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6 SEO Tips for Bloggers You Can Use Today

Categories: Blogging & Writing, Business & Marketing Written by Karol K.
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This is a guest post by Christian from Lingo24.

It can seem as if almost everyone is writing a blog these days. The blogosphere is a crowded place, with millions of them competing for readers on the World Wide Web. Making your blog stand out from the crowd is anything but easy. But a little knowledge of SEO and following a few basic rules will give you a head start.

#1: Find keywords

You can have the best product in the world, but if your customers can’t find your website, you’ll have to sell it to your friends and neighbors. And when it comes to being found online, the golden rule is “choose the right keywords.”

This isn’t as easy as it sounds. All too often, people in a specific industry tend to use jargon instead of the language spoken by ordinary customers. Sit down with a colleague or friend and brainstorm which words you think your readers are searching for.

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Important Factors When Choosing SEO Software for Your Online Businesses

Categories: Business & Marketing Written by Karol K.
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SEO softwareEvery online entrepreneur or blogger needs a piece of good SEO software at some point of their career. What for? Well, without any kind of tool you’re not going to be able to recognize possible opportunities or areas of improvement.

A good piece of software gives you a visual representation of both your niche’s and site’s characteristics. And I’m sure you are aware that knowing where you stand is the first step towards any kind of advancement.

What follows is a guest post by James from findthebest.com, in which he talks about the most important traits of your software of choice. By the way, just a couple of days ago I’ve published a review of Market Samurai – which is the tool I’m using every day, check it out.

Enter James

According to social media experts, 57% of companies have acquired customers through their company blog and 67% of marketing executives say Facebook even provided customers.

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Who Else Wants to Lose Money by Getting their Robots.txt File Wrong

Categories: How-To / Tutorials, Web Design & Dev Written by Karol K.
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robotsHey, no joke here. Real story. Story about me, though I’d much rather not be the main character this time.

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there are some AdSense ads on this blog. Not that many but still. Now the funny part. For something like a year the ads haven’t been displaying on any of my archive pages or category pages. All because of one small robots.txt mistake.

For those of you who don’t know, robots.txt is a file that sits in the root directory of your blog or website and waits to be viewed by search engine robots/crawlers. Search engines look at this file to determine which areas of a website are available to them and which aren’t.

The common practice is to use this file to prevent them from accessing duplicate content or some admin and private areas of your blog.

(By the way. There’s a big post on creating a WordPress-friendly robots.txt file coming soon.)

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41 SEO Terms Explained, an SEO Glossary

Categories: Web Design & Dev Written by Karol K.
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seo glossarySearch engine optimization is a really big topic right now for many online business designers. But before you can start working on it you have to understand some basic SEO terms, hence this SEO glossary.

But first, let’s explain one thing. There are hundreds of blogs focusing on different aspects of SEO, so I won’t get into very detail here, but let me just tell you that there are basically two ways of driving traffic (aka customers) to your site (which is the main venue for your online business).

There’s the “free traffic” way, and there’s the “paid traffic” way. Paid traffic deals with all kinds of advertising (PPC, banner ads, media buys, you name it). On the other hand, the most popular approach of getting free traffic is … SEO.

In this post I’m not going to give you any SEO techniques or tricks. I’m just going to explain a number of terms related to SEO, which I hope you’ll find very handy at some times. I think that understanding the language of the SEO community is the first step to learning the actual techniques and tactics.

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