Tag Archives: SEO

Google’s New SEO Standards

A run down of the recent changes being made to Google and how you can use them to your advantage.

The Internet is buzzing about all of the new changes coming to Google search. Facebook, Twitter and dozens of other social media sites are in a collective uproar, racing to find a way to fight back. But it’s just you and your WordPress blog. Maybe you have a Facebook or Twitter account. Maybe you even have a Google+ account. Now it’s time to take that extra step. 65% of all searches are on Google (U.S.). Like it or not, these changes are going to affect you. The good news is you can use them your advantage [...]

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Speed up WordPress with W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront (CDN)

How to greatly improve your WordPress website’s speed using W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront

Does your website seem to take forever to load? Are your visitors not making it past your homepage out of frustration? Are you producing useful content and optimizing your site for search engines, and wondering why your site still ranks so low? The speed of your website can be nearly as important as your content, design, and features, and can be the difference between users staying on your site, or going to your competitors [...]

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Google Personalized Search – How I Found a Shortcut to Better Google Rankings

If there was one word I’d use to describe my business mentality, it would be the word “stubborn”. Many times, it’s not such a great thing, i.e. wasting half a day trying to figure out a glitch that has no negative affect on my business just because “I need to get it to work!

However, every once in a while my stubbornness proves to be an asset.

Before I tell you how, I need to let you know one more thing about me: I strongly dislike social media. I have very little time and patience for it.

I can’t imagine hanging out on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Google+ all day just to get some of my blogging friends to come back to my blog and leave me a comment – doesn’t help me to build up my business whatsoever.

Let’s face it: most of us are online to make money, and social media is a productivity killer that has dubious results on your bottom line.

Yet this post is all about social media. Google+ to be more precise [...]

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An Approach to SEO, for Bloggers

If you want to build a large audience by driving a lot of free traffic to your blog, there is probably no way around learning at least the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Believe me, if you master the following concepts, your blog will be on its way to success. You will be able to capture the attention of potential readers much more efficiently than most of your competitors. You will deliver the information that people are searching for, and since you are fulfilling their expectations you will in return be able to build a long-term relationship with your readers. [...]

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