Archive for September, 2009

Blog spam: Yuck!

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Many people who start out blogging don’t realize how much spamming takes place on the comments area. Getting comments, in general, is a good thing.  In fact, you can never get enough comments, in my opinion. However, when you start to get comments on your blog, you quickly learn that many of your early comments [...]

Anchor text is important for SEO

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Ah, anchor text…so important yet so misunderstood. Anchor text is simply another phrase for the label text for your link. Unknown to many bloggers, these words actually have an affect on how search engines perceive the link’s value. In fact, it’s well-known in SEO expert circles that anchor text is the top one or two [...]

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How long should a blog post be?

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Ah, the beauty of blogging. We’ve all read countless blog posts by now. Some good, some terrible, and some absolutely amazing. Think about the ones that were terrible, what do they have in common? Most likely, they are the ones that either (1) took too long to get a point across or (2) didn’t give [...]

How to use Google Analytics to see which keywords lead to your blog

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Yesterday, I made a post about the Top 5 things to do for your SEO and received several emails regarding number 5, which was using Google Analytics. One tip in there was to learn more about the keywords that are driving traffic to your blog and apparently, some folks didn’t know how to do that [...]

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Top 5 things to do for your SEO

The SEO building blocks consist of five key things to do.

There are obviously many things that you can do to for search engine optimization (SEO) but which should you focus on? Your time is valuable so I made a list of the top 5 things that you should do to maximize your time. In other words, why spend four hours on something when you can [...]

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Create free blogs

So I was just looking at my Google Analytics report on the keywords that drive the most traffic to this site. It’s a tie for first place: “create free blog” and “create free blogs”. Looking back in my archives, I realize that I haven’t blogged about creating a blog since I wrote How do you [...]

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Web 2.0 explained

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Do you remember the first time you heard “Web 2.0″ and thought to yourself…wait, the internet is going to have a new version? The reality is, well…sorta. The term was coined a decade ago and the web has shifted from static, force-fed websites to vibrant, user-centric communities. Pre-2000, what did we have? Websites with embarrassing [...]