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SEO Report Card: Golfgods.com
Golf equipment seller Golfgods.com was undergoing a site revamp â?? with numerous SEO and usability improvements, along with a shift in ecommerce platforms. Jason Mischel, President of Golfgods.com explains: â??We currently receive about 5,000 – 6,000 unique visitors per day to our site but much of it is of very poor quality because of the search-engine-optimization tactics employed by the previous regime.
Read MoreFavorite Firefox Extensions
Since my list of WordPress plugins was so well-received, I’ve got another list to share. This time it’s my favorite Firefox extensions… Tab Mix Plus – saves your tabs and windows and will restore them if you quit out of your browser or it crashes, allows you to undo the closing of a tab, and […]
Read MoreTop 20 list of WordPress plugins for bloggers
I’ve posted onto BusinessBlogConsulting.com a list of my favorite WordPress plugins and what they do and why I like them. If you’re blogging under the WordPress platform, you might want to trick out your blog with some of these great plugins. The list includes: PodPress, Popularity Contest, Google Sitemaps Generator, Akismet, Adhesive, Ultimate Tag Warrior, […]
Read MoreFavorite WordPress Plugins
What follows below are some of my favorite WordPress plugins and why. Many of them I have in common with Cavemonkey’s excellent Top Ten WordPress Plugins list. Here’s my list, in no particular order: PodPress – makes it super-simple to post podcasts; includes an inline media player Popularity Contest – offer a leaderboard of your […]
Read MoreMaking the Most out of Google as a Research Tool (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this article, we discovered some great free services courtesy of search engine powerhouse Google. Now, in this second and final installment, we’ll dig into a dozen more Google services and tools. But, first, let’s look at what’s changed with Google over the past several months. First off, and happily, Gmail accounts are no longer by invitation only. You can sign up for a free email account, with over a gigabyte of storage space, at https://gmail.google.com. And POP mail is supported now too, not just Web mail.
Read MoreSEO: Weaving a Web of Links
Links are the currency of the web. Not only do their drive traffic in their own right, but they also are essential to high search engine rankings. Without good inbound links to your web site, your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts won’t get off the ground.
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