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Four E-Books Your Blogging Friends Will Love: A Gift Guide for Bloggers

Whether you’re looking for ideas for your own Christmas list or trying to figure out what to buy for your blogger, you’ll want to check out this list of four e-books bloggers need to read to help them build successful blogs. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginning, intermediate, or seasoned blogger, each of these [...]

Helpful Blogging Links: Learning Tech, SEO Plug-in & Advice, Blogrolls

Every day I share links to all the tech articles I love on the Blogging Basics 101 Tumblr blog! Subscribe to the Tumblr blog and never miss another article. One Year Ago Today — Learning to Embrace the Tech Community via Girl with a Computer. I really needed to read this yesterday. I’ve had a [...]

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

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)

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?

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. [...]

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

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 [...]

What Are Blog Metrics?

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) [...]

Helpful Blogging Links

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 [...]

Helpful Blogging Links: More SEO

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 [...]