Despite the relatively boring title, I’m going to give beginners a step by step process that will help get your site seen by search engines. Using this post, I’m going to show you the process I went through to design this particular blog post. Don’t let SEO or SERP acronyms scare you. It’s basic common […]
Submitting a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
A sitemap is exactly as it sounds…a map of your site. When Google goes around crawling new pages to put in search engine results, sometimes blogs with only a few back links (meaning other sites linking into it) get missed. In other words, if you are a little blogger or a new blogger, Google might need some help finding […]
Writing Blog Post Summaries to Maximize Searchability
Today’s tip is a short one, but hopefully will positively affect your search engine traffic. Do you write a post excerpt? This is a short two or three sentence summary that hooks the reader in to your post. When someone searches in Google for, “The best Chili recipe ever…” you want the search engine to […]
SEO and Blogs: Creating a Great Blog Title Search Engines Will Love
Blogging comes with some unique challenges that magazine and other print writers don’t have to think about. As a writer for an article in People or Time magazine, the goal is to hook a reader so they turn to your page. But with blogging, the reader doesn’t even have the magazine in their hands yet! […]