Search Engine Optimization is one of the most useful ways to successfully grow a blog. When readers can find your site more easily, your viewership can increase more rapidly. When you have more readership, you can expand and start to get sponsors and make money from your blogging endeavors. Driving SEO traffic to your site can seem complicated or confusing at first, especially if you've never dealt with it before. If you're a new blogger, don't get frustrated by new terms. By learning a few quick and easy tricks to market your site, you can have new readers to your blog in no time. With the use of data mining, you can find keywords that are driving interested readers to sites like yours and build the keywords...
SEO experts come in all shapes and sizes and from all walks of life. Personally I think that anyone from any background could become familiar with this industry and make a living from it if they have the time and patience to give it a try. However, to put my idea to the test I decided to see how some of my favourite sit com characters would get on if you trusted your website (and SEO)...
In the first quarter of 2011, Bluerank published a report on Mobile Search for Classifieds Sector in Mid-Western Europe. A year later, we have released the second part of that report, presenting the development of mobile search and the growth of its popularity among users. Our previous predictions concerning the development of mobile search in classifieds sector proved right. Again, we have conducted a research using Google AdWords keyword tool, to determine the level...
A website's load time should be faster than a blink of an eye. Quite a tall order? Not really, and we're getting there. Speed is important for the sites' analytics but more so for the customers who are either purchasing something online or getting some info. In the blink of an eye Load time refers to the time that a web site takes to load all of its elements for them to be viewed by the user....
The majority of webmasters welcomed the Panda Update. In their mind it was going to give them the chance, once and for all, to find the success they were looking for. Unfortunately not every website can enjoy the luxury of a first page spot on the SERP’s and many webmasters have become confused by the Panda Updates lack of difference to SEO. The main problem that people have is that they do not fully understand...
SEO: everyone agrees to disagree – right? That’s the problem with SEO in general, there’s so much advice flying around in all directions that it’s difficult to get a handle on what you actually need to be doing. I spend a great portion of my life simplifying SEO in training courses, and when it comes to relatively small websites with upwards of 1,000 pages of content, that’s exactly what it is: simple. You’re Not Going To...
Without local resources at your disposal, expanding your online presence internationally can be a challenge. However, proper preparation and understanding of the basic principles of international SEO can get the work done. Below are five things to consider before taking the global SEO leap. Your Current Scope and Limitations Don’t be giddy in analyzing your existing resources and potential barriers. Start by assessing your target market’s region, language and other important distinctions that will affect your decision making....
Any self-respecting SEO consultant will know the true value of informative, vibrant content. It seems that Google is placing more importance on this kind of copy now, too. While there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the latest algorithm change from Google HQ, nicknamed ‘Panda 2.5’ by serial bloggers, it seems that the developers behind the search engine are incredibly keen to penalise any sites that could be considered content farms or are seen...
During the early years of Rickenbacker, the pioneer of the electric guitar industry and the oldest guitar manufacturer in the world, it was clear to Sir George D. Beauchamp that his last name was not a perfect brand name for his products. He knew that his first chosen names for his company—Ro-Pat-In Corporation and Electro String—had no appeal to American guitar consumers. He was certain that a famous name like Rickenbacker, his trade partner Adolph’s surname,...
Commenting on blogs is a great way to network and promote your own site. However, many blog commenters use this great means for personal gains such as spamming to endorse their non-niche related products and gain traffic from other blog commenters. Today, blog owners are becoming wiser and stricter when it comes to moderating their blogs. Some dispatch these spammers by simply kicking and blocking them on their blog, and some resolve this by reporting the...
