Link building is incredibly tricky. It takes a lot of work and a lot of caution, because if you do it wrong, you’ll end up with a Penguin penalty and your site rankings will tank. So many strategies are gray or black hat, and so many links have little or no value. You can easily find yourself wasting…
About six years ago, before Google Panda, the world was filled with millions upon millions of tiny, low-value articles that has virtually nothing of use in them. You would see dozens of blogs in the top 100 Google results, all of which had 1-2 paragraph pages that couldn’t answer a question wel…
WordPress can be set up to run on pretty much any web host, so long as you have the right version and they have the right configuration. What if you don’t want to do all the configuration and maintenance, though? Well, you have two options. One of them is WordPress.com.
The problem with WordPress…
Writing an active blog is hard work. One good, solid blog post can take 2-3 hours to put together, assuming you know your stuff and have references on hand. If you’re doing your own research and need to harvest and analyze data, it can be even worse.
Now say you’re running blogs for three di…
There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there, many of which do valuable thing. Many more of them are redundant, out of date, overly expensive, or otherwise valueless to someone running a serious blog. That’s why I’ve compiled this list.
The plugins listed below are carefully ch…
Making money from blogging is the dream of many and the reality for a few. It’s not easy, but at the same time, it’s not as impossible as many people seem to think. It’s just that a lot of people go about it the wrong way, aren’t willing to invest the time and effort necessary, or…
I’m tired of the same old analogy about Field of Dreams. Everyone references the “if you build it they will come” line and then tells you it’s not true. Right, we get it, you know one line from a movie that’s 26 years old. Half the bloggers you’re talking to right…
Sitelinks are a little known SEO benefit that I see a lot of webmasters ignoring, either out of ignorance or out of a lack of confidence. Why is that? Well, you have to know what they are and how they’re generated to understand.
What are Google Sitelinks?
Sometimes, when you run a Google search, y…
It’s a well known fact that Google uses page load times as an SEO factor. It’s also well known that a good way to increase your search ranking is to get a deeper social media presence, and to do that, you need social sharing buttons on your website.
The problem is, these two goals are at odds.…
CommentLuv is one of the many alternate comment plugins available for WordPress. We’ve written about it before on this very site. You can read more about how it works and what it does to your SEO in that post, but I’ll cover the basic details here so you don’t have to if you don&rsquo…