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What Is Going On With Google Panda

Terry — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:59:55 +0000

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What Is Going On With Google Panda Updates?

Google has become the major player in the search pages used by the majority of the Western world. This has placed it in a significant position of power and changes lately make you wonder if that power is beginning to be missused, intentionally or otherwse. Since the first Panda updates back in the Spring websites have been hit left right and center. In many cases these are decent websites that desreve to appear in a decnt ranked position in the search results but good sites have been almost wiped out by the changes Google has made.

It is hard to see what the benefits are. There are many reports of scraped and copied content appearing in a much higher ranked position than the original authors content. It makes no sense.

The search engiines claim to always be looking for the most rellevent results for their customers and, I guess, for other reasons sometimes the copied content looks better to them. With a few additional keywords sprinkled around the page like fairy dust a copied article may seem to be a better result to the search engine bots. It is totally unfair on the original author though and arguably providing a less impressive website for the search engine user to visit.

Many people would claim that the whole debacle of the Panda updates has been a disaster for Google, for their customers and for the website owners who put a lot of effort into producing decent articles and information for their website visitors.

Hubpages is an example of a good site that has thousands of users who publish articles on the website and in exchange get a percentage of any advertising payments. There are a large number of excellent authors providing very good quality content. There are thousands of well researched and well written articles that any visitor would be delighted to discover and read.

The first Panda update decimated the traffic to the hubpages website. The further updates, and there have been several, have done little to help Googles users find the good quality sites that exist on Hubpages website. The reverse is true.

The owners of the Hubpages website have taken all sorts of steps to try to clean out any poor quality hubs. They have stopped people linking to anything that might be seen as poor quality site. The restricted sites include such established players as clickbank presumably due to the large numbers of make money today schemes offered there alongside the good quality ebooks, videos and CDs.

A recent move to using subdomains on Hubpages appeared to have turned things around but in the last week or so many of the good quality hubpages have disappeared from the search engine results. Who knows what the reason is this time. It may be that since the subdomains have all suddenly appeared Google have sandboxed them for a few months thinking their sudden appearanc is suspicious.

Who knows what is going on in the great google mind in the sky. Whatever their intentions when they introduced the Panda updates it seems that the effects have been a disaster for their search results and for thousands, and perhaps millions, of enthusiastic authors of webpages and articles all over the world.

It is depressing to find that putting the effort in to writing good quality articles is wasted. Google does not appear to want quality. Their robotic analysis appears to favor junk over quality. It is so disheartening to find that thanks to a damn computer the common sense decisions of what is good or not has been turned on its head. No longer is quality a good thing. Rubbish is now better just so long as it has the features that the google robots are looking for. It could be complete jibberish but that would not seem to matter in the eyes of Google.

None of us knows for sure what it is that causes Google to rate one page higher than another. It may be that the pages with videos from Youtube get a better ranking because Google owns youtube. It could be the number of keywords or the variety of similar keywords. Perhaps it is down to the percentage of keywords compared to the number of words on a page. We simply don't know but in my opinion, at the moment, Google is not doing a very good job for their customers. Maybe having poor search engine results means they get more adwords clicks on the search pages.

There are businesses that provided a perfectly good service for their visitors who have been decimated by these changes and many decent poeple are suffering thanks to Google and its whims. Such irresponsibility is to be expected. Google is a private company. They have no duty the the world other than their shareholders and it may be the changes have been very profitable but it has made the internet a less useful place for the users and has made producing good quality content a waste of time for website owners and authors. Let us hope that for the good of the internet Google changes their direction and begins to put quality first before we all disappear in a swamp of poor quality webpages that the intoduction of Adsense started.

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Proving I am Not An Autobot And The Problems Reading Captchas Tests

Terry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:44:47 +0000

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We all want our websites to be popular and have lots of web users visiting them. To assist the popularity of websites backlinks are a big help. One useful way of building backlinks is to sign up for various websites and blogs that give you a profile name. The user names are to be used when you are commenting on their site. Many will have the option of adding a URL for a website address to your profile details and this will be counted as a link back to your site by the search engines. Some people spend a lot of time finding and building these backlinks as they are unlikely to disappear and they can sometimes be on high pageranking websites.

