Readers Questions Section

Today I am starting a new section in the blog called readers questions, in this new section I’ll answer questions that I have received via e-mail. I’ll be choosing the best questions that will benefit all blog readers, but you’re welcome to submit all of your questions to me on the contact page and I’ll answer them as quickly as possible!

 SeoMeter Review

SEO Meter has unveiled Google’s crawl rate with the use of their free seo tool known as the SEOMeter. Webmasters can use this tool to determine how often Google’s bots crawl their sites.

The amount of time between Google’s crawls shows quite a bit about how trusted your website is and the kind of rankings it will be given. If you have a shorter time frame between crawls, your site is well liked by Google. If your site goes for days at a time with no crawls from Google’s bots then you know you need to do something about the content you currently have.

It’s a genius idea for people who are working on their SEO strategies and other marketing promotions. It’s just another way to collaborate information to better your websites in general. The SEOMeter.com site makes it easy for you to do.

All you have to do is enter your url and the SEO Meter tool will start tracking the crawl rates to your website. You will receive a detailed graph that shows how often your site is crawled. You can track more than one url and it will show you the results on the same graph but in different colors so that you can see at a glance where your efforts are paying off. Easily see the way your site is crawled with the free tool from SEO Meter.

The SEO Meter site is easy to find your way around in. All you have to do is enter your url in the box and click go to get started. There isn’t a lot of complicated steps to take, it’s just that easy.

The need for this kind of SEO tool has been evident for quite some time and the webmaster world is lucky that SeoMeter.com has risen to the occasion and are allowing webmaster to use the tool for free. Any top level domain name can be tracked for free, which is really beneficial in knowing more information to help you with your search engine optimization efforts.

For those webmasters who want to track more than just their top level url, there is an upgrade option to track as many inner pages as you want for a small fee. When testing out different methods on different pages of your website, this information can be valuable to find out what triggers a faster crawl cycle to keep the Google bots coming to your website regularly.

The SEO Meter website comes complete with a blog to find out all the current news surrounding the free SEO tool and to keep you informed of any changes being made. The tool was just recently released and has already received rave reviews from many in this industry who think it’s a tool no webmaster should do without.

Visit SEOMeter.com today to start tracking your websites urls so that you will know where you stand when it comes to how often Google crawls your sites.

How Important Is A Catchy Business Name?

The problem with today’s Internet marketers and entrepreneurs is that they do not realize the importance of a catchy business/website name, a catchy business name will get your customers talking about you which we know from past articles that word-of-mouth spreads like wildfire and is the quickest way to gain visitors and return customers!

Your business name should be catchy in the sense that it makes sense and describe what your site / business is about but it should also be catchy, something quick that people can remember the first time they look at and then they can easily tell their friends about it.

You don’t want to have some long a 45 character domain name, it simply doesn’t make sense and your visitors will not remember what your URL is in full. Remember just like TV commercials you’ve only got 30 seconds to convince your visitors that you have something and being need, there for make wise use of your time and make the domain as short as possible.

In order to choose a good business name you need to take a couple of steps into consideration, the first step we would like to point out is brainstorming.

Brainstorming gives you the ability to pick a name that people hear right down and remember with ease the first time they see it. To do this grab a couple of friends or family members and give them a list of names on a paper piece of paper, have them look at the paper quickly for about 10 to 15 seconds. Whichever name stands out the most on average is probably going to be your best choice, the mind will automatically go to the easiest choice possible therefore you know that is your best business name.

Before you start brainstorming you need to find related words that have something in common with your niche and what your website business is going to be about.

For instance if your website is going to be about hot dogs try and grab a domain name that has the word hot dogs in it. This way people who visit your site will know what your website is about before they even get to the good stuff on the site, this will yield off unwanted spam and help in bringing visitors that really matter.

After you have studied a bit and you’ve gotten several words that make sense try combining those in different ways and fashions until you find something that you like, this is the list you will give your family and friends for brainstorming.

Although these tips seem to be simple we believe that if you follow them to a tee in no time at all you will have a successful business because the name matters.

Building links the search engines like!

If you’ve been doing seo link building for any amount of time you’ve probably heard some seo professionals say that we build links the search engines like.

The only problem with this statement is that new website owners don’t know what it means. Do you? I didn’t think so, today we’re going to dive in and look at what type of links the search engines like and why they like them. There are many link types out there to get but only some of them are considered valuable to the search engine’s, all of the others are useless and a waste of time for us to gather. Let’s cut to the chase and find out together which ones the search engines like so we can maximize our efforts and dominate our niche!

Bad Links

When building links for your own websites or clients there are just certain types of links that you should watch out for, the links were about to discuss are bad for seo and your website. They may be easy for the search engine to detect link buyers which we know from past articles the search engines despise. You need to know which type of links are bad that way you won’t get involved with them therefor a limiting any chance of getting banned from a search engine.

