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Weekly Roundup, Top Blogs of The World by Visitors

January 15, 2012
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Weekly Roundup, Top Blogs of The World by Visitors

Welcome to yet another round-up edition.  Last week I talked about Keyword research. We bloggers, receive more than half of our traffic through search engine referrals. Putting our keywords in front of other, to be specific, putting our links on Google’s first search page requires a lot of work. The basis and the direction of that work is set by keyword research. This week, let’s talk about some non personal finance blogs that attract most visitors compared to any other blogs. Click on the respective banner image to visit the blogs. Remember they are not exactly by the order of daily visits. I picked up a few of the largest in their respective categories. The most followed blog (in any category) by daily unique visitors is The Huffington Post?  This is not really a personal blog, rather an industry in itself. Read for anything from gossip to tech gadgets. A news papers in form of a blog. A close competitor is Business Insider.  Although not really at the top tier in terms of traffic, but, Zen Habits is by far the biggest blog run by a single person. The simplicity of this blog is amazing and soothing. Don’t bother to offer a guest

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OCAAT Weekly Roundup, The Key Word Research Edition

January 8, 2012
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OCAAT Weekly Roundup, The Key Word Research Edition

Blogging is a learning process. During the holidays last week, I was learning key word research. I am putting it out for my readers who are bloggers by themselves. This article is not about deciding new topics based on number of search queries they can generate in future. This is about that part of key word research where you want to write guest post, or want to build links, based on certain key words contained in published articles. The objective is to tackle the words that can generate maximum visits to your site. I took the help of Google Webmaster Tool in doing this. Understanding Google Webmaster Tool Logon to WMT and go to “Your site on the web” section, then click on “Search Queries“. You will see the list of searches performed to visit your site in last 30 days. Below picture is how my screen looks like (it shows 9063 rows, that means, I had 9063 SE visitors last month), for obvious reasons I blurred out the search words. Let me first explain the columns, then I am going to talk about how I zeroed in on search terms that I wanted to build links on. Impression – The

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