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How to Find If Your Forum Member Profile Links are Publicly Visible For Search Engines or NOT

Suneel — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:46:31 +0000

Well, that was a long title. But, I think it serves the purpose by capturing your attention. So, you are on the way to increase your backlinks by creating tons of profile backlinks on several hundred forums. That’s good to hear. Because these backlinks whether do-follow or no-follow will definitely help you in the long run. A sincere suggestion would be to create these at regular intervals so that search engines do not think that you are just fooling around by creating tons of backlinks on a jump along basis. You can’t fool search engines always, so better be consistent than be sorry later on.

So, lets get to know how you can analyze the forum backlinks to check whether they are publicly visible or not.

But, why should they be publicly visible in the first case? A backlink is a backlink whether its public or not, isn’t it?

No, it is not. A publicly visible backlink is more appreciated than a backlink on a dynamically generated page. So, how to find out? The process is simple.

Go to any forum of your choice. Yes, any forum which you are planning to get a backlink from but are confused whether the profile backlink is publicly visible or not thereby affecting the search engine rankings.
Ok, so you are on the forum now. Can you see any members’ names at the bottom of the forum stating that these people are online?
Good, there are a few online. Click on any member’s userid.
Are you able to see their profile with their backlink on it? Are you atleast able to see their profile? So, is the profile visible to you, that is, for general public?
Then, congrats. You have found a forum profile which allows a backlink and also is publicly visible for people and search engines alike.

Simple technique, isn’t it?

Share with us if you find any other methods to find out the validity and the visibility of your profile backlinks. Suggest any backlink strategies that you are implementing and let us write about it.

SEO Plugins & Addons Every Blogger and Webmaster Need To Have On FireFox Browser

Suneel — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:57:05 +0000

Many bloggers and internet marketers are well aware of WordPress and other CMS blogging platforms. As this site runs on prestigious WordPress CMS platform, I am considerately knowledgeable on how to tweak the blog for more traffic and SEO benefits. But, I can’t just start a blog, write quality content and sit like a duck expecting traffic to arrive without any efforts put in. There are more than hundred thousand pages being added to the blogosphere everyday. If my site has to be known to the general public through search engines I need to do a little bit more work, which I do, but not consistently. So, my blog’s traffic is consistent not monstrous. But, I wish to share the techniques I use to search for more ways to increase the traffic.

Lets read on.

Every blogger and webmaster is aware of how important a no-follow or do-follow terminology is. We need do-follow blogs to comment on and many bloggers wish to provide a space to comment if our comment is honest and related to their post on which we are commenting on.

SearchStatus

So, in order to find do-follow blogs, I use a FireFox addon called “SearchStatus”. This plugin when installed in the browser highlights a no-follow link on that particular webpage which is opened. This lets you know that its a no-follow page which does not play vital role in SEO but good in terms of increasing your network.

Second most important plugin is called “SEO Toolbar”. Install it and you get tons of features which require at least 15 minutes to research manually in a single mouse-click. The options this plugin provides start from showing PR, Alexa rank of a webpage to highly advanced features like Whois info, number of cached pages of a particular website, No. of .edu links pointing to the site and many many more. You need to have this in your arsenal if you are looking out for SEO research.

Third and most important is “SEOQuake”. True to its name. It shakes the ground off any firefox browser add-ons. But, having these three add-ons will turn your browser into a power packed SEO research tool. The number of parameters that can be used to retrieve all the information about your competitors website is amazing.

Having these three free tools will boost your SEO research tactics without spending too much time on it.

In the next few posts we will discuss on how to increase backlinks, search engine positions, pagerank(as of now this blog is 0, so I will share the steps I am taking to increase it) and increasing my network in the next few months.

Bloggers interested in SEO also read the below posts:

1. 15 Tools to Check,Analyze,Publicize,Monetize the Site or Blog Traffic Through Analytics and Heat Maps

2. Check The Status of Search Engine Results on FireFox

3. 13 Tips To Prove How Blog Posts Can Bring in More Visitors and BackLinks

4. How to find .GOV Blogs to Post Comments With URL and To Increase Valid Back Links

5. Which Is Important? Google Page Rank(PR) or Alexa Traffic Rank

Purchasing Traffic For Site or Blog From Forums-Not Recommended-Why?

Suneel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:23:53 +0000

Many new bloggers and webmasters are so traffic-frenzy and wish to get 1000s of visitors in their first days of launching websites. Posting a few articles and developing a few pages of content does not drive traffic. Leave alone the traffic, at times, even search engines do not crawl the new websites for a short period of time. This happens because the DNS propagation does not happen so soon as one or two days.

And there is also inevitable task of submitting the sitemap to search engines and waiting for their crawlers to suck up our content and index it. All this needs time and there is also a indisputable factor of Search Engine Optimization(SEO).

