Sometimes when you're on the prowl looking to acquire links via link trades, buying links or contributing optimized content to a blog in return for a link or two, you can run into some sites which may seem like you've struck link gold .. but these opportunities may prove too good to be true. Case in point, you may find some site owners who are more or less giving away good links on sites with high PageRank or lots of incoming links, but what may look like incredible places to get links from, but I highly suggest taking a deeper look before striking a deal. Here are some red flags to look for when judging the quality of a site. Topic Irrelevance : Is the site's...
Fresh and relevant content is becoming more and more important to SEO and establishing rankings, both for money terms and in the long tail. It may be easy to tell people "generate fresh content on a daily basis," but in the long run, writing an article or blog post everyday can be tiring and troublesome, especially when an SEO manager has multiple things to do and reports to digest. Some of us turn to copywriters to...
SEO is a young industry and to some extent based on the assumptions. The only tactics that are officially confirmed are: create awesome content, use clean code, make your site for people, not for search engines. Much of what you read besides that should be considered before implementing. It makes me sad when I am told that after reading my post (that retells someone else's internal anchor text experiment) a webmaster went ahead and...
Today's tip is going to be short, sweet and open ended. To really dig into SEO, get your hands dirty, and ultimately understand the working of organic search engine optimization; you must read SEO blogs and participate in forums for at least 1 hour per day. My favorite SEO blogs are (I'm only gonna name four cause I want people to add their fav's in the comments): Search Engine Roundtable Small Business SEM SEO Book SEO...
Today's post was contributed in part by Mr. I from Blogging With Success. The best thing about WordPress is that it's open source and can be extended with the help of plugins, which are made by creative third party developers. In this post, we have listed 6 best SEO plugins that make managing meta information, links and almost everything related to SEO very easy. Out of the box, Wordpress is already very user friendly and...
Launching a new blog is a lot of fun, and so is building links to it. I have written about blog directories in the past, and used to own one, and honestly have been very shocked about how bad the quality has gotten with some of the blogosphere's first directories. That being said, here is a round up of some of the top resources to submit site to. Submitting your blog to an established human...
Today's Daily SEO Tip is a guest post by Saptarshi from SEO Kolkata. Most bloggers are satisfied with the default structure of the blog but if you would like to improve yours a little the easiest way is to do it by optimizing the title tag. The default title structure in most common blog platforms is "Blog Title - Post Title". What this means is that your most relevant keywords that are in your...
