If you’re serious about search engine optimization and prepared to invest some money into keyword analysis, you can open an account with a keyword research Web site like Wordtracker. Simply go to the Wordtracker home page and click the Sign Up link (see below). Wordtracker offers a wide variety of tools and reports to help [...]
Reddit (shown in the figure below) is a popular social bookmarking site known for its “no frills” appearance. To use Reddit, you create a free account and begin submitting content by clicking the Submit button on the Reddit site. As users vote content up and down, the most popular content makes it to the home [...]
The BlogHer social networking site is unique in that its intended audience is women bloggers. BlogHer (shown below) offers a directory of female bloggers, advertising, forums, and conferences. Additionally, members can create their own blogs on BlogHer to share thoughts, ideas, and news so female bloggers can communicate, network, and grow. Share and Enjoy:
The popular Friendster site is very similar to other popular social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Friendster (shown below), which is open to anyone over the age of 16, invites its more than 75 million members from around the world to connect, share information, and communicate in a common space. The site offers [...]
6. Keyword Proximity – some engines, such as Google, use the concept of “keyword proximity” as part of their ranking formulas. As suggested by the name, “keyword proximity” means the how close keywords are to each other. Put your keywords as close together as possible and make sure your sentences are clear. Here’s an example: [...]
1. Title Tag The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high rankings. A title tag is essentially an HTML code that creates the words that appear in the top bar of your Web browser. Usually, the Title Tag is the first element in the <Head> area of your site, followed [...]
How to improve articles In this step by step article you will learn how to transform dry, unformatted articles into more attractive and readable text. Step 1: The wrong way to format articles In this sample page you can see an article without any formatting. This article was copied and pasted into an html code. [...]
Ideally, you should be rewriting the whole article. The rewriting process takes about 10 minutes if all related materials are prepared. It is important to rewrite whole article as it literally guarantees that you will have the one and only copy of this material (technically) and probably by meaning which will ensure great benefits from [...]
Quick Rewrites A quick rewrite should not take you more than a couple of minutes. Here’s what you could do: • Rewrite the headline. • Add related content to your article – whether it’s an image, some extra information or links to useful, related sites. • Rewrite the first paragraph. • Rewrite the last paragraph. [...]
Starting at the top of your index/home page something like this: A heading tag that includes a keyword(s) or keyword phrases. A heading tag is bigger and bolder text than normal body text, so a search engine places more importance on it because you emphasize it. Heading sizes range from h1 – h6 with h1 [...]
Search engine optimization can seem daunting, but you can take a number of simple actions to boost your rankings. Try the suggestions described in the following list on your own blog and start driving search traffic to your posts: ✓ Use your keyword or keyword phrase in your blog post titles. Search engines weigh titles [...]
Another critical component to search engine optimization success is link building — particularly, attracting incoming links from popular Web sites. Search engines rank sites with many incoming links higher than those with few incoming links. The reason is that search engines are programmed to assume that sites with many incoming links contain useful content that [...]
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of creating or modifying your Web pages to increase their rankings in search engine queries. You might think of it this way: If you write a blog about search engine optimization, for example, would people find your blog if they type the word search engine optimization into their [...]
