SEO
Tools to Make Your Link Building Life Better
Jan 27th
We all know that high-quality inbound links are an essential ingredient in an SEO campaign. We also all know that it can be extremely time consuming, and sometimes frustrating, looking around the web for sites to approach for links. I’m going to show you one technique for quickly putting together a list of sites that could be link prospects, without having to scour the internet for hours on end.
What is This All About?Here’s what this post will show you how to do: quickly create a spreadsheet of 100 (at a time) sites that may be good link prospects. In More >
WordPress Mondays: 8 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Site and Get More Traffic
Jan 9th
Lately Google has mentioned that website owners need to be aware of how fast their site loads. Because they are aware how fast your website loads even if you are not. They also mentioned that if the site loads to slow that it could factor into your site’s search rankings. Image Source: Traffic Trails – Flickr
So with that in mind a few months ago I decided to work on speeding up Evolutionary Designs. Before Google mentioned load times, I always tried to keep the load time on the site as fast as possible. But the load times weren’t the best. More >
Search Engine Optimization Increases your Site Visibility
Oct 2nd
This is a guest article by Satarupa Majumder.
Organic Search Engine Optimization follows different stages to get the positive results. Very few experts are available in the market that can provide value for money. On Page optimization is an organic approach that enables the website to get optimized for the search engines.
Here are a few steps you can implement on your site for SEO, if implemented, they can bring fruitful results:
1. Updating the blogs with current news and good content can improvise and help your site to get visibility in search engines. Do not specify a time for posts, buts it is important More >
QuickTip: How To Make Search Engines See Images
Aug 12th
Today, I decided to write an article about the image tag and its attributes. The article is about how you can add attributes that will make the images search engine friendly and best practices when using the image tags.
How Images are Used In Web DesignIn most cases Images are used by websites to enhance the look and feel of the site. As for blogs, authors will use images as a way to break up the text or add value to the article (screenshots and graphics related the content). Then there are sites that most of their content is images More >
Have You Been Testing For Links To Bad Neighborhoods on Your Site?
Aug 5th
A few weeks back, I came across a great article by Ana from Traffic Generation Cafe. In this article she talks about searching for and removing bad neighborhood links from your site. After reading the article, I realized that I had not checked my site for bad links in a while. I normally check all links created by guest writers and commenter’s links. But every once in a while, one could get by.
What are Bad Neighborhoods Links?Before I go any further, let me explain what a bad neighborhood link is. If you take a look at Ana’s article, for More >
The Best WordPress Social Media Sharing and Marketing Plugins of 2011
Jun 8th
Once you have your WordPress blog created and have your SEO plugins in place, you need to add your social media and marketing plugins to your site. Usually I recommend not adding to many plugins to your site at first but I do recommend getting your social sharing buttons setup.
Before setting up your social sharing plugins up, you will need to have content to share. What I recommend is, First, set up your social media networks up within a week or so after the site is live. But I would at least secure your usernames and your vanity links for your More >
Manually Add the Google +1 Button to Your WordPress Site
Jun 2nd
Recently Google introduced a new sharing button called Google Plus +1 and now you can add a +1 button to your WordPress site. The Google +1 was designed so that you can give your “public stamp of approval” on articles that you find helpful. Now, your friends, family, and contacts can find the best content when they do a search.
Its important that you have this button on you site, because it might influence Google search engine ranks. If it does help give our articles and sites a little extra boost of influence, then its a good thing to have on your More >
Review of SEOmoz’s Best Free Resources
May 30th
Understanding the ins and outs of SEO can seem overwhelming, especially if you are new to website marketing. Instead of trying to piecemeal your SEO education by picking up random tips and tricks, it is better to find an all-inclusive site with quality information. SEOmoz.org is an example of such a site as it has a variety of SEO resources geared toward those new to the world of SEO and, most importantly, many of their tools are free. Here’s a list of some of their best free resources and what they have to offer.
1.) The Beginner’s Guide to SEOSEOmoz has a comprehensive More >
Submit Your WordPress Articles To WordPress Junkies
Apr 22nd
So are you a WordPress user, WordPress tutorial creator, or just looking for some great WordPress resources? If you are, then I found the place for you. This site is a new site and is only about a month old. But it already has over a hundred members and most are using the site regularly. The site is WordPress Junkies. WordPress Junkies is a WordPress only social bookmarking site and blog. What this means, is you will only find articles and resources related to WordPress.
How Does Social Bookmarking WorkIf you are unfamiliar with social bookmarking, let me explain. Social bookmarking is type More >
Daniel Lew Creator of Keyword Winner WordPress Plugin
Apr 15th
Note: article contains affiliate links.
Since I started Evolutionary Designs I have looked for ways to get exposure to my site. As most of my regular readers know, I am a designer and not a marketer. So all my education and training has been in web design and IT (information technology).
After about six months of running Evolutionary Designs I realized that I needed to learn more about online marketing and how it could help my site and my clients needing help with building traffic for their sites.
So as I do with any other issue I have, I started More >
Generate Traffic Using Facebook
Apr 8th
Yesterday I wrote about the different ways to generate traffic. Today, I wanted to talk about one of those avenues that works great and is only going to get better. That avenue is social media. To be more specific, Facebook traffic. Facebook is not my best social media site for referring traffic but its is steadily growing each month and the rate its growing, it will be in the top 5 traffic generating sources for my website.
Some people will say that Facebook, doesn’t get traffic and its limited by what you can do on there. But, I have to disagree More >
What Avenues Do Use To Build Traffic?
Apr 7th
Traffic is important for any website, but it’s even more important for sites that offer services and products sales. If a site doesn’t have traffic or has almost no traffic can be discouraging and could be an end for those websites. In order to get traffic, you have to create a traffic generation strategy.
When creating a traffic generation strategy, you have to use different avenues of traffic to keep a steady flow of traffic coming in. For me, I start with SEO and then I look for other ways to get traffic to my site. If you want to know More >
