Back Link building and Social Monkee

Building backlinks to your pages is an essential part of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) for two reasons. The first reason is that it helps your pages get indexed faster, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly. The second reason is that it helps your pages get higher search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice. The more backlinks you have, the better. Period.

However, building backlinks can be a time-consuming, boring process. You can outsource the process to an agency and pay a lot of money… Or you can do it yourself with SocialMonkee! SocialMonkee is an instant backlink builder allowing you to build 25 unique backlinks, every day, FREE! All links are on unique C-Class IP addresses and domains. Imagine being able to create 25 unique backlinks every day, with the click of a button, FREE! Well, you can stop imagining…

So, 25 unique backlinks every day… That’s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 every month. If you upgrade, you will be able to build 100 uniques backlinks, 3 times a day! That’s a total of 2,100 backlinks every week, 9,000 every month! The good news is… you can get a Premium Account, FREE! All you need to do is to refer 12 members, and your account will automatically be upgraded. If you’re not really into referral marketing, you may upgrade right now for a low one-time fee.

Submitting a page to SocialMonkee via the members area takes under two minutes, but there’s an even faster way! They created a Firefox plugin that allows you to submit your page to up to 100 sites in just a few clicks, using nothing else than Firefox! If you have a Premium Account you will also get access to link reports and RSS feeds, which are great to keep track of your backlinks and get them indexed fast. Submitting your RSS feeds to RSS submitters is actually a very important step in link building.

So what are you waiting for? Join SocialMonkee now while it’s still free!

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Facebook and Twitter: Use Your Fan Page to Tweet

If you are the admin to a Facebook Page (Fan Page), you can now share updates with your Twitter followers, and are able to control the type of updates you want to share: status updates, links, notes, photos, etc, or all of them!

This is a huge advancement to Facebook and Twitter. You can now use two of the most powerful social networks on the Internet, side by side. Killing two birds with one stone.

This application will also allow you the option to sync multiple Pages to different Twitter accounts. So if you have a second or third Fan Page that you operate and a Twitter account to coincide with it, then can sync those as well.

Hint: If you create a Fan Page, make a Twitter account for it too. And vice versa.

All this is available at http://www.facebook.com/twitter

It is easy to use. Sign into your facebook account and follow the link above.

Click on “Link a Page to Twitter”

Then select the Facebook Fan Page you want to link to your Twitter account.Next, you will be redirected to Twitter. Allow Facebook access. (You might need to sign into Twitter)

From here you will be able to create the settings for what Facebook sends to Twitter. I go for them all!

Happy Tweeting!

SEO for Title Tags: How to Maximize Your Title Tag

The title tag is a huge performer in the whole scheme of search engine optimization. It is what you see in the search engines. A strong, enticing and most of all, relevant, title tag will ensure traffic and click-throughs..

So what makes a strong title, you ask? Well, first you must know that Google has a 70 character limit on title tags. Otherwise, you tag will just end up getting cut off, which in turn equals less clicks. Keeping that in mind, you are going to avoid the newspaper-like headlines for your titles. The witty and humored titles of newspapers do not work for SEO. Instead, you are going to want titles that mean something. Make it like an ad. Think: you are advertising a product (your post or article) and you want to sell it (generate traffic).

Start with your keyword, first. Look at the title of this article…SEO for Title Tags. That gives you the key words right off the bat. And keep the primary keyword as number one in the title. In our case, “SEO” because that is what we are talking about here. Next, we do have a few more keywords, “title tags” which adds to the message of this article. A pitfall for titles are to put the business name first. Put that in the meta description. Because, lets face it, normally, what are you searching for? Something a bit more specific than, say, Apple. Your search might look something more like: Apple iPhone apps. Make the title more specific to what the article is about. Keywords first.

To follow up the keywords, have a call for action. This would be a verb, because we are talking about doing something. And hopefully the reader will too….click your article. We are talking words such as: read, discover, find, buy, get, and so on.

And to reiterate the point, make sure that what you are adding in this title is actually what your article is about! Obvious, but overlooked.

Next, you are going to want to mix in a few more keywords. Maybe not your primary or most sought after keywords. But something that can expand your range of searches. We have “maximize your title tag.” So a few secondary keywords from that are “maximize title tag” or just “title tag”. We already have “title tags” in the front position. So back it up with more options to be found.

Finally, you may consider putting your business or site name here…at the end. This way we are not fully excluding it from the title. But note that it is not the primary focus of the title. It becomes more in the background. However, keep in mind that 70 character limit that Google enforces. So if it makes it too long, don’t worry about adding it in. You can do without. I am sure there are plenty of other references to the site in other places.

None of this is concrete however. You are going to have to do some testing for yourself to find out what works for you. These are just a few things we have learned and seen along the way that have had results. Now you have a starting place and can expand your titles to generate traffic. Develop some strategies and formulas of your own and test the against each other to find out the best results for you website.

Happy titling!

Create a Social Network Ad

Here is something cool we found from the great blog, Mashable, that allows you to create an ad which will display a few social network IDs, your tweets, and even your RSS feed. Drive more traffic to your social networks and profiles on the Internet. It is customizable in that you can add your own background or banner, text, video, images, and more! Consider it your first Social Media ad. Get creative!

http://mashable.com/sociable-ad-creator/

WordPress Now has Short URLs – WP.me

Now, for the blogs hosted by WordPress.com will automatically have short URLs with the addition of WP.me. With the short URL craze, WordPress has finally stepped up for those who have WordPress hosted blogs. The links will be linked in the <head> tag of your website’s HTML.

You will now see a “Get Shortlink” next to the Permalink when you create a new post or edit an old one.

Read more about what WordPress says about their WP.me short links at http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/