Reciprocal Links

The first type of link we want to suggest you stay away from are reciprocal links. Reciprocal links are a two-way street you’re linking to one person and they are linking back to you. It’s easy for Google to find these types of links and disregard them or even worse penalize them!

Signature Links

Another link type that is no longer effective in the search engines is signature links, not only are they practically useless in the search engines they also throw up a red flag for the search engines to go look at your website and see if you’re trying to buy links or if you’re trying to spam the search engines by gaining rank in positions that you shouldn’t because you’re not relative website to that niche. However as we have discussed in other articles that signature links are great for traffic therefore we do not suggest eliminating them altogether simply tweak it so people will click. And you can check out that maximize signature clicks article on our blog.

Image Links

Another form of links are image links or better known as banner advertisements which you will see all over the internet, again were not suggesting to eliminate these as they are great for traffic but for ranking they just don’t cut the mustard.

Good Links

In this section we’re going to discuss what type of links the search engine do like and appreciate to you help get ranked better.

Directory Submissions

The first type of link that I would like to discuss in the good links section is directory submissions. Directory submissions have been around for ages, all the way back to the start of the DMOZ directory which is now owned by Google themselves. It’s the biggest and the best directory to be in if you can get a listing. However the DMOZ directory has been closed for years and getting your link in there is near to impossible. But have faith, their are other directories out there paid and free were you can list your website in a relative category to your niche. The reason Google and the other search engines are okay with these links is because your website is listed in a relative category to your niche. Google is not against you ranking in the search engines, they are only against you buying and selling links to gain page rank which in turn most people sell links for page rank after they have it. If that’s not your intent then you have nothing to worry about! In the case of InfectedByBugs.com we are not interested in selling page rank we want to sell banner ads to relative companies so that our traffic will benefit them the most.

Relative Links

Relative links are links you get from people or companies that are relating to your niche. For instance if you restore automobiles than being on a site about cars is going to be as close to your niche as you’re going to get. Getting a link on a website about making money online is not going to help you as much as a relative link would about automotive parts. Relative links are needed now more than ever, you used to be able to buy any old link you found, but now times have changed and the search engines prefer relative links. Do the right thing and get relative links and in no time at all you will be dominating your ranks!

3-Way Link Exchanges

Three way link exchanges is where you have a website and it links to another website and that other website links back to the original website. Here’s a diagram:

3-Way Link Exchanges are extremely hard for the search engines to find. This is why it’s the safest link building technique that works!

Blog Website Reviews

Another great way to build back links to your website is by purchasing website reviews on high-power blogs. There are few companies that offer this such as your very own InfectedByBugs.com. The search engines do not discount these website reviews as they are legit traffic purchased links. No PageRank has been exchanged!

The End Has Come

Now that you know all about the good and bad types of link building its time to set the plan into motion and start building links. We suggested getting no more and no less then 10-30 links per day for your website.

As we said before, there are many other ways to build backlinks. Stay tuned to our blog for more link building techniques!

What to Look For When Submitting To Directories!

Have you ever wondered what to look for when submitting to directories? If you’ve been doing SEO for any amount of time you probably know that directory submissions are a great way to build your authority. However a lot of directories are misleading and they’re really not that powerful and they won’t help your rankings very much!

Today we’re going to address this issue and show you what you need to look for when submitting to a directory, these tips should help you and we hope you’re rakings start improving!

The first step

• When you first enter into a directory the first thing you should look for is a correctly SEO’d directory, any really good ones will have a proper title tag, proper description and decent category selection for your website. If the directory does not have these three things leave immediately!
• If the directory has these three things it’s time to move on to the next step to see if the directory is worth submitting to, although we do not endorse using page rank as a guide, we do believe it’s valuable in the sense that if a page has page rank it will pass link juice to you. A directory should have inner page rank on it, at least one subdirectory if not many should have a valid pr.
• If it doesn’t have at least one subdirectory with a page rank it’s probably really new and not worth submitting to at this time. But if it does have inner page rank then more than likely you will get some link juice from the site and your website should be listed in this directory.
• Another thing to look for when listing your website in a directory is to check if it is paid or a free directory. Free directories are great but they don’t usually pass much link value to you, we know the paid directories can get expensive but for the time that your going to take to submit to a bunch of free directories one paid directory could do all the leg work for you. Since we believe this to be the case we do not endorse going to free directories because number one it probably does not have much link juice and number two it probably has a lot of websites in it already which are pulling all of the link juice that that directory has.

So basically the main thing to keep in mind is that most free directories do not pass much link juice to you, save your time and leg work, spend a little money and get in a paid seo directory that is going to pass some serious link value to you!