Win a laptop – Easy !
Before few days, I was just browsing over biz-online business Blog and noticed that he is giving away a brand new. You can also find some on Tech Smash blog site
- Asus
EEE Laptop PC, a $50
AMEX Rewards Card and 3 2GB
USB Pens. All you have to do is subscribe, signup and blog about them. Its all free. So very easy contest can make you rich.:D
Surprisingly I win a laptop. Thanks business Blog for holding this contest and choosing me a winner.:) If you want to win a free laptop, visit biz-online and post your comment there.
SEO Tips and Tricks
Are you struggling to find the perfectly correct wording to place upon your web site? Are you totally aware of the significance that well written unique content can have upon your positioning and ranking on the major search engines? Are you looking for useful tips and guidance techniques to help you get better organic traffic results coming to your blog or web site?
Here we hope to provide you with a few simple techniques and seo tips to get you started upon your way, to attracting that all important natural traffic flow.
You may have heard the expression before that Content is King on the internet and this is certainly true. Well written content is a much desired prerequisite for any web site owner and your unique content essentially serves two purposes. On the one hand, you want to use copy which helps the reader to feel included, and you can do this by utilizing a sentence structure which first draws the viewer in, helping them to understand that you can also see their problem, whatever it may be, for what it is. There is no need to provide a long winded explanation, just keep it short, simple, brief and to the point. You can then focus on the ideal solution and this is most important, a Call To Action on the viewers part when they have finished reading, if not to buy straightaway, then certainly to enable them to actually ‘Want’ to explore your web site in greater depth for more information about your services and/or products.
On the other hand, your web site unique content needs to be written in a manner that the search engines will recognize for it’s actual uniqueness. One of the mistakes that a lot of new web site owners make is poor keyword choice. What are keywords first? Ok, keywords are those words that someone is typing into the search box for example at google. Let’s say for example that you have a website all about the subject of search engine optimization, otherwise referred to commonly as SEO. Now, someone looking for SEO online might type in just that, namely, ‘SEO’, and this will obviously pull up a Huge number of results. Getting your website into the number one position on google for this keyword, no doubt is going to be next to impossible and even if you do pull it off and somehow do it, maintaining that number one position is going to be harder still, since so many other web sites are all vying for that most favored of positions, which will attract the most number of visitors to their website.
The secret first then, is to choose with some care a very good domain name. The most common ones are .com / .co.uk / .net / .org etc. If you are targeting visitors from around the world, use a .com if you can possibly do so, as from a respectability point of view, the .Com is King over all other domain extensions. If you cannot get the .com or any variation of your main keywords, and it doesn’t bother you, use a .net – from google’s point of view, there really is no difference, both extensions will be treated exactly the same. If on the other hand you are targeting UK customers and/or clients only, then go with the .co.uk extension as most British people on seeing this will straightaway be able to identify that your are a British company rather than a foreign company from overseas. This will help your potential customers to build up trust in you, since the domain name is the very first thing that any potential client will see regarding your actual business. Unless you are a non profit or charity do not use the .org for business purposes. There is no law saying you cannot do so, but generally speaking, it’s looked upon as fairly to do so.
So, what else can we learn about domain names? Whilst you may think it is cool to use a brand name, that is, a very individual name for your web site address, let’s say just by way of example, FireBirdSEO.com – this domain is actually going to be very difficult to get onto that all important page one of google, for google simply will not recognise the first two words as being anything related to search engine optimization (SEO) in the slightest. If you use unrelated words for the purpose of the web site, you are simply making your own SEO task in this case much more difficult, more time consuming and more expensive than it needs to be. You can find tools online to help you choose wisely a perfect domain name for you. Google Wordtracker Gtrends is one such tool. Simply place in the search box the three letters SEO and hit Return. The results will appear after a couple of seconds and likely the word SEO will appear at the top of the list. Look to the right and you can see a little graph symbol, if you click on that, the results will pop up showing on the top line the approximate number of web sites that are using that keyword. Ideally you want this number to be less than 30,000. The next line down shows the number of visitors approximately you can expect to receive if you managed to get into the number one position on google, this number needs to be over 100.
