From Zero To SEO

Scour is another search engine that pulls data from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. But it also allows users to vote and comment results to make them more relevant. Why anybody would do this? Because of reward system that scour offers.

Is it worth doing?

It depends. If you live in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, U.S., or U.K. then register, install plugin and make some cash. And spend more time reading if you live somewhere else. Look why.

For every search, vote and comment you earn 1 point, i.e. 3 reward points from every search if you vote and comment. But where is daily search limit. You earn reward points from the first 100 daily searches only. It means you can do 300 points per day. Is this enough to buy a beer? Nope.

The reward system for countries listed above is:
6,500 points = $25.00
12,500 points = $50.00
25,000 points = $100

The reward system for other countries is:
50,000 points = $5

It means that U.S. citizen can make $25 in 6,500 / 300 = 22 days, but guy from India in (5 x 50,000) / 300 = 834 days! But don’t leave my blog now if you are from India :] There is something that scour can offer you, referrals!

Invite as many friends as you can and make 25% of the points they make! If your referral makes 300 reward points daily, it is 75 points for you. Ten referrals, 750 reward points and so on.

I forgot to mention that you get 50 bonus points when you register.

Bad things happen

Scour performs regular manual reviews to ensure quality of comments and votes. Don’t spam, don’t use submission scripts, don’t search invalid characters, and don’t promote your site! Otherwise scour will take some points or ban your account. Remember, that scour believes that users vote and comment to make the World better :} Don’t frustrate them, be natural.

Scour is another free SEO tool

If you are not interested in making money with scour you can use it as ranking analysis tool. Yes, another free SEO tool for you guys! Just type keyword you need and check ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You can sort SERP as well. I like this feature very much, because I can sort SERP on the fly without using special SEO tools.

P.S.: If you find this post useful you can register using my referral url.

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Everybody knows that URLs should be well optimized for search engines, but not everyone Blogger user knows how to do it. The common assumption that you should choose title very carefully since Blogger transforms title to slug when you click the “Publish Post” button, is wrong. Why should we think about title before slug is well optimized? Let’s find out how to apply the simplest technique that can improve blog’s ranking.

1. Analyze keywords using any research tool you like. Select the most relevant keywords for slug. Check word order and spelling. Keep in mind that slug can’t be changed.
2. Enter selected keywords in the title edit box. Blogger will use them for slug creation.
3. Open your text editor and write post title you like. Title and slug don’t have to be the same. Use as many keywords from slug as possible. Remember, title should be human readable. Do your best and optimize it for readers.
4. Write content and click the “Publish Post” button. Blogger will create slug from words you specified in title edit box. Exactly what you wanted.
5. Now go to editor and modify title. Just copy the title from text editor and click the “Publish Post” button again.

Don’t forget to follow the procedure every time you want different slug and title. Make it a habit and improve your blog’s ranking in the SERP.

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This was tough SEO week. I’ve improved my second blog’s ranking in Google by writing unique content. The reason was bad ranking in the SERP, much lower than top 100.

Firstly I couldn’t realize what I did wrong. I wrote many pages containing lots of target keywords. I optimized content for search engines and I got some dofollow links with good anchors. But nothing happened. The reason is duplicated content.

In fact, content is unique, but is based on existing articles. I made necessary corrections and put low competitive keywords. But now I see that it’s not enough.

I’ve stopped bothering about keywords and created few unique pages. And I succeeded. Unique content brings traffic. Also some low competitive keywords appeared in the SERP in top 50. Now I’m following the 2:1 writing scheme. Two posts with unique niche content per one rewritten post with low competitive keywords. It works just fine, but I’m going to switch to the 1:1 scheme soon. Of course, I will inform you about results.

If you have any suggestions about mixing rewritten content with unique content, please comment. I appreciate it very much.

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