ABC Article Directory Blog

 By: Jeff Spicher

Link building in a nutshell, is the process of getting other web sites and web pages to link to your web site. These links will not only drive direct targeted traffic to your pages; but more importantly will increase your overall search engine visibility and rankings. Building a solid incoming linking structure for your site is one of the most effective techniques used by search engine optimization professionals to improve your search engine rankings and boost the overall amount of traffic any given web page receives. However the process of building incoming links to your site can be a daunting and tedious task when just getting started. The purpose of this essay is to outline the importance of building a strong linking profile for your site as well as offer a handful of key strategies that any webmaster regardless of marketing budget can employ to climb to the top of the search engine ladder.

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 By: Miles Galliford

If your website does not create a sense of trust in your visitors, all your efforts will be in vain. Your online business will never succeed. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it is very easy to create and build trust in your online visitors. Below, I have listed all the techniques used by the hundreds of websites I have helped launch. If you have additional techniques, please add them to the list.

As the old saying goes, you have only one chance to make a first impression. Building trust cannot be achieved by one single action. Trust is achieved by hundreds of little things you do throughout your website that, when taken together, give readers a sense of honesty, legitimacy and stability.

The other bit of good news is that few website owners focus on building trust in the minds of their visitors. If you do it well, it can become a real and sustainable competitive advantage.

Here are 47 simple actions you can take to get started. 

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 Blog Rush has continued to suffer from a bad case of  ‘gremlins’ in their system ever since they launched about a week ago. Regardless of their apparent growing pains, they at least have one extremely enviable trait. They communicate with their members and are big enough to admit when mistakes are made. Furthermore, they explain (sometimes ad nauseum) what their mistakes were and how they are doing to remedy these glitches.

As a member of this Blog Rush community, I am eagerly awaiting a seamless system that will deliver additional traffic to my blogs. Time will tell if they will be able to pull off this rather promising endeavor. I am attaching their latest communique for those of you that have not yet joined Blog Rush.

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By: Kaloyan Banev

Many webmasters overlook an important part of search engine optimization: if you over-optimize your web pages, chances are that your website rankings might drop because your site has been designed for search engines and not for web surfers. Experienced PowerScribe team reveal some tricks of their experienced experts.

Paid links

Google considers buying links to be outside of their guidelines and they might take strong actions against that in the future. Matt Cutts indicated that “Google might take action” if webmasters buy links anyway.

What are unnatural links?

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 By: doug smith

Good search engine optimization and marketing includes several factors that are explained in these SEO articles to help you achieve better search engine placement. Most of the advice given can be achieved almost immediately, where as other factors explained will take a lot of your time and effort. If you are serious about search engine optimization then you’re on the right track. Please note that the tips mentioned in these SEO articles are used by SearchBliss and some of the information stated is merely our opinion.

Before you begin reading these articles, please keep this in mind. The most important advice I can give you is to build your web pages with your visitors in mind. We have all been to sites that “don’t make much sense” as a result of webmasters targeting keywords that they have trouble placing into readable text. You can have thousands of web site visitors each day, but it is useless traffic when they exit your page out of frustration, and they may never return.

Targeting the Right Keywords

Choose the right keywords. This is extremely important and should be done before your marketing campaigns start. Optimizing a site takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work. Doing this targeting the wrong keywords can be devastating. Find relevant keywords that are searched for often. Make sure you target “phrases” rather than single keywords. For example, targeting “hosting” alone will not help you. There are too many search results. But targeting “web hosting provider”, “web hosting service”, and “hosting business” will get you more realistic results (and a ton of traffic). Plus you are still targeting “hosting”. I would suggest targeting ONE “reach phrase” and TWO “realistic phrases”. Three phrases may seem like a lot, but not when one or two key terms is in all three phrases. When this occurs, things don’t get watered down, giving better results.

Let’s begin with the “bare bones” of SEO. Title tag and meta tags. Most search engines give little to no relevance to some of these, however, since no one really knows how they are factored by each engine, they are still important steps in optimizing any web site.

1: The TITLE tag

Here is an example Title tag which should appear in-between the  tags of your web page(s):

My Business Title

The title tag is very important. Why? Because search engines not only give it value in relation to optimization, SE’s use it in their search results. Search on ANY search engine, and you’ll see the content of this tag used in the anchor text of the links for each web site. Here is a little experiment. Follow the Google link (opens in a new window) and take a look. Google Experiment

There are 28,100,000+ pages in Google with the title tag Untitled Document So most of the web page links displayed are Untitled Document. Why? Because who ever built these web pages used an editing program that adds the title tag, and they never changed the title text which is certainly poor marketing.

