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A sure fire way to get the spiders crawling your site is to emphasize certain keywords or keyword phrases in your articles. It does a world of good for your search rankings on the keywords you select and it will bring the spiders around to snack on the meat you’ve laid out for them. (crawling your site)

You have to be selective in what you pick to emphasize though and try not to go overboard with too many keywords. You also have to be pretty good at figuring out what they person is looking for with keyword phrases as well. In other words, take this article. Something like drawing search engine spiders to your blog would be something I think one may be searching for so I would emphasize that for the engine crawlers to find. Or see how I used italics in the phrase above for “crawling your site”. All anticipated keyword phrases. You get it? It is quite simple really and the spiders will love it. Here are the examples you may use to highlight your keyword/phrases in your blog posts or website articles. Minus the spaces. I was a bit lazy to make a graphic for it.

< b>BOLD< b />
< strong>Still BOLD< /strong>
< em>Italics< /em>

Any way… try to be gentle when doing this though. Too much can be overload and get you ignored.

Google has released Webmaster Tools API, a tool that integrates API (Application Programming Interface) into Webmaster Tools. What can this do for you? It will allow you to integrate Webmaster Tools for third-parties. It supports the following features:

Managing Websites:

1. Retrieve a list of your sites in Webmaster Tools.

2. Add your sites to Webmaster Tools.

3. Verify your sites in Webmaster Tools.

4. Remove your sites from Webmaster Tools.

Working with Sitemaps:

1. Retrieve a list of your submitted Sitemaps.

2. Add Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools.

3. Remove Sitemaps from Webmaster Tools.

I’m sure there will be some bugs and what have you since this is the debut but you can expect updates and improvements.

Developer’s Guide for the Webmaster Tools Data API

I know this is ‘old news’ but I feel I must bring it up for the sake of those who may still think they are getting ahead through the selling of link space. Text link space to be more precise.

Some time ago toward the middle of last year something begin to happen in the search rankings and page rank through Google concerning blogs who apparently were selling text links ads or using a thrid party to sell for them. PR began to drop and some sites were disappearing completely from the search results. What the….?

Google will penalize you if you keep using the text link advertising method to earn a dollar on your site/blog. They consider this a form of manipulation to gain certain positions in search results and have since pounded us bloggers who use link ads.

I just today, finally, removed Text-Link Ads from my (once popular) coffee blog. It reached a 6/10 once and leveled off to a steady 5/10 in PR. If you have visited you’ve probably noticed it now ranks as a 2/10 pr. It is just sickening and I had to sacrifice that $150 a month just to try and gain some rank back. What a shame but I do have to admit I was noticing a couple of my sold links had nothing to do with coffee. That played a large role in the removal.

Take it from me, don’t do it unless you could just really care less about anyone visiting your site through the use of Google search.

Concerning Blogrush. I wonder if I am doing something wrong. I’m waiting for the rush. tap, tap, tap,… waiting…

I have it set up on two of my blogs at the moment and quite honestly, I have only seen a handful (like 5) visitors recorded on my stats as a result of Blogrush.

I’ve read posts where people are singing their praises but I’ve also seen people complaining about it as well. Is there something I am missing here? Something that I have failed to do?

If you are having a good amount of traffic from it, let me know and tell us all what you are doing to make it work.

I found this post and found it to be very helpful in areas many probably do not think a lot about. Social Networks and who you socialize with really does make you or break you. Take a look at her ideas on the subject.

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