Online Profits Are A Good Thing
Technical issues are often taken for granted when people are devising their SEO plans. These technical issues can make or break your SEO plans so you should pay attention to them.
Yea I know you aren’t a technical person but you don’t need to be. Here are some easy ways any non-tech person can make sure their technical seo issues are taken care of by simply using notepad and text files.
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Backlinks are critical to good search engine rankings. If you don’t think so, stop reading right now and find me a profitable keyword that has a website ranking with no backlinks. For everyone else that already knows backlinks are important to get your great content ranking in the search engines I’ll continue writing my poor excuse for a blog post.
How do you find the best backlinks for your website while avoiding the bad poisoned links? Its called link intelligence. If you are cheap like me you have probably only used the free backlink searches provided by the search engines. In case you just came out of a coma Google backlink searches are worthless (Google intentionally degrades the data past the point of usefulness). Google Webmaster Central offers decent information but only for domains you control which is not very helpful to any smart webmaster. Yahoo however still offers usable link intelligence for the entire internet with Yahoo Site Explorer.
There are two pay-to-play link intelligence services – Linkscape from SEOMoz and Majestic SEO. Since I am a glutton for punishment I have used my own money to test these two pay services to compare them against the free information Yahoo Site Explorer. [Read more…]
In case you are not a veteran of search engine optimization you may not know that your website’s link popularity is critical to high rankings on search engines. The quantity AND quality of the links pointing to your website will help to determine if your website is #1 or #100. Since link popularity correlates so closely to your search engine rankings it makes sense that people will do anything to boost their link popularity. This led to people paying for links which then led to Google to penalizing paid links in order to prevent people from buying their way to #1.
Despite Google saying all paid links are bad there are several allowable paid links… [Read more…]
It has been over a year since I blogged last. Why restart now? Why deal with the headaches of comment spam? What am I going to get out of a blog? Blogs aint free.
Excuse me, did you think a wordpress blog is free? Besides paying the obvious cost of registering a domain and monthly hosting there are big costs associated with any blog. You need to spend considerable time working and writing on the blog. Time is money especially for a internet consultants that charge by the hour and for affiliate marketers that need as much time as possible to build out their network of sites. [Read more…]
2 lb. thick-cut bacon, cut into large chunks
4 lb. sweet potatoes cut into large chunks
2 tbs. olive oil
1 cup chestnut pieces
3 tbs. butter
1 cup shallots cut into large chunks
1/4 cup of brandy
salt and pepper to taste
Bake the bacon at 425 degrees for 5 minutes, turn bacon and bake until finished. Let bacon cool and chop into large pieces, set aside. Expect 1/2 bacon to be eaten before being mixed.
Toss sweet potato pieces with oil, salt and pepper. Mix in shallots, chestnuts and bacon. Place in roasting pan. Place butter pats on top. Sprinkle port wine over mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 1-2 hours.
4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups raisins
1/4 soft butter
2 tbl caraway seeds
2 cups buttermilk
Sift together flour, baking power, salt, baking soda, sugar. Add butter and raisins and mix with hands. Add about 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk and mix (add more buttermilk till desired consistency). Add caraway seeds. Put dough into greased cast iron pan (for crust) and cut a shallow cross on the top. Bake at 375 degrees for an hour or longer until top is golden brown.