SEO Tip Archives
Although the 30 DC has passed, I have been going over all of the training and blog articles to refresh/catch-up on what I missed.
They bring up a great concept on clustering and building a network of websites to drive traffic to a major money making site. The idea is to form clusters around keywords that you want your main site to own. Create content sites around those keywords and have everything point back to your site.
Day 21 - The Big Picture | Mike Mindel - Thirty Day Challenger
Social Poster is a social bookmarking aggregator that lets you post across over 40 different bookmarking sites (such as digg, stumbleupon, etc) all from one menu and having to only fill in the information once. Check out Mike Mindel's explanation for more info . . .
Day 17 - Part I - Social Posting | Mike Mindel - Thirty Day Challenger
Currently I am delving deep in SEO research. I have years of information to catch up on and tons of money to make once I understand it all 
- so here is another find of mine.
Building backlinks is a key step in SEO. Backlinks are basically the links that are coming from other sites directly to yours. The best way to increase the number of backlinks is by providing good content that people will want to link to. The catch-22 is that your SEO is so low there is no way they will ever find your blog/site to begin with. Visit Webconfs.com explanation of how to build backlinks for all the details, but for a start, they provided the following tool that searches for sites based on your keyword where you can submit or link to your blog/site. I am excited to try it out and see the results.
In an effort to improve my own SEO understanding, I came across this article at SEO Company on domain name redirects that explains how to set your website to automatically load in www.domain.com form rather than domain.com. This might sound like a minute detail in the grand world of SEO, but believe it or not, this simple improvement really affects how Google and other search engines index your site. Apparently, when your website loads in either www.domain.com or domain.com format, it’s like having two sets of URLs for all of your pages. This means that Google would have to work twice as hard to index all of your content - and we wouldn’t want to put Google through that much trouble.
Here is a quick breakdown on how to setup this redirect when using a WordPress blog:
1) Open your .htaccess file
2) Erase anything that wordpress might have put there - believe it or not it’s useless
3) Paste the following code in the .htaccess file (but be sure to change the code to your domain)
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
4) Save the file and you are golden!!
In addition to quality content, proper search engine optimization techniques are the only way to build traffic for your blog. This is a very well-known fact. I, unfortunately, am very early on the path of mastering SEO and have been really delving into research to up my understanding. One technique that became quite obvious to me after researching the importance of keyword density, is using the same keywords within your post titles. One of my favorite websites, Lifehacker.com, employs this very technique with a majority of their posts. I will begin including this in a portion of the posts across my blogs, in particular with Missiontuition.com.
I would recommend using the following tool to analyze your keyword density:
SEO Chat: Keyword Density
