Are Text-Link-Ads dead? I think they are. Back in August 2007 I wrote about the google text link ad penalty. It was pretty controversial then. Now it’s pretty much accepted that paid text links are bad and will get you banned from google. So I was on 45n5 today and was catching up on posts [...]

I write a lot of in-depth articles with techniques to get you more traffic to your web site and better search engine rankings. I think sometimes I give so many tips in one article that a few may fall between the cracks, so every now and again I’ll try to give you a post [...]

Web Worker Daily has a nice article How to Get Attention for Your Web Site. Give it a read - it will give you some good ideas. Often I read things on Web Worker Daily that are great ideas, and I always seem to wish their post had more meat to it. I’m dig a [...]

One of the biggest blogging mistakes you can make is not paying enough attention to your SEO techniques. With Wordpress it can be even worse, since out of the box WP really doesn’t do any SEO at all and doesn’t make for a very SEO friend web site. Most of us that have been using [...]

I write a lot about my blogging mistakes, but sometimes I forgot to write about good articles I’ve read on other sites. Today I came across The Ten most common SEO mistakes on the Dfinitive blog. This is a great article that everyone should read, and SEO should be foremost in your mind at all [...]

If you are not using 301 Redirects you are making a blogging mistake. 301 Redirects are easy to setup, save your google pagerank and link love, and save your visitors from a nasty “Error 404 - Not Found” page. What is a 301 redirect? It’s a single line you add to you “.htaccess” file (more [...]

I’m going to talk about setting up a robots.txt especially for your self hosted wordpress blog, to help the search engine crawlers to best index your site and help with with search engine optimization. Due to the recent content duplication rules in the google index, you want to make sure that you’re submitting one [...]