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Google has you by the balls
Search Engine Optimisation What to do when google decides to hide one of your pages. There you are, following the rules you have decided are true. Write good quality, unique content, generate a few backlinks and hey presto ! Your site will be found and rank in the search engines for the keywords you have targeted. You are generating traffic (and income) then all of a sudden, wham! Traffic dries up. No search engine traffic. When you do a search for your pages, you ...
Continue readingContent is King
Blogging Or is it? This is something you have probably heard time and time again, but is it true? The answer, of course is Yes. And No. My thinking is that content is definitely King, but a few things have come to my attention lately. One, I wrote recently about my lost hubpage (Smoked Trout Recipes) due to a trailing hyphen in the URL which seems to cause it to disappear to certain search engines. So, how good is that content? King maybe because it was ...
Continue readingSEO Keyword research trailing hyphens and silly mistakes
Search Engine Optimisation A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of my pages which seemed to be lost in google’s neverland. Not to be confused with Michael Jackson’s neverland. No small children were involved in the abuse of this page. The page is question is this one: http://hubpages.com/hub/Smoked-Trout-Creams- I have left the url rather than a link via a keyword because one thing I had failed to notice is the trailing hyphen at the end of the title. Unlike a ...
Continue readingChoosing a URL for your blog post
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation $400,000 cars always appeal It is slowly sinking into my sometimes Neanderthal-like brain that the URL you choose for your webpage (or blog post title) has a distinct bearing on it’s visibility to the search engines. Picking something witty and clever is a waste of time. The search engines don’t do “witty.” In fact, I sometimes wonder if they do “factual,” either, but that’s for another, “inspired rant.” That term by the way, I ...
Continue readingSEO and Keyword research
Search Engine Optimisation As a blogger, I never really thought about this subject until I was in a discussion with someone about traffic volumes and the need to be always looking for more traffic, and optimizing the available traffic. I also write over at hubpages and I was looking through the work I have done there, wondering why a few of my recipes get so little traffic. This one in particular, Smoked Trout Creams, gets almost no traffic compared to some of my others ...
Continue readingMaking money blogging – writing other people’s blogs
Blogging There is more than one way to skin a cat. Apologies to all cat lovers, this is just an expression and in no way am I advocating the skinning of cats. Unless they wake me up with their howling at four-o-clock in the morning. It occurred to me that most of what I see written about making money blogging tends to look at the “normal” ways of making money blogging. Andy rightly pointed out that there are four basic ways to make money on the ...
Continue readingMoney making Niche Blogs
Blogging The consensus seems to be that if you want to make money from a blog, you need to find a niche, or “nitch,” as some of our American cousins so amusingly call it. What is a niche? The dictionary definition of a niche is: “A special area of demand for a product or service.” Now that’s a fairly broad definition and perhaps the wikipedia definition is more enlightening: “By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is ...
Continue readingLink Baiting
Blogging Last week, I talked about using social networking sites to generate traffic. I personally don’t particularly enjoy interacting on those sites and dropping links to my work as I go, so I tend to prefer to write articles in the hope that someone else will submit them for me. I guess you could almost call this link baiting. Writing an article with the intention of having some one else link to it. Whether that is another blog, or a networking site ...
Continue readingUsing Social Networking Sites to Generate Massive Amounts of Traffic
Blogging Everywhere you look, you hear advice from bloggers, would-be SEO gurus and “Internet Marketing Experts,” regarding Social Networking sites as a traffic generator. Many of them are saying the same thing – “Use social networking sites to generate massive amounts of traffic.” I have no doubt you have heard it all, so I am not going to repeat the same old stuff. I have experimented with many of these sites. At least all the popular ones ...
Continue readingWhy Blog?
Blogging Are you blogging for money – or for some other reason? Much seems to be made of the fact that it is possible to make money blogging. I make my living doing so, as do several people I know, but this was not the original idea behind blogging. It is also fair to say, despite the plethora of people telling you how easy it is to make money blogging – it is not that easy. Blogs started out as online diary and there are many reasons to blog ...
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