How To

How to Promote Your Websites using Online Forums

By Ashutosh Jha → Thursday, June 14, 2018

Driving traffic to the website/blogs is the first step towards success. Earlier also I talked about the different ways of driving traffic to the blogs.

If you’ve not read those below are the links-

How to increase traffic using commenting on blog
How to increase traffic by submitting your site in high PR sites

There are other ways also to promote your blogs online for free. The most common is online forums. Several webmasters aren’t using this method but believe me it’s fabulous.

Just what you’ve to do is to select few forums from your niche and use the below techniques to promote your site easily. Below I’m giving you few most popular online forums’ name –

• V7n Forums
• Siteowners Forums
• Digital Point Forums
• Warrior Forums
• Site point Forum

How to Promote Website Using Online Forums

Here I’m going to list few best techniques to get the best from the forums-

Complete your profile

This is the very basic and first step to promote your website. Join any site and complete your profile to 100%. A fully complete profile works great to show your identity. This attracts the visitor to spend some time on your profile.

Darren Rowse from Problogger says he follow or even checks only those people who have complete profile on the account as well as a real profile photo. So complete your profile after joining these forums and mention about yourself, your site name and details and your contact information.

Introduce yourself

Yes this is the second step you should follow. After completing your profile, introduce yourself, your website in a good way to the other members of the forum. This will help you a lot.

At least 20% of the active member will visit your site and if you have good content/product they may be your regular visitor also. In every forum there is a section called ‘Introduce Yourself’. Use this section very efficiently and ask for the review also.

People will visit your site and will tell you about the good and bad things about your site. This will give you many benefits-

• Help you to increase the traffic
• By review, you can improve your site
• Help you to increase reputation

Focus on Quality not on Quantity

Whenever you’re joining any site or community first remember this ‘Give More Take Less’.

Yes if you’ll remember this, you’ll get the most of it. Use forum to help other and in this way people will start knowing you and slowly you will be a trusted name on those forums and people will start following you.

Talk influential

Just to increase the numbers of posts on the forums, don’t post anything. This is not going to help you. You’ve to talk in such a way that people will get influenced with your words. Else people will start ignoring you and you will simply waste your time there.

While writing any post or submitting any answers to the questions just think these are the people who will take your business to the next level and so write accordingly. Believe me this is going to work great for you.

Forum Signature

You must be thinking this is a very common method. Right? Yes this is. But are you using it to get the best out of it? Are you getting enough clicks on your signature link? No. Think about the reason.

There must some controversial and hot topic in every forum. Comment on those posts and you’ll see the effect. Similarly start a new thread on the hot and controversial topics and you’ll find the increase in number of clicks on your signature’s link.

Final Words

These are just 5 among many ways to promote your website using online forums. But I’m sure you are going to get lot of publicity through above methods.

Friends you must be using another or similar kind of tricks to get online exposure. Do share those. If you liked this post, a pin will be highly appreciable.

Starting A Blog

Where to Promote Blog Posts After Publishing?

By Ashutosh Jha → Saturday, June 9, 2018

Generally what we do while writing blog posts?

• Find an idea to write a blog post
• Find keywords to target for that post
• Research for the content
• Make few suitable Images
• Draft the blog posts
• Finally publish

But have you thought, are above steps sufficient? If you will ask me, I'll directly say no (till the time you are not a superstar). Writing and publishing the blog posts is a very common thing that lac of bloggers do. But are all successful? NO.

The main thing that matters with the content is the TRAFFIC. If you don't have traffic, no matter how evergreen content you write, it doesn't mean anything. So to let you potential readers know that you have written something that will help them, you need to take your blog posts to those audiences. And for this you have to promote it well.

Now the question is where to promote blog posts after publishing? If you're not aware of where to promote blog posts, don't worry just in this posts I am going to share all the details about Where to promote blog posts after publishing. This is exactly what I do and I am sure if you will follow, you will be able to drive traffic, engagement and good money for sure.

Where to Promote Blog Posts after publishing?

First of all think why you will promote your blog posts? There can be many reasons behind it like for traffic, for engagements, for visibility or all. So you have to target the places where people visit, where people come to get the thing you will share. Got my point? Ok. So let's start with some of the best places to promote blog posts after publishing.

1. Social Media

Social Media is the best places to share blog posts. As per Wikipedia, there are more than 200 social media on the internet and a total number of social networks users are around 1.96 billion in 2015.

Just think of the number around 2.0 Billion users. It is expected to have 2.44 billion users by 2018. Now the question is can you target all 200 social networks? Of course NO. You can target top 5 social networking sites or more which drives more traffic like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. These are the leaders in Social Media. You can check our posts on driving traffic through social media below-

Top 5 Social Networking Sites to Boost Traffic and Create Brand
11 Effective Tips to Increase Traffic from Facebook
How to use Reddit to Drive Massive Traffic

But be aware! Use social media sites very carefully else it may give you a negative result as well. You should avoid common social media mistakes.

2. Email Newsletter

You must have heard that subscribers are your real strength in Blogging or any online business. BUT WHY?

Because anybody simply can't join your list if they don't like you. Be sure if I have joined your list means I liked what you share. I liked the way you write, inspire and promote. So your email subscribers are the best traffic anyone can get.

As soon as you hit the publish button, send them the update writing some lines about the post that you have written something new and they must check it out. Also, you should focus on converting your visitors into loyal readers and increasing your email list.

3. Questions & Answers Sites

Why anybody comes to your site? Because they need the solution. What if you directly go there where people are seeking solutions? Whether anything can be better than this?

Question and Answer sites are the best way to drive valuable traffic. Because you are providing the thing they actually need. There are numbers of Q&A site but for now I will suggest you to focus on mainly two sites.

a) Yahoo Q&A

Yahoo is the second best and largest questions-answers site after answers.com in the world having more than 2 Million visitors a day and more than 1 Million questions are asked per day. If you are able to answer even 15-20 answers with a link back to your site also, you would be able to pull a large amount of traffic.

b) Quora

Quora is also one of the leading Q&A sites having 1.5 Million traffic a day. Similar to yahoo Q&A, Quora also has a large database of questions. You can work on Quora in the similar way as you do on Yahoo.

