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Meta Description Tags Are Still Important

Remember meta tags? You know, those keywords we used to put on top of our pages so that search engines will be able to pick up our sites and include them in their search results? Yeah, those. We overused those things for search engine optimisation back in the good old days, haven’t we? It’s pretty much a long time since meta tags have been relevant, and I’d be hard-pressed to find at least one search engine still using meta tags to influence their search results.

Even though most meta tags have been deprecated, the meta description tag still matters. They’re not a major factor for search engines when ranking websites, but they do act as an advertisement of sorts that increases the likelihood of clicks from search engine results pages back to your site. If you’re lucky, a keyword in your meta descriptions can also lead visitors to your site.

These are things you have to take into consideration when making meta descriptions for your site:

The meta description should describe the content of your site accurately, but in 160 characters or less.
Meta descriptions are going to be the first thing people will see from your site in search engine results, meta descriptions are like advertisements to lure people into clicking into your site
Meta descriptions can also display targeted keywords to indicate content to searchers.

You must take into account the fact that you have to be honest in making your meta descriptions. You don’t want to piss off your visitors, and have them swear off your website forever. And don’t forget to make sure your meta descriptions don’t go beyond 160 characters too.

Meta descriptions are a great way to enhance your search engine optimisation efforts, and do take advantage of them to boost your traffic and search engine hits.

Blogging Tricks to Increase Traffic to your Website (Part 2)


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You can also be a guest author on other authority blogs. If you have started with the previous method of commenting to top blogging sites, do not be surprised if the top bloggers in your market will ask you to write complete posts on their blog too. Or maybe you can approach them yourself and ask if you may write a full post on a particular topic for them to post. Most bloggers will be happy to have someone else provide content once in a while. When you write a helpful and useful post, make sure that you put a link back to you own site in return for your effort.

Blogging Tricks to Increase Traffic to your Website (Part 1)


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Every webmaster always wants to increase on-line traffic to their websites. A great way on how you can do this is to harness the power of blogs.

Start by going over to a blog-centric search engine such as Technorati or Google blogsearch and compile a list of active blogs in your niche. Then, start by visiting each blogs on a regular basis. In fact, it is recommended to subscribe to heir posts using RSS feeds. Once you got a feel for the style of the author, start commenting on these blogs with relevant information and soon you will be seen by the readers as an authority on the topic. Of course include your site’s URL when you post your comment.

McAfee Reports a lot of you STILL click on risky sites


It’s hard to determine these days what sites are safe for viewing, and it’s getting riskier everyday as the report from McAfee below states:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

It’s a bit safer now, but if your chosen and trusted search engine points you to a dangerous site, it’s better to be safe and sorry and not click on suspicious sites.

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Posters that Sell!

One way to market your brand is through poster printing. It can be an informative yet attractive way to tell the people about a newly released product, or just plainly advertise an event.
Graphic artists or layout artists can easily create templates in quite a short span of time. Or there are ready made designs, available through the internet. Here are some ways to create a poster that speaks loudly but so simply designed.

Choose images that are eye-catching.
Write a headline that will make people stop, look and think. They should want to know more. And write contents that will make the reader want to go further rather than a detailed explanation of evrything that you are selling.
Choose colors wisely. Pick colors that would represent your company or your brand.
Place your website and your email address at the end of the poster or at the bottom.

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Be Aware. Downloading Screensavers is not always safe.


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News: Controversial Vigilante Screensaver Shut Down; Trojan Warning.
Just days after they released their controversial anti-spam screensaver, Lycos Europe has shut down the campaign. The new program, “Make Love Not Spam”, was designed to actively handcuff spam servers by choking their bandwidth connection. Now, Lycos Europe has shut the campaign down for reasons still unclear.

To further compound this juicy controversy, a new Trojan horse virus has popped up, masquerading as the Make Love Not Spam screensaver. Be warned: this Trojan is NOT the MLNS program!

Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 3)


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7. Include an RSS feed where people can subscribe to your blog or your website (if you have one)
8. Write articles on a regular basis and you can submit them to the 20 largest article directories on the web. Also make sure that you include a link back to your blog in the resource box.
9. Post entries in your blog every day. Do it at least three times a week if you do not have the time. This is because frequent posts attracts engine spiders and increases traffic.
10. With every e-mail and outgoing message you send out, include a link to your blog.

Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 2)


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3. Optimize your blog. To make sure that spiders will visit your site on a regular basis, you have to submit it to major search engines.
4. Read and comment to at least 5 other blogs everyday. But don’t just say ‘Nice blog’ or ‘Good Post.’ Leave powerful comments that have substance. Also, make sure that you leave your blog address on each comment that you enter.
5. Submit your blogs to large blog directories.
6. Include a counter in your blog that will monitor unique visitors and total traffic. This can tell you what techniques are working best for your site.

Increase your Blog Traffic (Part 1)


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So you have set up your first blog and you post witty information everyday, but after three weeks, you are still not getting any kind of meaningful traffic. What can you possibly do to generate traffic for a brand new blog? There are ten suggestions:
1. Visit some forums that are related to your blog’s subject. You can try to reply to at least eight postings per day. Then include a signature file that will include the URL of your blog each time you post.
2. Ping the major blog directories every time you add a new post to your blog.

Blogging Tricks to Increase Traffic to your Website (Part 3)


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Of course, the best way to increase traffic to your website is to start your own blog. This will definitely be a surefire method to promote your main site. If you did the first two methods mentioned earlier, I am guessing that you are now well known as a certified blogger and the readers in your market are already following your writings. Now it will be very easy for you to launch your own blog, and you can be assured that your contacts will happily announce as well as promote it for you. Remember that even if your own blog is rolling, just continue to still be active in the other blogs.