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Tips to Take Advantage of Google+

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Introduction

Although Google would never reveal their exact ranking/indexing algorithm, it only makes sense that if you let them know about your content they are going tgoogle+imageo do a better job of indexing you, so that connecting your content with Google Plus, which is Google’s social network. This is going to lead to better indexing times, more authority/trust in Google, and an overall better relationship with Google.

How to Use Google+

It is free and all you need is a Google account.

http://plus.google.com

The next thing you are going to want to do is add yourself as a contributor within your Google+ account. This is very easy to do and is done directly on your Profile page.

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From there you will want to go to your About tab.

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Scroll down to the Links section and you will see the Contributor field. This is where you will want to add any websites that you are actively working on. Click on the “Edit” link. Then you will want to “Add a Custom Link”. This will pop up a link editor. After you add your websites that you own, click “Save” and you are done. 🙂

Adding yourself as a contributor is a subtle way to make Google aware of websites that you are a content contributor of. This in essence allows Google to have insight into what sort of author you are. If you create quality engaging content, this is only going to benefit you and subsequently Google’s trust in your content will go up.

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SEO Analysis Result Example

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seo-analysisToday, I write a post in WordPress, and then check the SEO analysis result from the WordPress SEO Yoast plugin. Although the result disappointed me, I still glad to know the SEO result recommendation which teach me how to improve my post. Writing essay with good SEO score need another kind of writing skill which we have to use keywords in the post as much as possible. We really need to put effort to focus on SEO keywords during writing post, in order to increase its SEO ranking under search engine. SEO is an important technique for internet marketer to get better traffic, as a  result to increase sales.

How to Improve Post Content per SEO Analysis

After we write a post, we can analyize its SEO by WordPress SEO Yoast plugin. The following is an example of SEO analysis suggestion, then, we can improve our content according to the recommendation. You take reference as below:

The keyword / phrase wealthy affiliate internet business community online marketer community does not appear in the page title.
The keyword doesn’t appear in the first paragraph of the copy, make sure the topic is clear immediately.
You have not used your keyword / keyphrase in any subheading (such as an H2) in your copy.
A meta description has been specified, but it does not contain the target keyword / phrase.
The keyword density is 0%, which is a bit low, the keyword was found 0 times.
The images on this page do not have alt tags containing your keyword / phrase.
The keyword / phrase does not appear in the URL for this page. If you decide to rename the URL be sure to check the old URL 301 redirects to the new one!
The copy scores 56.7 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly difficult to read. Try to make shorter sentences to improve readability.
The specified meta description is over 156 characters, reducing it will ensure the entire description is visible. The available space is shorter than the usual 155 characters because Google will also include the publication date in the snippet.
This page has 9 outbound link(s).
You’ve never used this focus keyword before, very good.
The page title is more than 40 characters and less than the recommended 70 character limit.
There are 1914 words contained in the body copy, this is more than the 300 word recommended minimum.

 

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Setup of WordPress SEO Plugin

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Introduction

seo-images2In this web site, I talked about the setup of paid traffic through facebook ads (as link HERE) before. On the other hands, we can also get traffic FREE OF CHARGE through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technique which can optimize your web site to improve its visibility to web search engines. Currently, there are 3 big search engines in internet world, i.e. Google, Bing and Yahoo. Although the big brother is Google which owns over 2/3 of all search traffic and over 95% of mobile searches, we still worth to consider the other two search engines while working on it.

Objective of SEO

The main objective of working for SEO is to get a higher rank in the web search engines. If your web site can appear in the first page of search result, it absolutely has a better exposure to audience and can attract more traffic and attention, as a result to have a better promotion and sales power. Do you realize the following formula ? SEO is a very important aspect of any website’s success.

Website Rankings + Targeted Traffic = Revenue

If you are running a wordpress web site, you have to install SEO plugin which can do a lot of the “dirty work” for you and will take care the optimization of all your website pages, posts, meta tags, and other aspects that search engines look for when ranking your site. There are two popular WordPress SEO plugin, named ‘All in One SEO’ and ‘WordPress SEO by Yoast’. ‘All in One’ is ideal for beginners as it works out of the box with a few extra easy details added by the user. Yoast’s plugin is by far a lot more customisable but as a result it seems a lot more complicated. I think Yoast SEO is for intermediate to advanced users.

Setup of Yoast SEO in WordPress Website

I like to use Yoast SEO plugin for my WordPress website. Its installation is simple.

  1. The first step is to search and download its coding from add WordPress plugins, then confirm to install.
  2. Activate the WordPress SEO plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Configure the plugin by going to the SEO menu that appears in your admin menu as below screen dump:

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The most important operation for using Yoast SEO is to fill-in those SEO required information for pages, posts, tags, category, which you should take time to do it during document creation, but it is crucial. Do not skip it.

Note:  Yoast will rewrite all your titles, so they might change after switching.

Introduction of Google Analytics for SEO

Using SEO plugin can make our web site more friendly for search engines, and they can index and rank our web site better. However, if you want to know whether your SEO setup is functional okay to improve your web site rank as well as traffic. You have to use some kind of traffic analytics tools. There is a FREE tool from Google called Google Analytics which has good enough for general usage. Google Analytics can provide you information of your web site about how much traffic it is getting in and where it is coming from.

The setup of Google Analytics is simple. Its setup process is as below:

  1. Creating a Google Analytics Account
  2. Getting Your Analytics Tracking Code
  3. Adding it to the All in One SEO Tool
  4. Checking to Make Sure it Works

The setup process is very simple and when you are done, you are going to have full tracking set-up on your website and will be able to determine everything you need to know about your website visitors and also visitors’ behaviour on your website.

Here is my Analytics report of my web site for your reference:

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