Every start-up tries to create a blog in hopes that it will be their gateway to becoming the next thought leader of their particular vertical. Writers spend hours writing posts to only become discouraged that their blog is receiving trivial amounts of page views. In spite of low page views, continually writing on the blog without extended defunct periods can pay off in the long run for search engine optimization. Here are some of the reasons SeatGeek committing to their blog: Internal Linking: When you create new pages of content every week, it allows you to maximize your internal linking opportunities. One popular tactic is to create a “related” pages section that you can suggest to your readers if...
Onsite factors play a role in ranking your site in the SERP’s. The question that most people want to know is what onsite factors they should spend more time on, and which ones are the most important for your site. I have created a list of the top onsite factors for the future, which I feel will have the most effect on your rankings. 1. Content Good content is what people are looking for whenever they search...
Last year I gave a very favorable review of SEO Smart Links, the blog content interlinking plugin. The plugin does an impressive job making sure your blog posts, tags and categories are linked from within your post content. This year I am happy to announce the new, improved version of the plugin. It has got even smarter and covers some essential features you'll appreciate. First, the plugin has become faster: the new parsing algorithm...
If you enjoy blogging and want to take it and your income to the next level, you should start a blog network. After establishing your first blog, you now have some experience, subscribers and visitors that keep your site humming from day to day. Branching out into a network is a lot of hard work, but at least you have some experience under your belt. Here are 10 tips for developing your own blog network...
Using multiple websites (satellite sites) to market products in similar areas is something that many small business owners consider and usually practice. Using these websites to retail separate products can be effective, but what are the advantages of consolidating all of these together? If your firm for example sells St Lucia holidays from one website and Barbados holidays from another site. These two websites clearly target two different audiences and both have their own...
People have often claimed that a link within content on a page has more value than one form the sidebar or footer of a page. Whilst there is an argument that this is true because a link surrounded by content can be checked by a search engine robot for its relativity as it pertains to the content in which it is surrounded by there is another reason why this may be true. Page Segmentation VIPS or VIsion-based...
Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page's location in the site hierarchy. They are very helpful both for SEO and enhanced usability: From SEO perspective, breadcrumbs allow for "reversed" crawling (for example, when a deep page gets a lot of link juice from social voting sites, breadcrumbs help to spread it to higher levels); From usability point of view, breadcrumbs help users to understand where they are in relation to the...
