Tag: SEO

One of the biggest gripes bloggers have is how their visitors do not read their posts. It’s maddening. After all, we meticulously craft our posts, carefully choose each word, spend time adding SEO (search engine optimization), tags and the perfect picture(s), ensure we’re providing value, double check to see if… read more Blogging Pet Peeve Number One

Do you remember when you first started blogging? Although I don’t think about it often, I still do. I was scared to hit “publish” the first few times, and I worried because I kept switching my theme. I didn’t know any of the blogging terms either. Being self taught, I… read more I Shoulda…

As a small business owner, we know we get the most bang for the buck if we use our advertising dollars to target specific clientele. Being in the construction industry, we know those who prefer to rent won’t need our services. And because we don’t have the man-power and equipment,… read more Don’t Blog For Me (If I’m Not Your Target Audience)

Ahhhh, another Friday. Time to slip into our favorite jeans and tee, kick up our heels and relax. Here at Blogging Without A Blog (BWAB) we had lots to think about this week. We talked about our target audience, giving our readers eye candy, and how our online image is… read more Casual Friday – Open Mic

Managing our feeds can be time consuming. The more blogs we subscribe to, the more time it takes away from our other blogging activities. When I read Lorelle (of Lorelle on WordPress) has over 350 blogs in her feed reader, I wanted to know how she does it. Here’s her… read more Interview With Lorelle VanFossen – Part 5 – Managing 350+ Feeds

We all make mistakes when we start blogging. I know I did. Today’s Lesson I didn’t do enough homework and was unprepared for what blogging entailed. I made small mistakes like typos (and I still do), and big ones like crashing my blogs. I didn’t know HTML, coding or the… read more The Biggest Mistake I Made In Blogging

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… read more Can We Ever Know Too Much About SEO

Outsourcing your blog, or parts of it, is actually quite common for some busy bloggers. Today’s Lesson: As Catherine Lawson points out in a recent article, outsourcing is a great way to save time in all aspects of your life. Although outsourcing does cost money, if the cost outweighs the… read more Outsourcing Your Blog – Never Say Never

I couldn’t end this series without talking about making money with blogs. Most bloggers start a blog with money as part of the equation. I did. However, the truth about making money with a blog is often misleading. Search online and you’ll find many sites, e-books, or “subscribe to this”… read more Blogging – Year One – Lesson Twelve

Is it a movement, or is it becoming a new way of life? You sell your home or move out of your apartment, grab your labtop and head to a sunny location and blog remotely. Today’s Lesson As I travel through cyberspace I read blogging articles/comments about those who are… read more Beach Blogging In Belize

Photo Credit djrue’s photos A few months after I started blogging, I wrote, When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was more like a switchback road going through a mountain pass. With every site I… read more Winding Your Way Through Blogosphere

Photo Credit woodleywonderworks’ photos If you are a new blogger, or even a blogger who has been consistently posting for a long time, you may ask yourself, “when will I have success?” Your definition of success determines how long it takes to get “there”. Today’s Lesson Getting a blog found,… read more No One Said It Would Be Easy

Photo Credit miguelb’s photos Hello loyal readers, This is a very exciting , but nerve racking day for me, as Catherine Lawson and I are guest posting on each other’s blogs. Although my post on her blog, can’t match the caliber of Catherine’s writings, I’m hoping I haven’t made a… read more Increased Search Engine Traffic For Lazy People

Photo Credit iowa_spirit_walker’s photos Earlier I wrote about profanity in blogs, today, I’ll discuss language of another kind. Today’s Lesson Do you think visitors to your blog know what a “post” is? Unless your audience is other bloggers, chances are, you are confusing them. Let’s look at a sentence that… read more Blogging? Watch Your Language

Photo Credit: srslyguys’ photos We love to blog, but as time passes, maintaining a blog gets very time consuming. Today’s Lesson When you first heard of a blog, you found how to get one for free, or signed up with WordPress and got a web host. You read/watched WP blogging… read more Me And The Blog – Till Death Do Us Part

Photo Credit: chefranden’s photos Just as a top needs help to make it spin, a blog is similar. A top always stops, and falls over, after spinning out of control, will you? Today’s Lesson In the past few days, I have been visiting and reading a fair amount of blogs… read more Bloggers Fall Prey To Instant Gratification

Photo Credit i_yudai’s photos It’s Tuesday, and time to announce my “New Blog Of The Week” In the past, I did not dedicate a full post to my new blogger, but today is different. This blogger does not have a flashy blog. In fact, if you were to land on… read more Honorable Mention For A Mom Who Blogs

Photo Credit john_a_ward’s photos 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… read more How Keywords Attract A Larger Audience

Google’s page rank is an issue that eludes/frustrates most bloggers and webmasters. How it’s calculated, is treated like a “secret sauce” recipe. A few of the ingredients are known, but no one (except Google), knows all of the ingredients. Anyone who could get their hands on the “recipe”, could potentially… read more What if Google Added “This” To Determine Page Rank

Today, my inquiring mind, took me on a Google search. I wanted to know, “how people search online”? I typed in “how people search”, using parentheses, to get exact results (without the parentheses, I got 180,000,000 results). Today’s Lesson My consensus is: if we can determine how people search online,… read more ADD Reaches An Epidemic Level For Online Searchers

It is often written, “Do not try to reinvent the wheel”. In blogging, some will say, find a popular blog, and copy what they are doing, and you have a better chance of becoming successful. Is that true? Or, is there a better way? If you look at inventions, often… read more Copy Successful Blogs/Websites – Or Not

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

Are you a new blogger, or as some of you call yourselves, “newbie blogger”, “nube”, “novice blogger”, “infant blogger, etc? Are you disheartened by the low visitor counts your blog is experiencing? Are you looking for help? When you hit the “publish” button, do you wonder if your post actually… read more Help For New Bloggers With Low Traffic

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… read more Meta Tags May Increase Your SEO

Yesterday I wrote about How to Prepare For Uncreative Blogging Days Today, I will piggy back on that post, and discuss how to determine if your post should be divided up, into more than one post. By dividing a single post, into more than one post, will not only increase… read more Fine Tuning Your Posts

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…. read more Is Your Blog “Petting Traffic”?

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

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… read more Oh, That Blogging Language – Part 1

I’m not sure what constitutes being a newbie to blogging, but I think I’m still a newbie, as my two blogs are less than three months old. When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was… read more Newbie To Blogging?

Lately I’ve been researching and reading a lot about blogging. I read about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), page rank, rating of pages, crawlers, spiders, robots, pinging, trackbacks, mega tags, links, stats, traffic, etc…..the list goes on. As a novice blogger, this information can get to be overwhelming. Should I be… read more The Crawlers, Spiders & Robots Are Coming – Start Posting