Here is List Of Social Networks and their value. This is an updated list of the most popular social networks and their purpose. Social netowrks ar egreat for reputation management and SEO. Not only will social networks help increase ranking and branding, they will drive traffic to your website.  

Why you need to focus on Organic SEO

1. The majority of people still trust the organic results on search engines. If your website is not within the top few listings, you are losing traffic and possible sales to your competitors.

2. Peoples search habits have changed. Today, people search in different ways and you cannot predict the exact keywords that your customers use to look for your products or services. But by optimizing your content to a specific keyword theme, you can amplify your website reputation in the search results listing.

3. If your competitors are up there, you need to be there also. If not, you are losing possible sales to your competitors because they are going to get more traffic than you.

4. When you optimize your website with appropriate content, you get people to stay at your site longer and this will raise your conversion rate.

5. With appropriate SEO, more people are visiting your website. This means that even with your current conversion rate, you can get more sales.

6. Always stay ahead of your competitors. As competition gets stronger, you need to leverage SEO to get more traffic and sales than your competitors.

7. With SEO, you can grab a larger market share. This makes your company an authority in your industry, which at the end of the day translates into added sales.

8. 24/7 spotlight with SEO. When your website is optimized, you get traffic all day long.

9. You do not need to pay for each click that SEO brings you. Clicks from the organic listing are on the house. So you are saving more money in the long run with SEO.

10. Repeat business. Customers referred from search engines are inclined to stay around longer, which increases client lifetime revenues via SEO.

These tips are provided by DotShot, an internet marketing company with several SEO veterans behind the scenes. If you need help with SEO Services, visit them here: SEO Services

Here is a list of 25 high page rank web sites where you can post your content, create profiles, and link-up your site’s URL without any reciprocal link from your site. Once you create these high page rank backlinks, profiles, and accounts, they will be a source of web traffic for you. These sites are also great for reputation management campaigns. The sites will normally create a good ranking profile for your company name that in most cases willl appear witin Google’s search results pretty fast.

1. eHOW.com Write how to articles or videos. Post your link in your profile. Also a good source of information if you want to know how to do something.

2. WikiHow.com Same as eHow but you can edit existing wiki pages or create your own. Cleverly put your link in “Sources and Citations” section

3. 43Things.com You have to sign up for participation. Post your own goals or reply to posted “to do” list. Occasionally, insert your own link as a resource.

4. Squidoo.com This is one of my favorite. Build your lenses and you can add links to your site, embed your YouTube videos and flickr photos.

5. AssociatedContent.com You can add your link in your profile. Not a favorite of mine.

6. HubPages.com Another site like Squidoo and AssociatedContent. You can put links to your sites in the content you create here.

7. Digg.com The most popular news ranking site. If you have good blog posts you can post them here. If your article goes to the home page, you will attract thousands of high page rank backlinks and tens of thousands of visitors for a short period. Be prepared for handle the load otherwise you will bring down your server.

8. Reddit.com Another news popularity site. Same as Digg. Post your blog articles here but don’t submit your entire site.

9. Answers.yahoo.com Ask questions and post answers to others questions. You can post links to your site in your answers.

10. Xanga.com A community blog. Crete keyword rich contents and links to your sites in the posts.

11. Kiva.org A microfinance site. You lend to and borrow from individual entrepreneurs. Create a profile page and link to your site from your profile page.

12. Geocities.com One of the oldest site. Create a few mini websites and links to your web sites from the geocities pages.

13. Twitter.com Create an account using a keyword and post your link in your profile.

14. Propeller.com Another news popularity site. Put you site’s link in your profile page.

15. Tradebit.com A site where you can buy and sell digital contents. If you ebooks, your own recorded music, etc., put your keywords in listing pointing to your site’s URL.

16. Angelfire.com Another old site like Geocities. Create your mini sites and put links to your site on the mini site pages.

17. Weebly.com A web 2.0 site where you can create your own mini sites like Geocites. Use the same technique you use for Geocites and Angelfire for back links to your sites.

18. Blogowogo.com A blog aggregation site. If you are running a blog, add your RSS feed to their site and any time you post new articles in your blog, your page at Blogowogo will be updated.

