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Welcome to my "SEO Mistakes"!

Boy, if I could take back all the SEO Mistakes I've ever made I would have 100 times more pages indexed in the search engines and 100 times better traffic! SEO or search engine optimization is one of those things that you have to constantly do day in and day out on a blog or web site to ensure that people find your posts in search. Also, SEO is something that you can't just learn from a book, you have to learn-as-you-go and put it into practice in everything you do in your site. These SEO mistakes posts represent a lot of the ins and outs of SEO I learned the hard way!

20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box

My list of 20 things Wordpress doesn’t do by default is a great checklist of items you should consider adding to your blog or Wordpress site to make it more effective and easier to use!
I write so many different articles, posts, and series that I often forget when and how I might have written [...]

Wordpress Hack #12: Changing Permalink Structure Seamlessly

Ever wanted to change your Wordpress permalink structure but were afraid of 404 errors and SEO problems? I have a Wordpress Hack to fix all your problems right here!
This is installment #12 of 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days!
This Wordpress hack is one that I planned on writing write after the last one about rotating [...]

Wordpress Hack #9: Translating Your Blog

Your blog is online accessible to anyone in the world. Translating blog posts and pages increases your audience and monetization capabilities by at least ten-fold! Take advantage of the FULL global power of the Internet and learn how to translate your blog!
This is day #9 of the 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days Series! Subscribe [...]

Better SEO and $$$ with WordPress Category and Tag Templates

By creating custom Wordpress category template (or tag template) pages in your theme, you can boost SEO significantly, better monetize your pages, and ensure good search placement and indexing for all category pages. Without them, you are probably hurting your web site and losing money - and maybe even having duplicate content issues. I’m going [...]

JTPratt’s Guide to Article Directory Promotion

Building Quality Backlinks is easy when you follow my diy tutorial guide on how to promote your blog with article directories!
There are tons of ways to promote your web site and blog, and I outline quite a few of them in my Link Building Cheat Sheet. In this “article” we’re going to focus on the [...]

Guilty by Association - the Google Penalty

Did you know you could get a “google penalty” just for writing about or linking to certain sites? Even if you “nofollow” the links? I had a google penalty for one year, and I didn’t even know why until just now…”
I’ve been very surprised lately at the number of bloggers that don’t check their search [...]

How to Track Search Engine Rankings for Your Blog

Where and for what keywords does your blog or web site rank in search engine results? I will show you how to monitor this automatically!
This is installment #4 in the Tracking Your Blog’s Progress series! In yesterday’s post Increase Traffic with MSN, Yahoo, and Google I talked about making sure that your blog [...]

Tracking Sitemap Changes for SERP Pages

Are you reading your XML Sitemap when it updates and checking your SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) to make sure your site is indexing ok? If you aren’t - you could unknowingly be driving your site into the ground and killing your traffic off.
This is the third installment of “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress“, and [...]

#1 in Google and Zero Traffic!

Has your blog or site been #1 in google? What keywords do you rank well for in SERP’s? Where your site stands today helps plan better search placement tomorrow!
This post is part of the Tracking Your Blog’s Progress series!
I came across a situation the other day where I was checking various keywords and how I [...]

Creating BANS site content for Traffic

To make money with BANS Build a Niche Store you need traffic. Why Pay Per Click (PPC) when content BRINGS YOU traffic?
This is installment #2 of Watch me build a BANS niche site from scratch! Today we’re going to start to get this BANS site ready for some traffic and research some keywords before editing [...]