YoursRank.com - Traffic Tips And SEO Tricks

1. Ads on free classified ads sites, such as Backpages, Craigslist, and Kijiji.

2. Posting articles on article directory sites, such as EzineArticles.

3. Creating educational YouTube videos and putting URL in the video and link in the description text.

4. Posting content to industry hubs and networking sites. For example, ActiveRain is a very popular blogging and online networking community for real estate brokers, in much the same way that Facebook is for college students. Networking with other people expands your sphere, also.

5. Discussion board participation. Pick forums related to your industry and site, and put links in your signature line so it appears in all your posts. These can be stand-alone sites, or “groups” on sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

6. Comment on related blogs, leaving a link behind.

7. Automatically submit your content to aggregators. The easiest way to do this is to burn your feed to FeedBurner and enable the feature to distribute your feed to blog aggregators.

8. Place links in your blog posts to allow readers to submit them to Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, Fark, and other such “best of blogging” sites.

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Scoutle makes me wonder if I missed something in translation. This Dutch social networking site features a widget of two people walking past each other. As they approach, the characters exchange greetings. Scoutle compares each site and tries to arrange meetings with sites that have similar demographics. This “Automated Social Networking” is the selling point of Scoutle.

The site itself I found confusing at first. After you join up, it’s difficult to figure out exactly what to do. Below is a quick guide to getting started:

Create a scout by uploading a photo, filling out information about your site and selecting a stage. A stage is another term for a widget. Get the code and install it in your site.
Your scout will meet people. These meetings are shown under your “My Meetings” page after you click on your scout there. Visit these sites. If you like that site, then click on “control connection” to make a connection. The other person will visit your site and decide if they want to approve your request.
If you really like the site, you can give them a reference, which is like a recommendation. Another option is to send the person a message.
Finally, the last option is to create your own network, I made one for Entrecard users there. Everyone with an Entrecard widget is welcome to join. It’s just another way to organize connections.

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Social media optimization (SMO) is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites. Methods of SMO include adding RSS feeds, adding a “Digg This” button, blogging and incorporating third party community functionalities like Flickr photo slides and galleries or YouTube videos. Social media optimization is related to search engine marketing, but differs in several ways, primarily the focus on driving traffic from sources other than search engines, though improved search ranking is also a benefit of successful SMO.
Social media optimization is in many ways connected as a technique to viral marketing where word of mouth is created not through friends or family but through the use of networking in social bookmarking, video and photo sharing websites. In a similar way the engagement with blogs achieves the same by sharing content through the use of RSS in the blogsphere and special blog search engines such as Technorati.

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1.Use Titles that make people want to read the story, not just vote it up because it catches their eye:

I hate to admit it but I have on occasion voted up stories after only reading the title because they caught my eye. It is fairly well known that writing list posts with a number in the title catches attention, but a ‘Top 10 list of something boring’ is only enough to squeeze a few votes out of lazy users and doesn’t always bait people strongly enough for them to want to read the whole story. Is your list actually useful or entertaining?

What is so great about Sphinn is it is full of bloggers and so if you are in the blogging, make money online, SEO or social media niches you don’t need to dramatically change your title to suit the audience which saves you from alienating your loyal readership, which is what digg often requires.

2.Become known as a source of good stories:

Just like any other social voting site it is very important to submit plenty of good stories other than your own. The reason is not only to appease the moderators, but to build a reputation as a quality story submitter. When large numbers of titles and avatars are on a page, scanning down the list until you see a avatar you associate with good content is part of what is going on when people chose which title to click.

You don’t need to go out of your way to find good stories. I simply submit suitable posts from my RSS reader. Submitting a post from another site that goes hot is just like doing that person a favor so they are inclined to vote on your stories in the future because they feel indebted to you.

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Use Reddit regularly. This is one of the easiest ways and should be the beginning of being a Reddit power user. Being active in the community, submitting links, and general networking with other “redditers” is not only fun, but it can build up your “karma” and make you look more reputable than a “one-shot” voter (the types that only register an account to vote for a friends article). Once you have an established voting and submission history in your profile, people will be more likely vote your links up, which if it’s on your blog, means the potential of a front page hit. Make no mistake, Reddit can send massive amounts of traffic to your site if you hit the front page, especially if it’s an interesting story. Reddit plays in the same group of kids as Digg, StumbleUpon, and others. They are definitely not lightweights!

Create your own Reddit voting club. This is an obvious, yet highly effective way to get more votes. Why not team up with like-minded friends and associates in your field or niche. By teaming up with people you regularly network with, or even direct competitors, you can form your own voting group and routinely vote each others submissions right to the front page (depending on the size of your voting party). This is a widely known and powerful technique, and you’ll see this across all of the social bookmarking sites (some more controversial than others). If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right? Start forming your voting party by asking readers and fans of your blog or website to join up. Create a forum or a shared blog that everyone can post their links in for getting votes. This is very easy and takes minimal time. The rewards can be fantastic, as well.

Leverage your existing blog or website traffic. This is another no-brainer. If you’re submitting stories to Reddit, you probably already have somewhat steady traffic to your blog or website, so by placing voting buttons in easily recognizable places (at the end or beginning of an article), it allows your readers or guests (assuming they have a Reddit account) to quickly vote on your article. The extra votes you can gain from these types of people just may be the extra votes you need to push your story to the front page. Take advantage of what you already have, and as a reminder, make sure you place voting buttons for all of the other bookmarking sites as well. The more the merrier!

