Jan | 23 | 2008

Exhanging Links with Similarly Themed Blogs

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features Last time I mentioned how automated blogrolls are not useful for SEO purposes. Blogrolls using plain HTML is still useful but those that use external javascripts do neither you nor the one you link to much good (except that it can of course drive traffic to the site). If you want to get more inbound links though to help your page rank better you can exchange links with similarly themed blogs as part of your link building strategy. There are several advantages to link exchanges: 1. Relevance - The most obvious advantage of exchanging links with similarly themed blogs is that ...

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Jan | 22 | 2008

Learning SEO: A Continuous Process

Posted by Guru as SEO Features The thing about SEO and anything to do with computers and the internet is that the industry they belong to is such a a vibrant one so that it evolves so fast. Search engines continuously refine their algorithm and look for ways to improve search and as they evolve ways of optimising websites and blogs also change. This doesn't mean that the basics of SEO no longer apply. What this only means is that reading an article or book on SEO this month and really understanding what it means and even applying the sound SEO principles on your own site/blog ...

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Dec | 25 | 2007

Learning SEO: Official Search Engine Blogs

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features If you are into SEO and plan on reading blogs then it is plain silly to miss out on what you can learn from the official blogs of the top search engines - Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN. Although not everything on the blog will be about SEO nor even relevant to SEO keeping yourself updated on the latest search engine news/developments will definitely aid you in your SEO efforts. After all SEO is about search engines and there is no better place to learn more about the search engines than their own blogs. Note though that not all the ...

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Dec | 17 | 2007

SEO-Browser: Quick SEO Checker

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features If you want to know how search engine crawlers see your site you should try using SEO-Browser. I know it's a bit geeky but I actually like entering random sites into this very useful tool and seeing how optimised they are. It is surprising that given all the hype about SEO you will still find plenty of websites that does not take SEO into account at all. As an example (and I hope they don't get mad but improve their site if they see this post) try entering Flatpak's URL and parsing it using SEO-browser. Although I absolutely ...

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Dec | 11 | 2007

Why Your Blog’s Theme is Indispensable to Blog Monetization

Posted by Guru as Monetization, Monetization Features, Writing If you are thinking of starting a new blog for monetization purposes finding the perfect theme or topic to blog about is of utmost importance. Undoubtedly you have been reading plenty of advice (or at least plan on reading them) about blogging and monetization. With all the advice found in the internet you would think that making money through your blog is an easy thing. However, if you really think about it you will find that the vast majority of blogs do make money but not enough to really be relied on as a consistent and sole source of income. ...

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Nov | 27 | 2007

Weblog Usability: The Title Says it All

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Tips, Writing Being a witty writer is great but when it comes to titles you'd better make your title not just witty but informative as well. A good post title is something that catches people's attentions. If you are into linkbaiting you know the importance of catching people's attentions. In my previous post where I cited examples of successful link baits a single glance at the titles will convince you that the titles, in part, contributed to their success. For example if the eBook “Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days” instead had some bland title like "Starting an Online ...

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Nov | 26 | 2007

Smart Link Practices

Posted by Guru as Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features One of the most common mistakes bloggers make is using vague words as anchor text for links. Whether you are linking internally or linking to an outside source it is good practice to use a more descriptive anchor text. There are two reasons why this is is important. The first reason is that it is good for SEO. Search engines look at the anchor text to determine what the link on your page is about. By using a descriptive anchor text you provide information needed by the spiders to be able to put the link destination (URL) into context. In the ...

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Nov | 23 | 2007

How Much Do You Know about SEO?

Posted by Guru as SEO Features Here's a fun (for those who know the answers) quiz to test your knowledge about SEO. Tell me how well you did. For those who do not feel like taking the quiz because you know you won't do that well I urge you to take it since you will learn a thing or two (or three, or four...). By the way it has a lot of questions so you will need more than a couple of minutes to answer SEOmoz's SEO Quiz. Enjoy! If you don't want to show "Show what you know about SEO" at least find out to ...

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Nov | 15 | 2007

Are Your Blog’s Feeds Optimized? Part 2

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Syndication Aside from offering full RSS feeds and using Feedburner's features to optimize your feeds other things that you can do to optimize your feeds are: Pick a Feed/Channel title that is relevant to your theme - This is pretty obvious but many still fail to do this. Make sure that the title has important keywords included. The RSS Feed's title should also be easy to read and remember. Make it catchy but not misleading...and never forget the keywords. Optimize the channel description - The description is where you get to expand the title and give readers a better idea of what the ...

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