Cash’s Blog

So… It’s been a while. Sorry about that. I have no real excuse apart from laziness. Well, and I got a new job. I love the hippie lifestyle (the not working bit), but the no money bit catches up on you after a while.

Anyway, I’m going to stop being so lazy. That means, keeping my websites up to date, exercising, eating and working. But I hope to only be doing the latter (in the traditional sense at least) for the next few years.

Free Articles Directory

To the important things! I’ve spent the last couple of days working on my website, getting them up updated and whatnot. And in the process, got the article directory I was talking about a while ago, up and running!

There’s still a lot I need to do to it, mostly in terms of looks, but it is all working a ready for you other webmasters out there to get your articles published.

The website is FreeArticlesWiki.com

I had other plans for it at first (hence the wiki part in the domain name). But now, I guess, I just have to make a joke about it NOT being a wiki at all.

Free traffic and backlinks! You know you can’t resist…

-Cash

If you’ve used WebsiteGrader, you might’ve noticed the section mentioning that you need to redirect www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com to the same location. I’ve done my research on the effects of not doing this, but there are a lot of conflicting opinions. The general though is that your search engine score might be split between the two “seperate” sub-domains.

There is a chance that other problems can be caused also. SSL certificates are for one sub-domain only (with or without the www.), so your certificate might show the user an error if they use the other.

Some search engines may realize they are the same website, others may not, but why risk lowering your score, when it’ll take you less than 5 minutes to fix this problem?!

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All the way back in my first article, Where to Start, I talked about how registering a domain name containing your website’s keywords is important. Well having the keywords in the complete URL to the page is also helpful.

The URL of the page you’re on now for example: http://www.cashsblog.com/2009/01/flat-links/. It contains to year, month, then title of the article. This can give search engines a better idea of what the page is about. Have you ever seen URLs like http://www.cashsblog.com?read_article.php?year=2009&month=01&key=120&title=flat-links and thought “What the hell does that mean?”

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Submitting articles or “social bookmarks” can be helpful for two main reasons: It will get you traffic, and search engine backlinks. But like I mentioned previously with website promotion, post information that people will find useful, don’t just spam your site around, trying to get backlinks!

So you’re probably thinking, “Hey, this’ll be easy. I’ll just write one really good article and post it everywhere I can!” Sorry to burst your bubble, but it’s not quite that easy, I can tell you!

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If you’ve had a bit of a look around the website, you’ve probably noticed that I often refer to “Alexa Rank” or “Google PageRank”. So what are they? What do they do? Do they actually mean anything? Is there anything I can do to improve my ranks?

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Also today, I’ll quickly introduce you to an awesome SEO tool I use frequently (frequently’s probably too often, yeah?). It’s called Website Grader. All you do is type your website’s address and hit you enter key. Then after a few seconds, you will be given an SEO score and a list of suggested ways to improve and promote your website.

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