SEO Your Wordpress Templates

Like many people, when I first started blogging, I discovered Wordpress and it’s many features that made it easy to set up and get going within a couple of hours. One thing I loved about Wordpress was the thousands of templates that were available and I soon fell in love with some very good ones [...]

Maximize Google Webmaster tools

Google webmaster tools contain a variety of reports and tools that can help you to understand where your traffic is coming from and why they come to your site. Check out this article for a simple description of the tools on offer to every web master or website/blog owner

Spread the link love

Why not do as Jonathan over at SmartWealthyRich suggests and spread the love to other bloggers who comment on your blog by downloading and installing the [tag]DoFollow plugin[/tag] to your [tag]wordpress[/tag] blog?
By default links posted on your blog comments section have a “rel=nofollow tag” which tells the search engine not to follow the links on [...]

Number 1 on Google Search

In my last posting on Achieving search engine success, I told you that using my keyphrase had gained me #1 on MSN and #2 on Yahoo and Google. Now two weeks later I checked again and I am ranked number 1 on Google using that keyphrase. See Google Search
I now have a claim to fame [...]

How to achieve Search Engine ranking success

After my last posting on December 11th, in which I wrote about trying to get ranked on Google, Yahoo and MSN with a keyphrase discovered when using Wordtracker, I took some screenshots of the current list leaders on each of the engines. My site morlenefisher.com did not appear on the first or subsequent pages of [...]

Is Alexa a good place to start for search engine promotion

I’ve know of Alexa.com as a good place to research traffic across the internet for about 5 years or so. The thing that makes it useful is that you can immediately locate the top ranked sites on the internet. I was able to see that by going to their Traffic Rankings page I could isolate [...]

Promoting Portrait Photography

If you have been reading the posts under search engine promotion, you will know that I am trying to increase the visibility of my portrait photography business. Stirlyn.co.uk does not only contain this blog, but also services that I offer people who require family or individual portrait photography services. People who want to have professional [...]

Linking to relevant photography sites

There are a number of photography related websites available where one can view, buy, share and upload all types of images. Linking to these sites and getting them in turn to link to my site is going to be an important part of my search engine promotion activities in the coming months. Community sites such [...]

Building a profile in search engines

I have long been involved in the web business but my focus has been on building the sites, not raising the profile of these sites in the search engines. I am now turning my focus for a while to this as I need to build the profile of bambooo.co.uk a new online magazine for contemporary [...]