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		<title>Bpath Website Optimizer</title>
		<link>http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/05/bpath-website-optimizer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ridhuan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promotional tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website optimizer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bpath was established in 1997 as an international website service provider including marketing and website add-ons tools. The company focused on helping small businesses and webmasters to succeed on the internet by providing comprehensive solution website promotion and content management. Bpath has been providing its services and tools as private labeled add-ons to the leading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_101" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a title="Bpath Website Optimizer" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bpath.com/?affID=5554" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-101" title="bpath_logo" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bpath_logo.gif" alt="Website Optimizer" width="150" height="70" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Website Optimizer</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Bpath was established in 1997 as an international website service provider including marketing and website add-ons tools. The company focused on helping small businesses and webmasters to succeed on the internet by providing comprehensive solution website promotion and content management. Bpath has been providing its services and tools as private labeled add-ons to the leading web hosting and domain registration providers. Bpath’s private labeled website tools leverage any web hosting or domain registration platform by expanding its offering while generating new and stable revenue stream. Over 80% of Bpath’s customers are small business owners that are using the services through one of its partners. Bpath is owned by its investors (such as Cidav and Neurone VC), the management team and its employees. The company has state-of-the-art data center, along with our leading technology partners, always assure leading edge products and services quality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Marketing Tools</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Paid website marketing services offered by Bpath are HyperSubmit, HyperTraffic, and pay-per-click advertising with <a title="Bidvertiser" href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/05/bidvertiser/">Bidvertiser</a>. HyperSubmit is a search engine submission service that will help to optimize and submit websites to hundreds of search engines worldwide. There are currently four type of submission service being offered that varies on pricing and three of them guaranteed listing in top search engines including Google. HyperTraffic is actually website advertising with BidVertiser focusing on targeted traffic based on categories and geographic location.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">QuickBanner is a free tool to help website owners to create professional banners that could help to promote their websites. Some banners are predesigned and available for free but website owners can also buy more interesting banners or create a custom banner using the banner creater. Website owners can also add Tell-a-Friend widget that allows visitors to recommend a website to their friends using email and participate in the Banner Exchange program to have free website advertising.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Website Tools</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Bpath have several website optimization tools for free such as message boards, online polls, mail forms, guest book, and site counters. These tools are website add-ons that are helpful to gain visitors loyalty and give feedbacks to the website owners. The site counters will not only count visitors or page views but will also detect referral links and search engine traffic allowing website owners to analyze the visitors trend and from where most of the visitors are coming from.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SEO Reseller Program</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Bpath is currently offering Reseller Program for the HyperSubmit search engine submission service. Two types of reseller programs available are Private Label SEO Reseller and SEO API Reseller. Private Label SEO Reseller is suitable for small to medium size company while the SEO API Reseller was targetteed for larger companies. With the reseller programs, participating companies can profit from selling the HyperSubmit service and at the same time have the advantage of SEO automatically.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Homepage: <a title="Bpath" onclick="this.href='http://www.bpath.com/?affID=5554'" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bpath.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bpath.com/ </a></p>
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		<title>10 Tips for New Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/04/10-tips-for-new-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ridhuan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are list of what I did to help bring visitors to this blog and all my other blogs: 1. Submit URL to search engines To make sure people find your blog from search engines, you&#8217;ll need to submit your blog url to them. By doing this, you&#8217;ll let them know that your blog exist [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">These are list of what I did to help bring visitors to this blog and all my other blogs:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Submit URL to search engines</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To make sure people find your blog from search engines, you&#8217;ll need to submit your blog url to them. By doing this, you&#8217;ll let them know that your blog exist and their web crawlers will &#8220;crawl&#8221; or scan your blog. Without these url submission, your blog might still be searchable by search engines but only after some period of time and will not be worthy for an updated blog contents.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Add URL to Google" href="http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl" target="_blank">Google</a></li>
<li><a title="Add URL to Yahoo" href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit" target="_blank">Yahoo</a></li>
