Planning for Your Website’s Future

Writing

When you are growing  your website, start out with a plan. Decide on the direction you want to go, not just for the moment, but a year from now, two years, even five years. Brick and mortar businesses develop five and sometimes ten year business plans. A lot of web entrepreneurs skip that part because […]

4 Myths About Guest Blogging

Guest Blogging

Writing a guest post for someone else’s blog is considered one of the best ways to market your website and bring in additional traffic. The theories behind this are: Your link will be accessible to the readers of another blog. When they read your post they may follow the link back to your site. Your […]

Google Thinks Article Marketing SUCKS

Article Marketing

Google Thinks Article Marketing SUCKS There are some VERY compelling statements made by Matt Cutts (head Engineer at Google) in a recent video. I strongly suggest that you watch this YouTube video right now.  It’s a huge wake up call for anyone who wants free traffic, especially if you have ever used article marketing in […]

Checking Out a Dofollow Blog with the Meta SEO Inspector (free)

dofollow-blog

If you are an SEO techie, then most probably you have wanted to check whether a site you are leaving a comment on is dofollow or not. Checking out for the presence of dofollow also applies to you if you want to generate free backlinks for your or blog by leaving comments on other blogs […]

What is Article Marketing in 2011?

article marketing in 2011

Article marketing has come a long way and now we are left with a nagging question; what is article marketing in 2011? At one stage article marketing simply meant submitting an article to a well known article directory such as Ezine Articles or Articlebase. However now article marketing in 2011 means so much more. My […]

5 SEO Tips to Fight Back After the Google Panda Update

google panda update

If you are one of the lucky ones that has not been affected by the Google Panda update, then hold on tight, because your turn might be coming. I believe that this is only one of many updates that Google is going to put into force. This recent Google Panda update has not cleared out […]

4 Back Link Building Techniques to Avoid Like the Plague

back link building

When you are a webmaster you can get sick of hearing about those dreaded back link building techniques that we all “have to do”. Well stop worrying because in this article I am going to tell you about back link building techniques that you need to keep right away from. I have been building websites […]

You Do NOT Need SEO To Blog – Told you!

You Don't Need SEO

Many of you saw a post I wrote that talks about how bloggers don’t really need SEO, called Ever Consider Blogging Without SEO. That post came from the heart, and it was meant to encourage people not to give up if they’re having difficulty getting over the “SEO hump”. You see, when I first started blogging […]

The Secrets Behind Natural Link Building

natural link building

You will read in many places that writing great articles is anything you need to get a lot of natural links to your website, to get a lot of shares on twitter and facebook and to drastically increase your search engine positioning. Well, this is the case if you have thousand of readers and visitors […]

What Do Search Engines Want?

Search Engines

If you’ve been to as many Internet conferences as I have you’ll know that the biggest topic is “traffic”, for without traffic your website is dead. Of course one could “pay” for traffic. (advertise). But what about that free traffic offered by Google (and others)? You know, — what if you could get Google to […]