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Google Page 1 Out Of 192 Million Results

by Martin on 16 February, 2010

in SEO

Google Page 1

It may not be a big deal to you but it is to me.
After 2 years of work this site is finally on the first page of Google, out of 192,000,000 results, for the search term Online Home Business Tips.
And here’s the picture to prove it.
OK, I’m only at number 10, but hey – who’s [...]

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Banned for Life

by Martin on 11 January, 2010

in Internet Marketing

You’ve been banned for life by Google. No recourse, no further discussion.
That was the opening message in an advertising pitch I saw recently for a book on Google Adwords.
And it annoyed the hell out of me.
It’s the kind of advertising that gives Internet Marketers a bad reputation, and yet it obviously works or people wouldn’t [...]

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8 Steps to Making Your Blog Successful

by Martin on 15 December, 2009

in Blogging

When I look back at the early articles I wrote on my first blog I swing between cringing with embarrassment and smiling to myself.
I had no idea how to write for the web.
I wrote for the Corporate world. I’d been in it for more than 20 years and I was great at creating PowerPoints, memos [...]

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How to Write an Optimised Article

by Martin on 16 October, 2009

in Blogging

Interesting question in the Warrior Forum today: are WordPress posts treated as pages on-line and should I target individual keywords in posts?
The short answer is ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.
Which led me to thinking about how to write an optimised article.
Here are the steps I follow:
Step 1: Optimising my post content.

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10 years ago ‘build it and they’ll come’ worked on-line. Today it doesn’t.
Today there are so many web pages out there that any site that hopes to receive visitors has to be positioned well and promoted cleverly.
And the bar is getting higher all the time.
Someone with next to zero technical skills can sign up with [...]

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How to SEO a WordPress Blog

by Martin on 19 September, 2009

in Wordpress

How can I SEO my WordPress blog? How can I make it easy to find on-line?
Those are questions I see quite often in the forums.
The fact is, your WordPress blog is already pretty search engine friendly.
If you don’t believe me take it from Matt Cutts, head of anti-spam at Google – here’s what he says [...]

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Matt Cutts on WordPress SEO

by Martin on 20 August, 2009

in Wordpress

Matt Cutts is head of the Anti-Spam Team at Google – so he knows a thing or two about how to do well in the Google natural search results.
In this video he talks about WordPress (and why he uses it), how to set it up, things to do and things to avoid if you want [...]

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More Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website

by Martin on 9 November, 2008

in SEO

I wrote an article a couple of days ago on the 10 steps I follow when setting up a new website so that it will bring me consistent numbers of visitors.  Today I went looking for what other people are doing to build up the number of visitors to their sites.
Here are 3 articles. [...]

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10 Easy Steps to Consistent Website Traffic

by Martin on 7 November, 2008

in SEO

I read a post today from someone who’s experienced the frustration of focusing on the Search Engines for their website traffic.
The problem is – the search engines keep changing their algorithms in order to improve the relevance of their results and to block loopholes the black-hatters find.  And this can really blow your search engine [...]

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