When it comes to (almost) everything in the world, simple is good. It brings to mind the old (k.i.s.s.) saying- keep it simple stupid. The fact is, sometimes we read too much into things. It doesn’t matter if it’s your website, or your mother-in-law- simple is almost always the way to be. Think about it- when you complicate matters, you are bound to loose some people who can’t grasp the notion you are trying to [...]

Every webmaster in the world wants to learn SEO- the so-called rules of SEO: You got to have this, you have to do that. And we do this, and get that- and try to cover all the basics. Well, here’s some great SEO advice- be better. It really comes down to that. You simply have to be better than the rest.

As a webmaster, sometimes it’s hard to tell the spam from the legit sites, when it comes to search engine submission. There are a few so-called submission sites that just submit your URL to link-farms. Oooh, I hate that, don’t you?

7 Powerful Backlinking Strategies Earning SEO Juice Naturally By Joan M Stewart 1. Add no more than 50 high quality links in a day, by posting comments on sites that are similar to your niche, who have obtained a higher authority. Remember the anchor text you use obtaining links from places with high authority is very important. Linking to High quality sites makes your back-link more relevant adding more Page Rank (PR) juice and authority [...]

OK, here’s the problem- I accidentally put www on the front of my domain name. I later realized I wanted to start using just the http, because my domain name was already too long. I had to reinstall WordPress to fix that, because I got really confused trying to fix it any other way. But when I got onto my global dashboard at wordpress.com I saw the old domain there still. I tried to delete [...]

As a webmaster myself, it’s always nice to see some page rank (PR) on my sites. But really, PR is not all that important. In fact, it’s not very important at all. PR can be inflated, exaggerated, underestimated, overestimated, and otherwise useless a lot of the time. What is important, is traffic! And Alexa rank. Alexa is a better gauge of your site’s all-around value and popularity. And isn’t popularity more important that a number [...]

A no-follow blog is a blog that lets you post your link in your comment, but it informs the search engines not to count it as important. This came to be because of so many spammers out there slapping their links on every page they can. In fact, WordPress automatically makes every link in the comments a nofollow link. You can change it if you own the blog, which can result in a lot of [...]

Sitemaps are extremely important. But don’t let that scare you. They are also very easy to make. A WordPress blog will make one automatically for you if you download a plugin (Simple Google Sitemap XML). Or you can make one on Google’s Webmaster Tools page. But you do in fact need a sitemap if you have a lot of pages and you want them to be indexed by Google and other search engines.

This is a must-see SEO video. Even though it’s from Nov. 2009, Matt really lets us all know exactly what Google is going to do. If you are a webmaster and do any SEO at all, you really need to keep up to date with SEO trends and changes in the industry, and see this. SEO tips and strategies straight from the horses mouth.

This is the simplest idea, yet a very popular one… Just copy and paste your obnoxiously long URL into the search box. Click “make shorter”, and wah-lah, there you go- a new, short url, easy to remember. It’s almost as good as having a free domain name. There is no need to register or give your email, just paste and click.  Give it a try.