John Haydon had an awesome post on his blog sharing how to leverage Facebook "Notes" to get traffic to your blog. To drive traffic to your blog you need to add its RSS to "Notes" application and ask your best Facebook friends to do the same! Here's why it's powerful: If you have 30 fans who each have 100 friends, your blog post will be seen by as many as 3,000 people. These...
There have been a lot of talk about weird suggestions people keep seeing in Google Suggest drop-down. Well, how we search bloggers can benefit from this is quite clear: write a post on one of the funky Google suggestions and get ranked in top 10 for the phrase! Why is this a good idea: Google shows what other people search (so the phrase is likely to generate you some good Google referral traffic); The fact that...
A broken link hurts both your site usability and SEO. Users feel disappointed when clicking a link to land nowhere and search engines certainly don't want them to: so if they find a lot of broken link on your pages, this may hurt your reputation. Anyway, it is quite clear that broken links are bad. But there's hardly any website out there that has no broken links at all - because it is hard to keep...
The following tips are from Ran of Wood and Beyond Here are my 2 tips as to how we deal with product discontinuation to preserve some SEO value and to shift authority gained from indexed products. Hopefully you'd like my tips and I suspect other e-commerce sites might benefit from them as well. Problem: Having products discontinue or out of stock is a real challenge for us,...
Getting penalized is every webmaster's nightmare. Even if you are completely innocent (which is unlikely as penalties seldom happen without a reason), figuring that out may take months which can actually ruin your business. One theoretical way to quickly to solve the problem might be a 301 redirect following the logic: 301 redirect "transfers" the link power (which means links pointing to one particular domain will now point to a new one); By transferring the link power, 301-redirect...
More and more bloggers are now getting the beauty of "Retweet!" Tweetmeme button adding it to their blog templates. The button makes it easy to share the post on Twitter as well as rates the post in general Tweetmeme index.
Now, there's one tip not everyone is aware of: by default Tweetmeme will use the following Tweet format:
RT @Tweetmeme Post title http://bit.ly/XXXX
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There are two main reasons why you would want to hide your affiliate links from Google: They "leak" link juice; They say, Google hates affiliate links because they show to Google that the site's content is "second-hand" So, we are running into the dilemma here: we want to monetize Google traffic and we don't want to risk our reputation. Two main strategies to use are (note: to avoid link juice leak, the combination of these strategies...
This question is being asked so often that I just decided to go ahead and write a post about that: You notice Google report a 404 page on your site; You go to your site and fix the error (delete the link to the non-existent page or just fix the broken URL); Your Google Webmaster Tools account is still reporting the error Is there any way to tell Google the error is fixed? Currently, the only question to this question...
Content is the key of your website success. Why not leverage it to its full potential? Here's one almost must-work idea: create a solid, well-formatted glossary of terms in your niche and add it to your site. Here are two (very important) things a glossary can be helpful: It's an awesome, highly-effective long-term link bait. The more time your glossary is live, the more "authority" it becomes. You will need to update it now and...
The following guest tip is by Eric Gesinski Most SEOs and internet marketers are already quite aware of Google's free keyword tool. However, there are some details that you should pay attention to when you use this tool to get the best results when doing your keyword research here. 1) Make sure to show all columns. To do this, select the "Show/hide columns" drop down ...
