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Tag: "SEO"

WordPressGarage.com now on WPGarage.com, and how to move a domain with a 301 redirect on WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | December 31, 2009 | 16 Comments

About a year ago, a discussion arose in the WordPress community about third-party sites that use the word "WordPress" in their domain name. We posted our opinion on this issue since WP Garage has been running (until yesterday) on a domain with the word WordPress in it. We put WordPress in our domain ... View Post

4 reasons not to host your blog on WordPress.com

Miriam Schwab | April 15, 2008 | 24 Comments

When starting out, many bloggers seek out the cheap and easy route, either choosing to blog on Blogger, WordPress.com, or another free and hosted blogging platform. This approach makes sense, since a person can never know until they've started if they even like blogging, let alone whether they'll be successful.I ... View Post

SphinnCon Israel to feature great panelists from Google, TechCrunch, Yedda, and more

| February 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

SphinnCon Israel is this coming Tuesday in Jerusalem, and will have a great panel of experts on search and internet marketing, including representatives from Google, TechCrunch, Yedda, and Kenshoo. Read my post ... View Post

7 lessons learned from digg’s home page

| August 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

This past Thursday, one of my sites reached digg's home page. As we watched in disbelief, tens of thousands of readers flooded the site (and brought it crashing down in the classic "digg effect"). This was both exciting and frustrating. We learned a lot from this experience, and I would ... View Post

The secret to a successful blog: writing good content

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

Ramit over at I Will Teach You To Be Rich reminds us that when all is said and done, a blog's success depends on the merit of its content, and not on the quality of its design, stats programs, or all the SEO stuff ... View Post

Make your sitemap work for your by modifying your robots.txt file

| April 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Quick Online Tips explains that beyond installing a sitemap on your site, you can help search engines find your sitemap more efficiently:

Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! have announced support of “autodiscovery” of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within

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Must See: 52 Ways to Promote Your Blog

| April 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Better Business Blogging has put together an amazing list of 52 ways to promote your blog. I have seen many lists out there that address this issue, but I've never seen one that is so comprehensive, and has so many tips ... View Post

Jerome’s Keywords broke during upgrade, now using Simple Tagging

| March 24, 2007 | 18 Comments

I was using Jerome's Keywords for tagging posts, and all was working fine until I finally upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 (yes, I know, I should have done it a long time ago, but upgrades scare me). The upgrade went fine, but I noticed that when you clicked on a tag, ... View Post

Free SEO WordPress Themes

| February 21, 2007 | 0 Comments

Easy Web Tutorials.com offers easily customizable themes. They offer recorded on-screen videos that show you how you can easily customize the layout styles, the headers and the sidebar templates to make these themes look more unique or match them with an existing ... View Post