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Trying to figure out how to increase traffic to your blog, can be mind boggling. You know you write great posts, but visitors are few, and far between. You have created a professional looking homepage, but what good is it, if no one visits? Today’s Lesson On a regular basis,… read more How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

Probably the most difficult part of blogging, is getting your blog discovered. Often, you will read that blogging is easy. You write a post, hit “publish” and your writings are sent to cyberspace. But, if you are new to blogging, you may begin to fear that your blog has gotten… read more Help! Getting Your Blog Discovered

For some time now, there has been a debate going on about Google decreasing the page rank of a website or blog, if it has “paid links”. Today’s Lesson So, what are paid links? Not knowing for sure which links Google considers as “paid links”, I decided to go right… read more What Are Paid Links

Today’s Lesson Two months ago, I started an experiment with Google AdSense, “ads for content”, ads. As I stated in that post, From this site, I have removed my Google Ads for Content, (which I had in the sidebar). Months ago, I read ( and I don’t know if this… read more Google AdSense Ads – Do Less Mean More

If you have a blog, and have signed up for affiliate ads, through such services as Commission Junction or LinkShare.com, you know you have the choice to insert banner/image ads, text link ads, or keyword link ads. Today’s Lesson Adding banner or picture ads of different sizes, is a matter… read more How To Create An Affiliate Text Link Ad

I call it “spikey” traffic. You see an instant increase (spike) in your visitor stats, only to see your visitor counts fall, in a day or two. Today’s Lesson What are the causes of spikes in your traffic or visitor stats? 1) You left a comment on another blog, and… read more What Causes Spikes In Visitor Statistics

Today I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1. Today’s Lesson Shortly after upgrading to WP 2.3.1, I proceeded to write a post. As soon as I hit “Save and Continue Editing”, I received an error message that looked similar to this: Table ‘wordpress.wp_xxxxxxxxxx(database)cat’ doesn’t exist] SELECT c.cat_name FROM wp_post2cat p2c INNER JOIN… read more Error Message With Upgrade To WordPress 2.3.1

Several weeks ago, I wrote about how to use keywords and keyword phrases , and how I had signed up for HitTail. It took awhile to accumulated enough HitTail “keywords”, and for the long tail to grow. Today’s Lesson I carefully studied the keywords that HitTail produced, as well as… read more HitTail Results In More Traffic

If you have been surfing the internet, you have probably seen many sites that claim they make lots of money with their blog. Some will suggest, that If you buy their ebook, they will tell you how you can get rich, with a blog, too. Today’s Lesson Making money by… read more Can You Get Rich Blogging

If you have been blogging for any length of time, you know about “Google page rank”. Today’s Lesson There is also an Alexa ranking. With Alexa, the lower the number, the better. It is written, that your Alexa rankings are looked at by services such as Text Link Ads. The… read more Alexa Ranking – Is It Important To You

This week’s lessons have been about duplicate content. Today’s Lesson Having studied Google’s Webmaster Help Center, Google suggest numerous ways in which we can decrease duplicate content in our blog pages. Included in their list are: Robots.txt files 301 Redirects Linking consistency Use of top level domains Careful syndication Use… read more How To Decrease Duplicate Content

Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google. Today’s Lesson While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file… read more How Important Is A Robots txt. File

Over the past week, I have been spending time on Google’s website researching how search engines may see our blogs. Today’s Lesson One issue that caught my eye, is duplicate content in blogs. With WordPress, we have duplicate content throughout our blogs. One post can be “recorded” in many different… read more Duplicate Content – Should You Worry

In my previous post, I wrote about adding internal links in your posts, to deter having your content plagiarized. Today’s Lesson How would you know if your content is being plagiarized, and if so, what will you do? Shortly after I started blogging, I wanted to see how many of… read more Has Your Content Been Plagiarized

