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The Importance of Interlinking your Blog Posts

Running a blog takes a lot of work. There are literally hundreds of little things you need to pay attention to in order to make it all come together properly. One of these things is interlinking your blog posts. The goal of your blog should be to provide quality information, as well as a great user experience.

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How To Get a Domain Name For Your Website

They say first impressions count and they’re right. If you’re like me, when you visit a new site one of the fist things you look at is its domain name. Once you’ve decided to take blogging seriously one of the first things you need to do is get your own domain name. Even if you’re [...]

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5 Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts and Get More Readers

Ok, so you’ve written the worlds best blog post and published it on your blog. Now what?
Unless you’re already very established and have a huge following you’re going to have to do a lot more than just sit around waiting for people to come check it out. In this post I’m going to cover five different things you can be doing after you hit publish to get your post noticed!

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Branding Your Content with Rel=Author

Do you want to know how to brand your content with Rel=Author and have your face show up in Google search results? Well first of all, unless you still use Yellow Pages and the encyclopedia as your primary search engines, you have certainly noticed all of the faces that are now being displayed in Google [...]

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The Importance of PageRank for Your Blog

I’m sure that most avid bloggers are aware of the term “PageRank”, but what does it mean? Why is it important in the blogging realm? PageRank is a term specific to Google and what it is, is essentially a number indicating the “weight” of a webpage based on how many links there are across the [...]

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A Risky SEO Practice along with its Alternative Methods

If you are striving to accomplish the revenue goals from your online business with your website through SEO, then you better be aware of all the crucial SEO “Don’ts” that if not adhered to can potentially land you up in big trouble. Here in this post I have discussed one of the most unethical or [...]

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Yahoo Site Explorer Shut Down. What Are Some Alternatives for Checking Backlinks?

Yahoo Site Explorer has been used as an effective method to check backlinks for six years, but with its demise comes the question of what online marketers are going to do to check their backlinks. Yes, there are some free tools available, but none of the free tools on the market are as extensive as [...]

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Traffic Tuesday – Link-Building for Smarties

I hope that title makes you feel pretty good.  I read the Dummies books, but I never feel good about it.  So here we are, learning about building links.  Link-building is an important part of optimizing your content for search engine rankings. By now, you probably know that one of the main issues with building [...]

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Tagging with Purpose for Newbies

When I first began blogging, I tagged everything.  I would write my post and then choose 5 or 10 tags based on what I’d written.  If I mentioned Richard Branson in a post on marketing, my list of tags may look like this: Richard, Branson, #RichardBranson, Richard Branson, Virgin, Records, British, Sir Richard, marketing, ploys, [...]

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Advice That Will Help Prevent You From Being Labeled A Forum Spammer

If you go to certain forums on the Internet you will notice right away that they are basically graveyards. There are not too many posts in those forums. You usually will see that no thread has been bumped up for some time, usually in months. You will see that at any given time there are [...]

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