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Above The Fold 2008-05-13 03:58:00 Wikipedia describes the term “Above The Fold” as “a graphic design concept that refers to the location of an important news story or a visually appealing photograph on the upper half of the front page of a newspaper. Most papers are delivered and displayed to customers folded up, meaning that only the top half of [...]
Yell it from the roof-tops…or at least from the computer screen… 2008-05-12 03:48:00 Twitter has become the rage. People tend to use Twitter to tell the world what they are doing at all times of day and night. I admit that I've gotten caught up in it also. I use Twitter through the FireFox plugin, TwitterFox. Twitter can be used for SEO. There [...] Read more:least
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Using SEO Keywords In Your Page Title 2008-04-25 05:00:00 To increase your website's ranking with search engines, it is very
important to use keywords you have chosen in the title of the page
concerned. A title tag is of course not the same as a meta description
or keyword tag, but it is still a very important factor to consider in
the overall optimization of your web page.
Any [...] Read more:SEO
, Keywords
, Title
SEO Now Includes Friends and Family 2008-04-24 15:08:00 Did you ever think of SEO
as a social activity? Typically, it's people posting to social networking sites, posting to blogs, submitting to directories, and tweaking away at the site code. It turns out that SEO is becoming a social activity. Aaron Wall put out a video on this very subject. [...] Read more:Friends
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Driving Traffic Using ANY Subject 2008-04-21 17:56:00 Any subject can be used to drive traffic. In the midwest, we recently had an earthquake. In California, that may be a daily occurance, but in the midwest, it rarely happens, so it's big news. All you have to do is connect the dots for the reader.
I just wrote a post on [...] Read more:Driving
Top 10 Favorite Top 10 Sites 2008-04-20 02:42:00 Everyone else has their “Top 10″ lists. Here is a list of my Top 10 Favorite
Top 10 Sites
:
Top 10 SEO Tips
Top 10 SEO Startup Tips
Top 10 SEO Mistakes
Top 10 Ad Agency SEO Lies
Top 10 Search Engines
Top 10 Online Marketing Tips
Top 10 Organic SEO Myths
Top 10 Best SEO Tools
Top 10 Bad SEO Ideas
Top 10 [...] Read more:Favorite Top
Keep Moving Forward 2008-04-18 23:44:00 When you are planning on make a good idea into a great blog or web site, you need to make sure that you don't slack off and let the tension go out of the line. What I mean is you need to continue to work on the blog on a daily basis. At [...] Read more:Moving
, Forward
Read This Post and Receive A FREE Gift!!! 2008-04-18 13:00:00 Get people to read your blog posts by putting provocative titles on them like the one on this post. Sometimes, the horse can't find the water on it's own. It needs to be led. Once there, your readers can drink from the fountain of your knowledge.
Here are some examples of post titles:
Live [...] Read more:Receive
Drive Ginormous Traffic: Redirect Microsoft.com To Your Domain 2008-04-18 07:00:00 Before I get to the meat of this post, let me tell you now that you will NOT be able to actually grab microsoft.com's traffic for yourself. I used that title as an example of what this post is about, which is using expired domains to drive traffic to your site. Besides, Billy [...] Read more:Redirect
, Microsoft
301 Redirect for SEO 2008-04-18 01:00:00 A 301 redirect is a method of redirecting a request for one particular page to an alternate URL. This method indicates to the search engines that the redirection is permanent. This is as opposed to a 302 redirect (temporary redirect). 301 redirect is of benefit to the site owner because the search [...] Read more:SEO
, Redirect
Site Age Calculation Change 2008-04-17 16:40:00 OFFICIAL RELEASE
The ICANNIWILL agency has decided to modify the method used to calculate the age of web sites. Currently, the calculation is made from the first day the URL was registered and is counted in years. As of 4/1/2008, the way that calculation is made has changed. The start date of the [...] Read more:Calculation
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Using Twitter To Promote Your Blog 2008-04-17 12:30:00 You can even use the social networking site called Twitter
to promote your site.
Here are some of the ways you can do that:
If your blog software is Wordpress, you can install a plugin that will automatically post an entry to your Twitter account when you submit a new post to your blog.
Add your web address [...] Read more:Promote
10 Unconventional Site Promotion Ideas 2008-04-17 12:30:00 Here are some unconventional site promotion ideas I came up with yesterday:
Bathroom stall wall
Tape a note to your own back
Have the phone company change the name on your callerID to your web address
Create an email account like www.spendingless101.com_@gmail.com and use that to send out all of your emails.
Use your web address as your account on [...]
