November 20, 2008 – 8:21 am
Can’t see the audio player? Head on over to the blog to listen.
The other day I wrote that blogging leads to new skills. I asked you guys in the comments to say what new skills you’ve gained because you wanted your blogs to succeed. A good number of you said SEO skills were an important [...]
September 29, 2008 – 10:55 pm
If you register for my WordPress SEO Teleseminar, you will get a very sweet bonus. A few months ago my friend Naomi Dunford wrote an ebook called SEO School: How to be an SEO Ninja, a fantastic ebook on search optimization that anyone could understand (well, anyone who likes their beginner SEO mixed in [...]
September 25, 2008 – 12:23 pm
The value of learning search engine optimization for your blog cannot be overstated. SEO is an equal partner with compelling blog content: each enhances the other. I’m doing a live seminar by phone to provide you with specific, step-by-step information for tools, optimizing blog posts, and optimizing your overall blog design.
To maintain a personal, conversational [...]
September 23, 2008 – 7:00 am
On October 1st, I’m having a teleseminar (seminar by phone) about WordPress SEO. This seminar will help you improve your blog SEO by improving your search results rankings and increasing search traffic for the right keywords. It is specific to the WordPress blogging software on a self-hosted blog.
I introduced the seminar yesterday and presented some [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:06 am
On October 1st, I’m holding a teleseminar on WordPress SEO. It’s going to give you specific information and actions you can take to improve the search optimization of your WordPress blog. Why am I doing this? There’s a lot of information on the web about SEO. Tons of it, in fact. But that information often [...]
September 12, 2008 – 4:23 am
I’m putting together a webinar on blog SEO (search engine optimization), and with your feedback, I’ll be able to make it the best it can be. I’m creating the webinar in response to your answers on my previous poll regarding your most burning issues in blogging. Knowing more about SEO was the third most popular [...]
August 7, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Above is a screenshot I just took of the first page of Google search results for my keywords. My ranking is even higher now than it was just a few weeks ago (click to enlarge).
Below is the overall search volume for the same keyword (click to enlarge). Note the rising trend:
How have I done this? [...]
Apparently, ninjas don’t scale very well. My good friend Naomi Dunford has written one of the most kick-ass and easy-to-read books on learning search engine optimization ever: SEO School - Become an SEO Ninja. I don’t think she could’ve anticipated how well it would sell. SEO is important–vital, even, yet 99% of us don’t [...]
Does Search Engine Optimization (SEO) seem like some occult dark magic to you? Are you scared that you will either a) ruin everything and get banned from Google with one little mistake or, b) get ripped off by some person or product because you don’t know anything? Or do you think SEO is illegal or [...]
Linking to your own previous posts to help a commentator is a powerful blog commenting strategy. It drives traffic deeper into your blog and strengthens your relationship with readers. We are often dashing off quick answers to comments and we forget something. Something very important.
Comments are content.
And, as we all know, content is king.
I first [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:32 am
This is the first page of Google search results as of today:
I am a very happy man, right now. I just need to say one thing: BOO-YAH!
Until today, I never claimed any SEO prowess. But making the front page of Google SERPs says something for me in a way no claims of my own ever [...]
January 29, 2008 – 8:44 am
Well, to tell you the truth, it’s my friend Mani Karthik who has the contest. It’s a real contest with a real prize: $250 (hey, that’s a big chunk of iPod, know what I mean?). Mani and I both write for Blogging Tips, and he’s a super-nice guy. He’s launching a personal blog and thought [...]
January 20, 2008 – 1:02 am
Well, that would depend on what search engine you’re using! Obviously, on the one that matters the most, I’m not even on the front page of the results. Update: I just checked again, and I am indeed on the first page of Google results! W00t! But, interestingly enough, I am either on the first [...]
September 21, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Watch a video from Tubetorial on how to set up the Google Sitemap generator plugin for better WordPress SEO.
September 17, 2007 – 5:55 am
I found some old treasures in my archives. Thought I’d dust ‘em off and take ‘em out. Set ‘em on the table and let you look at them for a while. Then put them back. You’ll always be able to find them. That’s why they call them archives.
September 5, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Here’s a quick link to a fantastic WordPress plugin that lets you keep a certain number of blog posts full on your blog’s home page while the remaining ones display the excerpts. This reduces duplicate content, which may improve your blog’s search engine optimization. Read the full article to learn the details and get the link.
The third key to better blogging is Blog SEO. Learn the basics!
WordPress SEO techniques to avoid duplicate content in a video by SEO expert Michael Gray from Graywolf.
When it comes to building traffic and creating backlinks, directory submission is a good idea, but it is also one of the most dreadfully tedious tasks a blogger could ever undertake. Does it work? It’s been my experience that it does. A friend of mine sent me an email the other day saying his visitors [...]
13 pure SEO-only Firefox extensions for you improve your SEO game.
Video presentation on SEO myths and how to do SEO followed by written list of main points with useful links to resources mentioned in the video.
Examination of how blogs help build buzz for a product and improve search engine rankings.
Learn about keyword density, an important concept in search engine optimization, or, SEO.
