To be successful as a blogger, you need to have a good understanding of the basics of SEO. This will enable you to steer clear of the following SEO mistakes which can be detrimental to your blog.
A competitive link analysis is a great way to see how your link building efforts compare with those of your top competitors. It's also incredibly useful for identifying any link building opportunities that you may have overlooked. What industry sites is your competition a member of? What blogs are they guest writers for? What sites are picking up their PR? Looking at the competition's link building efforts can help you identify the holes (and opportunities)...
There are many great reasons to feature guest writers on your blog, such as offering your audience a new voice and alternative view on things, fostering your online networks and to simply give you time to concentrate on other parts of your business, to name but a few. The bad news is that you need to beware of horrible guest bloggers. That's right, there are guest bloggers who will create nothing but headaches for you....
A blogger's love affair with technology doesn't end with the desktop, now that most devices are mobile, you can take Search Engine Optimization to another level- why not make good with your ranks while you're out on the road?
In the post-Panda world of SEO, guest blog posting has emerged as one of the last ways to build decent quality links with any sort of scale. As a result, SEO's are churning out guest blog posts at high volume. The thing is, guest blogging – for all of it's benefits – is not fun. Not even a little bit. It's hard work that requires creativity, organization, and persistence...and luck. In a word, guest blogging...
Smartphone and tablet use is on the rise and it is changing the way people search. Siri and Google Voice on smartphones allow users to search by voice command. These results can be different from traditional search engines like Google and could really change the search landscape and search engine optimization.
So what does voice search mean for SEO? Read on to find out.
This post will tell you how to leverage Trulia, make quick assumptions about average home values, and geo-target the most affluent areas in your city, in less than 5 minutes.
In online marketing, geo-targeting is a phrase that's usually thrown around when discussing Pay Per Click strategies for a national campaign, with the idea being that you target your headline(s) or offers to consumers based on geographic location. For example, if you run a dropshipping business...
With all the recent changes around Google’s search algorithm lately a lot more people are starting to do guest blogging. The trouble is that no one has told these new guest bloggers what it means to have good manners as they blog. Think of me as Miss Manners for guest bloggers (well, Mr. Manners, but that’s not my point).
Here’s my story: I recently launched a website that has a lot of useful information on it,...
One of the biggest challenges for writers is coming up with a completely original idea. If you’re teaching someone how to do something, chances are someone else has already published that somewhere online. If you’re trying to educate someone on something that occurred in the news, chances are someone has already published that somewhere online. You can put your own creativity and spin on it, but chances are the meat of the article is going...
Many website owners and marketing professionals are always on the lookout for the secret to great SEO. The real secret to a successful SEO campaign? Make sure everything you do is designed to serve and impact your target audience and not just the search engines.
How does serving your audience create great SEO?
1. Writing content for human readers.
Of course you want your website to do well in the search results, that's kind of the point of...
