How To Create SEO-Friendly Content

Google SEO, SEO 101, Wordpress

Getting your voice heard on the internet is never easy. It can be like setting up your soapbox on a crowded street, and waving frantically to get passers-by to pay attention. You might be an expert in your chosen topic, with pearls of wisdom to dispense on X particles...

WordPress SEO Setup 101

Google SEO, SEO 101, Social SEO, Wordpress

WordPress is a great blogging tool, and if you’re looking to an easy route to SEO, even the basic install of WordPress will get you half-way there. Set up correctly, WordPress is ideal for SEO as it puts your keywords in good positions and has lots of options for...

Get Your SEO Firm Involved Before the Redesign

SEO 101, Wordpress

Redesigns are difficult, time intensive, frequently expensive, and often frustrating. Religious wars can be waged over anything and everything (the messaging, style, imaging, layout, and infrastructure, etc). These wars can create the kind of hostility and hard...

9 Step SEO Checkup Using Google Webmaster Tools

SEO 101, Wordpress

Dec 2, 2010 at 12:13pm ET by Ian Lurie If you’re an SEO beginner, Google Webmaster Tools (also known as GWT, if my fingers get lazy) is a great place to start a site tuneup. If you’re buried in SEO minutiae and need to pull together some intelligent, actionable to-do...

25 Super Common SEO Mistakes

SEO 101, Wordpress

No, these aren’t “myths” disguised as “common mistakes.” I’ve already beaten the SEO myths theme to death with my previous three articles. What follows are innocent mistakes that many SEOs make. Some of these things catch even the best of us… 1. Google AdWords Keyword...

5 Things Quality Sites Have in Common

SEO 101, Wordpress

Content While there are many types of content out on the web for SEO and other SEM purposes, having other Internet users link to your content is one of the most reputable ways to build your reputation. Friend referrals and word of mouth are the best marketing...

SEO Your Youtube & Facebook Presence

SEO Fringe, Wordpress

Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that...