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From Flattery To Backlinks
Search Engine Optimisation Let’s be honest, here. We all want others to link to us. A good link from a popular blog does several things. It draws attention to our blog It directly sends traffic to our blog It supplies a backlink which is important for helping us rank better in search engines Getting a backlink from a popular blog isn’t easy, however. Thousands of bloggers are clamoring every day to get noticed by the more popular bloggers. So how can you get ...
Continue readingBlog Search Visibility
Search Engine Optimisation When it comes right down to it, the name of the game is visibility. We all want our blogs to be in the forefront of our niches, and we want our blogs to be found when relevant searches are performed. If we aren’t readily visible in the standard search engines, we’d better at least be visible in the blog search engines. Below is a list of a dozen blog search engines that you may want to routinely monitor to see if your blog’s ...
Continue readingSometimes You Should Look Past Nofollow
Search Engine Optimisation Ask any SEO if they want a nofollowed link to their site and what do you think their answer will be? Do you think they’ll refuse the link? I wouldn’t. Sure, a link that doesn’t have nofollow wrapped around it passes link juice, which is what every good SEO wants for their backlinks. A nofollow’d link is virtually invisible to the search engines (well, in terms of passing link juice, anyway). So what good is it? Strictly ...
Continue readingLet Your Own Frustrations Work For You
Search Engine Optimisation They say that there’s nothing new in this world, and that any idea you could possibly have has already been done. That’s not true, but even if it were, that doesn’t mean that every possible thing has been done enough. Search engine optimization often involves knowing what areas to capitalize on because the competition is low. Think about your own recent searches. Did you ever find yourself getting frustrated because you ...
Continue readingCoin A Term To Rank Number One In Search – Bizzlemorth
Search Engine Optimisation Want to rank #1 for something in the search engines? Make up a word and you’ll be #1 in no time! Let’s try it here. Bizzlemorth. Search for bizzlemorth in a few days, and you’ll find Blogging Tips ranking #1 for it. But wait! Who cares, right? What good will it do Kevin to rank #1 for the word bizzlemorth? The fact is, it won’t help Kevin at all, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t coin a new term now and ...
Continue readingUse Interactivity To Attract Links
Search Engine Optimisation Got links? Obviously, a large part of SEO involves getting backlinks. We all want and need sites to link to our blogs. Ideally, those backlinks are natural and freely given, and the best way to obtain those types of backlinks is with attractive, highly linkable content. Of course there are lots of ways to create attractive content, but one of the best is with interactive content. Interactive content encourages the reader to do something beyond ...
Continue readingOuting and Ethics in Blogging
Search Engine Optimisation You’ll find many blogging tips that encourage using controversial posts as a means of garnering attention and backlinks. It can be very effective, but bloggers should consider the ramifications of controversial posts before implementing them. If you are going to be outing someone or naming names in a post in a way that could be negative, or in a way that could cause them harm in any way (including monetarily), then please stop and think ...
Continue readingIt’s OK To Be A StatsAHolic
Search Engine Optimisation Bloggers are often teased about their incessant need to view their blog stats. Sure, we may need to stroke our blog egos once in a while, but if you find that you just can’t get enough of stats, don’t despair. You may not know that there are good reasons to be a stats junkie. The next time you’re accused of merely feeding your vanity when you check your stats, you’ll be able to counter-argue with the good reasons you read ...
Continue readingTargeting The Long Tail Via Answers
Search Engine Optimisation Any good SEO will tell you that keyword research is the first vital step in optimizing a site to rank well in the search engines. If you rank well for terms that no one searches for, you won’t receive any traffic from those rankings. On the other hand, if you can’t rank for any terms in your niche that people are searching for, you once again lose out on valuable search traffic. Proper keyword research ensures that you optimize for ...
Continue readingCreating and Using an XML Sitemap for WordPress
Search Engine Optimisation XML sitemaps have been standardized and are recognized by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. According to the official sitemap site, sitemaps.org, “Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.” Google, the originator of the xml sitemap protocol, says, “You can use a sitemap file to tell us about all the pages on your site, and optionally, to provide ...
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