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How To Choose The Best Permalink Structure For Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on May 30, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 24 Comments

One of the simplest and most effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques you could implement when launching your WordPress blog is setting the correct ‘pretty’ permalink structure for your site. Pretty permalinks are very important to help your blog’s content to be more understandable and accessible by both your visitors and search engines than URLs that are dynamically created by PHP that end up with something like this: www.yourdomain.com/?p=1

Below, I will show you the best permalink structure to use for SEO and how to do it.

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The 3 Essential “Don’ts” of Guest Blogging – Make it Work for You

by Ann Smarty on May 28, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 33 Comments

This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is an Internet entrepreneur and blogger and expresses her love for guest blogging at My Blog Guest

Guest blogging is becoming a mainstream tactic to promote your resource and reach out to the targeted audience. The more people talk about guest blogging, the more misinterpretations of the concept occur.

This is why it is so important to keep reminding people what guest blogging is really about and how to do that to get the maximum benefit.

Let me share my own list of important things you must not do when guest blogging.

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The Ultimate Guide To Guest Blogging – Massive Techniques for Achieving Success

by Sam on May 20, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 28 Comments

Guest blogging is one of the most powerful practices for making yourself known as a blogger or writer and will seriously push your blog promotion to a higher level. Personally, it has helped me to build some solid relationships with other bloggers, quickly grow my site’s traffic and dedicated readership and granted me the privilege of becoming a writer for one of the most popular blogs on the web, Blogging Pro.

Here is an excellent guide that will show you the great benefits achieved through dedicated guest blogging as well as how to master these golden opportunities. I will start the guide off with some Techniques & How To’s.

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10 Brilliant Tips For Creating Killer Content For Your Blog

by Sam on May 12, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 34 Comments

The phrase “Content is King!” is a resounding statement in the blogosphere which has been used probably over a million times. Yet it still remains as truth, since a blog’s value really is determined by the quality and timeliness of information it produces. For many bloggers, consistently producing posts that always captures readers’ attention is at times a very daunting task; and with 95% of bloggers in the industry failing, we begin to see really how difficult it is and how much effort is required to be successful at blogging.

I have a few techniques that I need to share with you that will help you to be 10 steps ahead of the game and secure your status as pro-blogger.

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10 Powerful Techniques For Saving A Failing Blog

by Sam on May 5, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 30 Comments

Blogging for me has definitely become an art that deserves to be mastered and fueled by my passion for producing valuable content for the web at large. I’m sure we can all remember when we first started our blogs and how exciting it was when we got our first few visitors and also how difficult it can be when you realize you’re doing it all wrong. Hopefully, you have been learning from those mistakes, have started the journey of recovery and continue to ride the wave to blogging excellence.

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24 Deadly Signs of a Failing Blog

by Sam on April 28, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, News with 46 Comments

This is a guest post by David Smith who is a Freelance Writer working for Conversion Rate Optimization company Invesp. Click to download free landing page templates from Invesp. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here.

Millions of blogs are being added to blogosphere every month and many of them fail and eventually die within the first few months of their launch. Why? Basically, there could be thousands of reasons for this. And in this article I’ll try to cover few of them.

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The Evolution of Search – Google’s New Social Search Results

by Sam on April 23, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, News, Social Media, Videos with 8 Comments

Over the past week, I’ve been talking a lot about practicing search engine optimization in such a way that benefits can be gained through social network sites and other forms of socializing on the web. (Check out my previous article on How To Use Social Media To Effectively Improve SEO) Google now has an exciting new service called Social Search and what this does is provide relevant search results from conversations and posts your friends in your circle may have published in addition to regular organic search results.

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How To Use Social Media To Effectively Improve SEO

by Sam on April 18, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Social Media with 26 Comments

There is a huge debate on whether Social Media will be replacing traditional Search Engine Results and Search Engine Optimization practices. Some persons say Social Media will replace SEO and others are saying SEO is here to stay. Now the truth of the matter is that neither of the two is greater and I will be showing you that by maintaining a solid online social presence you will massively improve your SEO results which are guaranteed to improve your chances of your great content being found on the internet.

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6 Awesome WordPress Alternatives

by Sam on April 13, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, News with 28 Comments

This is a guest post by Tom Walker from a specialist provider of cartridges next day and print media supplies. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging software packages available. Because of its popularity, there is a lot of support for it as well as ways to change it through themes, addons, plugins, and customizations. Being popular is not always a good thing though. For a package to appeal to a wide range of people and applications, it has to come with a lot of features and capabilities that a user may not want to use. Continue reading →

5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on April 11, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 13 Comments

You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post,  10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers.

Here are 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.

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