SEO
Create Posts That Engage Your Readers, Attract The Search Engines and Invite 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
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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
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.
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Headspace2 Tutorial: Exploring SEO Through Plugins
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.
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18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without
I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.
These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.
They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.
Each of these plugins play nice with all the plugins listed here. No animals were harmed during the making of this list. Read the rest of 18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without Read more »
Redirection and 301 Via Plugin: Stop Leaking SEO and Visitors
Over time, your blog evolves (hopefully). This means category names change, posts are updated, files move or subdirectories are deleted. What happens when someone clicks a link to a post or file that is no longer there?
They get a 404 Error.
Even with a Custom 404 Error Page, you didn’t deliver the content they thought they were getting. So they might leave. Read the rest of Redirection and 301 Via Plugin: Stop Leaking SEO and Visitors Read more »
SEO Tips For Your Blog Success
We’ve been talking for a while now about search engine optimization techniques for your small business, but mine isn’t the only voice making this primal cry.
The blogosphere rings with the cry’s of other voices extolling the virtues optimizing your site and making sure each and every post contains your keywords, a well defined description and the important SEO elements. Read the rest of SEO Tips For Your Blog Success Read more »
SEO: The Side Benefit Of Good Content
I was talking with a blogging student a couple of days ago, and explaining the importance of publishing good content, that goes beyond the obvious and thought I would share those thoughts with you. Read the rest of SEO: The Side Benefit Of Good Content Read more »
SEO: Is Your Blog Search Engine Friendly?
I recently came across a short *Check List* to help you determine if your site is *SEO Friendly* or not.
Use this guide to help improve your blogging habits AND your SEO. Read the rest of SEO: Is Your Blog Search Engine Friendly? Read more »
SEO: Correcting A Misconception
Boy, I really hate it when this happens. Some *guru* will state something like “Install All In One SEO and you will be instantly found by Google”. What a load of horse-manure.
Let me correct this terrible misconception, before it destroys some small business blogger’s dream.
First and foremost, All In One SEO (AIE SEO) is a great plugin. I don’t want this post to sound like I am dissing the plugin itself. Only the guru’s accidental (?) misconception. Installing it is Step 1.
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SEO Love With Internal Linking
This short video will show you click by click and step by step exactly how to build up your internal linking structure and vote on your blog yourself.
Just to recap a couple of basics first… Read the rest of SEO Love With Internal Linking Read more »
SEO: Inbound Links Without Asking Or Spamming
You have started your Search Engine Optimization education and have learned that inbound links count as *votes* for your site when Google ranks you website. Come on, everyone knows this right?
So, how do you get those coveted inbound links?
You can surf for blogs in your niche that have a page rank, and contact them. You can then beg, borrow or wheedle a link from them. Good luck with that if you haven’t already established a relationship with them.
You can comment on their blog, on the posts that are most similar to the content you are posting. A good idea, but somewhat time consuming since it’s important when you comment, to add value to the conversation.
Or, you can use a built in … Read the rest of SEO: Inbound Links Without Asking Or Spamming Read more »
