Wanna Know The Real Reason To Heart CommentLuv?

You know by now that I’ve entered the FamousBloggers Comluv contest. What you may not know is that I have a sweet spot for the whole CommentLuv concept. And no, it’s not for any SEO value. Forget about SEO for a minute. Forget about dofollow and nofollow. (BTW, CommentLuv DOESN’T turn your comment links into dofollow links, although many people who use the CommentLuv plugin often ALSO use... read more

22 (+) SEO and Social Media Guest Posts

Over the last year or so, I’ve written guest posts or contributory posts on several sites across the web. It occurred to me today that some of you might benefit from those postings, because they focus on topics that I don’t tend to delve into very much here on this blog. So I’ve rounded them up and hopefully I’ve included them all, but I can’t promise that I didn’t... read more

35 Ways To Increase Blog Popularity and Traffic

1. Do your research. Know your topic. Know what traffic levels are possible. 2. Plan ahead. Outline in broad strokes what the posts will cover over time. 3. Understand the basics of social networking. 4. Attack from all sides. Get traffic from many sources. 5. Be unique 6. Be yourself. Have a voice. Have an opinion. 7. Have a pleasing site design. 8. Post on weekends because most don’t. 9. Post... read more

Sources of Site Traffic – Best To Worst

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... read more

The ABCs and 123s of Social Networking Sites

Social Networking – What is It? I get asked this fairly often, so I thought I’d give a brief explanation. Social Networking sites are all different in some respects, but they all have some things in common. Common Social Network Characteristics As the name implies, they are “social”, and revolve around a community of users who are all actively participating in some way (rather... read more