Tips

I decided to wait a couple of months before talking about this publicly, because I wanted to verify its validity with a few more sites. It appears that the domain name and the external links of a new website help get it not only in the index faster, but also within the top 100 SERPs.

In particular, if your domain name is keyword centric and related to the genre of your website, and if you frequently link out to websites that are related to your genre, Google appears to be showing those sites preferential treatment. Although I won't provide examples of the sites I've observed this behavior with, I will say that it's a total of a dozen individual websites.

Coupled with moderate submissions to social networks, something as simple as picking a good keyword-centric domain name and frequently publishing original articles that reference and link out to websites within your genre, you're giving your website the best chance to quickly get into Google's SERPs. I've seen this happening somewhat on Live too, but mostly on Google.

I've been having some problems lately posting articles. Here's what I think the problem was, in case it's happening to you too.

No + or = signs  in the title. I know these are unconventional characters for a title, but they didn't work, nonetheless

Once I turned off the bullet feature in the body, it seemed to work also.

Also, be sure to check your article once its posted, to make sure its really there. I've seen some "blanks" be posted.

I've just had a look through some of the things in the reported section, and I noticed some of them were to do with advertising or promoting your business.

You are allowed to promote your business, but it should be a little bit more subtle. Some of the spam isn't related to online marketing (unless you count that they link to their website...), and some of them look more like a PR ad.

Something that you could do is to perhaps write the content like, "How to do ____" and then at the bottom you could put a signature like, "(insert name here) is the (insert title here) for (insert company and product name here)."

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Not sure where to post certain information.

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• advice into articles
• industry news into news
• questions into questions
• related content into groups
• other stuff into your gooruze member blog

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