WordPress Express is just one of the newest benefits of the WA Members area now to great relief of many a wealthy affiliate.

It’s long been known that google loves blogs, and the most famous and cherished amid bloggers of all blogging platforms is wordpress.org . It’s favoured by bloggers for it infinite variations allowing you to produce a unique looking blog by using a vast array of plugins, a the click of a few buttons. (if you know which buttons to click)

Well no need worrying about which buttons to click to set up a blog that Google loves any more, Kyle and Carson have introduced WordPress Express into the members utility bag. You LITERALLY get  highly optimized wordpress blog in about 45 seconds.

I have been a tad suspicious as I have been using wordpress for a couple of years now but I eventually had to take a look. I am not surprised that this had become a big hit with wealthy affiliate members, the blog template looks fantastic and the navigation is great to, the whole thing has that WA feel to it. The reader has the option to join a very non obtrusive looking ist that is exactly the target audience for budding affiliate marketers.

From the back end it works just like a regular WP blog I have to confirm the ftp every time that I upload but I am sure if I ask Welshy he will have a fix for that too.

Summary

A great new piece of kit for the WA Members Area. It’s going to bring a ot of members face to face with the most cutting edge blogging platform there is. I expect to see a lot of WA blogs dominating a few crucial keyword very soon.

When I first started at Wealthy Affiliate I put up a wordpress blog after reading that it would get crawled  lot faster because of all the new content that was added regularly, (there is a reason for the gap of almost 7mths between posts!) I have changed the format of the blog a few times but basically stuck to my guns and it has taught me  relevant content is king.

Speak soon thanks for reading.

Regardless of how adamant some individuals claim the SEO business could be “a den of snake-oil salesmen”, there are still definite ways that webmasters can improve their rankings, and therefore their visibility in Google’s search results.

This isn’t a game of cheating as Google proper hates that , and can punish you for it which is perhaps what the darker side  of the SEO world. Sensible, in-bounds SEO is created from smart, user-and-search-engine friendly techniques. Assume of SEO as a performance-enhancing drug-one that will not get you kicked out of baseball.

That being said, there are hundreds of things webmasters can do to help their sites perform higher in search, thus this list is not by a long shot finished. It’s, though, what we assume are the top ten strategies for higher search engine by “search engine” I mean “Google” – placement.

1. Title tags

Listed by others together of the Huge Three (tags, links, and text), we tend to’re putting title tags at the top. The words in the title tag seem in the link that pops up in the search result. This is where you tell the search engine (and the would-be visitor) as succinctly as attainable what needs to be known: company or publication name; relevant, targeted keyword or keyword phrase taken from the text of the page. Every page ought to have a title tag as Google ranks every page individually, not the location in its entirety.

2. Content

The order of the Huge Three is terribly debatable, however extremely they work as parts of the entire; not one in all them can be disregarded if the machine is to work properly. In this case, you almost certainly understand that content ought to be quality, however that’s outlined, however it ought to additionally be made within the keywords you’re targeting to drive search traffic. That does not mean simply throwing them in there like you’re cooking up a pot of SEO gumbo, though. Keyword use and keyword variation ought to be natural and not overstuffed. For the visual text part of the page, specialise in operating in the relevant words and phrases you wish folks to seek out you for.

3. Quality Links

Or more specifically, back links, links to your web site from outside sources. Links are your letters of recommendation. If nobody’s recommending you, or the recommendations appear phony, then it won’t work. Authority links are weighted most heavily, after all, thus attempt to induce business-connected authority sites to link to your site.

4. Quantity Links

Authority (high quality) links are by nature additional difficult to get, so you’ll have to start someplace else unless you have already got the complete recognition you wish from square one. Several SEOers propose “link-swaps” to each other and it used to be common trade to buy and sell links. However as Google demonstrated last Fall, you can’t obtain Google’s love that way. Of course, you will get the other of love. Therefore, attempt to induce as many links as you’ll be able to from trade peers the great old-fashioned method – by promoting. Submit links to revered directories like DMOZ and Yahoo, as well. A massive burst of low-quality, non-authoritative, or unhealthy-neighborhood links, though, can do a lot more hurt than smart; thus keep things natural.

