<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:20:32.814-08:00</updated><category term='seo'/><category term='content writing'/><category term='iternet marketing'/><category term='internet marketing'/><category term='blog posting'/><category term='link exchange'/><category term='web promotion'/><category term='search engines'/><category term='blog traffic'/><category term='web designing'/><category term='seo services'/><category term='blog commenting'/><category term='search engine optimization'/><category term='content marketing'/><category term='search eninge'/><category term='web design'/><category term='keywords'/><category term='article submission'/><title type='text'>Ray Smith Blog For SEO Updates</title><subtitle type='html'>Search Engine Optimization News and Updates</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704.post-8542799233828285890</id><published>2009-10-13T23:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T23:57:05.152-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content writing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog commenting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog traffic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog posting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content marketing'/><title type='text'>Blog Commenting For Earning Good Traffic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, blog commenting is a good strategy to earn traffic but it depends on how you do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some bloggers leave comments that are not related to the topic because they are just after the link which is wrong and will eventually be marked as spam. It is important that you leave good and meaningful comments because that is what gonna get you clicks from the traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your strategy is leaving fast comments to get some clicks from the traffic then better stop doing that. Fast comments are usually the one that are rushing to make the comment because they want to be the first one to leave a comment, thinking they’ll get more traffic. Doing that way, you are just risking your comment to be marked as spam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to convert those clicks to loyal visitors? You should have a good content to make them come back for more. Blog commenting is not that effective if your website doesn’t have a good content because those clicks will just go to waste. That is why we hear a lot the phrase "Content is King".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Content is King but content is somehow useless if you don’t know how to market it. What’s the use of your content if not a lot of people able to read it? Making a good content and marketing is the perfect combination to make your website popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog commenting is also the place where you can build a relationship with your fellow bloggers. We already know that many people that leave comments are also bloggers so this is a chance to build relationships. Building relationships with these people will get you more traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is all my thinking so if you have something to say then just leave a comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362404515494110704-8542799233828285890?l=raysmithblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8542799233828285890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362404515494110704&amp;postID=8542799233828285890' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/8542799233828285890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/8542799233828285890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-commenting-for-earning-good.html' title='Blog Commenting For Earning Good Traffic'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704.post-6896516749860183110</id><published>2009-04-08T03:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T03:45:09.003-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web designing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='link exchange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article submission'/><title type='text'>Some Useful SEO Tips</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search engine optimization or SEO is the hottest way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Maximizing the benefits of a well optimized website will yield lots of earnings for the marketer. However, optimizing your site might cost you thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Link exchanges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One cheap SEO method that can get you best results is through link exchanges or linking to and from other web sites. Depending on the websites that you would like to exchange links with, this tool could even cost you nothing at all. Contact the author or owner of the web site you want to have a link exchange with. You will be surprised with the eventual spiking up of your page ranking using this means of getting your website optimized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Write or acquire key word rich articles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writing truly informative and keyword-rich articles is one surefire way to make your Internet business more visible than ever. It's either you write your own articles or you get them from article directories that allow you to post these articles on your website as long as you keep the resource box or the author's byline in tact. Just don't stuff your articles with keywords that even idiots would get bore of reading them. The readability and freshness of your articles will still be the basis of whether your writers will keep on coming back to your website or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Catchy Domain Name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What better will make your target visitors remember your website but with a very easy-to-recall domain name. Something sweet and short will prove to be very invaluable. Registering your domain name is not for free. But creativity is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Organize your site navigation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Providing easy steps in navigating your site is one way to make your visitors become at ease with your site. This, in turn, will improve the flow of traffic to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362404515494110704-6896516749860183110?l=raysmithblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6896516749860183110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362404515494110704&amp;postID=6896516749860183110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/6896516749860183110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/6896516749860183110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-useful-seo-tips.html' title='Some Useful SEO Tips'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704.post-430818587798228638</id><published>2009-04-08T03:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T03:39:17.938-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web designing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web promotion'/><title type='text'>Know About Different SEO Services</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Generally there are different types of SEO services but there is no hard and fast rule for it. Some can cost a few dollars/pounds in a year.  