Free SEO Analysis

It just entered my mind recently while covering WebCEO in my previous topic; 6 Directory Submitters, that I've been using it for 5 months now and the software I downloaded didn't actually expired. I checked out the WebCEO website and discovered that the software was actually free for LIFE. The free version actually has a lot to offer. It has gradually helped most of my blogs to gain popularity in the last five months in terms of Search Engine Optimization.

If you would like to try the program, just click the link below:

www.WebCEO.com

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SEO Optimization 1: Keywords, Meta Tags and Other SEO Tips

I have just finished putting the keyword and description meta tags to this blog. There’s a little technical stuff that you need to work on when doing so; but it can be carefully done by anyone. Keywords and description meta tags are used by the search engines upon crawling in the site pages. I discovered this tips in my local SEO forum group. Here are the basic SEO tips aside from meta tags that I read in there:

• Put the most important keyword that you are aiming for in the domain name of your blog. Domain name is the one that you write in the address field in browser when you want to go to a certain site. A good example is this blog. My domain name is http://blogging-startup-make-money.blogspot.com. I stated the whole name of my site, separated each word with a dash. My two main keywords are “blogging startup” and “make money”. The first one doesn’t have so much popularity as there are only few people across the globe looking for it. The second one has a good popularity but with a lot of competitions. Well, in any business there are competitors, so we will try to deal with them later on with a good business marketing plan.
• Put your important keyword in the the <title> tag. It is automatic when you put your keyword in your blog name. It is actually a bad idea not to put the keyword in your blog name, so if you’re just starting, you can still rename your blog name appropriately.
• Put your important keyword in the <h1> heading. Admittedly, this would make my blog look weird. Imagine, I have the keyword in the blog name, then in the <h1> tag which are the title of my post and then I have to put it in all my post title to make it appear in the <h1> tag; it looks redundant, isn’t it? Luckily, I found an idea to make it look ordinary. In my introductory phrase before the post, I restate the blog name, which has my keywords, I enclosed it with an <h1> tags and reduced the size to make look like an ordinary string of characters and not a large <h1> title.
• I included the keyword in the first paragraph of the page. That would be the third tip. Notice in my introductory phrase before the posts area, I invited the readers to subsribe to my blog and rephrase the blog name. That should do the trick. 
• Put the blog name again with the keywords in the footer of your page. Scroll down and you’ll see “BLOGGING STARTUP MAKE MONEY” at the bottom.
• The next tip, in which I’m still trying to figure out how to do it in here, is to put the keyword in the ALT attribute in the images. I used the picture widget of Blogger.com, so I have no access to the html code of it. I will try to use the “html” widget next time but still thinking where to store my images. Any idea?
• For this blog, I would put the following keyword and description meta tag:

<meta name='description' content=’ This blog chronicles about my journey as a blog beginner. Before, I’ve already started 3 blogs with an intention to test if I can handle the technical stuff. This blog would be the start of new one and eventually, this will become a beginners’ guide for blogging and on how to make money out of it.’ />

<meta name='keywords' content=’make money,make money online,blogging,what is blogging,make money blogging’ />

• How to put it? Login to Blogger.com. Go to Layout, then Edit HTML. Insert the two tags after the <title> tags. Then click Save Template.

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Yahoo: From No. 1 to 6

I am very sad today. My other blog about Catholic Prayers has dropped its listing from No. 1 to only No. 6 on keyword phrase "catholic Advent prayers". I have checked my InLinks (which I'm going to discuss in my future postings) and it has also dropped from 6,400 to 6,020, sometimes only 5,990. This is truly unacceptable to me. The earning is from a dollar to nothing per day. I don't know yet what caused the downfall, but I'll go to the bottom of this.

This only made me realize that there's no exact science about search engine optimization. Ranking algorithms are very complicated and unpredictable.

Nevertheless, this is a challenging situation. I will not quit on this. I know I can do this. I will study hard and will do even more research to accomplish what I've aimed for.

I checked my other keyword "catholic prayers". I went to No. 14 from No.9. I think I wanna cry. :(

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SEO Optimization Category

Please bear with me but I have to separate again another Category that specializes on discussion about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This will tackle about strategies on dealing with search engine rankings. I separated it from Link Building Steps because link building is a very important part of Search Engine Optimization (my opinion) and there's a lot to be covered when discussing about Link Building.

Tweaking the Blogger.com is one of the things to discuss about SEO.

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Link Building Steps: Another Major Category

I included another major category in this blog. I called it "Link Building Steps". I need to separate this one from the Blogging Startup Steps so that I can start posting straight away some tips that I have learned along the way. Right now, theres no links going to this blog and I need to start as quick as possible so that I can build some popularity to search engines and attract readers. As of this writing, I think nobody has read any of my posts yet. So, I need to start getting readers or else this would fail.


Why do I need links from other websites?

For those of you who are just starting on blogging and clueless about Search Engine Optimization, this one is a good start of building up your ranks. But of course, you need to submit your URL first to the major search engines like Google and Yahoo before creating links with other webpages. Will discuss about that one by one. The link building steps that I am going to do with this blog will be recorded here so that everybody can follow.

Note: I should also start with the other category "Make Money Steps" so that I can create account with different money making affiliates.

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Blogging Startup Step 2: Blog Titles and Keywords, Is There a Difference?

If you put up a business, you need a business name. The same goes when you put up your blog. You need to come up with the right blog title. Something people always looking for. What's the difference? In choosing a business name, you think of a unique name that people can remember, but in choosing a blog name, the name should be a set of common words that you can find in the dictionary (my opinion, you can take it or leave it). You need to use common words so that when people search for those words in the search engines, those words become your first set of keywords. How to choose the right words? I outline here a few guidelines in choosing:

1. List down at least five common word or set of words that you think can best describe your blog, but not more than 10.
2. From the list, try to determine for most commonly searched in the search engines to narrow down your options. How? There are so many utilities in the internet that you can use to know these. After this list, I will give you another list of sites where you can find most searched words.
   
3. In the remaining items in the list, pick the one that has less competitions.
   
4. Decide for the one that you think is more appropriate name for your blog. Another trick is two choose two and combine, just like what I did with this blog. I included the "Make Money" phrase because it has a mass appeal.

These are what I have learned so far. If you know a more advance method of choosing a blog name, please let me know. Write it in the comment area to share it with other newbies like me reading this post.

Utilities that you can use for keyword suggestions:

• Trellian Keyword Discovery
• Wordtracker with Google Trends

If you know of other or even more sophisticated "keyword tools", please share it with me. It might be helpful to my journey.

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