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4 Alasan Mengapa Anda Harus Menjawab Setiap Komentar di Blog Anda

Jika Anda membuat suatu posting, Anda pasti berharap banyak pembaca blog Anda yang berkomentar di posting tersebut. Sama halnya dengan Anda melakukan presentasi di hadapan orang banyak dan berharap presentasi Anda diperhatikan dan dipahami dengan baik. Namun sebuah presentasi tidak akan ada artinya jika Anda mengabaikan setiap komentar dari audiens Anda. Begitu pula komentar di posting blog Anda, Anda harus menjawab komentar-komentar tersebut.

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Musa Abdul Hamid | kangmusa.com

Kebanyakan blogger berasalan tidak mempunyai waktu untuk menjawab komentar. Namun jika Anda terus beralasan dengan hal tersebut, maka selamanya Anda tidak akan mempunyai waktu untuk membalas komentar. Luangkan waktu 10 menit saja setiap harinya untuk membalas komentar yang datang ke blog Anda. Dengan membalas komentar tersebut, Anda akan mendapatkan banyak keuntungan seperti yang akan saya jabarkan di bawah ini.

Mendorong orang lain untuk berkomentar
Biasanya seseorang setelah meletakkan komentar akan langsung pergi. Namun dengan membalas komentar tersebut, orang lain tidak akan segan untuk kembali ke blog Anda dan meninggalkan komentar lainnya.

Menambah kualitas dari posting Anda
Dengan membuat balasan komentar dan melakukan beberapa perbincangan kecil dengan pengunjung blog Anda akan menambah kualitas konten Anda secara keseluruhan. Beberapa poin-poin kecil yang terlewat biasanya akan lebih mudah terungkap dalam perbincangan ini. Dengan begitu, pengunjung yang baru datang ke blog Anda akan merasa beruntung karena mendapatkan informasi yang berkualitas dan lengkap.

Dapat membantu aktivitas SEO
Dengan melakukan perbincangan kecil di bagian komentar posting secara tidak langsung akan membantu aktivitas SEO Anda. Karena dalam komentar-komentar tersebut keyword-keyword yang Anda tembak pasti akan muncul lebih banyak karena digunakan oleh banyak orang. Dengan begitu search engine akan dengan mudah memunculkan konten blog Anda jika dimasukkan keyword yang Anda bidik di kotak pencarian.

Menambah kepercayaan orang lain terhadap Anda
Membuat balasan komentar, bisa menambah kepercayaan Anda di mata orang lain. Pengunjung blog Anda akan berasumsi bahwa Anda benar-benar ahli di bidang niche blog Anda. Hal ini akan membangun brand dan kredibilitas Anda di mata orang lain akan semakin kuat.
Selain itu jumlah komentar Anda juga akan berlipat ganda. Misalnya seperti ini, Anda mempunyai 15 komentar di posting Anda, jika semua komentar tersebut Anda tanggapi, maka Anda akan mempunyai 30 komentar. Tentu ini hal yang menarik bagi setiap orang yang baru mengunjungi blog Anda dikarenakan jumlah komentar yang begitu banyak.

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Webmaster, Step 3: Your Free Dofollow Links

You are now ready to activate your free dofollow links.
Dofollow links to your website is the most important factor when Google and the other search engines decides what position to give your website in the search engine results.
That's whay you shouldn't miss any opportunity to get fresh dofollow links with keyword rich anchor text or high pagerank pointing to your site.
To get keyword rich, dofollow links from Secret Search Engine Labs this is what you need to do:
1. Submit your URL (Your already did that)
2. Wait for your URL to get crawled and indexed, usually 5-8 days.

When your URL is indexed we automatically build a Page Analysis page for your URL with statistics like inbound links, outbound links, Alexa rank and much more.

You'll find that one of the best features of this page is a prominent do-follow link back to YOUR URL using YOUR page title as anchor text.

Here's an example of a page analysis.

The only thing you need to do is make sure Google notices this link. You do that by placing a link to the Page Analyzis page of YOUR URL from a page already indexed by Google.

That way Google will find the page analysis page for YOUR URL and count the link back to YOUR URL when deciding the search engine rankings.

3. Place a dofollow link from a blog, social bookmarking site or web 2.0 property to the Page Analyzis page of YOUR URL

 

4. Repeat process for all your websites. Add URL Page

You can find the webpage with this same info PLUS live status of your URL submission here

And don't worry if your page isn't indexed yet. I'll send you a friendly reminder to check your status seven days from now.

