Use Ping.fm To Index and Rank New Posts Quickly
Blogging How do you improve search engine ranking? I came across Ping.fm a few months ago and I’ve fallen in love with it. It’s a great social bookmarking and pinging tools. It’s so easy to use and can provide your blog with the edge to rank better. The first time I pinged my post with the tool, Google spider immediately crawled and indexed my article and within 24 hours, it was on Google first page. Wow! Disclaimer: the keyword I was targeting wasn’t competitive at all. It had 230 searches locally according to Google and the competing webpages were 740 when searched with quotes (“ ”). ...
Continue readingPanda Spearheads Push for High Quality Websites
Search Engine Optimisation Google is doing it again. Making sure content is king. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a slow but steady sea change in the attitude of the internets content gatekeepers. The change will affect how everyone approaches doing business on the web. The shift may, as one writer suggested, define the next incarnation of the web. The wide-open, everyone is welcome structure of Web 2.0, is ...
Continue reading5 Free Tools that Help You Build a Community Within Your Blog
Blogging, WordPress Plugins A few days ago on Blogging Tips, Zac Johnson wrote about the importance of Adding a Forum and Community to Your Blog. If you are wondering why you should do this, be sure to read his post before trying out one of these tools. Not only does he explain the benefits, but he also tells you when the best time is to start a community on your blog. Today, I’m going to go over 5 free tools that ...
Continue readingCreating Effective Local Web Sites and Marketing Campaigns
Blogging No matter what type of business or service you are running, you need to adapt with the times. Even local doctors, dentists and all other medical practices will quickly fall behind if they do not implement internet technology and web sites into their business model. The truth is, more and more people are looking online to find reviews and information about visiting a doctor or professional before ...
Continue readingLink Development Tips for Business Blogs
Links 10 tips for attracting relevant, high ranking inbound links I learned that search Engine Optimization (SEO) link building is a vital element to the success of a business blog working for a firm that specializes in Search Engine Optimization. However, if you’re new to blogging and the world of SEO, you might be just learning how important inbound links (those coming from other relevant or expert ...
Continue readingA Look At Bing – Why It Isn’t As Good As Google
Search Engine Optimisation Recently I switched to Bing in an attempt to show support for the underdog (not often Microsoft gets to be called an underdog!) and to try and encourage a bit of competition among search engines. This would be a very good development for webmasters and bloggers as it would mean that we no longer had to do precisely what Google said – and it would mean that no longer were we completely ...
Continue readingStaree – Share Photos and Videos with Celebrities and Friends
Blogging, Social Media, Social Networking There’s a new and exciting way to share updates, photos and videos with your friends online while also connecting with all of the major social networks. Staree was launched today and the goal behind the site is to make it more fun and profitable to share your favorite pictures and updates with your friends. Today the site has officially moved out of their beta launch and are now accepting ...
Continue readingTop 10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugins Every blogger uses effective plugins in his/her site. Normally, after successfully installing the WordPress script, the confusion (choice of plugins) sets in. Visiting WordPress.org today and hitting Plugins will show you 19,368 Plugins and 298,881,751 Downloads (and counting). So whether you’re a newcomer or have been blogging for some time now, you can still get overwhelmed especially on ...
Continue readingTaking Your Blog to Pinterest
Social Media Pinterest, a massive collection of online bulletin boards that display users’ handpicked favorites from all over the internet, has been taking the social media world by storm. The site’s users create virtual bulletin boards to display their favorite ideas and things by uploading their own images or linking to an image that is already posted online. Users can browse the never-ending flow ...
Continue reading2 Powerful Steps To Turn Your Blog Into A Money Maker
Blogging, Making Money Finally, you can make money blogging. I’m glad to share my fail-proof strategies for building a profitable blog that can generate income from every angle. If you don’t read this post, you may continue to struggle thinking that ‘favor’ or good fortunes will come your way one day. Turning a blog to a money maker isn’t a guess work; it takes a goal – a plan – hard work. And because ...
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