these types of services.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-681" title="seo-blocks" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks-300x231.gif" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>With the assistance of a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> services, online companies can now have there websites rank higher in the search engine index, thus leading more prospective customers to their websites, because the higher the rank of a website, the more likely that they will fall on the first page of a result list that is generated from a keyword search.</p>
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		<title>Internet marketing for small business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>Marketing is an essential part of business, be it a small or mid or large scaled business. Marketing is a form of advertisement of a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">service or a product</a>. Advertisement can be done through newspapers, radio, television, banner, hoardings, pamphlets, word of mouth, street plays, and Internet. Is your business based on Internet? <strong>Do you want to increase its visibility</strong>? <strong>Do you want more customers to boost your business</strong>? If the answer is yes for all these questions, then you can adopt <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internet Marketing</a>. Through Internet marketing, even a small business reaches the entire world, and can increase the sales of your business. Without proper planning and marketing, small businesses cannot target proper or appropriate <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/clients/" class="kblinker" title="More about clients &raquo;">clients</a>. Moreover, if you want to save some money, and are not inclined for Internet Marketing, you may end losing the business itself.<br />
There are different forms of Internet Marketing. They are</p>
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<li><strong>Pay per click advertising<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Internet-marketing-for-small-business.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-664" title="Internet-marketing-for-small-business" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Internet-marketing-for-small-business-300x239.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Banner ads</strong></li>
<li><strong>Interactive advertising</strong></li>
<li><strong>E-mail Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Search Engine Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Blog Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Article Marketing</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>You may have a small business; however, for Internet Marketing, you need a web site, because a good web site can market your business. To get a web site, you can even try the small business promoters who can design, develop and host a web site for you, and submit your web site to the search engines and directories. However, it is very important that to get good visibility and effective business, you need to remember these points:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Your web site should be professional and not      jazzy.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Language used in the web site should be simple,      professional and to the point.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Brief about your business should be in an      effective manner without any jargons, or unnecessary and vague words.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Make sure that the web site is not cluttered      with too much information. Neither keeps the pages too small nor too big,      but appropriate and informative.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Make sure that the advertisements on your web      site do not disturb your customers.</strong><span id="more-662"></span></li>
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<p>Before developing the web site, you should know the type of customers you are looking for, how to attract them to your web site, and how to avoid large businesses from squeezing your business. After going through the preliminary planning, then try Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>Email marketing, the least expensive form of Internet Marketing, which allows you to send emails to old customers, by being sent as ads in emails of other companies, and potential customers, who would have just registered themselves with you.</p>
<p>You can even adopt <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization</a>, a popular and widely used form of Internet Marketing used by mainly small business or businesses that are just budding. Search Engines use a specific program that searches for particular keywords that a user wants to know about and displays the results in the Search Engine Resulted Pages or SERP. Most of the users would not be interested in checking the results in more than three pages of results. It is very important that your web site be listed within the three pages. Therefore, use appropriate keywords in your web site. By choosing this method, the relevant keyword’s ranking is improved while searching for them, in turn improving the ranking of the web site featuring them, if the website’s structure is revamped in such a way that it is easy to find relevant topics.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on Internet Marketing? How have you used the forms above, or do you have suggestions on items I may have overlooked?</p>
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		<title>Why Bookmark Your Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an online marketer you have noticed social bookmarking websites and social media. However, you still have apprehensions about the impact of social media on the way you conduct your online business. Read on to discover how you can benefit from the social bookmarking world. Bookmarks get indexed faster than your website content. Therefore by [...]]]></description>
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<p>As an online marketer you have noticed <a title="Buy Bookmarking Demon" href="http://bit.ly/4XaAIZ" target="_blank">social bookmarking</a> websites and <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/" target="_blank">social media</a>. However, you still have apprehensions about the impact of social media on the way you conduct your online business. Read on to discover how you can benefit from the social bookmarking world.</p>
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<li>Bookmarks get indexed faster than your website content. Therefore by submitting the content to social media sites like <a href="http://twitter.com/brandonsheley" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, Reddit and Yahoo Buzz can be more beneficial.</li>
<li>If <a title="Search Engine Optimization" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/tag/seo/" target="_blank">SEO</a> has been a concern for you, sit back and relax. All you need to do is concentrate on your keywords and include them while providing the title in the social bookmarking platform.</li>
<li>Enhance your reach and share your stories, <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Brandon_Sheley" target="_blank">news and articles</a> in public.</li>
