Archive for the 'How To' Category
SEO Checklist For Your Website Redesign
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
All right, you’ve decided to redesign your website and you’ve found the perfect designer or design company to do so. Excellent, a site redesign is sometimes a necessary step as your business grows but what you should be careful of is to not lose the goodwill that you have built up with the search engines.
The [...]
SEO Tips For Geo Targeting
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As an SEO, I often get requests to geo target a site for specific keywords. There are many many ways to let Google know that your site is specific to a particular area/region. The following are a few of my preferred options that I use when I go about geo targeting a website.
Google Webmaster tools [...]
Are You Planning On Changing Your Web Hosting Company?
Friday, August 15th, 2008
So it’s that time again. You just realized your current web hosting provider just does not cut it. It’s time to move your hosting account with all your sites or site to another company. If you are doing this for the first time then you’re probably wondering what you need to be doing. Let’s take [...]
Must Have Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Installing and setting up a WordPress blog is a peice of cake. Many web hosts offer a one click option to install a WordPress blog for your domain. One of the reasons WordPress has become the tool of choice as far as blogging is concerned is the availability of an extensive library of plugins to [...]
Changing Hosting Companies? How To Move Your Blog Without Any Downtime
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I spent some time yesterday moving one of my blogs (no, not this one) over to another Web Hosting company. I figured this would be a good topic to talk about on Web Hosting Plans and tips as I’m sure some of you might be contemplating the same thing and not sure how to go [...]
Remove The “Home” Link From Your Home Page Now
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
One of the 10 most violated Home Page design guidelines according to Jakob Nielson is to include an active link to the homepage from the homepage itself. How often do you see this? All the time I bet. I’m yet to come across a WordPress theme that addresses this flaw. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. [...]
Hide That Affiliate ID In Your Link
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
If you haven’t done it yet then you are in all probability leaving money on the table especially for your blog’s focus is predominantly on affiliate income. Having your affiliate id as part of your URL is a complete turn off for many readers. Read my previous posts about niche user behavior and also about how your blog or web site url should [...]
Research The Blog Before You Advertise On It
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
At some point in your blog’s lifecycle you start to think about advertising. Getting the word out becomes important and one of the obvious ways of doing it is to advertise on blogs in the same or similar niche. Finding interesting but not so well known blogs to advertise on is not the problem, finding the right one with [...]
Picking A Niche, Single Most Important Factor To Keep In Mind
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Two most basic and widespread forms of generating revenue for a website owner is either by
Selling Advertisements.
Affiliate earnings from sale of goods or services.
Do it right and you have a winner on your hands, one that can keep you going for a while and even fund your other venture(s), who knows it could be the one that you [...]
Duplicate Content On Your Blog. The Right Way to Handle It.
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Let me start by explaining the problem. Google and it’s not so illustrious counterparts do not take duplicate content lightly. Content is perceived to be repetitive or duplicate in nature if more than 30% of it is similar to existing indexed content. If your website or blog happens to be the one that is hosting [...]
