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Will Optimize Website for Cheetos

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Tweet Should I optimize my website for Search Engines or market my website to search engines? That’s a big question and I’ve seen lots of confusion in the SEO vs SEM debate. The answer is…”you have to do both”. Search Engine Optimization is usually seen as a subset of Search Engine Marketing. I honestly prefer to think of them as internal versus external. Internal There... More...

Cut Your SEO Research Time In Half

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Tweet Wouldn’t it be great to get 8 hours worth of value out of 4 hours worth of actual work? I don’t know about you, but that’s an important business goal for me. Whether I work 4 hours a day or 20 hours a day, I want the time spent to be as productive and useful to my business as possibleĀ and I don’t want my tasks to take any longer to accomplish than necessary.... More...

How Much Search Engine Traffic Should I Have

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Tweet How much search engine traffic should I have? This is a question that I hear a lot. Some people want to know how to get more Google love and some are concerned that they are to dependent on search engines for traffic. As far as I’m concerned, the graph below shows a great example of how much search engine traffic you should have. Less than everything else. Now before you get... More...

Simple Search Engine Optimization Tips

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Tweet Are you getting at least 100 new visitors to your blog everyday? If not, it may be that your blog is not optimized for the search engines, which is where people begin their search for products and services online. Some “search engine experts” would have you believe that search engine optimization requires a lot of advanced techniques to rank well. But the truth is that... More...

Spy On Competitors Using Web Analytic Tools

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Tweet If you want to know how much website traffic a competitor is getting then you’ll want to take a look at Compete.com. Compete offers site analytic that let you do side by side website traffic comparisons between several sites. Compete also offers search analytics that can tell you what keywords a specific website is getting traffic for or what websites in general are getting... More...

Blogging Tips From WordCamp Dallas 2008

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Tweet Here are a few notes from John Pozadzides at OneMansBlog.com. He’s giving the presentation on 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog at WordCamp Dallas 2008. I’m not going to list all 45 tips in this update, but here are a few interesting ones for you. Use English Names for Images Descriptive and accurate titles are essential Use title elements on every hypertext link Pick the... More...

Let’s Meet Up At WordCamp Dallas This Weekend!

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Tweet You may have heard about the South By SouthWest event down in Austin Texas. It was a week long event that has historically been a music related event, but has added topics around blogging and media. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend, but I heard a lot of popular blogging names were there. It would have been a great chance to mix it up with other motivated people because... More...

7 Firefox Extensions That Make Life Easier

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Tweet Please do not beat me! You were promised an article about how to use Del.icio.us to get more visitor traffic for your blog and it is really almost finished. The problem is there is so much to say that I keep re-writing parts of it. So, please don’t beat me. You will get your article and I will get to write the next article in the series. But, until then, here is something you... More...

Top Ten WordPress Plugins You Must Have Or Else

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Tweet Do you ever wonder why some bloggers seem to enjoy greater success while exerting what seems like less effort than other bloggers who work twice as hard and only seem to get half as much done? Well, in this post I’m going to show you how the successful bloggers cheat the daily clock to get more benefit out of their efforts. No matter what you might think, blogging is hard work.... More...






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