A Good Time is Blog Time

Google have announced on their blog the release of a very significant algorithm change from the 24th February 2011, I can’t believe they waited until I went skiing to make the change . The statement on their blog states that 11.8% of the queries they receive will be affected. Now for Google that is a pretty big number.

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There is one major benefit that I see Traffic Anarchy offers and that is value for money. The reason why is that the program targets four of the key components required to get free traffic to your site at a very affordable price.

The way it does it is to automate the submission process for articles, press releases, RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites. You can of course do this manually for free, but for $37 why would you want to. Once everything is set up and you want to get your information out there it really is as simple as filling in a form and clicking a ‘start’ button.

Is it the best traffic generating system in the world? Probably not in truth, but it is very cheap and it does do a pretty good job all in all. This is because it takes the pain out of manually submitting to lots of different services. Don’t delude yourself either, if you want free traffic you do have to go through this process one way or another. This is illustrated on my Link Building Strategies post which in actual fact shows the manual options that Traffic Anarchy has automated for getting links to your site in addition to giving your site visibility in prominent positions.

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The new Web Browser facility on the SMD. Testing right across the board is showing that the SMD browsing facility is up to 5 times faster than any other browser out there … sometimes up to 10 times faster… quite incredible!

Something important in this day and age is security on the internet. After beta testing, the SMD is showing that working online, and doing transactions online through the SMD gives greater security … obviously it’s impossible to say that any system is 100% safe, but knowing that the SMD gives increased security is extremely important, especially in this day and age of hackers and scammers.

The Smart Media Desktop is the first of the free downloads you will find on the Free Downloads for Internet Marketers page.

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This is a subject that has been discussed before and it really covers where search engines look first for the keywords that identify what a URL or individual page is about i.e. the content within the page. Note I said URL not website, this is because each page is assessed for its content not the whole site as one entity.

It follows then that, when you choose a domain name for your site, including a primary keyword is probably a good idea if you are interested in SEO results. Likewise when you create additional pages for your website, think about what the page is about and of course which keywords you are targeting for the page. This is because the name you give to the file, be it an html, php or some other format, forms part of the URL for the page and as such can contain a keyword or if you really push it perhaps 2 keywords or keyword combinations.

Of course if you think about this even further then each individual blog post you make also has a URL and (with WordPress anyway) you can edit the URL to be what you want. Very easy to forget this, I do it all the time, the URL gets created automatically and basically takes on the full title of your post, if you have things set up that way. But when you are in the edit screen there is a little ‘Edit’ button or an option to ‘Get Shortlink’ if you prefer, the latter is providing you haven’t already edited the automatically produced version. So in a word, or keyword for that matter, putting primary keywords in your domain name, page and post URL’s will help your SEO efforts, and if you don’t believe me, you can watch what Matt Cutts of Google corporation has to say about it below.

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