The spammers and black hatters have noticed this too, of course. Before long they started spamming the heck out of websites that offered anyone the opportunity to gain a link. The result of all this computerized spamming was the development of the CAPTCHA system whereby you have to type in the word or phrase shown to demonstrate you are a real person wanting to sign up.

The spammers were not going to let this stop them and they have constantly developed better and better captcha readers to continue with their automated activities. This has now got us to a position where some of these captchas are very difficult to read by us humans. I frequently type in the wrong words because I cant quite figure out what the letters and numbers are supposed to be.

I can see a day coming when the only website visitors that will be able to read the jumble of letters presented will be autobots controlled by computer systems. The only users to be able to get these website profile backlinks will be the computer controlled autobots. I have no idea where will that leave us and what we will do then. It may be we will see clips of video and be asked questions about what happened but the captcha system will need to be very sophisticated so it can understand a natural language reply.

It is in the nature of computer programs and computer systems that they are developed and get better and better at what they do. We poor humans are stuck with the eyes and brains we are born with. We can only hope that there will be some new development that makes it easier to tell a human from an autobot. To be honest I think that is unlikely to happen. Whatever they come up with you can be sure computer programers will find a way to overcome it and us poor humans will be forever struggling to prove we are a real person.

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To Make Money Online You Need Traffic To Your Website

Terry — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:22:54 +0000

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Every day new people start out thinking they can make a lot of money online in no time at all. They have seen the marketing that says how easy it is to make truck loads of money with very little work. Most will be disappointed because it is never quite as easy as many promotions of products, systems and guides suggest.

There is no question about it, there are boatloads of money being made online every day and this will continue to grow. The questions arise over who will make that money and how they make it.

A lot of people make a good living by selling How To Make Money Online guides and courses. If you only follow the marketing forums you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the only way to make money online. The reality is very different.

Amazon And Ebay are just two examples of companies making huge amounts of money every single day by selling real, physical products. Ebay is slightly different in that the products are not their own but that should be an example to us all. You do not have to have your own product to make money online.

Selling other people's products as an affiliate is one of the simplest ways of making money online. You do not have to do any customer support or refunds. Everything is done for you and all you need to do is provide the traffic and potential customers to the sellers sales page.

Traffic is the key to pretty much everything online. It doesn't matter if you have the best product or the best website if you have no traffic. Visitors are what makes for successful websites and the more opportunities you take advantage of to promote your website around the web, the more likely you are the achieve success, whatever products you choose to sell.

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Get Backlinks Automatically To Increase Your Website Traffic

Terry — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:46:02 +0000

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There are three ways to increase your website traffic. You can tell people about your site both online and offline. You can get other people to tell the world about your website and you can rank well in the search engines to improve your chances of people finding you when they search for what your website has to offer.

All three ways are broadly similar. It's all about spreading word about your website and what people will find there to encourage them to want to come visit. There can be few things as frustrating as putting your heart and soul into producing a website you are proud of but hardly anyone comes to look.

In an ideal world you would do nothing. The world would discover your website and they would all suggest their friends take a look. Sadly this doesn't happen much in real life so we have to do something to promote our websites.

The simplest and arguably the best way of getting more traffic to your website is when the search engines rate your website highly and put it at the top of the search engine rankings. There are various secret analysis methods they use to decide which sites get pride of place in the top ten on page one of the results for any search term but there are two things we know they pay a lot of attention to.

First is the domain name. If you have a perfect domain name for what your website is about that will give it a big boost in the search results. Secondly, we know the search engines consider the number and quality of backlinks, on other websites and blogs, pointing back to your website counts for a lot. These backlinks are considered to be a positive recommendation of your website and it makes a lot of sense because the best websites are bound to develop quite a following and lots of people will link to them. Clearly, backlinks are crucial to your success in getting to increase your website traffic from search engines but how can we encourage people to link to our website?

You can do all sorts of things to spread the word and gain backlinks on other sites and blogs but it all takes time and it can be a very tedious process. You can offer to link back to a site if they link to you but these links, known as reciprocal links, are thought to be less valuable in the eyes of the search engine algorithms.