<li>You can market your competencies and strengths in no extra cost and discover new business opportunities through <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/social-media/" target="_blank">social web platform</a>.</li>
<li>You can <a title="General Forums" href="http://www.General-Forums.com" target="_blank">form your communities</a> and target your audience. If they are interested in your business you would even like to gain more from them through a dedicated marketed campaign.</li>
<li><a title="Buy Bookmarking Demon" href="http://bit.ly/4XaAIZ" target="_blank">Bookmarks help you generate organic traffic through search engines</a>. As the pages get indexed much faster, you can expect a good traffic base within few days.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/social-bookmark-icons.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-614" title="social-bookmark-icons" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/social-bookmark-icons-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>You can benefit from the <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/" target="_blank">social media</a> endlessly. However ensure that you provide quality stories to your readers. After all, the web world lacks quality content and if you can provide cutting edge stories to your readers you are sure to emerge as a winner. <span id="more-609"></span>Get your act together and identify who is your audience, segment them and position your products and services accordingly. Always remember that you are out there to socialize and share. Therefore make friends and followers who share similar interests. Forming a social group of people with alienated interests won’t really help. Discover enormous business possibilities through social media and increase your web presence.</p>
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		<title>What does it take to be a successful forum owner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll go over what it really takes to be a successful forum owner and how you should go about building your empire in the following weeks. I have a few people that I’ve already mentioned this blog post to, and they are very interested in being showcased. If you’ve built a successful forum and would [...]]]></description>
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<p>I’ll go over what it really takes to be a <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>successful <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forum</a> owner</strong></span> and how you should go about <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>building your empire</strong></span> in the following weeks. I have a few people that I’ve already mentioned this blog post to, and they are very interested in being showcased. If you’ve built a successful forum and would like me to do a blog post on you, please <a href="mailto:brandon.sheley@gmail.com">contact me via email</a> and I’ll consider adding you to the list.<br />
Some of the topics I’ll highlight will be.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/community.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-453" title="community" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/community-150x150.jpg" alt="community" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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<li> How you can easily build backlinks and traffic to your forum.</li>
<li>What you should consider when building your community (members point of view)</li>
<li>What topics/threads should you start up on your forum?</li>
<li>Should you use a CMS?</li>
<li>Types of sites you can build to support your forum.</li>
<li>What forum script I would suggest.</li>
<li>Check out the competition.</li>
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<p>I’m looking forward to writing these reviews, I’ve had the privilege of watching these forums grow up while I ran <a title="vBulletinSetup" href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com" target="_blank">vBulletinSetup</a> and I’m honored to have known these admins.</p>
<p>Here is my first article in the series. (I&#8217;ll update this list as the articles get published)</p>
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<li><a title="running a successful niche forum" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/running-successful-state-forums/" target="_blank">How to run a successful state niche forum</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 18:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at the AAF-Topeka Social Media panel discussion, a panelist made a statement that wasn&#8217;t entirely true. &#8220;Links on social networks will get indexed and help with your rankings in Search Engines.&#8221; Really, this is only half accurate. The text in the update you&#8217;ve made on your social network profile will be indexed, but the [...]]]></description>
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<p>While at the <a href="http://www.aaftopeka.org/" target="_blank">AAF-Topeka</a> <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">Social Media</a> panel discussion, a panelist made a statement that wasn&#8217;t entirely true. &#8220;Links on social networks will get indexed and help with your rankings in Search Engines.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really, this is only half accurate. The text in the update you&#8217;ve made on your social network profile will be indexed, but the search engines will not follow the link and index the site you are linking to.</p>
<p>What exactly does this mean? Let&#8217;s use <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a> for example, the text and info in your &#8220;status update&#8221; will be indxed, but the search engine bot will not follow the URL you&#8217;ve linked to and index that site. Now you may ask, why even link to your websites in the first place? Even if Google doesn&#8217;t click the links, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your friends will</span> and it gets out usefully information they may not have seen otherwise.</p>
<p>I just want to touch on the power of your friends or followers, again using <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> as an example, but it can also be said for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> as well. When you update your status on Twitter, your followers will all have the chance to see it. Let&#8217;s say you have 1,000 followers, and each of them have 1,000 followers.  If even one person ReTweets (RT) your post, it will have a chance to be seen by their 1,000 followers &#8211; new people that you don&#8217;t even know, and if one of them RT&#8217;s it&#8230; well, you can see where this is going. So if you have a catchy headline and good information, your single post can potentially be seen by several thousand people seconds after it&#8217;s been posted.<span id="more-25"></span></p>
