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Improve Search Engine Rankings
We all are looking for quick and easy ways for us to improve search engine rankings efficiently and effectively and I’m going to share with you some secrets that I have learned over the years. Before I begin, let me make it clear to you that these are a set of practices that I follow to improve search engine rankings. What does that mean? That means that you can easily take one or two parts of my search engine rankings improvement plan and use it as you see fit with your practices or some other organic ranking practices you see fit. There is no one set way to improve rankings, however, if you follow this set of practices you will […]
WP Plugins: Must Have WordPress Plugins
WordPress is an incredibly powerful content management system largely due to wp plugins. There are literally thousands of wp plugins out there that can transform the most basic of blogs to powerful, automated, and SEO friendly Google Ranking machines. I have been involved in the installation and setup of over 240 wordpress blogs and have tried almost every plugin out there. Here is a list of the wp plugins I absolutely HAVE to have on all sites I work on. If you are looking for the best WordPress SEO plugins look no further. All in One SEO PackGet found by Google! The All in One SEO Pack is one of the most important wp plugins in my arsenal. You have […]
Non-www Redirects & More
This is a quick tutorial showing you how to redirect non-www urls, i.e. http://alexybecker.com/ to http://www.alexybecker.com/. First of all, let me emphasize why it’s important to have uniform url linking structure. The easiest way to explain this is to break it down to you in the simplest of terms. Search engines like google, yahoo, and msn think that http://alexybecker.com/ and http://www.alexybecker.com/ are two completely different pages, therefore, not having non-www redirects implemented will give you an inherent duplicate content penalty; that is arguably the biggest search engine traffic killer. Before I begin this tutorial I should warn people that I’m currently using an Apache based server and thus will be using an .htaccess file that will tell the server to […]
Affiliate Marketing Masterplan
1) Identify the market(s) you plan on entering The more specific and focused your niche is the more successful you will be. For example, lets say you have decided to promote iPhoneGeek, which is a membership-based site where users pay a fee and are granted unlimited movie, music, video, and software downloads to their iPhone. You will NOT be successful if you base your PPC, SEO, and marketing campaigns around extremely competitive keyword sectors for the iPhone market. This includes keywords like “iphone”, “iphones”, “iphone downloads”, “iphone movies”, etc. — you get the idea. This is because you have no chance of getting indexed by google for those keywords and if you do it will not be even close to […]
Getting Traffic with Web 2.0
Michael Phelps was all the craze during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. About 20 minutes before his Olympic Gold Record setting race I purchased OlympicGoldRecord.com. To be honest, I was extremely surprised that that domain was available and I was quick to snatch it up. I installed WordPress and started posting some articles related to the Olympics, Michael Phelps, and Olympic Gold Records. Within 24 hours I was receiving decent organic search engine traffic for various keywords I was going after. But the real power of Web 2.0 traffic was soon to be discovered. I searched the web for anything and everything related to Michael Phelps and came to this post on Amazon Askville. First thing I did was […]