Hey, Where’s SEO?
Here's an interest post on Marketing Pilgrim about things you should learn if you are going to be an Internet marketer. And I agree with them. But where's the SEO? Let's run down the list: Fake it like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally Be persistent and focus, focus, focus Get hyped up and know that people LIE! - a lot Never stop learning Build the brand, not the traffic, links, etc. Choose e-commerce Find and exploit niches yourself Learn the basics Crowdsource (outsource) as much as you can Learn to program or find a programmer who can do what you need Brainstorm before you do anything Utilize all the channels that make sense for you Repurposing isn't always necessary Build true virility when link building Go underground when you can So where's the SEO part? Buried in the CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How To Make Your Website Secure With A Strong Password
If you are creating your site using an open source solution like WordPress, Joomla, Pligg, or Drupal then you'll need to make sure that you keep it safe from hackers. Hackers like to solve password puzzles and gain access to places they aren't welcome. If you use a simple password that is easy to guess then you make yourself vulnerable to hackers and other malicious people. So how do you make your passwords harder to guess? Here are a few tips: Make them long - Short passwords are easy to guess. Make your passwords longer. Don't use dictionary words - Some robots will go through the dictionary and create a list of potential passwords from real words. They can be programmed to enter passwords while their human CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How To Transfer A Domain Name Successfully
Have you ever heard of .yu domain names? If not, then you won't be disappointed that they'll stop working after September 30. If you have one then you might be alarmed. What should you do? The following advice is really for anyone, regardless of whether you have .yu domain or not, who is planning a transfer of domains to a new domain. If you have a .yu domain then you'll need to start making your transfer as soon as possible. I would not recommend waiting until September. You want your new site working before your old site stops working and if you are planning 301 redirects, forget about it. They won't work either. The entire .yu block of domains will be dead and so will any CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Developing Link Diversity – One Step At A Time
It takes time to build links. But if you're going to do it then you might as well do it right. Build your links with diversity in mind. But what exactly is link diversity? Link diversity is link building that incorporates a multi-faceted approach to building links so that inbound links to your website come from a variety of sources with a variety of PageRank authority and high amount of relevance. It's true that high authority sites within your niche that are aged will send you better link juice than low authority new upstart websites that are not relevant. But why turn down a good link juice because it's worth a nickel and not a quarter? There are several ways to go about link building. You shouldn't limit CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Are Your Links Natural Or Just Look That Way?
Are you busy trying to make your links look natural? Have you hired an search engine optimization company that sold you on a link building plan based on making your links appear natural? If so, fire them. Your links should not appear natural. They should be natural. It happens all the time. Some new web entrepreneur or small business person trying to make the migration to online marketing reads an e-book, or a blog post, about how important links are and decide to do a little link building. Either they are going the budget route and doing it themselves or they hire a company to do it on the cheap under the guise that those links will appear like natural links. Uhm, guys, if your links CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How’s Your H1 Tag Hanging?
Mike McDonald at WebProNews wrote a great article on SEO ranking factors and which ones are most important right now. Of course, it's not all encompassing. It only touches on a few of them. But one thing I noted was that Mike and Rand Fishkin agree that H1 tags are not that important for ranking. Here's what he says about the subject: H1 Tags - A couple of years ago, making use of H1 and H2 tags on selected areas of your HTML code kind of came into vogue. The rationale was the search engine spiders interpreted H1 tags as a signal that ‘hey, this text is important because it’s bigger’. Of course the proliferation of .css meant that you could throw CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Should You Change Your SEO Strategy For Bing?
Chris Crum is da man! His article about Bing and SEO provides some great insight into how Microsoft's new search engine has, and will, affect search engine optimization. The question is, should webmasters change their SEO strategy? My take? If your doing well with your optimization efforts right now, Bing doesn't change anything. Still, you've got read Chris's article. Here are a few highlights. With Bing, it's not about getting to the top of the SERP. It's about getting to the top of the right part of the SERP. That's a brilliant statement. Personally, I like the categories on the search page because it's an intuitive and a recognized way to narrow down a search query. Thanks to the popularity of blogging, people are already familiar CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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