Category: Leveraging the Search Engines

Tonight we covered a lot of great questions from the Peanut Gallery like… What does grilled cheese have to do with your SEO efforts? Should you use categories and tags? Something is wrong with my site… did I mess up my SEO? How many words should my search optimized posts be? Follow or no-follow links? Will…

We recently did our weekly call on the SEO of WordPress Categories and Tags. This is a recap of that call, but not the transcript. If you’d like to listen to that and all our other calls, you just have to register to get in at https://FreeWeeklyMastermind.com Anyway, we covered three basic tenets of WordPress…

On FreeWeeklyMastermind.com a friend asked a question about recovering from Google Penguin. I couldn’t tell from her question whether she was even 100% sure Penguin was the problem. So here are the steps you need to take in the event you were hit by Penguin and you’re interested in recovering from Google Penguin. Let’s do…

Logistically, categories and tags have all kinds of SEO science behind them. It’s really easy to make mistakes with categories and tags. But I’d like to leave the website organization and SEO mistakes for another blog post. In this one, let’s talk about user experience. I bring this up after having visited Gizmodo.com today and…

I really want to help make you aware of the Google Adwords Keyword Tool mistake that many people make. But first I want to start by saying that it is not your fault if you are making this mistake. Very big SEO companies, big time internet marketers and even IM conferences teach how to use…

The rel=author thing is pretty cool. It’s not necessarily new but Google has made it more fun and useful. And since they got rid of the indented listing, the rel=author thing is the next best search results promotion tool. So what is it? Simply put, rel=author is an html tag you can add to your…

So, we have Susanne Myers on the call today. Yeah – she’s the expert behind EasyLinkLove.com. She definitely brought it. When was the last time you listened to someone whose built 72,000 links to a site talk about link building? Press play if you want to learn more about guest blog posts, strategic link building,…

Keyword research is truly like studying for a test. If traffic is the answer then keyword research is the text book. When people are searching for you, the only tool they have at their disposal are words. Letters and numbers are what people use when searching for products, services, information or entertainment. Put together those letters…

Did you happen to see the new “Google Starred Results” on your last search? It would have showed up at the top of the search results. It’s like an interactive “favorites” button – but one that stays in Google and not necessarily on your computer. My question about Google Starred Results (and I see Wayne…

Have you ever wondered how to get a double listing in Google? Some people refer to them as indented listings, either is fine.  An indented listing is not often thought about during the web design process, but from a search perspective it can push your traffic through the roof. A double listing is the culmination…