Search Engine People proposed a Blog Spring Cleaning Day each year on May 1st. I love this idea, but I think it should be expanded beyond blogs, so I’m going to call it Blog and Site Spring Cleaning Day. Whatever type of web property you own or manage, take some time tomorrow to spruce it up!
Some ideas from SEP’s blog post include cleaning up your subject categories, finding and repairing...
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The following is a guest post by Jeremy Knauff of WildFire Marketing Group.
There are probably just as many opinions about what constitutes good website design as there are people on the internet. There are, however, a number of factors that have been proven to make or break a website. If your website is guilty of just a few, it can have a dramatic impact on your business. Fortunately, most of them are...
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You know by now that you are an authority and you know that you need others to recognize your authority. Now we need to give just a little nudge to the influencers (those people who hold a lot of influence over the masses in your field), so that they will not only recognize your expertise, but begin to associate your field with your name.
Let’s say you are an expert in mountain biking. No, you...
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Which search engine should you use to search for images? My opinion: all of them! If you only use one search engine to search for an image, you could be missing out on some spectacular images. But I don’t expect you to waste time going from one search engine to another. That’s what metaengines are for, and my favorite is Zuula.
I use Zuula 100% of the time as my web search engine, but I...
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Is there anything you’ve done lately that I probably don’t know how to do? Do you routinely do things that would require “how-to” explanations to those who’ve never attempted it? I’m talking about “normal” activities, not rocket science. For example, maybe you recently baked a pie, hung a tire swing, cut down a tree, or changed the oil in your car. None...
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We all share a common goal – increasing traffic to our site or blog. Without traffic, our sites are invisible. Traffic, however, can come from many sources. Some of those sources are gold mines of highly targeted traffic consisting of visitors who are wanting to consume and interact with our content. Some sources are next to worthless and our sites would be better off without the waste of...
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As I’ve previously mentioned, networking with others in your topic area is extremely important for building your base of site visitors. If you haven’t already established yourself as a regular within the communities that serve your niche, you may be wondering how to find them. Here are just a few examples of searches you can run on your favorite search engine to find the communities you...
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This morning, as I was on my Internet travels, floating from one new blog to another, I found myself on a blog written by a man who lives not far from me. It’s always interesting to discover a neighbor in this vast ‘net world, so I stopped long enough to read a bit of what he had written. I noticed this little tidbit of advice and thought I would pass it along to you, with my own thoughts...
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Search for Stock Photos:
Need a free stock photo? Free … meaning you don’t have to pay anyone cold, hard cash for its use? Look no further. I’ve compiled my top 10 list of favorite stock photo sites that don’t cost you anything. Make sure you read any terms of usage, however, as you may need to attribute its source via a link or mention.
EveryStockPhoto...
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If you recall, a month ago, I confessed that I cannot cook, and that an 18-ingredient recipe should NOT categorize itself as EASY (referring to an empanada recipe I stumbled across). Today, I stumbled across two recipe-related sites, and I really like them both.
The first was a vertical search engine for recipes called FoodieView that runs a search against multiple recipe sites. Through it, I then...
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