Posts Tagged "Google"

What’s in your ping list?

Posted by Clare on Mar 6, 2010 | 2 comments

The great thing about a Wordpress blog is that when you’ve written a post you can tell various other sites and services to stop by and check it out – which helps the post get indexed more quickly. The services you are pinging can be found in the Writing section of the Settings menu in your WP dashboard. Here’s my current list: ...

Brainstorm keyword ideas with the help of the Google Adwords tool

Posted by Clare on Mar 1, 2010 | 2 comments

Today is Day 6 in the Adsense 101 Bootcamp and Steve has produced some helpful videos all about keyword research. I was doing my homework for today and remembered a ‘trick’ I had discovered for generating seed keyword lists. I thought I’d share it here for you. Search Google for your niche and find two or three information authority websites. Note down their URLs and then head...

Giving my sites a makeover

Posted by Clare on Feb 28, 2010 | 1 comment

I try not to switch themes on my sites too often as I find it often causes a Google dance – themes have different approaches to SEO and I’ve found in the past a top ranking site just disappear without a trace by naively switching out a theme. But yesterday I found myself perusing the shelves over at Elegant Themes. My travel site was overhauled a few months ago using the Lifestyle...

Xfactor update – one week on

Posted by Clare on Feb 14, 2010 | 2 comments

Well my flurry of activity early on in the week on my Xfactor sites had to be relaced by some activity on my authority sites. Having said that I did get 5 sites live so I thought I’d have a look back over the week and see how they did. Site 1 - Static site Published 05.02.10 EZA submissions – 3 Site now indexed 31 article views – no CTR 3 unique visitors $0 adsense Keywords in...

Xfactor Site 5 goes live and EZA articles published

Posted by Clare on Feb 9, 2010 | 3 comments

I’m struggling at the moment with an awful cough which is presenting me sleeping. Since I was up so early this morning I thought I’d try and get another Xfactor site live before work. An hour and a half later and I have Site Number 5 live with two keyword posts published and three articles freshly written and submitted to EZA. Yesterday I was quite surprised to see that EZA published...