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Category: Search Engines

Website & Blog Grader

Posted on September 5, 2008 by David with No Comments

One of the most useful online tools I have found for evaluating a blog is WebsiteGrader.com. What’s really terrific is that it is free … and very good.
Website Grader takes a couple of minutes to analyze your blog, looking at things like meta keywords, number of images, language, Google Page and Technorati ranking, and [...]

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Wordpress Automatic SEO Tools

Wordpress Automatic SEO Tools

Posted on August 18, 2008 by David with 1 Comment

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Wordpress is a breeze! While it used to take search engines weeks to spider and pick up new stories on an html Web site, SEO on Wordpress takes just a matter of minutes, using a selection of free plugins for Wordpress and online services. Here’s how:

All in One [...]

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Making Sense of Online Rankings

Posted on June 4, 2008 by David with 2 Comments

For sake of transparency, let me say that I have not found one easy way to make sense of site rankings, especially since blogs came on the scene. When TV correspondent Greg Dobbs and I founded BoomerCafé in the summer of 1999, about all we had was whether the site showed up eventually on [...]

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How-To Get the Attention of Search Engines

Posted on May 19, 2008 by David with No Comments

Okay, now you have a blog.  How can you get it “seen” and tracked by search engines?  That’s a reasonable question, and here are some answers:

In the Wordpress control panel, click on Settings –> General –> Blog Title.  Make sure your blog’s title is entered.  That’s one of the first places a search engine will [...]

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