So what should be in the title tag? The name of your business or web site with the “keyword phrase” you are targeting. For example, your business sells “watches”. This is a broad search term and using it alone my not work out for you. There are 42,500,000 estimated search results in Google. However searching for the term “Swiss watches” I get 2,760,000 estimated results. The likelihood of your site appearing in the first 3 pages of Google is much more realistic using “Swiss watches”. Plus, the keyword “watches” is still present, so you are actually targeting and marketing both terms.

Here is a good title tag using this example:

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Update: Blog Rush is dead!

The only mistake you can make is joining it in the first place. No traffic. No promotion. No hope.

By: Albert Grande 

    According to Wikipedia: “In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”

I should have known better…I never fall for those phishing scams…well almost never…

You know what I’m talking about- you get an email from Paypal, ebay or your bank.
The email looks genuine. All of the familiar graphics are there on the page. It looks exactly like the real website. How was I to know I was being set up for a scam…

Let me explain:
I had just completed an auction at eBay. A very successful auction. eBay immediately sent me an email. At least I thought it was from eBay….
The email said I owed money from my auction. They said I needed to pay immediately or my account would be suspended.

I certainly didn’t want my account suspended, I wanted to pay. I looked at the email and I clicked where it said to click.

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BlogRush has certainly exploded exponentially on the blogging scene and has shown a marked expansion in a very small time frame.  However, as with any rapidly growing new idea that catches the fancy of multitudes of Internet users, the developers seem to be overwhelmed by the success. I have included two snippets regarding BlogRush. I personally joined up…right friggin away. I can now say that I spotted a winner right from the beginning….5 days ago! 

First and foremost is the Company spiel. You be the judge of whether or not you should  can go to their website and get additional information, if you find their pitch interesting . Secondly, you will find a rather humorous (to me, not the sender) email I received today from the BlogRush team. It highlights various problems associated with highly successful sites (too fast, too soon) including the ever present problem with spammers.

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By: Emmanuel DeFreitas

The ABC Article Directory is upgrading its server to a new improved faster model and visitors should soon be experiencing a far speedier response time for queries. Unfortunately, there were some glitches in the transfer and the directory has been experiencing some hiccups in page loading. Anyone that has had the misfortune of trying to access certain pages on the article directory during a ‘hiccup’ may have experienced a little “turbulence”. Worst still, they may have gotten a ‘404 error message’…. a message that their browser could not load the page…. or simply nothing at all.

When the site was moved to the new server, it was supposed to change IP addresses…. It didn’t. It always makes sites go haywire until the ISP’s get them cached on the new IP. But when moving the site is left up on BOTH ips for about a week… then there is no downtime at all (or any of this ‘turbulence’ I’ve been experiencing) This is temporary and should only take a couple of days (The old accounts were deleted from the server on Sunday.. not realizing that cPanel did NOT create the new ones until it was too late… but by then, the old IP was gone and it has to go through this nonsense with the cached IPs at all the ISP’s ! 

I have faith in my Hosting account with GoGreen Hosting and I know they are doing their best to get things smoothed over. I am also proud of the fact that they use only renewable energy sources to power their servers. I highly recommend their hosting packages because I believe in what they stand for. I should become an affiliate if they have a program.

Anyway…The reason for this little blurb is to tell everyone to hang in there. If at first you don’t succeed in getting through to the ABC Article Directory …reload …reload …reload. This should clear up in a few days and page loading and overall performance of the site should be improved tremendously. This should provide a much better site experience for all visitors and members.

Emmanuel DeFreitas is the administrator of the ABC Article Directory™ . Promote yourselves, your site, your products or services by submitting your unique articles. http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/

 Emmanuel DeFreitas

As a webmaster for a top article directory, I get an awful lot of different article submissions from an multitude of different unique authors. The list of authors keeps growing and the article submissions that have to be approved/rejected are exponentially on the rise. There was one day that I received an astounding 800 articles. What I cannot understand for the life of me is why some authors continually make the same submission errors over and over again.  Article submissions are not that difficult a process to understand. There are certain guidelines that every article directory worth a damn will abide by and anyone wishing to use an article directory’s  services had better follow them to the letter. Getting free back-links from a pr-5 directory is nothing to sneer at. Some people pay through the nose or some more inappropriate orifice for similar links to paid directories all the time.

First and foremost, authors must submit content that they have written themselves. This does not mean PLR (private label rights) articles that have been spun and rehashed so many times that everybody has seen these clones at least a dozen times. If you have nothing new to say…. Shut Up!  Just because it is YOU saying it doesn’t make it any more interesting. Furthermore, these individuals that continue to submit these types of articles are the easiest people to flag as spammers. Why?….Because they don’t submit one or two articles at a time, they submit dozens….daily. These types of submissions get them a one way trip to the trash bin 99% of the time.

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