Mohammad Afaq's Blog

28Apr/090

A very important Search Engine Ranking factor.

Hey Friends,

Today I will tell you about a very important factor that can affect your search engine rankings and that is content.

There are many websites online and most of them can't get higher search engine rankings because they don't have a lot of information. The search engines today favor the sites that offer more content and that have a lot of pages and most of the people don't realize that. Most of the newbies make about 5-page or 6-page sites and expect #1 ranking in Google but what Google wants you to do is create content and create a lot of content. Google favors and ranks the sites that have more that 20 pages over the site that has only 5 pages.

What you should do is create content and pages filled with content. Never think your website is full and whatever new idea you think about put it on your site or blog because the more content you have the more Google Love you will receive.

I hope you understood what I wanted to say. If you have any question or comments please Contact Me by Clicking Here

27Apr/090

Are Traffic Exchanges good for blogs?

Hey Friends,

I am really sorry that I didn't post anything over the weekend but I didn't have any internet and right now I am sitting in a library. I hope I will get it fixed today.

Today I will tell you about using traffic exchanges for blogs. I have seen a lot of people use traffic exchanges to get traffic to their blogs and most of them fail to benifit from it. Why is that?

This is because traffic exchanges can't get quality traffic to the blogs most of the times. The reason for this is that the people who are surfing the sites don't really want to read blogs and articles until they are very very interesting or informating and if they are designed very good. The chance that a surfer will stop at your blog is very low.

The people who have been successful with traffic exchanges don't put blogs in their account but they put up squeeze pages with big headlines and a form to fill up information into. You either join it or you leave it and that's it.

If you are using or want to use traffic exchanges to get traffic to your blog then I recommend that you don't rely on it completely or if you have any other source of traffic that can do better then don't use it (twitter etc.) because on a traffic exchange site more that 90% of the visitors will just come to your blog and then go. Remember, they are here just to get a hit to their site but don't care about what you have on your page.

I hope I made myself clear and if you have any more questions please Contact me by Clicking Here

25Apr/090

Great tool for Tweeters who don’t have time.


Hey Friends,

Today I will tell you about a tool that can help you automate your twitter account and it can help you relieve hours of pain and frustration. This helped alot and let me tell you my story and maybe you want to give it a try too.

I liked this tool and it helped me because I am a blogger, internet marketer, affiliate marketer, social network fan, ebay seller, amazon seller, a brother, a son and a student. I have to manage my online life with my off line life and I have to fight this frustration every day. I used to use twitter for business like a lot of people and it took extra 2 hours+ everyday to manage my twitter account. I have a policy of following everyone back after he or she follows me because I want them to be also to send me a Direct Message.

In all of this going on I stumbled across Tweet Later. I just signed up not realizing that it will help me automate my twitter. Tweet Later just made my life easy and the Tweet Later tool I use most is Schedule Post. With this tool I can post on the times I get most twitter traffic even if I am not at home. When at school I schedule all my posts and that gives me a peace of mind and some free time to go over my other online projects.

The other great tool Tweet Later has is to auto follow any one who follows you. I don't use it a lot because I have a great script on my computer to do that myself but I would recommend it to anyone because it is great.

Click Here to go to the site and sign up for it as soon as possible.  If you have any questions or comments please don't forget to Contact Me by Clicking Here

22Apr/091

How do Affiliates really make money?

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Hey Friends,

I have been getting some emails from my readers telling me that I need to take into consideration the affiliate marketers and tell the people how to do successful affiliate marketing. Today my post is about Affiliate Marketing.

Now I won't really go into detail today because currently I am writing an ebook but I will give you a biggest factor many people fail to realize. When people become affiliates and they start promoting products they just use forums or twitter and if they are serious then they start a site or blog.

Now let me tell you something about having your own site as an affiliate. If you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer then you need to have your own site. Many do get a site but here's what many affiliates fail to do what they are suppose to do.

An ordinary affiliate will set up a site, put up his affiliate links and then waits for people to click the link and buy the product or take the one time offer. This is WRONG! There is just one step that needs to be added and that makes a big difference.

What should have been done here is that the affiliate should have set up a site, set up a squeeze page (to collect the visitors name and email) and then forwarded him to his affiliate link. Now what happens when you do this. First a visitor came and went through your link but didn't buy what was offered and you got nothing. Now when the visitor gives you his or her contact information and goes to site you get a lead no matter he buys the product or not.

If you keep this pace up and make your own huge list then you can start Internet Marketing and sell you own products or you can send the people email promotions and this can make you a long time money and not just a sale.

I hope you understood what I had to say. If you have any confusion or comment please don't forget to Click Here to Contact Me

21Apr/090

Importance of using images in your blog posts.

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Hey Friends,

I was receiving some emails lately asking me about using images in the blog posts. I thought it's an important topic so I posted it.

Now what the problem here is that many people want to use images on their blogs but they fear that this will slow their blog's loading speed down and some people simply couldn't find the images.

Most of the newbies don't use images in their blogs. Most of the times this is because they don't just know about the importance of it. An image in a blog post most may not sound like something big but it really affects a blog's first impression. Many people don't realize the importance of good first impression (check this post about keeping visitors returning).

Using relevant images on your blog will help you get a good first impression and will make you look professional and if you really think that it will slow your blog down then I recommend using Picnik or any other picture editing software to compress your images. I myself am ready to give up my blog's loading speed for a great first impression and loyal readers.

Hope I was able to explain to you what I mean and if you have any questions please Contact Me by Clicking Here

19Apr/090

A twitter tool every Twitter user should know about.


