Always Be Optimizing
Blogging is a competitive sport. The incidence of keywords, the heightened density of certain terms and concepts to breach the walls of SEO fortitude, and the ongoing challenge to keep material fresh and readable despite these drivers are the road rules of the domain blog today. Affiliate ads are like team sponsors. The finish line is the Adsense result, the traffic metrics, and PPC values earned.
But even the most talented blogger can test their optimizing talent by asking a few pointed questions about their daily output content. Blogging can be very easy with simple repetition of key concepts and repetitive completion of SEO practices added in. But even the best blogging intentions fail. As days and months pass, promotion reminders fade and key optimizing options are wasted.
The main rule of blogging? Always Be Optimizing.
1. Optimize Your Domain Marketing
One sneaky approach to marketing a blog online is to promote anterior services and use the blog site to garner approval or evaluation of service quality. A domain site can’t rise in value if it isn’t seen. If you are signed up at Guru.com, oDesk.com, or ELance.com, there is a place to link up your proven material and related portfolio of work.
This drives traffic and incites useful feedback. Reaction can help assist the blogger in choosing which domains to spend more effort promoting. Even if you never get any contracted work at these sites, marketing your services will earn you dozens of traffic pageviews you would otherwise never experience. That data is useful when analyzing upstream and downstream clickthrough behavior.
2. Optimize Your Email
Domain names allow for creativity. To paraphrase the famous words of Walt Disney: if you can reg it, you can do it. Inventing domain names is the ultimate in out-of-the-box business product creation.No limit exists except your own taste and your own ability to sketch a likely rationale for the name as a website, portal, directory or marketing hub.
If you’ve done some clever thinking about your domain name and made a crafty yet appealing email address name, get going sending out batches of invitations to check out your site. Many might bite, just to see what’s behind your domain and that intriguing email address. One clever email logline and someone might zap a click onto your emailed newsletter or marketing campaign message just scan the site and not miss something valuable.
3. Optimize Your Exterior Strategy
One of the greatest options available to aggressively marketing domainers is the supplemental domain marketing services offered on boards and custom domain promotion sites. Outside the blog website link promotion is critical to SEO discoverability. Exterior link making and article seeding with reference links back to the target site are necessary, yet so many domainers ignore this method of site promotion.
4. Optimize Your Blog Time
Not every day is going to be a day when the webmaster of a blog can write at optimum skill. Some days the blog well is simply dry. These are good days to have an article template, tickler file, and prose or text content template at the ready. This “Mixmaster” approach has been done well and done poorly, and many domainers know when they stumble upon a site full of blind-text blandness with no information forthcoming at all.
Fix one day to post an RSS feed blog entry with a few critical comments and suggestions. Next day is a content writing day, and the day after that can be a site review day. Roll over the schedule and take the pressure off. Roll the content production forward one day and let the “break” inspire better text writing. Review text entries for pertinent links to include.
5. Check Your Work
Go to sites like Google, Associated Content, Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Helium, Triond, About.com, and others. Use the search bar and execute a query for your website name and/or url. A Google result should have at least 4 pages of results with exactly your url or link to show.
The SEO results not there? Get cracking and ADD SOMETHING.
Sign up for AC and add articles. Submit material to About.com and other content and text publishing sites using site links as sources. Start a Squidoo lens and create a entry at Helium so centered on a topic from your site it will never be bettered. This is when having material of all types inside your blog entries is of value. And the Optimizing motif will be reinforced with every search query.
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Hi, this is Nicole from Rent a Coder. Rentacoder provides access to programming, writing, illustration, even data entry jobs. (You can get a sense of the broad scope of work available here: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/SoftwareCoders/BrowseWork.asp).
I’d like to point out a few differences between our service and services like Elance since those differences could influence your satisfaction and earnings.
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Cost:
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The more a site charges you, the less you have to put in your own pocket at paycheck time. Unlike Elance, Rent A Coder does not charge you a monthly subscription fee for any bidding or certification privileges.
1) Free and unlimited bidding and certification privileges
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Workers on Elance cannot place more than 3 bids a month unless they pay a subscription fee ($9.95/month for 20, $19.94/month for 40 or $39.95/month for 60). The majority of sites do not charge subscription fees.
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Working with a new buyer on Pay-for-Deliverables projects:
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The cheapest and easiest way to work with a buyer is to bill by the hour (called pay-for-time). However, a new buyer doesn’t know yet that you’re productive, and won’t run up a huge bill with fluff hours. To help you establish that trust, both Elance and Rent A Coder let you work with them safely by bidding a fixed price for the final deliverables (called pay-for-deliverables). However, Elance’s extra charges for arbitration may make it prohibitively expensive to exercise your rights.
2) Payment Guarantee
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If a buyer doesn’t pay you for work you’ve properly delivered (fully completed by the deadline and up to industry-expected standards), then both sites will step in and pay you via arbitration. However Elance charges you $66-$133 to do this. This may also make it impractical to get paid on smaller projects. Rent A Coder, on the other hand, does this for free, so you never have to think twice about exercising this guarantee.
3) Arbitration
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On Rent A Coder you can start arbitration immediately. A buyer intent on abusing the system can stall the start of arbitration on Elance for 21 business days and during this period your money is not available to you. During the first phase (dispute assistance), the buyer has up to 3 business days to respond, and can make this phase last up to 12 additional business days (15 business days total). After this, the arbitration phase ‘begins’, but does actually start because the buyer is given 3 business days to acknowledge the notice of arbitration, and the another 3 business days if they did not acknowledge the first notice. Only at this point is arbitration actually started. See the Elance contract for more information.
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Working with a buyer you know on Pay-for-Time projects:
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Once a buyer trusts that you won’t bill them for unproductive hours, you can bill them by the hour (called pay-for-time). This has many advantages over pay-for-deliverables including cheaper fees, flexibility (you don’t have to define all the requirements in advance to start working) and less risk (under-estimates are no longer your responsibility to bear). However Rent A Coder guarantees all hours worked, while Elance does not.
4) Guraranteed Payment
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Elance does not guarantee any hours until you’ve worked at least 80 hours. During this time you may find yourself working for free. Elance only guarantees to pay you for the first 40 hours you work in a week. If you are working longer hours to help a client, you may find yourself working for free. Rent a Coder guarantees payment for all hours worked.
For more details on the above see:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/misc/CompetitorInformation/OneOnOneComparisons/ElanceVersusVWorker_ForSellers.aspx
To learn about additional differences (as well as compare the other 5 major sites), you can click here:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/misc/CompetitorInformation/WhyRentACoder_ForSellers.aspx
If you have any questions, please let me know. You can also call in to talk to a facilitator 7 days a week, or email us (see http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/Feedback.asp).
Nicole
http://www.rentacoder.com
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