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Windows Live Writer – Most Popular Blog Posting Client
Once you get into the swing of things with writing on your blog, you’ll probably want to do some of your writing offline or all in one place. While many of the different blog CMS have great back ends for blogging in, they still don’t have everything you need in one place.
7 WordPress Plugins To Make SEO Life Easier
If you’re planning to build a new blog or simply re-establish your old one, make sure you consider using Wordpress. Wordpress is one of the easiest to use CMS’s available, and it actually allows for quite a bit of customization especially if you choose to do the manual install on your own server. Read the rest of this entry
Why Buy Links When You Can Easily Buy Websites?
In your attempt to rank for competitive keywords for your site, you’ve surely considered purchasing high quality links to send you some traffic and link juice. But did you ever think about buying sites instead of just links? Read the rest of this entry
How Important Are Short Tail Keywords?
Targeting keywords for your website can be rather difficult at times. There are a lot of direct keywords that you’ll want to focus on as a long term goal, but what about keywords that you can capitalize on in the here and now? Long tail keywords, or basically search phrases, often include your keyword or synonyms for it and are searched by individuals looking for something specific. “Toyota” probably wouldn’t be the term you start with when searching for a new car, but what about “Buy Used Toyota Yaris In Massachusetts”? That’s a perfect example of a long tail keyword. If your site fits that keyword phrase and you can capitalize on it, the visitor to your site is infinitely more important than the one who trails in from “Toyota”. Your site isn’t about Toyota, is it? But it is about selling cars in a specific place.
10 Tips For Refreshing Your SEO Knowledge
New to SEO or just looking for a quick refresher course? Perhaps you’re looking to point someone in the right direction so they don’t take the wrong first step forward?
If Content Is King, What’s Quantity?
Content is King. Period the end.
But how much content is the question?
You’ll hear many different answers regarding this question, and they all do hold some weight, but the truth of the matter is that we’ve already seen the results of this and can attest that quantity is the least important part of content when it comes to SEO.
Taking Advantage Of Page Strength
We’ve all come to accept the fact that Google really is the top dog when it comes to the search engine world, but that doesn’t mean that their tools are the best way to find out your sites visibility and reach. Relying on one source for this information is never smart anyways, the guys over at SEOmoz created what they call the “Page Strength Tool”. Where Google relies only on its own information, the Page Strength Tool pulls its information from not only Google, but Yahoo, Wikipedia, DMOZ, Alexa, de.licio.us, and Technorati to compile its information. Read the rest of this entry
Where Should You Look To Find Unique Content
Without content, your site is nothing. It’s a paid domain and hosting, like the skeleton in your high school science class, too fake to have ever really live and die. No matter how many inbound links you have from whatever page ranked site they are on, without content, you’ve got junk. Just because traffic comes to your site doesn’t mean it stays there. Without content, your bounce rate will be through the roof. Read the rest of this entry
Understanding Vertical Search
Not performing a general search? Then perhaps Google and Yahoo aren’t the places you should be looking. I know what you’re thinking, not using Google or Yahoo? But when you’re looking for specialized information, such as a job search or housing search, you would want to use a Vertical Search Engine. With the mounds of data that those two major search engines would spit back out at you if you tried to search for those options directly on there, using a vertical search engine like SimplyHired.com for job hunting or ZIPVO.com to find the perfect home, would provide you with results that wouldn’t be cluttered with irrelevant information. Read the rest of this entry
Google Insight For Search A Keyword Polling Substitute?
With the recent knock to those using 3rd party tools to get keyword results back from Google, it’s interesting to see that they’ve at least launched a solution that may fill the gap in some way. While you’re not going to get as direct of a readout and be on your way as you could do before, the launch of Google Insight For Search has at least improved upon the information you had previously gleamed from their Google Trends service.
