Yesterday I shared some of the main tips from the Blissdom Wisdom Workshop SEO & Counting What Counts presented by Kelby Carr and Angela England. Today I want to give you the rest of the tips they shared, but it won’t be quite as detailed as yesterday’s recap. I love bulleted lists and this is [...]
Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 1)
February 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Panel Name: SEO & Counting What Counts by Kelby Carr & Angela England I attended Blissdom ’10 in early February and loved that the event offered Wisdom Workshops a day before the real conference began. These workshops were offered in four tracks: Business, Writing, Creative, and Geek. As you can imagine, I stayed in the [...]
SEO: What Are NoFollow and DoFollow Links?
February 22, 2010 By 52 Comments
Linking, whether you’re linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization). How a site treats links is important because it can determine how search engines treat those links as well. Specifically, I’m talking about whether a site uses NoFollow tagging within its links. [...]
Helpful Blogging Links: More SEO
November 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
This is a holiday week here in the United States. I’m busy preparing turkey and stuffing and various pies. I won’t be posting again until Monday, December 1. In the mean time, here’s a special SEO Helpful Blogging Links. Get More Search Traffic with Keywords Optimization via Blogthority How to Become and SEO Ninja via [...]
Do you know the difference between tags and categories?
November 19, 2008 By 4 Comments
Tags are usually one- or two-word (three at the most) descriptions (or keywords) of a blog post. For example, I might tag this article “define tags” and “define categories”. The tags you choose are used by sites like Technorati (the blog search engine) to find your site and group it according to tags (e.g., putting [...]
Blog World Expo: More SEO Tips for Bloggers (#bwe08)
October 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
Panel: Search Engine Optimization, SEM, & New Media Panelists: Brian Clark, Michael Gray, Lee Odden, Stephen Spencer There were a few times I hopped from presentation to presentation. This was one of the presentations I was hopping to from another. The result is that my notes aren’t as lengthy as for some other presentations. Take [...]
Blog World Expo: Dave Taylor on SEO (#bwe08)
October 27, 2008 By 3 Comments
BWE Presentation Name: Ten Things You Need to Know About SEO Presenter: Dave Taylor Dave Taylor is an affable guy with a huge knowledge base to share. You can find him at The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, and Attachment Parenting Blog. Here is what I learned from Dave as he tackled basic [...]
Writing effective links for your audience and SEO
June 11, 2008 By 10 Comments
This is a short and simple tip. When you are writing your post and need to insert a link, consider how you are going to write that sentence and where you will include the link. For example, which of these is more effective (potential links in bold)? If you are interested in hosting a giveaway, [...]
I often see on blogs that people say “these are the top ten searches used to find my blog” or something like that. How do I find out this information for my blog?
October 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This information is found from your stat counter software. All stat counters that I know of have a link that will show you your search engine results. If you click on that link you will see the key words people are searching for to find your blog. Sometimes it’s hilarious, sometimes it’s creepy, and sometimes [...]
