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The prime reason why webmasters conduct SEO on their website is traffic. I know many webmasters who play by the rules and follow techniques that aren’t effective anymore. Some webmasters are smarter and they always follow SEO techniques that actually prove to be effective in boosting the search engine rankings of their websites. If you look at the SEO approaches of many successful and top-ranking websites, you will be amazed by their choice of SEO tools, techniques and methods. So what kind of approaches are they following at present after all? Here are three great ways to drive immense traffic to your site:

Press Releases- A potential tool of online marketing, press release when written professionally and distributed across the press release sites, will get your site publicized around the world wide web in no time. Besides, it helps you get critical back links in the process. However, the best part is it helps you build your brand identity which is very important for your business in the long run.

Blogging- Blogging needs no explanation. An informative, innovating and thought-provoking post a day should be enough to keep the visitors and search engine spiders coming back to you every now and again. Don’t be in two minds, choose any WordPress theme, install plugins and enhance the experience of your visitors, enable them to share your thought with others, increase its clickability and let your blog be popular across the blogging and SEO communities.

Forum Posting- Be active on various forum sites, participate in various discussions, offer valuable answers to your fellow participants. Don’t just write a thread or two, create scores of them per day. Share your views with others like crazy. Spend about 2 hours doing forum posting across various popular forum sites and you should be reaping the dividend for such efforts pretty darn soon.

What is Social Media Optimization?

Social Media Optimization, also referred to as SMO, is a set of viral marketing techniques that triggers widespread popularity when executed in an organized and planned fashion. The increasing use of social media networks has opened a new opportunity for online marketers to harness this social networking tool to their best advantage. According to a new study by The Center for the Digital Future and AARP, an increasing number of 50+ adults in the United States are being found on the social networking sites.

What Are The Types of SMO?
Usually, SMO comprises a list of actions in collaboration with popular social networking tools and sites, which effectively includes:

Social Networking – Custom Applications on Facebook, MySpace, Orkut
Content Syndication – Using RSS, PDFs, Videos to Encourage Content Mash Up
Blog Optimization – Create, Manage, Engage Audience with Relevant Content
Bookmarking – Tagging Your Pages with Popular Bookmarking Websites
Forum Participation – Building Brand Identity through Participation

Does SMO Translate Into Higher Revenue?

Yes, it does, with an organized effort to publicize your online business on various social networking sites where your prospects already exist, social media optimization is a highly effective tool to mobilize, socialize and monetize your business. Basically, it improves the linkablity of your website and helps drive higher volume of traffic to your website resulting into higher conversion.

As everybody was expecting, once again, Google has revised its Page Rank in its latest Google Dance. While my website has achieved a PageRank 1 from PageRank 0, my blog has managed to grab a 2 outta nowhere. Call me demanding or what you would like, I’m not too excited about this improvement as I was expecting a 2 or 3 if not 4 or 5. But anyways, as they say, something is better than nothing and Rome wasn’t built….

Nobody knows the mystery surrounding the concept of PageRank but everybody is quite excited and Google has this seemingly weird array of reasons to assign a certain PageRank to websites and blogs. Getting a high PageRank augurs well for websites in many ways. For a starter, it adds to the credibility factor, and then you get more business which invariably translates into higher revenues. So how does this renewed PageRank 1 help my website to get more business? Well, I don’t really know if my prospects would be really impressed with it either. All I can swear by as of now is the SERP rankings of a number of keywords that my site is ranking top ten for. I really haven’t gone through them yet and I just hope they are fine.

The post-Google Dance period is always agog with reviews, comments, discussion especially on the forum sites across the web. If you have any of them and you would like share what happened to your sites or blogs this Google Dance, I would be keen on listening to you. Bring it on…

Blogging is a great act, it impacts everybody these days. Technorati has just released its very own ‘State of Blogosphere 2008’ report where you can find how blogs have influenced people from all walks of life. If you are an SEO professional and own a website to offer your services to your prospective customers, you need to create and manage a blog as a means to support your main website. Blog helps you to speak your mind, your thoughts; it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and tips with others, especially your visitors. However, if you are a busy businessperson who has to manage “so many” things in just 24 hours, it is difficult to maintain a blog.

Writing and posting one blog entry every two days should be good. Experts advise limiting blog entries to only 250 words. Apparently, blogging may sound easy but in reality, it’s too difficult unless you have something worthwhile to share with others. Clearly, you shouldn’t blog just for the heck of it- it doesn’t serve the purpose of blogging which is to inform, educate your readers. So, how do busy businesspeople manage and maintain their weblogs? Usually, they hire the services of professional blog content writers. Hiring professional bloggers take the responsibility off your shoulder as you get them to write and manage your posts at regular interval.

There is an alternative to hiring blogging professionals for maintaining your blog. You can spend about half an hour on various popular forum sites every day, participate in the discussions related to search engine optimization, and other relevant topics. Generating ideas for blog writing is necessary. However, given that you’re busy, allocating more than two hours a day to read other bloggers is a tough ask. Participating in forums not only helps you create useful back links, but also help you acquire critical knowledge on the basis of which you can write insightful, informative and relevant information for your audience. This, by far, has been helping me to come up with ideas. You can try and let me know if it works for you too.