How to Make Your Blog or Website Popular

Many webmaster ask this question to SEO experts that how to make my website or blog popular quickly. For them I would say that there is no shortcut of success. All you need is to be fair in whatever you do and have patience. You will see the positive results. In this post, i will explain few points, if followed can lead your website to big success.

Unique Contents:

The first and very important step to make your website a big hit is that you should provide unique contents. Never copy the contents from popular website in a hope that you will make your website popular very soon. There are advantages of providing unique contents. All big poplar websites will link back to you if your content is unique and have some importance for their users. More and more popular websites will start linking back to you. Your authority will increase. You will receive more backlinks and hence more Google PageRank value as well as more referral traffic.

Hold Your Visitors:

This is another art you should know. You can get traffic from many sources but if your website is not able to hold this traffic, your website is not able to turn this traffic to re- visitors, your website popularity will never increase. A website is popular because of re-visitors. If users feel that your website is worth visiting again, it's your win and sign of the popularity of your website.

Here are some points on how can you hold your visitors-

• Unique content will hold visitors.
• Website navigation should be easy. User should easily get what they are looking for.
• Never try to make your users fool by providing misleading information.
• Never distract your visitor from your website contents.
• Some kind of regular visitor participation like poll, survey, contest etc.
• Keep away your website from Spamming

Provide New Contents:

Update your contents frequently. Search engines like new contents. Fresh and unique contents will keep your SERP up and high SERP will turn into high traffic and hence more chances of your website to be popular. For a single service or product provider websites, they can focus more on quality of their services. Always try to keep your website search engine friendly in order to achieve high SERP.

Active participation in Related Niche:

Active participation in related niche websites, blogs to pull traffic as well as to put our website in front of users of other websites is required. More exposure your website will get, more likely users will come back to your website. The form of participation could be blog commenting, forum posting and article submission etc.

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking:

Social Networking and Social Bookmarking can bring good amount of traffic to your website and can give exposure to your website. Your next job is to convert this traffic to your regular visitors.

Drive Traffic to Your Blog or Website with Google, Yahoo and Facebook Groups

In today's world, Social Networking plays an important role in the success and failure of any blog or website. It is as important as the content of your website. More social networking leads to more users/traffic for your website. In this article, I will explain how you can drive the traffic to your website or blog using Groups services from some of the top internet brands e.g. Google, Yahoo! and Facebook. Though there are other sites as well but we will talk about these only in this article.

Yahoo! Groups is the one who started its services a way before Google and Facebook and still the leader in its offerings. Google and Facebook groups too are trying to catch up Yahoo! very fast. For any website or blog, it is very important to interact with its users. Though the website itself provides the options like comments, ratings, poll etc. but apart from interaction in your website, you should also explore other platforms to interact with users who might be interested in your blog or website.

Yahoo! Groups: If you are a owner of a blog or website and you want to promote it and looking for more user interaction then you can start a new Yahoo! Group related to your website/blog. This group can be used to showcase the things about the topic of your website. E.g. If I own a site called nokia5800downloads.blogspot.com, i can create a Yahoo! group with name Nokia 5800 Downloads. Yahoo! Groups allows you to add new members, post articles, images, attachements, links, etc. You can create polls to interact with your group members. You can even promote your group using the tools provided by Yahoo! Groups.

Just add more and more users to your Yahoo! Group and talk about your blog/website. Yahoo! Groups is a powerful tool and it can drive good amout of traffic to your website. I have seen the groups with thousands of users. You can create a new Yahoo! Group by visiting the URL http://groups.yahoo.com/

Google Groups: Unlike Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups is very simple and offers you pretty much the same as Yahoo! Groups. You can add members, create pages, add links, photos and files. You have discussions where you can post about your website and let users of the group interact with you on the topic of discussion. The interface is very simple and it's very easy for first time users as well.

You can create a Google Group by visiting the URL http://groups.google.com/. You can add a link of your group to your website so that a visitor coming to your website can join the group and later you can keep informing him about any latest updates of your website through this group.

Facebook Groups: After Google and Yahoo!, Facebook too has Facebook Groups, a service which helps you connect and share with the people interested in your website or blog. If you have a Facebook account, creating and running a group is as easy as opening a webpage. Fill the few information like your Group name, the category it belongs to and a little description and there you go. You have your Facebook Groups created. Unlike Yahoo! and Google Groups, Facebook Groups is very advanced. You can add links, images, videos in a second with the cool interface it provides. You can set an event, start a discussion. You can even promote your Facebook Group.

