I am frequently checking new blogs and Web sites I visit against Alexa.com, the free online site ranking service owned by Amazon.com. While Alexa has its detractors – often among webmasters of poor ranking sites – it is not bad, in my opinion, for taking a snapshot of where a blog or site stands in [...]
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:
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Let’s consider this subject an ongoing and expanding list of good plugins for Wordpress that deliver valuable and useful features for bloggers. Â Plugins are a big reason for choosing the Wordpress blog platform. Â For example, the ShareThis at the end of this post is a plugin. Â Subscribe (in the center column under Pages) is a [...]
Just as I posted some thoughts about determining site rankings, my friend George reminded me of another helpful tool – Site Meter. Â While I agree that Site Meter is an essential element in taking a snapshot of blog traffic, I would rank it complementary or secondary level to Google Analytics, Alexa.com and Technorati.
Site Meter tells [...]
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 [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