Few things you should note about these Q& A sites are -
• Don't spam these sites else you will be banned
• Answer only those questions which you know
• Provide meaningful links in the answers. If you don't have any article related to it, better first write and then comment
• Answer according to your niche. Don't try to enter all the niche
• Keep an eye on the trending topics on these sites and accordingly write the blog posts

4. SlideShare

SlideShare is a visual content marketing platform driving more than 60 Million visitors a month. You can just make a PPT on the topic you have written and post on SlideShare and add links back to your site. Now just sit back and see how much traffic it drive to your blog. Below are the things you should take care while publishing a PPT on SlideShare.

• Use eye catchy images
• Write only required text on each slides with decent fonts and color
• Provide a link of your blog post on every slide and in description
• Have good Title and Description

5. YouTube

YouTube (also a product of Google) is the second most used search engine after Google. Per month, YouTube receives more than 5 Billion searches. Now just think of the potential it has.

Now what you will have to do is, make a 30-60 seconds of a video about your blog post and publish it. Be sure to do proper optimization of video and include links on video as well as in the description.

You can also monetize your video and so now you have a dual source of income. You don't have worked hard in creating videos. Just use few graphics and texts and mix up in a better way.

6. Bloggers Outreach Campaign

Bloggers outreach is also one of the best ways to take your article where it can get lots of popularity. If you are an active blogger and have a good blog, I am sure you must have received emails similar to below.

What is in this mail? This guy first told that he read my blog and liked it. Then he explains he has written some content similar to what I have and then he asked if I can add his article's link in my blog post for reference.

You should also do like this. There are a couple of benefits of it like, if the blogger whom you have mailed will agree to add your link as a reference then you are getting traffic as well as a backlink also. You can read more about blogger outreach campaign in top methods to promote blog posts article.

7. Social Bookmarking sites

Social bookmarking sites are also a great source of traffic and engagement. These sites can give you more and instant traffic on your blog posts. You can target few major social bookmarking sites like-
• Biz Sugar
• Kingged
• Dig
• Inbound etc.

Wrapping It Up

These were some of the places where you should promote blog posts after publishing. I use these and I get quite interesting results. Do try and share your stats with me.

If you are already using these, let me know your experience.

Tools

Tips To Check Keywords Ranking In Google [Free Method]

By Ashutosh Jha → Wednesday, April 4, 2018

One of the great ways to achieve success in SEO is to keep track of it. This article is all about Tips to check keywords ranking in Google. Once you have created your blog, the first thing that comes to your mind is – How to bring traffic to the blog?

And of course, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the best way to attract traffic to the site. And to do SEO of the website, keyword planning is vital. And the selection of your keywords decides the success of your blog.

If you have selected the wrong keyword, then you won’t be able to attract the traffic to your site, or if you have chosen the keywords which are having high competition, again it will be tough to rank those keywords.

The best and free tool to plan a right keyword for your site is Google Adwords’ keyword planner. Using this free tool you can quickly decide the best keyword for your blog. Of course, another option would be to allow a company like SearchBloom to handle your SEO and keyword rankings, enabling it to be less of a headache for you


Tips: It is a good practice to pick keywords that have less competition and number of searches. Less competition will makes it easier for you to achieve higher rank in search engines and a large number of searches will guarantee that the keyword attracts web traffic.

Bonus: Best Google AdWords Alternatives

After the keyword planning, we start using those keywords in our blog post and link building strategies to increase the blog’s SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

Once you will start following these steps, your selected keywords will start coming on the Google search page result. And then you can check the ranking of those keywords using any of the available keyword positions checker websites. But I could not find them very accurate and affordable. So today I am going to show you how we can get the rank of our keyword using Google search result itself. This is a simple and free method to check keywords ranking in Google.

Quick Guide to check keywords ranking in Google

Just follow some steps as described below to check keywords ranking in Google for free. Isn’t it interesting? :)

1. Go to Google.com

2. Type the keyword for which you want to check the rank in SERP and press enter. You will see around ten results for that keyword on the first page of Google.

Social Media

Top 3 Most Powerful Ways To Promote Your Blog

By Ashutosh Jha → Sunday, February 4, 2018

Today it’s quite easy to start a blog and run it for some time but it’s too difficult to make it famous and successful. In a survey, it’s been seen that 95% of the newly started blogs are getting closed or become inactive after initial 2-3 months. What is the reason behind this? Below I’m listing few reasons that may cause this scenario-

• Making mistakes that should not be done initially
• Not getting traffic
• Not Making Money
• Got bored with blogging

If you’re in the 1-3, then there are plenty of solutions and you can continue with blogging but if you’re in 4th one then it’s difficult to get rid of it. You should keep yourself motivated towards blogging. For every single success, you should pat yourself and by this way you can keep yourself motivated. There is a solution of first three problems. I would suggest you to go through the below 3 posts correspondingly to resolve these three problems and continue with blogging.

• Avoid Common Mistakes Done By Many Bloggers
• 5 Killer tips to generate traffic without SEO or Social Media
• 17 Real methods to earn from Blog

To get success and to make your blog a brand, it’s very important to write great article. But if there is no body to read those articles, what’s the use of it? Actually you’ll get discouraged after some time and you’ll get quit blogging.

There are few common mistakes that many bloggers make and the most common is not promoting your blog effectively. Today I’ll talk about the top 3 most powerful ways to promote your blog effectively. If you’re new to the blogging, you should read this article completely to avoid any mistakes.

3 Powerful Ways To Promote Your Blog

This is not the time to work on SEO tricks. With the latest updates from Google and other search engines frequently, you need to think about some other ways of traffic. You can’t totally depend on the organic traffic. You can’t totally depend on the backlinks to increase the SERP. It’s time to increase the awareness of your blog. It’s time to increase the popularity of your blog and making your blog a great brand. Here I’m going to talk about the few most effective ways to promote your blog and get decent traffic on your blog.