What we want are links from sites that we don't have to link back to but then there is no incentive for them to give us the backlink. What if someone set up a service where you link to various sites and other sites link to you and all this is done in a way that means everyone gets backlinks but they are never reciprocal?

Well they have and it is a simple to use and very effective service. This type of linking is known as three way linking and it works. All sites are checked to see that they are proper websites and not just spammy sites and all have to be indexed by Google to be accepted.

You join up with the service and are then given some code to make an extra page on your website that displays the links which slowly grow over time and all this happens without you having to do anything more as you increase backlinks automatically. In return your website will gain links almost every day which builds up to give you backlinks from all over the internet. All these extra backlinks should give your website greater credibility with the search engines and improve your position in the search engine results. The end result should be a sustained increase in website traffic.

This is a very good service and very professionaly run with simple instalation intructions and good support offered via a forum. There is a monthly fee for the service but you can have up to fifty websites gaining backlinks almost every day. The cost is only $7 for the first 30 days so you can give it a thorough test to see if you feel the cost is justified and cancel before the month is up if for some reason you are disappointed. I don't think you will be but you may not be ready for a service like this yet. You can read all about it here.. and hopefully you will increase website traffic and visitors to your site.

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Why Am I Working At Home In My Underpants?

Terry — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:01:19 +0000

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You will have heard talk about how you can make a living working online at home in your underpants. It's a standard sort of phrase to emphasize how you don't have to get up and go to work in the office or factory that has kept you in chains for a lot of your working life.

Buy this product and m,ake your fortune while working at the kitchen table in your underpants. You have probably seen that sort of marketing phrase around and it makes a great image to convince people to buy internet marketing ebooks, courses, memberships and DVDs. We all want tot spend a couple of hours a week working on a laptop and then go off to the beach for the rest of the day. Who wouldn't enjoy that?

There's often a real truth behind the idea of someone working at home in their underpants and it is not for the reasons promoted in the sales pahges. They say that only 2% of people are real action takers. The sales pages often play to the idea that you hardly have to do any work to make a fortune and many people fall for that. Let's be honest here, our enthusiasm for the dream means that most of us fall for that stuff and those who don't are probably cynics who wouldn't believe it if they won the lottery. No, the reason a lot of people are sat around in their underpants is because they spent all their spare cash buying one course after another, one ebook after another and one DVD instruction course after another.

If you spend all your time and money buying new marketing products you are very likely doomed to fail. You have to make use of what you buy and that can take time. If you carefully read the sales page for a marketing guide or product and you think it sounds like it could work for you and you decide to buy it then spend some time working with it.

Don't just read it and move on to another product. Read it and put it into practice. Most likely it is a plan of action that will require you to continue taking action over a period of time. Try to make use of it every day and be consistent. Keep it up. Doing almost anything everyday will start to have some effect after a couple of months or so.

It hardly matters what you do so long as you keep doing it. Obviously some actions are more effective than others but if all you did was to write one comment on someones blog each day at least after a year you would have 365 backlinks from those comments. That may not make you rich but you will at least have achieved something. Buying new products all the time and always looking for the magic button that makes you rich is probably just going to leave you poorer.

Maybe there will be a new magic button product out one day but it seems unlikely that it will work for all of it's buyers. Very few 'Gurus' do all their own work. Most will outsource it to staff or employ staff from around the world to do all the repetetive and routine stuff that works. You could do that too but in the meantime just take a product you have that you think makes a lot of sense and work it.

Follow the plan and keep doing it until it either works or you are sure that it is never going to work for you. Mosy internet marketing products offered for sale will have some sort of stratagy or plan that will work if it is done enough and very few will work if you just try them once and then give up. My tip for your next year online is to do something everyday in a focused and consistent fashion and with a little luck you may well find it begins working for you much better than buying all the new products and giving up on them after a very short trial.

Make this your mantra. Consistency and focus. Stick to one thing and do it well and with a little luck next year you will be sat at home in your underpants because you want to and not because you have no money to buy more clothes.

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Why Should A Search Engine Put Your Page First?