19. Tumblr.com Post and share your photos, articles, links, music, and videos. Use you site’s link in the profile page.

20. StumbleUpon.com Discover great web pages and share with your friends. You can submit your site and individual pages to StumbleUpon.

21. eZineArticles.com The most popular article directory. Submit your articles with author’s box under each article. You can use up to two links to your site in each article.

22. Flickr.com The most popular photo sharing site. You can drop your site’s link on the profile page.

23. MyBlogLog.com Share your online activity on a single page. Link to your sites from the profile page.

24. FastCompany.com If you are passionate about business idea, you should sign up with this very respected site. You can use anchor text in your profile page to link to your web site.

25. YouTube.com The most popular video sharing site. If you don’t have an account with YouTube, you should sign up immediately. Upload interesting and funny videos. Create your profile and link to your site

Free press release sites are a great way to get more exposure for your business and online press releases go hand in hand with SEO and Reputation Management.

In June we posted a small list of free press release sites. Here is a larger list of free press release sites that you might find useful. Enjoy!

bignews.biz

afly.com

afreego.com/PressReleases.php

business.pagerelease.com

postafreepressrelease.com

tennessee-press-release.com

myfreepr.com

express-press-release.com

newyork-press-release.com

pr-usa.net

washington-press-release.com

express-press-release.net

press-network.com

pressbox.com

seenation.com

newsalbum.com

mediasyndicate.com

ukprwire.com

presszoom.com

pressportal.co.za

promotionworld.com

PageRelease.com

free-press-release-center.info

pressexposure.com

speedypr.com

prwindow.com

newsblaster.com

clickpress.com

pressreleasespider.com

freepressreleases.co.uk

pressreleasecirculation.com

prurgent.com

prfocus.com

newdesignworld.com

pressmethod.com

information-online.com

pr2work.com

illinois-press-release.com

prcompass.com

freepressrelease.co.cc

free-news-release.com

bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm

massachusetts-press-release.com

pressflow.co.uk

indiaprwire.com

pressmediawire.com

ecommwire.com

pressreleasepoint.com

pressrelease.com.np

softarea51.com

techprspider.com

prlog.org

openpr.com

ohio-press-release.com

pressbox.co.uk

exactrelease.com

businessportal24.com/en

dir.free-press-release.com

1888pressrelease.com

live-pr.com/en

free-press-release.com

i-newswire.com

prfriend.com

Enjoy the list and if you have any to share or have something to say please post a comment and let us all know!

Remove Rip Off Reports

Online complaints are flooding the internet daily. Is your business one of the ones being listed on complaint sites like Rip Off Report? Rip Off Report (RipOffReport) is a controversial online complaint portal website that allows anyone to say almost anything about anyone without verifying that the information reported is true or accurate. Rip Off Report doesn’t even verify your identity as being real when you file a complaint.

Why does this spell disaster for online and traditional businesses? Well the simple fact is anyone can say what they want about you and what they say WILL show up high on Google and other search engines when they search for your name or company name.

Why do rip off report complaints rank so high on Google? Being in the reputation management industry and working with one of the leaders in the industry I see this question a lot and there are many answers to this question. A few factors that play a role in why rip off report ranks good on Google are as follows:

Rip Off Report has been online since 1998 (11 Years Old)
Rip Off Report has 400,000+ Pages Indexed On Google
Rip Off Report Has ½ Million Complaints Filed On Their Site
Ripoffreport  is one of the top 10000 sites in the world.
Over 300,000+ Page Views Per DAY = 9 Million Per Month!

The factors above and others make rip off report an authority site in Google’s world and it makes rip off report one of the most popular sites in the world. This is why when someone files a complaint, within 24 hours or less it will normally rank very high on Google.

If you have a rip off reports complaint about you or your business ranking high on Google when you search your name, then you better be prepared to DO WORK! Remove rip off reports with the help of a reputation management company. A reputation management firm will all tell you the same thing; there is no way to make rip off report take your complaint off of their website. I don’t care if you have a 6 figure legal budget to do it; you will most likely fail like the thousands of others in your shoes have.

