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Find New Readers: 10 Blog Traffic Tips

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This [...]

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SEO Matters: How to use the Power of Local Search

Here’s another article in our SEO Matters series, and here we’ll look at how local search really helps put a business on the map.

by Scott Frangos
A lot of “Content Masters” (a name for all of you managers using a Content Management System for your business websites) focus their Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategy on good [...]

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ICANN’s New Domain Names… Who Cares?

by Scott Frangos
Run for the hills. ICANN, the non-profit Domain Name regulating body formed in ‘98, has announced (see story here) an application process for new domain names, where you can replace the common names following the “Dot” (.com, .net, .org, .biz) with anything you want… for a price. The agency expects the [...]

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Launching Your WordPress 2.5 Upgrade

by Scott Frangos
It’s here — WordPress 2.5, which you know if you pay attention to the notices in your admin. area. Should you upgrade now? Yes… if you want to enjoy a reorganized and streamlined new administration interface. No… if you want assurances that all of your plugins will work. You [...]

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ROMM – The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

The formula for webmasters looking for success with the search engines is ROMM (Research, Optimize, Monitor, and Maintain). Here are some helpful tips and details about each portion of the ROMM concept…
“After launching a website, it is important to evaluate the status of the site in the various search engines. Keep in mind that major [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation – Myths, Risks and Pitfalls

Search Engine Optimisation - Myths, Risks and Pitfalls

By Nicholas C Smith

From my experience, people who try to increase the flow of organic traffic to their websites domain will at some point attempt a whole bunch of “optimisation techniques” without knowing if any of it really has had, or is having, any effect at all. Some of the SEO techniques I have seen…

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Web Hosts Becoming Website Package Providers

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We’re kicking off a new category of focus and taking a look at Online Business and web hosting. If you’re online, you’re doing some form of business (unless it’s just for a hobby), so we’ll take a look at some successful business models, web entrepreneurs, and other pieces of [...]