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I use certain parameters to decide whether a particular blog is popular or not. I mainly use Google Page Rank, Alexa Ranking and Technorati to know the popularity of a blog. But after last algorithm changes in Alexa Rankings, it seems as if Alexa has lost its importance  to some extent at least. So its Google page rank and Technorati Ranking that still has some real value.

Recently I was going through Technorati Top 100 blogs and was able to know about many popular blogs there about whom I haven’t heard about so far. Most importantly, why I was browsing this popular list of bloggers from Technorati?

Actually I was interested in knowing about the top 5 bloggers who blog about blogging, seo and marketing and are able to make it to the list of Technorati Top 100 blogs:

Here is the list of top 5 bloggers who writes about blogging, money making and seo kind of stuff:

1. Seth godin’s Blog
2. Maki’s Dosh Dosh
3. Darren Rowse Problogger
4. Daniel Scocco Daily Blog Tips
5. Jeremy Schoemaker’s ShoeMoney

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Brad Callen created Keyword Elite, the powerful keyword tool, which is being used by top search engine optimizers and internet marketing experts. Brad callen who is a famous search engine optimizer himself is well known for Keyword Elite, Seo Elite and Affiliate Elite software’s. I will be covering Keyword Elite the amazing keyword tool in this post.

Price for Keyword Elite is $176 including all future upgrades. If you are aiming at making money online with Google adsense, Google Adwords with other PPC programs or with affiliate sales, then Keyword Elite is the best keyword tool for you. Here are some features that you will find really useful about Keyword Elite:

1. Analyze pay per click listings - this feature will help you in keeping track of your Competitors PPC advertising campaign on Google Adwords, Yahoo search marketing, Miva and Enhance. With this keyword software, you will be able to judge how much your competitors are paying per click, how profitable a particular keyword is, competition for a particular keyword in search engines and which URLS your competitors are using for their PPC campaigns.
2. Create keywords list - with this feature, you will be able to create lots of even 10,000 keywords within few minutes time. To get the keywords list, you have to enter a keyword and search engine to use, within 2-3 minutes time you will have list of up to 10,000 keywords that you can filter according to your needs in 117 different ways.
3. Select a keyword list - Keyword Elite comes in with thousands of pre installed keywords which are available to you with a single click and you can use them for your Adwords campaigns or for Page builder software.
4. Analyze Keyword Competition - this feature will help to analyze how much competition a particular keyword has in major search engines. With this, you will have clear idea about the top sites for a keyword and why they are in top. With this feature, you can judge if it will be easy or hard to outrank your competitors. It will save lots of research work for you. And if you don’t have Keyword Elite, you may have to spend many hours extra on the internet surfing for information.When analyzing a particular page, Keyword Elite software look at both on-page and off-page seo factors. As far as Off-page seo is concerned, it looks at
   • Number of searches for a particular keyword
   • Number of sites competing for a keyword
   • Sites Google page rank

   And in op-page factors looks at

   • Title tag
   • H1 tag
   • Bold, Italic, Underline tags
   • Image Alternative tags
   • Keyword used in the first 25 words of the page or not
   • Keyword used in the last 2 words of the page or not

   When you have this kind of information about your competitors, you can easily optimize your website for top search engine rankings.

5. Spy on Adwords competition - this feature will tell you how a particular keyword is performing on Google Adwords on daily, weekly and monthly basis. With this tool, you can check how long your competitors are bidding for a particular keyword and how that keyword is performing for them. This feature alone can help you make lots of money from your pay per click campaigns on Google Adwords, Yahoo search Marketing, Miva and Enhance.

So keyword Elite is a powerful keyword tool that you can use for creating thousands of keywords list for your business. It will help you in making more money with your ppc campaigns and will introduce you many new money making niche’s you haven’t heard about so far. Keyword elite is must keyword tool for a search engine optimizer, PPC advertisers and Google adsense publishers.

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Alexa.com, a Subsidiary of Amazon.com is used for monitoring the traffic of a website. Alexa.com offers alexa ranking for website which is calculated on the basis of people visiting a particular website with Alexa toolbar installed. To speed up alexa rankings in the long run, focus more on quality content generation which will bring large number of people to your website.

Experience with Alexa

I started this blog three months back and so far have great success with Alexa rankings. In three months time, I have been able to bring its Alexa from 2,100,000 (initial Alexa ranking) to 200,000.

The only solution to improve the alexa ranking of a website is increasing the number of visitors who are using Alexa toolbar. If you are getting large number of visitors to your website and none of them have Alexa toolbar installed, then your website will not have much alexa rankings. And if the most of people who visit your website have alexa toolbar installed, then your website will have great alexa rankings.

I have created a list of tips you can follow to increase alexa rankings for your website:

1. Alexa toolbar installed - Install the Alexa toolbar and surf your website with the browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) where you have installed alexa toolbar.
2. Alexa Ranking Widget – install alexa ranking widget on your website like I have installed on my Make money online: SFM blog in sidebar. When this alexa ranking widget is available in your website, every visit to your website will count as a positive vote towards improving your overall alexa ranking.
3. Motivate others - motivate your site visitors, friends, fellow bloggers and webmasters to use alexa toolbar.
4. Firefox SearchStatus Extension - install alexa toolbar or SearchStatus ‘Add-ons’ in Mozila Firefox on all system in your office and set your website address as their default homepage.
5. Blog about Alexa and its ranking system - blog about Alexa, alexa toolbar, its ranking system and ways to improve rankings will create a lot of interest among bloggers and webmasters who are wiling to improve their website alexa rankings.
6. Work on Forums - Devote some time on webmaster forums and spread your website link their in your signature section. Most of the webmasters have alexa toolbar installed. So when they visit your website will help improving your alexa rankings.
7. Content about seo & blogging - write content about seo, blogging, social networks and spread it in forums and social networks like Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Propeler, Mixx.com etc.
8. Using StumbleUpon - submit your website/blog stories on StumbleUpon which will bring lots of traffic to your website and thus will have some positive impact on your alexa rankings.
9. Directory & search engine listings - Submit your website on Dmoz, Yahoo and other popular web directories. Once you are approved on Dmoz directory, you will be automatically included in Alexa directory. With this submit your website on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Lycos, exactseek.com etc.
10. Traffic exchange programs - Work on traffic exchange sites and submit your website details there. One can find the list of traffic exchange sites on Google.com by making a search for ‘Traffic exchange’ in the search box available.

You can download Alexa toolbar from here and for Mozilla Firefox SearchStatus Add-ons from here. If you follow these simple tips, you will see great increase in your alexa rankings.

Popularity: 5% [?]