Simply put, a ping is a “this site has new content” notification that invites search engine bots to visit your blog.

By default, WordPress pings one pinging service called Ping-o-matic; that service will in turn ping others.

You can always add additional pinging services to be notified when new content is published. Simply go to [click to continue...]

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It’s not every day that the world’s leading SEO experts get together to collaborate on a project of this magnitude: coming to a relative consensus on what presumably are the most important ranking factors in Google algorithm right now, how they changed in the past 2 years, and what Google has for us in the [click to continue...]

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guide to creative content writing

Don’t you just love it when you put everything you’ve got into every post you write just to see it buried in the archives a couple of weeks later?

Rhetorical question, I know…

All is not lost however.

You CAN find other ways to give life to your seemingly retired content and here’s but a [click to continue...]

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Friday Tips for Keeps: What’s in a Slug?

by Ana Hoffman | Join Ana on Google+ Here

slug important seo factor

Higher search engine rankings, that’s what.

It’s amazing how many blogs, even the bigger ones that you would think should know better, don’t use this strategy when it comes down to high search engine ranking optimization.

For those of you who are not sure what a slug is, here’s a quick definition:

A slug is [click to continue...]

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Twitter traffic generation with a bribe

A couple of weeks ago I decided to run an experiment to see how much extra traffic I can get from Twitter using a simple bribe.

What was the bribe?

It was a lengthy post that combined all my expertise on how to get thousands of Twitter followers per month, keep them happy, and keep [click to continue...]

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