Tag Archive | "search engine visibility"
Middle of the Challenge
Hello everyone, well, it’s half-way through April, and half-way through the Ultimate Blog Challenge – wow! Thanks again to Michelle and Michele for organising it… I think I’d forgotten just how dedicated you have to be to create a post a day! Today (or rather, tonight… late!) I’m just going to tell you about something [...]
Continue reading...Getting your website found locally
Tuesday, April 12, 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!
Wednesday, April 6, 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...Social Media – why you should be doing it!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’ve been working on a new package for some of my website clients, to help them get started with Social Media accounts. For people not yet into the world of Social Media, it can seem quite overwhelming, and a bit trivial! After all, we’ve all heard the stories about people diarising their every move, and [...]
Continue reading...Tracey’s Top Tip – my video-making tool
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hello again, Having reached the end of August, and the end of the 30-day Blogging Challenge with Faith Barnard, I have realised how powerful short videos are in getting a message across succinctly and simply. A lot of people are visual learners it seems, and it’s great to be able to follow a short video [...]
Continue reading...Setting up Google Analytics
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Google Analytics is a very versatile and useful tool to enable tracking of a host of things on your website: traffic volumes, the country of origin, whether they came to your site through search engines or direct links, what search terms visitors used (if they came from search engines) – and a whole lot more. [...]
Continue reading...5 Common SEO Mistakes
Thursday, August 19, 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...How to give your top commentators some “link love”
Thursday, August 12, 2010
There are many ways to encourage people to leave comments on your blog … Shameless begging! The “Comment Luv” plugin Bribery and this useful plugin which I tell you about in the following video…
Continue reading...Rants and rankings
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
I’m going to talk about less technical things today – because I’m in a bit of a huff, and although the reason is technical… the cause is someone’s poor attitude! Now, I don’t pretend to know a huge amount about WordPress, despite having created sites for over 2 & 1/2 years – no one can [...]
Continue reading...Permalinks, SEO and your visitors
Saturday, August 7, 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...A few rules for blogging
Thursday, April 22, 2010
It’s well known that blogs are great tools when it comes to site visibility and search engine friendliness, and here are a few ideas that are worthwhile keeping in mind when you write your blog posts: Keep it simple — Blogs should be quick reads. Keep the appearance, navigation (e.g. with links) & interaction clean [...]
Continue reading...6 On-page Optimisation Tips
Tuesday, April 20, 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...SEO Tip : Move your website to WordPress!
Monday, March 29, 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:
Continue reading...Resources for images
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
On modern websites, visual appeal is rated very highly – the choice of colours, fonts, layouts… and images! A good picture to illustrate a post or a page can lift it from the mundane to the outstanding, particularly if the image quality is good. In the maze of photo resources available online, where can you [...]
Continue reading...Is your website visible to search engines?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
If your site is not brand new, there is every chance that it is already indexed by the search engines. Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. Go to Google and in the search box, type in “site: <yourdomainname.com>” and check the results that are returned. You [...]
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