SEO for Google

Webmaster Tools from Google is your link to the Google index. Today I logged in and noticed that they updated their look. The new look is optional for now, but for starters it seems faster. The new webmaster dashboard has these new features (compliments of BrowserMedia); The previous style dashboard has been transformed into a ‘one-stop’ dashboard, that now collates all the most important data, such as links to your site, top search engines, sitemaps and crawl errors. The number of search queries that are available to track has been increased to 100 and improvements have been made to the quality of this data. The option to track sitemaps that have been submitted by other users has also been added. This was not possible with the previous interface, as users were unable to oversee sitemaps that were submitted by other users or via ...

Free and Easy way to Boost Valuable Traffic The Beginning You first decide to want to blog. You're not sure why, but it seems like fun. Then you start thinking everyone will find you and it will be great. But you can't get enough people to subscribe to your feed. And to comment on your posts. I mean that's what it is all about, some feedback. The Answer Remarkablogger. He has come up with an idea that I think will work. Just put your blog address in the comment section of this blog and a desciption (please be detailed) of your blog. Then promise to visit all of the sites that are left in the comments, and if you like them subscribe to them. You will need to subscribe to the comments feed so that you can stay updated with newcomers. Please join my list ...

It Hurts! Shouting on Digg.Com Here is the problem. You start using Digg and you like it. You can generate some traffic to your site and that is always good. But, you have to give a little to get a little. That means that we have to Digg for our "friends" so that they will Digg for us. If there are 100 Digg's in 24 hours you can get on the front page. Now, I don't mind Digging for people, and commenting if I like the article. But I cannot stand when I get three or four emails asking me to Digg the same article. I Digg all requests from my friends and this takes up a good portion of my time. Since I am the type of person who likes to help people, I am going to give you some advice on how ...

I Love You I was reading Link Juice And Other Stuff by JustinLL and was reminded that I need to show my love with a DOFOLLOW. I had downloaded the Lucia's Link Love Wordpress plugin weeks ago but have been in the US ( I hate leaving Costa Rica) and haven't had the time. Finally I have a day off! And with my free time I have taken the 3 minutes it actually takes to download, upload, enable and configure this plugin. I am pretty much taking the same configuration as Justin on this one, a very small about of comments are needed to get your "dofollow" backlinks. Since I only have 6 subscribers now there isn't much for me to moderate, but I will have to make sure to remove any off-topic comments. Moving Forward I have only had my blog for a few ...

Did you Stumble here? If so, please don't leave! I have a love / hate relationship with StumbleUpon.com. I love them because they drive traffic to my site, and by far the most traffic. I hate them because they almost never stay on my site. They almost never comment on my site, and they NEVER click on my advertisements. I really don't care about the advertisements, but it would be nice... Let's start a New Trend I need all visitor's to help me in a personal study of my statistics. Using Wordpress and Google I can see how many users come to this post and where they come from. I want to get Stumblers to stop clicking that Stumble! button so fast and try to read content. I believe that it is more fun to involve yourself in the conversations rather than just absorbing ...

Blog Surfing My evening starts out like any other evening. All of my clients offices are closed and the chance of a serious problem outside of a natural disaster are very slim. I now have time to clean out my inbox and check my RSS feeds. I have a wide variety of blog sources, all of which relate to my categories here that I write about (if you can call it writing). I write, and read about Costa Rica (and why I moved here), sports, some of my own personal experiences, Tech Support (various help articles) and of course Breathe Google (my soon to be great SEO info section), which I will talk about now. It's raining today in Costa Rica so I am just relaxing and perusing my tech feeds. I probably found this post from Eric Lander over at Sphinn ...

First of all let's get started with the real question What the hell is StumbleUpon? This will be brief, a summary only. There are many uses for StumbleUpon and many people use it for social networking. I don't use it for that reason, I prefer to use Twitter for that. The biggest reason I have an account is the Blog Traffic. There are few things you need to know about how to use StumbleUpon properly for blog traffic. One very nice feature is if your domain name has never been submitted before you will get a huge jump in blog traffic on the first submit. After that, you need many people to Thumb Up or Thumb Down you post. StumbleUpon Karma Like any other social network platform, the more you use the site the more your stumbles are worth. The idea is that you should ...