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Webmaster, Links from Blog Comments

To get traffic from the search engines you need links to your website, lots of links. This is because the search engines give better rank to pages with inbound links than to pages with little or no links.

Here's an easy way to get links from blog comments. Just type the following search query into Google:

wordpress comments "your keywords"

Where you replace "your keywords" with the specific keywords your are targeting with your website.

When you search like that you will find wordpress blogs related to your niche where you can post relevant comments and include a link back to your site.

Make sure to use different variations of your keywords when you link back!
  

A good strategy when commenting on blogs is to write something that ads value to the discussion. That way some people reading your comment will become interested in what you do and click through to your website to check you out.

Links from blogs in the same niche as your website is a lot more valuable for SEO than links from random unrelated blogs. The search engines considers the theme of the link when deciding how to rank your site.

Another time I'm going to tell you how to get more dofollow links and what's the difference between dofollow and nofollow.

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Webmaster, How to Select a Good Domain Name

This time I'm going to talk a little about how to select a domain name that is right for your business.

If you already have a busy website and you like your domain there's no need to change it but as soon as you set up a new website or if you are going to rebrand your business with a new business name you need to consider carefully what domain name to choose.

For those of your who don't know the domain name is the base part of the address you type into the browser address bar to open a website. Like "google.com", "secretsearchenginelabs.com" or "cnn.com"

First of all you need to know what you are going to use the domain for. It could be any of the following.

• The website of your business.
• A niche website to make money from ads or selling a ebook
• A SEO website, like a feeder blog, that exist for the sole purpose of helping your business or niche website rank in the search engines.

Considering the different purposes a domain and website can have your might want to optimize your domain for some but not all of the following

• A short name that is easy to spell and that people will remember after they have heard someone mention it on the radio or if they read about it two days ago.
• A name the is built from the nr 1 keyphrase your are targeting with SEO
• A name that does not conflict with trademarks or business names already in use in your target market (or you could lose your domain to a trademark holder)
• A name you want to live with for many years (a lot of your marketing is tied to the domain name)
• A name without hyphens if possible
• A .COM or country specific domain for your business
• A .ORG or country specific domain for your organization

Your Business Website

When your select a domain name for your business, most of the time your want the domain name to be the same as the name of your business.

 

If you have a long or complicated business name it's usually best to select a domain name that is a short version of your business name, the name of a popular product you sell or a completely new name 

Branding is important here and you want a short and memorable name that you remember from the radio or from a billboard.

Always go for a .COM or a country specific domain extension, like .CA or .CO.UK,  for your business.

Use a country specific extension if the large majority of your customers are from a singly country. The country specific extension will help your search engine rankings in that country, but will reduce your rankings in the rest of the world. Many times a country specific extension will make your look more trustworthy in the local market.

Use a .COM extension of you sell to many countries and especially if you sell to the US. The United States country specific extension .US is not popular so avoid it and use .COM

There is a reason to not use .NET domains. Most people only remember the name part of the domain and automatically adds .COM when typing it into the browser address bar. This means you lose a percentage of visitors that go to the .COM domain instead, and if there is something interesting (perhaps a competitor) on the .COM domain they may never return to your hidden .NET business.

If you really want to have a .NET domain make sure to also register the .COM domain with the same name and redirect it the your .NET website. That way you don't lose the type in traffic that uses dot com by mistake.

The same goes for hyphens. Many times your visitors will not remember the hyphen when they type in your domain and you'll lose some visitors again.

Lets talk about domains for SEO and niche websites in a later newsletter.

Also remember to check out my list of best domain name registratin sites if you need a safe place to register your domains.

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Five Deep Links For The Price of One - A Good Premium Directory

When you submit your site to paid directories you have to watch out that your submit only to those directories that give you SEO value for your money.

Webotopia

One place that has always delivered good value to my sites is Webotopia, a directory that tends to show up early in backlink reports and it also delivers actual traffic to my sites. Not many directories deliver real visitors these days.

Here's the stats:

PR 3

Pages in Google: 25,700

Alexa: 18,394

The important number here is the large number of pages indexed by Google. A listing that is not seen by Google is useless for SEO, no matter how good pagerank the directory seem to have.

