When reading about search engine optimization, page rank and getting more traffic to your blog, you may have come across the term backlinks. Backlinks also known as inbound links and incoming links are links from other websites to your site.
In order to keep up with today’s blogosphere I thought that I would bring my readership up to speed on some of the terminology used throughout the blogosphere. You might have heard some of these blog-related terms before and some might be new to you.
There use to be no way for a blogger using Google’s Blogger to block an individual from accessing their blog on Blogspot. The only bonus was that they could moderate comments, therefore putting some control into their hands.
Many bloggers think that they create a blog and it will automatically be listed in Google’s search. This is not the case at all.
Having an RSS feed is necessary if you want your blog to be shown in Google’s Blog search engine. Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feed, so make sure that your site feed is turned on.
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SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Most of your quality traffic comes from search engines, therefore when building a website it is important to know the hints, tips and tricks that will give you better placement in the search engines. Mistakes can actually hurt your site in the search engines without you even realizing it. I have come across a number of websites in which beginners not yet familiar with search engine optimization make the same common mistakes.
Are you making these seven common mistakes too? (more…)
‘How do you generate traffic to your website or blog?’
Many first time bloggers assume that you make a few posts, submit your blog to the search engines and traffic will come naturally. It’s not that simple and it takes a little more work than just that.
Here are seven tips to generate traffic to your website or blog. (more…)
