Archives for June 2024

This is something I see far too often: I have a blog that’s been alive since around 2005. It’s got about 2,500 posts in it and it’s been dying a slow death for years. I don’t know what’s wrong. In the beginning, the blog was ranking very well for all Continue reading…

Let me guess – this is your situation: Your website experienced a ranking drop and you made some changes to it in an effort to raise them back up again. The problem is, they kept on dropping. Lower and lower and lower. It seems like everything you’ve done to get Continue reading…

I’ll be the first to tell you – I’m late to the party. I’m no expert at social media. I’ll also tell you that I like to dig into what I’m not familiar with. And when I say dig, I mean really dig. What I have very little experience with Continue reading…

I’ve been in the web design and SEO business for a long time. So long, in fact, I know what fads look like and I know what trends look like. I also know how to differentiate the two. Back when MySpace was around, all I could do is roll my Continue reading…

I’ve already written a few articles that have offered help and advice for a variety of websites when it comes to search engine optimization, but I thought it was about time to write one more. Perhaps this time, I’ll use a slightly different angle. If you have a small business and Continue reading…

Many small business owners are far too busy to invest their time into enhancing their business website’s search engine performance. After all, these business owners are working long hours. The last thing they need to concern themselves with is marketing. I understand the plight and this plight was my motivation for writing this post. Believe it or not, setting up a business website to be seen favorably by the big search engines needn’t be a complex task. It can actually be a straightforward endeavor. In today’s post, I share six simple tips that can help the hardworking business owner and operator enhance their website’s visibility. Each of the tips is easy to understand and each one can be acted upon with a minimal effort. What kind of tips, you ask? Think about making your website more attractive, posting on social media, local search, making friend who are local to your business, making sure your website operates efficiently, and writing succinctly and attractively for those who may read through your pages. Yes, you can put a plan together that’s based on the tips I share and that plan can launch a website forward. Interested? Click through to find out more. Continue reading…

Are you a photographer? Are you a photography blogger? Are you simply someone who’s interested in learning more about the art of capturing and editing photos? If you’re any of these things, boy have I got a surprise for you. What is it? It’s a fully cultivated and thoroughly described list of the world’s best and most popular photography blogs today. To find these blogs, I crept and crawled around the internet for far longer than I’d ever care to admit. I spied and stole. I looked and admired and in the end, I came up with a long list of the 75 best photography websites I could find. What did I do with them? Well, I typed their names, linked to them, and then wrote out a rather lengthy description for each and every one of them. All to share in a blog post for both you and me. I use this list to see what other bloggers are up and to you…well, you can do whatever you’d like with it. Again, you might already be a photographer or a blogger or are interested in both. Whatever the case, I invite you to click through to peruse all the websites and blogs I’ve collected. And when you’re finished, please leave me a comment letting me know your thoughts on the entire endeavor. Thanks! Continue reading…

Every website needs to consider its position within search engine rankings if it’d like to become and remain popular over the long term. The art of positioning a website in search engines is called search engine optimization or SEO for short. While a website can become instantaneously popular and burst with quick traffic via a mention on the right podcast, a link from the right website, or a mention on a television show, that type of popularity fades faster than you’d think. Like I said, to remain popular over the long haul, you’ll need help from the search engines. Most websites and CMSs these days have some SEO characteristics built in, but no website or system that I know of has every aspect of what an owner needs available right out of the box. In today’s post, I’ll discuss some of the most critical areas upon which a website owner needs to focus. I’ll cover site and page title tags, keyword research, how to write compelling content, the importance of sitemaps and social media buttons, how often an author should write, and so much more. If you’re interested in encouraging the search engines to gobble up your content, you better click on through to read this post. Continue reading…

Whether it be a good or bad thing, the world of SEO revolves around a website attracting high quality links. Links make the internet go round and if you don’t have them, well…you won’t get very far. Or, should I say, your website won’t get very far. In today’s post, I discuss a few different aspects of how links work on a website and how you can attract or even purchase high quality links to point to your website. As they pertain to SEO, dealing with links is one of the more challenging aspects. Yes, you might have the best authors who write for your blog and you might have a wonderfully crafted website, but after a while, without any links pointing to said website, it’ll turn into just another beautiful looking piece of internet real estate that’s soon to disappear. If you’re interested in how to make linking on the internet work for you, please click through to read this post. You won’t be sorry you did. Continue reading…

I love the idea of interested folks starting their own blogs. Or even small business owners. Or those who have been blogging on a platform other than WordPress. Whatever the case, to me, the more bloggers using WordPress to its fullest potential, the better. What I get nervous about, however, is that fullest potential part. Through the years, I’ve seem people download and install WordPress and simply begin writing. Their blogs are wonderful, but they’re not truly set up for maximum search engine advantage, meaning, they won’t rank in the search engines as well as they could. With this in mind, I wrote this post covering what the average person needs to do in regards to their writing as well as settings inside of WordPress to rank well. I talk about the content itself, settings and titles inside of the WordPress administration panel, permalinks, heading tags, both internal and external links, and more. So if you’re interested in supercharging your WordPress experience, click through to learn today! Continue reading…