Beware of Hackers: De-Indexed From Google
It is as if each day is a lesson in life, today’s lesson is “keep your wordpress installations up-to-date or face the consequences.” Luckily wordpress is easy to upgrade and should be kept up-to-date at all times and plugins should be monitored for updates and security advisories or else…
You can find yourself out of favor [...]
Competing For Organic Search Hits
If you ask any consultant how to rank on the first page in google, they’re going to probably tell you its a combination of effort, luck, some google “magic sauce,” relevance, patience and targeting a niche market.
No matter how great your writing is, no matter how awesome your site looks, you may still have issues [...]
Design And Layout Pays Off
What is it about your blog that separates you from the other bloggers? Is it the content? Or, are you breaking news nobody else has been able to break?
More than likely you’re not breaking any news stories but you are probably providing content that’s informative, interesting and well crafted. You can write the best blog [...]
Market Yourself Slowly To Google
When working towards great back links, referrals from other sites and social bookmarking, it’s important to work slowly and build up to it. It it said that Google likes a young site to grow over time, sites that show up in the google index and have thousands of back links may be suspicious to a [...]
Blogging On E-Commerce Sites: Marked As Spam?
Many SEO consultants will tell you the easiest way to get your companies site in the market, for free, is to advertise through organic search. However, most e-commerce sites have a fairly static set of content. If you’re selling widgets but don’t get a new widget brand every day you’ll probably have a bunch of [...]
You Don’t Have To Compete To Be Complete
If you’re wondering why stupid blogs tend to get huge fast, it might be due to their parent company. There are many websites that masquerade as blogs but are really huge websites funding their popularity with TV shows and money. The word on the streets is “blogs are the new thing” and everyone has to [...]
Your Fate? Affiliate!
Working really hard at providing users with great content but their not clicking on your ads with enough consistency? You may be looking for some alternative, perhaps a different style of blogging or a different ad agency but you should slow down a bit.
If you’re providing content there is a good chance you could pimp [...]
Get Personal: Podcast
Twenty years from now this will be the age of the ipod, a time when everyone could afford a hand-held compressed audio player. Audiophiles know a typical music track encoded into a standard MP3 file is not the best of quality unless the bit-rate is right, but high bit-rate songs require high capacity storage.
A podcast [...]
Target The Season: Organic Searching
Looking for a new article to write about but you’re out of great ideas. The holiday season is upon us and it’s time to think about gift giving and Christmas cheer. If you’re blogging about a specific product you’ll probably find this time of year is full of potential organic searches waiting to happen.
For instance, [...]
Ad Positions: Respecting Your Reader
It is very tempting to tile your website with adsense ads and sneak them into every nook and cranny of your website. Designing a nice website that offers great quality content should put its emphasis on the quality not the advertising.
You’ve probably seen sites on the web that try to trick you to click on [...]
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