Terry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:20 +0000

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There are some important points to understand about search engines and how they work. What is it that puts one page at the top of the search results for a particular keyword or phrase while another page sits in position 1000. None of us knows the whole answer to this but we can make some educated guesses.

First we should be aware that it is the PAGE that is put at the top of the search engine results not the website. While it no doubts helps the whole site if it has a popular and successful page the ranking the search engines give is for the page and for the links and references to it from around the web. Some results you see on the search engine pages do seem odd and may make you wonder if there is any point in publishing an interesting webpage full of content that will be of interest to your readers but the majority are interesting and relevant pages of content.

Some people take the view that they do not want anything too interesting because they want their website visitors to click an advert and leave the site. We all want to get an income from having our visitors arrive but if you encourage them to leave straight away you may get a small initial financial benefit but they are unlikely to return to your site if it did nothing for them other then point them to an advert.

They used to say content is king and that you should make pages for your visitors not for the search engines. Both of these sayings remain true but you do need to make allowances for the search engines and try to help them appreciate the value of your page.

META tags are said to be dead but it does no harm to include them. Including your preferred keywords in your text should help the search engines understand the main purpose of your web page and getting lots of backlinks from decent websites will help a lot. How many links do you need? The more the merrier but it does depend on your keywords. If there are millions of pages using the same keywords you are likely to have to get thousands of links to achieve any success at all.

When you put a page of content on your website you should have some sort of an idea what it is for. Is it to help your readers do or understand something or is it simply to satisfy your own ego. Either approach is ok but the first is likely to generate more visitors and have better positioning in the search engine results.

If your visitors appreciate what you have written they are more likely to read other pages on your website and return again in the future. They will increasingly trust what you say and may respond when you reccommend a particular product purchase because they know you are not just selling something for the sake of it.

People do not, in general, like being sold to. The best salesman is not the one who shoves a product in your face and says buy this. The best salesman is your prospective customer who visits your site, likes what they read and sees that you are offering genuine help and support for what they want to achieve.

When people and search engines trust your website you will achieve better results and have happier customers who will return again and again and recommend your site to their friends and colleagues. You will then have a website that can continue working for you and benefiting your customers for years.

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Tools To Help Get Backlinks

Terry — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:21 +0000

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We have discused how important backlinks are to getting traffic to your website. Without backlinks your site is likely going to sit gathering dust and barely ever see a visitor.

You may get traffic through search engines butunless you have plenty of backlinks pointing to your site they may not even find your site and if they do it may not get much of a ranking in the search engine results.

Backlinks are crucial and together with good content you should see the numbers of visors rise over time if you get regular backlinks posted linking in to your site.

So, how do we get all these backlinks?

With a bit of luck you will get a few visitors who decide to link back to your website and once your site becomes more well known amongst its interest group you should see visitor numbers begin to rise but to start out and help your site grow over time you can do a lot worse than work on getting more backlinks yourself.

You can do this manually by adding comments to blogs and forums where they allow you to have a signiture line pointing back to your website. You can also spend a lot of time logging on to various 2.0 social networking sites and leaving your links around. It is time consuming but it works.

Or, you can use some software that will assist you in this task. One of the best I have tried, especially for the small cost each month, is TrafficBug which allows you to add a comprehensive description of your site together with your preferred keywords and titles and it proceeds to register your website with social network sites, website directories and RSS feed aggregator sites.

If you are serious about developing a website that gets noticed and gets visitors traffic bug is a wensite I believe will help you achieve more success from your website by helping to boost the numbers of visitors arriving at your site.

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Video Is Good For Website Traffic

Terry — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:53:50 +0000

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There can be no doubt that video is a significant part of the internet now. Around a billion youtube videos are watched every day and the numbers are growing constantly. If you can make a video that becomes viral it could encourage thousands of visitors to your website or traffic to your blog.

You do not have to be a tv presenter to make a video. Some of the most popular videos are pretty amateurish and that is sometimes part of their appeal. People want to see genuine content not some salesman making a presentation. You can still sell via your video but you should make it friendly and easy to watch. Try the hard sell if you like, it does work in certain markets, but viral video is most often laid back and casual.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of appearing on screen there are alternatives to appearing in front of the camera. You can make a video of something you are doing on your computer screen by using software to record all the actions. This is a great way of demonstrating how a product is used and what it can do.

