SEO

30 Days to a Better Blog from SITS Girls

July 27, 2011

I’m posting all the steps here cause the Challenge is done but I’m not. This way I can keep working through all the steps even if I only get one each week. See The SITS Girls site for more and future events. Day 01 – Write an Elevator Speech Day 02 – Write a List [...]

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Don’t Let your Blog Tags get you Down

December 22, 2010

Tags are getting me down. I spent time working on my categories and have them pretty good. Only pretty good. In the case of tags it is a massive mess. I want/ need something that will auto suggest tags for me. Rather than me trying to weed out a few from the huge list and [...]

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Write a Twitter Bio that gets Noticed

October 15, 2010

Keep it simple, you only have 160 characters to work with. Not enough space to explain a lot about yourself. Yet, it needs to be kept uncomplicated. Look up shorter, more direct words in a thesaurus, as needed. Add some personality but keep out anything you don’t want your Mother, boss, children, etc to read. [...]

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The Cause of the Personal Blogger

August 5, 2010

Kirsten is taking up the cause of the Personal Blogger. I find it hard to stick to writing about blogging, publishing or writing from the personal perspective. Somewhere along the way it dips into getting comments, traffic and readers and then you find yourself in the land of the SEO gurus who want to sell [...]

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Are Blog Archives Too Old Fashioned?

November 6, 2009

What are reasons to keep an archive on your blog? We have categories and tags. An archive may seem a bit prehistoric or overkill, especially when they aren’t search able and just sit there all static and growing old. Tony Briley started this discussion on the CMF Ads forum. Reasons for keeping an archive on [...]

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How To Build Your Own Web Directory

October 28, 2009

Once upon a time I was an editor in the great Dmoz (Open Directory Project) web directory. I stayed there about ten years as an active editor. Now I am editing in the BOTW directory. I still like adding sites, caring for and maintaining a list for a topic I am passionate about. However, it [...]

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Pretty Simple Site Promotion Ignored

July 28, 2009

It bugs me when I go to a business or charity type of site and find they have nothing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of contacting anyone online but they are often really skimpy on content too. What are they saving it for? Why [...]

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Simple SEO for Your Site

June 16, 2009

Have a look at URL Appraisal for fun, mainly. See what it says your domain is worth. I think anything not on it’s own domain is already going to score low from this SEO based site. WordGrrls was appraised at $512.80. I had a look at what they recommend for simple things you can do [...]

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Does SEO Influence Your Writing?

May 14, 2009

One Question Interview #2: When writing your posts how much does SEO, traffic and marketing come into your thoughts versus just writing a great post? Give an idea of your ratio for writing well versus writing for traffic. I know everyone has it on their minds at least a little. Even writing a personal journal [...]

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Top Five Blog Tips

November 20, 2008

Yes, you can be happy with a blog which doesn’t have all of these but we are all just a bit greedy for a little fame. Here is what you can do. 1. Content. Content is still king. It is what you have to offer. Have something to say. Say it in a way that [...]

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