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The Next Google PageRank Update
Search Engine Optimisation It has been quite some time since Google updated its PageRank, which is calculated using various factors but primarily based on the quantity and quality of links to your site. It looks like a PageRank update could be coming very soon, and it is certainly something many bloggers and webmasters have been anticipating. At GetFoundNow.com, Michael Stankard theorizes that the recent changes to the Google Webmaster tools have been the reason for the ...
Continue readingKiller Startups for Blog Promotion
Promote your blog One aspect to success online is staying a step ahead of the trends, and a great way to do that is to see what’s just about to get hot. Killer Startups is a site that states its mission is to discover the next YouTube. They do that by allowing visitors to submit sites, which they review and visitors vote on the most promising startups. The cool thing about this site is simply the ability to scour the new startups (about 30 posted daily) for ...
Continue readingSocial Bookmarking to Boost Your Incoming Links
Promote your blog Social bookmarking sites are tremendously popular, and they provide a nice method for new sites to get exposure to target readers, and to get incoming links to increase your search engine ranking. You really don’t want to rush out and submit a ton of your own links to these sites, however. Here are some tactics for doing some social networking without being a pest or, worse yet, getting blacklisted. Submit sparingly, and spread it around ...
Continue readingFive Secrets to Bad Search Engine Rankings
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation There are lots of tips out there on optimizing your site for search engines, but one of the key things is to avoid doing things that sabotage your efforts to get great search engine rankings. In case you hate getting visitors, like to end up on page 20 of Google results for your site’s keywords, and prefer to be a starving blogger, here are five secrets to bad search engine rankings: Ramble in your blog posts - Hey, who needs a topic? I ...
Continue readingThe Google Sandbox
Search Engine Optimisation The Google Sandbox is a highly debated issue amongst the SEO community. Whether it’s urban legend or reality, any new blog should be aware of one basic lesson from the tales of the Sandbox Effect: it takes time for SEO to work. What is the Google Sandbox? Real or imagined, the Google Sandbox is supposedly a penalty for new Web sites that was created to prevent new, spammy junk sites from getting high page view rank. Wikipedia describes the ...
Continue readingWriting for Search Engines vs. Writing for People
Search Engine Optimisation When you’re writing a blog, it can be a delicate dance between writing for search engines versus writing for readers. On the one hand, if you write only for a search engine people might (keyword, might) find you. But readers won’t stay. If you only write for people, the posts will be great but will be lost in the great chasm of the Web. Writing for both isn’t always easy, since the things that please one don’t necessarily ...
Continue readingSEO for Blog Titles
Search Engine Optimisation I am writing about SEO for blog titles, but I could have decided to be cute or clever with my title. I could have called it, “It’s All in a Name,” or “Ways to Get a-Head.” The only problem is I would like to have a few people actually read this post. I see a lot of blogs that are well-written and engaging. The bloggers know their topic. But they are probably losing lots of readers by simply not writing a title for ...
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