Article Optimization - Directory Submission

It is a pleasurable challenge writing to Ezine and Article publishing Directories. This is the "sandbox" that most writers are contributing to today. More articles are written and show up as an entry to Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVist and other search engines than their are websites. Some websites are articles in themselves. It is much easier to write an article than it is to build a new website for most of us. The common person may not be able to do build their own website, but he or she may have the talent to be a successful writer. Think of the competition though! Thousands of writers writing about their content, promoting their website, and sharing their ideas. The numbers are overwhelming! There are a number of things that a writer needs to be aware of when submitting articles to develop a mass readership.

Article Optimization - If you want your article to show up on page number one of Google, it has to be optimized. Optimization is done by following some of the simple rules called "Search Engine Optimization".

Choose a high quality article directory to submit to. This will contribute a great deal to getting the article close to the number one spot. You can determine the article directories PR rating in Google ·by installing the Google task bar on you browser and going to the article directory website. Contributing your article to the directory is a very simple thing. You will have to provide personal information, possibly a pen name, your website url if you have one, and the category you will be writing about.

Use keyword rich content in the title, teaser, and body of the article. You have to do some keyword research and plug them in to your article every chance that you can. A good example in this article would be the keyword "article directory". It has to make sense when you use it. Once every paragraph or two and your readers will not get bored with the article and keep reading until the end of the article.

Use bold, italic, and underline when it seems appropriate with your keywords. Using Google, go look up some of your favorite keywords. You will notice in the list of Google links that the keywords you put in are in bold. Google picks up on the keywords. Let me repeat that, Google picks up on the keywords. In SEO Made Easy, the author indicates that not only does Google pick up on keywords, but Google picks up on keywords that are in bold, italic, and underlined.

Article Directories will let you place one to three incidents of anchor text in the body of the article. This is an excellent way to get a link back to your website! Google takes a while to do this, but eventually it will index the article and register the link. You can work in your keywords in clever fashion this way. If you have a website, and you are promoting your website in the article, this is the opportunity to use the keywords from your website. If the article directory allows the technique, html anchor text entries can be made in the body of the article as well as the bio. The reader would not normally know that html was being used. Of course the Article Dircetory has to accept html code for this to work.

Use anchor text in the article writers bio. Most Article Directories accept three, others will only allow you one. This is the sales pitch. If you have interesting content in the article, and have succeeded in convincing your reader that your contribution is worth investigating some more, they will want to go to your website and look some more! This is the author's sincere wish most of all, to gain trust and repore with his or her readers and to start a continuing business relationship. It can be done with a proper close to the article asking for the reader to "come on in, the water is fine!"

Article Writing - If you want your article to be read from start to finish, choose keywords and content that will make sense to the reader. Don't try to write about nuclear physics to a business crowd.

Determine your audience. This is done easily by entering your keywords into Google. Look at the number of entries returned. An article will be successful if you choose an audience that is not to large that you cannot compete against and not so small that you will only expose the article too few times to too few readers. When starting, it is a good idea to start with keywords that are getting about 30 hits a day at Overture. Normally there would also be less than ten million entries returned from the Google keyword search for your topic. Work on the larger populations when you get this down. You will find innumerable targets and keywords that you can do this with. There is no end to topics available on the internet. What a rich source of information!

Use original content when submitting to Article Directories. They have a way of finding out if your content is not original. Article directory submission guidelines always require you have exclusive license allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you or by you. So don't do it. You will get caught!

Enjoy your writing! The world is open to to your ideas and more than willing to accept what you have to offer, if it is done the right way!

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Why and how to track traffic of your website?

Here is a guide for Tracking traffic for your website.

[1] You can decide what you need to change in your site.
[2] You will able to know how visitors coming on your site
[3] You will Calculate your ROI if you are advertising with any PPC sites
[4] You will be able to know Path of visitors and most preferred path of visitors.
[5] You will decide which Keywords can work better for you and drive more targeted traffic for your site
[6] You will be able to know Percentage of visitors country wise
[7] You will be able to know top referral links
[8] You will know page load per visitors and Visitor to sales ratio and may improve it by changing appropriate changes in your site. changes in Title, Description etc..
[9] Most popular pages.
[10] According to feature of every tools you will analyze like Size of file loaded in a day, no of Error pages etc..

How to analyze traffic?

There are various tools available for traffic analysis. various services like Stacounter,google analytics,webstats4u,ritecounter etc...available for free to analyze your traffic

[1]Stacounter:- http://www.statcounter.com/
Stacounter is one of the most popular counter. it is invisible! its alexa traffic rank is 122 this itself shows how popular it is. the service is totally free if your page load per month is 3,00,000 other vise you have to improve log size, initially its log size is 100 and you can upgrade your logsize.

[2]Webstats4u:- http://www.webstats4u.com/
webstats4u is another popular counter but it is not invisible. everyone can view your stats. however they have added some nice features recently.

[3]Google- analytics:- http://www.google.com/analytics/recently Google launched its site tracking service named google-analytics.it is really nice service and free. I have no more experience but people says it is really nice accept its low speed! you have to first register your site with them using your Google account. then you have to paste a code on pages you want to alalyze.there are certain limitation for placing codes like you have to place the code immediately after the metatags and before Body!. Then it will analyze your traffic. it is in Beta(Launched in Last December)

Rite counter:- http://ritecounter.com/i have little experience with ritecounter.but I sometime shows weird results. Some visits can't track.however they provide large log size.this is biggest binifit for this site. There are other lots of Site tracking services. you can choose.

Webalizer:-you can Download it from- http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ you will be able to analyze your log file i am Happy with Their analysis. they says that "over 10,000 records can be processed in one second, through webalizer Please visit their page as i shown above. you Have to create a directory and install this program(source code). Installation Guide is written on their home page.

Awstats:-Like webalizer awstats is also a log file analyzer which you can install for your traffic analysis,There are some unique features are available which you will find only on Awstats. you can Download it from here>http://awstats.sourceforge.net/its latest version released just on December 2005.with lots of improved features

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