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| 03/09/2010 04:00 PM |
| Developers VS Users |
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Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 03/05/2010 03:58 PM |
| Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic |
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When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based advertising or something like adsense. However, once many publishers start down that path, they almost [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 03/03/2010 03:45 PM |
| Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step |
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I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone. There are two niches that I hold the top 5 spots [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 03/01/2010 03:36 PM |
| When Google Local Gets it Wrong |
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Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got crossed.
Let’s assume I wanted to stop by a local pub on a Saturday night. Maybe [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/26/2010 03:14 PM |
| Hey! Editors! Leave Them Links Alone! |
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There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out.
A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn’t promise links to contributors who participated in guest interviews. Others have been seeing the same, and writers I work with have seen [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/26/2010 03:00 PM |
| Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – February 2010 |
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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here.
Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links.
CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps.
BOTW.org – Get a premier listing in the Internet’s oldest [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/25/2010 04:00 PM |
| How to Set up Caching on Your Blog |
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The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress.
Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you want it? Basically, caching will store copies of pages that have already been served from your webserver [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/23/2010 04:00 PM |
| How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages |
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Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it basically the same.
I touched on this briefly in my Shopping Cart SEO Tips post, but [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/19/2010 03:12 PM |
| Creating Better Auto-Generated Text |
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Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought I’d touch on auto-generated content and how to make it better.
To be clear, using auto-generated [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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| 02/18/2010 04:00 PM |
| When To Pay Top Dollar for Copy |
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It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out as many words for your website for just $9,200 (at 2 cents a word) over the course of a few weeks.
Added to this, standards of literacy and attention spans on the web are plummeting.
We’re all [...] This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
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