You can invite people to join your group. There are plenty of ways provided in the interface to interact with the members of your group. Facebook Groups is the best offerings in terms of interface and functionalities.

How to get you backlinks for your blog or website

Backlink Definition:

Backlinks are those links that point to your website or webpage. For Example:- If i write a blog post and other webmasters find it useful. They will link back to my post in their blog and website.

The other terms for backlinks are incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.



Backlink Usage:
Backlinks are very important in SEO(Search Engine Optimization). Backlink is very important factor to measure the popularity or importance of a website or webpage. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others give much importance to backlinks. Baclinks can increase your web traffic from search engines as well as from referrals.

Backlink Tips:

1:-To increase the Google page rank of your website, try to get backlinks from high PR websites.

2:-Submit articles to directories to get backlinks. Article Submission is very effective way to get backlinks.

3:-Regular commenting on popular websites can help you to build backlinks.

4:-Submit your blog or website URL to free directories to get backlinks. You will find many free directories on internet with high PR.

5:-Social Netowrking and Social Bookmarking can bring you good amount of backlinks.

How to Drive Traffice-with Yahoo Search Engine

Yahoo!, the second largest search engine after Google is suppose to be the toughest search engine for webmasters to rank high. Yahoo! search algorithm is very different from Google and this is the reason, a website ranking good in Google may not rank well in Yahoo! In this post, I will explain few tips to get success with Yahoo!, tips to get good amount of traffic from Yahoo search engine. Tips to perform well on Yahoo for your keywords.

Your success with Yahoo is dependent on Yahoo itself. Yahoo provides various tools for webmasters in order to bring them good amount of traffic from Yahoo! search engine. In this post, we will explore all these tools in details.

Yahoo publisher network helps you to increase the reach of your website to new readers. Here is what you can do with Yahoo! publisher network.

• Submit your blog or website RSS feed to Yahoo!
• Allow other users to subscribe your RSS feed in their My Yahoo! pages using Add to MY Yahoo! button.
• Submit your website to Yahoo!
• Manage effectively your website with Yahoo! site explorer

Submit RSS feed to Yahoo! :

If you are not aware of RSS feed, refer to the post here. Once you have feed of your blog or website, you can take advantage of one of the world's most popular feed reader "My Yahoo!". Yahoo! has a large feed database and in order to have your website feed in their feed database, you should first login into Yahoo! using your Yahoo! login id and password. Once login, you can follow this page to submit your RSS feed to My Yahoo! page and Yahoo! feed database.

Once your feed is added, Yahoo! will do the rest. Depend on the frequency of your contents update on your website, Yahoo! will check your feed. You can also tell Yahoo! about your latest updates using Ping. The URL for the ping is-

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[THE URL of your RSS feed].

In case, you are not aware of Ping, refer to the post here.

Add to MY Yahoo! :

Webmasters can have "Add to MY Yahoo!" button on their blog or website to let others subscribe the feed of your website in their "My Yahoo" webpage. Add to my Yahoo! button is very handy and comes in two style "Long button" and "short button with text" as given below.
You can click either of the button in order to add the RSS feed of my blog to your My Yahoo! page.

Submit your website to Yahoo :

Yahoo! provides you an option to tell to Yahoo! about your website or you can say a request to Yahoo! to include your website in their search engine. You can find it here http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html. In the above link, you will find Yahoo! search submission and Yahoo! directory submission. You can submit your website and website feed to Yahoo! for free.

Mange your website with Yahoo Site Explorer :

Yahoo site explorer gives you complete control over your website in Yahoo!. You can track the progress of your website with Yahoo! site explorer. You can see what all pages of your website are there in Yahoo! search index. You can track the internal and external links to your website. Most of the webmaster prefers backlinks calculations of Yahoo! than Google because it shows all your backlinks. If you are not aware of backlinks, refer to the post here.
You can submit and track the feed of your website in Yahoo! site explorer. You can delete the URL that you do not want Yahoo! to index.

If you want to drive traffic to your website from Yahoo!, follow all these steps in order to expose your website to Yahoo! and let Yahoo! throw thousands of readers to your website every day. Make your success with Yahoo!

Very recently Yahoo! launched a new look and feel for Yahoo Site Explorer. You can access it from http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new