Links to and from other sites, are great for increasing the popularity of your blog. When I first started this blog, I decided to provide a link to all individuals (who had blogs or websites) who commented on, or linked to my blogs. That is when my “Blogging Buddies” page… read more My “Blogging Buddies” Update

If you are on this blog, trying to figure out how to make millions from blogging, you are on the wrong site. I would suggest you read a previous post of mine, titled Quit Blogging – Make Millions. Today’s Lesson When you sign up for Google AdSense, if you troll… read more Experiment With AdSense Positions

Today’s Lesson We spend an awful lot of time writing posts. Some days, though, we just don’t feel creative, but we know we should get something posted, so the search engines will visit out sites. I know that may sound like a lame excuse to post something, but we need… read more Updating An Old Post, Will Get You Crawled

Google AdSense video units are now ready for use on blogs. I went to my Google AdSense account and downloaded the video unit. If you do not have a YouTube account, you must first establish one prior to downloading the video unit. After getting your confirmation code from YouTube, you… read more Google AdSense Video Units

Leaving a comment on another blog, can spark many things. One comment can create a rush of traffic to your blog. A meaningful comment can also bring you many loyal visitors. Keep in mind, “comment traffic” can be “spikey” traffic, i.e. you could see an immediate spike in your traffic… read more Write Traffic Building Comments

Just when you figured out, you can make money from your blog, a plugin can be downloaded, that can block ads. You didn’t want to hear that, did you? But, it’s true, and something we all must consider. Today’s Lesson Try this for yourself. ,allows you to download “Adblock”. You… read more Readers Can Block Ads

Apparently, Google cares about page rank. And, so do the other search engines. A lot of bloggers care, too. I don’t. Maybe, I should… Today’s Lesson What is page rank? According to Wikipedia, PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked… read more Page Rank – Who Cares?

Google AdSense is a common way for bloggers, to try and generate income for their sites. If you sign into your Google account, you may see that you also have a choice for Google “referral” ads. Don’t yet have an AdSense account, you can click on the following link, and… read more Google Referral Ads vs Ads For Content

Learning all there is to know about keywords, keyword density, or keyword phrases, could take months. But, it is a known fact, using keyword density, may get your blog found, and drive more traffic to your site. This is what I have learned about keywords, keyword density and keyword phrases…. read more How To Use Keywords or Keyword Phrases

Is your blog being found by search engines, referrals, or direct (bookmarks, or someone types in your blog URL)? I have two blogs, and interestingly enough, readers are finding this blog, by referrals, almost exclusively. (A lot of my referrals, become “direct”, due to bookmarking.) My second blog, Observation Mountain.com… read more Search Engines, Referrals or Direct Traffic?

As written earlier, in my post, Is A Hit, A Visit? we found out that a hit is not a visit. So, is a visit a visit? It all depends on which stats program you’re using. Today, I’m analyzing five different blogging statistics platforms. It’s going to get confusing. What… read more Confusing Blog Stats – Is a Visit a Visit?

Should you monetize your blog, by inserting ads? Or should your blog be free of ads? Should you insert ads as soon as you set up your blog? Or, should you wait until your readership increases, and then add Google AdSense, affiliate ads, etc? Most bloggers do write, because they… read more Monetize Your Blog?

Does your site need an extreme makeover? Just as humans, strive to look their best, we should treat our blogs, the same way. Good content could be compared to a good person. A good person may not make a great first impression, but once we get to know them, we… read more Are You A “Site For Sore Eyes”

You have a blog. Now, what about the design, or theme of your blog? It can be an daunting task…finding the theme that matches your content. Having changed my themes (I have two blogs), at least a half dozen times, I am reverting back to KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid!… read more KISS Your Blog

Unless you are keeping a personal, shopping, or photo blog, most visitors are on your site for one reason. Think about this……… A visitor really doesn’t care about the “name” of your blog. Visitors to your site, don’t care if your “theme” reflects your message. Most visitors don’t care if… read more Without _____,Your Blog Is Nothing!

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…. read more Writing That Important First Paragraph