WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

In this quick post I simply want to share couple great resources for any blogger interested to improve their blog Search Engine Position by a notch or two (and show me who isn’t) ….

• The Blogger’s Guide to SEO - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall. While more advanced bloggers might not discovered too much new in this guide I personally like it as a reference material. Written by a well recognized blogger this guide provides all the major steps you need to cover with your blog in a very convenient format.
• WordPress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches by Andy Beard in my opinion is a lot more advanced guide that takes one site and walks through improving its rank. Andy does a great job in this post covering multiple linking strategy that are very advanced and provides you with a great tools freely available to make your own calculations. This is one of the most in depth blog SE optimization articles I have see in a while and a great read.

That’s it for now …

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Every once in a while I run into a cool tool that attracts my attention and draws me into further investigation. Quite distracting but stats and performance analysis is one of  my minus and always have been  as long as I’ve been building websites. My justification always been simple - If I know what effort contributes more to success, I can spend more time on it and disregard tasks that give me less return.

A little while ago I have posted an article “Webmaster Tools Every Blogger Need To Know About” , where I listed some of the most useful tools in my opinion to perform tracking and get general overview. We are not talking detailed analytics here but an Great Overview of results. And Website Grader is another tool that should have made the list but I simply didn’t know about it until quite recently.

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There are many arguments on importance of page rank to your blog but the fact still remains - higher your page rank, more chances you have to monetize your blog. It is not something we need to agree or disagree on as it is simple statement of facts. Unfortunately Page rank is still considered one single most important factor that affects your earnings, especially for a blog.

Don’t believe me? Try signing up with ReveiwMe, TextLinkAds or PayPerPost programs … page rank of your blog is most surely taken into consideration. In fact this very blog is a victim of that. It has been discussed on several prominent blogs that Google has stopped updating Page Rank, at least the way we see it represented in our browser Google PR indicators. A few days ago I read an article on Yaro’s blog that they might be resuming updates but personally I highly doubt it, as my blog is coming into its 6th moth and still No Page Rank!

But I also think they have something else cooking for blog ranking and here is why …

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It’s not a big secret that properly optimized for Search Engines blog and individual blog posts will lead to generating gobs of free traffic via achieving a better positioning in Search Engine Results. There are so many products and guides on the topic of SEO that the term itself has become overused and what is even more upsetting misrepresented.

Search Engine Optimization for Google is really not that hard but when people try to game the system and then share their results, so called “black hat” seo they create more confusion then needs to be. As search engines, including Google move more and more toward semantic search results - “white hat seo” will always take precedence and win. In this post I want to share 2 video from a Google’s own Matt Cutt’s on proper SEO optimization from WordPress camp in San Francisco earlier this year.
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How would you like to take your blog from a Technorati rank 650,000 + to under 12,000 even if your blog is brand new? I know it might sounds like a rather incredible but this is exactly what I was able to accomplish when I have launched original Reciprocal Review Carousel.

In under 1 month my Technorati Authority jumped from 14 to over 300 and rank went through the roof. Why would you care? Because you have a chance to do same. Marco Righter just pinged me and offered to take part in re-birth of Viral Reciprocal Review, he adopted from my original concept.

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To rank well in Search Engines and social aggregator networks such as technorati you have to have a lot of incoming links! Link building is one of the perhaps most tedious and as such most ignored tasks not only by bloggers but also many webmasters and can be expensive if you decide to actually purchase incoming links …

In this video tutorial I want to share a very simple, yet extremely effective strategy you can use to greatly boost your blog” rel=”tag”>blog popularity by building tons of backlinks without spending a dime and it will only take a few minutes a week!

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Another Google Dance has passed and in a weird turn of events my blog is still left without Page Rank. I find it annoying and quite detrimental to my blog development when Google decide to extend their holding pan “especially” for me.

All the page rank tools I used for prediction show my site as predicted with PR5 but its been there for a while and with over 8k incoming links (according to Google webmaster tools) I would except them to be true … so what gives?

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Spammers are actually a good indicator that your blog is becoming popular, that it propagates through Search Engines and number of Spam Comments can be a great indicator of your individual post popularity.

That is assuming you took all the steps to protect yourself from those idiots! I have seen an ever growing number of SPAM comments been killed by my guard – Spam Karma 2 and actually love it! It shows me that I’m reaching people even though alone with normal audience I bring in spam-bots that also locate my pages. But as I more use Spam Karma it kills more and more of spam comments without any need for me to approve or disapprove and I have decided to enable “Do Follow” on my blog!

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Every site or blog has a main keyword (or at least I hope you do) that it wants to rank well for in Google Search Results. In my case it is “wordpress web 2.0” and if you do a search right now on these keywords you will find my blog in number 3 and 4 positions with only the wordpress.org ranking higher. See image below …

But that test only provides me with information without full understanding of why, although as a webmaster I’m fully aware of many things involved and done my SEO. Google gives great value to other sites linking to you for with your chosen keyword in anchor text and what it sees as relevant links. More sites refer to you – better you will rank.

And I just run into a great tool that will help you do just that!

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