The Title Tag – Most Important SEO Factor?

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.

Night Of the Living Thread

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.

Power Twitter In Brief With Screenshots

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.

How to View Scheduled Tweets on Hootsuite

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.

What The Search Engines Are Looking For

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.

If You Don’t Use These WordPress Plugins for SEO You Can Go To Hell

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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.

Quick Tips for Better Blogging

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.

Tips For Surviving A Zombie Apocalypse

A guide to writing effective blog posts using my favorite subject zombies.

The following article is an example of how to write a blog post that kills. Using the walking dead as my subject I will outline some effective blogging tips that are sure to alert hordes of traffic of your virtual whereabouts. For a zombie-free version of these tips please check out this article right here –> How To Create An Effective Blog Post.

How To Create An Effective Blog Post

So you’ve found or created your niche and now you want to stir up some traffic . What’s the next step? Well aside from writing relevant, unique content there’s a list of rules you should be following. The search engines are looking for specific criteria that I’ll explain below. See what the bots are seeing with using the links browser here. Run this after applying the following information to see why this effective.

Should Tweet Adder Be Considered Black Hat SEO?

I’ve been playing around with Tweet Adder today and am trying to determine if this is a program I should purchase or not. So far all the reviews I’ve been reading have been positive, but to be honest it just feels a little like black hat SEO to me.

Making The Most Out of Twitter

In an effort to increase traffic to my newly revamped website I began stepping up my Twitter efforts. Why is this important you might ask? Well with the advent of Google Live Search it makes more sense now than ever to get on board with Twitter. As Google Live lists the most current updates returned from the social networks this was a no-brainer to step up my tweeting.