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Is Your WordPress Theme Hindering Your Results?

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Part of my job as an SEO analyst is to identify problems with clients’ websites, whether that be issues with coding, images, internal linking structure or anything else that could be hindering their site. Generally when it comes to an HTML built … [Read more...]

Battle of the Social Media’s Round 1 Winner – Digg

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So, Digg barely pulls off the W over Reddit in a shocking upset I must say. With the new layout change going on over at Digg I am wondering if that might have skewed the results just a bit. But it doesn’t matter, because you all seem to love Digg … [Read more...]

The Battle of the Social Media’s Reddit vs. Digg

RESULTS: Winner - Digg While I’m sure it has been done before, I am going to try and settle the heavily debated topic of which of the social media sites are the best in terms of visibility, SEO value, and overall buzz. Every couple of weeks or so, … [Read more...]

10 Steps to Starting up a Website

I was working on a client site and doing a site analysis for them when it hit me that if you follow certain steps when initially creating your website, you can avoid a lot of SEO problems that could come later on. These steps might not help you avoid … [Read more...]

Top 7 Most Important WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have

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Running a Successful Blog – Overview

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Running a Successful Blog – Blog Tracking

So you have been reading over the past few tips I’ve been talking about and you’ve even implemented some of them. Now it is time for you to track whether or not they are working for you.  You might be wondering which tracking program is best for … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – Blog Maintenance

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Maintaining your blog will be extremely important if you want to have a successful site. If you don’t keep your blog maintained, you run the risk of your blog breaking, or worse your blog being hacked or spammed. Today we are going to talk about … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – How Often Should I Update the Blog?

So you have started a blog and you are really excited about it, so excited that on the first day of having it running you throw up four or five posts. The 2nd day you throw up another four posts and continue doing that for the next week or so. Now … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – Social Media

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Welcome back to another exciting edition of how to run a successful blog. This week I am going to talk about the social media aspect when running your blog including some tips on what to do and what not to do when submitting your site/posts. I will … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – Writing Blog Posts

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I am back!! I know some of you probably missed me while others probably didn’t notice. I was away for about two weeks due to my wife having our first child. Anyways I figured it was time to jump right back into where we left off in my series about … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – Finding the Right Niche

At first glance, finding the right niche to blog about seems like an easy task.  All you have to do is find something that you are interested in and can write intelligently about and you’ve got yourself a blog. No problem right?  Well sometimes, … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – Setting up a Blog

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So you want to start a blog but you don’t know where to begin. Well you have come to the right place. Over the next few weeks, I will be giving you some advice on how to setup and maintain your very own blog. Almost all of my examples will be based … [Read more...]

Running a Successful Blog – How to Setup and Maintain Blogs

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Blogs, blogs and more blogs… It seems that if you do not have a blog these days, something is wrong with you and you are behind the times. Everyone seems to have a blog whether it is for personal rants or for business use you just can’t escape … [Read more...]

The Holiday Season is over…What should I do now for SEO?

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With the holiday season about to wrap up or wrapping up now you are probably wondering what to do next.  Well first things first do not delete or remove your holiday pages off your site. You have been building those pages up for the past three to … [Read more...]

4 Signs That Your Shopping Cart is not SEO Friendly

With the Holiday season coming closer and closer to wrapping up, now is a good time to evaluate your shopping cart. Granted, you should have evaluated your cart prior to the holiday season, but back then you didn’t have this helpful blog post to … [Read more...]

5 Tools that Will Help with Your Backlinks

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Well happy turkey day everyone! What better way to kick off the holiday season than with some tools to help manage and grow your backlinks. In earlier blog posts, I have gone over some of these tools before but not in that great of detail. This time … [Read more...]

The Importance of Link Building: Diminishing Value of Links

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Who would have thought that your links would lose value as time goes on. Well it does happen, just look at your press releases and your articles for distribution, ok well its obvious that those are going to lose value, right? But what about those one … [Read more...]

