Cool Website Evaluation Tool for Your Simple Work From Home Opportunity

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I learned about websitegrader.com from my Pipspowergroup forum ( PPG is such a great resource). It is a FREE webmaster tool that checks the quality of any given website. All you need to put in is your URL, related keywords, a competitor site (optional), and your email (the report will be sent to the email address). Then, at the click of a button, a comprehensive report is generated.

First and foremost, the report gives your site a score over 100. This is based on all the websites evaluated by this tool. The report then breaks down into the following sections:

I. On-page SEO

• Metadata
• Heading summary
• Image summary
• Interior page analysis
• Page readablity level

II. Off-page SEO

• Domain info
• Google pagerank
• Google indexed pages
• Last Google crawl date
• Traffic rank
• Inbound links
• DMOZ directory
• Yahoo directory
• Zoominfo

III.Blogsphere

• Blog analysis
• Blog ranking

IV.SocialMediasphere

• del.icio.us bookmarks
• Digg.com submission summary

V. Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads

• RSS feed
• Conversion form

VI. Competitive Intelligence

• Keyword grader
• Score summary

There are some interesting criteria that I didn't know before. For instance, how soon the domain name is to expire counts negatively against a website. One should have one's domain set to expire beyond at least a year (Mine is expiring in 6 months. I have to go extend it with my registrar).

Another criteria I only vaguely knew about was a listing with the DMOZ directory. I knew DMOZ is a highly regarded directory and hard to get listed with, but didn't know that a listing with them would actually be considered a strength in one's website.

I also think the keyword grader is very helpful. It tells you the search volume of the keyword as well as how well your website ranks with it.

With 135 inbound links and top 22% traffic per Alexa, my score is a pathetically 43. The report did not find a blog on my website as I have it here on Blogger. So I guess I suffered a little disadvantage in my score in the blog related measures. I have a lot to work on my keyword with 92nd ranking. But what concerns me more is that my keyword phrase does not appear to have much search volume...I need to do an up to date keyword search.

In any event, the websitegrader.com seems to be a really neat tool. I know I will check back later once I've made some progress.

Cheers!

Ying Hong

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Make A Simple Plan for Online Success

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One of the mentors at the Pipspowergroup with which I am a member did a post of "Your mini day" recently. In the post, he highlights the importance of planning in the overall strategy for online business success. Basically, the proportion of the time resource spent on planning should be 1/3, while another 1/3 is on promoting the business and still another on taking care of emails and article writing combined.


This is an interesting point. Most people, myself included, do not do enough planning. It never occurred to me that I needed to allow time to plan for my next day's marketing activities. Perhaps due to this lack of plan, I find myself lose focus easily. Sometimes, I will feel inspired to do many things while other times, I would feel all of a sudden lost.

If you find yourself hang out in the forums and/or checking emails most of the time, then you could probably use some planning.

When it comes to planning, the more specific the goal the better. For instance, it is good to decide on a link building campaign, but it is better to commit to submitting to, say, 10 web directories everyday. It is good to set the goal of writing one article a week, but it is better to determine the title of your next article and the time slot you have to get it done.

The reason for specific planning is that there are so many contending priorities in building an online home business that without a clear order of specific steps, one may just lose oneself in the combined jungle of information overload and administrative logistics. Before long, one would feel disillusioned with the work from home opportunity by the lack of progress.

Therefore, to avoid the pitfall of not having a plan, here is the solution: have a plan. Here are a few guidelines for you to make an actionable plan:

1. Use 1/3 of your daily time commitment to your home business to figure out a plan for the next day.
2. Be very exact and specific about the task(s) you plan for your next day
3.Avoid distractions at all cost and focus on following your plan
4. Make the plan simple and tasks achievable

This is the guideline that I am following myself. I hope you will find it helpful.

To your online home biz success.

Ying Hong

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How to Use Directory Submitter - User Review

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I understand the importance of submitting your website to directories in terms of building backlinks. But for the longest time, I didn't start. Perhaps I didn't feel comfortable knowing what to expect from the directories. Finally, I had enough of waiting around and decided to get some help. I then took advantage of a $30 discount as a member of the Pipspowergroup and bought Directoy Submitter.

With Directory Submitter, directory submission has come through with clarity for me. I'm glad that I finally got started on this track. There are several components to Directory Submitter that solve the major challenges of manual submission.

1. Finding the list of directories to submit to
Directory Submitter has over 3000 directories already in its system with PR8-1. One can select anyone to submit to or just go down the list. Sites that one has submitted to will automatically be labeled "sent". One can also add more directories to the database.

2. Writing different versions of the website description and keywords
This will take some time initially when one sets up one's profile. It is recommended that slightly different versions get submitted each time to avoid spamming. Directory Submitter suggests that one put in at least 10 different versions of the link title, site description and the keywords. The software will rotate a different combination of these three components so that a unique profile gets submitted each time.

3. Doing the submission
After the profile is done, one can just start clicking any directory displayed on the screen and start submitting. For most sites, clicking the link automatically brings one to the submission page of a given directory. The information from the the profile already set up is automatically populated in the relevant cell of the form. In many cases, all one needs to do is just two clicks: one to open up the submission page; the other to submit.

There are exceptions to this two-click routine. Some directories require a fee; others have certain specific stipulations that may require some edits to the submission information already filled in by your profile. For instance, I have a different email address for directory submission from the one on my website. Certain directories require that these two email addresses must be the same one.

It has to be said that even with Directory Submitter, the submission process is still manual, although a lot of the data entry is done for you. This manual process is actually a good thing as it paces the quantity of submissions to a natural degree. Search engines do not like to see a site all of a sudden have tons of backlinks as it is counter intuitive to natural growth.

In terms of price, I find buying Directory Submitter fare much better than any paid service out there. The least expensive directory submission I have found is $0.08/submission when ordered at 750 ($60) submissions at a 40-70% acceptance rate. With Directory Submitter, for $97, one gets far more links to submit to (this list is still growing). One can also set up more profiles for more websites to submit to directories; this is like recycling the $97 over and over again. This is really a better investment in the long run.

If you set submitting to directories as a long term goal, then Directory Submitter costs much less than enlisting any paid submission service.

To your link building success.

Ying Hong

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