CategorySearch Engine Optimization

CopyBlogger has a fantastic five part tutorial on keyword research for bloggers. Really valuable stuff from Brian as usual.

This post on growing Organic Search Traffic to a Blog is by Ciaran McKeever who is the author of Chance Favors. Image by James @ NZ Although I’m not very tech savvy, for reasons that are beyond the scope of this post I have a very good working knowledge of ...more

If my inbox is anything to go by there’s an update going on at Google at the moment that seems to be going beyond just a shift in Page Rank. I’ve had ALOT of readers reporting shifts in both PR and back link numbers. Lots of discussion, speculation and guess ...more

Those looking to buy a new domain for a blog might find a post by Chris Webb titled Banned From Google – How I Finally Got Listed useful. In it Chris describes his struggle to get listed in Google and the discovery of how his domain was previously used by ...more

This email comes from a ProBlogger reader who wishes to remain anonymous: “Dear Darren, I have watched with interest the Google Page Rank fiasco (is there any other words for it) that happened recently. I am a blogger with numerous blogs who sells text links both privately and through a ...more

Rich from Scouta email to ask me: “When I do a Google search for b5media I get a really neat result that shows the major parts of your site (see image below). Is there a trick from a webmasters point of view to getting that result, or is it something ...more

Aaron Wall from SEObook has a good screen capture/video on Search Engine Optimization Friendly Page Titles for Bloggers today:

As often happens with updates at Google – today we see another adjustment in Page Ranks of many of the sites hit in the last couple of days. For example both of my blogs have recovered and returned to PR6. Not all have though – you can see a list ...more

Lets lighten the mood around here a little and have a little fun with this whole Page Rank Update – it’s time for a competition. The winner gets a 3 month subscription to Brian’s new Teaching Sells program – worth $97. If you’ve already bought it then you get a ...more