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Copywriting – It’s All About The Words

Monday, June 28th, 2010

After more than 2 years of blogging and learning about all things blogging + Internet Marketing, I’ve learned, it’s all about copywriting – or in other words, the words you use on your site.

When you look at the Internet in general, even when you look at King Google, it all boils down to text based searching, browsing and displaying of content to their users.

People think that something as complex as Search Engine Optimization is something only a programmer can do, meta tags, meta descriptions, title tags – these are the terms you usually use with SEO.

But in truth, if you did none of the above, but wrote wonderful posts, in context, that people link back to, that people retweet and shared across all social media, you’d be doing yourself a world of good, much more than the technicality behind SEO.

And so it is that I’ve started to learn more about copywriting, the art of flow, being personal, connecting with your audience through your writing and slowly but surely building your community.

Without words, you could not make a sale, without words, there would be no adverts, no making money online, no websites.

So in a world with so much text, how important do you think it is to you to learn how to write well?

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Choosing The Heading For Your Post, To SEO Or Not?

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

When choosing the title of your post, it’s important to keep a few things in mind. These being a) are you approaching it from an SEO point of view or b) are you writing it as a title to ‘catch’ your audience?

Of course a combination of both would be the best, although it will be alot harder to write one of these.

For example, from an SEO point of view, you’d want to write: “How To Drive Traffic Using Articles”, this would give the best long term SEO value for your post as it is exactly what someone might type into Google searching for that information.

From a ‘catchy’ point of view, you may write instead: “Articles Articles, Read All About It!”, ok that wasn’t the best example but you can see what I mean.

SEO works if you’ve already got a good Google Page rank, as posts you write will appear higher up in the Search Ranking on the 1st page.

Writing catchy post titles works if you drive traffic by other means, such as through Twitter, which benefits alot more from short interesting info bytes, such as a catchy title.

If you’ve got tonnes of direct traffic, then it doesn’t really matter, you can lable post titles whatever you want.

For the rest of us, spare a thought about how you phrase your title, SEO or short and snappy, it can make a big difference.

Till next time,

-William Lee

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Testing My SEO Skills

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Ok I’ve stopped by the blog of former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahatir Mohamad and I’ve noticed that some of his pages have very high page rank.

Also, if you do a simple trackback, a link to your blog will be displayed under the respective post.

I will trackback to his post and see if it leaves a do-follow link right back here…

A little sneaky, but that’s Internet Marketing right?

If you came from his blog to here, please don’t be angry :)

And let me know if it worked..

Thanks,

-William

http://chedet.co.cc/cgi-bin/mt4/mt-tb.cgi/1

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5 Tips To Drive Traffic To Your Blog or Website

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Boosting traffic to your blog is always the bane of any Interent marketer or even just a regular blog owner. Here are a few simple tips that can put you on the right track.

And if you find one that works better than the others? Then rinse and repeat…

Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic?Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.

1.Have A Ping List Ready

There are hundreds if not thousands of blog services that you can ping to let them know that you’ve made an update to your blog. These services then take your new post and display it in one form or another on their site. Just search ‘blog ping list’ in Google or try a few of these:

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

Although there is of course alot more available. This is just to get you started.

2.Add RSS Buttons For The Most Popular RSS Readers

Yahoo, Google, Feedburner, bloglines etc are all popular feed readers that your visitors may be using. So make sure you give them the option to add your RSS feed to any reader that they may be using. This way readers can easily subscribe to your feed. Speaking of which, have you subscribed to my blog yet?

3.Regularly Update Your Blog

Search engines love a regularly updated blog. They consider it fresh and new content and favour those that do update often. You should try and update your blog at least once a day, although don’t go overboard. Too many updates in a day has the opposite effect and isn’t liked (10 posts a day or more).

4.Post in Forums

Post useful comment in forums that are talking about your subject matter. I’ve personally never been very good at getting traffic from forums because you have to stay very engaged to get a good amount of traffic from them. But traffic does come, so keep at it and be patient.

5.Use Blog Search Engines

Blog search engines such as Google Blog Search are plentiful out there, from blog search engines targeted at health blogs and a range of other topics. Just do a search for ‘blog search engine’ and add your site to their directory.

These are just a couple of the things you can do to slowly drive more traffic to your blog and hopefully start making more money online.

Keep trying,

-William Lee

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An SEO Upper Hand With The SeoQuake Toolbar

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

The SeoQuake toolbar plugin for Firefox is a great tool for Internet marketers and bloggers alike. With it, you’ll at one glance be able to see the Alexa ranking, Google Page Rank as well as other useful information for any website.

You’ll be able to check how your website/ blog is doing or even be able to spy on competition.

My ranking isn’t that great.

On top of that, the program is free and packed with tools to boot, giving those starting out an advantage to learn SEO and page ranking first hand.

Get yourself a copy from the SeoQuake website here: http://www.seoquake.com/. Once installed, I suggest to set it to show you links which are ‘nofollow’.

I switch on this setting because a) you can see if you can get some free Google love by leaving comments on other people’s blogs and b) if you’ve arranged a link exchange, to see if the links to your blog are ‘nofollow’, that wouldn’t really be fair now would it?

Below I’ve made a short and simple video on how to activate the plugin once it’s installed (Mozilla Firefox).

I’ve also made a more detailed presentation of the process for those of you who need a bit more details. (Sorry, the font is a bit small)

Adding SEOQuake Toolbar To Mozilla Firefox

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Internet & Technolog How-To Guides & DIY seo tools

Happy SEOing,

-William Lee

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The Thing About SEO On Google Malaysia Is…

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Due to the fact that there are not THAT many (compared to other countries, even Singapore for example) big Malaysian sites competing for space (properly with SEO anyway), it gives new and smaller sites like mine a chance to get moderately good rankings on Google.com.

The best I can figure is that even though you choose search: ‘The Web’, Google still tries its best to find local sites (as long as they are popular enough) to show as their search results.

Google.com Result

Google.com.my Result

Google.com Result

Google.com Result

Take for example the last result for ‘how to start an online business in malaysia’ using Google.com and Google.com.my (search: ‘The Web’). They’ll give you slightly different results, which I’m assuming is because Google.com is targeted to America.

PR0 and Alexa 3 Million++

PR0 and Alexa 3 Million++

It means that even for a hatchling site like my own, with a PR rank of 0 and an Alexa rank of 3 million++, I am still on page 3 for a ‘pages from Malaysia’ search. But I’ve done a little bit of tweaking to help with my SEO ranking, so hopefully I slowly rise on the search placements.

I’d expect to be on something closer to page 10, which shows that even slight SEO optimization of your site really DOES help alot. Google just likes sites like that.

Still learning,

-William Lee

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