Blog Blitz!

I wanted to relay to you all a great way to bring up our  ranks in Google.  The Maven team has been Blog Blitzing  since the beginning of the Summer.  Using this technique,  we have successfully brought up our ranking for  "handmade gifts" in Google search engine.  Not only that,  but it helps us practice our communication skills in blogging.   Poetry comes natural to the talented, but for those of  us who are more challenged in the blogging area will  need to practice a bit.   Here is how to do Blog Blitz, we are trying to get more  traffic to our Handmade Gift Guide on ArtFire.  The goal of a blog blitz is to increase the amount of relevant  anchor text bank links to a particular web page.  For this blitz we  will be linking to the gift hub page on ArtFire. Here is the hyperlink  to anchor in your text phrases:  http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=gift_hub  Did you notice  the sentence before the hyperlink?  It has an anchor inlaid.   Highlight your text and click the anchor icon in your toolbar above  in your editor.  Use handmade gifts as your anchor words.   Rather than always using the exact same linked phrase, such  as where you can find your handmade gifts for your holiday  shopping.  In the previous sentence, the only words I linked were  "handmade gifts".  This isn't bad, but it is better if the same  anchor text doesn't appear everywhere all at once. Try to think of a phrase you can use to link to the gift hub page that  go beyond just the two words "handmade gifts".  Telling people that  they can find the perfect handmade gift for your husband on  ArtFire gets the keywords in the link without carbon copying the  same link. If you are having trouble thinking of a longer phrase, feel free to  use just "handmade gifts", just realize you have plenty of options  and ways to differentiate if you'd like. "   Here is a blog I just did on Zero Zoom Pizazz that is packed full of  anchors and hyperlinks   Let me know if you still need help.  Post your blogs if you like for us all to  read in our blog blitz!  Remember, if you have a blog away from ArtFire, blog  there first for this exercise, then blog here on your ArtFire Blog to bring  traffic directly to your shop.  This exercise will help you all to learn how  to fine tune your SEO for your blog.

Here is a bit more on the significance of an "anchor text  back link."  Google ranks sites based on how many other  sites link to them(ie. why they call it a 'web').  The  reasoning being that a link is kind of like a "vote", so  the popular sites get voted the most because they  have the best information or content.  Links power  the web. Anchor text back links are even more powerful links.  "anchor text"  means that rather than just share the URL such as:   http://www.artfire.com , you attach that link to some other anchor  text.  Such as: Find the perfect handmade gift for the holidays.   The WHOLE link is the anchor text.  Google will see the above  anchor and will recognize that someone linked to ArtFire.com  with the phrase "Find the perfect handmade gift for the holidays".   If lots of other people link to ArtFire with similar text Google might  start to return ArtFire.com for searches like "handmade gift for  the holidays" because many people have "voted" that ArtFire.com  is a good page for people who want that kind of thing. One of the reasons why I think we should move our group from  Facebook is so that we can use anchors and hyperlinks more  effectively and thus bring up our ranking and capture organic  traffic. The traffic we are capturing on Facebook is really only  mainly from socializing and not ranking.  It's still on Google  search, but this concept doens't apply quite the same.