As you can see in this listing we got for Secret Search Engine Labs  there is a main link, a comprehensive marketing text, and then the five keyword rich deep links. (Remember to give us a good rating)

Last time I checked you get one main link PLUS 5 deep links with keywords for $29.99 and unlike many free directories the details page with the links is actually indexed by Google providing link juice to your site.

 Best of The Web

Another great directory that has been around since 1994 is Best Of The Web. With a price tag of $149.95 per year this is not a cheap directory but with a pagerank of 7 and a domain age of 16 years a link from this one will carry a lot more authority with Google than a link from a low cost directory.

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Time To Check Your Site Submission

It's time to check your site submission... and to get the free dofollow link!

For those of you that know a little bit about how Google works and maybe you have done some link building for your website here's the quick guide:

1. Check what the page analyze url is for the url you submitted here: Add URL and type in your submitted url http://bundazackycollection.blogspot.com/ in the box

The page analysis link, "See page analysis here", should be visible below the add url box if you submitted a valid url and it wasn't removed by a content filter. (see below for troubleshooting) 

2. Click the link and you will go to the page analysis for your url. 

3. Add a couple of links from your SEO blogs, from web 2.0 properties, from social bookmarking sites and from other pages to that page analysis page.

(There's an handy "Share" button on your page analysis page that you can use to submit it to social bookmarking sites.)

This will make Google find the page analysis of your site. This is good because the page analysis has a link back to your original url using keywords from your title tag. The link is dofollow so as soon as Google has indexed this page it will start to boost your search engine rankings.  

You can also link from your own website (the one you submitted), but this is not as effective because it will be considered a reciprocal link by Google and they carry less value than one way links.

You can do this with as many URL as you like, but beware that only base domain urls are guaranteed to stay in the index as long as they follow the content guidelines. Additional pages from your site will be crawled automatically. You can submit deep links but the will get auto removed from the index after a couple of months if the spider finds no links to them.

Troubleshooting

The search engine is family friendly, meaning we index all kinds of pages but remove material that would be considered offensive to minors. We filter porn, sexually explicit content, profanity, spam pharmacy, and gambling.

Only HTML pages are index. If you submitted an PDF or XML file, a site for mobile devices or an image file it will be removed.

If you think you submitted a valid page and it has still not been indexed feel free to hit replay and ask me. I'll check what happened.

How to Get Links

If you are new to link building you may not know where and how to create links to the page analysis page. Here's a couple of alternatives: (if you're a link building pro you can skip this) 

Social bookmarking sites

• delicious.com
• diigo.com
• www.mister-wong.com
• www.oneview.co.uk
• webride.org

These sites lets you post bookmarks to websites you like. You have to create an account to get started if you don't have one already. The "Share" button on your page analysis page has a lot of links to more bookmarking services.

Use the Add URL page to find your page analysis page. Your url: http://bundazackycollection.blogspot.com/

Free Blogs

There's many places online where you can get a free blog. You can use the blog to post short stories about your website and products and include keyword rich links to you website. You can also link to you page analysis page from the blog.

• www.blogger.com
• www.wordpress.com
• www.typepad.com (look for the free microblog) 
• livejournal.com
• http://www.weebly.com/
  

Forums

Forums can be a great source of links but make sure you are following all rules on the specific forum or you will get banned for spamming.

On some forums you can post links in any thread or there may be a specific section where you are allowed to advertise yourself, read the rules.

On most forums your are allowed to have a signature that can include 2-3 links to your websites or to your page analysis page here at the Lab

Blog Comments

 Blog comments are probably the quickest way to get links. Find a blog that writes about a topic you are interested in, like the topic of your website. Then find an interesting blog post and create a comment with you view on the topic.

When you add some value to the blog your comment is much more likely to get approved by the blog owner, just posting "what a great post" will get your comment stuffed into the spam folder faster than you can say junk mail.

Here's a dofollow search I created for you where you can find dofollow blogs to comment on.

Jiggling The Web

There's an advanced social bookmarking method called jiggling the web that can get a new page (like your page analysis or  a new article you write) indexed in Google in under 24 hours.

Read more about it on my blog through the link above.

You can use these same techniques to link to your own blogs and to your directory listings to boost the SEO value of your incoming links.

Here's the link to the Add URL page again where you can find your link analysis page by typing in your url http://bundazackycollection.blogspot.com/

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