If you have a site you’re trying to optimise for search engines that’s a blog, one of the greatest ways you can optimize it is to give it some link love. Consider putting up some or even all of the following types of links into every blog post you write. Here are three types of link love and why they’re good for your SEO:

Link to Yourself

Why give someone nothing else to look at on your site? Link in posts to other posts that are related to the topic at hand.  That way, when your visitor is done reading, they’ll find something else to look at. The longer they’re on your site, the more likely they’ll buy something or subscribe.

Link to Others

Linking to other sites in your niche does at least two things.  First, it shows search engines that you are relevant to your topic because of the linking between sites. The other site might allow track backs which will show as links and comments on their blog posts and this could also result in people blogrolling you, visiting your site and linking to you in their posts as well. Wherever possible link to sites with as good or better a page rank as you.

Link to an Authority

If you link to a site that has a high page rank on your site, this does several things. It helps with your page relevancy and can pull your own site rankings up.  It also helps readers understand what something means.  For instance, linking to Wikipedia is considered linking to an authority.  When you do it, tell the link to open in a new page so that a visitor checking the definition of a term won’t leave your website and not find their way back easily.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

With Thanksgiving in the U.S people around the world might be considering what they’re thankful for.  In internet marketing, there are a lot of things to be thankful for.  Let’s look at a few of them:

Google

Google lets us earn, lets us be found and puts a world of free information at our fingertips.  Yay Google! It really did change the way the internet works and the free available Google tools make being an internet entrepreneur even more profitable.

Social Marketing

Social marketing tools are free to use and help us spread the word about our product or service. They also let us mentor and be mentored to. Tools like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, Digg and other social tools can make our online pursuits much easier to do well at.

The Blogosphere

We can blog to be found, to find information and to sell products and services.  Whether you use a free hosted blog, a revenue shared blog or create a blog of your own, this is a great tool for SEO, for social marketing and for internet marketing.

Regardless of what you’re thankful for, cheers to your health, safety and success.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Google Blog Search is a great tool for helping you to:

1. Get information about your niche
2. Assess your competition
3. Find blogs to network with

Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. Reading blogs from your peers and from mentors in your industry or niche can be very enlightening. By searching on a keyword or phrase you can find people to follow and subscribed to and you can get information that helps you in your own career.  Whether you’re a blogger, an internet marketer or a Jack / Jill of all trades online, the blogosphere can be very helpful.

Assess Your Competition

If you want to be a professional blogger or online marketer you can see how other people are selling what you want to sell. This can spark ideas for your own strategy.

Find Blogs To Network With

It’s no secret that commenting on blogs in your niche can help you multi-fold. It can help you get visitors to your own blog and help you with your SEO by sending search engine spiders your way.

Tools:

On the Google blog search site you an also create Google alerts from the page, subscribe to a RSS feed in Google Reader and add a gadet to your home page for quick access.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Watching blogs about SEO is smart.  You can get the latest and greatest info as well as learn new tactics you might not have thought of. SEO should be something that is a constant in your online career.

Here is some reading for budding and for experienced online entrepreneurs:

SEO Flow Chart by Aaron Wall.

Aaron Wall, author of SEOBook is always worth listening to and this flow chart is definitely something that should be on your must-read list.

SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketing Tactics Poll Results

Wondering what others are doing about recession proofing their online business?  Take a look at these tactics and see how important SEO continues to be.

Good SEO During A Bad Economy

Sure seems like the economy is on all our minds, huh? Get some solid SEO advice in this post.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

A lot of internet marketers are told that FaceBook is a great way to increase their earnings.  Do you have an account yet?  If you do, you might not be doing much with it because you’re not sure how to capitalise on FaceBook. Here are some helpful tips for you:

Internet Marketing With FaceBook

-Targeted FaceBook ads.  By doing ads for your product or service, FaceBook will match it contextually to let people who show an interest in your keyword see your ad.

-Create a group about your product or service and people will join. You’ll post interesting information about that topic and have discussions on the group about it.  Occasional links or product launches on the group could work well in your favour. Don’t make it just about the linking though, offer valuable information and socialise in order to build online friendships which make people more receptive to advertising later on.

-Create FaceBook pages and profiles to generate interest and backlinks to your own website

-Share photos, blogs, videos with your friends list and occasionally share something advertising driven.

-Use FaceBook’s applications like Twitter updates, FriendFeed and MySpace to show your other profiles and statuses on your FaceBook page.  People who visit your profile will see these things and may click/buy/subscribe.

Social media is about socialising but a popular personality on these sites can use it for customers as well. You’ll need to strike the right balance between marketing and friending people in order to achieve success. If you find the right mixture because of your sparkling personality and because you have a great product / service you could find that tools like these are a goldmine!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008