How to gain your traffic besides Google

* Intro to substitution to Google (0:00 - 0:17)

* What inspired me to talk about it (0:18 - 1:30)

* PR & SEO (1:31 - 2:04)

* Problem and reliance (2:05 - 2:58)

* Opportunities in Yahoo, Msn, Mybloglog (2:59 - 3:48)

* Last minute recommendations & wrap up (3:49 - 4:22)

I care a lot about who I recommend on this blog. I have always read extensively before jumping into recommending someone besides my blog. One of the bloggers that I have recommended, John Chow has recently gotten the hammer from Google. Google has dropped his site from being listed number one in one of the hottest area of online searches, "making money online." As one of the most popular blog on the internet, this is definitely a heavy blow. To achieve the number one spot with Google in the first place is definitely not easy in competition with huge companies out there who are also fighting for that one spot. Just imagine all the news media, stock firms, investment first, all competing for that special spot up with Google the list just goes on and on. What Google has done has definitely given him a temporary set back in his blog which you can read more about his experiences in his own words here.

Through reading that particular post, it has drawn more attention to me on the importance to address the subject of where to gather your audience besides Google. You can see it from my opinion with today's video. It's no surprised to many webmasters that Google is the golden spot to be if you would like your web site to be recognized by the internet world. Including myself, I have always strongly encouraged my readers to optimize their sites with Google. However, what if one day the same thing were to happen to you where you are no longer in that magic spot in the top 10 search results with Google on the words you have optimized? Or worse yet, you were banned from Google? Now what?

It's always good to spread yourself throughout the web world even in search engines like Yahoo and MSN as well which both are recommended from my video to optimize. Sure the market of people doing a search in their search engines are in no where comparable to Google, however if you are strongly rooted in such search engines you would be a lot likely to be minimize your impact with Google due to your strong presence on top keywords on these other search engines. Let's not also forget the fact that since these search engines are less looked at by most webmasters, that can really translate to where the MONEY is really at! Less competition in your specific keywords, less competition to grab the top spot, the lists goes on and on and the perks are endless. I do have to be honest, I haven't optimized MSN as much as I would like to be but with Yahoo I have definitely done my homework and this site's currently got over 8k of pages indexed which is huge for a blog with only 3 months moving onto its 4th month in its real history. How do I get indexed in so many pages? Well, what I've found to work for me lies on meta tagging your site. Meta tagging is mostly abandoned by most search engines nowadays, however I have found that it is still being regularly used by Yahoo in their indexing method so for those of you who are thinking optimizing with Yahoo that should not be something you want to miss.

Besides the big three search engines, where else should you go and grab your audiences? I will recommend one of my favorite social book marketing sites, Mybloglog. It's fun, enjoyable, and in a way gives you a mini "Myspace" feel which I like. With it being ranked as one of the top four bookmarking sites in existence, it's definitely not one you would like to miss. Although not auto pilot like the search engines, it requires you to log in and connect with others. However if properly implemented, it can definitely bring a good amount of traffic towards your site. In case you are banned from Google, it's not the end of the world yet. If you are well situated and have grounded your blog in good contents, the visitors will come and that's really the fundamentals that you do not want to throw away. What you write surprisingly is more important then how search engines view you and this is how you can make money smart or own a blog make money machine! -Swapw



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Web directory submissions and Meta tags for blogs

When I first started my blog, many people have suggested submitting my blog into many search engines. However, no one ever told me a list of where to submit as a whole and if they did it was probably just one search engine and that was it.

Today, I will pass some cool information for you guys and it's about a web site called Addme.com. Why is this web site so awesome? Because it does all the footwork for you. By using this web site, it actually submits your blog or web site into 14 major search engines! Now before I go further, I do want to mention that there are several sites that do claim that they can assist you in registering with other web sites. However, surprises to even myself that I found some of these web sites to simply pass my information to some of their advertising network thus creating more spam mails for myself.

With that said, Addme.com provides you with a free service of submitting your web site to the major players in various search engines. The big difference that I've found personally which I believe resulted to my trust to them is that you the end user is in control of the process. With every single step of the way, you are involved with the web site submission in the entire process. Addme.com fills out some of the basic informationals that you've provided them and they make it available for you to fill the rest the way you like it. Don't worry, you are not filling out tons of information and each web site submission only takes about 30 seconds so the process is real simple. Here's the link if you want ot just jump there without going through the whole page in Addme.com.

As you can see from the above picture, it's real straight forward. Write down some basic information about yourself and you're on your way to registering your site with all 14 major search engines. There is an option that claims to send your page to 100+ PR5 - PR8 web site for free, now no one knows if they are really gonna send it out because you don't get to see the results. However, you've got nothing to lose so I would recommend checking that part as well.

Ok, moving on. Let's talk about Meta tags for blogs. Do you know how to enter Met tags for blogs? If you are not composing your own blog under a web site that you own, the chances are that you're probably using blogger, xanga, or etc. Entering Meta tags is an area that's easily overlooked since we just assumed that the third party blogging tools that we use automatically inputs them for us. If you thought of it this way, the answer is false. Just like any other web pages, you do have to enter your own meta tags under your template with html. Beneath is how you should input your meta tags into your blog:

If you are still having trouble, click on this link. It'll walk you through all the way. It has a wizard so even if you have no clue about codes, it's pretty straight forward. If you have been enjoying my blog so far, feel free to sign up to my feed on the top left corner. :)

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