Google doesn’t want content copycats. They want your blog to consist of original ideas, attract new visitors, and encourage those visitors to share it. For example, Seth Godin doesn’t seem to worry about content that attracts Google or any other search engine. He doesn’t even seem to worry about attracting new visitors. He has an audience, and he [...]
Recently, I met a gentleman who modifies video game consoles and wanted to create an online presence. He said he didn’t need help with SEO or social media, as he wanted to get his website up first. I told him there aren’t many people who modify video game consoles, and he didn’t need a great [...]
If you are an SEO, you should know about Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). SEO and Web content is about more than random keywords on the pages. Here are the basics of LSI: Google compares search terms to several documents that have undergone LSI. It then return results that contain similar meanings to the search criteria [...]
You need a blog. Google wants to see websites with fresh and relevant content. The more you update your site, the more people will come to your site. The more people come to your site, the more relevant your content appears to Google. There are three ways to set up a blog. You can set [...]
Once or twice a week, I peruse Twitter, using hashtags specific to writing, follow people who use those hashtags, and get into conversations with them.
The freedom of speech has given rise and justification to the freedom of criticism.
Just as the + symbol holds a different value than a digit in math, it holds a different value than a letter for the purposes of SEO.
If there are two things you like, it’s free and it’s lists. Blogs with lists of free stuff always get the most views. I try to write my blogs in list or bullet point format as much as possible, but I don’t list free resources (i.e. other sites) as much as I once did. If [...]
Hootsuite uses it, Scribd uses it, and several other sites use it to be more search bot friendly and interactive for users. Here’s a list of the most social link types, attributes, and elements in HTML5. Article Element – This tells search bots when content is related to other content, such as with blog [...]
