Information Sells

You know how important keywords are to your Google rankings. And you know how important your Google ranking is to your sales. So how do you find the right keywords for your niche? Surprisingly, there are excellent, free tools that will help you reach the first page of Google for your keywords. But first, you [...]

Tags: keyword tools, seo

Google has added a new feature to its Search results. You can vote the individual results Up or Down. The rankings, for now, only change your personal results – but nothing Google does is ever so limited for long. How will these votes, when aggregated, influence Google? Are they another of the oncoming, rumored, and/or [...]

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Do you want to be to be the Number 1 answer to a Google query? Then think Long Tail. You know it already. It is easier to rank for long tail searches than for common keywords. It is almost impossible to rank well for a term like “Doctors,” but you should be able to optimize [...]

Tags: google, long tail, seo

Naomi Dunford made almost $200,000.00 so far this year with her blog IttyBiz. Bet that got your attention, huh? I’m a regular IttyBiz reader and I assumed Naomi was doing OK, but I had no idea just how OK she was. About two years ago, Naomi, a professional copywriter, decided that there was an opportunity [...]

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Do the words “Page Slug” make you think of something slimy and unpleasant? Or maybe they sound more like a well deserved jigger of scotch taken to celebrate a finely crafted post? Well… no. “Slug” is actually an old printer’s term. Back in day, when we were drunk with the smell of printer’s ink, a printer’s slug [...]

Tags: page slugs, permalinks, seo

What’s the truth about plug-ins? Are they the fastest way to cripple a WordPress blog? Or are they the essential ingredient that makes WordPress blogs so useful? The answer – as you probably guessed – is both! A bad plug in can take down your blog. Even a good plug in can go bad and [...]

Tags: plugins, seo, wordpress