February 28, 2007

How to Optimize your Blog for Search Engines

Blogs are naturally search engine friendly and optimizing your blog for search engines is really no different than optimizing your website.

Here are some suggestions to get you started.

Back Links: Backlinks play a very big role in Google’s pagerank algorithm. Backlinks are extremely important to your blog’s rankings, so make sure you have a large number of backlinks. (more…)

February 27, 2007

SEO-What The Weasels Won’t Tell You

In my experience as a non- techie, there’s a ton of misinformation out there about search engine optimization and how it can help your website.  The basics fact sound great:  Pick out key words and phrases that people will type into search engines and then have your website show up in the top ten results on said search engine.  That’s sound wonderful, right?  Being in the top ten search results for given phrases would be great, the problem is that it’s not as simple and easy as paying someone fifty bucks a month to ’submit’ your site.  Many companies make it seem as if you give them your ten search words or phrases, along with fifty bucks a month or more, and bam your wonderful website will be in the top ten results for those phrases.  This is not true.  (more…)

February 26, 2007

Blogging - Blog traffic - Increase Search Engine Rank of Your blog!

Starting blog: You can start a blog with your own domain installed http://Wordpress.org as blogging script at your own host. This is what savvy marketers do for their blogs. Other option includes starting blog with Google at http://Blogger.com both Wordpress and Blogger are free, easy to start with and both have comprehensive tutorials for beginners. (more…)

February 25, 2007

Search Engine Visibility: What Is A Blog Anyway?

Filed under: Blog Basics, Search Engine Optimization, Blog Search Engine Optimization, Google, Key Words — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 5:16 pm

A blog is a “journal” that is available on the Web. Done well, it can generate interest in a business (due to increased search engine visibility) and popularize the writer as well.

Definitions you need to know:

* Blog. Slang for (weB LOG) on the Web.

* Blogging. The action of updating a blog.

* Blogger. Someone who maintains a blog. (more…)

February 24, 2007

What is Page Rank?

Filed under: Blog Basics, Search Engine Optimization, Google, Page Rank — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 10:52 pm

You can’t surf for long on the internet without coming across the concept of page rank.  In fact if you use a google tool bar like firefox you with see a little widget with pagerank displayed for each page you visit.  What is Page Rank?  Why is it important? (more…)

February 23, 2007

101 Muscular Ways to Get More Targeted Traffic to Your Sites / Blogs Today!

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Marketing, Blog Layout, Blog Search Engine Optimization, Writing Articles — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 3:30 pm

I decided to put together a blog post about traffic because whatever you are doing online you have to get traffic…. period. If you are not getting traffic, then there is no way you can monetize off your site. Therefore, I decided to put together a blog post for all you freebie seekers :). Some of these techniques you may already know which is great. However, are you applying them? If not then when will you? You just have to stop being lazy and actually apply these techniques ;).Implement this techniques on your website and make hope to make money online more stronger, Okay, so here is the list, hope you enjoy. If you feel that this blog post will help anyone then feel free to pass it around, but the article must remain in tact the way it is, enjoy. (more…)

February 22, 2007

Blogging With WordPress: 7 Quick and Easy Tips to Get Started With Your WordPress Blog Now!

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Layout, WordPress — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 4:56 pm

You know you want to start a blog, but how does this whole  blogging thing work?  It’s not nearly as difficult as you  might imagine.  Here are 7 quick and easy tips to get you  started. (more…)

February 21, 2007

Learn Basic SEO

Filed under: Blog Basics, Key Words, Linking Strategy — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 4:26 pm

What’s the basic of Search Engine Optimization? SEO is a big field and growing tremendously. Understanding SEO basics is essential for you as a web site owner. At times you can always do a bit of search engine yourself if you are a website owner. Knowing the basics of SEO is essential for it. (more…)

February 20, 2007

Filed under: Blog Basics — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 5:36 pm

Ignorance is Bliss, but Costly: The 5 Dumbest SEO Mistakes Revealed

Filed under: Blog Basics, Blog Search Engine Optimization, Key Words, Linking Strategy — Dr. John W. Horn PhD @ 5:34 pm

As new and even experienced web site owners we have all committed our share of blunders and stumbles along the way of making our sites rank higher on the major search engines. A lot of times we have gone against our gut feelings and listened to hearsay and unproven search engine optimization advice, or have jumped on the latest SEO bandwagon circulating the top SEO forums. But how many times have you made changes to your web site structure, content, or link popularity that cost you search engine ranking without being able to pinpoint the exact cause in the first place? (more…)