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Google XML Sitemap. Don’t Leave Home Without It.

Posted by Alex | March 21, 2010 .

If I told you all how dumb I was when I first got into the business of trying to make a buck on the Internet, you would never listen to my advice  again.  So, I am not going to tell you.
Oh, Okay... since you have twisted my arm and tweaked my nose, I'll tell you [...]

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Links Are Links. Well, Not Really.

Posted by Alex | March 19, 2010 .

Probably the only Internet game hotter than Farmville, is In Search of the Holy Link. A challenging game played by webmasters of all skill levels. The number of strategies employed to win this game would boggle even Carl Sagan's mind of billions and billions of stars.
Why do we see where the big dogs are linking [...]

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Easily Create Your Own RSS Mashup

Posted by Alex | March 19, 2010 .

I wrote a tutorial post at Monetize Your Blogs with instructions on how to create an old school RSS Feed by using a simple text editor to create the necessary xml document. In that tutorial I alluded to the fact that I had a spark of an idea about a really cool way to use [...]

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The Link Wheel Exposed

Posted by Alex | March 10, 2010 .

Link Wheels as SEO strategy certainly are not a new concept, yet there seems to be quite a bit of mystery about how they work and if they work.
Part of the mystery is created by software developers that have product on the line and want to push software that will create a Wheel in minutes. [...]

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The Bold and the Spammy ~ Watch Those Header and Bold Tags

Posted by Alex | March 8, 2010 .

Up until very recently, I used to jump on every piece of  SEO advice that came down the pike. Especially when it was delivered by people I trusted. What's worse, I used to preach these practices as solid, because so many people were doing it.
Then, as if mom had reached up from her grave and [...]

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Breaking My Permalink Structure To Make An SEO Omelette

Posted by Alex | February 26, 2010 .

Last time around, I promised that I was going to perform a death defying feat by breaking my WordPress permalink structure, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
We now know that permalinks are URLs assigned to content so that users and search engines can find said content. We also understand that WordPress gives us [...]

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Discovering Permalinks

Posted by Alex | February 24, 2010 .

What are permalinks? In essence, a permalink (shortened from permanent link) is the URL given to published content so that content can be archived as well as searched for via the search engines. In addition, because they are structured URLs, they are also crawled by the search engine spiders.
Search engines rely on links to find [...]

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Title Tags, Part Of The Content Or Apart From The Content

Posted by Alex | February 21, 2010 .

How do you handle your title tags relative to your content?
I love writing flash fiction. In fact, my favorite pieces to write are called 55 Worders. The rules are simple, fifty-five words exactly in the text body, and up to seven words in the title.
The seven words in the title are not counted as part [...]

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Content Is Important As Part Of The SEO Strategy

Posted by Alex | February 11, 2010 .

Keyword optimization is obviously an important element of sound Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but it is not the only component of any SEO campaign that is important. In fact, keyword strategies only open the door to your content.
Content is king for a reason. That reason is that content is what speaks confidence and authority about [...]

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Learning SEO Along The Way. The Dinosaur Bones.

Posted by Alex | February 6, 2010 .

I was asked not that long ago if what I know about blogging and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes from some software program or a guru's coaching session. My answer was no.
It's not that I didn't buy books, because I did, or didn't get some form of coaching, because I did (indirectly).
What I did learn [...]

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