For many bloggers, when they first get interested in SEO, they will go after the most competitive keywords first.  A web design blogger will optimize his site to target web design.  A gadget blogger will go after gadgets.  However, this is usually a bad strategy. Short keywords like web design, g...

Much of SEO can be hard to implement or time consuming. For example, link building is difficult for many bloggers and many webmasters find keyword research to be a tedious task. If you want a simple yet effective SEO tip that is easy to implement, you can’t go wrong with strategic internal lin...

Ian had a great question in a comment on my previous post. He asked: How do you judge the balance between lots of people will be looking for that [popular keyword] against there are lots of results for that [popular keyword]? Using your example, for “nba all star game 2009″ you’d be one of 500...

The Internet is quite an appetizing prospect for entrepreneurs. No matter where you work from, there are a few services that can make your business run more smoothly, and afford you more to time expand, rather than deal with mindless administration or problems when half-baked software breaks down. 1...

If you try to use all the available SEO strategies, you wouldn’t have time for anything else in the day. With the growing complexity of the search engine algorithms, SEO has become a wide range of activities including link building, linkbaiting, social media, and onpage optimization. Today, it...

One thing many business bloggers don’t realize at first is the amount of time blogging can take. While blogging has many great benefits for businesses, it still takes time and hard work to get a blog of the ground. Fortunately, there are some tricks you can do to be more productive with your b...

I thought some of you might find it helpful to have a step by step template for writing your blog posts. Here’s what works for me: 1. Find an image that fits your post. Many bloggers don’t use images, but I think images add so much. Most of my pictures come from stock.xchng and Flickr. F...

In my last post, I wrote about the proven marketing strategy of giving away a free ebook. One of the common debated questions between online business people is how to give away your ebook. On one camp, some people say you should never give away your ebook without asking for an email address in retur...

I don’t usually post on Sundays especially during NFL season :) I’ve pretty much obsessed with American football and today has a lot of big games. However, I have this simple but effective blogging tip that just came to me and it shouldn’t take too long to write. Getting writerR...

As you get into blogging and start getting traffic, you’ll probably start receive link exchange requests. These are email messages from other bloggers asking you to link to them in exchange for them linking to you. Usually they will link to you on their blogroll, which are links to other blogs...