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Link Building Methods Now some of you may still be scratching your heads wondering what else you can do to create a diversified backlink profile that Google will be happy with. So here are some more strategies you can still use: Reviews: Requesting local journalists, bloggers, reviewers or consumers with an engaged social network following in your industry to review your product by sending them free samples. Blogrolls/Sidebars: Reaching out to a handful of related bloggers to include your website in their blogrolls/sidebars. I have enough faith that you'll be able to determine if a blogger is worth gaining a link from. Commenting: Only leave valuable comments and comment on NoFollow and DoFollow blogs. Do not use this excessively. You can go one step further by becoming a top commenter on a major industry website. For example, "SocialMediaExaminer," a well known social media site, would be appropriate. Google values this kind of link a lot ...

WordPress SEO by Yoast This useful tool allows you to edit your targeted keywords, tags, posts, and titles to attract more traffic. It also assists you in evaluating how your content is perceived by the search engines. This plugin incorporates everything from XML sitemaps and RSS enhancements to page analysis functionality and breadcrumbs. Askimet Askimet is one of the most popular plugins on the Internet. This program aims to eliminate spam from as many sites as possible. It saves you time by automatically detecting trackback and comment spam. The best part is that it comes preinstalled with WordPress. W3 Total Cache Plugin This powerful software improves your server performance and reduces the download times. Bloggers who use this program reported at least 10x improvement in overall site performance and up to 80 percent bandwidth savings. W3 Total Cache Plugin helps improve the user experience for your readers and allows them to view more pages in...

WordPress Best Practices Straight out of the box, here are a few "must do's": * Put keywords in your permalinks or enable "pretty permalinks" in Settings > Permalinks - select Custom Structure and type: /%postname% * Choose a quality theme. Or rather don't choose an old, crap theme. The default Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven are just fine. I use Genesis. Generally speaking premium themes are slightly better but they are by no means essential. * Create Categories to group your blog posts and write meaningful descriptions of them in Posts > Categories * Choose whether your site's address will have a www or non-www. Why can't Google work this one out themselves? Matt Cutts still says this is necessary. It's 99% not likely to matter, but if both www and non-www work in the address bar of the browser, you'll need to force one onto the other with.htaccess. * Use an SEO plugin or your theme's SEO controls ...

Postie The Postie plugin allows you to blog via e-mail, including many advanced features not found in wordpress's default post by e-mail feature. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/installation/ If you have any questions or comments please contact me. Regards Gerald Website: http://www.webcraft.ws E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws Twitter: WebcraftGuru Facebook: Webcraft Guru I'm protected by SpamBrave http://www.spambrave.com/

WP-EMail Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog's post/page to a friend. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/installation/ If you have any questions or comments please contact me. Regards Gerald Website: http://www.webcraft.ws E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws Twitter: WebcraftGuru Facebook: Webcraft Guru I'm protected by SpamBrave http://www.spambrave.com/

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Social Media Gone Bad An interesting thing happened to me the other day. In the course of performing routine search engine marketing tasks, I received a message from someone who had just "liked" one of my Facebook fan pages, Marketing Ideas 101. The message read: "Hey, I just liked your Facebook fan page! Please like mine back!" ~ Random Now, I don't know about you, but every time this happens to me, I feel awkward. What if I look at this person's page and determine it's junk? What if it's spammy? What if it holds little value in the world at all? The burden! The obligation! All from a single note from someone I've never met! Gasp. What if I don't like their page? I try to bring value to my websites. I try to inject interesting content, helpful tips and a wealth of wisdom in my contributions to the Internet community. In addition, it takes a lot to "wow" me. I've never just "liked," or...