Last year we heard a lot about how to get a high Google ranking in order to monetize traffic from niche keywords. There are a number of ways to apply these principles. Here are my handy tips on how to make the most of niche keywords using Web 2.0 tools. More specifically, I’ll show you [...]
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Being in traffic generation/SEO niche, it’s always good to keep tabs on what’s going on with Google, right? Realistically speaking though, who has the time? So I thought I’d put together a post on a few Q&A sessions that Matt Cutts does regularly on YouTube. This is what I found of interest from some of [...]
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Anchor text is nothing new under the sun; I agree with that. However, if we all know about it, how come I have to point out anchor text problems in almost every Blog Audit Friday I do? With that in mind, plus the fact that my readers requested the post on anchor text that they [...]
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You know by now that I am a firm believer of quality over quantity when it comes down to link building. Link building directly to your main blog, that is. However, today I’d like to introduce you to a different kind of link building: namely, building low-quality links to your other online properties that link [...]
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Don’t quote (or fight) me on this, but I strongly believe that link building makes up about 90% of your SEO success. There is only so much on-page optimization you can do to push your site up the SERPs, but the rest of it will definitely come down to the quality (mostly) and quantity of [...]
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It’s always best to make every actions count in search engine optimization, given that all the effort that you’ve done in the past will dramatically affect your site’s future. So I’ve listed some of the best practices that will both benefit your newly published site’s short-term as well as its long-term goals through series of actions that can help establish your website even on its initial stage.
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This is NOT another post about Google PageRank. I am nauseous from all the “crystal ball” discussions on the topic going on all around the blogosphere and beyond. However, I did learn some interesting facts pertaining to pagerank, so I will unbiasedly present them as I saw them. You draw your own conclusions and let [...]
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There’s something really comforting in creating lists as far as I am concerned - they give you purpose, keep you on track, and even make you feel guilty when you mess up. Perfect for my type of personality. I’ve been thinking a lot about link building recently, like since about 10 am this morning, and [...]
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Say hello to Link Intelligence, where bloggers learn how to deal with outbound links the right way.
The link structure of your blog is crucial. You might as well think of it as the biggest slice to your current status on search engine result pages (SERPs).
You see, it’s not about how infrequently or generously you are linking out. It’s all about getting link savvy.
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As you can imagine, I get a lot of questions on my blog - that’s why I have a contact form. Some questions are easily answered by doing a 5 second search on Google (hint); however, some are quite interesting and I bet many of you wondered about the same thing at one point or [...]
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I‘ve heard it a few times before that Ebay can actually serve a good purpose for bloggers - aside from its addictive auctions, that is. Considering how many millions of people visit Ebay on a daily basis, tapping into that traffic source would be incredible! That’s how an idea was born to see if the [...]
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Dofollow Nofollow Links: Is There a Happy Medium?
by Ana | Traffic Generation on March 1, 2011 · 49 comments
With the recent PageRank update, many bloggers panicked and started taking some radical measures like making their blogs nofollow and plugging any possible “PageRank leaks” - meaning getting rid of many links OUT to other blogs/resources. As you may or may not have noticed, everything stayed pretty much the same here, at Traffic Generation Cafe [...]
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