Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

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Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide – How To Promote Your Site

December 21, 2010

How To Promote Your Site – Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide The last section of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide lays out how to promote and grow your site. Backlinks Google uses backlinks as a way of judging the popularity and authority of a web site so it expects you to try [...]

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WordPress Tutorial – Mobile Set Up – Choosing a Plugin

December 20, 2010

WordPress Tutorial for Mobile Set Up in WordPress I did a first video on the importance of setting up a mobile site map of your site as part of making your site mobile ready In this post, I offer a video showing the plugin I use to set up my site for mobile access. The [...]

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How To Promote Your Site – Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide Review

December 16, 2010

How To Promote Your Site – Best Practice The Right Way The last part of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide has a section about how to promote your site “in the right ways”. That’s a not so subtle suggestion that there are right ways and wrong ways of promoting a website. The opening [...]

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Google Mobile, Mobile Search and Mobile Sitemap-Google Search Engine Optimization Guide Review

December 14, 2010

Google Search Engine Optimization Guide Review Google Mobile and Mobile Search Google has two sections of the Google Search Engine Optimization Guide devoted to Mobile search and mobile sitemap set up. That means that if you want to stay up on SEO best practice by Google standards, you will want to make sure your site [...]

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Anchor Text – Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

December 13, 2010

Anchor Text What is anchor text and how important is it? The video below answers that question and shows what anchor text looks like. Basically, anchor text is a keyword phrase that is linked to another page. According to the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, anchor text has four basic best practice characteristics. Best [...]

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Quality Content and SEO

December 12, 2010

Google Search  Engine Optimization Starter Guide Best Practice for Content I have a video below that reviews the section of  the Google Starter Guide regarding creating relevant and useful content for your readers. Best practice number one is to write easy to read text. Google wants you to write for your reader in easy to [...]

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rel=”nofollow” – What it is and how to use it

December 8, 2010

How To Set Up rel=”nofollow” in WordPress The rel=”nofollow” attribute means that you are asking the search engine to treat the link you are designating as nofollow a certain way. What you are asking is that the rel=”nofollow” link not pass on any link juice or authority to the site on the receiving end of [...]

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Robots.txt – How To Set Up and Use A Robot.txt File

December 6, 2010

How to Set Up A WordPress Robots.txt Plug In The Robots.txt file In my video series about the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, I cover a section on the Robots.txt file. Basically, this file is used to tell search engine robots not to crawl a particular page or post on a site. This is [...]

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