2 Create a Website – The Blog

In the early days of WordPress, tag clouds were a very innovative way of revealing the popular tags you used for your posts. There were even some SEO benefits to using them.  Anytime you could create anchor text to link to your content was always a good thing. Today, the value of tag clouds seems [...]

Have you ever paid attention to how your WordPress posts perform in the SERPS vs. your pages? I am often asked which is better for SEO, so I decided to create a video revealing my opinions and discussing what has worked best with my newest WordPress website.

I thought long and hard about this topic for today. After just telling you to stop relying so much on Google, here I am publishing another article about SEO. Well my timing may be a little off, but after realizing how lazy I’ve been with keyword research, I felt compelled to write this.

The latest Google Panda (algorithm) updates shook the online world like an earthquake. I’ve heard horror stories from massive layoffs to long-time Webmasters/Bloggers having to look for 9 to 5 jobs again. If you think about it, it’s very scary how one algorithm change can negatively impact a site’s revenue in seconds.

Am I the only one getting tired of the social sharing mania?  Really, it’s getting to be too much for me. I know it’s the world we live in now, and as a blogger/webmaster/affiliate marketing I often feel the pressure to keep up when it comes to adding these buttons to my site. So of [...]

Over the past 12 years, I’ve watched SEO (search engine optimization) evolve. People often ask me to do an updated video on SEO to talk about what I do differently now.  (My last SEO video was published in 2008.) I hate to disappoint you, but my SEO strategy really hasn’t changed much over the years [...]

Please Note:  This is one of those posts that can be taken the wrong way if you don’t read carefully and watch my video below.  Please understand that I am not by any means guaranteeing a massive traffic increase.  This is only a suggestion based on common sense and SEO. As you may know, your [...]

What is your ritual for creating a web page to rank high in the search engines?  Do you spend time counting the keywords in your meta tags? Do you obsess over the number of outbound links you have, thinking they might be hurting you in some way?  Do you copy your competitor’s meta tags hoping [...]

People often stress over domain name choice because they worry if they choose a certain name, they’ll only be found for the keywords in that domain and nothing else. While the domain name is important for branding, letting people know what your site is about etc., don’t stress over getting every “important” keyword in the [...]