This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Glenn Gabe, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled The Critical Last Mile for SEO: Your Copywriters, Designers and Developers. This is an interesting look at what Glenn dubs “the last mile” of SEO, in which the recommendations you’ve made have to actually get...
Social bookmarking has certainly transformed since it’s early days (circa 1996), into a definite necessity for everyone seriously participating in social media online. Social bookmarking builds quality, high PR links (when do follow), builds loyal communities around your expertise, and builds great human traffic (typically better with the heavily regulated and no follow sites). Whatever you share and however you use social bookmarking, if you’re serious about social media and traffic, get to know them well Social Bookmarking Sites (Sorted by PR and Alexa Ranking, Do Follow and No Follow are noted) Google Bookmarks: PR N/A - N/A - No...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Gyutae Park, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post titled Give and You Shall Receive - A Classic Example in Internet Marketing. By using a real-life example, he shows the power of social networking. Without even asking, he received a design for free. In return,...
Many bloggers and website owners like to greet visitors coming from specific websites with a tailored message. There are many plugins that will make this for you on WordPress, but a cool one that I came across recently is called Referrer Detector. It basically allows you to create messages that will be displayed to visitors that come to your website from a specific place, say Digg.com or Google. Right after installing the following places will already have a custom message: 9 rules Del.icio.us and Delicious.com Digg Gizmodo Google Search Lifehacker Live Search Reddit StumbleUpon TechCrunch Technograti TechRadar Twitter Yahoo Search...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Hiren Ponkia, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled How To: Find Paid Vs Organic Conversions in Google Analytics?. I love a good “how to” article, and this one delivers with step by step easy instructions, shows an image for visual cues, and tells...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Jacqueline Zenn, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Changing Seasons = Changes in Traffic. This one caught my eye because I have several seasonal sites, and this post is a good reminder that panic should not be a part of the seasonal changes....
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Jeffrey Smith, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled, The Value of Aggregators, Syndication and Hub Pages. Sometimes SEOs and webmasters have to be reminded that leading people away from your site isn’t always a bad thing. But only a really good explanation as...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Jeremy Rivera, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post titled, SEO Prayer. Ok, ok, this one is strictly fun, and is in no way useful for anything but a chuckle, but I couldn’t pass it up. Actually, I can imagine it might offend some of...
My name is James, I currently run iLoveMacApps and MacTricksAndTips. I am not a big time blogger by far and my income is quite small in comparison to some of the blogs on the web today. But I have found a service that has managed to triple my monthly income. It is called BuySellAds (BSA). In a nutshell it is a direct banner selling serivce. As a result you can charge as much as you want for an ad slot and you can move away from the 2cent clicks on Adsense and start charging more. I am not affiliated with...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Jim Hedger, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Search Marketing Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint. Have you ever needed to explain the intricacies of search marketing to a client? Did you try to help them understand what it takes in time and...
Not that this is necessarily new information for the SEOs of the world, but for those who might be newer to the world of search engine optimization, it’s always fun to pass along information that comes straight from a Google employee’s mouth. (Which isn’t to say you should believe everything a Google employee says, but it’s usually fairly obvious when their tongue ISN’T forked. hehe). Today’s tidbit comes from an old friend of many SEO’s, John Mueller (johnmu or formerly known as softplus before Google absorbed him into their fold). John gives a quick answer to a question asked by...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Judith Lewis, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post sure to get a few tongues wagging or a few chicks clucking, entitled Has Google Become A Modern God?. Judith does a chickarrific job of entertaining us and educating us, while also making us go all...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Justin Seibert, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled Ego Keywords: at What Cost? This one is fun because literally everyone has a few keywords that they feel they absolutely MUST rank well for. Justin dubs these “ego keywords” and explains what the pitfalls...
