Something that freaks me out more than anything online is seeing some of my websites or pages disappearing from Google’s index from time to time. There is generally a good reason for that to happen and troubleshooting the issue quickly and thoroughly can help you save tons of “leaking traffic”. I had a similar problem [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
This post will show you how to use Craigslist for SEO purposes and make the front page of Google for a given keyword.
Continue reading...Monday, December 22, 2008
I do think both solutions I will talk about in this post are much better at delivering very good search results for your WordPress blog. By "good search results", I mean results that are relevant to your search query and sorted by relevance.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
A while back, when I started this blog, I installed the DoFollow plugin which removes the nofollow attribute of the URL of your commenters and any URL included in the comment itself. The reason I installed this plugin was to quickly get many backlinks to this blog. Indeed, when your blog is “dofollow”, you get featured [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 8, 2008
For those of you who don’t know yet, I operate an iPhone blog that’s getting quite some attention lately. We average between 8,000 and 10,000 visits per day and I had to hire 2 co-bloggers (Alicia and Cody) to help me satisfy our readers’ hunger for iPhone news, tips, hacks and cracks. I got in touch [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
I have 3 different blogs (1, 2, 3) that are powered by WordPress, which is without a doubt the best blogging platform out there. The good thing with WordPress is that it is open source, which means anyone can create plugins to improve WordPress’ backend to fit one’s needs. There are 12 plugins that I find [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 25, 2008
Targeting the right keywords for your website is critical. There are many keywords generators available and MakeUseOf.com listed the 6 best tools available to research specific keywords. Google Keyword Tool WordTracker Free Edition Google Suggest SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool Good Keywords Keyword Discovery
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
Here is the summary of a blog entry posted this morning on SearchEngineLand.com. This post gives 10 tips on how to improve your search engine optimization: Do your keyword research Stay in touch with the SEO world, read blogs, websites, etc… Get the most of your code; use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Make navigation easy so bots can easily [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 16, 2008
This video is from SEOmoz. Although pretty basic, Rand gives some good ideas on how to make the most of your blog. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-Blogging for Higher Rankings from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
A study by MarketingSherpa demonstrated that the URL affects searcher clickthrough rates in the Search Engine Results Pages. More specifically, the study shows that short URLs get clicked on twice as often as long URLs. Here are the best practices to get the best out of your URLs: The fewer the parameters in your dynamic [...]
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
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