All Entries Tagged With: "SEO"
Title Tags – Make the First Word Count
Meta Tags can be so confusing when tending to your website’s SEO. So I thought I’d give a few tips on writing your site’s Title Tag. You might think that would be the easiest one, because most people put their business name as their Title Tag. But that’s actually, in most cases, the least beneficial [...]
Is Your Site Speed Hurting Your Google Ranking?
Did you know that the speed of your website can affect your Google ranking? Website speed has been a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since last year. Google says it’s not the most important factor, out of around 200 different ranking factors. But since it is a factor, it is worth paying at least a [...]
Counting Social Signals from Google and Bing
Just a quick link to share from the Search Engine Land blog. It’s a fabulous article that gives a lot of extremely helpful information on whether or not and how social signals are impacting website page ranks at Google and Bing. What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count? Read that article to find [...]
Does Google Page Rank Still Matter?
I’ve talked about this before at OBJ but like a good wine, good SEO talk never goes out of style. Google Page Rank is worth talking about from time to time, even if it might not be as important as it was once perceived to be. As a refresher and simply put, Google’s Page Rank [...]
Comments, Links and SEO
In my last post called Link Party Anyone? I talked about joining link parties to help generate some traffic to your blog. I thought it was important that I now talk about Link Parties and SEO, and what link parties can’t do for your own blog or website’s SEO. And additionally, I’ll talk about comments [...]
Backlinks In
I just added a new link to our Backlinks Checkers resource page. Thought I’d share that link with you in case you’d like to try it out. Backlinks are very important for your site’s link popularity and placement in the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages), so it’s always a good idea to keep a watchful [...]
Comment Luv
There’s a neat plugin for all you self-hosted WordPress users out there that is great to use for your blog comments. It’s called Comment Luv. It lets your blog commenters link back not just to their main blog URL, but to their latest blog post or article. Their blog feed is fetched from their site [...]
Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog
A lot of people are blogging these days for business. They might be using their blog as a means of establishing a web presence, and it’s a great free way to do that. Or they may be using their blog as a marketing tool, advertising sales, specials, new products and services and the like. Many [...]
Page Rank Explained
For those of you who are confused by what “Page Rank” means, I have found a great website that explains it quite well. It should help take a bit of the mystery out of it, for anyone who is scratching their head on the subject. Page Rank Explained
SEO Tune-Up for Your Website
I just found two great online tools that can help you make some SEO improvements to your website. And by doing that, you’re increasing your site’s potential for increased traffic. So take a peek and see if these tools can help you and your website. Spider Simulator This website will crawl your site from the [...]
Reader Question on SEO and Blogger Vs. WordPress
Cathy of Cathy’s Creations wrote to ask me two questions. She wanted to know how a person who is not a “techie” goes about doing SEO on their site. She also wanted to know if Blogger or WordPress is the better blog host, and if one gets crawled by the SE’s better? Here are my [...]
Why Use Text Links Instead of Buttons?
There seems to be a debate between using text links for a website’s categories and using button image links. Text links tend to be the preferred option where search engine optimization is concerned, as the spiders and bots that crawl websites cannot “see” images, which is what button links are. But I thought this would [...]
Things You Should Know Before You Open an Online Biz
Sometimes I am really amazed at what people do not know when they start an online business. I think that as an online business owner, if you are serious about your business and your success online, then there are just some basic things you should know at the get-go. I’m talking mostly about things related [...]
Top Reasons Online Businesses Fail
Online businesses come and go by the millions every single day. If you’re looking for success as an online business owner, then examining the reasons for the failure of many online businesses is a good, proactive approach to preventing your own failure. Some of the reasons all by themselves are not enough to make a [...]