Lets move ahead and know where and how this traffic is bought and brought from and how this traffic does not serve the real purpose of capturing interest…

1. Where is this traffic bought?

This kind of traffic is usually organized and maintained by several people who have several ISPs tucked under their own belts. ISPs in the sense not the original Internet Service Providers which provide bandwidth to people to browse the internet, but, the masking gateways which replicate the functionality of an ISP.

So, this paid traffic is usually advertised on famous webmaster forums like Digital Point, V7N, Warrior Forums and several other.

2. How much will this traffic cost me?

Many traffic drivers(strange term) promise you the sky for as low as $5 for 5000+ visitors thronging on your website. They promise and actually swear that all the traffic consists of human visitors who are waiting to see the content for which there had been no traffic(read, our new site for which we are buying the traffic).

Following is a screenshot of a few offers from DigitalPoint forum.

I tried several users for some of my clients’ blogs and websites. Even though the traffic does come at the advertised amount, the traffic is supposedly from the PTC websites which offer a certain amount of money to logged in users. There is one question lingering in my mind: How can people who click the link for a few cents buy a product online?

I am asking this because most of the traffic sellers do state that the traffic is the premium traffic who are desperate for information and product, but lazy to roam around. I doubt this a lot.

3. Who profits the most from this kind of traffic?

No doubt the seller. And, the people who are into flipping websites/blogs. Flipping is a very profitable business online and the paid traffic from these vendors can actually be displayed as the real human traffic for a bunch of keywords thrown in.

As this paid traffic can be actually seen on Google Analytics and several other websites statistics, there is every chance that people buying these kind of websites can actually think that there is real human traffic. So, a flipped website with more than 1000+ traffic per day can really sell off well.

4. So, what would you suggest? Buy or Not Buy?

If Flipping is on your mind, then go for it and maintain a ratio of at least 500+ visitors per day for at least 2 month time period to make your statement and sell off well at your quoted price.

If you need targeted traffic, then forget Paid Traffic. This traffic is not supposed to buy anything because this traffic mainly consists of bots from random IP addresses accessing your blog/site.

5. What can I do to drive traffic to my website then?

Learn a little SEO(Search Engine Optimization). It’s not that difficult, just go step by step. Here are a few articles that will get you started.

Do not stop at these, search for articles related to SEO and read and learn from several other prominent bloggers like Darren Rowse and follow the comments on the articles to get to know more interesting and informative articles.

If you have any questions, suggestions, updates do let me know through the comments section or use the ‘Contact Us’ link above.

Earn Using Your Blog or Site Images Through Money Making Ad Program

Suneel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:22:57 +0000

A picture speaks thousand words, eh, I suppose it speaks more than thousand to me. And add to that, what if, those images which are beautifying your blog earn you money through ads on them. Just like Google Adsense earns you nifty dollars month after month. Yes, today we are going to discuss about that program and how you can be a part of it.

All it takes is a small javascript file which can start generating income for you through your blog images. So, who provides the advertising code?

Image Space Media is an ad serving company which helps you to place ads on your images. You can register to their ad services by sending us an email to webmaster AT TeamNirvana dot COM. Send your details like Site Name, URL and Niche it covers.

You can have a look at the following image and move your mouse over it to see the way the ads are displayed. They look just like the ads on YouTube videos, don’t they?

This image has ads on it

This kind of advertising does suit the bloggers and webmasters who are holding up sites based on image galleries.

Infolinks Dream On Contest-Publishers Can Make Their Dreams Come True

Suneel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:12:15 +0000

Many bloggers do create interesting articles and post on their blogs and sites in order to share them to the world and as well make a few bucks out of the ads. These ads are displayed on their websites, at prominent places like what I have, at the left side of this post. Bloggers generate income when the ads are clicked and this kind of payment is called as Pay Per Click. While Google Adsense rules the online advertising industry there are several other big ad-serving companies who do share a good amount of income to the publishers.

One of the best hi-paying publisher I have been working with is Infolinks. Infolinks had been my second best earner on a monthly basis. As mine is a technology based blog, even though I do not make much from in-text advertising, I had been happy with their work ethics and support. The loading time of the script is negligible and the way the ads pop-up too is not distracting unlike other in-text advertising programs.

Infolinks had started a contest today, on June 17^th 2010, to make the publishers(like me) dreams come true. What kind of dream, you may ask? Any dream, like visiting the Carribean beaches and frolic on the sand and even dreaming about getting a professional theme for your blog/site. You name it and if it is feasible by the team of Infolinks, the dream would materialize. So, what’s needed to be done? What are the rules?

Simple rules. Answer these two questions.

What about Infolinks makes you happy?
What can Infolinks do to make you happy, really happy?

Yes, that’s it. Complete the questions with answers, blog them on and send the URL or the answers to blog@infolinks.com to add your entry. After that?

The Infolinks team will review the submissions and choose the winners based upon the most interesting, fun and thoughtful dreams.
Then, the best part, we’ll make the dreams come true. Good luck!

There it is. So simple and creative. Hurry and send in your entries.