Now, for any one word, it’s highly unlikely that you will find results of less than 30,000, often they’ll number in the hundreds of thousands, so it may take a bit of brain storming on your part for an hour or two finding the best keyword/s to use. Let’s roll this forward a little bit. You’ve now found the ideal keyword choice, let’s say for example it’s USA Best SEO. The number of competing websites for this example is 18,775 and if you gain the number one position on google for this, what they call a ‘long tailed keyword’ is 175 visitors a day, can be expected.
So now we go to a domain registrar and we want to check to see if this domain is still available for registration. Yes it is. So, we now register this domain for a minimum of two years, this tells the search engines that this domain and subsequent web site that it’s likely to be around for quite a while, which again will help to give you a better ranking and positioning.
There is another ploy you can use, which in a two word domain is simply inserting a hyphen between two words. For example whilst USASEO.com might not be available, USA-SEO.com may be. Certainly you will not be penalized by the search engines for doing this. A note of caution though that hyphenated domain names are more difficult to remember and type in, so if you can avoid using them, do so. You really want your domain to be as short as possible and very easy to remember, difficult we know these days since many of the best domain names have already been registered.
Now, remember what I told you about that keyword tool above? You need to go back to the results that hopefully you wrote down, and choose for your homepage keywords, about five to eight long tailed keywords which fit the above peramators, in other words, less than 30,000 results with over 100 on the second line down (number of visitors). Whatever these keywords are, these are the keywords that you will be building into the content on your homepage with a density of between 5-12%.
The first task then is to have a header designed for your new web site, you can get one of these designed for about $6 at Digital Point Forums. On this header you want to display your website address, for example, USABestSEO.com and then immediately below this on what is called the ‘tagline’ you want to display this long tailed keyword again, for example; USA Best SEO Experts. Google will see this then right at the start of your website and will therefore give you a higher ranking.
Now, the actual wording of your web site homepage. First you want to relate to your potential readers, you want to grab their attention and hold it, choosing words that explain clearly and to the point why you are the solution to their particular problem. You want to set off in their mind ‘green’ buying signals, helping them to take the choice to use your services, rather than clicking away to a competitors web site. Also you need near to the concluding paragraph, built in, a positive call to action on their part, all the while using your keywords and long tailed keywords of choice to help you to rank even better.
Of course good SEO does not stop there. You might after you have done this, work on your next marketing strategy for your web site, and that is to help your readers recognize you as a leading expert in your particular niche of choice. One of the ways that you can do this is by the effective use of article marketing, which again will help you to get into that all important number one position on the major search engines as well as building up the prospects of you receiving natural back links, or thumbs up recognition from other web sites, the higher their individual page rank of course, the better.
Hope that will help to start off. And this article is Copyrighted – Please Do not copy. Thanks. 
Tahoma font
I am using tahoma a lot in my seo contest. The blog posts, titles and links inside the seocontest2008 site all use tahoma font.
I really like it and often use it when creating sites similar to seo contest. Actually the wordpress theme that i use for my entry i choose as i liked the fonts. if your article looks crap it doesnt really matter, but visual appeal is something that i want.
At least if i loose seo contest or dont rank high in google for seo i can say that i have a unique site, full of unique content and a nice theme. SEO contest is very popular so i may also get a good pagerank. i also mentioned that i have a lot of seo related backlinks that use seo in the anchor. i dont want to link with seo contest too much as i may get sandboxed when searching for seocontest2008. Thats bad. Very bad.
Wicked-directory links to me
Yes my other site, www.wicked-directory.com has a sitewide link to my blog with the anchot text seo blog. If i am to win this seo contest i need to do as much as possible for free to rank for seo.
