Initially directory submissions worked as a magic to rank high in search results and then Blog and ping was introduced as a powerful web promotion tactic. Until recently these techniques helped online marketers get there web pages indexed and rank well in search engines. It all worked well until the search engines changed their algorithms.

Social Bookmarking SEO hammer “old fashioned” link building

When I started internet marketing, it was at the mercy of search engines for traffic. Spent thousands of $$$, Hired an SEO expert it was very time consuming doing on-site and off-site search engine optimization.

I was really desperate for traffic coming to my money making site. Then I found answer to my pain, Social Bookmarking! With Social Bookmarking, I managed to get unlimited high quality backlinks and unlimited traffic to my online money making machine.

How Social Bookmarking SEO works

Social bookmarking websites allows the users to list or organize their favourite links. Users can sort the links under various tags, which often helps to appear in search results page, rank links with “thumbs up” if they like. The more “likes” the more the popularity is. Once the link gets popular, it soon begin appearing on other websites too and as a result more inbound links and value to your SEO efforts.

Why Social Bookmarking in SEO

Achieve Targeted Traffic: Since your bookmarks are categorized, you will get targeted traffic when they click on your bookmark.

Achieve High Search Engine Rankings: As you bookmark your link, you will get one-way link for keyword you want to your website with high authority. This you can repeat for unlimited keywords and on unlimited bookmarking websites!

Achieve Robust Search Engine Indexing: Search engines often crawl the bookmarks on highly authoritative bookmarking sites almost immediately!

Achieve Higher PageRank: Higher pagerank sites linking to your website obviously increase your pagerank too!

As it sounds really great for your website making money, it has one downside too – time consuming, this require you to create accounts on each social site. You have to bookmark unlimited links to unlimited sites. Got exhausted, As I am?

I tried many social bookmarking submission services, but it cost me more. So finally I thought automation is only solution. After research and taking trails, I found BookmarkingDemon as a solution to my redundant task.

EdwinSoft’s BookmarkingDemon – Social Bookmarking Automation Software

What you can explode with Social Bookmarking Software

1. Create Accounts Automatically:You can create accounts at hundreds of social bookmarking sites.

2. Seamless Submission From Start To End: You can setup everything in the start and let the software do everything for you.

3. Add Your Own List of Scuttle, ScuttlePlus, Pligg, PhpDug and German’s PublicBookmark Social Bookmarking Sites

4. Scraper : With BookmarkingDemon’s scraper, you can now search for these scripts with any footprint. It can also automatically detect the type of script used and discard any sites that are not supported.

5. Random Account Details During Creation: You can generate a new set of random usernames and passwords by clicking the randomization buttons.

6. Scheduler: You can spread your bookmarks evenly/randomly with your preferred timing.

7. Title, Tags and Description Randomization: This will help reduce your footprint online and greatly reduce any issue of duplicate content!

8. Content Spinning And Rewriter: You will be able to submit hundreds of unique versions of your titles, descriptions and tags. Multi level spinning is also supported.

9. Preview Bookmarks: This ensures that your spun bookmarks are readable.

10. Detailed Site Scanner: You will be able to retrieve the site’s PageRank, IP address, Alexa ranking and WOT (Web of Trust).

11. Better Account Management: You can manage your account profiles and set your accounts as pending account creation, activated or banned.

12. Bookmark Your URLs Automatically: Your title, tags and description will be filled automatically.

13. Domain Crawler: Enter a URL and BookmarkingDemon will crawl all the links from that URL up to 10 levels in depth and 99999 pages.

14. RSS Crawler: Enter a URL and BookmarkingDemon will crawl all the links from that URL up to 10 levels in depth and 99999 pages.

15. Live Links Export: You can retrieve all your live links and export them into .CSV file for other purposes such as pinging.

16. Ping Your Links: By pinging your bookmarks, it will get indexed faster in the search engines.

Stop wasting your time submitting your bookmarks manually. Get a copy of BookmarkingDemon today and try it for free.

SEO process starts as early as before starting a website. At this stage do research to come up with site’s niche. Research keywords, competition and expertise is a first step SEO before you start a website.

