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Posts from — March 2008

The Secret to Maki of Dosh Dosh’s Blogging Success

As the first in a weekly series of interviews with successful bloggers, Maki from Dosh Dosh has answered the question, “What is the secret to your blogging success?” Maki is known for his well written and researched articles in the make money online niche. Since the first post in November 2006, Dosh Dosh has [...]

March 31, 2008   4 Comments

Improve Search Engine Placement and Reader Response With Subheaders

Many bloggers and webmasters completely ignore <H2> header tags in their page layouts. But research has indicated header tags can significantly improve your page’s placement in the search engine results. Not only that, but the proper use of <H2> tags can make your pages, articles, and blog posts easier for site visitors to scan. Since [...]

March 20, 2008   6 Comments

The Easter Bunny Was a SEO Guru

Those must be some really SEO eggs!
Just think of it. You’ve got all those little kids in their Sunday best, crawling around on their hands and knees to search for a bunch of painted eggs. Keep in mind these are the same kids who curl their lips at eggs on the breakfast table (especially if [...]

March 18, 2008   4 Comments

How to Attract and Retain Social Media and Search Engine Traffic

You have about three seconds to grab my attention, or I’m gone. When I follow a link from search engines or any of the social media sites I visit, I want something good and I want it fast. If you can’t tell me up front why I should stick around, I won’t.
Okay, so you’ve thought [...]

March 16, 2008   15 Comments

Is SMO the New SEO? The Future of SEO Through Social Media Optimization

Traditional search engine optimization techniques have focused on changing a website’s coding and content to target specific placement in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. As long as search engines remain the primary road people use to locate information on the web, then SEO owns a secure place as a relevant industry on the [...]

March 15, 2008   10 Comments

3 Killer SEO Myths in Article Marketing

I am proud to offer this guest post from Josh Spaulding. If you’re interested in learning how he dominates every niche he touches through article marketing, check out his very popular article marketing ebook or visit his Internet Marketing blog. - Terry

For the past few years I’ve watched as hundreds, possibly thousands, of people try [...]

March 10, 2008   9 Comments

The Death of the Information Product

Information Has a Shelf Life
By the time you’ve finished reading it, that ebook you just purchased may be obsolete. The world is changing at the speed of light, and “information” lags constantly behind. Anything committed to print, video, audio, or any other type of media, can only record a thought after it has already happened. [...]

March 9, 2008   16 Comments

Duplicate Content Cure - Effective Search Engine Optimization for WordPress

The best SEO plugins are those which:

1. Fix a problem
2. Do it reasonably well

Badi Jones’ Duplicate Content Cure Plugin for WordPress accomplishes both.
The Problem
As Badi explains:
It turns out that the default Wordpress site structure is extremely un-search engine-friendly. The same archives, categories, built in search, and home page paged navigation that make navigation extremely easy [...]

March 9, 2008   9 Comments