Posts tagged SEO
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 »
SlimStat: Stats Tracking For Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog
Knowing what your target audience is reading is another of the steps in the journey to web success with your online small business blog.
There are a lot of tracking tools and plugins out there, but I wanted to introduce you to one I found which really provides some amazing insights into your traffic. You can drill into a month, week or day. You can review everything that’s happened on a single URL.
Your referring websites are listed and the search terms used to find you are displayed. I think you will be impressed with the detail this small footprint *script* yields. Read the rest of SlimStat: Stats Tracking For Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog 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 »
A Custom 404 Page : An Opportunity To Impress* Your Visitors
(* By impress, I mean engage, wow and help your visitors)
When something goes wrong on your site, your visitors will land on a 404 page, or to their way of thinking, the Twilight Zone.
Most standard Wordpress blogs come handily equipped with a 404 Page. The problem is it is absolutely worthless for helping your visitor get back on track.
There could be a variety of reasons they landed there: Read the rest of A Custom 404 Page : An Opportunity To Impress* Your Visitors Read more »
22 Things You Should Do After Installing Wordpress
I know the list sounds long, but trust me, do these things right after installing your new Wordpress blog, and you will start to see immediate traffic, it won’t take as much work to manage your blog, and your visitors will love it!
Little Tweaks With A Big Impact
First and foremost are those little annoying tweaks, that left undone now, can… Read the rest of 22 Things You Should Do After Installing Wordpress 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.
Step 2 is to… Read the rest of SEO: Correcting A Misconception Read more »
SEO Using Backlinks
I recently wrote an article on another blog that I want to point you to. There are three of us (Deontee Gordon, Dali Burgado and myself) that contribute to the Secrets To Web Success, so you get a full range of specialties.
The article I am suggesting you read if you are trying to build your organic rankings is called… Read the rest of SEO Using Backlinks Read more »
Can Google Help With Your SEO?
I know, it’s a little hard to believe, right? The search giant wants to help little ole me understand and leverage Search Engine Optimization for my small business?
In a word… Yes.
Google has created a new channel on another mega-giant… Read the rest of Can Google Help With Your SEO? Read more »
The Two Major Factors of SEO You Must Master To Get Found
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, has two major factors which govern your success, or ultimately, your failure. Want your site to succeed? You need to master both.
SEO On Page Factors
The first major factor is really the simplest to master. But first, you need to know what those creepy little *spiders* look for when they come and *crawl* your site. Oh wait.. I didn’t tell you about the spiders?
Spiders (bots, robots, crawlers) are small programs that … Read the rest of The Two Major Factors of SEO You Must Master To Get Found Read more »
