CategorySearch Engine Optimization
Infographic: Is it Time to Consider SEO Automation?
This guest post is by William Tyree of SEO for Salesforce. Is it safe for bloggers to stop caring about SEO yet? Can we all just install an SEO plugin for WordPress and focus on creating quality content? If you read some of the problogger.net articles this year about how ...more
Search Engine Optimization
On the First Page of Google? Now What?
This guest post is by Keith Bishop of Online Digital Junkie. If your goal is to publish a lot of meaningless content that doesn’t get read, then you’re in the wrong place. On the other hand, if you desire your pages to engage and help the reader take some type ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Social Engagement is the Way Forward for SEO
This guest post is by Sanjeev Mohindra of Makewebworld. SEO is one of the most used—and most mysterious—words in the blogging world, but it is one of the best ways to gain free organic traffic for your blog. Till now, the strategy for SEO has been to create a new ...more
Search Engine Optimization
What About Google -1?
This guest post is by Sriram Reddy of BloggingTipster.com. Allen: Billy, Why are you looking so gloomy? Did your Twitter follower count halve overnight? Hehe… Billy: No, I just had such a cheesy experience Googling for material for Prof. Dwyer’s assignment. There was an unusual amount of spam in the ...more
Search Engine Optimization
What Google Search’s SSL Change Means for Your Blog
This guest post is by Oz of OzSoapbox. Secure Sockets Layer (or SSL to you and me) is an encryption standard most of us are familiar with using whenever we do something over the Internet that needs enhanced security. Whether it be banking, email, signing into a personal account, purchasing ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How Tumblr Helped Put My Site on Top
This guest post is by Ryan Shell of Fashables. I won’t even begin to act like I’m some sort of SEO ninja, because I’m not. What I do know is that a particular post on one of my sites has ranked in the top three spots on Google, with a ...more
Blog Promotion
Boost Your Blog #7: Interlink Your Posts
Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 7. Interlink your posts Another task that I try to do on a regular basis (not as regularly as I should!) is going back through old posts in my archives and looking ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Boost Your Blog #5: Check for Hot Posts
Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 5. Check your metrics for “hot posts” One of the tasks that I build into my own blogging on a monthly(ish) basis is to dig into Google Analytics. I do a number ...more
Search Engine Optimization
White-Hat SEO + Social Media = Link Bait Magic
This guest post is by Ben Jackson of SEODiscovery.org. You’re a blogger. You want traffic. You know between nothing and a lot about SEO? Perfect. Most people are intimidated by SEO and just as many have no clue what it’s all about. This is exactly why corporations waste thousands upon ...more
Search Engine Optimization