1. Promote your blog on Social Media

This is one of the most effective ways to increase your blog awareness on the internet and also one of the top traffic sources. Only creating high quality content is not enough. You should take that content to the right category of people. You need to write a content which can solve the other’s problem and then you need to take that solution to the needy group of audience.

It’s a method of content marketing which is most powerful compared to other sources

Also Read: Top 5 social media to increase awareness and traffic

When interested people will find your content, they will visit your site and if will find it interesting, they might share your articles too. Just think how much awareness you will get from this. By using the power of social media you can directly target your audience and in this way your half of the job is completed. As long as you’re serious about your blog and want to continue this as your business, you can’t ignore the power of social media.

In my case as soon as I publish a post on my blog, the very first thing that I do is to share on the social media. But here you should take care of the timing. You should share your blog post in the timing when most of the people are active. Suppose you are added in a couple of groups on facebook. In one group most of the people are from US and UK. So you’ve to share your post in their time and if in other major contributor are from Asian sub-continent, you have to take care of their timings too. By this way you can manage to engage more and more people to your blog post.

I’m sure you must have account with top social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. These 3 are the major networking sites available today. Just you’ve to use these platforms in effective manner. Share your blog posts on these sites and if you think your post is too good even you can use the social advertisements to promote on large scale.

Note: Social advertisement is cheaper than the CPC advertisement programs and you can build many more audience then the CPC. So if you’re ready to spend little money, you should definitely try this source.

2. Understand the power of Guest blogging

I’m not sure why I’ve kept this at second place. I should have kept this at the top but no matter at which place it is here, guest blogging has a great importance. Guest posting is the best way to increase the popularity of yourself and your blog. Just you’ve to utilize this method on the effective way. I would suggest you to plan for at least one guest post per month. By this way, in a year you’ll manage to have 12 guest posts and I’m sure by using this method you are going to get the maximum exposure in the blogging community. Just you’ve to take care of few points for guest blogging-
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• Choose a famous blog for guest posting
• Write unique and lengthy content
• Emphasize on Quality rather than Quantity
• Introduce yourself in a good and efficient manner with photograph
• Respond to each comments on the guest blogs and try to build relationship with the readers
• Make good repo with the blog owner where you’ve done guest posting for future. This will help you to increase the links of your blog.

Not all the blogs offers guest blogging but still you can find a lot of blog who do offer including my blog too. So before doing guest blogging, email to the owner of the blog about your topic and little details about it. I’m sure, must of the time you’ll receive positive response. And then if your article is good you can ask for at least a link back to your blog. So by this way you can increase backlinks too.

But those time gone when guest posting were done mainly for backlinks. Almost all the major search engine now penalizes those blogs which tries to do these stuffs. So to avoid such circumstances you should mainly focus on creating awareness about your blog and this way you’ll get lots of traffic. If you’re getting links also, try to use nofollow attribute. By this way you will never get caught by Google and you will manage to increase your blog traffic as well as you’ll get maximum exposure also.

3. Use Blogger Outreach Campaigns

Blogger outreach is also one of the best ways to increase blog popularity. It is actually the necessity to remain in the field and for getting maximum exposure. Many blogger do outreach campaigns just to increase links but you should not do this. You should do this campaign just to build the relationship. Once you’ll get success in building good relationship with your fellow bloggers, links and all will come automatically.

Here relationship basically means, creating a channel and connection with other bloggers. You may think your primary goal is to get links and shares but not. Your primary goal should be to tell them that YOU ARE HERE. If you’ll manage to tell this, believe me you are going to get lots of exposure and hence hundreds or even thousands of traffic to your blog.

How to start an outreach campaigns

What you’ve to do is email few bloggers from your niche and appreciate their work and let them know how great content they have written and ask for the advice for the improvement of your blog. Believe me first they will visit your blog and will read your articles. Later you’ll find a reply with the appreciation about your blog posts.

The second thing that you’ve to do is to email them again with the link of few of your best article and ask for the share on social sites. Never ask for the links. If they’ll like your article, they’ll never mind to share or at least tweet you. Just think if you’re sending only 5 emails a day and getting only 2 shares, how much exposure and traffic you’ll manage to get. Most importantly all the visitors will be your targeted users and so chance of converting them into subscribers will be far more. I believe you’re already doing these campaigns. If not, please start doing this and you’ll see the outcome very soon.

Wrapping it up!

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These were the best top 3 ways to increase the blog’s exposure as well as traffic for your blog easily. Also by using these methods you’ll get far more traffic and promotion then the backlinks. So start trying these methods, if you’re not doing. Or if you’re already doing this, let me know your experience with these.

I hope you enjoyed reading these best blog promotion strategies. If yes, please do share this on the social media. Thanks for reading. Keep visiting!!

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How to Maintain Top Rank in Search Engine

By Ashutosh Jha → Friday, November 10, 2017

All the webmasters and bloggers have a dream to be on the top in search engines and after lots of smart work, we come #1 or on the first page.

But what after reaching the top?

If you will not do anything, you will find your ranking gets down by time. There are many tools which help you to track your search engine position and whenever there is any change in the position, it will send you an email so that you can track the necessary action.

I am using a free tool for this called, Wincher. Just logged in for this tool and feed your keywords for which you want to track your SERP and it will start sending emails whenever there will be any change.

One of the most difficult thing that I found in SEO is maintaining your ranking in search engine. You write an article do some initial sharing and you will find it ranking for some long tail keywords easily. But if you will not do anything for that article further, you will find the ranking down day by day. I am sure many of you are facing this issue.

I was also facing the similar issue for my keywords those I was targeting and was getting down day by day and so thought to target a couple of keywords to check whether I can maintain the ranking or not. And the good thing is the above image.

So here I am going to tell you what I did to recover and maintain the ranking and what you should do to maintain your search engine ranking after reaching the top in search engine.

But before getting into the details on how to maintain the position, let me first tell you why it gets down in ranking.

Why your keyword’s ranking goes down by time?