10 tips to drive massive traffic to a new blog 2008-04-11 07:23:00 I have a process that I go through when setting up a new blog. I tried to get it all down on paper, but there are so many things. Here are 10 of the things I do…
Write your blog posts as if they were articles, then post them to article directories: This [...] Read more:drive
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Calgon!!! Take me AWAY!!!! 2008-04-08 10:56:00 In order to completely get this blog caught up, at least by my definition of caught up, I would have to:
All posts must be submitted to all of the social bookmarking sites at socialposter.com. Currently, 41 have been submitted, which leaves 117 left to go.
Remove all unnecessary category tags
Take all posts that can [...] Read more:Calgon
5 Reasons To Stop Stumbling and Start Living 2008-04-07 19:37:00 I have to admit that StumbleUpon is very addicting. I've stumbled for hours at a time; wasting the time I was going to use to promote my blogs or post entries. Actually, it's been kind of like EntreCard dropping. I've been addicted to that one also.
Here are 5 reasons you should stop [...] Read more:Reasons
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25 Posts In A Weekend… 2008-04-06 19:10:00 …is impossible if you have the kids with you, which I found out would happen AFTER I had set the goal of posting 25 times this past weekend. Including this post, I was able to post 11 times, submit RSS feeds to 10 directories, post 7 comments, and run 5 posts thru www.socialposter.com. [...] Read more:Weekend
Is internal linking really worth it? 2008-04-05 11:05:00 Deep linking or internal linking seems to be a good way to make your web site/blog more balanced in the material that gets read and that gets indexed by the search engines. What you want to do is create a web of links within your own site; sort of like the way the Internet [...]
My Pagerank Problem 2008-04-04 06:23:00 The Problem
:
I used to host this blog on the subdomain of my previous employer. Just before I was laid off, I got the feeling that something was going to happen real soon with the company, so I stayed up all night that night figuring out a way to move all 100+ posts (from Community [...]
Getting The Most Out Of EntreCard and 10ec From Me 2008-04-04 04:32:00 EntreCard seems to be an innovative idea in the area of driving traffic, and link exchanging. I wish I would have thought of it.
Once you join EntreCard, there are several approaches you can take when using the system. You should decide what your true motiviation for using this type of system is, and [...]
Word of the Day 2008-03-30 09:37:00 Spammy-Crap - OK…it's two words, sort of. I was listening to a podcast on podcast.neo1seo.com and Carolyn Shelby used this word (term) to describe a certain type of content and I just cracked up laughing.
Turn your blog posts into articles 2008-03-19 19:24:00 Your blog posts
, if they have some meat to them, are basically articles. If you make a blog post and you don't turn it into an article, you are leaving money on the table. Making a few small modifications to some of your better posts will turn them into articles. Since submitting [...]
Current Stats: From URLTrends.com 2008-03-17 16:17:00 Current Rankings:
PageRank: Not Ranked
Alexa Rank: 581,308
Incoming Google Links: 0
Incoming Yahoo Links: 360
Incoming MSN Links: 0
Incoming Alexa Links: 3
Overall Incoming Links: 363 (Overlap is possible - Estimated 316 unique links)
Outgoing Links: 153 (Ratio: 0.000% - Each Link Receives Approx. 0.000 PR) [ View History ]
Page Information:
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Blog Top Sites from BlogFlux 2008-03-17 12:35:00 Do you have one of these: . If so, what is it? What does it do? What is 357?
Don't be alarmed. If you click on it, you are teken to the BlogFlux site. What is BlogFlux? According to their About page, BlogFlux is described as follows:
Blog Flux was [...] Read more:Sites
Thanks to the Commenters 2008-03-17 12:23:00 Always thank the people that leave comments on your blog. They do not have to do it (unless you've paid them). They have plenty of other things to be doing at the time they are leaving you a comment, like wash dishes, wash clothes, put kids to bed, or one of a million [...] Read more:Thanks
So you decided to host an in-house SEO training bootcamp. What now? 2008-03-15 17:50:00 If you have decided to host an in-house SEO
training bootcamp, I say “Great!!!”. You may have people that don't know much about SEO right now, but with some training, you will end up with expert SEO people who are actually dedicated to making sure the SEO efforts work; not just the bottom line [...]
50 of the SEO Blogs I follow 2008-03-15 04:17:00 Actually, I have never counted the number of SEO
blogs that I follow, but the number seems to increase daily and I know it is over 50. 50 was the first number that came to mind for the title. Regardless, I just wanted to give credit where credit is due and highlight some [...] Read more:Blogs
Why should you cancel an SEO experiment? 2008-03-12 20:01:00 The answer is if you just don't have time on a consistent basis to make the results usable…which is where I am now. Sorry people…have to cancel it again. Read more:SEO
Find out how to make a Million $$$… 2008-03-09 16:50:00 …then tell me how to do it.
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