Hey Friends,

Today I will tell you about a great tool I found online and that really helped me so I thought it may be helpful to my readers who use twitter.

The tool is called Huitter. It is a tool that let's you unfollow all the people that you are following and who are not following you back.

These days many people are following users on twitter to gain followers and in that case many people start following a lot of people who don't follow them back. The only thing they can do is to unfollow them.

How they do that? Pretty simple, they can use the block button found in their list of followers. The problem with that is that you can't unfollow 200 or 300 people at once because it is time consuming and it is a tiring work. Instead you can go to Huitter.com and unfollow them all at once.

I found this tool really helpful and I thought that maybe you want to use it yourself. If you have any questions or comments please Contact Me by Clicking Here.

18Apr/090

How you can dominate Social Networking and get traffic?


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Hey Friends,

Today I will tell you something about how to succeed in social networking. I am asked this question a lot of time by my readers that I signed up for twitter now what, or myspace is not working for me, or I can't get my posts dugg.

There is just one step that many people don't realize the importance of and that is Having many friends on Social Networking sites. This is cool to join digg and digging you posts but if you have no friends then your chance of making to the front page of Digg very low (not if you have huge website or blog traffic).

What you can do is when you join social networkig sites make as many friends as you can and whenever you update don't forget to send them a message if you can. If you have 500 friends on Stumble upon and a 100 of them thumb your site up then you will get traffic from stumble upon for nearly the whole day. Same with digg, if your 180 friends digg your site then you sure will make it to the front page of digg and that means thousands of visitors.

I hope I made myself clear. If you have any questions please Contact Me by Clicking Here

17Apr/090

Wait, if you want to make money online.

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Hey Friends,

Today I will tell you the biggest reason that many people are not able to make money online and what you can do to make money online.

Everyday I receive email from many people that go online and look for ways to make money online. A lot of time I get the same email (or similar) and they tell me that they startedaffiliate marketing, made no money so they set up a website still saw no success and then went to a blog, no success and then started internet marketing and eventually they went off line.

Why is this? Why many people are not able to make money online and some are?

Patience my friend, is the key. People come online and they expect to make millions because of the many scams telling them they can and when they don't see the results they don't stay in there and stop doing it. If you don't go deep into something you never know what it is like and just think that if it was so easy to make money online then why would everyone be doing jobs and not making money online. You can make money online but you can't do it without hard work and patience. You have to stick to one thing if you want to make money online.

I hope I made myself clear. If you have any question please Contact Me by Clicking Here

16Apr/091

Create a Message Board (Discussion Forum) on your site to improve traffic

Hey Friends,

You may have read on many sites and blogs online about getting traffic to your site by posting in forums but today I will tell you something about how to increase traffic to your site by creating your own forum.

You may have seen many sites with forums but have you ever thought of creating your own forum. If not then you should but first I have some questions.

Do you have enough traffic?

This is a really important step, many people just start forums on their sites without realizing that they don't have enough traffic and they end up having an empty forum. Before creating a forum you should see how much traffic your have and if you don't get couple of hundred visitors everyday then you should not even think about starting a forum.

What kind of traffic do your get?

This step is really important and most of the times the webmasters fail to recognize the importance of this step. Before starting a forum you should always look at what kind of traffic you are getting. If you are getting hundreds of visitors from a traffic exchange then your traffic is not healthy enough and you should not start a forum because the traffic exchange users are not on your blog because they found it on Search engine or they were referred from another blog but they are here to see your site for a minute so they can get their site seen by others and the most traffic exchanges can do is help you build a list.

Are you ready to put work in it?

Well... I know most of the answers will be yes because everyone is ready to work hard and get traffic to their site. By creating a forum and putting on your site you can't just get traffic and get people started. You should add some questions and answers to get it started and then you should keep checking how your community is doing and see if nobody is spamming your forum.

Forums can be a good source of traffic because they have lots and lots of information and they can get you higher search engine rankings but you have to plan before starting a forum and don't just start a forum without planning. You should always plan because:

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail

I hope I made myself clear and if you have anymore questions please Contact Me by Clicking Here

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15Apr/091

Blog comments that turn into clicks.


Hey Friends,

You may have read in many places that you can increase traffic to your site by commenting on blogs. Today I will talk about why many people fail to accomplish such a simple task and what can be done to get traffic from blog comments.

Who needs comment traffic?

More than 90% of the time the newbies need traffic to their blogs (or sites) by comments because their blogs (or sites) have not been ranked by the search engines and they don't have any other means of traffic but it commenting can help anyone get traffic fast.

What do people do wrong

Now the question is what goes wrong when people comment on blogs. The biggest mistake they make is that they just leave a link of their site or they just write anything like "visit my site at http://www.website.com". Another big mistake is that people don't post on blogs relevant to their topic.

What should be done

The comments should always be sensible and relevant to the post and they should either agree or disagree with what is said in the post. Many people fail to spend time thinking before writing the post or sometimes they simply don't want to read the post and as a result they just write anything in the comment without realizing that they have commented on something else and the post talked about something else.

Comments should always be made on blogs similar to your own topic. If you go and comment on techcrunch.com you sure will get traffic but if you have a blog about travel then commenting on a technology blog like Tech Crunch won't help you get good traffic. This is because people on Tech Crunch are not interested in travel but they want to read about technology.

One last thing I want to say is that people don't leave their link in the blogs. This is a really really bad thing because if they don't have your link then how do you expect them to come. Always leave a link in your comment and they will come.

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