5 Things I Look for in a WordPress Theme

One of the best things about the WordPress website and blogging platform is that there are so many different themes to choose from. But for someone new to this way of building a website or establishing a blog that very abundance of choices can be mind-bogglingly confusing. So I thought it might be helpful to […]

How I Improved My LinkedIn Search Ranking with Help from Lewis Howes

Yesterday, in the course of a presentation to a local group on using the business professional networking platform LinkedIn to help grow a business or career, I showed some figures for how my LinkedIn search ranking for some key terms had improved rather dramatically over the previous five days and a little of how I […]

links for 2009-10-26

Great Places to Find Information About SEO If you’ve been less than successful in searching for good, up to date, quality information and suggestions on search engine optimization (SEO) you will surely love this list of key sites, put together by Jeremy Morgan. Matt Cutts, SEOMoz etc – there are others but using this list […]

SEO Saturday: Hyphens in URLs Beat Underscores

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is something I keep reminding myself I need to learn more about. I’ve got some of it worked out and have found invaluable the free, downloadable guide Google released some time ago – Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. But to improve my knowledge and hopefully the findability of my […]

Checking Backlinks I: Using Your WordPress Dashboard List

I know about backlinks – also known as incoming links, inlinks and inbound links or inward links – and why they are important in terms of your blog’s ranking. Positively and negatively. I understand that knowing more about my backlinks and their quality is an important part of any search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. But […]