One of my answerbag account is deleted or suspended. Some one might have complained on it. Even though i haven't spammed. Answerbag must provide an option to keep your Q&A private as in Yahoo Answers. Though answerbag is not a great traffic generator as Yahoo Answers but it is still a good place to promote your site and get traffic. Hopefully they will take a look into that.
One of my yahoo answers account got suspended for violating community guide lines. Yahoo can suspend your account for any stupid reason. BUT, before that its better than you take precaution about how to answer. Here are some guide lines
1) Make your Q&A network private. Go to Edit you Profile Setting and set the following settings as shown in figure..
2) Give only relevant information. Don't go just answering randomly and irritating people.
3) Linking in every answers is fine as long as your answer is relevant to that question.
4) Don't vote as best answers for your other profiles (if you have any)
Yahoo Answers is one of the most or is the most popular community where people get answers to their questions and solutions for their problems.
You can get lot of traffic from yahoo answers if you answer questions correctly on yahoo answers. There are lot of people who don't know even the basics of your niche who are searching for answers an would be more than happy if you can give them a perfect answer. One of my website gets atleast 500 visitors from yahoo answers only!!. Just think about how much traffic it can bring to you. All you have to do is just sign in with your yahoo account and start answering questions that fall in your category.
Also don't just answer as random to any question. First determine whether the question falls in your niche and answer. You can even get ideas on what to blog from reading those question and answers. Yahoo answers is one of the most undiscovered source of traffic i would say.
Yahoo answers show up in high rank in search results of google so you will get more traffic from yahoo answers. There is also another service but less popular than yahoo answers. It is answerbag.
All Da Best
You have observed that in many blogs the Blog Name appears before the Page's Title like
Hacks n Tips for Bloggers: Categories or Labels
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`------Blog Title--------- `-------Page Title/
This Format is not good for search engine optimization. If your blog's Title is especially large all of your blog pages appears to have the same title.
There is a hack to swap you page's title with blog's title.
Go to your blog's template ---> edit html & click on expand widget templates.
Now seach for
and replace above code with
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
The targeted traffic concept rules indeed which depends on quality of your content.
Here is a post on google's Adsense blog about how Adsense and Adwords are related. Adwords is for webmasters who want to improve their business. Adsense is for who sell ads on their websites.
If you send more targeted traffic to your advertisers they will bid more to place ads on your blog/website and your adsense revenue will be more. If your website brings less targeted traffic adword bids on your blog/website will be low hence your adsense revenue will low. SImple to get more revenue through google adsense program try to build website with full of useful information which inturn brings targeted traffic.
Inside AdSense: Relating AdSense to AdWords
Google bot is just another spider that crawls on your blog and indexes the pages and stores in its database. You have to see how your blog looks likes when indexed by Google. If your blog doesn't contain any readable information & links are just broken, Google bot ignores your pages. Content generated by JavaScript and embedded objects. So try to fill your blog post with keywords and relevant information. Below service simulates how the Google bot or any search engine spiders view your blog. Search Engine optimization is import to get your blog indexed and to be shown in SERP(Search Engine Result pages).
As i have explained the ucomment ifollow movement which give back link value for comments. But is not fruitful. The way bloggers give back link value to comments it attracts a lot of spam. It just that the whole Ifollow movement is for beginners to attract attention or to receive feedback. Once your blog is large enough you have to enable nofollow tag to prevent spam and those who comment only to get back link value adding no value to discussion. Here is one of the popular blog Jackbook's comment form with warning not to comment only for back links....
When i comment on a blog i want it to be useful to time and worth of my time so that i can bring extra traffic to my site. Many of the blogger templates have this "NOFOLLOW" inserted in code for "comments" to prevent spam (which no longer works). This discourages comments. Many beginners get frustrated due to lack of comments (which is one of their main source of motivation, but writing passionately will make your blog popular anyway). You should join U comment I Follow movement. Go to your HTML source code in the blog (goto layout ----> edit html & check Expand Widget templates button).
Now search for NOFOLLOW word in your source code and remove rel='nofollow' where ever it appear. Now the visitors who comment on your blog get a back link to their blog by which the google & other search engine bots can crawl to their blog. Also display a badge (get one form here UComment IFollow Badges) on your blog which tells your visitors that commenting on your blog is beneficial .
But there are other views. Most of the big blogs keep this nofollow attribute to prevent spam by humans... Read my post about Ifollow bandwagoon for beginners?
There are some tools which are useful in determining a niche.
Google Keywords tool
Use this tools to write on which material or topic. Write on topic where there are more searches and less information available. By this your page will be at the top of the SERP (Search Engine Result Pages)
Google Traffic Estimator
Use this tools for choosing a niche. Just type keyword of your niche and know how many clicks are being made per day.
By the way how to use them? Get the keywords related to your niche or topic on google keyword tool and paste them in google traffic estimator. Now see which of the word are being paid highly and write on them.
When you link to an external page on a website then use relevant words instead of using words like visit here. Suppose you are linking to a tutorial on gardening, link it is
Gardening Tutorial than writing visit here for a tutorial on gardening. This is one of the search engine optimization techniques which will improve your page rank.
Categorizing your post in relevant categories is very important for your visitor to find similar content he is looking for. Suppose you visitor gets to your site with a keyword related to medicine, he will try to find what other posts are there in the same category.
This will increase your page count by navigation on your blog easy and helps your visitor finding more information. A category organizes your blog and makes it accessible.
You can add the categories widget to your blog
This concept is derived from the sitemap of a website. Is it useful? There is one rule for website masters. All pages of a website must be within two clicks from the main page. This can be achieved by sitemap or Blogmap. In your blog map you can list all the posts in you blog category wise and it will be helpful for a visitor to see all the contents of your blog in one page. I personally visit sitemaps of blog map if available so that I can view the content I am interested in. This will also boost the internal page ranking and draws more visits to less frequently visited pages of your blog.
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