Promoting your site

Have You Added Sub-Keywords to Your Site?

How many of you make a concerted effort to ensure that you have the right keywords in each of your articles? I’m not even referring to keyword stuffing in your content, metatags, titles, headings, and so forth. I’m talking about just using the right keywords when appropriate, using good anchor … Related Posts on Free [...]

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Don’t forget about spreading the word when you meet people (yes, in person!)

How many times have you mentioned your blog or website to a family member, a friend, or a potential customer and didn’t have anything to give them as a take-away? We all know that you have to treat your site as a business but would you take any business seriously if the owner spoke to [...]

Want to increase your PageRank? There’s only one thing you need to do!

How many of you wish you had a higher PageRank(PR)? Those of you who said yes, read on. The rest of you who think that Google PR is worthless, then feel free to continue to ignore the only search engine that matters. I’m not here to argue whether PR is useful or not, rather how [...]

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Gravatar: Why I want you to have one – and it’s not what you think

First, if you don’t have a gravatar already, please go to gravatar.com and get one. It takes all of five minutes. Now, let’s move on. How many comments are left on your site daily that don’t have a gravatar? I would say that no matter who you are, somewhere around 30-60% is pretty common. … [...]

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Don’t be afraid to ask your visitors to do something

How many times have you been to a site where you didn’t know what to do next? I mean, you’re looking for a job but there’s no Apply Here button. Or you really like a company’s service offerings but there’s no Contact Us link. Or… well, you get the point. One of the … Related [...]

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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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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