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There are a number of reasons for this and believe me you must have read all these in several other articles. Let me summarize it here.

Google or any other search engines prefer the authority sites first in the search engine ranking. But making authority site is not an easy task and takes years of hard work and budget to do so. As you can see sites like SML, Quick Sprout etc. are authority sites in Blogging and Internet Marketing niche and so you will find almost every article ranked.

But what about the small business owners? How can they rank and maintain the rank?

This article is all about that. Here I will be taking you through 5 stunning methods using which you can maintain your search engine ranking after being at the top.

How to Maintain Top Rank in Search Engine?

Here are some of the methods you should follow to maintain your ranking. Many of these you must have read many times but try to implement these and I am sure you will see the result quickly.

1. Content is still a KING

This is one of the best methods that I found to maintain the ranking in search engine. Google or any other search engine loves those site which is getting refreshed frequently or at least some regular interval of time. By this search engines want to ensure that the site is not a spam and provides value to their user.

As per the Moz's search engine ranking factor 2015, the freshness of the content is a major factor in ranking.

From the result, you can easily see how fresh content affect the search engine ranking. But the point is how to keep your content updated?

Here is what I did and you can also follow the same-

Write an article and do initial seo what you do to rank. I am not going to say you how to rank as you already know this. I am here telling you how to maintain it. So after a month check the ranking of the keyword you targeted for that particular keyword. For this, you can take help of any tool such as RankWatch WebCEO etc.

Now if you’ve maintained your ranking, it’s well and good but if your ranking has downgraded, add some content to the article not just shake to update it but add value to it.

For example, if you have written an article on 5 WordPress social share plugins, then you can add a couple of more plugins which will add value to it.

2. Don’t forget Social Media

Social media is one of the biggest sources of traffic nowadays. A newly started site is also able to get 500+ visitors a day from different social media.

Moreover, don’t forget the importance of social signals in the ranking of the site. A search engine considers social share as a genuine method and considers this as a parameter of QUALITY. So no matter where you wrote the content, keep it updated and sharing on a different social media platform.

As per the research was done by Econsultancy on the state of search engine marketing, 74% companies and 82% agency accepted that social media is somewhat or highly associated with search engine ranking.

There are a number of automation methods using which you can share your old posts on social media. You can check few of those methods here.

To make the search engine aware that, you old posts also have lots have the value you have to keep it active and social signals are one of the best ways to do it.

Also, you should promote old blog posts regularly. Recently on Facebook, I have seen some kind of posts like below and I really liked this idea to engage your followers before sharing anything. Make a buzz and see the result. Just check the below screenshot and you will get to know what I am trying to say-

The above Facebook status is a post of one of the popular blogger in the blogosphere and just see how softly he has tried to make a buzz for his next post & webinar and don’t forget to check the engagement on the post.

I really liked this idea…do not you think so? First, make the buzz and then share. Comment the link you will share in the previous post also.

There are many tools to automate this process and I personally use Hootsuite for this work and even a free version of this tool worth, if you are not willing to buy the pro version which is highly recommended.

3. Content Marketing works like CHARM

Nowadays, you must be seeing your Facebook feed full of one term “Content Marketing”, if you have a friend from internet marketing niche…right?

Every top marketer like Neil Patel, Harsh, and other great minds praise content marketing and say this is future of SEO. But why?

As per Content Marketing Institute, “Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain the audience” and that’s true.

In a recent research by Zabisco, it has been found that-

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text.

So you should add some visuals in the older posts as well so that it can attract more visitors. One best thing that you can do for the old posts in terms of content marketing is, make an infographic or video about the old posts and share it across the different platform like social media, email subscribers etc. and just see the result.

Also, once you have made your infographic, don’t only share with your subscribers but also reach out to the new base of audience. To this in a simple way, visit some of the sites from your niche and shoot a sweet & short email to their email mentioning something like below-

“You have designed an informative infographic from their niche and if they would be interested in embedding in any of their posts.”

If you are owning a blog in digital marketing, you must be getting such emails from your fellow marketers-

Be sure to get some good links and shares which will drive both traffic and ranking for your post.

4. How you can forget Interlinking

Interlinking is one of the best ways to boost search engine ranking. Let me first show you a demo-

The above screenshot is from Wikipedia. I just searched “Online advertising” term in Google and found Wikipedia ranking at first (of course not a wonder!). Now just check the number of internal links in just one paragraph. There are plenty of it. This tells the search engine that the other pages (which has been interlinked) is also equally important and hence send the positive signal about those pages to the search engine. Which in turn helps to rank.

Also, interlinking not only help you to maintain the ranking but also it helps you in following-

• Engage your visitors to stay longer on site which decreases the bounce rate which is again a ranking factor.
• Increase page views
• Helps you to perform better on search engines and much more…

5. Make some quality links

With the frequent updates from Google, link building is not that easy what it used to be and so be careful while doing it. This is why I have kept it at the last for the already ranked post.

But no doubt, Link building is still the number #1 ways of SEO. Here I am not telling you to build the link simply but to spy the link.

Yes, you heard it right!

Check the link of your competitor for especially those are ranking ahead of you (in case you are not at the first position) and maintain the similar kind of links on that site (must check the site’s quality before making those links).

You can take help of many link building tools to spy your competitor’s backlink. I personally use Ahrefs for this. These tools also show you the stats of sites from where links are coming like DA, PA, and Trust Factor etc. which helps you to estimate the quality of the site.

If these stats are good, proceed and make links and see the boost in your ranking or maintain your ranking.

Over to you!

These were some of the ways using which you can maintain the top ranking in search engine. I worked on a couple of keywords exactly in same ways and have received good result so far.

What do you do to maintain your ranking?

How To

5 Best Techniques to Increase Domain Authority (DA) of a Website

By Ashutosh Jha → Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Getting traffic to a website is the most important task for any blogger and webmaster. As traffic depends on many factors, most of us work on SEO mainly, which includes both on page optimization and off page optimization to pull traffic from search engines.