Build your website as you SEO.

Meta tags: it is necessary because they tell search engines what is your site about. In order to reap good results use keywords with Meta tags that are important, related and found on your website. Do not stuff Meta tags with keywords because they will count against if they found stuffing.

Titles and description: relevant page titles and description is also an important on page SEO technique. Make sure to have keyword in your title.

Heading tags: H1 through H6 are used to organize the structure of your website. Heading tags will grab the attention of both users and search engines.

Anchor texts are used when creating hyperlinks. Using keywords in anchor texts helps the webpage rank higher in search algorithms because it is a clickable link that links webpage and in most cases related to current page.

Link building: linking to relevant sites help webpage ranked higher for search engines. Try getting a mixture of higher and relevant links.

Original content: most important one is write only the original content that helps the readers first not the search engines. Doing so you will get returning visitors coming back to your site otherwise not.

This are only few tips that i know helpful on-page SEO tips that can help you in building a good SEO Strategy before and during lifeline of your website.

Theme Features:
• 3 Columns
• 125 x 125 Ads support
• Google Ads Ready
• Featured Carousel
• Social Networking Support
• Widget Ready
• Threaded Comments
• Gravatar Support
• Contact Form
• Wp3 menu support
• Cross Border Compatibility

Sidebar

This theme has two sidebars. Left and Right

How to customize menu?
This theme support Wp3 menu. It has Two menu area. create menu in menu section with name “Top-menu” to show up in the top.

how to customize logo?

This theme supports custom logo. To customize logo go to theme options page and upload you custom logo to appear in logo section. The max size of the image can be 233 X 71.

How to show image in Featured Carousel?

Create a custom field called ‘image_630_300′ for the post and post a link to image in its value.

How to show image in index?

Create a custom field called ‘image_200_200′ and post a link to 200×200 size image in its value

Contact Form

This theme uses gbcf Contact Form wordpress plugin. To setup
1.Upload Contact Form folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2.Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
3.Create a page or a post and insert shortcode to the text.

Got any questions regarding this theme contact me any time for support….

What can you learn from example custom widget?

Our example will tell you how to show a particular page in your widget area. Control will allow you to input all the necessary form data to give necessary out put.

How will custom widget look in your dashboard?

Register the widget:

WordPress provides the widgets_init action hook that will allow us to register a widget

add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("custom_page");'));

Setting up of widget:

WordPress 2.8 allows you to create custom widget by simply extending WP_Widget class. Hence, first start creating a widget class by extending WP_Widget.

class custom_page extends WP_Widget {

}

Then start creating our first function for this wordpress widget. Note that the first function name makes our widget unique for your wordpress and it is same as the widget class

class custom_page extends WP_Widget {
/** constructor */
function custom_page() {
parent::WP_Widget(false, 'custom_page');
$widget_ops = array( 'description' => esc_html__('Display selected page with thumbnail', 'primeVision') );
/* Create the widget. */
$this->WP_Widget( 'custom_page', esc_html__('primeVision: Custom Page', 'primeVision'), $widget_ops );

}

}

Handling the widget:

The next step in our widget creation is to handle the widget data.

/** @see WP_Widget::widget */

function widget($args, $instance) {

extract( $args );

$allpage = $instance['allpage'];

$num_words_limit = absint( $instance['num_words_limit'] );

$post_thumb_width = absint( $instance['post_thumb_width'] );

$post_thumb_height = absint( $instance['post_thumb_height'] );

?><?php query_posts(‘&pagename=’ .$allpage); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php echo $before_widget; ?>

<?php echo $before_title ?> <span><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php if ( function_exists(‘the_title_attribute’)) the_title_attribute(); else the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></span> <?php echo $after_title; ?>

<?php

$post_id = get_the_ID();

//Get the Thumbnail URL

$src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id) );

?>

<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’)?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $src[0]; ?>&h=<?php echo $post_thumb_height; ?>&w=<?php echo $post_thumb_width; ?>&zc=1″ alt=”">  </a>

<p><?php the_content_limit($num_words_limit, ”); ?></p>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>

