Category Archives for "Blogging"

The Two Major Factors of SEO You Must Master To Get Found

SEO

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, has two major factors which govern your success, or ultimately, your failure. Want your site to succeed? You need to master both.

SEO On Page Factors

The first major factor is really the simplest to master. But first, you need to know what those creepy little *spiders* look for when they come and *crawl* your site. Oh wait.. I didn’t tell you about the spiders?

Spiders (bots, robots, crawlers) are small programs that …

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SEO Is A Process

SEO

In 2009, the population at large is connected via cell phone, iPod, PDA’s and personal computers. At any given moment, a digital device is close at hand to most of us. The Internet is home to more than a billion surfers daily. It has infiltrated our world to such an extent, that the act of looking something up has turned the name of one of the number 1 sites on the Internet, into a *verb*.

People say “I’ll just Google it“, and everyone knows what they mean. More importantly, everyone knows how to Google something. Well, okay… not your 2 year old niece or your 108 year old grandmothers, but pretty much everyone else.

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SEO Makeover: Case Study Winners

SEO

Well, I have to tell you that choosing the 5 blogs for an SEO Makeover was tough. I wanted to help them all. In the end though, I went with almost purely scientific factors in deciding The Five . I wanted as wide a variety as possible, so no two blogs are in the same niche.

And to those that asked, but were not accepted as one of the blogs in the case study… my apologies. I hope you will follow the published results of the case study so you can increase your traffic yourself. I believe there will be quite a few pointers and more than a little direct SEO advice.

And The Winners Are…

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If You Build It, They Will Come…Not!

SEO

For the next 4 days, I am opening up my case study to worthy Wordpress bloggers in a variety of niches.

If you want to be a part of the case study, and get your blog optimized by me, for free, then submit your details and let’s talk. I am only taking on 5 new blogs. Not everyone that wants to join in, can; there just isn’t enough time to effectively handle more than 5 right now.

So, pop in and leave me a comment about why I should consider you…

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Reciprocity and SEO

SEO

Most folks would define SEO (or search engine optimization) as the science or ability to optimize your site or blog for the search engines. That gets you visitors, right?

When the search engines can find you, typically, everyone else can. But is there another way? Do we have to rely on the giant search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo to send visitors to our sites?

Or do we?

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Case Study: 200% Traffic Increase with Plugins

SEO

I have seen some pretty amazing results on some of my blogs as a result of some new plugins and a few SEO tweaks to the theme. Being the anal-retentive, computer programmer geeky Virgo that I am, I want to know if it’s a fluke, or if the results are duplicatable. That’s just the way […]

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5 Tips to Make the Most of Your SEO Investment

SEO

Whether you’re a marketer at a large Fortune 500 company or a small business, search engine optimization (SEO) can be one of the most cost-effective tools for reaching a broader audience and increasing online sales. A solid and persistent search engine optimization program can increase search visibility for many types of content affecting the bottom […]

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.7

Wordpress

For those of you have followed my directions on a few of the plugins like Ohz Admin Panel or some of the commenting plugins, this upgrade will require a bit of extra work for you.

The new Wordpress contains some of these same features built right in. If you have also installed

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Is Your Blog Vulnerable To Attack?

Wordpress

A few days ago, I was working on one of my blogs, and I happen to notice that the .htaccess file was larger than I remembered. I am talking about file size here . Yeah, I know. It’s not the kind of thing most people notice, but I kinda have a thing for numbers. And […]

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