Archive for June, 2009

Blogging Can Be Great For Link Building – Or Can It?

There is a popular suggestion that blogging is great for building links and to a certain extent the suggestion is correct. However, if you don’t understand the concept behind blogging and how it helps to build links, you may find you are spending a lot of time and money for very little reward.
Having several blogs [...]

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Use Keyword Research To Target Results Rather Traffic

Sometimes we are so caught up in trying to increase traffic, we forget what the intent of our website is. Keyword research should be based on results rather than simply traffic on its own. This probably sounds contrary to what you have read in the past, but traffic for the sake of traffic is not [...]

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Is Your Web Design Task Based?

Having your web design developed around a series of tasks is a suggestion that has come out of, of all places, Google Adsense blog. I generally find that a lot of what Google serves up as advice is actually an attempt to undermine the efforts of SEO consultants. This time around, they are promoting what [...]

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

The Pitfalls Of Using Online Advertising To Gain Income

Online advertising is probably the life blood of the online world. Hundreds of thousands of online entities pay to advertise on other sites and this is matched a hundred times over by the number of websites (blogs included) that publish these ads. Whilst they can be income earners, there are several pitfalls to look out [...]

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Does Your Web Design Lack Site Search – You Could Be Losing Customers

Incorporating site search into their web design seems to be the last thing on most webmasters’ minds these days, yet this one addition could be the one touch that makes or breaks a site. I recently wrote how site search could benefit the webmaster in their keyword research and touched on how it could help [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Link Building Or Traffic Building – Whats More Important?

That may sound like a dumb question but when you speak to some webmasters you would swear that link building was the only thing. The problem with concentrating on link building is that it is kind of like putting all your eggs in one basket – and right now, that basket is about to fall [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

How To Boost Your SEO Using Long Tail Keywords

There are probably thousands of posts on the Internet describing how to find long tail keywords and describing how they can boost your SEO. I won’t go into how to find those long tails; there is plenty of information available, including a post we published on long tail keywords back in May.
What you may be [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Should You Keep Your Blogging Software Up To Date?

WordPress has released a new update to their popular blogging tool and thousands have downloaded and installed the latest release. Why not? There are not many software programs that come free of charge with unlimited updates. It also helps to be the number one blogging tool in use at present.
It does, however, raise the issue [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Here Is One Good Reason Why Moderating Comments Is A Must

Moderating comments can be a real pain in the proverbial, however, if you don’t, the pain could be greater. Blogs are fairly well covered with anti spam tools like Akismet but like everything in life, it is not perfect. If a comment happens to sneak past Akismet or any of the other anti-spam tools you [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

How To Handle SEO When Using Secure Pages

Implementing SEO programs on a website can be a time consuming affair when you first start and for webmasters their site is, well, just their site. By this I mean, the site is just one entity. This is often the first basic mistake that many webmasters make.
In reality, your site is made up of many [...]

Sunday, June 21st, 2009