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Archive for October, 2009

October 26, 2009

Get More Exposure by Being Re-Tweeted by RT Bots

There’s one tiny but cool Twitter hack I had some success with, so decided to share: give your Tweets more exposure with auto-retweet Twitter bots.
How do auto-RT bots work?
These are scripts that publish things a Twitter users tweet about to their own profile, thus collecting information on a specific topic.
Why can getting retweeted [...]

October 21, 2009

Get Traffic with Facebook “Notes”

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 [...]

October 19, 2009

Easy Links and Traffic: Write on Some Weird Google Suggestions

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 [...]

October 13, 2009

Check and Fix Broken Links with This Wordpress Plugin

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 [...]

October 8, 2009

SEO for e-Commerce Sites: Dealing with Out-of-Stock Product Pages

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 [...]

October 5, 2009

Does 301-Redirect Transfer the Penalty?

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 [...]

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