WordStreme – Article & Content Writing Service
April 8, 2008
Have you got a website or even a blog? Well, how often do you keep them updated with fresh, unique and interesting content…? Time consuming isn’t it…? Well, the saying goes, “content is KING”…Whether you like it or not!
We all know that content is what search engines feed on, and if you can constantly provide it, they will indeed reward you with higher SERP’s and a trail of targeted organic traffic…the holy grail on internet marketing! Not just any content, but original written material relevant to the theme of your website or blog. “An article a day, keeps the Google slappers away…“. But yes, it does require a lot of commitment to spend hours writing articles to update your online publications. Even worse if you have a portfolio of domains and websites, lying around collecting dust! In that case, you would need a lot of content, and fast! But it does pay off without a doubt, as top search engines will eventually notice your websites sudden surge of explosive content, thereby bringing you a bumped up ranking, which is what we all want! Read more
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You Can Learn A Lot From The WWW Observer
March 4, 2008
There are millions of blogs out there, but only a small percentage of them offer quality content and a fresh perspective. The WWW Observer is one of those blogs that you can learn a lot from and that has plenty to offer.
The WWW Observer is one of the best examples of how an amazing blog should look and feel. It has a great name and a domain that’s unique yet easily remembered. It also has a clean and organized layout that still manages to be fresh and attractive at the same time. The WWW Observer isn’t one of those blogs filled with huge chunks of ugly text and an endless amount of widgets. It’s tidy, easy to navigate, and very web 2.0. In all of those aspects, you could definitely learn a lot from The WWW Observer if you’re a blogger yourself.
But past how the blog looks, the actual content is what really makes it so exceptional. The author writes with a feel of authority and you know you can trust what his articles say. Apart from that, there are never any grammatical or spelling errors. While other blogs contain mistakes which make them hard to read, paragraphs that are too long, or a lack of images, The WWW Observer is one blog that you know you’ll never have a hard time with.
And like I’ve already mentioned, the content is pure quality and you actually get something from it. One of my favorites is SEO Guide: How to Optimize a WordPress Blog. People talk about SEO all the time, but many of them don’t really know how to properly optimize their blog for the search engines. By reading and memorizing the SEO Guide, you can learn how to start on getting your blog ranked in the first positions for all your top keywords.
Another favorite of mine from The WWW Observer is the page consisting of helpful sites and programs that will make you money, Excellent Money Makers. The best thing about this page is that it’s updated all the time as the author learns of more great services, so by checking back you can constantly get new information and tools on how to make money online. How handy is that?
If The WWW Observer hasn’t already given you enough, check out the It’s Almost Summer! contest, where over $500 worth in prizes are being given away. There are many ways to enter, and different options give different amounts of credits. The more you do, the more credits you get, and the better chance you have of winning. You can join the contest, subscribe via email, leave comments, spread the news about the contest, and answer the weekly riddle to participate. All those things are very easy, and considering the high value of the prizes that are given to three different winners, you have nothing to lose! You have until March 31, which is the day the contest ends. Don’t miss out on this one - I know I won’t!
If you want to advertise on The WWW Observer to expose your site and get more visitors, I’d definitely recommend it. You already know that The WWW Observer has a great design and plenty of awesome content, but did you know that it gets over 500 unique visitors a day, has a PageRank 4, and places ads above the fold? And considering how inexpensively those ad spaces are priced, I think it’s a great deal. Some choices are the well-placed peel away ads, 468×60 banners, 125×125 banners, text advertisements, and sponsored reviews.
Last but certainly not least, you can subscribe to The WWW Observer so you’ll never have to miss out on any of the quality posts - I’ve been a reader for some time now and devoured the content each day. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as well! Will you be the next to subscribe to The WWW Observer?
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Track Your Crawl Rate With SEO Meter
February 11, 2008
As you probably know by now, I enjoy tools that help me figure out how I’m doing with different aspects of my blog. That’s why I love SEO Meter so much! Tracking and measuring your site’s crawl rate is important, but often times it’s something webmasters overlook or don’t pay attention to. This SEO tool can help you with determining your crawl rate, and it’s one you’re definitely going to want to try out and use often - plus, it’s free!
This free SEO tool monitors how frequently Google crawls your site or blog, and the information is presented in attractive and easy-to-read graphs and charts. Your crawl rate is extremely important because it has to do with the search engine viewing you as a trusted source. The more often your site or page is crawled, the more it’s trusted and the faster you’ll get indexed. By tracking your site’s statistics with SEO Meter, you can learn how to improve your crawl rate and overall improve your SEO as well.
