Boost Your Blog's SEO Mojo with These 6 Simple, Actionable Steps Your blog is a powerful tool. Publishing blog content on a regular basis can provide an organization with a number of distinct benefits, which include: Brand building and awareness.Positioning yourself as a thought leader.Demonstrating your (or your organization's) expertise.Developing relationships within your niche.Fostering an engaged and active community.Generating leads. Blogging is also powerful from an SEO standpoint as well. Incite more crawling – the more you publish, the more your site gets crawled.Penetrate more keyword verticals.Attract links – provided you're promoting your content; passive link acquisition is difficult if not impossible for most sites.Generate social signals.Drive more organic traffic. Despite the inherent "SEO value" of blogging, many blogs just aren't properly optimized for search, or aren't optimized to their fullest potential. Many of the fixes and improvements you can make are really quite simple. 1. It isn't just blogs. So why is the above example bad?
How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging. Welcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide. On the page below you’ll find links to a series of how to blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. How to Blog – My Ultimate Guide to Blogging for Beginners Since developing this series I’ve produced a book specifically for beginner bloggers. Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed. Blogging Tips for Beginners Introductory Posts Blog Design Tips Tips for Writing Content for Blogs Tips on Making Money from Blogs Blog Networks Other Beginner Blogging Tips Want more Blogging Tips for Beginners? If you want more blogging tips I can recommend two things. 1.
26 Steps to 15,000 visitors a day C) Site Design: The simpler the better. Rule of thumb: text content should out weight the html content. The pages should validate and be usable in everything from Lynx to leading edge browsers. eg: keep it close to html 3.2 if you can. Spiders are not to the point they really like eating html 4.0 and the mess that it can bring. Learn the lesson of Google itself - simple is retro cool - simple is what surfers want. Speed isn't everything, it's almost the only thing. D) Page Size: The smaller the better. E) Content: Build one page of content and put online per day at 200-500 words. F) Density, position, yada, yada, yada... Simple, old fashioned, seo from the ground up. G) Outbound Links: From every page, link to one or two high ranking sites under that particular keyword. H) Cross links: <1>(cross links are links WITHIN the same site) Link to on topic quality content across your site. I) Put it Online: Don't go with virtual hosting - go with a stand alone ip. Go for a listing in the ODP.
Artisan Market - Artisan Online Stores - Buy and Sell Creative Products Anytime, Anyplace... Easily | Meylah Daily Blog Tips How I Make My Living as an Online Writer (And How You Could Too) (Photo by Antonina, a fantastic London contemporary portrait photographer) The end of this month will mark three years since I left my day job. Since then, I’ve been supporting myself through writing. It’s my dream career – and I love being able to set my own hours, work from home, and have a huge amount of flexibility and freedom. I haven’t written much here on Aliventures about how exactly I actually make money. But there really isn’t. And … if you want to … there’s no reason why you can’t do exactly the same as me. In short, I have a bunch of different revenue streams that bring in cash every month. I’ll start with the ones that were easiest to get going with, and work up to the methods that take a bit more time… #1: Paid Writing for Blogs (2008 onwards) This is how I started out, in early 2008. My family and friends find it bizarre that I can get paid to write for blogs. Writing for blogs typically means: How much does paid blogging make? Learn more: #2: Website Advertising (2008 onwards)
5 Rules for Choosing a Business Name – How to Create a Business Name What's a winning business name? A business name that draws business in itself. Creating a winning business name takes some thought but is one of the most important things you'll do during the process of starting a business. Starting out with a weak business name is like trying to golf with only one club in your bag. You may sink some shots but it will be a whole lot harder. So how do you create a winning business name? 1) A winning business name has to be memorable – but easy to spell. Obviously, your potential customers and clients need to be able to remember your business name. 2) A winning business name needs a visual element. What popped into your head when you read “Crychalwellyn”? So you want your business name to have a strong visual element to it. 3) A winning business name has to have positive connotation. Many words have both denotation (literal meaning) and connotation (emotional meaning). 4) A winning business name needs to include information about what your business does.
Apprendre à communiquer Ah la communication… Communiquer, le verbe qui effraie souvent l’entrepreneur, ou la petite entreprise. Communiquer, c’est cher, on ne sait pas comment faire ni quoi faire. Alors, on ne fait rien. Dans le meilleur des cas, le pire devrais-je dire, ça ouvre un compte Twitter, ou une page Facebook, et ça envoi un truc ici où là, un peu à la va comme j’te pousse, et advienne que pourras ! L’idéal pour bien se mettre une balle dans le pied, voire deux. Dès fois que la première ai loupé la cible. Cerise sur le gâteau, le blog… Ah le blog, bloguer, c’est facile, ça rapporte du fric rapidos, etc… Ouais, bien sûr. Alors, communiquer ? Si vous n’avez même pas 100 euros de budget pour communiquer autour de votre entreprise, vous avez déjà un gros problème. En économisant un peu sur le forfait mobile, ou l’abonnement aux 200 chaines de télé que vous ne regardez jamais, ou encore sur le caddie chez carrefour, en grappillant un peu de-ci, de-là, vous allez les trouver ces 100 euros. Ce qui me fait ?
13 Writing Tips Twenty years ago, a friend and I walked around downtown Portland at Christmas. The big department stores: Meier and Frank… Fredrick and Nelson… Nordstroms… their big display windows each held a simple, pretty scene: a mannequin wearing clothes or a perfume bottle sitting in fake snow. But the windows at the J.J. She said the perfect comment at the perfect moment, and I remember it two decades later because it made me laugh. For this essay, my goal is to put more in. Number One: Two years ago, when I wrote the first of these essays it was about my "egg timer method" of writing. Number Two: Your audience is smarter than you imagine. Number Three: Before you sit down to write a scene, mull it over in your mind and know the purpose of that scene. Number Four: Surprise yourself. Number Five: When you get stuck, go back and read your earlier scenes, looking for dropped characters or details that you can resurrect as "buried guns." Number Seven: Let yourself be with Not Knowing.