First SEO steps after Create a blog

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Creating a blog is one of the most efficient ways of reaching out to people and establishing a good web presence. After create a website or blog without do <i>SEO, </i>it won't be reached to people or visitor or web readers.<i> </i>Once you have created a blog, start promoting it in the social bookmarking and social networking websites. you will get the desired response from the social networking websites only if a good network is established there. Apart from this, the blog can also be promoted in some of the blogging related forums and communities; however make sure that you abide by the rules set out by the webmaster.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQbWdmXj5reEECxqhfZdxXHnutHST806n0kVKw4tQGEmEbazpx4-MGqW4WRKavFizj6tiUjTqKZC-cfUZE_DE8LediwAAPCFRo5tXKemKPsGgPPgxu4F-3V4kgng4b0NvUqCqPeAzlYcb/s1600/First-SEO-steps-after-create-a-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="First-SEO-steps-after-create-a-blog" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQbWdmXj5reEECxqhfZdxXHnutHST806n0kVKw4tQGEmEbazpx4-MGqW4WRKavFizj6tiUjTqKZC-cfUZE_DE8LediwAAPCFRo5tXKemKPsGgPPgxu4F-3V4kgng4b0NvUqCqPeAzlYcb/s1600/First-SEO-steps-after-create-a-blog.jpg" title="First-SEO-steps-after-create-a-blog" /></a></div> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The following steps should do after create a blog :</b></span><br /><br />1) Create sitemap, submit to Google<br />2) Submit your URL to Yahoo! Google and Bing search engines<br />3) If you have several posts, social bookmark all of them (eg. Digg, StumbleUpon..)<br />4) Create a Facebook fanpage for your blog, and get people/friends to like it, and share your posts URL on facebook fanpage with short descriptions each time<br />5) Create a Twitter account and do the same thing as with the Facebook account sharing method<br />6) Create a Google Plus Account and do the same thing<br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These are the immediate steps you can take.</span></b><br /><br />After which for long term <i>SEO</i>, you should<br />1) Write guest posts with dofollow backlinks<br />2) Submit articles to article directories<br />3) Social bookmark all blog posts<br /><br /><a href="http://seopips.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-need-seo-for-websites.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more Why need SEO for websites</span></b></span></a><br /> <br /> <br /> I hope this suggestion will help you to promote a website or blog.</div>

