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Create Posts That Engage Your Readers, Attract...

I know, it sounds like a tall order, doesn't it? But you can do it with a little forethought, some planning and an eye on the SEO ball. Here is a checklist I use for my posts. Understand though, sometimes I get two out of three, sometimes only...

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18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without

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Reciprocity and SEO

: Image by swisscan via Flickr

Most folks would define SEO (or search engine optimization) as the science or ability to optimize your site or blog for the search engines. That gets you visitors, right?

When the search engines can find you, typically, everyone else can. But is there another way? Do we have to rely on the giant search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo to send visitors to our sites?

Zemanta

is a Wordpress plugin that offers another way to get traffic. The time honored tradition of reciprocity .

Once installed, Zemanta sits quietly in the *Add New* page, offering images, articles, products, blog posts and other related content, based on the keywords of your post. Adding a photo or related blog post is as easy as clicking the title.

Done.

If it’s a photo you are adding, it will neatly tuck it into the upper right of your post.

Adding a related blog post? Zemanta will insert text and links into your post like the one’s you see at the bottom of this post, automatically.

Setup Zemanta to include the *Reblog* option, and visitors can blog about and republish your content with a few clicks, gaining you more visitors. And everyone that visits the reblogged content, see’s your content.

Traffic from sources other than the search engines? Absolutely! Eye candy for your blog? You bet. A better experience for your visitors? No question.

Would you agree?

About The Author

Cenay Nailor offers Online Marketing and Personal Branding Tips and Insights

Cenay Nailor is an Online Marketing and Blogging coach with mad technical skills she loves sharing with Videos. Visit her video tutorial blog and get some technical help. You should also snag the weekly injection of Tech-Based Marketing Newsletter, and have it sent right to your inbox. (Upper right corner)

Teaser Video: SEO Powersuite

about 1 month ago - 13 comments

I just purchased an amazing tool to help me focus my SEO efforts, build inbound links, audit my results and check my rankings. What can I say, it was time to take my SEO and link portfolio to the next level and some of this wasn’t being handled by Market Samurai or SEO Elite, both tools I purchased for this purpose.

And because I am more than a little willing to gloat (’cause YOU don’t have this tool and I do), allow me to show you what you are missing.

Headspace2 and SEO for Video Posts

about 1 month ago - 5 comments

Frequently Asked Question
Today’s entry from the mail bag comes from Marquis, regarding a recent video tutorial I did on Headspace2. Marquis writes:
Hello Cenay,
I recently viewed your Headspace2 tutorial video. This video was by far the most helpful tutorial I’ve come across. However, I am a novice when it comes to websites and SEO More >

Google Is Lying To You

about 2 months ago - 14 comments

If you are using Google’s keyword suggestion tool, or any tool that relies on Google’s research, then you aren’t getting the truth, and I can prove it.
I know they are strong words, but hear me out. In fact, listen quick, and listen close because you can only do something about this from June 21st More >

Benefits of Search Engine Optimization

about 3 months ago - 9 comments

Sometimes a search engine optimization company will miss that obvious question posed by prospective clients and presuppose that the benefits of search engine optimization are apparent to all people. While cashing out a couple thousand on a search engine optimization operation is commonsensical to some, others may find it difficult to shell out cash unless they understand the true benefits of search engine optimization that is transmitted on to their business.

Create Posts That Engage Your Readers, Attract The Search Engines and Invite Comments – Part 2

about 5 months ago - 11 comments

(In part 1, we covered the prep work required to create a post that both the search engines and your readers will love. If you haven’t read that one, start with Create Posts That Engage Your Readers, Attract The Search Engines and Invite Comments – Part 1)

The next step in creating posts that attract the search engines is making sure you do two simple things. First, you KNOW your primary keyword. And second, that you use it in each of the 9 places Google and other search engines will be looking for it.

Repetition is the mother of knowledge.

Headspace2 Works To Get You On Page 1 of Google

about 5 months ago - 8 comments

You hear me ranting and raving about Headspace2 – an SEO plugin that helps Google find you. I have told you stories about how I have gotten posts on the first page of Google in under an hour. And still you don’t believe.
Today, I offer video proof.
I posted to one of my blogs and within More >

iFrameGen PHP Redirect Software

about 5 months ago - 6 comments

Want A More Professional Approach to Affiliate Marketing?

Stop using those clunky/ugly/obvious affiliate links when promoting someone Else’s product. Have you ever seen a link that a full-time Affiliate Marketer uses? Ever wonder how they masked or cloaked those links?

Well, it’s not rocket science, but it does require a little knowledge of HTML or PHP.

Create Posts That Engage Your Readers, Attract The Search Engines and Invite Comments

about 6 months ago - 4 comments

I know, it sounds like a tall order, doesn’t it? But you can do it with a little forethought, some planning and an eye on the SEO ball. Here is a checklist I use for my posts. Understand though, sometimes I get two out of three, sometimes only 1. A really good post will have all three, so that’s your goal.

Post Preparation Checklist

Gather Your Intel.

In this step, I gather up the research I am performing, material I want to quote, related sites, links or resources I want to include. I gather all that into once place. I use notepad or Dreamweaver for this, since a post’s resources will grow as I build it. Remember that to benefit a reader, it needs to offer them exactly what they are looking for.

SenSEO: A Checklist For SEO

about 6 months ago - 3 comments

As anyone who knows me can attest, I am a rabid Firefox fan.

I found one more reason to crow about the virtues of Firefox. It’s an addon for Firefox that allows you to check your site and give you a grade based on selected criteria.

It shows you what your competition is doing right, and what they are doing wrong. You can use Sen SEO as a checklist on your own blog. Go through this process after each new post, and you can stay in Google’s good SEO graces.

This video will discuss what Sen SEO shows you

Headspace2 Tutorial: Exploring SEO Through Plugins

about 7 months ago - 25 comments

A recent coaching session covered the SEO benefits of installing and using Headspace2 to increase your Online Marketing and Personal Branding. As members of that call will recognize, about 45 minutes was cut from this video. All the wasted time on technical difficulties is gone. Areas where the information was repeated (as in answering questions or covering the same concept on a different part of the call) were removed or spliced together to provide a single explanation.