Posts Tagged with "SEO"

The Google Freak Out

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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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 [...]

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Get On The First Page Of Google Using Craigslist

Monday, January 19, 2009

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This post will show you how to use Craigslist for SEO purposes and make the front page of Google for a given keyword.

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How To Improve The Search Feature Of Your WordPress Blog

Monday, December 22, 2008

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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.

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No More DoFollow For Me!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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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 [...]

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Helping the iPhone community, one step at a time

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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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 [...]

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12 WordPress plugins I can’t live without

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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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 [...]

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6 Tools To Find The Right Keywords

Sunday, May 25, 2008

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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

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10 Tips To Improve Your SEO

Monday, May 19, 2008

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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 [...]

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Essential strategies to consider when adding a blog to your site

Friday, May 16, 2008

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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.

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Optimizing your URLs

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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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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