In today’s health-conscious society, everyone has spent at least a couple minutes of their life thinking about (or purposely ignoring) their diet. Is this meal healthy? How many calories are in this? Does this bacon-wrapped butterball make my butt look fat? The theory and principles behind improving your health and getting better results can also be attributed to what you do or do not contribute to the health and welfare of your website’s SEO. Here are a few suggestions on how you can lose weight and improve your rankings at the same time. [caption id="attachment_2177" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="I hear onsite audits are quite slimming..."][/caption] 1. Have A Measurable Goal It may seem feasible to stare longingly at the slim thighs of fashion models and think that you can...
When operating a link building campaign, one of the most important things to get your head around is valuing a particular link prospect. The information you glean from doing this will determine how much effort to put into gaining a link, or indeed whether you should even bother in the first place. Most experienced link builders will find that they develop a ‘sense’ for whether a link is worth chasing or not. However, this ‘sense’...
Many people believe that the purpose of getting external links is to drive traffic directly from site to site. While this possibility shouldn't be overlooked, it's also important to understand that search engines look to the number of links pointing to a site as an indicator of how much "authority" or "trust" they should give the site. Link popularity helps search engines determine the relevance of your site. They look at not only the number of...
In case you’re not familiar, RSS stands for Really-Simple-Syndication. Basically, it is a way for people to share and connect with content very quickly to stay up-to-date with the newest headlines of their favorite blogs and web 2.0 sites. RSS feeds are a great way for people to stay updated with your site and also share your content. We often get very concentrated on getting a lot of traffic ONCE – RSS feeds help you...
What Are Discussion Forums? Discussion forums are websites where individuals who share a common hobby, idea, or viewpoint, can gather to exchange ideas. There are numerous discussion forums in just about every topic under the sun. Normally, members of the forum can include various pieces of their contact information, including a website URL that they own. Most discussion forums allow members to have a "signature file." This is a snippet of code that is placed...
Link building Link building is like promoting your site without directly mentioning it. Some SEO experts call it silent promotion. Make sure to maintain the ongoing process of link building for your site unless you want your SEO campaign to fail. Content creation Content is one of the most important aspects of SEO. The nucleus of every SEO method is your site’s content. Links are pointless without relevant content, domains are empty without website content — every step...
What Is PageRank? PageRank was invented back in 1998 from Larry Page while he was still a student at Stanford University. It was a definitely a great concept which allowed for all pages in the web to be sorted according to their relative importance. The idea was based on the fact that a site that receives h links from hundreds of sites should be more popular than one that has just a few inbound links. PageRank...
Search engine optimization for Google (interesting, but little known fact is that the Danish term is søgemaskineoptimering Google) is a huge part of the fast growing internet world and if you are familiar with it you probably know that links from different websites have different value. Getting a link from a very reluctant website is not always easy and sometime getting that “yes” seems almost impossible. The way to make people link to your should...
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...
Finding new links for your website is an on-going battle, at first finding 'link juice' is relatively easy and the sources seem to be inexhaustible. After a long link building campaign you will come to appreciate the ease of obtaining those first few groups of links back to your website. For after a while it becomes much more difficult to obtain good links, this is especially true in competitive markets such as car insurance and...
