Archive for the ‘Copywriting’ Category

10 ways to dream up new blog posts!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

1. Comments:
Check your comments for ideas. Visitors often bring up topics you can expand upon, explain or even argue with. Try to choose comments that have sparked animated discussions or debates. This means that your visitors are already interested in the topic.

2. Interview:
Bring in the ‘expert’ and get their thoughts with an informative interview. It could be just 5 questions long and you could even interview them via email!

3. Define:
Plenty of technical posts are laden with jargon and broad reviews. Pick something specific and explain it.
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Free Internal Linking Strategy Plugin for Wordpress

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Internet Marketing Health Check

In my last article about internal linking strategy for search engine optimization, I spoke about how using keywords to link internally to your site not only helps visitors find what they’re looking for but also encourages Google to associate your site with those key phrases.

I digress.

I found this really cool free internal linking plugin for wordpress.

When you write/edit a post, you’ll see “Custom linked keywords for this post” section below the post area. That’s where you add your words and desired URL location.

Need help installing it? Or just need a blog? give us a yelp!.

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Making a blog post? Don’t forget the internal linking SEO strategy!

Friday, August 1st, 2008

One of the major elements of SEO that’s often undervalued is internal linking. When done right, internal linking not only encourages visitors to stay longer on your website, but more importantly, it can improve your search engine rankings.

So, content is key. Link within your content!

When websites link to other sites on the internet, search engines like Google and Yahoo pass value for the terms/ phrases used in the link “anchor text”. Anchor text is the highlighted text when your mouse hovers over a link. Often when people think about linking strategies, they focus on improving and increasing their number of inbound links and they pay special attention to what the anchor text communicates.

But this isn’t the only type of linking strategy you should count on. Rather, contextual *internal* links can also be effective in helping to improve a site’s ranking for certain keywords and phrases.
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Our new keyword & meta tag summer optimization package!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Search Engine Marketing

Summer is here! What better way to celebrate than to get outside and leave your web site SEO (search engine optimization) with us? We’ll work on getting your website working for you while you bask in the sunshine.

We’ve created some special summer packages for: Keyword & Meta Tag Optimization
A comprehensive keyword analysis will establish which keywords and phrases will drive the greatest number of qualified visitors to your website via search engines, which account for 85 per cent of all new visitors to websites. These high-performance search terms are then used to produce keyword-optimized title, meta and description tags to maximize your online presence on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines.
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