Do you know that half the people who claim themselves as seo experts try to rank for strong keywords. Let me use the most common examples. A typical directory owner would target the term “Web Directory”. But do you really think that people will type that in google? I don’t think so. That is just a vanity project to rank for such terms.

If I am researching for something, I want my key term to be very accurate, so if i am looking for a 3 column free wordpress theme, I won’t go in google and type wordpress themes, but I will go type in 3 column free wordpress themes. This keyword is called Long Tailed Keyword.

Many webmasters are interested in making money from adsense. I see alot of websites have adsense some where now a days because of the penalties caused by paid links. Well, the trick to make money through adsense is the more tragetted the better it is. Which means you need to rank for the long tailed keywords to get the targetted audience who will actually click on your ads.

When I call the general keywords a vanity project, Why I call them those is because they will cost you alot of money to make it to the top page, and staying there will require even more investment, and the return from those will not be as much as the return from the long-tailed keywords. The main keyword might get you 10 visitors a day, but 20 of the long tailed keywords will get you 20 visits which out numbers the 10 from that one main keyword.

As a blogger, I pick my titles very carefully because I know when i type this title most likely then not, My blog will show up for that long tailed keyword unless it is a competitive keyword. Since I have launched Balkhis, most of the Search Engine traffic is coming through the long tailed keywords.

A trick to rank higher for the long tailed keyword is to have those in your url and in the title, so for instance if the title of this post is Long Tailed Keywords, then the url of this post should be balkhis.com/seo/long-tailed-keywords

stay tuned and in my next post I will teach you guys how to set your permalink structure in a more seo-friendly way.

Link Relations are the rel tags that are added into the html tag and many SEO Experts prefer rel=”nofollow” for every link on the website. But why ?? I don’t think that is a good choice to nofollow every link on your website. Matt of Wordpress have these rel tags in wordpress for a reason, and that one reason is what gives wordpress its superior edge in SEO.

Using these rel tags effectively can make your website very organized in the eyes of Search Engine Bots, and I believe that you can eliminate the risk of Paid Links as well. Well I am hoping that all of you know what it means when some one adds a rel=”nofollow” tag in a link. If you don’t then here is what it means. It means that the bot will not follow the site that is listed there, so all that link is going to do is pure exposure on that website nothing else. Your page does not loose any Page Rank Juice or Link juice. But do you really want that?? I don’t and there are multiple reasons for that.

First it makes you look cheap. Why no follow a link ? I mean if you want to put a website’s link on your site then give them a real link, or don’t put their link. Second it just looks like spamming every link with a nofollow tag. Instead you can use these different tags….

Top Level Domains (TLD), there are just to many of those. I was asked a question through the email which TLD is the best for SEO, and which one I should register for my new website? I looked at the question, and i said this will make a perfect post for my SEO Category, so here are what i think about TLDs and SEO based on my experience.

Before i go on and tell you which one is the best first i need to get the basis so we can start. While there are many extensions as there are so many countries in the world each are having their own two letter or three letter tlds such as .in or .pk etc. The main ones that i consider are .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, and sometimes .biz …. While i am a big fan of .in (India) because the extension just sounds cool it is not in my list of the Main Top Level Domains.

Now we all know which is the most popular. So people make the most popular ones and start ranking them for SEO uses as well. So .com will get you a higher pagerank and a higher SERPs, and then after that it is .net and so on so forth. That is not true. In reality these extensions at the end of the domain does not matter at all in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). It will not get you a higher Search Engine Position Rank(s). Also known as SERPs. You might see sometimes a .net website outperform a .com website in search engines. It is really a matter of branding. If i get tons of backlinks for a .net website, I am very sure that i will get it to pass a .com website in SERPs, and this go for all the extensions. Now why do people think one is better than other?

From the past domain sales, and current ones as well more and more buyers prefer .com because that is the most popular one. When a normal person types a website they will unconsciously put a .com in front of the website if they don’t remember the url. Once that doesn’t work, they will try .net, so your website can be on a .tk for all what matters they won’t find you. It is really hard to get that into peoples mind. You will loose alot of traffic that way, and buyers of websites and domains doesn’t want that. They want all the traffic thats why they prefer .com websites.

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How easy do you think it is to get backlinks? Fairly easy for bloggers. I remember writing in my post for starting a blog that you need to evaluate your competitors. Well, while you are evaluating them and reading their blog posts to get the general idea what does the audience like feel free to leave a comment. I mean you read the post, so might as well get a backlink from their blog by giving them a constructive and thoughtful comment.

Why is commenting on your competitor’s blog important?

You both have the same targetted audience. For instance if you are targetting webmasters, and you come to my blog and see that I am targetting webmasters as well you can check out some of my posts. While you were checking the post and you read them feel free to comment. This goes with any type of niche with any type of blog. Just make sure your comment is thoughtful. You are trying to get some of your competitors audience to your website. You can advertise on their websites as well, but this is another useful way. This is killing two birds with one stone as you were going to analyze their blog and see what they were doing anyways, and all you are doing is taking that extra minute and writing some comments. I can guarantee you, if you do one comment on few blogs each day, and if the blog is provoding top commentators link all over. Imagine how many backlinks you can get. Hence why one of the main things that attract commentators is that top commentator plugin.

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Many Webmasters are a part of big webmaster communities such as Digitalpoint and others. In these forums you will see many service providers offering their services. One of the most common ones are 1000 manual directory submissions. In that deal, the service provider guarantees a report in the end, and quality work done. Here are my stands on this. A person cannot submit to 1000 directories manually and provide a report in the end because just imagine how much time it will take for the user to actually show that he used your website and the anchor because some people go as far upto showing Submission Failed, Submission Successful. You guys need to be smarter than that because it is obvious they are using some automated software to submit your website. Not only that, i have gotten complaints in the past and have first hand experience in these services that some of these submitters will submit your website to a web directory without paying the review fee. Which will result in the editor of the directory to delete your link and get a negative image of your website. Whereas the service provider got his money and is having a drink somewhere with his friends. Now you paid for a service and gained some people who dislike your website. Not a very benficial deal for you. My advice is to avoid all Directory Submission Service that are offered on these forums. Especially the ones that charge $25 for 6000 directory submission because you should know that you will get what you are paying for and paying $25 for 6000 directory submissions is not a normal price.

Next thing you don’t want to do when earning backlinks ……….. [read that in the full page post]