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I’m thinking again about what to do with the NoFollow tag in WordPress blogs..

But most important is to get all content up to the blog,  “Content is King, keyword is Queen” as was said at Alex Jeffreys webinar.

Anyway here is little more about DoFollow:

See at the bottom of this blog post about using a DoFollow logo. What is your opinion about that??

What is the NoFollow tag?
The NoFollow tag is by default in WordPress added to your visitors comments and then your visitors don’t get any credibility for their activity on your blog. Your visitors should have credibility for adding information on your blog and therefore get their links “followed”.

This means that the search engines follow the link on the comment on your blog to your visitors site and your visitors sites will hopefully get higher ranked in the search engines.

Best solution is to use the DoFollow tag
I think the best solution is to use DoFollow because it is a Win-Win situation. You get more motivated visitors that wants to add valuable information on your blog and at the same time the visitors get credibility for their effort.

Alex Jeffreys coaching group and DoFollow
We in the Alex Jeffreys coaching group should take advantage of the DoFollow tag especially at this moment when we all have recently started and can help each other even more. We are all in a network with real valuable information that together get us higher ranked in the search engines (we have the needed valuable information that visitors are looking for).

When our blogs are more higher “Alexa” ranked it is understandable that we may not use DoFollow.

DoFollow logo
Is it a good idea to have a DoFollow logo or used as a “stamp” that is showing more clearly that a blog use DoFollow? What are your comments? Maybe it’s an overkill? I can’t decide myself.

Anyway my last decision now is that I will not think about this and spend more energy creating content. But this thinking got one extra blog post about this.

More links about the DoFollow tag:
Earlier blog post: Increase Your Search Engine Ranking With DoFollow
More info about the DoFollow tag at Joe Truemans blog
Link to download the DoFollow plugin for WordPress

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Garry Parkes is making the second version of the Profit Pulling Project. If you want to get included in the eBook you will have to do the 4 steps below and visit his blog for more info. There is a lot of activity just right now.

The second edition of the Profit Pulling Project newsletter will be released the first week in January 2009. It will have a great impact on the web.

The 4 steps needed for you to do to get added in the eBook:

1. Add a comment to the blog post about the Profit Pulling Project. Can be anything, a question, a story, general update, anything
2. Be on his Blogroll (don’t worry if you have sent your link and are not shown yet. He will add them later). If you haven’t sent your name add it as a comment on the complete student list.
3. Get a blogroll set up on your blog and a link to his site included.
4. Add a post on your own blog linking to this post at Garry Parkes basically informing all other students how to get included in the eBook and/or generally advertising the Profit Pulling Project newsletter.

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When I was bicycling home in the dark from the office I saw the moon light up an old rune stone (but I think it is a copy of the real) beside the path. That info is still there, I thought. It will take time to change that info.

Are the search engines rune stones?
The rune stone is very similar to Google or the other search engines. When it is needed to build new houses, the rune stone stop that project. “No no we cannot build any houses here, the rune stone has taken this place” Save the old for the future, but is it useful?

The same thing is happening in the search engines. For example, I have an old site that I have not done anything to for about 1-2 years now. And it is still in top 10 in Google.

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Maybe Alex Jeffreys next project is a new fresh search engine. I hope some of the search engines algorithm deletes those web sites that have not been updated the last year. And then I mean delete the web site totally from internet and then it will be open for a new owner to build a new fresh place. This will clean up the web and keep it young and fresh. “What about the oldies??”

Happy for the “crap” sites
It is maybe not the future scenario that the search engines are not like rune stones. And I think we in Alex Jeffreys coaching team should be very happy that there are a lot of “crap” sites. Why?? (coming later)

See you later, must prepare for Christmas now and sleep, we celebrate tomorrow.

I wish you all a Healthy Wealthy Christmas //Ali

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Be aware of the NoFollow tags. Those tags are added to the links in your visitors comments on your blog. This NoFollow tag is used as default in WordPress.

