You may be new to the term but the idea has been around for quite a few years. I’ve heard it called by different names, World Wide Rave, Online marketing, New marketing, Next Phase, Relationship Marketing and Modern Marketing. However really the foundation is based on 3 things:
Continue reading Inbound Marketing defined – The 3 Areas of Online Marketing
Ok, this has been an issue that has bugged me from first report by the SEO industry….
The statement is that sitemaps have no SEO value to your on page SEO
Though I disagree, and have tested this numerous times.
Let’s fix that statement:
Sitemaps dont provide SEO however they DO help the search engines find your pages better and quicker. SEO is the art of getting found in the Search Engines, therefore sitemaps do off er SEO value!
OK, take that a step further and simplify:
Sitemaps help get pages found by search engines = SEO is about getting found! Continue reading Why is Sitemap essential to SEO? (sitmemap.xml)
Not an often written subject, I believe a firm SEO’ed package delivery must include a CUSTOM icon for your home page
What is favicon.ico? – Simply that little icon that appears in your browsers favorites
Oh, that thing – why important?
Simple analogy = users see = users may find or investigate quicker
OK, I get it..now how do I create one?
01- create a custom icon graphic 16×16 pixels (note at such small size usually a letter or 2 or small icon is appropriate
02– yep, save that on your computer as a jpg Continue reading Why a favicon.ico is important to SEO? (custom favorites icon)
SEO Friendly? – A few quick steps to give your site a boost in the SERPS
01– Heading tags? (Meta Title tag, Description tag)?
02- Smart – ALT tags?
03- Images named per keywords
04- Keywords as Anchor Links
05- Interlinking | internally linked pages
Interlinking based on Categories, relevant subject matter
06- File names separated by hyphens? (inbound-marketing.html = better than inbound_marketing.html)
07– File names (named) relevant to content Continue reading Is your site SEO friendly – 10 Quick steps to simple optimization
While the process is simple, I still advise caution in following the steps as written – in other words, if in doubt save a backup first
01- Using your hosts MySQL administration tool (called usually phpmyadmin thru the MySQL menu), locate and select your WordPress database for your blog
This should open up your phpmyadmin window
Now select your database name
(Ex: d60702954)
02– From your WordPress database, locate and select the WP_USERS TABLE (Note: the wp prefix may differ) and then click the BROWSE icon
03– Locate ADMIN and click the EDIT icon (on left) Continue reading WordPress: How to change the default ‘admin’ user login name?
This tutorial assumes you have signed up for both a personal profile in Facebook and created a Fan or Business page
If not, this won’t work as you have to suggest friends from your personal profile TO your Fan page
Fan pages themselves cannot suggest friends
01– Must use Mozilla Firefox Browser for this to work
(Install per http://www.mozilla.com)
02- Install free plugin “Greasemonkey”
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
03– Install “Facebook invite all friends button” per script (click install)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/89653
04– You will have to restart Firefox on each install
(also let it upgrade to most recent version if the prompt comes up) Continue reading Facebook Fan page – How to Select all friends at once (using Suggest all Friends)
01– Click edit page (upper right corner)
Continue reading How to change your Facebook default Landing page