Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling of Blizzard Internet Marketing has released a WordPess SEO Whitepaper that is available for free in PDF form. The white paper goes over the usual suspects such as the use of pretty permalinks, SEO Plugins and socializing your blog. The whitepaper also gives quite a few tips and tricks to help configure your WordPress powered blog so that it is SEO friendly from the get-go. This is an excellent read for those that are brand new to WordPress or for those curious to know what they could do to improve the SEO on their own blogs.
| Social Bookmarking Sites | Google PR | Alexa |
| http://bookmarks.yahoo.com | 7 | 1 |
| http://myweb.yahoo.com | 8 | 1 |
| http://www.google.com/notebook | 7 | 3 |
| http://favorites.live.com | 6 | 5 |
It is no secret that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most powerful, cost-effective, and results-yielding website promotion tool, but if your optimization service provider or the webmaster is cutting off the online campaign at SEO set-up only, then it is not meeting the campaign objective fully. SEO has to be followed with well planned on-going maintenance and off-page optimization strategies to continue to improve and/ or retain the top rankings. You could agree with the fact that competition webpages for your every target keyword/ key-phrase has increased multiple folds now. A well planned on-going SEO maintenance and off-page strategies will guarantee that you continue to reap the benefits of top rankings and thus get guaranteed qualified traffic and leads for a long time.
An explanation of what Twitter is, how it’s being used and what the potential of the service is beyond its current implementation. This is sort of a social messaging system that has gotten a lot of criticism but it has taken off in terms of traffic and usage.
Mahalo is a people filtered search engine which presents some interesting shifts from traditional search engine setups. Watch this video for more detail. Mahalo has a staff of people who go through and customize tailored pages for the top 100 keyword phrases. You will see less information than on other search engines, but their objective is to create a better search.. Take a look
Using Social Networking Sites to Poach Your Competitors Rankings
This is a great article that shows you how you can dominate a keyword in google using social bookmarking sites like squidoo. Check it out.
Let’s begin with a brief description of social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to share, store, classify and search Internet bookmarks. In 2005 and 2006, social bookmarking sites, such as del.icio.us, Diigo, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Netvouz, and StumbleUpon became popular. Sites like reddit, Digg, Newsvine, and the new Netscape portal apply social bookmarking to news items. IBM even announced plans to enter the social software market this year.
Know your terms in SEO. While some may argue that familiarity the gist of the SEO industry will suffice, it still cannot be denied that knowing what words pertain to which is equally important. In order to be truly an expert in SEO, you have to know how to work the jargon.
Google’s Universal Search - The Death of Article Marketing
I just read an article from SitePro News called “Search Engine Optimization For Universal Search - Back to Square One?” and have some comments to make.
How to Use Social Media to your Advantage
You’ve written an article on a really great topic, it’s optimized and published to your website. The next question is how will people find it?
