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		<title>Build Your Backlinks With SocialMonkee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Backlinks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building backlinks to your blogs is an important part of Search Engine Optimization for two reasons. It gets your blogs get indexed faster. It gets your pages get higher search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice. Are you tired of spending hours building backlinks to your site with few to no results? Do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Submit your  content Every Day to 25 social  bookmarking sites, all on unique  C class IPs... FREE." href="http://www.socialmonkee.com/index.php?af=4188" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.socialmonkee.com/images/banner125x125.jpg" alt="Submit your  content Every Day to 25 social  bookmarking sites, all on unique  C class IPs... FREE." /></a> Building backlinks to your blogs is an important part of Search Engine Optimization for two reasons.</p>
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<li> It gets your blogs get indexed faster.</li>
<li> It gets your pages get higher search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice.</li>
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Are you tired of spending hours building backlinks to your site with few to no results? Do you get annoyed when you see your pages down search engine rankings? Building backlinks can be a time-consuming, boring process. You can outsource the process to an agency and pay a lot of money. Or you can do it yourself with SocialMonkee! SocialMonkee is an instant backlink builder allowing you to build 25 unique backlinks, every day, FREE! All links are on unique C-Class IP addresses and domains. Imagine being able to create 25 unique backlinks every day, with the click of a button, FREE! Well, you can stop imagining &#8230;</p>
<p>So, 25 unique backlinks every day. That&#8217;s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 every month. If you upgrade, you will be able to build 100 uniques backlinks, 3 times a day! That&#8217;s a total of 2,100 backlinks every week, 9,000 every month! The good news is &#8230; you can get a Premium Account, FREE! All you need to do is to refer 12 members, and your account will automatically be upgraded. If you&#8217;re not really into referral marketing, you may upgrade right now for a low one-time fee.</p>
<p>Submitting a page to SocialMonkee via the members area takes under two minutes, but there&#8217;s an even faster way! They created a Firefox plugin that allows you to submit your page to up to 100 sites in just a few clicks, using nothing else than Firefox! If you have a Premium Account you will also get access to link reports and RSS feeds, which are great to keep track of your backlinks and get them indexed fast. Submitting your RSS feeds to RSS submitters is actually a very important step in link building.</p>
<p>So what are you waiting for? <a href="http://www.socialmonkee.com/index.php?af=4188" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Join SocialMonkee now while it&#8217;s still free! Follow this link</a>.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Wars &#8211; Bing Is Not A Factor</title>
		<link>http://azwan.my/search-engine-wars-bing-is-not-a-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although my earlier post is about Google and privacy, when it comes to traffic. It&#8217;s still about Google. Earlier, I also asked whether should we have the meaning for the word Bing in the dictionary, like the one we already have for Google. After going through some statistics from comScore, looks like Bing is not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although <a href="http://azwan.my/the-new-google-toilet/" rel='nofollow'>my earlier post</a> is about Google and privacy, when it comes to traffic. It&#8217;s still about Google.</p>
<p>Earlier, I also asked whether should we have <a href="http://azwan.my/google-vs-bing/" rel='nofollow'>the meaning for the word Bing</a> in the dictionary, like the one we already have for Google. After going through some statistics from comScore, looks like Bing is not even able to beat Yahoo! in the search engine wars.</p>
<p><strong>Asia Pacific</strong><br />
According to a study by comScore in September 2009, 38.6 billion searches were conducted in the <a href="http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/11/Asia_Pacific_Search_Volume_Reaches_Record_Level_in_September" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Asia Pacific region</a>. An increase of 33% from the previous year.  Google ranked as the top search destination with 44% shares, while Baidu has 21.3% market share, followed by Yahoo! 13.8%. Bing was not mentioned, but Microsoft sites share is less than 10%.<br />
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<p>Google&#8217;s 44% equals to 17 billion searches and that is a lot of searches in a month. Google captured the majority share of searches in Malaysia with 71.1%. I don&#8217;t have the exact search phrases that were used, but the data is enough to show that  more people are using search engines to get information. They are using Bing the least.</p>
<p><strong>United States</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/12/comScore_Releases_November_2009_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>November 2009&#8242;s data</a> on US search engine rankings showed almost the same result.</p>
<blockquote><p>Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 65.6 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (17.5 percent), and Microsoft Sites (10.3 percent). Ask Network captured 3.8 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.8 percent.</p></blockquote>
<p>Microsoft sites (Bing included), although at third place, only able to get 10% of the total searches, regardless whether it is in the US or in Asia Pacific.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1150" title="bing-logo" src="http://azwan.my/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bing-logo.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="162" /></p>
<p>If you are doing search engine optimization, you can drop Bing from your list of search engines to optimize, but if you are targeting China, <strong>you must consider Baidu</strong>. Google is still number two in China, and it will be that way for a while. Based on the experience working in a Chinese company, Chinese will always prefer Chinese products to others, unless Google could come out with something to temp them to change. <a href="http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=160983_0_5_0_M" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'>Maybe with  Android</a>?</p>
<p>Concentrate your <strong>SEO to suits Google</strong>. Ignore the rest <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>I Was A Little Bit Busy</title>
