Search Engine Optimization

In the last 10 years, Blogging has literally become a full time business for some.   Some people do it for a living, and some just for a hobby.  I don't know the statistics, but it is probably safe to say there are several thousand, if not hundreds of thousands of blogs on the internet.  This post isn't necessarily about blog related websites.  It is more for blogs that are embeded within a website, such as this one.  So, can a blog actually help your SEO efforts?  Let's look a little closer.

There is a lot of information out there when it comes to Search Engine Optimization.  The hard part is knowing what to do, and more importantly, what NOT to do.  Search Engine Optimization, can be a long, daunting, and repetitive task.  SEO is  like most things in life, to be successful at it, requires some hard work.  The last thing you want to happen, is see all your efforts go to waste because of some tempting, time saving piece of software, that will do some of these processes for you, automatically.  The topic of automation, is one I see bei

Doing your own Search Engine Optimization can be pretty overwhelming when you think about it.  Here is your website, competing against thousands, if not millions of other websites.  So, how on earth can you compete?  Well, to begin with, you are an expert about your products or services.  That fact alone, should make you and your website more of an authority than the other 99% of the sites that show up in the search results when someone searches a word describing your product or service.  In this video, Brad Gosse talks about why you should do your own