What should you do? You should act fast, you should be patient, you should also be prepared to invest in repairing your online reputation, and you should hire a professional. A regular “SEO Firm” or web designer/developer will most likely fail at helping you. Find a company that specializes in Removing Online Complaints. The company I work with is ReputationArmor.com they have helped several clients remove rip off reports. Removing a rip off report can take 8-12 weeks in most cases and sometimes faster depending on the name of your company and how many results on Google about you are found.

This article is provided by ReputationArmor.com they can help you remove rip off reports. Call them at 1.888.358.2766 for help to remove complaints and rip off report links from Google’s top results.

Want tips on how to remove rip off reports? Post a comment/question and we will reply with the best answer possible!

Local Search Engine Marketing Tips

Want your local business website to rank well online? There is loads of information about how to dominate local search terms and rank well, but it’s easy to get confused with all the advice that’s available out there. Here are the top 5 critical tips of local search that will help you rank and dominate in your local market.

1. Add Geographical Information to Your Page Titles

Make sure to use your target keyword terms and location name in your page titles. This helps search engines to decide easily what your site is about and search engine users are more likely to click on your site if it contains related geographical keywords for the area they live in.

2. Get Your Business Listed on Prominent Websites Directories

Google Maps, Yahoo Local, and MSN Live Local are all places where you can have your business listed in order to make it easier for prospective clients to discover you. By claiming ownership of your business listings on these well-known sites, you permit both search engines and potential customers to get accurate information about your business. Sometimes devious competitors may claim your listing on these sites to steal your traffic and business. Make sure you’re the initial one to claim your listings in order to build faith between you, the search engines, and prospective customers. There are also numerous geographical search directories that get noteworthy traffic where you can claim your listings. Citysquares.com is an example of a local search directory with good traffic.

3. Provide a plethora of Information about Your Business in Your Local Listings

When search engine users land on your website by clicking on your business listing, you want to be certain that you give them a lot information about your service. In addition to including the basics such as your address, contact information, and operation hours give prospective clients an abundance of reasons why they should choose you over your competitors. For example, mention precisely which towns and neighborhoods you service, what credit cards you accept, what your guarantees are, any special offers you have (Coupons), and anything else that is applicable.

4. Use Your Target Keyword Phrases as Anchor Text in Your Hyperlinks

Link reputation is a vital element of search engine algorithms. When possible, make sure that the links pointing back to your site use your best target keyword phrase and variations of your location as anchor text. Your internal links also have a say to link reputation so be sure to link to pages within your site using good link text. This link text can be used in your site navigation, HTML sitemap, and links within your content.

5. Monitor Reviews about Your Business Online and Your Online Reputation

Thanks to the internet, consumers can submit online reviews of businesses to customer-controlled review sites like Yelp and share their experiences, whether good or bad. This could be highly beneficial to your business if it gets great reviews but it could also hurt you if you get some bad reviews. Monitor the reviews your business receives on a regular basis so you can find negative reviews when they occur and rebut them if necessary. Sometimes customers don’t always present reasonable or honest reviews so make certain that if you do get bad reviews that are unjustified, the potential customers who see them can get both sides of the story at the very least. Using Google Alerts is a handy way to keep track of what is being said about your business online and is used frequently by reputation management firms. Also make it a habit to “Google” your company name, your name, your phone number, your website name and your product names on a daily basis.

Use these strategies in local search to boost your online presence. There are numerous tactics you can use to boost targeted traffic to your business’ website and develop its ranking but these are some of the most valuable ways to give your business a strong local presence.

Search Ranking & PageRank

Many SEO (search engine optimization) people become obsessed with Google pagerank. It was once considered to be an extremely imperative key in obtaining high Google rankings. I see Google’s PageRank as an indicator of Google’s opinion of a web pages authority within the web. I suggest focusing on overall SEO strategy and PageRank will in nearly all cases rise along with rankings.

PageRank is one of around 200 or more factors the Google algorithm takes into consideration when ranking a web site. It is a numerical rating of pages from 0 to 10, 10 being the highest possible score (Google Is A PageRank 10). PageRank is believed to be endlessly updated by Google, however public rough calculation are able to be viewed in web browsers via the Google toolbar. These values are updated at irregular intervals. I have noticed my websites PageRank being updated every 60-90 days.