SEO helps a lot to gain initial traffic from search engines and make your website popular. But the old content and optimization techniques won't help you to get traffic in the long run.

So now what? 

Here come Domain Authority and Page Rank in the picture. Since Google has stopped updating Page Rank now and so Domain Authority has become one of the most important factors that decide the quality of a blog or websites. Now bloggers mainly focus on increasing domain authority.

Domain Authority (DA) is a metrics that has been developed by MOZ. It is one of the most popular parameters of SEO. The higher the DA, the more you will get ranked in search engines and hence the more traffic you get.

But domain authority is not something that you can increase in a day or week. As you know, this is critical for ranking, and so many factors have been considered while deciding DA. If you work on all those, definitely you will get higher domain authority.

So now the obvious question is how to increase domain authority? 

In this guide, I am going to tell you the five most important steps to increase domain authority of a website. But before going to those steps to increase domain authority, let me tell you few facts about domain authority.

Domain Authority (DA)

The term DA is a self-explanatory word which decides the popularity of a domain. Below are the few facts about domain authority which will help you to understand domain authority better.

1. DA is based on many factors like the link profile such as how many links are pointing to your website.

2. You can't increase domain authority in a day or week. It takes time but if you will follow my approach, you can get higher domain authority.

3. MOZ updates domain authority frequently. A couple of months ago they updated the domain authority and TricksRoad's DA got increased from 19 to 23. So if you will work on increasing domain authority, you will get the result quickly.

4. Domain authority is scaled between 1 and 100 and depending upon the parameters your website can have any value between 1 and 100. Gaining a DA of 100 is tough. Sites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter are having DA number of 100. But don't get disappointed if you are not hitting 100.

So how to increase your Domain Authority?

How to Improve Domain Authority

How to improve domain authority of a blog or website is a very common question that is being asked. So in this article, I am going to give you an answer to this question- How you can increase domain authority of a website.

To increase the domain authority of a website first, you should take care of the link profile of the site. Here I mean to say you should do the below two things-

1. Remove Bad Links pointing to your website: Here you should remove the bad links pointing to your website. Bad links can harm your SEO and so need to consider immediately. You can take help of online tools to check the links to your site.

2. Get High-quality links: Obviously, as we know links plays a critical role in SEO. So try to get as many high-quality links as possible. You can do this in a couple of ways. Either you can hire an agency to do this. But this method is bit costly and have risks. The second method is creating high-quality contents and those contents which are shareable and linkable. This can include interviews, expert roundups, guest posts, etc. These kinds of posts are highly shareable and linkable. This second method is completely white hat technique, and there is hardly a chance of getting penalized.

How to increase Domain Authority of a Website? - 5 Best Techniques

So now have a look at the five best methods to increase the domain authority of a website.

1. Gain high-quality links

This is the very first and critical step to increase domain authority. High-quality links will not only help you to increase the domain authority but also it will help you to get higher rank in search engine. There are many ways using which you can get high-quality links. For example, you can write a guest post on some high PR and DA blogs. Also, you can get some quality links from the well-established forums. You can read my article how to get best from forums for more details. Even you can ask your fellow bloggers to give you links. 

Also Read: 3 Powerful & Unconventional Link Building Techniques

But again beware while creating links and you should not create low-quality links as that will decrease the authority and SERP of your blog. If you have low-quality links then immediately you need to work to get those removed. 

2. Create Linkable & Shareable Contents

This has a direct impact on the domain authority. DA directly depends on your content. Increasing DA is indirectly related to content marketing, and for content marketing, you should have linkable and shareable content so that others should get attracted to share your articles and even other bloggers should use your article link on their blog for reference. 

If you are writing articles that have enough information and are well structured then even, it can appear in Google news. What best else can happen apart from this. Sometimes ago I wrote a complete guide on How to make money from a blog. Here I listed around 21 proven methods of earning as a blogger and it was a 2100+ words guide which was shared by a lot of bloggers. 

Like this, you should also try to write a complete guide which anyone can follow and be sure to get lots of links and share. This is going to help a lot while increasing DA of your blog.

3. Deep Internal Linking

Increasing DA of a blog or website completely depends on the SEO of a website. It almost considers all the parameters of the search engine optimization. As we know, SEO consists of both on page optimization and off page optimization. On the page, optimization includes well-formed URL, Title of the post, Meta Tag, Description and internal article linking. Internal linking plays a vital role in on-page SEO optimization of a blog. Also, it increases the page views and average time per page views as you are giving your readers some solid reason by providing different good quality articles for reading through internal linking. 

Also Read: How to Convert Visitors into Loyal Readers 

Off-page optimization includes link building (this is the example of internal linking), social sharing, etc. When you are building any website or writing a new post, make sure you are linking your internal pages/old blog posts to each other. By this way, you are telling Google that all your internal pages and posts are equally important and this will help you to rank well. Below I am listing some checkpoints which you can follow while interlinking the posts- 

1. Interlink your pages and posts with relevant keywords. As you can see in this article, I have done. 

2. Use a different variation of keywords while interlinking. Make sure you are not using the same anchor tag again and again. 

3. Don't only link your pages and posts. Also, try to link few external high-quality pages and posts. For example, you are writing an article about "How to create a website" and you found someone else has written a quality post then give a link as a reference. Make sure you are only linking high-quality sites for external links. 

4. Also, make sure all the links that you have used are working properly.

4. Regularly Remove Bad Links

If you are frequent to social media, you must have seen many bloggers and webmasters complaining about the unusual traffic and links from some spam sites or irrelevant sites. This traffic and links decrease your SERP and hence the authority as well. 

The best ways to get protected from such types of issues are continuously tracking your site. You can do Blog Audit for this. Don't worry you can do blog Audit for FREE as well with the help of internet marketing tools like Ahrefs, GSA, etc. 

Also Read: 31 Experts Have Shared Their Best Link Building Tools. What are yours?

Analyze all your backlinks and traffic source thoroughly and if you find any unusual traffic or links, remove it immediately. There are couple of ways using which you can get those links removed very quickly- 

1. On some websites, you will find a link, "Request to remove". Fill that form and request to take off your blog's link. 

2. E-mail to the owner of the blog or website, explain the issue and request to remove the links. By this way, you can be safe from any penalty from search engines. 

