They say it is better to see once than to hear 100 times. That is why most websites make use of visuals at least to some extent. There are also certain types of sites (stock photography sites or photography blogs) that CONSIST primarily of images. For such websites, ranking highly in Google Images is often [...]
Google & Ranking
Have you heard about the art of article spinning? In short, article spinning is a search engine optimization technique by changing an existing article around to have it read differently in hopes that the search engine won’t detect the duplicate content. I know many internet marketers who run multiple blogs. Believe me, coming up with [...]
The introduction of Google Panda in late February, 2011 represents a laudable attempt to increase user satisfaction among Google’s enormous user base. Users surf the Web everyday for a huge variety of topics and are the driving force behind the huge advertising revenue which Google generates each month. Before Google Panda was introduced, junk content [...]
Google’s Farmer update has caused quite the stir. You often see phrases like “article marketing is dead” and “Google hates article marketing.” So many sites lost their page rank and traffic after Google’s algorithm change, but others actually gained traffic. Since both used article marketing, it’s made everyone wonder whether article marketing works or not. [...]
Keyword Research can seem deceptively simple. At first glance you are looking for terms you can compete for that have a decent monthly search volume. Pretty simple, right? Well there’s a bit more to it… I call it the “balancing act” and it involves weighing out three separate factors when doing your keyword research:
Do you want to know how to get good traffic to your website; you want to let the world know that you have some properties on your blog location (your website domain). Have you tried all the traffic generation techniques that you know but nothing seems to be working for you? Wait, you are not [...]
I am sure you are thinking, what else could my blog possibly need? Including some crazy acronym like LSI. I am going to tell you what LSI is and why your blog desperately needs it. What is LSI? If you have been in blogging for any amount of time, you will know the importance of [...]
An Idea That Changed Everything Although we hear the term *backlinks* a lot, many do not know *why* backlinks are important to rankings. In fact, very few realize that Google’s original name was *backrub*. The co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been working together on a search engine they called *backrub* since early [...]
Perhaps awesome is an overused word, like viral, transparency, and mama grizzly—but it’s still entirely applicable when talking about a niche blog done right. We’ve all read blogs by jacks of all trades who are masters of none, and while there’s nothing wrong with variety in a blog, there’s something to be said for focusing [...]
What’s a blog without traffic and human activity (comments)? You may have realized that with blogging it’s not true that ‘if you build it, they’ll come”. It’s not about how good your content is, it’s traffic power that counts because there are a million and one equally good contents on the web. However, with ‘traffic [...]