What is NoFollow then?
It’s a tag that tells search engines “not to follow” the link and therefore don’t give credibility to an outbound web page. This means that your readers do not get any credibility (and higher ranked in search engines) for their activity on your blog.

A win-win situation with DoFollow
Your readers should get the credibility when they add comments and value to your blog. It’s a win win situation. My advice is that you should install the plugin DoFollow for your WordPress blog. Link to DoFollow download.

What is the purpose with the NoFollow tag?
The NoFollow tag is a help for webmasters to stop spammers for making posts on blogs. The spammers will not get any advantages making links. The problem is that this will affect also links in comments from your valuable readers. The spammers also seems to not care about the NoFollow tag. They spam anyway. My conclusion is that the NoFollow tag is fairly useless.

Protect your blog from spam
Use approve the comments before they are displayed on your blog in the WordPress “Settings” area (choose “Discussion”). Then you have control over the spam and can delete those comments and those will never be displayed.

How do I know if a blog use the Nofollow tag?
When you are at a page with comments you can view the source code. Choose “View” and then “Source” in your browser toolbar. When the source is displayed you can make a search for “nofollow” in that document. If you do not find any nofollow tag in the comments text the blog appreciate its visitors and is collaborative.

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– Alex Jeffreys webinar just right now –

Personalization of the blogs
It seems that many of us students have problems with personalization of their blogs and images. But we should not get stuck in details such as images. I’m stucked with many things and it is difficult to be focused and choose what to do. Most tasks are undone.

Start with content
The most important to start with is to write content, content, content. Then you will get ranked in the search engines and you will get visitors to your blog with your information. The content is the foundation for our internet marketing strategy.

(my daughter with wings came right now into my office and is climbing up to the roof and jumping)

Alex right now: “Take time and preparation for your content, not needed to be perfect, but make it vaulable.” (Alex first videos was.. not so good)

Images important for your branding
Secondary and also important are the images. Images are very important for your brand. You want to have your style. You are unique and real. With your branding the visitors will remember you easier and will also get a feeling for you. Make your layout simple and clean. Try to make it easy to read. Make it easy for your visitors to get a grip of all content of your blog and what content is to be found. It is easy getting lost and being confused in the information age. Make your internet marketing simple.

Need help with images/layout and branding?
If you want help with images and layout leave a comment on my blog and I will contact you.

Yes, my blog also need help and improvement. I like some details, but at the same time there are many things to change. For example the heading image, the text font etc. But I will not take to much time to make it as I want. I will try to keep it simple and instead creat content.

“Las Vegas will be explosive.”
//Ali

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Alex Jeffreys traffic generation competition started last week. But I dont know exactly the rules. Anyway the only thing I have added this weekend is Zimbio and Squidoo pages about internet marketing. And I can already see results in the search engines. Of course I cannot be in top of the most competitive keywords already. And driving traffic is not instant with this method, it will slowly grow, I think.

I have also forgot to include the Google Analytics code to the theme I’m using now and then it will be difficult to be in the competition due to no statistics for the traffic.

I have now also fixed the Search Engine Optimization pack for WordPress. I had earlier problems with duplicated meta tags for the “Description” and “Keywords”. This is now fixed and there are no longer duplicated meta tags for keywords and description. The only thing to do was to delete those meta tags in the header.php file for the theme I am using. Contact me if you also need to do this and cannot find out how.

I’m not satisfied with this Theme. It is ok, but there are details that I would like to change etc. But most important is to get things done, such as writing down the content that should be on the blog. Problem is now that I try to do everything at the same time and the result is nothing is done. Only a little here and there.

Most important is following Alex Jeffreys strategies. It is many things to do. It is not difficult. Important is to have a plan and stay focused.

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Joe Trueman is having a contest on his blog for Alex Jeffreys students. The challenge is: “To create the best, the funniest, the most useful… the most STICKY content in your posts that you can”. Visit Joes Blog for more info.

