Best Plugins for Wordpress to Optimize Your Website Depending on the type of blog you run, there might come a point where you decide to try and earn some revenue from your traffic. Determining exactly when that time is, however, can be difficult. Some bloggers advocate that you wait until your userbase is solid before trying to monetize your articles while others recommend monetizing right a...

Every blog goes through different stages. First, as a new blog (beginning stage), then a growing stage, then maturity stage (and hopefully no decline stage). It is in beginning stage that many of us make mistakes. In this post, I would like to discuss some of these mistakes that new bloggers make. I will start the list, and hopefully you will complete it by contributing in the comments section. S...

If you notice, many successful bloggers do not rely on blogging alone for generating money on internet. In fact, their blogs are usually the secondary source of income for them. Although they have done many SEO Tips for their blog. This applies to myself as well (not that I am a successful blogger). My primary source of income comes from my long time online business, which has been around since...

http://ghosts-it.com Some people, even at Google, still think that Google hates SEO. In some cases it really does. At the same time Google loves SEO as actions speak louder than words. Google provides not a few, not several but by now 10 free Google SEO tools everybody should use. I remember the times when we had none of them. Today we have an abundance of data Google allows us to mine. You kno...

One of the crucial first steps in developing or revamping a site is researching keywords you want to rank highly on in Google and other search engines. Generally, you want your site to rank well for the specific niche you’re in, so the goal is to find any keyword in your niche that is not overly used in other sites, but still has a large number of visitors searching for them every day. Once y...

The phenomenon of blogs has caught on, in case you hadn’t noticed. In just a few years, bloggers went from the unknown, unread, poor cousins of mainstream media to a powerful force that help shape everything from political policies to better eating habits. However, keeping your blog fresh takes dedication, drive and hard work. It’s something you should do regularly and think about often as ...

MajesticSEO offers great set of SEO tools. I think they are the only one that do not require you to install a script to track the statistics of your blog. So how they get the data about your blog? They simply gather it from the internet (referring domains, backlinks, anchor texts etc). http://ghosts-it.com While the service is paid, they allow you to get complete stats for your own blog (i.e ...

Do you use post slug feature in WordPress? If yes, then great! If not, then you should really start using it. Post Slug feature is located among one of those boxes at the right side: Categories, Post Status, Discussion… etc. SEO Advtantage of Using Post Slug When you use it, you greatly improve your blog’s SEO. In WordPress, if you enable permalinks and if you use Post Title in the URL st...

http://ghosts-it.com It can often seem as if our blog’s growth is out of our control. We post regularly and try to write the best content we can, but sometimes this doesn’t seem like enough. Our growth might plateau, or even start going backwards. Thankfully, there are some things that are in your control. In this post, I want to explore ten actions you can do straight away that will grow...

Writing blog posts comes naturally to some people, but some struggle to write and convey their message effectively. Following some of the tips below, can improve your blog posts’ quality. Get to the point, will you? It’s very important that you get to the point in the first few sentences of your blog post. If you cannot do that (perhaps the topic is too broad) then at least give an abstra...

While “SEO Professionals” are asking hundreds of dollars for their services to get your website listed by the major search engines and improve your search engine results’ rankings, it’s important to note that one of the most important tools provided by the same search engines themselves (to get listed on them) are free. These tools are the essentials of SEO, just like your Page and HTML...