About six months ago, I released the Wordpress SEO Blueprint. It’s a short guide to simple, easy-to-implement techniques that will help get your Wordpress Blog indexed and rank for the keywords you’re going after.
The ebook has sold well and I’m very proud of the positive response from the readers of the Wordpress SEO Blueprint.
As my skills and focus have developed and changed, I realized that to up the ante in the Search Engine Optimization world, it’s important to let your secrets go eventually. That’s why this ebook is now available to everybody for free. [click to continue…]
How does having two distinctly different webpage designs on one site affect the continuity and branding of your site?
This question has been on my mind a lot. Some of my pages are starting to operate more as landing pages (gasp!) then as blog pages. This might be true for some pages of your blog also. So my thought was to take some of the more frequented pages that I’d like people to read without the typical “Internet ADD” and move them to a more simple design that is comfortable to read and easier for deeper reading- not just scanning.
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Do you have a website that is on the verge of taking off, but you can’t quite get it past the tipping point?
Are you about to launch your business, but need some grassroots online marketing to help it take off?
Do you have a brick-and-morter business and need someone to handle everything online?
There are so many great ideas out there just waiting to get the audience they deserve. If you find yourself or your new business searching for that audience then you know the challenges that we all face online. It can be difficult to get noticed, get links, and get in the search engines. Of course, you could pay someone thousands and thousand of dollars to get you the customers you need, but you either don’t have the money or can’t allocate it on that.
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There comes a time in every blogger’s/webmaster’s/designer’s life where you get tired of working with a site. Maybe your interest in the niche slipped into non-existence or you got tired of the work and updates that seem never-ending. Sound familiar?
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There are literally thousands of SEO blogs, a handful of SEO books, and almost a lifetime of SEO tidbits that might make your site preform better in the Search Engines. In this post, I’d like to distill everything you’ll ever hear about Search Engine Optimization. I’m going to pare it down to an easy-to-understand picture so you can easily cut through the fog of Search Engine Optimization. Whether you are looking to hire a stellar SEO, want to do some SEO yourself, or just want to get an idea of how Search Engines interpret their results, this should help in your endeavor.
Search Engines are getting better everyday and giving better results. Slowly, Google and the gang are getting better at knowing if your site is authoritative, unique, and worthwhile to their searchers. We don’t know how they determine it, or quantify it, and we likely never will. But they know, and they are getting better at filtering the good and bad with each and every algorithm tweak.
Everything in SEO falls into two camps: On-Page SEO factors, and Off-Page SEO factors.
-On Page SEO Factors Include: Links around your own site, title tags, meta tags,your written content, etc. and optimizing all of this to give a clear picture to the Search Engines about your subject matter.
-Off Page SEO Factors Include: All the links to your site and their anchor text, all the buzz about your site, people remembering your site or message, viral linking, linkbait, and everything else that the creative marketers think up to get links and headspace.
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Riding back and forth to work from Victorian Village to German Village and straight through the Short North District of Columbus, Ohio today was pretty interesting.
Not only is the night air starting to feel a bit more spring-ish, but I noticed that there was a certain Buzz about downtown Columbus. And, oh yeah, there were lots of very big and strong people strolling around with huge bags.
It turns out that it’s the Arnold Classic time again. And it might be the perfect storm of events for Columbus with an Arnold Classic, First Friday, and Cage Fighting match all in one night. Geez.
The only thing that would make this more nuts is a Michigan vs. Ohio state game. Thank God for the off-season.
-Brad
My name is Brad and I love to help people drive traffic and make great blogs. Thanks for coming by. If you like what you see here then check me out on 