Also by doing periodic link cleaning, you'll gain a huge benefit. This is something that many bloggers and webmasters don't do. Many bloggers do only when they receive a message in webmaster tool. So don't wait for the Google to tell you/penalize you, do quick scanning frequently.

5. Patient! Domain Age Matters a Lot

Domain age also affects the domain authority and higher the domain age the high domain authority you will receive if you have good SEO. Domain age doesn't come more in the picture, but it does affect the domain authority. I have seen many old areas having very high DA. But again this is subjected to the above conditions. 

Social Media

Top 5 Social Networking Sites To BoostTraffic And Create Brand

By Ashutosh Jha → Wednesday, September 20, 2017

No matter whether you are an online blogger or a business owner or a social marketer, you need to showcase your product online. At the current scenario, it’s a requisite to be online to advertise yourself and your product.

If you want to become famous and successful, you have to be a brand and online market provides a great platform for branding. When it’s come to online promotion and marketing, the very first name is Social media, which has become a part of everyone’s life.


Most of your target audiences are having social media profile, so it’s a good practice to have presence on social media. If you are not visible at social media this means you are not doing the marketing, it should have done and you are losing your big base of audience.

In recent years a lot of social websites have come into existence and all of them are having their own unique features and provide something different for online marketer to build a brand and huge target audience. You can’t focus on all the sites due to you time limitation but you have to be specific as which website will give you more benefit in less time.

So today I am going to talk about the top 5 social media websites which will help you to create a brand and will give you a huge traffic to your website.

But the main point that you need to take care while joining any social media is the follower list. You should mainly focus on your target audience not simply anyone to increase the list. Here target audience means the people who are from your niche or there may be chance that they will visit your site.

I’m pretty sure that everyone are having at least Facebook profile and when you are logged in to your profile, you will see lots of advertisement from different friends. How many you really check? Yes very few.

Especially those, which are either interesting or which is from the niche you are targeting. The same applies to your followers list also. If you are having 1k+ follower on any social site but not are from your niche and someone else is having only 500 but quality one, the second will get more benefit. Because all 500 are targeted followers and at least 60-70 % of them will visit that link.

So mainly focus to create your targeted followers list. Below are some of the checkpoints I am giving which should be taken care of on social sites-

• Create only relevant friends and followers
• Use good images which will ask the user to visit your site
• On your profile not only share your content, also share some good content of others. In response they may also share some of your content
• To engage your followers, you can create polls or can ask for feedback.

Top 5 social media profile that you must have

As I said above there are huge number of social sites available and all are having their unique features. But you can’t manage all at a time due to lack of time. So today I am going to tell you about top 5 sites on which you must have your profile to get maximum benefit from online market.

Also Read: High PR bookmarking sites to submit your blog

Facebook

Do I really need to say anything about Facebook? Facebook is the number 1 social website in the world with more than 1.9 billion active users. 488 million users daily use Facebook through mobile phones. Just imagine if you are getting only few of it then also you will have lots of traffic for your site. In a survey it has been found that an average Facebook user is having around 138 friends.

So just think about the importance of this great social platform. I hope everyone here must be having a facebook profile but how many of you are having a facebook fan page for your business. If you have it’s well and good and if not, just create one soon. Now the question is – why facebook is the best social platform for online promotion?

• It allows you to create your own profile as well as your brand business fan page. Using your profile people can connect with you and using your product page they can get regular updates about it.

• It has so many apps to engage your users.

• Your Facebook page carries your business profile, so try to have all the information like email id, your mission, aim and all.

• While creating your Facebook page, be careful while selecting the name. Because it can be changed only once and try to choose an easy name so that your followers can remember that.

• Try to update your fan page daily. Followers don’t like an idle profile.

• You can join lots of Facebook groups to advertise your brand. On average each group is having more than 2k-3k users.

• You can even add more administrators/authors who can manage your page apart from you.

Twitter

Twitter is also one of the most famous social sites in the world today with a huge network of more than 230 million user and more than 500 tweets daily. With this figure you can easily consider its popularity. Almost all the business mans, politicians, brands, actors and famous peoples are having twitter profile. Like facebook you can share (here called tweet) your products/posts here and people in your network can visit that and also can re tweet your tweet.

Twitter has a limitation of allowing only 140 characters in one tweet, which forces you to write the best tag for your business just in 140 characters and I am not seeing any harm in it. But still you want to have some more, you can break the tweet like ½ and 2/2 etc. But always try to complete in only 1 tweet. You can use twitter hash tags (#) in twits to create tweet for effectively.

You can check my twitter profile @heyashutosh

Google Plus

After Orkut, Google Inc. brought another social site named Google+ and this is one of the most famous social network in the world today with more than 600 million active users. The main feature behind this is, it is a Google product and the time Google brought single sign in feature for its entire product, it’s more famous now.

Google+ is one of the neediest platforms for online marketer due to its huge network and active users. Apart from the good SEO of the site, it connects with the like minded people to get more benefit from this social platform. Below are some of the features of Google plus-

• It is directly connected to Google so no need to create separate profile.
• Like facebook you can create a separate page for your product/website.
• There are several groups available and depending upon the category of your business you can join them to get the maximum benefit.
• You can even create your own group also.
• Google+ provides free comment box to your blog/website which you can directly add in your blog.
• You can get a customized Google+ page unique url like I have for TricksRoad- @TricksRoad
• Google+ provides several API to install in your websites which can engage your visitors.

LinkedIn

With more than 265 million users, LinkedIn is most famous professional networking site in the world. Through this site many company even hire the professionals. This site enables you to create a professional profile for your business and create the connection own its own. Even you can join the groups to have most exposure in the network also. Using LinkedIn you can gain the below benefits-

• You can create a group for your product.
• Can build a strong connections
• You will get new suggestions and the most popular among them.
• With its large network you can attract good traffic to your site.

