SEO Tutorials

4 Simple Steps to Optimize Your Photos for Search Engines

You spend hours laboring over text, creating the perfect blog post. If you read TutorialBlog, then you also know the importance of including photos on your blog, too. But, how much time did you spend making sure that your images are SEO-optimized for the best performance? Photos can be more than eye-candy for readers, images are a great opportunity to improve your on-page search engine optimization. learn more  Read More →

Top 5 SEO Plugins for Joomla

Anyone who runs a successful website knows the value of search engine optimization. A good SEO tool kit can turn a good website into a profitable website by attracting the right kind of targeted traffic. But, how do you SEO a CMS site such as Joomla? With Joomla Extensions! Extensions is term used to refer to any number of Joomla components, modules and plugins.  learn more  Read More →

5 Free Ways to Market Your Blog

It’s no secret that the ailing economy has hit everyone, even us bloggers who depend so heavily on Google Adsense and page impressions. It’s become increasingly harder to grow and maintain those high page views, while also competing with other bloggers in your niche. learn more  Read More →

5 Plugins for Making Your WordPress Blog SEO Friendly

In my last SEO for WordPress article, I started with 5 tips for making your WordPress blog SEO friendly. We discussed things you could do on an ongoing basis to give your blog value to people and search engines — optimized content, proper keyword research, optimizing photos, building links and using navigation techniques to optimize for search engines. This time, I want to talk about five WordPress plugins that will add SEO value to your blog. Remember, plugins are packages of code that add functionality... learn more

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. learn more  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... learn more

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... learn more

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,... learn more

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... learn more

How I Increased Traffic to My Blog with These Easy 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. Click... learn more

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