Can We Ever Know Too Much About SEO

We all want our blogs found and would love to have a steady stream of traffic.
For bloggers, finding a way to meet this goal, usually tops our list of priorities.
Today’s Lesson
When I started blogging, I often felt like I was talking to myself, or just documenting my thoughts in cyberspace.
I searched “how to drive traffic [...]

How Keywords Attract A Larger Audience

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As bloggers, we often take time to study about SEO ( search engine optimization), Google’s page rank, and keywords, in order to get our posts ranking high in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).
Today’s Lesson
Sometimes I try to use keywords in my posts, but often that technique goes by the wayside, as [...]

Meta Tags May Increase Your SEO

Anyone who blogs, and researches “about blogging”, will run into the terminology “meta tags”.
Today’s Lesson
Meta tags, are “hidden”, HTML tags in your blog. Search engines can “see” these tags, however, they are not seen by your visitors.
Meta tags can help with your SEO (search engine optimization), as they tell the [...]

Is Your Blog “Petting Traffic”?

Years ago, we had just moved to a large city. My husband, not being used to freeways, was driving on one, just as he always did on the country roads. As he was enjoying the scenery, he heard a siren and then noticed flashing lights in his rear view mirror. Being the [...]

Writing That Important First Paragraph

If you’re blogging, and are interested in search engine optimization (SEO), the first few sentences you write, are the most important. Your first sentence should not only tell your readers what your post is going to be about, but will also tell search engines, how to index your particular post. Search engines are [...]

Oh, That Blogging Language - Part 1

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more
When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To top it off, many years [...]

Google Sitemap Generator

If you have a new blog, and want to get indexed by Google, Yahoo, plus other search engines, thus improving search engine optimization, it’s apparent that a site map is imperative to install.
What is a site map? Think of a site map as a blueprint of your site. When you first generate [...]

How High Are You Ranking In The Search Engines?

You know you’re indexed with the search engines, because you read my previous article Are You Being Indexed On The Search Engines?.
Now…….how do you know how high your pages are ranking, on the search engines?
You can find out, in four easy steps.
1) Go to your stats program and find the “search strings”.
2) [...]

Are You Being Indexed On The Search Engines?

If you have a website or blog, you’ll want to know that your site is being indexed.
To test if your site is being indexed on Google, Yahoo, or any of the other search engines, enter your site’s name, i.e. “bloggingwithoutablog.com”, hit “search”. The results will show how many times your site is referenced. [...]

Google Page Rank - Chasing That Elusive Dream

Google Page Rank. If you blog, and have done any research on linking, you’ve probably read that you want incoming links to your pages from sites that have a ranking of 4 or above. This apparently, will help your Google Page Rank., which, in turn, increases your position in the search engines. [...]

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