Internet Marketing for Businesses
It’s only been a little over two weeks since Google’s latest update to their search algorithm, nicknamed “Penguin”, hit on April 24th. Already we are much clearer about what signals were penalized and what weren’t. This was only Penguin 1.0, there will be another update in a few weeks’ time. In the meantime I’ve been [...]
This is a guest post by Jessica Sanders. Blogging with a full time job isn’t easy. A blogger’s job description already includes everything but the kitchen sink, not to mention working 40 hours at another job on top of it all. Unfortunately, investing in a successful blog while working full time, requires a lot more [...]
There’s no doubting the story of last week – the latest Google update (originally called Panda 3.5 now called Penguin) having a seismic effect on rankings. Google’s official line is that the update would penalize those who practice keyword stuffing and sites that have unusual linking patterns – such as links from spun content with [...]
This is a subject that has caused great confusion, argument and late night debate amongst SEOs, bloggers and internet marketers. Having witnessed at first hand how a big SEO agency rips off clients by insisting on pointless on-site changes, here is my take on SEO best practices with WordPress. SEO, like football, is quite a [...]
Google’s mass de-indexing of blogs within networks used for paid links shook the SEO world to its core last week. Sites like BuildMyRank (which offered high PR contextual backlinks for a monthly fee) had their power taken away overnight and were forced to close down. Is Google right to do this? Are website owners right [...]
When I suggested last week that content isn’t king, I concluded that you need two things for successful blogging: great content and SEO (in which I included social signals / authority / branding / marketing). But, how do you create great content? How do you write content that people want to share, content that people [...]
“Content is King” – the title of an article Bill Gates wrote in 1996 – is an expression used to mean that without original and desirable content any web venture is likely to fail. “The best SEO is great content” is another popular expression used to mean that websites with quality content will become popular [...]
Online businesses can seem to take over your life, even when they’re not making any money! Luckily there are great tools out there that can improve the business’s productivity and make it more lucrative. These are personally recommended by IT expert, Ilya Elbert. Online tools have improved my business beyond recognition. Below are my 10 [...]
WordPress is the most common CMS on the internet and with great popularity comes increased risk of attack. Installing WordPress manually is much safer than using a script like Fantastico! Many one-click WordPress installs include hundreds of unnecessary themes and plugins increasing the likelihood for vulnerability. For example, a certain host provider’s one-click install included [...]
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8 Reasons Why Your Blog Posts Don’t Get Comments
This is a guest post from Paul Murray. Thanks Paul! So you’ve just put the finishing touches to your latest blog post, triple-read it, added the final polish and hit publish. Now it’s just a case of waiting for the comments to come rolling in. Except they don’t. Your analytics tells you you’re getting traffic. [...]
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