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how does social media affect SEO?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5H9iyyimWZJ2PNTn6vHW-UDiODewmwv6CWxnheXDuKgypV8u5UEW2ia_pocncRdV444ml3Ufi4ZaJbude6vois82jgO2FeWIGIBNXBS7l5LATsAx6mZcHzezoauHK4mTussTpyIPSNRJ/s1600/how+does+social+media+affect+SEO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5H9iyyimWZJ2PNTn6vHW-UDiODewmwv6CWxnheXDuKgypV8u5UEW2ia_pocncRdV444ml3Ufi4ZaJbude6vois82jgO2FeWIGIBNXBS7l5LATsAx6mZcHzezoauHK4mTussTpyIPSNRJ/s200/how+does+social+media+affect+SEO2.jpg" width="191" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. <i>Social media technologies take on many different forms including magazines, Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.</i><br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Global usage</b></span></span><br /> <br /> According to the article "The Emerging Role of Social Media in Political and Regime Change" by Rita Safranek, “The Middle East and North Africa region has one of the most youthful populations in the world, with people under 25 making up between 35-45% of the population in each country. They make up the majority of social media users, including about 17 million Facebook users, 25,000 Twitter accounts and 40,000 active blogs, according to the Arab Advisors Group.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFnXJRVZrSHLB1zdwCvhlLtyfLF2KGLCZp7qtrPHwYCKIgPyQV692SgnfiMiZ0N6vZczzrm7za_vjz8eMeY6NxBg0J1eGSqvVUuKK-SqsgIEdh8n6oIOQuILGXLNN-g8NCTx-2UVWCM5ja/s1600/how+does+social+media+affect+SEO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFnXJRVZrSHLB1zdwCvhlLtyfLF2KGLCZp7qtrPHwYCKIgPyQV692SgnfiMiZ0N6vZczzrm7za_vjz8eMeY6NxBg0J1eGSqvVUuKK-SqsgIEdh8n6oIOQuILGXLNN-g8NCTx-2UVWCM5ja/s200/how+does+social+media+affect+SEO.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b>SEO </b></i>engineers have long suspected that social media elements have an impact on search engine result pages, with particular reference to Google and Bing. This suspicion was confirmed at the end of 2010. So we know that search engines are taking social media signals into account, but how can you use this information to improve your own social media. We know that links shared via the biggest social media platforms (most notably <b><i>Twitter</i></b> and <i><b>Facebook</b></i>) can have a direct, positive impact on your rankings, but it isn’t as simple as just setting up and account on these platforms and pushing out your content.<br /> <br /> <br /> Social media play a significant role on Search Engines Rankings as an effective link building method while data deriving from social media are largely used by Search Engines. Increased website referral traffic and higher revenue<br /> <br /> Social media improve rankings in various ways. The number of people liking the page, the number of shares, the number of followers, the number or retweets, the quota of followers/following, can impact the organic <i><b>SEO </b></i>(particularly the referral traffic). Additionally all these social media generated by the abundance of social media (like <i><b>Pinterest</b></i>, <i><b>Facebook</b></i>, <i><b>Twitter </b></i>etc.), can increase significantly brand awareness and online visibility.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The value of social media as ranking factor gradually increases, since even Google has admitted that social media is a ranking factor.  Brands have started realizing that:</div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>    social media increase their power and new generation spends more time on these channels interacting with their brands.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>    people trust more a brand recommended by their friends in social media.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><u>You can now increase your social media presence in  6 immediate steps:</u></span></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>Register your brand to social media by creating appealing and meaningful content for users, include links that will point to your website.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li> Create onsite elements leading to sites like share buttons, connect buttons (like button) and social bookmarks.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li> Create onsite a blog and update it with valuable rich in links articles and topics.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li> Integrate social media and blog announcing through all channels the new post and take full advantage of share (use of social bookmarking services) and connect buttons already mentioned before.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li> Creation of infographics with appealing content and design is an interesting and effective way of acquiring links. If the design is visually appealing the content of info are important, then it is most likely this content to be shared via social media channels creating a social buzz.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li> Quantify the impact of your reach to the audience by using analytics, such as Google Analytics and according to your data you can increase your efforts on social media channels.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>as well as</b></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> The following infographic breaks down ways that social media influences the visibility of your website in search results, including:</div> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>    Social media can help search engines find and index your content faster</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>     Likes, shares, retweets, etc. indicates to search engine that content is new and interesting, often leading to a temporary increase in rankings</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>    Your content will increase in search results for people connected to you</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>    Increases domain authority and the number of inbound links to your website</li> </ul> </div>