		<link>http://azwan.my/i-was-a-little-bit-busy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backlinks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2009 has the lowest number of posts. Only 5, out of an average of 15 posts per month for the first 6 months. I was busy. I was working on my make money online blogs. I have been spending a lot of my time building traffic to those sites and also backlinks. The recent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://azwan.my/2009/05/" rel='nofollow'>May 2009</a> has the lowest number of posts. Only 5, out of an average of 15 posts per month for the first 6 months. </p>
<p>I was busy.</p>
<p>I was working on my <a href="http://azwan.my/category/money/" rel='nofollow'>make money online blogs</a>. I have been spending a lot of my time building traffic to those sites and also backlinks. The recent PR update has increased the PR of some of my blogs. Traffic has also increase. Hoping that it will stay that way for a while. </p>
<p>More CTRs have been recorded lately and daily earnings are increasing <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   Yey!</p>
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		<title>The Traffic Experiment: The Results</title>
		<link>http://azwan.my/traffic-experiment-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[results]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that after posting about starting the traffic experiment on the 7th of March 2009, I would be able to do a review after a month. I was wrong Something change which not only postponed the review, but also my goals and targets for 2009. Quite a significant one, and a drastic change to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought that after posting about starting the traffic experiment on the 7th of March 2009, I would be able to do a review after a month.</p>
<p>I was wrong <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  Something change which not only postponed the review, but also my goals and targets for 2009. Quite a significant one, and a drastic change to my way of life too. Anyway, that is for another post <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>For now, lets take a look on how I did. I started this when people keep on asking <a href="http://azwan.my/how-to-increase-traffic-to-your-blog/" rel='nofollow'>&#8220;how to increase traffic?&#8221;</a> and posted about <a href="http://azwan.my/my-traffic-secret-first-3-steps-to-increase-your-traffic/" rel='nofollow'>my traffic secret</a>, briefly and then <a href="http://azwan.my/the-traffic-experiment/" rel='nofollow'>the announcement of the traffic experiment</a>.<br />
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<p>I will not touch on Sony PSP. Since my old blog has been change to <a href="http://comicsmyx.com/" rel='nofollow' rel='nofollow'>Comics, Games and Anime</a>, will be doing the optimization there rather than here. I will also not discuss about <a href="http://azwan.my/avillion-port-dickson/" rel='nofollow'>Avillion Port Dickson</a> just yet. For today, will only be touching on <a href="http://azwan.my/go/Travian/" rel='nofollow' rel='nofollow'>Travian Malaysia</a> (since this is also games related, will be moving this out to <a href="http://azwanhadzree.com/" rel='nofollow' rel='nofollow'>Comics, Games and Anime</a> as well. Soon)</p>
<p>So, how did my <a href="http://azwan.my/go/Travian/" rel='nofollow' rel='nofollow'>Travian Malaysia</a> post performs.</p>
<p><img src="http://azwan.my/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/travian_gold.jpg" alt="travian_gold" title="travian_gold" width="550" height="426" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-901" /></p>
<p><strong>(1) Money. Gold.</strong><br />
It made me, as at of writing, 420 pieces of Gold. All from the people that joined and played <a href="http://azwan.my/go/Travian/" rel='nofollow'>Travian through my affiliate link</a>.  420 pieces of gold is equals to USD27.86 if I were to purchased directly from Travian bit by bit.</p>
<p><strong>(2) Google SERPs</strong><br />
For <strong>Travian Malaysia</strong>,the post is on the 1st page at #5, out of 240,000 results. For the keyword <strong>Travian</strong>, it is on the 2nd page out of 14,200,000 results. Both is from http://www.google.com.my/ Since my target is Malaysia, I didn&#8217;t bother for the results in http://www/google.com/, but I did check for <strong>Travian Malaysia</strong> which is on the 3rd page of http://www.google.com</p>
<p>How was it done i.e. how I optimized the post? Will discuss this in the next post. With further optimization, I think I will have a lot more golds for my <a href="http://azwan.my/go/Travian/" rel='nofollow'>Travian campaign</a>.</p>
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		<title>My Traffic Secret: First 3 Steps To Increase Your Traffic</title>
		<link>http://azwan.my/my-traffic-secret-first-3-steps-to-increase-your-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adsense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://azwan.my/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember my previous post on How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog? Having a niche blog is much easier, but you can do the same for a non niche blog. The example is Azwan.My You have seen how my traffic increased for the last 3 months. You can use these 3 steps to increase your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-533" title="traffic-jam" src="http://azwan.my/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/traffic-jam.jpg" alt="traffic-jam" width="370" height="208" />Remember my previous post on <a href="http://azwan.my/how-to-increase-traffic-to-your-blog/" rel='nofollow'>How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog</a>?</p>
<p>Having a niche blog is much easier, but you can do the same for a non niche blog. The example is <a href="http://azwan.my/" rel='nofollow'>Azwan.My</a> <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  You have seen how my <a href="http://azwan.my/azwanmy-after-3-months/" rel='nofollow'>traffic increased for the last 3 months</a>.</p>
<p>You can use these <strong>3 steps to increase your traffic</strong>:<br />
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<ul>
<li> Check your popular post. See which one is popular, decide whether it is worth to optimize further.</li>
<li> Study your traffic stats. Analyze the keywords that brought those traffic to your popular post. Check the long tail keywords used and compare with the words used in your posts.</li>
<li> Evaluate your posts again, and put in the right words.</li>
</ul>
<p>It all goes down to SEO. Take some time to learn the basics. Offpage optimization will help you the most, but no point to do that if your onpage optimization is not good. Work on the onpage optimization first.</p>
<p>You can just Google for SEO, offpage and onpage optimization if you need the info now. However, I will also have some posts on it later &#8230; with examples.</p>
<p>Build your traffic, and you page rank or alexa rank will increase accordingly <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>p/s<br />
Refer to this <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-posts-plugin/" rel='nofollow'>link, for the Popular Posts Plugin</a></p></blockquote>
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