Much has been written about this topic, but this morning I came across an excellent post by John Cow on the topic of how to promote your blog using giveaways and contests. Have a read to learn the difference between and also how to strategize on what type of promotion will be most effective for […]
Choosing the category or niche your site determines who your target audience will be, whether it is highly popular or hardly visited because nobody cares.
Choosing keywords is critical to how well your content may rank with search engines and long tail keywords can sometimes be better than ones that seem more often queried […]
Think having a boss is a tough existence? Just try being a webmaster or blogger for a living and see how much you like having Google as your taskmaster!
If you can manage to avoid being banned for using SEO techniques or having your adsense account shut down, you still have to find a way to get eyeballs and unless you are one of the lucky few who have a loyal and dedicated readership who direct navigate their way to your site, chances are you’ll be pretty dependent on getting search results-generated traffic from Big G […]
You can learn to write blog titles that will get attention and draw readers into your content.
Good titles bend the imagination and stick like peanut butter to the roof of a dog’s mouth. Keep titles to the point but make them interesting enough that your visitor wants to stop and read the underlying content.
The secrets of writing better titles on a blog or web site are revealed in this blog title how to guide […]
An important element of search engine optimization involves creating category pages on your blog or web site that increase in rank over time as you add unique content.
But if you use Wordpress with most out-of-the-box themes, you probably will not get this benefit and may even reduce the rank on either your category and/or your blog posts unless you have optimized your category pages using the optional excerpts feature […]
While social networks like StumbleUpon, Digg and others will bring your blog great traffic and exposure, don’t expect to monetize that traffic directly.
People who frequent the social network sites love to browse for interesting topics but they rarely seem to click on adverts […]
If you blog for personal reasons only, that’s great. But most people would prefer to try and make some money for their efforts.
Learn how you can monetize your blog or web site to make some extra income from your unique blog content […]
If you want to get readers and visitors to your web site or blog, you better know how to write and edit content that captures their attention.
Writing quality web site content means knowing how to reach your target audience and having a specific topic in mind for which you have some expertise and knowledge […]
Everyone talks about white hat and black hat SEO techniques, but what about those methods that fall somewhere between?
Very few search engine optimization techniques that actually work are purely black or white, but actually come in various stripes or shades of gray […]
External links to your blog or web site, also known commonly as “backlinks” are very important to getting better organic traffic from search engine queries.
But knowing how to attract natural backlinks from quality, related web pages takes some serious know how […]
Paid links being reported to Google or discovered by Google and the other search engines is a very hot topic these days.
So what is the nofollow attribute anyway? And how, when and why should you consider using nofollow when linking out to other web pages? […]
How do people think when they query a keyword phrase on a search engine?
If you want to grow your organic search results web traffic, you have get inside the mind of a searcher when considering things like blog or web site content, page titles and descriptions […]
If you don’t know, link building is one of the most important aspects of search engine optimization.
Search engine algorithms depend heavily on links to your web page as “votes of confidence or popularity”, informing the engine which web sites and web pages should have significance and authority […]
Do you use transitional or transactional landing pages on your web site? Do you know the difference?
Learn how to create landing pages that attract attention, convert to action and keep your visitors coming back […]
If you want to write web page copy that hums and gets attention, follow a few basic rules and you’ll see a huge benefit.
For starters, people like web pages that are short and to the point, stick to a topic and offer something unique and worth reading […]
Since the early days of the World Wide Web, search engines have been ever evolving to provide searchers with more relevant search results.
But how will search engines evolve in the future as billions of web pages are being published and the isolation of content that is relevant and on topic becomes increasingly more complex? […]
