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Excerpt: If you are using good blogging software, like WordPress, you will have the option to categorise you posts. A wise use of categories can help with search engine positioning. Don't fall into the trap of making up categories as you go along. This is an approach that many bloggers take, adding categ...(more)

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Excerpt: Ah yes. Inspiration, all very well to say 'find it' but where exactly does one find inspiration? It's the question all writers dread 'where do you get your inspiration?'. A couple of tips - it's a good idea to have an RSS reader and subscribe to other sites and blogs in your niche as well as usin...(more)

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Excerpt: Starting today I am going to post 10 simple tips for better blogging - I'll post one a day, Monday to Thursday. These tips are aimed at people who are about to embark on maintaining a business blog, but they may be of interest to more seasoned bloggers too - I know while compiling these tips it w...(more)

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Excerpt: If you join the dofollow movement do you run the risk of poorer search engine positioning and will Google respond to nullify dofollow comment links? In my previous post on nofollow/dofollow I outlined some reasons why I believe using nofollow in comments is perfectly valid, and quite possibly be...(more)

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Excerpt: Nofollow may not have succeeded in stopping the spam comments, but does that mean it's useless? Nofollow may still have it's place... If a link on your site includes the nofollow attribute, you are telling the search engines not to count the link as a favourable vote from you. Nofollow was in...(more)

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Excerpt: How to constantly keep your ear to the ground & keep yourelf up to date on what people are saying online about you, your competitors and your industry in general. There are two easy steps - 1. Get an RSS reader and 2. Subscribe to Technorati Searches. If you know about RSS and RSS readers, but...(more)

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Excerpt: In talking to people today, both at the Open Coffee morning and generally during the day, I kept coming back to Findability and SEO and the difference between the terms. I try to think in terms of Findability rather than SEO as a general rule. Findability should be your goal, with SEO playing it...(more)

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Excerpt: Why would you need Blog Consultancy? This is a good question - the software is free and everything you need to know is on the internet, so why would you need a consultant? The simple answer is that you don't unless as a business you need your blog to be effective and don't have the in-house expe...(more)

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Excerpt: If your WordPress blog does not appear to be accepting pingbacks, if pingbacks are not appearing in your comment section or comment moderation queue you could be having the same issue I was having with a blog this evening. It turned out the issue was not with receiving pingbacks as such, it was ...(more)

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Excerpt: If you are using a hosted version of WordPress then you may find this article useful, it will help you check if your links are split between www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com and it will help you consolidate those links, which should help with your search engine results. You may have heard t...(more)