Another alternative is to convert articles to video. You can do this by hand using moviemaker and powerpoint or similar programs but it can be time consuming. A great alternative is to use software that can convert your article to a video ready to be uploaded to youtube and other video websites.

One program I have used and found to be very productive is GFXvideowriter and you can read more about how it can help you at convert article to video and I think that for the one off cost it is an excellent program as there are alternatives that charge a monthly fee that is as much as this program costs to buy.

You only have to take a brief look at youtube to see the huge choice of videos available and it continues to grow all the time so if you want some traffic to your website you might try putting a video online.

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Why Am I Not Rich?

Terry — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:09:28 +0000

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You can't spend very long online attempting to start building a business without coming across marketers who are eager to sell you a guide, a course or a membership that is apparently all you need to go from loser to successful Internet marketer in no time at all.

You may have bought some of the guides and courses available but still don't seem to be making the income you had hoped for. Join the club. You are certainly not alone and while the quality of the courses will vary most have some good advice buried within them.

Many courses and guides to making money online will sound great on the sales page but after you download them you may look at them and wonder what exactly is the key advice you are given. Often there will be many pages explaining the absolute basics of setting up a website or writing an article but to be fair some people will want to know this too.

If you have been online for a while you may have already discovered how to set up a website and/or blog but it is still worth your time reading through the basic chapters because you may pick up some useful tips that you weren't aware of or discover the way to do something extra you didn't know.

When you finally get to the meat of the guide it may seem remarkably simple. That's because it is. The Internet is not complicated. You get visitors to visit your website and they click on an ad or a link to an affiliate product or take some other action that may lead to you making some money.

It really isn't rocket science and just about anyone can do it. What lets a lot of people down when they try to build an online business is that they start out full of enthusiasm but get disillusioned and disappointed when they don't see fast results.

It is very easy to add adsense adverts to your website and there is no doubt it can earn you money but you are earning usually small amounts per click and you need a lot of visitors to your website before you start making good money but it does work and it is possible if you keep building your website and spreading the word about your site all over the internet. For all that the Internet works in the blink of an eye, building up a successful online business can take time and a lot of effort. Yes, some people strike lucky and have fast success but most achieve success slowly. You build up your content by writing articles and you get links back to your website in various different ways and over time those links get picked up by the search engines and with luck, they will rate your pages well and visitors will appear. It is simple but over time it works.

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How To Improve Website Traffic

Terry — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:22:20 +0000

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There is no purpose in having a website that never gets any visitors or website traffic. Like a ghost town a website with no traffic sits there unloved and unappreciated so if you have a website you want traffic. Visitors turn a website from being a wasted effort into a lively place people want to visit and it also gives you the opportunity to make some profitable ventures happen.

A busy website will be full of people eager for information and a small proportion of those visitors will be happy to pay for something. What that something might be is for you to decide but if you can help your visitors find what they want and make a few dollars too, why would you want to prevent them?

Some people still think the internet should be a pure place where there is no financial incentive or profit and it is a fine theory. In practice most websites take a little bit of money to keep them online. You invest your time and effort into producing the website and if people want to buy things and you can benefit you might as well take the money.

So, having established that we want visitors to our website what can be done to help encourage them to come?

For you or anyone else to visit a website there has to be a reason. There are no doubt a few websites online that will let you click a button and discover a random website but the huge majority of visitors to websites go there because they were pointed there by a link on a website, through a link in an email or a link from a search engine results page. Without links your website will never be found.

Links are the oil that makes the internet engine work. We skip from website to website following links so it is clear that for our website to get lots of internet traffic we need to have lots of links, or backlinks, pointing visitors to the website.

Getting those links will be the subject of another post but if you visit a blog and feel like commenting you can usually add a link to your website which will show up on the blog when your comment is published and these links do get clicked on when you have said something interesting in your comment so remember to leave your website address in the appropriate entry field on the blog comments form.

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