Today’s post is a guest post contribution from Taylor Manning. If you’re running an online business, you know SEO {search engine optimization} can be terribly confusing. Search engine rankings, authority, backlinks and all of technical terms and strategies can seem like mumbo jumbo to someone who is learning about it for the first time. There’s […]
4 Google Analytic Reports You Need to Be Using For Your Website
Today’s post is a guest post By Elinor Cohen from Just Me Company. You can read her bio at the bottom of this article. What if I told you that you could have been earning more traffic and conversions today, had you started creating an analytics strategy only three months ago? The truth is that […]
Getting Google’s Attention | How to Get on That First Page of Search
Despite the relatively boring title, I’m going to give beginners a step by step process that will help get your site seen by search engines. Using this post, I’m going to show you the process I went through to design this particular blog post. Don’t let SEO or SERP acronyms scare you. It’s basic common […]
SEO Tips for Beginning Bloggers
Search Engine Optimization. It sounds so menacing and difficult, but there are some beginner tips that can make a huge difference on your blog. Don’t be intimidated by the concept of SEO or spend a lot of time trying to figure out the Google Keywords tool. Even though there is an entire market of tech […]
Submitting a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
A sitemap is exactly as it sounds…a map of your site. When Google goes around crawling new pages to put in search engine results, sometimes blogs with only a few back links (meaning other sites linking into it) get missed. In other words, if you are a little blogger or a new blogger, Google might need some help finding […]
Writing Blog Post Summaries to Maximize Searchability
Today’s tip is a short one, but hopefully will positively affect your search engine traffic. Do you write a post excerpt? This is a short two or three sentence summary that hooks the reader in to your post. When someone searches in Google for, “The best Chili recipe ever…” you want the search engine to […]
SEO and Blogs: Creating a Great Blog Title Search Engines Will Love
Blogging comes with some unique challenges that magazine and other print writers don’t have to think about. As a writer for an article in People or Time magazine, the goal is to hook a reader so they turn to your page. But with blogging, the reader doesn’t even have the magazine in their hands yet! […]