Web Design Discussion

After you’ver installed your WordPress Blog you will notice all URLS contain “id” in them. This means they are not search engine friendly…search engines have a difficult time spidering this type of URL therefore you will lose traffic.

You need to optimize your blog by converting your long URLS to ones that include the title of your post.

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To read points 1-8 visit:

Top 12 Ways to Market Your Blog and Increase Web Traffic

9. Syndicate your content to other sites

Include icons on your blog that will easily enable visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed with their feed readers.

Here are 3 other ways to syndicate your content to other sites:

Increase web site traffic with JavaScript syndication

Increase web site traffic with PHP syndication

Increase web site traffic using an iFrame

Web traffic will increase in proportion to the number of sites that carry your content. If a heavy traffic site syndicates your content you will see a large boost in traffic.

10. Optimize your blog design.

Customize the design of your blog by enabling permalinks

This displays the title of your post in the URL of that post (as seen in the above URL.) If you integrate searchable keywords
in your title it will show up in the URL. These URLs help your blog get good rankings in the search engines.

Create a Google Site Map

A Google Site Map helps search engines index your content because it will spider links to all the pages in your blog.

12. Answer your blog comments

Enable your blog to receive comments. Be sure to answer the comments people leave at the bottom of your post because you respect the time they took to reply. It will help you to create online friends and partnerships which ultimately will result in more traffic.

Tips

If you are consistent in adding quality content, marketing it to online publishers and build relationships with other sites
you will see a continuous increase in your web site traffic.

To read points 1-4 visit Top 12 Ways to Market Your Blog and Increase Web Traffic

5. Write short paragraphs, use numbers and bullets

Readers scan content on the web, therefore break your content into bite sized chunks, using numbers, bullets to make it easier to
read. Use lots of white space so the text stands out. You can also include images, or videos if it enhances the content.

6. Visit other sites, blogs, forums

Try to add unique content to other sites by participating in forums or blogs related to your own blog. Leave constructive comments on blogs similar in content to your own. Traffic will increase to your own web site because you can include a link back to your own site at the end of your forum post or blog comment. If your feedback is very informative it will stimulate readers to visit your blog also.

7. Submit content to article directories

There are many online publishers that don’t have the time or knowledge to create content for their newsletters. They get the content from article banks. When you submit an article to an article bank it can be used by ezine or newsletter publishers that may have thousands of readers. You receive web traffic when ezines publish your content because you can include a link to your site in your resource box at the end of each article.

Some article directories allow you to create anchor text within your resource box. This means you create a live link to your site in the resource box that will include your targeted keywords.

8. Submit your blog to RSS and blog directories.

Most blogging software automatically submits your blog content to RSS directories automatically because it is already built into the software.

Here’s a list of the top 55 blog directories you can submit your blog to:

Read points 9-12 in the next post…..

If you want to attract visitors to your blog you need to market it on a continous basis. You won’t see any increase in web traffic if you just throw up a blog on the Web and expect it to get traffic immediately. Create a simple marketing plan first using the methods below, then stick to it.

Here are the top 12 ways to market your blog:

1. Add fresh content

You’ve probably heard the phrase “content is king.” This is because content is what the web consists of. Search engines
primarily spider content on web pages and information is what people search for. I try to add content to my blog at least 3 times a week to keep visitors and search engines happy.

2. Research keywords

If you have a business blog that has AdSense Ads or Affiliate Programs on it be sure to research your best keywords first
then integrate them into your content. You won’t attract search engines or visitors if you write on topics people are not
interested in (ie you only receive a small number of searches for that term). I use SEARCH IT for all my keyword research. It’s a free SEO tool that not only provides you with targeted keywords, but also shows what competing sites are doing to get good rankings.

3. Placement of keywords

Include your keywords in the meta tags (title and description tags) and within your content. Your title is the most important tag because visitors will read this first before your main content. The title also appears at the top of your visitors’ browsers.

4. Create an attractive headline

Write a catchy headline for each post. For example the headline of this post explains what you are writing about (Top 12 ways to
market your blog) and what benefit you receive (Increase web traffic). The headline needs to pull the reader into the content.

The other points are discussed in my next post……

How to Create an iFrame on Your Web Page

1. Create a new HTML file, place some content in it and save it as “newpage.html”

2. Create another HTML file and call it “holdingpage.html”, and include the following syntax within the .. tags of this web page.


<iframe src="newpage.html" width="600" height="800"
frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" name="myInlineFrame"></iframe>

This places newpage.html inside the floating frame….holdingpage.html. The text for non-compatible browsers is for those folks with web browsers that can’t process iframes…they can’t see the frame.

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Site owners are always looking of new ways to create fresh content for their sites. This is because fresh content gets spidered by the search engines and also keeps your visitors coming back.

My previous articles discussed how to syndicate your web content using RSS (really simple syndication) or Javascript.

An iFrame is another great method to syndicate your own content.

Definition of an iFrame

This is an inline frame that you can embed within a web page. It’s a window placed inside your web page that can include
content from another web site. The content is actually contained in an external web document.

Benefits of an iFrame for Content Syndication

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If you want to provide fresh content for your web pages automatically
consider purchasing a copy of RSS Content Builder.

8 Top Benefits of RSS Content Builder

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Here are the steps to automatically create a content feed for your web site using PHP Syndication.

1. Create a web page where you want the syndicated article to be published. Alternatively choose a web page that you have already created.

2. Copy and paste the line of PHP code below into the body of your web page (where you want the headlines to appear.)


<? include('http://www.isitebuild.com/includes/syndicate.txt'); ?>


3. Upload the syndicated web page to your server.

That’s it!

Now you can automatically receive my new article headlines on your site every time they are updated. You can now offer fresh high quality content to your site visitors without having to do anything yourself.

(If you wish to carry the automatically updated article headlines on your site, please send me your URL and site name so I can add you to my list. You may receive some extra web traffic by taking advantage of this opportunity).

Conclusion

PHP Syndication and RSS Syndication are the 2 best methods for seach engines to spider content on your web site.

1. Copy the content you want syndicated into a separate file and save it as syndicate.txt. It can be named with any extension ie .txt, .html, .php, .shtml

2. Place this file into an includes folder and upload it to your server.

3. Insert the PHP includes file below between the body tags of the web page/site
where you want your content to be displayed.


<body>
<? include('http://www.domainname.com/includes/syndicate.txt'); ?>
</body>


4. Name the web page with a .php extension (ie syndicate.php)

Web pages using php syndication must use .php as an extension ie syndicate.php. If they use .txt, .html, .htm the page will not load and the syndicated content will not appear.

Tip

How to edit the .htaccess file for non-php web pages.

If the syndicated site only has web pages ending in .html or .htm edit the .htaccess file by inserting this code:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

Make sure you upload the .htaccess file to the server.

Now any web site that has pages ending in .htm, or .html will be able to syndicate your web site content.

5. Upload the syndicated web page to your server. The syndicated content from your site will now appear on their site.

You can use the same php code on pages within your own site if you want your article headlines to appear there also.

My next post will discuss:

How to Syndicate My Article Headlines on Your Web Site With PHP Syndication:

Syndicating your web site content using PHP includes is a great way to increase traffic to your web site because you are multiplying your content all over the Web for others to view.

Benefits of PHP Syndication

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