I know that a lot of you don’t want to put a lot of time into marketing or SEO, but instead want to focus on running your online business.  Hiring someone to come on board isn’t for everyone, especially if you are just getting started and don’t have a lot of cash to throw around.  [...]

For those of you who do not know what a robots.txt file does, it basically tells the robots which pages on your site they can and can not crawl.  This is important because there are certain things you do not want to show up in the index, like if a folder contains duplicate content, or [...]

I know there are all kinds of best of lists for WordPress plugins, but I figured I would put together my own. I can vouch for all of these and use them personally on every Wordpress blog that I create. So let’s get down to it:
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1. Ad Rotator – I like to use [...]

If you have a website or a blog then you should know about web analytics.  You can learn a lot about your site, what works, and what doesn’t if you take a look at your stats on a frequent basis.  Most hosting companies provide some kind of stats software, but I recommend adding Google Analytics [...]

Everyone wants to rank well in Google.  A high listing in the search engine results pages (SERPs) can bring you a ton of traffic which hopefully will translate into you making a lot of money.  If you have a new URL though, how can you make sure your site gets indexed faster by the major [...]

There are a lot of things that go into optimizing your site for the search engines, but with a minimal amount of effort you can cover about 80% of the important stuff.  While the list below isn’t all inclusive and isn’t going to have you ranking number one for competitive terms, it will at least [...]

Everyone wants as many links to their site as possible.  The more backlinks that you have, the higher your rank in the search engine results and the more traffic that you will receive.  Of course, you want to have backlinks from trusted, authority sites and not spammy junk sites, but in general more is better.  [...]

A popular practice for many years was the purchasing of text links on blogs for the purposes of increasing your rankings in the search engines.  There were a lot of sites who did  nothing more than buy links and then watch their rankings rise with little to no effort on their part, but the times [...]

Most of you already probably know the benefits of a high page rank on your site.  If you are trying to do any kind of link exchange campaign or if you are trying to exchange guest posts on another blog a lot of people are still stuck on how high of a page rank you [...]