Recently I’ve been watching my search engine referrals more closely than usual because I have been working to optimize for some new terms. It struck me that after almost year and a half of blogging, the data available on traffic patterns is astronomically valuable to you in terms of building your online business.
I’m a stats [...]

I was sent a great question this morning by a friend of mine, the talented and beautiful Kelly King Anderson from Startup Princess.
Unfortunately, I have NO IDEA what to tell her.
Since you are a smart bunch, I figured I’d throw the question your way. You’re all so good at helping each other out anyway… [...]

In early June, I wrote a post called “Is the DoFollow Movement Getting Exploited?“. Many of you echoed concerns about spammers doing the same on your blogs, but overall felt that the rewards of joining the NoFollow movement outweighed the risks.
My particular concern was with spammers who actually left a comment that had something to [...]

This guest post was written by Susan Driggers from Life is Risky.
Ok for those of you who might not know, deep linking is when you link directly to a post versus simply linking to the front page of a site. For instance if your blog is called TheItBlog.Com and you have a post with a [...]

At the beginning of last month, I connected with Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide as I was doing my research for the post, The Top Ten Hottest Moms in Search Engine Marketing. As serendipity would have it, the contact turned into a flurry of friendly emails as we became fast friends (and they became [...]

Congrats to our SEO Week winners!!!

Metty won a copy of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book (It rocks!!)
Joe Hauckes won a free year of SoloSEO from Michael Jensen (I’m so jealous!!)
Gayla won a custom SEO optimized site redesign from Shazia Mistry (Gorgeous designs, too!)
Mike Thomas won a copy of Meet & Grow Rich
EVERYONE who linked [...]

Sarah Lewis, the designer who coded the theme on this site, was my super-hero when she increased my search traffic so dramatically.
She’s dug up 5 more SEO friendly WordPress themes that are free, so you no longer have to stress about losing out if you can’t afford a custom redesign!!
Also, Chris Pearson’s Cutline Theme is, [...]