As a start i gave a sitewide link from a strong site of mine to this blog. Sorry i keep forgetting my site is not .com its actually seocontest2008.in . My seocontest2008 rankings may improve in google fo the keyword seo if i actually used a domain without a space in it. Like seocontest2008 dot tv or seocontest2008 dot info or whatever. I was too late to react in to the news that seocontest2009 was the target keyword. I guess i’ll learn for future contests. seocontest2008 is starting to look good.
I have a good entry into seocontest2009 but my rankings are crap as my homepage is not ranking when you search for , my blog post from last week is ranking instead. Tags are not even used in the title, nor do i mention the word a lot in the post itself.
i’ll add more seo tips blog posts to my homepage in order to improve ym chances of winning contests/laptop by improving my google SERPs.
Another SEO contest from UKWW
UKWW has started another SEO contest with prizes worth $2000 – so thats double than the previous contest prizes.
The rules remain same – new site/directory which is uncached/unindexed and you have to rank for a particular term to win the contest..
Target search engine – same Google – the BIG G 
I will be taking part soon. Wish you best of luck – dont try to beat me
Another Johnchow – ML contest
Marketleverage is back again with a contest sponsored on Johnchow. Top affiliate challenge
Lots of prizes are there to won, include flip mino, USB Pens, ipod touch, reward cards and much more.
All you have to do is to become the top affiliate earner referred by John Chow.
ZakShow’s First blog contest
ZakShow – one of the top commentators on top blogs is holding his first blog contest with some great prizes
100$ in cash paid via Paypal and 3,000 Entrecard Credits:
1st position: 50$ cash.
2nd position: 30$ cash.
3rd position: 20$ cash.
4th position: 1,500 EC.
5th position: 1,000 EC.
6th position: 500 EC.
Yeh, lot of prizes there. Wanna win? Its simple. Just visit and start gathering points. Cool 
Trying to get the homepage to rank
I’m gettign mad now. My seocontest2008 entry is not ranking in the top 300 for seocontest2008 in google.
The seocontest2008 search term is now very popular. seocontest2008 brings up many seocontest2008 entries, many of which have seocontest2008 in their title.
The suprising thing is that the seocontest2008 leaders are using seocontest in their domain, which is of course a new domain …
I was suprised as the organisers of seocontest2008 allowed you to use an existing domain. I thought many would just use a sub domain or sub directory and name it seo contest 2009.
So now im just blogging for the sake of it. I try not to write a lot and just get straight to the point – my seocontest2008 rankings. My seocontest2008 now has over 4000 backlinks in yahoo last time I checked.
I wonder how many sites will get a high google PR next update. seocontest2008 is a popular term and of course the seocontest2008 is a much entered contest. Many people want to win seocontest2008 so many will buy links to boost rankings. I bought a few for my seocontest2008 entry.
More to follow on the blog.
MarketLeverage Marketing Tactics
Oh, i think there are only one or two contests sponsored by Market Leverage. But no, they are not 2, 3 or 4, there are many.
The common thing between this contests are -they have common prices of gift vouchers, ipod nano, flip camera and so. So if you find a contest with prizes like these, think that it is sponsored by market leverage. 
Here is a short list :
Nickthrolson’s Market Leverage Summer Blogging Contest Win Tons Of Prizes
Datmoney’s Market Leverage Sponsored Contest: Win a iPod, Flip Mino, $200 Gift Card or USB Pen , in association with iBlogtoBlog.com
Jonathon Valk’sContest – Sponsored By Market Leverage
Earn Big At ZacJohnson
Previous I wrote on how you can win some great stuffs like ipod nano, flip camera and cool gagets. But if you want to increase your chances of winning, then I have a great news for you.
Similar Market Leverage contest is being going on my favorite affiliate marketing blog ZacJohnson. So go and Earn Big Cash! Win a Free iPod Touch & Flip Mino Video Camera and More
Hurry, the contest ends soon.