Leveraging subreddits. Subreddits are subcategories that talk about other topics like web 2.0, technology, and subjects like that. It’s surprisingly easy to gain front page status on the subreddit pages, and by gaining front page status in these areas, you stand a good chance of gaining more votes that could ultimately push your story to the front page. A sound strategy to appearing on the front page of a subreddit is the same as it would be for the front page – headline. It’s absolutely vital to pick a phenomenal headline if you want to enjoy a surge in traffic from front page status on Reddit. Although it’s not recommended and doesn’t quite work like this, your actual story or article could be crap, but you could at least get people to click through with an outstanding headline.

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Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.

Slashdot : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.

SocialDanger : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system.

Socialogs : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service.

Sphinn : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.

Spotback : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering .

Spurl : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents.

Squidoo :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.

Startaid : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.

StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users.

Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community .

Syncone : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.

Tagfacts : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.

Taggly : Store, share and tag your favorite links.

Tagne : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.

Tagtooga : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.

Tagza : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.

Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.

Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.

Thinkpocket : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites .

Thoof : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about.

Totalpad : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions .

Urlex : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking

Uvouch : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.

Vmark : An online bookmark and online favorites manager.

Voteboat : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.

Votelists : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!

Vuju : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.
WeTogether : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.

Whitelinks : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet.

Wink : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites.

Wirefan : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.

Xilinus : Organize and manage bookmarks online.

Xlmark : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site.

Yahoo! Bookmarks: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer.

Yattle: Bookmark Management and Mini-Blogging Service.

Zlitt: Zlitt is a social bookmarking system which gives users the opportunity to share and tag favorite news, images and videos.

Zurpy: Saves bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place.

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What is a hub? A hub is like a blog where you can write about anything on your topic of choice. You can write topic of your interest and shared it with other like minded people who will benefit from reading your article.

Hub is free and it is very easy to use. It is very easy to sign up and all it requires is your email to get sign up. You can get started by clicking on the link below.

http://hubpages.com/

The tools are very user friendly to make your hub more appealing by adding content, pictures, videos and links to other web pages. Hub was designed for people who are not very technical so they can simply focus on publishing the hub.

The simplicity of the hub is by adding capsules. If you need to add a new content, picture or video, you can simply add a new capsule and these capsules can easily be moved to the way you like.

HubPages has very strict rule in terms of not allowing spam, adult content and unfinished hub, as a result content publish on hub tends to get pick up quickly by Google search engine.

It is very important that you produce original article that benefit the people from reading it if you wants to keep consistent traffic coming to your hub. For each article that you post on your hub, be sure you have a link pointing your site to drive targeted traffic back to your site. Just like blog be consistent and try to make post five times a week to get consistent traffic to your hub.

After you publish a hub you can promote your hub by using blog, friends via email, discussion forum and social bookmarking sites like Digg, reddit, and StumbleUpon.

You can also make money from your hub by creating an account with Google, ebay and Amazon. Google display ad on you hub based on the relevancy of the content on your hub. You can also decide which products to list in your ebay and Amazon capsules. The key to earn commission is to write quality content that people are looking for.

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FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won’t create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.

# 1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger - with the Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.

It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed with encourage them to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite your views.

# 2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions.

This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.

# 3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to explain what an RSS Feed is.

First on the Optimize tab, the Browser-Friendly version turns your RSS feed into a web page, so that when new people click on your feed, without knowing what it is, they’ll know how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your default feed address.

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Blog traffic is important to building a blog community. The purpose of a blog should be to build a community of visitors that share information with one another. The building block of a blog community is having traffic to the blog.

#1: Unique Content
Unique content is a key element to obtain blog traffic. There can be a million sites about a particular topic. However, if your blog offers a different take or unique information about the topic, visitors will continue to visit the site to learn more. Provide a different view or way of presenting information about a topic on a regular basis to get visitors to continue visiting your blog.

Take the time to build your blog before promoting. When visitors arrive, if there is little content or content is not updated regularly the amount of blog traffic will decrease.

#2: Join Similar Groups
Join groups that have the same or similar topic as the blog you have started. Do not spam the groups with your blog but simply add a link to the blog in your post signature. People will naturally visit the blog out of curiosity. The more similar groups that you join, the higher chance you have of increasing traffic to your blog. It is important to remember that being a blogger takes a great deal of time and dedication.

#3: Visit Other Blogs
Visit other blogs that interest you. The blogger might link to your blog if the blogs are similar to your blog and you are a regular member of the community. As always, make sure to include a link in your signature back to your blog.

#4: Add Tags
Add tags to your main blog page and sub-pages of your blog to obtain traffic. Keyword tags will enable people to find the blog easier on a search engine.

#5: Link
Traffic will increase to the blog if you will link directly to other sites within the text of the blog. Even though the side bar links are important, there should be some linking within the text. For regular community members, make sure to add them to the side bar links as well.

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Unlike other Internet marketing and publishing tool, RSS can power multiple key
Internet marketing and publishing elements and activities in different areas:

• Prompt delivery of your Internet content to end-users.
• Increasing the visibility of your website and thereby increase visitors to site.
• Powering your Internet public relations through RSS conversations.
• Enhancing your web presence.
• Serving as an advertisement platform for publishers and advertisers.

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