<li><a title="Add URL to Live Search" href="http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT" target="_blank">MSN Live Search</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Enlist in Directories</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some search engines share common open directory listing such as the Dmoz. Some search engines offer their own directories where will definitely get your blogs indexed in their search engines. These tools or directories will also scan your blogs and show statistics about your blogs, pages that link the blogs, or search engine optimization analysis for your blogs. Submitting to these directories are better than just submitting your url because these directories let the search engines know every pages of your blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Open Directory Project" href="http://www.dmoz.org/" target="_blank">Dmoz</a></li>
<li><a title="Yahoo Directories" href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Directories</a></li>
<li><a title="Google Webmasters Tool" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools" target="_blank">Google Webmasters Tool</a></li>
<li><a title="Live Search Webmaster Center" href="http://webmaster.live.com/" target="_blank">Live Search Webmaster Center</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Join Communities</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These communities will help your to optimize your blogs, write better contents, manage better layouts, and most important is help bring traffic to your blogs. Millions of people join these communities and all of them rely on each other to make their blog more successful. There are many groups in each communities that you can join that might be related to your blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Technorati" href="http://www.technorati.com/" target="_blank">Technorati</a></li>
<li><a title="MyBlogLog" href="http://www.mybloglog.com/" target="_blank">MyBlogLog</a></li>
<li><a title="BlogCatalog" href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/" target="_blank">BlogCatalog</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. Submit to Blog Listings</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This method is quite similar to submitting your blog to search engines. The difference is blog listings are focused to blogs only and blogs are categorised for easier search or browsing. Some blog listings really bring visitors to your blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="BloggersBox" href="http://bloggersbox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BloggersBox</a></li>
<li><a title="Blogtoplists" href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/" target="_blank">Blogtoplists</a></li>
<li><a title="Blogarama" href="http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/" target="_blank">Blogarama</a></li>
<li><a title="Globe of Blog" href="http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php" target="_blank">Globe of Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5. Manage RSS Feed</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Create or manage your rss feed and let readers to subscribe. Feed management is very important because not everybody can open your blog pages everyday to read your post. By using rss feed, you can notify readers about your new post through email or any feed readers.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="FeedBurner" href="http://www.feedburner.com/" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></li>
<li><a title="FeedBlitz" href="http://www.feedblitz.com/" target="_blank">FeedBlitz</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6. Get Statistics of Your Blogs</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">View stats of your blogs so that you&#8217;ll know how visitors find your blogs and where they came from. These tools will help you to optimize your blogs by showing you a lot of data including search keywords and clicks on your blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Google Analytics" href="https://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank">Google Analytics</a></li>
<li><a title="MyBlogLog" href="http://www.mybloglog.com/" target="_blank">MyBlogLog</a></li>
<li><a title="W3Counter" href="http://www.w3counter.com/" target="_blank">W3Counter</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7. Tell Friends</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Utilize the social networks that you&#8217;ve joined to let people know about your blogs. Most of loyal readers are friends so just don&#8217;t blow this advantages.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li>
<li><a title="Friendster" href="http://www.friendster.com/" target="_blank">Friendster</a></li>
<li><a title="MySpace" href="http://www.myspace.com/" target="_blank">MySpace</a></li>
<li><a title="Hi-5" href="http://www.hi5.com/" target="_blank">Hi-5</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8. Join Related Forums</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Join forums related to your blog contents where you can discuss a lot of information about the future of your blogs.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Webmasters Talk" href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/" target="_blank">Webmasters Talk</a></li>
<li><a title="Warrior Forum" href="http://www.warriorforum.com/" target="_blank">Warrior Forum</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9. Submit Your Blog Articles To Social Bookmarking</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Millions of users are using social bookmarking because it can relate similar articles or categories and also suggest you article you might be interested to read. These also a secure place to keep your bookmark and you can access them anywhere from different computers.</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Digg" href="http://digg.com/" target="_blank">Digg</a></li>
<li><a title="StumbleUpon" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank">StumbleUpon</a></li>
<li><a title="Del.ico.us" href="http://delicious.com/" target="_blank">Del.ico.us</a></li>
<li><a title="Ma.gnolia" href="http://ma.gnolia.com/" target="_blank">Ma.gnolia</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10. Find related blogs and link with them.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Use all the sources you can find to search for similar blogs and make friends with the authors.</p>
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		<title>Spy On Your Keywords Competitors with SEMRush</title>