5. URL

The importance of the URL is usually debated, however one argument appears to create a lot of sense than the others. Search engines do not like too many parameters within the URL (straightforward to confuse the spiders with & and ?) and people cannot scan those long URLs and tell what they mean at a glance either. The individuals side here is especially necessary, as a result of they’re those clicking and they need to understand where a link leads them at a millisecond glance. Lesson: keywords in the URL are a good idea.

6. Spider Food

Search spiders eat HTML, not Flash. They eat text, not pictures. Build the spiders proud of HTML and heaps of text to eat.

7. Site Design

There’s a lot to consider here, but the goal is creating a web site spiders will simply access, a web site that tells them where to travel and what to index. Sitemaps are vital for this purpose, as is proper use of Robots.txt.

8. Frequently Updated Content

You may start a site, slap some content on it, and let it sit there in cyber space. It’ll be indexed, most likely. However you actually expand your credibility as a faithful, relevant supply if you update regularly. In addition to spiders, it provides individuals a reason to return back, too.

9. Start a Blog

A great manner to establish yourself as an authority voice on the Web is to start out a blog about the trade you are in. Maintaining a blog means that another entry point with regularly updated content that eventually with some authority helps pull up the most site via targeted links to the positioning, or specific pages among the site. It’s not a spam blog, which can be zapped eventually, if there’s useful content on it and bonafide linking.

10. Do not Forget Humans

This is often so vital, it in all probability should be higher up on the list. There’s an art to planning a web site that is friendly to each Google crawlers and therefore the people you ultimately want to convert. While not individuals, what’s the point? Thus first style for them, and then tweak to please the spiders, not the opposite manner around. Jakob Nielsen could be a usability guru you will wish to test out. He’s been telling individuals how create user-centric websites since internet directories were still phonebooks-you know, on paper.

Finding the right keyword is for certain a make or break step in anyone’s affiliate or internet marketing efforts, without the right keywords you ain’t going to attract your target market, you ain’t going to get any traffic, so you ain’t going to make any money. So finding keywords that pay is something you need to get right every time.

But to be really truthful so many get totally lost when it comes to keyword research, and that is why so many who try online marketing fail dismally. You have to understand that just because you used a search term to find something it doesn’t mean that everyone uses the same term as y0u do, we all think differently and we all use different words for the same thing.

Lets do a quick test OK look at the image and think of how many different names there are for it

Ok so what do you call it?
I called it a dongle, but did you? call it a USB drive, Flash drive, USB stick, Mini drive, Stick drive, USB key, Memory stick … Those are just the words I can think of right now and you may use a totally different term altogether.

Do you see how different we all are in the way that we think and search, even though we may be searching for the same thing, that’s why when it comes to keywords to use you MUST dig down deep and see which are the terms are the most popular, and then decide from those which ones you want to optimise for and stick to it.

Keyword Tools
I know that everyone has there own favourite keyword tools I personally absolutely love my kickbutt niche finder keyword  tool, it’s a god send and when used properly you can quite easily corner any niche and quite simply guide the traffic to where they want to go.  but this isn’t a plug for micro niche finder I want to show you some free keyword tools that are worth a look at too.

Word Tracker – A simple but basic free keyword finder that lists the keyword in the most popular search term for the keyword you input into the search box. This is a great place to start to see if your keyword actually gets any searches.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool – Another Freebie with a lot more variables that you can use with the keyword search,  your able to instantly see the type od advertiser competition the local search volume for the month and the global searh for that particular keyword for the month too. Also you have the option for Broad searches, keyword phrase searches,  exact keyword search  and negative search too.

WordPot – Now wordpot is one that not a lot of folks talk about but it is really worth a mention. again it’s really simple but with a couple of features that certainly make it one you should book mark, again there are quite a few variables you can filter in your search and you even get a trend graph. The searches here are daily’s

Bottom Line:

You MUST get into the habit of doing a bit of detailed keyword research use what ever tool you wish but you must use one or a combination of them… IF you are like me and want to make things a little easier download this brand new cash keywords toolbar, I have just installed it and there are some really cool features to help you get the most out of your keyword research…

Keep going and never give up

MissionOps (aka Tony B)  From the Wealthy Affiliate University

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