Another Good Reason To Have a Blog
I wrote yesterday about having a blog or newsletter. Then yesterday I discovered something else that I really like about having this blog. It’s the search feature. I can use it to send a targeted list of my work to people with a single link. For example, I have quite a few cities on my […]
Blackhat SEO “Expert” Goes To Jail
I have written many times before about using tricks to get your site to the top of the search engines. See this, or just search this blog for SEO. I believe that it’s always harder, but better to do it right. I read last week about the CEO of Traffic Power getting jail time and […]
What Do You Do, Exactly?
I found myself at a get together the other night and was asked What is it that you do, exactly? I found myself trying to explain search engine optimization, search engine marketing and things like viral marketing to people who had never heard of them. I went on for a bit and I think that […]
The History Of SEO
As another year comes to a close I like to look back at the current year and review the progress that I have made in my business. Looking back seems to be the thing to do this time of year and I think that it’s important. Knowing where things have been is the very best […]
Beware Of SEO “Experts”
I have written before about how you should Be Careful Of Who You Hire For SEO. Yesterday I got an interesting email from someone who I hadn’t heard of before. I thought at first they were trying to be helpful as they were sending me a screenshot of one of my sites with what appeared […]
How Long To Register Your Domain Name
One of the first things that you do when starting a website is to register your domain name. I had more than one of my customers ask me “should I sign up for one year or more?” I have always believed that because that information is public and freely available that it would make sense […]
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 […]
A Good Reason To Use Image Alt Tags
Alt tags are small bits of text (sometimes not so small) that only show when an image on your page is blocked for one reason or another. Back in the old days of s-l-o-w dial up modems many people surfed with the images turned off in order to speed things up by not not having […]
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 […]
