Archive for the 'Basics' Category

Bloglines Perks for Everyone

Bloglines is useful for both ordinary bloggers and the more technical web developers.
Ordinary Bloggers
For ordinary bloggers we have already mentioned the uses of Bloglines in the previous two posts especially when we spelled out the key features. Blogger who use bloglines to publish their own blogs will find that they also don’t need to worry […]

Pushing your Blog to the Top of the Charts!

It is every blogger’s dream to see his blog to be at the top or at least among the top ten blog sites when a certain topic of interest is being searched for. Many experts would attribute this as dependent on how well a blogger is versed when it comes to affordable search engine optimization […]

RSS Aggregators

To access your blog’s RSS feeds your visitors need some sort of tool to help them compile the RSS feeds from you AND the other blogs they read. After all it would be pretty useless if they had to check a different tool or site for each blog they read. The job of compiling RSS […]

Labels and Categories

One of the things that is important for bloggers to realize is that you must make it easy for your readers to find back posts that are of interest to them. One way to do this is of course through the ever present Archives. However, if you think about it Archives are virtually useless unless […]

RSS Beyond SEO

So we know that incorporating RSS feeds to your website has benefits when it comes to SEO. Aside from the benefits to your SEO campaign though RSS also has some real advantages to offer that goes beyond that.
In the same way that RSS provides fresh, updated, and themed content to your website, which is […]

Being Realistic About In-house SEO

Ok. So we have raised some pretty good points about professional SEO and In-house SEO. If you do decide on going for the In-house SEO and you know that you lack experience I have a simple word of advice for you.
BE REALISTIC.
This is not to discourage you but to make sure your efforts are not […]

Advantages of an In-house SEO - Part 4

4. Lots of Savings - For many businesses this is the factor that really comes to play when deciding between hiring a professional SEO or doing their campaign in-house. Though some might think that this should not be a factor to consider, while it might be true for bigger companies (don’t be such cheapskates!), those […]

Advantages of an In-house SEO - Part 3

3. Learning from Your Mistakes - Mistakes are inevitable especially in the field of SEO where much of the factors and the weight of each factor is not really known even to the experts. Since search engines treat their algorithms as top secret material (and why not?) SEOs end up having to do much guess […]

Advantages of an In-house SEO - Part 1

1. Absolute control - This is one of the major advantages of using an in-house SEO, especially if we’re talking about YOU doing the SEO yourself. This means changes can be made the instant you make a decision. This results in time savings in a way since you won’t have to wait for your decision […]

Advantages of an In-house SEO - Introduction

For the past several posts we’ve highlighted the advantages of hiring a professional SEO firm to handle your SEO campaign. For the next posts we will now talk about the advantages of an in-house SEO.
By in-house SEO we mean to say that you don’t need to hire additional people to develop and implement your SEO […]