On-page SEO should be mastered by every blogger. Have you ever wondered what it takes to fully optimize a web page for search engines? From an SEO standpoint, there are two primary sectors you have to consider: on-page optimization and off-page optimization. Basically, there are things you can do on your site to help your rankings, and things you can do off of your … [Read more...]
How to Build Links for Niche Sites
Building niche sites that make money in autopilot has been always one of my plans. Since beginning of this year, I learned to use LongTailPRO (read my 3300 words guide here) and I created a niche site, monetized with Amazon affiliate program and Adsense. It ranked within the top 10 in search results for its keyword, generating a decent traffic and revenue, since then. In … [Read more...]
10 Link Building Tactics to Generate Free Traffic from Google
According to a research by Outbrain, search engines do convey 300% of traffic more than social media to content sites. So how can you let Google know that your website exists? The most common tactic is to focus your attention on the quality of your writing. But the content itself is not able to make you climb the "top 10" of the search results. You should seriously … [Read more...]
10 Blog Habits to Help You Being Penalized by Google
Have you ever experienced a Google penalization on one of your websites? Well, I hope you don't. Because recovery can be quite hard, most of all after Panda and Penguin. Following the official content guidelines will "theoretically" ensure you to avoid any penalties, but you know (most of all if you are blogging since some years) that respecting all the rules is not that … [Read more...]
More FREE Blogging Goodies – Check These 7 Free SEO Tools
After the success of the post "11 Free Online Tools for Blogging and Social Media Marketing", I decided to write another article about some other useful tools you may want to use as a blogger. You are going to like this list of free SEO tools. I'll include a brief overview of the capabilities of each tool (some of the tools are freemium), with images, links to the source … [Read more...]
5 Link Building Tips for 2013
The span of the past year has seen many changes to the way SEO’s handle things. No longer is it simply a matter of building a large number of directory links as quickly as possible, but rather an entirely new metric will be at play. While the task of building your links will never be easy, especially when you’re talking about high quality links, it’s absolutely doable and we … [Read more...]
Ethical Search Engine Optimization Tips
If you run your own website or blog, then I'm sure that you will be interested to learn more about SEO. It is, after all, one of the best ways to drive traffic to a site. Now if you search online, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the subject – some of it good and some of it bad. The only tips that you should be following are the ethical SEO tips that actively help … [Read more...]
Do You Think You Know SEO? Let’s Check It!
What do you think SEO is? 99% blogger around you will answer that Putting Keyword in Title, URL, Image and creating Backlinks. Do you really think that SEO is all about putting keywords in different places and creating backlinks? If so then I must say that you don’t know anything about SEO. If SEO is so simple then every blog would have achieved #1 in SERP. Lets … [Read more...]
10 Tips to Beat Google Panda and Google Penguin Update
Search engines make changes in their algorithms on a regular basis to make search results more useful for their users. These changes upgrade and downgrade certain sites’ ranks on the web. ‘Google Penguin’ and ‘Google Panda’ recently made changes in these algorithms. The purpose of these updates is to get rid of both the scammers and scrappers. The changes made by these … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Get Traffic from Google Images
Sure, a properly written article with targeted keywords in strategic places can help you rank in search engine results pages (SERPs). But do you know that your website’s content should not only consist of text. It must also contain pictures for more appeal. Then again, this is not the only purpose of placing photos. You can increase the likelihood of driving traffic to … [Read more...]