SEO Archive

How to Get Visitors to Your Blog — 11 Free, Easy Ways

So you've got a great blog with great content -- only no one knows it yet. Not a problem, because getting visitors to great content is one of the easiest things you'll ever do. Here's how to get visitors to your blog. Take Advantage of Your Network If you've been actively getting out and meeting your neighbors, you've built up a pretty good network of blogging and website-owning friends. Drop them an email to let them know about your new ... Keep reading »

Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, or The Power of Titles

Thank you, James Taranto for giving me the title for this post. I had started it without a title, knowing I needed something interesting and offbeat, but couldn't quite come up with anything. Then later that day, Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan just leaped off the page :D (Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan is one of the finalists for oddest book title of the year, not surprisingly.) So what is the world ... Keep reading »

The Three Basics of SEO

For some people, getting their site to rank well in search engines is the end-all be-all for generating traffic to their site.  For others, trying to rank well never crosses their mind.  While the best approach is somewhere in the middle, there's no reason to neglect these three basic principles for getting your site to rank well. Putting your site in the best position to rank well is called search engine optimization (or SEO).  SEO "experts" abound these days, but their ... Keep reading »