Guest Posting / Guest Blogging

A simple and useful tactic to get new, fresh readers is to do a guest post on your friend, colleague, relative’s blog or even blogger that you know personally first because you have to prove your worth and build up your online reputation before you can guest post at other blog sites. This is a […]

Joining Memes: Link Love and Traffic

Memes are one of the easiest and least expensive ways of getting traffic to your blog FAST. Sure paid advertising will get you in the front page of SERPs quickly but you will need to fork out some money each time someone clicks on the ad. Don’t get me wrong. Paid listings are great and […]

First Impression is a Good Thing

Remember the catchphrase, “First Impressions Last, What happens next is up to you.” well we can use it in everything that we do, even use it in our blogs, and use it to our advantage. First Impressions can either make you or break you so better start our blog with a good first impression. Use […]

Blog Marketing Ideas

There are so many ways you can promote your blog. Here are some of the easiest ways you can promote yours. 1. Email Signature – Put your blog URL in your email signature. Of course, the feasibility of this will depend on the nature of your blog and the people who you correspond with thru […]

Alt-Tags: For Spiders and the Visually Impaired

Lots of people underestimate the importance of Alt-Tags. Even though SEO experts time and again stress the importance of Alt-Tags many still do not bother with it at all, or if they use it, do not consistently do so. To be honest, I belong to the inconsistent group. Alt-tags ARE very important. SEO-wise the absence […]

Addressing Duplicate Content: Part 1

We all know the dangers of duplicate content and how search engines can penalize you for duplicate content. In my post entitled “Strike that Page from the Index” I discussed one of the ways to address duplicate content and avoid being penalized for it. There I mentioned how you can block some pages from being […]