Jan 28, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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I receive quite a bit of questions through email and I always answer them, so I might as well share the answers with you all, right? As long as that’s OK for the person who asked the question, of course. This is the first Q&A -post, so do tell me what you think about this in the comments, OK?
This time the questions and answers are related to building niche sites, and more accurately search engine optimization, SEO, and choosing the right domain name.
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Jan 14, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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It is easy.
Would you spend 1-2 minutes more on a blog post that will be online for years, to drastically improve the chances of that post bringing you free traffic from the search engines without you lifting a finger? If you do, read on. If you think SEO is hard and there’s something fishy about it, don’t read this and others will get your traffic.
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Jan 13, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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SEO, or search engine optimization, consists of two parts; on-page and off-page SEO.
- The on-page search engine ranking factors are the things on your blog and on your pages.
- The off-page factors are the things outside your domain, e.g. links back to your site.
Because the on-page SEO is fully in your own hands, that is where you should focus first. The on-page SEO helps the off-page SEO as well, but we’ll come back to that on later parts of this Blog SEO -series.
You’ll learn the most important things for this one-time BLOG SEO on this post. The second part of on-page SEO is the continuous optimization, writing SEO friendly blog posts. The next post on the series, will cover that.
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Dec 14, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Choosing the best permalink structure for your blog is important step when setting up a new blog. This in-depth article analyzes different permalink types and presents the best permalink structures for you to choose from.
Good permalink combines the elements from being effective for search engine optimization and being shareable and readable by humans at the same time. I struggled to find a reliable and consistent information about what kind of permalink structure to use when I first started blogging, so I took the time and did the research on the subject.
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Dec 08, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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HTML for bloggers is an interesting topic, as you can effectively blog, even if you don’t know anything about HTML. With modern blogging platforms, like WordPress, we can blog without knowing anything about HTML, let alone coding with HTML.
Normal web user doesn’t have to know anything about HTML, but for a blogger, knowing certain key aspects has a lot of benefits. Don’t worry, this isn’t hard. You don’t need to learn how to code HTML. I will show you what are the most important HTML-tags and why it is important that you understand the basics.
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Sep 02, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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I have previously written an introduction to the keyword research which covered the basics of keyword research, how to do it and what kind of keywords you should look for with your research.
The keyword research primer post also introduced the Google Keyword Tool for those who are unfamiliar with it and the basic concepts like keyword density and keyword phrase. This post builds on the foundation of the first post and gives a second look on keyword research.
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Aug 11, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Getting indexed by Google doesn’t guarantee anything for your website, but if you’ve done your homework and found great keywords the search engine traffic will come eventually, and here’s a guide to get your site indexed by Google fast – really fast.
This is the process I have used whenever I have started a new WordPress blog. My blogs have been indexed in less than 6 hours using this process, sometimes as fast as 2 hours.
And we’re talking a brand new blog here, that’s get indexed by Google in 2-6 hours from the moment I’ve registered the new domain!
There are no magic tricks, no “black hat” tactics – just utilizing free services anyone can use, setting up the website in a way that both the readers and search engines find what they need and the power of WordPress as a platform for perfectly search engine optimized website.. Click to read
