Google watchers are thrilled to notice that search engine leader Google is in the middle of one of its backlink and PageRank updates.On a fairly regular basis, Google displays a blog or website's incoming links to the public. Those shown links generally...
Carnival of the Capitalists sets up again
The tremendous business, economics, politics, and legal travelling roadshow, better known as Carnival of the Capitalists has just set up the big top at my friend Anita Campbell's tremendous Small Business Trends business blog.Anita's great edition of...
DMOZ Directory: Include your blog today
Everyone talks about getting their blog or website listed in the Open Directory Project, better known as DMOZ, but not everyone knows what to do about it.Here's some help.DMOZ has become very blog friendly as well. Entirely new categories, devoted entirely...
A new wiki powered business blog directory
A new business blog directory may not be really important news for many.It is for me. I happen to like blog directories. A lot.What makes this new business blog directory different, from most of its predecessors, is the fact it includes a wiki.A wiki...
Online petition to credit bloggers for articles
Bloggers deserve credit for their posts.When we bloggers quote another blogger, we should always link to their blog with proper credit. I attempt to give double links. I like to link to the blog itself, as a means of courtesy blog identification. I then...
Observations from a "new blogger"
Business and public relations blog Buzzcrash has been online for about two months.As a "new blogger", they have some observations on blogging to share with other new and longer term blog owners.Lessons From Buzzcrash:1. "it's easy" My comment:Blogging...
Nigritude Ultramarine
Nigritude ultramarine.The name sounds like some alternative garage band, or the latest fashion colour from Paris or Milan.In fact, Nigritude ultramarine is the name of a search engine optimization (SEO) contest.The object of the contest, is for the many...
Bestofme Symphony at WOLves
The Bestofme Symphony, which features great posts from bloggings past, but never got the coverage or links they deserved, is playing sweet music at my good friend Trudy Schuett's WOLves blog.The WOLves edition of the Bestofme Symphonyfeatures posts from...
Carnival of the Capitalists is up and running
That weekly travelling roashow of business, law, and economics, better known as Carnival of the Capitalists has just set up the big top, at my friend Richard Stokes' highly informative Startup Skills.com blog.Richard is hosting a great lineup at this...
Keywords: Is your blog in the search engines?
Do you ever want to know, how your blog or website is ranking for your most important keywords, in the major search engines?You can find that information with a one stop Keyword Verification checker at Marketleap.Many of you may already be using Marketleap...
Website marketing plans: You need one
Every website needs a promotional plan to ensure that the goals and objectives of a business’s website are achieved. In the make believe world of they movies, they may be able say, “if you build it, they will come”. In the real life of business, however,...
Publicity: Press release sites
Free publicity.Every business, and by extension most business blogs, can use a little free publicity.By being the subject of a news story, your site and business receive an implicit endorsement that no amount of money spent on advertising can match....
Are bloggers in competition?
The question has arisen lately about whether bloggers, and specifically business bloggers, are in competition with one another.Rick Bruner of the fast rising and high quality Business Blog Consulting recently posed that question. He wanted to know if...
Links vs. Content: They both count
Search engine optimization experts are often seen as roughly divided into two camps, regarding the relative importance of links and content. Some experts recommend employing a powerful linking strategy to boost a blog in the search engine results pages...
Title tags and anchor text: A real world example
Title tags and anchor text are important to gaining good results in Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL Search, Teoma, and other search engines.I have conducted the tests to prove it.As most of my regular readers already know, I write a daily roller derby...
Carnival of the Capitalists tent is raised
The weekly fair circuit of business, law, and economics popularly known as Carnival of the Capitalists has landed at political and culture blog www.d-42.com. Jeff Cohen has found some great posts from some of the leading economics, business, marketing,...
Crosslinking your blogs
Many people have more than one blog.I have three, for example.One thing you can do, to help boost their traffic levels and search engine rankings, is crosslink them.What I mean by crosslinking, is linking one blog to another as you would link any other...
Keywords you are targeting
Every blog has some main keywords.For example a baseball blog would want to rank highly in the search engines for the search term "baseball", or perhaps for a certain Major League Baseball team. In your own blog, you have important keywords that find...
Viral Marketing: Catch it today
Your blog could use a little viral marketing. What? You don’t want your blog to catch a cold? While you might be able to catch a bad flu bug, viral marketing for your blog is a good thing. What viral marketing means is getting other people to help market...
Search engine questions answered
Many of my readers write to me with various questions about search engines, linking, and blog promotions.I am very happy to answer your many questions on any subject relating to search engines, search engine optimization, Google, Yahoo, and getting more...
Real estate blog nets innovative realtor award
Business blogs pay off for their users in more ways than one.When we look at business blogging, we are usually thinking in terms of marketing. We occasionally forget the public relations aspect of displaying innovation among your business peers.Real...
Google PageRank and backlink displays
I welcome search engine optimization (SEO) questions from my readers. I write numerous idepth articles on various search engine optimzation topics at SEO Chat, a forum and information site on SEO. I also contribute many posts to various internet discussion...
Carnival of the Capitalists sets up again
The very popular business and economics travelling fair, better known as Carnival of the Capitalists has pitched the big top at the insightful political blogger Clay Whittaker.Clay has done a great job with this week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists,...
Blogs and non-profit organizations
Blogs are an ideal addition to any non-profit organization. Blogs work well, either as a blog section within the site, or as a free standing blog linked to the organizational website.Non-profit organizations include charities, industry organizations,...
Blogs and themed links
Themed links. What are they?A themed link is an incoming link to your blog that is on the same topic or "theme" as your own blog.For example, you write a car blog. If you trade links with another automobile or car related blog, that is a "car themed"...
Anchor text and linking
Anchor text has nothing to do with boats. Ensuring you have good anchor text, will raise the tide for your blog, on the major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL Search, and Teoma.What is anchor text?Anchor text, which is also often...
Title tags: Give your blog a search engine boost
Title tags.No, they are a not the ones hanging on that new suit you hated to buy for your cousin's wedding.They are the words that appear, on the very top bar of your web browser, for every page on the internet that you visit.They are extremely important...
Carnival of the Canucks goes to Cowtown
Among the many great blogger carnivals on the internet, there is one area that features Canadian bloggers.Like me.It's called, appropriately enough, Carnival of the Canucks.This time around, leading Canadian blogger Vicki Smith, of Just In From Cowtown...
Carnival of the Capitalists time again
Once again, the big top of the ongoing business and economics series Carnival of the Capitalists, rolls into town.This week, the big tent is pitched at Brain Brew Radio Blog, where you can peruse their great hosting of Carnival of the Capitalists at...
Renaming your "links" lists
Most bloggers have a section on their blogs named "links" or "blogroll".Those are standard issue terms for your...well...links and blogroll.There is a reason to change those names, however.It is thought, by many search engine watchers, that the dominant...
Blog promotion: Message boards
Everyone is searching for ways to promote and market their blogs. I’m sure you are no exception. Simply building a blog, and placing out there on the internet, doesn’t guarantee success in internet marketing. In fact, by failing to publicize and market...
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