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5 Tips for Making Your WordPress Blog SEO Friendly

Everyone’s vying for that number one spot on search results. Over the last couple years, it’s been Google who has stood head and shoulders over the rest, although the release of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has raised eyebrows. So what does this mean for WordPress users? Well it means that if you want your WordPress blog to be found, you better take advantage of search. I’ve listed below 5 tips for making your WordPress blog SEO friendly.  Read More →

Using SEO to Optimize Your Social Media Profiles

If you’re reading this then it means you probably have at least a base understanding of what social media and social networking is. You probably at least have a Facebook profile. If you’re more learned in social networking, some of your day’s activities may have consisted of stumbling one of your blog posts, digging a couple articles, posting a bulletin, changing your status update and retweeting a Guy Kawasaki article. However, did you know that no matter what your social media... 

New Searchable Scanned Docs and a Common Screw Up

I mention Google so often that many people must think I’m getting paid by the company. Just for the record, they don’t pay me. I just can’t help myself–Google is always doing cool things. Recently, Google said it is now able to use optical character recognition to index scanned documents stored as Adobe PDFs. Previously, the company rarely scanned docs because it couldn’t be sure of the search results. According to Google’s blog: While we’ve indexed documents... 

Improve Your SEO Part 3 - Attention To Detail

Welcome to the final installment of “Improve Your SEO.” This topic has been spread over three posts, so if you haven’t already, check out part 1 and part 2 of the series. This final post will concentrate on the final touches of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which you can implement to improve the performance of your site. The topics have been broken down with examples to give you a better understanding of how you can implement the changes. This tutorial will cover splash pages,... 

Using WordPress? How to Enhance Your Site’s Search Engine Optimization with Plugins.

One of the nice things about WordPress is that it’s as friendly to search engine optimization as a beagle is to a bowl of ice cream–even before you start tweaking it. Long ago, I settled on WP because I was more interested in using it as a simple content management system than an actual blog. All I really wanted to do is build a no-fuss place–comprising four or five pages–where I could showcase my work and experience to promote my Web writing business. I don’t really... 

How I Increased Traffic to My Blog with These Three Tips from Google

When you’re optimizing your site for Google and other search engines, images may not be everything, but you shouldn’t overlook them. According to Google, you can use Google Image Labeler and other tools “to associate the images included in your site with labels that will improve indexing and search quality of those images.” To opt in to enhanced image search: 1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account. 2. Click the URL for the site you want. 3.... 

Write Your Keywords for the Front and Back of Your Web Pages

In my last post, Follow Through on Your Web Design Media with Search Engine Optimization, I repeatedly mentioned keyword placement in your multimedia filenames, Alt tages and why certain kinds of formatting helps boost search-engine visibility. I didn’t delve into many specifics of why you would want to use keywords beyond your design elements because it would have taken too much time. I figured that I’d circle back today and get into keywords a bit more. It’s such an important... 

Improve Your SEO Part 2 - Better Design Etiquette

Welcome to the second installment of “improve your SEO”. This tutorial will show the best way to structure the content of you website to make it is easier to read and better to find. If you haven’t already, why not check out the first installment of the series “Google tools“, which focuses on how to use Google’s webmaster tools to your advantage. This Tutorial is aimed at anyone keen to improve their websites search ability by using a few powerful techniques.  Read More →

Follow Through on Your Web Design Media with Search Engine Optimization

You don’t have to be an athlete to appreciate a pro golfer’s drive off a tee, a designated baseball hitter’s swing or an Olympic gymnast’s agility on the high bar. Whether it’s distance, power or grace, it all comes from properly following through. Web designers also need to follow through textually on their designs–whether they’re simple photographs or sophisticated Flash animations. It’s those final steps in the design process that ensure your design...