Targeting your Niche Market: Importance of Specialized Keywords

Targeting specific keywords in order to get more traffic from search engines is what SEO is mostly about. The question is and has always been which keywords to concentrate on. In the past, and even now, SEO experts focus on more generic keywords like travel, watches, pet care, etc. While these keywords are important, since […]

Google OKs Underscores as Word Separators in URLs and More SEO Tips

Still wondering if you should use dashes or underscores in your permalinks? Worry no more; Google considers both as legitimate word separators. This was announced by Google geek Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007 yesterday among several other pearls of SEO wisdom he dished out to the WordPress crowd. Originally posted on July 24, 2007 @ […]

Are Link Trains the Chain Letters of the Blogging Age?

You’ve probably seen several versions of a link train meme going around the blogosphere. Whether it’s supposedly optimized for certain web applications (e.g. Alexa version 1 & version 2, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Bloglines) or requires some other qualifier (viraltags, your name in your domain name, tech sites only, feed URLs, Z-listers only!), this method of sharing […]

How To Get Accepted Into Blog Directories

Now that I’ve shown several ways to make yourself found in the blogosphere, let’s take a closer look at one of the avenues by which visitors can reach your site. Blog Directories. Trivia: Yahoo!, one of the biggest search engines, started out as a list of links maintained by its creators called “Jerry and David’s […]

Use Image Attributes to Boost Your Blog’s SEO

When properly used, images can help your blog’s search engine optimization. You’ll need to pay attention to two attributes/HTML tags: alt and title.

Make Yourself Found! (Or, Promote Your Site Web 2.0-Style)

Blogging is much like a light—it’s meant to be seen and used by others. (I’m not condemning bloggers who prefer their own selves as company, though.) Put another way, you’re a nobody unless your name Googles well, says the Wall Street Journal.

To do this, you must make yourself found.