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SEO (search engine optimization)


Have you optimized your blog?

May 28, 2008

Search engine optimization (SEO) is vital for your blog so that you get the most traffic. However, hiring an SEO firm is expensive, and doing it yourself takes lots of time. Wonderful Marketing Sherpa has come up with some great, FREE tools to help you to do your own SEO. There’s even a tool which [...]

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Managing your blog’s content as it grows

March 6, 2008

Although blogs are easy to manage when compared with a large static site, once you pass the 300 and 400 post mark you’ll feel a little out of control. Useful content gets lost. There’s no easy solution to content management on a large blog but Chris Pearson’s post on WordPress categories is helpful. What Every [...]

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Ouch, that smarts – a PageRank update that hurts

October 24, 2007

Apparently there’s been a recent Google PageRank update which has smacked many top ranking blogs and sites. Andy Beard’s “DIGG FAVORITES SLAPPED BY GOOGLE” has a list of some of the sites. He says: After the very controversial hit many sites took just 2 weeks ago for various degrees of selling PageRank or linking to [...]

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The “nofollow” attribute debate – why should you nofollow your links?

October 18, 2007

If the paid links/ advertising/ nofollow-attribute debate is making your head hurt, Jennifer Laycock nails the main point. Does it benefit your readers? In Part Four – NoFollow is for Blog Spam…no Paid Text Links, wait…Paid Ads…Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings – Search Engine Guide Blog Jennifer asks: “Implementing [...]

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Blogging for your readers: getting traffic from the search engines

September 25, 2007

You’re full of excited anticipation when you launch your blog. That’s natural. However, your enthusiasm can lead you astray: you forget to consider your readers and how they’ll find you. As your blog gets more content, and as time passes, most of your readers will find you via the search engines. On my writing blog, [...]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on your blog – keep it simple

July 18, 2007

Simple is better when it comes to blogs’ SEO because search engines change their algorithms constantly to improve search results. Keeping blog SEO simple To keep it simple: * Make your post’s title clear and concise. Yes, I know there’s a school of thought which emphasizes blog “headlines” and cutesy titles. The idea being that [...]

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WordPress and SEO

March 25, 2007

Finally – great how-to on optimizing WordPress. I love WordPress. It’s my blog platform of choice, and in many cases, it’s my choice for static sites as well. Yes, there are ways to get your blog looking like a static site. That said, I haven’t paid all that much attention to search engine optimization (SEO) [...]

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Blogging and SEO (search engine optimization)

November 16, 2006

You’re a blogger. It’s easier to get traffic to a blog than it is to a Web site, so bloggers don’t need to worry about SEO, right? Wrong. Search engine optimization and your blog Although you don’t need to be fanatical, you should know the basics of SEO, and apply them to your blog. Bruce [...]

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The SEO keyword secret to getting blog traffic

October 25, 2006

Want to increase the traffic to your blog? The easiest way is by choosing keywords which are entered into the search engine query boxes by the people you want to attract. Easy, right? Well… Yes and no. If you choose keywords which are highly competitive, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. You won’t rank (get [...]

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Blogging and SEO: keywords – think indexing

October 17, 2006

Web-spam, click to enlarge I’m nervous about bringing up search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords for blogs, because I know some bloggers will take a good thing much, much too far. Yes, it’s all about the keywords, but think indexing Got a reference book with an index in your office? Back in the day, you [...]

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