<?php

}

Making sure that our widget is updated and saved:

function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {

$instance = $old_instance;

$instance['allpage'] = strip_tags($new_instance['allpage']);

$instance['num_words_limit'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['num_words_limit'] );

$instance['post_thumb_width'] = ( $new_instance['post_thumb_width'] ) ? absint(strip_tags( $new_instance['post_thumb_width'] )) : 60;

$instance['post_thumb_height'] = ( $new_instance['post_thumb_height'] ) ? absint(strip_tags( $new_instance['post_thumb_height'] )) : 60;

return $instance;

}

Creating our widget form controls or settings:

The get_field_id() and get_field_name() functions in wordpress 2.8 handles all the necessary work, making widget creation easier for user.

/** @see WP_Widget::form */

function form($instance) {

?>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘allpage’); ?>”><?php _e(‘allpage:’); ?></label>

<select class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘allpage’); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name(‘allpage’); ?>”  >

<?php $pages = get_pages();

$allpage = array();

foreach ($pages as $page) {

$allpage = $page->post_title;

echo “<option value=\”$allpage\”>$allpage</option>\n”;

}

?>

</select>

</p>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>”><?php esc_html_e(‘Limit the number of words to show from each post:’, ‘slider’); ?></label>

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['num_words_limit']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<br />

</p>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>”><?php esc_html_e(‘Thumbnail Dimensions:’, ‘primeVision’); ?></label><br />

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['post_thumb_width']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<span> X </span>

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_height’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘post_thumb_height’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['post_thumb_height']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<br />

<?php esc_html_e(‘(Width X Height) in pixels’, ‘primeVision’); ?>

</p>

<?php

}

Finally we are done with custom widget. Here is all the code organized in one go.

/** custom_page Class

*/

class custom_page extends WP_Widget {

/** constructor */

function custom_page() {

parent::WP_Widget(false, ‘custom_page’);

$widget_ops = array( ‘description’ => esc_html__(‘Display selected page with thumbnail’, ‘primeVision’) );

/* Create the widget. */

$this->WP_Widget( ‘custom_page’, esc_html__(‘primeVision: Custom Page’, ‘primeVision’), $widget_ops );

}

/** @see WP_Widget::widget */

function widget($args, $instance) {

extract( $args );

$allpage = $instance['allpage'];

$num_words_limit = absint( $instance['num_words_limit'] );

$post_thumb_width = absint( $instance['post_thumb_width'] );

$post_thumb_height = absint( $instance['post_thumb_height'] );

?><?php query_posts(‘&pagename=’ .$allpage); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php echo $before_widget; ?>

<?php echo $before_title ?> <span><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php if ( function_exists(‘the_title_attribute’)) the_title_attribute(); else the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></span> <?php echo $after_title; ?>

<?php

$post_id = get_the_ID();

//Get the Thumbnail URL

$src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id) );

?>

<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’)?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $src[0]; ?>&h=<?php echo $post_thumb_height; ?>&w=<?php echo $post_thumb_width; ?>&zc=1″ alt=”">  </a>

<p><?php the_content_limit($num_words_limit, ”); ?></p>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>

<?php

}

/** @see WP_Widget::update */

function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {

$instance = $old_instance;

$instance['allpage'] = strip_tags($new_instance['allpage']);

$instance['num_words_limit'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['num_words_limit'] );

$instance['post_thumb_width'] = ( $new_instance['post_thumb_width'] ) ? absint(strip_tags( $new_instance['post_thumb_width'] )) : 60;

$instance['post_thumb_height'] = ( $new_instance['post_thumb_height'] ) ? absint(strip_tags( $new_instance['post_thumb_height'] )) : 60;

return $instance;

}

/** @see WP_Widget::form */

function form($instance) {

?>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘allpage’); ?>”><?php _e(‘allpage:’); ?></label>

<select class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id(‘allpage’); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name(‘allpage’); ?>”  >

<?php $pages = get_pages();

$allpage = array();

foreach ($pages as $page) {

$allpage = $page->post_title;

echo “<option value=\”$allpage\”>$allpage</option>\n”;

