All posts tagged seo

Debunking 10 Popular SEO Myths Created By So Called “SEO Experts”

by Sam on September 30, 2011 in Search Engine Optimization with 4 Comments
SEO Myths

For years the art of search engine optimization has been praised as the end-all, be-all in runningasuccessful, money making website; and because of this thought, many persons self proclaimed as “SEO Experts” started popping up all over the web creating a lot of hype surrounding SEO practices and in the process, sent a lot of their dedicated followers on wild goose chases that yielded little worthwhile results.

The truth is that Google, the biggest authority on SEO and search, provides all the information and strategies required for mastering your niche through search. The information they provide is surprisingly very simple and straightforward and will prove to be less hassle and reap more rewards.

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How I Increased My Search Engine Traffic By 1,000% in 4 Months

by Sam on July 27, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Statistics with 17 Comments
search-engine-traffic

Google currently uses over 200 signals to examine the entire link structure of the web and to determine which pages are important and relevant to particular user search queries. The weight and importance of each signal / factor differs greatly and practicing the right search engine optimization techniques is vital to your online success through search.

Since the launch of Sam’s Web Guide, I have experienced an increase of over 1,000% in search engine traffic and the method for achieving this was not very difficult but has been very specific. Although there are so many factors that search engines use for determining ranking, today I’m going to share the most important techniques I employed that have helped my blog to soar even in tough times.

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5 Great Ways to Promote Your Blog

by Onibalusi Bamidele on June 27, 2010 in Blogging & SEO with 28 Comments
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This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele, a 16 year-old entrepreneur who offers blogging and online money making tips from his blog, Youngprepro.com

One of the greatest problems many new bloggers face is getting people to read their blogs, they would work hard and try to give their best in terms of valuable content yet nobody is reading their great posts.

It is a great pity the rule “Build it and they will come“  does not apply to blogging or the internet in general.

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26 Major Google Search Engine Ranking Factors Every Blogger Should Know

by Sam on June 24, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Search Engine Optimization with 31 Comments
Search-Engine-Ranking

Google states that there are over 200 factors used for ranking websites and determining site authority in search engine results pages. Some factors, however, have more weight than others and proper practice and use of these will guarantee a healthy search engine profile and attract tons of targeted traffic to your site / blog.

Here are 26 major factors that Google uses in measuring up your site / blog and determining your authority. Although there are over 200 factors, the ones listed below provide more powerful results within the shortest period of time.

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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 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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Will Social Media Marketing Consistently Outperform Search Engine Optimization?

by Sam on April 7, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, News, Social Media with 32 Comments

The only thing that remains constant in this life is change and there are huge positive changes taking placing on the web, especially with how we market ourselves and our products. Its very important to keep up to date and constantly conduct self-analysis to ensure that we are practicing the techniques that work for our blogs and business. So let’s take a look at how effective Social Media Marketing (SMM)  really is in comparison to results gained from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and which practice works better for a blog and at what stage.

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The Art of Community Optimization – Maximize Your Blog’s Potential

by Sam on March 31, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Social Media with 16 Comments

Most of us know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the benefits that can be enjoyed when a blog is perfectly optimized within its niche for relevant search engine traffic. However, with the massive changes taking place on the web and additional avenues created everyday for attracting new traffic we cannot focus on SEO alone. This is where what I like to call Community Optimization comes in. Community Optimization is definitely a subset of Social Media Optimization (SMO) but let’s focus on how we can develop and grow our blog’s community directly through community building interactions and practices.Community Optimization Continue reading →

Will SEO Be Necessary in the Next 5 Years?

by Sam on March 12, 2010 in Search Engine Optimization with 29 Comments

As bloggers, most of us have invested thousands of hours online in an attempt to ensure our success at blogging. We write interesting posts, interact with other bloggers worldwide, we read, study and some spend most of their time optimizing their sites for search friendliness and better search engine rankings. So the question comes to my mind: Are we spending too much time working on and talking about SEO when it may not exist in the next few years? Continue reading →

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