SEO
Balancing Content Creation And Link Building
Yesterday we talked about how to post blog content on a regular basis, today I want to talk to you about how to create a balance between creating fresh content (as in writing new blog posts etc.) and building links to that new content. In a perfect world I would use the 20/80 rule. I [...]
Wordtracker Free and Paid Keyword Tool Review
As promised, this post will be all about the Wordtracker keyword research tools. Let’s start with the free one. Free Wordtracker Tool If you’ve been doing this for a while, you may remember the old overture/ yahoo keyword tool. Once it stopped working, wordtracker stepped up with their own free version. It can be found [...]
Google Adwords Keyword Tool Review
We are talking about keyword research this week and today I’ll give you a quick review of the Google keyword tool and how I use it. It’s a great free tool, but you do have to do some additional work to find out how competitive a particular keyword is. Start by going to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal – [...]
Long Tail vs. Short Tail Keywords – What To Use When and Where
Before we move into reviews of the various free and paid keyword research tools I use, I thought we should talk about the difference between long tail and short tail keywords. The graphic on the left gives you a pretty good idea of how this works, but let’s look at an example as well. In [...]
What Is Keyword Research And Why Bother?
All the great content you’re writing isn’t going to do you any good if no one finds it. How will they find it? That’s what we’re going to be talking about over the next few weeks. Your first step is to do your homework a.k.a Keyword Research. Let’s talk about this a bit for the [...]
Leave A Comment Gain A Keyword Rich Link
After reading Lynn Terry’s post on some Cool WordPress Plugins For Comments, I decided to install a “dofollow” plugin on this blog as well as the KeywordLuv plugin. This means that you can now get a very nice link from this site with keyword rich anchor text (I explained anchor text links here). Why am [...]
Are You Bleeding Page Rank With Your Affiliate Links?
As soon as you get into any type of SEO (search engine optimization) and trying to rank for your keywords, you start to hear a lot bout page rank and how to accumulate more of it on your website. Which brings me to our first point… 1) Pages Have Page Rank (not websites) While the [...]
Anchor Text Link Explained
I’ve been using the term “anchor text link” quite a bit recently. Since not everyone is familiar with what it means and exactly how it comes into play with search engine optimization, I thought I’d take a few minutes to explain. Anchor text is the words you use to link to another page. Let me [...]
Deep Link Ratio – Some Quick Thoughts On Using Deep Linking To Improve Rankings
I thought I’d share some thoughts on deep linking and deep link ratio with you this morning. Let me start by explaining exactly what deep linking is. You already know that it’s important to get plenty of links to your site. Often we just end up getting links to our homepage, but from an SEO [...]
Free SEO Guide By Dan Thies – A Review
If you follow me on twitter, you know I’ve been reading The SEO Fast Start Guide by Dan Thies. I first heard about Dan when I joined Stompernet during their first big launch. I enjoyed is content and got a chance to meet him in person and chat about seo and work at home moms [...]
