Basic SEO techniques covered in the article are:

1. Know your terms
2. Place your phrases
3. Build your pages to encourage crawlers
4. Get Linked: Crawlers link from other sites.
5. Use Google’s facilities to increase your exposure.
6. Review your site

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This article, Warning: Mass Local Language Inbound Links Can Damage Your Health, covers it up. It explained that too many inbound links from local language website can mess up our rank in search engine’s result.

First, let’s see the background (quoted from the article):

We found this out accidentally. The background is as follows. Google chooses the language of the site through 4 main factors. The physical location of the webserver (IP number), the top level domain name – ‘ .de’ for instance, the meta language tag(s), where the incoming links come from and also the actual language of the text.

Those are the four main factors that Google uses to identify the language of website. Now what happen if Google’s crawler found out that there are many inbound links to our site that come from local language website? Google may ‘regret’ our website original language and think that our website language is the same as the most local language website that have inbound links to our site!

Normally you’d think one of these factors could not override the rest. However, inbound links can override all other factors into duping Google that the page is of a different language than it actually is. This has disastrous consequences, for example if a German page focusing on German language readers gets a highly disproportionate amount of links from english language sites. Google ignores the fact the server is in Germany, the top level domain is ‘.de’, the meta language tag is “de” and considers the site english – which results in dropping a lot in google.de but rising in Google.com.

Furthermore, that article give an example of the result of having too many local language inbound links:

If you come across an english language page with “translate this page” in the google reults and it fails to rank well then it will most likely mean you have too many links from foreign websites. This can happen through link purchase or through one of the many link networks for example.

How about your site? The simplest way to check it is by searching your site on both main Google search engine (Google.com) and Google local search engine. For example, I check this site (FunPonsel.Com) on Google.Com and Google.Co.Id (Indonesian, since I used to post using Indonesian language in the past and also having some inbound links from Indonesian-language website). First I’m using “funponsel” as the keyword. Both search engine returned 10,400 search result. Next, I try using “inurl:funponsel.com” as the keyword. Again, both returned the same result, 9750 search result.

Couple months ago, before I started posting in English, I remember correctly that search result for FunPonsel on Google.Com is not as good as on Google.Co.Id. So I guess I’m making the right decision to post completely in English language :p

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How often do the top bloggers update their sites
7 out of the top 10 Technorati’s sites update daily with multiple posts. The rest of the site owners blog at least a few times a week.

After reading the article, I think, at least, these are what you should do to make your blog raise to the top:

• Blogged about news and current events, even politics.
  I guess this is related to search engine. To know what people are currently looking for, check Technorati top search (available on their front page) or Google weekly top search on Google Zeitgeist. Current top search for Google, period 15 August 2005 – 22 August 2005 is Jude Law. People are currently looking for information and gossip about Jude Law and his split with Sienna Miller.
• Write something original, not just copy-paste from other source.
  Even if you blogged about the current popular events, try not just copy-paste from other source. Give your own thoughts and opinions about that topic. That way, people will see something different from your post, not just a duplicate from the others.
• Older blogs get a better change to hit the elite rank.
  Again, I guess this is still about search engine and popularity. Older sites usually have better rank than newer site since they already have some time to build their rank using every SEO techniques they know.
• Update your blog often.
  Again, people love something fresh. If they see your blog updated regularly, they will also visit yours regularly. Oh, and according to Puji from JalanSutera, search engine crawler also like sites that update often.

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One of the easiest way to promote your website is by submit it to web directories. But how do you find those websites? Google it!

intitle: add+url OR intitle: submit+your+site OR intitle: add+your+site KEYWORD
inurl: addurl

Query Google with the search strings above, and you will get list of websites that allow you to submit your site URL. Replace KEYWORD in the former string with your site keywords.