Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please?! Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Oh… wait. Wrong audience. Sorry. The Search & Social awards results are now in! If you were entered in any of these categories, check to see if you made it into the top 3. We had A LOT …
WordPress is the most popular blogging software available today, whether its used on WordPress.com or a hosted WordPress.org solution, being used for personal blogs, professional blogs, informational sites, and CRM backends for businesses around the globe. A lot of this is due to the slim price tag that comes with WordPress, but another major reason …
A few of the mainstream search blogs still offer up some morsels of meaty metrics, but many bloggers have turned from meat to “designer milk.” I can’t say I blame them, but I’m not going to keep looking to them for the best data, testing, link-building advice, etc. The state of the search marketing blogosphere …
Learning which of your published content did particularly well based on some parameters is a great way to become a more successful blogger. This way you can see which of your posts are well received in social media, which of them get linked more and which of them spur a more active discussion. This week …
Unless you’ve been living up under a rock lately, you’ve heard of the Internet phenomenon known as blogging. What many people don’t know is that blogging is no longer just a recreational pursuit for folks to vent their repressed feelings, showcase their creative work, or promote a personal agenda. It’s been elevated to an art …
It’s not always an obvious connection, but the content on your website affects its usability. How? The easiest way to think about it is by putting yourself directly in the user’s seat. Think about it. You go to a website that provides search engine optimization services. Although you might decide to hire the person or company …
Humans are apathetic creatures by nature. We don’t bother to take action unless we’re threatened. Back when we were wearing pelts and living in caves, a “threat” was a life or death situation – but our evolutionary roots are still there today. Except instead of saving our young children from a saber-tooth tiger, we’re fending …
Having some useful reference information by hand when writing a post or doing research online is an awesome way to both get more productive and also to create a thorough, deeper-researched copies. Therefore you may find the following two tips useful as well as easy to implement in your daily routine. 1. Access reference information …
We are all being copied. The moment any new article gets published, it is being republished on some crappy blog (more often than not, without any credit). There’s not much we can do about that. This post is about those content stealing that is done through direct copy-pasting from the page. This is just one …
One of the main advantages of using Raven tools is exactly being able to accomplish lots of inter-connected tasks from within one handy dashboard. This post will show you how the most important process in the website development – content creation – gets optimized and advanced through Raven Toolset. Step 1: Analyze Keywords The first …
