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Blog Directories
Many webmasters recommend submitting url of sites to blog directories as this is supposed to help a blog or a website become more visible to the search engines. Submitting blog URL to directories may also help increase the number of site visitor and one way back links that a site receives. The latter in particular applies to directories that do not require a reciprocal link from a site.
The wordpress codex even attests the usefulness of blog directories and encourages wordpress users to add their sites to directory listings for traffic and search engine optimization purposes. There are tons of websites with high PR in the world wide web but many SEO specialists agree that dmoz.org is the best and the most important blog directory.
Of course directories are not only for blogs, they are for other industries as well. There are, for example, so called home probate attorney directory for probate lawyers and their prospective clients. For bloggers and web masters, however, taking advantage of blog directories may be a good way to increase search engine visibility and improve traffic.
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SEO Strategies that do not Work
There are several ways on how to rank well in the search engine results page but there are so called SEO myths that many website owners and even bloggers adopt to rank well in the SERP or at least to get higher page rank. Worse, some people still endorse these strategies unaware that such SEO methods do not work. What are these SEO myths and fallacies? Here are some of the popular SEO strategies that do not work:
1. Link Exchange. Link exchange particularly excessive exchanging of links can have negative results in a site’s ranking. This was mentioned under “Link schemes” in Google’s webmaster help center. I am not saying it is bad to exchange link. Blogrolls are essential in the blogging community but website owners should practice exchanging links for other purposes other than for SEO. Blogrolls, for example, can be used to drive direct traffic to your friends’ sites or to your other blogs.
2. Use of meta keywords. I have been using the keyword field of the All in One SEO Pack for as long as I can remember only to realize that my efforts were useless. Thanks to the SEO Fast Start ebook by Dan Thies who discussed about the irrelevance of meta keywords. Meta description is important as this can improve click through rates in the SERP but meta keywords are now being ignored by the search engine. A better alternative to using the meta keyword is to strategically incorporate your important keyword in the meta description and by strategically, I mean putting your important keyword in the first few words of your post description.
3. Keyword stuffing. Keyword density does NOT matter. You do not have to repeat a keyword over and over again for your page to rank well in that particular keyword. Humans hate spams and search engines hate sites that spam keywords. The “ideal keyword density”, or what can be considered as just the right number of a keyword’s occurrence so a page cannot be considered as spammy by the search engines vary among webmasters. There are in fact tools that measure keyword density but there is one trick to make sure your article is not overstuffed with keywords: Read your article and if it already sounds silly because you always use your keyword instead of using some pronouns, you are already abusing your keywords.
PS. i am still working out on NOT to overstuff my articles with keywords.
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Royalty Free Images for Use on Websites
Images on websites and blog posts can greatly enhance the appearance of a site as well as encourage visitors to read featured articles. This is the reason why many webmasters find photos and images helpful in improving the appearance as well as the readership of a website. Not all bloggers however are able to produce images that they can use. Thanfkfully, there are royalty free images that can be used on websites. Here are some sources of royalty free images that can be used in blogs and websites:
Amgmedia.com Royalty free photos in this site can be used provided that credit is given to the site and photographer.
Visipix.com The site provides free copyright images for private and commercial use.
Unprofound.com
Stockvault.net
Freedigitalphotos.net
Cepolina.com
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Freindster Background and Layouts
Freindster, (correctly spelled as friendster) is considered as the most popular social networking site in the Philippines. While Filipinos have friendster alternatives such as the option to showcase their backgrounds, profiles and photos through blogs, many still prefer to check out public and private photos posted by their classmates and friends in services like Friendster.
By having an account and profile at friendster.com, long lost friends and classmates are able to find and communicate with each other. I opened an account at Friendster a few years back with the encouragement of my husband and since then, I was able to find old friends and classmates who are now based in different parts of the globe.
Background and History
Friendster is founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002. In 2003 internet giant company google tried to buy the social networking site for $30 million but the offer was turned down. In 2007, Freindster introduced a social & photosharing community, the photodiary.com.
Free Layouts and Graphics
The popularity of freindster particularly in the Philippines is perhaps the reason why there have been massive searches on friendster background, friendster free layout and friendster tweaks. Thankfully, users of the social networking site no longer have to settle with the traditional friendster overlay layouts because there are now a number of sites that offer help in hacking friendster and provide skins, tricks and layouts.
Here are some of the hot friendster layout that users can find online:
Anime Friendster layout. Catz19 is a good source of anime layouts for friendster . The site also has friendster crossover layouts such as this one: More»
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