SEO Guide For WordPress Bloggers
One of the most important part of setting up a blog is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO for a WordPress blog is different than SEO for static websites, mainly because of the social nature of blogging technology. It is less about buying links or tricking inadequate search technology. SEO for WordPress blogs is more focused on the technical infrastructure of [...]
6 Tips For Better SEO Writing
Content marketing is all about positioning your business as an authority within your industry. But it’s not enough to just put a bunch of words on a web site. You need to create content that is useful to your readers and attractive to search engines. When people search for information that your company can provide, the goal is to make [...]
SEO Tactics vs. SEO Strategy
Image via Wikipedia Many people today implement SEO tactics without thinking through their strategies. Here is a quick guide to help you set a strategy and match good tactics for it. The SEO strategy defines your objectives and the tactics you’ll use to achieve them. In other words, you use an SEO strategy to state your goals and how you [...]
SEO Addons for Firefox
Seo Addons for Firefox 1. Web Developer Toolbar The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. 2. SEO for FireFox Pulls useful market research data [...]
10 htaccess Hacks Every SEO Should Know
There’s a lot that you can do with an htaccess file, and of course, things can get pretty advanced in a hurry. Here, we’re going to keep things pretty simple. These are the 10 basic htaccess hacks that every webmaster should know. 1. Force Caching with htaccess Use: The following htaccess code won’t help the initial pageload, but it will [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’m all for sharing and promoting great content online. I’m also in favor of creating transparency, and allowing communities to help shape our customer service. If all businesses did was stand behind a flashy website, and didn’t address real issues, our experience would always be a gamble. Our relationships are built through the conversations of others. Recommendations, [...]
I have had the opportunity recently to speak with several groups, and introduce them to Social Media, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing. Specifically around the idea of leveraging these resources to aid in employment search. These groups are either, unemployed, underemployed, or see the bright eye in the sky and want to know what it is. It was great to [...]
Starting out in a freelancing career can be tough. Ranging from freelance authors to graphic designers and programmers, freelancing comes with many of the same hurdles. One large aspect is building your personal brand – how do you get people to recognize you for your skills? Thankfully the internet has provided a very simple medium for sharing and obtaining information in [...]
Image via CrunchBase Have you considered what you would do if someone is squatting on your Twitter brand, trademark or company name? Twitter is a micro-blogging portal that allows for sharing messages and links that are 140 characters or less and it is being talked about everywhere. This buzz is causing clients to ask questions, similar to those above, about what [...]
We all know it’s good to share, right? Silicon Alley Insider recently shared some information with us on How People Share Content on the Web. The article took a look at some recent data released by AddToAny, a company that develops widgets that enable users to share content across various social media and other Web communication channels. It should come [...]
StumbleUpon as part of a strategy that the “SEO [Search Engine Optimization] Gurus” recommend to create backlinks to your blog content from social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. The idea being that the more links you have from other sites, the higher your SEO will be. And, as anyone who has ever used StumbleUpon just for this reason [...]
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SEO Mythbusters: 3 Rotten Ideas SEO continues to rapidly evolve, and with it so do bad SEO ideas. Focusing on keyword meta tags, keyword stuffing, and hoarding PageRank are some of the bad SEO oldies but goodies. Here’s another golden oldie: buying links from hundreds of cheap directories. All of these ideas may have worked at one time, but that [...]