Let’s observe some factors that may perk up SERP’s (Search Engine Ranking Positions) and PageRank.

1: Content

You’re most likely tired of hearing about the significance of content. Yet it is important today as it ever was. Google clearly examines content when shaping PageRank. Thus, one of the greatest techniques to improve PageRank is to simply make certain your pages have quality textual content. The content should be unique and applicable to the subject of the web site and search terms.

Opinions vary on the ideal amount of text to include on one page. 650-800 words seem a reasonable balance between content and length. I think there would be unimportant benefits in terms of PR from site pages with 2000+ words of content. However, at least 400 words is most likely a good baseline to establish subject matter and healthy page content vs. page coding ratio.

If the content on your site is written well your keywords should naturally appear in the writing style of the page. Be sure to include your keywords in the page title, headings, Alt-Tags, and body. Do not over use a single keyword within your body as it may be red flagged by Google. Also keep in mind that both search engines and humans will be reading your content so fashion your content to be “friendly” for both of them.

2: Inbound links (backlinks)

One of the main factors determining rankings and PageRank are incoming links to your web site and pages. Google assumes that there must be a good reason for a link to exist to your page and counts a link as a “vote of confidence” in the content quality of your website.

Links from high authority sites on your topic (high ranking and high PR pages) bear a far greater weight than links from sites virtually unfamiliar to Google – or from pages/sites that have nothing to do with your site content and niche. So having a football site link to a jewelry site is not as good as a jewelry appraiser linking to your Jewelry sales site. Also, One-way links are better than exchanging links.

3: Get Indexed Fast

A rapid way to have Google index your site is to link to your website from a forum or frequently updated blog. These links are not probable to carry a great amount of weight, but every bit helps and if you select your forums and blogs well, the results do mount up. Try to keep your posts on topic and informative and limit your links to signatures and your profile. If linking from a blog use in-content links. You could even post articles to bookmark sites (Like Pligg Sites) that are DoFollow.

4: Articles

Articles are a very good way of gaining credibility with Google and your target audience. Most article sites do not allow you to place your own links into the body of the article. However you can create convincing author footers with a link to your site. There are plenty of good article sites that can be found with a quick Google search for “articles”.

In closing: Remember organic SEO and SEO in general takes time and with enough effort and hard work you will soon see an increase in your SERP’s and PageRank. There is no such thing as Easy SEO. Check our blog often for new tips and advice.

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If you launch a new website and want to get it indexed by Google faster and get a few backlinks as well, here is a method I have used that works. This is a very simple SEO technique that anyone can and should do.

1. Simply copy and paste the links below in to a notepad or text editor and replace the domain name seofriendly.com and www.seofriendly.com with your domain name.

2. Then click or visit each link that you see!

3. That is it! Your Done.

This will get your new website some backlinks and indexed fast.

Here are the sample links. Remember to replace our domain: seofriendly.com with your domain name!

1- http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.seofriendly.com

2- http://www.statbrain.com/www.seofriendly.com

3- http://www.builtwith.com/?seofriendly.com  

4- http://snapshot.compete.com/seofriendly.com

5- http://www.aboutus.org/seofriendly.com

6- http://www.quantcast.com/seofriendly.com

7- http://www.cubestat.com/www.seofriendly.com

8- http://whois.tools4noobs.com/info/seofriendly.com

9- http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr…s/seofriendly.com 

10- http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=seofriendly.com

11- http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/seofriendly.com/summary/

12- http://whois.domaintools.com/seofriendly.com

13- http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/seofriendly.com/

14- http://www.whoisya.com/seofriendly.com

15- http://www.who.is/whois-com/seofriendly.com

16- http://www.robtex.com/dns/seofriendly.com.html

17- http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=seofriendly.com&btnG=Search

18- http://whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/seofriendly.com/

19- http://whoisx.co.uk/seofriendly.com  (Failed To Work)

20- wikifox.de  (No Longer Works)

21- http://searchanalytics.compete.com/s…s/seofriendly.com

Do you have any tips on getting indexed fast? Comment and let us all know.