Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be a bit daunting and hard to understand at first, but it is a key to the development of your blog and its longtime success. In the following article, I’m going to offer you six tips on how to optimize your site and find SEO success. 1. CONTENT The first […]
Tip of the Day: Proper File Naming
Proper file naming is key to successful search optimization for your website, blog or online store. Improving your image SEO will help readers or potential customers find your products or content because your pages, or the images themselves, will rank higher in the search results. When naming an image file, make sure the name you choose […]
#HowTo – How To Perform an SEO Audit on Your Own Website
By Patrick Hathaway Patrick is the SEO Manager at Hit Reach, a web design and SEO agency. Hit Reach specialise in the integration of high-end SEO techniques with beautiful website design. Patrick carries out SEO audits and performs ongoing SEO and content marketing, both in-house and client side. Other posts from Patrick Hathaway Follow @hitreach […]
The Importance of (Realistic) Affiliate Incentive Programs – Guest Post
It’s almost August, which means two very important things are just around the corner… Affiliate Summit East in New York City … The very busy Q4 and holiday shopping season. With those two things in mind, ShareASale welcomes a special guest blogger Rae Hoffman-Dolan. Rae Hoffman-Dolan aka “Sugarrae” is an affiliate marketing veteran and SEO […]
Optimizing Images
Why should you optimize an image? I would counter that question with… Why wouldn’t you optimize an image? There are absolutely no cons to doing so, unless you consider obtaining additional targeted traffic to your site a con. :) I am going to use WordPress in my example for today, but you can use these […]
WordPress Plugins
If you haven’t noticed by now… YES, I am a WordPress Fan! Why is this? Well……. Fact: it is simple for anyone one to use, but bigger than that… there are the thousands upon thousands of plugins available at your fingertips there just to help enhance your sites performance. Pretty much any task that you […]
Site Maps
What is a “Site Map” and why is it so important to SEO? Site maps are the “belly” of Search Engine Friendly Design. They make it very quick and easy for the search engines to find and index every page on your web site by putting links to every page in one spot. Site maps […]
The Tagging Sweet Spot
Most blogging platforms let you apply tags to your posts. Tags help organize your blog so both humans and search engines can find what they’re looking for. They’re terms like “blogging,” “SEO” or “Jason’s Weekly Whiteboard” that reflect the topics and content of the post. Search Engines try to recognize tags and use them to […]
Interlinking Posts
Why should you interlink blog posts? Three reasons… Usefulness to your readers, SEO and to increase your page views. How is interlinking useful to your readers? It provides a better experience and makes your blog more useful. If someone comes to a post from a search engine and finds a post that not only answers […]
Blog Post Titles
How important are the titles of your blog posts for SEO? To me… the MOST important! When search engines read a website for indexing, it reads the code directly, not the fancy designs that humans see. Majority (the good ones) of the blogging platforms are built for the headline or title of your post to […]