If you're a blogger, then your content is how you attract search engine visitors. So in order to get even more search engine traffic to your blog posts, you're going to have to take a number of steps to fine tune and perfect their search engine optimization. And even if you aren't a blogger, it isn't hard to apply these steps to your own site. Optimizing your content takes patience and effort. After all, you're going to need to pay attention to the little details of your post that you usually would't even think about. If you're prepared to take extra time during the writing of each of your posts in order to properly optimize them, great! Then we're on the same level. If you don't...
There are always ways to turn bad into good. However, this is especially true with search engine optimization. People have been using questionable techniques to rank high in search engines for years. As a result, people have been penalized on or even banned from search engines for years. But nobody said you can't turn blackhat SEO into whitehat SEO and bring big results with no risk of penalization. Plus, knowing how to turn unethical to...
Having learned so much from the endless list of SEO gurus out there I only thought it just that I should share something in return. What’s your take on blog commenting links are they really worth the effort if you are looking to increase SERP’s for you or your client’s websites? Blog commenting links are rather frowned upon these days as being a somewhat primeval form of link building agreed they can help to direct new and...
If you have an opt-in form on your blog home page designed to build a mailing list and following here is a really cool SEO tip for getting more targeted traffic to your offer. The Blog homepage has way too many exit points and distractions. Granted we want the visitor to see our unique content and then sign up as a result, but why give them that option? If you offer a unique free gift and your...
*The guest tip was provided by Matthew Yarro, JuiceeLinks* Not every website on the Internet is a blog. I know, It seems crazy in today's super-social-media climate, but some websites simply exist to offer up whatever information they deem to be important--and do so with infrequent updates. The problem with these "static" websites is that Google eventually realizes that the websites are not being frequently updated, and so it makes a point of not crawling...
No matter how awesome content on your blog is, how properly SEOed your site may be or how much work you put into promoting it, one day all your efforts may fall short all at once because your Wordpress-run blog has been hacked. What may follow is quite a depressining time actually: Your website might lose credibility and trust; Google may put that "This site may harm your computer" notice on your site SERPs...
It is often that we park a domain due some reason (for example, to secure your (brand) name like I did with annsmarty.com domain) and you just don't know what to do with it. Thus the domain just remains neglected while it could work as an additional link juice help. Years in Internet marketing have taught me one important thing (actually more than one but this one really counts for this post): you should...
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...
. One of the main goals of SEO is to build traffic. Why are so many SEO professionals ignoring directories? Search engines have not abolished directories! Google has simply gotten stricter when it comes to acknowledging specific directories. Despite that, they are still beneficial for PR and traffic gain. There are many different types of directories that can be of great value to your website or blog. Check out the article at Search Engine...
This Friday tip was provided by our reader SEOdart. Social media optimization is an important step to making your content viral. Offer your visitors an easy way to share your posts throughout all popular social bookmarking and networking sites. A few most useful Wordpress plugins that unite multiple social media sites and offer your readers one-click submission include: Share this; Add to any; Social bookmarking reloaded (note from the editor: I have no idea...
