25 Basic Steps to take to increase traffic to your website/blog: Ch Zain Ishaq

1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well-designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers.

Thanks forum.wordpress.com

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How to Easily Index your Website Faster in Google Search

Today, having a website is not a challenging task anymore as it was considered before. In present online age people are more concern about getting their brand name or blog searchable on search engines to engage more valuable visitors. Many brand companies have already started to implement techniques that help their website to index faster in search engines. If you’re looking for some tips or techniques that could help your site to rank faster, then you are luckily at the right place. Today in this article, we will show you How to Easily Index your website faster in Google Search

Why Google Indexes new websites slowly?

We see a lot of users always complain about the fact that their new site takes a lot of time in indexing posts or articles. The main reasons of not getting your new site index are mentioned as below:

Less Authority: When you create a new site, it has almost ZERO authority while other old sites have better authority this is the reason why your site takes a while in indexing. The older your site would be, the more authority it would gain so it’s just a matter of getting your site a bit older.

Less Content: Google loves content, not just content, but fresh and quality content. New sites have less or no content, this makes almost impossible for search engines to get a blank page index (in some cases Google even indexes blank pages). However, write content that has quality and quantity at the same time.

Lack of Social Signals: Now days, search engines do count on social signals (the no of shares, tweets, likes the content is received from social networking websites) and on the basis of that they index or rank websites. For a new site, it is almost impossible to overnight get a lot of social followers.

Under the Scan: For those who don’t know, Google always takes a nice look at your site before it is indexed in the search engines so if there is any delay in indexation then your site is under the scan..

To find the number of pages indexed go to Google.com and search for site:mybloggerlab.com(Note: Do not forget to replace mybloggerlab.com with your website address). If you see no results, then you should implement the tips we have discussed in this article. Following screenshot shows the search results for the above query.

How to Easily Index your website faster in Google Search:

The techniques which we’ll be discussing in this article are applicable for both new and old websites. In short, we will be using some external websites to send search engine crawlers to our sites, forcing them to index our site faster than usual.

1. Submit sitemap to Google:

What is a sitemap? A sitemap is the list of posts or pages that you’ve published on your site which helps search engine crawlers to index your posts according to the its published dates. By submitting a sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and etc. you’re inviting them to index your blog faster and efficiently.

If you haven't submit your sitemap to Google then do it today by going to the webmaster tool.

2. Commenting on Dofollow or CommentLuv Blogs:

After publishing a new article, comment on authority high traffic blogs. This not only provides some traffic, but at the same time search engine crawlers will follow your site if the attribution is set to Dofollow.

This is an old but working technique that every newbie blogger implements and if you haven’t then try it from today. You will start seeing the changes within a week or so depends on how much blogs you’re commenting on daily basis, I would prefer 20 to 30 comments a day.

3. Sharing on Social Communities: 

This is another method which is very effective for new blog owners. Facebook or even Google+ has active groups and communities that allows you to share your posts URLS on them. When you’re sharing those URLs on those groups, you are actually sending a social signal to your site. This means the more you share, the more social signals it will send back to your site.

We have also implemented the same technique in the early days of MyBloggerLab.com and results were pretty much amazing.

4. Ping Your Posts or Blog:

Ping service is another working way to alarm search engines to index your newly published posts. However, Blogger as well as WordPress automatically sends pings to search engines, but doing it efficiently by doing it yourself won’t hurt much.

Ping From this site: http://pingomatic.com/

5. Guest Posting:

People say Guest posting is no longer effective, but the reality is they have the same significance at the moment as well. If you have time write 5 to 10 quality articles and ask high authority blogs to publish them and provide a Dofollow link to you.

Try to guest posts on blogs that are related to your niche, are updated regularly and consists of the active audience. By doing this, you will get some healthy traffic and again in your authority.

Just to prove this thing really works, I applied these techniques on one of my new testing blog and results were pretty pleasing. The following screenshot shows a website that was indexed in Google within 10 minutes.

We hope this article has helped you in learning some of the unrevealed secrets of getting your site indexed faster in Google search engine. Now, since you know they go ahead and apply them for results that you’re looking for a lot of months or even years.

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