SEO Tool: Free, Printable Beginner's Guide to SEO

Beginner SEO Guide

SEO is one of those things that confuses a lot of bloggers, particularly those that are new. It's a bit intimidating. SEO should be kept in balance with great content, but having some knowledge of SEO is definitely helpful. This is an outstanding guide for beginners at SEOmoz, one of the most highly regarded SEO {Continue reading…}

What Could Be Better Than SEO? This.

I hear from a lot of bloggers who worry about SEO. Many times they ask me what they should do to improve their SEO and what I do to improve mine. Here's the deal: I hardly spend any time on SEO. It's true. Sure, I try to do the basics (click here to see my SEO {Continue reading…}

What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

SEO. Search Engine Optimization. What is it? This is a question I get a lot. I found this video by Common Craft and Search Engine Land that breaks it down pretty well. I hope it helps: Can't see the video? Watch it here. I've written more posts about SEO (and traffic) too, so check 'em {Continue reading…}

7 Ways to Optimize Your Exit Pages

Optimize exit pages

Here's my quick blogging tip for today: Optimize your top exit pages so people stick around your site longer. Photo by C.P.Storm. What are exit pages? Exit pages are the pages on your site from which people leave. How do I know what my top exit pages are? For the older version of Google Analytics: {Continue reading…}

How to maximize your sitemap

Submit a sitemap

I've been posting twice about in my How to Write an Ebook series. Since the bulk of it is done, I'm going to start spreading the remaining posts out a bit and make room for some other tips and hints like this one… In my post about plugins, I mentioned the Google XML Sitemaps plugin {Continue reading…}

One Excellent SEO Gimme

After writing How to Get Your Guest Post Accepted, I thought of one very important tip! Stick with me here for a minute… I've harped on internal linking. That is, you should link to yourself within your posts (like I just did with those three links in the first three sentences of this post). Internal {Continue reading…}