SEO and traffic starter page

(I recently changed the page title to making money page seo. It is very ugly, but wise advice dictates that you will not make money if you try and tip toe around whatever you are trying to make money from. I will keep the page title like this for a few months and see what happens).

I am new to blogging and SEO (search engine optimizations) and i am currently learning how to get my site noticed. This is not a guide, but something i would of liked myself if i stumbled across it on the net. Ultimately, the benefit is making money from adsense from gaining traffic. I blog for fun, but obviously it does cost money to run and host this site. It is also out of interest to learn SEO. I find that how google works is fascinating, and gaining traffic from great (or not) content and SEO is actually fun.

What this page is about

At the moment, i am having a hard time learning everything there is to do with SEO, networking, rss feeds, and all the various ways of getting page ranking in google. I will post here every question i have, and when i find the solution i will post the answer. This method of doing things is how i work best, and what do i have to lose sharing it with everyone else? If anyone else has a question they want to add, leave a comment. I find that the answers that are given on another site are harder to digest then they should be, and you might get yourself stuck trying to find a simple solution to the answer!

Questions

Q1) How do rss feeds work in relation to networking my site?

Q2) How do sites like Digg, Technorati and the rest effect my blog and my traffic and how do i use them effectively?

Q3) Are the amount of pages more important then the amount of posts? I cant set hierarchies for pages so this is very relevant to me, since alot of sites suggest more pages are better.

Q4) What are backlinks, and what are the sites that have a backlink page? Once I learn more about pages like Griz’s niche resources I will let you know what I know.

Q5) How can I use authoritative sites to my advantage? (I will try something with my new smoking article and see if what i have planned works).

Q6) What is an anchored link and why are they so important?

A6) An anchored link is when a link from another site is linking to yours with the relevant keywords in that link. For example, if i linked my smoking article saying “you can find a good smoking article here“, that is not what you are after. I don’t understand the workings of google, but from what i have learnt so far, is that google will look at the words used to link and use that, so saying “here” for a smoking article does not tell google much. If I linked the smoking article saying “check out the article smoking and its wider effects“, that is an anchored link, and they are the best kind (Please correct me if im wrong, but I am fairly sure that is correct).

Interesting infomation

Anything I find that makes me go “aaaaah! so thats how it works!” will go here.

1 ) After a little bit of researching and posting on a few forums, I had a nice reply by Terri Wells at www.seochat.com. I thought I would find Terri’s site on her profile on the SEO forums. Instead I found an article written by Terri that made me realise that I can successfully network and market each article I make simply by writing it for authoritative sites relevant to the subject. It sounds simple, and well, it is. What it means though is I have a way of going after a niche and not having to worry about the rest of my content on my site. I will test this with my smoking and religious article, and update here if I am successful or not.

2) When content isn’t king -  An extremely good article by Terri Wells. I stumbled on this by accident (read above) and after reading through it twice I think its the most useful article I have read so far in regards to networking my site.

3) I recently bought Ben Normans Getting Noticed on Google. If you are completely new to SEO, then I really recommend this book. It covers all the basics, from keywords, page optimizations, page ranking, and everything else to do with trying to get into the top 10 for your niche.

Websites of interest

rss-feeds-submission.com – I recently found this site, but have not submitted my RSS as of yet. I am not sure how RSS works, so until I do, I wont be submitting my feed to this site.

www.dmoz.org – I think this is one of the most important sites to submit your site to. From what I have read, once your in dmoz you have a very good chance gaining more traffic because of how it uses a lot of search engines to find its results. There are other more technical benefits but I am not qualified to mention them. All you have to know is that dmoz.org is the first site you should submit to.

Yahoo website submitting page – It is very simple to submit your site to yahoo. Another good way (so ive heard) is to answer questions on answers.yahoo.com. I have not tried this yet, but if it works by letting you use your link as a reference, then you can target your audience directly.

Software

wordpress.org – The blogging software i currently use. It has an extremely powerful plugin search and installation tab, and is the main reason I would recommend wordpress over anything else. For example, a very popular plugin is all in one seo. Type in SEO in the plugin search, and select install on the seo plugin, and there you go! as simple and as easy as that. If you install something that messes up your site, simply deactivate and its sorted.

www.webceo.com – A brilliant piece of free software. It helps you optimize your site, gives you very detailed reports on your keywords and how to use them properly in your pages. This is really an essential piece of software if you want to rank as high as you can.

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