Pinterest

With 1 billion users and more than 4 billion page views daily, Pinterest is the best social bookmarking site currently. It is the main source of traffic for most of the blogger and online marketer. Pinterest allow you to create different boards and then you can add several pins in your board. You can even add others pin also in your boards.

You can imagine the popularity and necessity of the site from the fact that images in the posts are getting created keeping in mind of Pinterest. This bookmarking sites allows the below features-

• You can create a business profile at this site. You can check mine @heyashutosh
• As you can see above my username is heyashutosh. I.e. this allows you to create your own and attractive user names also.
• You can create as many boards and then can add many pins in those boards.
• You can even add other’s pins in your board.
• You can connect with other social sites through it.

There are many other social networks which are also very much useful to make the brand name and to get a good amount of traffic from it like Stumbleupon, Instagram, myspace etc. I will talk about it later.

As a blogger I will highly recommend you to have at least yours and your product page in all the above social sites. This will help you to get in touch with new likeminded people and to get maximum benefit from the online market. Just you have to come up with a good plan and definitely you will rock :)

So friends go and build you profile on these social site and get the benefit. Do you think have I missed any important social network here? If yes, kindly let me know that through your comments.

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Link Building

How to Promote your Old Blog Post Effectively

By Ashutosh Jha → Friday, August 25, 2017

Most of the blogger try to write blog post frequently to get visible in the search engine as well as to get more organic traffic. Writing frequent blog posts also helps to bind your followers and regular blog readers with you. But we generally forget about our old blog posts. Most of us miss the blog posts which gave thousands of traffic in the past and still have lots of relevance.

If you’ll not take care of your older blog posts, as time passes you’ll get null or almost negligible traffic on those. Also for the older blog post, SERP (search engine page ranking) will get down day by day.

Do you want this to occur? Who will? For this many bloggers try to keep updating the older blog post to make it alive. But this is not sufficient. No doubt this is a tremendous method to keep alive the old blog post but you need to do some other and useful stuff also to get decent traffic on your older blog posts and also to maintain its SERP in search engines.

Also Read: Powerful ways to promote your blog

One best way to keep getting decent traffic on an older blog post is to make posts search engine friendly. But this is not a cup of tea for everyone, especially for the newbie.

So today I’ll discuss few best ways to make your older blog posts alive and maintain its traffic as well as rank in search engine. And I’m assuring you that this is not going to take much time of yours. Already you’ve worked hard while writing those blog posts and have also received good traffic, now just you should spend few minutes to keep those alive and keep getting traffic.


Also Read: List of Dofollow Forums to get High Quality Backlinks and Traffic

But one thing that I want to mention here is, don’t overuse these methods because this will lead to the make bore your followers. Apply these tips to only those old posts which are still valuable and you think people should know about that.

For example if you’ve written a blog post on ‘Top 20 best blogging tips’ a year ago, you can apply these tips for this blog post because still it has so much relevance and with time this post must not have lost their importance whereas if a year ago you wrote on top 10 bloggers, who know whether they’re still the top 10 or someone else has acquired the place. So you should be conscious while selecting the old blog posts for promotion.

Also Read: How to increase traffic using commenting on blog

If you’re using wordpress, it’s very much easy to promote the old blog posts using plugins but in case of blogger platform, it’s little bit difficult because no such plugins are available and you have to do it either manually or using few apps where you can schedule the blog posts for promotion on social media.

How to Promote Old Blog Posts

So today I’m going to talk different ways on how exactly we should promote our old valuable blog post effectively.

Internal Linking

This is the most effective way to promote old blog post. Internal linking is something that gives you the benefit in several ways like-

• It keeps your readers engaged and so page views will increase and hence decrease the bounce rate too.

• By linking your old blog post in the new blog post, you can keep alive the old blog posts as well as can increase the traffic too.

• Interlinking also helps to increase the SERP.

Suppose you’re writing a blog post on How to increase AdSense earning and sometime in past you already have written how to apply for apply for AdSense then you can simply interlink the older post in the new one by using the anchor tag.

In wordpress there are several plugins available to do interlinking. SEO Smart Link is one of them. You can take use of this plugin to auto link the old blog posts.

Use Twitter

Twitter is also one of the most famous places to promote not only the new blog post but also the old posts. By time your twitter followers will increase and they’ve followed you by liking the link that you keep on sharing on your twitter profile and so they must be interested in knowing the stuffs you did in past too. So Twitter is the best place to share the old blog posts to engage your followers.

I too use the same technique. I’m also using Twitter to tweet/retweet my older blog posts. Especially you should tweet those older blog posts which have received quite good number of shares/retweet in the past.

For wordpress users, Tweet Old Post plugin is available. But if you’re on Blogger platform, you can either do it manually or you can use the apps like buffer or Hootsuite to schedule your older blog post. Using these apps you can save your time and can manage to do these effectively.

Make use of Facebook

As I explained in my previous blog post, Top 11 ways to get maximum traffic from facebook, facebook is the second most traffic provider for my blog. Facebook is the best place for connection and promotion both.

If you’re following TricksRoad or added to me on facebook, you must have seen that sometimes I share my old blog posts too and by this way I drive good amount of traffic. You can use the apps like Buffer/Hootsuite to schedule all such posts on facebook too. But manage to keep the frequency optimum. Don’t overload it.

Also Read: Top 5 Social Networking Sites To BoostTraffic And Create Brand

Forums & Comments

This is also one of the best methods to promote old blog posts. I’m using this trick in effective way and this has given me good traffic and so sharing with you all. While going through forums or your own comments or comments on someone’s blog, if you found any readers asking about something related to your older blog post, write a summary and give the link of your old posts. By this way you can manage to attract good visitors also.

Also Read: 3 Very Powerful and Unconventional Link Building Techniques

Recycling Old Posts

This trick works great but need to be done with extra care. Recycling old blog posts means recycle your old blog post to your Home page by changing their date. But this trick is not for everyone.

That’s why I said do it with extra care. While doing this you should take care that your permalink should not get changed. If your permalink has date or month, please avoid this method. Also this should not be done frequently.

