If you’re serious about blogging, you need your own web hosting. Period. You can get by on free services like Blogger or Wordpress.com if you want, but, sooner or later, you’ll suffer from your lack of control. You site may go down and you’ll have no recourse but to pick up the [...]
That’s right. If you act now, you can be the proud owner of this website! Posts, links, template, domain… you get the whole shebang, all for the low, low price of $34,436.94!
What, no takers? I can’t say I’m surprised, although it’s fun to entertain the thought. In case you’re not familiar [...]
How do you build valuable inbound links, enhance your website’s credibility, expand your portfolio, and possibly make some money, all in one step? The answer is to go write for someone else’s website. That’s right; whether as a guest blogger, an article author, or a paid contributor, writing for someone else’s site can [...]
My bosses are absolutely crazy about the work of the internet marketing guru Derek Gehl, so naturally I read his feeds. A recent post on his blog highlighted a blogging tool that was just too interesting to resist, so I decided to give it a try. Called Feed 2 Podcast, it reads an [...]
It’s hardly the method of choice for most SEOs, but sending link request emails can still be a useful link building strategy. After all, criticisms aside, it produces completely organic links; another webmaster looks at your website and may or may not decide to link to it. That you requested they do so [...]
Counting posts only gives you a partial picture of the size of your blog. After all, you may write a long post one day and a short post the next, but that doesn’t answer the real question: How much have you actually written?
That’s the question my first WordPress plugin, Words Written, sets out [...]
It’s fun to be the local SEO guru sometimes. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of explaining some of SEO’s more risque jargon terms to my fellow IT coworkers. I couldn’t help but feel like I was teaching a class on sexual education, especially considering their reactions.
The explanation began when I mentioned the word [...]
I read a ton of blogs and I rarely unsubscribe from a feed. After all, if I like a blog enough to subscribe to it, I’ll generally want to keep reading it. I find, however, that my status as a regular reader of any blog can be quickly abolished based on a single [...]
Most bloggers and webmasters with any kind of an eye for SEO have known about the rel=”nofollow” attribute for some time. Often referred to by the colorful nickname “link condom,” it’s a way of tagging a link with zero trust. Search engines will take it as a signal not to pass value (a.k.a. [...]
I read a lot about SEO, probably more than could be considered healthy. I took a look at my Google Reader subscriptions today and noticed how much the list of feeds has grown over the years. I’ve got most of what you’d normally expect: Bruce Clay, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Land, SEL, SEOMoz, [...]