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Major Search Engines

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhakkwtF97A1rW2LZGR_0-FjKSmLssT7ntMgVbmyhpySSX-S0632rTbHNs_LbIiqF_yDCSLM3aY-Wa2biMJLK7YByLGj63GpyPN9J-OG_n2Ca_HV17K-kUPJZT1YzmFoYgj4bqpC7rijuhO/s1600/major+search+engine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google, yahoo. bing, search engines" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhakkwtF97A1rW2LZGR_0-FjKSmLssT7ntMgVbmyhpySSX-S0632rTbHNs_LbIiqF_yDCSLM3aY-Wa2biMJLK7YByLGj63GpyPN9J-OG_n2Ca_HV17K-kUPJZT1YzmFoYgj4bqpC7rijuhO/s200/major+search+engine.jpg" title="Major Search Engines" width="180" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Web search engines work by storing information about many web pages, which they retrieve from the page's HTML. These pages are retrieved by a Web crawler (sometimes also known as a spider) — an automated Web browser which follows every link on the site. The site owner can make exclusions by using robots.txt. The contents of each page are then analyzed to determine how it should be indexed (for example, words can be extracted from the titles, page content, headings, or special fields called meta tags). Data about web pages are stored in an index database for use in later queries. A query from a user can be a single word. The index helps find information relating to the query as quickly as possible.<br /> <br /> A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may be a specialist in web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.<br /> <br /> Search Engine Watch has been covering search engines since June 1997 and has watched the industry evolve to its current state. Over time, many search engines have come and gone, as users have spoken with their keyboards.<br /> <br /> During early development of the web, there was a list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains. As more webservers went online the central list could not keep up. On the NCSA site new servers were announced under the title "What's New!"<br /> <br /> Most Web search engines are commercial ventures supported by advertising revenue and thus some of them allow advertisers to have their listings ranked higher in search results for a fee. Search engines that do not accept money for their search results make money by running search related ads alongside the regular search engine results. The search engines make money every time someone clicks on one of these ads.<br /> <br /> If we see in the market of search engine, Google's worldwide market share peaked at 86.3% in April 2010. Yahoo!, Bing and other search engines are more popular in the US than in Europe. According to Hitwise, market share in the USA for October 2011 was Google 65.38%, Bing-powered (Bing and Yahoo!) 28.62%, and the remaining 66 search engines 6%. However, an Experian Hit wise report released in August 2011 gave the "success rate" of searches sampled in July. Over 80 percent of <br /> <br /> Yahoo! and Bing searches resulted in the users visiting a web site, while Google's rate was just under 68 percent. In the People's Republic of China, Baidu held a 61.6% market share for web search in July 2009. In Russian Federation, Yandex holds around 60% of the market share as of April 2012.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Major Search Engines :</b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Google</b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BIT4qbx7CPJosEhC8A43a4EVNPr-1yZ86jr1vkETElK1THVObAhk_h-lUf0PHs1tVpN4cXo0J6ofFy-wL4af0ybxp3_NYc_QHpUYgUgh4x3Mi84OfgopOwpjxOjUttVthV-06v-c4iIV/s1600/google.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="google, yahoo, bing, search engines" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BIT4qbx7CPJosEhC8A43a4EVNPr-1yZ86jr1vkETElK1THVObAhk_h-lUf0PHs1tVpN4cXo0J6ofFy-wL4af0ybxp3_NYc_QHpUYgUgh4x3Mi84OfgopOwpjxOjUttVthV-06v-c4iIV/s320/google.jpg" title="Major Search Engines" width="320" /></a>Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits derive from AdWords.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil". In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California.<br /> <br /> The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world and to process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data each day. In December 2012 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger. Google ranks second in the BrandZ brand equity database. Its market dominance has led to criticism over issues including copyright, censorship, and privacy.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Yahoo</b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdg_mCd2wHMX5jaKvQWwz2jzJ0wmg-qyIWBU-5UvXpkyWQWitSYAJ00tHJKfQq-CkW5bIcKcGouvrokaIu_fWKgA-2cuLhpyL-kJhnMl_Y-bxBkle355C34jL-8hJKbeAWdhQG_oZskm-C/s1600/yahoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="google, yahoo, bing, search engines" border="0" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdg_mCd2wHMX5jaKvQWwz2jzJ0wmg-qyIWBU-5UvXpkyWQWitSYAJ00tHJKfQq-CkW5bIcKcGouvrokaIu_fWKgA-2cuLhpyL-kJhnMl_Y-bxBkle355C34jL-8hJKbeAWdhQG_oZskm-C/s320/yahoo.jpg" title="Major Search Engines" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry's guide to the world wide web". David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> Yahoo!  was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On July 16, 2012, former Google executive Marissa Mayer was named as Yahoo! CEO and President, effective July 17. Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is widely known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month. Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."<br /> <br /> As of January 2010, Yahoo! held the world's largest market share in online display advertising. JP Morgan put the company’s US market share for display ads at 17%, well ahead of No. 2 Microsoft at 11% and AOL at 7%. In 2011, Yahoo lost the top spot to Facebook.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bing</span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjdZYW6roEuLz1WYiNH5808Wy-lR0EFIsKZLmeK9p7eaxf9hLimeZSBpcY20zOi3Z6BeBWhLsZ7pdv57QcAFwRFn1LBYvU205SrBuGbtJKPj-jW6O_L6OZsIvSnYg9PIuY3yV0wmCztHw/s1600/bing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="google, yahoo, bing, search engines" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjdZYW6roEuLz1WYiNH5808Wy-lR0EFIsKZLmeK9p7eaxf9hLimeZSBpcY20zOi3Z6BeBWhLsZ7pdv57QcAFwRFn1LBYvU205SrBuGbtJKPj-jW6O_L6OZsIvSnYg9PIuY3yV0wmCztHw/s1600/bing.jpg" title="Major Search Engines" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1. Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset which Microsoft purchased in 2008.</div> <br /> On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners are expected to have made the transition by early 2012. In October 2011, Bing announced it was working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology has been incorporated into Bing globally, since August 2011. In May 2012, Bing announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query.<br /> <br /> MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that consisted of a search engine, index, and web crawler. MSN Search first launched in the third quarter of 1998 and used search results from Inktomi. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide its own self-built search engine results, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an effort to better compete in the market.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

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