http://knowseo.net Make your blog seo friendly. Seo tips and tricks Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry, I have been slacking a bit on this blog.  I've been going crazy building other sites, so I have neglected this one.  This post doesn't just apply to blogs, but can be used effectively for any type of website.  The technique that I'm about to share is deceptively simple ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/link-building-101/ Now as of this moment I do not have a related posts plugin installed on this particular blog.  Why?  Well, the blog has been launched less than a month ago and I don't have enough posts for this plugin to be useful yet.  The related post type plugin is something ... http://knowseo.net/plug-ins/related-posts-plugin-and-why-you-should-install-it/ This is a short sweet post on the art of article directory submission.  Once again we are sticking with the link building theme for the time being.  Submitting to article directories is a no brainer.  Where else are you going to get genuine 1 way do follow links that always ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/building-links-with-article-directories/ If you have been reading all of my posts thus far, you should by now have some grasp on what it takes to get you good rankings in search engines.  It is all about link building.  Essentially, any link to your site is as good as the site that links ... http://knowseo.net/basic-how-to/boost-your-rankings-with-free-blogs/ A trackback and a pingback are essentially the same thing, so I'm not going to go into the difference.  All I'll say is that the trackback is the older method and the pingback is the newer.  What it does is inform other blog owners that you are linking to their ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/link-building-what-are-trackbacks-and-pingbacks/ This post will show you how to search google and see exactly how your site is performing in their search index.  There are a variety of different operators that you can use in the google search box that will allow you to change how google is searching the web.  These ... http://knowseo.net/basic-how-to/know-about-your-site-and-your-competition-google-operators/ Today's post is going to be on the art of aquiring links through blog comments.  Blog commenting is not fun, so I'm going to show you how to get the most out of your blog comments and links.  I'm sure that many of you have had the experience of blog ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/making-your-blog-comments-count-get-them-indexed/ Ok, this post will be short and sweet.  To generate some more traffic to your site, why not submit your RSS feed.  I'm making it quick and easy for you.  All of the links below are quick, 1 step submission sites to make it extra easy.  By submitting your RSS ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/submit-your-rss-feeds-for-more-traffic-links-included/ This post is aimed particularly at those whose blogs are heavily motivated by media.  Music, Celeb, Politics, or anything along those lines.  I've discovered that you can draw lots of traffic by placing pictures in every post.  You can actually draw 10 times the traffic from google image search than ... http://knowseo.net/on-page-seo/let-google-image-search-work-for-you/ This post is meant to dissuade your from automatically shutting down your comments and trackbacks as some out there would have you do.  Now I will admit that setting up a blog does leave you open to virtual harassment by spammers, but you don't need to make your blog "air-tight" ... http://knowseo.net/link-building/dont-let-spam-scare-you-keep-your-comments-on/