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Steps To Installing WordPress Blog

First if you have not downloaded the latest version of Wordpress go do it now. Download Wordpress here

Get an FTP client. This is what is used to upload files ( like WordPress , themes, plugins, etc) to your server. You can also download files from your server as well as edit.
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Tags: Blog Start Up, Blog for Money 101 Series, Free Tools and Utilities by Lisa Stewart
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HitTail is quite a powerful FREE keyword tool for site owners and bloggers who are looking to increase there traffic and track what keywords are being used to find their site. It also has the ability to look at long tail searches and build on those words and make suggestions

HitTail tool requires that you insert javascript somewhere that is sitewide and you can look at live reports (unlike most other similar free services) or have results emailed daily.

If you have been using MyblogLog or Google Analytics or other free tools that help you analyze your keywords this is nice simple tool fun to play with.

Not thrilleed about anothr javascript being placed on the blog but may be worth the effort-especillay for new bloggers who are trying to get a handle on what keywords are working for them.

Tags: Free Tools and Utilities, Internet Marketing and Blogs by Lisa Stewart
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I am doing a test. I suspect your Alexa Traffic Ranking report will go UP if you have their traffic tool widget installed on your site. The tool uses java script to “count” visits and I think with the tool installed your ranking report will go up- significantly.
I have tried it on several sites and traffic has gone up- way up- every time.
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Tags: Free Tools and Utilities by Lisa Stewart
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I have tried this on a few sites and without fail all of the sites Alexa ranking went up significantly. I am going to try here.
I have just moved the site over to this sever as well as revamped an energized it in last month … so will be a good opportunity.

One of the techniques used to manipulate Alexa traffic ranking is placing the Alexa Traffic Rank button on your site. I have no REAL evidence that it works. I know that sites I placed the tool on went up- but that could be any number of factors.

Get Better Alexa Rankings

Looks like this:

At the time of this posting, November 4, 2007 the Alexa ranking is 1,508,140 . And yes, this is a crappy number, especially for a site that is owned by a site owner specializes in rankings. I neglected this domain for a long time and then moved it and basically starting from scratch. Will be a good opportunity to implement techniques and see how they are working in real time.

Why should you care about Alexa? I am not sure if you should, but I know some advertisers do- so at worst you should be aware of its existence and its impact. Alexa is supposed to measure traffic to your site. Not what kind or targeted just plain traffic. Some advertisers think that more traffic is always better. As value is a perception and not a real thing then a good ranking in Alexa can mean more money for you.

I have found than you can manipulate and get a higher Alexa ranking if the Alexa’s developer widget, Alexa Traffic Ranking tool is installed. You can get your own here: http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. Takes about 2 minutes or less to do.

Watch My Alexa Traffic Rankings Go Up… or not

Be sure and check back and see if my Alexa ranking has gone up.

Alexa Traffic Rank History

Dec. 2, 2008 172,432
October 10, 2008 208,892
July 18, 2008 210, 968
June 24, 2008 211,646
June 11, 2008 228,782
June 9,2008 240,742
May 27, 2008 287,423
May 21, 2008 292,500
April 21, 2008 463,299
April 10 , 2008 576,346
April 3, 2008 631,993
March 28 . 2008 659, 168
March 25, 2008 701, 672
Mar. 9, 2008 735,844
February 29, 2008 396,461
January 30, 2008 343,947
January 21, 2008 346,861
January 15,2008 359,355
January 5, 2008 378,491
December 27, 2007 376,599
December 8, 2007 397,789
December 5, 2007 449,409
November 22, 2007 546,670
November 18, 2007 762,255
November 12, 2007 1,081,050
November 7, 2007 : 1,170,542
November 4 , 2007 : 1,508,140

What’s Your ranking? Would love sites to post when they first install the Alexa Traffic Ranking Widget . Just post your site name, URL , date and current traffic rank below. Let us know what results you have.
I think I may post a page just for this purpose…

Tags: Free Tools and Utilities by Lisa Stewart
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