It’s what I love about BLOGGING. I’ve mentioned this before and it’s a strategy that I love using for new clients. Start a blog build some quick PR and then use the BLOG to boost your site. I know alot of people out there are going to SLAM me by saying there are already millions of bulls$#%t blogs out there so stop spamming the web with crap but that’s not what I’m talking about…
I’m talking about people that use BLOGS to promote their new sites or business sites. It’s a fact that getting BLOG PR when using a BLOGGER or WORDPRESS blog is just that much easier quicker and it’s FUN!
So how do you get quick BLOG PR?
Register and BLOGGER or WORDPRESS Blog. Write 3 to 4 good articles a week for about a month. Submit your blog to a couple of BLOG directories such as MYBLOGLOG, BLOGFLUX or BLOGEXPLOSION, if you’re targeting a specific country for example South Africa, use a site like AMATOMU.com.
Browse the directories for a couple of BLOGS that are small new start-ups and contact them asking for a BLOGROLL link exchange. Possibly not the best practice but hey, it works and if you’re looking for a quick index it’s a must.
Create yourself a Google Webmaster account, sign-up for sitemaps & analytics. Get the stats up and running, sitemaps will only work if you’re hosting the blog account on a hosting server.
Last but not least, get your BLOGS submitted to some social networking sites such as DIGG, MUTI (South African), Del.icio.us and various others…
Give it a month or two and you’ll be flying with a nice little BLOG with PR2 or 3.
If it doesn’t work, sorry at least you tries something new 
Welcome back everyone. I do apologise for the state of this BLOG at the moment but my WordPress skills are something of a pathetic. I’ve been using BLOGGER for ages and I love it, but I was politely advised 
by ALL that WordPress for SEO is a must. So, I’m slow at getting this BLOG off but give me some time….
Anyways, I came across a lovely little tool for all you SEO freaks out there. It’s called LinkTiger. There are 2 versions to this product as all good SEO tools should have, a free one, yes, the magic word, FREE SEO TOOL and a paid one. The free version allows you to check one website weekly for broken links. The paid, well there’s not limit to the power of this link checker.
As you all know, broken links in SEO is a no go and in terms of success rates in search engine, well it makes sense that a site with broken links, is just not a site worth crawling for anyone. Plus broken links look crap and drive people away from your site. With LinkTiger you’ll no longer have that problem. It’s check internal links, external links and images. Anything that’s out of the ordinary it’ll spit out at you. What’s amazing about this little tool as well is that it allows you too see crawl rates and speeds. It’s a brilliant a priceless tool.
Check it out, even if you use the free version, it’s worth it!
Not sure if anyones noticed but there’s been a lot of movement on the Google rankings in the last 4 or 5 days. Anybond felt any ripples in Google land?
It’s been a long time since Ivolution SEO posted our first two BLOG posts and for that I must apologise. There are millions of SEO BLOGS out there that pop up and have this amazing first post about how they got so involved in BLOGGING and it’s been a life long dream of theirs to start this incredible BLOG, but alas it dies into a faint dim light eventually fading into oblivion!
But, we’re back and Ivolution are ready to take this SEO Blog to the next level. This weeks post is about Blogging believe it or not, and the age old question: Do BLOGS pay? or: Does it pay to BLOG?
A new stuy from the University of Texas states that the top 50 000 blogs earned roughly in the reion of $500 million on average in 2006…. $500 million dollars for the top 50 000 blogs incase you didn’t read that before! These findings were based on Chitika’s blog advertising network of over 12, 000 registered blogs. Some of the conclusions were:
1. The top 1 percent accounted for approximately 20 percent of the total revenue.
2. The top 5 percent accounted for approximately 50 percent of the total revenue.
3. The top 10 percent accounted for approximately 80 percent of the total revenue.
4. The top 15 percent accounted for approximately 90 percent of the total revenue.
Taking those stats into account, if you’re a coroporate company or business and you haven’t discovered the art of blogging and art of making money from BLOGS, contact us @ Ivolution SEO Today - The revolution in Blogging!
You know, I was one of those stubborn people that never believed that domain names were actually worth anything. I always believed that they were fly by night jobs and people were just wasting money on these darn things. You may ask me why I believed that? Well, one of my first jobs in the IT industry was as an domain name administrator and DNS Hostmaster.
I actually managed the entire .org.za domain name space. This ladies and gentleman although it may seem a lovely job to some, is the most admin you could possible do as an IT professional.
Anyway, having registered domains such as Media24.com, Naspers.com and various other multi billion Rand domain names, I finally clicked 8 months ago!! Domains people, incase you’re still one of those old school Steve thinkers, are the biggest thing since sliced cheese. This sudden change of though, and what reitterated it all for me was PUBCON 2007. I was fortunate to have had enough savings at the end of 2007 to send myself to the Pubcon WebmasterWorld Conference 2007 in December in Las Vegas.
After a long a tiresome day of listening to some of the worlds top SEO speakers, I found myself sitting at a Moniker.com domain name website auction. FUN FUN FUN MAN! This is an absolute blast and a must if you have a couple of dollars to spare! Let me give you a little breakdown of some of the domain names that were on auction:
IRAQ.com
IRAN.com
BUSINESS.com
FRUITCAKES.com
DVDS.com
Needless to say that these domain names were all on auction for the starting price of $ 1 Million. Yeah, exactly…
I did however get suckered into bidding for a domain and ended spending $750. This converted into Rands is actually a Sh!t load of cash, but, what can you say: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!!!!!
Any good domains you’ve bought that have made you some money?? Share your stories with us!
Was Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! a bold move to counter the online and ever-growing presence of Google and bold move turned FLOP or was Microsoft just testing the waters?
Incase you’ve all missed the latest story in the online world, Microsoft announced last week Thursday that they had put in a bid for Yahoo! for about $44.6 billion. Had this little deal gone through, it would have been a total redraw of the entire Internet landscape with Internet consumer services such as email, portals and news sites being fully dominated by YaSoft!
This would have been Microsoft’s largest acquisition ever. In an attempt to get Yahoo! to consider their offer, Microsoft’s top execs said that the companies merger would create efficiencies that would save about $1 billion annually. Although Google’s domination of the search industry would not be under threat with over a 60% share in the search market, the merger would certainly kick Gmail out of the water and boost Yahoo’s presence as the number 1 user and information portal on the web.
ALAS, Yahoo rejected the offer this past week saying that the whopping $44 billion was not enough.
So the question left behind is…
Are Microsoft Testing the waters; either waiting for a counter move by Google or is Yahoo! waiting for more money?
You decide!!!
