Don’t quote (or fight) me on this, but I strongly believe that link building makes up about 90% of your SEO success.
There is only so much on-page optimization you can do to push your site up the SERP, but the rest of it will definitely come down to the quality (mostly) and quantity of your links.
The challenge for today: find 10 quality (by “quality” I mean high PR) links from relevant sites in about 30 minutes or so.
All using a free Firefox tool and some common-sense “super-duper secret” (yeah, right!) search engine queries.
Let’s get down to business. Keep Reading →
When was the last time you were excited about going to your dentist for a root canal?
That’s precisely my sentiment about HTML code validation.
Nonetheless, it’s something that needs to be done; so let’s talk about what it is, how to check it, and how to correct invalid code.
Even in our day and age of technological sophistication, search engine spiders are not the brightest things.
They struggle with reading all kinds of code like frames, Flash, and dynamically generated pages. If you don’t know what those are, do not despair – neither do I. I just know they are best to be avoided and that’s good enough for me. Keep Reading →
Traffic is something that many people long for. It’s almost like a stamp in the book of your travel and progression.
The more traffic you get, the more successful and perfect you and your website are, right? Well, I’ll tell you right now, that’s a huge misconception that needs to be cleared up.
The Problem With Google Analytics
About every morning I check my Google Analytics account to see how my traffic is looking.
Your traffic is, for all intents and purposes, useless to the average webmaster. Unless you are selling advertising space, it’s really not important. Keep Reading →
As this is the first time posting here at TechnShare I thought I might talk about something close to my heart and something that – if you want longevity in your blogging career should be close to your heart too, Keywords.(those familiar with my blog are rolling their eyes right now
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Now whether you are an SEO expert or just starting out with internet marketing, keyword research and optimisation is paramount to your success. No matter what anyone tries to tell you about the power of social media and building a community around your blog and blah blah blah, underlying all of this is a Keyword optimised page. Keywords are the foundations of your blogging longevity because long after you have given up friending people and Tweeting Del.icio.us content to your Social circle, your indexed pages are sitting pretty in front of the eyes of thousands of hungry targeted Googlites.
Still not convinced? Here’s two interesting facts that might sway your opinion slightly.
- There are more than 120 billion searches done each month, that equates to around 166 million every hour of every day.
- According to tracked statistics, over 80% of online transactions begin with a keyword search.
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