Being mentioned on a top blog can have a greater and longer term impact on your success than being on TV or radio; but how can you build a relationship with the leading bloggers?
SEO (search engine optimization) is one of those areas that can be often seen as a dark art. Thankfully, there's plenty of tools out there to help you analyze how your website is performing and suggest how you can make improvements. They measure traffic, inbound links, page rank, social reach, directories you are listed in, how easy it is for the search spiders to crawl, etc.
In this article we look at two popular SEO analysis tools, Hubspot's Website Grader and WooRank.
It's always recommended that your website should be built primarily for your visitors and not for the search engines (something that's very easy to forget!). Indeed, Google's webmaster guidelines specifically ask "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?". Food for thought.
What would you do if there was no such thing as a search engine?
Being mentioned on a top blog can have a greater and longer term impact on your success than being on TV or radio; but how can you build a relationship with the leading bloggers?
SEO (search engine optimization) is one of those areas that can be often seen as a dark art. Thankfully, there's plenty of tools out there to help you analyze how your website is performing and suggest how you can make improvements. They measure traffic, inbound links, page rank, social reach, directories you are listed in, how easy it is for the search spiders to crawl, etc.
One of the secrets that successful online publishers learn quickly is to create content that is relevant and has long-term value to readers.