Posts Tagged ‘seo’
by Dee Barizo on February 7th, 2010
From the early days of the blogosphere, savvy bloggers realized they could get traffic and links by offering free posts to other bloggers. The bloggers receiving the posts were happy to get free content. It was a classic win-win situation.
This strategy of guest posting is not only effective for SEO and referral traffic, but it also builds your reputation, brand, and credibility.
If you want to have a successful guest posting campaign, consider these 3 rules.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: guest posting, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on January 31st, 2010
In my last post, I talked about using an SEO tool to evaluate a site’s link authority. In this post, let’s look at why you should be evaluating sites and how to apply the information you get from your research.
Getting quality backlinks is the best competitive advantage you can get in SEO. Backlinks are a major part of the search engines’ algorithms and it’s much harder to copy someone’s backlinks than their keywords.
You can focus on keywords but keywords are easy to implement. Once a webmaster figures out that they are important, he can look at the free keyword tools, find relevant keywords, and then add on their website. Compare that process to building links on quality sites.
That’s why the search engines place a lot of value to backlinks on their algorithms. With the early search engines, you could just place keywords on your site and you would rank pretty quickly. Savvy SEOs realized this and created many low quality sites that dominated the search results. Google became the best search engine by focusing more on links instead of keywords on a site. This focus helped Google create search results filled with more quality sites than their competitors.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: link building, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Franky Branckaute on January 22nd, 2010
Among bloggers, especially those trying to make a buck with their sites there’s a myth. It helps them to improve their traffic and stats and ultimately should bring money and pay for their next cruise to Egypt, a marvellous country with an ancient history. A country we still speak about today and people travel in hordes to visit the pyramids, look at the Great Sphinx. Even Indiana Jones went to the Pyramids.
What the Egyptians never did though was this thing called SEO. Instead they created great content, a rich and bespoke culture and history. People still speak about their culture, visit the country and take pictures of the ruins.
First I’m going to tell you a secret: What the Egyptian Pharaohs did was perfect SEO. What the oil sheikhs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi do is the kind of SEO result most bloggers try to achieve. One country is still popular more than 2000 years later. The other… who will care about Dubai in 5 years? They even don’t have an Apple store there.
SEO Doesn’t Matter for Bloggers
- Setup a blog, start writing
- ???
- Profit!!!
Most of you will now want to click away and leave this page but hang in there for a second. I’m going to tell you all the SEO you’ll ever need. That’s right, after that you will not have to worry anymore about any ‘SEO’ at all.
If you think of the Egyptians you will understand that they would have been the ultimate bloggers, better than any SEO. Let’s have a look at how their great nation would have been the perfect blog. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: content, seo
by Dee Barizo on January 17th, 2010
One of the easiest things you can do to improve your reputation on Google is exchange blogroll links with other blogs. This strategy is not the most powerful strategy in the world, but it can give you a small boost in rankings. And if you’re targeting different keywords than your competitors, you might even get big ranking improvements.
About two years ago, I started a blog on a popular TV show. I didn’t have time to do a comprehensive link building campaign, but I still wanted to get search traffic. I exchanged blogroll links with other blogs and my traffic increased by a couple thousand visitors per month.
Reciprocal links still have value despite what many SEO specialists say, but you do have to be smart about it. Here are two principles to keep in mind.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: blogrolls, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on January 10th, 2010
Hello BloggingPro readers, my name is Dee Barizo and I’m the resident SEO geek. My SEO column for Blog Herald has moved here. I’ll be covering practical SEO tips to help you improve your rankings and get more search traffic.
Today’s topic is about web directories.
In the fast moving internet landscape, directories seems very outdated but they actually still work. For my day job, I do SEO for clients. I’ve seen their rankings improve after building links on directories.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: directories, link building, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on January 3rd, 2010
The link request can be a very effective tool for link building but it seems to be underused by bloggers. Many of them are hesitant to ask for links. They think it is too intrusive and spammy. Or they are not confident in their content.
Others have tried sending a couple requests but they didn’t have success so they stopped.
If you haven’t had success, here’s a principle that can help. Also, this principle can build your confidence and help you realize that link requests don’t have to be spammy. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: link building, link request, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on December 27th, 2009
Rand Fishkin has an interesting prediction in his recent post, 8 Predictions for SEO in 2010. He believes that Twitter will become a part of Google’s ranking algorithm.
His argument is that Google has a history of innovating their algorithm to take account the most relevant link sources. And now it seems that Twitter has become the top place to share links instead of blogs and social news sites.
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Categories: Blogging Tips, Blogging Tools
Tags: seo, Sunday Morning SEO, twitter
by Dee Barizo on December 20th, 2009
Sean Platt recently wrote about the power of keywords for Copyblogger. When he first started his business blog, he ignored keywords and just focused on developing a unique writing style. He got a lot of compliments for his writing but his blog was not making much money.
He switched his focus from “clever” writing to SEO writing by including keywords in his posts. The result was huge. He got more traffic and links and he made a lot of money. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: keywords, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on December 13th, 2009
One of the underrated strategies in SEO is reading good books in your niche. You don’t hear a lot about this tactic. Many SEO specialists will talk about keeping up with the top blogs in your niche, but there are great benefits to reading books. Here are three of the biggest ones.
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Categories: Blogging Resources, Blogging Tips
Tags: Books, reading, seo, Sunday Morning SEO
by Dee Barizo on December 6th, 2009
One of the exciting times for any blogger is when he breaks through a traffic plateau and reaches new levels of pageviews and visitors. Fortunately, I’ve seen my blog overcome a couple plateaus. In this post, I talk about the steps I took to reach new traffic levels. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: plateaus, seo, Sunday Morning SEO, traffic
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