Keeping Things Unique
Keeping content fresh and unique on your website One of the biggest pushes right now for organic search engine rankings is unique content. The days of mumbo-jumbo any content will do just to add more text to a website is long gone. Google realizes the difference between quality content and content just for the sake […]
Who Blogs and Why?
When I talk to new or potential clients they always ask the same thing, “why blog and who really does this?” Blogging is basically a ‘web log’ so put together it makes the word’ blog’. It became an official word in the dictionary about 10 years ago and since then has exploded on the Internet […]
Blog, Post, Repeat – 4 Tips to Better Blogging and Traffic
A simple guide to blogging for business and sharing on social media. This works well if you have a website and a separate blog site. If you blog ON your website it can also work you just would have all the links from the same site. 1. Write a new blog post for the blog […]
What Really Matters in On-Page SEO?
How on-page SEO is changing and yet how much is staying the same While SEO changes with the times, the hackers, and the black-hatters, some things do remain the same. Search engines are always trying to find the best ways to deliver the goods to the searcher. Real, Genuine, Actually what they were looking for, […]
Types of Back Links to Avoid
Types of back links to avoid If you know a little bit about SEO you know that back links are one of the major components to getting your site noticed and ranked. But are there negative back links that could be harming your site rather than benefiting it? With Google’s Penguin and Panda update this […]
Should I Update All My Plugins or to the Latest WordPress Version?
In short, Yes. Great, all done…. move along. But Why, you might ask? Well, a WordPress or plug in update is more than just updating to the latest and greatest. Just like Google coming out with a new algorithm or schematic to defeat black-hatters, WordPress and their plugins do the same to deter hackers and […]
Will Social Media Links Have an Impact on SEO?
How social links have an impact on your overall SEO As we talk about back links and how to gain them from high-quality sites or from blog comments and guest blogging, we can’t leave out the very important social media back links. Although most of these back links, meaning a link from a post that […]
Emotional Responses Keep People on Your Site
Are you getting emotional with your readers? Blogging and articles are getting harder and harder to evoke emotions out of people but that’s exactly what we need to accomplish if we are going to get the results we want from our readers. Because Google is looking for more and more ways that people are interacting […]
What Not to Do in SEO
Don’t make these vital mistakes when optimizing your Website or Blog 1. Using your keywords too much and over-emphasizing. A bolded keyword once or twice in the content is plenty. If you have the topic and keyword or phrase in the title and description and them talk about it in the content, search engines AND readers […]
How Do I Recover My Site from a Google Penalty?
What your site needs to be doing and probably isn’t By now, most of us know about the Panda and Penguin updates that took place to filter out the bad guys and get the good sites to the top a little faster. Many people saw great increases in traffic while some dropped off the face […]