Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Building Blog Traffic. Yes, Again.

IMHO, there are few blogger-centric topics more written on than “increasing blog traffic”, so these days, I always tread carefully before jumping on the linkwagon to yet another expert’s 5/10/100 tips on the subject, or even writing a post of my own.
But I can’t help but link to SEOmoz’s latest post: 21 Tactics to […]

Friday, August 11th, 2006

One Reason Why SEO Helps Bloggers… A Lot

If you had any doubts at all on the benefits of performing search engine optimisation (SEO) to gain top search engine rankings, the results from informal data analysis on AOL search query data leaked less that a week back will surely convince you otherwise. Why? ‘Cos there’s one heck lot of traffic waiting for you. […]

Monday, August 7th, 2006

blogHelper Is Really Awesome

… or is it? But whatever it is, I’ve been sucked into the latest viral fad, where for US$1, you can buy an online certificate that says you’re really awesome stuff. blogHelper’s certificate is right here, but you’d be more interested in some of the blogosphere’s bigger fish they’ve managed to catch.
The advantages of parting […]

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Text Link Ads: Domain Spam? Black Hat SEO?

During the blog monetization session over at the currently-running WordCamp 2006, Kevin Burton of TailRank raised (yet again) the issue of Text Link Ads (aff link) being a form of domain spam, a.k.a. black hat SEO.
This issue isn’t new, and seems to repeat itself in yearly cycles, but for those who’re new to it, […]

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Changing Your Blog’s Domain Name: Oh, The Pain!

I’m sure some of you have noticed that there has been an interesting blog domain name change in the past week or so. Yes, it was Dell’s decision to change its corporate blog’s name from one2one to Direct2Dell - with a corresponding shift in domain name.
Oh, The Pain!
WTF? Any individual blogger would have thought twice […]

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

3 Ways to Increase Search Engine Traffic, and the Importance of Blog Branding

I wasn’t going to blog here today given the amount of bug-squashing I have left to do on the new blogHelper theme and structure, but Nick Wilson’s post on 3 ways to increase search engine traffic at Performancing really jolted me from the menial chore of debugging.
He talks about writing more specific and more linkbait-ish […]

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

SEO Blogs I Read

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is, more often than not, deemed secondary in today’s professional bloggers’ activities. In fact, Nick Wilson blogged on this issue late last year on Performancing.
But, most will agree that good SEO still helps, and where best to learn the trade (and its everchanging trends) but from SEO bloggers that make […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Recent Google News Bites

Along with the recent Joel Comm saga has been a slew of interesting blog posts, announcements and rumors related to our two favourites, Google Search and Google AdSense:

“Vertical Image” Ads, a.k.a. Image + Text = New Ad FormatGoogle is having an international beta test on its new ad format, where a contextually-relevant image is placed […]