Getting People To Post To Your Blog
I have been writing this blog for about a year and a half now. One of the thing that almost every blogger hopes for when they start one is that they will inspire visitors to comment on their posts. I do get a few relevant comments on this blog, but I am always looking for […]
What Can I Do With Free Google Tools?
One great thing about using Google products on your site is that they give you some wonderful free tools to manage your account. It’s pretty easy to log into your account and look at how many “clicks” that your site has received today or how many you have paid for. Unfortunately most site owners and […]
Links From Social Network Sites
One of the best ways to move your site up in the search rankings is to get links from other sites. When I mention to my customers that one of the easiest places to get these links is social networking sites they tell me that they don’t want a MySpace page or one on Facebook. […]
How You Can Still Sell Paid Links
While I don’t sell paid text links on this site, but many people do. If you have a fairly high ranking site it’s a great way to make more money with your site than with Google ads alone. The best way to improve your ranking with the search engines is to have high ranking sites […]
How To Get Inbound Links To Your Site
You have built your site with good consistent plain text navigation. You have dressed up your pages to look really great, have some killer original content and are adding more info on a regular basis. What Next??? The next step in getting your site to gain more traffic and to rank higher in the search […]
Why Site Owners Don’t Really Want SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the best thing going, right? Kind of like “Why don’t we slice the bread before we put it in the package?” Have a look around the web these days and see how many sites ignore SEO completely. I used to wonder why that was and then one day I realized […]
Keeping Your Website Current
I wrote yesterday about keeping the copyright date on your pages up to date, but there’s much more to keeping your site current than that. One of the things that search engines look for is that they are able to find new information on your site on a regular basis. There’s a good reason for […]
Should A Site Use PDF’s?
I wrote the other day on my newest favorite sites page that I stated that they would do better if they converted their news page from a PDF to a regular HTML page, but I suppose that’s not completely true. Search engines do indeed index many of the PDF documents available on line these days. […]
What Good Are 1,000,000 Visitors If They Don’t Like Your Content?
I have written before (and here) that I believe that if you have a site that is over optimized for search engines chances are that your human visitors could find it hard to read, use and understand. I ask my customers what good is having all of the traffic in the world if they just […]
An Unexpected Result From Google Alerts
I have been using a tool called Google Alerts. Once you sign up for this tool Google will notify you whenever the search keyword term that you choose is found by the search engine on the web. It still says beta, but it seems ready for prime time to me. Whenever Google finds a page […]
