CategorySearch Engine Optimization

Are you interested in ranking higher in the search engines for your content? If so – you should download this completely free report (there’s no registration needed and no obligation to do anything to get it) from Scribe. It’s called How to Create Compelling Content that Ranks Well in Search ...more

In this post Mark Hayward shares some search engine optimization tips for small business blogs. image source: smemon87 When it comes to your small business blog, do you care about search engine optimization? I think many small business owners would like to have a better understanding of search engine optimization ...more

This is an unofficial extra task for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. Today I spent the morning working on a task that I try to do at least once a month – SEO on individual key posts in my archives. While it’s important to know and ...more

Have you ever heard the statement – “Write for People not Search Engines“? It’s a teaching that many bloggers have heard that encourages bloggers not to compromise the quality of their blog posts in order to get search engine traffic. The temptation that some bloggers fall into is writing the ...more

Over the last few weeks I’ve had three conversations with readers regarding different sources of traffic. In each case I had a number of email exchanges with each blogger (all on the same day) and ended up laughing to myself at the common theme but extremely different opinions being expressed ...more

“I just lost all my Google traffic – help!” This request hits my inbox every week or two from a distraught blogger who has logged into the blog’s statistics one morning only to discover that most of their traffic has completely disappeared due to the all powerful Google making some ...more

This is a guest-post from AdesBlog.com. Follow Ades on twitter @ades. We all know that content is king and that if you keep blogging… if you keep doing what you love… the traffic and the money will follow suit. While that’s partially true, there is also things that you can ...more

Yesterday on Twitter I made this remark: “A change I’ve noticed from the ‘old days’ of blogging – people don’t link when they quote you as much as they used to.” The replies to my tweet were quite varied – some agreed while some disagreed – some argued that a ...more

Earlier today I had a debate via instant messaging with another blogger who told me that Search Engine Optimization doesn’t make any difference any more. They argued that you just need to provide good content and search engine rankings look after themselves. While I see where the blogger comes from ...more