It will be interesting to see the blog posts and hopefully it will add new ideas for building more traffic. I am sure we all will get more ideas. I am still unfocused. But today I have anyway checked Squidoo.com/ internet marketing and created two “lenses”. It is totally new for me and thanks for your comments about using Squidoo. It’s new strategy for me. Still I have not visit my fellow Alex Jeffreys students blogs. But I will soon drop by.

Update: check www.wetpaint.com -it is like a cross between Squidoo and Wikipedia. It seems that Wetpaint generate more traffic than Squidoo. I will come back with more information regarding this.

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These basic SEO are recommended for the biggest search engines. Below are recommended for the meta tags in the header. (Alex Jeffreys is the main keyword)

1. Title tag:
<title>Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program</title>: Use your main keyword in this phrase and try to find a title that most visitors appeal to.

2. Description tag:
<meta name=”description” content=”Great success in Alex Jeffreys coaching”>: Again use your main keyword in this phrase. Try to write the description as clear as possible and make it sticky. This text will be seen in the search engines results. It is important to write something that attracts the visitors among all other search results.

3. Keywords tag:
<meta name=”keywords” content=”alex jeffreys, jeffreys, jeffreys coaching”>: Write your main keyword first. Separate wit commas for the next ones. Use maximum 5 keywords. All keywords should be related with your main keyword.

Above basic search engine optimization are recommended for the head tag. Then you will write your web page content related with the keywords.

If you have a short text do not use your keyword in the body text to often. I will come back with info about Search Engine Optimization for your content of your web pages.

Additional info for Search Engine Optimization for WordPress Blogs
I have tried the “All In One SEO Pack”, Search Engine Optimization pack, for WordPress. Since I didn´t know how to manually change the meta tags in the WordPress themes files.

Maybe it is not possible to change because it is database driven? But the SEO pack seems to work fine for WordPress 2.7.

When using the SEO pack the results in the html files are two lines for the keywords meta tag. The first one is empty:
<”meta name=”keywords” content=”">.

The other one is generated by the SEO pack:
<”meta name=”keywords” content=”alex jeffreys, etc, etc”>

Update: I dont know what the search engines think about the extra empty meta tag. But it should not be a problem if this has been the case with older versions of WordPress.

Anyway these extra tags are easy to remove. Choose to edit your theme and choose to edit “header.php”. There you should delete the two meta tags for “Description” and “Keywords”.

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Time 04:53 in the night and have to wake up soon and go to work in the rain, nice. Dreaming about Alex Jeffreys or is it real?

Wow, what webinar this night, still Alex is flowing with his energy on the web. I dont know what to write, I will come back when mind is in order.

Rewind The Mind: I will with this small note try to reflect what has happend. Date is now 11th January 2009 when this note is made.

Everything was not new in the beginning of Alex Jeffreys coaching. But quite many small details for internet marketing strategies have made good result. I thought I knew a lot of internet marketing. But with only these small details the result have been much better.

With video marketing and relationship marketing the result will explode.
Until today my concentration is on creating more content. Next step is to strategically publish and use the content.

I think most important with Alex Jeffreys coaching is the energy he has. It has a great influence on us students. It automatically push us to action. The difference between winners and loosers is action. Winners takes action. Not needed to make everything right. Fail forward and succeed forward.

Also there is some unconcious effect of Alex Jeffreys coaching program. If you attend to the webinars and make some action (not needed to be massive), important is to not slack - then you grow.

Link small blog post about latest webinar with Alex

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I heard that Alex Jeffreys catched a cold out at sea with the internet marketers. I hope he is doing fine now and can spread his energy tonight. I’m looking forward for the internet marketing webinar and another late night as usual, but without being drunk.

I myself have failed catching a cold this autumn. Strange. Because I have too little sleep and many around are having a cold here in cold and dark Sweden. But just right now the sun is shining :-). In the 80´s (and little in the 90’s) we always had white snowy winters here in Stockholm. But now only dark and raining.

Good tip to protect yourself against catching a cold is to eat alkaline food, sleep enough and reduce stress and worries. Let your mind only think positive thoughts.

/Ali

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