}

?>

</select>

</p>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>”><?php esc_html_e(‘Limit the number of words to show from each post:’, ‘slider’); ?></label>

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘num_words_limit’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['num_words_limit']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<br />

</p>

<p>

<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>”><?php esc_html_e(‘Thumbnail Dimensions:’, ‘primeVision’); ?></label><br />

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘post_thumb_width’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['post_thumb_width']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<span> X </span>

<input id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘post_thumb_height’ ); ?>” type=”text” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘post_thumb_height’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo $instance['post_thumb_height']; ?>” size=”5″ maxlength=”4″ />

<br />

<?php esc_html_e(‘(Width X Height) in pixels’, ‘primeVision’); ?>

</p>

<?php

}

} // class custom_page

// register custom_page widget

add_action(‘widgets_init’, create_function(”, ‘return register_widget(“custom_page”);’));

I hope by this time you can create your own widget or look at following source of custom widgets info.

U-Design is a very powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers.

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Clickbank is an online shopping website or marketplace that allows the merchants to sell digital products and services. Clickbank is a way for website publisher to make money promoting digital products and services of other merchants. It enables the website owners to place ads and product reviews on their website and get paid when the visitor clicks that particular link and purchase product. Publisher makes money as a commission if and only if website visitor purchases the product by clicking on the clickbank link placed on the website.

On the other hand AdSense is completely different from clickbank. Google adsense is also a means to promote products and services for merchants but in terms of publisher, they make money when any website visitor click on the ad placed on the website. The publisher is no way concerned with if the website visitor or not.

• Tweet This: this plugin adds a twitter icon to every post or page that you post on your blog, so that readers of your blog can easily share your blog entries on their twitter accounts.
• Twitter Badge: it is a JavaScript code that displays what you are posting on twitter

• Twitter Sharts: shows your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
• TwitThis: it allows the people to send Twitter messages easily about your blog post or website.
• WP Twitip ID: this plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter username of twitter.

Online users looking for images uses Google image search instead of the main search and hence it is necessary to keep in mind few extra things.

The Alt tag describes about the image. Search engines do not recognize the images or flash code placed on your web page. Hence it is very important to use captions on the images to describe the image for those who can’t see them.

The file names of the images must describe what they are. Commonly many use the numbers or any code to name the images instead start naming with words that identify them.

Google bot is that spiders the web for content and includes it in the Google index. In the same way, to index images, Google uses other bot that indexes only images. The main difference between both is that the frequency with which they indexes.

• Tweetme plugin: this plugin uses the Tweetme API to insert Tweet counter and Tweet me link into your joomla content.

• Twitter Follow Me: this module allows the blogger or website to display graphic image on your pages that will allow visitors to follow you on twitter profile.

• Tweetboard plugin: this plugin allows the blogger to easily insert the Tweetboard script on to your joomla website or blog

• ShareMe: this allows you share the content of your site or blog on facebook and twitter and show live count of shares.

Small business internet marketing is very similar to any online marketing efforts. When planning for internet marketing, there are certain things to consider like target market, budget and implementation methods.

Here are the internet marketing strategies:

• Website is a way to market you small business. If you don’t have one yet, you definitely need one. If you already have one, then start re-designing it with free offers for products and services that you are there in the business, as it is a way to entice your visitors to purchase your products.

• Advertising is the other way you can market your small business online. Start buying advertisement spaces on the blogs or website that have huge visitors like banner ads, popup ads etc…

• Search engines are the other way that drives people to your business. Make sure to get listed in major search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Use blog as marketing tool: this method is apt only if you already have an online business like selling a product or e-book or services like writing, web design, copy writing. Here blog can be used to promote your business and attract more number of customers. This is an indirect way to make money online. Ideally this sort of blog should not have ads displayed on them as they can damage the image of brand.

Pay per post: this is very simple. There are certain blog websites like Blogsvertise, payperpost, sponsored reviews that pay for the post that you submit them. To earn money online you have to set up multiple blog either with your own domains or on free blog host like blogger. Make sure to maintain them writing content and build links to build Google pagerank and other rankings. Start posting to your blogs on this network and earn money with sponsored posts.