Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Some WordPress SEO Thoughts
I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them a little freedom. That way they can tell their friends that I am a good home. And then I wait on the friends.
Looking at Links
There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on blogs that use nofollow, getting stumbled, getting your site on Digg and the like. These type of links depending on someone physically clicking the link to get to your site. This is a great source of traffic and deserves just as much attention as any, but I think that using it at your only source of traffic is limiting.
Link Baiting Boiled Down to It’s Essential Elements
Session: Link Baiting – Viral Search Marketing » Online Marketing Blog
Lee Odden over at top rank blog takes the art of linkbaiting down to its core elements. There are times when you need lists of methods and there are times when you need to know why the methods work. Using both hand in hand keeps you from being the crazy linking robot and coming up with your own twists on linkbaiting. Not that I have done an linkbaiting of importance lately, but it wasn’t called "linkbaiting" when I was doing it a lot. And I didn’t even know I was doing it.
How to get backlinks from an edu. site.
Amazing technique to get FREE .edu backlinks that is 100% ethical
As some of you know, .edu sites are almost all authority sites according to Google and a link from an authority site will skyrocket your position in the SERP’s.
That being said, a free link from an .edu site is even better. Check out the link.
The Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
I figured I had to go over the top with this one. Not quite sure if I have. You tell me.
I have been using Fast Blog Finder to find dofollow blog posts for me. It helps and then it doesn’t. I don’t spam. I like getting beneficial links back to my site. I use tools like this because they simplify the process. But sometimes the posts are a little bit old. And I am not quite sure of the etiquette involved. Is an older post OK to comment on? I could see refering to it from a blog post. But after a post has 20 comments, how much do you really add to the conversation if it has ended? Read more... (469 words, 3 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)