Archive for June, 2010

9 things you can do to speed up your site

Is there such thing as a site that’s too fast? If you’ve been keeping up, my last article was about Pingdom, which pointed to a tool that allowed you to check the speed of any of your pages. I also mentioned that if your site is too slow, you’d quickly see visitors abandon your site, [...]

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Do you know how fast (or slow) your site is?

Look, we’ve all been there. We do a search, see a link that we believe has the content that we’re looking for, and click. Then wait. Then wait some more. And if we’re really patient, we gave it a whole 5 seconds to load before we click the back button. So how we can measure [...]

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Backlinks are, and always will be, critically important

A backlink is a search engine optimization (SEO) term used for links that point to your site. You may have also seen them called inbound links or incoming links. Regardless of how often a search engine’s algorithm changes, backlinks are almost always an important ingredient. Why? Because backlinks are a good indicator of how popular [...]

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The iPad revolution – a mobile blogger’s dream?

Wow, in its first 60 days, Apple’s iPad has certainly delivered! When the iPad was first announced in January, I asked if it would change mobile blogging. I suggested that it would not and nearly all of the comments backed me up on it. However, two months after its US release (April 3, 2010), there [...]

5 Best Plugins for SEO in WordPress

Today, we have a new guest poster. Let’s welcome Thomas Sinfield! For those of us who are using WordPress as bloggers, we already have a great SEO advantage. Wordpress has been designed to make search optimization easy, but if you really want to ramp up your SEO efforts than there are few plugins that will [...]

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Pay-Per-Click (PPC): a step-by-step guide

In my last post, PPC 101: Pay-Per-Click basics, I described PPC as a form of marketing advertisers could use to bring targeted audiences to their sites. This guide will detail the steps you would take to actually create a PPC ad campaign. Go to Google Adwords and create an account if you don’t already have [...]

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