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Are You in SEO Denial?
Search Engine Optimisation, Writing I’m frequently surprised how often I hear bloggers and even seasoned Web writers say they don’t know much about SEO. Or say they do know about SEO, and it turns out they simply know what a meta tag is. Even more often, I hear writers say they don’t even want to know about SEO. They think it isn’t necessary. If you’re one of these people, guess what? You can go through your blogging life with your head in the SEO ...
Continue readingSEO Keyword Research
Search Engine Optimisation Knowing SEO goes well beyond just entering meta title and keyword data into a page, and it’s more than targeting the keywords in your titles, tags and text. The most important step is one often overlooked, and that’s making sure you choose your keywords properly from the beginning. To do that, your SEO keyword research is crucial. It doesn’t have to be as time-consuming as it sounds. Here are simple steps to researching the ...
Continue readingBlogging for Revenue
Making Money, Writing On my site, I recently found a way to make it possible to share Google Adsense revenue with my writers. I was pretty thrilled to be able to allow writers to post on my site and earn money. I am not a corporation and my site is young, so it would have been a long time before I could afford to front money to several writers. But it did stir up a debate, particularly when one high-profile freelance writing job site refused to post my listing (and ...
Continue readingHow New Bloggers Can Get Incoming Links
Search Engine Optimisation For a new blogger, boosting search-engine ranking and getting valuable incoming links can be a nasty catch-22. It’s a bit like applying for your first credit card. You can’t get one until you have a credit history, but you can’t get a credit history until you have a card. You can face similar issues getting incoming links as a new blogger. Until you have a decent PageRank, no one wants to link to you. But you won’t get a ...
Continue readingMultiple Blog Multitasking Tips
Blogging, Writing If you happen to be the type of blogger who finds that one blog just isn’t enough, you could be juggling several blogs that demand constant feeding. Here are some tips on multitasking for multiple blogs. Create a Blogging Schedule This can be crucial. If you just post on whichever blog whenever the mood strikes, you may find that a blog or two gets neglected. That’s especially true if you, like many bloggers, do your blogging on top ...
Continue readingThe Right SEO Keywords for Your Blog
Search Engine Optimisation Anyone can target keywords, but there is a lot more to it than that. If you write a blog on laptops, do you want people visiting who are seeking information on parenting? Probably not. Sure, it’s a page view. But it isn’t a quality page view, and it could result in a bad bounce rate (or the percentage of people who visit your site, only to bounce right back out). Follow these steps to ensure you are targeting the right keywords for ...
Continue reading2008 Blogging Predictions
Blogging It’s a new year, and 2008 is sure to be exciting for bloggers. Here are my personal predictions for blogging in 2008: Blogging Will Go Mainstream in 2008 Even today, there are many people who don’t even know what a blog is (despite the fact they probably read blogs daily and just never knew the name of the content delivery method). In every technology, there is a breakout year in which the trend breaks into the mainstream. While most ...
Continue readingBlog Carnivals to Boost Traffic
Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation Blog carnivals provide a nice way to network with other bloggers, boost your awareness of other blogs on similar topics and, best of all, get some link love from blogs on similar topics. This can also be a nice way for a new blogger to get some SEO-boosting incoming links. A blog carnival is a periodic roundup of links on a particular subject. It typically has multiple blogs serving as the hosts. Other bloggers submit their posts for ...
Continue reading5 Warning Signs You Are a Blogaholic
Blogging Admit it. It’s OK, you’re around friends. You’re addicted to blogging. There, now doesn’t that feel better? Admitting you’re a blogaholic is the first step to recovery. (Well, if you want to be cured, that is. I don’t.) In case you’re still in denial, here are the warning signs you are a blogaholic: Everything in your life is a potential blog post. In fact, you’re reading this right now trying to ...
Continue readingCopyright Laws for Bloggers
Blogging, Writing Many of us know a blog scraper when we see one. This is a blog that hasn’t put any thought whatsoever into their blog, and simply reproduces content stolen from other bloggers. There isn’t much gray area here. This is copyright infringement, and it’s just bad for the blogging community. I see blogs all the time, however, that are either outright violating copyright laws or are certainly riding the line. Many times, these are ...
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