Posts from — January 2008

SEO Help - Hot Tip - Optimizing your Meta description tags should be a part of your basic SEO strategy for pretty much any page on your website or blog that you create. There are a few schools of thought on why you should take the time to come up with a decent Meta description [...]

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Part of your ongoing SEO strategy should involve maintaining appropriate keyword density levels within your content. This is important, as the search engines obviously like to [...]

Today we’ll discuss the importance of Sitemaps (yes, with a capital S), and why it’s critical that you have one for your website and/or blog. The importance of Sitemaps has been debated time and time again (index speed wise), but there is certainly some truth to the idea that having a Sitemap created and uploaded [...]

Building backlinks to your blog/site is crucial in achieving, maintaining, and improving your search engine rankings. If you don’t already know, a backlink to your site is like a vote. Not all votes are equal, and the same rings true for Backlinks, but we can all agree that attaining more Backlinks (healthy ones) is a [...]

Before I divulge in this awesome, easy to interpret “how to linkbait” post, I must give a huge shout out to Dave4559 from the Digital Point Forums. He posted the original list, but of course, I’ve tweaked it a bit for the noobs among you to understand more clearly. The term “linkbaiting”, is probably one [...]

SEO Help - Hot Tip -You may or may not be aware, but Google has released a list of SEO do’s and don’ts that you should follow if you want any hope of being indexed and ranked in the search engines. Most SEO information is disputed, but when it comes from the King’s mouth, you [...]

SEO Help - Hot Tip - After yesterday’s post, I couldn’t help but talk about the importance of link building, especially for new sites. Not sure if all of you saw, but after my article about title tags yesterday, I received a warm welcome over at Shoemoney’s blog. Now, although Shoemoney sounded quite angry at [...]

SEO Help - Hot Tip -After checking out one of my favorite lists in the blogosphere, the Top 100 Money Making Blogs list, over at 45n5.com, I had a sudden brainstorming session that almost literally blew my mind. I had been thinking about what to write on today, and I decided that it would be [...]

SEO Help - Hot Tip - I use a variety of SEO related tools on an almost daily basis, and the best part is, all of them are totally free! However, I remember back in the day when I didn’t have all of the awesome tools bookmarked for my convienience, and I would never remember [...]

I figure most of us dread Monday mornings…the commute, the traffic on the commute, the people…ughh. I’d be willing to bet that Monday is our least productive day next to Friday. But why not start the week with a few little steps that us bloggers can take to better our SEO and start ranking higher [...]