CategorySearch Engine Optimization

Wow – this is an interesting one. ProBlogger’s page rank is currently at a 4 – and so is Digital Photography School. I’d heard blogs had been penalized in their page rank recently for selling text links – bizarre thing is that neither of these two blogs sell links. I’ve ...more

Just minutes after my post about WidgetBucks went live it was indexed by Google. Readers reported seeing it ranked #1 for ‘widgetbucks’ just a few minutes after the post went up. I checked after 20 minutes and saw this – note the time reference ’23 minutes ago’. Lara noticed the ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_401849(); I get a lot of questions about Google’s Page rank and when it will update again. I’m not sure if people think I look like Matt Cutts or whether they think I’ve got some inside word – but the question hits my inbox quite a lot. ...more

Leon followed up my recent video post where I talked about anticipating what people will be searching for as a technique for growing your blog’s readership with a question: “How do you anticipate searches without sacrificing the quality of your posts?” Good question Leon – I’ve seen a number of ...more

Today I continue my interview with Aaron Wall – author of SEO Book. Also read Part I of my interview with Aaron Wall. What’s the best link building strategy you ever used? Creating free software and giving it away. It is unreal how many thousands of high quality links you ...more

Over the next couple of days you’re in for a treat because I’ve managed to secure an interview with Aaron Wall – a blogger and author that has literally added thousands (if not tens of thousands) to my own blogging earnings over the last few years as a result of ...more

One of the biggest sources of traffic on the web is Google (and it’s fellow search engines). As a result it makes sense that a blogger interested in building traffic to their blog would take some time to learn how Search Engines Rank sites. Today’s task in the 31 Day ...more

One of the most basic principles of search engine optimization is that the words that other sites use within the text of their links to you (called the anchor text) have an impact upon how your site ranks for those words. For example – if you want to rank well ...more

The official Google Webmaster Central Blog has a few interesting snippets for those interested in optimizing their blog for search engines: Should You Cross link Your Blogs? Many bloggers cross link between their blogs in the hope of getting a little Google Juice. I’ve done this for a long time ...more