<p>So how can I tell if these links will be followed by search engines or not? Look for an <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_attributes.asp" target="_blank">HTML attribute</a> called the &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow" target="_blank">no-follow</a>&#8221; attribute. You can see this by highlighting a link, right clicking and viewing the source of the web page. If you don&#8217;t want to do that on every site you visit, install a toolbar add-on. I use an addon for Firefox called <a href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank">SeoQuake</a>, (they also have an Internet Explorer version but I&#8217;ve never given it a try). I&#8217;ve been using SeoQuake for a couple years, and have even had the <a href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/serp-archives-2605.html#post13774" target="_blank">developer comment</a> on our <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forums</a>. SeoQuake has several options, but the one that deals with the no-follow tag is a strike-though. In other words, if the links has the no-follow tag, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">it will look like this</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-33 aligncenter" title="seo-quake-logo" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">seo</a>-quake-logo.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;seo-quake-logo&#8221; width=&#8221;144&#8243; height=&#8221;74&#8243; /><!--[if gte mso 9]--> </a></p>
<p>Hopefully, I’ve cleared up some misconceptions about how you&#8217;re able to get traffic from search engine via your social networks. In honor of this blog post, I’ve disabled the no-follow tag on this blog. As you now know, that means the search engines will be able to find your website  and crawl your URL if you link to it when leaving your comment.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building backlinks to your websites is something you should always be considering when surfing on the web. You can comment on blogs and forums with links back to your website. You can do article and link directory submissions to build links. You can ask other bloggers to write about you or your services on their [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;  Normal 0     false false false  EN-US X-NONE X-NONE              MicrosoftInternetExplorer4              &amp;lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;                                                                                                                                            &amp;lt;![endif]--> <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/link-building.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1743" title="link-building" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/link-building-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Building backlinks to your websites is something you should always be considering when surfing on the web. You can comment on blogs and forums with links back to your website. You can do article and <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/digixmas-automatic-directory-submission-tool/">link directory submissions</a> to build links. You can ask other bloggers to write about you or your services on their blogs. You can also ask your friends to link up to your webpages.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the best ways to get linked to is by posting quality content that will naturally be linked back. This is the best way to get links are requires the least about of effort on your part. This is called “Link Bait” marketing. This is because you are “baiting” everyone to link back to your articles without them even knowing that this was your intent the entire time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first step when I’m starting off with a new website is social networking, link and article directories. This is one step that can take a bit of time, that’s why I like to use automated software to do the boring work for me, or subcontract it out.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before any of this, you must <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">SEO</a> your site, make sure the title tags are in place, and that your META info is updated and unique on every page. I could go on and on about how to SEO your website, I’ll wait for another blog post to go on about that.<span id="more-147"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keep building those backlinks and quality content, and your websites will be a success.</p>
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		<title>digiXMAS Automatic Directory Submission Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsheley.org/digixmas-automatic-directory-submission-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manual directory submissions can take days and days to do currectly. With digiXMAS you can cut that time down to a few hours. The most important thing about directory submissions is getting the most accurate category and unique descriptions for your listings. With digiXMAS you can enter in as many sets of titles and descriptions [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/digixmas1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1311" title="digixmas" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/digixmas1.png" alt="" width="138" height="53" /></a>Manual <a title="Directory Submission" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">directory submissions</a> can take days and days to do currectly. With <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">digiXMAS</span></strong></a> you can cut that time down to a few hours. The most important thing about directory submissions is getting the most accurate category and unique descriptions for your listings. With <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>digiXMAS</strong></span></a> you can enter in as many sets of titles and descriptions as you want. This program will rotate those within the listings. You can also enter in a few keywords when searching for the most accurate category for your site and this program will automaticity sort and display the most appropriate section for your keywords.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS"><img src="http://www.digixmas.com/images/digi-banner-1.gif" alt="digiXMAS Directory Submitter" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With about 10 minutes of prep time you can be <a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS" target="_blank">submitting your site</a> to over 1600 web directories. In the image, you can see how many have page rank. Many of them don’t even have a captcha spam verification, so you can blow through a good 500 directories by just holding down on the enter button</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a program I’ve been using off and on since I started my <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vBulletin</a> forum. It’s grown into a <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">great automated  program</a> with many more features that I don’t even use and haven’t mentioned. Options like being able to add your own directory list, so you’re not limited to the 1600+ that you see in the screenshot.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">Check it out</a>, it doesn’t cost a thing to use but the number of directories is limited. You could literally have over 700 visitors to your site 30 mins after reading this post!</p>
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