Besides tracking your crawl rate, you can share it as well. A lot of bloggers like including badges and banners on their sites to let their readers know well they’re doing and what their statistics are, and when it comes to SEO Meter that feature isn’t lacking! The badges offered are easy to use, appealing to the eye, and are dynamically updated so you never have to do a thing after inserting the code into your site. After signing up with SEO Meter, you can view your site’s crawl rate graph page and at the bottom will be options for different badges to use. It couldn’t be simpler!
As seen above, you can not only track your own site’s crawl rate, but you can view the crawl rate of others and compare multiple sites. This can be a very helpful feature in checking out where your competition stands so you can learn how much you’ll have to improve to catch up, or even see if you’re beating them with a better crawl rate.
But maybe one of my favorite aspects about this online SEO tool is that it has Top 20 lists of the most crawled sites on the web, in every category. These charts display the most-crawled sites, their ranking on SEO Meter, and their specific crawl rate. This is a unique and interesting feature and it’s very useful to be able to tell which of the most popular sites is actually the most popular, with Google at least.
Just a couple of the categories included are the top 20 internet marketing sites and the top 20 gadgets and technologies sites. There is literally a Top 20 for every category that any blogger or webmaster in any niche will be interested in. Below you can check out part of the chart for some of the top internet marketing sites:
There are a good chunk of free tools out there that will measure your different statistics, but I’m sure you’re seeing that SEO Meter will give you important information about your site’s SEO, and that it’s one of the better tools despite how new it is. I can definitely see SEO Meter becoming one of the most valuable online statistics tools there are, so the sooner you get in on it, add your URL (for free), and start tracking your site or blog, the better! I’m already tracking my blog there, are you?
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Are Audio Ads the Next Big Thing?
February 3, 2008
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Basically these ads are a 5-second audio clip that plays whenever someone visits your site. Because of this, you are paid for every single visitor, 100% of the time. This is very different from advertising networks such as Adsense, which are shown on your page but require someone to click on them for you to be paid. With audio ads, every visitor grows your income and helps you monetize your site - not just a select few.
However, if you’re running a professional site or one that’s never supposed to normally have audio, then this type of advertising might not be for you. If a visitor comes to your site and is startled by sound, even if for only five seconds, it might send them away for life. While it’s true that about 60% of people browse the web with their volume off, that still leaves 40% of your visitors that you might scare off.
Sites that might work with audio ads are sites that are very unprofessional and don’t require any reading. If your visitors will be reading articles or come for information, then audio will be inappropriate. However, an online game website or a site profile might be okay with audio ads. You just have to think of what your visitors want and need. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine what your first impression would be on your website if it had a 5-second audio clip that played. Would it bother you, or would it not make a difference?
Audio advertising can be a fantastic way to monetize your blog or site if implemented properly. It won’t be right for everyone, but if you run a site that can work with it, you’ll be paid for 100% of your site’s visitors, even if they have their volume turned on or not. If that number doesn’t impress you, then what will? If you have any questions about the benefits of audio ads, how they work, or if you want to know whether they’ll be good for your site or not, go ahead and drop a comment and ask - I’d be glad to answer. Click here to sign up for audio ads.
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Learn How to Measure Your Productivity
January 30, 2008
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Every blogger wants to be productive. If you have a blog, I’m sure you want to get things done without wasting time and have plenty of profits and benefits from the effort you put in. But sometimes we can find it hard to be productive and constantly put out great content and promote our blogs. We get wrapped up in reading other sites, playing online games, and checking our statistics too much - along with dozens of other non-productive things we do on a daily basis.
Wasting time is very easy to do, but if you want to work on being more productive, then MeasureProductivity.com is for you. They not only have some great articles on how to increase productivity, but they have some helpful productivity software as well. The full version of one license of the software is $60, but if you want to see if you like it first, then there’s a free 30 day trial you can download as well.
Basically the MeasureProductivity software helps you to self-examine how productive you are while on the computer. In case you get carried away, you can open the analysis and see how much time you have spent doing what. This way you can figure what you’re doing the most of, and you can work on correcting that problem and being more productive.
I can think of many ways how software like this can be helpful. If you’re a blogger, it can help you eliminate things you do that you don’t need to do and focus more on writing quality content and increasing your readerbase. You can keep a chart of how productive you’re being and keep up with everything you do. If you’re dedicated, then you would only see improvement in how much you get done.
So if you want to optimize the time you spend on certain tasks and increase your productivity, MeasureProductivity.com is an excellent resource for all your productivity measures, information, software, and more. If anything, go ahead and get that 30 day free trial!
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