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10 Tips for Developing Your Own Blog Network

Administrator — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100

If you enjoy blogging and want to take it and your income to the next level, you should start a blog network. After establishing your first blog, you now have some experience, subscribers and visitors that keep your site humming from day to day. Branching out into a network is a lot of hard work, but at least you have some experience under your belt. Here are 10 tips for developing your own blog network that will help you progress smoothly and increase your prospects for success.

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Is Your Local Business Listing Ready For The Holidays?

Administrator — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Local business listings give your business the opportunity, for free, to make coupons, offers, discounts, photos, videos and more available to local customers. You can be as big as a Target and as small as a florist to take advantage of local business listings. As long as your business is dependent upon the local economy for your revenue, local business listings is an important local business marketing tool.

Local business listings show up in search results, in mobile sear...

5 SEO Mistakes Anybody Can Avoid

Administrator — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:13:47 +0100

Whether you own a small three page hobbyist website or a monster E-commerce store there are several things you can check to ensure you are not placing any barriers in the way of your search engine optimization campaign.

Below you will find the 5 most commonly checked areas when a website is critiqued by an outsider. Any webmaster has the ability to check these and, depending on your content management system, you should be able to fix them.

Duplicate T...

How to rank high on Yahoo? New tool from the Yahoo stable

Administrator — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Yahoo has a different set of metrics and priorities when calculating your rank on the SERPs. Most of the times, they are similar to Google‘s metrics like the number of incoming links, title page content etc. For obvious reasons, duplicate content has been a bottle neck both for Google and Yahoo (others as well). And both the search engines are in the process of rolling out new tools everyday to beat the phenomenon of content duplication.

Yahoo is the one who has co...

Google Caffeine Update: How does it work & What does it mean ?

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

So, Google Caffeine update is now complete. It had started few months (years) ago, and had been silently updating since then. And not to mention all the speculations on what it is and how it affects the search engine results. Google have never given us full details on what it is, and how it worked, and even now when the whole thing is live, all we get is a simple diagram and some vague notes. But that’s the way its always been.

Bur from what we understand from the little details ...

Make Google Happy, Feed the Spiders Fresh Content

Administrator — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:25:41 +0100

Google delivers the best search results based on content relevancy and information freshness. Spiders are very busy as they regularly crawl our sites looking for information keep Google’s database full of fresh information.

However, because of the vast amount of data available, spiders have become very strategic in their crawling, visiting more frequently those sites with fresher information. If you feed the spiders more frequently, they’ll visit m...

Prioritise Your Link Building to Increase Traffic Fast

Administrator — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:23:57 +0100

It is common for people to focus on a core set of terms when performing SEO for their website or a client’s site. However I have seen many examples where people continue to beat their head against a wall trying to rank number 1 for a key phrase that is simply not worth the effort. As an SEO your ultimate goal has to be increasing traffic to the website, which in turn usually increase the money you or your client makes giving a positive ROI. With that in mind you will want to focus your ...

Google’s Matt Cutts with Five steps to Get Better Visibility on Google

Administrator — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show.

Five Common sense things to do:

1. Keywords in Content: Think about what keywords users are going to search to find your site and put those words in your page content.
2. Meta Tags: Title tags matter. Have your meta tags for title and description ...

What is a Good 404 Error Page?

Administrator — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

404 Errors are probably one of the most commonly found error pages in any website and the typical reaction is that your visitors would bounce off the page as soon as they see the 404 error message. Now why do we let them go and give them alternative options?

A custom 404 page can be extremely useful and at times even lower the user’s disappointment by adding a little humor to it. Here are some of the characteristics that you should have in a good 404 error pag...

9 Coupon Sites You Can Add Your Products Into Free

Administrator — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

SEO ultimately means driving traffic and making sales. What I like to call “Search Engine Placement Marketing” I will be implementing this in a few weeks for a new client that has a retail vitamin store and a website. He also has his own brand and this should get him some quick results.

You can go right to any of these sites and add your coupon free. Some of them have quite a lot of traffic. A coupon can be for a percentage discount, free shipping, a bon...

Get Your Name Heard by Guest Blogging

Administrator — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100

If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters.

As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimization, with the key part being to obtain relevant backlinks.

With social media (Twitter, Facebook etc…) being the latest trend, it has become a lot easier to publi...

Removing 404 Pages From Your Google Webmaster Tools Account

Administrator — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

This question is being asked so often that I just decided to go ahead and write a post about that:

You notice Google report a 404 page on your site;
You go to your site and fix the error (delete the link to the non-existent page or just fix the broken URL);
Your Google Webmaster Tools account is still reporting the error
Is there any way to tell Google the error is fixed?

Currently, the only question to this question is “No”. Just make sure the issue is ...

What’s The Fastest Way to Remove a Page from Google SERPs?

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

It may be not a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What’s the best way to do that?

Try this:

Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
Return 410 status code for the page (to show the page is gone for ever);

Don’t do this:

* Don’t exclude the page in Robots.txt and add Noindex meta tag (the met...

5 Ways to Tell if a Blog Link is Gold or Rotten

Administrator — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Sometimes when you’re on the prowl looking to acquire links via link trades, buying links or contributing optimized content to a blog in return for a link or two, you can run into some sites which may seem like you’ve struck link gold .. but these opportunities may prove too good to be true.

Case in point, you may find some site owners who are more or less giving away good links on sites with high PageRank or lots of incoming links, but what may lo...

How to SEO Your Title Tags for Blogger and Wordpress

Administrator — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Most bloggers are satisfied with the default structure of the blog but if you would like to improve yours a little the easiest way is to do it by optimizing the title tag.

The default title structure in most common blog platforms is “Blog Title - Post Title”. What this means is that your most relevant keywords that are in your post title appears towards the end of your page title, carrying less weightage. Also the Post title or a part of it might get cho...

10 SEO Tools Every Blogger Must Use

Administrator — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Every blogger wishes to find his blog coming at the top rankings in various search engines when keywords related to that are entered. However, this cannot be achieved without doing anything. You need to acquire as much knowledge about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and use best SEO tools for promoting your blog. Here is a list of ten useful seo tools which you must use as a blogger.

1. Use Multirank checker from iWebTool.com

If you wish to check Google page rank of ...

SEO : Power of Keywords, Links and Content

Administrator — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Tonight’s SEO Tip has been provided by Kalai Ganesan of The Picky and may be useful for first time publishers and newbies. Enjoy :)

Improving your search engine rankings is the first step to get traffic, the more traffic better profits. Optimizing your website for SEO is important. Search engine optimization simple is how you organize your site content more useful in a particular category.

Here are some important steps for site to get notified by se...

Position Your Site as Your Industry Resource : Build Links & Trust

Administrator — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100

After launching Daily SEO Tip, I wrote an article about how to turn your site into a link magnet, which makes it easier to not only attract links - but also will boost the response return on your push oriented link building strategies.

Today I would like to follow up with a very simple networking tip, and apply it to SEO and link building. Whether your website is a business oriented site or a vertical blog, you have the power at your disposal to turn your site into ...

How to SEO Your Title Tags for Blogger and Wordpress

Administrator — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Most bloggers are satisfied with the default structure of the blog but if you would like to improve yours a little the easiest way is to do it by optimizing the title tag.

Target Several Keywords Without Stuffing Your Page Title

Administrator — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Ok, so today I am giving my first SEO tip and I made my best to start with something both basic and useful.

Creating a good title is real art. Especially if you need to target several key phrases on one page:

* You don’t want to stuff the title with your core term repeating it twice (or more);
* You don’t want to make the title too long.

The solution: match two keyword patterns in one: