Archive for April, 2007

I’m one of those types that takes little blurbs from the “SEO Masters” of the blogosphere and tries to apply a little here and a little there. I think mostly it’s cause I don’t have the time to learn it all at once and then implement a great SEO plan. If you’re reading this blog regularly, you probably don’t have time to do that either.

However, you really should take the time to learn 5-10 good SEO techniques and then apply them to your blog or all the blogs you try and setup. Taking the time to do this will utilize your time better because you won’t be wasting your time building links, or adjusting you tags, or writing content, in ways that won’t help you in the long run

The best resource I’ve found and I found it over at Digital Point Forums is an eBook by Brad Callen and he’s allowed it to be freely distributed. That’s why I say DP forums because it’s in about 10 posts over there.

I’ve uploaded the book to my servers and will allow you to read it or download it at SEO Made Easy PDF by Brad Callen.

Read it and develop a good plan. It will optimize the time you spend link building for sure.

A little shameless self cross promotion here at Blogging on Empty.

I just put up a great article over at Board Shorts and Business Suits listing 41 links to help you start your blog network.

Ever since Jason Calacanis sold his blog network to AOL people have been trying to start their own blog networks. Both successfully and unsuccessfully. I’ve also been trying to start my own blog network and in the process have taken from each of the articles in the list some great piece of information.

I hope this list can help some other people get ahead with their blog networks.

The world of online content is all about the Google PageRank, at least it is for those of us without really well known websites or blogs. So how do you get a higher pagerank?

You get some strong backlinks from other sites.

But you need to know what backlinks are strong and what links aren’t, especially if you’re going to be doing recipricol link exchanges. The better the site that’s linking to you and the stronger the sites backlinks are the better that link will count towards your overall PageRank.

So, in order to utilize your time wisely as a blogger, especially a part-time blogger, you need to use an all-in-one service to check those backlinks. I found just that service in a free website at backlinkwatch.com. It checks all your links in all the search engines out there and then looks at those links as well.

You can easily see and compare possible link exchanges by using Back Link Watch and determining which exchanges will yield higher quality links.