Blogosphere Tips!

Off-page factors can be summarized as follows:

Links

The worth of your site or blog in the eyes of a search engine would be largely responsible on the quality of links that you earn for your site. You may gather a large shoal of links for a certain page or feature but it is the quality of those links that matter and not the number of links. By ‘quality’ you should be looking for the relevancy of such links with the content of your page. Once you achieve that relevancy, you would now need to check the quality of the site that is linking with your site. If it is a link-farm that is linking to your page then it is of no good use. You should always remember to develop unique content for each of your pages in order to earn natural links to your pages. Another way of getting good links is by way of associating yourself with sites with somewhat relevant content & unique authority.

Contest

It would be a wise decision to track the contest for your primary keywords at times. You should make a note of the different ways others are benefiting & you are not. Once you see the results of this study, you need not stand in the same queue but innovate your own means. Yes, its true that for quite sometime you’ll find these innovations pretty much similar to others, till you emerge out of this boring phase.

Instruction & Guidance

The Seo process has trudged a long way into a very different domain since it came to notice. Long are those days when it was just a matter of words to hire an SEO professional. Now-a-days, it is certainly a costlier affair to get the right person for your desired job. So, most of the serious bloggers or web designers would prefer to do it on their own. But they need to conduct a wholesome research on this topic, since it no longer remains that simple process of twisting meta tags. But this is where the ‘time’ factor plays a key role. If you don’t have the time to invest in seo, you need make a one-time investment towards seo training. There are pretty many blogs and sites available to guide you towards obtaining the right SEO-critiques and arrange for SEO workshops. You would also get the opportunity to visit different forums, wherein you would come across a number of people like you who would be glad to share their expertise.

Analysis & Statistics

Your basic statistics regarding your site hosting is no longer sufficient to let you develop your site. Your hosting company is most likely maintaining your web details, which is truly vital for you to check from time to time. It is important for you to note the source of your visitors, track your unique visitors, page errors etc. You should never get confused about the number pf your page-hits as the number of unique visitors to your site. You may have placed some images on your site which makes it inevitable to generate a ‘hit’ for each of those images every time that page gets downloaded. In other ways, every time you open a particular page a new hit is generated, but you are not adding up towards the number of unique visitors to your site. Are you ?
Hence, in order to track the uniqueness of your site traffic you could rely on free web analytics eg. http://www.google.com/analytics