These are considered as cheap and affordable Web Promotion Services. In this case it is just submission of sites to search engines and directories and nothing beyond it.  So going for such cheap and affordable SEO services is not a good idea at all.  It is just looking at the cost consideration to get promotion tasks done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are also companies that offer services in the form of monthly management scheme. In this there is a contract for SEO Services and companies perform web promotion and Internet Marketing activities for their clients. They look after the site and report to client every month. The cost factor varies in different countries according the profile of the company, management needs and types of reports and services provided. This too can be considered as a just satisfactory and an optimum level where small business concerns want to get their new websites promoted and pushed ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then another type is dedicated SEO consultancy. You can not consider cost consideration if you need the quality in promotion tasks. In this type you can avail the services of seo consultants at any time, you can discuss your problems, queries and get a smooth flow of advice. Some consultants charge on hourly basis and some charge partially before the beginning of project and rest on the completion. However the payment terms may vary on the project basis. You can avail all types of services such as defining of keywords, writing of content on keyword basis, defining navigation structure, on page and off page optimization techniques and other internet marketing activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally there are SEO Services in the form of outsourcing. You can outsource your promotion work to different companies which are expertise in the web stream. Again cost factor differs in this case according to the quality and reputation of the outsourcing services provider. This too can be in the form of consultancy. You can also avail specialization services in different streams like you can hire link building experts at cheap rates or manual directory submissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362404515494110704-430818587798228638?l=raysmithblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/430818587798228638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362404515494110704&amp;postID=430818587798228638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/430818587798228638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/430818587798228638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/know-about-different-seo-services.html' title='Know About Different SEO Services'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704.post-5498105901703207278</id><published>2009-03-24T01:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T01:12:55.559-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web designing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search eninge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iternet marketing'/><title type='text'>Web Design &amp; Search Engine Optimization</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process and techniques that generate quality web traffic from search engines. SEO is a way of improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings. Utilizing SEO services, you can pull in massive amounts of online traffic to your site, create brand awareness, add to your existing customer base and enhance online profitability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Importance of SEO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Research indicates that at least 40% of online traffic comes from people typing key words on search engines. Search engines are used for information and people assume that websites listed amongst the top 10 search engine results are the best websites. It is therefore no wonder that these websites attract maximum visitor traffic and generate the highest sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Web Design &amp;amp; SEO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to reap the benefits of Internet marketing, your website must be SEO compatible. A website that has a user-friendly design and is easily navigated helps your website get high search engine rankings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362404515494110704-5498105901703207278?l=raysmithblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5498105901703207278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362404515494110704&amp;postID=5498105901703207278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/5498105901703207278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/5498105901703207278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/web-design-search-engine-optimization.html' title='Web Design &amp; Search Engine Optimization'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362404515494110704.post-8163803145330727819</id><published>2007-10-03T03:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T01:19:20.830-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine optimization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet marketing'/><title type='text'>Search Engine Optimisation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an ultimate demand for any small concern aiming to earn profit with a website. If any business house does not have the promotion allowances like any big corporate house, then the only way to promote your web site to the customers is through a search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us check the methodology that are used in SEO; firstly the SEO makes it sure that a site is "readable" accurately by the "spiders". Spiders are programmes used by search engines to visit web sites and collect the data for the search engine to index. Spiders are also referred to as "robots" or "bots". An improperly indexed site is obscured in the search engine result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEO provides some 'on page' techniques like presenting the salient 'keywords' in the right places on each page. Another technique is to analyze the keyword that helps the optimizer to pick up the most generic search phrases for any business area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore to these 'on page' techniques, another prime SEO operation is to link building, as there are some Search Engines' result criteria is based on the number of links from other sites to its customer's site. So it is very important for a SEO to provide high-ranking link building services, as sites often are punished for using the artificial linking approach detected by the Search Engines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2362404515494110704-8163803145330727819?l=raysmithblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8163803145330727819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2362404515494110704&amp;postID=8163803145330727819' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/8163803145330727819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2362404515494110704/posts/default/8163803145330727819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://raysmithblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/search-engine-optimization.html' title='Search Engine Optimisation'/><author><name>Ray Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273869143648754976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gFZQjjPiyRQ/S12crhPawfI/AAAAAAAAADo/Rx7usGxDk2A/S220/Ray-Smith.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
