Archive for Search Engine Optimization
Written on September 27th, 2007 at 05:09 am by Darren Rowse
Forget About Page Rank and Build a Better Blog
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I get a lot of questions about Google’s Page rank and when it will update again.
I’m not sure if people think I look like Matt Cutts or whether they think I’ve got some inside word - but the question hits my inbox quite a lot.
So what’s my response these days?
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Written on September 14th, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
How to Position Yourself for Seasonal Search Engine Traffic and Not Put Your Readers Offside
Leon followed up my recent video post where I talked about anticipating what people will be searching for as a technique for growing your blog’s readership with a question:
“How do you anticipate searches without sacrificing the quality of your posts?”
Good question Leon - I’ve seen a number of bloggers recently who I think this could […]
Written on September 9th, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
More SEO Tips from Aaron Wall
Today I continue my interview with Aaron Wall - author of SEO Book. Also read Part I of my interview with Aaron Wall.
What’s the best link building strategy you ever used?
Creating free software and giving it away. It is unreal how many thousands of high quality links you can get from producing free software. […]
Written on September 8th, 2007 at 04:09 am by Darren Rowse
Learn How to Get Your Blog Ranking High in Search Engines - An Interview with Aaron Wall
Over the next couple of days you’re in for a treat because I’ve managed to secure an interview with Aaron Wall - a blogger and author that has literally added thousands (if not tens of thousands) to my own blogging earnings over the last few years as a result of me reading his great eBook […]
Written on August 24th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Do a Search Engine Optimization Audit on Your Blog
One of the biggest sources of traffic on the web is Google (and it’s fellow search engines). As a result it makes sense that a blogger interested in building traffic to their blog would take some time to learn how Search Engines Rank sites.
Today’s task in the 31 Day Project your task is to do […]
Written on August 22nd, 2007 at 05:08 am by Darren Rowse
How do you link to yourself? Anchor Text for Internal Links Matters
One of the most basic principles of search engine optimization is that the words that other sites use within the text of their links to you (called the anchor text) have an impact upon how your site ranks for those words.
For example - if you want to rank well in Google for the words […]
Written on August 4th, 2007 at 07:08 am by Darren Rowse
Should You Cross Link Your Blogs and Does Server Location Matter? Google Tells All
The official Google Webmaster Central Blog has a few interesting snippets for those interested in optimizing their blog for search engines:
Should You Cross link Your Blogs?
Many bloggers cross link between their blogs in the hope of getting a little Google Juice. I’ve done this for a long time - but have found in the last […]
Written on June 14th, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
How Long Should a Posts Be?
mistergin asks - “I notice most of your blog entries are short. I have a habit of not necessarily being long winded, but very detailed. I want to cover all the bases and make the article “full”.
However, I realize that I start running into posts that scroll through 2 sometimes 3 pages. I keep paragraphs […]
Written on June 12th, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
What to do with 10 Hours on Your Blog?
Ross asks - “What is more important, working on getting more traffic (digg, links from high traffic sites) or working on search engine optimisation? If you had 10 hours to spend on one or the other which would benefit you more?”
I think both strategies can be important for a blog - depending upon it’s life […]
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