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SEO/Search Engines

Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 2)

February 25, 2010

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 [...]

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Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 1)

February 24, 2010

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 Geek [...]

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SEO: What Are NoFollow and DoFollow Links?

February 22, 2010

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.

What [...]

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How to set up a Google Alert (and why it’s a good idea)

October 21, 2009

Google Alerts is one of the most versatile online tools. It allows you to listen to conversations you may not be aware of. Conversations that involve you or your brand (and maybe even your competitors). As you manage your online presence, it’s important to listen to what people are saying and how they are saying [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links: August 28, 2009

August 28, 2009

Advice on using advertising with your blog, 9 Firefox SEO plugins you’ll love, and why authority matters.

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What Are Blog Metrics?

April 20, 2009

Blog metrics are a way to measure the success (or at least the popularity) of a blog. In this article I will introduce you to several of the sites that are most popular for determining a blog’s success: Google PageRank, Technorati, Digg, and Alexa. Whether you put any stock into them is your call. (wink)
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Helpful Blogging Links

December 12, 2008

How to make columns of equal height in Blogger via Blogger Buster

My Favorite Wordpress Themes & Resources via Jim Kukral

Make Money Online with your Business Blog: Search Engine Optimized Blogging via Business Blogging Guide

What I learned at Search Engine Bootcamp via Problogger

How to Understand Your Audience: Data Collection & Analysis via DoshDosh

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Helpful Blogging Links: More SEO

November 25, 2008

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 copyblogger

How to [...]

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Do you know the difference between tags and categories?

November 19, 2008

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 [...]

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Blog World Expo: More SEO Tips for Bloggers (#bwe08)

October 28, 2008

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 this information, [...]

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