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Avoid Competing Against Yourself for SEO
Search Engine Optimisation If you’re like me, and a total blogaholic, then you may write for more than one blog. You also may be known as an expert in a particular area, which means you could run multiple blogs or guest blog on subjects that are similar or have crossover topics. One day, you may find you sit down to write a blog and realize you are just about to target keywords you’ve already targeted elsewhere. It isn’t really all that far-fetched. If ...
Continue readingSEO for Money
Search Engine Optimisation Just in case you think SEO is something you don’t need to think about, keep in mind that your level of SEO skills relates directly to how much money you can make from your blog. You don’t need to become an SEO whiz, but if you want to make decent revenue from your site you really should at least learn the basics. Here’s why. SEO Brings People If your site and your posts aren’t optimized for search engines, you will be ...
Continue readingFinding the Right Social Bookmarking Sites
Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation On many sites, you will now see a huge cube of buttons for social bookmarking sites. While it’s always nice to give your reader options, I think this is pretty useless for most blogs. In fact, I think it just becomes too much information and background noise to your readers. What makes more sense is to find a select group of social bookmarking sites that make sense for your topic. One way to do that, if you’ve been using social ...
Continue readingQuick Boost to Your Blog Traffic
Search Engine Optimisation There are a couple ways to boost your blog traffic through search engine optimization. One way is to create new content that is mindful of SEO, which you should obviously continue to do at a steady pace. Another way that is often overlooked, but that can provide a great return on time investment, is going back and analyzing your older content. This can be especially helpful if you started blogging before you knew much, if anything, about SEO. ...
Continue readingTargeting Seasonal Keywords
Search Engine Optimisation, Writing There is a great tactic to see spikes in your traffic, and you can do that by targeting seasonal keywords. You will probably be surprised just how many page views you can get from a good, well-optimized article or post that relates directly to the calendar. On the downside, the boost in traffic will be seasonal, too. But a spike is a spike, and that’s more eyes on your site even if it’s for a brief period. I would argue it ...
Continue readingSEO 101
Search Engine Optimisation For some people, learning about SEO means refining skills they already have. If you are new to blogging or Web writing, or perhaps an old hand but one who never thought about SEO, here is some very basic essentials you should, and must, know. Here are all the questions about SEO you always wanted to know, but were too embarassed to ask your blogroll buddies. What is SEO? SEO stands for search-engine optimization. Basically, optimizing your site ...
Continue readingUsing Google Analytics to Boost Traffic
Search Engine Optimisation Google Analytics is a great free statistics tool that provides comprehensive statistics on your site, and those statistics can be used to help you boost your traffic. It is pretty simple to install by simply inserting a snippet of code on your site. Try to use something like a header or some piece of code that is on every page, or in Blogger simply insert it into the html. Considering how expensive some stat programs are, or the fact that some ...
Continue readingCreating Content Hubs
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation Content hubs are a great way to direct your visitors to key content, and it’s a nice way to maximize your search-engine optimization efforts. It’s also a great way to drive traffic to older content that is evergreen, but doesn’t show high up on your blog because it’s older. Essentially, a content hub is one page that features links to various posts and articles that fall under one theme. Another bonus is that developing a ...
Continue readingIn SEO, Content is King
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation, Writing I have a couple of sites in which the Google PageRank is just one point apart, but the page view traffic is dramatically different. There’s one simple reason for this. One site is newer, and one site is older. So one site has far fewer articles, and the other site has hundreds of articles. This may sound obvious, but if you are looking to boost traffic to your blog or site, the secret is elegantly simple: write more. Consider every new ...
Continue readingBeing a Good Blogosphere Citizen
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation Sometimes, the best methods for search-engine optimization aren’t the best ways to run a blog. They might make pages rank higher on Google, technically, but they create some bad kharma between your blog and the blogosphere. Sometimes I make decisions based on being part of the Web community first, despite negative implications on my PageRank. Why would I do such a thing? Because I believe that we are first and foremost part of the ...
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