Posts Tagged ‘rankings’

Is Your Site Spider-Friendly?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

SEO is a big determinant of how high your site ranks in search engine results pages. Making sure your site is spider-friendly can help visitors discover your site and your blog more easily.
Search engine spiders “crawl” your pages to find out what’s on your site and to categorize it for placement in search engine results. [...]

Improving Search Engine Visibility Through Blog Marketing

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

There’s a nice interview with Matt Cutts on 4Holteliers.com. Matt Cutts is in charge of Google’s Web Spam team, and in the interview, he talks about using your Web site to reach your target customer. As a little bonus, the site has posted the 20-minute video version of the interview as well. It [...]

RSS Marketing Doesn’t Equal Splogging

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

At the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference last week, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg threw around some interesting numbers and provided some cautionary advice to corporate bloggers.
The interesting statistic he provided is that WordPress supports more than 2.5 million blogs. That’s a huge number, but it doesn’t distinguish between corporate bloggers and personal bloggers. [...]

RSS Feeds Are Here To Stay

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Although in the grand scheme of things, RSS feeds are novel additions to the World Wide Web, the fact of the matter is that they are not going anywhere anytime soon, if ever.  They have become a welcome aid to many businesses because they offer a way to get significant information to customers fast.
Remember the [...]

Blogging Can Increase Search Engine Visibility

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

If you are trying to run a profitable website, then search engine visibility is crucial to your success. I know that is an obvious statement, but too many businesses don’t take it as seriously as they should.
So how can business blogging help you to increase your search engine visibility? The two main areas [...]

Business Blogging is Well Worth Your Time

Friday, September 7th, 2007

A lot of businesses wonder why they should even get involved in business blogging in the first place. Whenever I talk to people about this concept I get a question like this, “Aren’t blogs just written by people that have nothing better to do?” As you can see, blogs and blogging in general [...]

Businesses Ignor SEO at their Own Risk

Friday, August 31st, 2007

The Chartered Institute of Marketing in the U.K recently said that businesses need to invest in SEO if they want to survive online. They go on to say how most people “Google” a word to find a business. If you are a real estate broker in Denver, Colorado and someone Googles “real estate broker in [...]

Attention Gets Attention

Monday, November 28th, 2005

While reading the RSS Blog, I came across this story on attention.  It discusses how Dave Winer, widely credited with creating RSS, gave OPML a boost.
This week OPML got a big boost following a commitment from Dave Winer,
the developer of RSS and OPML, to include support for namespaces that
will make it easier for people using [...]

RSS and Blogging for Real Estate Power

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

The Inside Realestate
Journal is a realestate blog by a highly successful realtor, John Mudd.
A blog is basically an online journal, composed of short but frequent
postings in which the author shares his insights on a specific topic, his advice
and his experience. All of this leads to greater recognition for the author,
improves his name, generates media [...]