		<link>http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/04/spy-on-your-keywords-competitors-with-semrush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ridhuan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Internet advertising will only be a waste of time and money if done without any keyword research. So many tool are available for keyword reserch but what is interesting about SEMRush Search Engine Marketing Tool is that you&#8217;ll be able to analyze the search volumes, average cost-per-click (CPC), ads positions, and trends of the keywords. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Internet advertising will only be a waste of time and money if done without any keyword research. So many tool are available for keyword reserch but what is interesting about <a title="SEMRush" rel="nofollow" href="http://semrush.com/?ref=688356074" target="_blank">SEMRush Search Engine Marketing Tool</a> is that you&#8217;ll be able to analyze the search volumes, average cost-per-click (CPC), ads positions, and trends of the keywords. This might sound similar to the AdWords Keywords Tool by Google but the difference is you&#8217;ll have values in real figures instead of just percentage. Other than that, you&#8217;ll also be given list of other websites that are competing for the same keywords and their statistics. You can also view top organic search results and AdWords top campaigns for the certain keywords.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here&#8217;s some example of what you&#8217;ll get for a keyword search:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-69" title="semrush1" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush1.png" alt="semrush1" width="450" height="83" /></a><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush2.png"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-70" title="semrush2" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush2.png" alt="semrush2" width="450" height="96" /></a><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush3.png"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush3.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-71" title="semrush3" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush3.png" alt="semrush3" width="450" height="109" /></a><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush4.png"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush4.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-72" title="semrush4" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/semrush4.png" alt="semrush4" width="450" height="118" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More and different information are given when you searched for a domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Other interesting features are the ability to export the data into Excel which is quite convenient and the list of related keywords for your searches.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Homepage: <a title="SEMRush" rel="nofollow" href="http://semrush.com/?ref=688356074" target="_blank">http://www.semrush.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Simple Not-To-Miss SEO Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2009/04/simple-not-to-miss-seo-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ridhuan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Simple tips that you should not miss are: 1. Put images relevant to your post when ever possible. A lot of visitors to one of my blogspot blogs are from Google Image Search. Before the blog got into the first page for it&#8217;s niche in the Google web search, most of the readers were from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Simple tips that you should not miss are:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Put images relevant to your post when ever possible.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A lot of visitors to one of my blogspot blogs are from Google Image Search. Before the blog got into the first page for it&#8217;s niche in the Google web search, most of the readers were from the image search and blog search. Image search and blog search will then help your blogs or websites climb the main search page. The blog ranked first in both image search and blog search for it&#8217;s niche and couple of month later on second rank in the Google Web Search.</p>
<div id="attachment_51" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/imagesearch.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-51" title="Image Search Referrals" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/imagesearch-300x158.jpg" alt="Image Search Referrals" width="300" height="158" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Image Search Referrals</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Don&#8217;t ever change the website or blog title.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Before you start blogging, think about a very good blog title that you&#8217;ll never gonna change it later. Talking about the same blog as in number 1, after steadily ranked second in the Google Web Search, I&#8217;ve added a word to the blog title and suddenly the blog went from the first page to the last page. This occured in all other search engines too. Now it is slowly climbing back to a respectable position but the problem is number of competitors are rising quick and a really hard work is required to get back to the first page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Write hot and updated contents.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you don&#8217;t really have a niche for your blog, make research on what&#8217;s currently hot and being talked about. Don&#8217;t just depend on meta tags or post titles because a lot of users that came from search engines searched for keywords that are mostly in the post contents. Maybe Jessica Alba or Britney Spears can help because they are the most searched celebrities in the internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. Write something different.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Write your own contents and be different. If you too lazy to do that and want to copy from others, use different titles and make some minor alterations. It is a common sense where if there are two identical post on two different site, the one that is more famous will get the visitors. I saw some blogs where the author just copy and paste articles of other people. I hate these kind of blogs and I don&#8217;t feels like visiting them again.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5. Use long keywords.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Millions of blogs write about the same thing. If you just rely on short keywords like affiliate programs, twitter, friendster, etc. nobody will find your post in the search engines. The only readers for the articles with short keywords came from backlinks or from your own blogs. The best thing is to use at least a three word phrase as keywords. You might have to do keyword research just to find the best title for your articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6. Answer problems.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People use search engines to find answers and they&#8217;ll come to you if you have answers to their problems. These search engines visitors are so important because they will click on anything that looks like an answer for what they are looking for. I believe you&#8217;ll be happier when most of your readers came from the search engines and it feels good when you can help others. Just start by answering your problems because many others are experiencing the same thing.</p>
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