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Tips for Building Links for your Blog

By on May 19, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, article directory, article plugin, article themes, Blog Business, Blog Platform, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs, Conversion, Domains, Free Reports, Google Adsense, Membership sites, Mobil Blogging, New Blogging, SEO, Themes, Traffic, Web Design, Websites, widgets, wordpress, World Internet Summit, Wp Headers, Wp Themes, Youtube Video

Tips for Building Links for your Blog

Once you start blogging and want to become more serious about making money off of your blog you’re going to need to know how to build links for your blog. Links and content are the two most important things you’ll need to do for your blog and they’ll both take lots of time. In this article we’re going to look at some tips you can use when building links to your blog. Try implementing as many of these tips as you possibly can because they will all help you out.

Tip #1

• Make sure that you build links to your blog on a consistent basis. This means you should build links to your blog on a weekly basis and nothing longer then that. Don’t build a bunch of links one day and then stop for a couple weeks because the search engines will think your links are unnatural. As your blog ages you can build more links just make sure there all natural links.

Tip #2

• Always spread your anchor texts around and use a lot of different ones when building links. You want to use your main ones more often then others, but don’t just use a couple anchor texts. The search engines will think you’re trying to rank for the keyword unnaturally and punish your blog. If you use different anchor texts when building links you shouldn’t face this problem.

Tip #3

• Use as many different types of websites you can for your link building campaign. There are thousands of different websites where you can build links to your blog and you should spread your links around so they seem like there just coming naturally. The more variety you use when building your links the stronger rankings you’ll start experiencing.

Tip #4

• Don’t build links on link farms or anything that looks like a link farm. The search engines are very capable of finding these link farms and will ban your site from their listings. Most blog networks selling posts with duplicate content are considered link farms so be weary when buying these links for your blog.

Tip #5

• You can use automated software for building links to directories and social bookmarking websites, but there is a possibility of being banned in the search engine listings so be aware of this. There are plenty of people using these software programs without issues though so you can try them at your own risk.

There are plenty of other tips I could list for building links but you can implement these into your daily life and you’ll be well on your way. Always make sure you’re careful about building links because if you build links in a bad area you could get punished months down the road and all your work would be down the drain. I typically stick with directory submissions, social bookmarking and links from other blogs. I also use forum signatures for building quick links to my blogs and getting them indexed in the search engines. Make sure it’s a respected forum before using it for signature links because if you don’t then it could hurt your site instead of help your website.

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How to Design a WordPress Theme

By on November 8, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How to Design a WordPress Theme

If you’ve every built a website on your own or are fluent in many different programming languages, then you might be able to benefit from designing your own WordPress themes. There are a few things you need to consider though if you’re thinking about trying to make a little money from this type of activity.

Having a web development background will certainly give you a starting point as far as being able to develop WordPress themes goes, but there are some specifics that you have to be concerned about. One of prerequisites that often times applies is that you must have an in-depth knowledge of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) programming languages to be able to make your themes work in WordPress.

Since some many of the themes you see out there today incorporate images, color, graphical objects, and more, you’ll also want to consider how fluent you are in the filed of graphics design. If you have a background in graphics design, you’ll have a better chance at creating themes that are more attractive and desirable to those searching for them. This certainly isn’t a requirement, however, because you can always outsource the graphics work to those that specialize in this sort of activity.

If you want to be successful at designing and selling WordPress themes, then you have to do your homework in order to find out what the most popular themes are. Some of the more popular themes include business, blogging, and e-commerce themes. If you can focus your efforts on these types of categories, then you’ll have a better chance at being successful because people are searching for them on a consistent basis.

When you design your themes, try to keep them as professional, creative, and as functional as possible. Customers are more likely to purchase themes with these characteristics, especially if they’re trying to present their business to customers in a manner that will gain praise and admiration. Keeping the customers coming back is the key to success with any business, and the same applies to your business of designing WordPress themes.

Testing is the key to a successful product so make sure that when you think you’re finished with your theme and it is ready to be sold, go back and test all of the different components again. You want to make sure that your theme is completely error free and that all of the components are functioning properly. Trying to sell a product with holes in it is not going to do your business any good.

Finally, the price you charge for your product is going to determine how successful you are in the business you’re in. Be sure to research the average market price and then set your pricing based on that. Try to be as realistic as possible and make sure your prices are reasonable. You want to make a profit, but you don’t want to be so overpriced that nobody is ever going to purchase your product. Don’t sell yourself short either because you’ve worked hard and deserve to be rewarded for the wonderful WordPress themes that you’ve created.

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Importance of Directories for Bloggers

By on July 7, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Importance of Directories for Bloggers

A lot of people in the online business say that directory submissions are played out and not worth there weight and gold anymore. I disagree with this completely though and I feel that directory submissions are basically mandatory for bloggers. Directory submissions won’t help bring in direct traffic to your blog, but they do build your backlinks up fairly quickly and therefore boost your SERP rankings. You’re much better off taking your time with directory submissions and not doing them all at once. You’ll notice a brief increase in SE traffic from submitting to directories quickly, but if you take your time and only do a few everyday then you’ll notice a more steady flow of SE traffic. There are both free and paid directories that you can submit to and I personally don’t use any of the paid directories. Either I feel there not worth the value or in some cases just too costly for a blogger to spend on directory submissions.

Instead of spending money on directory submissions I simply submit to five directories everyday that I haven’t used before and this way I’m getting a guaranteed five backlinks each day for my blog. Google will notice that backlinks are being built everyday on a consistent basis and most importantly the links will seem naturally built to Google which is vital. When you submit to too many directories at once you run the chance of Google thinking that your submissions were done through automation which would hurt your SERP rankings. Being completely natural is the only way for you to go when building links to your blog and that’s why submitting to only 3-10 directories daily is ideal.

Since you’ll be submitting to so many directories there isn’t really a need to list any here because you’ll end up finding them anyways. There are regular directories, blog directories and niche directories, now you’ll want to submit to all three types of directories on a regular basis. Regular directories allow any type of site from almost any category you could imagine, blog directories only accept blogs and niche directories will only accept sites/blogs from the niche that the directory is about. I find that blog directories and niche directories hold good value so you should seek these types of directories out first and then move on to regular directories. There are hundreds of directory lists with thousands of directories on them which you can find easily on the internet. One of the best resources that I use for finding directories is DirectoryCritic.com which always has an updated list of directories. They also have niche directories so it’s a site worth checking out.

You’ll notice that some directories take awhile before accepting your submission but that is fine and don’t expect them to do it in one day every time. Directory owners are usually busy approving and rejecting hundreds of submissions each day so sometimes they won’t get to yours for awhile. One last thing that you need to know about directories is that some will require a reciprocal link and some won’t. I personally only submit to directories that don’t need a reciprocal link unless it’s a good blog directory or niche directory. There isn’t any reason a regular directory should ask for a reciprocal though and generally when I come across ones that do I skip them.

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