In 2007, Google updated their webmaster tool guidelines to reflect a change in their approach to paid text links. In the past, you could purchase text links to help your website do better in the search engines. But be careful, this practice could now get your site banned from the search engines:
Some SEOs and webmasters [...]

Every now and then, I read a post somewhere that really moves me. Lots of times, I can’t link to it, either because it’s not on topic, or my lineup is already filled with posts, or I’m just too dang busy working on my business.
But I got to thinking recently about the whole link-loving thing. [...]

Last June, I lived an internet entrepreneur’s nightmare as my site was up and down (mostly down) for a week due to one of my posts getting onto the front page of Digg.
This wasn’t my first trip to Digg Stardom - nor the second. My little WordPress blog had been there twice before. Sure, the [...]

Something is not right, and the last 17 hours have been a blogging MESS.
Digg brought my site to its knees yesterday - and somehow today it still can’t get back up and running consistently.
16 days ago, I had another post on the front page of Digg - the site didn’t even hiccup. So I’m working [...]

Recently I spent 8 hours as a blogging socialite. I found out some awesome things and was shocked at the positive results!
How I Became A Blogging Socialite From The Beginning
When I started blogging 3 short months ago I already had some websites that generated income. The only reason that I wanted to switch [...]

It’s been a bit of a whirlwind week - lots of new visitors, comment records broken, and search engine traffic has tripled recently… and now I’m presented with a great problem to have:
I can’t keep up with it all.
It’s a risk as blogs grow - I used to try and link back to everyone that [...]

You guys were SO helpful last week when I posted my very techy questions. So I figured I would give you the spotlight again as I ask of you, dear readers… Let’s chat SEO!

If my site is installed in a sub-directory /blog/], what is the absolute best way to set up my index page for [...]