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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
This week’s guest post comes from SEO professional Kevin Budzynski. Kevin is responsible for managing the digital marketing team for the Quantum Interactive Group and author of the Baby Joey SEO Blog.
What is the title tag?
The title tag has been one of the most important factors in achieving high organic rankings. The title tag defines the title of the document. The title element is required in all HTML/XHTML documents.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
If you’ve never done any email marketing and are interested in sending out campaigns with Constant Contact you’ll want to read on. First off is a list of good practices for email marketing.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Why do this?
To apply this extra image meta data I’ll be using Photoshop, but I first wanted to go over why this is important to do as your average visitor will never see this information. In all honesty there are a only a handful of people that even know where to look for this data. So why is this important you may ask? This info is for the search engine bots. It gives them a way to better index these images. These images then show up in popular image searches such as Google images, Yahoo Images, etc.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Scheduling tweets is a good way to market prior posts with the addition of different titles and or keywords as well as hashtags. Many times when you write a post people have a number of keyword searches that they use to arrive on your page. Even using due diligence when researching keywords it’s often hard to determine what keyword phrase or grouping will trigger the most viewers. By retweeing prior posts you can get them in front of the eyes of your followers that may have missed it before. Not only that, but you can and should try different keyphrases in order to generate more targeted traffic.
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
I thought I’d take a couple minutes today to talk about how to attract more traffic from Twitter. I recently picked up the e-book Twitter Dummy from John Paul Aulaguiar and have been putting it to the test. Since implementing some of the tips I learned here I’ve been able to quadruple my Twitter traffic in 1 month’s time. Below are just some of the things I’ve been implementing that have been working to drive traffic to my website using Twitter.
Monday, September 27th, 2010
So let me start this post off with… I’M AN IDIOT! I forgot I installed this super cool extension for Firefox Power Twitter“. It’s what Twitter is going to be some day. Inline video and images along with the 140 characters. It’s that last piece you were missing from Twitter delivered by default.
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Hidy ho fellow social-medianites. I had to take a second and post a really quick tip for Hootsuite…which by the way I am starting to like more and more every day. However, I had a real issue viewing my schedules tweets. It doesn’t seem entirely intuitive so I decided to throw up a couple screen shots and show you how it’s done.
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Here’s a quick tip for getting your images listed in Google Image Search. There’s no need to actually submit your images to Google Search. They will be crawled by Googlebot next time your site is indexed. You can however update your sitemap.xml file to include more data that can then be used to categorize your image as bots cannot read embedded text.
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Search engine bots crawl the internet spitting back the results you see when you do a a search online. To get an idea of what the bots see check out the Lynx text based web browser. As you can see from the screenshot below all the bots see are text or text embedded within an image.
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Photo Courtesy of Danielle Tunstall Photography
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Provocative enough title for ya? There’s a free traffic tip for you right there. Write compelling titles that draw in a reader’s attention. Try to be controversial, but that’s not what this post is about. In this post I will lay out some must have plugins for Wordpress.
These pluigins will help your site not only run smoother, but also ensure stellar organic rankings.
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
This is going to be a short post, but there are a few tips that came to mind while giving a blog tutorial today. These are easy tips that should help make your posts more relevant. As I’m using Wordpress as my blogging platform some of these tips are specific to that CMS, but many will apply to any blogging platform.
