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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes One of the four most important aspects of writing a post is picking out the right keywords from the text.  This isn’t something often mention in your standard how to blog post.  There is only one really good free tool and I reccomend using it every time you post.  Wordsfinder will pick out what it sees as your best go to keywords based on a Google Search.  You simply cut and paste your text into the box and it spits out a list of your best keywords.  Copy the the ready to use list, and paste it into the custom field value box in the Wordpress write/edit post page and label the key as keywords.  Remember to save or publish after this step or they won’t be part of the post’s data. The second method for adding keywords requires a bit of theme editing.  I first saw this technique on Nathan Rice’s Blog.  I suggest you read his entire series on how to do Wordpress SEO. This technique will add your tags as keywords. If you are... 

Reading time: < 1 minute Every blogger wants a reaction to their posts. Whether or not everyone will admit, this is the whole reason we do what we do it. It is no fun talking out of your ass if everyone ignores you. So ask yourself what are you doing for those people? I have put a lot of thought into this of late. I know how to get a lot of diggs when I want, and a lot of traffic too. What I was missing though were lots of comments. I read what the big guys were saying. Then I realized many of them were just talking out of their asses, because if it were really great advice they would be doing it themselves. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Some of us went up, some of us didn’t and some of us went down. Thus is the nature of Google PageRank. While this is not wholly a point of vanity like star rank on MyLot, most of you are making a bigger deal of it than it is. Secondly I am sick and fucking tired of all the whining about how you worked so hard to write quality content and Google didn’t jump you as high as some of us, or in fact dropped your page rank. Get over it people, Google doesn’t give a damn about your witty repartee or insights. Google uses a computer algorithm to decide your page rank not a visit by Zagats. I can see that review now. “Your layout is harsh on the eyes so only 3 stars there. Your content wording was smooth like pudding, but the double entendre was too much for a weak stomach making for only 2.5 stars. Your lack of proper nofollow techniques and duplicate content gave us the runs… convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes One of the best techniques for really driving traffic to your site  is the use of keywords and knowing just how to use them  Wait! Wait! Stop!  I know some of you are thinking other blogs say keywords are dead and don’t matter to your PageRank or this or that program because they can be manipulated.  That is true to a point. What isn’t mentioned often enough is keywords do still matter and that Google isn’t the only game in town. Search engines are getting better about seeing who is fudging their keywords and actually looking for them in the text of your post.  You can’t get away with just picking out popular keywords, plugging them in and thinking you are beating the system.  Other search you can still get away with that on, but it isn’t to your benefit even there. So how do we pick a search engine oh mighty guru?  There are a couple of methods.  There are plugins of course which will do it for you automatically. ... 

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