In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing

6 Ways to get your Blog Ranked High on Google

by Bob Sommers

Getting your blog ranked high on Google is a fantastic way to attract potential clients. Here’s how it’s done.

“Google provides far more weight to the theme of your blog post based on the quality and size of the sites linking back to your blog than the text on your blog.”

1. Select Your Keywords and Keyword Phrases
Choose the keywords and keyword phrases you want your blog post to rank… Continue reading

In: OS WebMaster, Web Help

13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals

By Adam McFarland

Like most web developers or SEO professionals, I use a vast array of tools to get the job done. I use a combination of desktop and web applications, some purchased and some free. Everyone I know has downloaded a free copy of Mozilla Firefox, but few realize that by installing some of the 1,500 free extensions they can eliminate the need for most of the… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Will Google Offer Amnesty To SocialSpark & PayPerPost Bloggers?

A new convergence of Social Networks, Bloggers, and Advertisers came together in the Izea service, “SocialSpark”, which was launched earlier this year. Here, an experienced blogger and Social Media Marketer, Andy Beard, expresses his concerns about how paid blog reviews, and their sources, are being penalized in search rankings, inconsistently in his view, by Google and other search engines.

by Andy Beard

Since the first real information came out… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing

A Search Engine Optimization Campaign - Quick & Dirty

By Edward Beckett

An effective Search Engine Optimization campaign begins by using keywords to target the subjects which you intend your web site to rank for. In order to rank in the search engine results pages (SERP’s), a web site has to have a position of relevance to the search engine for a given search term. This is usually achieved by having keyword rich content on the site that coincides… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing

7 Tips for Getting Your Images Indexed

By Karen Scharf

Image search is the fastest growing search on the web. And, since Google, Ask and Yahoo are now including images in their search results pages, web marketers have been presented with a whole new opportunity. So it only makes sense that website owners follow a few extra steps to ensure their images are optimized for search:

“If copyright issues are important to you, you might wish to watermark… Continue reading

In: AJAX Help, Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Web Help

Minimizing Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads

Are you having page load issues? Do you operate a CMS website or two that seems to take a long time (even on broadband) to download pages? Well, our Author, Max Kiesler, has ferreted out a number of solutions with some excellent techniques to address the basic issue — multiple Javascript and CSS files cause multiple “round trips” between the server and served pages. Take

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help, WordPress CMS Help

Building the Perfectly Optimized Site Using WordPress

There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article, which is one in a series of continuing tutorials and articles (including a regular "WordPress Roundup&quot