Here’s the Shortest Tutorial Ever on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Find keywords. Pick a list of words relevant to your business for SEO. Think about which words are most likely to get people to do what you want them to do (convert into leads) and focus on those words. Then pick one word (or phrase) to use on one page of your site. Put keywords in Page Title. The Page Title is one of the most important things that Google and other search engines evaluate to determine what is on a web page. Put your keyword or phrase in the title, keep it short. Put … [Read more...]

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Extreme Grunge Icoon Set

this is a re-post from Creative Nerds 1. Extreme Grunge Garments Icons This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 9 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .png format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px. Icons are free for commercial and personal use. 2. 50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 256×256, and we have also included Illustrator files so that … [Read more...]

How to Change Thumbnail Crop Position in WordPress

wordpress thumbnail cropping position

Cropping function is called image_resize and it is located in media.php. Step1. Open media.php file under wp-includes folder. Step2. Find the function named “image_resize_dimensions” (Around line 309). Unfortunately this function is not pluggable and doesn’t use any hooks so we will edit it directly. Find the lines: 1 $s_x = floor( ($orig_w - $crop_w) / 2 ); 2 $s_y = floor( ($orig_h - $crop_h) / 2 ); Step3. Those two variables define the start point of crop that will be used. … [Read more...]

9 Fatal SEO Mistakes You’re Probably Making With Your Content

9 Fatal SEO mistakes with content

We write a lot of content. For ourselves and for our clients and all of that content writing has tought us a few things. Most people are unknowingly messing up the effectiveness of their web site content, so here is a list that we found that should help you out: Nine SEO mistakes that we see people making with their content all the time … [Read more...]

Do you appreciate comments on your blog?

Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers... concerned. So, this has prompted a new Wordpress plugin that rewards regular contributers with a link, but removes the actual link from comments from those that haven’t bothered to continue participating on your blog past that first comment. So Basically; Regular commentors will get a dofollow link that passes link love – with this, you really reward regular contributors Those with … [Read more...]

Simple SEO Advice

We get asked "The million dollar question" all the time: Can someone tell me the best way to help my posts move up the ranks on google? Here are a few basic concepts to consider Keyword rich and natural site content is the number one way to get your site to rank as well as possible. Tags are meant as a method of cross-posting and linking like content together. If you have 1000 tags with 1 post each then it's not going to do it's job. Clicking on a tag should bring you to other … [Read more...]

Applications to Make Your Facebook Page More Engaging

Facebook applications are basically like plugins for your Page and there are tens of thousands of them available. Deciding what apps you’d like to incorporate depends on how you’d like to engage with your "likers". Here’s a compilation of some must have applications for any Page. They’re great additions to the the basic layout that Facebook provides and they can be used in interesting ways to move your ‘likes‘ into action. Static FBML This application is what lets you … [Read more...]

Tips for Optimizing YouTube Videos

YouTube is more than just a place to upload your videos. It's an extremely popular video search engine, an online community and a powerful marketing tool for every business promotional campaign. YouTube offers marketers the chance to develop great inbound traffic to their business websites, since an interesting and well-optimized video can attract many viewers. As you already know, YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web. According to Alexa, it ranks as the 3rd most popular … [Read more...]

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Search Engine Optimization in 2010

If you want to use search engine optimization best practices, or want to get updated on the latest search engine optimization techniques, there are a lot of good SEO resources to keep you up-to-date. Each web page must have generally accepted “best practices” applied to it, which includes: A proper title tag Proper meta tags, including a meta description tag and a meta keywords tag. Proper use of .css style sheets, headings and sub headings, and SEO friendly navigation. No … [Read more...]

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