Aug | 02 | 2010

Does the Right ccTLD Help in Search Engine Optimisation?

Posted by Professor as Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips Most search engine optimisation practitioners focus their attention on their websites’ keyword optimization, backlinks, and content creation. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but there’s also an important factor that can easily get overlooked: the domain name. It’s not that domain names are going to be the biggest factor in search engine optimisation. I’m not going to undermine the importance of building backlinks, and creation of keyword-rich content - but choosing the right domain name is going to help you greatly in your search engine optimisation efforts. Domain names are pretty important - if you take some ...

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Jun | 24 | 2010

Tips on Promoting Your Blog

Posted by Professor as Promotion, Tips

All right, so your blog is up and running and you have content on it. Now how do you bring people in to look at your blog? Here are a few suggestions, mostly taken from, "The Guide To Promoting Your Web Page" Buying Advertising: The average person can't afford to buy a massive advertising campaign, but there are a few options that people can afford even on budget. If you buy banner ads keep in mind that your click-through rate is probably going to be around 1%. That means a million banner ads will ...

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Apr | 20 | 2010

SEO Blogs: Why starting one isn’t a good idea

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Writing SEO blogs are valuable as a resource for SEO newbies. There are even some SEO blogs out there that are really valuable resources even for advanced SEO techniques. Great SEO blogs out there include Matt Cutt's blog (great for newbies to advanced since your get the latest Google updates and of course the hid video tutorials), Bill Slawski's SEO by the SEA (now this one is mostly for the advanced SEO people - be preapared to see lots of patents), and SEOmoz's blog (too many posts here sometimes but every week you'll find a gem here). SEO blogs are very ...

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Jan | 28 | 2010

Loving the Link Love

Posted by Jimmy as Linking, Opinion How much do you link to other blogs and websites? Spreading link love is, I think, like good karma. As they say, "What goes around, comes around." If you spread link love you might not see immediate results but it DOES help your blog in several ways. 1. Ups your user-friendliness - Blogs that mention sites or other blog posts without linking to the exact page they are referring to is one of my major irritations. I end up having to search for their source when I could just have got to where I could get more info in just one click had ...

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Jan | 25 | 2010

Why You Are Losing Ground in Search Results Pages

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Spam, Tips As promised in my post Reasons for Sudden Plunge in Blog Traffic I will be discussing the possible reasons for a sudden drop in search rank. I already wrote about this in the past but concentrated on FALSE ALARMS. However, what do you do when you find out that your search rank has indeed dropped? Just like finding out the reason for a decrease in traffic, the first thing you need to do is find out WHY. Major reasons could be: 1. spam - If you are a splog then you have most likely been discovered. However, if your blog ...

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Jul | 14 | 2009

Review: Logical Media

Posted by Professor as Monetization, Monetization Features, Promotion, Tips Logical Media is one of the innovative services that pay for ad placement within blogs. Do you have a blog and are you seeking a way to make additional money from the blog? Are you seeking a way to offset other programs with the use of ads? Through the registration with Logical Media, the blogger can have access to well-designed and functional ads, which are placed within the blog, earning the blogger money each time that a visitor to the blog decides to click on one of these ads. As one of the top fifty affiliate networks in Website Magazine, ...

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Jun | 28 | 2009

Take Advantage Of Twitter For Traffic

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Promotion, Tips The idea of using Twitter to send traffic to your blog is not a novel one. In fact, it has been proposed many times over by a lot of bloggers, and is actually being used by many already. Have you already tried doing this? If you are not convinced, or you cannot see exactly how Twitter can help you gain a wider readership, just take a look at TechCrunch’s example. TechCrunch is already a big name – they must be doing something right, huh? They recently published an article on how Twitter is sending some big ...

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Mar | 08 | 2009

Launching A Blog? Do It With A Bang!

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Promotion, Tips, Writing Blog are everywhere you look, but this has not stopped many people from launching new blogs every single day. And if you are planning on launching your own blog, you should do so in a manner that would make a statement. The last thing that you want is for your blog launch to be just another tiny splash in the ocean. Here are some things that you can do in order to launch your blog with a lot of noise. Dump a lot of content at the get go. NEVER ever launch a blog with a single post. ...

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Dec | 20 | 2008

Your Blog And Pop-ups

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion, Plugins, Promotion I think that pop-ups are one of the most intrusive and most irritating things that you can encounter when visiting a web site. I simply dislike it when I click on a link to visit a blog or a web site and even before I get to see what the site has to offer, I am already being bombarded with some one sort of advertisement or another. I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this way but then again, I am also pretty sure that there are a lot of people who disagree. After ...

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Nov | 30 | 2008

Email Signatures And Blog Promotion

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion, Promotion One way by which you can promote your blog is by creating a custom email signature which contains your blog’s URL. I have seen this done by a lot of people. More than placing their name at the end of the email, they add information that the people they correspond with may find useful. It could look something like this: My Name My position/designation/business My blog URL Naturally, when people receive an email from this person, they would see the link at the bottom and more often than not, they would be tempted to click on the link to see what ...

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