Many people don’t know that there is another way you can search, and that is by searching by keywords in users’ bios. Those are the paragraphs that users write about themselves in their profile pages. They can be a convenient way to find like minded individuals or Twitter accounts associated with other sites or groups….
Month: November 2011
WordPress SEO Setup 101
You can potentially spend a lot of time tweaking your blog once it is set up, but this article should get you started on the right track, right from the very second you open your freshly installed WordPress blog….
Adding Your Business to MapQuest Local Business Center
MapQuest receives a good amount of search volume from its over 40 Million users. Every territory counts, therefore, we have decided to add our business listing to MapQuest too. Here are simple instructions….
Should I Work In-House or at an Agency? [10 For/Against]
If you’re pondering a change, here’s my list of pros and cons to help you make your own decision – as well as some strategies I’ve used in the past to try to ameliorate the cons….
20 Great Tools to Help Build Your SEO Skillset
An essential library of resources to help you make the most of your SEO efforts today…
How To Optimize A Web Page For A Keyword
Too many times, people unfamiliar to SEO think it’s all about selecting a keyword that drives traffic and then plopping it all over a web page. That is an oversimplified understanding of SEO. There are, of course, more steps involved in the process. First, you must research which keywords you can realistically rank for and then optimize your web pages accordingly….
What happens when links don’t matter anymore? [SEO Theory]
When it’s much easier to simply post a link to Facebook than it is to blog about a photo or video or interesting article, will the search engines see this as a critical time to shift the way they rank websites and will social interaction suddenly become the “go to” for higher rankings?…
Selling Links In a Free Internet Market
Google tells the Internet community countless times that it penalizes sites that sell or buy links that pass PageRank. So why not do the same to their accomplices? Threats of anti-trust suits are preventing Google from banning link brokers and their advertising partners….
Recreatable Sample Plan: 3 Steps to Publishing Personal Brand Content
If you are like most people, the thought of coming up with creative content ideas as to what to write about and how to schedule it all can be overwhelming to say the least.
I’ve created a sample plan that you can easily recreate for yourself to keep your content consistent and constant. But first, you’ll need to get clear on what you should write about….
3 Ways To Jump Start Your Viral Content
There are thousands of posts on how to create viral content (aka link bait). Most of these posts do not outline how they promote their viral content. When I first started relying on viral content I thought that if I built it well enough and quickly submitted it to several different sites it would magically take off and garner all kinds of back links.
With that in mind, here are three ways to jump start your viral content……