Also Read: Top High PR Directories For the Submission Of Websites/Blogs

Final Words

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Either it is blogging or any other activity; one should always try to make most out of every single stuff they do. If it is blogging we should always try to get maximum of the every blog post we write. We should always try to write those posts which is timeless and which have value after months and years also.

Also, we should make sure that our readers find a way to go through those posts. I’m sure after going through the above 5 techniques you’ll be able to promote your older blog posts very efficiently and you will be able to your targeted readers.

I’m also sure you must be using some great techniques for promoting your older blog posts. Do let me know those awesome techniques through comments. If you liked this post, please consider it for sharing so that maximum people will get benefit with it.

How To

25 High PR CommentLuv Enabled Websites For Building Quality Backlinks

By Ashutosh Jha → Friday, July 21, 2017

Nowadays getting good Google page rank and ranking high in Google is very difficult. The very first thing that you have to do is to create quality content which will attract the visitor to read your post and after having content advertise it. Advertising is very important because if nobody is there to read your post, it’s of no use. You can advertise your content in many ways like spreading the post on social networking sites, writing guest posts and building backlinks. Today we’ll talk about the most famous and beneficial method- Backlinks building.

Backlink building is the key to the success of any blog or website. The more number of backlinks a blog have the more will be the page rank and the number of traffic that blog will get. High PR (page rank) backlinks always play an important role in building the domain authority of the blog as well as attracting the traffic to the blog. So you want it, right?

Now the question is what is backlinks?

Backlinks are one blog’s link on some other places. It may be an internal link on your blog or any other link anywhere on the internet. It’s an incoming hyperlink from some other web page to your websites.

The more backlinks you have pointing back to your site, the more popular it will be.

When search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a keyword, they consider the number of QUALITY backlinks to that site. Here I have used the word ‘QUALITY’. Yes, you heard it right. Quality backlinks are those which have some relevance. Suppose you have a technical blog and the backlink that you have is on a blog which writes about movies. Does that worth? Of course not. So a relevant link is necessary to build a good traffic and brand in the online market.

How to build backlinks?

There are several ways using which you can build backlinks like-

• You can write guest post and in return, you will have 1-2 backlinks from that blog
• Using advertisements. But I’ll say to avoid this, at least for a new blogger
• You can use Social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Stumble Upon etc.
• You can participate in forums and can include the link in signature
• You can comment on other’s blog which is having Comment Luv enabled.

Today I’ll talk about building backlinks through commenting. This is one of the easiest ways to build backlinks. Just you have to visit the blog and comment on their posts. But simply visiting blogs/website and commenting won’t help you. You have to identify those blogs where you can get backlinks and that too Quality backlinks. Many bloggers make backlinks disabled on their blog so it’s necessary to find links enabled blogs.

You need not have to worry about searching those blogs which have enabled backlinks. There is a great plugin called ‘Comment Luv’ which will help you in this. And coming to quality backlinks, target only those blogs which are having high page rank.

Note: Now Google has stopped increasing/decreasing Page Rank of websites so nowadays it’s difficult to find that in new sites. But at the same time for new blogs, you can check their Alexa ranking or DR.

High PR links will help you to have a better rank in SERP. Now you must be thinking of what comment Luv is and where to find such blogs. Right?

Also Read: Tips To Check Keywords Ranking on Google

What is CommentLuv?

CommentLuv is a Wordpress plugin (now can be integrated with blogger also) which was developed to grow the blogging community and encourages blog readers to leave a comment on the blog posts.

If you’ve enabled CommentLuv on the blog, then a user who leaves a comment on your blog posts, the plugin automatically goes out and searches their blog (if the user has given website name) for the latest post. Then CommentLuv will automatically include a link to the latest or one of their top 10 blog posts at the end of their comment. By this way, the readers who comment on the blog gets a backlink for their blog also.

But to find the comment enabled blogs are not easy and that too with high PR CommentLuv enabled blog. But nothing to worry, we have done that job for you. Below is the list of blogs which are having CommentLuv enabled commenting and also having good PR.

List of top high PR CommentLuv enabled websites: Tested

1.       http://w3blog.dk/ PR 6

2.      http://famousbloggers.net/ - PR 4

3.      http://comluv.com/ - PR 4

4.      http://growmap.com/ PR 4

5.      http://bloggerspassion.com/ PR 3 (No Longer Support)

6.      http://www.inmarketingtips.com/ PR 1

7.      http://www.betterbloggingways.com/ PR 1

8.     http://freebloghelp.com/ PR 0

9.      http://wassupblog.com/ PR 2

10.  http://hotblogtips.com/ PR 3

11.   http://www.techlila.com/ PR 3

12.  http://collegefallout.com/ PR 3

13.  http://infocarnivore.com/ PR 3

14.  http://techpatio.com/ PR 3

15.   http://thecozyreader.com/ PR 3

16.  http://nopassiveincome.com/ PR 2

17.   http://techiezlounge.com/ PR 3

18.  http://bitsofpositivity.com/ PR 3

19.  http://blogelina.com/ PR 3

20. http://www.techotalk.com/ PR 3

21.  http://dakotapam.com/ PR 3

22. http://www.techtricksworld.com/ PR 3

23. http://marketingwithsergio.com/ PR 2

24. http://www.crunchyhub.com/ PR 3

25.  http://techbugs.net/ PR 2

So that’s for today friends. These are most famous high PR CommentLuv enabled site. By commenting on these sites you can easily get the backlinks and you can increase your domain authority as well as ranking in Google. The best practice is whenever you write any post select at least 10 sites from above list and leave a valuable comment. But before commenting you should consider few points-

• First, read the article before commenting. This will help you to leave a good comment.
• Most of the sites have comment moderation enabled, so don’t try to spam.
• Try to leave valuable comments not a single word or couple of words comment.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post. If this post has helped you do share on your great social environment and let me know the ways you are using to get backlinks. Also, let me know if you are using any other high PR CommentLuv enabled sites for commenting.