Do you know how to write SEO-friendly content your readers will love? Do you litter your blog writing and web pages with keywords so the search engine spiders can find you? Make sure you’re aware of your essential keywords before you start writing on your blog, as trying to slot them neatly into finished copy could prove to be a tricky task. Make sure you know which keywords will both attract readers and be SEO friendly. It not only analyzes your blog writing for keywords and SEO-friendly content, but makes suggestions on how to maximize keyword usage. MORE >>

When will you see results from social media and SEO? When is your tweet, blog post, and video content enough? Up to a month for Google to crawl your new site or new blog. Up to six months for SEO results – in other words, you start to come up on search results for your keywords. So plan to: Blog frequently. Register your website and blog with directories. How long did it take you to get SEO and social media results? marketing SEO social mediaIt takes time. Up to three months for social media messaging traction. Keep adding content. MORE >>

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. To give credit where it’s due, both the TopRank Online Marketing Blog and Robin Good have provided nice lists in the past, but as changes in the blog directory world can be challenging to keep pace with, both now include dead links and directories that have significantly changed their policies (e.g. Create a plain text file, using Notepad or a similar tool, with the following information compiled: Blog name/title (e.g., MORE >>

Earlier this week, Seth Godin wrote a catchy blog post about how to make money online. “ SEO is filled with the notion that there are shortcuts. When I first started SEO consulting it felt like the reason a large percentage of companies were interested in SEO was because they believed it was a shortcut to online marketing success ( it was free, right? ). They forgot the time element that factored into the cost of “good SEO” Examples of SEO shortcuts: Trying to optimize pages without a keyword and marketing strategy in mind. Absolutely. MORE >>

It seems like so much of what is written about search engine optimization (SEO) assumes that you're writing a blog post, or a news story, or the next great "how to" article that's going to be syndicated far and wide on article marketing sites. Sometimes that is what you're doing, but often writing for the web—and SEO—involves less glamorous pages like product or service descriptions. So how do you add life, and SEO value, to a product page? Tags: SEO Practice It simply can't compete with the latest Britney-Spears-abducted-by-a-three-armed-alien type story. MORE >>