5 Reasons why SEO Campaigns Fail

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There are countless reasons why an SEO campaign can fail, but we are only going to talk about 5 today. I’m sure many of you SEO’s have countless stories to tell about how an SEO campaign failed, whether it was your fault or something the client … [Read more...]

6 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Site

So you have your site and it is all pretty and awesome yet no one is visiting it. You have optimized the titles and you have optimized your content, yet you still are not seeing any new visitors. There are a number of reasons why this is happening … [Read more...]

How Do You Measure Your Online Success?

When you start an SEO campaign you should have a goal that you wish to reach. Whether your goal is gaining more sales, leads, or just overall more traffic/visitors on a daily basis, you should have a way of reporting this. It is very important that … [Read more...]

How do I get my Website on a Search Engine?

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How many times have you sat down and started talking to a potential client and the first words out of their mouth are: “How do I get my website on or to the top of the Search Engines?” How are we as search engine optimizers suppose to answer that … [Read more...]

How do you Twitter?

I’ve recently gotten more and more into Twitter. I used to only use it as a tool to try and get traffic to my client’s sites as well as my personal sites. Only recently have I started playing with it a bit more and testing with Twitter what works … [Read more...]

7 Website Issues that Could be Hindering your Organic Rankings

So you just started a website or you have had your website up for awhile now but you can’t seem to figure out why you are not moving up in the search engines.  Well there could be a number of things that are hindering your rankings. But here are … [Read more...]

How to Set up Your .htaccess File for SEO

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About a month ago I got a task to create an .htaccess file for a client. At the time, I had no real knowledge of the subject so I had to do research, which as many people know, can be a bit boring at times especially on subjects that we really have … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Overview

Well after about two months I am finished with my series on how to run successful link building campaigns (though the link building landscape is constantly changing so this type of blog post could pop up again). I hope you all have learned something … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Linking Campaign – Blogs

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a fun and safe Labor Day weekend. This will be the finale to my blog series on how to run a successful link building. Today I will be talking about how you can use blogs as a way to build backlinks. I could write a … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Press Releases and Article Distribution

Welcome back to the seventh installment of how to run a successful link building campaign. Last week I talked a little bit about reciprocal linking and one-way linking. This week I am going to try and tackle Press Releases (PR) and Article … [Read more...]

How to run a successful Link Building Campaign – Reciprocal Linking and One Way Linking

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Welcome back to the sixth installment of my link building series. Last week I talked about blog commenting and forum linking. This week’s topic is on reciprocal and one way linking and how you can be successful with it. Reciprocal Linking - I know … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Blog Comments & Forum Linking

Welcome back, this week we are going to dive into the topic of Blog Comments and Forum linking. Last week we talked about directories, and how you can still benefit from them if you use them correctly. Blog comments and forum linking are very … [Read more...]

How to run a successful link building campaign – Directories

Welcome back to another exciting installment of how to run a successful link building campaign. Last week I talked about link modifications, this week we are moving on to directories. This one may bring in some debates (I am hoping :) ) as some … [Read more...]

How To Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Link Modifications

Welcome back to another edition of how to run successful link building campaigns, last week I talked about how to be successful with social linking, this week I will be talking about link modifications. What a link modification is is a backlink you … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Social Linking/Networking

Last week I talked about how I was going to be doing a seven part series on how to run a successful link building campaign and where you should begin. This week I will be talking about social linking (or as it’s more commonly known: social … [Read more...]

How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Where to Begin

Link building is one of the most important factors you need to consider when running a SEO campaign. Most SEO campaigns can fall short in this area and one of the main reasons is because of the time and effort that goes in to link building. Over the … [Read more...]

Can Google Compete with the likes of Digg and or other Major Social Sites

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Google recently launched its own version of Digg called “What’s Popular”. This tool is an addon for your iGoogle page if you have one. Within What’s Popular, you can view the most recent, most popular or the most relevant stories, images or … [Read more...]