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Wow, Look At Me Now – getting attention for your website
Continuing on the theme of useful tools to have on your website, today’s topic is pinging. “Pinging” your site to ping directories is in effect sending an electronic message asking them to pay attention to your site, and to visit you to check out your new content. The good news is, it can be done [...]
Continue reading...How not to get swindled by “SEO experts”
17. May 2011
Today’s post is an article by Ana Hoffman of Traffic Generation Cafe. Thanks for these useful tips Ana! A day doesn’t go by that I don’t receive an email that tells me how I can finally afford to buy a bunch of high-quality high-PR links for peanuts. Or the ones that tell me that, [...]
Continue reading...Getting your website found locally
12. April 2011
Hello again, In the last in my series of posts of essential tools, I’m going to talk about an OFFsite tool that can still really help your website in local searches. The tool is Google Places (http://places.google.com/business), a free-to-register Google tool. By registering your place (or places) of business, and completing the profile in full, [...]
Continue reading...Helping the search engines find YOU!
6. April 2011
Here is the next in my series of “useful tools for your WordPress site” – and in fact this particular concept can (and should!) be used on any website! The tool is… SITEMAPS! The WordPress plugin that I use is “Google XML Sitemaps” – and after you install it and build your first site map [...]
Continue reading...YouTube : it’s so simple to get your own video online!
27. August 2010
I’ve had a lot of really positive feedback on the video blogging I do on this blog, so I thought I’d show you how quick & easy it is to upload your own video from your computer. Video is becoming increasingly popular on many websites, and none more so than YouTube. YouTube is now used [...]
Continue reading...Google AdWords vs. Free Search Engine Rankings
25. August 2010
I usually get my clients involved in doing some keyword research of their own, with some pointers & advice from me if it’s a new topic for them. They’re the experts in their businesses, and may have more ideas for keyword phrases to get started with their keyword research than someone who knows little of [...]
Continue reading...5 Common SEO Mistakes
19. August 2010
Since SEO presents the biggest opportunity to generate high quality leads (and lots of ‘em!) it’s important to get things right – so have a read of some common mistakes , and how to avoid them. 1. Using Keywords More Important to You Than Your Customers It’s pretty common for websites to over
Continue reading...Spicing up your blog posts
14. August 2010
With SO many websites available to us now, and attention spans shortening with each passing year, it’s important to make your blog visually eye-catching, as well as attention-grabbing with your written content. I do this in my blog posts by using stock photos and my own videos, sometimes together. Today’s video will show you how [...]
Continue reading...Permalinks, SEO and your visitors
7. August 2010
Don’t you wish ALL web pages had URLs (or links) that just made sense? So if you’re reading a recipe for pumpkin soup, the link will be www.myrecipes.com/best-pumpkin-soup-recipe … and NOT www.myrecipes.com/?p=834 ! WordPress has a simple solution to this problem – and I strongly recommend… in fact, I INSIST … that you watch this [...]
Continue reading...One way to check your website rankings
4. August 2010
Today I’m going to show you one way of monitoring your website’s rankings. As with many stats, they aren’t totally accurate, but are useful as an indication of the general health of your website.
Continue reading...The importance of your “About” page
21. June 2010
I’ve recently been chatting to a few new website clients about their pages, and two of them have asked me, “why have a Home page AND an About page” – so we talked about the importance of getting your primary message across on your home page. When someone visits your website, chances are they want [...]
Continue reading...Review: useful plugin for pinging
14. June 2010
For those of you who have been doing stuff on the internet for a little while, you will most likely know that one good way of getting your website noticed is to have good Page Rank (with the likes of Google or Alexa). SEO – Search Engine Optimization – on your pages and blog posts [...]
Continue reading...Simple SEO techniques part 3 : All In One SEO plugin
23. May 2010
As we head into the middle of the year, perhaps it’s a good time to refresh some stale “New Years Resolutions” One of my business ones was to “do more SEO” on my websites! All my clients have this very useful & important accessory included when I build their WordPress sites : it’s the “All [...]
Continue reading...Simple SEO techniques part 2 : don’t ‘Click Here’
21. May 2010
Linking with Search Terms Rather than ‘Click Here’ It has been a common mistake since the Internet began for websites to use ‘click here’ or ‘read more’ links to take the visitor to internal pages. Not only is this bad for accessibility, as it doesn’t say where the link is taking the visitor, but it [...]
Continue reading...Simple SEO techniques part 1: Slugs & Permalinks
19. May 2010
* SEO = Search Engine Optimisation Many website and blog users may have heard of the term “SEO”, but how many of us really know what it is and how to do something about it? Here is the first of a few posts explaining a few simple techniques to use in WordPress. Tip #1 – [...]
Continue reading...Keywords #1 – why keyword research?
16. May 2010
When you have your own website, there is often the temptation to add all sorts of fancy “bells & whistles” to it, to tell the world all about you or your business. It’s exciting!! But there is something else to think about : do your potential customers want all those bells & whistles? Do they [...]
Continue reading...SEO tips for the images on your website
7. May 2010
Most search engines find it too expensive to “read” pictures and convert what they see into search terms that would be useful to their users, so it’s up to you, as the owner of your own website, to maximise what YOU can do to get your images found. (This applies especially to websites which rely [...]
Continue reading...6 On-page Optimisation Tips
20. April 2010
Here’s a useful summary of some top on-page SEO tips, that I jotted down after listening to an online interview today. Some have been touched on in my “7 Top SEO Tips Report“.
Continue reading...How to work with keyword niches
15. April 2010
In my free report “7 Top SEO Tips” I mention that it’s important to use keyword phrases that you have researched, and never use single words (e.g. “money”, “diet”, “exercise” etc.) – you’ll be wasting your time & efforts that way!(And wasting money too, if you use Adwords or any other PPC service.) I read [...]
Continue reading...SEO Tip : Move your website to WordPress!
29. March 2010
It’s 2010, and the website platform of choice (from experts in the Internet Marketing industry to your local restaurant review website) is WordPress. Here are the top 5 reasons people are moving to WordPress:
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